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The simplest … Continue reading "Broken Links in the Discovery Layer—Pt. II: Towards an Ethnography of Broken Links" Broken Links in the Discovery Layer—Pt. I: Researching a Problem Like many administrators of discovery layers, I’m constantly baffled and frustrated when users can’t access full text results from their searches. After implementing Summon, we heard a few reports of problems and gradually our librarians started to stumble across them on their own. At first, we had no formal system for tracking these errors. Eventually, … Continue reading "Broken Links in the Discovery Layer—Pt. I: Researching a Problem" ORCID for System Interoperability in Scholarly Communication Workflows What is ORCID? If you work in an academic library or otherwise provide support for research and scholarly communication, you have probably heard of ORCID (Open Contributor & Researcher Identifier) in terms of “ORCID iD,” a unique 16-digit identifier that represents an individual in order to mitigate name ambiguity. The ORCID iD number is presented … Continue reading "ORCID for System Interoperability in Scholarly Communication Workflows" Creating Presentations with Beautiful.AI Updated 2018-11-12 at 3:30PM with accessibility information. Beautiful.AI is a new website that enables users to create dynamic presentations quickly and easily with “smart templates” and other design optimized features. So far the service is free with a paid pro tier coming soon. 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Assumptions like “people have exactly one canonical name” and “My system will never … Continue reading "Names are Hard" adeshpande3-github-io-4431 ---- The 9 Deep Learning Papers You Need To Know About (Understanding CNNs Part 3) – Adit Deshpande – Engineering at Forward | UCLA CS '19 Adit Deshpande Engineering at Forward | UCLA CS '19 Blog About GitHub Projects Resume The 9 Deep Learning Papers You Need To Know About (Understanding CNNs Part 3) Introduction Link to Part 1 Link to Part 2                 In this post, we’ll go into summarizing a lot of the new and important developments in the field of computer vision and convolutional neural networks. We’ll look at some of the most important papers that have been published over the last 5 years and discuss why they’re so important.  The first half of the list (AlexNet to ResNet) deals with advancements in general network architecture, while the second half is just a collection of interesting papers in other subareas.  AlexNet  (2012)                 The one that started it all (Though some may say that Yann LeCun’s paper in 1998 was the real pioneering publication). This paper, titled “ImageNet Classification with Deep Convolutional Networks”, has been cited a total of 6,184 times and is widely regarded as one of the most influential publications in the field. Alex Krizhevsky, Ilya Sutskever, and Geoffrey Hinton created a “large, deep convolutional neural network” that was used to win the 2012 ILSVRC (ImageNet Large-Scale Visual Recognition Challenge). For those that aren’t familiar, this competition can be thought of as the annual Olympics of computer vision, where teams from across the world compete to see who has the best computer vision model for tasks such as classification, localization, detection, and more. 2012 marked the first year where a CNN was used to achieve a top 5 test error rate of 15.4% (Top 5 error is the rate at which, given an image, the model does not output the correct label with its top 5 predictions). The next best entry achieved an error of 26.2%, which was an astounding improvement that pretty much shocked the computer vision community. Safe to say, CNNs became household names in the competition from then on out.                 In the paper, the group discussed the architecture of the network (which was called AlexNet). They used a relatively simple layout, compared to modern architectures. The network was made up of 5 conv layers, max-pooling layers, dropout layers, and 3 fully connected layers. The network they designed was used for classification with 1000 possible categories. Main Points Trained the network on ImageNet data, which contained over 15 million annotated images from a total of over 22,000 categories. Used ReLU for the nonlinearity functions (Found to decrease training time as ReLUs are several times faster than the conventional tanh function). Used data augmentation techniques that consisted of image translations, horizontal reflections, and patch extractions. Implemented dropout layers in order to combat the problem of overfitting to the training data. Trained the model using batch stochastic gradient descent, with specific values for momentum and weight decay. Trained on two GTX 580 GPUs for five to six days. Why It’s Important                 The neural network developed by Krizhevsky, Sutskever, and Hinton in 2012 was the coming out party for CNNs in the computer vision community. This was the first time a model performed so well on a historically difficult ImageNet dataset. Utilizing techniques that are still used today, such as data augmentation and dropout, this paper really illustrated the benefits of CNNs and backed them up with record breaking performance in the competition. ZF Net (2013)                 With AlexNet stealing the show in 2012, there was a large increase in the number of CNN models submitted to ILSVRC 2013. The winner of the competition that year was a network built by Matthew Zeiler and Rob Fergus from NYU. Named ZF Net, this model achieved an 11.2% error rate. This architecture was more of a fine tuning to the previous AlexNet structure, but still developed some very keys ideas about improving performance. Another reason this was such a great paper is that the authors spent a good amount of time explaining a lot of the intuition behind ConvNets and showing how to visualize the filters and weights correctly.                 In this paper titled “Visualizing and Understanding Convolutional Neural Networks”, Zeiler and Fergus begin by discussing the idea that this renewed interest in CNNs is due to the accessibility of large training sets and increased computational power with the usage of GPUs. They also talk about the limited knowledge that researchers had on inner mechanisms of these models, saying that without this insight, the “development of better models is reduced to trial and error”. While we do currently have a better understanding than 3 years ago, this still remains an issue for a lot of researchers! The main contributions of this paper are details of a slightly modified AlexNet model and a very interesting way of visualizing feature maps. Main Points Very similar architecture to AlexNet, except for a few minor modifications. AlexNet trained on 15 million images, while ZF Net trained on only 1.3 million images. Instead of using 11x11 sized filters in the first layer (which is what AlexNet implemented), ZF Net used filters of size 7x7 and a decreased stride value. The reasoning behind this modification is that a smaller filter size in the first conv layer helps retain a lot of original pixel information in the input volume. A filtering of size 11x11 proved to be skipping a lot of relevant information, especially as this is the first conv layer. As the network grows, we also see a rise in the number of filters used. Used ReLUs for their activation functions, cross-entropy loss for the error function, and trained using batch stochastic gradient descent. Trained on a GTX 580 GPU for twelve days. Developed a visualization technique named Deconvolutional Network, which helps to examine different feature activations and their relation to the input space. Called “deconvnet” because it maps features to pixels (the opposite of what a convolutional layer does). DeConvNet                 The basic idea behind how this works is that at every layer of the trained CNN, you attach a “deconvnet” which has a path back to the image pixels. An input image is fed into the CNN and activations are computed at each level. This is the forward pass. Now, let’s say we want to examine the activations of a certain feature in the 4th conv layer. We would store the activations of this one feature map, but set all of the other activations in the layer to 0, and then pass this feature map as the input into the deconvnet. This deconvnet has the same filters as the original CNN. This input then goes through a series of unpool (reverse maxpooling), rectify, and filter operations for each preceding layer until the input space is reached.                 The reasoning behind this whole process is that we want to examine what type of structures excite a given feature map. Let’s look at the visualizations of the first and second layers. Like we discussed in Part 1, the first layer of your ConvNet is always a low level feature detector that will detect simple edges or colors in this particular case. We can see that with the second layer, we have more circular features that are being detected. Let’s look at layers 3, 4, and 5. These layers show a lot more of the higher level features such as dogs’ faces or flowers. One thing to note is that as you may remember, after the first conv layer, we normally have a pooling layer that downsamples the image (for example, turns a 32x32x3 volume into a 16x16x3 volume). The effect this has is that the 2nd layer has a broader scope of what it can see in the original image. For more info on deconvnet or the paper in general, check out Zeiler himself presenting on the topic. Why It’s Important                 ZF Net was not only the winner of the competition in 2013, but also provided great intuition as to the workings on CNNs and illustrated more ways to improve performance. The visualization approach described helps not only to explain the inner workings of CNNs, but also provides insight for improvements to network architectures. The fascinating deconv visualization approach and occlusion experiments make this one of my personal favorite papers. VGG Net (2014)                 Simplicity and depth. That’s what a model created in 2014 (weren’t the winners of ILSVRC 2014) best utilized with its 7.3% error rate. Karen Simonyan and Andrew Zisserman of the University of Oxford created a 19 layer CNN that strictly used 3x3 filters with stride and pad of 1, along with 2x2 maxpooling layers with stride 2. Simple enough right? Main Points The use of only 3x3 sized filters is quite different from AlexNet’s 11x11 filters in the first layer and ZF Net’s 7x7 filters. The authors’ reasoning is that the combination of two 3x3 conv layers has an effective receptive field of 5x5. This in turn simulates a larger filter while keeping the benefits of smaller filter sizes. One of the benefits is a decrease in the number of parameters. Also, with two conv layers, we’re able to use two ReLU layers instead of one. 3 conv layers back to back have an effective receptive field of 7x7. As the spatial size of the input volumes at each layer decrease (result of the conv and pool layers), the depth of the volumes increase due to the increased number of filters as you go down the network. Interesting to notice that the number of filters doubles after each maxpool layer. This reinforces the idea of shrinking spatial dimensions, but growing depth. Worked well on both image classification and localization tasks. The authors used a form of localization as regression (see page 10 of the paper for all details). Built model with the Caffe toolbox. Used scale jittering as one data augmentation technique during training. Used ReLU layers after each conv layer and trained with batch gradient descent. Trained on 4 Nvidia Titan Black GPUs for two to three weeks. Why It’s Important                 VGG Net is one of the most influential papers in my mind because it reinforced the notion that convolutional neural networks have to have a deep network of layers in order for this hierarchical representation of visual data to work. Keep it deep. Keep it simple. GoogLeNet (2015)                 You know that idea of simplicity in network architecture that we just talked about? Well, Google kind of threw that out the window with the introduction of the Inception module. GoogLeNet is a 22 layer CNN and was the winner of ILSVRC 2014 with a top 5 error rate of 6.7%. To my knowledge, this was one of the first CNN architectures that really strayed from the general approach of simply stacking conv and pooling layers on top of each other in a sequential structure. The authors of the paper also emphasized that this new model places notable consideration on memory and power usage (Important note that I sometimes forget too: Stacking all of these layers and adding huge numbers of filters has a computational and memory cost, as well as an increased chance of overfitting). Inception Module                 When we first take a look at the structure of GoogLeNet, we notice immediately that not everything is happening sequentially, as seen in previous architectures. We have pieces of the network that are happening in parallel. This box is called an Inception module. Let’s take a closer look at what it’s made of. The bottom green box is our input and the top one is the output of the model (Turning this picture right 90 degrees would let you visualize the model in relation to the last picture which shows the full network). Basically, at each layer of a traditional ConvNet, you have to make a choice of whether to have a pooling operation or a conv operation (there is also the choice of filter size). What an Inception module allows you to do is perform all of these operations in parallel. In fact, this was exactly the “naïve” idea that the authors came up with. Now, why doesn’t this work? It would lead to way too many outputs. We would end up with an extremely large depth channel for the output volume. The way that the authors address this is by adding 1x1 conv operations before the 3x3 and 5x5 layers. The 1x1 convolutions (or network in network layer) provide a method of dimensionality reduction. For example, let’s say you had an input volume of 100x100x60 (This isn’t necessarily the dimensions of the image, just the input to any layer of the network). Applying 20 filters of 1x1 convolution would allow you to reduce the volume to 100x100x20. This means that the 3x3 and 5x5 convolutions won’t have as large of a volume to deal with. This can be thought of as a “pooling of features” because we are reducing the depth of the volume, similar to how we reduce the dimensions of height and width with normal maxpooling layers.  Another note is that these 1x1 conv layers are followed by ReLU units which definitely can’t hurt (See Aaditya Prakash’s great post for more info on the effectiveness of 1x1 convolutions). Check out this video for a great visualization of the filter concatenation at the end.                 You may be asking yourself “How does this architecture help?”. Well, you have a module that consists of a network in network layer, a medium sized filter convolution, a large sized filter convolution, and a pooling operation. The network in network conv is able to extract information about the very fine grain details in the volume, while the 5x5 filter is able to cover a large receptive field of the input, and thus able to extract its information as well. You also have a pooling operation that helps to reduce spatial sizes and combat overfitting. On top of all of that, you have ReLUs after each conv layer, which help improve the nonlinearity of the network. Basically, the network is able to perform the functions of these different operations while still remaining computationally considerate. The paper does also give more of a high level reasoning that involves topics like sparsity and dense connections (read Sections 3 and 4 of the paper. Still not totally clear to me, but if anybody has any insights, I’d love to hear them in the comments!). Main Points Used 9 Inception modules in the whole architecture, with over 100 layers in total! Now that is deep… No use of fully connected layers! They use an average pool instead, to go from a 7x7x1024 volume to a 1x1x1024 volume. This saves a huge number of parameters. Uses 12x fewer parameters than AlexNet. During testing, multiple crops of the same image were created, fed into the network, and the softmax probabilities were averaged to give us the final solution. Utilized concepts from R-CNN (a paper we’ll discuss later) for their detection model. There are updated versions to the Inception module (Versions 6 and 7). Trained on “a few high-end GPUs within a week”. Why It’s Important                 GoogLeNet was one of the first models that introduced the idea that CNN layers didn’t always have to be stacked up sequentially. Coming up with the Inception module, the authors showed that a creative structuring of layers can lead to improved performance and computationally efficiency. This paper has really set the stage for some amazing architectures that we could see in the coming years. Microsoft ResNet (2015)                 Imagine a deep CNN architecture. Take that, double the number of layers, add a couple more, and it still probably isn’t as deep as the ResNet architecture that Microsoft Research Asia came up with in late 2015. ResNet is a new 152 layer network architecture that set new records in classification, detection, and localization through one incredible architecture. Aside from the new record in terms of number of layers, ResNet won ILSVRC 2015 with an incredible error rate of 3.6% (Depending on their skill and expertise, humans generally hover around a 5-10% error rate. See Andrej Karpathy’s great post on his experiences with competing against ConvNets on the ImageNet challenge). Residual Block                 The idea behind a residual block is that you have your input x go through conv-relu-conv series. This will give you some F(x). That result is then added to the original input x. Let’s call that H(x) = F(x) + x. In traditional CNNs, your H(x) would just be equal to F(x) right? So, instead of just computing that transformation (straight from x to F(x)), we’re computing the term that you have to add, F(x), to your input, x. Basically, the mini module shown below is computing a “delta” or a slight change to the original input x to get a slightly altered representation (When we think of traditional CNNs, we go from x to F(x) which is a completely new representation that doesn’t keep any information about the original x). The authors believe that “it is easier to optimize the residual mapping than to optimize the original, unreferenced mapping”. Another reason for why this residual block might be effective is that during the backward pass of backpropagation, the gradient will flow easily through the graph because we have addition operations, which distributes the gradient. Main Points “Ultra-deep” – Yann LeCun. 152 layers… Interesting note that after only the first 2 layers, the spatial size gets compressed from an input volume of 224x224 to a 56x56 volume. Authors claim that a naïve increase of layers in plain nets result in higher training and test error (Figure 1 in the paper). The group tried a 1202-layer network, but got a lower test accuracy, presumably due to overfitting. Trained on an 8 GPU machine for two to three weeks. Why It’s Important                 3.6% error rate. That itself should be enough to convince you. The ResNet model is the best CNN architecture that we currently have and is a great innovation for the idea of residual learning. With error rates dropping every year since 2012, I’m skeptical about whether or not they will go down for ILSVRC 2016. I believe we’ve gotten to the point where stacking more layers on top of each other isn’t going to result in a substantial performance boost. There would definitely have to be creative new architectures like we’ve seen the last 2 years. On September 16th, the results for this year’s competition will be released. Mark your calendar. Bonus: ResNets inside of ResNets. Yeah. I went there. Region Based CNNs (R-CNN - 2013, Fast R-CNN - 2015, Faster R-CNN - 2015)                 Some may argue that the advent of R-CNNs has been more impactful that any of the previous papers on new network architectures. With the first R-CNN paper being cited over 1600 times, Ross Girshick and his group at UC Berkeley created one of the most impactful advancements in computer vision. As evident by their titles, Fast R-CNN and Faster R-CNN worked to make the model faster and better suited for modern object detection tasks.                 The purpose of R-CNNs is to solve the problem of object detection. Given a certain image, we want to be able to draw bounding boxes over all of the objects. The process can be split into two general components, the region proposal step and the classification step.                 The authors note that any class agnostic region proposal method should fit. Selective Search is used in particular for RCNN. Selective Search performs the function of generating 2000 different regions that have the highest probability of containing an object. After we’ve come up with a set of region proposals, these proposals are then “warped” into an image size that can be fed into a trained CNN (AlexNet in this case) that extracts a feature vector for each region. This vector is then used as the input to a set of linear SVMs that are trained for each class and output a classification. The vector also gets fed into a bounding box regressor to obtain the most accurate coordinates. Non-maxima suppression is then used to suppress bounding boxes that have a significant overlap with each other. Fast R-CNN                 Improvements were made to the original model because of 3 main problems. Training took multiple stages (ConvNets to SVMs to bounding box regressors), was computationally expensive, and was extremely slow (RCNN took 53 seconds per image). Fast R-CNN was able to solve the problem of speed by basically sharing computation of the conv layers between different proposals and swapping the order of generating region proposals and running the CNN. In this model, the image is first fed through a ConvNet, features of the region proposals are obtained from the last feature map of the ConvNet (check section 2.1 of the paper for more details), and lastly we have our fully connected layers as well as our regression and classification heads. Faster R-CNN                 Faster R-CNN works to combat the somewhat complex training pipeline that both R-CNN and Fast R-CNN exhibited. The authors insert a region proposal network (RPN) after the last convolutional layer. This network is able to just look at the last convolutional feature map and produce region proposals from that. From that stage, the same pipeline as R-CNN is used (ROI pooling, FC, and then classification and regression heads). Why It’s Important                 Being able to determine that a specific object is in an image is one thing, but being able to determine that object’s exact location is a huge jump in knowledge for the computer. Faster R-CNN has become the standard for object detection programs today. Generative Adversarial Networks (2014)                 According to Yann LeCun, these networks could be the next big development. Before talking about this paper, let’s talk a little about adversarial examples. For example, let’s consider a trained CNN that works well on ImageNet data. Let’s take an example image and apply a perturbation, or a slight modification, so that the prediction error is maximized. Thus, the object category of the prediction changes, while the image itself looks the same when compared to the image without the perturbation. From the highest level, adversarial examples are basically the images that fool ConvNets. Adversarial examples (paper) definitely surprised a lot of researchers and quickly became a topic of interest. Now let’s talk about the generative adversarial networks. Let’s think of two models, a generative model and a discriminative model. The discriminative model has the task of determining whether a given image looks natural (an image from the dataset) or looks like it has been artificially created. The task of the generator is to create images so that the discriminator gets trained to produce the correct outputs. This can be thought of as a zero-sum or minimax two player game. The analogy used in the paper is that the generative model is like “a team of counterfeiters, trying to produce and use fake currency” while the discriminative model is like “the police, trying to detect the counterfeit currency”. The generator is trying to fool the discriminator while the discriminator is trying to not get fooled by the generator. As the models train, both methods are improved until a point where the “counterfeits are indistinguishable from the genuine articles”. Why It’s Important                 Sounds simple enough, but why do we care about these networks? As Yann LeCun stated in his Quora post, the discriminator now is aware of the “internal representation of the data” because it has been trained to understand the differences between real images from the dataset and artificially created ones. Thus, it can be used as a feature extractor that you can use in a CNN. Plus, you can just create really cool artificial images that look pretty natural to me (link). Generating Image Descriptions (2014)                 What happens when you combine CNNs with RNNs (No, you don’t get R-CNNs, sorry )?But you do get one really amazing application. Written by Andrej Karpathy (one of my personal favorite authors) and Fei-Fei Li, this paper looks into a combination of CNNs and bidirectional RNNs (Recurrent Neural Networks) to generate natural language descriptions of different image regions. Basically, the model is able to take in an image, and output this: That’s pretty incredible. Let’s look at how this compares to normal CNNs. With traditional CNNs, there is a single clear label associated with each image in the training data. The model described in the paper has training examples that have a sentence (or caption) associated with each image. This type of label is called a weak label, where segments of the sentence refer to (unknown) parts of the image. Using this training data, a deep neural network “infers the latent alignment between segments of the sentences and the region that they describe” (quote from the paper). Another neural net takes in the image as input and generates a description in text. Let’s take a separate look at the two components, alignment and generation. Alignment Model                 The goal of this part of the model is to be able to align the visual and textual data (the image and its sentence description). The model works by accepting an image and a sentence as input, where the output is a score for how well they match (Now, Karpathy refers a different paper which goes into the specifics of how this works. This model is trained on compatible and incompatible image-sentence pairs).                 Now let’s think about representing the images. The first step is feeding the image into an R-CNN in order to detect the individual objects. This R-CNN was trained on ImageNet data. The top 19 (plus the original image) object regions are embedded to a 500 dimensional space. Now we have 20 different 500 dimensional vectors (represented by v in the paper) for each image. We have information about the image. Now, we want information about the sentence. We’re going to embed words into this same multimodal space. This is done by using a bidirectional recurrent neural network. From the highest level, this serves to illustrate information about the context of words in a given sentence. Since this information about the picture and the sentence are both in the same space, we can compute inner products to show a measure of similarity. Generation Model                 The alignment model has the main purpose of creating a dataset where you have a set of image regions (found by the RCNN) and corresponding text (thanks to the BRNN). Now, the generation model is going to learn from that dataset in order to generate descriptions given an image. The model takes in an image and feeds it through a CNN. The softmax layer is disregarded as the outputs of the fully connected layer become the inputs to another RNN. For those that aren’t as familiar with RNNs, their function is to basically form probability distributions on the different words in a sentence (RNNs also need to be trained just like CNNs do). Disclaimer: This was definitely one of the more dense papers in this section, so if anyone has any corrections or other explanations, I’d love to hear them in the comments! Why It’s Important                 The interesting idea for me was that of using these seemingly different RNN and CNN models to create a very useful application that in a way combines the fields of Computer Vision and Natural Language Processing. It opens the door for new ideas in terms of how to make computers and models smarter when dealing with tasks that cross different fields. Spatial Transformer Networks (2015)                 Last, but not least, let’s get into one of the more recent papers in the field. This paper was written by a group at Google Deepmind a little over a year ago. The main contribution is the introduction of a Spatial Transformer module. The basic idea is that this module transforms the input image in a way so that the subsequent layers have an easier time making a classification. Instead of making changes to the main CNN architecture itself, the authors worry about making changes to the image before it is fed into the specific conv layer. The 2 things that this module hopes to correct are pose normalization (scenarios where the object is tilted or scaled) and spatial attention (bringing attention to the correct object in a crowded image). For traditional CNNs, if you wanted to make your model invariant to images with different scales and rotations, you’d need a lot of training examples for the model to learn properly. Let’s get into the specifics of how this transformer module helps combat that problem.                 The entity in traditional CNN models that dealt with spatial invariance was the maxpooling layer. The intuitive reasoning behind this layer was that once we know that a specific feature is in the original input volume (wherever there are high activation values), it’s exact location is not as important as its relative location to other features. This new spatial transformer is dynamic in a way that it will produce different behavior (different distortions/transformations) for each input image. It’s not just as simple and pre-defined as a traditional maxpool. Let’s take look at how this transformer module works. The module consists of: A localization network which takes in the input volume and outputs parameters of the spatial transformation that should be applied. The parameters, or theta, can be 6 dimensional for an affine transformation. The creation of a sampling grid that is the result of warping the regular grid with the affine transformation (theta) created in the localization network. A sampler whose purpose is to perform a warping of the input feature map. This module can be dropped into a CNN at any point and basically helps the network learn how to transform feature maps in a way that minimizes the cost function during training. Why It’s Important                 This paper caught my eye for the main reason that improvements in CNNs don’t necessarily have to come from drastic changes in network architecture. We don’t need to create the next ResNet or Inception module. This paper implements the simple idea of making affine transformations to the input image in order to help models become more invariant to translation, scale, and rotation. For those interested, here is a video from Deepmind that has a great animation of the results of placing a Spatial Transformer module in a CNN and a good Quora discussion.   And that ends our 3 part series on ConvNets! Hope everyone was able to follow along, and if you feel that I may have left something important out, let me know in the comments! If you want more info on some of these concepts, I once again highly recommend Stanford CS 231n lecture videos which can be found with a simple YouTube search. Dueces. Sources Tweet Written on August 24, 2016 Please enable JavaScript to view the comments powered by Disqus. acrl-ala-org-6747 ---- ACRL TechConnect Skip to content ACRL TechConnect Menu About Authors Broken Links in the Discovery Layer—Pt. II: Towards an Ethnography of Broken Links This post continues where my last one left off, investigating broken links in our discovery layer. Be forewarned—most of it will be a long, dry list of all the mundane horrors of librarianship. Metadata mismatches, EZproxy errors, and OpenURL resolvers, oh my! What does it mean when we say a link is broken? The simplest definition would be: when a link that claims to lead to full text does not. But the way that many discovery layers work is by translating article metadata into a query in a separate database, which leads to some gray areas. What if the link leads to a search with only a single result, the resource in question? What if the link leads to a search with two results, a dozen, a hundred…and the resource is among them? What if the link leads to a journal index and it takes some navigation to get to the article’s full text? Where do we draw the line? The user’s expectation is that selecting something that says “full text” leads to the source itself. I think all of the above count as broken links, though they obviously range in severity. Some mean that the article simply cannot be accessed while others mean that the user has to perform a little more work. For the purposes of this study, I am primarily concerned with the first case: when the full text is nowhere near the link’s destination. As we discuss individual cases reported by end users, it will solidify our definition. Long List I’m going to enumerate some types of errors I’ve seen, providing a specific example and detailing its nature as much as possible to differentiate the errors from each other. 1. The user selects a full text link but is taken to a database query that doesn’t yield the desired result. We had someone report this with an article entitled “LAND USE: U.S. Soil Erosion Rates–Myth and Reality” in Summon which was translated into a query on the article’s ISSN, publication title, and an accidentally truncated title (just “LAND USE”).1 The query fails to retrieve the article but does show 137 other results. The article is present in the database and can be retrieved by editing the query, for instance by changing the title parameter to “U.S. soil erosion rates”. Indeed, the database has the title as “U.S. soil erosion rates–myth and reality”. The article appears to be part of a recurring column and is labelled “POLICY FORUM: LAND USE” which explains the discovery layer’s representation of the title. Fundamentally, the problem is a disagreement about the title between the discovery layer and database. As another example, I’ve seen this problem occur with book reviews where one side prefixes the title with “Review:” while the other does not. In a third instance of this, I’ve seen a query title = "Julia Brannen Peter Moss "and" Ann Mooney Working "and" Caring over the Twentieth Century Palgrave Macmillan Basingstoke Hampshire 2004 234 pp hbk £50 ISBN 1 4039 2059 1" where a lot of ancillary text spilled into the title. 2. The user is looking for a specific piece except the destination database combines this piece with similar ones into a single record with a generic title such that incoming queries fail. So, for instance, our discovery layer’s link might become a title query for Book Review: Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay in the destination, which only has an article named “Book Reviews” in the same issue of the host publication. In my experience, this is one of the more common discovery layer problems and can be described as a granularity mismatch. The discovery layer and subscription database disagree about what the fundamental unit of the publication is. While book reviews often evince this problem, so too do letters to the editor, opinion pieces, and recurring columns. 3. An article present in one of our subscription databases is not represented in the discovery layer, despite the database being correctly selected in the knowledgebase that informs the discovery system’s index. We’re able to read the article “Kopfkino: Julia Phillips’ sculptures beyond the binary” in an EBSCO database that provides access to the journal Flash Art International but no query in Summon can retrieve it as a result. I suppose this is not technically a broken link as a non-existent link but it falls under the general umbrella of discovery layer content problems. 4. The exact inverse of the above: an article is correctly represented by the discovery layer index as being part of a database subscription that the user should have access to, but the article does not actually exist within the source database due to missing content. This occurred with an interview of Howard Willard in American Artist from 1950. While our subscription to Art & Architecture Source does indeed include the issue of American Artist in question, and one can read other articles from it, there was no record for the interview itself in EBSCOHost nor are its pages present in any of the PDF scans of the issue. 5. The user is looking for an article that is combined with another, even though the source seems to agree that they should be treated separately. For instance, one of our users was looking for the article “Musical Curiosities in Athanasius Kircher’s Antiquarian Visions” in the journal Music in Art but Summon’s link lands on a broken link resolver page in the destination EBSCO database. It turns out, upon closer inspection, that the pages for this article are appended to the PDF of the article that appears before it. All other articles for the issue have their own record. This is an interesting hybrid metadata/content problem similar to granularity mismatch: while there is no record for the article itself in the database, the article’s text is present. Yet unlike some granularity mismatches it is impossible to circumvent via search; you have to know to browse the issue and utilize page numbers to locate it. 6. The user selects a link to an article published within the past year in a journal with a year-long embargo. The discovery layer shows a “full text online” link but because the source’s link resolver doesn’t consider an embargoed article to be a valid destination, the link lands on an error page. This is an instance where Summon would, ideally, at least take to you to the article’s citation page but in any case the user won’t be able to retrieve the full text. 7. The user selects an article that is in a journal not contained within any of the library’s database subscriptions. This is usually simple knowledge base error where the journal lists for a database changed without being updated in the discovery layer index. Still, it’s quite common because not all subscription changes are published in a machine-readable manner that would allow discovery layers to automate their ingestion. 8. The user selects an article listed as being published in 2016 in the discovery layer, while the source database has 2017 so the OpenURL fails to resolve properly. Upon investigation, this date mismatch can be traced back to the journal’s publisher which lists the individual articles as being published in 2016 while the issue in which they are contained comes from 2017. The Summon support staff rightly points out to me that they can’t simply change the article dates to match one source; while it might fix some links, it will break others, and this date mismatch is a fundamentally unsolvable disagreement. This issue highlights the brittleness of real world metadata; publishers, content aggregators, and discovery products do not live in harmony. Reviewing the list of problems, this dual organization seems to helpfully group like issues: Metadata & linking problems Metadata mismatch (1, 5, 8) Granularity mismatch (2) Link resolver error (6) Index problems Article not in database/journal/index (3, 4, 5, 6) Journal not in database (7) Of these three, the first category accounts for the vast majority of problems according to my anecdata. It’s notable that issues overlap and their classification is inexact. When a link to an embargoed article fails, should we say that is due to the article being “missing” or a link resolver issue? Whatever the case, it is often clear when a link is broken even if we could argue endlessly about how exactly. There are also a host of problems that we, as librarians, cause. We might misconfigure EZproxy for a database or fail to keep our knowledge base holdings up to date. The difference with these problems is that they tend to happen once and then be resolved forever; I fix the EZproxy stanza, I remove access to the database we unsubscribed from. So the proportion of errors we account for is vanishingly low, while these other errors are eternal. No matter how many granularity mismatches or missing articles in I point out, there are always millions more waiting to cause problems for our users. Notes This sort of incredibly poor handling of punctuation in queries is sadly quite common. Even though, in this instance, the source database and discovery layer are made by the same company the link between them still isn’t prepared to handle a colon in a text string. Consider how many academic articles have colons in their title. This is not good. ↩ Author Eric PhetteplacePosted on July 11, 2019Categories discovery, metadata1 Comment on Broken Links in the Discovery Layer—Pt. II: Towards an Ethnography of Broken Links Broken Links in the Discovery Layer—Pt. I: Researching a Problem Like many administrators of discovery layers, I’m constantly baffled and frustrated when users can’t access full text results from their searches. After implementing Summon, we heard a few reports of problems and gradually our librarians started to stumble across them on their own. At first, we had no formal system for tracking these errors. Eventually, I added a script which inserted a “report broken link” form into our discovery layer’s search results. 1 I hoped that collecting reported problems and then reporting then would identify certain systemic issues that could be resolved, ultimately leading to fewer problems. Pointing out patterns in these errors to vendors should lead to actual progress in terms of user experience. From the broken links form, I began to cull some data on the problem. I can tell you, for instance, which destination databases experience the most problems or what the character of the most common problems is. The issue is the sample bias—are the problems that are reported really the most common? Or are they just the ones that our most diligent researchers (mostly our librarians, graduate students, and faculty) are likely to report? I long for quantifiable evidence of the issue without this bias. How I classify the broken links that have been reported via our form. N = 57 Select Searches & Search Results So how would one go about objectively studying broken links in a discovery layer? The first issue to solve is what searches and search results to review. Luckily, we have data on this—we can view in our analytics what the most popular searches are. But a problem becomes apparent when one goes to review those search terms: artstor hours jstor kanopy Of course, the most commonly occurring searches tend to be single words. These searches all trigger “best bet” or database suggestions that send users directly to other resources. If their result lists do contain broken links, those links are unlikely to ever be visited, making them a poor choice for our study. If I go a little further into the set of most common searches, I see single-word subject searches for “drawing” followed by some proper nouns (“suzanne lacy”, “chicago manual of style”). These are better since it’s more likely users actually select items from their results but still aren’t a great representation of all the types of searches that occur. Why are these types of single-word searches not the best test cases? Because search phrases necessarily have a long tail distribution; the most popular searches aren’t that popular in the context of the total quantity of searches performed 2. There are many distinct search queries that were only ever executed once. Our most popular search of “artstor”? It was executed 122 times over the past two years. Yet we’ve had somewhere near 25,000 searches in the past six months alone. This supposedly popular phrase has a negligible share of that total. Meanwhile, just because a search for “How to Hack it as a Working Parent. Jaclyn Bedoya, Margaret Heller, Christina Salazar, and May Yan. Code4Lib (2015) iss. 28″ has only been run once doesn’t mean it doesn’t represent a type of search—exact citation search—that is fairly common and worth examining, since broken links during known item searches are more likely to be frustrating. Even our 500 most popular searches evince a long tail distribution. So let’s say we resolve the problem of which searches to choose by creating a taxonomy of search types, from single-word subjects to copy-pasted citations. 3 We can select a few real world samples of each type to use in our study. Yet we still haven’t decided which search results we’re going to examine! Luckily, this proves much easier to resolve. People don’t look very far down in the search results 4, rarely scrolling past the first “page” listed (Summon has an infinite scroll so there technically are no pages, but you get the idea). Only items within the first ten results are likely to be selected. Once we have our searches and know that we want to examine only the first ten or so results, my next thought is that it might be worth filtering our results that are unlikely to have problems. But does skipping the records from our catalog, institutional repository, LibGuides, etc. make other problems abnormally more apparent? After all, these sorts of results are likely to work since we’re providing direct links to the Summon link. Also, our users do not heavily employ facets—they would be unlikely to filter out results from the library catalog. 5 In a way, by focusing a study on search results that are the most likely to fail and thus give us information about underlying linking issues, we’re diverging away from the typical search experience. In the end, I think it’s worthwhile to stay true to more realistic search patterns and not apply, for instance, a “Full Text Online” filter which would exclude our library catalog. Next Time on Tech Connect—oh how many ways can things go wrong?!? I’ll start investigating broken links and attempt to enumerate their differing natures. Notes This script was largely copied from Robert Hoyt of Fairfield University, so all credit due to him. ↩ For instance, see: Beitzel, S. M., Jensen, E. C., Chowdhury, A., Frieder, O., & Grossman, D. (2007). Temporal analysis of a very large topically categorized web query log. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 58(2), 166–178. “… it is clear that the vast majority of queries in an hour appear only one to five times and that these rare queries consistently account for large portions of the total query volume” ↩ Ignore, for the moment, that this taxonomy’s constitution is an entire field of study to itself. ↩ Pan, B., Hembrooke, H., Joachims, T., Lorigo, L., Gay, G., & Granka, L. (2007). In google we trust: Users’ decisions on rank, position, and relevance. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 12(3), 801–823. ↩ In fact, the most common facet used in our discovery layer is “library catalog” showing that users often want only bibliographic records; the precise opposite of a search aimed at only retrieving article database results. ↩ Author Eric PhetteplacePosted on March 11, 2019March 11, 2019Categories data, discovery3 Comments on Broken Links in the Discovery Layer—Pt. I: Researching a Problem ORCID for System Interoperability in Scholarly Communication Workflows What is ORCID? If you work in an academic library or otherwise provide support for research and scholarly communication, you have probably heard of ORCID (Open Contributor & Researcher Identifier) in terms of “ORCID iD,” a unique 16-digit identifier that represents an individual in order to mitigate name ambiguity. The ORCID iD number is presented as a URI (unique resource identifier) that serves as the link to a corresponding ORCID record, where disambiguating data about an individual is stored. For example, https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9079-593X is the ORCID iD for the late Stephen Hawking, and clicking on this link will take you to Hawking’s ORCID record. Data within ORCID records can include things like names(s) and other identifiers, biographical information, organizational affiliations, and works. Figure 1: This screenshot shows the types of data that can be contained in an ORCID record. Anyone can register for an ORCID iD for free, and individuals have full control over what data appears in their record, the visibility of that data, and whether other individuals or organizations are authorized to add data to their ORCID record on their behalf. Individuals can populate information in their ORCID record themselves, or they can grant permission to organizations, like research institutions, publishers, and funding agencies, to connect with their ORCID record as trusted parties, establishing an official affiliation between the individual and the organization. For example, Figures 2 and 3 illustrate an authenticated ORCID connection between an individual author and the University of Virginia (UVA) as represented in LibraOpen, the UVA Library’s Samvera institutional repository. Figure 2: The University of Virginia Library’s LibraOpen Institutional Repository is configured to make authenticated connections with authors’ ORCID records, linking the author to their contributions and to the institution. Once an author authenticates/connects their ORCID iD in the system, ORCID iD URIs are displayed next to the authors’ names. Image source: doi.org/10.18130/V3FB8T Figure 3: By clicking on the author’s ORCID iD URI in LibraOpen, we can see the work listed on the individual’s ORCID record, with “University of Virginia” as the source of the data, which means that the author gave permission for UVA to write to their ORCID record. This saves time for the author, ensures integrity of metadata, and contributes trustworthy data back to the scholarly communication ecosystem that can then be used by other systems connected with ORCID. Image courtesy of Sherry Lake, UVA https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5660-2970 ORCID Ecosystem & Interoperability These authenticated connections are made possible by configuring software systems to communicate with the ORCID registry through the ORCID API, which is based on OAuth 2.0. With individual researchers/contributors at the center, and their affiliated organizations connecting with them through the ORCID API, all participating organizations’ systems can also communicate with each other. In this way, ORCID not only serves as a mechanism for name disambiguation, it also provides a linchpin for system interoperability in the research and scholarly communication ecosystem. Figure 4: ORCID serves as a mechanism for interoperability between systems and data in the scholarly communication ecosystem. Graphic courtesy of the ORCID organization. Publishers, funders, research institutions (employers), government agencies, and other stakeholders have been adopting and using ORCID increasingly in their systems over the past several years. As a global initiative, over 5 million individuals around the world have registered for an ORCID iD, and that number continues to grow steadily as more organizations start to require ORCID iDs in their workflows. For example, over 65 publishers have signed on to an open letter committing to use ORCID in their processes, and grant funders are continuing to come on board with ORCID as well, having recently released their own open letter demonstrating commitment to ORCID. A full list of participating ORCID member organizations around the globe can be found at https://orcid.org/members. ORCID Integrations ORCID can be integrated into any system that touches the types of data contained within an ORCID record, including repositories, publishing and content management platforms, data management systems, central identity management systems, human resources, grants management, and Current Research Information Systems (CRIS). ORCID integrations can either be custom built into local systems, such as the example from UVA above, or made available through a vendor system out of the box. Several vendor-hosted CRIS such as Pure, Faculty 180, Digital Measures, and Symplectic Elements, already have built-in support for authenticated ORCID connections that can be utilized by institutional ORCID members, which provides a quick win for pulling ORCID data into assessment workflows with no development required. While ORCID has a public API that offers limited functionality for connecting with ORCID iDs and reading public ORCID data, the ORCID member API allows organizations to read from, write to, and auto-update ORCID data for their affiliated researchers. The ORCID institutional membership model allows organizations to support the ORCID initiative and benefit from the more robust functionality that the member API provides. ORCID can be integrated with disparate systems, or with one system from which data flows into others, as illustrated in Figure 5. Figure 5: This graphic from the Czech Technical University in Prague illustrates how a central identity management system is configured to connect with the ORCID registry via the ORCID API, with ORCID data flowing internally to other institutional systems. Image Source: Czech Technical University in Prague Central Library & Computing and Information Centre , 2016: Solving a Problem of Authority Control in DSpace During ORCID Implementation ORCID in US Research Institutions In January of 2018, four consortia in the US – the NorthEast Research Libraries (NERL), the Greater Western Library Alliance (GWLA), the Big Ten Academic Alliance (BTAA), and LYRASIS – joined forces to form a national partnership for a consortial approach to ORCID membership among research institutions in the US, known as the ORCID US Community. The national partnership allows non-profit research institutions to become premium ORCID member organizations for a significantly discounted fee and employs staff to provide dedicated technical and community support for its members. As of December 1, 2018, there are 107 member organizations in the ORCID US Community. In addition to encouraging adoption of ORCID, a main goal of the consortium approach is to build a community of practice around ORCID in the US. Prior to 2018, any institutions participating in ORCID were essentially going it alone and there were no dedicated communication channels or forums for discussion and sharing around ORCID at a national level. However, with the formation of the ORCID US Community, there is now a website with community resources for ORCID adoption specific to the US, dedicated communication channels, and an open door to collaboration between member institutions. Among ORCID US Community member organizations, just under half have integrated ORCID with one or more systems, and the other slightly more than half are either in early planning stages or technical development. (See the ORCID US Community 2018 newsletter for more information.) As an ecosystem, ORCID relies not only on organizations but also the participation of individual researchers, so all members have also been actively reaching out to their affiliated researchers to encourage them to register for, connect, and use their ORCID iD. Getting Started with ORCID ORCID can benefit research institutions by mitigating confusion caused by name ambiguity, providing an interoperable data source that can be used for individual assessment and aggregated review of institutional impact, allowing institutions to assert authority over their institutional name and verify affiliations with researchers, ultimately saving time and reducing administrative burden for both organizations and individuals. To get the most value from ORCID, research institutions should consider the following three activities as outlined in the ORCID US Planning Guide: Forming a cross-campus ORCID committee or group with stakeholders from different campus units (libraries, central IT, research office, graduate school, grants office, human resources, specific academic units, etc.) to strategically plan ORCID system integration and outreach efforts Assessing all of the current systems used on campus to determine which workflows could benefit from ORCID integration Conducting outreach and education around research impact and ORCID to encourage researchers to register for and use their ORCID iD The more people and organizations/systems using ORCID, the more all stakeholders can benefit from ORCID by maintaining a record of an individuals’ scholarly and cultural contributions throughout their career, mitigating confusion caused by name ambiguity, assessing individual contributions as well as institutional impact, and enabling trustworthy and efficient sharing of data across scholarly communication workflows. Effectively, ORCID represents a paradigm shift from siloed, repetitive workflows to the ideal of being able to “enter once, re-use often” by using ORCID to transfer data between systems, workflows, and individuals, ultimately making everyone’s lives easier. Sheila Rabun is the ORCID US Community Specialist at LYRASIS, providing technical and community support for 100+ institutional members of the ORCID US Community. In prior roles, she managed community and communication for the International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) Consortium, and served as a digital project manager for several years at the University of Oregon Libraries’ Digital Scholarship Center. Learn more at https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1196-6279 Author Sheila RabunPosted on December 18, 2018December 17, 2018Categories digital scholarship, publication, Scholarly Communication Creating Presentations with Beautiful.AI Updated 2018-11-12 at 3:30PM with accessibility information. Beautiful.AI is a new website that enables users to create dynamic presentations quickly and easily with “smart templates” and other design optimized features. So far the service is free with a paid pro tier coming soon. I first heard about Beautiful.AI in an advertisement on NPR and was immediately intrigued. The landscape of presentation software platforms has broadened in recent years to include websites like Prezi, Emaze, and an array of others beyond the tried and true PowerPoint. My preferred method of creating presentations for the past couple of years has been to customize the layouts available on Canva and download the completed PDFs for use in PowerPoint. I am also someone who enjoys tinkering with fonts and other design elements until I get a presentation just right, but I know that these steps can be time consuming and overwhelming for many people. With that in mind, I set out to put Beautiful.AI to the test by creating a short “prepare and share” presentation about my first experience at ALA’s Annual Conference this past June for an upcoming meeting. A title slide created with Beautiful.AI. Features To help you get started, Beautiful.AI includes an introductory “Design Tips for Beautiful Slides” presentation. It is also fully customizable so you can play around with all of of the features and options as you explore, or you can click on “create new presentation” to start from scratch. You’ll then be prompted to choose a theme, and you can also choose a color palette. Once you start adding slides you can make use of Beautiful.AI’s template library. This is the foundation of the site’s usefulness because it helps alleviate guesswork about where to put content and that dreaded “staring at the blank slide” feeling. Each individual slide becomes a canvas as you create a presentation, similar to what is likely familiar in PowerPoint. In fact, all of the most popular PowerPoint features are available in Beautiful.AI, they’re just located in very different places. From the navigation at the left of the screen users can adjust the colors and layout of each slide as well as add images, animation, and presenter notes. Options to add, duplicate, or delete a slide are available on the right of the screen. The organize feature also allows you to zoom out and see all of the slides in the presentation. Beautiful.AI offers a built-in template to create a word cloud. One of Beautiful.AI’s best features, and my personal favorite, is its built-in free stock image library. You can choose from pre-selected categories such as Data, Meeting, Nature, or Technology or search for other images. An import feature is also available, but providing the stock images is extremely useful if you don’t have your own photos at the ready. Using these images also ensures that no copyright restrictions are violated and helps add a professional polish to your presentation. The options to add an audio track and advance times to slides are also nice to have for creating presentations as tutorials or introductions to a topic. When you’re ready to present, you can do so directly from the browser or export to PDF or PowerPoint. Options to share with a link or embed with code are also available. Usability While intuitive design and overall usability won’t necessarily make or break the existence of a presentation software platform, each will play a role in influencing whether someone uses it more than once. For the most part, I found Beautiful.AI to be easy and fun to use. The interface is bold, yet simplistic, and on trend with current website design aesthetics. Still, users who are new to creating presentations online in a non-PowerPoint environment may find the Beautiful.AI interface to be confusing at first. Most features are consolidated within icons and require you to hover over them to reveal their function. Icons like the camera to represent “Add Image” are pretty obvious, but others such as Layout and Organize are less intuitive. Some of Beautiful.AI’s terminology may also not be as easily recognizable. For example, the use of the term “variations” was confusing to me at first, especially since it’s only an option for the title slide. The absence of any drag and drop capability for text boxes is definitely a feature that’s missing for me. This is really where the automated design adaptability didn’t seem to work as well as I would’ve expected given that it’s one of the company’s most prominent marketing statements. On the title slide of my presentation, capitalizing a letter in the title caused the text to move closer to the edge of the slide. In Canva, I could easily pull the text block over to the left a little or adjust the font size down by a few points. I really am a stickler for spacing in my presentations, and I would’ve expected this to be an element that the “Design AI” would pick up on. Each template also has different pre-set design elements, and it can be confusing when you choose one that includes a feature that you didn’t expect. Yet, text sizes that are pre-set to fit the dimensions of each template does help not only with readability in the creation phase but with overall visibility for audiences. Again, this alleviates some of the guesswork that often happens in PowerPoint with not knowing exactly how large your text sizes will appear when projected onto larger screens. A slide created using a basic template and stock photos available in Beautiful.AI. One feature that does work really well is the export option. Exporting to PowerPoint creates a perfectly sized facsimile presentation, and being able to easily download a PDF is very useful for creating handouts or archiving a presentation later on. Both are nice to have as a backup for conferences where Internet access may be spotty, and it’s nice that Beautiful.AI understands the need for these options. Unfortunately, Beautiful.AI doesn’t address accessibility on its FAQ page nor does it offer alternative text or other web accessibility features. Users will need to add their own slide titles and alt text in PowerPoint and Adobe Acrobat after exporting from Beautiful.AI to create an accessible presentation.  Conclusion Beautiful.AI challenged me to think in new ways about how best to deliver information in a visually engaging way. It’s a useful option for librarians and students who are looking for a presentation website that is fun to use, engaging, and on trend with current web design. Click here to view “My first ALA”presentation created with Beautiful.AI. Jeanette Sewell is the Database and Metadata Management Coordinator at Fondren Library, Rice University. Author Jeanette SewellPosted on November 12, 2018November 12, 2018Categories conferences, library, presentation, technology, tools National Forum on Web Privacy and Web Analytics We had the fantastic experience of participating in the National Forum on Web Privacy and Web Analytics in Bozeman, Montana last month. This event brought together around forty people from different areas and types of libraries to do in-depth discussion and planning about privacy issues in libraries. Our hosts from Montana State University, Scott Young, Jason Clark, Sara Mannheimer, and Jacqueline Frank, framed the event with different (though overlapping) areas of focus. We broke into groups based on our interests from a pre-event survey and worked through a number of activities to identify projects. You can follow along with all the activities and documents produced during the Forum in this document that collates all of them. Float your boat exercise             While initially worried that the activities would feel too forced, instead they really worked to release creative ideas. Here’s an example: our groups drew pictures of boats with sails showing opportunities, and anchors showing problems. We started out in two smaller subgroups of our subgroups and drew a boat, then met with the large subgroup to combine the boat ideas. This meant that it was easy to spot the common themes—each smaller group had written some of the same themes (like GDPR). Working in metaphor meant we could express some more complex issues, like politics, as the ocean—something that always surrounds the issue and can be helpful or unhelpful without much warning. This helped us think differently about issues and not get too focused on our own individual perspective. The process of turning metaphor into action was hard. We had to take the whole world of problems and opportunities and come up with how these could be realistically accomplished. Good and important ideas had to get left behind because they were so big there was no way to feasibly plan them, certainly not in a day or two. The differing assortment of groups (which were mixable where ideas overlapped) ensured that we were able to question each other’s assumptions and ask some hard questions. For example, one of the issues Margaret’s group had identified as a problem was disagreement in the profession about what the proper limits were on privacy. Individually identifiable usage metrics are a valuable commodity to some, and a thing not to be touched to others. While everyone in the room was probably biased more in favor of privacy than perhaps the profession at large is, we could share stories and realities of the types of data we were collecting and what it was being used for. Considering the realities of our environments, one of our ideas to bring everyone from across the library and archives world to create a unified set of privacy values was not going to happen. Despite that, we were able to identify one of the core problems that led to a lack of unity, which was, in many cases, lack of knowledge about what privacy issues existed and how these might affect institutions. When you don’t completely understand something, or only half understand it, you are more likely to be afraid of it.             On the afternoon of the second day and continuing into the morning of the third day, we had to get serious and pick just one idea to focus on to create a project plan. Again, the facilitators utilized a few processes that helped us take a big idea and break it down into more manageable components. We used “Big SCAI” thinking to frame the project: what is the status quo, what are the challenges, what actions are required, and what are the ideals. From there we worked through what was necessary for the project, nice to have, unlikely to get, and completely unnecessary to the project. This helped focus efforts and made the process of writing a project implementation plan much easier. What the workday looked like. Writing the project implementation plan as a group was made easier by shared documents, but we all commented on the irony of using Google Docs to write privacy plans. On the other hand, trying to figure out how to write in groups and easily share what we wrote using any other platform was a challenge in the moment. This reality illustrates the problems with privacy: the tool that is easiest to use and comes to mind first will be the one that ends up being used. We have to create tools that make privacy easy (which was a discussion many of us at the Forum had), but even more so we need to think about the tradeoffs that we make in choosing a tool and educate ourselves and others about this. In this case, since all the outcomes of the project were going to be public anyway, going on the “quick and easy” side was ok.             The Forum project leaders recently presented about their work at the DLF Forum 2018 conference. In this presentation, they outlined the work that they did leading up to the Forum, and the strategies that emerged from the day. They characterized the strategies as Privacy Badging and Certifications, Privacy Leadership Training, Privacy for Tribal Communities and Organizations, Model License for Vendor Contracts, Privacy Research Institute, and a Responsible Assessment Toolkit. You can read through the thought process and implementation strategies for these projects and others yourself at the project plan index. The goal is to ensure that whoever wants to do the work can do it. To quote Scott Young’s follow-up email, “We ask only that you keep in touch with us for the purposes of community facilitation and grant reporting, and to note the provenance of the idea in future proposals—a sort of CC BY designation, to speak in copyright terms.”             For us, this three-day deep dive into privacy was an inspiration and a chance to make new connections (while also catching up with some old friends). But even more, it was a reminder that you don’t need much of anything to create a community. Provided the right framing, as long as you have people with differing experiences and perspectives coming together to learn from each other, you’ve facilitated the community-building.   Author Margaret HellerPosted on October 29, 2018October 29, 2018Categories conferences, privacy The Ex Libris Knowledge Center and Orangewashing Two days after ProQuest completed their acquisition of Ex Libris in December 2015, Ex Libris announced the launch of their new online Customer Knowledge Center. In the press release for the Knowledge Center, the company describes it as “a single gateway to all Ex Libris knowledge resources,” including training materials, release notes, and product manuals. A defining feature is that there has never been any paywall or log-on requirement, so that all Knowledge Center materials remain freely accessible to any site visitor. Historically, access to documentation for automated library systems has been restricted to subscribing institutions, so the Knowledge Center represents a unique change in approach. Within the press release, it is also readily apparent how Ex Libris aims to frame the openness of the Knowledge Center as a form of support for open access. As the company states in the second paragraph, “Demonstrating the Company’s belief in the importance of open access, the site is open to all, without requiring any logon procedure.” Former Ex Libris CEO Matti Shem Tov goes a step further in the following paragraph: “We want our resources and documentation to be as accessible and as open as our library management, discovery, and higher-education technology solutions are.” The problem with how Ex Libris frames their press release is that it elides the difference between mere openness and actual open access. They are a for-profit company, and their currently burgeoning market share is dependent upon a software-as-a-service (SaaS) business model. Therefore, one way to describe their approach in this case is orangewashing. During a recent conversation with me, Margaret Heller came up with the term, based on the color of the PLOS open access symbol. Similar in concept to greenwashing, we can define orangewashing as a misappropriation of open access rhetoric for business purposes. What perhaps makes orangewashing more initially difficult to diagnose in Ex Libris’s (and more broadly, ProQuest’s) case is that they attempt to tie support for open access to other product offerings. Even before purchasing Ex Libris, ProQuest had been including an author-side paid open-access publishing option to its Electronic Thesis and Dissertation platform, though we can question whether this is actually a good option for authors. For its part, Ex Libris has listened to customer feedback about open access discovery. As an example, there are now open access filters for both the Primo and Summon discovery layers. Ex Libris has also, generally speaking, remained open to customer participation regarding systems development, particularly with initiatives like the Developer Network and Idea Exchange. Perhaps the most credible example is in a June 24, 2015 press release, where the company declares “support of the Open Discovery Initiative (ODI) and conformance with ODI’s recommended practice for pre-indexed ‘web-scale’ discovery services.” A key implication is that “conforming to ODI regulations about ranking of search results, linking to content, inclusion of materials in Primo Central, and discovery of open access content all uphold the principles of content neutrality.” Given the above information, in the case of the Knowledge Center, it is tempting to give Ex Libris the benefit of the doubt. As an access services librarian, I understand how much of a hassle it can be to find and obtain systems documentation in order to properly do my job. I currently work for an Ex Libris institution, and can affirm that the Knowledge Center is of tangible benefit. Besides providing easier availability for their materials, Ex Libris has done fairly well in keeping information and pathing up to date. Notably, as of last month, customers can also contribute their own documentation to product-specific Community Knowledge sections within the Knowledge Center. Nevertheless, this does not change the fact that while the Knowledge Center is unique in its format, it represents a low bar to clear for a company of Ex Libris’s size. Their systems documentation should be openly accessible in any case. Moreover, the Knowledge Center represents openness—in the form of company transparency and customer participation—for systems and products that are not open. This is why when we go back to the Knowledge Center press release, we can identify it as orangewashing. Open access is not the point of a profit-driven company offering freely accessible documentation, and any claims to this effect ultimately ring hollow. So what is the likely point of the Knowledge Center, then? We should consider that Alma has become the predominant service platform within academic libraries, with Primo and Summon being the only supported discovery layers for it. While OCLC and EBSCO offer or support competing products, Ex Libris already held an advantageous position even before the ProQuest purchase. Therefore, besides the Knowledge Center serving as supportive measure for current customers, we can view it as a sales pitch to future ones. This may be a smart business strategy, but again, it has little to do with open access. Two other recent developments provide further evidence of Ex Libris’s orangewashing. The first is MLA’s announcement that EBSCO will become the exclusive vendor for the MLA International Bibliography. On the PRIMO-L listserv, Ex Libris posted a statement [listserv subscription required] noting that the agreement “goes against the goals of NISO’s Open Discovery Initiative…to promote collaboration and transparency among content and discovery providers.” Nevertheless, despite not being involved in the agreement, Ex Libris shares some blame given the long-standing difficulty over EBSCO not providing content to the Primo Central Index. As a result, what may occur is the “siloing” of an indispensable research database, while Ex Libris customers remain dependent on the company to help determine an eventual route to access. Secondly, in addition to offering research publications through ProQuest and discovery service through Primo/Summon, Ex Libris now provides end-to-end content management through Esploro. Monetizing more aspects of the research process is certainly far from unusual among academic publishers and service providers. Elsevier arguably provides the most egregious example, and as Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe notes, their pattern of recent acquisitions belies an apparent goal of creating a vertical stack service model for publication services. In considering what Elsevier is doing, it is unsurprising—from a business standpoint—for Ex Libris and ProQuest to pursue profits in a similar manner. That said, we should bear in mind that libraries are already losing control over open access as a consequence of the general strategy that Elsevier is employing. Esploro will likely benefit from having strong library development partners and “open” customer feedback, but the potential end result could place its customers in a more financially disadvantageous and less autonomous position. This is simply antithetical to open access. Over the past few years, Ex Libris has done well not just in their product development, but also their customer support. Making the Knowledge Center “open to all” in late 2015 was a very positive step forward. Yet the company’s decision to orangewash through claiming support for open access as part of a product unveiling still warrants critique. Peter Suber reminds us that open access is a “revolutionary kind of access”—one that is “unencumbered by a motive of financial gain.” While Ex Libris can perhaps talk about openness with a little more credibility than their competitors, their bottom line is still what really matters. Author Chris MartinPosted on September 25, 2018September 25, 2018Categories open access, Scholarly Communication Managing ILS Updates We’ve done a few screencasts in the past here at TechConnect and I wanted to make a new one to cover a topic that’s come up this summer: managing ILS updates. Integrated Library Systems are huge, unwieldy pieces of software and it can be difficult to track what changes with each update: new settings are introduced, behaviors change, bugs are (hopefully) fixed. The video belows shows my approach to managing this process and keeping track of ongoing issues with our Koha ILS. Author Eric PhetteplacePosted on August 13, 2018August 10, 2018Categories library Blockchain: Merits, Issues, and Suggestions for Compelling Use Cases Blockchain holds a great potential for both innovation and disruption. The adoption of blockchain also poses certain risks, and those risks will need to be addressed and mitigated before blockchain becomes mainstream. A lot of people have heard of blockchain at this point. But many are unfamiliar with how this new technology exactly works and unsure about under which circumstances or on what conditions it may be useful to libraries. In this post, I will provide a brief overview of the merits and the issues of blockchain. I will also make some suggestions for compelling use cases of blockchain at the end of this post. What Blockchain Accomplishes Blockchain is the technology that underpins a well-known decentralized cryptocurrency, Bitcoin. To simply put, blockchain is a kind of distributed digital ledger on a peer-to-peer (P2P) network, in which records are confirmed and encrypted. Blockchain records and keeps data in the original state in a secure and tamper-proof manner[1] by its technical implementation alone, thereby obviating the need for a third-party authority to guarantee the authenticity of the data. Records in blockchain are stored in multiple ledgers in a distributed network instead of one central location. This prevents a single point of failure and secures records by protecting them from potential damage or loss. Blocks in each blockchain ledger are chained to one another by the mechanism called ‘proof of work.’ (For those familiar with a version control system such as Git, a blockchain ledger can be thought of as something similar to a P2P hosted git repository that allows sequential commits only.[2]) This makes records in a block immutable and irreversible, that is, tamper-proof. In areas where the authenticity and security of records is of paramount importance, such as electronic health records, digital identity authentication/authorization, digital rights management, historic records that may be contested or challenged due to the vested interests of certain groups, and digital provenance to name a few, blockchain can lead to efficiency, convenience, and cost savings. For example, with blockchain implemented in banking, one will be able to transfer funds across different countries without going through banks.[3] This can drastically lower the fees involved, and the transaction will take effect much more quickly, if not immediately. Similarly, adopted in real estate transactions, blockchain can make the process of buying and selling a property more straightforward and efficient, saving time and money.[4] Disruptive Potential of Blockchain The disruptive potential of blockchain lies in its aforementioned ability to render the role of a third-party authority obsolete, which records and validates transactions and guarantees their authenticity, should a dispute arise. In this respect, blockchain can serve as an alternative trust protocol that decentralizes traditional authorities. Since blockchain achieves this by public key cryptography, however, if one loses one’s own personal key to the blockchain ledger holding one’s financial or real estate asset, for example, then that will result in the permanent loss of such asset. With the third-party authority gone, there will be no institution to step in and remedy the situation. Issues This is only some of the issues with blockchain. Other issues include (a) interoperability between different blockchain systems, (b) scalability of blockchain at a global scale with large amount of data, (c) potential security issues such as the 51% attack [5], and (d) huge energy consumption [6] that a blockchain requires to add a block to a ledger. Note that the last issue of energy consumption has both environmental and economic ramifications because it can cancel out the cost savings gained from eliminating a third-party authority and related processes and fees. Challenges for Wider Adoption There are growing interests in blockchain among information professionals, but there are also some obstacles to those interests gaining momentum and moving further towards wider trial and adoption. One obstacle is the lack of general understanding about blockchain in a larger audience of information professionals. Due to its original association with bitcoin, many mistake blockchain for cryptocurrency. Another obstacle is technical. The use of blockchain requires setting up and running a node in a blockchain network, such as Ethereum[7], which may be daunting to those who are not tech-savvy. This makes a barrier to entry high to those who are not familiar with command line scripting and yet still want to try out and test how a blockchain functions. The last and most important obstacle is the lack of compelling use cases for libraries, archives, and museums. To many, blockchain is an interesting new technology. But even many blockchain enthusiasts are skeptical of its practical benefits at this point when all associated costs are considered. Of course, this is not an insurmountable obstacle. The more people get familiar with blockchain, the more ways people will discover to use blockchain in the information profession that are uniquely beneficial for specific purposes. Suggestions for Compelling Use Cases of Blockchain In order to determine what may make a compelling use case of blockchain, the information profession would benefit from considering the following. (a) What kind of data/records (or the series thereof) must be stored and preserved exactly the way they were created. (b) What kind of information is at great risk to be altered and compromised by changing circumstances. (c) What type of interactions may need to take place between such data/records and their users.[8] (d) How much would be a reasonable cost for implementation. These will help connecting the potential benefits of blockchain with real-world use cases and take the information profession one step closer to its wider testing and adoption. To those further interested in blockchain and libraries, I recommend the recordings from the Library 2.018 online mini-conference, “Blockchain Applied: Impact on the Information Profession,” held back in June. The Blockchain National Forum, which is funded by IMLS and is to take place in San Jose, CA on August 6th, will also be livestreamed. Notes [1] For an excellent introduction to blockchain, see “The Great Chain of Being Sure about Things,” The Economist, October 31, 2015, https://www.economist.com/news/briefing/21677228-technology-behind-bitcoin-lets-people-who-do-not-know-or-trust-each-other-build-dependable. [2] Justin Ramos, “Blockchain: Under the Hood,” ThoughtWorks (blog), August 12, 2016, https://www.thoughtworks.com/insights/blog/blockchain-under-hood. [3] The World Food Programme, the food-assistance branch of the United Nations, is using blockchain to increase their humanitarian aid to refugees. Blockchain may possibly be used for not only financial transactions but also the identity verification for refugees. Russ Juskalian, “Inside the Jordan Refugee Camp That Runs on Blockchain,” MIT Technology Review, April 12, 2018, https://www.technologyreview.com/s/610806/inside-the-jordan-refugee-camp-that-runs-on-blockchain/. [4] Joanne Cleaver, “Could Blockchain Technology Transform Homebuying in Cook County — and Beyond?,” Chicago Tribune, July 9, 2018, http://www.chicagotribune.com/classified/realestate/ct-re-0715-blockchain-homebuying-20180628-story.html. [5] “51% Attack,” Investopedia, September 7, 2016, https://www.investopedia.com/terms/1/51-attack.asp. [6] Sherman Lee, “Bitcoin’s Energy Consumption Can Power An Entire Country — But EOS Is Trying To Fix That,” Forbes, April 19, 2018, https://www.forbes.com/sites/shermanlee/2018/04/19/bitcoins-energy-consumption-can-power-an-entire-country-but-eos-is-trying-to-fix-that/#49ff3aa41bc8. [7] Osita Chibuike, “How to Setup an Ethereum Node,” The Practical Dev, May 23, 2018, https://dev.to/legobox/how-to-setup-an-ethereum-node-41a7. [8] The interaction can also be a self-executing program when certain conditions are met in a blockchain ledger. This is called a “smart contract.” See Mike Orcutt, “States That Are Passing Laws to Govern ‘Smart Contracts’ Have No Idea What They’re Doing,” MIT Technology Review, March 29, 2018, https://www.technologyreview.com/s/610718/states-that-are-passing-laws-to-govern-smart-contracts-have-no-idea-what-theyre-doing/. Author Bohyun KimPosted on July 24, 2018July 26, 2018Categories coding, data, technologyTags bitcoin, blockchain, distributed ledger technology1 Comment on Blockchain: Merits, Issues, and Suggestions for Compelling Use Cases Introducing Our New Best Friend, GDPR You’ve seen the letters GDPR in every single email you’ve gotten from a vendor or a mailing list lately, but you might not be exactly sure what it is. With GDPR enforcement starting on May 25, it’s time for a crash course in what GDPR is, and why it could be your new best friend whether you are in the EU or not. First, you can check out the EU GDPR information site (though it probably will be under heavy load for a few days!) for lots of information on this. It’s important to recognize, however, that for universities like mine with a campus located in the EU, it has created additional oversight to ensure that our own data collection practices are GDPR compliant, or that we restrict people residing in the EU from accessing those services. You should definitely work with legal counsel on your own campus in making any decisions about GDPR compliance. So what does the GDPR actually mean in practice? The requirements break down this way: any company which holds the data of any EU citizen must provide data controls, no matter where the company or the data is located. This means that every large web platform and pretty much every library vendor must comply or face heavy fines. The GDPR offers the following protections for personally identifiable information, which includes things like IP address: privacy terms and conditions must be written in easy to understand language, data breaches require quick notifications, the right to know what data is being collected and to receive a copy of it, the “right to be forgotten” or data erasure (unless it’s in the public interest for the data to be retained), ability to transfer data between providers, systems to be private by design and only collect necessary data, and for companies to appoint data privacy officers without conflicts of interest. How this all works in practice is not consistent, and there will be a lot to be worked out in the courts in the coming years. Note that Google recently lost several right to be forgotten cases, and were required to remove information that they had originally stated was in the public interest to retain. The GDPR has actually been around for a few years, but May 25, 2018 was set as the enforcement date, so many people have been scrambling to meet that deadline. If you’re reading this today, there’s probably not a lot of time to do anything about your own practices, but if you haven’t yet reviewed what your vendors are doing, this would be a good time. Note too that there are no rights guaranteed for any Americans, and several companies, including Facebook, have moved data governance out of their Irish office to California to be out of reach of suits brought in Irish courts. Where possible, however, we should be using all the features at our disposal. As librarians, we already tend to the “privacy by design” philosophy, even though we aren’t always perfect at it. As I wrote in my last post, my library worked on auditing our practices and creating a new privacy policy, and one of the last issues was trying to figure out how we would approach some of our third-party services which we need to provide services to our patrons but that did not allow deleting data. Now some of those features are being made available. For example, Google Analytics now has a data retention feature, which allows you to set data to expire and be deleted after a certain amount of time. Google provides some more detailed instructions to ensure that you are not accidentally collecting personally-identifiable information in your analytics data. Lots of our library vendors provide personal account features, and those too are subject to these new GDPR features. This means that there are new levels of transparency about what kinds of tracking they are doing, and greater ability for patrons to control data, and for you to control data on the behalf of patrons. Here are a few example vendor GDPR compliance statements or FAQs: EBSCO Ex Libris ProQuest Springshare Note that some vendors, like EBSCO, are moving to HTTPS for all sites that weren’t before, and so this may require changes to proxy servers or other links. I am excited about GDPR because no matter where we are located, it gives us new tools to defend the privacy of our patrons. Even better than that, it is providing lots of opportunities on our campuses to talk about privacy with all stakeholders. At my institution, the library has been able to showcase our privacy expertise and have some good conversations about data governance and future goals for privacy. It doesn’t mean that all our problems will be solved, but we are moving in a more positive direction. Author Margaret HellerPosted on May 24, 2018May 23, 2018Categories administration, privacyTags gdpr Names are Hard A while ago I stumbled onto the post “Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names” and was stunned. Personal names are one of the most deceptively difficult forms of data to work with and this article touched on so many common but unaddressed problems. Assumptions like “people have exactly one canonical name” and “My system will never have to deal with names from China/Japan/Korea” were apparent everywhere. I consider myself a fairly critical and studious person, I devote time to thinking about the consequences of design decisions and carefully attempt to avoid poor assumptions. But I’ve repeatedly run into trouble when handling personal names as data. There is a cognitive dissonance surrounding names; we treat them as rigid identifiers when they’re anything but. We acknowledge their importance but struggle to take them as seriously. Names change. They change due to marriage, divorce, child custody, adoption, gender identity, religious devotion, performance art, witness protection, or none of these at all. Sometimes people just want a new name. And none of these reasons for change are more or less valid than others, though our legal system doesn’t always treat them equally. We have students who change their legal name, which is often something systems expect, but then they have the audacity to want to change their username, too! And that works less often because all sorts of system integrations expect usernames to be persistent. Names do not have a universal structure. There is no set quantity of components in a name nor an established order to those components. At my college, we have students without surnames. In almost all our systems, surname is a required field, so we put a period “.” there to satisfy that requirement. Then, on displays in our digital repository where surnames are assumed, we end up with bolded section headers like “., Johnathan” which look awkward. Many Western names might follow a [Given name] – [Middle name] – [Surname] structure and an unfortunate number of the systems I have to deal with assume all names share this structure. It’s easy to see how this yields problematic results. For instance, if you want to a see a sorted list of users, you probably want to sort by family name, but many systems sort by the name in the last position causing, for instance, Chinese names 1 to be handled differently from Western ones. 2 But it’s not only that someone might not have a middle name, or might have two middle names, or might have a family name in the first position—no, even that would be too simple! Some name components defy simple classifications. I once met a person named “Bus Stop”. “Stop” is clearly not a family affiliation, despite coming in the final position of the name. Sometimes the second component of a tripartite Western name isn’t a middle name at all, but a maiden name or the second word of a two-word first name (e.g. “Mary Anne” or “Lady Bird”)! One cannot even determine by looking at a familiar structure the roles of all of a name’s pieces! Names are also contextual. One’s name with family, with legal institutions, and with classmates can all differ. Many of our international students have alternative Westernized first names. Their family may call them Qiáng but they introduce themselves as Brian in class. We ask for a “preferred name” in a lot of systems, which is a nice step forward, but don’t ask when it’s preferred. Names might be meant for different situations. We have no system remotely ready for this, despite the personalization that’s been seeping into web platforms for decades. So if names are such a trouble, why not do our best and move on? Aren’t these fringe cases that don’t affect the vast majority of our users? These issues simply cannot be ignored because names are vital. What one is called, even if it’s not a stable identifier, has great effects on one’s life. It’s dispiriting to witness one’s name misspelled, mispronounced, treated as an inconvenience, botched at every turn. A system that won’t adapt to suit a name delegitimizes the name. It says, “oh that’s not your real name” as if names had differing degrees of reality. But a person may have multiple names—or many overlapping names over time—and while one may be more institutionally recognized at a given time, none are less real than the others. If even a single student a year is affected, it’s the absolute least amount of respect we can show to affirm their name(s). So what do we to do? Endless enumerations of the difficulties of working with names does little but paralyze us. Honestly, when I consider about the best implementation of personal names, the MODS metadata schema comes to mind. Having a element with any number of children is the best model available. The s can be ordered in particular ways, a “@type” attribute can define a part’s function 3, a record can include multiple names referencing the same person, multiple names with distinct parts can be linked to the same authority record, etc. MODS has a flexible and comprehensive treatment of name data. Unfortunately, returning to “Falsehoods Programmers Believe”, none of the library systems I administer do anywhere near as good a job as this metadata schema. Nor is it necessarily a problem with Western bias—even the Chinese government can’t develop computer systems to accurately represent the names of people in the country, or even agree on what the legal character set should be! 4 It seems that programmers start their apps by creating a “users” database table with columns for unique identifier, username, “firstname”/”lastname” [sic], and work from there. On the bright side, the name isn’t used as the identifier at least! We all learned that in databases class but we didn’t learn to make “names” a separate table linked to “users” in our relational databases. In my day-to-day work, the best I’ve done is to be sensitive to the importance of names changes specifically and how our systems handle them. After a few meetings with a cross-departmental team, we developed a name change process at our college. System administrators from across the institution are on a shared listserv where name changes are announced. In the libraries, I spoke with our frontline service staff about assisting with name changes. Our people at the circulation desk know to notice name discrepancies—sometimes a name badge has been updated but not our catalog records, we can offer to make them match—but also to guide students who may need to contact the registrar or other departments on campus to initiate the top-down name change process. While most of our the library’s systems don’t easily accommodate username changes, I can write administrative scripts for our institutional repository that alter the ownership of a set of items from an old username to a new one. I think it’s important to remember that we’re inconveniencing the user with the work of implementing their name change and not the other way around. So taking whatever extra steps we can do on our own, without pushing labor onto our students and staff, is the best way we can mitigate how poorly our tools are able to support the protean nature of personal names. Notes Chinese names typically have the surname first, followed by the given name. ↩ Another poor implementation can be seen in The Chicago Manual of Style‘s indexing instructions, which has an extensive list of exceptions to the Western norm and how to handle them. But CMoS provides no guidance on how one would go about identifying a name’s cultural background or, for instance, identifying a compound surname. ↩ Although the MODS user guidelines sadly limit the use of the type attribute to a fixed list of values which includes “family” and “given”, rendering it subject to most of the critiques in this post. Substantially expanding this list with “maiden”, “patronymic/matronymic” (names based on a parental given name, e.g. Mikhailovich), and more, as well as some sort of open-ended “other” option, would be a great improvement. ↩ https://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/21/world/asia/21china.html ↩ Author Eric PhetteplacePosted on May 14, 2018May 13, 2018Categories change, data, diversity2 Comments on Names are Hard Posts navigation Page 1 Page 2 … Page 23 Next page Search for: Search About ACRL TechConnect is a moderated blog written by librarians and archivists covering innovative projects, emerging tech tools, coding, usability, design, and more. 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If those systems are trained on cis- and hetero-normative data sets, you’ll have AI that consistently misgenders people, and could be locking trans and queer people out of bathrooms, offices, homes, transportation, and medical care. Alyx Baldwin explains the problem and what companies and developers have to do in order to not build machine bias into their systems. 2016-01-26 Names and Harvard By Creatrix Tiara My relationship to my full legal name is complicated. The name I usually go by, Tiara, is the second word in my given name (my culture doesn’t really do middle names; we just have ultra-wordy given names) - and I have gone by Tiara my entire life, even incorporating it into my stage names. The first word of my name only really matters in bureaucratic contexts, where my full legal name is important; because of this, it irks me when cashiers try to be friendly and read off my debit card to greet me (seriously, stop doing this) or websites force me to use my legal name and won’t let me choose my own display name. That being said, I have it easier than most. Being called by the first word in my name is annoying, but it’s not dangerous or even day-ruining. It is not the name of my dead self, it is not a betrayal of my attempts to assimilate, it’s not unsafe (yet). I’m already so used to people overriding my take on my name and identity that it’s not a battle I really want to fight. So when I approached Harvard Business School, in two different occasions, to use my preferred name instead of my legal given name in communication I wasn’t really expecting anything from it. I’ve had personal experiences and knew of other experiences with universities being inflexible, such as NYU telling a student they shouldn’t bother applying if they can’t afford the application fee. They’re a high-prestige formal institution, they’re probably set in their ways. At the same time, I figured that they may have other students with more pressing needs for name changes, such as trans people and immigrants, for whom the legal name change process is too onerous to pursue and thus they rely on preferred names to survive. At the very least, I could advocate for them. And to my surprise, Harvard responded quickly to my suggestions for name changes - and responded positively. The first time was during the application for their MBA program, where the form had a section for Preferred Name as well as Legal First and Last Name. I filled in those fields as desired: However, on their Success! email - sent after you submit an application - I was greeted by my legal first name rather than my preferred name: My pleasure at being asked was let down by the feeling that it didn’t seem to make a difference. This wasn’t the first time I’d been asked for my preferred name but was greeted against my wishes, so I figured it was more of the same. I didn’t want to assume bad faith, though, so I tweeted them to ask about it. Can’t hurt to try! .@HarvardHBS Feedback on "Success!" email: since you asked for my preferred name in the app, itd be useful to have that be used in the email — Creatrix Tiara (@creatrixtiara) January 5, 2016 .@HarvardHBS It wasn't too bad for me but I'd imagine any applicants with significant name changes (e.g. trans ppl) may be taken aback by it — Creatrix Tiara (@creatrixtiara) January 5, 2016 Less than 24 hours after my tweet, they responded: @creatrixtiara @HarvardHBS Congrats on submitting your app! We appreciate the preferred name feedback – we’ve just changed it in the system. — HBS MBA Admissions (@HBSadmissions) January 5, 2016 That was easy. Their swift reply and willingness to make immediate changes was especially notable given that this was during one of their application deadlines, which meant that their system was busy dealing with thousands of incoming applications. Any changes to the backend could have caused significant technical troubles, and it would have made sense if they decided to change it after the deadline rush. Yet they decided to make that immediate switch anyway - and now a lot of people who submitted applications after me would be greeted by the name they want. This motivated me to further push for preferred names when the same issue came up on one of Harvard Business School’s other offerings, HBX CORe - their online pre-MBA/business fundamentals program where I’m currently enrolled as a student. I don’t recall if I had been asked for my preferred name on my HBX application, but it still felt awkward to log onto my Course Dashboard and be greeted, both by the site software and by other students responding to my comments, by something other than Tiara. I emailed HBX Support for help in changing my display name, since there was no option to set a name on my end. At first their support system assumed that I wanted to change my legal name and needed some personally identifying information as a security measure. They also warned me that giving a different name than what’s on my ID would affect my ability to sit for their final exam, an in-person exam at a nearby Pearson VUE center, as well as the name on my certificate. I didn’t want to change the name on my paperwork, I just wanted the site and my classmates to know what to call me. So I replied to HBX to clarify, and had a little chat regarding display names and legal names, bringing up my prior success with HBS and reiterating points about misgendering and immigrant names (especially since we had a substantial international student base). They soon acknowledged that some students would feel more comfortable with a different display name, and offered to change mine on site. I wasn’t sure if they meant my official name or my display name, so I became very clear and explicit about which names I wanted for which purposes. They confirmed the changes, and when I checked in to see that the right names were in the right places, they confirmed that it was all set: And my classmates knew to call me Tiara from then on. Just like the MBA application, the HBX platform was busy fielding over a couple hundred active users, especially since it had just opened. And yet, like their MBA application counterparts (granted, it could be the same people) their tech team took the time to go into the code and change a detail for my comfort. I didn’t need to show them ID or explain why I preferred the name I chose; they took me at my word. They were very prompt with their responses and were very receptive to feedback. If Harvard can be so on the ball with preferred names, why can’t anyone else? Why can’t PayPal let me decide what name I want to show on Paypal.Me rather than plastering my full name? Why can’t I have my debit card show the name I’d rather overly-friendly cashiers call me? And why is Facebook still being fussy over names? Just one quick note to the administrators (maybe not even that), and done. Easy. Many people and organizations look up to Harvard, especially Harvard Business School, for inspiration for best business practices. Hopefully Harvard’s flexibility with names will inspire them to also be more accommodating and open with their name policies. 2015-10-05 We Have Always Been Here: New Info on the Last Century of Trans* Lives In an article at the Pacific Standard, Francie Diep reminds everyone that the trans* rights movement in America didn’t start with Jenner or Mock. Diep’s reporting on Benjamin Cerf Harris’ white paper for the US Census Bureau which crunched the numbers and found that since 1936, at least 135,000 Americans have transitioned and updated their names and/or gender markers with Social Security, and that most likely underestimates the number of trans* Americans since the SSA started. I’m delighted to have this analysis in hand because it demonstrates that we trans* Americans have always been here. Comment on this post at Dreamwidth 2015-09-05 Design for Renaming This is my talk from Open Source Bridge in Portland from earlier this summer. It’s a 45 minute introduction to the problems people face when using software that’s not aware that peoples’ names can change. Comment on this post at Dreamwidth 2015-08-17 Notes from &:conf Over the weekend, I was at an intersectional, feminist hacker camp up in the woods in Sonoma county. Under the hazy sky (there were several large wildfires in Northern California, but we were not in danger) I had a chance to talk with people about name-related issues for trans and genderqueer folks. A longer document’s underway, but here’s a takeaway from our 30 minute session: Facebook should have a ‘flag’ to prevent repeated demands for id. Facebook and anyone requiring documentation for names needs consistent policy on retention of copies of identity documents Google has free form name field, and then parses it without requesting user correction Your service should be asking for as little identifying information as possible Stop pushing for singular, cross-site/service identity Make a test suite for names, starting from the falsehoods post Comment on this post at Dreamwidth 2015-08-03 A Misadventure at the AAA Today’s bug in dealing with names and name changes was satisfying because it involved a display name field, in this case, the name on a membership card, so it flagged a case to look out for. For the past two months my wife Cynthia had been trying to update the name on my AAA membership card, she added me to her account back before my transition. Twice before she called member services, informed them of my name change, and a week later the new card would arrive in the mail with my old name on it. This morning Cynthia said we were going to the AAA office to escalate. And Cynthia was ready to get in people’s business about this. This is another reason why Cynthia is awesome. Once we got in, the clerk looked up Cynthia’s account and confirmed that my name was correct on. However, the field in which you set the name you want to have printed on your membership card still had my old name. She fixed the card name field, ordered a new card for me, and printed out a temporary membership card. We thanked her, giddy with the knowledge of a new thing to test for. What I imagine was happening was when Cynthia added me to the account, a clerk filled in my old name into the first- and last-name fields, and the system copied the values into the name-on-card field. When Cynthia called member services to change my name, the edit to the first name didn’t trigger an update to the name-on-card field, and the system generated a new card with the old name. A test to verify correct behavior would look like: If a field’s value can be programmatically generated from other field values or overridden by user input, then whenever a field that the generated value depends on changes, the value of the dependent field should update and the user asked to confirm the new generated value. Comment on this post at Dreamwidth. Tags AI1 Best Practices2 Data1 Display Names2 Facebook1 Google1 Guest Posts1 Harvard Business School1 History1 Identity2 Open Source Bridge1 Social Security1 Software Testing2 Testing1 Video1 © 2016 Emma Claire Humphries aeon-co-2117 ---- A history of true civilisation is not one of monuments | Aeon Ideas Become a Friend of Aeon to save articles and enjoy other exclusive benefits Make a donation × Newsletter Privacy Policy Aeon email newsletters are issued by the not-for-profit, registered charity Aeon Media Group Ltd (Australian Business Number 80 612 076 614). 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(2nd ed, 2018). 1,400 words Edited by Sam Haselby Republish for free Support Aeon this December Support our work to create a unique home for ideas beyond the news cycle. PLEASE GIVE NOW Brigid Hains Editorial Director The Mariinsky Symphony Orchestra performs at Palmyra in 2016. Photo courtesy Wikimedia Civilisation is back. But it is no longer the preserve of ‘Renaissance man’ or of ‘the West’, or even of literate societies. Civilisation is a way of talking about human history on the largest scale. From the cave paintings of Lascaux to the latest MoMA exhibition, it binds human history together. But in at least one essential aspect, the concept of civilisation remains fundamentally exclusionary. It is still the stuff of galleries, museums and UNESCO World Heritage sites; of prized images, objects and structures, rather than of living humanity. The prehistoric stone structures of Göbekli Tepe – where a heritage park has now opened, near the border between Turkey and Syria – are being mooted as everything from the Garden of Eden to the cradle of civilisation and the world’s first temple. We still want a civilisation raised up high above the everyday realities of its human makers and keepers. In troubled regions, such as the Syrian-Turkish border, monuments like these quickly become altars of sacrifice for real human lives. Importantly, there have always been other ways of understanding ‘civilisation’. The 20th-century French anthropologist Marcel Mauss thought that civilisation should not be reduced to a list of technical or aesthetic achievements. Nor should it represent a particular stage of cultural development (‘civilisation’ versus ‘barbarism’, and so on). Civilisation could be found in material things, but above all it referred to a potential in human societies. In Mauss’s view, civilisation is what happens when discrete societies share morally and materially across boundaries, forming durable relationships that transcend differences. It might seem an abstract debate, but it’s not. Let me try to explain. Roughly four years have now passed since the military ascendance of Daesh or ISIS in the Middle East. ISIS routinely destroyed or sold antiquities, culminating in their 2015 assault on the ancient caravan city of Palmyra, in Syria, a World Heritage Site. Under ISIS occupation, Palmyra’s Roman theatre had become a stage for gruesome atrocities, including the public beheading of Khaled al-Asaad, a native of modern Palmyra, and until then its director of antiquities. In the spring of 2016, after a Russian-backed (and, as it turned out, temporary) liberation, Palmyra was hosting the Mariinsky Symphony Orchestra. At their performance, an audience of Russian soldiers sat to hear Bach, Prokofiev and Shchedrin. The event was designed to present a particular, and I think misguided, idea of civilisation. It was, in the words of Russia’s president Vladimir Putin via live link from Moscow, ‘part of humanity’s heritage’. Through the ages, Palmyra had opened its gates to all manner of foreign gods. ‘Everything,’ wrote the Russian ancient historian Michael Rostovtzeff in 1932, ‘is peculiar in the peculiar city of Palmyra.’ Yet nothing, perhaps, so peculiar as these events of 2015-16. What was ‘civilised’ about playing Prokofiev in the beautiful wreckage of one ancient Syrian city, while the living population of another, Aleppo, to the north, was simultaneously under attack? The ancient temples of Palmyra were not designed as works of art, to be passively viewed or admired, any more than the caves of Lascaux or Font-de-Gaume were intended as art galleries, or Göbekli Tepe as a prehistoric version of the Sistine Chapel. In antiquity, their cult statues demanded live offerings and sacrifices, and now it seemed that they were demanding them again. Sacrifice of this kind seems somehow bound up with our modern understandings of ‘heritage’, ‘art’ and ‘civilisation’, in ways that are rarely thought about or articulated. Surely what this tells us is that these are, to all intents and purposes, our own modern gods – the gods of the global north. When people use the term ‘early civilisation’, they are mostly referring to Pharaonic Egypt, Inca Peru, Aztec Mexico, Han China, Imperial Rome, Ancient Greece or other ancient societies of a certain scale and monumentality. All of these were deeply stratified societies, held together mostly by authoritarian government, violence and the radical subordination of women. Sacrifice is the shadow lurking behind this concept of civilisation; the sacrifice of freedoms, of life itself, for the sake of something always out of reach – an idea of world order, the mandate of heaven, blessings from those insatiable gods. There is something wrong here. The word ‘civilisation’ stems from a very different source and ideal. In ancient times, civilis meant those qualities of political wisdom and mutual aid that permit societies to organise themselves through voluntary coalition. The modern Middle East provides many inspiring examples. In the summer of 2014, a coalition of Kurdish units broke the siege of Mount Sinjar in Iraq to provide safe passage, food and shelter for thousands of displaced Yazidis. Even as I write, the population of Mosul is raising to life a new city from the war-torn rubble of the old, street by street, with minimal government support. Mutual aid, social cooperation, civic activism, hospitality or simply caring for others: these are the kind of things that actually go to make civilisations. In which case, the true history of civilisation is only just starting to be written. It might begin with what archaeologists call ‘culture areas’ or ‘interaction spheres’, vast zones of cultural exchange and innovation that deserve a more prominent place in our account of civilisation. In the Middle East, they have deep roots that become visible towards the end of the last Ice Age, around 10,000 BCE. Thousands of years before the rise of cities (around 4000 BCE), village communities already shared basic notions of social order across the region known as the ‘fertile crescent’. Physical evidence left behind by common forms of domestic life, ritual and hospitality shows us this deep history of civilisation. It’s in some ways much more inspiring than monuments. The most important findings of modern archaeology might in fact be these vibrant and far-flung networks, where others expected to find only backward and isolated ‘tribes’. These small prehistoric communities formed civilisations in the true sense of extended moral communities. Without permanent kings, bureaucrats or standing armies, they fostered the growth of mathematical and calendrical knowledge; advanced metallurgy, the cultivation of olives, vines and date palms, the invention of leavened bread and wheat beer. They developed the major textile technologies applied to fabrics and basketry, the potter’s wheel, stone industries and bead-work, the sail and maritime navigation. Through ties of kinship and commerce, they distributed these invaluable and cherished qualities of true civilisation. With ever-increasing accuracy, archaeological evidence allows us to follow the founding threads of this emerging fabric of civilisation, as it crosses the plains of lowland Iraq, weaves back and forth between the shores of the Mediterranean and the Black Sea, through the foothills of the Taurus and Zagros mountains, and down to the marshy head of the Persian Gulf. Civilisation, in this new sense, forms a cultural tapestry of startling complexity and grandeur, centre-less and open-ended, woven from a million tiny social bonds. A moment’s reflection shows that women, their work, their concerns and innovations are at the core of this more accurate understanding of civilisation. Tracing the place of women in societies without writing often means using clues left, quite literally, in the fabric of material culture, such as painted ceramics that mimic both textile designs and female bodies in their forms and elaborate decorative structures. To take just one example, it’s hard to believe that the kind of complex mathematical knowledge displayed in early cuneiform documents, or in the layout of urban temples, sprang fully formed from the mind of a male scribe, like Athena from the head of Zeus. Far more likely, these represent knowledge accumulated in preliterate times, through concrete practices such as the applied calculus and solid geometry of weaving and beadwork. What until now has passed for ‘civilisation’ might in fact be nothing more than a gendered appropriation – by men, etching their claims in stone – of some earlier system of knowledge that had women at its centre. From such a starting point, we can see the true history of living civilisation. It reaches back far beyond the earliest monarchies or empires, resisting even the most brutal incursions of the modern state. It’s a civilisation we really can recognise when we see it, taste it, touch it, even in these darkest hours. There can be no justification for the wanton destruction of ancient monuments. But let’s not confuse that with the living pulse of civilisation, which often resides in what at first glance seems small, domestic or mundane. There we will find it, beating patiently, waiting for the light. David Wengrow is professor of comparative archaeology at University College London. He is the author of The Origins of Monsters (2013) and What Makes Civilization? (2nd ed, 2018). aeon.co Archaeology Cosmopolitanism The ancient world 2 October 2018 Republish for free EXCLUSIVE Video/ Family life It’s a clash of cultures when Anik’s granddaughter comes home to learn Kurdish 17 minutes To marry under the broomstick: detail from Netherlandish Proverbs (1559) by Pieter Bruegel the Elder (full painting below). 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If the stream hasn't loaded, please refresh this page. ai-collaboratory-net-9808 ---- Microsoft Word - Lyneise.docx 978-1-7281-0858-2/19/$31.00 © 2019 IEEE What Computational Archival Science Can Learn from Art History and Material Culture Studies Lyneise Williams Department of Art and Art History University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill williale@email.unc.edu Abstract— I discuss the significance of considering the material and cultural implications, as practiced in Art History and Material Culture Studies, of reproductive technology used by archives and libraries. Reproductive technologies like microfilming and digitizing shape how we view and remember history. Exploring a case study of newspaper representations of Panamanian Welterweight World Champion Boxer (1929-1936; 1938-1941), Alfonso Brown, I demonstrate how the absence of a grasp of the capabilities of reproductive technologies can lead to erasure and distortion of already marginalized communities of color and other under-represented populations in the historical record. Material Culture Studies conceptualization of reproductive technology as a material, or medium of representation warranting deep and rigorous consideration, is useful for computational archival science (CAS) as we move towards completely digital-based archives. Keywords—Representations of marginalized populations, Racial implications of reproductive technology I. THEORIES USED IN ART HISTORY AND MATERIAL CULTURE STUDIES In this paper I focus on the racial implications of reproductive technology used in archives and libraries. Art History and Material Culture Studies have not been a part of computational archival science spaces. They may seem unrelated to computational archival science, but some of their theories offer valuable benefits regarding representation and who gets to appear in the historical record. Some theories of representation used in art history have already been introduced to archival scholarship as useful frameworks. Paul Conway, in 2010, draws on W. J. T. Mitchell’s definition of representation in his discussion about building a digital collection [1]. Mitchell’s theorizes representation as “always of something or someone, by something or someone, to someone.” [2] Conway’s adoption of Mitchell’s theory also allows him to bring attention to the mediation that happens in the digitizing process. According to Conway, When considered as a form of representation, digitization of archival photographs comprises a means of communication between image and user in which the archivist, digitizer, system builder, and interface architect, play a fundamental mediating role [3]. I offer another valuable art historical framework for computational archival science regarding the multiple mediators Conway identifies. Social art history informed by semiotics, as defined by Keith Moxey, places an emphasis on historical specificity and teases out relevant social relations [4]. Moxey’s framework contends: The study of visual representation will approach visual signs as if they were contiguous to and continuous with the signifying systems that structure all other aspects of the historical horizon that is the object of study. The work of art will be read as if its surface were part of the social fabric of which it was once an organic whole [4]. The relationships between the mediators, institutions (such as libraries and archives and their practices), and computer scientists, for example, has the potential to yield significant questions and insights regarding the selection of particular reproductive technologies. Material Culture in the context of Art History, as defined by one of its earliest proponents, Jules David Prown, is conceived as: A study based upon the obvious fact that the existence of a man-made object is concrete evidence of the presence of human intelligence operating at that objects time of fabrication. The underlying premise is that objects made or modified by man reflect, consciously or unconsciously, directly or indirectly, the beliefs of individuals who made, commissioned, purchased, or used them, and by extension, the beliefs of the larger society to which they belonged [5]. The term ‘material” points to an emphasis on the objects’ materiality, or its physical and sensual dimension. This includes an exploration of the materials and their properties. While materiality is a critical component of material culture studies, materials have become a field in art historical studies. This emphasis on materials is underscored in the department name, “History of Art, Materials, and Technology” at University College London. The description of the department on their website states: This Degree offers a unique focus on works of art as physical objects. It combines knowledge of art history with questions of materiality and technology related to the time a work of art was made and subsequently as it ages and changes [6]. The focus on materials as mediators is a valuable lens for thinking about technology as a representational tool. This is especially important component when thinking about Computational Archival Science (CAS). Indeed, current work in Artificial Intelligence, like facial recognition software, which fails to recognize dark skin, demonstrates how a framework that positions materials, technology [7], and those who use them as mediators is much needed. II. CASE STUDY The comparison of a hard copy of the February 1, 1927 issue of the French sports newspaper, Match L’Intran with its digital counterpart from a library collection in my research on 1920s Black Panamanian Welterweight Champion boxer, Alfonso Teofilo Brown was staggering. I found this newspaper in 2009 while browsing a flea market on the outskirts of Paris. I was so taken with the way Brown seemed to be glowing. He looked like a 1920s film star rather than a boxer. The materiality of the newspaper---the physical object---led me to a investigate the process by which a photographic image was translated and printed on to newsprint paper. Touching and examining this physical newspaper prompted questions, like why does Brown look distinctively different here than his appearance in other newspapers of the day? And why does this paper have a satiny sheen to it? Investigating all of my lines of inquiry directed me to the photomechanical printing process, rotogravure. Rotogravure is a game changer regarding representations of black phenotype in mass produced print media like newspapers. Rotogravure is critical to the creation of the glamorous, black athlete type. Fig. 1. High-resolution cover image of Match L’Intran February 1, 1927 Using material culture methodology that focuses on deeply understanding the technology of production, I researched the newspaper as an object that included an inquiry into the technology. I realized that hard copy was printed using rotogravure, a photomechanical reproduction process used for newspapers that dramatically transformed how brown skinned people appeared in the print newspaper medium all over the world. Rotogravure was a cutting-edge technology in the 1920s in western Europe and the US. It had the ability to capture details in dark tones, rather than reduce brown people to flat black, cartoonish forms. Rotogravure allowed brown people to be seen in newspapers as glamorous. Images like Nike’s billboards of Lebron James and Kobe Bryant as monumental aesthetically compelling athletes owe much to Brown’s cover of Match L’Intran. Microfilm, microforms, and digitizing, employed in newspapers for archives and libraries, strip away all of the revolutionary advances made by rotogravure. The aesthetic strategies of subtle grey tones, and highlighting not only create a glowing quality, but it gives people of color access to glamour in print, and newspaper readers access to the image because you can actually see it. Fig. 2. Digital database cover image of Match L’Intran, February 1, 1927 If we consider microfilm as a medium through which representations are created, we must examine the medium itself. What was it created to do? How does it work? Microfilm is photographic process that uses a silver-based film to reproduce data in a reduced size. It is inherently a high-contrast medium. As such, it is best suited to record very dark tones and very light tones. While some tones in between black and white are recorded, the majority of grey tones in an original document are minimized or erased. This suggests that microfilm is highly applicable for text-heavy documents since text is conventionally printed in dark black tones. The practice of microfilming newspapers reaches back to the late 1920s when the Library of Congress began their major filming project. Since Woodrow Wilson increased segregation in the federal offices during this period, there were no people of color involved in the Library of Congress’s decision to use microfilm [8]. The decision makers failed to consider the technology’s racial implications. The New York Times began filming and publishing their print runs in 1935 [9]. Microfilming newspapers was a widespread practice by the late 1950s [9]. The National Endowment of the Humanities United States Newspaper Program allocated $54.1 million to microfilm newspapers between 1982 and 2011 [10]. However, no value was placed on keeping the hard copies of these historic newspapers or improving the environmental storage conditions for them. They were disposed of or destroyed [11]. In the early 2000s when the Library of Congress began experimenting with the digital process for copying newspapers, they scanned microfilms, not hardcopies of newspapers. Digitizing flattens out an already distorted-microfilmed image. That means when we look at digitized pre-2006 newspaper images today, we see representations that are distorted by two different copying processes. The stakes regarding historic black representation in one of the mediums that circulated and disseminated the most images, are very high. Commission on Preservation and Access Reports from 1989 acknowledge the inadequacy of microfilming related generally to images [12]. However, my research demonstrates the actual impact of microfilming, digitizing and rotogravure on brown people. Representations of race in mass-produced printed media like newspapers, especially those of brown people, are inextricably tied to the material object---the hardcopies. If I didn’t have the physical newspaper, I wouldn’t have noticed the distinction in the printing quality of Brown’s image. I wouldn’t know about rotogravure, and its significant role in generating a major iconographic shift in representation for brown people. Technology used for copying, thus far, is no substitute. Reproduction technologies like microfilming and digitizing of microfilms accompanied by the destruction of the physical newspaper, severely compromise and eliminate our ability to generate questions about representation of brown people in this widely circulated medium. Art History and Material culture studies bring methods for examining the implications of technology---be they aesthetic, racial, social and/or cultural to computational archival science. There is much to gain by putting them in dialogue. The National Archives and Records Administration’s June 28, 2019 memorandum [13] detailing the administrations transition to completely electronic form as of December 31, 2022 speaks to the urgency of this conversation. III. CONCLUSIONS AND FUTURE WORK Collaborations between Art History, Material Culture Studies and CAS foster necessary and vital conversations that can yield meaningful changes regarding representation and inclusion. Towards that end, I recently created the initiative VERA (Visual Electronic Representations in the Archive) Collaborative. VERA Collaborative’s mission is to raise awareness about the significance of aesthetic, cultural, and social implications of visual representations found in archives, providing a model for archives, libraries, museums, and cultural heritage centers around the world. It addresses the distortions and erasures in visual representations, linked to reproduction technology, that particularly impacts communities of color and other under-represented communities. VERA Collaborative partners with organizations like the U.S. National Park Service (NPS), the Library of Congress (LOC), the Maryland State Archives, and the Digital Curation Innovation Center (DCIC) to forge dialogues in order to generate informed decisions regarding reproductive technology. ACKNOWLEDGMENT I thank Richard Marciano and the DCIC, Mark Conrad (National Archives and Records Administration), and Michael Kurtz for their insights and support. REFERENCES [1] P. Conway, Modes of Seeing: Digitized Photographic Archives and the Experienced User. The American Archivist 73, 2, 425-462 (2010). [2] W.J.T. Mitchell, “Representation”, in Critical Terms for Literary Study, 2nd ed, F. Lentricchia, T. McLaughlin Eds. (University of Chicago Press, 1995), pp. 11-22. [3] P. Conway, Modes of Seeing: Digitized Photographic Archives and the Experienced User. The American Archivist 73, 2, 425-462 (2010). [4] K. Moxey, Semiotics and the Social History of Art. New Literary History 22,4, pp. 985-999 (1991). [5] J. Prown, Mind in Matter: An Introduction to Material Culture Theory and Method. Winterthur Portfolio 17,1, pp. 1-19 (1982). [6] https://www.ucl.ac.uk/art-history/material-studies-0 [7] J. Buolomwini, Artificial Intelligence has a Problem with Gender and Racial Bias. Here’s How to Solve It. Time February 7, 2019. https://time.com/5520558/artificial-intelligence-racial-gender-bias/ [8] A. Meier, E. Rudwick, The Rise of Segregation in the Federal Bureaucracy, 1900-1930. Phylon 28,2, pp. 178-184 (1967); C. A. Lunardini, Standing Firm: William Monroe Trotter’s Meetings with Woodrow Wilson, 1913-1914. The Journal of Negro History 64,3, pp. 244-264 (1979). [9] Southern regional Library Facility, “Microfilm, A Brief History,” https://www.srlf.ucla.edu/exhibit/text/BriefHistory.htm [10] National Endowment of the Humanities, US Newspapers Program https://www.neh.gov/us-newspaper-program. [11] R. Silverman, What? No Backups?:Preserving Hardcopy Newspapers in the Digital Age. Conference paper presented at World Library and Information Congress, 16-22 August, Lyon, France https://www.ifla.org/node/9537. [12] Council on Library and Information Resources Annual Report, July 1, 1989-June 30, 1990. https://www.clir.org/pubs/annual/previous-annual- reports/annrpt89/ [13] National Archives and Records Administration, “Memorandum: Transition to Electronic Records” June 28, 2019. https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/M-19-21.pdf andromedayelton-com-3796 ---- andromeda yelton Skip to content andromeda yelton Menu Home About Contact Resume HAMLET LITA Talks Machine Learning (ALA Midwinter 2019) Boston Python Meetup (August 21, 2018) SWiB16 LibTechConf 2016 Code4Lib 2015 Keynote Texas Library Association 2014 Online Northwest 2014: Five Conversations About Code New Jersey ESummit (May 2, 2013) Westchester Library Association (January 7, 2013) Bridging the Digital Divide with Mobile Services (Webjunction, July 25 2012) Though these be matrices, yet there is method in them. When I first trained a neural net on 43,331 theses to make HAMLET, one of the things I most wanted to do is be able to visualize them. If word2vec places documents ‘near’ each other in some kind of inferred conceptual space, we should be able to see some kind of map of them, yes? Even if I don’t actually know what I’m doing? Turns out: yes. And it’s even better than I’d imagined. 43,331 graduate theses, arranged by their conceptual similarity. Let me take you on a tour! Region 1 is biochemistry. The red dots are biology; the orange ones, chemistry. Theses here include Positional cloning and characterization of the mouse pudgy locus and Biosynthetic engineering for the assembly of better drugs. If you look closely, you will see a handful of dots in different colors, like a buttery yellow. This color is electrical engineering & computer science, and its dots in this region include Computational regulatory genomics : motifs, networks, and dynamics — that is to say, a computational biology thesis that happens to have been housed in computation rather than biology. The green south of Region 2 is physics. But you will note a bit of orange here. Yes, that’s chemistry again; for example, Dynamic nuclear polarization of amorphous and crystalline small molecules. If (like me), you almost majored in chemistry and realized only your senior year that the only chemistry classes that interested you were the ones that were secretly physics…this is your happy place. In fact, most of the theses here concern nuclear magnetic resonance applications. Region 3 has a striking vertical green stripe which turns out to be the nuclear engineering department. But you’ll see some orange streaks curling around it like fingers, almost suggesting three-dimensional depth. I point this out as a reminder that the original neural net embeds these 43,331 documents in a 52-dimensional space; I have projected that down to 2 dimensions because I don’t know about you but I find 52 dimensions somewhat challenging to visualize. However — just as objects may overlap in a 2-dimensional photo even when they are quite distant in 3-dimensional space — dots that are close together in this projection may be quite far apart in reality. Trust the overall structure more than each individual element. The map is not the territory. That little yellow thumb by Region 4 is mathematics, now a tiny appendage off of the giant discipline it spawned — our old friend buttery yellow, aka electrical engineering & computer science. If you zoom in enough you find EECS absolutely everywhere, applied to all manner of disciplines (as above with biology), but the bulk of it — including the quintessential parts, like compilers — is right here. Dramatically red Region 5, clustered together tightly and at the far end, is architecture. This is a renowned department (it graduated I.M. Pei!), but definitely a different sort of creature than most of MIT, so it makes sense that it’s at one extreme of the map. That said, the other two programs in its school — Urban Studies & Planning and Media Arts & Sciences — are just to its north. Region 6 — tiny, yellow, and pale; you may have missed it at first glance — is linguistics island, housing theses such as Topics in the stress and syntax of words. You see how there are also a handful of red dots on this island? They are Brain & Cognitive Science theses — and in particular, ones that are secretly linguistics, like Intonational phrasing in language production and comprehension. Similarly — although at MIT it is not the department of linguistics, but the department of linguistics & philosophy — the philosophy papers are elsewhere. (A few of the very most abstract ones are hanging out near math.) And what about Region 7, the stingray swimming vigorously away from everything else? I spent a long time looking at this and not seeing a pattern. You can tell there’s a lot of colors (departments) there, randomly assorted; even looking at individual titles I couldn’t see anything. Only when I looked at the original documents did I realize that this is the island of terrible OCR. Almost everything here is an older thesis, with low-quality printing or even typewriting, often in a regrettable font, maybe with the reverse side of the page showing through. (A randomly chosen example; pdf download.) A good reminder of the importance of high-quality digitization labor. A heartbreaking example of the things we throw away when we make paper the archival format for born-digital items. And also a technical inspiration — look how much vector space we’ve had to carve out to make room for these! the poor neural net, trying desperately to find signal in the noise, needing all this space to do it. I’m tempted to throw out the entire leftmost quarter of this graph, rerun the 2d projection, and see what I get — would we be better able to see the structures in the high-quality data if they had room to breathe? And were I to rerun the entire neural net training process again, I’d want to include some sort of threshhold score for OCR quality. It would be a shame to throw things away — especially since they will be a nonrandom sample, mostly older theses — but I have already had to throw away things I could not OCR at all in an earlier pass, and, again, I suspect the neural net would do a better job organizing the high-quality documents if it could use the whole vector space to spread them out, rather than needing some of it to encode the information “this is terrible OCR and must be kept away from its fellows”. Clearly I need to share the technical details of how I did this, but this post is already too long, so maybe next week. tl;dr I reached out to Matt Miller after reading his cool post on vectorizing the DPLA and he tipped me off to UMAP and here we are — thanks, Matt! And just as clearly you want to play with this too, right? Well, it’s super not ready to be integrated into HAMLET due to any number of usability issues but if you promise to forgive me those — have fun. You see how when you hover over a dot you get a label with the format 1721.1-X.txt? It corresponds to a URL of the format https://hamlet.andromedayelton.com/similar_to/X. Go play :). Andromeda Uncategorized Leave a comment December 11, 2020December 11, 2020 Of such stuff are (deep)dreams made: convolutional networks and neural style transfer Skipped FridAI blogging last week because of Thanksgiving, but let’s get back on it! Top-of-mind today are the firing of AI queen Timnit Gebru (letter of support here) and a couple of grant applications that I’m actually eligible for (this is rare for me! I typically need things for which I can apply in my individual capacity, so it’s always heartening when they exist — wish me luck). But for blogging today, I’m gonna talk about neural style transfer, because it’s cool as hell. I started my ML-learning journey on Coursera’s intro ML class and have been continuing with their deeplearning.ai sequence; I’m on course 4 of 5 there, so I’ve just gotten to neural style transfer. This is the thing where a neural net outputs the content of one picture in the style of another: Via https://medium.com/@build_it_for_fun/neural-style-transfer-with-swift-for-tensorflow-b8544105b854. OK, so! Let me explain while it’s still fresh. If you have a neural net trained on images, it turns out that each layer is responsible for recognizing different, and progressively more complicated, things. The specifics vary by neural net and data set, but you might find that the first layer gets excited about straight lines and colors; the second about curves and simple textures (like stripes) that can be readily composed from straight lines; the third about complex textures and simple objects (e.g. wheels, which are honestly just fancy circles); and so on, until the final layers recognize complex whole objects. You can interrogate this by feeding different images into the neural net and seeing which ones trigger the highest activation in different neurons. Below, each 3×3 grid represents the most exciting images for a particular neuron. You can see that in this network, there are Layer 1 neurons excited about colors (green, orange), and about lines of particular angles that form boundaries between dark and colored space. In Layer 2, these get built together like tiny image legos; now we have neurons excited about simple textures such as vertical stripes, concentric circles, and right angles. Via https://adeshpande3.github.io/The-9-Deep-Learning-Papers-You-Need-To-Know-About.html, originally from Zeller & Fergus, Visualizing and Understanding Convolutional Networks So how do we get from here to neural style transfer? We need to extract information about the content of one image, and the style of another, in order to make a third image that approximates both of them. As you already expect if you have done a little machine learning, that means that we need to write cost functions that mean “how close is this image to the desired content?” and “how close is this image to the desired style?” And then there’s a wrinkle that I haven’t fully understood, which is that we don’t actually evaluate these cost functions (necessarily) against the outputs of the neural net; we actually compare the activations of the neurons, as they react to different images — and not necessarily from the final layer! In fact, choice of layer is a hyperparameter we can vary (I super look forward to playing with this on the Coursera assignment and thereby getting some intuition). So how do we write those cost functions? The content one is straightforward: if two images have the same content, they should yield the same activations. The greater the differences, the greater the cost (specifically via a squared error function that, again, you may have guessed if you’ve done some machine learning). The style one is beautifully sneaky; it’s a measure of the difference in correlation between activations across channels. What does that mean in English? Well, let’s look at the van Gogh painting, above. If an edge detector is firing (a boundary between colors), then a swirliness detector is probably also firing, because all the lines are curves — that’s characteristic of van Gogh’s style in this painting. On the other hand, if a yellowness detector is firing, a blueness detector may or may not be (sometimes we have tight parallel yellow and blue lines, but sometimes yellow is in the middle of a large yellow region). Style transfer posits that artistic style lies in the correlations between different features. See? Sneaky. And elegant. Finally, for the style-transferred output, you need to generate an image that does as well as possible on both cost functions simultaneously — getting as close to the content as it can without unduly sacrificing the style, and vice versa. As a side note, I think I now understand why DeepDream is fixated on a really rather alarming number of eyes. Since the layer choice is a hyperparameter, I hypothesize that choosing too deep a layer — one that’s started to find complex features rather than mere textures and shapes — will communicate to the system, yes, what I truly want is for you to paint this image as if those complex features are matters of genuine stylistic significance. And, of course, eyes are simple enough shapes to be recognized relatively early (not very different from concentric circles), yet ubiquitous in image data sets. So…this is what you wanted, right? the eager robot helpfully offers. https://www.ucreative.com/inspiration/google-deep-dream-is-the-trippiest-thing-in-the-internet/ I’m going to have fun figuring out what the right layer hyperparameter is for the Coursera assignment, but I’m going to have so much more fun figuring out the wrong ones. Andromeda Uncategorized Leave a comment December 4, 2020December 4, 2020 Let’s visualize some HAMLET data! Or, d3 and t-SNE for the lols. In 2017, I trained a neural net on ~44K graduate theses using the Doc2Vec algorithm, in hopes that doing so would provide a backend that could support novel and delightful discovery mechanisms for unique library content. The result, HAMLET, worked better than I hoped; it not only pulls together related works from different departments (thus enabling discovery that can’t be supported with existing metadata), but it does a spirited job on documents whose topics are poorly represented in my initial data set (e.g. when given a fiction sample it finds theses from programs like media studies, even though there are few humanities theses in the data set). That said, there are a bunch of exploratory tools I’ve had in my head ever since 2017 that I’ve not gotten around to implementing. But here, in the spirit of tossing out things that don’t bring me joy (like 2020) and keeping those that do, I’m gonna make some data viz! There are only two challenges with this: By default Doc2Vec embeds content in a 100-dimensional space, which is kind of hard to visualize. I need to project that down to 2 or 3 dimensions. I don’t actually know anything about dimensionality reduction techniques, other than that they exist. I also don’t know know JavaScript much beyond a copy-paste level. I definitely don’t know d3, or indeed the pros and cons of various visualization libraries. Also art. Or, like, all that stuff in Tufte’s book, which I bounced off of. (But aside from that, Mr. Lincoln, how was the play?) I decided I should start with the pages that display the theses most similar to a given thesis (shout-out to Jeremy Brown, startup founder par excellence) rather than with my ideas for visualizing the whole collection, because I’ll only need to plot ten or so points instead of 44K. This will make it easier for me to tell visually if I’m on the right track and should let me skip dealing with performance issues for now. On the down side, it means I may need to throw out any code I write at this stage when I’m working on the next one. 🤷‍♀️ And I now have a visualization on localhost! Which you can’t see because I don’t trust it yet. But here are the problems I’ve solved thus far: It’s hard to copy-paste d3 examples on the internet. d3’s been around for long enough there’s substantial content about different versions, so you have to double-check. But also most of the examples are live code notebooks on Observable, which is a wicked cool service but not the same environment as a web page! If you just copy-paste from there you will have things that don’t work due to invisible environment differences and then you will be sad. 😢 I got tipped off to this by Mollie Marie Pettit’s great Your First d3 Scatterplot notebook, which both names the phenomenon and provides two versions of the code (the live-editable version and the one you can actually copy/paste into your editor). If you start googling for dimensionality reduction techniques you will mostly find people saying “use t-SNE”, but t-SNE is a lying liar who lies. Mind you, it’s what I’m using right now because it’s so well-documented it was the easiest thing to set up. (This is why I said above that I don’t trust my viz.) But it produces different results for the same data on different pageloads (obviously different, so no one looking at the page will trust it either), and it’s not doing a good job preserving the distances I care about. (I accept that anything projecting from 100d down to 2d will need to distort distances, but I want to adequately preserve meaning — I want the visualization to not just look pretty but to give people an intellectually honest insight into the data — and I’m not there yet.) Conveniently this is not my first time at the software engineering rodeo, so I encapsulated my dimensionality reduction strategy inside a function, and I can swap it out for whatever I like without needing to rewrite the d3 as long as I return the same data structure. So that’s my next goal — try out UMAP (hat tip to Matt Miller for suggesting that to me), try out PCA, fiddle some parameters, try feeding it just the data I want to visualize vs larger neighborhoods, see if I’m happier with what I get. UMAP in particular alleges itself to be fast with large data sets, so if I can get it working here I should be able to leverage that knowledge for my ideas for visualizing the whole thing. Onward, upward, et cetera. 🎉 Andromeda Uncategorized 1 Comment November 20, 2020 AI in the Library, round one The San José State University School of Information wanted to have a half-course on artificial intelligence in their portfolio, and asked me to develop and teach it. (Thanks!) So I got a blank canvas on which to paint eight weeks of…whatever you might want graduate students in library & information science students to know about AI. For those of you who just want the reading list, here you go. For those of you who thought about the second-to-last sentence: ahahaha. This is fine. This is of course the problem of all teachers — too much material, too little time — and in an iSchool it’s further complicated because, while many students have technological interests and expertise, few have programming skills and even fewer have mathematical backgrounds, so this course can’t be “intro to programming neural nets”. I can gesture in the direction of linear algebra and high-dimensional spaces, but I have to translate it all into human English first. But further, even if I were to do that, it wouldn’t be the right course! As future librarians, very few of my students will be programming neural nets. They are much more likely to be helping students find sources for papers, or helping researchers find or manage data sets, or supporting professors who are developing classes, helping patrons make sense of issues in the news, and evaluating vendor pitches about AI products. Which means I don’t need people who can write neural net code; I need people who understand the basics of how machine learning operates, who can do some critical analysis, situate it in its social context. People who know some things about what data is good for, how it’s hard, where to find it. People who know at least the general direction in which they might find news articles and papers and conferences that their patrons will care about. People who won’t be too dazzled by product hype and can ask pointed questions about how products really work, and whether they respect library values. And, while we’re at it, people who have some sense of what AI can do, not just theoretically, but concretely in real-world library settings. Eight weeks: go! What I ended up doing was 4 2-week modules, with a rough alternation of theory and library case studies, and a pretty wild mix of readings: conference presentations, scholarly papers from a variety of disciplines, hilarious computational misadventures, news articles, data visualizations. I mostly kept a lid on the really technical stuff in the required readings, but tossed a lot of it into optional readings, so that students with that background or interest could pull on those threads. (And heavily annotated the optional readings, to give people a sense of what might interest them; I’d like to say this is why surprisingly many of my students did some optional reading, but actually they’re just awesome.) For case studies, we looked at the Northern Illinois University dime novels collection experiments; metadata enrichment in the Charles Teenie Harris archive; my own work with HAMLET; and the University of Rhode Island AI lab. This let us hit a gratifyingly wide variety of machine learning techniques, use cases (metadata, discovery, public services), and settings (libraries, archives). Do I have a couple of pages of things to change up next time I teach the class (this fall)? Of course I do. But I think it went well for a first-time class (particularly for a first-time class in the middle of a global catastrophe…) Big ups to the following: Matthew Short of NIU and Bohyun Kim of URI, for guest speaking; Everyone at SJSU who worked on their “how to teach online” materials, especially Debbie Faires — their onboarding did a good job of conveying SJSU-specific expectations and building a toolkit for teaching specifically online in a way that was useful to me as someone with a lot of offline teaching experience; Zeynep Tufecki, Momin Malik, Catherine D’Ignazio, who suggested readings that I ended up assigning; and my students, who are about to get a paragraph. My students. Look. You signed up to take a class online — it’s an all-online program — but none of you signed up to do it while being furloughed, while homeschooling, while being sick with a scary new virus. And you knocked it out of the park. Week after week, asking for the smallest of extensions to hold it all together, breaking my heart in private messages, while publicly writing thoughtful, well-researched, footnoted discussion posts. While not only doing even the optional readings, but finding astonishment and joy in them. While piecing together the big ideas about data and bias and fairness and the genuine alienness of machine intelligence. I know for certain, not as an article of faith but as a statement of fact, that I will keep seeing your names out there, that your careers will go places, and I hope I am lucky enough to meet you in person someday. Andromeda Uncategorized 3 Comments May 15, 2020May 15, 2020 adventures with parsing Django uploaded csv files in python3 Let’s say you’re having problems parsing a csv file, represented as an InMemoryUploadedFile, that you’ve just uploaded through a Django form. There are a bunch of answers on stackoverflow! They all totally work with Python 2! …and lead to hours of frustration if, say, hypothetically, like me, you’re using Python 3. If you are getting errors like _csv.Error: iterator should return strings, not bytes (did you open the file in text mode?) — and then getting different errors about DictReader not getting an expected iterator after you use .decode('utf-8') to coerce your file to str — this is the post for you. It turns out all you need to do (e.g. in your form_valid) is: csv_file.seek(0) csv.DictReader(io.StringIO(csv_file.read().decode('utf-8'))) What’s going on here? The seek statement ensures the pointer is at the beginning of the file. This may or may not be required in your case. In my case, I’d already read the file in my forms.py in order to validate it, so my file pointer was at the end. You’ll be able to tell that you need to seek() if your csv.DictReader() doesn’t throw any errors, but when you try to loop over the lines of the file you don’t even enter the for loop (e.g. print() statements you put in it never print) — there’s nothing left to loop over if you’re at the end of the file. read() gives you the file contents as a bytes object, on which you can call decode(). decode('utf-8') turns your bytes into a string, with known encoding. (Make sure that you know how your CSV is encoded to start with, though! That’s why I was doing validation on it myself. Unicode, Dammit is going to be my friend here. Even if I didn’t want an excuse to use it because of its title alone. Which I do.) io.StringIO() gives you the iterator that DictReader needs, while ensuring that your content remains stringy. tl;dr I wrote two lines of code (but eight lines of comments) for a problem that took me hours to solve. Hopefully now you can copy these lines, and spend only a few minutes solving this problem! Andromeda Uncategorized 17 Comments April 25, 2017 my statement at the ALA Midwinter Town Hall (American Libraries has helpfully provided an unedited transcript of the ALA Council town hall meeting this past Midwinter, which lets me turn my remarks there into a blog post here. You can also watch the video; I start around 24:45. I encourage you to read or watch the whole thing, though; it’s interesting throughout with a variety of viewpoints represented. I am also extremely gratified by this press release, issued after the Town Hall, which speaks to these issues.) As I was looking at the statements that came out at ALA after the election, I found that they had a lot to say about funding, and that’s important because that’s how we pay our people and collect materials and keep the lights on. But my concern was that they seemed to talk only about funding, and I found myself wondering — if they come for copyright, will we say that’s okay as long as we’ve been bought off? If they come for net neutrality, will we say that’s okay, as long as we’ve been bought off? When they come for the NEH and the NEA, the artists who make the content that we collect and preserve, are we going to say that’s okay, as long as we get bought off? When they come for free speech — and five bills were introduced in five states just, I think, on Friday, to criminalize protest — will we say that’s okay, as long as we’ve been bought off? I look at how people I know react and the past actions of the current administration. The fact that every trans person I know was in a panic to get their documents in order before last Friday because they don’t think they will be able to in the next four years. The fact that we have a President who will mock disabled people just because they are disabled and disagreeing with him. The fact that we have a literal white supremacist in the White House who co-wrote the inauguration speech. The fact that one of the architects of Gamergate, which has been harassing women in technology for years, is now a White House staffer. The fact that we have many high-level people in the administration who support conversion therapy, which drives gay and lesbian teenagers to suicide at unbelievable rates. Trans people and people of color and disabled people and women and gays and lesbians are us, they are our staff, they are our patrons. Funding matters, but so do our values, and so do our people. Funding is important, but so is our soul. And when I look at our messaging, I wonder, do we have a soul? Can it be bought? Or are there lines we do not cross? Thank you. Andromeda Uncategorized Leave a comment February 2, 2017 the highest level of service I. We provide the highest level of service to all library users… ALA Code of Ethics That’s what public libraries do, right? Provide service to everyone, respectfully and professionally — and without conditioning that respect on checking your papers. If you walk through those doors, you’re welcome here. When you’re standing in the international arrivals area at Logan, you’re in a waiting area between a pair of large double doors, exiting from Customs, and then the doors to the outside world. We stood in a crowd of hundreds, chanting “Let Them In!” Sometimes, some mysterious number of minutes after a flight arrival, the doors would open, and tired people and their luggage pour through, from Zurich, Port-au-Prince, Heathrow, anywhere. And the Code of Ethics ran through my head because that’s what we were chanting, wasn’t it? That anyone who walks through those doors is welcome here. Let them in. Library values are American values. And if you have a stake in America, don’t let anyone build an America that’s less than what we as a profession stand for. Andromeda Uncategorized 6 Comments January 30, 2017January 30, 2017 Leia: a montage about heroism MONTAGE – EXT. HANGAR – REMOTE PLANET – DAY: Leia gestures to a document in her other hand. “There’s still 24 fighters that haven’t had their C checks, and we need them ready to scramble by 0500 Sunday. I can count on you to make that deadline, right?” The chief mechanic nods smartly. – INT. STARSHIP – OPS DECK: Leia puts a hand on a young pilot’s shoulder; the pilot looks up nervously. “First shift on the big ship, Lieutenant Bey? It’s great to see you here. I knew you’d qualify.” Bey smiles and looks back confidently at her console. – INT. BARRACKS – LEIA’S ROOM – MIDNIGHT: Leia taps a hand terminal. There are 94 new messages. Subject lines scroll past — “Quartermaster’s January report”; “Re: overdue Corellian inventory”; “Schedule for meeting with new EVA suit supplier”. She sighs, drinks some tea, and taps the first message. It’s not light sabers, is it? It’s grueling and dull, decades of small things. It films poorly. And it’s why the rebellion exists at all. Luke is the cinematic hero because he has magic powers that you either have or you don’t (and we don’t). Leia in another timeline might have had them too but hers instead is the heroism anyone can choose — responsibility, tenaciousness, care — anyone can, but often we don’t, and somehow without a flashy magical montage it seems less heroic. How much better the world would be if we were all Leia, though. Or — maybe we can’t. As the whole internet has pointed out lately, Leia’s the woman who consoles Luke for losing her mentor after her whole world has burned. In the original series I think, in fact, she shows the most distress when Luke on Endor has revealed to her the truth about their parentage, when Han walks into that and wonders why she’s treating him that way; her feelings matter to cinematography when they illustrate someone else’s story. Luke and Obi-Wan can abandon the galaxy for hidden places when one student going wrong provokes feelings too strong to bear; whatever feelings Leia has about Alderaan and everything else are not enough to stop her from decades, decades, decades of unglamorous work. Maybe we can’t all choose that; maybe Leia gets to be the powerhouse she is because her inner life, her reactions to the world around her, do not matter to the narrative, can be treated as if they don’t have effects. We see the profundity of Luke’s and Obi-Wan’s losses in their withdrawal from the world; Leia’s are both greater still, and not painful enough to keep her from processing 94 new emails, every day, for the rest of her life. She gets to be an astonishing hero, in so many ways too-little-celebrated by the narrative, because maybe she isn’t a person, doesn’t react the way people do, doesn’t get to claim the meaning of her own inner life as relevant in its own right. I’d urge you all to choose to be Leias if I thought it fair. I am not sure it is plausible, in this galaxy right now, where we all have inner lives and centrality to our own stories. And yet here we are, with far more emails than lightsabers. Perhaps I’ll ask instead — look for the Leias. The people all around who may not have montages, but who strengthen people, who make the supply lines work, who follow up. They are indeed magic. Andromeda Uncategorized Leave a comment January 6, 2017 Locating my ALA in 2016 I’ve been reading discussion on ALA Council, Twitter, and blogs following recent ALA press releases and statements from the Committee on Legislation and the Washington Office, wondering where to locate my ALA, and where to locate myself within it as a member leader. The question I keep coming back to is: where are our lines? ALA’s communications have focused on the importance of securing funding for libraries over the next four years. And this is important; for both practical and philosophical reasons, libraries have to pay their people and keep the lights on. I hope ALA’s Washington Office lobbies hard for library funding. And yet… If law enforcement shows up and says, we want all your circulation records, to go on a fishing expedition for who’s reading the “wrong” books, do we say, sod off; come back with a warrant, or not at all? If Homeland Security shows up and says, we’d like your organization-of-information expertise updating the Muslim registry for the present day, do we say, never again? If the horse-traders show up and say, nice IMLS funding you’ve got there, shame if something happened to it, have you considered dropping your support for strong encryption, do we say, the ALA Code of Ethics binds us to protect patron privacy and that is a line we cannot cross? Do we? It seems almost unthinkable that we would not, and yet, that is what’s missing in ALA’s recent communication: the notion that there are lines, that these lines matter for our patrons and our consciences. Librarians are among the most trusted professions, but we didn’t get there by being conciliatory. Our historical heroes include the Connecticut Four, Judith Krug, Zoia Horn, all the way back to Hypatia of Alexandria. We are, at our best, people who draw lines. What are our lines? What are yours? Write them down. Hold them. Andromeda Uncategorized 1 Comment December 21, 2016 An open letter to Heather Bresch Dear Heather Bresch, You lived in Morgantown. I did, too: born and raised. My parents are retired from the university you attended. My elementary school took field trips to Mylan labs. They were shining, optimistic. You’re from West Virginia. I am, too. This means we both know something of the coal industry that has both sustained and destroyed our home. You know, as I do, how many miners have been killed in explosions: trapped underground when a pocket of methane ignites. We both know that miners long carried safety lamps: carefully shielded but raw flames that would go out when the oxygen went too low, a warning to get away — if they had not first exploded, as open flames around methane do. Perhaps you know, as I only recently learned, that miners were once required to buy their own safety lamps: so when safer ones came out, ones that would only warn without killing you first, miners did not carry them. They couldn’t afford to. They set probability against their lives, went without the right equipment, and sometimes lost, and died. I’m a mother. You are, too. I don’t know if your children carry medication for life-threatening illnesses; I hope you have not had to face that. I have. In our case it’s asthma, not allergies, and an inhaler, not an Epi-Pen. It’s a $20 copay with our insurance and lasts for dozens of doses. It doesn’t stop asthma attacks once they start — my daughter’s asthma is too severe for that — but sometimes it prevents them. And when it does not, it still helps: we spend two days in the hospital instead of five; we don’t go to the ICU. (Have you ever been with your child in a pediatric ICU? It is the most miraculous, and the worst, place on earth.) Most families can find their way to twenty dollars. Many cannot find six hundred. They’ll go without, and set probability against their children’s lives. Rich children will live; poor children will sometimes lose, and die. I ask you to reconsider. Sincerely, Andromeda Yelton Andromeda Uncategorized 3 Comments August 24, 2016 Posts navigation Older posts Blog at WordPress.com. Add your thoughts here... (optional) Post to Cancel Privacy & Cookies: This site uses cookies. By continuing to use this website, you agree to their use. To find out more, including how to control cookies, see here: Cookie Policy andromedayelton-com-651 ---- Though these be matrices, yet there is method in them. – andromeda yelton Skip to content andromeda yelton Menu Home About Contact Resume HAMLET LITA Talks Machine Learning (ALA Midwinter 2019) Boston Python Meetup (August 21, 2018) SWiB16 LibTechConf 2016 Code4Lib 2015 Keynote Texas Library Association 2014 Online Northwest 2014: Five Conversations About Code New Jersey ESummit (May 2, 2013) Westchester Library Association (January 7, 2013) Bridging the Digital Divide with Mobile Services (Webjunction, July 25 2012) Though these be matrices, yet there is method in them. Andromeda Uncategorized December 11, 2020December 11, 2020 When I first trained a neural net on 43,331 theses to make HAMLET, one of the things I most wanted to do is be able to visualize them. If word2vec places documents ‘near’ each other in some kind of inferred conceptual space, we should be able to see some kind of map of them, yes? Even if I don’t actually know what I’m doing? Turns out: yes. And it’s even better than I’d imagined. 43,331 graduate theses, arranged by their conceptual similarity. Let me take you on a tour! Region 1 is biochemistry. The red dots are biology; the orange ones, chemistry. Theses here include Positional cloning and characterization of the mouse pudgy locus and Biosynthetic engineering for the assembly of better drugs. If you look closely, you will see a handful of dots in different colors, like a buttery yellow. This color is electrical engineering & computer science, and its dots in this region include Computational regulatory genomics : motifs, networks, and dynamics — that is to say, a computational biology thesis that happens to have been housed in computation rather than biology. The green south of Region 2 is physics. But you will note a bit of orange here. Yes, that’s chemistry again; for example, Dynamic nuclear polarization of amorphous and crystalline small molecules. If (like me), you almost majored in chemistry and realized only your senior year that the only chemistry classes that interested you were the ones that were secretly physics…this is your happy place. In fact, most of the theses here concern nuclear magnetic resonance applications. Region 3 has a striking vertical green stripe which turns out to be the nuclear engineering department. But you’ll see some orange streaks curling around it like fingers, almost suggesting three-dimensional depth. I point this out as a reminder that the original neural net embeds these 43,331 documents in a 52-dimensional space; I have projected that down to 2 dimensions because I don’t know about you but I find 52 dimensions somewhat challenging to visualize. However — just as objects may overlap in a 2-dimensional photo even when they are quite distant in 3-dimensional space — dots that are close together in this projection may be quite far apart in reality. Trust the overall structure more than each individual element. The map is not the territory. That little yellow thumb by Region 4 is mathematics, now a tiny appendage off of the giant discipline it spawned — our old friend buttery yellow, aka electrical engineering & computer science. If you zoom in enough you find EECS absolutely everywhere, applied to all manner of disciplines (as above with biology), but the bulk of it — including the quintessential parts, like compilers — is right here. Dramatically red Region 5, clustered together tightly and at the far end, is architecture. This is a renowned department (it graduated I.M. Pei!), but definitely a different sort of creature than most of MIT, so it makes sense that it’s at one extreme of the map. That said, the other two programs in its school — Urban Studies & Planning and Media Arts & Sciences — are just to its north. Region 6 — tiny, yellow, and pale; you may have missed it at first glance — is linguistics island, housing theses such as Topics in the stress and syntax of words. You see how there are also a handful of red dots on this island? They are Brain & Cognitive Science theses — and in particular, ones that are secretly linguistics, like Intonational phrasing in language production and comprehension. Similarly — although at MIT it is not the department of linguistics, but the department of linguistics & philosophy — the philosophy papers are elsewhere. (A few of the very most abstract ones are hanging out near math.) And what about Region 7, the stingray swimming vigorously away from everything else? I spent a long time looking at this and not seeing a pattern. You can tell there’s a lot of colors (departments) there, randomly assorted; even looking at individual titles I couldn’t see anything. Only when I looked at the original documents did I realize that this is the island of terrible OCR. Almost everything here is an older thesis, with low-quality printing or even typewriting, often in a regrettable font, maybe with the reverse side of the page showing through. (A randomly chosen example; pdf download.) A good reminder of the importance of high-quality digitization labor. A heartbreaking example of the things we throw away when we make paper the archival format for born-digital items. And also a technical inspiration — look how much vector space we’ve had to carve out to make room for these! the poor neural net, trying desperately to find signal in the noise, needing all this space to do it. I’m tempted to throw out the entire leftmost quarter of this graph, rerun the 2d projection, and see what I get — would we be better able to see the structures in the high-quality data if they had room to breathe? And were I to rerun the entire neural net training process again, I’d want to include some sort of threshhold score for OCR quality. It would be a shame to throw things away — especially since they will be a nonrandom sample, mostly older theses — but I have already had to throw away things I could not OCR at all in an earlier pass, and, again, I suspect the neural net would do a better job organizing the high-quality documents if it could use the whole vector space to spread them out, rather than needing some of it to encode the information “this is terrible OCR and must be kept away from its fellows”. Clearly I need to share the technical details of how I did this, but this post is already too long, so maybe next week. tl;dr I reached out to Matt Miller after reading his cool post on vectorizing the DPLA and he tipped me off to UMAP and here we are — thanks, Matt! And just as clearly you want to play with this too, right? Well, it’s super not ready to be integrated into HAMLET due to any number of usability issues but if you promise to forgive me those — have fun. You see how when you hover over a dot you get a label with the format 1721.1-X.txt? It corresponds to a URL of the format https://hamlet.andromedayelton.com/similar_to/X. Go play :). Share this: Twitter Facebook Like this: Like Loading... Tagged dataviz fridAI hamlet umap Published by Andromeda Romantic analytical technologist librarian. 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To find out more, including how to control cookies, see here: Cookie Policy %d bloggers like this: andromedayelton-com-9024 ---- andromeda yelton andromeda yelton Though these be matrices, yet there is method in them. When I first trained a neural net on 43,331 theses to make HAMLET, one of the things I most wanted to do is be able to visualize them. If word2vec places documents ‘near’ each other in some kind of inferred conceptual space, we should be able to see some kind of map of them, yes? … Continue reading Though these be matrices, yet there is method in them. → Of such stuff are (deep)dreams made: convolutional networks and neural style transfer Skipped FridAI blogging last week because of Thanksgiving, but let’s get back on it! Top-of-mind today are the firing of AI queen Timnit Gebru (letter of support here) and a couple of grant applications that I’m actually eligible for (this is rare for me! I typically need things for which I can apply in my … Continue reading Of such stuff are (deep)dreams made: convolutional networks and neural style transfer → Let’s visualize some HAMLET data! Or, d3 and t-SNE for the lols. In 2017, I trained a neural net on ~44K graduate theses using the Doc2Vec algorithm, in hopes that doing so would provide a backend that could support novel and delightful discovery mechanisms for unique library content. The result, HAMLET, worked better than I hoped; it not only pulls together related works from different departments (thus … Continue reading Let’s visualize some HAMLET data! Or, d3 and t-SNE for the lols. → AI in the Library, round one The San José State University School of Information wanted to have a half-course on artificial intelligence in their portfolio, and asked me to develop and teach it. (Thanks!) So I got a blank canvas on which to paint eight weeks of…whatever you might want graduate students in library & information science students to know about … Continue reading AI in the Library, round one → adventures with parsing Django uploaded csv files in python3 Let’s say you’re having problems parsing a csv file, represented as an InMemoryUploadedFile, that you’ve just uploaded through a Django form. There are a bunch of answers on stackoverflow! They all totally work with Python 2! …and lead to hours of frustration if, say, hypothetically, like me, you’re using Python 3. If you are getting … Continue reading adventures with parsing Django uploaded csv files in python3 → my statement at the ALA Midwinter Town Hall (American Libraries has helpfully provided an unedited transcript of the ALA Council town hall meeting this past Midwinter, which lets me turn my remarks there into a blog post here. You can also watch the video; I start around 24:45. I encourage you to read or watch the whole thing, though; it’s interesting throughout with … Continue reading my statement at the ALA Midwinter Town Hall → the highest level of service I. We provide the highest level of service to all library users… ALA Code of Ethics That’s what public libraries do, right? Provide service to everyone, respectfully and professionally — and without conditioning that respect on checking your papers. If you walk through those doors, you’re welcome here. When you’re standing in the international arrivals … Continue reading the highest level of service → Leia: a montage about heroism MONTAGE – EXT. HANGAR – REMOTE PLANET – DAY: Leia gestures to a document in her other hand. “There’s still 24 fighters that haven’t had their C checks, and we need them ready to scramble by 0500 Sunday. I can count on you to make that deadline, right?” The chief mechanic nods smartly. – INT. … Continue reading Leia: a montage about heroism → Locating my ALA in 2016 I’ve been reading discussion on ALA Council, Twitter, and blogs following recent ALA press releases and statements from the Committee on Legislation and the Washington Office, wondering where to locate my ALA, and where to locate myself within it as a member leader. The question I keep coming back to is: where are our lines? … Continue reading Locating my ALA in 2016 → An open letter to Heather Bresch Dear Heather Bresch, You lived in Morgantown. I did, too: born and raised. My parents are retired from the university you attended. My elementary school took field trips to Mylan labs. They were shining, optimistic. You’re from West Virginia. I am, too. This means we both know something of the coal industry that has both … Continue reading An open letter to Heather Bresch → andromedayelton-com-9155 ---- Let’s visualize some HAMLET data! Or, d3 and t-SNE for the lols. – andromeda yelton Skip to content andromeda yelton Menu Home About Contact Resume HAMLET LITA Talks Machine Learning (ALA Midwinter 2019) Boston Python Meetup (August 21, 2018) SWiB16 LibTechConf 2016 Code4Lib 2015 Keynote Texas Library Association 2014 Online Northwest 2014: Five Conversations About Code New Jersey ESummit (May 2, 2013) Westchester Library Association (January 7, 2013) Bridging the Digital Divide with Mobile Services (Webjunction, July 25 2012) Let’s visualize some HAMLET data! Or, d3 and t-SNE for the lols. Andromeda Uncategorized November 20, 2020 In 2017, I trained a neural net on ~44K graduate theses using the Doc2Vec algorithm, in hopes that doing so would provide a backend that could support novel and delightful discovery mechanisms for unique library content. The result, HAMLET, worked better than I hoped; it not only pulls together related works from different departments (thus enabling discovery that can’t be supported with existing metadata), but it does a spirited job on documents whose topics are poorly represented in my initial data set (e.g. when given a fiction sample it finds theses from programs like media studies, even though there are few humanities theses in the data set). That said, there are a bunch of exploratory tools I’ve had in my head ever since 2017 that I’ve not gotten around to implementing. But here, in the spirit of tossing out things that don’t bring me joy (like 2020) and keeping those that do, I’m gonna make some data viz! There are only two challenges with this: By default Doc2Vec embeds content in a 100-dimensional space, which is kind of hard to visualize. I need to project that down to 2 or 3 dimensions. I don’t actually know anything about dimensionality reduction techniques, other than that they exist. I also don’t know know JavaScript much beyond a copy-paste level. I definitely don’t know d3, or indeed the pros and cons of various visualization libraries. Also art. Or, like, all that stuff in Tufte’s book, which I bounced off of. (But aside from that, Mr. Lincoln, how was the play?) I decided I should start with the pages that display the theses most similar to a given thesis (shout-out to Jeremy Brown, startup founder par excellence) rather than with my ideas for visualizing the whole collection, because I’ll only need to plot ten or so points instead of 44K. This will make it easier for me to tell visually if I’m on the right track and should let me skip dealing with performance issues for now. On the down side, it means I may need to throw out any code I write at this stage when I’m working on the next one. 🤷‍♀️ And I now have a visualization on localhost! Which you can’t see because I don’t trust it yet. But here are the problems I’ve solved thus far: It’s hard to copy-paste d3 examples on the internet. d3’s been around for long enough there’s substantial content about different versions, so you have to double-check. But also most of the examples are live code notebooks on Observable, which is a wicked cool service but not the same environment as a web page! If you just copy-paste from there you will have things that don’t work due to invisible environment differences and then you will be sad. 😢 I got tipped off to this by Mollie Marie Pettit’s great Your First d3 Scatterplot notebook, which both names the phenomenon and provides two versions of the code (the live-editable version and the one you can actually copy/paste into your editor). If you start googling for dimensionality reduction techniques you will mostly find people saying “use t-SNE”, but t-SNE is a lying liar who lies. Mind you, it’s what I’m using right now because it’s so well-documented it was the easiest thing to set up. (This is why I said above that I don’t trust my viz.) But it produces different results for the same data on different pageloads (obviously different, so no one looking at the page will trust it either), and it’s not doing a good job preserving the distances I care about. (I accept that anything projecting from 100d down to 2d will need to distort distances, but I want to adequately preserve meaning — I want the visualization to not just look pretty but to give people an intellectually honest insight into the data — and I’m not there yet.) Conveniently this is not my first time at the software engineering rodeo, so I encapsulated my dimensionality reduction strategy inside a function, and I can swap it out for whatever I like without needing to rewrite the d3 as long as I return the same data structure. So that’s my next goal — try out UMAP (hat tip to Matt Miller for suggesting that to me), try out PCA, fiddle some parameters, try feeding it just the data I want to visualize vs larger neighborhoods, see if I’m happier with what I get. UMAP in particular alleges itself to be fast with large data sets, so if I can get it working here I should be able to leverage that knowledge for my ideas for visualizing the whole thing. Onward, upward, et cetera. 🎉 Share this: Twitter Facebook Like this: Like Loading... Tagged fridAI hamlet Published by Andromeda Romantic analytical technologist librarian. View all posts by Andromeda Published November 20, 2020 Post navigation Previous Post AI in the Library, round one Next Post Of such stuff are (deep)dreams made: convolutional networks and neural style transfer One thought on “Let’s visualize some HAMLET data! Or, d3 and t-SNE for the lols.” Pingback: Though these be matrices, yet there is method in them. – andromeda yelton Leave a Reply Cancel reply Enter your comment here... Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: Email (required) (Address never made public) Name (required) Website You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out /  Change ) You are commenting using your Google account. ( Log Out /  Change ) You are commenting using your Twitter account. ( Log Out /  Change ) You are commenting using your Facebook account. 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To find out more, including how to control cookies, see here: Cookie Policy %d bloggers like this: andromedayelton-com-9751 ---- Of such stuff are (deep)dreams made: convolutional networks and neural style transfer – andromeda yelton Skip to content andromeda yelton Menu Home About Contact Resume HAMLET LITA Talks Machine Learning (ALA Midwinter 2019) Boston Python Meetup (August 21, 2018) SWiB16 LibTechConf 2016 Code4Lib 2015 Keynote Texas Library Association 2014 Online Northwest 2014: Five Conversations About Code New Jersey ESummit (May 2, 2013) Westchester Library Association (January 7, 2013) Bridging the Digital Divide with Mobile Services (Webjunction, July 25 2012) Of such stuff are (deep)dreams made: convolutional networks and neural style transfer Andromeda Uncategorized December 4, 2020December 4, 2020 Skipped FridAI blogging last week because of Thanksgiving, but let’s get back on it! Top-of-mind today are the firing of AI queen Timnit Gebru (letter of support here) and a couple of grant applications that I’m actually eligible for (this is rare for me! I typically need things for which I can apply in my individual capacity, so it’s always heartening when they exist — wish me luck). But for blogging today, I’m gonna talk about neural style transfer, because it’s cool as hell. I started my ML-learning journey on Coursera’s intro ML class and have been continuing with their deeplearning.ai sequence; I’m on course 4 of 5 there, so I’ve just gotten to neural style transfer. This is the thing where a neural net outputs the content of one picture in the style of another: Via https://medium.com/@build_it_for_fun/neural-style-transfer-with-swift-for-tensorflow-b8544105b854. OK, so! Let me explain while it’s still fresh. If you have a neural net trained on images, it turns out that each layer is responsible for recognizing different, and progressively more complicated, things. The specifics vary by neural net and data set, but you might find that the first layer gets excited about straight lines and colors; the second about curves and simple textures (like stripes) that can be readily composed from straight lines; the third about complex textures and simple objects (e.g. wheels, which are honestly just fancy circles); and so on, until the final layers recognize complex whole objects. You can interrogate this by feeding different images into the neural net and seeing which ones trigger the highest activation in different neurons. Below, each 3×3 grid represents the most exciting images for a particular neuron. You can see that in this network, there are Layer 1 neurons excited about colors (green, orange), and about lines of particular angles that form boundaries between dark and colored space. In Layer 2, these get built together like tiny image legos; now we have neurons excited about simple textures such as vertical stripes, concentric circles, and right angles. Via https://adeshpande3.github.io/The-9-Deep-Learning-Papers-You-Need-To-Know-About.html, originally from Zeller & Fergus, Visualizing and Understanding Convolutional Networks So how do we get from here to neural style transfer? We need to extract information about the content of one image, and the style of another, in order to make a third image that approximates both of them. As you already expect if you have done a little machine learning, that means that we need to write cost functions that mean “how close is this image to the desired content?” and “how close is this image to the desired style?” And then there’s a wrinkle that I haven’t fully understood, which is that we don’t actually evaluate these cost functions (necessarily) against the outputs of the neural net; we actually compare the activations of the neurons, as they react to different images — and not necessarily from the final layer! In fact, choice of layer is a hyperparameter we can vary (I super look forward to playing with this on the Coursera assignment and thereby getting some intuition). So how do we write those cost functions? The content one is straightforward: if two images have the same content, they should yield the same activations. The greater the differences, the greater the cost (specifically via a squared error function that, again, you may have guessed if you’ve done some machine learning). The style one is beautifully sneaky; it’s a measure of the difference in correlation between activations across channels. What does that mean in English? Well, let’s look at the van Gogh painting, above. If an edge detector is firing (a boundary between colors), then a swirliness detector is probably also firing, because all the lines are curves — that’s characteristic of van Gogh’s style in this painting. On the other hand, if a yellowness detector is firing, a blueness detector may or may not be (sometimes we have tight parallel yellow and blue lines, but sometimes yellow is in the middle of a large yellow region). Style transfer posits that artistic style lies in the correlations between different features. See? Sneaky. And elegant. Finally, for the style-transferred output, you need to generate an image that does as well as possible on both cost functions simultaneously — getting as close to the content as it can without unduly sacrificing the style, and vice versa. As a side note, I think I now understand why DeepDream is fixated on a really rather alarming number of eyes. Since the layer choice is a hyperparameter, I hypothesize that choosing too deep a layer — one that’s started to find complex features rather than mere textures and shapes — will communicate to the system, yes, what I truly want is for you to paint this image as if those complex features are matters of genuine stylistic significance. And, of course, eyes are simple enough shapes to be recognized relatively early (not very different from concentric circles), yet ubiquitous in image data sets. So…this is what you wanted, right? the eager robot helpfully offers. https://www.ucreative.com/inspiration/google-deep-dream-is-the-trippiest-thing-in-the-internet/ I’m going to have fun figuring out what the right layer hyperparameter is for the Coursera assignment, but I’m going to have so much more fun figuring out the wrong ones. Share this: Twitter Facebook Like this: Like Loading... Tagged convnets fridAI neural style transfer Published by Andromeda Romantic analytical technologist librarian. View all posts by Andromeda Published December 4, 2020December 4, 2020 Post navigation Previous Post Let’s visualize some HAMLET data! Or, d3 and t-SNE for the lols. Next Post Though these be matrices, yet there is method in them. Leave a Reply Cancel reply Enter your comment here... Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: Email (required) (Address never made public) Name (required) Website You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. 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A commercial community site with bulk data access SEE MORE Top Collections at the Archive SHOW DETAILS VIEWS SORT BY VIEWS eye Title Date Archived Creator 4.8B 4.8B Community Audio collection 2,251,901 ITEMS 4.8B VIEWS Dec 14, 2005 12/05 by Community Audio collection eye 4.8B You are invited to view or upload audios to the Community collection. These thousands of recordings were all contributed by Archive users and community members. Please select a Creative Commons License during upload so that others will know what they may (or may not) do with with your audio. Click here to contribute your audio ! Browse by style: Blues , Country , Electronic , Experimental , Hiphop , Indie , Jazz , Rock , Spoken Word . 2.6B 2.6B Community Video collection 1,010,843 ITEMS 2.6B VIEWS Feb 26, 2005 02/05 by Internet Archive collection eye 2.6B You are invited to view or upload your videos to the Community collection. These thousands of videos were contributed by Archive users and community members. These videos are available for free download. Please select a Creative Commons License during upload so that others will know what they may (or may not) do with with your video. Click here to upload your video ! Topic: Moving Images 2.1B 2.1B Community Texts collection 1,082,006 ITEMS 2.1B VIEWS Jan 18, 2005 01/05 by Internet Archive collection eye 2.1B These books are books contributed by the community. Click here to contribute your book ! For more information and how-to please see help.archive.org/hc/en-us/articles/360002360111-Uploading-A-Basic-Guide Uploaders, please note: Archive.org supports metadata about items in just about any language so long as the characters are UTF8 encoded Find books by language: Afar Books Afrikaans Books Akan Books Albanian Books Arabic Books Armenian Books Aymara Books Azerbaijan Books Balochi Books Bambara... Topic: Texts 1.9B 1.9B American Libraries collection 3,420,629 ITEMS 1.9B VIEWS Jan 23, 2006 01/06 collection eye 1.9B The American Libraries collection includes material contributed from across the United States. Institutions range from the Library of Congress to many local public libraries. As a whole, this collection of material brings holdings that cover many facets of American life and scholarship into the public domain. Significant portions of this collection have been generously sponsored by Microsoft , Yahoo! , The Sloan Foundation , and others. 1.7B 1.7B Community Data collection 266,420 ITEMS 1.7B VIEWS May 12, 2010 05/10 collection eye 1.7B A collection of data and miscellaneous media donated by individuals to the Internet Archive. 1.5B 1.5B The LibriVox Free Audiobook Collection collection 14,814 ITEMS 1.5B VIEWS Mar 7, 2006 03/06 collection eye 1.5B LibriVox - founded in 2005 - is a community of volunteers from all over the world who record public domain texts: poetry, short stories, whole books, even dramatic works, in many different languages. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain in the USA and available as free downloads on the internet. If you are not in the USA, please check your country's copyright law before downloading. Please visit the LibriVox website where you can search for books that interest you. You can search or... 537.5M 537M Canadian Libraries collection 677,407 ITEMS 537.5M VIEWS Jun 16, 2005 06/05 by Internet Archive Canada collection eye 537.5M Welcome to the Canadian Libraries page. The Toronto scanning centre was established in 2004 on the campus of the University of Toronto . From its humble beginnings, Internet Archive Canada has worked with more 250 institutions, in providing their unique material(s) with open access and sharing these collections the world over. From the Archives of the Sisters of Service to the University of Alberta, IAC has digitized more than 600,000 unique texts as of September 2019. Many texts/collections... Topic: Texts 532.5M 532M Electric Sheep collection 628 ITEMS 532.5M VIEWS Jul 6, 2010 07/10 collection eye 532.5M Electric Sheep is a distributed computing project for animating and evolving fractal flames, which are in turn distributed to the networked computers, which display them as a screensaver. Process The process is transparent to the casual user, who can simply install the software as a screensaver. Alternatively, the user may become more involved with the project, manually creating a fractal flame file for upload to the server where it is rendered into a video file of the animated fractal flame.... Topic: electric sheep 516.6M 517M Live Music Archive collection 231,177 ITEMS 516.6M VIEWS Nov 19, 2005 11/05 collection eye 516.6M Browse: all artists · this day in history · average review rating · number reviews · date reviewed · number views The Live Music Archive is a community committed to providing the highest quality live concerts in a lossless, downloadable format, along with the convenience of on-demand streaming. In 2002, the Internet Archive teamed up with etree.org to create the Live Music Archive in order to preserve and archive as many live concerts as possible for current and future generations to... 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The library building is one of the most significant examples of brutalist architecture in... 264.9M 265M Folksoundomy: A Library of Sound collection 701,847 ITEMS 264.9M VIEWS Dec 12, 2016 12/16 collection eye 264.9M Folksonomy : A system of classification derived from the practice and method of collaboratively creating and managing tags to annotate and categorize content; this practice is also known as collaborative tagging, social classification, social indexing, and social tagging. Coined by Thomas Vander Wal, it is a portmanteau of folk and taxonomy. Folksoundomy : A collection of sounds, music and speech derived from the efforts of volunteers to make information as widely available as possible. Because... 249.7M 250M California Digital Library collection 193,840 ITEMS 249.7M VIEWS Feb 14, 2006 02/06 collection eye 249.7M The California Digital Library supports the assembly and creative use of the world's scholarship and knowledge for the University of California libraries and the communities they serve. In addition, the CDL provides tools that support the construction of online information services for research, teaching, and learning, including services that enable the UC libraries to effectively share their materials and provide greater access to digital content. 248.6M 249M Community Spirituality and Religion collection 117,567 ITEMS 248.6M VIEWS Jun 15, 2006 06/06 collection eye 248.6M These religion and spirituality videos were contributed by Archive users. 221.2M 221M Netlabels collection 76,881 ITEMS 221.2M VIEWS Dec 14, 2005 12/05 collection eye 221.2M Welcome to the Netlabels collection at the Internet Archive . This collection hosts complete, freely downloadable/streamable, often Creative Commons -licensed catalogs of 'virtual record labels'. These 'netlabels' are non-profit, community-built entities dedicated to providing high quality, non-commercial, freely distributable MP3/OGG-format music for online download in a multitude of genres. Styles include: melodic electronica ( e.g. Observatory Online , Please Do Something ) minimal house (... ( 1 reviews ) 213.4M 213M Truyen Audio Collection collection 105,462 ITEMS 213.4M VIEWS Feb 9, 2018 02/18 collection eye 213.4M 209.2M 209M Feature Films collection 11,942 ITEMS 209.2M VIEWS Feb 26, 2005 02/05 by Internet Archive collection eye 209.2M Feature films, shorts , silent films and trailers are available for viewing and downloading. Enjoy! View a list of all the Feature Films sorted by popularity . Do you want to post a feature film? First, figure out if it's in the Public Domain. Read this FAQ about determining if something is PD. 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It allows users to play and view most streaming media, such as videos, music, podcasts, and videos from the Internet, as well as all common digital media files from local and network storage... 187.6M 188M Television Archive collection 8,886,345 ITEMS 187.6M VIEWS Jun 13, 2008 06/08 collection eye 187.6M Programs in  TV News Archive for research and educational purposes. The programs allow users to search across a collection of television news programs dating back to 2009 for research and educational purposes such as fact checking. Users may view short clips, share links to customized short quotes, embed customized short quotes, or borrow a copy of the full program. ( 1 reviews ) 183.2M 183M Prelinger Archives collection 8,773 ITEMS 183.2M VIEWS Jun 4, 2005 06/05 collection eye 183.2M View thousands of films from the Prelinger Archives! Prelinger Archives was founded in 1983 by Rick Prelinger in New York City. 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Part of TV News Archive . 149.1M 149M Grateful Dead collection 15,029 ITEMS 149.1M VIEWS Mar 27, 2004 03/04 by Grateful Dead collection eye 149.1M Browse: this just in · stream only (SBD) shows · downloadable (AUD) shows · this day in history · average review rating · number reviews · date reviewed · number views · search forums Created in 2004 this collection consists of both audience and soundboard recordings. It is not uncommon to find multiple versions of the same show. For more information please see the FAQ . The Grateful Dead collection is not currently open to public uploads. Search Shows: Downloadable Shows - usually... Topic: grateful dead, jam, rock, jerry garcia 147.7M 148M Folkscanomy: A Library of Books collection 143,076 ITEMS 147.7M VIEWS Dec 20, 2012 12/12 collection eye 147.7M Folksonomy : A system of classification derived from the practice and method of collaboratively creating and managing tags to annotate and categorize content; this practice is also known as collaborative tagging, social classification, social indexing, and social tagging. Coined by Thomas Vander Wal, it is a portmanteau of folk and taxonomy. Folkscanomy : A collection of books and text derived from the efforts of volunteers to make information as widely available as possible. Because the... 147.6M 148M Biodiversity Heritage Library collection 227,695 ITEMS 147.6M VIEWS Dec 28, 2006 12/06 collection eye 147.6M Inspiring discovery through free access to biodiversity knowledge. | The Biodiversity Heritage Library improves research methodology by collaboratively making biodiversity literature openly available to the world as part of a global biodiversity community. BHL also serves as the foundational literature component of the Encyclopedia of Life . The Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) is a consortium of natural history and botanical libraries that cooperate to digitize the legacy literature of... 146.8M 147M The Vintage Software Collection collection 110,772 ITEMS 146.8M VIEWS Jun 19, 2013 06/13 collection eye 146.8M The Vintage Software collection gathers various efforts by groups to classify, preserve, and provide historical software. These older programs, many of them running on defunct and rare hardware, are provided for purposes of study, education, and historical reference.  115.3M 115M Internet Arcade collection 1,709 ITEMS 115.3M VIEWS Aug 6, 2014 08/14 collection eye 115.3M The Internet Arcade is a web-based library of arcade (coin-operated) video games from the 1970s through to the 1990s, emulated in JSMAME, part of the JSMESS software package. Containing hundreds of games ranging through many different genres and styles, the Arcade provides research, comparison, and entertainment in the realm of the Video Game Arcade.   The game collection ranges from early "bronze-age" videogames, with black and white screens and simple sounds, through to large-scale... 112.1M 112M Islamic Sermons and Lessons collection 181,905 ITEMS 112.1M VIEWS Jan 3, 2019 01/19 collection eye 112.1M Sermons, Lessons and Teachings, as well as supplemental and related materials.  MORE RESULTS Fetching more results Next Page arstechnica-com-1437 ---- Mac mini and Apple Silicon M1 review: Not so crazy after all | Ars Technica Skip to main content Biz & IT Tech Science Policy Cars Gaming & Culture Store Forums Subscribe Close Navigate Store Subscribe Videos Features Reviews RSS Feeds Mobile Site About Ars Staff Directory Contact Us Advertise with Ars Reprints Filter by topic Biz & IT Tech Science Policy Cars Gaming & Culture Store Forums Settings Front page layout Grid List Site theme Black on white White on black Sign in Comment activity Sign up or login to join the discussions! Stay logged in | Having trouble? Sign up to comment and more Sign up Apple M1 — Mac mini and Apple Silicon M1 review: Not so crazy after all The M1 is amazingly fast. More importantly, it's a compatibility slam dunk. Samuel Axon - Nov 19, 2020 2:03 pm UTC reader comments 596 with 214 posters participating, including story author Share this story Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Reddit The 2020, M1-equipped Mac mini. Samuel Axon The chassis is the same as before, but it's only available in classic Mac silver. Samuel Axon The rubber bottom. Samuel Axon Apple is crazy, right? The Mac just had its best year of sales ever, and Cupertino is hitting the platform with a shock like it hasn’t had in nearly 15 years—back in a time when the Mac was not having such a good year. Apple is beginning the process of replacing industry-standard Intel chips with its own, custom-designed silicon. In a way, we're not just reviewing the new Mac mini—a Mac mini is always a Mac mini, right? We're reviewing an ARM-based Mac for the first time. And this is not exactly the same story as all the other ARM machines we've looked at before, like Windows 10 on ARM—a respectable option with some serious tradeoffs. Sure, longer battery life and quick waking from sleep are already out there on other ARM computers. But as you may have seen in our hands-on earlier this week, what we're encountering here is also a performance leap—and as you'll also see in this review, a remarkable success at making this new architecture compatible with a large library of what could now, suddenly, be called legacy Mac software. Not everything is perfect; we'll talk about iOS apps on the Mac and some other problems, too. But if this Mac mini proves anything, it's that Apple was not, in fact, crazy. The M1 makes Apple's strategy seem soberingly sane. Table of Contents Specifications Design A few frustrating limitations Apple M1 Native Apple Silicon apps Running x86 apps Rosetta 2 What about Windows? Running iOS and iPadOS apps Performance The Mac's future is looking bright The good The bad The ugly Specifications Apple Mac Mini (2020) with Apple M1 Chip From $699 at Apple From $669 at Amazon (Ars Technica may earn compensation for sales from links on this post through affiliate programs.) The big news specs-wise, of course, is the M1 system-on-a-chip. The M1 is an 8-core CPU with four performance and four efficiency cores, as well as an 8-core GPU and a 16-core Neural Engine for on-device machine-learning tasks. Based on an ARM instruction set, it’s the first Apple-designed CPU and GPU for the Mac. For well over a decade, Apple’s laptops have had Intel CPUs and either Intel, Nvidia, or AMD graphics. The transition away from that status quo starts here. There’s much more to talk about on that front, of course—but let’s get the other specs out of the way first. By default, the Mac mini ships with 8GB of RAM, but that can be upgraded to 16GB. That’s a lot less than the 64GB cap in the Intel Mac mini, but, for now, that Intel Mac mini still exists in Apple’s lineup. Currently, Apple has only replaced its very bottom-end machines with Apple Silicon variants. It looks like we’re going to be waiting a while before we get beefier versions with more RAM and more ports (the M1 Mac mini and 13-inch MacBook Pro each only have two Thunderbolt ports, rather than four)—which is a very real bummer for a lot of people. Likewise, solid-state storage starts at 256GB, but you can go to 512GB, or even 1TB or 2TB. Doubling the RAM adds $200 to the purchase price, while going to 2TB of storage from the base 256GB configuration more than doubles the cost of the device. That storage bump is the main reason our review unit's purchase price is so much higher than the base. Specs at a glance: 2020 Mac mini OS macOS Big Sur 11.0.1 CPU Apple M1 RAM 16GB GPU Apple M1 HDD 2TB SSD Networking Wi-Fi 6; Bluetooth 5.0 Ports 2x Thunderbolt 3, 2x USB-A, 3.5mm headphone, HDMI, gigabit Ethernet Warranty 1 year, or 3 years with AppleCare+ Price as reviewed $1,699 The Mac mini has a built-in speaker—which might be a little surprising for a computer like this—but it does not have a built-in microphone. The speaker is bad, frankly; it sounds like an old MacBook Air speaker with the lid closed. There is a 3.5mm headphone jack, though. Other ports include two Thunderbolt 3/USB 4.0, two USB-A, Ethernet, and HDMI. Advertisement In terms of wireless, you get Wi-Fi 6 and Bluetooth 5.0. The box doesn’t include much—just a power cord and the computer itself. You’ll obviously need to buy a display, a keyboard, a mouse, a microphone, and headphones separately. Again, the Apple adage that the cost balloons as you add essentials holds true here as ever. As the name suggests, the Mac mini has a very low footprint. It measures 1.4×7.7×7.7 inches (3.6×19.7×19.7 centimeters) and weighs 2.6 pounds (1.2 kilograms). Further Reading Hands-on with the Apple M1—a seriously fast x86 competitor [Updated] It comes in two default configurations. The first starts at $699 and includes 8GB of RAM and 256GB of storage. The second ups the starting price to $899 and simply boosts the storage to 512GB. The base configuration here is $100 less than the previous Mac mini, which is nice to see. Again, Apple still sells an Intel-based Mac mini alongside this one, with a 6-core 3.0GHz Intel Core i5, Intel UHD 630 graphics, 8GB of RAM, and 512GB of solid-state storage. Nothing has changed for the Intel version of the device this year, though, so we won’t be going into that. Design If you liked how the last Mac mini looked, you’ll like this one, too: nothing has changed. For that reason, we won’t spend too much time on the aesthetics in this review. As before, the Mac mini prioritizes a very low profile. It’s essentially a laptop without a screen inside a 7.7×7.7-inch square. It looks nice but unassuming. It has that classic Mac silver color, whereas its predecessor was gray. The ports are all on the back, so it should play nice with most cable management solutions. A few frustrating limitations Before we get into the good news—basically anything related to M1 performance and software support—let’s go over some really frustrating choices Apple has made regarding ports and peripherals. As noted above, the RAM and storage configurations don’t reach as far as the Intel Mac mini’s do, and that also extends to ports. Two Thunderbolt ports is just okay, to be honest, even though there are also two USB-A ports on top of that. At least it's not the new M1 MacBook Air or 13-inch MacBook Pro, which are both limited to two Thunderbolt 3 ports total. The Mac mini can only drive two displays at a time, and one of those has to be over HDMI. Since that HDMI port is HDMI 2.0, it doesn’t have the throughput to handle 4K at 120Hz, or 8K at 60Hz. There aren’t many monitors like that now, but there increasingly will be over the next few years. Generally, we like our machines to stand the test of time. Neither the Mac mini nor any of its M1 brethren supports external GPUs. That’s pretty disappointing, and it calls into question Apple’s push for eGPUs over the past few years. It wasn’t long ago at all that Apple was signaling that eGPUs were the future of Mac graphics performance. Now it’s not clear that they’ll be part of the Mac experience at all. Enlarge / The ports on the back of the Mac mini. Samuel Axon Additionally, some people have used the Mac mini as a file server. Many of them are probably going to want to stick with Intel for now, as the M1 Mac mini only has a gigabit Ethernet port, whereas the Intel Mac mini is configurable to have a 10Gb port. Advertisement Apple sees this initial volley of Apple Silicon devices as the bottom end of its lineup. So we’re in a very odd situation right now where if you want the cutting edge of performance, you have to choose low-end Mac configuration options. If you want lots of ports and RAM, you have to stick with Intel for now. That's very likely going to change with the introduction of more expensive Macs with a faster, hypothetical M1X chip or something like that—but we have no idea yet when that’s going to happen. We only know that, eventually, it will. Apple M1 With that out of the way, it’s time for the good stuff. As noted above, the Mac mini (and its new MacBook Air and 13-inch MacBook Pro siblings) has Apple’s M1 system-on-a-chip, which includes an 8-core GPU, a CPU with four performance and four efficiency cores, a 16-core neural processing unit (NPU) called the Neural Engine, and a whole bunch of other stuff. Built on the ARM Instruction Set Architecture (ARM ISA), the M1 features 16 billion transistors and was manufactured in a 5nm process. According to Apple, each performance core in the M1 qualifies as the world’s fastest CPU core to date, while the efficiency cores match the performance of some recent Intel Macs. We read each of the four performance cores as having a clock speed of 3.2GHz, and while the iPhone and iPad’s A14 chip has 8MB of L2 cache, the M1’s performance cores get 12MB. Unlike some previous chip designs, all the performance and efficiency cores can be utilized at once, though there are signs that it gets a little more complicated when it comes to the cache. Enlarge Apple claims that the M1 can achieve its strong performance in part because of its unified memory architecture (UMA), which allows the CPU and GPU to both easily access relevant data without having to slow things down by copying it around. We’ll talk specific performance testing and results soon, but spoiler alert: the M1 is quite fast. That’s especially true for graphics compared to Intel’s graphics solutions (which seem unworthy to even be mentioned in the same category as what the M1 offers). These improvements are thanks to all of the above, plus techniques like tile-based deferred rendering and Apple’s proprietary Metal graphics API, which has been designed to take advantage of this architecture. This has gotten less attention, but the M1 contains a bunch of other stuff besides the elephants-in-the-die that are the CPU, GPU, and NPU. It has the Secure Enclave, Apple’s encrypted tool for handling sensitive data on device. It has an image signal processor, which isn’t super relevant on the camera-less Mac mini, but it reportedly improves FaceTime camera quality on the laptops. The M1 also includes a storage controller and hardware for driving encryption, among other things. Further Reading iMac Pro review: Working as intended In 2017, Apple introduced the T2 chip on the iMac Pro, and it went to most other Macs over the next couple of years. The T2 handled security features and various other things like some of what we just listed above, and we speculated when it was first introduced that it might be a predecessor to Apple’s eventual Mac SoC plans. It turns out we (and everyone else who picked up on that pretty obvious clue) were right. As such, the new M1 Macs don’t have T2 chips. It’s all on the M1 now. Of course, a change in architecture suggests all sorts of compatibility headaches with older software, to say the least. The M1 can’t natively run apps made for Intel-based Macs. But surprisingly, that ends up not really mattering in most cases. A lot of buyers of the M1 Macs will never even realize anything changed under the hood. To explore that point, let’s go over the software the M1 does run. Page: 1 2 3 Next → reader comments 596 with 214 posters participating, including story author Share this story Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Reddit Samuel Axon Based in Chicago, Samuel is the Senior Reviews Editor at Ars Technica, where he covers Apple products, displays, hardware and software for developers and creative professionals, and more. He is a reformed media executive who has been writing about technology for 10 years at Ars Technica, Engadget, Mashable, PC World, and many others. He is also a hobbyist iOS and indie game developer. Email samuel.axon@arstechnica.com Advertisement You must login or create an account to comment. 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Ad Choices archivesblogs-com-8847 ---- ArchivesBlogs | a syndicated collection of blogs by and for archivists ArchivesBlogs a syndicated collection of blogs by and for archivists Search Main menu Skip to primary content Skip to secondary content Home About Post navigation ← Older posts Meet Ike Posted on September 18, 2020 from AOTUS “I come from the very heart of America.” – Dwight Eisenhower, June 12, 1945 At a time when the world fought to overcome tyranny, he helped lead the course to victory as the Supreme Allied Commander in Europe. When our nation needed a leader, he upheld the torch of liberty as our 34th president. As a new memorial is unveiled, now is the time for us to meet Dwight David Eisenhower. Eisenhower Memorial statue and sculptures, photo by the Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial Commission An opportunity to get to know this man can be found at the newly unveiled Eisenhower Memorial in Washington, DC, and the all-new exhibits in the Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum in Abilene, Kansas. Each site in its own way tells the story of a humble man who grew up in small-town America and became the leader of the free world. The Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum is a 22-acre campus which includes several buildings where visitors can interact with the life of this president. Starting with the Boyhood Home, guests discover the early years of Eisenhower as he avidly read history books, played sports, and learned lessons of faith and leadership. The library building houses the documents of his administration. With more than 26 million pages and 350,000 images, researchers can explore the career of a 40+-year public servant. The 25,000 square feet of all-new exhibits located in the museum building is where visitors get to meet Ike and Mamie again…for the first time. Using NARA’s holdings, guests gain insight into the life and times of President Eisenhower. Finally, visitors can be reflective in the Place of Meditation where Eisenhower rests beside his first-born son, Doud, and his beloved wife Mamie. A true encapsulation of his life. Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum, Abilene, Kansas The updated gallery spaces were opened in 2019. The exhibition includes many historic objects from our holdings which highlight Eisenhower’s career through the military years and into the White House. Showcased items include Ike’s West Point letterman’s sweater, the D-Day Planning Table, Soviet lunasphere, and letters related to the Crisis at Little Rock. Several new films and interactives have been added throughout the exhibit including a D-Day film using newly digitized footage from the archives. Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum, Abilene, Kansas In addition to facts and quotes, visitors will leave with an understanding of how his experiences made Ike the perfect candidate for Supreme Allied Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force in Europe and the 34th President of the United States. The Eisenhower Memorial, which opened to the public on September 18, is located at an important historical corridor in Washington, DC. The 4-acre urban memorial park is surrounded by four buildings housing institutions that were formed during the Eisenhower Administration and was designed by award-winning architect, Frank Gehry. In 2011, the National Archives hosted Frank Gehry and his collaborator, theater artist Robert Wilson in a discussion about the creation of the Eisenhower National Memorial.  As part of the creative process, Gehry’s team visited the Eisenhower Presidential Library and drew inspiration from the campus. They also used the holdings of the Eisenhower Presidential Library to form the plans for the memorial itself. This also led to the development of online educational programs which will have a continued life through the Eisenhower Foundation. Visitors to both sites will learn lasting lessons from President Eisenhower’s life of public service. Eisenhower Memorial, photo by the Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial Commission Link to Post | Language: English The First Post 9/11 Phone-In: Richard Hake Sitting-in For Brian Lehrer Posted on September 16, 2020 from NYPR Archives & Preservation On September 18, 2001, The late Richard Hake sat-in for Brian Lehrer at Columbia University’s new studios at WKCR.  Just one week after the attack on the World Trade Center, WNYC was broadcasting on FM at reduced power from the Empire State Building and over WNYE (91.5 FM). Richard spoke with New York Times columnist Paul Krugman on airport security, author James Fallows on the airline industry, Robert Roach Jr. of the International Association of Machinists, and security expert and former New York City Police Commissioner William Bratton as well as WNYC listeners. Link to Post | Language: English Capturing Virtual FSU Posted on September 16, 2020 from Illuminations When the world of FSU changed in March 2020, the website for FSU was used as one of the primary communication tools to let students, faculty, and staff know what was going on. New webpages created specifically to share information and news popped up all over fsu.edu and we had no idea how long those pages would exist (ah, the hopeful days of March) so Heritage & University Archives wanted to be sure to capture those pages quickly and often as they changed and morphed into new online resources for the FSU community. Screenshot of a capture of the main FSU News feed regarding coronavirus. Captured March 13, 2020. While FSU has had an Archive-It account for a while, we hadn’t fully implemented its use yet. Archive-It is a web archiving service that captures and preserves content on websites as well as allowing us to provide metadata and a public interface to viewing the collected webpages. COVID-19 fast-tracked me on figuring out Archive-It and how we could best use it to capture these unique webpages documenting FSU’s response to the pandemic. I worked to configure crawls of websites to capture the data we needed, set up a schedule that would be sufficient to capture changes but also not overwhelm our data allowance, and describe the sites being captured. It took me a few tries but we’ve successfully been capturing a set of COVID related FSU URLs since March. One of the challenges of this work was some of the webpages had functionality that the web crawling just wouldn’t capture. This was due to some interactive widgets on pages or potentially some CSS choices the crawler didn’t like. I decided the content was the most important thing to capture in this case, more so than making sure the webpage looked exactly like the original. A good example of this is the International Programs Alerts page. We’re capturing this to track information about our study abroad programs but what Archive-It displays is quite different from the current site in terms of design. The content is all there though. On the left is how Archive-It displays a capture of the International Programs Alerts page. On the right is how the site actually looks. While the content is the same, the formatting and design is not As the pandemic dragged on and it became clear that Fall 2020 would be a unique semester, I added the online orientation site and the Fall 2020 site to my collection line-up. The Fall 2020 page, once used to track the re-opening plan recently morphed into the Stay Healthy FSU site where the community can look for current information and resources but also see the original re-opening document. We’ll continue crawling and archiving these pages in our FSU Coronavirus Archive for future researchers until they are retired and the university community returns to “normal” operations – whatever that might look like when we get there! Link to Post | Language: English Welcome to the New ClintonLibrary.Gov! Posted on September 14, 2020 from AOTUS The National Archives’ Presidential Libraries and Museums preserve and provide access to the records of 14 presidential administrations. In support of this mission, we developed an ongoing program to modernize the technologies and designs that support the user experience of our Presidential Library websites. Through this program, we have updated the websites of the Hoover, Truman, Eisenhower and Nixon Presidential Libraries.  Recently we launched an updated website for the William J. Clinton Presidential Library & Museum. The website, which received more than 227,000 visitors over the past year, now improves access to the Clinton Presidential Library holdings by providing better performance, improving accessibility, and delivering a mobile-friendly experience. The updated website’s platform and design, based in the Drupal web content management framework, enables the Clinton Presidential Library staff to make increasing amounts of resources available online—especially while working remotely during the COVID-19 crisis. To achieve this website redesign, staff from the National Archives’ Office of Innovation, with both web development and user experience expertise, collaborated with staff from the Clinton Presidential Library to define goals for the new website. Our user experience team first launched the project by interviewing staff of the Clinton Presidential Library to determine the necessary improvements for the updated website to facilitate their work. Next, the user experience team researched the Library’s customers—researchers, students, educators, and the general public—by analyzing user analytics, heatmaps, recordings of real users navigating the site, and top search referrals. Based on the data collected, the user experience team produced wireframes and moodboards that informed the final site design. The team also refined the website’s information architecture to improve the user experience and meet the Clinton Library staff’s needs.  Throughout the project, the team used Agile project management development processes to deliver iterative changes focused on constant improvement. To be Agile, specific goals were outlined, defined, and distributed among team members for mutual agreement. Work on website designs and features was broken into development “sprints”—two-week periods to complete defined amounts of work. At the end of each development sprint, the resulting designs and features were demonstrated to the Clinton Presidential Library staff stakeholders for feedback which helped further refine the website. The project to update the Clinton Presidential Library and Museum website was guided by the National Archives’ strategic goals—to Make Access Happen, Connect with Customers, Maximize NARA’s Value to the Nation, and Build our Future Through our People. By understanding the needs of the Clinton Library’s online users and staff, and leveraging the in-house expertise of our web development and user experience staff, the National Archives is providing an improved website experience for all visitors. Please visit the site, and let us know what you think! Link to Post | Language: English The Road to Edinburgh (Part 2) Posted on September 11, 2020 from Culture on Campus “Inevitably, official thoughts early turned to the time when Scotland would be granted the honour of acting as hosts. Thought was soon turned into action and resulted in Scotland pursuing the opportunity to be host to the Games more relentlessly than any other country has.” From foreword to The Official History of the IXth Commonwealth Games (1970) In our last blog post we left the campaigners working to bring the Commonwealth Games to Edinburgh reflecting on the loss of the 1966 Games to Kingston, Jamaica. The original plan of action sketched out by Willie Carmichael in 1957 had factored in a renewed campaign for 1970 if the initial approach to host the 1966 Games proved unsuccessful. The choice of host cities for the Games were made at the bi-annual General Assemblies of the Commonwealth Games Federation. The campaign to choose the host for 1970 began at a meeting held in Tokyo in 1964 (to coincide with the Olympics), with the final vote taking place at the 1966 Kingston Games. In 1964 the Edinburgh campaign presented a document to the Federation restating its desire to be host city for the Games in 1970. Entitled ‘Scotland Invites’ it laid out Scotland’s case: “We are founder members of the Federation; we have taken part in each Games since the inception in 1930; and we are the only one of six countries who have taken part in every Games, who have not yet had the honour of celebrating the Games.” From Scotland Invites, British Empire and Commonwealth Games Council for Scotland (1964) Documents supporting Edinburgh’s bid to host the 1970 Commonwealth Games presented to meetings of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth Games Federation at Tokyo in 1964 and Kingston in 1966 (ref. WC/2/9/2) Edinburgh faced a rival bid from Christchurch, New Zealand, the competition between the two cities recorded in a series of press cutting files collected by Willie Carmichael. Reports in the Scottish press presented Edinburgh as the favourites for 1970, with Christchurch using their bid as a rehearsal for a more serious campaign to host the 1974 competition. However, the New Zealanders rejected this assessment, arguing that it was the turn of a country in the Southern Hemisphere to host the Games. The 1966 Games brought the final frantic round of lobbying and promotion for the rival bids as members of the Commonwealth Games Federation gathered in Kingston. The British Empire and Commonwealth Games Council for Scotland presented a bid document entitled ‘Scotland 1970’ which included detailed information on the venues and facilities to be provided for the competition along with a broader description of the city of Edinburgh. Artists impression of the new Meadowbank athletics stadium, Edinburgh (ref. WC/2/9/2/12) At the General Assembly of the Commonwealth Games Federation held in Kingston, Jamaica, on 7 August 1966 the vote took place to decide the host of the 1970 Games. Edinburgh was chosen as host city by 18 votes to 11. The Edinburgh campaign team kept a souvenir of this important event. At the end of the meeting they collected together the evidence of their success and put it in an envelope marked ‘Ballot Cards – which recorded votes for Scotland at Kingston 1966.’ The voting cards and envelope now sit in an administrative file which forms part of the Commonwealth Games Scotland Archive. Voting card recording vote for Scotland to host the 1970 Commonwealth Games (ref. CG/2/9/1/2/7) Link to Post | Language: English New Ancient Texts Research Guide Posted on September 10, 2020 from Illuminations “What are the oldest books you have?” is a common question posed to Special Collections & Archives staff at Strozier Library. In fact, the oldest materials in the collection are not books at all but cuneiform tablets ranging in date from 2350 to 1788 BCE (4370-3808 years old). These cuneiform tablets, along with papyrus fragments and ostraka comprise the ancient texts collection in Special Collections & Archives. In an effort to enhance remote research opportunities for students to engage with the oldest materials housed in Strozier Library, a research guide to Ancient Texts at FSU Libraries has been created by Special Collections & Archives staff. Ancient Texts Research Guide The Ancient Texts at FSU Libraries research guide provides links to finding aids with collections information, high-resolution photos of the objects in the digital library, and links to articles or books about the collections. Research guides can be accessed through the tile, “Research Guides,” on the library’s main page. Special Collections & Archives currently has 11 research guides published that share information and resources on specific collections or subjects that can be accessed remotely. While direct access to physical collections is unavailable at this time due to Covid-19, we hope to resume in-person research when it is safe to do so, and Special Collections & Archives is still available to assist you remotely with research and instruction. Please get in touch with us via email at: lib-specialcollections@fsu.edu. For a full list of our remote services, please visit our services page. Link to Post | Language: English SSCI Members Embrace Need for Declassification Reform, Discuss PIDB Recommendations at Senate Hearing Posted on September 10, 2020 from Transforming Classification The Board would like to thank Acting Chairman Marco Rubio (R-FL), Vice Chairman Mark Warner (D-VA), and members of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI) for their invitation to testify yesterday (September 9, 2020) at the open hearing on “Declassification Policy and Prospects for Reform.”    At the hearing, PIDB Member John Tierney responded to questions from committee members about recommendations in the PIDB’s May 2020 Report to the President. He stressed the need for modernizing information security systems and the critical importance of sustained leadership through a senior-level Executive Agent (EA) to oversee and implement meaningful reform. In addition to Congressman Tierney, Greg Koch, the Acting Director of Information Management in the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), testified in response to the SSCI’s concerns about the urgent need to improve how the Executive Branch classifies and declassifies national security information. Much of the discussion focused on the PIDB recommendation that the President designate the ODNI as the EA to coordinate the application of information technology, including artificial intelligence and machine learning, to modernize classification and declassification across the Executive Branch. Senator Jerry Moran (R-KS), and Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR), who is a member of the SSCI, joined the hearing to discuss the bill they are cosponsoring to modernize declassification. Their proposed “Declassification Reform Act of 2020” aligns with the PIDB Report recommendations, including the recommendation to designate the ODNI as the EA for coordinating the required reforms. The Board would like to thank Senators Moran and Wyden for their continued support and attention to this crucial issue. Modernizing the classification and declassification system is important for our 21st century national security and it is important for transparency and our democracy. Video of the entire hearing is available to view at the SSCI’s website, and from C-SPAN.  The transcript of prepared testimony submitted to the SSCI by Mr. Tierney is posted on the PIDB website. Link to Post | Language: English Be Connected, Keep A Stir Diary Posted on September 9, 2020 from Culture on Campus The new semester approaches and it’s going to be a bit different from what we’re used to here at the University of Stirling. To help you with your mental health and wellbeing this semester, we’ve teamed up with the Chaplaincy to provide students new and returning with a diary where you can keep your thoughts and feelings, process your new environment, record your joys and capture what the University was like for you in this unprecedented time. Diaries will be stationed at the Welcome Lounges from 12th September and we encourage students to take one for their personal use. Please be considerate of others and only take one diary each. Inside each diary is a QR code which will take you to our project page where you can learn more about the project and where we will be creating an online resource for you to explore the amazing diaries that we keep in Archives and Special Collections. We will be updating this page throughout semester with information from the Archives and events for you to join. Keep an eye out for #StirDiary on social media for all the updates! At the end of semester, you are able to donate your diary to the Archive where it will sit with the University’s institutional records and form a truthful and creative account of what student life was like in 2020. You absolutely don’t have to donate your diary if you don’t want to, the diary belongs to you and you can keep it, throw it away, donate it or anything else (wreck it?) as you like. If you would like to take part in the project but you have missed the Welcome Lounges, don’t worry! Contact Rosie on archives@stir.ac.uk or Janet on janet.foggie1@stir.ac.uk Welcome to the University of Stirling – pick a colour! Link to Post | Language: English PIDB Member John Tierney to Support Modernizing Classification and Declassification before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Tomorrow at 3:00 p.m., Live on C-SPAN Posted on September 8, 2020 from Transforming Classification PIDB member John Tierney will testify at an open hearing on declassification policy and the prospects for reform, to be held by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI) tomorrow, Wednesday, September 9, 2020, from 3:00-4:30 p.m. EST. The hearing will be shown on the SSCI’s website, and televised live on C-SPAN.  SSCI members Senators Ron Wyden (D-OR) and Jerry Moran (R-KS) have cosponsored the proposed “Declassification Reform Act of 2020,” which aligns with recommendations of the PIDB’s latest report to the President, A Vision for the Digital Age: Modernization of the U.S, National Security Classification and Declassification System (May 2020). In an Opinion-Editorial appearing today on the website Just Security, Senators Wyden and Moran present their case for legislative reform to address the challenges of outmoded systems for classification and declassification. At the hearing tomorrow, Mr. Tierney will discuss how the PIDB recommendations present a vision for a uniform, integrated, and modernized security classification system that appropriately defends national security interests, instills confidence in the American people, and maintains sustainability in the digital environment. Mr. Greg Koch, Acting Director of the Information Management Office for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, will also testify at the hearing. The PIDB welcomes the opportunity to speak before the SSCI and looks forward to discussing the need for reform with the Senators. After the hearing, the PIDB will post a copy of Mr. Tierney’s prepared testimony on its website and on this blog. Link to Post | Language: English Wiki loves monuments – digital skills and exploring stirling Posted on September 8, 2020 from Culture on Campus Every year the Wikimedia Foundation runs Wiki Loves Monuments – the world’s largest photo competition. Throughout September there is a push to take good quality images of listed buildings and monuments and add them to Wiki Commons where they will be openly licensed and available for use across the world – they may end up featuring on Wikipedia pages, on Google, in research and presentations worldwide and will be entered into the UK competition where there are prizes to be had! Below you’ll see a map covered in red and blue pins. These represent all of the listed buildings and monuments that are covered by the Wiki Loves Monuments competition, blue pins are places that already have a photograph and red pins have no photograph at all. The aim of the campaign is to turn as many red pins blue as possible, greatly enhancing the amazing bank of open knowledge across the Wikimedia platforms. The University of Stirling sits within the black circle. The two big clusters of red pins on the map are Stirling and Bridge of Allan – right on your doorstep! We encourage you to explore your local area. Knowing your surroundings, finding hidden gems and learning about the history of the area will all help Stirling feel like home to you, whether you’re a first year or returning student. Look at all those red dots! Of course, this year we must be cautious and safe while taking part in this campaign and you should follow social distancing rules and all government coronavirus guidelines, such as wearing facemasks where appropriate, while you are out taking photographs. We encourage you to walk to locations you wish to photograph, or use the NextBikes which are situated on campus and in Stirling rather than take excessive public transport purely for the purposes of this project. Walking and cycling will help you to get a better sense of where everything is in relation to where you live and keeping active is beneficial to your mental health and wellbeing. Here are your NextBike points on campus where you can pick up a bike to use We hope you’ll join us for this campaign – we have a session planned for 4-5pm on Thursday 17th September on Teams where we’ll tell you more about Wiki Loves Monuments and show you how to upload your images. Sign up to the session on Eventbrite. If you cannot make our own University of Stirling session then Wikimedia UK have their own training session on the 21st September which you can join. Please note that if you want your photographs to be considered for the competition prizes then they must be submitted before midnight on the 30th September. Photographs in general can be added at any time so you can carry on exploring for as long as you like! Finally, just to add a little incentive, this year we’re having a friendly competition between the University of Stirling and the University of St Andrews students to see who can make the most edits so come along to a training session, pick up some brilliant digital skills and let’s paint the town green! Link to Post | Language: English What’s the Tea? Posted on September 4, 2020 from Illuminations Katie McCormick, Associate Dean (she/her/hers) For this post, I interviewed Kate McCormick in order to get a better understanding of the dynamics of Special Collections & Archives. Katie is one of the Associate Deans and has been with SCA for about nine years now (here’s a video of Katie discussing some of our collections on C-SPAN in 2014!). As a vital part of the library, and our leader in Special Collections & Archives, I wanted to get her opinion on how the division has progressed thus far and how they plan to continue to do so in regards to diversity and inclusion.  How would you describe FSU SCA when you first started? “…People didn’t feel comfortable communicating [with each other]… There was one person who really wrote for the blog, and maybe it would happen once every couple of months. When I came on board, my general sense was that we were a department and a group of people with a lot of really great ideas and some fantastic materials, who had come a long way from where things has been, but who hadn’t gotten to a place to be able to organize to change more or to really work more as a team… We were definitely valued as (mostly) the fancy crown jewel group. Really all that mattered was the stuff… it didn’t matter what we were doing with it.” How do you feel the lapse in communication affected diversity and inclusion? “While I don’t have any direct evidence that it excluded people or helped create an environment that was exclusive, I do know that even with our staff at the time, there were times where it contributed to hostilities, frustrations, an  environment where people didn’t feel able to speak or be comfortable in…Everybody just wanted to be comfortable with the people who were just like them that it definitely created some potentially hostile environments. Looking back, I recognize what a poor job we did, as a workplace and a community truly being inclusive, and not just in ways that are immediately visible.” How diverse was SCA when you started?  “In Special Collections there was minimal diversity, certainly less than we have now… [For the libraries as a whole] as you go up in classification and pay, the diversity decreases. That was certainly true when I got here and that remains true.” How would you rank SCA’s diversity and inclusion when you first started? “…Squarely a 5, possibly in some arenas a 4. Not nothing, but I feel like no one was really thinking of it.” And how would you describe it now? “Maybe we’re approaching a 7, I feel like there’s been progress, but there’s still a long way to go in my opinion.” What are some ways we can start addressing these issues? What are some tangible ways you are planning to enact? “For me, some of the first places [is] forming the inclusive research services task force in Special Collections, pulling together a group to look at descriptive practices and applications, and what we’re doing with creating coordinated processing workflows. Putting these issues on the table from the beginning is really important… Right now because we’re primarily in an online environment, i think we have some time to negotiate and change our practices so when we are re-open to the public and people are physically coming in to the spaces, we have new forms, new trainings, people have gone through training that gives them a better sense of identity, communication, diversity.” After my conversation with Katie, I feel optimistic about the direction we are heading in. Knowing how open Special Collections & Archives is about taking critique and trying to put it into action brought me comfort. I’m excited to see how these concerns are addressed and how the department will be putting Dynamic Inclusivity, one of Florida State University’s core values, at the forefront of their practice. I would like to give a big thank you to Katie McCormick for taking the time to do this post with me and for having these conversations! Link to Post | Language: English friday art blog: Terry Frost Posted on September 3, 2020 from Culture on Campus Black and Red on Blue (Screenprint, A/P, 1968) Born in Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, in 1915, Terry Frost KBE RA did not become an artist until he was in his 30s. During World War II, he served in France, the Middle East and Greece, before joining the commandos. While in Crete in June 1941 he was captured and sent to various prisoner of war camps. As a prisoner at Stalag 383 in Bavaria, he met Adrian Heath who encouraged him to paint. After the war he attended Camberwell School of Art and the St. Ives School of Art and painted his first abstract work in 1949. In 1951 he moved to Newlyn and worked as an assistant to the sculptor Barbara Hepworth. He was joined there by Roger Hilton, where they began a collaboration in collage and construction techniques. In 1960 he put on his first exhibition in the USA, in New York, and there he met many of the American abstract expressionists, including Marc Rothko who became a great friend. Terry Frost’s career included teaching at the Bath Academy of Art, serving as Gregory Fellow at the University of Leeds, and also teaching at the Cyprus College of Art. He later became the artist in residence and Professor of Painting at the Department of Fine Art of the University of Reading. Orange Dusk (Lithograph, 2/75, 1970) Frost was renowned for his use of the Cornish light, colour and shape. He became a leading exponent of abstract art and a recognised figure of the British art establishment. These two prints were purchased in the early days of the Art Collection at the beginning of the 1970s. Terry Frost married Kathleen Clarke in 1945 and they had six children, two of whom became artists, (and another, Stephen Frost, a comedian). His grandson Luke Frost, also an artist, is shown here, speaking about his grandfather. Link to Post | Language: English PIDB Sets Next Virtual Public Meeting for October 7, 2020 Posted on September 3, 2020 from Transforming Classification The Public Interest Declassification Board (PIDB) has scheduled its next virtual public meeting for Wednesday, October 7, 2020, from 1:00 to 2:30 p.m.  At the meeting, PIDB members will discuss their priorities for improving classification and declassification in the next 18 months. They will also introduce former Congressman Trey Gowdy, who was appointed on August 24, 2020, to a three-year term on the PIDB. A full agenda, as well as information on how to pre-register, and how to submit questions and comments to the PIDB prior to the virtual meeting, will be posted soon to Transforming Classification. The PIDB looks forward to your participation in continuing our public discussion of priorities for modernizing the classification system going forward. Link to Post | Language: English Digital Collections Updates Posted on September 3, 2020 from UNC Greensboro Digital Collections So as we start a new academic year, we thought this would be a good time for an update on what we’ve been working on recently. Digital collections migration: After more than a year’s delay, the migration of our collections into a new and more user-friendly (and mobile-friendly) platform driven by the Islandora open-source content management system is in the home stretch. This has been a major undertaking and has given us the opportunity to reassess how our collections work. We hope to be live with the new platform in November. 30,000 items (over 380,000 digital images) have already been migrated. 2019-2020 Projects: We’ve made significant progress on most of this year’s projects (see link for project descriptions), though many of these are currently not yet online pending our migration to the Islandora platform: Grant-funded projects: Temple Emanuel Project: We are working with the Public History department and a graduate student in that program. Several hundred items have already been digitized and more work is being done. We are also exploring grant options with the temple to digitize more material. People Not Property: NC Slave Deeds Project: We are in the final year of this project funded by the National Archives and hope to have it online as part of the Digital Library on American Slavery late next year. We are also exploring additional funding options to continue this work. Women Who Answered the Call: This project was funded by a CLIR Recordings at Risk grant. The fragile cassettes have been digitized and we are midway through the process of getting them online in the new platform. Library-funded projects: Poetas sin Fronteras: Poets Without Borders, the Scrapbooks of Dr. Ramiro Lagos: These items have been digitized and will go online when the new platform launches. North Carolina Runaway Slaves Ads Project, Phase 2: Work continues on this ongoing project and over 5700 ads are now online. This second phase has involved both locating and digitizing/transcribing the ads, and we will soon triple the number of ads done in Phase One. We are also working on tighter integration of this project into the Digital Library on American Slavery. PRIDE! of the Community: This ongoing project stemmed from an NEH grant two years ago and is growing to include numerous new oral history interviews and (just added) a project to digitize and display ads from LGBTQ+ bars and other businesses in the Triad during the 1980s and 1990s. We are also working with two Public History students on contextual and interpretive projects based on the digital collection. Faculty-involved projects: Black Lives Matter Collections: This is a community-based initiative to document the Black Lives Matter movement and recent demonstrations and artwork in the area. Faculty: Dr. Tara Green (African America and Diaspora Studies);  Stacey Krim, Erin Lawrimore, Dr. Rhonda Jones, David Gwynn (University Libraries). Civil Rights Oral Histories: This has become multiple projects. We are working with several faculty members in the Media Studies department to make these transcribed interviews available online. November is the target. Faculty: Matt Barr, Jenida Chase, Hassan Pitts, and Michael Frierson (Media Studies); Richard Cox, Erin Lawrimore, David Gwynn (University Libraries). Oral Contraceptive Ads: Working with a faculty member and a student on this project, which may be online by the end of the year. Faculty: Dr. Heather Adams (English); David Gwynn and Richard Cox (University Libraries). Well-Crafted NC: Work is ongoing and we are in the second year of a UNCG P2 grant, working with a faculty member in eth Bryan School and a brewer based in Asheboro. Faculty: Erin Lawrimore, Richard Cox, David Gwynn (University Libraries), Dr. Erick Byrd (Marketing, Entrepreneurship, Hospitality, and Tourism) New projects taken on during the pandemic: City of Greensboro Scrapbooks: Huge collection of scrapbooks from the Greensboro Urban Development Department dating back to the 1940s. These items have been digitized and will go online when the new platform launches. Negro Health Week Pamphlets: 1930s-1950s pamphlets published by the State of North Carolina. These items are currently being digitized and will go online when the new platform launches. Clara Booth Byrd Collection: Manuscript collection. These items are currently being digitized and will go online when the new platform launches. North Carolina Speaker Ban Collection: Manuscript collection. These items are currently being digitized and will go online when the new platform launches. Mary Dail Dixon Papers: Manuscript collection. These items are currently being digitized and will go online when the new platform launches. Ruth Wade Hunter Collection: Manuscript collection. These items are currently being digitized and will go online when the new platform launches. Projects on hold pending the pandemic: Junior League of Greensboro: Much of this has already been digitized and will go online when the new platform launches. UNCG Graduate School Bulletins: Much of this has already been digitized and will go online when the new platform launches.  David Gwynn (Digitization Coordinator, me) offers kudos to Erica Rau and Kathy Howard (Digitization and Metadata Technicians); Callie Coward (Special Collections Cataloging & Digital Projects Library Technician); Charley Birkner (Technology Support Technician); and Dr. Brian Robinson (Fellow for Digital Curation and Scholarship) for their great work in very surreal circumstances over the past six months. Link to Post | Language: English CORRECTION: Creative Fellowship Call for Proposals Posted on September 3, 2020 from Notes For Bibliophiles We have an update to our last post! We’re still accepting proposals for our 2021 Creative Fellowship… But we’ve decided to postpone both the Fellowship and our annual Exhibition & Program Series by six months due to the coronavirus. The annual exhibition will now open on October 1, 2021 (which is 13 months away, but we’re still hard at work planning!). The new due date for Fellowship proposals is April 1, 2021. We’ve adjusted the timeline and due dates in the call for proposals accordingly. Link to Post | Language: English On This Day in the Florida Flambeau, Friday, September 2, 1983 Posted on September 2, 2020 from Illuminations Today in 1983, a disgruntled reader sent in this letter to the editor of the Flambeau. In it, the reader describes the outcome of a trial and the potential effects that outcome will have on the City of Tallahassee. Florida Flambeau, September 2, 1983 It is such a beautifully written letter that I still can’t tell whether or not it’s satire. Do you think the author is being serious or sarcastic? Leave a comment below telling us what you think! Link to Post | Language: English Hartgrove, Meriwether, and Mattingly Posted on September 2, 2020 from The Consecrated Eminence The past few months have been a challenging time for archivists everywhere as we adjust to doing our work remotely. Fortunately, the materials available in Amherst College Digital Collections enable us to continue doing much of our work. Back in February, I posted about five Black students from the 1870s and 1880s — Black Men of Amherst, 1877-1883 — and now we’re moving into the early 20th century. A small clue in The Olio has revealed another Black student that was not included in Harold Wade’s Black Men of Amherst. Robert Sinclair Hartgrove (AC 1905) was known to Wade, as was Robert Mattingly (AC 1906), but we did not know about Robert Henry Meriwether. These three appear to be the first Black students to attend Amherst in the twentieth century. Robert Sinclair Hartgrove, Class of 1905 The text next to Hartgrove’s picture in the 1905 yearbook gives us a tiny glimpse into his time at Amherst. The same yearbook shows Hartgrove not just jollying the players, but playing second base for the Freshman baseball team during the 1902 season. Freshman Baseball Team, 1902 The reference to Meriwether sent me to the Amherst College Biographical Record, where I found Robert Henry Meriwether listed as a member of the Class of 1904. A little digging into the College Catalogs revealed that he belongs with the Class of 1905. College Catalog, 1901-02 Hartgrove and Meriwether are both listed as members of the Freshman class in the 1901-02 catalog. The catalog also notes that they were both from Washington, DC and the Biographical Record indicates that they both prepped at Howard University before coming to Amherst. We find Meriwether’s name in the catalog for 1902-03, but he did not “pull through” as The Olio hopes Hartgrove will; Meriwether returned to Howard University where he earned his LLB in 1907. Hartgrove also became a lawyer, earning his JB from Boston University in 1908 and spending most of his career in Jersey City, NJ. Robert Nicholas Mattingly, Class of 1906 Mattingly was born in Louisville, KY in 1884 and prepped for Amherst at The M Street School in Washington, DC, which changed its name in 1916 to The Dunbar School. Matt Randolph (AC 2016) wrote “Remembering Dunbar: Amherst College and African-American Education in Washington, DC” for the book Amherst in the World, which includes more details of Mattingly’s life. The Amherst College Archives and Special Collections reading room is closed to on-site researchers. However, many of our regular services are available remotely, with some modifications. Please read our Services during COVID-19 page for more information. Contact us at archives@amherst.edu. Link to Post | Language: English Democratizing Access to our Records Posted on September 1, 2020 from AOTUS The National Archives has a big, hairy audacious strategic goal to provide public access to 500 million digital copies of our records through our online Catalog by FY24. When we first announced this goal in 2010, we had less than a million digital copies in the Catalog and getting to 500 million sounded to some like a fairy tale. The goal received a variety of reactions from people across the archival profession, our colleagues and our staff. Some were excited to work on the effort and wanted particular sets of records to be first in line to scan. Some laughed out loud at the sheer impossibility of it. Some were angry and said it was a waste of time and money. Others were fearful that digitizing the records could take their jobs away. We moved ahead. Staff researched emerging technologies and tested them through pilots in order to increase our efficiency. We set up a room at our facilities in College Park to transfer our digital copies from individual hard drives to new technology from Amazon, known as snowballs. We worked on developing new partnership projects in order to get more records digitized. We streamlined the work in our internal digitization labs and we piloted digitization projects with staff in order to find new ways to get digital copies into the Catalog. By 2015, we had 10 million in the Catalog. We persisted. In 2017, we added more digital objects, with their metadata, to the Catalog in a single year than we had for the preceding decade of the project. Late in 2019, we surpassed a major milestone by having more than 100 million digital copies of our records in the Catalog. And yes, it has strained our technology. The Catalog has developed growing pains, which we continue to monitor and mitigate. We also created new finding aids that focus on digital copies of our records that are now available online: see our Record Group Explorer and our Presidential Library Explorer. So now, anyone with a smart phone or access to a computer with wifi, can view at least some of the permanent records of the U.S. Federal government without having to book a trip to Washington, D.C. or one of our other facilities around the country. The descriptions of over 95% of our records are also available through the Catalog, so even if you can’t see it immediately, you can know what records exist. And that is convenient for the millions of visitors we get each year to our website, even more so during the pandemic. National Archives Identifier 20802392 We are well on our way to 500 million digital copies in the Catalog by FY24. And yet, with over 13 billion pages of records in our holdings, we know, we have only just begun. Link to Post | Language: English Lola Hayes and “Tone Pictures of the Negro in Music” Posted on August 31, 2020 from NYPR Archives & Preservation Lola Wilson Hayes (1906-2001) was a highly-regarded African-American mezzo-soprano, WNYC producer, and later, much sought after vocal teacher and coach. A Boston native, Hayes was a music graduate of Radcliffe College and studied voice with Frank Bibb at Baltimore’s Peabody Conservatory. She taught briefly at a black vocational boarding school in New Jersey known as the ‘Tuskeegee of the north'[1] before embarking on a recital and show career which took her to Europe and around the United States. During World War II, she also made frequent appearances at the American Theatre Wing of the Stage Door Canteen of New York and entertained troops at USO clubs and hospitals. Headline from The New York Age, August 12, 1944, pg. 10. (WNYC Archive Collections) Hayes also made time to produce a short but notable run of WNYC programs, which she hosted and performed on the home front. Her November and December 1943 broadcasts were part of a rotating half-hour time slot designated for known recitalists. She shared the late weekday afternoon slot with sopranos Marjorie Hamill, Pina La Corte, Jean Carlton, Elaine Malbin, and the Hungarian pianist Arpád Sándor. Hayes’ series, Tone Pictures of the Negro in Music, sought to highlight African-American composers and was frequently referred to as The Negro in Music. The following outline of 1943 and 1944 broadcasts was pieced together from the WNYC Masterwork Bulletin program guide and period newspaper radio listings. Details on the 1943 programs are sparse. We know that Hayes’ last broadcast in 1943 featured the pianist William Duncan Allen (1906-1999) performing They Led My Lord Away by Roland Hayes and Good Lord Done Been Here by Hall Johnson, and a Porgy and Bess medley by George Gershwin. Excerpt from “Behind the Mike,” November/December 1944, WNYC Masterwork Bulletin. (WNYC Archive Collections) The show was scheduled again in August 1944 as a 15-minute late Tuesday afternoon program and in November that year as a half-hour Wednesday evening broadcast. The August programs began with an interview of soprano Abbie Mitchell (1884-1960), the widow of composer and choral director Will Marion Cook (1869-1944). The composer and arranger Hall Johnson (1888-1970) was her studio guest the following week. The third Tuesday of the month featured pianist Jonathan Brice performing “songs of young contemporary Negro composers,” and the August shows concluded with selections from Porgy and Bess and Cameron Jones. The November broadcasts focused on the work of William Grant Still, “the art songs, spirituals and street cries” of William Lawrence, as well as the songs and spirituals of William Rhodes, lyric soprano Lillian Evanti, and baritone Harry T. Burleigh. Hayes also spent airtime on the work of neo-romantic composer and violinist Clarence Cameron White. The November 29th program considered “the musical setting of poems by Langston Hughes and reportedly included the bard himself. “Langston Hughes was guest of honor and punctuated his interview with a reading from his opera Troubled Island.”[2] This was not the first time the poet’s work was the subject of Hayes’ broadcast. Below is a rare copy of her script from a program airing eight months earlier when she sat in for the regularly scheduled host, soprano Marjorie Hamill. The script for Tone Pictures of the Negro in Music hosted by Lola Hayes on March 24, 1944. (Image used with permission of Van Vecten Trust and courtesy of the Carl Van Vechten Papers Relating to African American Arts and Letters. James Weldon Johnson Collection in the Yale Collection in the Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library)[3] It is unfortunate, but it appears there are no recordings of Lola Hayes’ WNYC program. We can’t say if that’s because they weren’t recorded or, if they were, the lacquer discs have not survived. We do know that World War II-era transcription discs, in general, are less likely to have survived since most of them were cut on coated glass, rather than aluminum, to save vital metals for the war effort. After the war, Hayes focused on voice teaching and coaching. Her students included well-known performers like Dorothy Rudd Moore, Hilda Harris, Raoul Abdul-Rahim, Carol Brice, Nadine Brewer, Elinor Harper, Lucia Hawkins, and Margaret Tynes. She was the first African-American president of the New York Singing Teachers Association (NYSTA), serving in that post from 1970-1972. In her later years, she devoted much of her time to the Lola Wilson Hayes Vocal Artists Award, which gave substantial financial aid to young professional singers worldwide.[4]  ___________________________________________________________ [1] The Manual Training and Industrial School for Colored Youth in Bordentown, New Jersey [2] “The Listening Room,” The People’s Voice, December 2, 1944, pg. 29. The newspaper noted that the broadcast included Hall Johnson’s Mother to Son, Cecil Cohen’s Death of an Old Seaman and Florence Price’s Song to a Dark Virgin, all presumably sung by host, Lola Hayes.  Troubled Island is an opera set in Haiti in 1791. It was composed by William Grant Still with a libretto by Langston Hughes and Verna Arvey. [3] Page two of the script notes Langston Hughes’ grandmother was married to a veteran of the 1859 Harper’s Ferry raid led by abolitionist John Brown. Indeed, Hughes’ grandmother’s first husband was Lewis Sheridan Leary, who was one of Brown’s raiders at Harper’s Ferry. For more on the story please see: A Shawl From Harper’s Ferry. [4] Abdul, Raoul, “Winners of the Lola Hayes Vocal Scholarship and Awards,” The New York Amsterdam News, February 8, 1992, pg. 25. Special thanks to Valeria Martinez for research assistance.   Link to Post | Language: English the road to edinburgh Posted on August 28, 2020 from Culture on Campus On the 50th anniversary of the 1970 Edinburgh Commonwealth Games newly catalogued collections trace the long road to the first Games held in Scotland. A handwritten note dated 10th April 1957 sits on the top of a file marked ‘Scotland for 1970 Host’. The document forms part of a series of files recording the planning, organisation and operation of the 1970 Edinburgh Commonwealth Games, the first to be held in Scotland. Written by Willie Carmichael, a key figure in Scotland’s Games history, the note sets out his plans to secure the Commonwealth Games for Scotland. He begins by noting that Scotland’s intention to host the Games was made at a meeting of Commonwealth Games Federations at the 1956 Melbourne Olympic Games. Carmichael then proceeds to lay out the steps required to make Scotland’s case to be the host of the Games in 1966 or 1970. Willie Carmichael The steps which Carmichael traced out in his note can be followed through the official records and personal papers relating to the Games held in the University Archives. The recently catalogued administrative papers of Commonwealth Games Scotland for the period provide a detailed account of the long process of planning for this major event, recording in particular the close collaboration with Edinburgh Corporation which was an essential element in securing the Games for Scotland (with major new venues being required for the city to host the event). Further details and perspectives on the road to the 1970 Games can be found in the personal papers of figures associated with Commonwealth Games Scotland also held in the University Archives including Sir Peter Heatly and Willie Carmichael himself. The choice of host city for the 1966 Games was to be made at a meeting held at the 1962 Games in Perth, Australia. The first target on Carmichael’s plan, the Edinburgh campaign put forward its application as host city at a Federation meeting held in Rome in 1960. A series of press cutting files collected by Carmichael trace the campaigns progress from this initial declaration of intent through to the final decision made in Perth. Documents supporting Edinburgh’s bid to host the 1966 Commonwealth Games presented to meetings of the Commonwealth Games Federation in Rome (1960) and Perth (1962), part of the Willie Carmichael Archive. Edinburgh faced competition both within Scotland, with the press reporting a rival bid from Glasgow, and across the Commonwealth, with other nations including Jamaica, India and Southern Rhodesia expressing an interest in hosting the 1966 competition. When it came to the final decision in 1962 three cities remained in contention: Edinburgh, Kingston in Jamaica, and Salisbury in Southern Rhodesia. The first round of voting saw Salisbury eliminated. In the subsequent head-to-head vote Kingston was selected as host city for the 1966 Games by the narrowest of margins (17 votes to 16). As Carmichael had sketched out in his 1957 plan if Edinburgh failed in its attempt to host the 1966 Games it would have another opportunity to make its case to hold the 1970 event. Carmichael and his colleagues travelled to Kingston in 1966 confident of securing the support required to bring the Games to Scotland in 1970. In our next blog we’ll look at how they succeeded in making the case for Edinburgh. ‘Scotland Invites’, title page to document supporting Edinburgh’s bid to host the 1966 Commonwealth Games (Willie Carmichael Archive). Link to Post | Language: English friday art blog: kate downie Posted on August 27, 2020 from Culture on Campus Nanbei by Kate Downie (Oil on canvas, 2013) During a series of visits to China a few years ago, Kate Downie was brought into contact with traditional ink painting techniques, and also with the China of today. There she encountered the contrasts and meeting points between the epic industrial and epic romantic landscapes: the motorways, rivers, cityscapes and geology – all of which she absorbed and reflected on in a series of oil and ink paintings. As Kate creates studies for her paintings in situ, she is very much immersed in the landscapes that she is responding to and reflecting on. The artwork shown above, ‘Nanbei’, which was purchased by the Art Collection in 2013, tackles similar themes to Downie’s Scottish based work, reflecting both her interest in the urban landscape and also the edges where land meets water. Here we encounter both aspects within a new setting – an industrial Chinese landscape set by the edge of a vast river. Downie is also obsessed with bridges. As well as the bridge that appears in this image, seemingly supported by trees that follow its line, the space depicted forms an unseen bridge between two worlds and two extremes, between epic natural and epic industrial forms. In this imagined landscape, north meets south (Nanbei literally means North South) and mountains meet skyscrapers; here both natural and industrial structures dominate the landscape. This juxtaposition is one of the aspects of China that impressed the artist and inspired the resulting work. After purchasing this work by Kate Downie, the Art Collection invited her to be one of three exhibiting artists in its exhibition ‘Reflections of the East’ in 2015 (the other two artists were Fanny Lam Christie and Emma Scott Smith). All artists had links to China, and ‘Nanbei’ was central to the display of works in the Crush Hall that Kate had entitled ‘Shared Vision’. Temple Bridge (Monoprint, 2015) Kate Downie studied Fine Art at Gray’s School of Art, Aberdeen and has held artists’ residencies in the USA and Europe. She has exhibited widely and has also taught and directed major art projects. In 2010 Kate Downie travelled to Beijing and Shanghai to work with ink painting masters and she has since returned there several times, slowly building a lasting relationship with Chinese culture. On a recent visit she learned how to carve seals from soapstone, and these red stamps can now be seen on all of her work, including on her print ‘Temple Bridge’ above, which was purchased by the Collection at the end of the exhibition. Kate Downie recently gave an interesting online talk about her work and life in lockdown. It was organised by The Scottish Gallery in Edinburgh which is currently holding an exhibition entitled ‘Modern Masters Women‘ featuring many women artists. Watch Kate Downie’s talk below: Link to Post | Language: English Telling Untold Stories Through the Emmett Till Archives Posted on August 27, 2020 from Illuminations Detail of a newspaper clipping from the Joseph Tobias Papers, MSS 2017-002 Friday August 28th marks the 65th anniversary of the abduction and murder of Emmett Till. Till’s murder is regarded as a significant catalyst for the mid-century African-American Civil Rights Movement. Calls for justice for Till still drive national conversations about racism and oppression in the United States. In 2015, Florida State University (FSU) Libraries Special Collections & Archives established the Emmett Till Archives in collaboration with Emmett Till scholar Davis Houck, filmmaker Keith Beauchamp, and author Devery Anderson. Since then, we have continued to build robust research collections of primary and secondary sources related to the life, murder, and commemoration of Emmett Till. We invite researchers from around the world, from any age group, to explore these collections and ask questions. It is through research and exploration of original, primary resources that Till’s story can be best understood and that truth can be shared. “Mamie had a little boy…”, from the Wright Family Interview, Keith Beauchamp Audiovisual Recordings, MSS 2015-016 FSU Special Collections & Archives. As noted in our Emmett Till birthday post this year, an interview with Emmett Till’s family, conducted by civil rights filmmaker Keith Beauchamp in 2018, is now available through the FSU Digital Library in two parts. Willie Wright, Thelma Wright Edwards, and Wilma Wright Edwards were kind enough to share their perspectives with Beauchamp and in a panel presentation at the FSU Libraries Heritage Museum that Spring. Soon after this writing, original audio and video files from the interview will be also be available to any visitor, researcher, or aspiring documentary filmmaker through the FSU Digital Library. Emmett Till, December 1954. Image from the Davis Houck Papers A presentation by a Till scholar in 2019 led to renewed contact with and a valuable donation from FSU alum Steve Whitaker, who in a way was the earliest contributor to Emmett Till research at FSU. His seminal 1963 master’s thesis, completed right here at Florida State University, is still the earliest known scholarly work on the kidnapping and murder of Till, and was influential on many subsequent retellings of the story. The Till Archives recently received a few personal items from Whitaker documenting life in mid-century Mississippi, as well as a small library of books on Till, Mississippi law, and other topics that can give researchers valuable context for his thesis and the larger Till story. In the future, the newly-founded Emmett Till Lecture and Archives Fund will ensure further opportunities to commemorate Till through events and collection development. FSU Libraries will continue to partner with Till’s family, the Emmett Till Memory Project, Emmett Till Interpretive Center, the Emmett Till Project, the FSU Civil Rights Institute, and other institutions and private donors to collect, preserve and provide access to the ongoing story of Emmett Till. Sources and Further Reading FSU Libraries. Emmett Till Archives Research Guide. https://guides.lib.fsu.edu/till Wright Family Interview, Keith Beauchamp Audiovisual Recordings, MSS 2015-016, Special Collections & Archives, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida. Interview Part I: http://purl.flvc.org/fsu/fd/FSU_MSS2015-016_BD_001 Interview Part II: http://purl.flvc.org/fsu/fd/FSU_MSS2015-016_BD_002 Link to Post | Language: English Former Congressman Trey Gowdy Appointed to the PIDB Posted on August 26, 2020 from Transforming Classification On August 24, 2020, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) appointed former Congressman Harold W. “Trey” Gowdy, III as a member of the Public Interest Declassification Board. Mr. Gowdy served four terms in Congress, representing his hometown of Spartansburg in South Carolina’s 4th congressional district. The Board members and staff welcome Mr. Gowdy and look forward to working with him in continuing efforts to modernize and improve how the Federal Government classifies and declassifies sensitive information. Mr. Gowdy was appointed by the Minority Leader McCarthy on August 24, 2020. He is serving his first three-year term on the Board. His appointment was announced on August 25, 2020 in the Congressional Record https://www.congress.gov/116/crec/2020/08/25/CREC-2020-08-25-house.pdf Link to Post | Language: English Tracey Sterne Posted on August 25, 2020 from NYPR Archives & Preservation In November of 1981, an item appeared in The New York Times -and it seemed all of us in New York (and elsewhere) who were interested in music, radio, and culture in general, saw it:  “Teresa Sterne,” it read, “who in 14 years helped build the Nonesuch Record label into one of the most distinguished and innovative in the recording industry, will be named Director of Music Programming at WNYC radio next month.” The piece went on to promise that Ms. Sterne, under WNYC’s management, would be creating “new kinds of programming -including some innovative approaches to new music and a series of live music programs.”  This was incredible news. Sterne, by this time, was a true cultural legend. She was known not only for those 14 years she’d spent building Nonesuch, a remarkably smart, serious, and daring record label —but also for how it had all ended, with her sudden dismissal from that label by Elektra, its parent company (whose own parent company was Warner Communications), two years earlier. The widely publicized outrage over her termination from Nonesuch included passionate letters of protest from the likes of Leonard Bernstein, Elliott Carter, Aaron Copland —only the alphabetical beginning of a long list of notable musicians, critics and journalists who saw her firing as a sharp blow to excellence and diversity in music. But the dismissal stood.  By coincidence, only three weeks before the news of her hiring broke, I had applied for a job as a part-time music-host at WNYC. Steve Post, a colleague whom I’d met while doing some producing and on-air work at New York’s decidedly non-profit Pacifica station, WBAI, had come over from there to WNYC, a year before, to do the weekday morning music and news program. “Fishko,” he said to me, “they need someone on the weekends -and I think they want a woman.” My day job of longstanding was as a freelance film editor, but I wanted to keep my hand in the radio world. Weekends would be perfect. In two interviews with executives at WNYC, I had failed to impress. But now I could feel hopeful about making a connection to Ms. Sterne, who was a music person, as was I.  Soon after her tenure began, I threw together a sample tape and got it to her through a contact on the inside. And she said, simply: Yeah, let’s give her a chance. And so it began.  Tracey—the name she was called by all friends and colleagues — seemed, immediately, to be a fascinating, controversial character: she was uniquely qualified to do the work at hand, but at the same time she was a fish out of water. She was un-corporate, not inclined to be polite to the young executives upstairs, and not at all enamored of current trends or audience research. For this we dearly loved her, those of us on the air. She cared how the station sounded, how the music connected, how the information about the music surrounded it. Her preoccupations seemed, even then, to be of the Old School. But she was also fiercely modern in her attitude toward the music, unafraid to mix styles and periods, admiring of new music, up on every instrumentalist and conductor and composer, young, old, avant-garde, traditional. And she had her own emphatic and impeccable taste. Always the best, that was her motto —whatever it is, if it’s great, or even just extremely good, it will distinguish itself and find its audience, she felt.  Tracey Sterne, age 13, rehearsing for a Tchaikovsky concerto performance at WNYC in March 1940. (Finkelstein/WNYC Archive Collections) She had developed her ear and her convictions, as it turned out, as a musician, having been a piano prodigy who performed at Madison Square Garden at age 12. She went on to a debut with the New York Philharmonic, gave concerts at Lewisohn Stadium and the Brooklyn Museum, and so on. I could relate. Though my gifts were not nearly at her level, I, too, had been a dedicated, early pianist and I, too, had looked later for other ways to use what I’d learned at the piano keyboard. And our birthdays were on the same date in March. So, despite being at least a couple of decades apart in age, we bonded.  Tracey’s tenure at WNYC was fruitful, though not long. As she had at Nonesuch, she embraced ambitious and adventurous music programming. She encouraged some of the on-air personalities to express themselves about the music, to “personalize” the air, to some degree. That was also happening in special programs launched shortly before she arrived as part of a New Music initiative, with John Schaefer and Tim Page presenting a range of music way beyond the standard classical fare. And because of Tracey’s deep history and contacts in the New York music business, she forged partnerships with music institutions and found ways to work live performances by individual musicians and chamber groups into the programming. She helped me carve out a segment on air for something we called Great Collaborations, a simple and very flexible idea of hers that spread out to every area of music and made a nice framework for some observations about musical style and history. She loved to talk (sometimes to a fault) and brainstorm about ways to enliven the idea of classical music on the radio, not something all that many people were thinking about, then.  But management found her difficult, slow and entirely too perfectionistic. She found management difficult, slow and entirely too superficial. And after a short time, maybe a year, she packed up her sneakers —essential for navigating the unforgiving marble floors in that old place— and left the long, dusty hallways of the Municipal Building.  After that, I occasionally visited Tracey’s house in Brooklyn for events which I can only refer to as “musicales.” Her residence was on the Upper West Side, but this family house was treated as a country place, she’d go on the weekends. She’d have people over, they’d play piano, and sing, and it might be William Bolcom and Joan Morris, or some other notables, spending a musical and social afternoon. Later, she and I produced a big, New York concert together for the 300th birthday of Domenico Scarlatti –which exact date fell on a Saturday in 1985. “Scarlatti Saturday,” we called it, with endless phone-calling, musician-wrangling and fundraising needed for months to get it off the ground.  The concert itself, much of which was also broadcast on WNYC, went on for many hours, with appearances by some of the finest pianists and harpsichordists in town and out, lines all up and down Broadway to get into Symphony Space.  Throughout, Tracey was her incorruptible self — and a brilliant organizer, writer, thinker, planner, and impossibly driven producing-partner.  I should make clear, however, that for all her knowledge and perfectionistic, obsessive behavior, she was never the cliche of the driven, lonely careerist -or whatever other cliche you might want to choose. She was a warm, haimish person with friends all over the world, friends made mostly through music. A case in point: the “Scarlatti Saturday” event was produced by the two of us on a shoestring. And Tracey, being Tracey, she insisted that we provide full musical and performance information in printed programs, offered free to all audience members, and of course accurate to the last comma. How to assure this? She quite naturally charmed and befriended the printer — who wound up practically donating the costly programs to the event. By the time we were finished she was making him batches of her famous rum balls and he was giving us additional, corrected pages —at no extra charge. It was not a calculated maneuver -it was just how she did things.  You just had to love and respect her for the life force, the intelligence, the excellence and even the temperament she displayed at every turn. Sometimes even now, after her death many years ago at 73 from ALS, I still feel Tracey Sterne’s high standards hanging over me —in the friendliest possible way. ___________________________________________ Sara Fishko hosts WNYC’s culture series, Fishko Files. Link to Post | Language: English Heroes Work Here Posted on August 24, 2020 from AOTUS The National Archives is home to an abundance of remarkable records that chronicle and celebrate the rich history of our nation. It is a privilege to be Archivist of the United States—to be the custodian of our most treasured documents and the head of an agency with such a unique and rewarding mission. But it is my greatest privilege to work with such an accomplished and dedicated staff—the real treasures of the National Archives go home at night. Today I want to recognize and thank the mission-essential staff of NARA’s National Personnel Records Center (NPRC). Like all NARA offices, the NPRC closed in late March to protect its workforce and patrons from the spread of the pandemic and comply with local government movement orders. While modern military records are available electronically and can be referenced remotely, the majority of NPRC’s holdings and reference activity involve paper records that can be accessed only by on-site staff. Furthermore, these records are often needed to support veterans and their families with urgent matters such as medical emergencies, homeless veterans seeking shelter, and funeral services for deceased veterans. Concerned about the impact a disruption in service would have on veterans and their families, over 150 staff voluntarily set aside concerns for their personal welfare and regularly reported to the office throughout the period of closure to respond to these types of urgent requests. These exceptional staff were pioneers in the development of alternative work processes to incorporate social distancing and other protective measures to ensure a safe work environment while providing this critical service. National Personnel Records Center (NPRC) building in St. Louis The Center is now in Phase One of a gradual re-opening, allowing for additional on-site staff.  The same group that stepped up during the period of closure continues to report to the office and are now joined by additional staff volunteers, enabling them to also respond to requests supporting employment opportunities and home loan guaranty benefits. There are now over 200 staff supporting on-site reference services on a rotational basis. Together they have responded to over 32,000 requests since the facility closed in late March. More than half of these requests supported funeral honors for deceased veterans. With each passing day we are a day closer to the pandemic being behind us. Though it may seem far off, there will come a time when Covid-19 is no longer the threat that it is today, and the Pandemic of 2020 will be discussed in the context of history. When that time comes, the mission essential staff of NPRC will be able to look back with pride and know that during this unprecedented crisis, when their country most needed them, they looked beyond their personal well-being to serve others in the best way they were able. As Archivist of the United States, I applaud you for your commitment to the important work of the National Archives, and as a Navy veteran whose service records are held at NPRC, I thank you for your unwavering support to America’s veterans. Link to Post | Language: English Contribute to the FSU Community COVID 19 Project Posted on August 21, 2020 from Illuminations Masks Sign, contributed by Lorraine Mon, view this item in the digital library here Students, faculty, and alumni! Heritage & University Archives is collecting stories and experiences from the FSU community during COVID-19. University life during a pandemic will be studied by future scholars. During this pandemic, we have received requests surrounding the 1918 Flu Pandemic. Unfortunately, not many documents describing these experiences survive in the archive.  To create a rich record of life in these unique times we are asking the FSU Community to contribute their thoughts, experiences, plans, and photographs to the archive. Working from Home, contributed by Shaundra Lee, view this time in the digital library here How did COVID-19 affect your summer? Tell us about your plans for fall. How did COVID-19 change your plans for classes? Upload photographs of your dorm rooms or your work from home set ups. If you’d like to see examples of what people have already contributed, please see the collection on Diginole. You can add your story to the project here. Link to Post | Language: English 2021 Creative Fellowship – Call for Proposals Posted on August 21, 2020 from Notes For Bibliophiles PPL is now accepting proposals for our 2021 Creative Fellowship! We’re looking for an artist working in illustration or two-dimensional artwork to create new work related to the theme of our 2021 exhibition, Tomboys. View the full call for proposals, including application instructions, here. The application deadline is October 1, 2020 April 1, 2021*. *This deadline has shifted since we originally posted this call for proposals! The 2021 Fellowship, and the Exhibition & Program Series, have both been shifted forward by six months due to the coronavirus. Updated deadlines and timeline in the call for proposals! Link to Post | Language: English Friday art blog: still life in the collection Posted on August 20, 2020 from Culture on Campus Welcome to our new regular blog slot, the ‘Friday Art Blog’. We look forward to your continued company over the next weeks and months. You can return to the Art Collection website here, and search our entire permanent collection here. Pears by Jack Knox (Oil on board, 1973) This week we are taking a look at some of the still life works of art in the permanent collection. ‘Still life’ (or ‘nature morte’ as it is also widely known) refers to the depiction of mostly inanimate subject matter. It has been a part of art from the very earliest days, from thousands of years ago in Ancient Egypt, found also on the walls in 1st century Pompeii, and featured in illuminated medieval manuscripts. During the Renaissance, when it began to gain recognition as a genre in its own right, it was adapted for religious purposes. Dutch golden age artists in particular, in the early 17th century, depicted objects which had a symbolic significance. The still life became a moralising meditation on the brevity of life. and the vanity of the acquisition of possessions. But, with urbanization and the rise of a middle class with money to spend, it also became fashionable simply as a celebration of those possessions – in paintings of rare flowers or sumptuous food-laden table tops with expensive silverware and the best china. The still life has remained a popular feature through many modern art movements. Artists might use it as an exercise in technique (much cheaper than a live model), as a study in colour, form, or light and shade, or as a meditation in order to express a deeper mood. Or indeed all of these. The works collected by the University of Stirling Art Collection over the past fifty years reflect its continuing popularity amongst artists and art connoisseurs alike. Bouteille et Fruits by Henri Hayden (Lilthograph, 75/75, 1968) In the modern era the still life featured in the post impressionist art of Van Gogh, Cezanne and Picasso. Henri Hayden trained in Warsaw, but moved to Paris in 1907 where Cezanne and Cubism were influences. From 1922 he rejected this aesthetic and developed a more figurative manner, but later in life there were signs of a return to a sub-cubist mannerism in his work, and as a result the landscapes and still lifes of his last 20 years became both more simplified and more definitely composed than the previous period, with an elegant calligraphy. They combine a new richness of colour with lyrical melancholy. Meditation and purity of vision mark the painter’s last years. Black Lace by Anne Redpath (Gouache, 1951) Anne Redpath is best known for her still lifes and interiors, often with added textural interest, and also with the slightly forward-tilted table top, of which this painting is a good example. Although this work is largely monochrome it retains the fascination the artist had in fabric and textiles – the depiction of the lace is enhanced by the restrained palette. Untitled still life by Euan Heng (Linocut, 1/5, 1974) While Euan Heng’s work is contemporary in practice his imagery is not always contemporary in origin. He has long been influenced by Italian iconography, medieval paintings and frescoes. Origin of a rose by Ceri Richards (Lithograph, 30/70, 1967) In Ceri Richards’ work there is a constant recurrence of visual symbols and motifs always associated with the mythic cycles of nature and life. These symbols include rock formations, plant forms, sun, moon and seed-pods, leaf and flower. These themes refer to the cycle of human life and its transience within the landscape of earth. Still Life, Summer by Elizabeth Blackadder (Oil on canvas, 1963) This is a typical example of one of Elizabeth Blackadder’s ‘flattened’ still life paintings, with no perspective. Works such as this retain the form of the table, with the top raised to give the fullest view. Broken Cast by David Donaldson (Oil on canvas , 1975) David Donaldson was well known for his still lifes and landscape paintings as well as literary, biblical and allegorical subjects. Flowers for Fanny by William MacTaggart Oil on board, 1954 William MacTaggart typically painted landscapes, seascapes and still lifes featuring vases of flowers. These flowers, for his wife, Fanny Aavatsmark, are unusual for not being poppies, his most commonly painted flower. Cake by Fiona Watson (Digital print, 18/25, 2009) We end this blog post with one of the most popular still lifes in the collection. This depiction of Scottish classic the Tunnock’s teacake is a modern take on the still life. It is a firm favourite whenever it is on display. Image by Julie Howden Link to Post | Language: English Solar Energy: A Brief Look Back Posted on August 20, 2020 from Illuminations In the early 1970’s the United States was in the midst of an energy crisis. Massive oil shortages and high prices made it clear that alternative ideas for energy production were needed and solar power was a clear front runner. The origins of the solar cell in the United States date back to inventor Charles Fritz in the 1880’s, and the first attempts at harvesting solar energy for homes, to the late 1930’s. In 1974, the State of Florida put it’s name in the ring to become the host of the National Solar Energy Research Institute. Site proposal for the National Solar Energy Research Institute. Claude Pepper Papers S. 301 B. 502 F. 4 With potential build sites in Miami and Cape Canaveral, the latter possessing the added benefit of proximity to NASA, the Florida Solar Energy Task Force, led by Robert Nabors and endorsed by Representative Pepper, felt confident. The state made it to the final rounds of the search before the final location of Golden, Colorado was settled upon, which would open in 1977. Around this same time however (1975), the Florida Solar Energy Center was established at the University of Central Florida. The Claude Pepper Papers contain a wealth of information on Florida’s efforts in the solar energy arena from the onset of the energy crisis, to the late 1980’s. Carbon copy of correspondence between Claude Pepper and Robert L. Nabors regarding the Cape Canaveral proposed site for the National Solar Research Institute. Claude Pepper Papers S. 301 B. 502 F. 4 Earlier this year, “Tallahassee Solar II”, a new solar energy farm, began operating in Florida’s capitol city.  Located near the Tallahassee International Airport, it provides electricity for more than 9,500 homes in the Leon County area. With the steady gains that the State of Florida continues to make in the area of solar energy expansion, it gets closer to fully realizing its nickname, “the Sunshine State.” Link to Post | Language: English (C)istory Lesson Posted on August 18, 2020 from Illuminations Our next submission is from Rachel Duke, our Rare Books Librarian, who has been with Special collections for two years. This project was primarily geared towards full-time faculty and staff, so I chose to highlight her contribution to see what a full-time faculty’s experience would be like looking through the catalog. Frontispiece and Title Page, Salome, 1894. Image from https://collection.cooperhewitt.org/objects/68775953/ The item she chose was Salome, originally written in French by Oscar Wilde, then translated into English, as her object. While this book does not explicitly identify as a “Queer Text,” Wilde has become canonized in queer historical literature. In the first edition of the book, there is even a dedication to his lover, Lord Alfred Bruce Douglas, who helped with the translation. While there are documented historical examples of what we would refer to today as “queerness,” (queer meaning non-straight) there is still no demarcation of his queerness anywhere in the catalog record. Although the author is not necessarily unpacking his own queer experiences in the text, “both [Salome’s] author and its legacy participate strongly in queer history” as Duke states in her submission.  Oscar Wilde and Lord Alfred Bruce Douglas Even though Wilde was in a queer relationship with Lord Alfred Bruce Douglas, and has been accepted into the Queer canon, why doesn’t his catalog record reflect that history? Well, a few factors come into play. One of the main ones is an aversion to retroactively labeling historical figures. Since we cannot confirm which modern label would fit Wilde, we can’t necessarily outright label him as gay. How would a queer researcher like me go about finding authors and artists from the past who are connected with queer history? It is important to acknowledge LGBTQ+ erasure when discussing this topic. Since the LGBTQ+ community has historically been marginalized, documentation of queerness is hard to come by because: People did not collect, and even actively erased, Queer and Trans Histories. LGBTQ+ history has been passed down primarily as an oral tradition.  Historically, we cannot confirm which labels people would have identified with. Language and social conventions change over time. So while we view and know someone to be queer, since it is not in official documentation we have no “proof.” On the other hand, in some cultures, gay relations were socially acceptable. For example, in the Middle Ages, there was a legislatively approved form of same-sex marriage, known as affrèrement. This example is clearly labeled as *gay* in related library-based description because it was codified that way in the historical record. By contrast, Shakespeare’s sonnets, which (arguably) use queer motifs and themes, are not labeled as “queer” or “gay.” Does queer content mean we retroactively label the AUTHOR queer? Does the implication of queerness mean we should make the text discoverable under queer search terms? Cartoon depicting Oscar Wilde’s visit to San Francisco. By George Frederick Keller – The Wasp, March 31, 1882. Personally, I see both sides. As someone who is queer, I would not want a random person trying to retroactively label me as something I don’t identify with. On the other hand, as a queer researcher, I find it vital to have access to that information. Although they might not have been seen as queer in their time period, their experiences speak to queer history. Identities and people will change, which is completely normal, but as a group that has experienced erasure of their history, it is important to acknowledge all examples of historical queerness as a proof that LGBTQ+ individuals have existed throughout time. How do we responsibly and ethically go about making historical queerness discoverable in our finding aids and catalogs? Click Here to see some more historical figures you might not have known were LGBTQ+. Link to Post | Language: English Post navigation ← Older posts About ArchivesBlogs ArchivesBlogs syndicates content from weblogs about archives and archival issues and then makes the content available in a central location in a variety of formats.More Info.   Languages Deutsch English Español Français Italiano Nederlands Nihongo (日本語) العربية Syndicated Blogs ????????? blog? 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What's Cool at Hoole What’s on the 6th floor? WNYC Archives & Preservation You Ought to be Ashamed Proudly powered by WordPress arstechnica-com-5559 ---- New RISC-V CPU claims recordbreaking performance per watt | Ars Technica Skip to main content Biz & IT Tech Science Policy Cars Gaming & Culture Store Forums Subscribe Close Navigate Store Subscribe Videos Features Reviews RSS Feeds Mobile Site About Ars Staff Directory Contact Us Advertise with Ars Reprints Filter by topic Biz & IT Tech Science Policy Cars Gaming & Culture Store Forums Settings Front page layout Grid List Site theme Black on white White on black Sign in Comment activity Sign up or login to join the discussions! Stay logged in | Having trouble? Sign up to comment and more Sign up i can't drive risc-ty five — New RISC-V CPU claims recordbreaking performance per watt Micro Magic's new CPU offers decent performance with record-breaking efficiency. Jim Salter - Dec 4, 2020 11:15 am UTC Micro Magic's new CPU prototype is seen here running on an Odroid board. Micro Magic reader comments 209 with 103 posters participating, including story author Share this story Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Reddit Micro Magic Inc.—a small electronic design firm in Sunnyvale, California—has produced a prototype CPU that is several times more efficient than world-leading competitors, while retaining reasonable raw performance. We first noticed Micro Magic's claims earlier this week, when EE Times reported on the company's new prototype CPU, which appears to be the fastest RISC-V CPU in the world. Micro Magic adviser Andy Huang claimed the CPU could produce 13,000 CoreMarks (more on that later) at 5GHz and 1.1V while also putting out 11,000 CoreMarks at 4.25GHz—the latter all while consuming only 200mW. Huang demonstrated the CPU—running on an Odroid board—to EE Times at 4.327GHz/0.8V and 5.19GHz/1.1V. Later the same week, Micro Magic announced the same CPU could produce over 8,000 CoreMarks at 3GHz while consuming only 69mW of power. OK, but what’s a CoreMark? Part of the difficulty in evaluating Micro Magic's claim for its new CPU lies in figuring out just what a CoreMark is and how many of them are needed to make a fast CPU. It's a deliberately simplified CPU benchmarking tool released by the Embedded Microprocessor Benchmark Consortium, intended to be as platform-neutral and simple to build and use as possible. CoreMark focuses solely on the core pipeline functions of a CPU, including basic read/write, integer, and control operations. This specifically avoids most effects of system differences in memory, I/O, and so forth. The Embedded Microprocessor Benchmark Consortium (EMBC) is a group with wide industry representation: Intel, Texas Instruments, ARM, Realtek, and Nokia are a few of its more notable and easily recognizable members. Now that we understood all that, the next step in order to better evaluate Micro Magic's claims was to run a few CoreMark benchmarks of our own. All we needed to do here was clone its GitHub repository, then issue a make command—optionally, with arguments XCFLAGS="-DMULTITHREAD=8 -DUSE_FORK=1" if we want to test on multiple threads/cores at once. I still have an Apple M1 Mac Mini on hand, as well as a Ryzen 7 4700U-powered Acer Swift 3, so those were my test systems for comparison. Getting the raw performance scores was considerably easier than getting truly comparable power readings. On the Ryzen-powered Linux system, I used the utility turbostat to get both Core and Package power readings while the tests were running. I don't have access to anything nearly as fine-grained as turbostat for the Apple M1, so for that platform I took whole-system power draw at the wall and just plain subtracted the reading at desktop idle from the sustained reading while under test. This is extremely crude, and I caution readers not to rely too much on comparing the M1's efficiency to the Swift 3's on these numbers alone—but it's good enough to get some perspective on Micro Magic's claim for its new RISC-V (pronounced "risk five") CPU. Advertisement On to the tests! Performance per watt on Micro Magic's new CPU is eye-popping as compared to typical systems. (It's worth noting that we had no way to run CoreMark on the M1's slower, less battery-hungry Icestorm cores only.) Jim Salter Micro Magic's RISC-V CPU delivers about 1/4 of the raw performance of a single Apple M1 Firestorm core at its hyper-efficient 3GHz clockrate. Jim Salter If you've got access to a Linux system, it's pretty easy to download, compile, and run CoreMark yourself. Jim Salter The Micro Magic CPU is, for the moment, single-core and single-threaded—although Huang says it could "easily" be built as a 25-core part. Micro Magic has provided figures—and in one case, a screenshot—for performance at 3GHz, 4.25GHz, and 5GHz. At the maximally power-efficient 3GHz clockrate, the Micro Magic CPU scores about one-fourth the CoreMarks of either the Ryzen 4700u or Apple M1. At the maximally performant 5GHz clock, it manages just over a third of their performance. This is enough to let us know that the Micro Magic chip in its current form isn't a world-class competitor for traditional ARM and x86 CPUs in phone or laptop applications—but it's much closer to them than previous RISC-V implementations have been. At the power-efficient 3GHz clockrate, the Micro Magic CPU is nearly three times faster than, for example, SiFive's Freedom U540 CPU running single-threaded. At 5GHz, it outruns all four of the SiFive's cores. Enlarge / We can see the Micro Magic CPU on Odroid board here, scoring 8,200 iterations/sec over 10 seconds. The multimeter attached to the board is reading 69mW—according to Micro Magic, that's a measurement taken during the run, not at idle afterward. Micro Magic, Inc At roughly a quarter the performance of world-leading x86 and ARM mobile processors, the Micro Magic CPU doesn't sound like much yet. But when we factor in power efficiency, things get crazy. I gave my Ryzen and Apple processors the benefit of every possible doubt when generating the above charts—I used core power (not total package power) on the Ryzen 4700U and ran tests with the Gnome3 desktop shut down. For the Apple, I only had access to whole-system power draw, so I subtracted the "desktop idle" power draw from the "under test" power draw. I tested the Apple and AMD CPUs both single-threaded and multithreaded when checking power efficiency. Unsurprisingly, both parts produced more performance per watt when exercised with one work thread for each available CPU thread. None of this made much of a dent in the Micro Magic's commanding lead in power efficiency. At 4.25GHz, the Micro Magic can accomplish the same workload as the Ryzen 4700U with less than one-third the power required. At 3GHz, that figure plummets to less than one-eighth the power required. What is it good for? The Linux operating system already supports RISC-V architecture—so for headless or near-headless controllers that simply need to deliver decent performance paired with extreme power efficiency, Micro Magic's new CPU is likely most of the way there. Things get considerably more complicated once you start talking about entire consumer-friendly systems, of course. Even aside from hardware considerations like GPU and LTE modem, creating an entire Android phone based on a non-ARM architecture is likely to be a much bigger undertaking. Advertisement With that said, it's worth pointing out that—if we take Micro Magic's numbers for granted—they're already beating the performance of some solid mobile phone CPUs. Even at its efficiency-first 3GHz clockrate, the Micro Magic CPU outperformed a Qualcomm Snapdragon 820. The Snapdragon 820 isn't world-class anymore, but it's no slouch, either—it was the processor in the US version of Samsung's Galaxy S7. If we use the EMBC's published single-core score for the Snapdragon 820 along with Anandtech's single-core CPU power test result, we get about 16,000 CoreMarks per watt. That's triple the efficiency of the Ryzen 4700u running single-threaded and a little better than par with it when the Ryzen's running an optimally multithreaded workload. In other words, Micro Magic's prototype CPU is both significantly faster and tremendously more power-efficient than a reasonably modern and still very capable smartphone CPU. Conclusions All of this sounds very exciting—Micro Magic's new prototype is delivering solid smartphone-grade performance at a fraction of the power budget, using an instruction set that Linux already runs natively on. Better yet, the company itself isn't an unknown. Micro Magic was originally founded in 1995 and was purchased by Juniper Networks for $260 million. In 2004, it was reborn under its original name by the original founders—Mark Santoro and Lee Tavrow, who originally worked at Sun and led the team that developed the 300MHz SPARC microprocessor. Micro Magic intends to offer its new RISC-V design to customers using an IP licensing model. The simplicity of the design—RISC-V requires roughly one-tenth the opcodes that modern ARM architecture does—further simplifies manufacturing concerns, since RISC-V CPU designs can be built in shuttle runs, sharing space on a wafer with other designs. With that said, it would be an enormous undertaking to port—for example—an entire smartphone ecosystem, such as commercial Android, to a new architecture. In addition to building the operating system itself—not just the kernel, but drivers for all hardware from GPU to Wi-Fi to LTE modem, and more—third-party app developers would need to recompile their own applications for the new architecture as well. We're also still taking a pretty fair amount of Micro Magic's claims at face value. While we've seen a screenshot of an 8,200 CoreMark score, and we've seen a 69mW power reading, it's not entirely clear that the power reading was representative of the entire benchmark run. Still, this is an exciting development. Not only does the new design appear to perform well while massively breaking efficiency records, it's doing so with a far more ideologically open design than its competitors. The RISC-V ISA—unlike x86, ARM, and even MIPS—is open and provided under royalty-free licenses. reader comments 209 with 103 posters participating, including story author Share this story Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Reddit Jim Salter Jim is an author, podcaster, mercenary sysadmin, coder, and father of three—not necessarily in that order. Email jim.salter@arstechnica.com // Twitter @jrssnet Advertisement You must login or create an account to comment. Channel Ars Technica ← Previous story Next story → Related Stories Sponsored Stories Powered by Today on Ars Store Subscribe About Us RSS Feeds View Mobile Site Contact Us Staff Advertise with us Reprints Newsletter Signup Join the Ars Orbital Transmission mailing list to get weekly updates delivered to your inbox. Sign me up → CNMN Collection WIRED Media Group © 2020 Condé Nast. All rights reserved. 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And screen size breakpoint shift from 3 -> 4. → Blacklight 7: current_user or other request context in SearchBuilder solr query builder In Blacklight, the “SearchBuilder” is an object responsible for creating a Solr query. A template is generated into your app for customization, and you can write a kind of “plugin” to customize how the query is generated. You might need some “request context” to do this. One common example is the current_user, for various kinds … Continue reading Blacklight 7: current_user or other request context in SearchBuilder solr query builder → blog-archive-org-5806 ---- Robots.txt meant for search engines don’t work well for web archives - Internet Archive Blogs Internet Archive Blogs A blog from the team at archive.org Menu Skip to content Blog Announcements Internet Archive Store archive.org About Events Developers Donate Robots.txt meant for search engines don’t work well for web archives Posted on April 17, 2017 by Mark Graham Robots.txt files were invented 20+ years ago to help advise “robots,” mostly search engine web crawlers, which sections of a web site should be crawled and indexed for search. Many sites use their robots.txt files to improve their SEO (search engine optimization) by excluding duplicate content like print versions of recipes, excluding search result pages, excluding large files from crawling to save on hosting costs, or “hiding” sensitive areas of the site like administrative pages. (Of course, over the years malicious actors have also used robots.txt files to identify those same sensitive areas!)  Some crawlers, like Google, pay attention to robots.txt directives, while others do not. Over time we have observed that the robots.txt files that are geared toward search engine crawlers do not necessarily serve our archival purposes.  Internet Archive’s goal is to create complete “snapshots” of web pages, including the duplicate content and the large versions of files.  We have also seen an upsurge of the use of robots.txt files to remove entire domains from search engines when they transition from a live web site into a parked domain, which has historically also removed the entire domain from view in the Wayback Machine.  In other words, a site goes out of business and then the parked domain is “blocked” from search engines and no one can look at the history of that site in the Wayback Machine anymore.  We receive inquiries and complaints on these “disappeared” sites almost daily. A few months ago we stopped referring to robots.txt files on U.S. government and military web sites for both crawling and displaying web pages (though we respond to removal requests sent to info@archive.org). As we have moved towards broader access it has not caused problems, which we take as a good sign.  We are now looking to do this more broadly.   We see the future of web archiving relying less on robots.txt file declarations geared toward search engines, and more on representing the web as it really was, and is, from a user’s perspective. Posted in Announcements, News | 34 Replies Post navigation ← A Few Advanced Search Tips DRM for the Web is a Bad Idea → 34 thoughts on “Robots.txt meant for search engines don’t work well for web archives” Daniel April 17, 2017 at 2:18 pm So the plan is to no longer respect robots.txt files with directives that explicitly say User-Agent: ia_archiver? or User-Agent: *? Many website explicitly block the Internet Archive’s ia_archiver crawler while allowing other crawlers. Have you considered adopting AppleNewsBot’s policy of pretending to be Googlebot? Robots directives written for Googlebot is more permissive than rules for other crawlers. Also, many sites block everything but Googlebot. I’m kind of torn on whether I think it’s a good thing if you improve the archive by ignoring the wishes of webmasters or not. I often run into issues with pages missing from the archive only to discover that the website has specifically excluded the ia_archiver. However, I still believe it’s important to preserve a standardized mechanism for controlling crawlers and bots of all kinds. Pingback: News Roundup | LJ INFOdocket Joshua April 17, 2017 at 11:31 pm A better choice would probably have been to respect robots.txt as of the time you crawled it; that is once archived changing robots.txt later doesn’t change its visibility. Oh well. MeditateOrDie April 18, 2017 at 7:02 am I agree with this mostly, though some sites seem to block archive.org for no sensible reason – then when their site eventually dies, as all sites do sooner or later, all of that good, useful info is lost forever. Perhaps giving more advanced users a means of over-riding robots.txt on a per-save and per-read basis while still keeping the default behaviors active for general use, might be a compromise that satisfies the needs of dutiful archivers, general users and webmasters. Something like a URL modification could be used to do the trick (this used to work in the past until this handy undocumented functionality was removed). eg: Additions of varying numbers of “.” in the right parts of a URL used to work nicely for saves and reads, until fairly recently. There’s not much point in us ‘saving the web’ if we human beings cannot access the archives because of our robot[s.txt] overlords! https://web.archive.org/web/https://u.cubeupload.com/ZkJ7hq.gif 🙂 Shannon April 18, 2017 at 4:22 pm Yay! Sites that have retroactively changed their robots.txt have caused me a *lot* of problems for (recent) historical research. The info is often still out there, but it can take additional hours to find it. And sometimes it’s just gone instead. It never made any sense to block access to the archives today when the sites had allowed your crawling yesterday. Adam April 19, 2017 at 12:55 pm There is another problem with robots.txt that everyone on here should know. There are 2 ways that archive could accidently be removed: -If a website goes dead, and a different web owner opens up his/her website with the same URL as the dead one with robots.txt, the entire archive, including the dead website, will be removed. Even if the new owner has nothing to own on the previous website. -If a site gets hacked to have robots.txt, the same thing happened as above. Web archive should change their system so that the machine that checks robots.txt would not remove already-archived pages, only disable the process of archiving of the page after robots.txt is established. To remove all history, would require to talk to archive.org to “flag” that site so that users cannot archive it. Also have a protection so that if web owners tries to remove history that isn’t theirs, would deny them (they are required to show proof of it) from deleting the dead site. Please let me know by sending an email to Adomsyik@gmail.com. MKKLSDKLS April 19, 2017 at 9:16 pm As someone who has seen many good website be “park-nuked” and kicked out of the publicly accessible Archive, I beg you people to ignore the parked website robots.txt’s wishes. If we really want to archive the web, people who have literally no relation to the previous website beyond usurping the previous name via domain-squatting should have no say in what is archived. Andy L April 20, 2017 at 6:56 pm I’m happy to hear about this change. I’ve always thought it was a shame that changes to the modern robot.txt files are able to reach back in time and scrub the site from existence. I guess I understand why that policy was put into place, but it doesn’t seem to make sense long term. For a convenient domain, its current website and owner might be completely unrelated to the historic page that was there before. Georgene Uddin April 20, 2017 at 7:26 pm Hey There. I discovered your weblog the usage of msn. That is an extremely well written article. I’ll make sure to bookmark it and come back to read extra of your useful information. Thank you for the post. I’ll definitely return.| posty April 21, 2017 at 8:20 am Could we expand this to more than just US government websites? Australian government websites do this too. eg: http://operational.humanservices.gov.au/robots.txt that website clearly details how our governments social security system works, which changes and leaves the public at a disadvantage. Mark Graham Post authorApril 25, 2017 at 6:48 pm Yes, in general terms we think information produced by governments around the world, and published via public websites, should be preserved and made available via the Wayback Machine. Andre Borie April 21, 2017 at 10:20 am I really don’t see any problem with this – if a human can access it, so should the archive be able to – anyone who doesn’t want their stuff being searchable/archived online should just put a password on it. The only good thing about robots.txt is the rate-limiting, so smaller sites can limit the bandwidth allocated to crawling if they wish. By the way, what does this mean for previously-archived sites that now changed their robots.txt to block the Archive? Do you still keep the original data, and in which case, would you be able to restore access to it? I’ve seen a few sites where they used to be accessible on the Wayback machine but are not anymore due to a recent robots.txt change, and I’d love to see them available again if the original data wasn’t deleted. Jim Moores April 21, 2017 at 11:40 am I’ve found that I can’t access archive material that I myself created because I let a domain I was no longer using expire and now it has a non-permissive robots.txt. At a minimum archive.org needs to respect the robots.txt only at the point of collection, but my personal opinion is that it should be ignored completely by archive.org and allow people to actively opt out in some other way. Mo April 21, 2017 at 2:35 pm In my case I was trying to retrieve an old web site of mine A cybersquatter later bought the domain and put up a robits.txt Now I can’t see my own site The archive respects a new robots.txt file iwned by a squtter who is effectively blocking a historical archive they had NOTHING to do with. That is INSANE. Mark Graham Post authorApril 25, 2017 at 6:46 pm Thank you Mo. People write to us about the situation you describe every day. In many cases they implore us to make their content available again. This is exactly the harm we wish to address here. And, everyone, please remember you can always write to info@archive.org if you would like us to not crawl your site. Ryan April 21, 2017 at 10:06 pm Just this morning ia_archiver submitted a form on my site (the form was blank, but the point is that it clicked submit). Any crawler that submits forms is a jerk crawler. Would you consider redesigning your crawler to be less offensive? Mark Graham Post authorApril 25, 2017 at 6:42 pm The “ia_archiver” User Agent is used by Alexa Internet, not the Internet Archive. Henrik April 23, 2017 at 9:54 am On tools.ietf.org, all the information is public. I use robots.txt primarily to steer web crawlers away from pages which require substantial CPU resources to generate. Background: tools.ietf.org has been a pro-bono activity for 15 years, and runs on donated hardware; I don’t have the means to upgrade to a level of CPU resources to be able to serve generated pages at the rate the searchbots can hit them. The pages I steer robots away from are for instance source repository diffs, logs, commits etc., served through Trac. If a crawler is sufficiently gentle, and is able to back down the rate of crawl if the time to serve pages is long or go up, I’m perfectly happy to have all of the pages now denied by my robots.txt crawled. Chris April 23, 2017 at 6:38 pm I’d implore you to consider recognizing an “archive.txt”-like standard then. For people like myself who maintain a personal website, I tend to use it as a file server and would be quite annoyed if my resume (which contains an email address and contact phone number) ended up archived. The alternative would be I remove everything I don’t want archived. I don’t think that’s your intended goal, so please rethink this strategy. Mark Graham Post authorApril 25, 2017 at 6:39 pm Thank you for this Chris. Please do write to us at info@archive.org about any sites you manage. I promise we will be responsive. Ross April 23, 2017 at 8:13 pm Internet Archive, thank you for wanting to archive the web as users see it, which is the whole point of “Saving the Web!” I had respect for robots.txt 20 year ago, but it’s today clear that we cannot allow site owners to affect the public record by their own selfish choices. Stay the course, thanks again! vinz April 24, 2017 at 2:20 am alas, this comes too late for many of my favourite sites….2014-2015 took out a lot for some reason, as did mid-2008 I guess I’ll have to hold out until computers can reconstruct things straight from memory then do a big ol’ rip. also wish I knew why it doesn’t save images properly sometimes, I run into a lot of those at self-hosted sites, unless the crawler just happened to hit it while a file was broken. Darren Duncan April 24, 2017 at 8:50 am This is a good move on the part of the Internet Archive in principle. At the very least, something I remember requesting of the Internet Archive years ago, is that any respect they give robots.txt should be time sensitive. If a domain’s robots.txt allows archiving in the present, then the Internet Archive should always make today’s version of that content available in perpetuity, even if tomorrow’s robots.txt for that domain denies archiving. I would want any website I operate to be archived, and if I gave up any of my domain names in the future, I would not want the future owners of those domain names to be able to cause the Internet Archive to stop displaying the versions of the domain that existed while I controlled it. Vix April 24, 2017 at 9:40 am “Archiving relying (..) more on representing the web as it really was, and is, from a user’s perspective.” I agree 100%. Robots.txt aren’t limiting regular users and archiving purpose is to reflect the users’ perspective, not SEO crawling. Go for it! Michael Martinez April 24, 2017 at 3:29 pm If you ignore “robots.txt” directives people will find other ways to block you. While it’s unfortunate that you don’t keep data live after a “robots.txt” change, that is your own bad policy. The Robots Exclusion “standard” is NOT a standard, it’s an arbitrary and voluntary set of guidelines. No one forced the archive to take content offline after domain names changed hands. You can easily correct that bad practice by changing your policy rather than blaming the non-standard “standard” (of which MOST PEOPLE are unaware) for the issue. While you’re fixing the problems with your system, you could also make it easier for Webmasters who do know about both the “robots.txt” file and your archive to correct errors rather than have to wait 24 hours or longer for your crawler to see changes. Mark Graham Post authorApril 25, 2017 at 6:37 pm Thank you Michael. We encourage people to write to us at info@archive.org to report bugs, make requests (include for content to be removed from the Wayback Machine and for sites to not be crawled.) I assure you we read every message sent to us, and act on them as appropriate. Many of the features we add, and bugs we fix, are a direct result of user feedback. Pingback: The Internet Archive and robots.txt — Pixel Envy nascent April 25, 2017 at 1:04 pm There still needs to be a way of specifically preventing IA from archiving a domain. Mark Graham Post authorApril 25, 2017 at 6:33 pm Please know that site owners can always write to info@archive.org and request that content from a site be removed from the Wayback Machine and from future crawling. We process requests like that every day. Pingback: Editors’ Choice: Robots.txt Adam April 25, 2017 at 6:25 pm Its bad enough that robots.txt not only prevents archiving, it also deletes the entire achieve (in other words if you archive it, and later employs robots.txt, will delete it). Including a website being hacked to include robots.txt. John April 26, 2017 at 3:23 pm Then please explain how I can keep a site ephemeral, as intended. Are there IP address ranges, HTTP headers, etc, that can be used to forbid access? What is the way to reliably keep sites out of the archive for the time you respected robots.txt, now, and forever? My sites explicitly tell robots “NOARCHIVE”. You shouldn’t even have the files on your systems. Retroactively making archives public is a dick move. Mark Graham Post authorApril 26, 2017 at 3:54 pm Hi John, Please email your request to info@archive.org and we will promptly process it. Chris Haines April 26, 2017 at 3:33 pm “We see the future of web archiving relying less on robots.txt file declarations geared toward search engines, and more on representing the web as it really was, and is, from a user’s perspective.” – I agree. I think times have changed, and this reflects what users want from a web archive these days. Comments are closed. 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Special focus on web APIs for data integration. Data Unbound Helping organizations access and share data effectively. Special focus on web APIs for data integration. Skip to content About Some of what I missed from the Cmd-D Automation Conference The CMD-D|Masters of Automation one-day conference in early August would have been right up my alley: It’ll be a full day of exploring the current state of automation technology on both Apple platforms, sharing ideas and concepts, and showing what’s possible—all with the goal of inspiring and furthering development of your own automation projects. Fortunately, those of us who missed it can still get a meaty summary of the meeting by listening to the podcast segment Upgrade #154: Masters of Automation – Relay FM. I've been keen on automation for a long time now and was delighted to hear the panelists express their own enthusiasm for customizing their Macs, iPhones, or iPads to make repetitive tasks much easier and less time-consuming. Noteworthy take-aways from the podcast include: Something that I hear and believe but have yet to experience in person: non-programmers can make use of automation through applications such as Automator — for macOS — and Workflow for iOS. Also mentioned often as tools that are accessible to non-geeks: Hazel and Alfred – Productivity App for Mac OS X. Automation can make the lives of computer users easier but it's not immediately obvious to many people exactly how. To make a lot of headway in automating your workflow, you need a problem that you are motivated to solve. Many people use AppleScript by borrowing from others, just like how many learn HTML and CSS from copying, pasting, and adapting source on the web. Once you get a taste for automation, you will seek out applications that are scriptable and avoid those that are not. My question is how to make it easier for developers to make their applications scriptable without incurring onerous development or maintenance costs? E-book production is an interesting use case for automation. People have built businesses around scripting Photoshop [is there really a large enough market?] OmniGroup's automation model is well worth studying and using. I hope there will be a conference next year to continue fostering this community of automation enthusists and professionals. 2017 09 25 Raymond Yee automation macOS Comments (0) Permalink Fine-tuning a Python wrapper for the hypothes.is web API and other #ianno17 followup In anticipation of #ianno17 Hack Day, I wrote about my plans for the event, one of which was to revisit my own Python wrapper for the nascent hypothes.is web API. Instead of spending much time on my own wrapper, I spent most of the day working with Jon Udell's wrapper for the API. I've been working on my own revisions of the library but haven't yet incorporated Jon's latest changes. One nice little piece of the puzzle is that I learned how to introduce retries and exponential backoff into the library, thanks to a hint from Nick Stenning and a nice answer on Stackoverflow . Other matters In addition to the Python wrapper, there are other pieces of follow-up for me. I hope to write more extensively on those matters down the road but simply note those topics for the moment. Videos from the conference I might start by watching videos from #ianno17 conference: I Annotate 2017 – YouTube. Because I didn't attend the conference per se, I might glean insight into two particular topics of interest to me (the role of page owner in annotations and the intermingling of annotations in ebooks.) An extension for embedding selectors in the URL I will study and try Treora/precise-links: Browser extension to support Web Annotation Selectors in URIs. I've noticed that the same annotation is shown in two related forms: https://hyp.is/Zj2dyi9tEeeTmxvuPjLhSw/blog.dataunbound.com/2017/05/01/revisiting-hypothes-is-at-i-annotate-2017/ https://blog.dataunbound.com/2017/05/01/revisiting-hypothes-is-at-i-annotate-2017/#annotations:Zj2dyi9tEeeTmxvuPjLhSw Does the precise-links extension let me write the selectors into the URL? 2017 05 22 Raymond Yee annotation Comments (0) Permalink Revisiting hypothes.is at I Annotate 2017 I'm looking forward to hacking on web and epub annotation at the #ianno17 Hack Day. I won't be at the I Annotate 2017 conference per se but will be curious to see what comes out of the annual conference. I continue to have high hopes for digital annotations, both on the Web and in non-web digital contexts. I have used Hypothesis on and off since Oct 2013. My experiences so far: I like the ability to highlight and comment on very granular sections of articles for comment, something the hypothes.is annotation tool makes easy to do. I appreciate being able to share annotation/highlight with others (on Twitter or Facebook), though I'm pretty sure most people who bother to click on the links might wonder "what's this" when they click on the link. A small user request: hypothes.is should allow a user to better customize the Facebook preview image for the annotation. I've enjoyed using hypothes.is for code review on top of GitHub. (Exactly how hypothes.is complements the extensive code-commenting functionality in GitHub might be worth a future blog post.) My Plans for Hack Day Python wrapper for hypothes.is This week, I plan to revisit rdhyee/hypothesisapi: A Python wrapper for the nascent hypothes.is web API to update or abandon it in favor of new developments. (For example, I should look at kshaffer/pypothesis: Python scripts for interacting with the hypothes.is API.) Epubs + annotations I want to figure out the state of art for epubs and annotations. I'm happy to see the announcement of a partnership to bring open annotation to eBooks from March 2017. I'd definitely like to figure out how to annotate epubs (e.g., Oral Literature in Africa (at unglue.it) or Moby Dick). The best approach is probably for me to wait until summer at which time we'll see the fruits of the partnership: Together, our goal is to complete a working integration of Hypothesis with both EPUB frameworks by Summer 2017. NYU plans to deploy the ReadiumJS implementation in the NYU Press Enhanced Networked Monographs site as a first use case. Based on lessons learned in the NYU deployment, we expect to see wider integration of annotation capabilities in eBooks as EPUB uptake continues to grow. In the meantime, I can catch up on the current state of futurepress/epub.js: Enhanced eBooks in the browser., grok Epub CFI Updates, and relearn how to parse epubs using Python (e.g., rdhyee/epub_avant_garde: an experiment to apply ideas from https://github.com/sandersk/ebook_avant_garde to arbitrary epubs). Role of page owners I plan to check in on what's going on with efforts at Hypothes.is to involve owners in page annotations: In the past months we launched a small research initiative to gather different points of view about website publishers and authors consent to annotation. Our goal was to identify different paths forward taking into account the perspectives of publishers, engineers, developers and people working on abuse and harassment issues. We have published a first summary of our discussion on our blog post about involving page owners in annotation. I was reminded of these efforts after reading that Audrey Watters had blocked annotation services like hypothes.is and genius from her domains: Un-Annotated Episode 52: Marginalia In the spirit of communal conversation, I threw in my two cents: Have there been any serious exploration of easy opt-out mechanisms for domain owners? Something like robots.txt for annotation tools? 2017 05 01 Raymond Yee annotation Comments (2) Permalink My thoughts about Fargo.io using fargo.io 2013 11 03 Raymond Yee Uncategorized Comments (0) Permalink Organizing Your Life With Python: a submission for PyCon 2015? I have penciled into my calendar a trip  to Montreal to attend PyCon 2014.   In my moments of suboptimal planning, I wrote an overly ambitious abstract for a talk or poster session I was planning to submit.  As I sat down this morning to meet the deadline for submitting a proposal for a poster session (Nov 1), I once again encountered the ominous (but for me, definitive) admonition: Avoid presenting a proposal for code that is far from completion. The program committee is very skeptical of "conference-driven development". It's true: my efforts to organize my life with Python are in the early stages. I hope that I'll be able to write something like the following for PyCon 2015. Organizing Your Life with Python David Allen's Getting Things Done (GTD) system is a popular system for personal productivity. Although GTD can be implemented without any computer technology, I have pursued two different digital implementations, including my current implementation using Evernote, the popular note-taking program. This talk explores using Python in conjunction with the Evernote API to implement GTD on top of Evernote. I have found that a major practical hinderance for using GTD is that it way too easy to commit to too many projects. I will discuss how to combine Evernote, Python, GTD with concepts from Personal Kanban to solve this problem. Addendum: Whoops…I find it embarrassing that I already quoted my abstract in a previous blog post in September that I had forgotten about. Oh well. Where's my fully functioning organization system when I need it! Tagged PyCon, Python 2013 10 30 Raymond Yee Evernote GTD Comments (0) Permalink Current Status of Data Unbound LLC in Pennsylvania I'm currently in the process of closing down Data Unbound LLC in Pennsylvania.  I submitted the paperwork to dissolve the legal entity in April 2013 and have been amazed to learn that it may take up to a year to get the final approval done.  In the meantime, as I establishing a similar California legal entity, I will certainly continue to write on this blog about APIs, mashups, and open data. 2013 10 30 Raymond Yee Data Unbound LLC Comments (0) Permalink Must Get Cracking on Organizing Your Life with Python Talk and tutorial proposals for PyCon 2014 are due tomorrow (9/15) .  I was considering submitting a proposal until I took the heart the appropriate admonition against "conference-driven" development of the program committee.   I will nonetheless use the Oct 15 and Nov 1 deadlines for lightning talks and proposals respectively to judge whether to submit a refinement of the following proposal idea: Organizing Your Life with Python David Allen's Getting Things Done (GTD) system is a popular system for personal productivity.  Although GTD can be implemented without any computer technology, I have pursued two different digital implementations, including my current implementation using Evernote, the popular note-taking program.  This talk explores using Python in conjunction with the Evernote API to implement GTD on top of Evernote. I have found that a major practical hinderance for using GTD is that it way too easy to commit to too many projects.  I will discuss how to combine Evernote, Python, GTD with concepts from Personal Kanban to solve this problem.   2013 09 14 Raymond Yee Getting Things Done Python Comments (0) Permalink Embedding Github gists in WordPress As I gear up I to write more about programming, I have installed the Embed GitHub Gist plugin. So by writing [gist id=5625043] in the text of this post, I can embed https://gist.github.com/rdhyee/5625043 into the post to get: from itertools import islice def triangular(): n = 1 i = 1 while True: yield n i +=1 n += i # for i, n in enumerate(islice(triangular(), 10)): print i+1, n Tagged gist, github 2013 05 21 Raymond Yee Wordpress Comments (2) Permalink Working with Open Data I'm very excited to be teaching a new course Working with Open Data at the UC Berkeley School of Information in the Spring 2013 semester: Open data — data that is free for use, reuse, and redistribution — is an intellectual treasure-trove that has given rise to many unexpected and often fruitful applications. In this course, students will 1) learn how to access, visualize, clean, interpret, and share data, especially open data, using Python, Python-based libraries, and supplementary computational frameworks and 2) understand the theoretical underpinnings of open data and their connections to implementations in the physical and life sciences, government, social sciences, and journalism.   2012 11 23 Raymond Yee Uncategorized Comments (0) Permalink A mundane task: updating a config file to retain old settings I want to have a hand in creating an excellent personal information manager (PIM) that can be a worthy successor to Ecco Pro. So far, running EccoExt (a clever and expansive hack of Ecco Pro) has been a eminently practical solution.   You can download the most recent version of this actively developed extension from the files section of the ecco_pro Yahoo! group.   I would do so regularly but one of the painful problems with unpacking (using unrar) the new files is that there wasn't an updater that would retain the configuration options of the existing setup.  So a mundane but happy-making programming task of this afternoon was to write a Python script to do exact that function, making use of the builtin ConfigParser library. """ compare eccoext.ini files My goal is to edit the new file so that any overlapping values take on the current value """ current_file_path = "/private/tmp/14868/C/Program Files/ECCO/eccoext.ini" new_file_path = "/private/tmp/14868/C/utils/eccoext.ini" updated_file = "/private/tmp/14868/C/utils/updated_eccoext.ini" # extract the key value pairs in both files to compare the two # http://docs.python.org/library/configparser.html import ConfigParser def extract_values(fname): # generate a parsed configuration object, set of (section, options) config = ConfigParser.SafeConfigParser() options_set = set() config.read(fname) sections = config.sections() for section in sections: options = config.options(section) for option in options: #value = config.get(section,option) options_set.add((section,option)) return (config, options_set) # process current file and new file (current_config, current_options) = extract_values(current_file_path) (new_config, new_options) = extract_values(new_file_path) # what are the overlapping options overlapping_options = current_options & new_options # figure out which of the overlapping options are the values different for (section,option) in overlapping_options: current_value = current_config.get(section,option) new_value = new_config.get(section,option) if current_value != new_value: print section, option, current_value, new_value new_config.set(section,option,current_value) # write the updated config file with open(updated_file, 'wb') as configfile: new_config.write(configfile) 2011 02 12 Raymond Yee Ecco Pro Python Comments (0) Permalink « Older posts Pages About Categories Amazon annotation announcments APIs architecture art history automation bibliographics bioinformatics BPlan 2009 Chickenfoot Citizendium collaboration consulting copyright creative commons data mining Data Unbound LLC digital scholarship Ecco Pro education Evernote Firefox Flickr freebase Getting Things Done Google government GTD hardware HCI higher education humanities imaging iSchool journalism libraries macOS mashups meta MITH API workshop Mixing and Remixing information notelets OCLC open access open data OpenID personal information management personal news politics Processing programming tip prototype publishing Python recovery.gov tracking repositories REST screen scraping screencast services SOAP training tutorial UC Berkeley Uncategorized web hosting web services web20 weblogging Wikipedia Wordpress writing Zotero Tags API art history books Chickenfoot codepad coins creative commons data hosting data portability Educause EXIF Firefox Flickr freebase JCDL JCDL 2008 kses Library of Congress mashups mashup symfony Django metadata news NYTimes AmazonEC2 AmazonS3 OMB OpenID openlibrary OpenOffice.org photos politics Project Bamboo Python pywin32 recovery.gov tracking screencast stimulus sychronization video webcast Wikipedia Windows XP WMI Wordpress workshops XML in libraries Zotero Blogroll Information Services and Technology, UC Berkeley UC Berkeley RSS Feeds All posts All comments Meta Log in Blog Search © 2020 | Thanks, WordPress | Barthelme theme by Scott Allan Wallick | Standards Compliant XHTML & CSS | RSS Posts & Comments blog-dataunbound-com-7503 ---- Data Unbound Data Unbound Helping organizations access and share data effectively. Special focus on web APIs for data integration. Some of what I missed from the Cmd-D Automation Conference The CMD-D|Masters of Automation one-day conference in early August would have been right up my alley: It’ll be a full day of exploring the current state of automation technology on both Apple platforms, sharing ideas and concepts, and showing what’s possible—all with the goal of inspiring and furthering development of your own automation projects. Fortunately, […] Fine-tuning a Python wrapper for the hypothes.is web API and other #ianno17 followup In anticipation of #ianno17 Hack Day, I wrote about my plans for the event, one of which was to revisit my own Python wrapper for the nascent hypothes.is web API. Instead of spending much time on my own wrapper, I spent most of the day working with Jon Udell's wrapper for the API. I've been […] Revisiting hypothes.is at I Annotate 2017 I'm looking forward to hacking on web and epub annotation at the #ianno17 Hack Day. I won't be at the I Annotate 2017 conference per se but will be curious to see what comes out of the annual conference. I continue to have high hopes for digital annotations, both on the Web and in non-web […] My thoughts about Fargo.io using fargo.io Organizing Your Life With Python: a submission for PyCon 2015? I have penciled into my calendar a trip  to Montreal to attend PyCon 2014.   In my moments of suboptimal planning, I wrote an overly ambitious abstract for a talk or poster session I was planning to submit.  As I sat down this morning to meet the deadline for submitting a proposal for a poster […] Current Status of Data Unbound LLC in Pennsylvania I'm currently in the process of closing down Data Unbound LLC in Pennsylvania.  I submitted the paperwork to dissolve the legal entity in April 2013 and have been amazed to learn that it may take up to a year to get the final approval done.  In the meantime, as I establishing a similar California legal […] Must Get Cracking on Organizing Your Life with Python Talk and tutorial proposals for PyCon 2014 are due tomorrow (9/15) .  I was considering submitting a proposal until I took the heart the appropriate admonition against "conference-driven" development of the program committee.   I will nonetheless use the Oct 15 and Nov 1 deadlines for lightning talks and proposals respectively to judge whether to […] Embedding Github gists in WordPress As I gear up I to write more about programming, I have installed the Embed GitHub Gist plugin. So by writing [gist id=5625043] in the text of this post, I can embed https://gist.github.com/rdhyee/5625043 into the post to get: Working with Open Data I'm very excited to be teaching a new course Working with Open Data at the UC Berkeley School of Information in the Spring 2013 semester: Open data — data that is free for use, reuse, and redistribution — is an intellectual treasure-trove that has given rise to many unexpected and often fruitful applications. In this […] A mundane task: updating a config file to retain old settings I want to have a hand in creating an excellent personal information manager (PIM) that can be a worthy successor to Ecco Pro. So far, running EccoExt (a clever and expansive hack of Ecco Pro) has been a eminently practical solution.   You can download the most recent version of this actively developed extension from […] bibwild-wordpress-com-287 ---- Bibliographic Wilderness Skip to content Bibliographic Wilderness Menu About Contact Are you talking to Heroku redis in cleartext or SSL? In “typical” Redis installation, you might be talking to redis on localhost or on a private network, and clients typically talk to redis in cleartext. Redis doesn’t even natively support communications over SSL. (Or maybe it does now with redis6?) However, the Heroku redis add-on (the one from Heroku itself) supports SSL connections via “Stunnel”, a tool popular with other redis users use to get SSL redis connections too. (Or maybe via native redis with redis6? Not sure if you’d know the difference, or if it matters). There are heroku docs on all of this which say: While you can connect to Heroku Redis without the Stunnel buildpack, it is not recommend. The data traveling over the wire will be unencrypted. Perhaps especially because on heroku your app does not talk to redis via localhost or on a private network, but on a public network. But I think I’ve worked on heroku apps before that missed this advice and are still talking to heroku in the clear. I just happened to run across it when I got curious about the REDIS_TLS_URL env/config variable I noticed heroku setting. Which brings us to another thing, that heroku doc on it is out of date, it doesn’t mention the REDIS_TLS_URL config variable, just the REDIS_URL one. The difference? the TLS version will be a url beginning with rediss:// instead of redis:// , note extra s, which many redis clients use as a convention for “SSL connection to redis probably via stunnel since redis itself doens’t support it”. The redis docs provide ruby and go examples which instead use REDIS_URL and writing code to swap the redis:// for rediss:// and even hard-code port number adjustments, which is silly! (While I continue to be very impressed with heroku as a product, I keep running into weird things like this outdated documentation, that does not match my experience/impression of heroku’s all-around technical excellence, and makes me worry if heroku is slipping…). The docs also mention a weird driver: ruby arg for initializing the Redis client that I’m not sure what it is and it doesn’t seem necessary. The docs are correct that you have to tell the ruby Redis client not to try to verify SSL keys against trusted root certs, and this implementation uses a self-signed cert. Otherwise you will get an error that looks like: OpenSSL::SSL::SSLError: SSL_connect returned=1 errno=0 state=error: certificate verify failed (self signed certificate in certificate chain) So, can be as simple as: redis_client = Redis.new(url: ENV['REDIS_TLS_URL'], ssl_params: { verify_mode: OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFY_NONE }) $redis = redis_client # and/or Resque.redis = redis_client I don’t use sidekiq on this project currently, but to get the SSL connection with VERIFY_NONE, looking at sidekiq docs maybe on sidekiq docs you might have to(?): redis_conn = proc { Redis.new(url: ENV['REDIS_TLS_URL'], ssl_params: { verify_mode: OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFY_NONE }) } Sidekiq.configure_client do |config| config.redis = ConnectionPool.new(size: 5, &redis_conn) end Sidekiq.configure_server do |config| config.redis = ConnectionPool.new(size: 25, &redis_conn) end (Not sure what values you should pick for connection pool size). While the sidekiq docs mention heroku in passing, they don’t mention need for SSL connections — I think awareness of this heroku feature and their recommendation you use it may not actually be common! Update: Beware REDIS_URL can also be rediss On one of my apps I saw a REDIS_URL which used redis: and a REDIS_TLS_URL which uses (secure) rediss:. But on another app, it provides *only* a REDIS_URL, which is rediss — meaning you have to set the verify_mode: OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFY_NONE when passing it to ruby redis client. So you have to be prepared to do this with REDIS_URL values too — I think it shouldn’t hurt to set the ssl_params option even if you pass it a non-ssl redis: url, so just set it all the time? This second app was heroku-20 stack, and the first was heroku-18 stack, is that the difference? No idea. Documented anywhere? I doubt it. Definitely seems sloppy for what I expect of heroku, making me get a bit suspicious of whether heroku is sticking to the really impressive level of technical excellence and documentation I expect from them. So, your best bet is to check for both REDIS_TLS_URL and REDIS_URL, prefering the TLS one if present, realizing the REDIS_URL can have a rediss:// value in it too. The heroku docs also say you don’t get secure TLS redis connection on “hobby” plans, but I”m not sure that’s actually true anymore on heroku-20? Not trusting the docs is not a good sign. jrochkind General 4 Comments November 24, 2020November 25, 2020 Comparing performance of a Rails app on different Heroku formations I develop a “digital collections” or “asset management” app, which manages and makes digitized historical objects and their descriptions available to the public, from the collections here at the Science History Institute. The app receives relatively low level of traffic (according to Google Analytics, around 25K pageviews a month), although we want it to be able to handle spikes without falling down. It is not the most performance-optimized app, it does have some relatively slow responses and can be RAM-hungry. But it works adequately on our current infrastructure: Web traffic is handled on a single AWS EC2 t2.medium instance, with 10 passenger processes (free version of passenger, so no multi-threading). We are currently investigating the possibility of moving our infrastructure to heroku. After realizing that heroku standard dynos did not seem to have the performance characteristics I had expected, I decided to approach performance testing more methodically, to compare different heroku dyno formations to each other and to our current infrastructure. Our basic research question is probably What heroku formation do we need to have similar performance to our existing infrastructure? I am not an expert at doing this — I did some research, read some blog posts, did some thinking, and embarked on this. I am going to lead you through how I approached this and what I found. Feedback or suggestions are welcome. The most surprising result I found was much poorer performance from heroku standard dynos than I expected, and specifically that standard dynos would not match performance of present infrastructure. What URLs to use in test Some older load-testing tools only support testing one URL over and over. I decided I wanted to test a larger sample list of URLs — to be a more “realistic” load, and also because repeatedly requesting only one URL might accidentally use caches in ways you aren’t expecting giving you unrepresentative results. (Our app does not currently use fragment caching, but caches you might not even be thinking about include postgres’s built-in automatic caches, or passenger’s automatic turbocache (which I don’t think we have turned on)). My initial thought to get a list of such URLs from our already-in-production app from production logs, to get a sample of what real traffic looks like. There were a couple barriers for me to using production logs as URLs: Some of those URLs might require authentication, or be POST requests. The bulk of our app’s traffic is GET requests available without authentication, and I didn’t feel like the added complexity of setting up anything else in a load traffic was worthwhile. Our app on heroku isn’t fully functional yet. Without having connected it to a Solr or background job workers, only certain URLs are available. In fact, a large portion of our traffic is an “item” or “work” detail page like this one. Additionally, those are the pages that can be the biggest performance challenge, since the current implementation includes a thumbnail for every scanned page or other image, so response time unfortunately scales with number of pages in an item. So I decided a good list of URLs was simply a representative same of those “work detail” pages. In fact, rather than completely random sample, I took the 50 largest/slowest work pages, and then added in another 150 randomly chosen from our current ~8K pages. And gave them all a randomly shuffled order. In our app, every time a browser requests a work detail page, the JS on that page makes an additional request for a JSON document that powers our page viewer. So for each of those 200 work detail pages, I added the JSON request URL, for a more “realistic” load, and 400 total URLs. Performance: “base speed” vs “throughput under load” Thinking about it, I realized there were two kinds of “performance” or “speed” to think about. You might just have a really slow app, to exagerate let’s say typical responses are 5 seconds. That’s under low/no-traffic, a single browser is the only thing interacting with the app, it makes a single request, and has to wait 5 seconds for a response. That number might be changed by optimizations or performance regressions in your code (including your dependencies). It might also be changed by moving or changing hardware or virtualization environment — including giving your database more CPU/RAM resources, etc. But that number will not change by horizontally scaling your deployment — adding more puma or passenger processes or threads, scaling out hosts with a load balancer or heroku dynos. None of that will change this base speed because it’s just how long the app takes to prepare a response when not under load, how slow it is in a test only one web worker , where adding web workers won’t matter because they won’t be used. Then there’s what happens to the app actually under load by multiple users at once. The base speed is kind of a lower bound on throughput under load — page response time is never going to get better than 5s for our hypothetical very slow app (without changing the underlying base speed). But it can get a lot worse if it’s hammered by traffic. This throughput under load can be effected not only by changing base speed, but also by various forms of horizontal scaling — how many puma or passenger processes you have with how many threads each, and how many CPUs they have access to, as well as number of heroku dynos or other hosts behind a load balancer. (I had been thinking about this distinction already, but Nate Berkopec’s great blog post on scaling Rails apps gave me the “speed” vs “throughout” terminology to use). For my condition, we are not changing the code at all. But we are changing the host architecture from a manual EC2 t2.medium to heroku dynos (of various possible types) in a way that could effect base speed, and we’re also changing our scaling architecture in a way that could change throughput under load on top of that — from one t2.medium with 10 passenger process to possibly multiple heroku dynos behind heroku’s load balancer, and also (for Reasons) switching from free passenger to trying puma with multiple threads per process. (we are running puma 5 with new experimental performance features turned on). So we’ll want to get a sense of base speed of the various host choices, and also look at how throughput under load changes based on various choices. Benchmarking tool: wrk We’re going to use wrk. There are LOTS of choices for HTTP benchmarking/load testing, with really varying complexity and from different eras of web history. I got a bit overwhelmed by it, but settled on wrk. Some other choices didn’t have all the features we need (some way to test a list of URLs, with at least some limited percentile distribution reporting). Others were much more flexible and complicated and I had trouble even figuring out how to use them! wrk does need a custom lua script in order to handle a list of URLs. I found a nice script here, and modified it slightly to take filename from an ENV variable, and not randomly shuffle input list. It’s a bit confusing understanding the meaning of “threads” vs “connections” in wrk arguments. This blog post from appfolio clears it up a bit. I decided to leave threads set to 1, and vary connections for load — so -c1 -t1 is a “one URL at a time” setting we can use to test “base speed”, and we can benchmark throughput under load by increasing connections. We want to make sure we run the test for long enough to touch all 400 URLs in our list at least once, even in the slower setups, to have a good comparison — ideally it would be go through the list more than once, but for my own ergonomics I had to get through a lot of tests so ended up less tha ideal. (Should I have put fewer than 400 URLs in? Not sure). Conclusions in advance As benchmarking posts go (especially when I’m the one writing them), I’m about to drop a lot of words and data on you. So to maximize the audience that sees the conclusions (because they surprise me, and I want feedback/pushback on them), I’m going to give you some conclusions up front. Our current infrastructure has web app on a single EC2 t2.medium, which is a burstable EC2 type — our relatively low-traffic app does not exhaust it’s burst credits. Measuring base speed (just one concurrent request at a time), we found that performance dynos seem to have about the CPU speed of a bursting t2.medium (just a hair slower). But standard dynos are as a rule 2 to 3 times slower; additionally they are highly variable, and that variability can be over hours/days. A 3 minute period can have measured response times 2 or more times slower than another 3 minute period a couple hours later. But they seem to typically be 2-3x slower than our current infrastructure. Under load, they scale about how you’d expect if you knew how many CPUs are present, no real surprises. Our existing t2.medium has two CPUs, so can handle 2 simultaneous requests as fast as 1, and after that degrades linearly. A single performance-L ($500/month) has 4 CPUs (8 hyperthreads), so scales under load much better than our current infrastructure. A single performance-M ($250/month) has only 1 CPU (!), so scales pretty terribly under load. Testing scaling with 4 standard-2x’s ($200/month total), we see that it scales relatively evenly. Although lumpily because of variability, and it starts out so much worse performing that even as it scales “evenly” it’s still out-performed by all other arcchitectures. :( (At these relatively fast median response times you might say it’s still fast enough who cares, but in our fat tail of slower pages it gets more distressing). Now we’ll give you lots of measurements, or you can skip all that to my summary discussion or conclusions for our own project at the end. Let’s compare base speed OK, let’s get to actual measurements! For “base speed” measurements, we’ll be telling wrk to use only one connection and one thread. Existing t2.medium: base speed Our current infrastructure is one EC2 t2.medium. This EC2 instance type has two vCPUs and 4GB of RAM. On that single EC2 instance, we run passenger (free not enterprise) set to have 10 passenger processes, although the base speed test with only one connection should only touch one of the workers. The t2 is a “burstable” type, and we do always have burst credits (this is not a high traffic app; verified we never exhausted burst credits in these tests), so our test load may be taking advantage of burst cpu. $ URLS=./sample_works.txt wrk -c 1 -t 1 -d 3m --timeout 20s --latency -s load_test/multiplepaths.lua.txt https://[current staging server] multiplepaths: Found 400 paths multiplepaths: Found 400 paths Running 3m test @ https://staging-digital.sciencehistory.org 1 threads and 1 connections Thread Stats Avg Stdev Max +/- Stdev Latency 311.00ms 388.11ms 2.37s 86.45% Req/Sec 11.89 8.96 40.00 69.95% Latency Distribution 50% 90.99ms 75% 453.40ms 90% 868.81ms 99% 1.72s 966 requests in 3.00m, 177.43MB read Requests/sec: 5.37 Transfer/sec: 0.99MB I’m actually feeling pretty good about those numbers on our current infrastructure! 90ms median, not bad, and even 453ms 75th percentile is not too bad. Now, our test load involves some JSON responses that are quicker to deliver than corresponding HTML page, but still pretty good. The 90th/99th/and max request (2.37s) aren’t great, but I knew I had some slow pages, this matches my previous understanding of how slow they are in our current infrastructure. 90th percentile is ~9 times 50th percenile. I don’t have an understanding of why the two different Req/Sec and Requests/Sec values are so different, and don’t totally understand what to do with the Stdev and +/- Stdev values, so I’m just going to be sticking to looking at the latency percentiles, I think “latency” could also be called “response times” here. But ok, this is our baseline for this workload. And doing this 3 minute test at various points over the past few days, I can say it’s nicely regular and consistent, occasionally I got a slower run, but 50th percentile was usually 90ms–105ms, right around there. Heroku standard-2x: base speed From previous mucking about, I learned I can only reliably fit one puma worker in a standard-1x, and heroku says “we typically recommend a minimum of 2 processes, if possible” (for routing algorithmic reasons when scaled to multiple dynos), so I am just starting at a standard-2x with two puma workers each with 5 threads, matching heroku recommendations for a standard-2x dyno. So one thing I discovered is that bencharks from a heroku standard dyno are really variable, but here are typical ones: $ heroku dyno:resize type size qty cost/mo ─────── ─────────── ─── ─────── web Standard-2X 1 50 $ heroku config:get --shell WEB_CONCURRENCY RAILS_MAX_THREADS WEB_CONCURRENCY=2 RAILS_MAX_THREADS=5 $ URLS=./sample_works.txt wrk -c 1 -t 1 -d 3m --timeout 20s --latency -s load_test/multiplepaths.lua.txt https://scihist-digicoll.herokuapp.com/ multiplepaths: Found 400 paths multiplepaths: Found 400 paths Running 3m test @ https://scihist-digicoll.herokuapp.com/ 1 threads and 1 connections Thread Stats Avg Stdev Max +/- Stdev Latency 645.08ms 768.94ms 4.41s 85.52% Req/Sec 5.78 4.36 20.00 72.73% Latency Distribution 50% 271.39ms 75% 948.00ms 90% 1.74s 99% 3.50s 427 requests in 3.00m, 74.51MB read Requests/sec: 2.37 Transfer/sec: 423.67KB I had heard that heroku standard dynos would have variable performance, because they are shared multi-tenant resources. I had been thinking of this like during a 3 minute test I might see around the same median with more standard deviation — but instead, what it looks like to me is that running this benchmark on Monday at 9am might give very different results than at 9:50am or Tuesday at 2pm. The variability is over a way longer timeframe than my 3 minute test — so that’s something learned. Running this here and there over the past week, the above results seem to me typical of what I saw. (To get better than “seem typical” on this resource, you’d have to run a test, over several days or a week I think, probably not hammering the server the whole time, to get a sense of actual statistical distribution of the variability). I sometimes saw tests that were quite a bit slower than this, up to a 500ms median. I rarely if ever saw results too much faster than this on a standard-2x. 90th percentile is ~6x median, less than my current infrastructure, but that still gets up there to 1.74 instead of 864ms. This typical one is quite a bit slower than than our current infrastructure, our median response time is 3x the latency, with 90th and max being around 2x. This was worse than I expected. Heroku performance-m: base speed Although we might be able to fit more puma workers in RAM, we’re running a single-connection base speed test, so it shouldn’t matter to, and we won’t adjust it. $ heroku dyno:resize type size qty cost/mo ─────── ───────────── ─── ─────── web Performance-M 1 250 $ heroku config:get --shell WEB_CONCURRENCY RAILS_MAX_THREADS WEB_CONCURRENCY=2 RAILS_MAX_THREADS=5 $ URLS=./sample_works.txt wrk -c 1 -t 1 -d 3m --timeout 20s --latency -s load_test/multiplepaths.lua.txt https://scihist-digicoll.herokuapp.com/ multiplepaths: Found 400 paths multiplepaths: Found 400 paths Running 3m test @ https://scihist-digicoll.herokuapp.com/ 1 threads and 1 connections Thread Stats Avg Stdev Max +/- Stdev Latency 377.88ms 481.96ms 3.33s 86.57% Req/Sec 10.36 7.78 30.00 37.03% Latency Distribution 50% 117.62ms 75% 528.68ms 90% 1.02s 99% 2.19s 793 requests in 3.00m, 145.70MB read Requests/sec: 4.40 Transfer/sec: 828.70KB This is a lot closer to the ballpark of our current infrastructure. It’s a bit slower (117ms median intead of 90ms median), but in running this now and then over the past week it was remarkably, thankfully, consistent. Median and 99th percentile are both 28% slower (makes me feel comforted that those numbers are the same in these two runs!), that doesn’t bother me so much if it’s predictable and regular, which it appears to be. The max appears to me still a little bit less regular on heroku for some reason, since performance is supposed to be non-shared AWS resources, you wouldn’t expect it to be, but slow requests are slow, ok. 90th percentile is ~9x median, about the same as my current infrastructure. heroku performance-l: base speed $ heroku dyno:resize type size qty cost/mo ─────── ───────────── ─── ─────── web Performance-L 1 500 $ heroku config:get --shell WEB_CONCURRENCY RAILS_MAX_THREADS WEB_CONCURRENCY=2 RAILS_MAX_THREADS=5 URLS=./sample_works.txt wrk -c 1 -t 1 -d 3m --timeout 20s --latency -s load_test/multiplepaths.lua.txt https://scihist-digicoll.herokuapp.com/ multiplepaths: Found 400 paths multiplepaths: Found 400 paths Running 3m test @ https://scihist-digicoll.herokuapp.com/ 1 threads and 1 connections Thread Stats Avg Stdev Max +/- Stdev Latency 471.29ms 658.35ms 5.15s 87.98% Req/Sec 10.18 7.78 30.00 36.20% Latency Distribution 50% 123.08ms 75% 635.00ms 90% 1.30s 99% 2.86s 704 requests in 3.00m, 130.43MB read Requests/sec: 3.91 Transfer/sec: 741.94KB No news is good news, it looks very much like performance-m, which is exactly what we expected, because this isn’t a load test. It tells us that performance-m and performance-l seem to have similar CPU speeds and similar predictable non-variable regularity, which is what I find running this test periodically over a week. 90th percentile is ~10x median, about the same as current infrastructure. The higher Max speed is just evidence of what I mentioned, the speed of slowest request did seem to vary more than on our manual t2.medium, can’t really explain why. Summary: Base speed Not sure how helpful this visualization is, charting 50th, 75th, and 90th percentile responses across architectures. But basically: performance dynos perform similarly to my (bursting) t2.medium. Can’t explain why performance-l seems slightly slower than performance-m, might be just incidental variation when I ran the tests. The standard-2x is about twice as slow as my (bursting) t2.medium. Again recall standard-2x results varied a lot every time I ran them, the one I reported seems “typical” to me, that’s not super scientific, admittedly, but I’m confident that standard-2x are a lot slower in median response times than my current infrastructure. Throughput under load Ok, now we’re going to test using wrk to use more connections. In fact, I’ll test each setup with various number of connections, and graph the result, to get a sense of how each formation can handle throughput under load. (This means a lot of minutes to get all these results, at 3 minutes per number of connection test, per formation!). An additional thing we can learn from this test, on heroku we can look at how much RAM is being used after a load test, to get a sense of the app’s RAM usage under traffic to understand the maximum number of puma workers we might be able to fit in a given dyno. Existing t2.medium: Under load A t2.medium has 4G of RAM and 2 CPUs. We run 10 passenger workers (no multi-threading, since we are free, rather than enterprise, passenger). So what do we expect? With 2 CPUs and more than 2 workers, I’d expect it to handle 2 simultaneous streams of requests almost as well as 1; 3-10 should be quite a bit slower because they are competing for the 2 CPUs. Over 10, performance will probably become catastrophic. 2 connections are exactly flat with 1, as expected for our two CPUs, hooray! Then it goes up at a strikingly even line. Going over 10 (to 12) simultaneous connections doesn’t matter, even though we’ve exhausted our workers, I guess at this point there’s so much competition for the two CPUs already. The slope of this curve is really nice too actually. Without load, our median response time is 100ms, but even at a totally overloaded 12 overloaded connections, it’s only 550ms, which actually isn’t too bad. We can make a graph that in addition to median also has 75th, 90th, and 99th percentile response time on it: It doesn’t tell us too much; it tells us the upper percentiles rise at about the same rate as the median. At 1 simultaneous connection 90th percentile of 846ms is about 9 times the median of 93ms; at 10 requests the 90th percentile of 3.6 seconds is about 8 times the median of 471ms. This does remind us that under load when things get slow, this has more of a disastrous effect on already slow requests than fast requests. When not under load, even our 90th percentile was kind of sort of barley acceptable at 846ms, but under load at 3.6 seconds it really isn’t. Single Standard-2X dyno: Under load A standard-2X dyno has 1G of RAM. The (amazing, excellent, thanks schneems) heroku puma guide suggests running two puma workers with 5 threads each. At first I wanted to try running three workers, which seemed to fit into available RAM — but under heavy load-testing I was getting Heroku R14 Memory Quota Exceeded errors, so we’ll just stick with the heroku docs recommendations. Two workers with 5 threads each fit with plenty of headroom. A standard-2x dyno is runs on shared (multi-tenant) underlying Amazon virtual hardware. So while it is running on hardware with 4 CPUs (each of which can run two “hyperthreads“), the puma doc suggests “it is best to assume only one process can execute at a time” on standard dynos. What do we expect? Well, if it really only had one CPU, it would immediately start getting bad at 2 simulataneous connections, and just get worse from there. When we exceed the two worker count, will it get even worse? What about when we exceed the 10 thread (2 workers * 5 threads) count? You’d never run just one dyno if you were expecting this much traffic, you’d always horizontally scale. This very artificial test is just to get a sense of it’s characteristics. Also, we remember that standard-2x’s are just really variable; I could get much worse or better runs than this, but graphed numbers from a run that seemed typical. Well, it really does act like 1 CPU, 2 simultaneous connections is immediately a lot worse than 1. The line isn’t quite as straight as in our existing t2.medium, but it’s still pretty straight; I’d attribute the slight lumpiness to just the variability of shared-architecture standard dyno, and figure it would get perfectly straight with more data. It degrades at about the same rate of our baseline t2.medium, but when you start out slower, that’s more disastrous. Our t2.medium at an overloaded 10 simultaneous requests is 473ms (pretty tolerable actually), 5 times the median at one request only. This standard-2x has a median response time of 273 ms at only one simultaneous request, and at an overloaded 10 requests has a median response time also about 5x worse, but that becomes a less tolerable 1480ms. Does also graphing the 75th, 90th, and 99th percentile tell us much? Eh, I think the lumpiness is still just standard shared-architecture variability. The rate of “getting worse” as we add more overloaded connections is actually a bit better than it was on our t2.medium, but since it already starts out so much slower, we’ll just call it a wash. (On t2.medium, 90th percentile without load is 846ms and under an overloaded 10 connections 3.6s. On this single standard-2x, it’s 1.8s and 5.2s). I’m not sure how much these charts with various percentiles on them tell us, I’ll not include them for every architecture hence. standard-2x, 4 dynos: Under load OK, realistically we already know you shouldn’t have just one standard-2x dyno under that kind of load. You’d scale out, either manually or perhaps using something like the neat Rails Autoscale add-on. Let’s measure with 4 dynos. Each is still running 2 puma workers, with 5 threads each. What do we expect? Hm, treating each dyno as if it has only one CPU, we’d expect it to be able to handle traffic pretty levelly up to 4 simultenous connections, distributed to 4 dynos. It’s going to do worse after that, but up to 8 there is still one puma worker per connection so it might get even worse after 8? Well… I think that actually is relatively flat from 1 to 4 simultaneous connections, except for lumpiness from variability. But lumpiness from variability is huge! We’re talking 250ms median measured at 1 connection, up to 369ms measured median at 2, down to 274ms at 3. And then maybe yeah, a fairly shallow slope up to 8 simutaneous connections than steeper. But it’s all fairly shallow slope compared to our base t2.medium. At 8 connections (after which we pretty much max out), the standard-2x median of 464ms is only 1.8 times the median at 1 conection. Compared to the t2.median increase of 3.7 times. As we’d expect, scaling out to 4 dynos (with four cpus/8 hyperthreads) helps us scale well — the problem is the baseline is so slow to begin (with very high bounds of variability making it regularly even slower). performance-m: Under load A performance-m has 2.5 GB of memory. It only has one physical CPU, although two “vCPUs” (two hyperthreads) — and these are all your apps, it is not shared. By testing under load, I demonstrated I could actually fit 12 workers on there without any memory limit errors. But is there any point to doing that with only 1/2 CPUs? Under a bit of testing, it appeared not. The heroku puma docs recommend only 2 processes with 5 threads. You could do a whole little mini-experiment just trying to measure/optimize process/thread count on performance-m! We’ve already got too much data here, but in some experimentation it looked to me like 5 processes with 2 threads each performed better (and certainly no worse) than 2 processes with 5 threads — if you’ve got the RAM just sitting there anyway (as we do), why not? I actually tested with 6 puma processes with 2 threads each. There is still a large amount of RAM headroom we aren’t going to use even under load. What do we expect? Well, with the 2 “hyperthreads” perhaps it can handle 2 simultaneous requests nearly as well as 1 (or not?); after that, we expect it to degrade quickly same as our original t2.medium did. It an handle 2 connections slightly better than you’d expect if there really was only 1 CPU, so I guess a hyperthread does give you something. Then the slope picks up, as you’d expect; and it looks like it does get steeper after 4 simultaneous connections, yup. performance-l: Under load A performance-l ($500/month) costs twice as much as a performance-m ($250/month), but has far more than twice as much resources. performance-l has a whopping 14GB of RAM compared to performance-m’s 2.5GB; and performance-l has 4 real CPUs/hyperthreads available to use (visible using the nproc technique in the heroku puma article. Because we have plenty of RAM to do so, we’re going to run 10 worker processes to match our original t2.medium’s. We still ran with 2 threads, just cause it seems like maybe you should never run a puma worker with only one thread? But who knows, maybe 10 workers with 1 thread each would perform better; plenty of room (but not plenty of my energy) for yet more experimentation. What do we expect? The graph should be pretty flat up to 4 simultaneous connections, then it should start getting worse, pretty evenly as simultaneous connections rise all the way up to 12. It is indeed pretty flat up to 4 simultaneous connections. Then up to 8 it’s still not too bad — median at 8 is only ~1.5 median at 1(!). Then it gets worse after 8 (oh yeah, 8 hyperthreads?). But the slope is wonderfully shallow all the way. Even at 12 simultaneous connections, the median response time of 266ms is only 2.5x what it was at one connection. (In our original t2.medium, at 12 simultaneous connections median response time was over 5x what it was at 1 connection). This thing is indeed a monster. Summary Comparison: Under load We showed a lot of graphs that look similar, but they all had different sclaes on the y-axis. Let’s plot median response times under load of all architectures on the same graph, and see what we’re really dealing with. The blue t2.medium is our baseline, what we have now. We can see that there isn’t really a similar heroku option, we have our choice of better or worse. The performance-l is just plain better than what we have now. It starts out performing about the same as what we have now for 1 or 2 simultaneous connections, but then scales so much flatter. The performance-m also starts out about thesame, but sccales so much worse than even what we have now. (it’s that 1 real CPU instead of 2, I guess?). The standard-2x scaled to 4 dynos… has it’s own characteristics. It’s baseline is pretty terrible, it’s 2 to 3 times as slow as what we have now even not under load. But then it scales pretty well, since it’s 4 dynos after all, it doesn’t get worse as fast as performance-m does. But it started out so bad, that it remains far worse than our original t2.medium even under load. Adding more dynos to standard-2x will help it remain steady under even higher load, but won’t help it’s underlying problem that it’s just slower than everyone else. Discussion: Thoughts and Surprises I had been thinking of a t2.medium (even with burst) as “typical” (it is after all much slower than my 2015 Macbook), and has been assuming (in retrospect with no particular basis) that a heroku standard dyno would perform similarly. Most discussion and heroku docs, as well as the naming itself, suggest that a ‘standard’ dyno is, well, standard, and performance dynos are for “super scale, high traffic apps”, which is not me. But in fact, heroku standard dynos are much slower and more variable in performance than a bursting t2.medium. I suspect they are slower than other options you might consider non-heroku “typical” options. My conclusion is honestly that “standard” dynos are really “for very fast, well-optimized apps that can handle slow and variable CPU” and “performance” dynos are really “standard, matching the CPU speeds you’d get from a typical non-heroku option”. But this is not how they are documented or usually talked about. Are other people having really different experiences/conclusions than me? If so, why, or where have I gone wrong? This of course has implications for estimating your heroku budget if considering switching over. :( If you have a well-optimized fast app, say even 95th percentile is 200ms (on bursting t2.medium), then you can handle standard slowness — so what your 95th percentile is now 600ms (and during some time periods even much slower, 1s or worse, due to variability). That’s not so bad for a 95th percentile. One way to get a very fast is of course caching. There is lots of discussion of using caching in Rails, sometimes the message (explicit or implicit) is “you have to use lots of caching to get reasonable performance cause Rails is so slow.” What if many of these people are on heroku, and it’s really you have to use lots of caching to get reasonable performance on heroku standard dyno?? I personally don’t think caching is maintenance free; in my experience properly doing cache invalidation and dealing with significant processing spikes needed when you choose to invalidate your entire cache (cause cached HTML needs to change) lead to real maintenance/development cost. I have not needed caching to meet my performance goals on present architecture. Everyone doesn’t necessarily have the same performance goals/requirements. Mine of a low-traffic non-commercial site are are maybe more modest, I just need users not to be super annoyed. But whatever your performance goals, you’re going to have to spend more time on optimization on a heroku standard than something with much faster CPU — like a standard affordable mid-tier EC2. Am I wrong? One significant factor on heroku standard dyno performance is that they use shared/multi-tenant infrastructure. I wonder if they’ve actually gotten lower performance over time, as many customers (who you may be sharing with) have gotten better at maximizing their utilization, so the shared CPUs are typically more busy? Like a frog boiling, maybe nobody noticed that standard dynos have become lower performance? I dunno, brainstorming. Or maybe there are so many apps that start on heroku instead of switcching from somewhere else, that people just don’t realize that standard dynos are much slower than other low/mid-tier options? I was expecting to pay a premium for heroku — but even standard-2x’s are a significant premium over paying for t2.medium EC2 yourself, one I found quite reasonable…. performance dynos are of course even more premium. I had a sort of baked-in premise that most Rails apps are “IO-bound”, they spend more time waiting on IO than using CPU. I don’t know where I got that idea, I heard it once a long time ago and it became part of my mental model. I now do not believe this is true true of my app, and I do not in fact believe it is true of most Rails apps in 2020. I would hypothesize that most Rails apps today are in fact CPU-bound. The performance-m dyno only has one CPU. I had somehow also been assuming that it would have two CPUs — I’m not sure why, maybe just because at that price! It would be a much better deal with two CPUs. Instead we have a huge jump from $250 performance-m to $500 performance-l that has 4x the CPUs and ~5x the RAM. So it doesn’t make financial sense to have more than one performance-m dyno, you might as well go to performance-l. But this really complicates auto-scaling, whether using Heroku’s feature , or the awesome Rails Autoscale add-on. I am not sure I can afford a performance-l all the time, and a performance-m might be sufficient most of the time. But if 20% of the time I’m going to need more (or even 5%, or even unexpectedly-mentioned-in-national-media), it would be nice to set things up to autoscale up…. I guess to financially irrational 2 or more performance-m’s? :( The performance-l is a very big machine, that is significantly beefier than my current infrastructure. And has far more RAM than I need/can use with only 4 physical cores. If I consider standard dynos to be pretty effectively low tier (as I do), heroku to me is kind of missing mid-tier options. A 2 CPU option at 2.5G or 5G of RAM would make a lot of sense to me, and actually be exactly what I need… really I think performance-m would make more sense with 2 CPUs at it’s existing already-premium price point, and to be called a “performance” dyno. . Maybe heroku is intentionally trying set options to funnel people to the highest-priced performance-l. Conclusion: What are we going to do? In my investigations of heroku, my opinion of the developer UX and general service quality only increases. It’s a great product, that would increase our operational capacity and reliability, and substitute for so many person-hours of sysadmin/operational time if we were self-managing (even on cloud architecture like EC2). But I had originally been figuring we’d use standard dynos (even more affordably, possibly auto-scaled with Rails Autoscale plugin), and am disappointed that they end up looking so much lower performance than our current infrastructure. Could we use them anyway? Response time going from 100ms to 300ms — hey, 300ms is still fine, even if I’m sad to lose those really nice numbers I got from a bit of optimization. But this app has a wide long-tail ; our 75th percentile going from 450ms to 1s, our 90th percentile going from 860ms to 1.74s and our 99th going from 2.3s to 4.4s — a lot harder to swallow. Especially when we know that due to standard dyno variability, a slow-ish page that on my present architecture is reliably 1.5s, could really be anywhere from 3 to 9(!) on heroku. I would anticipate having to spend a lot more developer time on optimization on heroku standard dynos — or, i this small over-burdened non-commercial shop, not prioritizing that (or not having the skills for it), and having our performance just get bad. So I’m really reluctant to suggest moving our app to heroku with standard dynos. A performance-l dyno is going to let us not have to think about performance any more than we do now, while scaling under high-traffic better than we do now — I suspect we’d never need to scale to more than one performance-l dyno. But it’s pricey for us. A performance-m dyno has a base-speed that’s fine, but scales very poorly and unaffordably. Doesn’t handle an increase in load very well as one dyno, and to get more CPUs you have to pay far too much (especially compared to standard dynos I had been assuming I’d use). So I don’t really like any of my options. If we do heroku, maybe we’ll try a performance-m, and “hope” our traffic is light enough that a single one will do? Maybe with Rails autoscale for traffic spikes, even though 2 performance-m dynos isn’t financially efficient? If we are scaling to 2 (or more!) performance-m’s more than very occasionally, switch to performance-l, which means we need to make sure we have the budget for it? jrochkind General Leave a comment November 19, 2020November 19, 2020 Deep Dive: Moving ruby projects from Travis to Github Actions for CI So this is one of my super wordy posts, if that’s not your thing abort now, but some people like them. We’ll start with a bit of context, then get to some detailed looks at Github Actions features I used to replace my travis builds, with example config files and examination of options available. For me, by “Continuous Integration” (CI), I mostly mean “Running automated tests automatically, on your code repo, as you develop”, on every PR and sometimes with scheduled runs. Other people may mean more expansive things by “CI”. For a lot of us, our first experience with CI was when Travis-ci started to become well-known, maybe 8 years ago or so. Travis was free for open source, and so darn easy to set up and use — especially for Rails projects, it was a time when it still felt like most services focused on docs and smooth fit for ruby and Rails specifically. I had heard of doing CI, but as a developer in a very small and non-profit shop, I want to spend time writing code not setting up infrastructure, and would have had to get any for-cost service approved up the chain from our limited budget. But it felt like I could almost just flip a switch and have Travis on ruby or rails projects working — and for free! Free for open source wasn’t entirely selfless, I think it’s part of what helped Travis literally define the market. (Btw, I think they were the first to invent the idea of a “badge” URL for a github readme?) Along with an amazing Developer UX (which is today still a paragon), it just gave you no reason not to use it. And then once using it, it started to seem insane to not have CI testing, nobody would ever again want to develop software without the build status on every PR before merge. Travis really set a high bar for ease of use in a developer tool, you didn’t need to think about it much, it just did what you needed, and told you what you needed to know in it’s read-outs. I think it’s an impressive engineering product. But then. End of an era Travis will no longer be supporting open source projects with free CI. The free open source travis projects originally ran on travis-ci.org, with paid commercial projects on travis-ci.com. In May 2018, they announced they’d be unifying these on travis-ci.com only, but with no announced plan that the policy for free open source would change. This migration seemed to proceed very slowly though. Perhaps because it was part of preparing the company for a sale, in Jan 2019 it was announced private equity firm Idera had bought travis. At the time the announcement said “We will continue to maintain a free, hosted service for open source projects,” but knowing what “private equity” usually means, some were concerned for the future. (HN discussion). While the FAQ on the migration to travis-ci.com still says that travis-ci.org should remain reliable until projects are fully migrated, in fact over the past few months travis-ci.org projects largely stopped building, as travis apparently significantly reduced resources on the platform. Some people began manually migrating their free open source projects to travis-ci.com where builds still worked. But, while the FAQ also still says “Will Travis CI be getting rid of free users? Travis CI will continue to offer a free tier for public or open-source repositories on travis-ci.com” — in fact, travis announced that they are ending the free service for open source. The “free tier” is a limited trial (available not just to open source), and when it expires, you can pay, or apply to a special program for an extension, over and over again. They are contradicting themselves enough that while I’m not sure exactly what is going to happen, but no longer trust them as a service. Enter Github Actions I work mostly on ruby and Rails projects. They are all open source, almost all of them use travis. So while (once moved to travis-ci.com) they are all currently working, it’s time to start moving them somewhere else, before I have dozens of projects with broken CI and still don’t know how to move them. And the new needs to be free — many of these projects are zero-budget old-school “volunteer” or “informal multi-institutional collaboration” open source. There might be several other options, but the one I chose is Github Actions — my sense that it had gotten mature enough to start approaching travis level of polish, and all of my projects are github-hosted, and Github Actions is free for unlimited use for open source. (pricing page; Aug 2019 announcement of free for open source). And we are really fortunate that it became mature and stable in time for travis to withdraw open source support (if travis had been a year earlier, we’d be in trouble). Github Actions is really powerful. It is built to do probably WAY MORE than travis does, definitely way beyond “automated testing” to various flows for deployment and artifact release, to really just about any kind of process for managing your project you want. The logic you can write almost unlimited, all running on github’s machines. As a result though…. I found it a bit overwhelming to get started. The Github Actions docs are just overwhelmingly abstract, there is so much there, you can almost anything — but I don’t actually want to learn a new platform, I just want to get automated test CI for my ruby project working! There are some language/project speccific Guides available, for node.js, python, a few different Java setups — but not for ruby or Rails! My how Rails has fallen, from when most services like this would be focusing on Rails use cases first. :( There are some third part guides available that might focus on ruby/rails, but one of the problems is that Actions has been evolving for a few years with some pivots, so it’s easy to find outdated instructions. One I found helpful orientation was this Drifting Ruby screencast. This screencast showed me there is a kind of limited web UI with integrated docs searcher — but i didn’t end up using it, I just created the text config file by hand, same as I would have for travis. Github provides templates for “ruby” or “ruby gem”, but the Drifting Ruby sccreencast said “these won’t really work for our ruby on rails application so we’ll have to set up one manually”, so that’s what I did too. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ But the cost of all the power github Actions provides is… there are a lot more switches and dials to understand and get right (and maintain over time and across multiple projects). I’m not someone who likes copy-paste without understanding it, so I spent some time trying to understand the relevant options and alternatives; in the process I found some things I might have otherwise copy-pasted from other people’s examples that could be improved. So I give you the results of my investigations, to hopefully save you some time, if wordy comprehensive reports are up your alley. A Simple Test Workflow: ruby gem, test with multiple ruby versions Here’s a file for a fairly simple test workflow. You can see it’s in the repo at .github/workflows. The name of the file doesn’t matter — while this one is called ruby.yml, i’ve since moved over to naming the file to match the name: key in the workflow for easier traceability, so I would have called it ci.yml instead. Triggers You can see we say that this workflow should be run on any push to master branch, and also for any pull_request at all. Many other examples I’ve seen define pull_request: branches: ["main"], which seems to mean only run on Pull Requests with main as the base. While that’s most of my PR’s, if there is ever a PR that uses another branch as a base for whatever reason, I still want to run CI! While hypothetically you should be able leave branches out to mean “any branch”, I only got it to work by explicitly saying branches: ["**"] Matrix For this gem, we want to run CI on multiple ruby versions. You can see we define them here. This works similarly to travis matrixes. If you have more than one matrix variable defined, the workflow will run for every combination of variables (hence the name “matrix”). matrix: ruby: [ '2.4.4', '2.5.1', '2.6.1', '2.7.0', 'jruby-9.1.17.0', 'jruby-9.2.9.0' ] In a given run, the current value of the matrix variables is available in github actions “context”, which you can acccess as eg ${{ matrix.ruby }}. You can see how I use that in the name, so that the job will show up with it’s ruby version in it. name: Ruby ${{ matrix.ruby }} Ruby install While Github itself provides an action for ruby install, it seems most people are using this third-party action. Which we reference as `ruby/setup-ruby@v1`. You can see we use the matrix.ruby context to tell the setup-ruby action what version of ruby to install, which works because our matrix values are the correct values recognized by the action. Which are documented in the README, but note that values like jruby-head are also supported. Note, although it isn’t clearly documented, you can say 2.4 to mean “latest available 2.4.x” (rather than it meaning “2.4.0”), which is hugely useful, and I’ve switched to doing that. I don’t believe that was available via travis/rvm ruby install feature. For a project that isn’t testing under multiple rubies, if we left out the with: ruby-version, the action will conveniently use a .ruby-version file present in the repo. Note you don’t need to put a gem install bundler into your workflow yourself, while I’m not sure it’s clearly documented, I found the ruby/setup-ruby action would do this for you (installing the latest available bundler, instead of using whatever was packaged with ruby version), btw regardless of whether you are using the bundler-cache feature (see below). Note on How Matrix Jobs Show Up to Github With travis, testing for multiple ruby or rails versions with a matrix, we got one (or, well, actually two) jobs showing up on the Github PR: Each of those lines summaries a collection of matrix jobs (eg different ruby versions). If any of the individual jobs without the matrix failed, the whole build would show up as failed. Success or failure, you could click on “Details” to see each job and it’s status: I thought this worked pretty well — especially for “green” builds I really don’t need to see the details on the PR, the summary is great, and if I want to see the details I can click through, great. With Github Actions, each matrix job shows up directly on the PR. If you have a large matrix, it can be… a lot. Some of my projects have way more than 6. On PR: Maybe it’s just because I was used to it, but I preferred the Travis way. (This also makes me think maybe I should change the name key in my workflow to say eg CI: Ruby 2.4.4 to be more clear? Oops, tried that, it just looks even weirder in other GH contexts, not sure.) Oh, also, that travis way of doing the build twice, once for “pr” and once for “push”? Github Actions doesn’t seem to do that, it just does one, I think corresponding to travis “push”. While the travis feature seemed technically smart, I’m not sure I ever actually saw one of these builds pass while the other failed in any of my projects, I probably won’t miss it. Badge Did you have a README badge for travis? Don’t forget to swap it for equivalent in Github Actions. The image url looks like: https://github.com/$OWNER/$REPOSITORY/workflows/$WORKFLOW_NAME/badge.svg?branch=master, where $WORKFLOW_NAME of course has to be URL-escaped if it ocntains spaces etc. The github page at https://github.com/owner/repo/actions, if you select a particular workflow/branch, does, like travis, give you a badge URL/markdown you can copy/paste if you click on the three-dots and then “Create status badge”. Unlike travis, what it gives you to copy/paste is just image markdown, it doesn’t include a link. But I definitely want the badge to link to viewing the results of the last build in the UI. So I do it manually. Limit to the speciifc workflow and branch that you made the badge for in the UI then just copy and paste the URL from the browser. A bit confusing markdown to construct manually, here’s what it ended up looking like for me: [![CI Status](https://github.com/jrochkind/attr_json/workflows/CI/badge.svg?branch=master)%5D(https://github.com/jrochkind/attr_json/actions?query=workflow%3ACI+branch%3Amaster) view raw gh_badge_markdown_example.txt hosted with ❤ by GitHub I copy and paste that from an existing project when I need it in a new one. :shrug: Require CI to merge PR? However, that difference in how jobs show up to Github, the way each matrix job shows up separately now, has an even more negative impact on requiring CI success to merge a PR. If you want to require that CI passes before merging a PR, you configure that at https://github.com/acct/project/settings/branches under “Branch protection rules”.When you click “Add Rule”, you can/must choose WHICH jobs are “required”. For travis, that’d be those two “master” jobs, but for the new system, every matrix job shows up separately — in fact, if you’ve been messing with job names trying to get it right as I have, you have any job name that was ever used in the last 7 days, and they don’t have the Github workflow name appended to them or anything (another reason to put github workflow name in the job name?). But the really problematic part is that if you edit your list of jobs in the matrix — adding or removing ruby versions as one does, or even just changing the name that shows up for a job — you have to go back to this screen to add or remove jobs as a “required status check”. That seems really unworkable to me, I’m not sure how it hasn’t been a major problem already for users. It would be better if we could configure “all the checks in the WORKFLOW, whatever they may be”, or perhaps best of all if we could configure a check as required in the workflow YML file, the same place we’re defining it, just a required_before_merge key you could set to true or use a matrix context to define or whatever. I’m currently not requiring status checks for merge on most of my projects (even though i did with travis), because I was finding it unmanageable to keep the job names sync’d, especially as I get used to Github Actions and kept tweaking things in a way that would change job names. So that’s a bit annoying. fail_fast: false By default, if one of the matrix jobs fails, Github Acitons will cancel all remaining jobs, not bother to run them at all. After all, you know the build is going to fail if one job fails, what do you need those others for? Well, for my use case, it is pretty annoying to be told, say, “Job for ruby 2.7.0 failed, we can’t tell you whether the other ruby versions would have passed or failed or not” — the first thing I want to know is if failed on all ruby versions or just 2.7.0, so now I’d have to spend extra time figuring that out manually? No thanks. So I set `fail_fast: false` on all of my workflows, to disable this behavior. Note that travis had a similar (opt-in) fast_finish feature, which worked subtly different: Travis would report failure to Github on first failure (and notify, I think), but would actually keep running all jobs. So when I saw a failure, I could click through to ‘details’ to see which (eg) ruby versions passed, from the whole matrix. This does work for me, so I’d chose to opt-in to that travis feature. Unfortunately, the Github Actions subtle difference in effect makes it not desirable to me. Note You may see some people referencing a Github Actions continue-on-error feature. I found the docs confusing, but after experimentation what this really does is mark a job as successful even when it fails. It shows up in all GH UI as succeeeded even when it failed, the only way to know it failed would be to click through to the actual build log to see failure in the logged console. I think “continue on error” is a weird name for this; it is not useful to me with regard to fine-tuning fail-fast; or honestly in any other use case I can think of that I have. Bundle cache? bundle install can take 60+ seconds, and be a significant drag on your build (not to mention a lot of load on rubygems servers from all these builds). So when travis introduced a feature to cache: bundler: true, it was very popular. True to form, Github Actions gives you a generic caching feature you can try to configure for your particular case (npm, bundler, whatever), instead of an out of the box feature “just do the right thing you for bundler, you figure it out”. The ruby/setup-ruby third-party action has a built-in feature to cache bundler installs for you, but I found that it does not work right if you do not have a Gemfile.lock checked into the repo. (Ie, for most any gem, rather than app, project). It will end up re-using cached dependencies even if there are new releases of some of your dependencies, which is a big problem for how I use CI for a gem — I expect it to always be building with latest releases of dependencies, so I can find out of one breaks the build. This may get fixed in the action. If you have an app (rather than gem) with a Gemfile.lock checked into repo, the bundler-cache: true feature should be just fine. Otherwise, Github has some suggestions for using the generic cache feature for ruby bundler (search for “ruby – bundler” on this page) — but I actually don’t believe they will work right without a Gemfile.lock checked into the repo either. Starting from that example, and using the restore-keys feature, I think it should be possible to design a use that works much like travis’s bundler cache did, and works fine without a checked-in Gemfile.lock. We’d want it to use a cache from the most recent previous (similar job), and then run bundle install anyway, and then cache the results again at the end always to be available for the next run. But I haven’t had time to work that out, so for now my gem builds are simply not using bundler caching. (my gem builds tend to take around 60 seconds to do a bundle install, so that’s in every build now, could be worse). update nov 27: The ruby/ruby-setup action should be fixed to properly cache-bust when you don’t have a Gemfile.lock checked in. If you are using a matrix for ruby version, as below, you must set the ruby version by setting the BUNDLE_GEMFILE env variable rather than the way we did it below, and there is is a certain way Github Action requires/provides you do that, it’s not just export. See the issue in ruby/ruby-setup project. Notifications: Not great Travis has really nice defaults for notifications: The person submitting the PR would get an email generally only on status changes (from pass to fail or fail to pass) rather than on every build. And travis would even figure out what email to send to based on what email you used in your git commits. (Originally perhaps a workaround to lack of Github API at travis’ origin, I found it a nice feature). And then travis has sophisticated notification customization available on a per-repo basis. Github notifications are unfortunately much more basic and limited. The only notification settings avaialable are for your entire account at https://github.com/settings/notifications, “GitHub Actions”. So they apply to all github workflows in all projects, there are no workflow- or project-specific settings. You can set to receive notification via web push or email or both or neither. You can receive notifications for all builds or only failed builds. That’s it. The author of a PR is the one who receives the notifications, same as in travis. You will get notifications for every single build, even repeated successes or failures in a series. I’m not super happy with the notification options. I may end up just turning off Github Actions notifications entirely for my account. Hypothetically, someone could probably write a custom Github action to give you notifications exactly how travis offered — after all, travis was using public GH API that should be available to any other author, and I think should be usable from within an action. But when I started to think through it, while it seemed an interesting project, I realized it was definitely beyond the “spare hobby time” I was inclined to give to it at present, especially not being much of a JS developer (the language of custom GH actions, generally). (While you can list third-party actions on the github “marketplace”, I don’t think there’s a way to charge for them). . There are custom third-party actions available to do things like notify slack for build completion; I haven’t looked too much into any of them, beyond seeing that I didn’t see any that would be “like travis defaults”. A more complicated gem: postgres, and Rails matrix Let’s move to a different example workflow file, in a different gem. You can see I called this one ci.yml, matching it’s name: CI, to have less friction for a developer (including future me) trying to figure out what’s going on. This gem does have rails as a dependency and does test against it, but isn’t actually a Rails engine as it happens. It also needs to test against Postgres, not just sqlite3. Scheduled Builds At one point travis introduced a feature for scheduling (eg) weekly builds even when no PR/commit had been made. I enthusiastically adopted this for my gem projects. Why? Gem releases are meant to work on a variety of different ruby versions and different exact versions of dependencies (including Rails). Sometimes a new release of ruby or rails will break the build, and you want to know about that and fix it. With CI builds happening only on new code, you find out about this with some random new code that is unlikely to be related to the failure; and you only find out about it on the next “new code” that triggers a build after a dependency release, which on some mature and stable gems could be a long time after the actual dependency release that broke it. So scheduled builds for gems! (I have no purpose for scheduled test runs on apps). Github Actions does have this feature. Hooray. One problem is that you will receive no notification of the result of the scheduled build, success or failure. :( I suppose you could include a third-party action to notify a fixed email address or Slack or something else; not sure how you’d configure that to apply only to the scheduled builds and not the commit/PR-triggered builds if that’s what you wanted. (Or make an custom action to file a GH issue on failure??? But make sure it doesn’t spam you with issues on repeated failures). I haven’t had the time to investigate this yet. Also oops just noticed this: “In a public repository, scheduled workflows are automatically disabled when no repository activity has occurred in 60 days.” Which poses some challenges for relying on scheduled builds to make sure a stable slow-moving gem isn’t broken by dependency updates. I definitely am committer on gems that are still in wide use and can go 6-12+ months without a commit, because they are mature/done. I still have it configured in my workflow; I guess even without notifications it will effect the “badge” on the README, and… maybe i’ll notice? Very far from ideal, work in progress. :( Rails Matrix OK, this one needs to test against various ruby versions AND various Rails versions. A while ago I realized that an actual matrix of every ruby combined with every rails was far too many builds. Fortunately, Github Actions supports the same kind of matrix/include syntax as travis, which I use. matrix: include: - gemfile: rails_5_0 ruby: 2.4 - gemfile: rails_6_0 ruby: 2.7 I use the appraisal gem to handle setting up testing under multiple rails versions, which I highly recommend. You could use it for testing variant versions of any dependencies, I use it mostly for varying Rails. Appraisal results in a separate Gemfile committed to your repo for each (in my case) rails version, eg ./gemfiles/rails_5_0.gemfile. So those values I use for my gemfile matrix key are actually portions of the Gemfile path I’m going to want to use for each job. Then we just need to tell bundler, in a given matrix job, to use the gemfile we specified in the matrix. The old-school way to do this is with the BUNDLE_GEMFILE environmental variable, but I found it error-prone to make sure it stayed consistently set in each workflow step. I found that the newer (although not that new!) bundle config set gemfile worked swimmingly! I just set it before the bundle install, it stays set for the rest of the run including the actual test run. steps: # [...] - name: Bundle install run: | bundle config set gemfile "${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/gemfiles/${{ matrix.gemfile }}.gemfile" bundle install --jobs 4 --retry 3 Note that single braces are used for ordinary bash syntax to reference the ENV variable ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}, but double braces for the github actions context value interpolation ${{ matrix.gemfile }}. Works great! Oh, note how we set the name of the job to include both ruby and rails matrix values, important for it showing up legibly in Github UI: name: ${{ matrix.gemfile }}, ruby ${{ matrix.ruby }}. Because of how we constructed our gemfile matrix, that shows up with job names rails_5_0, ruby 2.7. Still not using bundler caching in this workflow. As before, we’re concerned about the ruby/setup-ruby built-in bundler-cache feature not working as desired without a Gemfile.lock in the repo. This time, I’m also not sure how to get that feature to play nicely with the variant gemfiles and bundle config set gemfile. Github Actions makes you put together a lot more pieces together yourself compared to travis, there are still things I just postponed figuring out for now. Postgres This project needs to build against a real postgres. That is relatively easy to set up in Github Actions. Postgres normally by default allows connections on localhost without a username/password set, and my past builds (in travis or locally) took advantage of this to not bother setting one, which then the app didn’t have to know about. But the postgres image used for Github Actions doesn’t allow this, you have to set a username/password. So the section of the workflow that sets up postgres looks like: jobs: tests: services: db: image: postgres:9.4 env: POSTGRES_USER: postgres POSTGRES_PASSWORD: postgres ports: ['5432:5432'] 5432 is the default postgres port, we need to set it and map it so it will be available as expected. Note you also can specify whatever version of postgres you want, this one is intentionally testing on one a bit old. OK now our Rails app that will be executed under rspec needs to know that username and password to use in it’s postgres connection; when before it connected without a username/password. That env under the postgres service image is not actually available to the job steps. I didn’t find any way to DRY the username/password in one place, I had to repeat it in another env block, which I put at the top level of the workflow so it would apply to all steps. And then I had to alter my database.yml to use those ENV variables, in the test environment. On a local dev machine, if your postgres doens’t have a username/password requirement and you don’t set the ENV variables, it keeps working as before. I also needed to add host: localhost to the database.yml; before, the absence of the host key meant it used a unix-domain socket (filesystem-located) to connect to postgres, but that won’t work in the Github Actions containerized environment. Note, there are things you might see in other examples that I don’t believe you need: No need for an apt-get of pg dev libraries. I think everything you need is on the default GH Actions images now. Some examples I’ve seen do a thing with options: --health-cmd pg_isready, my builds seem to be working just fine without it, and less code is less code to maintain. allow_failures In travis, I took advantage of the travis allow_failures key in most of my gems. Why? I am testing against various ruby and Rails versions; I want to test against *future* (pre-release, edge) ruby and rails versions, cause its useful to know if I’m already with no effort passing on them, and I’d like to keep passing on them — but I don’t want to mandate it, or prevent PR merges if the build fails on a pre-release dependency. (After all, it could very well be a bug in the dependency too!) There is no great equivalent to allow_failures in Github Actions. (Note again, continue_on_error just makes failed jobs look identical to successful jobs, and isn’t very helpful here). I investigated some alternatives, which I may go into more detail on in a future post, but on one project I am trying a separate workflow just for “future ruby/rails allowed failures” which only checks master commits (not PRs), and has a separate badge on README (which is actually pretty nice for advertising to potential users “Yeah, we ALREADY work on rails edge/6.1.rc1!”). Main downside there is having to copy/paste synchronize what’s really the same workflow in two files. A Rails app I have many more number of projects I’m a committer on that are gems, but I spend more of my time on apps, one app in specific. So here’s an example Github Actions CI workflow for a Rails app. It mostly remixes the features we’ve already seen. It doesn’t need any matrix. It does need a postgres. It does need some “OS-level” dependencies — the app does some shell-out to media utilities like vips and ffmpeg, and there are integration tests that utilize this. Easy enough to just install those with apt-get, works swimmingly. - name: Install apt dependencies run: | sudo apt-get -y install libvips-tools ffmpeg mediainfo Update 25 Nov: My apt-get that worked for a couple weeks started failing for some reason on trying to install a libpulse0 dependency of one of those packages, the solution was doing a sudo apt-get update before the sudo apt-get install. I guess this is always good practice? (That forum post also uses apt install and apt update instead of apt-get install and apt-get update, that I can’t tell you much about, I’m really not a linux admin). In addition to the bundle install, a modern Rails app using webpacker needs yarn install. This just worked for me — no need to include lines for installing npm itself or yarn or any yarn dependencies, although some examples I find online have them. (My yarn installs seem to happen in ~20 seconds, so I’m not motivated to try to figure out caching for yarn). And we need to create the test database in the postgres, which I do with RAILS_ENV=test bundle exec rails db:create — typical Rails test setup will then automatically run migrations if needed. There might be other (better?) ways to prep the database, but I was having trouble getting rake db:prepare to work, and didn’t spend the time to debug it, just went with something that worked. - name: Set up app run: | RAILS_ENV=test bundle exec rails db:create yarn install Rails test setup usually ends up running migrations automatically is why I think this worked alone, but you could also throw in a RAILS_ENV=test bundle exec rake db:schema:load if you wanted. Under travis I had to install chrome with addons: chrome: stable to have it available to use with capybara via the webdrivers gem. No need for installing chrome in Github Actions, some (recent-ish?) version of it is already there as part of the standard Github Actions build image. In this workflow, you can also see a custom use of the github “cache” action to cache a Solr install that the test setup automatically downloads and sets up. In this case the cache doesn’t actually save us any build time, but is kinder on the apache foundation servers we are downloading from with every build otherwise (and have gotten throttled from in the past). Conclusion Github Aciton sis a really impressively powerful product. And it’s totally going to work to replace travis for me. It’s also probably going to take more of my time to maintain. The trade-off of more power/flexibility and focusing on almost limitless use cases is more things th eindividual project has to get right for their use case. For instance figuring out the right configuration to get caching for bundler or yarn right, instead of just writing cache: { yarn: true, bundler: true}. And when you have to figure it out yourself, you can get it wrong, which when you are working on many projects at once means you have a bunch of places to fix. The amazingness of third-party action “marketplace” means you have to figure out the right action to use (the third-party ruby/setup-ruby instead of the vendor’s actions/setup-ruby), and again if you change your mind about that you have a bunch of projects to update. Anyway, it is what it is — and I’m grateful to have such a powerful and in fact relatively easy to use service available for free! I could not really live without CI anymore, and won’t have to! Oh, and Github Actions is giving me way more (free) simultaneous parallel workers than travis ever did, for my many-job builds! jrochkind General 3 Comments November 12, 2020November 27, 2020 Unexpected performance characteristics when exploring migrating a Rails app to Heroku I work at a small non-profit research institute. I work on a Rails app that is a “digital collections” or “digital asset management” app. Basically it manages and provides access (public as well as internal) to lots of files and description about those files, mostly images. It’s currently deployed on some self-managed Amazon EC2 instances (one for web, one for bg workers, one in which postgres is installed, etc). It gets pretty low-traffic in general web/ecommerce/Rails terms. The app is definitely not very optimized — we know it’s kind of a RAM hog, we know it has many actions whose response time is undesirable. But it works “good enough” on it’s current infrastructure for current use, such that optimizing it hasn’t been the highest priority. We are considering moving it from self-managed EC2 to heroku, largely because we don’t really have the capacity to manage the infrastructure we currently have, especially after some recent layoffs. Our Rails app is currently served by passenger on an EC2 t2.medium (4G of RAM). I expected the performance characteristics moving to heroku “standard” dynos would be about the same as they are on our current infrastructure. But was surprised to see some degradation: Responses seem much slower to come back when deployed, mainly for our slowest actions. Quick actions are just as quick on heroku, but slower ones (or perhaps actions that involve more memory allocations?) are much slower on heroku. The application instances seem to take more RAM running on heroku dynos than they do on our EC2 (this one in particular mystifies me). I am curious if anyone with more heroku experience has any insight into what’s going on here. I know how to do profiling and performance optimization (I’m more comfortable with profiling CPU time with ruby-prof than I am with trying to profile memory allocations with say derailed_benchmarks). But it’s difficult work, and I wasn’t expecting to have to do more of it as part of a migration to heroku, when performance characteristics were acceptable on our current infrastructure. Response Times (CPU) Again, yep, know these are fairly slow response times. But they are “good enough” on current infrastruture (EC2 t2.medium), wasn’t expecting them to get worse on heroku (standard-1x dyno, backed by heroku pg standard-0 ). Fast pages are about the same, but slow pages (that create a lot of objects in memory?) are a lot slower. This is not load testing, I am not testing under high traffic or for current requests. This is just accessing demo versions of the app manually one page a time, to see response times when the app is only handling one response at a time. So it’s not about how many web workers are running or fit into RAM or anything; one is sufficient. Action Existing EC2 t2.medium Heroku standard-1x dyno Slow reporting page that does a few very expensive SQL queries, but they do not return a lot of objects. Rails logging reports: Allocations: 8704 ~3800ms ~3200ms (faster pg?) Fast page with a few AR/SQL queries returning just a few objects each, a few partials, etc. Rails logging reports: Allocations: 8205 81-120ms ~120ms A fairly small “item” page, Rails logging reports: Allocations: 40210 ~200ms ~300ms A medium size item page, loads a lot more AR models, has a larger byte size page response. Allocations: 361292 ~430ms 600-700ms One of our largest pages, fetches a lot of AR instances, does a lot of allocations, returns a very large page response. Allocations: 1983733 3000-4000ms 5000-7000ms Fast-ish responses (and from this limited sample, actually responses with few allocations even if slow waiting on IO?) are about the same. But our slowest/highest allocating actions are ~50% slower on heroku? Again, I know these allocations and response times are not great even on our existing infrastructure; but why do they get so much worse on heroku? (No, there were no heroku memory errors or swapping happening). RAM use of an app instance We currently deploy with passenger (free), running 10 workers on our 4GB t2.medium. To compare apples to apples, deployed using passenger on a heroku standard-1x. Just one worker instance (because that’s actually all I can fit on a standard-1x!), to compare size of a single worker from one infrastructure to the other. On our legacy infrastructure, on a server that’s been up for 8 days of production traffic, passenger-status looks something like this:   Requests in queue: 0   * PID: 18187   Sessions: 0       Processed: 1074398   Uptime: 8d 23h 32m 12s     CPU: 7%      Memory  : 340M    Last used: 1s   * PID: 18206   Sessions: 0       Processed: 78200   Uptime: 8d 23h 32m 12s     CPU: 0%      Memory  : 281M    Last used: 22s   * PID: 18225   Sessions: 0       Processed: 2951    Uptime: 8d 23h 32m 12s     CPU: 0%      Memory  : 197M    Last used: 8m 8   * PID: 18244   Sessions: 0       Processed: 258     Uptime: 8d 23h 32m 11s     CPU: 0%      Memory  : 161M    Last used: 1h 2   * PID: 18261   Sessions: 0       Processed: 127     Uptime: 8d 23h 32m 11s     CPU: 0%      Memory  : 158M    Last used: 1h 2   * PID: 18278   Sessions: 0       Processed: 105     Uptime: 8d 23h 32m 11s     CPU: 0%      Memory  : 169M    Last used: 3h 2   * PID: 18295   Sessions: 0       Processed: 96      Uptime: 8d 23h 32m 11s     CPU: 0%      Memory  : 163M    Last used: 3h 2   * PID: 18312   Sessions: 0       Processed: 91      Uptime: 8d 23h 32m 11s     CPU: 0%      Memory  : 169M    Last used: 13h   * PID: 18329   Sessions: 0       Processed: 92      Uptime: 8d 23h 32m 11s     CPU: 0%      Memory  : 163M    Last used: 13h   * PID: 18346   Sessions: 0       Processed: 80      Uptime: 8d 23h 32m 11s     CPU: 0%      Memory  : 162M    Last used: 13h We can see, yeah, this app is low traffic, most of those workers don’t see a lot of use. The first worker, which has handled by far the most traffic has a Private RSS of 340M. (Other workers having handled fewer requests much slimmer). Kind of overweight, not sure where all that RAM is going, but it is what it is. I could maybe hope to barely fit 3 workers on a heroku standard-2 (1024M) instance, if these sizes were the same on Heroku. This is after a week of production use — if I restart passenger on a staging server, and manually access some of my largest, hungriest, most-allocating pages a few times, I can only see Private RSS use of like 270MB. However, on the heroku standard-1x, with one passenger worker, using the heroku log-runtime-metrics feature to look at memory… private RSS is I believe what should correspond to passenger’s report, and what heroku uses for memory capacity limiting… Immediately after restarting my app, it’s at sample#memory_total=184.57MB sample#memory_rss=126.04MB. After manually accessing a few of my “hungriest” actions, I see: sample#memory_total=511.36MB sample#memory_rss=453.24MB . Just a few manual requests not a week of production traffic, and 33% more RAM than on my legacy EC2 infrastructure after a week of production traffic. Actually approaching the limits of what can fit in a standard-1x (512MB) dyno as just one worker. Now, is heroku’s memory measurements being done differently than passenger-status does them? Possibly. It would be nice to compare apples to apples, and passenger hypothetically has a service that would let you access passenger-status results from heroku… but unfortunately I have been unable to get it to work. (Ideas welcome). Other variations tried on heroku Trying the heroku gaffneyc/jemalloc build-pack with heroku config:set JEMALLOC_ENABLED=true (still with passenger, one worker instance) doesn’t seem to have made any significant differences, maybe 5% RAM savings or maybe it’s a just a fluke. Switching to puma (puma5 with the experimental possibly memory-saving features turned on; just one worker with one thread), doesn’t make any difference in response time performance (none expected), but… maybe does reduce RAM usage somehow? After a few sample requests of some of my hungriest pages, I see sample#memory_total=428.11MB sample#memory_rss=371.88MB, still more than my baseline, but not drastically so. (with or without jemalloc buildpack seems to make no difference). Odd. So what should I conclude? I know this app could use a fitness regime; but it performs acceptably on current infrastructure. We are exploring heroku because of staffing capacity issues, hoping to not to have to do so much ops. But if we trade ops for having to spend much time on challenging (not really suitable for junior dev) performance optimization…. that’s not what we were hoping for! But perhaps I don’t know what I’m doing, and this haphapzard anecdotal comparison is not actually data and I shoudn’t conclude much from it? Let me know, ideally with advice of how to do it better? Or… are there reasons to expect different performance chracteristics from heroku? Might it be running on underlying AWS infrastructure that has less resources than my t2.medium? Or, starting to make guess hypotheses, maybe the fact that heroku standard tier does not run on “dedicated” compute resources means I should expect a lot more variance compared to my own t2.medium, and as a result when deploying on heroku you need to optimize more (so the worst case of variance isn’t so bad) than when running on your own EC? That’s maybe just part of what you get with heroku, unless paying for performance dynos, it is even more important to have an good performing app? (yeah, I know I could use more caching, but that of course brings it’s own complexities, I wasn’t expecting to have to add it in as part of a heroku migration). Or… I find it odd that it seems like slower (or more allocating?) actions are the ones that are worse. Is there any reason that memory allocations would be even more expensive on a heroku standard dyno than on my own EC2 t2.medium? And why would the app workers seem to use so much more RAM on heroku than on my own EC2 anyway? Any feedback or ideas welcome! jrochkind General 10 Comments October 15, 2020 faster_s3_url: Optimized S3 url generation in ruby Subsequent to my previous investigation about S3 URL generation performance, I ended up writing a gem with optimized implementations of S3 URL generation. github: faster_s3_url It has no dependencies (not even aws-sdk). It can speed up both public and presigned URL generation by around an order of magnitude. In benchmarks on my 2015 MacBook compared to aws-sdk-s3: public URLs from 180 in 10ms to 2200 in 10ms; presigned URLs from 10 in 10ms to 300 in 10ms (!!). While if you are only generating a couple S3 URLs at a time you probably wouldn’t notice aws-sdk-ruby’s poor performance, if you are generating even just hundreds at a time, and especially for presigned URLs, it can really make a difference. faster_s3_url supports the full API for aws-sdk-s3 presigned URLs , including custom params like response_content_disposition. It’s tests actually test that results match what aws-sdk-s3 would generate. For shrine users, faster_s3_url includes a Shrine storage sub-class that can be drop-in replacement of Shrine::Storage::S3 to just have all your S3 URL generations via shrine be using the optimized implementation. Key in giving me the confidence to think I could pull off an independent S3 presigned URL implementation was WeTransfer’s wt_s3_signer gem be succesful. wt_s3_signer makes some assumptions/restrictions to get even higher performance than faster_s3_url (two or three times as fast) — but the restrictions/assumptions and API to get that performance weren’t suitable for use cases, so I implemented my own. jrochkind General Leave a comment October 1, 2020 Delete all S3 key versions with ruby AWS SDK v3 If your S3 bucket is versioned, then deleting an object from s3 will leave a previous version there, as a sort of undo history. You may have a “noncurrent expiration lifecycle policy” set which will delete the old versions after so many days, but within that window, they are there. What if you were deleting something that accidentally included some kind of sensitive or confidential information, and you really want it gone? To make matters worse, if your bucket is public, the version is public too, and can be requested by an unauthenticated user that has the URL including a versionID, with a URL that looks something like: https://mybucket.s3.amazonaws.com/path/to/someting.pdf?versionId=ZyxTgv_pQAtUS8QGBIlTY4eKmANAYwHT To be fair, it would be pretty hard to “guess” this versionID! But if it’s really sensitive info, that might not be good enough. It was a bit tricky for me to figure out how to do this with the latest version of ruby SDK (as I write, “v3“, googling sometimes gave old versions). It turns out you need to first retrieve a list of all versions with bucket.object_versions . With no arg, that will return ALL the versions in the bucket, which could be a lot to retrieve, not what you want when focused on just deleting certain things. If you wanted to delete all versions in a certain “directory”, that’s actually easiest of all: s3_bucket.object_versions(prefix: "path/to/").batch_delete! But what if you want to delete all versions from a specific key? As far as I can tell, this is trickier than it should be. # danger! This may delete more than you wanted s3_bucket.object_versions(prefix: "path/to/something.doc").batch_delete! Because of how S3 “paths” (which are really just prefixes) work, that will ALSO delete all versions for path/to/something.doc2 or path/to/something.docdocdoc etc, for anything else with that as a prefix. There probably aren’t keys like that in your bucket, but that seems dangerously sloppy to assume, that’s how we get super weird bugs later. I guess there’d be no better way than this? key = "path/to/something.doc" s3_bucket.object_versions(prefix: key).each do |object_version| object_version.delete if object_version.object_key == key end Is there anyone reading this who knows more about this than me, and can say if there’s a better way, or confirm if there isn’t? jrochkind General Leave a comment September 23, 2020 Github Actions tutorial for ruby CI on Drifting Ruby I’ve been using travis for free automated testing (“continuous integration”, CI) on my open source projects for a long time. It works pretty well. But it’s got some little annoyances here and there, including with github integration, that I don’t really expect to get fixed after its acquisition by private equity. They also seem to have cut off actual support channels (other than ‘forums’) for free use; I used to get really good (if not rapid) support when having troubles, now I kinda feel on my own. So after hearing about the pretty flexible and powerful newish Github Actions feature, I was interested in considering that as an alternative. It looks like it should be free for public/open source projects on github. And will presumably have good integration with the rest of github and few kinks. Yeah, this is an example of how a platform getting an advantage starting out by having good third-party integration can gradually come to absorb all of that functionality itself; but I just need something that works (and, well, is free for open source), I don’t want to spend a lot of time on CI, I just want it to work and get out of the way. (And Github clearly introduced this feature to try to avoid being overtaken by Gitlab, which had integrated flexible CI/CD). So anyway. I was interested in it, but having a lot of trouble figuring out how to set it up. Github Actions is a very flexible tool, a whole platform really, which you can use to set up almost any kind of automated task you want, in many different languages. Which made it hard for me to figure out “Okay, I just want tests to run on all PR commits, and report back to the PR if it’s mergeable”. And it was really hard to figure this out from the docs, it’s such a flexible abstract tool. And I have found it hard to find third party write-ups and tutorials and blogs and such — in part because Github Actions was in beta development for so long, that some of the write-ups I did find were out of date. Fortunately Drifting Ruby has provided a great tutorial, which gets you started with a basic ruby CI testing. It looks pretty straightforward to for instance figure out how to swap in rspec for rake test. And I always find it easier to google for solutions to additional fancy things I want to do, finding results either in official docs or third-party blogs, when I have the basic skeleton in place. I hope to find time to experiment with Github Actions in the future. I am writing this blog post in part to log for myself the Drifting Ruby episode so I don’t lose it! The show summary has this super useful template: .github/workflows/main.yml name: CI on: push: branches: [ master, develop ] pull_request: branches: [ master, develop ] jobs: test: # services: # db: # image: postgres:11 # ports: ['5432:5432'] runs-on: ubuntu-latest steps: – uses: actions/checkout@v2 – name: Setup Ruby uses: ruby/setup-ruby@v1.45.0 with: ruby-version: 2.7.1 – uses: Borales/actions-yarn@v2.3.0 with: cmd: install – name: Install Dependencies run: | # sudo apt install -yqq libpq-dev gem install bundler – name: Install Gems run: | bundle install – name: Prepare Database run: | bundle exec rails db:prepare – name: Run Tests # env: # DATABASE_URL: postgres://postgres:@localhost:5432/databasename # RAILS_MASTER_KEY: ${{secrets.RAILS_MASTER_KEY}} run: | bundle exec rails test – name: Create Coverage Artifact uses: actions/upload-artifact@v2 with: name: code-coverage path: coverage/ security: runs-on: ubuntu-latest steps: – uses: actions/checkout@v2 – name: Setup Ruby uses: ruby/setup-ruby@v1.45.0 with: ruby-version: 2.7.1 – name: Install Brakeman run: | gem install brakeman – name: Run Brakeman run: | brakeman -f json > tmp/brakeman.json || exit 0 – name: Brakeman Report uses: devmasx/brakeman-linter-action@v1.0.0 env: REPORT_PATH: tmp/brakeman.json GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN}} view raw github-actions-ruby-ci-example.yaml hosted with ❤ by GitHub jrochkind General Leave a comment September 9, 2020September 9, 2020 More benchmarking optimized S3 presigned_url generation In a recent post, I explored profiling and optimizing S3 presigned_url generation in ruby to be much faster. In that post, I got down to using a Aws::Sigv4::Signer instance from the AWS SDK, but wondered if there was a bunch more optimization to be done within that black box. Julik posted a comment on that post, letting us know that they at WeTransfer have already spent some time investigating and creating an optimized S3 URL signer, at https://github.com/WeTransfer/wt_s3_signer . Nice! It is designed for somewhat different use cases than mine, but is still useful — and can be benchmarked against the other techniques. Some things to note: wt_s3_signer does not presently do URI escaping; it may or may not be noticeably slower if it did; it will not generate working URLs if your S3 keys include any characters that need to be escaped in the URI wt_s3_signer gets ultimate optimizations by having you re-use a signer object, that has a fixed/common datestamp and expiration and other times. That doesn’t necessarily fit into the APIs I want to fit it into — but can we still get performance advantage by re-creating the object each time with those things? (Answer, yes, although not quite as much. ) wt_s3_signer does not let you supply additional query parameters, such as response_content_disposition or response_content_type. I actually need this feature; and need it to be different for each presigned_url created even in a batch. wt_s3_signer’s convenience for_s3_bucket constructor does do at least one network request to S3… to look up the appropriate AWS region I guess? That makes it far too expensive to re-use for_s3_bucket convenience constructor once-per-url, but I don’t want to do this anyway, I’d rather just pass in the known region, as well as the known bucket base URL, etc. Fortunately the code is already factored well to give us a many-argument plain constructor where we can just pass that all in, with no network lookups triggered. Insists on looking up AWS credentials from the standard locations, there’s no way to actually pass in an access_key_id and secret_access_key explicitly, which is a problem for some use cases where an app needs to use more than one set of credentials. Benchmarks So the benchmarks! This time I switched to benchmark-ips, cause, well, it’s just better. I am benchmarking 1200 URL generations again. I am benchmarking re-using a single WT::S3Signer object for all 1200 URLs, as the gem intends. But also compared to instantiating a WT::S3Signer for each URL generation — using WT::S3Signer.new, not WT::S3Signer.for_s3_bucket — the for_s3_bucket version cannot be used instantiated once per URL generation without crazy bad performance (I did try, although it’s not included in these benchmarks). I include all the presigned_url techniques I demo’d in the last post, but for clarity took any public url techniques out. Calculating ------------------------------------- sdk presigned_url 1.291 (± 0.0%) i/s - 7.000 in 5.459268s use inline instantiated Aws::Sigv4::Signer directly for presigned url (with escaping) 4.950 (± 0.0%) i/s - 25.000 in 5.082505s Re-use Aws::Sigv4::Signer for presigned url (with escaping) 5.458 (±18.3%) i/s - 27.000 in 5.037205s Re-use Aws::Sigv4::Signer for presigned url (without escaping) 5.751 (±17.4%) i/s - 29.000 in 5.087846s wt_s3_signer re-used 45.925 (±15.2%) i/s - 228.000 in 5.068666s wt_s3_signer instantiated each time 15.924 (±18.8%) i/s - 75.000 in 5.016276s Comparison: wt_s3_signer re-used: 45.9 i/s wt_s3_signer instantiated each time: 15.9 i/s - 2.88x (± 0.00) slower Re-use Aws::Sigv4::Signer for presigned url (without escaping): 5.8 i/s - 7.99x (± 0.00) slower Re-use Aws::Sigv4::Signer for presigned url (with escaping): 5.5 i/s - 8.41x (± 0.00) slower use inline instantiated Aws::Sigv4::Signer directly for presigned url (with escaping): 5.0 i/s - 9.28x (± 0.00) slower sdk presigned_url: 1.3 i/s - 35.58x (± 0.00) slower Wow! Re-using a single WT::S3Signer, as the intend, is a LOT LOT faster than anything else — 35x faster than the built-in AWS SDK presigned_url method! But even instantiating a new WT::S3Signer for each URL — while significantly slower than re-use — is still significantly faster than any of the methods using an AWS SDK Aws::Sigv4::Signer directly, and still a lot lot faster than the AWS SDK presigned_url method. So this has promise, even if you re-use the thing, it’s better than any other option. I may try to PR and/or fork to get some of the features I’d need in there… although the license is problematic for many projects I work on. With the benchmarking showing the value of this approach, I could also just try to reimplement from scratch based on the Amazon instructions/example code that wt_s3_signer itself used, and/or the ruby AWS SDK implementation. jrochkind General 1 Comment September 3, 2020 Delivery patterns for non-public resources hosted on S3 I work at the Science History Institute on our Digital Collections app (written in Rails), which is kind of a “digital asset management” app combined with a public catalog of our collection. We store many high-resolution TIFF images that can be 100MB+ each, as well as, currently, a handful of PDFs and audio files. We have around 31,000 digital assets, which make up about 1.8TB. In addition to originals, we have “derivatives” for each file (JPG conversions of a TIFF original at various sizes; MP3 conversions of FLAC originals; etc) — around 295,000 derivatives (~10 per original) taking up around 205GB. Not a huge amount of data compared to some, but big enough to be something to deal with, and we expect it could grow by an order of magnitude in the next couple years. We store them all — originals and derivatives — in S3, which generally works great. We currently store them all in public S3 buckets, and when we need an image thumb url for an , we embed a public S3 URL (as opposed to pre-signed URLs) right in our HTML source. Having the user-agent get the resources directly from S3 is awesome, because our app doesn’t have to worry about handling that portion of the “traffic”, something S3 is quite good at (and there are CDN options which work seamlessly with S3 etc; although our traffic is currently fairly low and we aren’t using a CDN). But this approach stops working if some of your assets can not be public, and need to be access-controlled with some kind of authorization. And we are about to start hosting a class of assets that are such. Another notable part of our app is that in it’s current design it can have a LOT of img src thumbs on a page. Maybe 600 small thumbs (one or each scanned page of a book), each of which might use an img srcset to deliver multiple resolutions. We use Javascript lazy load code so the browser doesn’t actually try to load all these img src unless they are put in viewport, but it’s still a lot of URLs generated on the page, and potentially a lot of image loads. While this might be excessive and a design in ned of improvement, a 10×10 grid of postage-stamp-sized thumbs on a page (each of which could use a srcset) does not seem unreasonable, right? There can be a lot of URLs on a page in an “asset management” type app, it’s how it is. As I looked around for advice on this or analysis of the various options, I didn’t find much. So, in my usual verbose style, I’m going to outline my research and analysis of the various options here. None of the options are as magically painless as using public bucket public URL on S3, alas. All public-read ACLs, Public URLs What we’re doing now. The S3 bucket is set as public, all files have S3 public-read ACL set, and we use S3 “public” URLs as in our app. Which might look like https://my-bucket.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/path/to/thumb.jpg . For actual downloads, we might still use an S3 presigned url , not for access control (the object is already public), but to specify a content-disposition response header for S3 to use on the fly. Pro URLs are persistent and stable and can be bookmarked, or indexed by search engines. (We really want our images in Google Images for visibility) And since the URLs are permanent and good indefinitely, they aren’t a problem for HTML including these urls in source to be cached indefinitely. (as long as you don’t move your stuff around in your S3 buckets). S3 public URLs are much cheaper to generate than the cryptographically presigned URLs, so it’s less of a problem generating 1200+ of them in a page response. (And can be optimized an order of magnitude further beyond the ruby SDK implementation). S3 can scale to handle a lot of traffic, and Cloudfront or another CDN can easily be used to scale further. Putting a CDN on top of a public bucket is trivial. Our Rails app is entirely uninvolved in delivering the actual images, so we don’t need to use precious Rails workers on delivering images. Con Some of our materials are still being worked on by staff, and haven’t actually been published yet. But they are still in S3 with a public-read ACL. They have hard to guess URLs that shouldn’t be referred to on any publically viewable web page — but we know that shouldn’t be relied upon for anything truly confidential. That has been an acceptable design so far, as none of these materials are truly confidential, even if not yet published to our site. But this is about to stop being acceptable as we include more truly confidential materials. All protected ACL, REDIRECT to presigned URL This is the approach taken by Rails’ ActiveStorage does in standard setup/easy path. It assumes all resources will stored to S3 without public ACL; a random user can’t access via S3 without a time-limited presigned URL being supplied by the app. ActiveStorage’s standard implementation will give you a URL to your Rails app itself when you ask for a URL for an S3-stored asset — a rails URL is what might be in your urls. That Rails URL will redirect to a unique temporary S3 presigned URL that allows access to the non-public resource. Pro This pattern allows your app to decide based on current request/logged-in-user and asset, whether to grant acccess, on a case by case basis. (Although it’s not clear to me where the hooks are in ActiveStorage for this; I don’t actually use ActiveStorage, and it’s easy enough to implement this pattern generally, with authorization logic). S3 is still delivering assets directly to your users, so scaling issues are still between S3 and the requestor, and your app doesn’t have to get involved. The URLs that show up in your delivered HTML pages, say as or URLs — are pointing your app, and are still persistent and indefinitely valid — so the HTML is still indefinitely cacheable by any HTTP cache. The will redirect to a unique-per-user and temporary presigned URL, but that’s not what’s in the HTML source. You can even more your images around (to different buckets/locations or entirely different services) without invalidating the cache of the HTML. the URLs in your cached HTML don’t change, where they redirect to do. (This may be ActiveStorage’s motivation for this design?) Cons Might this interfere with Google Images indexing? While it’s hard (for me) to predict what might effect Google Images indexing, my own current site’s experience seems to say its actually fine. Google is willing to index an image “at” a URL that actually HTTP 302 redirects to a presigned S3 URL. Even though on every access the redirect will be to a different URL, Google doesn’t seem to think this is fishy. Seems to be fine. Makes figuring out how to put a CDN in the mix more of a chore, you can’t just put it in front of your S3, as you only want to CDN/cache public URLs, but may need to use more sophisticated CDN features or setup or choices. The asset responses themselves, at presigned URLs, are not cacheable by an HTTP cache, either browser caching or intermediate. (Or at least not for more than a week, the maximum expiry of presigned urls). This is the big one. Let’s say you have 40 thumbnails on a page, and use this method. Every browser page load will result in an additional 40 requests to your app. This potentially requires you to scale your app much larger to handle the same amount of actual page requests, because your actual page requests are now (eg) 40x. This has been reported as an actual problem by Rails ActiveStorage users. An app can suddenly handle far less traffic because it’s spending so much time doing all these redirects. Therefore, ActiveStorage users/developers then tried to figure out how to get ActiveStorage to instead use the “All public-read ACLs, Public URLs delivered directly” model we listed above. It is now possible to do that with ActiveStorage (some answers in that StackOverflow), which is great, because it’s a great model when all your assets can be publicly available… but that was already easy enough to do without AS, we’re here cause that’s not my situation and I need something else!. On another platform that isn’t Rails, the performance concerns might be less, but Rails can be, well, slow here. In my app, a response that does nothing but redirect to https://example.com can still take 100ms to return! I think an out-of-the-box Rails app would be a bit faster, I’m not sure what is making mine so slow. But even at 50ms, an extra (eg) 40x50ms == 2000ms of worker time for every page delivery is a price to pay. In my app where many pages may actually have not 40 but 600+ thumbs on them… this is can be really bad. Even if JS lazy-loading is used, it just seems like asking for trouble. All protected ACL, PROXY to presigned URL Okay, just like above, but the app action, instead of redireting to S3…. actually reads the bytes from s3 on the back-end, and delivers them to to the user-agent directly, as a sort of proxy. The pros/cons are pretty similar to redirect solution, but mostly with a lot of extra cons…. Extra Pro I guess it’s an extra pro that the fact it’s on S3 is completely invisible to the user-agent, so it can’t possibly mess up Google Images indexing or anything like that. Extra Cons If you were worried about the scaling implications of tying up extra app workers with the redirect solution, this is so much worse, as app workers are now tied up for as long as it takes to proxy all those bytes from S3 (hopefully the nginx or passenger you have in front of your web app means you aren’t worried about slow clients, but that byte shuffling from S3 will still add up). For very large assets, such as I have, this is likely incompatible with a heroku deploy, because of heroku’s 30s request timeout. One reason I mention this option, is I believe it is basically what a hyrax app (some shared code used in our business domain) does. Hyrax isn’t necessarily using S3, but I believe does have the Rails app involved in proxying and delivering bytes for all files (including derivatives), including for . So that approach is working for them well enough, so maybe shouldn’t be totally dismissed. But it doesn’t seem right to me — I really liked the much better scaling curve of our app when we moved it away from sufia (a hyrax precedessor), and got it to stop proxying bytes like this. Plus I think this is probably a barrier to deploying hyrax apps to heroku, and we are interested in investigating heroku with our app. All protected ACL, have nginx proxy to presigned URL? OK, like the above “proxy” solution, but with a twist. A Rails app is not the right technology for proxying lots of bytes. But nginx is, that’s honestly it’s core use case, it’s literally built for a proxy use case, right? It should be able to handle lots of em concurrently with reasonable CPU/memory resources. If we can get nginx doing the proxying, we don’t need to worry about tying up Rails workers doing it. I got really excited about this for a second… but it’s kind of a confusing mess. What URLs are we actually delivering in in HTML source? If they are Rails app URLs, that will then trigger an nginx proxy using something like nginx x-accel but for to a remote (presigned S3) URL instead of a local file, we have all the same downsides as the REDIRECT option above, without any real additional benefit (unless you REALLY want to hide that it’s from S3). If instead we want to embed URLs in the HTML source that will end up being handled directly by nginx without touching the Rails app… it’s just really confusing to figure out how to set nginx up to proxy non-public content from S3. nginx has to be creating signed requests… but we also want to access-control it somehow, it should only be creating these when the app has given it permission on a per-request basis… there are a variety of of nginx third party modules that look like maybe could be useful to put this together, some more maintained/documented than others… and it just gets really confusing. PLUS if you want to depoy to heroku (which we are considering), this nginx still couldn’t be running on heroku, cause of that 30s limit, it would have to be running on your own non-heroku host somewhere. I think if I were a larger commercial company with a product involving lots and lots of user-submitted images that I needed to access control and wanted to store on S3…. I might do some more investigation down this path. But for my use case… I think this is just too complicated for us to maintain, if it can be made to work at all. All Protected ACL, put presigned URLs in HTML source Protect all your S3 assets with non-public ACLs, so they can only be accessed after your app decides the requester has privileges to see it, via a presigned URL. But instead of using a redirect or proxy, just generate presigend URLs and use them directly in for thumbs or or for downloads etc. Pro We can control access at the app level No extra requests for redirects or proxies, we aren’t requiring our app to have a lot more resources to handle an additional request per image thumb loaded. Simple. Con HTML source now includes limited-time-expiring URLs in etc, so can’t be cached indefinitely, even for public pages. (Although can be cached for up to a week, the maximum expiry of S3 presigned URLs, which might be good enough). Presigned S3 URLs are really expensive to generate. It’s actually infeasible to include hundreds of them on a page, can take almost 1ms per URL generated. This can be optimized somewhat with custom code, but still really expensive. This is the main blocker here I think, for what otherwise might be “simplest thing that will work”. Different S3 ACLs for different resources OK, so the “public bucket” approach I am using now will work fine for most of my assets. It is a minority that actually need to be access controlled. While “access them all with presigned URLs so the app is the one deciding if a given request gets access” has a certain software engineering consistency appeal — the performance and convennience advantages of public_read S3 ACL are maybe too great to give up when 90%+ of my assets work fine with it. Really, this whole long post is probably to convince myself that this needs to be done, because it seems like such a complicated mess… but it is, I think the lesser evil. What makes this hard is that the management interface needs to let a manager CHANGE the public-readability status of an asset. And each of my assets might have 12 derivatives, so that’s 13 files to change, which can’t be done instantaneously if you wait for S3 to confirm, which probably means a background job. And you open yourself up to making a mistake and having a resource in the wrong state. It might make sense to have an architecture that minimizes the number of times state has to be changed. All of our assets start out in a non-published draft state, then are later published; but for most of our resources destined for publication, it’s okay if they have public_read ACL in ‘draft’ state. Maybe there’s another flag for whether to really protect/restrict access securely, that can be set on ingest/creation only for the minority of assets that need it? So only needs to be changed if am mistake were made, or decision changed? Changing “access state” on S3 could be done by one of two methods. You could have everything in the same bucket, and actually change the S3 ACL. Or you could have two separate buckets, one for public files and one for securely protected files. Then, changing the ‘state’ requires a move (copy then delete) of the file from one bucket to another. While the copy approach seems more painful, it has a lot of advantages: you can easily see if an object has the ‘right’ permissions by just seeing what bucket it is in (while using S3’s “block public access” features on the non-public bucket), making it easier to audit manually or automatically; and you can slap a CDN on top of the “public” bucket just as simply as ever, rather than having mixed public/nonpublic content in the same bucket. Pro The majority of our files that don’t need to be secured can still benefit from the convenience and performance advantages of public_read ACL. Including can still use a straightforward CDN on top of bucket bucket, and HTTP cache-forever these files too. Including no major additional load put on our app for serving the majority of assets that are public Con Additional complexity for app. It has to manage putting files in two different buckets with different ACLs, and generating URLs to the two classes differently. Opportunity for bugs where an asset is in the ‘wrong’ bucket/ACL. Probably need a regular automated audit of some kind — making sure you didn’t leave behind a file in ‘public’ bucket that isn’t actually pointed to by the app is a pain to audit. It is expensive to switch the access state of an asset. A book with 600 pages each with 12 derivatives, is over 7K files that need to have their ACLs changed and/or copied to another bucket if the visibility status changes. If we try to minimize need to change ACL state, by leaving files destined to be public with public_read even before publication and having separate state for “really secure on S3” — this is a more confusing mental model for staff asset managers, with more opportunity for human error. Should think carefully of how this is exposed in staff UI. For protected things on S3, you still need to use one of the above methods of giving users access, if any users are to be given access after an auth check. I don’t love this solution, but this post is a bunch of words to basically convince myself that it is the lesser evil nonetheless. jrochkind General Leave a comment August 27, 2020August 27, 2020 Speeding up S3 URL generation in ruby It looks like the AWS SDK is very slow at generating S3 URLs, both public and presigned, and that you can generate around an order of magnitude faster in both cases. This can matter if you are generating hundreds of S3 URLs at once. My app The app I work is a “digital collections” or “digital asset management” app. It is about displaing lists of files, so it displays a LOT of thumbnails. The thumbnails are all stored in S3, and at present we generate URLs directly to S3 in src‘s on page. Some of our pages can have 600 thumbnails. (Say, a digitized medieval manuscript with 600 pages). Also, we use srcset to offer the browser two resolutions for each images, so that’s 1200 URLs. Is this excessive, should we not put 600 URLs on a page? Maybe, although it’s what our app does at present. But 100 thumbnails on a page does not seem excessive; imagine a 10×10 grid of postage-stamp-sized thumbs, why not? And they each could have multiple URLs in a srcset. It turns out that S3 URL generation can be slow enough to be a bottleneck with 1200 generations in a page, or in some cases even 100. But it can be optimized. On Benchmarking It’s hard to do benchmarking in a reliable way. I just used Benchmark.bmbm here; it is notable that on different runs of my comparisons, I could see results differ by 10-20%. But this should be sufficient for relative comparisons and basic orders of magnitude. Exact numbers will of course differ on different hardware/platform anyway. (benchmark-ips might possibly be a way to get somewhat more reliable results, but I didn’t remember it until I was well into this. There may be other options?). I ran benchmarks on my 2015 Macbook 2.9 GHz Dual-Core Intel Core i5. I’m used to my MacBook being faster than our deployed app on an EC2 instance, but in this case running benchmarks on EC2 had very similar results. (Of course, EC2 instance CPU performance can be quite variable). Public S3 URLs A public S3 URL might look like https://bucket_name.s3.amazonaws.com/path/to/my/object.rb . Or it might have a custom domain name, possibly to a CDN. Pretty simple, right? Using shrine, you might generate it like model.image_url(public_true). Which calls Aws::S3::Object#public_url . Other dependencies or your own code might call the AWS SDK method as well. I had noticed in earlier profiling that generating S3 URLs seemed to be taking much longer than I expected, looking like a bottleneck for my app. We use shrine, but shrine doesn’t add much overhead here, it’s pretty much just calling out to the AWS SDK public_url or presigned_url methods. It seems like generating these URLs should be very simple, right? Here’s a “naive” implementation based on a shrine UploadedFile argument. Obviously it would be easy to use a custom or CDN hostname in this implementation alternately. def naive_public_url(shrine_file) "https://#{["#{shrine_file.storage.bucket.name}.s3.amazonaws.com", *shrine_file.storage.prefix, shrine_file.id].join('/')}" end naive_public_url(model.image) #=> "https://somebucket.s3.amazonaws.com/path/to/image.jpg" view raw naive_s3.rb hosted with ❤ by GitHub Benchmark generating 1200 URLs with naive implementation vs a straight call of S3 AWS SDK public_url… original AWS SDK public_url implementation 0.053043 0.000275 0.053318 ( 0.053782) naive implementation 0.004730 0.000016 0.004746 ( 0.004760) view raw gistfile1.txt hosted with ❤ by GitHub 53ms vs 5ms, it’s an order of magnitude slower indeed. 53ms is not peanuts when you are trying to keep a web response under 200ms, although it may not be terrible. But let’s see if we can figure out why it’s so slow anyway. Examining with ruby-prof points to what we could see in the basic implementation in AWS SDK source code, no need to dig down the stack. The most expensive elements are the URI.parse and the URI-safe escaping. Are we missing anything from our naive implementation then? Well, the URI.parse is just done to make sure we are operating only on the path portion of the URL. But I can’t figure out any way bucket.url would return anything but a hostname-only URL with an empty path anyway, all the examples in docs are such. Maybe it could somehow include a path, but I can’t figure out any way the URL being parsed would have a ? query component or # fragment, and without that it’s safe to just append things without a parse. (Even without that assumption, there will be faster ways than a parse, which is quite slow!) Also just calling bucket.url is a bit expensive, and can deal with some live arn: lookups we won’t be using. URI Escaping, the pit of confusing alternatives What about escaping? Escaping can be such a confusing topic with S3, with different libraries at different times handling it different/wrong, then it would be sane to just never use any characters in an S3 key that need any escaping, maybe put some validation on your setters to ensure this. And then you don’t need to take the performance hit of escaping. But okay, maybe we really need/want escaping to ensure any valid S3 key is turned into a valid S3 URL. Can we do escaping more efficiently? The original implementation splits the path on / and then runs each component through the SDK’s own Seahorse::Util.uri_escape(s). That method’s implementation uses CGI.escape, but then does two gsub‘s to alter the value somewhat, not being happy with CGI.escape. Those extra gsubs are more performance hit. I think we can use ERB::Util.url_encode instead of CGI.escape + gsubs to get the same behavior, which might get us some speed-up. But we also seem to be escaping more than is necessary. For instance it will escape any ! in a key to %21, and it turns out this isn’t at all necessary, the URL resolve quite fine without escaping this. If we escape only what is needed, can we go even faster? I think what we actually need is what URI.escape does — and since URI.escape doesn’t escape /, we don’t need to split on / first, saving us even more time. Annoyingly, URI.escape is marked obsolete/deprecated! But it’s stdlib implementation is relatively simple pure ruby, it would be easy enough to copy it into our codebase. Even faster? The somewhat maintenance-neglected but still working at present escape_utils gem has a C implementation of some escaping routines. It’s hard when many implementations aren’t clear on exactly what they are escaping, but I think the escape_uri (note i on the end not l) is doing the same thing as URI.escape. Alas, there seems to be no escape_utils implementation that corresponds to CGI.escape or ERB::Util.url_encode. So now we have a bunch of possibilities, depending on if we are willing to change escaping semantics and/or use our naive implementation of hostname-supplying. Original AWS SDK public_url 100% optimized AWS SDK public_url Avoid the URI.parse, use ERB::Util.url_encode. Should be functionally identical, same output, I think! 60% naive implementation No escaping of S3 key for URL at all 7.5% naive + ERB::Util.url_encode should be functionally identical escaping to original implementation, ie over-escaping 28% naive + URI.escape we think is sufficient escaping, can be done much faster 15% naive + EscapeUtils.escape_uri we think is identical to URI.escape but faster C implementation 11% We have a bunch of opportunities for much faster implementations, even with existing over-escaping implementation. Here’s the file I used to benchmark. Presigned S3 URLs A Presigned URL is used to give access to non-public content, and/or to specify response headeres you’d like S3 to include with response, such as Content-Disposition. Presigned S3 URLs all have an expiration (max one week), and involve a cryptographic signature. I expect most people are using the AWS SDK for these, rather than reinvent an implementation of the cryptographic signing protocol. And we’d certainly expect these to be slower than public URLs, because of the crypto signature involved. But can they do be optimized? It looks like yes, at least about an order of magnitude again. Benchmarking with AWS SDK presigned_url, 1200 URL generations can take around 760-900ms. Wow, that’s a lot — this is definitely enough to matter, especially in a web app response you’d like to keep under 200ms, and this is likely to be a bottleneck. We do expect the signing to take longer than a public url, but can we do better? Look at what the SDK is doing, re-implement a quicker path The presigned_url method just instantiates and calls out to an Aws::S3::Presigner. First idea, what if we create a single Aws::S3::Presigner, and re-use it 1200 times, instead of instantiating it 1200 times, passing it the same args #presigned_url would? Tried that, it was only minor performance improvement. OK, let’s look at the Aws:S3::Presigner implementation. It’s got kind of a convoluted way of getting a URL, building a Seahorse::Client::Request, and then doing something weird with it…. maybe modifying it to not actually go to the network, but just act as if it had… returning headers and a signed URL, and then we throw out the headers and just use the signed URL…. phew! Ultimately though it does the actual signing work with another object, an Aws::Sigv4:Signer. What if we just instantiate one of these ourselves, instantiate it the same arguments the Presigner would have for our use cases, and then call presign_url on it with the same args the Presigner would have. Let’s re-use a Signer object 1200 times instead of instantiating it each time, in case that matters. We still need to create the public_url in order to sign it. Let’s use our replacement naive implementation with URI.escape escaping. AWS_SIG4_SIGNER = Aws::Sigv4::Signer.new( service: 's3', region: AWS_CLIENT.config.region, credentials_provider: SOME_AWS_CLIENT.config.credentials, unsigned_headers: Aws::S3::Presigner::BLACKLISTED_HEADERS, uri_escape_path: false ) def naive_with_uri_escape_escaping(shrine_file) # because URI.escape does NOT escape `/`, we don't need to split it, # which is what actually saves us the time. path = URI.escape(shrine_file.id) "https://#{["#{shrine_file.storage.bucket.name}.s3.amazonaws.com", *shrine_file.storage.prefix, shrine_file.id].join('/')}" end # not yet handling custom query params eg for content-disposition def direct_aws_sig4_signer(url) AWS_SIG4_SIGNER.presign_url( http_method: "GET", url: url, headers: {}, body_digest: 'UNSIGNED-PAYLOAD', expires_in: 900, # seconds time: nil ).to_s end direct_aws_sig4_signer( naive_with_uri_escape_escaping( shrine_uploaded_file ) ) # => presigned S3 url view raw optimized_presigned_s3.rb hosted with ❤ by GitHub Yes, it’s much faster! Bingo! Now I measure 1200 URLs in 170-220ms, around 25% of the time. Still too slow to want to do 1200 of them on a single page, and around 4x slower than SDK public_url. Interestingly, while we expect the cryptographic signature to take some extra time… that seems to be at most 10% of the overhead that the logic to sign a URL was adding? We experimented with re-using an Aws::Sigv4::Signer vs instantiating one each time; and applying URI-escaping or not. These did make noticeable differences, but not astounding ones. This optimized version would have to be enhanced to be able to handle additional query param options such as specified content-disposition, I optimistically hope that can be done without changing the performance characteristics much. Could it be optimized even more, by profiling within the Aws::Sigv4::Signer implementation? Maybe, but it doesn’t really seem worth it — we are already introducing some fragility into our code by using lower-level APIs and hoping they will remain valid even if AWS changes some things in the future. I don’t really want to re-implement Aws::Sigv4::Signer, just glad to have it available as a tool I can use like this already. The Numbers The script I used to compare performance in different ways of creating presigned S3 URLs (with a couple public URLs for comparison) is available in a gist, and here is the output of one run: user system total real sdk public_url 0.054114 0.000335 0.054449 ( 0.054802) naive S3 public url 0.004575 0.000009 0.004584 ( 0.004582) naive S3 public url with URI.escape 0.009892 0.000090 0.009982 ( 0.011209) sdk presigned_url 0.756642 0.005855 0.762497 ( 0.789622) re-use instantiated SDK Presigner 0.817595 0.005955 0.823550 ( 0.859270) use inline instantiated Aws::Sigv4::Signer directly for presigned url (with escaping) 0.216338 0.001941 0.218279 ( 0.226991) Re-use Aws::Sigv4::Signer for presigned url (with escaping) 0.185855 0.001124 0.186979 ( 0.188798) Re-use Aws::Sigv4::Signer for presigned url (without escaping) 0.178457 0.001049 0.179506 ( 0.180920) view raw gistfile1.txt hosted with ❤ by GitHub So what to do? Possibly there are optimizations that would make sense in the AWS SDK gem itself? But it would actually take a lot more work to be sure what can be done without breaking some use cases. I think there is no need to use URI.parse in public_url, the URIs can just be treated as strings and concatenated. But is there an edge case I’m missing? Using different URI escaping method definitely helps in public_url; but how many other people who aren’t me care about optimizing public_url; and what escaping method is actually required/expected, is changing it a backwards compat problem; and is it okay maintenance-wise to make the S3 object use a different escaping mechanism than the common SDK Seahorse::Util.uri_escape workhorse, which might be used in places with different escaping requirements? For presigned_urls, cutting out a lot of the wrapper code and using a Aws::Sigv4::Signer directly seems to have significant performance benefits, but what edge cases get broken there, and do they matter, and can a regression be avoided through alternate performant maintainable code? Figuring this all out would take a lot more research (and figuring out how to use the test suite for the ruby SDK more facilely than I can write now; it’s a test suite for the whole SDK, and it’s a bear to run the whole thing). Although if any Amazon maintainers of the ruby SDK, or other experts in it’s internals, see this and have an opinion, I am curious as to their thoughts. But I am a lot more confident that some of these optimizations will work fine for my use cases. One of the benefits of using shrine is that all of my code already accesses S3 URL generation via shrine API. So I could easily swap in a locally optimized version, either with a shrine plugin, or just a local sub-class of the shrine S3 storage class. So I may consider doing that. jrochkind General 10 Comments August 26, 2020August 27, 2020 Posts navigation Older posts Bibliographic Wilderness is a blog by Jonathan Rochkind about digital library services, ruby, and web development. Contact Search for: Email Subscription Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. Join 214 other followers Email Address: Subscribe Recent Posts Are you talking to Heroku redis in cleartext or SSL? 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Tuesday, December 8, 2020 RISC vs. CISC The architectural debate between Complex Instruction Set Computers (CISC) and Reduced Instruction Set Conputers (RISC) really took off in the 1980s: In particular, two projects at Stanford University and the University of California, Berkeley are most associated with the popularization of this concept. Stanford's MIPS would go on to be commercialized as the successful MIPS architecture, while Berkeley's RISC gave its name to the entire concept and was commercialized as the SPARC. For the last decade or more the debate has seemed frozen, with the CISC x86 architecture dominating the server and desktop markets, while the RISC ARM architecture dominated the mobile market. But two recent developments are shaking things up. Below the fold, some discussion. Read more » Posted by David. at 8:00 AM 3 comments: Labels: benchmarks, intellectual property Tuesday, December 1, 2020 737 MAX Ungrounding My post 737 MAX: The Case Against Boeing is a year old and has accumulated 58 updates in comments. Now the aircraft is returning to service, it is time for a new post. Below the fold, Bjorn Fehrm has two interesting posts about the ungrounding. Read more » Posted by David. at 8:00 AM No comments: Labels: fault tolerance Tuesday, November 24, 2020 I Rest My Case Jeff Rothenberg's seminal 1995 Ensuring the Longevity of Digital Documents focused on the threat of the format in which the documents were encoded becoming obsolete, and rendering its content inaccessible. This was understandable, it was a common experience in the preceeding decades. 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Read more » Posted by David. at 8:00 AM 3 comments: Labels: digital preservation, emulation, format migration, format obsolescence Thursday, November 19, 2020 Storage Media Update My last post on storage media was After A Decade, HAMR Is Still Nearly Here back in July. Below the fold, I look at some of the developments since then. Read more » Posted by David. at 8:00 AM No comments: Labels: storage media Thursday, November 12, 2020 Even More On The Ad Bubble I've been writing for some time about the hype around online advertising. There's a lot of evidence that it is ineffective. Recently, the UK's Information Commissioner's Office concluded an investigation into Cambridge Analytica's involvement in the 2016 US election and the Brexit referendum. At The Register, Shaun Nichols summarizes their conclusions in UK privacy watchdog wraps up probe into Cambridge Analytica and... it was all a little bit overblown, no?: El Reg has heard on good authority from sources in British political circles that Cambridge Analytica's advertised powers of online suggestion were rather overblown and in fact mostly useless. In the end, it was skewered by its own hype, accused of tangibly influencing the Brexit and presidential votes on behalf of political parties and campaigners using its Facebook data. Yet, no evidence, according to the ICO, could be found supporting those specific claims. Below the fold I look at this, a recent book on the topic, and other evidence that has emerged since I wrote Contextual vs. Behavioral Advertising. Read more » Posted by David. at 8:00 AM 2 comments: Labels: advertising, big data, platform monopolies Tuesday, November 3, 2020 The Order Flow The MacGuffin in the last two books of William Gibson's Blue Ant trilogy is Chombo, a reclusive hacker. In Spook Country he tracks a container full of US currency, and in Zero History: "It's the order flow, isn't it?" Milgrim had had no intent to ask this at all. Hadn't been thinking off it. Yet it had emerged. His therapist had told him that ideas, in human relations, had lives of their own. Were in a sense autonomous. "Of course" "That's what Chombo was doing. Finding the order flow." "He found it a week before they kidnapped him, but his work, to that point, would have been useless, Without him, I mean." "And the market, the whole thing, it's no longer real? Because you know the future?" "It's a very tiny slice of the future. The merest paring. Minutes." "How many?" Bigend had glanced around the empty lounge. "Seventeen, presently." "Is that enough?" "Seven would have been entirely adequate. Seven seconds, in most cases." Entirely adequate to make Hubertus Bigend much, much richer, because knowing the order flow allows him to front-run the transactions. Wikipedia defines front-running thus: Front running, also known as tailgating, is the prohibited practice of entering into an equity (stock) trade, option, futures contract, derivative, or security-based swap to capitalize on advance, nonpublic knowledge of a large ("block") pending transaction that will influence the price of the underlying security. ... A front running firm either buys for its own account before filling customer buy orders that drive up the price, or sells for its own account before filling customer sell orders that drive down the price. Front running is prohibited since the front-runner profits from nonpublic information, at the expense of its own customers, the block trade, or the public market. Follow me below the fold for a discussion of why the architecture of cryptocurrencies means that no-one needs Chombo's mysterious skills to front-run the order flow. Read more » Posted by David. at 8:00 AM 4 comments: Labels: bitcoin Thursday, October 29, 2020 The Long Now A talk by Stewart Brand and Danny Hillis about 25 years ago explaining the concept of the "Long Now" and the idea of building a 10,000-year clock to illustrate it was what started me thinking about long-term digital preservation. The idea of Lots Of Copies Keep Stuff Safe (LOCKSS), and the acronym came a couple of years later. Hōryū-ji by Nekosuki, CC-BY-SA Now, in The Data of Long-lived Institutions on the Long Now Foundation's blog, Alexander Rose refers to Hōryū-ji: At about 1,400 years old, these are the two oldest continuously standing wooden structures in the world. And they’ve replaced a lot of parts of them. They keep the roofs on them, and even in a totally humid and raining environment, the central timbers of these buildings have stayed true. Interestingly, this temple was also the place where, over a thousand years ago, a Japanese princess had a vision that she needed to send a particular prayer out to the world to make sure that it survived into the future. And so she had, literally, a million wooden pagodas made with the prayer put inside them, and distributed these little pagodas as far and wide as she could. You can still buy these on eBay right now. It’s an early example of the philosophy of “Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe” (LOCKSS). Below the fold, more on Rose's interesting post. Read more » Posted by David. at 8:00 AM No comments: Older Posts Home Subscribe to: Posts (Atom) Blog Rules Posts and comments are copyright of their respective authors who, by posting or commenting, license their work under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. 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Simple theme. Powered by Blogger. blog-dshr-org-2312 ---- DSHR's Blog: 737 MAX: The Case Against Boeing DSHR's Blog I'm David Rosenthal, and this is a place to discuss the work I'm doing in Digital Preservation. Tuesday, November 26, 2019 737 MAX: The Case Against Boeing The title of Alec McGillis' The Case Against Boeing is misleading. Samya Stumo, one of the victims of the second 737 MAX crash was the daughter of a niece of Ralph Nader: They were the first American family to sue Boeing, accusing the company of gross negligence and recklessness. McGillis certainly does discuss some of the ways the culture of Douglas led to Boeing's malfeasance, including blaming the pilots: Boeing seemed to believe that pilot error had caused the crash. In its response to an initial Indonesian government report, it highlighted the contrasting reactions of the crew on the doomed flight and the crew the day before, saying that the pilots on the second day had not followed the standard “runaway trim” procedures. But that's not really what the article is about. Follow me below the fold as I try to tease out the real story McGillis tells, and then add more news on the topic. Nader understands that Boeing needs to be held responsible, because: Taken together, the reports suggested that Boeing had put all the risk on the pilot, who would be expected to know what to do within seconds if a system he didn’t know existed set off a welter of cockpit alerts and forced the plane downward. “An airplane shouldn’t put itself in a position where the pilots have to act heroically to save the plane,” the veteran U.S. commercial-airline pilot told me. “Pilots shouldn’t have to be superhuman. Planes are built to be flown by normal people.” Gregory Travis, the pilot and software engineer, said, “MCAS sealed their fate. Everything that comes after that is noise.” But Nader also understands that the major responsibility lies with Congress. Since the crash, Nader and his family: have made more than a dozen trips to Washington—a routine they expect to continue: they recently found an apartment in town. They have met separately with two dozen members of Congress, and with the heads of the Federal Aviation Administration and the National Transportation Safety Board, and testified before a House committee. ... They got a meeting for themselves and eleven other victims’ families with Elaine Chao, the Secretary of Transportation. McGillis writes: The government used to provide a counterweight to corporations that compromised safety. Owing in great part to the activism of Nader and his allies, in the late sixties and early seventies agencies such as the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, and the Consumer Product Safety Commission were founded to protect citizens. Especially with today's culture of short-termism, companies will tend to do whatever they can get away with to cut costs and shorten product cycles. It is up to government regulation to push back against this to protect the public from the risks it engenders, especially in areas where lives hang in the balance. But: As early as 1971, however, there was a backlash. That year, Lewis Powell, prior to serving on the Supreme Court, wrote a memo calling on corporations to more aggressively fight regulations. He singled Nader out as a threat, “a legend in his own time and an idol of millions of Americans.” ... By the early nineties, it was plain to Nader that the government was failing to regulate air safety. In “Collision Course,” a book that he co-wrote with Wesley J. Smith, they warned, “It is an unfortunate fact that government oversight and enforcement is so underfunded and understaffed that regulators and inspectors must rely upon the integrity and good faith of those they regulate to obey the rules.” They continued, “If a company is determined to cut corners, there is every likelihood that it will succeed, at least for a while.” Douglas Boeing was determined to cut corners with the 737 MAX. The person responsible for aviation safety at the FAA is Ali Bahrami. Here is a timeline of Ali Bahrami's career (italics are quotes from McGillis): 1979 Bahrami becomes a senior engineer at Douglas Aircraft. 1989 Bahrami becomes an engineer at FAA 2004 Bahrami becomes manager of the FAA's Transport Airplane Directorate 2003 Boeing lobbyists began pushing for a wholesale shift in regulatory oversight. Change to ODA 2005 embracing the deregulatory agenda promoted by the Bush Administration and the Republicans in Congress, the F.A.A. changed to a model called Organization Designation Authorization. Manufacturers would now select and supervise the safety monitors. If the monitors saw something amiss, they would raise the issue with their managers rather than with the F.A.A. I.e. manufacturers could hide safety problems from the FAA. 2009 Bahrami becomes manager of the FAA's Boeing Aviation Safety Oversight Office, a forty-person bureau in Seattle dedicated to serving Boeing. I.e. the role of the "Safety Oversight Office" was to promote Boeing's interests. 2011 Boeing announces the 737 MAX. 2013 Bahrami becomes Vice President for Civil Aviation at Aerospace Industries Association, a Washington, D.C.-based trade association that represents the nation's leading aerospace and defense manufacturers and suppliers.  I.e. a lobbyist. 2017 (March) FAA certifies the 737 MAX. 2017 (July) Bahrami becomes FAA's Associate Administrator for Aviation Safety. 2018 (October) Lion Air flight 610 crash. 2019 (March) Ethiopian Airlines flight 302 crash. 2019 (July) Ali Bahrami ... appeared at a Senate hearing. The Wall Street Journal had just reported that the F.A.A. had determined, after the Lion Air crash, that there was a high risk of another 737 MAX emergency within the next ten months, but had decided to allow Boeing to proceed with its software fix without grounding the planes. Bahrami said, “From the safety perspective, we felt strongly that what we did was adequate.” 2019 (July)  Nader's family were called in to meet with Bahrami. As Tor related in a recording that he made immediately afterward, they asked Bahrami what he thought he could have done to prevent the Ethiopia crash. Bahrami said that there was nothing he could have done. (Bahrami does not recall saying this.) So, while the FAA was certifying the 737 MAX, Bahrami was lobbying on behalf of Boeing (and smaller companies). It is hard to believe he was pushing for more rigor in the FAA's certification process. Before that, he was running an FAA bureau "dedicated to serve Boeing": The F.A.A. has said that it lacked the resources to oversee the plane’s updates, but the veteran F.A.A. engineer in Seattle told me that this was because of the way its Boeing office was set up by Ali Bahrami, with only a few people assigned to flight controls. One the 737 MAX was certified Bahrami cycled back through the revolving door to be in charge of aviation safety at the FAA. Obviously, given the deregulatory fervor of the current administration, a lobbyist for aircraft manufacturers would be the ideal candidate to oversee safety at the FAA. And why would anyone think that Bahrami would admit that there was anything he could have done but didn't after those incompetent Lion Air pilots crashed their plane? But, as Nader wrote in 1993: It is an unfortunate fact that government oversight and enforcement is so underfunded and understaffed that regulators and inspectors must rely upon the integrity and good faith of those they regulate to obey the rules. And as he wrote this month in Buffeting Boeing CEO’s Rope-a-Dope in Congress: Ever since the Congress, under Boeing pressure, ordered the FAA to delegate more self-certifying power to Boeing and other aircraft makers, hearings with the FAA, Boeing, and airlines have been theater. Nothing results except giving in to aircraft manufacturers and carriers’ demands, rubber-stamped by the toady FAA and an indentured Congress. Lobbyists like Bahrami peddling deregulatory ideology can pour money into legislators coffers and there is little that conscientious bureaucrats can do to counter their influence. The real culprits in the deaths of 346 people are the legislators incapable of resisting lobbyist dollars. In addition to the deaths, there are massive financial losses at too-big-to-fail Boeing and its customers, which the taxpayer will undoubtedly be called upon to repair (see Boeing's blackmail of NASA for an example). Yves Smith's FAA Pushes Back on Boeing Pressure to Recertify 737 Max by Year End; Agency Also Considering Major Revamp of Certification Process is a must-read. Smith starts by pointing out that, while Boeing may be desperate to get the 737 MAX flying again, the FAA is equally desperate to regain its credibility: The reason to think the FAA’s recent noises might be precursors to real action, as opposed to more better optics, is that the 737 Max debacle has led the agency to lose its most valued asset: that of having its aircraft certifications be accepted without independent vetting by other aviation regulators. Losing that would put American manufacturers at a serious disadvantage relative to foreign competitors. The stakes are so high that the FAA’s incentives are to do whatever it takes to get back to status quo ante. This is a problem on the desk of the new FAA Administrator: And the FAA chief might be up to the task. The current FAA “Administrator” is Steve Dickson, who was sworn in on August 12, meaning he is the new guy who isn’t hamstrung by having to defend past decisions. He’s also been a pilot, first a fighter pilot and later flew commercial jets, including 737, and had retired from being the senior VP of flight operations for Delta, which included safety. Note that Delta did not buy the 737 Max. He’s also a law school graduate (which means not easily intimidated by suits). Source The "American manufacturer" that would suffer the most if the FAA's certification wasn't accepted overseas would be Boeing. Ignoring the long-term downside of rushing the FAA's recertification is typical of Boeing's short-term focus on the stock price. It  had poured $60B in cash on its stockholders ($17B dividends + $43B stock buybacks) since 2013 to pump it. As I wrote back in July: Suppose instead of buying back stock, Boeing had invested in its future. Even assuming an entirely new replacement for the 737 series was as expensive as the 787 (the first of a new airframe technology), they could have delivered the first 737 replacement ($32B), and be almost 70% through developing another entirely new airframe ($11B/$16B). But executive bonuses and stock options mattered more than the future of the company's cash cow product. Instead: Blowing these $43 billion on share buybacks has caused Boeing to have a “total equity” of a negative $5 billion. In other words, it has $5 billion more in liabilities than in assets. This company is out of wriggle room. If it can’t borrow enough money to make payroll, it’s over. Short-termism is a cancer that is eating US corporations, but the guys who took the decisions will suffer no consequences for killing the company, they'll retire rich. Remarkably, Boeing's stock has failed to slump since the 737 MAX crashes and the problems with NASA's Commercial Crew Program became public. Their desperation to keep it that way has led them to pump the stock in another way: Boeing has continued to push the notion that the 737 Max would be certified to fly as of various dates that proved to be a crporate fantasy as new problems and concerns emerged. The latest was an announcement last Monday that it expected the 737 Max to get a green light in December, which goosed the stock. In FAA pushes back on “pressure” to return Boeing 737 Max to service, Jon Ostrower writes: Both the FAA and other stakeholders viewed the Boeing statement as overt public pressure to recertify the 737 Max by the end of 2019. President of Southwest Airlines Pilots Association on November 13 wrote that Boeing was “increasingly publicizing” that it may have to shut Max production as it is running out of room for aircraft storage. “There is some concern that this is simply another tactic to push the RTS timeline up, force operators to resume making payments on MAX aircraft, and transfer some costs, logistics, and responsibilities of storing and restoring the MAX to revenue service to respective operators,” wrote Capt. Jon Weaks in a letter to the Southwest Airlines pilot corps. Boeing's arm-twisting didn't sit well with Dickson, who seems to be a sophisticated political operator: The FAA has apparently had enough of Boeing trying to pressure them via the media. Interestingly, Dickson responded not by publicly slapping down Boeing but by making a countermove that had the same effect, of circulating a memo and including his “I’ve got your back” message in what appears to be a regular weekly video to the entire agency that is posted on YouTube. By sending them to the entire agency rather than, say, a narrow group overseeing the 737 Max review, this message were guaranteed to get to the press pronto. Dickson memo, courtesy The Air Current But in addition to messaging the whole organization, Dickson took specific action: Dickson also sent a memo to the head of the 737 Max team which appears to also have been circulated widely within the FAA, which was likely no accident. And who is the "head of the 737 MAX team? Ali Bahrami! My guess is that Dickson wasn't merely pushing back on Boeing, he was also putting Bahrami on notice that his freedom of action was severely constrained because the boss was looking over his shoulder. Other countries' regulators appear to be taking a harder line against Boeing, as evidenced by Natalie Kitroeff and David Gelles' Canadian Official Calls for Removal of Key Software From 737 Max: A manager at Canada’s aviation regulator believes that Boeing should remove software that played a role in two deadly crashes of its 737 Max before the plane is cleared to fly again, according to emails between global aviation regulators this week that were reviewed by The New York Times. ... “The only way I see moving forward at this point, is that MCAS has to go,” the official, Jim Marko, the manager in aircraft integration and safety assessment at Transport Canada Civil Aviation, wrote in the email. He sent the email on Tuesday to officials at the Federal Aviation Administration, the European Union Aviation Safety Agency and Brazil’s National Civil Aviation Agency. Posted by David. at 8:00 AM 58 comments: David. said... In O-rings and production pressure, Daniel Little reviews a 2009 book by a senior engineer at Morton Thiokol (MTI) descfibing the process by which, under pressure from NASA management, who were under pressure from Congress, MTI management over-rode their engineers and approved the fatal launch of the Challenger space shuttle. December 1, 2019 at 12:06 PM David. said... More evidence of inadequate regulatory oversight in Boeing 737 Max Was Plagued With Production Problems, Whistle-Blower Says by David Gelles: "Four months before the first deadly crash of Boeing’s 737 Max, a senior manager approached an executive at the company with concerns that the plane was riddled with production problems and potentially unsafe. That manager, Ed Pierson, plans to tell his story to Congress on Wednesday. Employees at the Renton, Wash., factory where the Max is produced were overworked, exhausted and making mistakes, Mr. Pierson said in an interview. A cascade of damaged parts, missing tools and incomplete instructions was preventing planes from being built on time. Executives were pressuring workers to complete planes despite staff shortages and a chaotic factory floor. ... During the time when Mr. Pierson said the Renton facility was in disarray, it built the two planes that crashed and killed a total of 346 people." December 9, 2019 at 5:26 PM David. said... In FAA let Boeing 737 Max continue to fly even as review found serious crash risk Dominic Rushe show how completely FAA management placed Boeing's interests above those of the passengers and crew: "US regulators allowed Boeing’s 737 Max to keep flying even after their own analysis found the plane could have averaged one fatal crash about every two or three years without intervention. According to a report dated a month after a Lion Air 737 Max crashed in October 2018, killing 189 people, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) concluded the plane could become involved in more fatal crashes without design changes." They assessed a crash every 2-3 years but didn't ground the plane. What more needs to be said. This came out in a House hearing, the very institution that had voted to starve the FAA of resources and transfer responsibility from the FAA to Boeing. December 11, 2019 at 4:05 PM David. said... Two headlines today show Boeing's chickens coming home to roost. Shutdown likely at Boeing Renton as 737 MAX crisis extends and Australia’s Qantas chooses Airbus over Boeing for longest routes. December 16, 2019 at 6:16 AM David. said... Yves Smith discusses the implications of Boeing's roosting chickens: "Boeing now has more 737 Max aircraft in its inventory that it sold before the troubled jet was grounded worldwide. The Seattle Times points out that many of Boeing’s 400 mothballed planes will need “extensive maintenance” to be able to fly. The Wall Street Journal cited analyst estimates that the freeze would cut Boeing’s $4.4 billion a quarter 737 Max cash burn by about 50%." And: "The knock-on impact of the production freeze will be significant. From the Journal: “It would be hard to have any other single company stop the production of a single product and have it hit the economy as hard as this would,” said Luke Tilley, chief economist at investment-management firm Wilmington Trust. He estimated that stopping MAX production for one quarter would shave 0.3 of a percentage point from quarterly annualized GDP growth. Boeing’s suppliers will take a blow,. With the propensity of major firms to concentrate production among fewer suppliers (to gain more pricing leverage, natch), the damage to some could be large. And they also be less likely to shield their workers even in the near term. " December 17, 2019 at 5:58 AM David. said... Mentour Pilot's explanation of the knock-on effects of Boeing halting 737 MAX production on his YouTube channel is worth watching. December 18, 2019 at 4:04 PM David. said... See also matt Stoller's The Coming Boeing Bailout?: "In 1993, Clinton’s Deputy Secretary of Defense, Bill Perry, called defense contractor CEOs to a dinner, nicknamed “the last supper.” He told them to merge with each other so as, in the classic excuse used by monopolists, to find efficiencies in their businesses. The rationale was that post-Cold War era military spending reductions demanded a leaner defense base. In reality, Perry had been a long-time mergers and acquisitions investment banker working with industry ally Norm Augustine, the eventual CEO of Lockheed Martin. Perry was so aggressive about encouraging mergers that he put together an accounting scheme to have the Pentagon itself pay merger costs, which resulted in a bevy of consolidation among contractors and subcontractors. In 1997, Boeing, with both a commercial and military division, ended up buying McDonnell Douglas, a major aerospace company and competitor. With this purchase, the airline market radically consolidated." Boeing is Too Big To Fail in both commercial and military products, so given: "Blowing these $43 billion on share buybacks has caused Boeing to have a “total equity” of a negative $5 billion. In other words, it has $5 billion more in liabilities than in assets. This company is out of wriggle room. If it can’t borrow enough money to make payroll, it’s over." A taxpayer bailout seems inevitable. December 19, 2019 at 9:01 AM David. said... Like Wolf Richter, Matt Stoller is focused on Boeing's finances: "Boeing has significant development costs associated with the 737 Max, which is inherently the case for all large complex aircraft systems. The problem is that accounting for these costs have been pushed into the future based on anticipated sales, which is risky but manageable IF you can build safe aircraft airliners want to buy. But unfortunately for Boeing and anyone who wants a good aerospace industry, that was a big if. And now that the risk has turned into catastrophe, the accounting probably doesn’t make sense." Rating agencies are downgrading Boeing's debt, and the company has a large negative cash flow: "All the focus on the MAX meant other items flew under the radar—items like Boeing’s cash flow data. “Operating cash flow for the third quarter was negative $2.4 billion driven by lower 737 deliveries, lower advance payments and timing of receipts and expenditures,” said Boeing (ticker: BA) CFO Greg Smith on the company’s earnings conference call. He added cash pressures will remain until MAX deliveries begin again." December 20, 2019 at 6:09 AM David. said... Boeing’s Crisis Deepens as the C.E.O. Struggles to Confront It by Natalie Kitroeff and David Gelles goes into detail about the deteriorating relationship between Boeing's CEO and his regulator: "After the crashes, but before the plane was grounded, Mr. Muilenburg called President Trump and expressed confidence in the safety of the Max. He has repeatedly made overly optimistic projections about how quickly the plane would return to service, pushing for speedy approval from regulators. The constantly shifting timeline has created chaos for airlines, which have had to cancel thousands of flights and sacrifice billions of dollars in sales. In his few public appearances, Mr. Muilenburg’s attempts to offer a sincere apology for the accidents have been clumsy, prolonging Boeing’s reputational pain. His performance has left lawmakers irate. The families of crash victims, convinced the company does not care about their loss, have repeatedly confronted him with posters of the dead." And Boeing’s Push to Make Training Profitable May Have Left 737 Max Pilots Unprepared by Peter Robison and Julie Johnsson illustrates yet another instance of management prioritizing profit over safety: "But the most fundamental breakdown at Boeing may have been a lack of appreciation of how humans respond under stress—both in the machine it was designing and in its own organization. On aircraft like the Boeing 777, a cadre of pilots had worked closely with engineers to solve problems. By the time the Max entered development, Boeing was pushing hard to turn the unglamorous but all-important business of customer training into a profit center of its own. Many pilots were distracted by a dispute with Boeing over the hiring of outside contractors. They contended the quality of training was slipping." December 22, 2019 at 6:19 AM David. said... It’s Not Just Software. New Safety Risks Under Scrutiny on Boeing’s 737 Max by Natalie Kitroeff and David Gelles lists a number of additional safety problems with the 737 MAX turned up by Boeing's and the FAA's reviews: "The company is looking at whether two bundles of critical wiring are too close together and could cause a short circuit. A short in that area could lead to a crash if pilots did not respond correctly, the people said." And: "CFM International, the joint venture between General Electric and Safran that manufactures the engines, has told the F.A.A. it discovered a possible weakness in one of the engines’ rotors, which could cause the part to shatter. The likelihood of that failure is remote and regulators aren’t requiring an immediate fix, though they are looking to require that airlines inspect as many Max engines as possible before the plane returns to service, an F.A.A. official said." And: "While assembling the Max, workers at Boeing’s Renton, Wash., factory had ground down the outer shell of a panel that sits atop the engine housing in an effort to ensure a better fit into the plane. In doing so, they inadvertently removed the coating that insulates the panel from a lightning strike, taking away a crucial protection for the fuel tank and fuel lines. The F.A.A. is developing a directive that will require the company to restore lightning protection to the engine panel and Boeing is already in the process of resolving the issue." January 5, 2020 at 5:28 PM David. said... Reuters reports that Boeing has bowed to the inevitable: "Boeing said Tuesday it is recommending that pilots receive training in a flight simulator before the grounded 737 Max returns to flying, a reversal of the company’s long-held position that computer-based training alone was adequate. ... Boeing’s interim chief executive, Greg Smith, said in a statement that Boeing decided to recommend simulator training because of the importance to Boeing of gaining public and airline confidence in the Max." Presumably they will owe Southwest $1M/plane. January 7, 2020 at 5:55 PM David. said... Boeing Employees Mocked F.A.A. and ‘Clowns’ Who Designed 737 Max by Natalie Kitroeff provides yet more evidence of Boeing's dysfunctional culture: "Boeing employees mocked federal rules, talked about deceiving regulators and joked about potential flaws in the 737 Max as it was being developed, according to over a hundred pages of internal messages delivered Thursday to congressional investigators. ... The most damaging messages included conversations among Boeing pilots and other employees about software issues and other problems with flight simulators for the Max, a plane later involved in two accidents, in late 2018 and early 2019, that killed 346 people and threw the company into chaos." January 10, 2020 at 9:30 AM David. said... Dominic Rushe writes Ousted Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg to receive $60m in stock and pension: "Muilenberg, 56, will forfeit stock worth $14.6m, according to Boeing, but is contractually entitled to receive $62.2m in stock and pension awards. “We thank Dennis for his nearly 35 years of service to the Boeing Company,” the company said in a statement. “Upon his departure, Dennis received the benefits to which he was contractually entitled and he did not receive any severance pay or a 2019 annual bonus.”" Poor guy! Loosing 20% of his moolah! January 10, 2020 at 4:13 PM David. said... Boeing faces another million-dollar FAA fine over faulty 737 Max parts by Claudia Assis reports: "Federal regulators said late Friday they could slap a $5.4 million fine on Boeing Co. ... for allegedly installing "nonconforming" wing parts on some 737 Max jets and later presenting the planes as ready for certification. The civil penalty would be in addition to a fine of $3.9 million proposed against Boeing in December for allegedly installing the same components on 133 of the company's 737 Next Generation jets, the Federal Aviation Administration said." January 11, 2020 at 6:15 AM David. said... My reaction to this New York Times story is that this, right here, is why US industry is dying: "On Friday, Boeing said Mr. Calhoun would receive a $7 million bonus if he got the Max safely flying again. (Mr. Muilenburg is leaving with $62.2 million in stock and pension awards.)" The board fired the guy who almost killed the company and made him rich. The board hired a guy whose job is to rescue the dying company and they think he needs a BONUS of around 100 times a good salary just to motivate him to do the job he was hired to do? January 11, 2020 at 3:48 PM David. said... Edward Helmore's Boeing reports lowest order numbers in 30 years following 737 Max catastrophes gives some idea of how much trouble Boeing is in: "The aerospace company reported on Tuesday that it had 87 more cancellations than new purchases in 2019. The figures included the cancellation of three 787 Dreamliners in December. In the same month, Boeing failed to book any 737 Max orders as customers avoided the model after two fatal crashes that have led to a worldwide grounding. Boeing delivered 380 commercial airplanes in 2019, the lowest level since 2007, and fewer than half the 786 planes its main rival Airbus delivered last year, a record for the European jet maker. Boeing’s numbers are especially bleak compared with Airbus’s 768 orders for new planes for 2019. The European plane maker currently has a 10-year production backlog on orders, or 7,482 commercial planes, while Boeing finished the year with a backlog of 5,406." January 14, 2020 at 4:03 PM David. said... Scott Hamilton's Boeing hasn’t hit bottom yet. Neither have suppliers is full of bad news for Boeing. Quarterly results are due in 2 weeks and Calhoun needs to get all the bad news out in one go. But there is so much he may not want to risk it: "While Boeing hasn’t officially given any direction to the supply chain, information obtained by LNA indicates production will be suspended at least through February. Boeing hopes for a mid-February restart. FAA recertification appears unlikely next month. Whether it comes in March remains a question. ... Based on available information, the initial production rate will be between 10-15 MAXes per month. The return to rate 42 likely won’t occur until 2021. Achieving rate 57/mo, which was the goal by the end of 2019, now likely won’t occur until late 2022 at the earliest. ... Boeing put on hold the development of a new airplane, whether it’s the New Midmarket Airplane (NMA) or Future Small Airplane (FSA)." January 15, 2020 at 4:37 PM David. said... The Seattle Times headline says it all - Beyond pilot trash talk, 737 MAX documents reveal how intensely Boeing focused on cost: "soon after the MAX was certified in 2018, when a series of internal emails addressed why the MAX simulator program had proved so troublesome and expensive, the employees in the conversation pointed to a "culture" that prioritized cost-cutting over everything else." January 18, 2020 at 6:37 AM David. said... The case against both Boeing and the FAA just got a whole lot stronger. How Boeing’s Responsibility in a Deadly Crash ‘Got Buried’ by Chris Hamby recounts how pressure from Boeing and the FAA on the inquiry into the crash of a Turkish 737 NG at Schiphol a decade ago obscured a very similar cause to the 737 MAX crashes. Namely a flight control computer that relied on a single sensor that was not described in the documentation: "The 737 NG has two parallel sets of computers and sensors, one on the left side of the plane and one on the right. Most of the time, only one set is in control. On the Turkish Airlines flight, the system on the right was in control. The pilots recognized the inaccurate altitude readings and noted that they were coming from the sensor on the left. This would have led them to conclude that the bad data coming from the left didn’t matter because the autothrottle was getting the correct data from the right, Dr. Dekker found. What the pilots couldn’t have known was that the computer controlling the engine thrust always relied on the left sensor, even when the controls on the right were flying the plane. That critical information was nowhere to be found in the Boeing pilots’ manual" Worse, Boeing had a fix in 2006 but it was optional: "Five years before the Turkish Airlines crash, Boeing was aware that a sensor malfunction could idle the engines improperly, but the company decided it wasn’t a safety concern, the Dutch investigators wrote. After receiving reports about autothrottle misfires that did not lead to accidents, a Boeing review board determined that if a malfunction occurred, pilots would recognize it and intervene. In the meantime, Boeing developed a software update that allowed the autothrottle to compare the readings from the two altitude sensors. If they differed by more than 20 feet, the autothrottle wouldn’t be able to improperly idle the engines. The safeguard was available in 2006, but the change wouldn’t work on some 737 NG models, like the Turkish Airlines plane, that used an autothrottle computer made by a different company. After the 2009 crash, Boeing developed a version of the update compatible with those computers, and the F.A.A. required airlines to install it." January 20, 2020 at 2:08 PM David. said... Boeing's debt load is ballooning, according to Jon Brodkin's Boeing seeks $10 billion in loans as 737 Max crisis continues: "Boeing is aiming to borrow $10 billion or more to help it get through the 737 Max crisis, CNBC reported today, citing people familiar with the matter. "The company has secured at least $6 billion from banks so far, the people said, and is talking to other lenders for more contributions," CNBC wrote. Citigroup, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, and JPMorgan already agreed to loan Boeing money." Not including this $10B, the long-term debt load has increased rapidly: "Boeing had $20.3 billion in long-term debt as of September 30, 2019, nearly double the $10.7 billion of long-term debt it had on December 31, 2018, according to a Boeing SEC filing. By contrast, Boeing added less than $1 billion in long-term debt in all of 2017. ... Boeing in October reported Q3 2019 revenue of $20 billion, down from $25.1 billion year-over-year. Revenue for the first nine months of 2019 was $58.6 billion, down 19 percent year-over-year. Net earnings in Q3 2019 were $1.2 billion, down from $2.4 billion in Q3 2018." January 20, 2020 at 6:47 PM David. said... Wolf Richter pointed to Boeing's debt: "The second thing to know about Boeing’s mad scramble to borrow another $10 billion is that it already has a huge amount of debt and other liabilities, and that its total liabilities ($136 billion) exceed its total assets ($132 billion) by about $4 billion as of September 2019, meaning that it has negative net equity, that the share buybacks have destroyed its equity, which is what share buybacks do to the balance sheet. It also means that every dime in “cash” and “cash equivalent” listed on the balance sheet is borrowed. And this is about to get a whole lot worse. In October 2019, Boeing had already obtained a new credit line of $9.5 billion, which about doubled the size of its existing credit line. Credit lines serve as liquidity backup." That was before Boeing's latest attempt to strong-arm the FAA into re-certifying the 737 MAX, as explained in Sean Gallagher's 737 Max fix slips to summer—and that’s just one of Boeing’s problems: "Boeing executives are now telling the company's 737 Max customers that the software fix required to make the airliner airworthy will not be approved in the near future and that it will likely be June or July before the Federal Aviation Administration certifies the aircraft for flight again—meaning that the aircraft will have been grounded for at least 16 months." The other problems are in Boeing's space business (the various Starliner failures, and the struggling Space Launch System) and its military business (the KC-46 tanker fiasco, the winddown of the F-18/A, and their subcontracting to Sikorsky for new helicopters). Read Gallagher's piece for the details. January 22, 2020 at 10:25 AM David. said... As expected, Calhoun tried to get the bad news on the table. David Gelles' Boeing Expects 737 Max Costs Will Surpass $18 Billion: "Boeing on Wednesday said that the costs associated with shutting down and restarting the factory would amount to some $4 billion. ... The company also said that the cost of compensating airlines that have suffered lost sales as a result of the grounding of the Max was now expected to reach $8.3 billion, up from a previous estimate of $5.6 billion. ... And Boeing said that as a result of the grounding, ... it expected the overall cost to produce the 737 Max to rise to $6.3 billion in the years ahead, up from an earlier estimate of $3.6 billion." To put that into perspective, $18.6B is 16% more than Boeing spent to develop the 787, an airframe using entirely new technology. So the decay of their corporate culture has cost Boeing more that it would have spent to develop a replacement for the 737 series, something they still urgently need to do! And I'm skeptical that this announcement accounts for (a) the possibility of a delay in certification beyond mid-year, and (b) the effect of Boeing's use of "program accounting" to, in effect, book expected future profits now. January 29, 2020 at 11:58 AM David. said... Yves Smith writes: "CEO thinking isn’t driven by economics as practiced by either neoclassical or finance economists. It is unduly influenced by net present value analysis, which is at the core of most companies’ capital budgeting processes as well as Wall Street financial modeling. Companies and often the Street assign unduly high risk premia, which results in cash flows more than five or ten years out having close to nada impact on cash flow analyses. It isn’t just the rise of neoliberalism and the promotion of the ideology of shareholder capitalism that led to the fetishization of cash flow models (which are just storytelling that too many take too seriously because spreadsheets). It is also that the rise of the personal computer suddenly made it vastly easier to prepare financial forecasts, greatly increasing their use as a managerial tool. And I’ve seen again and again how users come to treat those models as more real than the conditions they represent." January 29, 2020 at 3:29 PM David. said... There's also a case against Airbus, and it has just been decided. David Pegg and Rob Evans' Airbus to pay record £3bn in fines for 'endemic' corruption reports that: "Airbus, Europe’s largest aerospace multinational, is to pay a record £3bn in penalties after admitting it had paid huge bribes on an “endemic” basis to land contracts in 20 countries. ... Allison Clare, for the SFO, told the court the company had paid bribes in Malaysia, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Taiwan and Ghana between 2011 and 2015. Airbus, which admitted five counts of failing to prevent bribery, had used a network of secret agents to pay large-scale backhanders to officials in foreign countries to land high-value contracts. ... French prosecutors examined bribes to other countries including China, Japan, Russia, Kuwait, Brazil and Turkey." But at least they didn't kill anyone. January 31, 2020 at 12:19 PM David. said... The subhead of Michael Sainato's ‘The only ones not paying for Boeing’s mistakes is Boeing': laid-off supply workers voice their anger: "Thousands of US workers have suffered job cuts and loss of hours – while Boeing’s former boss walks away with $62m" Not to mention loss of health insurance. February 1, 2020 at 4:52 PM David. said... On his YouTube channel, Mentour Pilot has an excellent 20-minute overview of the decay of Boeing's culture and Congress' destruction of the FAA's oversight capability. February 3, 2020 at 2:32 PM David. said... In Boeing Fixing New Software Bug on Max; Key Test Flight Nears, Alan Levin, Siddharth Vikram Philip and Christopher Jasper report that: "Boeing Co. has discovered a new software problem on the grounded 737 Max, but the company said the flaw won’t set back the goal of returning the plane to service in mid-2020. The planemaker identified the issue during flight testing and notified the Federal Aviation Administration last month, according to an email Thursday from Boeing. The problem was that an indicator light, designed to warn of a malfunction by a system that helps raise and lower the plane’s nose, was turning on when it wasn’t supposed to, the company said." February 6, 2020 at 5:15 PM David. said... Eric M. Johnson's Boeing's fraying 737 MAX suppliers see capacity crunch reports that: "Boeing Co suppliers are shedding jobs and capacity to cope with a halt in 737 MAX output, but while that staves off chaos, aerospace executives worry the industry might be unable to ramp factories quickly enough when the plane wins approval to fly again. As a result, industrial heavyweights like fuselage maker Spirit Aerosystems have already laid off workers. Spirit on Friday slashed its quarterly dividend and said it would receive $225 million from Boeing before April to support production. Now a cluster of other crucial companies small and big that forge metal, assemble and paint 737 MAX winglets, and build data systems have followed suit with no indication that Boeing will offer a lifeline, people familiar with the matter said." See also Consultant to Boeing: cut dividends, invest in new airplane by Scott Hamilton and Joey Roulette's Boeing's botched Starliner test flirted with 'catastrophic' failure: NASA panel. February 7, 2020 at 7:02 PM David. said... In Boeing’s Starliner problems may be worse than we thought, Eric Berger reports that: "At this point, it seems that NASA and Boeing do not yet know what they don't know about the problems, and it will take some time to sort all of this out." Al three of Boeing's major lines of business, commercial, military and space, have major problems related to poor-quality engineering. February 8, 2020 at 6:39 AM David. said... The headline of Lewis Tamb’s Seattle Times article says it all - Experts question whether Boeing’s board of directors is capable of righting the company. He details the board’s lack of engineering expertise, poor corporate governance, and culpability for the decisions that crippled the company. February 10, 2020 at 7:54 PM David. said... In Boeing Refuses to Cooperate With New Inquiry Into Deadly Crash Chris Hamby and Claire Moses report that: "Boeing and American safety officials refused to cooperate on Thursday with a new inquiry by Dutch lawmakers into a deadly crash near Amsterdam in 2009 that had striking parallels with two more recent accidents involving the manufacturer’s 737 Max. Members of the Dutch parliament wanted to question the Boeing chief executive, David Calhoun, about the company’s possible influence over the original Dutch investigation of the accident, which killed nine people on a Turkish Airlines flight. The National Transportation Safety Board also refused lawmakers’ request to participate." February 11, 2020 at 6:21 AM David. said... The key points of Phil LeBeau's Boeing posts zero new airplane orders in January are: "* January is the latest month without orders following the grounding of the 737 Max in March of 2019. * The company delivered 13 new airplanes in January, including six 787 Dreamliners, a pair of 777s, two 767s and three 737NGs. * Boeing recorded a negative order rate in 2019 — for the first time in decades — as customers canceled or converted orders. ... The lack of orders last month stands in contrast to its competitor Airbus, which logged orders for 274 commercial airplanes in January." February 12, 2020 at 6:19 AM David. said... More on the capture of the FAA in Niraj Choski's F.A.A. Failed to Assure Southwest Airlines Safety, Report Says (my emphasis): "Among the report’s conclusions was that the agency failed to adequately certify that 88 Southwest planes bought from foreign carriers were up to federal standards. Federal regulations allow carriers to use American-made planes acquired from foreign airlines, but only after the agency confirms their airworthiness. That process typically takes three to four weeks, but F.A.A. designees provided such certification for 71 of the 88 planes in just one day, the report found." The report: "cited accusations from F.A.A. officials that Southwest used “diversion, distraction and power” to get what it wanted and would regularly bypass local officials by going straight to F.A.A. headquarters." February 13, 2020 at 6:18 AM David. said... Gregory Tavis, who wrote How the Boeing 737 Max Disaster looks to a Software Developer, is back with Ship the Airplane: The Cultural, Organizational and Technical Reasons Why Boeing Cannot Recover. It is a truly excellent, must-read overview of how Boeing ended up with a single point of failure in a safety-critical system. February 14, 2020 at 5:54 AM David. said... In Starliner Gives Boeing A Hard Lesson In How Not To Verify Software Irene Klotz points out that the recent Starliner failures relate to the same problem that caused the 737 MAX disasters, poor software engineering: "The independent review team assessing the Starliner’s Orbital Flight Test (OFT) is not expected to complete its work until the end of February, but NASA and Boeing said on Feb. 7 that the panel had found multiple areas where the software verification process failed." February 15, 2020 at 8:11 AM David. said... In Boeing finds debris in 737 MAX jetliners: company memo, Eric M. Johnson reports that: "Boeing Co found debris that could pose potential safety risks in the fuel tanks of several 737 MAX aircraft that are in storage and waiting to be delivered to airlines, according to an internal memo seen by Reuters on Tuesday. Foreign object debris, an industrial term for rags, tools, metal shavings and other materials left behind by workers during the production process, has been a quality control issue for various Boeing aircraft, such as its KC-46 tankers." This has been an on-going problem. For example, Natalie Kitroeff and David Gelles reported 10 months ago on the same issue with the 787: "Safety lapses at the North Charleston plant have drawn the scrutiny of airlines and regulators. Qatar Airways stopped accepting planes from the factory after manufacturing mishaps damaged jets and delayed deliveries. Workers have filed nearly a dozen whistle-blower claims and safety complaints with federal regulators, describing issues like defective manufacturing, debris left on planes and pressure to not report violations. Others have sued Boeing, saying they were retaliated against for flagging manufacturing mistakes. Joseph Clayton, a technician at the North Charleston plant, one of two facilities where the Dreamliner is built, said he routinely found debris dangerously close to wiring beneath cockpits." February 19, 2020 at 10:14 AM David. said... Natalie Kitroeff and Michael S. Schmidt's Federal Prosecutors Investigating Whether Boeing Pilot Lied to F.A.A. starts: "Federal prosecutors investigating Boeing are examining whether the company knowingly misled the Federal Aviation Administration while it was seeking the regulator’s approval for its 737 Max plane, according to two people familiar with the matter who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss an active inquiry. In recent months, prosecutors have questioned several Boeing employees in front of a federal grand jury, with some of their queries focusing on whether Mark Forkner, a top pilot at the company, intentionally lied to the regulator about the nature of new flight control software on the jet, the people said." February 21, 2020 at 4:53 PM David. said... Dominic Rushe's Boeing's 'culture of concealment' led to fatal 737 Max crashes, report finds is based on a preliminary version of the findings of the House Transportation Committee. They are devastating for both Boeing and the FAA: "In a blistering 13-page report the committee found Boeing’s Max design “was marred by technical design failures, lack of transparency with both regulators and customers”. According to the report, in 2011 the manufacturer was “under tremendous financial pressure” to compete with its rival Airbus’s A320neo aircraft. ... As a result of those pressures, and in order to get the Max certified as quickly as possible, the manufacturer misled and withheld information from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and even “the very existence” of the MCAS anti-stall software system, blamed for the crashes, from pilots. ... The regulator’s oversight was “grossly insufficient” and it “failed in its duty” to both uncover critical problems and make sure Boeing fixed them, the committee found. “The combination of these problems doomed the Lion Air and Ethiopian Airlines flights,” the report concluded." Of course. the report doesn't blame the Congress for its failings in the case. March 7, 2020 at 9:08 AM David. said... Kenneth Chang's ‘Close Call’: NASA-Boeing Investigation of Starliner Flight Finds Lapses shows that Boeing's cultural problems aren't just with the 737 MAX: "An uncrewed test flight of Starliner, a Boeing spacecraft designed to carry NASA astronauts, could have ended in disaster in December because of lapses that allowed software errors to slip through undetected and unfixed before the spacecraft launched, according to a review by NASA and Boeing that was announced on Friday. The review team made 61 recommendations for fixes and improvements. Some recommendations were specific, such as changes to the software testing procedures. Others addressed possible blind spots in how the program was managed." March 7, 2020 at 7:34 PM David. said... Yesterday's Boeing news. Boeing Crashes: $43 Billion in Share Buybacks Turn into Existential Threat by Wolf Richter reports that: "Boeing’s shares came unglued, plunging 18.1% today, after having already plunged over the past four weeks. Since February 12, shares have crashed 46%, and since the peak on March 1, 2019, 57%. Today’s plunge came after a flurry of disclosures and leaks in the morning about Boeing, including: * Sources said that Boeing is planning to draw down entirely and much quicker than expected its new credit facility of $13.825 billion as early as Friday, apparently worried that banks might freeze the credit facility later, and banks did during the Financial Crisis. * Boeing disclosed that it had negative net orders of -28 aircraft for the first two months of 2020, with cancellations of the 737 MAX exceeding orders for all models" Today's Boeing news. Boeing Said to Add Another Fix to 737 Max to Appease Regulators by Niraj Chokshi reveals that: "Before the scheduled return of the 737 Max this summer, the aircraft manufacturer plans to separate wire bundles in the jet to assure regulators about the plane’s safety, according to a source familiar with the company’s plans who was not authorized to speak publicly about them. The wire bundles have raised concerns because they could, in rare circumstances, cause a short circuit and possibly lead to a catastrophic failure. Boeing has argued privately to regulators that the likelihood of such a failure is remote." Boeing is down another 18% on the day. March 12, 2020 at 3:50 PM David. said... David Calhoun's Boeing criticism misses its most deserving target shows the Seattle Times editorial board has no confidence in Boeing's new CEO (and long-time board member). March 20, 2020 at 8:11 AM David. said... Eric Berger's New document reveals significant fall from grace for Boeing’s space program shows that Boeing's corporate culture has corrupted all its major programs: "Much has been made of Boeing's difficulties in aviation, most notably with the 737 Max. This airplane has been grounded for a year after two crashes that killed 346 people between them, collectively making for the worst air disaster since September 11, 2001. Then there are the issues with the company's KC-146 Pegasus tanker program, which is $3 billion over budget, three years behind schedule, and beset by technical issues. Most recently, in March, the Air Force revealed that it had upgraded chronic leaks in the aircraft's fuel system to a Category I deficiency. This is a problem for an aircraft that is supposed to perform aerial refueling. Since December, the company's space issues have also become more widely known following the failure of the company's Starliner capsule to successfully carry out a test flight to the International Space Station. ... But a new document released by NASA reveals the broader scope of Boeing's apparent decline in spaceflight dominance. The "source selection statement" from NASA explains the space agency's rationale for selecting SpaceX over three other companies—Boeing, Northrop Grumman, and Sierra Nevada Corporation—to deliver large supplies of cargo to lunar orbit. ... Of the four contenders, [Boeing] had the lowest overall technical and mission suitability scores. In addition, Boeing's proposal was characterized as "inaccurate" and possessing no "significant strengths." Boeing also was cited with a "significant weakness" in its proposal for pushing back on providing its software source code." Not to mention the continuing fiasco of the SLS: "NASA is presently in the final throes of deciding how it will get humans to the lunar surface by 2024. It is notable that the most likely scenario involves launching crew and a lander on the same rocket, which would require Boeing to both complete the Space Launch System rocket's core stage—under development for nearly a decade now—as well as a brand-new second stage called the Exploration Upper Stage before then." April 10, 2020 at 10:12 AM David. said... Matt Taibbi's The S.E.C. Rule That Destroyed The Universe delves into the bigger picture of the stock buybacks that destroyed Boeing. For example: "It’s hard to overstate how much money has vanished. S&P 500 companies overall spent the size of the recent bailout – $2 trillion – on buybacks just in the last three years! Banks spent $155 billion on buybacks and dividends across a 12-month period in 2019-2020. As former FDIC chief Sheila Bair pointed out last month, “as a rule of thumb $1 of capital supports $16 of lending.” So, $155 billion in buybacks and dividends translates into roughly $2.4 trillion in lending that didn’t happen. Most all of the sectors receiving aid through the new CARES Act programs moved huge amounts to shareholders in recent years. The big four airlines – Delta, United, American, and Southwest – spent $43.7 billion on buybacks just since 2012. If that sum sounds familiar, it’s because it equals almost exactly the size of the $50 billion bailout airlines are being given as part of the CARES Act relief package." Taibbi makes the important point that: "The two major federal financial rescues, in 2008-2009 and now, have become an important part of a cover story shifting attention from all this looting: the public has been trained to think companies have been crippled by investment losses, when the biggest drain has really come via a relentless program of intentional extractions." April 11, 2020 at 7:01 AM David. said... In 797. The Plane That Never Was, Patrick Smith points out that Boeing has ceded the mid-size segment to Airbus for the foreseeable future: "Boeing should have signed off on the project a long time ago. Instead, they kept force-feeding us monsterized 737s. Then came the 737 MAX fiasco. Right on its heels is COVID-19, which has thrown the global aviation industry to onto the ledge of catastrophe. Regardless of when this is over, a new, clean-sheet airframe is about the last thing Boeing or its customers will have the time or resources to deal with. ... Airbus will sell a thousand XLRs, mark my words. For carriers it’s the only option. And Boeing will be left looking dumber than it does already." April 15, 2020 at 9:51 AM David. said... In addition to ceding the mid-size market to Airbus, Boeing has decided it can't afford to compete in the regional jet market. In Boeing Terminates $4.2 Billion Deal to Buy Stake in Embraer Unit, Vindu Goel reports that: "Boeing, which is contending with the economic fallout from the pandemic and the grounding of its 737 Max jets, said Saturday that it had terminated an agreement to buy 80 percent of Embraer’s commercial jet business for $4.2 billion. Walking away from the deal will help Boeing conserve cash at a time when it is facing a litany of problems." April 25, 2020 at 8:07 PM David. said... In Boeing cutting more than 12,000 U.S. jobs with thousands more planned David Shepardson reports on the next stage of Boeing's decline: "Boeing Co said Wednesday it was eliminating more than 12,000 U.S. jobs, including involuntary layoffs of 6,770 U.S. workers as the largest American planemaker restructures in the face of the coronavirus pandemic. Boeing also disclosed it plans “several thousand remaining layoffs” in the next few months but did not say where those would take place. The company announced in April it would cut 10% of its worldwide workforce of 160,000 by the end of 2020. ... In April, Boeing recorded zero orders for the second time this year and customers canceled another 108 orders for its grounded 737 MAX plane, compounding its worst start to a year since 1962." May 27, 2020 at 12:37 PM David. said... Scott Hamilton's Pontifications: bleak near- to mid-term future for Rolls-Royce engine unit starts: "The jet engine division of Rolls-Royce faces an uncertain future because of its own problems, exacerbated by the impact of COVID-19 on commercial airlines. Beset by problems with its Trent 1000, Boeing 787 engine, hampered by a huge error in judgment to withdraw from a joint venture with Pratt & Whitney, beset by the premature termination of the Airbus A380 program and now facing a long-term impact of the coronavirus crisis, Rolls is an engine maker with few opportunities." The post details a series of decisions as bad as Boeing's. June 18, 2020 at 8:25 PM David. said... David Shepardson reports that U.S. regulator, Boeing complete 737 MAX certification test flights: "The tests of Boeing’s proposed changes to the automated flight control system on the aircraft are a pivotal moment in the company’s worst-ever corporate crisis. The FAA must complete the data review, approve new pilot training procedures, among other steps, and is unlikely to approve the plane’s ungrounding until mid-September, Reuters reported this week." July 2, 2020 at 11:06 AM David. said... The Wall Street Journal story Boeing 737 MAX Increasingly Unlikely to Carry Passengers Before 2021 starts: "Boeing Co.’s 737 MAX isn’t likely to resume widespread passenger flights until early next year—nearly two months beyond previous expectations—due to another regulatory delay, according to U.S. government and industry officials." Yves Smith has an analysis that compares it with a more optimistic Seattle Times story and concludes: "I don’t see how anyone can be fantasizing that the 737 Max will be carrying passengers before February 2021, and the odds favor later than that." Smith's pessimism has been righter than most so far. July 22, 2020 at 11:31 AM David. said... More trouble for Boeing: 1) 747 - Iconic 747 jumbo jet nears the end as Boeing placed final part orders. 2) 777 - Boeing to delay 777X as demand drops for big jets: Sources. 3) 787 - Boeing’s North Charleston site stashing undelivered Dreamliners in every nook and cranny. 4) 737 not MAX - FAA Issues Emergency Inspection Order for 737s Due to Engine Shutdown Issue. July 25, 2020 at 8:43 AM David. said... Reuters reports that Boeing finds flaws in fuselage of some Dreamliners; eight aircraft affected. August 29, 2020 at 5:42 AM David. said... Scott Hamilton's Pontifications: WA State frets about Boeing brain drain, but it’s already happening suggests that Boeing is losing experienced engineers and is unable to replace them: "Nearly half of the membership of SPEEA, the engineers and technicians union at Boeing, are 50 years or older right now. Almost two thirds of these are within 55-64 years old. In other words, ready for retirement right now or soon to be." August 31, 2020 at 10:09 AM David. said... Lambert Strether provides a roundup of the ongoing crises at Beoing in As Boeing Inches Toward 737 MAX Recertification, 787 and Lunar Lander Go Sour, Charleston v. Seattle Looms. TL;DR: 737: "There are still a number of steps to go before it can fly again (presumably in the fourth quarter after regulatory approvals are complete)" 787: "Over the past few months, there have been 787 manufacturing problems with mating body sections (8 aircraft), the vertical tail fin (680 aircraft), and the horizontal stabilizer (900 aircraft)" Lunar Lander: "Boeing Co is submitting to an independent review of its compliance and ethics practices, according to an agreement struck with NASA and the U.S. Air Force and seen by Reuters, part of widening fallout from its behavior in bidding to supply lunar landing vehicles. ... The U.S. Justice Department has opened a criminal probe into whether NASA’s former head of human spaceflight gave Boeing Co BA.N improper guidance during a lucrative lunar-lander contract competition, two people familiar with the matter said on Friday." Everett vs. Charleston: "Boeing, with main assembly plants at Everett and Charleston, has excess capacity. What to do? From Leeham News and Analysis, “Pontifications: Boeing SC makes its case for 787 production consolidation—and it favors Everett“: ... Quality control at the Charleston plant has been a major issue since it opened, even after Boeing bought it from Alenia and a joint venture between Alenia and Vought. Employee turnover at Charleston historically is higher than desired, which hurts QC." September 15, 2020 at 8:14 AM David. said... Kiran Stacey's Boeing hid design flaws in 737 Max jets from pilots and regulators reports that: "Boeing hid design flaws in its 737 Max jet from both pilots and regulators as it raced to have the airplane certified as fit to fly, according to a damning congressional report into why two of the aircraft crashed within months of each other last year, killing 346 people. The report by the US House of Representatives transport committee found the US aircraft maker cut corners and pressured regulators to overlook aspects of its new design in its attempts to catch up with European rival Airbus. It also accused US regulators of being too concerned with pleasing the company to exercise proper oversight." September 16, 2020 at 4:49 PM David. said... FAA’s Own Engineers Say Proposed Fixes to Max Aren’t Enough by Alan Levin reports: "The union representing the Federal Aviation Administration engineers overseeing Boeing Co.’s redesign of the grounded 737 Max says the government’s proposed fixes to the plane don’t go far enough. The National Air Traffic Controllers Association, which represents FAA engineers who review and sign off on aircraft certification, said in comments filed on Monday that the Max should have to adhere to tougher standards on cockpit alerts." And: "Curtis Ewbank, a whistle-blower who has previously raised concerns about the plane’s design with congressional investigators, said in comments filed with the FAA that a proposal to mandate fixes to the jetliner didn’t address multiple hazards identified in the two fatal Max accidents and earlier incidents. “Clearly more actions are required to revise FAA processes so that it accurately assesses airplane design and regulates in the public interest,” Ewbank said in the comments, posted on the Regulations.gov website. Ewbank said the FAA and Boeing should do more to prohibit faulty readings from the sensor implicated in both crashes and improve the plane’s warning systems." September 22, 2020 at 10:41 AM David. said... Proposed US fix for Boeing 737 Max software woes does not address Ethiopian crash scenario, UK pilot union warns by Gareth Corfield reports yet another objection to the fix, that both pilots are supposed to turn the trim wheel together: "BALPA said: "Requiring both crew members to turn the trim wheel simultaneously in a non-normal scenario is extremely undesirable and goes against all philosophies of having one pilot fly and one run the QRH [quick reference handbook: reading out the emergency checklist]. No flight control system should require both pilots to operate it at any stage, let alone in an emergency." The trade union added: "It is felt that this should be reconsidered (particularly in light of the smaller diameter trim wheel as fitted to the MAX to enable the new larger screens to fit, and as per the scenario observed in the Ethiopian Airlines accident)." September 23, 2020 at 2:04 PM David. said... What the 737 MAX’s return tells us about automation by Ashley Nunes makes the same point about the hand-off problem as I have been making: "it was Lisanne Bainbridge who foresaw a more pressing problem brought on by the bots. In her 1983 paper Ironies of Automation, the British psychologist theorised the more automated the system, the more crucial the human becomes. Bainbridge concluded that a designer “who tries to eliminate the operator still leaves the operator to do the tasks which the designer cannot think how to automate.” Put simply, technology only gets you so far. November 18, 2020 at 8:57 AM David. said... Bjorn Fehrm has a technical discussion of why the MCAS fixes are required at Bjorn’s Corner: 737 MAX ungrounding, the technical background. 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Simple theme. Powered by Blogger. blog-dshr-org-4867 ---- DSHR's Blog: 737 MAX Ungrounding DSHR's Blog I'm David Rosenthal, and this is a place to discuss the work I'm doing in Digital Preservation. Tuesday, December 1, 2020 737 MAX Ungrounding My post 737 MAX: The Case Against Boeing is a year old and has accumulated 58 updates in comments. Now the aircraft is returning to service, it is time for a new post. Below the fold, Bjorn Fehrm has two interesting posts about the ungrounding. In the first, Boeing 737 MAX changes beyond MCAS, Fehrm lays out the cascade of warnings that resulted from a single angle-of-attack sensor failure: As FAA and Boeing played through what happened in the MAX crashes in Boeing’s engineering simulators, the cascading alerts triggered by a faulty single Angle of Attack (AoA) sensor stood out: Stick shaker went on on the affected side from rotation and stayed on all the time, despite the aircraft flying with the correct speed and not being close to stall. IAS (airspeed) UNRELIABLE alert triggered ALT (altitude) UNRELIABLE alert triggered AOA (Angle of Attack) UNRELIABLE should have shown but didn’t because of a bug in MAX’s software that tied it to the optional display of AoA on the Pilot’s Primary Flight Display (PFD, the Pilot’s electronic horizon display). The speed tapes on the Pilot’s Primary Flight Display behaved strangely, showing too low speed and high speed concurrently in the ET302 case. Several trim related failures in such an environment relied on the Pilots identifying the trim misbehavior within four seconds. When flight crews from different airlines were flying these scenarios, it became clear such assumptions were unrealistic. This is an example of the hand-off problem that is inherent in sophisticated automation (see First We Change How People Behave and the numerous comments). Clearly, giving even expert pilots only 4 seconds to comprehend and react to this confusing rush of warnings would have been unrealistic, even if the pilots had been informed about and trained on the MCAS system that was causing them, which they weren't. In the second, Fehrm points out an interesting difference between the FAA's and the EASA's requirements for re-certifying the 737 MAX in 737 MAX ungrounding, ANAC’s and EASA’s decisions: The other condition has its root in the disconnection of Speed Trim, MCAS, Autopilot, and Flight Directors should the two Angle of Attack systems disagree. EASA will temporarily revoke the 737 MAX certification for Required Navigation Performance – Authorization Required (RNP AR) approaches. ... Should the AoA monitor trip, Speed Trim, MCAS, and more importantly, Autopilot and Flight Directors disconnect, it puts a crew in a very tight spot as the difficulty of such approaches are high (they require special crew training and certification). You need all the tools you have in such approaches and don’t want a sudden disconnect of the Autopilot and Flight Directors combined with Speed Trim warning, followed by AOA, IAS and ALT DISAGREE. The revoke of the RPN AR approach certification is temporary. One can guess it will be allowed again once a synthetic third AoA sensor is introduced to the MAX. It creates a voting “two versus one” situation when one of the sensors presents suspicious values. It would then result in an AOA DISAGREE warning, but the Autopilot and Flight directors would stay on and IAS and ALT would still get the required AoA corrections. The AOA DISAGREE is then an indication for required maintenance rather than a major system hiccup. Duplicating systems is never a good approach to fault tolerance, they must be triplicated. In the 70s BA used Tridents on the Edinburgh to London shuttle. Their autoland systems were triplcated, and certified for zero-visibility landing. I experienced my first go-round when, on my way from Edinburgh to Miami for a conference, the approach to LHR in heavy cloud was interrupted by the engines spooling up and an abrupt climb. The captain calmly announced that one of the autopilots disagreed with the other two and, as a precaution, we were going around for another try. On the second approach there was no disagreement. We eventually landed in fog so thick I couldn't see the wingtips. Only the Tridents were landing, nothing was taking off. My Miami flight was delayed and after about 10 hours I was re-routed via LGA. Posted by David. at 8:00 AM Labels: fault tolerance No comments: Post a Comment Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom) Blog Rules Posts and comments are copyright of their respective authors who, by posting or commenting, license their work under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. Off-topic or unsuitable comments will be deleted. 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Simple theme. Powered by Blogger. blog-dshr-org-5296 ---- DSHR's Blog: First We Change How People Behave DSHR's Blog I'm David Rosenthal, and this is a place to discuss the work I'm doing in Digital Preservation. Tuesday, April 2, 2019 First We Change How People Behave Then the system will work the way we want. My skepticism about Level 5 self-driving cars keeps getting reinforced. Below the fold, two recent examples. The fundamental problem of autonomous vehicles sharing roads is that until you get to Level 5, you have a hand-off problem. The closer you get to Level 5, the worse the hand-off problem. Source Sean Gallagher's Lion Air 737 MAX crew had seconds to react, Boeing simulation finds shows the hand-off problem for aircraft: In testing performed in a simulator, Boeing test pilots recreated the conditions aboard Lion Air Flight 610 when it went down in the Java Sea in October, killing 189 people. The tests showed that the crew of the 737 MAX 8 would have only had 40 seconds to respond to the Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System’s (MCAS’s) attempts to correct a stall that wasn’t happening before the aircraft went into an unrecoverable dive, according to a report by The New York Times. While the test pilots were able to correct the issue with the flip of three switches, their training on the systems far exceeded that of the Lion Air crew—and that of the similarly doomed Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302, which crashed earlier this month. The Lion Air crew was heard on cockpit voice recorders checking flight manuals in an attempt to diagnose what was going on moments before they died. Great, must-read journalism from Dominic Gates at the Seattle Times, Boeing's home-town newspaper in Flawed analysis, failed oversight: How Boeing and FAA certified the suspect 737 MAX flight control system shows that the fundamental problem with the 737 MAX was regulatory capture of the FAA by Boeing; the FAA's priority wasn't to make the 737 MAX safe, it was to get it into the market as quickly as possible because Airbus had a 9-month lead in this segment. And because Airbus' fly-by-wire planes minimize the need for expensive pilot re-training, Boeing's priority was to remove the need for it. The company had promised Southwest Airlines Co. , the plane’s biggest customer, to keep pilot training to a minimum so the new jet could seamlessly slot into the carrier’s fleet of older 737s, according to regulators and industry officials. [Former Boeing engineer Mr. [Rick] Ludtke [who worked on 737 MAX cockpit features] recalled midlevel managers telling subordinates that Boeing had committed to pay the airline $1 million per plane if its design ended up requiring pilots to spend additional simulator time. “We had never, ever seen commitments like that before,” he said. The software fix Boeing just announced is just a patch on a fundamentally flawed design, as George Leopold reports in Software Won’t Fix Boeing’s ‘Faulty’ Airframe. Boeing is gaming the regulations, and the FAA let them do it. Neither placed safety first. These revelations should completely destroy the credibility of FAA certifications. Although Boeing's highly-trained test pilots didn't have to RTFM, they did have only 40 seconds to diagnose and remedy the problem caused by the faulty angle-of-attack sensor and the buggy MCAS software. Inadequately trained Lion Air and Ethiopian Airlines pilots never stood a chance of a successful hand-off. Self-driving car advocates assume that hand-offs are initiated by the software recognizing a situation it can't handle. But in this case the MCAS software was convinced, on the basis of a faulty sensor, that it was handling the situation and refused to hand-off to the pilots 24 times in succession. Self-driving car stopper Self-driving cars drivers will lack even the level of training of the dead pilots. The cars' software is equally dependent upon sensors, which can be fooled by stickers on the road*, and cannot handle rain, sleet or snow. Or, as it turns out, pedestrians As David Zipper tweeted: At a mobility event today I met an auto industry rep who told me "to enable AV's we need a period of increased urban law enforcement so pedestrians know what they can't do. Then they'll change behavior." I was so stunned I could barely respond "I think that's a horrific idea." — David Zipper (@DavidZipper) March 28, 2019 Atrios' apt comment was: It is this type of thing which makes me obsess about this issue. And I have a couple insider sources (ooooh I am a real journalist) who confirm these concerns. The self-driving car people see pedestrians as a problem. I don't really understand how you can think urban taxis are your business model and also think walking is the enemy. Cities are made of pedestrians. Well, cities other than Phoenix, anyway. I pay a dumb mortgage so I can walk to a concert, like I did last night. But no-one who matters cares about pedestrians because no-one who matters is ever on the sidewalk, let alone crossing the street. As the CDC reports: In 2016, 5,987 pedestrians were killed in traffic crashes in the United States. This averages to one crash-related pedestrian death every 1.5 hours. Additionally, almost 129,000 pedestrians were treated in emergency departments for non-fatal crash-related injuries in 2015. Pedestrians are 1.5 times more likely than passenger vehicle occupants to be killed in a car crash on each trip. The casualties who don't "know what they can't do" won't add much to the deaths and injuries, so we can just go ahead and deploy the technology ASAP. * Tesla says the "stickers on the road" attack: is not a realistic concern given that a driver can easily override Autopilot at any time by using the steering wheel or brakes and should always be prepared to do so Well, yes, but the technology is called "Autopilot" and Musk keeps claiming "full autonomy" is just around the corner. Posted by David. at 8:00 AM Labels: techno-hype 40 comments: David. said... Sean Gallagher reports that: "Delivery of Boeing’s promised fix to the flight system software at the center of two 737 MAX crash investigations has been pushed back several weeks after an internal review by engineers not connected to the aircraft raised additional safety questions. The results of the “non-advocate” review have not been revealed, but the Federal Aviation Administration confirmed on April 1 that the software needed additional work." April 2, 2019 at 3:48 PM David. said... Although they did RTFM, it looks like it didn't help: "Pilots at the controls of the Boeing Co. 737 MAX that crashed in March in Ethiopia initially followed emergency procedures laid out by the plane maker but still failed to recover control of the jet, according to people briefed on the probe’s preliminary findings." April 3, 2019 at 7:11 AM David. said... In Whistleblowers: FAA 737 MAX safety inspectors lacked training, certification, Sean Gallagher reports that: "Multiple whistleblowers have raised issues over the Federal Aviation Administration’s safety inspection process connected to Boeing’s 737 MAX aircraft, according to a letter to the FAA from Senate Commerce Committee chairman Sen. Roger Wicker on April 2. And the FAA’s leadership was informed of these concerns as far back as August of 2018. The whistleblowers cited “insufficient training and improper certification” of FAA aviation safety inspectors, “including those involved in the Aircraft Evaluation Group (AEG) for the Boeing 737 MAX," Wicker said in his letter to FAA acting administrator David Elwell." Both Boeing and the FAA have serious credibility problems. April 3, 2019 at 10:26 AM David. said... Izabella Kaminska and Jamie Powell Uber's conflicting self-driving fleet vision analyzes Uber's IPO documents and shows (a) Uber is betting the future on a fleet of Level 5 cars, and (b) the economics of this bet simply don't work (and of course neither does the technology): "But here's the really important factor for would-be buyers of the stock on IPO day. Uber says autonomous driving is essential for it to continue to effectively compete, but it also says these development efforts are capital and operations intensive (the opposite of its supposed asset-light business model today)." The quotes they emphasize from the IPO documents are fairly devastating. April 12, 2019 at 2:44 PM David. said... Yet again William Gibson was prophetic. In Defense against the Darknet, or how to accessorize to defeat video surveillance, Thomas Claiburn describes a real-life version of the "ugliest T-shirt" from Gibson's Zero History. April 19, 2019 at 5:35 PM David. said... Julie Bort's An engineer at Uber's self-driving car unit warns that it's more like 'a science experiment' than a real car capable of driving itself shows that in autonomous cars, like everything else, Uber is following the "fake it until you make it" path of today's Silicon Valley startups. And for the few in the audience who haven't read Gibson, the "ugliest T-shirt" makes the wearer invisible to surveillance cameras. Makes pedestrians even more of a problem for self-driving cars, no? April 20, 2019 at 6:20 AM David. said... Another good post on the 737-MAX crashes is How the Boeing 737 Max Disaster Looks to a Software Developer by Gregory Travis: "So Boeing produced a dynamically unstable airframe, the 737 Max. That is big strike No. 1. Boeing then tried to mask the 737’s dynamic instability with a software system. Big strike No. 2. Finally, the software relied on systems known for their propensity to fail (angle-of-attack indicators) and did not appear to include even rudimentary provisions to cross-check the outputs of the angle-of-attack sensor against other sensors, or even the other angle-of-attack sensor. Big strike No. 3. April 21, 2019 at 4:54 PM David. said... Christine Negroni's What people don’t get about why planes crash stresses the handoff problem: "In the crash of an Asiana Airlines Boeing 777 landing in San Francisco in 2013, investigators determined that a contributing factor was the pilots’ over-reliance on automated systems which led to an erosion in their flying skills. The investigation of the fatal flight of an Air France Airbus A330 from Rio de Janeiro to Paris in 2009 led to the conclusion that the complexity of the fly-by-wire airplane befuddled the pilots. The 737 Max probes suggest another variation on the conundrum: Technology intended to protect against pilot error trapped the pilots. Helpless in the cockpit, they were unable to do as Captain Sully did and save the day." April 23, 2019 at 6:41 AM David. said... Southwest and FAA officials never knew Boeing turned off a safety feature on its 737 Max jets, and dismissed ideas about grounding them by Hillary Hoffower is based on reporting by Andy Pastzor of the WSJ: "Southwest Airlines and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) officials who monitor the carrier were unaware that a standard safety feature, designed to warn pilots about malfunctioning sensors, on Boeing 737 Max jets was turned off when Southwest began flying the model in 2017 ... In earlier 737 models, the safety feature alerted pilots when a sensor called the "angle-of-attack vane" incorrectly conveyed the pitch of the plane's nose, according to Pastzor. In the Max, it functions as such while also signaling when the Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System (MCAS) — a new automated system linked to both October's Lion Air crash and March's Ethiopian Airlines crash — could misfire; but these alerts were only enabled if carriers purchased additional safety features" And: "Like other airlines flying the Max, Southwest didn't learn about the change until the aftermath of the Lion Air crash, ... the carrier then asked Boeing to reactivate the alerts on its Max fleet, causing FAA inspectors to contemplate grounding the Max fleet until it was determined whether or not pilots needed additional training — but the idea was quickly dropped. Once the feature was reactivated, some FAA officials again considered grounding Southwest's 737 Max fleet to determine whether pilots needed new training — and again, the discussions, which happened via email, were dismissed after a few days" It is clear that the FAA's priority was Boeing's competitive position against Airbus, not safety. Additional training would have cost Boeing $1M a plane to Southwest, and would have cost Southwest probably more than that in increased costs covering the grounded planes and unavailable pilots. April 28, 2019 at 1:05 PM David. said... As usual, Paul Vixie was way ahead of the curve. He wrote Disciplining the Unoccupied Mind in July 2016: "Simply put, if you give a human brain the option to perform other tasks than the one at hand, it will do so. No law, no amount of training, and no insistence by the manufacturer of an automobile will alter this fact. It's human nature, immalleable. So until and unless Tesla can robustly and credibly promise an autopilot that will imagine every threat a human could imagine, and can use the same level of caution as the best human driver would use, then the world will be better off without this feature." I wrote Techno-hype part 1 16 moths later, and this post 32 months later, both with esentially the same message. April 28, 2019 at 2:08 PM David. said... Uber, Lyft, Waymo and many others believe that the key market for semi-autonomous (Level 4) cars is robo-taxis. Via Jamie Powell's The questionable economics of autonomous taxi fleets, "A new paper out Monday, written by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and exclusively shared with FT Alphaville, agrees. It suggests that, at current prices, an automated hive of driverless taxis will actually be more expensive for a consumer to use than the old-world way of owning four wheels. Drawing on a wealth of publicly available data, Ashley Nunes and his colleague Kristen Hernandez suggest that the price for taking an autonomous taxi will be between $1.58 to $6.01 on a per-mile basis, versus the $0.72 cost of owning a car. Using San Francisco’s taxi market as its test area, the academics examined a vast array of costs such as licensing, maintenance, fuel and insurance for their calculations." Note the "San Francisco". Waymo can't actually make robo-taxis work in Phoenix. The big markets for taxis are old, dense cities such as San Francisco and New York. Nightmares even for human drivers (try driving through Chinatown in SF, or across Manhattan in rush hour). April 30, 2019 at 1:20 PM David. said... Boeing Built Deadly Assumptions Into 737 Max, Blind to a Late Design Change is the New York Times longread on the process that led to the 737 MAX disasters. It is a story of a siloed organization, with people making safety-critical decisions based on partial or incorrect information about the system in question. It should make everyone think twice before flying on any Boeing plane: "But many people involved in building, testing and approving the system, known as MCAS, said they hadn’t fully understood the changes. Current and former employees at Boeing and the Federal Aviation Administration who spoke with The New York Times said they had assumed the system relied on more sensors and would rarely, if ever, activate. Based on those misguided assumptions, many made critical decisions, affecting design, certification and training." June 1, 2019 at 5:38 PM David. said... Clive Irving's How Boeing’s Bean-Counters Courted the 737 MAX Disaster is another good article on how the crisis arose: "The origins of the 737 are particularly significant now, with Boeing engulfed in a world crisis of confidence with two crashes of the newest model, the 737 MAX-8, killing 346 people. Specifically, the origins of the design highlight the consequences to Boeing of believing that it could keep upgrading a 50-year-old design indefinitely." June 10, 2019 at 12:15 PM David. said... April Glaser interviewed self-driving car pioneer Chris Urmson for How Close Are We to Self-Driving Cars, Really?. He didn't disagree with her question: "I’ve read that you think self-driving cars are about five to 10 years away from a small-scale rollout, but 30 to 50 years away from ubiquity, or a very large rollout." June 16, 2019 at 1:24 PM David. said... Boeing's disregard of safety in manufacturing and slow-rolling of FAA oversight goes backmany years before the 737 MAX disasters, according to a long story by Michael Laris entitled Long before the Max disasters, Boeing had a history of failing to fix safety problems: "Repeatedly, safety lapses were identified, and Boeing would agree to fix them, then fail to do so, the FAA said." June 28, 2019 at 10:56 AM David. said... In Boeing falsified records for 787 jet sold to Air Canada. It developed a fuel leak Katie Nicholson reports that: "Boeing staff falsified records for a 787 jet built for Air Canada which developed a fuel leak ten months into service in 2015. In a statement to CBC News, Boeing said it self-disclosed the problem to the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration after Air Canada notified them of the fuel leak. The records stated that manufacturing work had been completed when it had not." June 29, 2019 at 2:19 PM David. said... Matt Stoller's The Coming Boeing Bailout? is a good overview of the way anti-trust failure corrupted Boeing: "The net effect of the merger, and the follow-on managerial and financial choices, is that America significantly damaged its aerospace industry. Where there were two competitors - McDonnell Douglas and Boeing, now there is one. And that domestic monopoly can no longer develop good civilian aerospace products. Hundreds of people are dead, and tens of billions of dollars wasted." July 10, 2019 at 6:17 AM David. said... Jeffrey Rothfeder's For years, automakers wildly overpromised on self-driving cars and electric vehicles—what now? shows that realism about self-driving cars without trained self-driving car drivers is breaking out, now the Uber IPO is over: "Starting around May 2016, Uber projected in public and private presentations that it would manufacture 13,000 autonomous vehicles by 2019, only to change that forecast four months later to over 75,000 units. The company also said that human safety drivers, who take over the wheel when an AV needs help, would not be required on its cars by 2020. And in 2022, the company declared, tens of thousands of fully self-driving Uber taxis would be in 13 of the largest cities. ... the Uber employee responsible for the forecasts said that while she was designing them, executives had asked her “to think about a way” to show accelerated Uber AV development." But now: "CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said at an Economic Club meeting in Washington, DC, that it will take more than 50 years for all Uber cars to be driverless," And: "Waymo’s CEO John Krafcik told a tech conference that it will be decades before autonomous cars are widespread on the roads, and they may always need human assistance to drive in multifaceted environments, such as bad weather or areas crowded with construction or emergency equipment." Told you so! July 12, 2019 at 10:46 AM David. said... The details in Newly stringent FAA tests spur a fundamental software redesign of Boeing’s 737 MAX flight controls seem somewhat confused, but apparently the fact that MCAS, unlike earlier flight control systems, can override the pilots in ways from which they may be unable to recover means that the fundamental architecture of the 737's flight control software is no longer adequate. The FAA is requiring that the software be re-architected to be more resilient to failures. If so, the predicitions of an early return to service are highly optimistic. August 3, 2019 at 9:35 AM David. said... Gareth Corfield at The Register has more details on the 737 MAX software re-architecture: "Astonishingly, until the 737 Max crashes, the aircraft was flying with no redundancy at all for the flight control computers. If the active one failed or suffered inversion of critical bits in memory, there was no standby unit ready to cut in and continue. The Seattle Times reported that this has now been redesigned so the two onboard computers run in an active:standby configuration. Previously the units merely swapped over in between flights. In addition, the computers will receive input from both angle-of-attack sensors rather than just the one. A faulty AoA sensor is thought to have been a contributory factor to the 737 Max crashes, which together cost more than 300 lives." August 4, 2019 at 7:01 AM David. said... Andy Greenberg's A Boeing Code Leak Exposes Security Flaws Deep in a 787's Guts reports that: "Santamarta claims that leaked code has led him to something unprecedented: security flaws in one of the 787 Dreamliner's components, deep in the plane's multi-tiered network. He suggests that for a hacker, exploiting those bugs could represent one step in a multi­stage attack that starts in the plane’s in-flight entertainment system and extends to highly protected, safety-critical systems like flight controls and sensors." This isn't an immediate threat to safety-critical systems which Boeing claims are firewalled: "But even granting Boeing's claims about its security barriers, the flaws Santamarta found are egregious enough that they shouldn't be dismissed, says Stefan Savage, a computer science professor at the University of California at San Diego, who is currently working with other academic researchers on an avionics cybersecurity testing platform. "The claim that one shouldn't worry about a vulnerability because other protections prevent it from being exploited has a very bad history in computer security," Savage says. "Typically, where there's smoke there's fire." Savage points in particular to a vulnerability Santamarta highlighted in a version of the embedded operating system VxWorks, in this case customized for Boeing by Honeywell." Maybe Boeing needs to pay software developers more than $9/hr. August 9, 2019 at 9:38 AM David. said... Via Atrios, el gato malo has a good explanation of why, even if Level 5 self-driving were possible, Tesla's "full self-driving" is never going to be it. August 15, 2019 at 10:31 AM David. said... Joining the pile on Tesla's robo-taxi BS, Keubiko's Tesla's Robotaxi Red Herring estimates the cost in crashes and deaths they're projecting: "Even if autonomous cars are as good has human drivers by 2023, is it reasonable or feasible to think that the news flow, consumer acceptance, politicians, and regulators will accept anywhere near these numbers? If a single Uber test vehicle death can send the industry into a tizzy, what would thousands of crashes per day and a death every 90 minutes or so look like? This even ignores the stats on the miles that would be owner-driven (in autonomous mode) and not “robotaxi”. As an analogue, look at what Boeing is dealing with on its 737 Max. Air travel is still statistically very safe, and the 737 Max had well over 40,000 flights before the two crashes within 5 months grounded (justifiably so) the fleet. Does anyone honestly believe that a newly emerging industry can withstand the news flow anywhere close to these numbers?" August 27, 2019 at 9:28 AM David. said... How does an autonomous car work? Not so great by Youjin Shin, Chris Alcantara and Aaron Steckelberg at the WaPo is a great interactive explanation of many of the limitations of self-driving car technology other than the hand-off problem. Go check it out. September 11, 2019 at 8:12 AM David. said... Jennifer Elias' Alphabet exec blames media for overhyping self-driving cars, even though Google drove the hype illustrates the slow dawning of the realization that Level 5 is nowhere close: "[Waymo] has dialed back its enthusiastic tone as it falls behind its original timeline for getting full self-driving cars on the road. The company said in 2017 that it wouldn't need to wait until 2020 ⁠— when analysts expected self-driving cars to go fully autonomous ⁠— but that it would give riders the ability within "months." Morgan Stanley cut its valuation on Waymo by 40% last month from $175 billion to $105 billion, concluding that the industry is moving toward commercialization slower than expected and that Waymo still relies on human safety drivers, which CNBC reported in August." Elias provides a timeline of Google's optimistic predictions of "full self-driving". October 23, 2019 at 2:34 PM David. said... In Hailing a driverless ride in a Waymo, Ed Niedermeyer reports on his first ride in a fully driverless Waymo car, as part of their testing in a small part of Phoenix, AZ: "There were moments where the self-driving system’s driving impressed, like the way it caught an unprotected left turn just as the traffic signal turned yellow or how its acceleration matched surrounding traffic. The vehicle seemed to even have mastered the more human-like driving skill of crawling forward at a stop sign to signal its intent. Only a few typical quirks, like moments of overly cautious traffic spacing and overactive path planning, betrayed the fact that a computer was in control. A more typical rider, specifically one who doesn’t regularly practice their version of the driving Turing Test, might not have even noticed them." But he points out that: "In 2017, Waymo CEO John Krafcik declared on stage at the Lisbon Web Summit that “fully self-driving cars are here.” Krafcik’s show of confidence and accompanying blog post implied that the “race to autonomy” was almost over. But it wasn’t. Nearly two years after Krafcik’s comments, vehicles driven by humans — not computers — still clog the roads in Phoenix. The majority of Waymo’s fleet of self-driving Chrysler Pacifica minivans in Arizona have human safety drivers behind the wheel; and the few driverless ones have been limited to testing only." November 2, 2019 at 9:55 AM David. said... Remember the Uber self-driving car that killed a woman crossing the street? The AI had no clue about jaywalkers by Katyanna Quach describes the NTSB report on the killing of a pedestrian by an Uber self-driving car in March 2018: "an investigation by the NTSB into the crash has pinpointed a likely major contributing factor: the code couldn't recognize her as a pedestrian, because she was not at an obvious designated crossing. Rather than correctly anticipating her movements as a person moving across the road, it ended up running right into her. “The system design did not include a consideration for jaywalking pedestrians,” the watchdog stated [PDF] in its write-up.” The penalty for jaywalking is death. November 6, 2019 at 8:06 AM David. said... Timothy B. Lee's How terrible software design decisions led to Uber’s deadly 2018 crash has more detail on just how bad Uber's software was. November 6, 2019 at 4:40 PM David. said... In Another company is dialing back expectations for self-driving taxis Timothy B Lee reports more realism dawning on the self-driving hype: "Daimler is planning to "rightsize" its spending on self-driving taxis, Chairman Ola Källenius said on Thursday. Getting self-driving cars to operate safely in complex urban environments has proved more challenging than people expected a few years ago, he admitted. "There has been a reality check setting in here," Källenius said, according to Reuters. He is just the latest executive to acknowledge that work on self-driving taxi technology is not progressing as fast as optimists expected two or three years ago. Earlier this year, Ford CEO Jim Hackett sought to dampen expectations for Ford's own self-driving vehicles. Industry leaders Waymo and GM's Cruise missed self-imposed deadlines to launch driverless commercial taxi services in 2018 and 2019, respectively. November 14, 2019 at 2:37 PM David. said... In It's Tough To Make Predictions, Especially About The Future, Atrios links to a 2017 survey of car companies' timelines for their self-driving cars. It is an amazing display of irrational optimism. December 31, 2019 at 6:19 AM David. said... In Spooky video shows self-driving cars being tricked by holograms Thor Benson reports: "Researchers from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev's (BGU) Cyber Security Research Center in Israel found that both semi-autonomous and fully autonomous cars stopped when they detected what they thought were humans in the street but were actually projections. They also projected a street sign onto a tree and fake lane markers onto the street to trick the cars. The research was published by the International Association for Cryptologic Research." February 19, 2020 at 10:45 AM David. said... John Markoff reports in Ben Shneiderman's anti-autonomy campaign in A Case for Cooperation Between Machines and Humans: "Late last year, Dr. Shneiderman embarked on a crusade to convince the artificial intelligence world that it is heading in the wrong direction. In February, he confronted organizers of an industry conference on “Assured Autonomy” in Phoenix, telling them that even the title of their conference was wrong. Instead of trying to create autonomous robots, he said, designers should focus on a new mantra, designing computerized machines that are “reliable, safe and trustworthy.” There should be the equivalent of a flight data recorder for every robot, Dr. Shneiderman argued." May 22, 2020 at 3:39 PM David. said... In Amazon/Zoox: consolidation crunch, Jamie Powell reports on how reality is breaking in to the self-driving car hype: "Apart from demonstrating, yet again, that a commercial deployment self-driving technology is still a dream in the eyes of a few starry-eyed technologists, the mooted acquisition also speaks to other emerging themes in the space. ... The first is that capital is king. Zoox had not only planned to build the brains of a self-driving car, but manufacture its own autonomous vehicle. The cash required for such a feat runs into the billions. ... Which ties into our second point – the self-driving car world will have to begin to consolidate. One, because there are arguably only two companies – Google and Amazon – that can support the sort of research and development intensity required without constantly returning to the capital markets. And second because a future where all cars operate on the same plain technologically, and can interact with the required state infrastructure, will require a level of standardisation within the industry which will naturally lend towards there being two active players at best. It is far more likely in 20 years the self-driving car technology suite – from software to sensors – resembles Boeing and Airbus’ stranglehold over the airliner space than the dispersed competitive landscape that currently exists." May 28, 2020 at 1:51 PM David. said... Tom Krisher reports in Study: Autonomous vehicles won't make roads completely safe that: "A new study says that while autonomous vehicle technology has great promise to reduce crashes, it may not be able to prevent all mishaps caused by human error. Auto safety experts say humans cause about 94% of U.S. crashes, but the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety study says computer-controlled robocars will only stop about one-third of them." June 7, 2020 at 8:22 AM David. said... The Technology Quarterly section of the Economist's current edition is a skeptical look at AI. One article is entitled Driverless cars show the limits of today’s AI: "The problem, says Rodney Brooks, an Australian roboticist who has long been sceptical of grand self-driving promises, is deep-learning approaches are fundamentally statistical, linking inputs to outputs in ways specified by their training data. That leaves them unable to cope with what engineers call “edge cases”—unusual circumstances that are not common in those training data. Driving is full of such oddities. Some are dramatic: an escaped horse in the road, say, or a light aircraft making an emergency landing on a highway (as happened in Canada in April). Most are trivial, such as a man running out in a chicken suit. Human drivers usually deal with them without thinking. But machines struggle." June 13, 2020 at 11:40 AM David. said... Self-driving industry takes to the highway after robotaxi failure by Patrick McGee describes the current "pivot" by self-driving car companies: "Eleven years on, however, the industry still has little idea what to do with the technology, despite some big advances over the past decade. As the much-hyped, seven-year quest to develop a driverless Uber service has suffered several setbacks, the appetite is now switching beyond robotaxis in search of more profitable avenues. The sector is experiencing “autonomous disillusionment”, says Prescott Watson, principal at Maniv Mobility, an early-stage venture capital firm. Now, “the pitch is, ‘robotaxis are a pipe dream’, but let’s take this technology to do something more lucrative,” he adds. Investors are still interested in autonomy but the focus has shifted towards practical services such as grocery delivery, automated warehouse robots, and autonomous functions restricted to highways. ... That does not mean robotaxis are dead per se, but the idea is now on life-support. Aside from fringe efforts, the robotaxi dream is now confined to those with the major financial firepower of a tech company or car giant that can spend many more years on the effort." July 20, 2020 at 6:53 PM David. said... Cars with "advanced driver assistance systems" aren't autonomous, but as Timothy B. Lee writes about tests conducted by AAA in New cars can stay in their lane—but might not stop for parked cars, they have run into the "hand-off problem": "the advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS) on the latest cars still struggle to avoid collisions with parked vehicles. They tested cars from BMW, Kia, and Subaru; none consistently avoided running into a fake car partially blocking the travel lane. "All test drivers reached a general consensus that combining adaptive cruise and lane-keeping functionalities in a single system did not consistently enhance the driving experience," the report said. The vehicles made mistakes often enough that drivers often found the experience nerve-wracking rather than relaxing. Greg Brannon, a co-author of the AAA report, argues that a fundamental challenge with this kind of system is the need to maintain alertness. Human beings are terrible at paying continued attention behind the wheel of a car that mostly drives itself. So when (not if) these vehicles make a mistake, there's a heightened risk that the driver won't be paying close enough attention to recover safely. ... "Test drivers were sometimes taken by surprise and were required to retake full control in the middle of critical situations with little to no advance notice," the AAA report says." August 7, 2020 at 12:57 PM David. said... Nicholas Vega adds to the financial trainwreck that is Uber with Uber’s self-driving car unit has made little progress despite $2.5B price tag: "Uber’s efforts to build a self-driving car have cost the company nearly $2.5 billion and still it’s nowhere close to putting a driverless car on the road, according to a new report. The ride-hail giant’s Advance Technologies Group has been beset by infighting and setbacks, the Information reports, leading to fears that rivals like Alphabet-owned Waymo and Apple’s self-driving tech may soon leave it in the dust. Despite the team first beginning its research in 2015, Uber’s self-driving car “doesn’t drive well” and “struggles with simple routines and simple maneuvers,” a manager in the unit told CEO Dara Khosrowshahi, the report said." September 30, 2020 at 9:19 AM David. said... Brad Templeton's Tesla’s ‘Full Self-Driving’ Is 99.9% There, Just 1,000 Times Further To Go sums it up: "There are also several necessary disengagements — where the human driver has to grab the wheel and take control to avoid a very likely accident — in these videos. While no statistics are available about how frequently those are needed, it appears to be reasonably frequent. This is the norm with systems that require constant manual supervision, and is why they need that supervision. All the full robocar projects have also required one (or really two) “safety drivers” behind the wheel who also have needed to do such interventions, frequently at first, and less and less frequently as time goes on. Only recently have Waymo and now Nuro deployed vehicles with no supervising driver on-board. (Cruise recently got the permit to do this but has not yet done it, though they claim they might by the end of this year. Ama/Zoox also has such a permit.) Based on the videos and claims by Tesla of it commonly taking Elon Musk on his commute with few interventions and sometimes none, I threw out the number 99.9% in the headline. This is not a precisely calculated number, but a proxy for “seems to work most of the time.” In reality, we would want to calculate how often it is needing interventions." October 24, 2020 at 10:54 AM David. said... In Insurance Companies Flag “Driver Disengagement” as Factor in Robot Car Safety Lambert Strether discusses a report from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety entitled Disengagement from driving when using automation during a 4-week field trial: "The current study assessed how driver disengagement, defined as visual-manual interaction with electronics or removal of hands from the wheel, differed as drivers became more accustomed to partial automation over a 4-week trial. ... The longer drivers used partial automation, the more likely they were to become disengaged by taking their hands off the wheel, using a cellphone, or interacting with in-vehicle electronics. Results associated with use of the two ACC systems diverged, with drivers in the S90 exhibiting less disengagement with use of ACC compared with manual driving, and those in the Evoque exhibiting more." November 21, 2020 at 6:24 AM Post a Comment Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom) Blog Rules Posts and comments are copyright of their respective authors who, by posting or commenting, license their work under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. Off-topic or unsuitable comments will be deleted. 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Simple theme. Powered by Blogger. blog-dshr-org-9214 ---- DSHR's Blog: RISC vs. CISC DSHR's Blog I'm David Rosenthal, and this is a place to discuss the work I'm doing in Digital Preservation. Tuesday, December 8, 2020 RISC vs. CISC The architectural debate between Complex Instruction Set Computers (CISC) and Reduced Instruction Set Conputers (RISC) really took off in the 1980s: In particular, two projects at Stanford University and the University of California, Berkeley are most associated with the popularization of this concept. Stanford's MIPS would go on to be commercialized as the successful MIPS architecture, while Berkeley's RISC gave its name to the entire concept and was commercialized as the SPARC. For the last decade or more the debate has seemed frozen, with the CISC x86 architecture dominating the server and desktop markets, while the RISC ARM architecture dominated the mobile market. But two recent developments are shaking things up. Below the fold, some discussion. Source Last month, Apple announced three products, Mac Mini, Mac Air, and 13" Macbook Pro based on their ARM-based M1 chip to ecstatic reviews: the Mac mini (and its new MacBook Air and 13-inch MacBook Pro siblings) has Apple’s M1 system-on-a-chip, which includes an 8-core GPU, a CPU with four performance and four efficiency cores, a 16-core neural processing unit (NPU) called the Neural Engine, and a whole bunch of other stuff. Built on the ARM Instruction Set Architecture (ARM ISA), the M1 features 16 billion transistors and was manufactured in a 5nm process. According to Apple, each performance core in the M1 qualifies as the world’s fastest CPU core to date, while the efficiency cores match the performance of some recent Intel Macs. All three replace products using Intel x86 chips, and the head-to-head comparisons showed the RISC completely outclassing the CISC in a market segment it had dominated for decades. Clearly this is a big deal. Now, the are some obvious reasons why Intel is at a disadvantage in these comparisons. Apple's M1 is brand new, where the Intel chips are a couple of years old. And the M1 uses a 5nm process, where Intel has been struggling to upgrade its fabs: Intel's press release also says that yields for its 7nm process are now twelve months behind the company's internal targets, meaning the company isn't currently on track to produce its 7nm process in an economically viable way. The company now says its 7nm CPUs will not debut on the market until late 2022 or early 2023. But the M1 also compares well to AMD's 7nm x86 CPUs so this isn't the whole explanation. Erik Engheim's Why is Apple’s M1 Chip So Fast? provides an excellent explanation for the lay audience. He starts from the basics (What is a Microprocessor (CPU)?) and goes on to explain that whereas Intel and AMD make CPUs that others build into systems such as PCs and servers, Apple makes systems that are implemented as a single chip, a System-on-Chip (SoC). Apple can do this where Intel and AMD can't because the SoC isn't their product, their product is a Mac that includes a SoC as a component. One thing we understood when we started Nvidia more than a quarter of a century ago was that custom silicon to perform critical functions, such as 3D graphics, was an essential component of a PC. But the custom silicon had to be a separate chip. We used a state-of-the-art 500nm process. At 5nm Apple can put 10,000 times as many gates in the same chip area. So Apple can include the precise set of additional custom processors that match the needs to the product. In this case, not just 8 GPU cores, 16 Neural Engine cores, but also two different implementations of the ARM architecture, 4 optimized for speed and 4 optimized for efficiency to extend battery life. Engheim explains the two main ways of making CPUs faster using the same process and the same clock rate, multiple cores and out-of-order execution, and their limitations. In the server space, having lots of cores makes a lot of sense; the demand is for many simultaneous tasks from many simultaneous users, and the alternative to adding cores to a CPU is to add CPUs to a server, which is more expensive. But in the PC space there is only one user, and although the demand will be for several simultaneous threads, once that demand is satisfied extra cores provide no benefit. The M1's 8 cores are probably more than enough, which is indicated by Apple envisaging that, most of the time, the 4 low-power "efficiency" cores will do all the work. Note that, in adding cores, the only advantage RISC provides is that the simpler instruction set should make each core a bit smaller. Not a big deal. But for compute-intensive tasks such as games, the other 4 cores need to be fast. Which is where out-of-order execution comes in, and RISC turns out to have a big advantage. Out-of-order execution means that instructions are fetched from memory, then decoded into "micro-operations", which can be thought of as instructions for the individual components of the core. The micro-operations are stored in a Re-Order Buffer (ROB), together with information about what data they need, and whether it is available. Instead of executing the micro-operations for each instruction, then executing the micro-operations for the next instruction, the core looks through the ROB finding micro-operations that have all the data they need and executing them. It does instructions as soon as it can, not waiting until the instruction before is complete. Engheim explains the importance of the difference between the x86 ROB and the M1's: It is because the ability to run fast depends on how quickly you can fill up the ROB with micro-ops and with how many. The more quickly you fill it up and the larger it is the more opportunities you are given to pick instructions you can execute in parallel and thus improve performance. Machine code instructions are chopped into micro-ops by what we call an instruction decoder. If we have more decoders we can chop up more instructions in parallel and thus fill up the ROB faster. And this is where we see the huge differences. The biggest, baddest Intel and AMD microprocessor cores have four decoders, which means they can decode four instructions in parallel spitting out micro-ops. But Apple has a crazy eight decoders. Not only that but the ROB is something like three times larger. You can basically hold three times as many instructions. No other mainstream chipmaker has that many decoders in their CPUs. RISC is the reason the M1 can have more decoders than x86. Engheim explains: You see, for x86 an instruction can be anywhere from 1–15 bytes long. On a RISC chip instructions are fixed size. Why is that relevant in this case? Because splitting up a stream of bytes into instructions to feed into eight different decoders in parallel becomes trivial if every instruction has the same length. However, on an x86 CPU, the decoders have no clue where the next instruction starts. It has to actually analyze each instruction in order to see how long it is. The brute force way Intel and AMD deal with this is by simply attempting to decode instructions at every possible starting point. That means we have to deal with lots of wrong guesses and mistakes which has to be discarded. This creates such a convoluted and complicated decoder stage that it is really hard to add more decoders. But for Apple, it is trivial in comparison to keep adding more. In fact, adding more causes so many other problems that four decoders according to AMD itself is basically an upper limit for how far they can go. The result is that the M1's fast cores are effectively processing instructions twice as fast as Intel's and AMD's at the same clock frequency. And their efficiency cores are processing about as many using much less power. Using much less power for the same workload is one of the main reasons ARM dominates the mobile market, where battery life is crucial. That brings us to the second interesting recent RISC development. ARM isn't the only RISC architecture, it is just by a long way the most successful. Among the others with multiple practical implementations, RISC-V is I believe unique; it is the only fully open-source RISC architecture. Source In New RISC-V CPU claims recordbreaking performance per watt Jim Salter reports on a new implementation of RISC-V that claims extraordinarily low power for quite respectable performance. Micro Magic's: new prototype CPU, which appears to be the fastest RISC-V CPU in the world. Micro Magic adviser Andy Huang claimed the CPU could produce 13,000 CoreMarks (more on that later) at 5GHz and 1.1V while also putting out 11,000 CoreMarks at 4.25GHz—the latter all while consuming only 200mW. Huang demonstrated the CPU—running on an Odroid board—to EE Times at 4.327GHz/0.8V and 5.19GHz/1.1V. Later the same week, Micro Magic announced the same CPU could produce over 8,000 CoreMarks at 3GHz while consuming only 69mW of power. Some caveats are necessary: The chip is a single-core prototype. The Micro Magic benchmarks are claimed, not independently verified. The Coremark benchmark is an industry standard for embedded systems, it isn't an appropriate benchmark for PC-type systems such as use the CPUs Salter is comparing it to. The power efficiency is impressive, but the raw single-core performance is merely interesting. At 5GHz it is about 1/3 the performance of one of the M1's four fast cores. It is worth noting that the RISC-V architecture has multiple instruction lengths, just much less baroque ones than x86. So the ROB advantage may be less. Nevertheless, if Micro Magic's customers can deliver multi-core SoC products they should provide much more compute for the same power as current embedded chips. Salter is cautiously optimistic: All of this sounds very exciting—Micro Magic's new prototype is delivering solid smartphone-grade performance at a fraction of the power budget, using an instruction set that Linux already runs natively on. ... Micro Magic intends to offer its new RISC-V design to customers using an IP licensing model. The simplicity of the design—RISC-V requires roughly one-tenth the opcodes that modern ARM architecture does—further simplifies manufacturing concerns, since RISC-V CPU designs can be built in shuttle runs, sharing space on a wafer with other designs. ... Still, this is an exciting development. Not only does the new design appear to perform well while massively breaking efficiency records, it's doing so with a far more ideologically open design than its competitors. The RISC-V ISA—unlike x86, ARM, and even MIPS—is open and provided under royalty-free licenses. P.S: more evidence of M1's impressive performance in Liam Tung's AWS engineer puts Windows 10 on Arm on Apple Mac M1 – and it thrashes Surface Pro X. The Surface Pro X uses an ARM chip co-developed by Qualcomm and Microsoft. Posted by David. at 8:00 AM Labels: benchmarks, intellectual property 3 comments: David. said... See also Chris Mellor's Seagate says it's designed two of its own RISC-V CPU cores – and they'll do more than just control storage drives: "Seagate says it has, after several years of effort, designed two custom RISC-V processor cores for what seems a range of functions including computational storage. The disk drive maker told us one of the homegrown CPUs is focused on high performance, and the other is optimized for area, ie: it's less powerful though smaller and thus uses takes up less silicon on a die. Both cores are said to include RISC-V's security features, and are drive-agnostic, which means that they can be used with SSDs as well as hard disk drives." December 8, 2020 at 12:44 PM Ian Adams said... A minor nit, though I agree with all the architectural and design commentary around the RICS vs CISC debate! The nanometer process used these days is a squirrelly a comparison on an actual performance and process basis. Said better than I can phrase: "Having looked at the above comparison, and highlighted it in his video, der8auer challenges the obvious conclusion that Intel 14nm+++ and TSMC 7nm are very similar in physical scale, reminding viewers that the above pictures don't fully represent the 3D structure that is so important to modern chip optimisation. Moreover, the relationship between node size, half-pitch, and gate length has significantly loosened since the early 1990s. The XXnm figure reflects process history more than progress, asserts the OC expert, and thus it isn't very useful as a metric to compare between chip makers. Another metric, probably worth closer consideration is transistor density, as revealed by the chip fabricators. Intel 10 nm and TSMC 7nm processes both produce dies with approx 90 million transistors per sq millimetre" https://hexus.net/tech/news/cpu/145645-intel-14nm-amdtsmc-7nm-transistors-micro-compared/ *(Full disclosure, I do work for Intel Labs, though I'm about a million miles away from anything touching CPUs, still doing storage systems software work these days :) ) December 9, 2020 at 9:33 AM David. said... Simon Sharwood reports from Amazon's re:invent conference: "DeSantis said the reason that commercial UPSes and switch gears don’t meet its needs is that they’re designed for the many scenarios in which they’ll be put to work, rather than Amazon’s requirements. The same logic goes into developing CPUs, he said, arguing that the likes of Intel and AMD design products that will sell well by making them general-purpose devices. The result is processors that pack in features to make them suitable for more tasks. When raw power was needed, multi-core CPUs were the answer. When utilisation rates of CPUS became an issue, simultaneous multithreading came along. None of that tech ever left mainstream CPUs, DeSantis argued, and the result is architectures ripe for side-channel attacks and which delivers variable performance (which is why the HPC crowd turn off SMT)." The result is their ARM-based Graviton CPUs: "AWS would rather processors designed for the cloud. Hence its investment in Graviton, the many-core architecture and extra-large caches as they allow better per-core performance without the need for other trickery. The architecture is designed from the ground up for microservices, which AWS sees as the dominant wave of software development. “Graviton 2 delivers 2.5-3 times better performance/watt than any other CPU in our cloud,” DeSantis said." December 11, 2020 at 8:51 AM Post a Comment Older Post Home Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom) Blog Rules Posts and comments are copyright of their respective authors who, by posting or commenting, license their work under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. Off-topic or unsuitable comments will be deleted. 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Contact Us Home What We Do Resources Keep in Touch Who We Are Contact Legal Privacy Copyright © 2017-2020, Equinox Open Library Initiative Terms of UsePrivacy PolicyCopyright Policy 877.673.6457 blog-iandavis-com-4215 ---- Internet Alchemy, the blog of Ian Davis Internet Alchemy est. 1999 2017 · 2011 · 2006 · 2001 2016 · 2010 · 2005 · 2000 2015 · 2009 · 2004 · 1999 2014 · 2008 · 2003 2012 · 2007 · 2002                      Mon, Oct 23, 2017 Serverless: why microfunctions > microservices This post follows on from a post I wrote a couple of years back called Why Service Architectures Should Focus on Workflows. In that post I attempted to describe the fragility of microservice systems that were simply translating object-oriented patterns to the new paradigm. These systems were migrating domain models and their interactions from in-memory objects to separate networked processes. They were replacing in-process function calls with cross-network rpc calls, adding latency and infrastructure complexity. The goal was scalability and flexibility but, I argued, the entity modelling approach introduced new failure modes. I suggested a solution: Instead of carving up the domain by entity, focus on the workflows. If I was writing that post today I would say “focus on the functions” because the future is serverless functions, not microservices. Or, more brashly: microfunctions > microservices The industry has moved apace in the last 3 years with a focus on solving the infrastructure challenges caused by running hundreds of intercommunicating microservices. Containers have matured and become the de-facto standard for the unit of microservice deployment with management platforms such as Kubernetes to orchestrate them and frameworks like GRPC for robust interservice communication. The focus still tends to be on interacting entities though: when placing an order the “order service” talks to the “customer service” which reserves items by talking to the “stock service” and the “payment service” which talks to the “payment gateway” after first checking with the “fraud service”. When the order needs to be shipped the “shipping service” asks the “order service” for orders that need to be fulfilled and tells the “stock service” to remove the reservation, then to the “customer service” to locate the customer etc. All of these services are likely to be persisting state in various backend databases. Microservices are organized as vertical slices through the domain: The same problems still exist: if the customer service is overwhelmed by the shipping service then the order service can’t take new orders. The container manager will, of course, scale up the number of customer service instances and register them with the appropriate load balancers, discovery servers, monitoring and logging. However, it cannot easily cope with a critical failure in this service, perhaps caused by a repeated bad request that panics the service and prevents multiple dependent services from operating properly. Failures and slowdowns in response times are handled within client services through backoff strategies, circuit breakers and retries. The system as a whole increases in complexity but remains fragile. By contrast, in a serverless architecture, the emphasis is on the functions of the system. For this reason serverless is sometimes called FaaS – Functions as a Service. Systems are decomposed into functions that encapsulate a single task in a single process. Instead of each request involving the orchestration of multiple services the request uses an instance of the appropriate function. Rather than the domain model being exploded into separate networked processes its entities are provided in code libraries compiled into the function at build time. Calls to entity methods are in-process so don’t pay the network latency or reliability taxes. In this paradigm the “place order” function simply calls methods on customer, stock and payment objects, which may then interact with the various backend databases directly. Instead of a dozen networked RPC calls, the function relies on 2-3 database calls. Additionally, if a function is particularly hot it can be scaled directly without affecting the operation of other functions and, crucially, it can fail completely without taking down other functions. (Modulo the reliability of databases which affect both styles of architecture identically.) Microfunctions are horizontal slices through the domain: The advantages I wrote last time still hold up when translated to serverless terminology: Deploying or retiring a function becomes as simple as switching it on or off which leads to greater freedom to experiment. Scaling a function is limited to scaling a single type of process horizontally and the costs of doing this can be cleanly evaluated. The system as a whole becomes much more robust. When a function encounters problems it is limited to a single workflow such as issuing invoices. Other functions can continue to operate independently. Latency, bandwidth use and reliability are all improved because there are fewer network calls. The function still relies on the database and other support systems such as lock servers, but most of the data flow is controlled in-process. The unit of testing and deployment is a single function which reduces the complexity and cost of maintenance. One major advantage that I missed is the potential for extreme cost savings through scale, particularly the scale attainable by running on public shared infrastructure. Since all the variability of microservice deployment configurations is abstracted away into a simple request/response interface the microfunctions can be run as isolated shared-nothing processes, billed only for the resources they use in their short lifetime. Anyone who has costed for redundant microservices simply for basic resilience will appreciate the potential here. Although there are number of cloud providers in this space (AWS Lambda, Google Cloud Functions, Azure Functions) serverless is still an emerging paradigm with the problems that come with immaturity. Adrian Coyler recently summarized an excellent paper and presentation dealing with the challenges of building serverless systems which highlights many of these, including the lack of service level agreements and loose performance guarantees. It seems almost certain though that these will improve as the space matures and overtakes the microservice paradigm. Other posts tagged as architecture, distributed-systems, technology, serverless, faas Earlier Posts Gorecipes: Fin Wed, Mar 30 2016 Another Blog Refresh Sun, Feb 22 2015 Why Service Architectures Should Focus on Workflows Mon, Mar 31 2014 Help me crowdfund my game Amberfell Mon, Nov 12 2012 blog-iandavis-com-8855 ---- Internet Alchemy Internet Alchemy Serverless: why microfunctions > microservices Gorecipes: Fin Another Blog Refresh Why Service Architectures Should Focus on Workflows Help me crowdfund my game Amberfell blog-librarything-com-4055 ---- The Thingology Blog The LibraryThing Blog Thingology Monday, April 20th, 2020 New Syndetics Unbound Feature: Mark and Boost Electronic Resources ProQuest and LibraryThing have just introduced a major new feature to our catalog-enrichment suite, Syndetics Unbound, to meet the needs of libraries during the COVID-19 crisis. Our friends at ProQuest blogged about it briefly on the ProQuest blog. This blog post goes into greater detail about what we did, how we did it, and what efforts like this may mean for library catalogs in the future. What it Does The feature, “Mark and Boost Electronic Resources,” turns Syndetics Unbound from a general catalog enrichment tool to one focused on your library’s electronic resources—the resources patrons can access during a library shutdown. We hope it encourages libraries to continue to promote their catalog, the library’s own and most complete collection repository, instead of sending patrons to a host of partial, third-party eresource platforms. The new feature marks the library’s electronic resources and “boosts,” or promotes, them in Syndetics Unbound’s discovery enhancements, such as “You May Also Like,” “Other Editions,” “Tags” and “Reading Levels.” Here’s a screenshot showing the feature in action. How it Works The feature is composed of three settings. By default, they all turn on together, but they can be independently turned off and on. Boost electronic resources chooses to show electronic editions of an item where they exist, and boosts such items within discovery elements. Mark electronic resources with an “e” icon marks all electronic resources—ebooks, eaudio, and streaming video. Add electronic resources message at top of page adds a customizable message to the top of the Syndetics Unbound area. “Mark and Boost Electronic Holdings” works across all enrichments. It is particularly important for “Also Available As” which lists all the other formats for a given title. Enabling this feature sorts electronic resources to the front of the list. We also suggest that, for now, libraries may want to put “Also Available As” at the top of their enrichment order. Why We Did It Your catalog is only as good as your holdings. Faced with a world in which physical holdings are off-limits and electronic resources essential, many libraries have discouraged use of the catalog, which is dominated by non-digital resources, in favor of linking directly to Overdrive, Hoopla, Freegal and so forth. Unfortunately, these services are silos, containing only what you bought from that particular vendor. “Mark and Boost Electronic Resources” turns your catalog toward digital resources, while preserving what makes a catalog important—a single point of access to ALL library resources, not a vendor silo. Maximizing Your Electronic Holdings To make the best use of “Mark and Boost Electronic Resources,” we need to know about all your electronic resources. Unfortunately, some systems separate MARC holdings and electronic holdings; all resources appear in the catalog, but only some are available for export to Syndetics Unbound. Other libraries send us holding files with everything, but they are unable to send us updates every time new electronic resources are added. To address this issue, we have therefore advanced a new feature—”Auto-discover electronic holdings.” Turn this on and we build up an accurate representation of your library’s electronic resource holdings, without requiring any effort on your part. Adapting to Change “Mark and Boost Electronic Resources” is our first feature change to address the current crisis. But we are eager to do others, and to adapt the feature over time, as the situation develops. We are eager to get feedback from librarians and patrons! — The ProQuest and LibraryThing teams Labels: new features, new product, Syndetics Unbound posted by Tim @3:12 pm 0 Comments » Share Thursday, October 27th, 2016 Introducing Syndetics Unbound Short Version Today we’re going public with a new product for libraries, jointly developed by LibraryThing and ProQuest. It’s called Syndetics Unbound, and it makes library catalogs better, with catalog enrichments that provide information about each item, and jumping-off points for exploring the catalog. To see it in action, check out the Hartford Public Library in Hartford, CT. Here are some sample links: The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow Faithful Place by Tana French We’ve also got a press release and a nifty marketing site. UPDATE: Webinars Every Week! We’re now having weekly webinars, in which you can learn all about Syndetics Unbound, and ask us questions. Visit ProQuest’s WebEx portal to see the schedule and sign up! Long Version The Basic Idea Syndetics Unbound aims to make patrons happier and increase circulation. It works by enhancing discovery within your OPAC, giving patrons useful information about books, movies, music, and video games, and helping them find other things they like. This means adding elements like cover images, summaries, recommendations, series, tags, and both professional and user reviews. In one sense, Syndetics Unbound combines products—the ProQuest product Syndetics Plus and the LibraryThing products LibraryThing for Libraries and Book Display Widgets. In a more important sense, however, it leaps forward from these products to something new, simple, and powerful. New elements were invented. Static elements have become newly dynamic. Buttons provide deep-dives into your library’s collection. And—we think—everything looks better than anything Syndetics or LibraryThing have done before! (That’s one of only two exclamation points in this blog post, so we mean it.) Simplicity Syndetics Unbound is a complete and unified solution, not a menu of options spread across one or even multiple vendors. This simplicity starts with the design, which is made to look good out of the box, already configured for your OPAC and look. The installation requirements for Syndetics Unbound are minimal. If you already have Syndetics Plus or LibraryThing for Libraries, you’re all set. If you’ve never been a customer, you only need to add a line of HTML to your OPAC, and to upload your holdings. Although it’s simple, we didn’t neglect options. Libraries can reorder elements, or drop them entirely. We expect libraries will pick and choose, and evaluate elements according to patron needs, or feedback from our detailed usage stats. Libraries can also tweak the look and feel with custom CSS stylesheets. And simplicity is cheap. To assemble a not-quite-equivalent bundle from ProQuest’s and LibraryThing’s separate offerings would cost far more. We want everyone who has Syndetics Unbound to have it in its full glory. Comprehensiveness and Enrichments Syndetics Unbound enriches your catalog with some sixteen enrichments, but the number is less important than the options they encompass. These include both professional and user-generated content, information about the item you’re looking at, and jumping-off points to explore similar items. Quick descriptions of the enrichments: Boilterplate covers for items without covers. Premium Cover Service. Syndetics offers the most comprehensive cover database in existence for libraries—over 25 million full-color cover images for books, videos, DVDs, and CDs, with thousands of new covers added every week. For Syndetics Unbound, we added boilerplate covers for items that don’t have a cover, which include the title, author, and media type. Summaries. Over 18 million essential summaries and annotations, so patrons know what the book’s about. About the Author. This section includes the author biography and a small shelf of other items by the author. The section is also adorned by a small author photo—a first in the catalog, although familiar elsewhere on the web. Look Inside. Includes three previous Syndetics enrichments—first chapters or excerpts, table of contents and large-size covers—newly presented as a “peek inside the book” feature. Series. Shows a book’s series, including reading order. If the library is missing part of the series, those covers are shown but grayed out. You May Also Like. Provides sharp, on-the-spot readers advisory in your catalog, with the option to browse a larger world of suggestions, drawn from LibraryThing members and big-data algorithms. In this and other enrichments, Syndetics Unbound only recommends items that your library owns. The Syndetics Unbound recommendations cover far more of your collection than any similar service. For example, statistics from the Hartford Public Library show this feature on 88% of items viewed. Professional Reviews includes more than 5.4 million reviews from Library Journal, School Library Journal, New York Times, The Guardian, The Horn Book, BookList, BookSeller + Publisher Magazine, Choice, Publisher’s Weekly, and Kirkus. A la carte review sources include Voice of Youth Advocates: VOYA, Doody’s Medical Reviews and Quill and Quire. Reader Reviews includes more than 1.5 million vetted, reader reviews from LibraryThing members. It also allows patrons and librarians to add their own ratings and reviews, right in your catalog, and then showcase them on a library’s home page and social media. Also Available As helps patrons find other available formats and versions of a title in your collection, including paper, audio, ebook, and translations. Exploring the tag system Tags rethinks LibraryThing’s celebrated tag clouds—redesigning them toward simplicity and consistency, and away from the “ransom note” look of most clouds. As data, tags are based on over 131 million tags created by LibraryThing members, and hand-vetted by our staff librarians for quality. A new exploration interface allows patrons to explore what LibraryThing calls “tag mashes”—finding books by combinations of tags—in a simple faceted way. I’m going to be blogging about the redesign of tag clouds in the near future. Considering dozens of designs, we decided on a clean break with the past. (I expect it will get some reactions.) Book Profile is a newly dynamic version of what Bowker has done for years—analyzing thousands of new works of fiction, short-story collections, biographies, autobiographies, and memoirs annually. Now every term is clickable, and patrons can search and browse over one million profiles. Explore Reading Levels Reading Level is a newly dynamic way to see and explore other books in the same age and grade range. Reading Level also includes Metametrics Lexile® Framework for Reading. Click the “more” button to get a new, super-powered reading-level explorer. This is one my favorite features! (Second and last exclamation point.) Awards highlights the awards a title has won, and helps patrons find highly-awarded books in your collection. Includes biggies like the National Book Award and the Booker Prize, but also smaller awards like the Bram Stoker Award and Oklahoma’s Sequoyah Book Award. Browse Shelf gives your patrons the context and serendipity of browsing a physical shelf, using your call numbers. Includes a mini shelf-browser that sits on your detail pages, and a full-screen version, launched from the detail page. Video and Music adds summaries and other information for more than four million video and music titles including annotations, performers, track listings, release dates, genres, keywords, and themes. Video Games provides game descriptions, ESRB ratings, star ratings, system requirements, and even screenshots. Book Display Widgets. Finally, Syndetics Unbound isn’t limited to the catalog, but includes the LibraryThing product Book Display Widgets—virtual book displays that go on your library’s homepage, blog, LibGuides, Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, or even in email newsletters. Display Widgets can be filled with preset content, such as popular titles, new titles, DVDs, journals, series, awards, tags, and more. Or you point them at a web page, RSS feed, or list of ISBNs, UPCs, or ISSNs. If your data is dynamic, the widget updates automatically. Here’s a page of Book Display Widget examples. Find out More Made it this far? You really need to see Syndetics Unbound in action. Check it Out. Again, here are some sample links of Syndetics Unbound at Hartford Public Library in Hartford, CT: The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater, Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow, Faithful Place by Tana French. Webinars. We hold webinars every Tuesday and walk you through the different elements and answer questions. To sign up for a webinar, visit this Webex page and search for “Syndetics Unbound.” Interested in Syndetics Unbound at your library? Go here to contact a representative at ProQuest. Or read more about at the Syndetics Unbound website. Or email us at ltflsupport@librarything.com and we’ll help you find the right person or resource. Labels: librarything for libraries, new feature, new features, new product posted by Tim @10:45 am 4 Comments » Share Thursday, January 7th, 2016 ALAMW 2016 in Boston (and Free Passes)! Abby and KJ will be at ALA Midwinter in Boston this weekend, showing off LibraryThing for Libraries. Since the conference is so close to LibraryThing headquarters, chances are good that a few other LT staff members may appear, as well! Visit Us. Stop by booth #1717 to meet Abby & KJ (and potential mystery guests!), get a demo, and learn about all the new and fun things we’re up to with LibraryThing for Libraries, TinyCat, and LibraryThing. Get in Free. Are you in the Boston area and want to go to ALAMW? We have free exhibit only passes. Click here to sign up and get one! Note: It will get you just into the exhibit hall, not the conference sessions themselves. Labels: Uncategorized posted by Kate @4:05 pm 0 Comments » Share Thursday, June 25th, 2015 For ALA 2015: Three Free OPAC Enhancements For a limited time, LibraryThing for Libraries (LTFL) is offering three of its signature enhancements for free! There are no strings attached. We want people to see how LibraryThing for Libraries can improve your catalog. Check Library. The Check Library button is a “bookmarklet” that allows patrons to check if your library has a book while on Amazon and most other book websites. Unlike other options, LibraryThing knows all of the editions out there, so it finds the edition your library has. Learn more about Check Library Other Editions Let your users know everything you have. Don’t let users leave empty-handed when the record that came up is checked out. Other editions links all your holdings together in a FRBR model—paper, audiobook, ebook, even translations. Lexile Measures Put MetaMetrics’ The Lexile Framework® for Reading in your catalog, to help librarians and patrons find material based on reading level. In addition to showing the Lexile numbers, we also include an interactive browser. Easy to Add LTFL Enhancements are easy to install and can be added to every major ILS/OPAC system and most of the minor ones. Enrichments can be customized and styled to fit your catalog, and detailed usage reporting lets you know how they’re doing. See us at ALA. Stop by booth 3634 at ALA Annual this weekend in San Francisco to talk to Tim and Abby and see how these enhancements work. If you need a free pass to the exhibit hall, details are in this blog post. Sign up We’re offering these three enhancements free, for at least two years. We’ll probably send you links showing you how awesome other enhancements would look in your catalog, but that’s it. Find out more http://www.librarything.com/forlibraries or email Abby Blachly at abby@librarything.com. Labels: alaac15, Lexile measures, librarything for libraries, ltfl posted by Abby @1:31 pm 0 Comments » Share Tuesday, June 23rd, 2015 ALA 2015 in San Francisco (Free Passes) Our booth. But this is Kate, not Tim or Abby. She had the baby. Tim and I are headed to San Francisco this weekend for the ALA Annual Conference. Visit Us. Stop by booth #3634 to talk to us, get a demo, and learn about all the new and fun things we’re up to with LibraryThing for Libraries! Stay tuned this week for more announcements of what we’ll be showing off. No, really. It’s going to be awesome. Get in Free. In the SF area and want to go to ALA? We have free exhibit only passes. Click here to sign up and get one. It will get you just into the exhibit hall, not the conference sessions themselves. Labels: ala, alaac15 posted by Abby @2:17 pm 4 Comments » Share Monday, February 9th, 2015 New “More Like This” for LibraryThing for Libraries We’ve just released “More Like This,” a major upgrade to LibraryThing for Libraries’ “Similar items” recommendations. The upgrade is free and automatic for all current subscribers to LibraryThing for Libraries Catalog Enhancement Package. It adds several new categories of recommendations, as well as new features. We’ve got text about it below, but here’s a short (1:28) video: What’s New Similar items now has a See more link, which opens More Like This. Browse through different types of recommendations, including: Similar items More by author Similar authors By readers Same series By tags By genre You can also choose to show one or several of the new categories directly on the catalog page. Click a book in the lightbox to learn more about it—a summary when available, and a link to go directly to that item in the catalog. Rate the usefulness of each recommended item right in your catalog—hovering over a cover gives you buttons that let you mark whether it’s a good or bad recommendation. Try it Out! Click “See more” to open the More Like This browser in one of these libraries: Spokane County Library District Arapahoe Public Library Waukegan Public Library Cape May Public Library SAILS Library Network Find out more Find more details for current customers on what’s changing and what customizations are available on our help pages. For more information on LibraryThing for Libraries or if you’re interested in a free trial, email abby@librarything.com, visit http://www.librarything.com/forlibraries, or register for a webinar. Labels: librarything for libraries, ltfl, recommendations, similar books posted by Abby @2:02 pm 2 Comments » Share Thursday, February 5th, 2015 Subjects and the Ship of Theseus I thought I might take a break to post an amusing photo of something I wrote out today: The photo is a first draft of a database schema for a revamp of how LibraryThing will do library subjects. All told, it has 26 tables. Gulp. About eight of the tables do what a good cataloging system would do: Distinguishes the various subject systems (LCSH, Medical Subjects, etc.) Preserves the semantic richness of subject cataloging, including the stuff that never makes it into library systems. Breaks subjects into their facets (e.g., “Man-woman relationships — Fiction”) has two subject facets Most of the tables, however, satisfy LibraryThing’s unusual core commitments: to let users do their own thing, like their own little library, but also to let them benefit from and participate in the data and contributions of others.(1) So it: Links to subjects from various “levels,” including book-level, edition-level, ISBN-level and work-level. Allows members to use their own data, or “inherit” subjects from other levels. Allows for members to “play librarian,” improving good data and suppressing bad data.(2) Allows for real-time, fully reversible aliasing of subjects and subject facets. The last is perhaps the hardest. Nine years ago (!) I compared LibraryThing to the “Ship of Theseus,” a ship which is “preserved” although its components are continually changed. The same goes for much of its data, although “shifting sands” might be a better analogy. Accounting for this makes for some interesting database structures, and interesting programming. Not every system at LibraryThing does this perfectly. But I hope this structure will help us do that better for subjects.(3) Weird as all this is, I think it’s the way things are going. At present most libraries maintain their own data, which, while generally copied from another library, is fundamentally siloed. Like an evolving species, library records descend from each other; they aren’t dynamically linked. The data inside the records are siloed as well, trapped in a non-relational model. The profession that invented metadata, and indeed invented sharing metadata, is, at least as far as its catalogs go, far behind. Eventually that will end. It may end in a “Library Goodreads,” every library sharing the same data, with global changes possible, but reserved for special catalogers. But my bet is on a more LibraryThing-like future, where library systems will both respect local cataloging choices and, if they like, benefit instantly from improvements made elsewhere in the system. When that future arrives, we got the schema! 1. I’m betting another ten tables are added before the system is complete. 2. The system doesn’t presume whether changes will be made unilaterally, or voted on. Voting, like much else, existings in a separate system, even if it ends up looking like part of the subject system. 3. This is a long-term project. Our first steps are much more modest–the tables have an order-of-use, not shown. First off we’re going to duplicate the current system, but with appropriate character sets and segmentation by thesaurus and language. Labels: cataloging, subjects posted by Tim @7:44 pm 3 Comments » Share Tuesday, January 20th, 2015 LibraryThing Recommends in BiblioCommons Does your library use BiblioCommons as its catalog? LibraryThing and BiblioCommons now work together to give you high-quality reading recommendations in your BiblioCommons catalog. You can see some examples here. Look for “LibraryThing Recommends” on the right side. Not That Kind of Girl (Daniel Boone Regional Library) Carthage Must Be Destroyed (Ottowa Public Library) The Martian (Edmonton Public Library) Little Bear (West Vancouver Memorial Library) Station Eleven (Chapel Hill Public Library) The Brothers Karamazov (Calgary Public Library) Quick facts: As with all LibraryThing for Libraries products, LibraryThing Recommends only recommends other books within a library’s catalog. LibraryThing Recommends stretches across media, providing recommendations not just for print titles, but also for ebooks, audiobooks, and other media. LibraryThing Recommends shows up to two titles up front, with up to three displayed under “Show more.” Recommendations come from LibraryThing’s recommendations system, which draws on hundreds of millions of data points in readership patterns, tags, series, popularity, and other data. Not using BiblioCommons? Well, you can get LibraryThing recommendations—and much more—integrated in almost every catalog (OPAC and ILS) on earth, with all the same basic functionality, like recommending only books in your catalog, as well as other LibraryThing for Libraries feaures, like reviews, series and tags. Check out some examples on different systems here. SirsiDynix Enterprise (Saint Louis Public Library) SirsiDynix Horizon Information Portal (Hume Libraries) SirsiDynix eLibrary (Spokane County Public Library) III Encore (Arapahoe Public Library) III WebPac Pro (Waukegan Public Library) Polaris (Cape May County Library) Ex Libris Voyager (University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire) Interested? BiblioCommons: email info@bibliocommons.com or visit http://www.bibliocommons.com/AugmentedContent. See the full specifics here. Other Systems: email abby@librarything.com or visit http://www.librarything.com/forlibraries. Labels: Uncategorized posted by Tim @12:43 pm 0 Comments » Share Thursday, October 16th, 2014 NEW: Annotations for Book Display Widgets Our Book Display Widgets is getting adopted by more and more libraries, and we’re busy making it better and better. Last week we introduced Easy Share. This week we’re rolling out another improvement—Annotations! Book Display Widgets is the ultimate tool for libraries to create automatic or hand-picked virtual book displays for their home page, blog, Facebook or elsewhere. Annotations allows libraries to add explanations for their picks. Some Ways to Use Annotations 1. Explain Staff Picks right on your homepage. 2. Let students know if a book is reserved for a particular class. 3. Add context for special collections displays. How it Works Check out the LibraryThing for Libraries Wiki for instructions on how to add Annotations to your Book Display Widgets. It’s pretty easy. Interested? Watch a quick screencast explaining Book Display Widgets and how you can use them. Find out more about LibraryThing for Libraries and Book Display Widgets. And sign up for a free trial of either by contacting ltflsupport@librarything.com. Labels: Book Display Widgets, librarything for libraries, new feature, new features, widgets posted by KJ @10:21 am 0 Comments » Share Tuesday, October 14th, 2014 Send us a programmer, win $1,000 in books. We just posted a new job post Job: Library Developer at LibraryThing (Telecommute). To sweeten the deal, we are offering $1,000 worth of books to the person who finds them. That’s a lot of books. Rules! You get a $1,000 gift certificate to the local, chain or online bookseller of your choice. To qualify, you need to connect us to someone. Either you introduce them to us—and they follow up by applying themselves—or they mention your name in their email (“So-and-so told me about this”). You can recommend yourself, but if you found out about it from someone else, we hope you’ll do the right thing and make them the beneficiary. Small print: Our decision is final, incontestable, irreversible and completely dictatorial. It only applies when an employee is hired full-time, not part-time, contract or for a trial period. If we don’t hire someone for the job, we don’t pay. The contact must happen in the next month. If we’ve already been in touch with the candidate, it doesn’t count. Void where prohibited. You pay taxes, and the insidious hidden tax of shelving. Employees and their families are eligible to win, provided they aren’t work contacts. 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Amazon, Bol, Bruna, etc. blog-librarything-com-6905 ---- The Thingology Blog The Thingology Blog New Syndetics Unbound Feature: Mark and Boost Electronic Resources ProQuest and LibraryThing have just introduced a major new feature to our catalog-enrichment suite, Syndetics Unbound, to meet the needs of libraries during the COVID-19 crisis. Our friends at ProQuest blogged about it briefly on the ProQuest blog. This blog post goes into greater detail about what we did, how we did it, and what […] Introducing Syndetics Unbound Short Version Today we’re going public with a new product for libraries, jointly developed by LibraryThing and ProQuest. It’s called Syndetics Unbound, and it makes library catalogs better, with catalog enrichments that provide information about each item, and jumping-off points for exploring the catalog. To see it in action, check out the Hartford Public Library […] ALAMW 2016 in Boston (and Free Passes)! Abby and KJ will be at ALA Midwinter in Boston this weekend, showing off LibraryThing for Libraries. Since the conference is so close to LibraryThing headquarters, chances are good that a few other LT staff members may appear, as well! Visit Us. Stop by booth #1717 to meet Abby & KJ (and potential mystery guests!), […] For ALA 2015: Three Free OPAC Enhancements For a limited time, LibraryThing for Libraries (LTFL) is offering three of its signature enhancements for free! There are no strings attached. We want people to see how LibraryThing for Libraries can improve your catalog. Check Library. The Check Library button is a “bookmarklet” that allows patrons to check if your library has a book […] ALA 2015 in San Francisco (Free Passes) Our booth. But this is Kate, not Tim or Abby. She had the baby. Tim and I are headed to San Francisco this weekend for the ALA Annual Conference. Visit Us. Stop by booth #3634 to talk to us, get a demo, and learn about all the new and fun things we’re up to with […] New “More Like This” for LibraryThing for Libraries We’ve just released “More Like This,” a major upgrade to LibraryThing for Libraries’ “Similar items” recommendations. The upgrade is free and automatic for all current subscribers to LibraryThing for Libraries Catalog Enhancement Package. It adds several new categories of recommendations, as well as new features. We’ve got text about it below, but here’s a short […] Subjects and the Ship of Theseus I thought I might take a break to post an amusing photo of something I wrote out today: The photo is a first draft of a database schema for a revamp of how LibraryThing will do library subjects. All told, it has 26 tables. Gulp. About eight of the tables do what a good cataloging […] LibraryThing Recommends in BiblioCommons Does your library use BiblioCommons as its catalog? LibraryThing and BiblioCommons now work together to give you high-quality reading recommendations in your BiblioCommons catalog. You can see some examples here. Look for “LibraryThing Recommends” on the right side. Not That Kind of Girl (Daniel Boone Regional Library) Carthage Must Be Destroyed (Ottowa Public Library) The […] NEW: Annotations for Book Display Widgets Our Book Display Widgets is getting adopted by more and more libraries, and we’re busy making it better and better. Last week we introduced Easy Share. This week we’re rolling out another improvement—Annotations! Book Display Widgets is the ultimate tool for libraries to create automatic or hand-picked virtual book displays for their home page, blog, […] Send us a programmer, win $1,000 in books. We just posted a new job post Job: Library Developer at LibraryThing (Telecommute). To sweeten the deal, we are offering $1,000 worth of books to the person who finds them. That’s a lot of books. Rules! You get a $1,000 gift certificate to the local, chain or online bookseller of your choice. 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Clear Search Input Cancel dismiss this message Help Others Pronounce Your Name Correctly Joseph Akoni July 6, 2020 Share Ever seen someone's name in writing and find yourself not totally sure how to pronounce it correctly? Correct pronunciation is not just a common courtesy -- it’s an important part of making a good first impression and creating an inclusive workplace. That’s why we decided to provide a feature that gives you the option to share how to pronounce your name. Starting this week we are adding an audio recording feature to your Profile so you’ll have the ability to create a recording of your name pronunciation, which will then be clickable on your profile. Once you add a recording, other members visiting your profile can quickly listen to the recording to better understand your pronunciation preference and, subsequently, ensure they can correctly say your name. You can also listen to other members’ pronunciations by visiting their profiles when they have added a recording. 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Hi, my name is Tabish Shaikh and this summer I participated in the Google Summer of Code program with Open Library to develop improvements which will help book lovers discover and use OpenLibrary.org. My Journey into Open Source When I got to college, I could tell classes would not be enough to help me get the hands on experience I would need to gain confidence in my programming abilities. I heard from friends and professors within my university that open source projects presented a great opportunity to work with established engineers in the field to gain hands-on experience. In the past, I tried contributing to a few well known open source projects, like Wikipedia. I selected Wikipedia because the community is large, active, and well established, there’s a lot of documentation, and the project is in a programming language I know well. I quickly became overwhelmed. Wikipedia may be well established, but a project of that size felt difficult to navigate without a mentor to guide me. I was able to successfully set up my environment, but then I had trouble finding an appropriate first issue to work on and hit a dead end as I tried to familiarize myself with the code. I found myself wishing for a chance to work more closely with the community. One evening in March of 2018, I was searching for a free algorithms book on Google and discovered Open Library. I had trouble finding the exact book I was looking for, but I could tell Open Library was an important library resource for accessing free books online and I noted their dated design as a big opportunity for improvement. So I bookmarked the page in my browser and was surprised to discover a “Help Us” button. I clicked the button and landed on a github issue which mentions their community calls. This gave me confidence there was a community which could help me get started and answer my questions, so I decided to give it a shot. The community calls gave me a guided path for positively improving the experience of patrons using the service. During the community calls, members present what they’ve completed, what they’re working on, and what they may be stuck with. In reality, this is a way to be seen for your achievements, update others, and receive help. Having this type of structure helped me discover which appropriate opportunities exist, how to approach and plan to solve the problem. This experience was really special to me because it was the first time I had been part of an international community and all of the members were aligned toward a common goal of universal access to knowledge. In the first few months of volunteering I redesigned the website footer and made several pull requests. I also noticed Salman was participating in Google Summer of Code (GSoC) in 2018. I applied to work with Open Library for GSoC in 2019 and was disappointed to learn the Internet Archive didn’t have enough slots for Open Library to participate. Fortunately, I worked with Mek, Open Library’s program lead, who recognized my contributions and arranged an “Internet Archive Summer of Code” (IASoC) internship program where we accomplished a major victory of releasing the sponsorship program which empowers the community to make meaningful, diverse books more available to borrow. You can read the blog post here which was picked up by BoingBoing and Gizmodo. Noticing a Problem During my years volunteering, we recognized several indicators that Open Library could be better serving its mission by distributing to a larger audience. Open Library, which has millions of free books to borrow, has an international alexa rank of  #11,079, compared to Goodreads which is a top #300 website without having books to borrow. The data also showed many patrons would drop off at the registration page because it didn’t offer immediate field validation and the fields would be cleared upon submit if, e.g. an email was already registered. The book pages, our most frequently viewed pages, were also very slow to load, causing patrons to drop-off. Also the experience of the book pages was confusing because there were separate views for Works and Editions. Because of all these factors, only around 6% of the Internet Archive’s books were checked out, meaning 94% of the catalog remained underutilized. I applied to GSoC 2020 with a plan, “Adoption By Book Lovers” to resolve some of these key issues, help more people like myself discover and derive value from the Open Library, and hopefully improve their first experience in the process. Placing our bets In the service of helping more patrons discover Open Library, increasing our utilization and engagement, and decreasing confusion and bad experiences, we made 5 key bets: Improving Sign Up Book Page Redesign Shareable Profiles & Public Reading Log Imports & Exports Twitter Bot There’s a common saying, “the first impression is the last impression”. This has certainly been true for many patrons attempting to sign up for an Open Library account. The easiest, surest way to help more patrons derive value from the Open Library platform is by Improving Sign Up; reducing the friction and early negative first impressions during account creation. Open Library’s mission for 2019 was “Reducing bad experiences, confusion, & dead-ends”. By combining our Works and Editions pages into a single more performant Book Page Redesign we believed we’d reduce the confusion of users searching for their favourite books and in turn, also increase distribution. The DoubleClick study by Google shows that 53% of patrons drop off if page load is exceeds 3 seconds and this carries significant SEO penalties. While redesigning our Book Page, a key consideration was page-load performance because we knew this would increase our rank in search engine results and increase retention through the lending and registration funnels. Finally, by betting on social features, like shareable profiles and public-by-default reading logs, the ability to import books from Goodreads, and a twitter @borrowbot to help patrons discover which books are available to read and borrow on Open Library, we felt confident we could increase the number of patrons that may discover and adopt OpenLibrary.org. Improving Signup In 2018, we coincidentally, hit a regression #1431 to our account creation page which presented itself as a server error for patrons trying to register a new account when their username or email was already taken. Because of this bug, our daily registered users dropped from ~2300 to ~1700 (-500). Through this, we discovered that nearly 1/5 of patrons (i.e. 500 a day) who attempted registration would hit some validation issue when creating their account (e.g. email or username invalid or taken, recaptcha broken). Even after solving the #1431 regression, we hypothesized that many of these 500 patrons were hitting error-cases which refreshed the page and cleared their form inputs, causing patrons to bounce. An easy solution was adding real-time validation to ensure emails, usernames, passwords, and recaptcha are valid before submitting the form. In order to implement real time validation, we planned Epic #1433 which included two pieces:  #2053 – update backend API endpoints #2055 – Add real-time field validation for email, username, password to show errors before submission. While we do not have great analytics on how conversion increased, we do know from our support channels that these changes have anecdotally resulted in a significant decrease in support emails around patron signup. Try it out 👉 https://openlibrary.org/account/create Issue: https://github.com/internetarchive/openlibrary/issues/3256 Pull Request: https://github.com/internetarchive/openlibrary/pull/3452 Book Page Redesign User interviews and surveys have taught us that most patrons who visit Open Library are trying to find a “Book”. Many patrons report that the terms Work and Edition may confuse their experience. This confusion is increased because a user can unpredictably be dropped into either a Work page or an Edition page which have different designs. Our goal in redesigning the books page was to increase clarity of the experience and improve page loading times. To improve clarity and simplify the experience, we merged the work and edition pages to a single book page where patrons may find all the information about a work and learn about the availability of various editions without having to navigate multiple pages.   When redesigning the Book Page, we made the following changes: Editions table. We made the editions table front-and-center to enable readers to quickly switch between the different editions. We also feature editions by availability and language, and allow patrons to change how many results are shown at a time. We added a new search box to enable patrons to find relevant editions without reloading.  Navigation tabs. We have bucketed the work’s information into an “Overview” tab and the current Edition’s information in the “This Edition” tab. The tab bar always sticks to the top of the page for easy access to different sections of the page. Expandable descriptions. In previous designs, long text descriptions made it difficult to see all important book information at a glance. There are now “Read more” links to expand and collapse long descriptions. Clearer buttons. All the favorite actions of readers such as borrowing, searching inside, adding books to one’s reading log, and book star ratings have been grouped together and moved right below the book cover. It’s hopefully more clear now that the “Want to Read” Load times. We know page speed is a priority for readers. The new Books Page should be significantly faster (Lazy Loading of Related Works Carousel). Considerations. We tried to change as little as possible and were careful not to remove existing functionality: URLs: Developers and partners will be happy to hear that /works and /books urls and APIs will continue to work as expected without change. Both the work and edition pages will simply appear to use the same consistent design. Lists: While admittedly slightly less convenient, you can still add Works to Lists by clicking the “Use this Work” checkbox as shown below. By default, Lists will use Editions. I had always worked in small teams with not a lot of stakeholders and no clash of ideas. The Books Page Redesign was one in which the issue was open for 3 years and it was being stalled due to clash of interests in how we should display our pages. Completing this issue was a major milestone in my GSoC program where I learned to cooperate and compromise on some aspects of our design so that all stakeholders were happy. The feedback we received from our patrons was that ~65% patrons found the New Books Page a step forward, ~17% did not have any preference and ~22% found the change a step backward. Therefore we think our hypothesis was correct and this feature would improve user experience and reduce user confusion. Read more about the Book Page Redesign: https://blog.openlibrary.org/2020/07/08/re-thinking-open-librarys-book-pages/ Try it out 👉 https://openlibrary.org/works/OL76837W/The_Da_Vinci_Code Issues: https://github.com/internetarchive/openlibrary/issues/684 https://github.com/internetarchive/openlibrary/issues/3556 Pull Request: https://github.com/internetarchive/openlibrary/pull/3553 Additional Book Page improvements After completing the Book Page redesign, we made two major improvements to help our Librarian community and to improve performance and load times: a better book /edit experience and Lazy Loading of expensive book page components (e.g. related works carousels). Book Page Editor. We redesigned the Books Page Editor to enable our librarians edit book metadata with ease.  Lazy Loading of Related Carousels. To improve the page loading time we firstly created a list of components and their timings and noticed that the Related Works and Author Works took the most time to load thereby slowing down the page for up to 10%. Therefore our hypothesis was to lazy load related works carousel which would then enable our newly designed books pages to load faster. The impact of this change was that now pages load up to 10% faster: Issues: https://github.com/internetarchive/openlibrary/issues/3577 https://github.com/internetarchive/openlibrary/pull/3697 Shareable Profiles & Public Reading Logs  We noticed that very few patrons share their reading logs or even know they can be shared. However, we know patrons on Goodreads share their reading logs frequently. And also, lists on Open Library are shared all the time. Why is this? In 2017, when Open Library announced the new Reading Log feature, it was set to be private by default. We expected many patrons would change their reading logs to be public, but because it wasn’t public by default and difficult to discover, patrons didn’t know the feature existed and had no reason to make it public. In the spirit of being an open platform, we wanted patrons to have the opportunity to make their reading logs public to patrons with similar interests. As a result, we decided to make Reading Logs public by default for new accounts created after 2020-05, with the option for any patron to set their reading logs to private. Even after making this change, we noticed patrons trying to share their generic /account/books page, however this page always reflects the content of the currently logged in user. By always redirecting /account/books to the publicly shareable /people/username url, we are able to move in a direction which enables patrons to freely share their reading logs and paves the way for other features like “following”, which we’re interested in exploring next year. Enabling these change required: Modifying the user registration page (front-end) + https://github.com/internetarchive/openlibrary/blob/master/openlibrary/plugins/upstream/account.py#L203 (back-end) to support enabling this setting from the account creation form. For enabling redirects – Adding a redirect from /account/books page to /people/username and dealing with conditions for public/private reading log. This change simplified how users share their reading log and profile pages publicly paving a path for more social additions to Open Library.   Try it out 👉 https://openlibrary.org/people/tab91/books/want-to-read, https://openlibrary.org/people/tab91 Issues: https://github.com/internetarchive/openlibrary/issues/2058 https://github.com/internetarchive/openlibrary/issues/3025 https://github.com/internetarchive/openlibrary/issues/3461 Pull Requests: https://github.com/internetarchive/openlibrary/pull/3051 https://github.com/internetarchive/openlibrary/pull/3476 https://github.com/internetarchive/openlibrary/pull/3465 Imports & Exports Goodreads provides a way to download/export a list of books from one’s bookshelves. This feature would allow a user to take an exported dump of their reading log from Goodreads and then add each of these books to their Open Library account. The Goodreads import feature from https://openlibrary.org/account/import The export options enables patrons to download a list of Open Library book identifiers from their reading log.  The download export option from https://openlibrary.org/account/import A picture of a CSV file crated by the exporter Try it out 👉 https://openlibrary.org/account/import Issue: https://github.com/internetarchive/openlibrary/issues/835 https://github.com/internetarchive/openlibrary/issues/3661 Pull Request: https://github.com/internetarchive/openlibrary/pull/3597 https://github.com/internetarchive/openlibrary/pull/3662  Twitter Bot Our objective for this task was how do we reach more patrons/readers and help them discover more books on openlibrary.org? According to the hashtag analytics audit done on tweetbinder.com on hashtags #books #amazon using the free version the analytics show that in a 7 day period the number of original tweets(excluding retweets) was approx. 140 with a number impact of 11M. Therefore this is a great opportunity for making our bookshelves discoverable. Whenever a user tweets out a book with the amazon link/ an ISBN, the twitter @borrowbot would retweet the book with the link from Open Library if it is available. The book will be tweeted only once. Try it out 👉 tweet @borrowbot ISBN/ Amazon link  Related Issue: https://github.com/internetarchive/openlibrary/issues/3255 Code: https://github.com/tabshaikh/openlibrary-bots/tree/twitter-bot Impact In no small part because of the bets we made, our international Alexa rank improved by 10% from #11,079 to #9,893. Our Book Page load times improved on average by ~10%. 2 out of 3 of our patrons approved of our Book Page redesign, with 11% celebrating it as game changer. More than 5,000 books have already been imported through the Goodreads import tool Support team reports significant decrease in account creation support emails What I learned I always looked for ways to improve my work and have always loved constructive feedback from my mentor Mek who helped me learn how to estimate time for tasks, effectively identify stakeholders and include them in the process (reaching consensus on decisions was a lot harder than I anticipated), and how to communicate problems and achievements in a way which everyone may understand. Also, writing takes a long time and it’s easy to want to code until the deadline. As our founder Brewster Kahle says, “work backwards from the blog post”.  I also had the privilege of applying what I’ve learned to be a mentor for both Sachin Naik (#3627 #3622 ) and Fatima (#3454) within our community and helping them submit some of their first pull requests for Open Library This entry was posted in Bulk Access, Community, Google Summer of Code (GSoC), Open Source. Bookmark the permalink. Both comments and trackbacks are currently closed. « Open Library for Language Learners Giacomo Cignoni: My Internship at the Internet Archive » Search Recent Posts Importing your Goodreads & Accessing them with Open Library’s APIs On Bookstores, Libraries & Archives in the Digital Age Amplifying the voices behind books Giacomo Cignoni: My Internship at the Internet Archive Google Summer of Code 2020: Adoption by Book Lovers Archives Archives Select Month December 2020 October 2020 September 2020 August 2020 July 2020 May 2020 November 2019 October 2019 January 2019 October 2018 August 2018 July 2018 June 2018 May 2018 March 2018 December 2017 October 2016 June 2016 May 2016 February 2016 January 2016 November 2015 February 2015 January 2015 December 2014 November 2014 October 2014 August 2014 July 2014 June 2014 May 2014 April 2014 March 2014 April 2013 January 2013 August 2012 December 2011 November 2011 October 2011 July 2011 June 2011 May 2011 April 2011 March 2011 February 2011 January 2011 December 2010 November 2010 October 2010 September 2010 August 2010 July 2010 June 2010 May 2010 April 2010 March 2010 February 2010 January 2010 December 2009 November 2009 October 2009 September 2009 August 2009 July 2009 June 2009 May 2009 April 2009 March 2009 February 2009 January 2009 December 2008 November 2008 Theme customized from Thematic Theme Framework. blog-openlibrary-org-314 ---- Importing your Goodreads & Accessing them with Open Library’s APIs The Open Library Blog A web page for every book Skip to content About « On Bookstores, Libraries & Archives in the Digital Age Importing your Goodreads & Accessing them with Open Library’s APIs By mek | Published: December 13, 2020 by Mek Today Joe Alcorn, founder of readng, published an article (https://joealcorn.co.uk/blog/2020/goodreads-retiring-API) sharing news with readers that Amazon’s Goodreads service is in the process of retiring their developer APIs, with an effective start date of last Tuesday, December 8th, 2020. A screenshot taken from Joe Alcorn’s post The topic stirred discussion among developers and book lovers alike, making the front-page of the popular Hacker News website. Hacker News at 2020-12-13 1:30pm Pacific. The Importance of APIs For those who are new to the term, an API is a method of accessing data in a way which is designed for computers to consume rather than people. APIs often allow computers to subscribe to (i.e. listen for) events and then take actions. For example, let’s say you wanted to tweet every time your favorite author published a new book. One could sit on Goodreads and refresh the website every fifteen minutes. Or, one might write a twitter bot which automatically connects to Goodreads and checks real-time data using its API. In fact, the reason why Twitter bots work, is that they use Twitter’s API, a mechanism which lets specially designed computer programs submit tweets to the platform. As one of the more popular book services online today, tens of thousands of readers and organizations rely on Amazon’s Goodreads APIs to lookup information about books and to power their book-related applications across the web. Some authors rely on the data to showcase their works on their personal homepages, online book stores to promote their inventory, innovative new services like thestorygraph are using this data to help readers discover new insights, and even librarians and scholastic websites rely on book data APIs to make sure their catalog information is as up to date and accurate as possible for their patrons. For years, the Open Library team has been enthusiastic to share the book space with friends like Goodreads who have historically shown great commitment by enabling patrons to control (download and export) their own data and enabling developers to create flourishing ecosystems which promote books and readership through their APIs. When it comes to serving an audience of book lovers, there is no “one size fits all” and we’re glad so many different platforms and APIs exist to provide experiences which meet the needs of different communities. And we’d like to do our part to keep the landscape flourishing. “The sad thing is it [retiring their APIs] really only hurts the hobbyist projects and Goodreads users themselves.” — Joe Alcorn Picture of Aaron Swartz by Noah Berger/Landov from thedailybeast At Open Library, our top priority is pursuing Aaron Swartz‘s original mission: to serve as an open book catalog for the public (one page for every book ever published) and ensure our community always has free, open data to unlock a world of possibilities. A world which believes in the power of reading to preserve our cultural heritage and empower education and understanding. We sincerely hope that Amazon will decide it’s in Goodreads’ best interests to re-instate their APIs. But either way, Open Library is committed to helping readers, developers, and all book lovers have autonomy over their data and direct access to the data they rely on. One reason patrons appreciate Open Library is that it aligns with their values Imports & Exports In August 2020, one of our Google Summer of Code contributors Tabish Shaikh helped us implement an export option for Open Library Reading Logs to help everyone retain full control of their book data. We also created a Goodreads import feature to help patrons who may want an easy way to check which Goodreads titles may be available to borrow from the Internet Archive’s Controlled Digital Lending program via openlibrary.org and to help patrons organize all their books in one place. We didn’t make a fuss about this feature at the time, because we knew patrons have a lot of options. But things can change quickly and we want patrons to be able to make that decision for themselves. For those who may not have known, Amazon’s Goodreads website provides an option for downloading/exporting a list of books from one’s bookshelves. You may find instructions on this Goodreads export process here. Open Library’s Goodreads importer enables patrons to take this exported dump of their Goodreads bookshelves and automatically add matching titles to their Open Library Reading Logs. The Goodreads import feature from https://openlibrary.org/account/import Known issues. Currently, Open Library’s Goodreads Importer only works for (a) titles that are in the Open Library catalog and (b) which are new enough to have ISBNs. Our staff and community are committed to continuing to improve our catalog to include more titles (we added more than 1M titles this year) and we plan to improve our importer to support other ID types like OCLC and LOC. APIs & Data Developers and book overs who have been relying on Amazon’s Goodreads APIs are not out of luck. There are several wonderful services, many of them open-source, including Open Library, which offer free APIs: Wikidata.org (by the same group who brought us Wikipedia) is a treasure trove of metadata on Authors and Books. Open Library gratefully leverages this powerful resource to enrich our pages. Inventaire.io is a wonderful service which uses Wikidata and Openlibrary data (API: api.inventaire.io) Bookbrainz.org (by the group who runs Musicbrainz) is a up-and-coming catalog of books WorldCat by OCLC offers various metadata APIs Did we miss any? Please let us know! We’d love to work together, build stronger integrations with, and support other book-loving services. Open Library’s APIs. And of course, Open Library has a free, open, Book API which spans nearly 30 million books. Bulk Data. If you need access to all our data, Open Library releases a free monthly bulk data dump of Authors, Books, and more. Spoiler: Everything on Open Library is an API! One of my favorite parts of Open Library is that practically every page is an API. All that is required is adding “.json” to the end. Here are some examples: Search https://openlibrary.org/search?q=lord+of+the+rings is our search page for humans… https://openlibrary.org/search.json?q=lord+of+the+rings is our Search API! Books https://openlibrary.org/books/OL25929351M/Harry_Potter_and_the_Methods_of_Rationality is the human page for Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality… https://openlibrary.org/books/OL25929351M.json is its API! Authors https://openlibrary.org/authors/OL2965893A/Rik_Roots is a human readable author page… https://openlibrary.org/authors/OL2965893A.json and here is the API! Did We Mention: Full-text Search over 4M Books? Major hat tip to the Internet Archive’s Giovanni Damiola for this one: Folks may also appreciate the ability to full-text search across 4M of the Internet Archive’s books (https://blog.openlibrary.org/2018/07/14/search-full-text-within-4m-books) on Open Library: You can try it directly here: http://openlibrary.org/search/inside?q=thanks%20for%20all%20the%20fish As per usual, nearly all Open Library urls are themselves APIs, e.g.: http://openlibrary.org/search/inside.json?q=thanks%20for%20all%20the%20fish Get Involved Questions? Open Library is an free, open-source, nonprofit project run by the Internet Archive. We do our development transparently in public (here’s our code) and our community spanning more than 40 volunteers meets every week, Tuesday @ 11:30am Pacific. Please contact us to join our call and participate in the process. Bugs? If something isn’t working as expected, please let us know by opening an issue or joining our weekly community calls. Want to share thanks? Please follow up on twitter: https://twitter.com/openlibrary and let us know how you’re using our APIs! Thank you A special thank you to our lead developers Drini Cami, Chris Clauss, and one of our lead volunteer engineers, Aaron, for spending their weekend helping fix a Python 3 bug which was temporarily preventing Goodreads imports from succeeding. A Decentralized Future The Internet Archive has a history cultivating and supporting the decentralized web. We operate a decentralized version of archive.org and host regular meetups and summits to galvanize the distributed web community. In the future, we can imagine a world where no single website controls all of your data, but rather patrons can participate in a decentralized, distributed network. You may be interested to try Bookwyrm, an open-source decentralized project by Mouse, former engineer on the Internet Archive’s Archive-It team. This entry was posted in Uncategorized. Bookmark the permalink. 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Google Summer of Code 2018 » Search Full-Text within 4M+ Books By mek | Published: July 14, 2018 Open Library now lets you search inside the text contents of over 4M books! A Full-Text Search for “thanks for all the fish” on openlibrary.org What’s Full-Text Search? Many book websites, like Amazon and Goodreads, give you the ability to search for books by title and author, but they don’t make it easy to find books based on their contents. This type of searching is called “Full-Text Search”. Try searching for “brewster kahle alexa internet” on Goodreads or Amazon: A search for “brewster kahle alexa internet” on goodreads A search for “brewster kahle alexa internet” on amazon books Have you ever heard a quote and wished you could figure out which book it came from? Open Library full-text search gives readers the ability to locate books which reference any snippet of text like, “Let every thing have its place“: A full-text search on openlibrary.org of “let every thing have its place” Full-Text Search on Archive.org I’ve been surprised to learn how many people didn’t know that Archive.org has had full-text search for several years — and its really powerful! In 2016, Giovanni Damiola (@giovannidamiola) led a major overhaul of Internet Archive’s full-text search system and unlocked the ability for users to perform full-text searches across almost 40M unique text documents — from patents, to yearbooks, to open-access research papers. How to activate Full-Text Search mode on Archive.org   Full-Text Search of the quote “let every thing have its place” on Archive.org Open Library Full-Text Search When you search across 40M documents, it can be a challenge to find the one you’re looking for. One feature which Open Library has been missing is a way to limit Internet Archive’s full-text search to only include results from books on Open Library. So for the last two years, Open Library has patiently waited to take full advantage of full-text search for its users. Earlier this week, Gio released an improvement to our full-text search engine which lets us get around this historical limitation — and so we jumped on this opportunity to improve our search on openlibrary.org! With the help of Razzi Abuissa, Open Library volunteer, and Mek, Open Library’s project lead, you can now search inside more than 4M Open Library books. Try a Full-Text Search Thanks for all the fish! …Wait, what book was that from again?   This entry was posted in Search. Bookmark the permalink. Both comments and trackbacks are currently closed. « Star Ratings are Here! Google Summer of Code 2018 » 3 Comments Anton Posted July 14, 2018 at 2:08 pm | Permalink Great! Thanks a lot for making this happen. Kathleen Gallagher Posted August 18, 2018 at 2:49 am | Permalink Still enjoying the fish after all these years. One of the best books ever. Compare to”The Sirens of Titan”. Jennifer Omorodion Posted August 25, 2018 at 7:57 pm | Permalink Interesting!!! Beautiful organisation of the web. Keep improving and creating these impressive user friendly atmosphere. 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The topic stirred discussion among developers and book lovers alike, making the front-page of the […] On Bookstores, Libraries & Archives in the Digital Age The following was a guest post by Brewster Kahle on Against The Grain (ATG) – Linking Publishers, Vendors, & Librarians By: Brewster Kahle, Founder & Digital Librarian, Internet Archive​​​​​​​ ​​​Back in 2006, I was honored to give a keynote at the meeting of the Society of American Archivists, when the president of the Society presented me with a […] Amplifying the voices behind books Exploring how Open Library uses author data to help readers move from imagination to impact By Nick Norman, Edited by Mek & Drini According to René Descartes, a creative mathematician, “The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest [people] of past centuries.” If that’s true, then who are some of […] Giacomo Cignoni: My Internship at the Internet Archive This summer, Open Library and the Internet Archive took part in Google Summer of Code (GSoC), a Google initiative to help students gain coding experience by contributing to open source projects. I was lucky enough to mentor Giacomo while he worked on improving our BookReader experience and infrastructure. We have invited Giacomo to write a […] Google Summer of Code 2020: Adoption by Book Lovers by Tabish Shaikh & Mek OpenLibrary.org,the world’s best-kept library secret: Let’s make it easier for book lovers to discover and get started with Open Library. Hi, my name is Tabish Shaikh and this summer I participated in the Google Summer of Code program with Open Library to develop improvements which will help book lovers discover […] Open Library for Language Learners By Guyrandy Jean-Gilles 2020-07-21 A quick browse through the App Store and aspiring language learners will find themselves swimming in useful programs. But for experienced linguaphiles, the never-ending challenge is finding enough raw content and media to consume in their adopted tongue. Open Library can help. 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In this interview, we receive a master class on effective project management by Brad Rubenstein, co-author of Risk […] blog-openlibrary-org-595 ---- The Open Library Blog | A web page for every book The Open Library Blog A web page for every book Skip to content About « Older posts Importing your Goodreads & Accessing them with Open Library’s APIs By mek | Published: December 13, 2020 by Mek Today Joe Alcorn, founder of readng, published an article (https://joealcorn.co.uk/blog/2020/goodreads-retiring-API) sharing news with readers that Amazon’s Goodreads service is in the process of retiring their developer APIs, with an effective start date of last Tuesday, December 8th, 2020. A screenshot taken from Joe Alcorn’s post The topic stirred discussion among developers and book lovers alike, making the front-page of the popular Hacker News website. Hacker News at 2020-12-13 1:30pm Pacific. The Importance of APIs For those who are new to the term, an API is a method of accessing data in a way which is designed for computers to consume rather than people. APIs often allow computers to subscribe to (i.e. listen for) events and then take actions. For example, let’s say you wanted to tweet every time your favorite author published a new book. One could sit on Goodreads and refresh the website every fifteen minutes. Or, one might write a twitter bot which automatically connects to Goodreads and checks real-time data using its API. In fact, the reason why Twitter bots work, is that they use Twitter’s API, a mechanism which lets specially designed computer programs submit tweets to the platform. As one of the more popular book services online today, tens of thousands of readers and organizations rely on Amazon’s Goodreads APIs to lookup information about books and to power their book-related applications across the web. Some authors rely on the data to showcase their works on their personal homepages, online book stores to promote their inventory, innovative new services like thestorygraph are using this data to help readers discover new insights, and even librarians and scholastic websites rely on book data APIs to make sure their catalog information is as up to date and accurate as possible for their patrons. For years, the Open Library team has been enthusiastic to share the book space with friends like Goodreads who have historically shown great commitment by enabling patrons to control (download and export) their own data and enabling developers to create flourishing ecosystems which promote books and readership through their APIs. When it comes to serving an audience of book lovers, there is no “one size fits all” and we’re glad so many different platforms and APIs exist to provide experiences which meet the needs of different communities. And we’d like to do our part to keep the landscape flourishing. “The sad thing is it [retiring their APIs] really only hurts the hobbyist projects and Goodreads users themselves.” — Joe Alcorn Picture of Aaron Swartz by Noah Berger/Landov from thedailybeast At Open Library, our top priority is pursuing Aaron Swartz‘s original mission: to serve as an open book catalog for the public (one page for every book ever published) and ensure our community always has free, open data to unlock a world of possibilities. A world which believes in the power of reading to preserve our cultural heritage and empower education and understanding. We sincerely hope that Amazon will decide it’s in Goodreads’ best interests to re-instate their APIs. But either way, Open Library is committed to helping readers, developers, and all book lovers have autonomy over their data and direct access to the data they rely on. One reason patrons appreciate Open Library is that it aligns with their values Imports & Exports In August 2020, one of our Google Summer of Code contributors Tabish Shaikh helped us implement an export option for Open Library Reading Logs to help everyone retain full control of their book data. We also created a Goodreads import feature to help patrons who may want an easy way to check which Goodreads titles may be available to borrow from the Internet Archive’s Controlled Digital Lending program via openlibrary.org and to help patrons organize all their books in one place. We didn’t make a fuss about this feature at the time, because we knew patrons have a lot of options. But things can change quickly and we want patrons to be able to make that decision for themselves. For those who may not have known, Amazon’s Goodreads website provides an option for downloading/exporting a list of books from one’s bookshelves. You may find instructions on this Goodreads export process here. Open Library’s Goodreads importer enables patrons to take this exported dump of their Goodreads bookshelves and automatically add matching titles to their Open Library Reading Logs. The Goodreads import feature from https://openlibrary.org/account/import Known issues. Currently, Open Library’s Goodreads Importer only works for (a) titles that are in the Open Library catalog and (b) which are new enough to have ISBNs. Our staff and community are committed to continuing to improve our catalog to include more titles (we added more than 1M titles this year) and we plan to improve our importer to support other ID types like OCLC and LOC. APIs & Data Developers and book overs who have been relying on Amazon’s Goodreads APIs are not out of luck. There are several wonderful services, many of them open-source, including Open Library, which offer free APIs: Wikidata.org (by the same group who brought us Wikipedia) is a treasure trove of metadata on Authors and Books. Open Library gratefully leverages this powerful resource to enrich our pages. Inventaire.io is a wonderful service which uses Wikidata and Openlibrary data (API: api.inventaire.io) Bookbrainz.org (by the group who runs Musicbrainz) is a up-and-coming catalog of books WorldCat by OCLC offers various metadata APIs Did we miss any? Please let us know! We’d love to work together, build stronger integrations with, and support other book-loving services. Open Library’s APIs. And of course, Open Library has a free, open, Book API which spans nearly 30 million books. Bulk Data. If you need access to all our data, Open Library releases a free monthly bulk data dump of Authors, Books, and more. Spoiler: Everything on Open Library is an API! One of my favorite parts of Open Library is that practically every page is an API. All that is required is adding “.json” to the end. Here are some examples: Search https://openlibrary.org/search?q=lord+of+the+rings is our search page for humans… https://openlibrary.org/search.json?q=lord+of+the+rings is our Search API! Books https://openlibrary.org/books/OL25929351M/Harry_Potter_and_the_Methods_of_Rationality is the human page for Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality… https://openlibrary.org/books/OL25929351M.json is its API! Authors https://openlibrary.org/authors/OL2965893A/Rik_Roots is a human readable author page… https://openlibrary.org/authors/OL2965893A.json and here is the API! Did We Mention: Full-text Search over 4M Books? Major hat tip to the Internet Archive’s Giovanni Damiola for this one: Folks may also appreciate the ability to full-text search across 4M of the Internet Archive’s books (https://blog.openlibrary.org/2018/07/14/search-full-text-within-4m-books) on Open Library: You can try it directly here: http://openlibrary.org/search/inside?q=thanks%20for%20all%20the%20fish As per usual, nearly all Open Library urls are themselves APIs, e.g.: http://openlibrary.org/search/inside.json?q=thanks%20for%20all%20the%20fish Get Involved Questions? Open Library is an free, open-source, nonprofit project run by the Internet Archive. We do our development transparently in public (here’s our code) and our community spanning more than 40 volunteers meets every week, Tuesday @ 11:30am Pacific. Please contact us to join our call and participate in the process. Bugs? If something isn’t working as expected, please let us know by opening an issue or joining our weekly community calls. Want to share thanks? Please follow up on twitter: https://twitter.com/openlibrary and let us know how you’re using our APIs! Thank you A special thank you to our lead developers Drini Cami, Chris Clauss, and one of our lead volunteer engineers, Aaron, for spending their weekend helping fix a Python 3 bug which was temporarily preventing Goodreads imports from succeeding. A Decentralized Future The Internet Archive has a history cultivating and supporting the decentralized web. We operate a decentralized version of archive.org and host regular meetups and summits to galvanize the distributed web community. In the future, we can imagine a world where no single website controls all of your data, but rather patrons can participate in a decentralized, distributed network. You may be interested to try Bookwyrm, an open-source decentralized project by Mouse, former engineer on the Internet Archive’s Archive-It team. Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment On Bookstores, Libraries & Archives in the Digital Age By Brewster Kahle | Published: October 7, 2020 The following was a guest post by Brewster Kahle on Against The Grain (ATG) – Linking Publishers, Vendors, & Librarians On Bookstores, Libraries & Archives in the Digital Age-An ATG Guest Post See the original article here on ATG’s website By: Brewster Kahle, Founder & Digital Librarian, Internet Archive​​​​​​​ ​​​Back in 2006, I was honored to give a keynote at the meeting of the Society of American Archivists, when the president of the Society presented me with a framed blown-up letter “S.”  This was an inside joke about the Internet Archive being named in the singular, Archive, rather than the plural Archives. Of course, he was right, as I should have known all along. The Internet Archive had long since grown out of being an “archive of the Internet”—a singular collection, say of web pages—to being “archives on the Internet,” plural.  My evolving understanding of these different names might help focus a discussion that has become blurry in our digital times: the difference between the roles of publishers, bookstores, libraries, archives, and museums. These organizations and institutions have evolved with different success criteria, not just because of the shifting physical manifestation of knowledge over time, but because of the different roles each group plays in a functioning society. For the moment, let’s take the concepts of Library and Archive. The traditional definition of a library is that it is made up of published materials, while an archive is made up of unpublished materials. Archives play an important function that must be maintained—we give frightfully little attention to collections of unpublished works in the digital age. Think of all the drafts of books that have disappeared once we started to write with word processors and kept the files on fragile computer floppies and disks. Think of all the videotapes of lectures that are thrown out or were never recorded in the first place.  Bookstores: The Thrill of the Hunt Let’s try another approach to understanding distinctions between bookstores, libraries and archives. When I was in my 20’s living in Boston—before Amazon.com and before the World Wide Web (but during the early Internet)—new and used bookstores were everywhere. I thought of them as catering to the specialized interests of their customers: small, selective, and only offering books that might sell and be taken away, with enough profit margin to keep the store in business. I loved them. I especially liked the used bookstore owners—they could peer into my soul (and into my wallet!) to find the right book for me. The most enjoyable aspect of the bookstore was the hunt—I arrived with a tiny sheet of paper in my wallet with a list of the books I wanted, would bring it out and ask the used bookstore owners if I might go home with a bargain. I rarely had the money to buy new books for myself, but I would give new books as gifts. While I knew it was okay to stay for awhile in the bookstore just reading, I always knew the game. Libraries: Offering Conversations not Answers The libraries that I used in Boston—MIT Libraries, Harvard Libraries, the Boston Public Library—were very different. I knew of the private Boston Athenæum but I was not a member, so I could not enter. Libraries for me seemed infinite, but still tailored to individual interests. They had what was needed for you to explore and if they did not have it, the reference librarian would proudly proclaim: “We can get it for you!” I loved interlibrary loans—not so much in practice, because it was slow, but because they gave you a glimpse of a network of institutions sharing what they treasured with anyone curious enough to want to know more. It was a dream straight out of Borges’ imagination (if you have not read Borges’ short stories, they are not to be missed, and they are short. I recommend you write them on the little slip of paper you keep in your wallet.) I couldn’t afford to own many of the books I wanted, so it turned off that acquisitive impulse in me. But the libraries allowed me to read anything, old and new. I found I consumed library books very differently. I rarely even brought a book from the shelf to a table; I would stand, browse, read, learn and search in the aisles. Dipping in here and there. The card catalog got me to the right section and from there I learned as I explored.  Libraries were there to spark my own ideas. The library did not set out to tell a story as a museum would. It was for me to find stories, to create connections, have my own ideas by putting things together. I would come to the library with a question and end up with ideas.  Rarely were these facts or statistics—but rather new points of view. Old books, historical newspapers, even the collection of reference books all illustrated points of view that were important to the times and subject matter. I was able to learn from others who may have been far away or long deceased. Libraries presented me with a conversation, not an answer. Good libraries cause conversations in your head with many writers. These writers, those librarians, challenged me to be different, to be better.  Staying for hours in a library was not an annoyance for the librarians—it was the point. Yes, you could check books out of the library, and I would, but mostly I did my work in the library—a few pages here, a few pages there—a stack of books in a carrel with index cards tucked into them and with lots of handwritten notes (uh, no laptops yet). But libraries were still specialized. To learn about draft resisters during the Vietnam War, I needed access to a law library. MIT did not have a law collection and this was before Lexis/Nexis and Westlaw. I needed to get to the volumes of case law of the United States.  Harvard, up the road, had one of the great law libraries, but as an MIT student, I could not get in. My MIT professor lent me his ID that fortunately did not include a photo, so I could sneak in with that. I spent hours in the basement of Harvard’s Law Library reading about the cases of conscientious objectors and others.  But why was this library of law books not available to everyone? It stung me. It did not seem right.  A few years later I would apply to library school at Simmons College to figure out how to build a digital library system that would be closer to the carved words over the Boston Public Library’s door in Copley Square:  “Free to All.”   Archives: A Wonderful Place for Singular Obsessions When I quizzed the archivist at MIT, she explained what she did and how the MIT Archives worked. I loved the idea, but did not spend any time there—it was not organized for the busy undergraduate. The MIT Library was organized for easy access; the MIT Archives included complete collections of papers, notes, ephemera from others, often professors. It struck me that the archives were collections of collections. Each collection faithfully preserved and annotated.  I think of them as having advertisements on them, beckoning the researcher who wants to dive into the materials in the archive and the mindset of the collector. So in this formulation, an archive is a collection, archives are collections of collections.  Archivists are presented with collections, usually donations, but sometimes there is some money involved to preserve and catalog another’s life work. Personally, I appreciate almost any evidence of obsession—it can drive toward singular accomplishments. Archives often reveal such singular obsessions. But not all collections are archived, as it is an expensive process. The cost of archiving collections is changing, especially with digital materials, as is cataloging and searching those collections. But it is still expensive. When the Internet Archive takes on a physical collection, say of records, or old repair manuals, or materials from an art group, we have to weigh the costs and the potential benefits to researchers in the future.  Archives take the long view. One hundred years from now is not an endpoint, it may be the first time a collection really comes back to light. Digital Libraries: A Memex Dream, a Global Brain So when I helped start the Internet Archive, we wanted to build a digital library—a “complete enough” collection, and “organized enough” that everything would be there and findable. A Universal Library. A Library of Alexandria for the digital age. Fulfilling the memex dream of Vanevar Bush (do read “As We May Think“), of Ted Nelson‘s Xanadu, of Tim Berners-Lee‘s World Wide Web, of Danny Hillis‘ Thinking Machine, Raj Reddy’s Universal Access to All Knowledge, and Peter Russell’s Global Brain. Could we be smarter by having people, the library, networks, and computers all work together?  That is the dream I signed on to.  I dreamed of starting with a collection—an Archive, an Internet Archive. This grew to be  a collection of collections: Archives. Then a critical mass of knowledge complete enough to inform citizens worldwide: a Digital Library. A library accessible by anyone connected to the Internet, “Free to All.” About the Author: Brewster Kahle, Founder & Digital Librarian, Internet Archive Brewster Kahle A passionate advocate for public Internet access and a successful entrepreneur, Brewster Kahle has spent his career intent on a singular focus: providing Universal Access to All Knowledge. He is the founder and Digital Librarian of the Internet Archive, one of the largest digital libraries in the world, which serves more than a million patrons each day. Creator of the Wayback Machine and lending millions of digitized books, the Internet Archive works with more than 800 library and university partners to create a free digital library, accessible to all. Soon after graduating from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he studied artificial intelligence, Kahle helped found the company Thinking Machines, a parallel supercomputer maker. He is an Internet pioneer, creating the Internet’s first publishing system called Wide Area Information Server (WAIS). In 1996, Kahle co-founded Alexa Internet, with technology that helps catalog the Web, selling it to Amazon.com in 1999.  Elected to the Internet Hall of Fame, Kahle is also a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a member of the National Academy of Engineering, and holds honorary library doctorates from Simmons College and University of Alberta. Posted in Discussion, Librarianship, Uncategorized | Comments closed Amplifying the voices behind books By mek | Published: September 2, 2020 Exploring how Open Library uses author data to help readers move from imagination to impact By Nick Norman, Edited by Mek & Drini Image Source: Pexels / Pixabay from popsugar According to René Descartes, a creative mathematician, “The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest [people] of past centuries.” If that’s true, then who are some of the people you’re talking to? If you’re not sure how to answer that question, you’ll definitely appreciate the ‘Author Stats’ feature developed by Open Library. A deep dive into author stats Author stats give readers clear insights about their favorite authors that go much deeper than the front cover: such as birthplace, gender, works by time, ethnicity, and country of citizenship. These bits and pieces of knowledge about authors can empower readers in some dynamic ways. But how exactly? To answer that question, consider a reader who’s passionate about the topic of cultural diversity. However, after the reader examines their personalized author stats, they realize that their reading history lacks diversity. This doesn’t mean the reader isn’t passionate about cultural diversity; rather, author stats empowers the reader to pinpoint specific stats that can be diversified. Take a moment … or a day, and think about all the books you’ve read — just in the last year or as far back as you can. What if you could align the pages of each of those books with something meaningful … something that matters? What if each time you cracked open a book, the voices inside could point you to places filled with hope and opportunity? According to Drini Cami — Open Library’s lead developer behind Author Stats , “These stats let readers determine where the voices they read are coming from.” Drini continues saying, “A book can be both like a conversation as well as a journey.” He also says, “Statistics related to the authors might help provide readers with feedback as to where the voices they are listening to are coming from, and hopefully encourage the reading of books from a wider variety of perspectives.” Take a moment to let that sink in. Data with the power to change While Open Library’s author stats can show author-related demographics, those same stats can do a lot more than that. Drini Cami went on to say that, “Author stats can help readers intelligently alter their  behavior (if they wish to).” A profound statement that Mark Twain — one of the best writers in American history — might even shout from the rooftop. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of [people] … cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime. — Mark Twain In the eyes of Drini Cami and Mark Twain, books are like miniature time machines that have the power to launch readers into new spaces while changing their behaviors at the same time. For it is only when a reader steps out of their corner of the earth that they can step forward towards becoming a better person — for the entire world. Connecting two worlds of data Open Library has gone far beyond the extra mile to provide data about author demographics that some readers may not realize. It started with Open Library’s commitment to providing its readers with what Drini Cami describes as “clean, organized, structured, queryable data.” Simply put, readers can trust that Open Library’s data can be used to provide its audiences with maximum value. Which begs the question, where is all that ‘value’ coming from? Drini Cami calls it “linked data”. In not so complex terms, you may think of linked data as being two or more storage sheds packed with data. When these storage sheds are connected, well… that’s when the magic happens. For Open Library, that magic starts at the link between Wikidata and Open Library knowledge bases. Wikidata, a non-profit community-powered project run by Wikimedia, the same team which brought us Wikipedia, is a “free and open knowledge base that can be read and edited by both humans and machines”. It’s like Wikipedia except for storing bite-sized encyclopedic data and facts instead of articles. If you look closely, you may even find some of Wikidata’s data being leveraged within Wikipedia articles. Wikipedia’s Summary Info Box Source data in Wikidata Wikidata is where Open Library gets its author demographic data from. This is possible because the entries on Wikidata often include links to source material such as books, authors, learning materials, e-journals, and even to other knowledge bases like Open Library’s. Because of these links, Open Library is able to share its data with Wikidata and often times get back detailed information and structured data in return. Such as author demographics. Wrangling in the Data Linking-up services like Wikidata and Open Library doesn’t happen automatically. It requires the hard work of “Metadata Wranglers”. That’s where Charles Horn comes in, the lead Data Engineer at Open Library — without his work, author stats would not be possible. Charles Horn works closely with Drini Cami and also the team at Wikidata to connect book and author resources on Open Library with the data kept inside Wikidata. By writing clever bots and scripts, Charles and Drini are able to make tens of thousands of connections at scale. To put it simply, as both Open Library and Wikidata grow, their resources and data will become better connected and more accurate.  Thanks to the help of “Metadata Wranglers”, Open Library users will always have the smartest results — right at their fingertips.  It’s in a book … Once Upon a Time, ten-time Grammy Award Winner Chaka Kahn greeted television viewers with her bright voice on the once-popular book reading program, Reading Rainbow. In her words, she sang … “Friends to know, and ways to grow, a Reading Rainbow. I can be anything. Take a look, it’s in a book …” Thanks to Open Library’s author stats, not only do readers have the power to “take a look” into books, they can see further, and truly change what they see. Try browsing your author stats and consider following Open Library on twitter. The “My Reading Stats” option may be found under the “My Books” drop down menu within the main site’s top navigation. What did you learn about your favorite authors? Please share in the comments below. Posted in Community, Cultural Resources, Data | Comments closed Giacomo Cignoni: My Internship at the Internet Archive By Drini Cami | Published: August 29, 2020 This summer, Open Library and the Internet Archive took part in Google Summer of Code (GSoC), a Google initiative to help students gain coding experience by contributing to open source projects. I was lucky enough to mentor Giacomo while he worked on improving our BookReader experience and infrastructure. We have invited Giacomo to write a blog post to share some of the wonderful work he has done and his learnings. It was a pleasure working with you Giacomo, and we all wish you the best of luck with the rest of your studies! – Drini Hi, I am Giacomo Cignoni, a 2nd year computer science student from Italy. I submitted my 2020 Google Summer of Code (GSoC) project to work with the Internet Archive and I was selected for it. In this blogpost, I want to tell you about my experience and my accomplishments working this summer on BookReader, Internet Archive’s open source book reading web application. The BookReader features I enjoyed the most working on are page filters (which includes “dark mode”) and the text selection layer for certain public domain books. They were both challenging, but mostly had a great impact on the user experience of Bookreader. The first allows text to be selected and copied directly from the page images (currently in internal testing), and the second permits turning white-background black-text pages into black-background-white-text ones. Short summary of implemented features: End-to-end testing (search, autoplay, right-to-left books) Generic book from Internet Archive demo Mobile BookReader table of contents Checkbox for filters on book pages (including dark mode) Text selection layer plugin for public domain books Bug fixes for page flipping Using high resolution book images bug fix First approach to GSoC experience Once I received the news that I had been selected for GSoC with Internet Archive for my BookReader project, I was really excited, as it was the beginning of a new experience for me. For the same reason, I will not hide that I was a little bit nervous because it was my first internship-like experience. Fortunately, even from the start, my mentor Drini and also Mek were supportive and also ready to offer help. Moreover, the fact that I was already familiar with BookReader was helpful, as I had already used it (and even modified it a little bit) for a personal project. For most of the month of May, since the 6th, the day of the GSoC selection, I mainly focused on getting to know the other members of the UX team at Internet Archive, whom I would be working with for the rest of the summer, and also define a more precise roadmap of my future work with my mentor, as my proposed project was open to any improvements for BookReader. End to end testing The first tasks I worked on, as stated in the project, were about end-to-end testing for BookReader. I learned about the Testcafe tool that was to be used, and my first real task was to remove and explore some old QUnit tests (#308). Then I started to make end-to-end tests for the search feature in BookReader, both for desktop (#314) and mobile (#322). Lastly, I fixed the existent autoplay end-to-end test (#344) that was causing problems and I also had prepared end-to-end tests for right-to-left books (#350), but it wasn’t merged immediately because it needed a feature that I would have implemented later; a system to choose different books from the IA servers to be displayed specifying the book id in the URL. This work on testing (which lasted until the ~20th of June) was really helpful at the beginning as it allowed me to gain more confidence with the codebase without trying immediately harder tasks and also to gain more confidence with JavaScript ES6. The frequent meetings with my mentor and other members of the team made me really feel part of the workplace. Working on the source code The table of contents panel in BookReader mobile My first experience working on core BookReader source code was during the Internet Archive hackathon on May the 30th when, with the help of my mentor, I created the first draft for the table of content panel for mobile BookReader. I would then resume to work on this feature in July, refining it until it was released (#351). I then worked on a checkbox to apply different filters to the book page images, still on mobile BookReader (#342), which includes a sort of “dark mode”. This feature was probably the one I enjoyed the most working on, as it was challenging but not too difficult, it included some planning and was not purely technical and received great appreciation from users. Page filters for BookReader mobile let you read in a “dark mode” https://twitter.com/openlibrary/status/1280184861957828608 Then I worked on the generic demo feature; a particular demo for BookReader which allows you to choose a book  from the Internet Archive servers to be displayed, by simply adding the book id in the URL as a parameter (#356). This allowed the right to left e2e test to be merged and proved to be useful for manually testing the text selection plugin. In this period I also fixed two page flipping issues: one more critical (when flipping pages in quick succession the pages started turning back and forth randomly) (#386), and the other one less urgent, but it was an issue a user specifically pointed out (in an old BookReader demo it was impossible to turn pages at all) (#383). Another issue I solved was BookReader not correctly displaying high resolution images on high resolution displays (#378). Open source project experience One aspect I really enjoyed of my GSoC is the all-around experience of working on an open source project. This includes leaving more approachable tasks for the occasional member of the community to take on and helping them out. Also, I found it interesting working with other members of the team aside from my mentor, both for more technical reasons and for help in UI designing and feedback about the user experience: I always liked having more points of view about my work. Moreover, direct user feedback from the users, which showed appreciation for the new implemented features (such as BookReader “dark mode”), was very motivating and pushed me to do better in the following tasks. Text selection layer The normally invisible text layer shown red here for debugging The biggest feature of my GSoC was implementing the ability to select text directly on the page image from BookReader for public domain books, in order to copy and paste it elsewhere (#367). This was made possible because Internet Archive books have information about each word and its placement in the page, which is collected by doing OCR. To implement this feature we decided to use an invisible text layer placed on top of the page image, with words being correctly positioned and scaled. This made it possible to use the browser’s text selection system instead of creating a new one. The text layer on top of the page was implemented using an SVG element, with subelements for each paragraph and word in the page. The use of the SVG instead of normal html text elements made it a lot easier to overcome most of the problems we expected to find regarding the correct placement and scaling of words in the layer. I started working sporadically on this feature since the start of July and this led to having a workable demo by the first day of August. The rest of the month of August was spent refining this feature to make it production-ready. This included refining word placement in the layer, adding unit tests, adding support for more browsers, refactoring some functions, making the experience more fluid, making the selected text to be accurate for newlines and spaces on copy. The most challenging part was probably to integrate well the text selection actions in the two page view of BookReader, without disrupting the click-to-flip-page and other functionalities related to mouse-click events. This feature is currently in internal testing, and scheduled for release in the next few weeks. The text selection experience Conclusions Overall, I was extremely satisfied with my GSoC at the Internet Archive. It was a great opportunity to learn new things for me. I got much more fluent in JavaScript and CSS, thanks to both my mentor and using these languages in practice while coding. I learnt a lot about working on an open source project, but a part that I probably found really interesting was attending and participating in the decision making processes, even about projects I was not involved in. It was also interesting for me to apply concepts I had studied on a more theoretical level at university in a real workplace environment. To sum things up, the ability to work on something I liked that had an impact on users and the ability to learn useful things for my personal development really made this experience worthwhile for me. I would 100% recommend doing a GSoC at the Internet Archive! Posted in BookReader, Community, Google Summer of Code (GSoC), Open Source | Comments closed Google Summer of Code 2020: Adoption by Book Lovers By mek | Published: August 29, 2020 by Tabish Shaikh & Mek OpenLibrary.org,the world’s best-kept library secret: Let’s make it easier for book lovers to discover and get started with Open Library. Hi, my name is Tabish Shaikh and this summer I participated in the Google Summer of Code program with Open Library to develop improvements which will help book lovers discover and use OpenLibrary.org. My Journey into Open Source When I got to college, I could tell classes would not be enough to help me get the hands on experience I would need to gain confidence in my programming abilities. I heard from friends and professors within my university that open source projects presented a great opportunity to work with established engineers in the field to gain hands-on experience. In the past, I tried contributing to a few well known open source projects, like Wikipedia. I selected Wikipedia because the community is large, active, and well established, there’s a lot of documentation, and the project is in a programming language I know well. I quickly became overwhelmed. Wikipedia may be well established, but a project of that size felt difficult to navigate without a mentor to guide me. I was able to successfully set up my environment, but then I had trouble finding an appropriate first issue to work on and hit a dead end as I tried to familiarize myself with the code. I found myself wishing for a chance to work more closely with the community. One evening in March of 2018, I was searching for a free algorithms book on Google and discovered Open Library. I had trouble finding the exact book I was looking for, but I could tell Open Library was an important library resource for accessing free books online and I noted their dated design as a big opportunity for improvement. So I bookmarked the page in my browser and was surprised to discover a “Help Us” button. I clicked the button and landed on a github issue which mentions their community calls. This gave me confidence there was a community which could help me get started and answer my questions, so I decided to give it a shot. The community calls gave me a guided path for positively improving the experience of patrons using the service. During the community calls, members present what they’ve completed, what they’re working on, and what they may be stuck with. In reality, this is a way to be seen for your achievements, update others, and receive help. Having this type of structure helped me discover which appropriate opportunities exist, how to approach and plan to solve the problem. This experience was really special to me because it was the first time I had been part of an international community and all of the members were aligned toward a common goal of universal access to knowledge. In the first few months of volunteering I redesigned the website footer and made several pull requests. I also noticed Salman was participating in Google Summer of Code (GSoC) in 2018. I applied to work with Open Library for GSoC in 2019 and was disappointed to learn the Internet Archive didn’t have enough slots for Open Library to participate. Fortunately, I worked with Mek, Open Library’s program lead, who recognized my contributions and arranged an “Internet Archive Summer of Code” (IASoC) internship program where we accomplished a major victory of releasing the sponsorship program which empowers the community to make meaningful, diverse books more available to borrow. You can read the blog post here which was picked up by BoingBoing and Gizmodo. Noticing a Problem During my years volunteering, we recognized several indicators that Open Library could be better serving its mission by distributing to a larger audience. Open Library, which has millions of free books to borrow, has an international alexa rank of  #11,079, compared to Goodreads which is a top #300 website without having books to borrow. The data also showed many patrons would drop off at the registration page because it didn’t offer immediate field validation and the fields would be cleared upon submit if, e.g. an email was already registered. The book pages, our most frequently viewed pages, were also very slow to load, causing patrons to drop-off. Also the experience of the book pages was confusing because there were separate views for Works and Editions. Because of all these factors, only around 6% of the Internet Archive’s books were checked out, meaning 94% of the catalog remained underutilized. I applied to GSoC 2020 with a plan, “Adoption By Book Lovers” to resolve some of these key issues, help more people like myself discover and derive value from the Open Library, and hopefully improve their first experience in the process. Placing our bets In the service of helping more patrons discover Open Library, increasing our utilization and engagement, and decreasing confusion and bad experiences, we made 5 key bets: Improving Sign Up Book Page Redesign Shareable Profiles & Public Reading Log Imports & Exports Twitter Bot There’s a common saying, “the first impression is the last impression”. This has certainly been true for many patrons attempting to sign up for an Open Library account. The easiest, surest way to help more patrons derive value from the Open Library platform is by Improving Sign Up; reducing the friction and early negative first impressions during account creation. Open Library’s mission for 2019 was “Reducing bad experiences, confusion, & dead-ends”. By combining our Works and Editions pages into a single more performant Book Page Redesign we believed we’d reduce the confusion of users searching for their favourite books and in turn, also increase distribution. The DoubleClick study by Google shows that 53% of patrons drop off if page load is exceeds 3 seconds and this carries significant SEO penalties. While redesigning our Book Page, a key consideration was page-load performance because we knew this would increase our rank in search engine results and increase retention through the lending and registration funnels. Finally, by betting on social features, like shareable profiles and public-by-default reading logs, the ability to import books from Goodreads, and a twitter @borrowbot to help patrons discover which books are available to read and borrow on Open Library, we felt confident we could increase the number of patrons that may discover and adopt OpenLibrary.org. Improving Signup In 2018, we coincidentally, hit a regression #1431 to our account creation page which presented itself as a server error for patrons trying to register a new account when their username or email was already taken. Because of this bug, our daily registered users dropped from ~2300 to ~1700 (-500). Through this, we discovered that nearly 1/5 of patrons (i.e. 500 a day) who attempted registration would hit some validation issue when creating their account (e.g. email or username invalid or taken, recaptcha broken). Even after solving the #1431 regression, we hypothesized that many of these 500 patrons were hitting error-cases which refreshed the page and cleared their form inputs, causing patrons to bounce. An easy solution was adding real-time validation to ensure emails, usernames, passwords, and recaptcha are valid before submitting the form. In order to implement real time validation, we planned Epic #1433 which included two pieces:  #2053 – update backend API endpoints #2055 – Add real-time field validation for email, username, password to show errors before submission. While we do not have great analytics on how conversion increased, we do know from our support channels that these changes have anecdotally resulted in a significant decrease in support emails around patron signup. Try it out 👉 https://openlibrary.org/account/create Issue: https://github.com/internetarchive/openlibrary/issues/3256 Pull Request: https://github.com/internetarchive/openlibrary/pull/3452 Book Page Redesign User interviews and surveys have taught us that most patrons who visit Open Library are trying to find a “Book”. Many patrons report that the terms Work and Edition may confuse their experience. This confusion is increased because a user can unpredictably be dropped into either a Work page or an Edition page which have different designs. Our goal in redesigning the books page was to increase clarity of the experience and improve page loading times. To improve clarity and simplify the experience, we merged the work and edition pages to a single book page where patrons may find all the information about a work and learn about the availability of various editions without having to navigate multiple pages.   When redesigning the Book Page, we made the following changes: Editions table. We made the editions table front-and-center to enable readers to quickly switch between the different editions. We also feature editions by availability and language, and allow patrons to change how many results are shown at a time. We added a new search box to enable patrons to find relevant editions without reloading.  Navigation tabs. We have bucketed the work’s information into an “Overview” tab and the current Edition’s information in the “This Edition” tab. The tab bar always sticks to the top of the page for easy access to different sections of the page. Expandable descriptions. In previous designs, long text descriptions made it difficult to see all important book information at a glance. There are now “Read more” links to expand and collapse long descriptions. Clearer buttons. All the favorite actions of readers such as borrowing, searching inside, adding books to one’s reading log, and book star ratings have been grouped together and moved right below the book cover. It’s hopefully more clear now that the “Want to Read” Load times. We know page speed is a priority for readers. The new Books Page should be significantly faster (Lazy Loading of Related Works Carousel). Considerations. We tried to change as little as possible and were careful not to remove existing functionality: URLs: Developers and partners will be happy to hear that /works and /books urls and APIs will continue to work as expected without change. Both the work and edition pages will simply appear to use the same consistent design. Lists: While admittedly slightly less convenient, you can still add Works to Lists by clicking the “Use this Work” checkbox as shown below. By default, Lists will use Editions. I had always worked in small teams with not a lot of stakeholders and no clash of ideas. The Books Page Redesign was one in which the issue was open for 3 years and it was being stalled due to clash of interests in how we should display our pages. Completing this issue was a major milestone in my GSoC program where I learned to cooperate and compromise on some aspects of our design so that all stakeholders were happy. The feedback we received from our patrons was that ~65% patrons found the New Books Page a step forward, ~17% did not have any preference and ~22% found the change a step backward. Therefore we think our hypothesis was correct and this feature would improve user experience and reduce user confusion. Read more about the Book Page Redesign: https://blog.openlibrary.org/2020/07/08/re-thinking-open-librarys-book-pages/ Try it out 👉 https://openlibrary.org/works/OL76837W/The_Da_Vinci_Code Issues: https://github.com/internetarchive/openlibrary/issues/684 https://github.com/internetarchive/openlibrary/issues/3556 Pull Request: https://github.com/internetarchive/openlibrary/pull/3553 Additional Book Page improvements After completing the Book Page redesign, we made two major improvements to help our Librarian community and to improve performance and load times: a better book /edit experience and Lazy Loading of expensive book page components (e.g. related works carousels). Book Page Editor. We redesigned the Books Page Editor to enable our librarians edit book metadata with ease.  Lazy Loading of Related Carousels. To improve the page loading time we firstly created a list of components and their timings and noticed that the Related Works and Author Works took the most time to load thereby slowing down the page for up to 10%. Therefore our hypothesis was to lazy load related works carousel which would then enable our newly designed books pages to load faster. The impact of this change was that now pages load up to 10% faster: Issues: https://github.com/internetarchive/openlibrary/issues/3577 https://github.com/internetarchive/openlibrary/pull/3697 Shareable Profiles & Public Reading Logs  We noticed that very few patrons share their reading logs or even know they can be shared. However, we know patrons on Goodreads share their reading logs frequently. And also, lists on Open Library are shared all the time. Why is this? In 2017, when Open Library announced the new Reading Log feature, it was set to be private by default. We expected many patrons would change their reading logs to be public, but because it wasn’t public by default and difficult to discover, patrons didn’t know the feature existed and had no reason to make it public. In the spirit of being an open platform, we wanted patrons to have the opportunity to make their reading logs public to patrons with similar interests. As a result, we decided to make Reading Logs public by default for new accounts created after 2020-05, with the option for any patron to set their reading logs to private. Even after making this change, we noticed patrons trying to share their generic /account/books page, however this page always reflects the content of the currently logged in user. By always redirecting /account/books to the publicly shareable /people/username url, we are able to move in a direction which enables patrons to freely share their reading logs and paves the way for other features like “following”, which we’re interested in exploring next year. Enabling these change required: Modifying the user registration page (front-end) + https://github.com/internetarchive/openlibrary/blob/master/openlibrary/plugins/upstream/account.py#L203 (back-end) to support enabling this setting from the account creation form. For enabling redirects – Adding a redirect from /account/books page to /people/username and dealing with conditions for public/private reading log. This change simplified how users share their reading log and profile pages publicly paving a path for more social additions to Open Library.   Try it out 👉 https://openlibrary.org/people/tab91/books/want-to-read, https://openlibrary.org/people/tab91 Issues: https://github.com/internetarchive/openlibrary/issues/2058 https://github.com/internetarchive/openlibrary/issues/3025 https://github.com/internetarchive/openlibrary/issues/3461 Pull Requests: https://github.com/internetarchive/openlibrary/pull/3051 https://github.com/internetarchive/openlibrary/pull/3476 https://github.com/internetarchive/openlibrary/pull/3465 Imports & Exports Goodreads provides a way to download/export a list of books from one’s bookshelves. This feature would allow a user to take an exported dump of their reading log from Goodreads and then add each of these books to their Open Library account. The Goodreads import feature from https://openlibrary.org/account/import The export options enables patrons to download a list of Open Library book identifiers from their reading log.  The download export option from https://openlibrary.org/account/import A picture of a CSV file crated by the exporter Try it out 👉 https://openlibrary.org/account/import Issue: https://github.com/internetarchive/openlibrary/issues/835 https://github.com/internetarchive/openlibrary/issues/3661 Pull Request: https://github.com/internetarchive/openlibrary/pull/3597 https://github.com/internetarchive/openlibrary/pull/3662  Twitter Bot Our objective for this task was how do we reach more patrons/readers and help them discover more books on openlibrary.org? According to the hashtag analytics audit done on tweetbinder.com on hashtags #books #amazon using the free version the analytics show that in a 7 day period the number of original tweets(excluding retweets) was approx. 140 with a number impact of 11M. Therefore this is a great opportunity for making our bookshelves discoverable. Whenever a user tweets out a book with the amazon link/ an ISBN, the twitter @borrowbot would retweet the book with the link from Open Library if it is available. The book will be tweeted only once. Try it out 👉 tweet @borrowbot ISBN/ Amazon link  Related Issue: https://github.com/internetarchive/openlibrary/issues/3255 Code: https://github.com/tabshaikh/openlibrary-bots/tree/twitter-bot Impact In no small part because of the bets we made, our international Alexa rank improved by 10% from #11,079 to #9,893. Our Book Page load times improved on average by ~10%. 2 out of 3 of our patrons approved of our Book Page redesign, with 11% celebrating it as game changer. More than 5,000 books have already been imported through the Goodreads import tool Support team reports significant decrease in account creation support emails What I learned I always looked for ways to improve my work and have always loved constructive feedback from my mentor Mek who helped me learn how to estimate time for tasks, effectively identify stakeholders and include them in the process (reaching consensus on decisions was a lot harder than I anticipated), and how to communicate problems and achievements in a way which everyone may understand. Also, writing takes a long time and it’s easy to want to code until the deadline. As our founder Brewster Kahle says, “work backwards from the blog post”.  I also had the privilege of applying what I’ve learned to be a mentor for both Sachin Naik (#3627 #3622 ) and Fatima (#3454) within our community and helping them submit some of their first pull requests for Open Library Posted in Bulk Access, Community, Google Summer of Code (GSoC), Open Source | Comments closed Open Library is an initiative of the Internet Archive, a 501(c)(3) non-profit, building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Other projects include the Wayback Machine, archive.org and archive-it.org. 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Framework used: .NET 5.0 RDA Helper: 100$e process modified. Added criteria to $e generation. Previously, if a $e is already present, an new $e wasn’t added. Now, if a $e or $4 is present, a $e won’t be generated. RDA Helper: Changes related to RDA updates Added new elements to the new window programs for pinning XML Editor: Delete Block element added XML Editor: XQuery processing option If a set of records include bibliographic and authority records, the RDA helper will skip the authority records Updated Installation Wizard (allows migration of 6.x and 7.x content into the tool) Updating OCLC Integration to use new Metadata API Search Delimited Text Translator — added ability to use custom mnemonic replacements Delimited Text Translator — no longer a stand alone program App part of main marcedit app Command line options folded into marcedit app [in process] linked data rules file version 2 Enhancements to the rules file schema -tr Post navigation Changes to System.Diagnostics.Process in .NET Core Leave a Reply Cancel reply Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked * Comment Name * Email * Website Notify me of follow-up comments by email. Notify me of new posts by email. Search for: Terry's Worklog Terry's Worklog © 2020. - Created by Slicejack. blog-reeset-net-8667 ---- Terry's Worklog – On my work (programming, digital libraries, cataloging) and other stuff that perks my interest (family, cycling, etc) Skip to content Home About Me MarcEdit Homepage GitHub Page Privacy Policy Terry's Worklog MarcEdit 7.5 Update Status By reeset / On November 30, 2020 / In Uncategorized I’m planning to start making testing versions of the new MarcEdit instance available around the first of the year broadly, to a handful of testers in mid-Dec.  The translation from .NET 4.7.2 to .NET 5 was more significant than I would have thought – and includes a number of swapped default values – so hunting down behavior changes.  Currently, the follow updates have been completed. Framework used: .NET 5.0 RDA Helper: 100$e process modified. Added criteria to $e generation. Previously, if a $e is already present, an new $e wasn’t added. Now, if a $e or $4 is present, a $e won’t be generated. RDA Helper: Changes related to RDA updates Added new elements to the new window programs for pinning XML Editor: Delete Block element added XML Editor: XQuery processing option If a set of records include bibliographic and authority records, the RDA helper will skip the authority records Updated Installation Wizard (allows migration of 6.x and 7.x content into the tool) Updating OCLC Integration to use new Metadata API Search Delimited Text Translator — added ability to use custom mnemonic replacements Delimited Text Translator — no longer a stand alone program App part of main marcedit app Command line options folded into marcedit app [in process] linked data rules file version 2 Enhancements to the rules file schema -tr Changes to System.Diagnostics.Process in .NET Core By reeset / On November 19, 2020 / In Uncategorized In .NET Core, one of the changes that caught me by surprise is the change related to starting processes.  In the .NET framework – you can open a web site, file, etc. just by using the following:\ System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(path); However, in .NET Core – this won’t work.  When trying to open a file, the process will fail – reporting that a program isn’t associated with the file type.  When trying to open a folder on the system, the process will fail with a permission error unless the application is running with administrator permissions (which you don’t want to be doing).  The change is related to a change in a property default – specifically: System.Diagnostics.ProcessStartInfo.UseShellExecute In the .NET framework – this property is set to true by default.  In the .NET Core, it is set to false.  The difference here probably makes sense – .NET Core is meant to be more portable and you do need to change this value on some systems.  To fix this, I’d recommend removing any direct calls to this assembly and run in through a function like this: public static void OpenURL(string url) { var psi = new System.Diagnostics.ProcessStartInfo { FileName = url, UseShellExecute = true }; try { System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(psi); } catch { psi.UseShellExecute = false; System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(psi); } } public static void OpenFileOrFolder(string spath, string sarg = "") { var psi = new System.Diagnostics.ProcessStartInfo { FileName = spath, UseShellExecute = true }; try { System.IO.FileAttributes attr = System.IO.File.GetAttributes(spath); if ((attr & System.IO.FileAttributes.Directory) == System.IO.FileAttributes.Directory) { System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(psi); } else { if (sargs.Trim().Length !=0) { psi.Arguments = sargs; } System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(psi); } } catch { psi.UseShellExecute = false; System.IO.FileAttributes attr = System.IO.File.GetAttributes(spath); if ((attr & System.IO.FileAttributes.Directory) == System.IO.FileAttributes.Directory) { System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(psi); } else { if (sargs.Trim().Length !=0) { psi.Arguments = sargs; } System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(psi); } } Since this vexed me for a little bit – I’m putting this here so I don’t forget. tr MarcEdit 7.5/MarcEdit Mac 3.5 Work By reeset / On November 16, 2020 / In MarcEdit Every year, around this time, I try to dedicate significant time to address any large project work that may have been percolating around MarcEdit.  This year will be no different.  Over the past 4 months, I’ve been working on moving MarcEdit away from the .NET 4.7.2 Framework to .NET Core 3.1.  There a lot of reasons for looking at this, the most important being that this is the direction Microsoft is taking the framework – a move to unify the various .NET development platforms to make distribution and maintenance easier.  Well, with the release of .NET 5 this Nov., all the tools I need to officially make this transition are now in place. So, over the next two months, I’ll be working on shifting MarcEdit away from Framework 4.7.2 and to .NET 5.  I believe this will be possible – I only have concerns about two libraries that I rely on – and if I have to, both are open source so I can look at potentially spending time helping the project maintainers target a non-framework build.  My hope is to have a working version of MarcEdit using NET 5 by Thanksgiving that I can start unit testing and testing locally.  Of course, with this change, I’ll also have to change the installer process.  The reason is that this transition will remove the necessity of having to have .NET installed on one’s machine.  One of the changes to the framework is the ability to publish self contained applications – allowing for faster startup and lower memory usage.  This is something I’m excited about as I currently move slowly updating build frameworks due to the need to have these frameworks installed locally.  By removing that dependency, I’m hoping to be able to take advantages of changes to the C# language that make programming easier and more efficient, while also allowing me to remove some of the work around code I’ve had to develop to account for bugs or limitations in previous frameworks. Finally, this change is going to simplify a lot of cross platform development – and once the initial transition has occurred, I’ll be spending time working on expanding the MarcEdit MacOS version.  There are a couple of areas where this program still lacks parity in relation to the Windows version, and these changes will give me the opportunity to close many of these gaps.  –tr MarcEdit: Identifying Invalid UTF-8 Data in MARC Records By reeset / On September 9, 2020 / In MarcEdit Ah Dante – if only he had been a librarian.  I’m almost certain that had the divine comedy been written by a cataloger – character encodings and those that mangle them – would definitely make an appearance.  I can almost see the story in my head.  Our wayward traveler, confused when our guide, Virgil, comments on the unholy mess libraries, vendors, and tool writers in general have made of the implementation of UTF-8 across the library spectrum – takes us to the 5th circle of hell filled with broken characters and undefined character boxes.  But spend anytime working in metadata management today, and the problems of mixed Unicode normalizations, the false equivalency of ISO-8859-2 and UTF-8 (especially by vendors that server Western European markets), lackluster font development, and applications and programming languages that quietly and happily mangle UTF-8 data as part of general course – and you can suddenly see why we might make a stop at the lake of fire and eternal damnation. Within MarcEdit, one of the hardest things that the application does is attempt to correct and normalize character encodings across the various known codepoints.  This isn’t super easy – especially when our MARC forepersons made that fateful decision to create MARC-8, a 100% imaginary character encoding only (kind of) supported within the Library community and software.  These kinds of decisions, and the desire to maintain legacy compatibility, has haunted our metadata and made working with it immensely complicated.  Sometimes, these complications can be managed, other times, they are so gruesomely mangled that Brutus, himself, would cry yield.  That’s what this new option will attempt to help remediate. Through the years, I’ve often helped individuals come up with a wide variety of ways to identify invalid UTF-8 characters that litter library records.  Sometimes, this can be straightforward, but more often, it’s not.  To that end, I’ve attempted to provide a couple of tools that will hopefully help to identify and support some kind of remediation for catalogers haunted by the specter of bad data. Identification The first enhancement comes in the MARCValidator.  When validating a record against the rules file, the tool will automatically attempt to determine if UTF-8 data (if present) found within a record is valid.  If not, the information will be presented as a warning – identifying the field, record number, and data where the invalid data was identified. By facilitating a process to identify invalid UTF-8 record data within the validator – the idea is that this will empower catalogers looking to take a more active role in rooting out bad diacritical data before a record is loaded into the catalog and  made available to the public. Removing bad data In addition to identification, I’ve added three new options to give users different options for dealing with invalid character data. Delete Subfields Added to the Edit Subfield Utility – I’ve included an option to evaluate and delete a subfield if invalid character set data is encountered. Delete Fields Added to the Add/Delete Field Utility – I’ve included an option to evaluate and delete a field if invalid character set data is encountered. Delete Records Added to the Delete Records tool within the MarcEditor – I’ve included an option to delete a record if a field or field group has been identified as having invalid character set data.  Additionally, this tool will create a second file in the same directory as the file being processed, that will contain the deleted records in a file structured as: [name of original file]_bad_yyyyMMddhhmmss.mrk Caveat Emptor Hopefully, the above sounds useful.  I think it will be.  There have been many times where I wish I had these tools readily at my fingertips.  If it were only this easy.  I believe I mentioned above….encodings are difficult.  The Unicode specification is constantly changing, and identifying invalid characters is definitely more art than science in many cases.  There are tools and established algorithms.  I use these approaches.  I’m also leveraging a method with the .NET Framework — CharUnicodeInfo.GetUnicodeCategory – which attempts to take a character and break it down into its character classification.  When a character isn’t classified – that’s usually a good indicator that it’s not valid.  But this process won’t catch everything – but it hopefully will provide a good starting point for users vexed with these issues and in need of a tool in their toolbox to attempt to remediate them. Conclusion My hope is that these new options will give catalogers a little more control and insight into their records – specifically given how invisible character encoding issues often are.  And maybe too, by shedding light on this most vexing of issues, I can buy myself a little less time in cataloging purgatory as I’m sure there will come a point, somewhere, sometime, where my own contributions to keeping MARC alive and active will be held to account. These new options will show up in MarcEdit and MarcEdit Mac in versions 7.2.210 (Windows) and 3.2.100 (Mac). Questions, let me know. –tr [1] The fifth circle, illustrated by Stradanus (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inferno_(Dante)#/media/File:Stradano_Inferno_Canto_08.jpg) MarcEdit 7.2.200 By reeset / On August 30, 2020 / In MarcEdit I’ve worked on a number of updates this weekend– here is the list: UI Changes I’ve removed the quick links on the front page, and changed this to a list of selectable topics.  This will make it easier for me to add to this list. I’ve added a new Quick Access button to the top ribbon.  At this point, this isn’t configurable.  Will work to make it configurable later. These Quick Access items have been added to the Marc Tools window – with the removal of the old quick links as well. Network Changes MarcEdit uses .Net 4.7.2.  Internally, the tool has traditionally used the HTTPWebRequest Assembly.  Accessing this assembly directly has been deprecated, with the preferred method shifting to the System.Net.Http Assembly.  This is object is thread-safe and works natively with the System.Threading.Tasks structure.  This also has the benefit of allowing me to allow .NET to gracefully support older TLS standards, which isn’t the default.  By default, .NET selects support for the default TLS instance utilized by the operating system and disables older standards.  This is problematic – and these changes will give me more control over which TLS instances are supported and how fallback is supported.  This required updating 9 assemblies. MarcEditor Changes Bug Fix:  When Opening mrc records into the MarcEditor, a memory leak can occur with large files.  I’ve corrected this. Bug Fix: MarcEdit uses a custom created control that allows the tool to select the most current version of the Richtext library when showing the MarcEditor.  In .NET 4.7 – there appears to have been behavior change, in the that names used to register classes in Windows needed to be all upper case.  If they weren’t then an error would be thrown when mixing the enhanced control and the .NET frameworks default Richtextbox control (which uses the older richtext library).  For example: if internally, the enhanced control used RichEdit5W and then the Richtextbox was used, the program would throw an error.  This wasn’t a problem in MarcEdit, because I only use the enhanced control, but users that may create plugins against MarcEdit may experience issues.  The correction is the use uppercase text to normalize class names now used by .NET 4.7+ (Example: RICHEDIT5W). Z39.50/SRU Changes Enhancement: Cleaned up some code related to how records display inside the Results Viewer when pulling non-MARC data. Validate Headings Behavior Change: Check $a Only with Subjects.  When working with 60x or 610– this setting doesn’t work like folks might expect.  This is because names often include additional information that must be provided or false variants can be noted.  When working with 60x or 610 data – the program will now include all subfields used when validating the 1xx fields and update data with variants accordingly.  When $a isn’t selected, then the tool will utilize all fields noted as used for validation in the rules file.  This is a behavior change, but likely more in line with the expectations that I’m guess most folks have when using the $a option. Behavior Change: When changing variants – it appears that multiple $a’s would be placed.  I’m not sure if there was a change on the source record side or not – so instead, I just updated the code to ensure that the tool validated specific data before making updates. –tr Build New Field Changes By reeset / On July 25, 2020 / In MarcEdit ** Updated: Official Help page in the KB: https://marcedit.reeset.net/build-new-field This isn’t going to meet all the use cases I’ve seen – but this should address the most common question that comes up – the ability to have the build new field generate multiple fields. The process will be based on the presence or lack of a new element in the pattern – a variable marker that will MarcEdit uses internally to hold an internal variable. Example: =040  \\$aMiU$cMiU =040  \\$aBDS$beng$cBDS$dOCLCQ$dABCU =041  \\$aengrusger =043  \\$ae-gx—$ae-uk—$an-us— =090  \\$aTK1005$b(INTERNET) $c[UK.] Say we have these fields – and the pattern I want to create is a 999 field, and in that field, I want to create a new 999 field for each 040$a – but I would also like to have the 090$a to be a part of the pattern. The new pattern would look like this: =999  \\$a{040$a[x]} : {090$a} This pattern would generate the following results: =999  \\$aMiU : TK1005 =999  \\$aBDS : TK1005 If I changed the pattern to: =999  \\$a{040$a} : {090$a} The program falls back to use the current functionality (only one field is created). Please note, you cannot ask for a specific 040 to be used (outside of using find/reg functions inside the pattern) – the data inside the [x] isn’t an integer you can set.  It is a value that indicates to MarcEdit that the subfield should be tracked and multiple fields are desired. The [x] syntax works both after the subfield or after the field number, with data being scoped based on the location of the [x].  Any other value other than [x] will likely result in inconsistent results.  The [x] bracket is a reserved element within the field to indicate that multiple field generation is desired, and to tell the program to tokenize the data marked. Finally – the tool placed data in the index range of the new field being generated.  So, consider this example: =040  \\$aMiU$cMiU =040  \\$aBDS$beng$cBDS$dOCLCQ$dABCU =041  \\$aengrusger =043  \\$ae-gx—$ae-uk—$an-us— =090  \\$aTK1005$b(INTERNET) $c[UK.] If I used the following pattern: =999  \\$a{040$a[x]} : {090$a[x]} The expected results would be: =999  \\$aMiU : TK1005 =999  \\$aBDS : Why?  Because the tool will slot values marked with the multi-field value [x] into the same field groups.  Since only one 090$a exists, the tool only updates the field group that it belongs.  However, if I had the following data: =040  \\$aMiU$cMiU =040  \\$aBDS$beng$cBDS$dOCLCQ$dABCU =041  \\$aengrusger =043  \\$ae-gx—$ae-uk—$an-us— =090  \\$aTK1005$b(INTERNET) $c[UK.] =090  \\$aG24211$b(INTERNET) And used this pattern: =999  \\$a{040$a[x]} : {090$a[x]} I would expect the following result: =999  \\$aMiU : TK1005 =999  \\$aBDS : G24211 Again – internally, MarcEdit is creating tokens of data with the [x] and placing them within the same scope.  So, the tool would create new fields, placing data within the same scope onto the new fields. I started making these changes with the last update – and have finished updating the tokenization algorithms so that the tracking of the data is correct.  I’ll be turning this new option on with the next update – and across both the Windows and Mac version. Since the presence of the [x] is necessary to turn on the multi-field generation, any existing patterns within tasks shouldn’t be impacted by the changes.  They will work as they had previously.  Only patterns with the new [x] structure will activate the new processing logic. MarcEdit Shelter-In-Place Webinar 8: Automated editing through scripts and tooling By reeset / On May 12, 2020 / In MarcEdit . When: May 15, 2020 11:30 AM Eastern Time (US and Canada) Register in advance for this meeting: https://osu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYpdu6srjsrGN00nzMfIIeZsVV–XpHm0Ch After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. Summary of recent MarcEdit Changes between Feb. 2020–May 5, 2020 By reeset / On May 6, 2020 / In MarcEdit Like a lot of folks, I’ve been working from home and have had some free time to do some extra work on MarcEdit.  Nearly all of these changes (save for the XML Editor) were made in the Mac Version as well (or will be made in the Mac Version by weeks end (specifically, the Bibframe 2 MARC integration). At this point, I’m doing some additional work adding some additional transliterations, updating the bibframe 2 marc tool to make it more performant, and adding XQuery support to the XML Editor for both editing and transformations. Anyway, here’s the list of changes that have been implemented over the past couple months. Transliterations: The Library of Congress provided me with their rules files for their transliteration work.  So, I’ve been working on adding new transliterations to the applications.  So far, this includes: Latin 2 Yiddish Latin 2 Serbian Serbian to Latin Classical Greek to Latin Latin to Classical Greek Latin to Belorussian Belorussian to Latin Bulgarian to Latin Latin to Bulgarian Latin to Russian Russian to Latin Latin to Ukrainian Ukrainian to Latin Updates to Latin to Arabic Update to Arabic to Latin Additionally, I updated the transliteration tool to allow for transliterations to be run over the entire file, as well as new configuration settings to determine which fields/subfields should be included and excluded from the transliteration process. Installer Changes: Added pre-check tool that determines if a mismatched version of the application is installed.  This way, you cannot install the User and Administrator version of MarcEdit on the same machine. Updated a bug/behavior change in Windows 10 1909 2020-04 Cumulative Update that caused registry keys on 64 bit systems to write to the 32-bit hive. Added an Updated Chinese language file for the MarcEdit UI Format Translations: Integrated the Bibframe 2 MARC translation released by the US Library of Congress.  Additionally, enhanced the tool so that it can be run over a file with multiple works and instances, rather than a single work/instance pair. Add the JSON 2 MARC, MARC 2 JSON, and XML to JSON processing functions to the batch records processing tool New and Updated Tools: Added an XML Editor to MarcEdit.  This is a light-weight XML editor that supports find/replace, as well as XSL transformation testing. Updated the MARCCompare application template to provide options to just show changed records. Updated the ILS Integration tooling with a new UI to make it easier to add new integrations, and provide templates for known ILS Integration patterns. Updated a large number of dependency files related to Saxon and the Linked Data framework in MarcEdit.  These changes introduced a bug in the Clustering Tool, which was later fixed. Added an Application Error Log to make debugging specific issues easier. Updated the DeDuplication Records Tool to allow users running the tool outside of the MarcEditor to run the tool on a single file. Updated the Classify Tool to allow call numbers to be added to any field.  Previously, there was a rule that limited call numbers to fields less than 100. Updated the MarcEdit Command-Line tool to make the silent function a bit more silent.  There were a few instances where the terminal, regardless of if the silent option was set, would output feedback. I added a new troubleshooting tool on the Main Window that will now guide users through the importing of settings data from previous versions of MarcEdit (had a user not imported the data on update) MarcEditor Changes: Fixed a bug in the Conditional Replace function that was causing regular expressions to be interpreted as simple in-string searches when using the AND/OR conditionals. Added the ability to show line numbers in the MarcEditor. Returned the ability to have MarcEdit highlight the active line. Added a new Edit Shortcut that allows users to add a generic LDR field to any records missing one. Updated the Task Debugger UI Added the Task Debugger to the MacOS version MarcEdit 7.2.160 Updates By reeset / On April 30, 2020 / In Uncategorized There is one update that I want to highlight related to the new update, and that related to the installer.  I noticed that with the Windows 10 2020-04 cumulative update, registry reflection (the process of moving registry keys into the 32-bit hive), has affected the MarcEdit installer.  This directly impacts the applications ability to determine which type of installer the program should download when doing automated updates.  To fix this – I’ve added a check to the application that will see if there is a type mismatch between the installer downloaded and the version of MarcEdit currently installed.  This new check will prompt users to let them know that the mismatch exists and provide and option to uninstall the existing system or to stop the installation. 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This will be integrated into the MPG/SFX interface and can be addressed as follows: Step 1: Search in ScienceDirect, start in any other database or enter the article details into the MPG/SFX citation linker. Step 2: Click the MPG/SFX button. Note: In ScienceDirect, it appears in the “Get Access” section at the top of those article pages for which the full text is no longer available: Step 3: Check the options in the service menu presented to you, e.g. free available full text versions (if available). Step 4: To order the article via your local library or the MPDL, select the corresponding link, e.g. "Request document via your local library". Please note that the wording might differ slightly according to your location. Step 5: Add your personal details to the order form in the next screen and submit your document request. The team in your local library or at the MPDL will get back to you as soon as possible. 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And why use short words that everyone understands, when we can jazz it up with complexity, precision, obscurity, and a code that sets us apart. It means that only people like us, can understand people like us. We are well intentioned people. And we are all trying to look after everyone’s educational needs. Trouble is when you start talking like that, you tend to act like that. So, we combine our knowledge into complex constructs. They allow us to be precise. It helps us communicate with each other, more than it does with the world outside. It does lead to great research and innovation and must continue to do so. We need that more than ever right now. But do we make our courses, and programmes of learning, relate too much to the depth of our understanding through our research? Do they then become deep and impenetrable, rather than bite-size and digestible? It doesn’t have to be like this. Imagine the brave new world of learning where our educational health and advancement is paramount. Where knowledge is made simple. Where we sign up to personalised learning experiences. Where highly skilled learning facilitators use technology platforms to search for, distil and represent world-class knowledge, wherever it resides. They help us learn, in the ways that we prefer to learn. They allow us to gain knowledge, and apply it to our on-going and continuous needs for skills in our workplace, at the stages of our career where we need it. We realise we need it in response to having our own abilities in our workplace and careers assessed for us. In the same way that our financial and physical fitness is assessable through health checks and ready reckoners. We push beyond the current indicators of fitness for purpose, university rankings or reactions to marketing campaigns. We find the means of developing ourselves, that the market has determined to be best in class. We use our understanding of our preferences, to access it in ways that are best for us. Spotify does it for our music. YouTube does it for our visual entertainment. Airbnb used to do it for our travel accommodation when we were allowed to travel. Uber does it when we need to go somewhere we are allowed to go to. There are myriad ways of finding out what to eat, where to eat it, and what others thought it tasted like, and whether the staff were friendly. And we stopped going to other people’s buildings, at times that suited them, to buy shoes, clothes or books, long before a pandemic came along. We’ve now had all of that confirmed as being crazy, in the great disruption of 2020. How exciting is education and learning going to be? When we no longer have to visit a campus, at times imposed on us, for courses offered for 30 weeks of the year, and that take 3 years or more. When courses don’t include all sorts of things we don’t want to study, delivered in ways that don’t suit us, leading to qualifications that are increasingly irrelevant. Where programmes aren’t delivered by staff required to be all-rounders of teaching, research and service. Goodbye 40:40:20. Where our teachers are no longer managed ever more distantly, by administrators, increasingly working on compliance, for over-regulators that are withdrawing from being funders. After all, we will pay for our exciting education and learning of the future. Just like we pay for it now. But we will start to demand much better value for money. As we have for everything else. Our staff of the future might grapple with being part of the gig economy. With its risks of short-term fluctuations in work. They will be measured and valued on the experiences they give students. And the skill in their provision of educational well-being. Not measured by how many times they have published research in papers in journals read by some, and cited by fewer. They might be ever more like our casual staff of the present. But at least the value they generate from customers will be directed to the delivery of service, at times when customers want it, using technology platforms that make it easier to access. The taxis we used to take, came with a uniform, a licence, and an extensive infrastructure of head office functions. Did they see Uber coming? The reason for the coming disruption to higher education is actually very simple, scholars. People need to learn what they need to learn, and want to, in a way that suits them, at their pace, in places and times that are convenient. We shouldn’t over complicate it. It is going to be fun, exciting and different. Let’s get on with it, and keep it simple. We better hurry, just look at what Google launched recently. And why they did. And how much it costs. Professor Martin Betts is a strategic consultant to the higher education sector. He is the former DVC Engagement at Griffith University and led the Science and Engineering Faculty at QUT for 11 years. 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Subscribe to our newsletter cbeer-info-1206 ---- blog.cbeer.info Chris Beer chris@cbeer.info cbeer _cb_ May 25, 2016 Autoscaling AWS Elastic Beanstalk worker tier based on SQS queue length We are deploying a Rails application (for the Hydra-in-a-Box project) to AWS Elastic Beanstalk. Elastic Beanstalk offers us easy deployment, monitoring, and simple auto-scaling with a built-in dashboard and management interface. Our application uses several potentially long-running background jobs to characterize, checksum, and create derivates for uploaded content. Since we’re deploying this application within AWS, we’re also taking advantage of the Simple Queue Service (SQS), using the active-elastic-job gem to queue and run ActiveJob tasks. Elastic Beanstalk provides settings for “Web server” and “Worker” tiers. Web servers are provisioned behind a load balancer and handle end-user requests, while Workers automatically handle background tasks (via SQS + active-elastic-job). Elastic Beanstalk provides basic autoscaling based on a variety of metrics collected from the underlying instances (CPU, Network, I/O, etc), although, while sufficient for our “Web server” tier, we’d like to scale our “Worker” tier based on the number of tasks waiting to be run. Currently, though, the ability to auto-scale the worker tier based on the underlying queue depth isn’t enable through the Elastic Beanstak interface. However, as Beanstalk merely manages and aggregates other AWS resources, we have access to the underlying resources, including the autoscaling group for our environment. We should be able to attach a custom auto-scaling policy to that auto scaling group to scale based on additional alarms. For example, let’s we want to add additional worker nodes if there are more than 10 tasks for more than 5 minutes (and, to save money and resources, also remove worker nodes when there are no tasks available). To create the new policy, we’ll need to: find the appropriate auto-scaling group by finding the Auto-scaling group with the elasticbeanstalk:environment-id that matches the worker tier environment id; find the appropriate SQS queue for the worker tier; add auto-scaling policies that add (and remove) instances to the autoscaling group; create a new CloudWatch alarm that measures the SQS queue exceeds our configured depth (5) that triggers the auto-scaling policy to add additional worker instances whenever the alarm is triggered; and, conversely, create a new CloudWatch alarm that measures the SQS queue hits 09 that trigger the auto-scaling action to removes worker instances whenever the alarm is triggered. and, similarly for scaling back down. Even though there are several manual steps, they aren’t too difficult (other than discovering the various resources we’re trying to orchestrate), and using Elastic Beanstalk is still valuable for the rest of its functionality. But, we’re in the cloud, and really want to automate everything. With a little CloudFormation trickery, we can even automate creating the worker tier with the appropriate autoscaling policies. First, knowing that the CloudFormation API allows us to pass in an existing SQS queue for the worker tier, let’s create an explicit SQS queue resource for the workers: "DefaultQueue" : { "Type" : "AWS::SQS::Queue", } And wire it up to the Beanstalk application by setting the aws:elasticbeanstalk:sqsd:WorkerQueueURL (not shown: sending the worker queue to the web server tier): "WorkersConfigurationTemplate" : { "Type" : "AWS::ElasticBeanstalk::ConfigurationTemplate", "Properties" : { "ApplicationName" : { "Ref" : "AWS::StackName" }, "OptionSettings" : [ ..., { "Namespace": "aws:elasticbeanstalk:sqsd", "OptionName": "WorkerQueueURL", "Value": { "Ref" : "DefaultQueue"} } } } }, "WorkerEnvironment": { "Type": "AWS::ElasticBeanstalk::Environment", "Properties": { "ApplicationName": { "Ref" : "AWS::StackName" }, "Description": "Worker Environment", "EnvironmentName": { "Fn::Join": ["-", [{ "Ref" : "AWS::StackName"}, "workers"]] }, "TemplateName": { "Ref": "WorkersConfigurationTemplate" }, "Tier": { "Name": "Worker", "Type": "SQS/HTTP" }, "SolutionStackName" : "64bit Amazon Linux 2016.03 v2.1.2 running Ruby 2.3 (Puma)" ... } } Using our queue we can describe one of the CloudWatch::Alarm resources and start describing a scaling policy: "ScaleOutAlarm" : { "Type": "AWS::CloudWatch::Alarm", "Properties": { "MetricName": "ApproximateNumberOfMessagesVisible", "Namespace": "AWS/SQS", "Statistic": "Average", "Period": "60", "Threshold": "10", "ComparisonOperator": "GreaterThanOrEqualToThreshold", "Dimensions": [ { "Name": "QueueName", "Value": { "Fn::GetAtt" : ["DefaultQueue", "QueueName"] } } ], "EvaluationPeriods": "5", "AlarmActions": [{ "Ref" : "ScaleOutPolicy" }] } }, "ScaleOutPolicy" : { "Type": "AWS::AutoScaling::ScalingPolicy", "Properties": { "AdjustmentType": "ChangeInCapacity", "AutoScalingGroupName": ????, "ScalingAdjustment": "1", "Cooldown": "60" } }, However, to connect the policy to the auto-scaling group, we need to know the name for the autoscaling group. Unfortunately, the autoscaling group is abstracted behind the Beanstalk environment. To gain access to it, we’ll need to create a custom resource backed by a Lambda function to extract the information from the AWS APIs: "BeanstalkStack": { "Type": "Custom::BeanstalkStack", "Properties": { "ServiceToken": { "Fn::GetAtt" : ["BeanstalkStackOutputs", "Arn"] }, "EnvironmentName": { "Ref": "WorkerEnvironment" } } }, "BeanstalkStackOutputs": { "Type": "AWS::Lambda::Function", "Properties": { "Code": { "ZipFile": { "Fn::Join": ["\n", [ "var response = require('cfn-response');", "exports.handler = function(event, context) {", " console.log('REQUEST RECEIVED:\\n', JSON.stringify(event));", " if (event.RequestType == 'Delete') {", " response.send(event, context, response.SUCCESS);", " return;", " }", " var environmentName = event.ResourceProperties.EnvironmentName;", " var responseData = {};", " if (environmentName) {", " var aws = require('aws-sdk');", " var eb = new aws.ElasticBeanstalk();", " eb.describeEnvironmentResources({EnvironmentName: environmentName}, function(err, data) {", " if (err) {", " responseData = { Error: 'describeEnvironmentResources call failed' };", " console.log(responseData.Error + ':\\n', err);", " response.send(event, context, resource.FAILED, responseData);", " } else {", " responseData = { AutoScalingGroupName: data.EnvironmentResources.AutoScalingGroups[0].Name };", " response.send(event, context, response.SUCCESS, responseData);", " }", " });", " } else {", " responseData = {Error: 'Environment name not specified'};", " console.log(responseData.Error);", " response.send(event, context, response.FAILED, responseData);", " }", "};" ]]} }, "Handler": "index.handler", "Runtime": "nodejs", "Timeout": "10", "Role": { "Fn::GetAtt" : ["LambdaExecutionRole", "Arn"] } } } With the custom resource, we can finally get access the autoscaling group name and complete the scaling policy: "ScaleOutPolicy" : { "Type": "AWS::AutoScaling::ScalingPolicy", "Properties": { "AdjustmentType": "ChangeInCapacity", "AutoScalingGroupName": { "Fn::GetAtt": [ "BeanstalkStack", "AutoScalingGroupName" ] }, "ScalingAdjustment": "1", "Cooldown": "60" } }, The complete worker tier is part of our CloudFormation stack: https://github.com/hybox/aws/blob/master/templates/worker.json Mar 8, 2015 LDPath in 3 examples At Code4Lib 2015, I gave a quick lightning talk on LDPath, a declarative domain-specific language for flatting linked data resources to a hash (e.g. for indexing to Solr). LDPath can traverse the Linked Data Cloud as easily as working with local resources and can cache remote resources for future access. The LDPath language is also (generally) implementation independent (java, ruby) and relatively easy to implement. The language also lends itself to integration within development environments (e.g. ldpath-angular-demo-app, with context-aware autocompletion and real-time responses). For me, working with the LDPath language and implementation was the first time that linked data moved from being a good idea to being a practical solution to some problems. Here is a selection from the VIAF record [1]: <> void:inDataset <../data> ; a genont:InformationResource, foaf:Document ; foaf:primaryTopic <../65687612> . <../65687612> schema:alternateName "Bittman, Mark" ; schema:birthDate "1950-02-17" ; schema:familyName "Bittman" ; schema:givenName "Mark" ; schema:name "Bittman, Mark" ; schema:sameAs , ; a schema:Person ; rdfs:seeAlso <../182434519>, <../310263569>, <../314261350>, <../314497377>, <../314513297>, <../314718264> ; foaf:isPrimaryTopicOf . We can use LDPath to extract the person’s name: So far, this is not so different from traditional approaches. But, if we look deeper in the response, we can see other resources, including books by the author. <../310263569> schema:creator <../65687612> ; schema:name "How to Cook Everything : Simple Recipes for Great Food" ; a schema:CreativeWork . We can traverse the links to include the titles in our record: LDPath also gives us the ability to write this query using a reverse property selector, e.g: books = foaf:primaryTopic / ^schema:creator[rdf:type is schema:CreativeWork] / schema:name :: xsd:string ; The resource links out to some external resources, including a link to dbpedia. Here is a selection from record in dbpedia: dbpedia-owl:abstract "Mark Bittman (born c. 1950) is an American food journalist, author, and columnist for The New York Times."@en, "Mark Bittman est un auteur et chroniqueur culinaire américain. Il a tenu une chronique hebdomadaire pour le The New York Times, appelée The Minimalist (« le minimaliste »), parue entre le 17 septembre 1997 et le 26 janvier 2011. Bittman continue d'écrire pour le New York Times Magazine, et participe à la section Opinion du journal. Il tient également un blog."@fr ; dbpedia-owl:birthDate "1950+02:00"^^ ; dbpprop:name "Bittman, Mark"@en ; dbpprop:shortDescription "American journalist, food writer"@en ; dc:description "American journalist, food writer", "American journalist, food writer"@en ; dcterms:subject , , , , , , ; LDPath allows us to transparently traverse that link, allowing us to extract the subjects for VIAF record: [1] If you’re playing along at home, note that, as of this writing, VIAF.org fails to correctly implement content negotiation and returns HTML if it appears anywhere in the Accept header, e.g.: curl -H "Accept: application/rdf+xml, text/html; q=0.1" -v http://viaf.org/viaf/152427175/ will return a text/html response. This may cause trouble for your linked data clients. Mar 13, 2013 Building a Pivotal Tracker IRC bot with Sinatra and Cinch We're using Pivotal Tracker on the Fedora Futures project. We also have an IRC channel where the tech team hangs out most of the day, and let each other know what we're working on, which tickets we're taking, and give each other feedback on those tickets. In order to document this, we try to put most of our the discussion in the tickets for future reference (although we are logging the IRC channel, it's not nearly as easy to look up decisions there). Because we're (lazy) developers, we wanted updates in Pivotal to get surfaced in the IRC channel. There was a (neglected) IRC bot, Pivotal-Tracker-IRC-bot, but it was designed to push and pull data from Pivotal based on commands in IRC (and, seems fairly abandoned). So, naturally, we built our own integration: Pivotal-IRC. This was my first time using Cinch to build a bot, and it was a surprisingly pleasant and straightforward experience: bot = Cinch::Bot.new do configure do |c| c.nick = $nick c.server = $irc_server c.channels = [$channel] end end # launch the bot in a separate thread, because we're using this one for the webapp. Thread.new { bot.start } And we have a really tiny Sinatra app that can parse the Pivotal Webhooks payload and funnel it into the channel: post '/' do message = Pivotal::WebhookMessage.new request.body.read bot.channel_list.first.msg("#{message.description} #{message.story_url}") end It turns out we also send links to Pivotal tickets not infrequently, and building two-way communication (using the Pivotal REST API, and the handy pivotal-tracker gem) was also easy. Cinch exposes a handy DSL that parses messages using regular expressions and capturing groups: bot.on :message, /story\/show\/([0-9]+)/ do |m, ticket_id| story = project.stories.find(ticket_id) m.reply "#{story.story_type}: #{story.name} (#{story.current_state}) / owner: #{story.owned_by}" end Mar 9, 2013 Real-time statistics with Graphite, Statsd, and GDash We have a Graphite-based stack of real-time visualization tools, including the data aggregator Statsd. These tools let us easily record real-time data from arbitrary services with mimimal fuss. We present some curated graphs through GDash, a simple Sinatra front-end. For example, we record the time it takes for Solr to respond to queries from our SearchWorks catalog, using this simple bash script: tail -f /var/log/tomcat6/catalina.out | ruby solr_stats.rb (We rotate these logs through truncation; you can also use `tail -f --retry` for logs that are moved away when rotated) And the ruby script that does the actual parsing: require 'statsd.rb' STATSD = Statsd.new(...,8125) # Listen to stdin while str = gets if str =~ /QTime=([^ ]+)/ # extract the QTime ms = $1.to_i # record it, based on our hostname STATSD.timing("#{ENV['HOSTNAME'].gsub('.', '-')}.solr.qtime", ms) end end From this data, we can start asking qustions like: Is our load-balancer configured optimally? (hint: not quite; for a variety of reasons, we've sacrificed some marginal performance benefit for this non-invasive, simpler load-blaance configuration. Why are our the 90th-percentile query times creeping up? (time in ms) (Answers to these questions and more in a future post, I'm sure.) We also use this setup to monitor other services, e.g.: What's happening in our Fedora instance (and, which services are using the repository)? Note the red line ("warn_0") in the top graph. It marks the point where our (asynchronous) indexing system is unable to keep up with demand, and updates may appear at a delay. Given time (and sufficient data, of course), this also gives us the ability to forecast and plan for issues: Is our Solr query time getting worse? (Ganglia can perform some basic manipulation, including taking integrals and derivatives) What is the rate of growth of our indexing backlog, and, can we process it in a reasonable timeframe, or should we scale the indexer service? Given our rate of disk usage, are we on track to run out of disk space this month? this week? If we build graphs to monitor those conditions, we can add Nagios alerts to trigger service alerts. GDash helpfully exposes a REST endpoint that lets us know if a service has those WARN or CRITICAL thresholds. We currently have a home-grown system monitoring system that we're tempted to fold into here as well. I've been evaluating Diamond, which seems to do a pretty good job of collecting granular system statistics (CPU, RAM, IO, Disk space, etc). Mar 8, 2013 Icemelt: A stand-in for integration tests against AWS Glacier One of the threads we've been pursuing as part of the Fedora Futures project is integration with asynchronous and/or very slow storage. We've taken on AWS Glacier as a prime, generally accessable example. Uploading content is slow, but can be done synchronously in one API request: POST /:account_id/vaults/:vault_id/archives x-amz-archive-description: Description ...Request body (aka your content)... Where things get radically different is when requesting content back. First, you let Glacier know you'd like to retrieve your content: POST /:account_id/vaults/:vault_id/jobs HTTP/1.1 { "Type": "archive-retrieval", "ArchiveId": String, [...] } Then, you wait. and wait. and wait some more; from the documentation: Most Amazon Glacier jobs take about four hours to complete. You must wait until the job output is ready for you to download. If you have either set a notification configuration on the vault identifying an Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) topic or specified an Amazon SNS topic when you initiated a job, Amazon Glacier sends a message to that topic after it completes the job. [emphasis added] Icemelt If you're iterating on some code, waiting hours to get your content back isn't realistic. So, we wrote a quick Sinatra app called Icemelt in order to mock the Glacier REST API (and, perhaps taking less time to code than retrieving content from Glacier ). We've tested it using the Ruby Fog client, as well as the official AWS Java SDK, and it actually works! Your content gets stored locally, and the delay for retrieving content is configurable (default: 5 seconds). Configuring the official SDK looks something like this: PropertiesCredentials credentials = new PropertiesCredentials( TestIcemeltGlacierMock.class .getResourceAsStream("AwsCredentials.properties")); AmazonGlacierClient client = new AmazonGlacierClient(credentials); client.setEndpoint("http://localhost:3000/"); And for Fog, something like: Fog::AWS::Glacier.new :aws_access_key_id => '', :aws_secret_access_key => '', :scheme => 'http', :host => 'localhost', :port => '3000' Right now, Icemelt skips a lot of unnecessary work (e.g. checking HMAC digests for authentication, validating hashes, etc), but, as always, patches are very welcome. Next » cdn-arstechnica-net-2375 ---- None clgiles-ist-psu-edu-8875 ---- Measuring the web crawler ethics Measuring The Web Crawler Ethics C. Lee Giles College of Information Sciences and Technology Pennsylvania State University University Park, PA, USA giles@ist.psu.edu Yang Sun AOL Research 888 Villa St Mountain View, CA, USA yang.sun@corp.aol.com Isaac G. Councill Google Inc. 76 Ninth Avenue 4th Floor New York, NY, USA icouncill@gmail.com ABSTRACT Web crawlers are highly automated and seldom regulated manually. The diversity of crawler activities often leads to ethical problems such as spam and service attacks. In this research, quantitative models are proposed to measure the web crawler ethics based on their behaviors on web servers. We investigate and define rules to measure crawler ethics, referring to the extent to which web crawlers respect the regulations set forth in robots.txt configuration files. We propose a vector space model to represent crawler behav- ior and measure the ethics of web crawlers based on the behavior vectors. The results show that ethicality scores vary significantly among crawlers. Most commercial web crawlers’ behaviors are ethical. However, many commer- cial crawlers still consistently violate or misinterpret certain robots.txt rules. We also measure the ethics of big search engine crawlers in terms of return on investment. The re- sults show that Google has a higher score than other search engines for a US website but has a lower score than Baidu for Chinese websites. Categories and Subject Descriptors K.4.1 [Public Policy Issues]: Ethics; K.4.1 [Public Pol- icy Issues]: Privacy General Terms Measurement, Design, Experimentation, Algorithms Keywords robots.txt, web crawler ethics, ethicality, privacy 1. INTRODUCTION Web crawlers have been widely used for search engines as well as many other web applications to collect content from the Web. These crawlers are highly automated and seldom regulated manually. With the fast growing online services relying on Web crawlers to collect Web pages, the function- alities and activities of web crawlers have become extremely diverse. Crawler activities typically include requests of web pages for general-purpose text indexing and searching, ex- traction of email and personal identity information for busi- ness purposes as well as for malicious purposes. Accessing Copyright is held by the author/owner(s). WWW 2010, April 26–30, 2010, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA. ACM 978-1-60558-799-8/10/04. the web information with automated Web crawlers can lead to ethical problems of privacy and security. For example, crawlers can extract personal contact information for spam purposes and identity theft. Crawlers may also overload a website such that normal user access is impeded. Web crawler activities can be regulated from the server side by deploying Robots Exclusion Protocol (a set of rules in a file called robots.txt) in the root directory of a website, allow- ing webmasters to indicate to visiting crawlers which parts of their sites should not be visited as well as a minimum time interval between visits. A recent study shows more than 30% of active websites employ this standard to reg- ulate crawler activities [2, 3]. However, since the Robots Exclusion Protocol (REP) serves only as an unenforced ad- visory to crawlers, web crawlers may ignore the rules and access part of the forbidden information on a website. Vi- olating the robots.txt rules can lead to serious privacy and security concerns. Thus, measuring crawler ethics becomes an important task to help detecting improper crawler behav- ior in early stages as well as identifying unethical crawlers. The issues of crawler ethics, however, did not bring enough attention to the research community and are under studied. Crawler ethics are not limited to whether crawlers obeying website rules, but also can be studied in terms of the value provide to websites. If a crawler provides zero value to the crawled website, it should also be considered less ethical than those who provide positive values. In this research, we propose a vector space model of mea- suring web crawler ethics based on the Robots Exclusion Protocol. We define the ethicality metric to measure web crawler ethics. We also study the ethics of big search engine crawlers in terms of return on investment where crawler vis- its are considered investments from websites and correspond- ing search engine traffic is considered as returns. The results show that Google has a much higher score in US websites but has a lower score than Baidu in Chinese websites. 2. RELATED WORK The ethical factors are examined from three perspectives [4] : denial of service, cost, and privacy. An ethical crawl guideline is described for crawler owners to follow. This guideline suggests taking legal action or initiating a profes- sional organization to regulate web crawlers. Our research adopts these perspectives of crawler ethics and expands it to a computational measure. The ethical issues of administrat- ing web crawlers are discussed in [1]. It provides a guideline for ethical crawlers to follow. The guideline also gives great insights to our research of ethics measurements. However, WWW 2010 • Poster April 26-30 • Raleigh • NC • USA 1101 none of the above mentioned work provides a quantitative measure of web crawler ethics. 3. CRAWLER BEHAVIOR MODEL In our research, each web crawler’s behavior is modeled as a vector in the rule space where rules are specified by Robots Exclusion Protocol to regulate the crawler behavior. If a crawler violates a rule, the corresponding vector element is larger than 0. Websites can also be modeled in the rules space that if a website includes a rule in its robots.txt file, the corresponding vector element is larger than 0. The ac- tual value for a rule element can be defined based on the consequences or cost of violating such rule. We define content ethicality Ec and access ethicality Ea scores to evaluate web crawler ethics. In content ethicality, cost is defined as the number of restricted web pages or web directories being unethically accessed (see Eq. 1). Ec(C) = ∑ wi∈W ||VC(wi)|| ||D(wi)|| . (1) Access ethicality is defined as how a crawler respects the desired visit interval (crawl-delay rule in robots.txt file) of the website(see Eq. 2). Ea(r) = ∑ wi∈W e−(intervalC(wi)−delay(wi)) 1 + e−(intervalC(wi)−delay(wi)) (2) A major advantage for websites allowing search engine crawlers to crawl their web pages is that the search engines bring traffic back to them. From this perspective, being ethical for a web crawler means bringing more visits back to the crawled websites. The effective ethicality of search engine S to a website can be defined as the ratio between the user visits referred by the search engine to the website and visits generated by the crawler r of the search engine to the website (see Eq. 3). Eeffective(r) = Referenced(S) Crawled(r) (3) 4. EXPERIMENTS Rank User-agent Content Ethicality 1 hyperestraier/1.4.9 0.95621 2 Teemer 0.01942 3 msnbot-media/1.0 0.00632 4 Yahoo! Slurp 0.00417 5 charlotte/1.0b 0.00394 6 gigabot/3.0 0.00370 7 nutch test/nutch-0.9 0.00316 8 googlebot-image/1.0 0.00315 9 Ask Jeeves/Teoma 0.00302 10 googlebot/2.1 0.00282 Table 1: Content ethicality scores for crawlers vis- ited our test site. Table 1 and 2 list the content and access ethicality results for top crawlers that visited our test website during the time of the study. Higher ethicality scores represent unethical crawlers. The effective ethicality of Google, Yahoo, MSN and Baidu are shown in Table 3. The data is collected between 2008/05/13 Rank User-agent Access Ethicality 1 msnbot-media/1.0 0.3317 2 hyperestraier/1.4.9 0.3278 3 Yahoo! Slurp/3.0 0.2949 4 Teemer 0.2744 5 Arietis/Nutch-0.9 0.0984 6 msnbot/1.0 0.098 7 disco/Nutch-1.0-dev 0.0776 8 ia archiver 0.077 9 gigabot/3.0 0.0079 10 googlebot/2.1 0.0075 Table 2: Access ethicality scores for crawlers visited our test site. to 2008/06/21. Site 1 is CiteSeerx, a large scale academic digital library for computer science. Site 2 is a Chinese movie information website. Site 3 is guopi.com, an online makeup retail store. 5. CONCLUSIONS We formally defined three ethicality scores to measure web crawler ethics. Results show that most commercial crawlers receive a good ethicality scores. However, it is surprising to see commercial crawlers constantly disobeying or misin- terpreting some robots.txt rules. The crawling algorithms and policies that lead to such behaviors are unknown. How- ever, obtaining more content is an obvious reason for most crawlers failing to obey certain rules. Website Crawled Referenced Ereturn google Site 1 16799253 260898 0.01553 Site 2 872001 46469 0.05329 Site 3 368417 145115 0.39389 yahoo Site 1 17375962 3919 0.00023 Site 2 502584 1249 0.00249 Site 3 315119 11819 0.03751 msn Site 1 677181 362 0.00054 Site 2 16330 5448 0.33362 Site 3 51128 3801 0.07434 baidu Site 1 27 37 1.37037 Site 2 622667 61964 0.09951 Site 3 1830847 844786 0.46142 Table 3: Comparison of the effectiveness of Google, Yahoo, MSN and Baidu. The effective ethicality scores of search engines varies sig- nificantly for different websites. Ranking by the referenced visits, Google plays a dominating role in the US based site 1 and ranks the 2nd and 3rd in the two China based websites. Baidu leads in the search market in China. 6. REFERENCES [1] D. Eichmann. Ethical web agents. 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Dec 27, 2007 From Idea to Open Source Dec 27, 2007 Finding Relationships in MARC Data Dec 27, 2007 DLF ILS Discovery Interface Task Force API recommendation Dec 27, 2007 Delivering Library Services in the Web 2.0 environment: OSU Libraries Publishing System for and by Librarians Dec 27, 2007 CouchDB is sacrilege... mmm, delicious sacrilege Dec 27, 2007 Building the Open Library Dec 27, 2007 Building Mountains Out of Molehills Dec 27, 2007 A Metadata Registry Dec 17, 2007 Code4lib 2008 Gender Diversity and Minority Scholarships Dec 12, 2007 Conference Schedule Nov 20, 2007 Code4lib 2008 Keynote Survey Oct 31, 2007 Code4lib 2008 Call for Proposals Oct 16, 2007 Code4Lib 2008 Schedule Jul 18, 2007 code4lib 2008 conference Jul 6, 2007 Random #code4lib Quotes Jun 13, 2007 Request for Proposals: Innovative Uses of CrossRef Metadata May 16, 2007 Library Camp NYC, August 14, 2007 Apr 3, 2007 Code4Lib 2007 - Video, Audio and Podcast Available Mar 14, 2007 Code4Lib 2007 - Day 1 Video Available Mar 13, 2007 Erik Hatcher Keynote Mar 12, 2007 My Adventures in Getting Data into the ArchivistsToolkit Mar 9, 2007 Karen Schneider Keynote "Hurry up please it's time" Mar 9, 2007 Code4Lib Conference Feedback Available Mar 9, 2007 Code4Lib 2007 Video Trickling In Mar 1, 2007 Code4Lib.org Restored Feb 24, 2007 Code4Lib 2008 will be in Portland, OR Feb 13, 2007 Code4Lib Blog Anthology Feb 9, 2007 The Intellectual Property Disclosure Process: Releasing Open Source Software in Academia Feb 6, 2007 Polling for interest in a European code4lib Feb 5, 2007 Call for Proposals to Host Code4Lib 2008 Feb 5, 2007 2007 Code4lib Scholarship Recipients Feb 3, 2007 Delicious! 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Dec 18, 2006 Get Groovy at Your Public Library Dec 18, 2006 Fun with ZeroConfMetaOpenSearch Dec 18, 2006 Free the Data: Creating a Web Services Interface to the Online Catalog Dec 18, 2006 Forget the Lipstick. This Pig Just Needs Social Skills. 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Wikidata workshop for librarians Interested in learning about Wikidata? I delivered a workshop for librarians and archivists at the CAML 2017 preconference. Perhaps you will find the materials I developed useful for your own training purposes. Truly progressive WebVR apps are available offline! I've been dabbling with the A-Frame framework for creating WebVR experiences for the past couple of months, ever since Patrick Trottier gave a lightning talk at the GDG Sudbury DevFest in November and a hands-on session with AFrame in January. The @AFrameVR Twitter feed regularly highlights cool new WebVR apps … schema.org, Wikidata, Knowledge Graph: strands of the modern semantic web My slides from Ohio DevFest 2016: schema.org, Wikidata, Knowledge Graph: strands of the modern semantic web And the video, recorded and edited by the incredible amazing Patrick Hammond: In November, I had the opportunity to speak at Ohio DevFest 2016. One of the organizers, Casey Borders, had invited me … Google Scholar's broken Recaptcha hurts libraries and their users Update 2016-11-28: The brilliant folk at UNC figured out how to fix Google Scholar using a pre-scoped search so that, if a search is launched from the library web site, it will automatically associate that search with the library's licensed resources. No EZProxy required! For libraries, proxying user requests is … PHP's File_MARC gets a new release (1.1.3) Yesterday, just one day before the anniversary of the 1.1.2 release, I published the 1.1.3 release of the PEAR File_MARC library. The only change is the addition of a convenience method for fields called getContents() that simply concatenates all of the subfields together in order, with … PHP's File_MARC gets a new release (1.1.3) Yesterday, just one day before the anniversary of the 1.1.2 release, I published the 1.1.3 release of the PEAR File_MARC library. The only change is the addition of a convenience method for fields called getContents() that simply concatenates all of the subfields together in order, with … Chromebooks and privacy: not always at odds On Friday, June 10th I gave a short talk at the OLITA Digital Odyssey 2016 conference, which had a theme this year of privacy and security. My talk addressed the evolution of our public and loaner laptops over the past decade, from bare Windows XP, to Linux, Windows XP with … Chromebooks and privacy: not always at odds On Friday, June 10th I gave a short talk at the OLITA Digital Odyssey 2016 conference, which had a theme this year of privacy and security. My talk addressed the evolution of our public and loaner laptops over the past decade, from bare Windows XP, to Linux, Windows XP with … Library stories: 2020 vision: "Professional research tools" For a recent strategic retreat, I was asked to prepare (as homework) a story about a subject that I'm passionate about, with an idea of where we might see the library in the next three to five years. Here's one of the stories I came up with, in the form … Library stories: 2020 vision: "Professional research tools" For a recent strategic retreat, I was asked to prepare (as homework) a story about a subject that I'm passionate about, with an idea of where we might see the library in the next three to five years. Here's one of the stories I came up with, in the form … Querying Evergreen from Google Sheets with custom functions via Apps Script Our staff were recently asked to check thousands of ISBNs to find out if we already have the corresponding books in our catalogue. They in turn asked me if I could run a script that would check it for them. It makes me happy to work with people who believe … Querying Evergreen from Google Sheets with custom functions via Apps Script Our staff were recently asked to check thousands of ISBNs to find out if we already have the corresponding books in our catalogue. They in turn asked me if I could run a script that would check it for them. It makes me happy to work with people who believe … That survey about EZProxy OCLC recently asked EZProxy clients to fill out a survey about their experiences with the product and to get feedback on possible future plans for the product. About half-way through, I decided it might be a good idea to post my responses. Because hey, if I'm working to help them … That survey about EZProxy OCLC recently asked EZProxy clients to fill out a survey about their experiences with the product and to get feedback on possible future plans for the product. About half-way through, I decided it might be a good idea to post my responses. Because hey, if I'm working to help them … "The Librarian" - an instruction session in the style of "The Martian" I had fun today. A colleague in Computer Science has been giving his C++ students an assignment to track down an article that is only available in print in the library. When we chatted about it earlier this year, I suggested that perhaps he could bring me in as a … "The Librarian" - an instruction session in the style of "The Martian" I had fun today. A colleague in Computer Science has been giving his C++ students an assignment to track down an article that is only available in print in the library. When we chatted about it earlier this year, I suggested that perhaps he could bring me in as a … We screwed up: identities in loosely-coupled systems A few weeks ago, I came to the startling and depressing realization that we had screwed up. It started when someone I know and greatly respect ran into me in the library and said "We have a problem". I'm the recently appointed Chair of our library and archives department, so … We screwed up: identities in loosely-coupled systems A few weeks ago, I came to the startling and depressing realization that we had screwed up. It started when someone I know and greatly respect ran into me in the library and said "We have a problem". I'm the recently appointed Chair of our library and archives department, so … Research across the Curriculum The following post dates back to January 15, 2007, when I had been employed at Laurentian for less than a year and was getting an institutional repository up and running.... I think old me had some interesting thoughts! Abstract The author advocates an approach to university curriculum that re-emphasizes the … Research across the Curriculum The following post dates back to January 15, 2007, when I had been employed at Laurentian for less than a year and was getting an institutional repository up and running.... I think old me had some interesting thoughts! Abstract The author advocates an approach to university curriculum that re-emphasizes the … Library and Archives Canada: Planning for a new union catalogue Update 2015-03-03: Clarified (in the Privacy section) that only NRCan runs Evergreen. I attended a meeting with Library and Archives Canada today in my role as an Ontario Library Association board member to discuss the plans around a new Canadian union catalogue based on OCLC's hosted services. Following are some … Library and Archives Canada: Planning for a new union catalogue Update 2015-03-03: Clarified (in the Privacy section) that only NRCan runs Evergreen. I attended a meeting with Library and Archives Canada today in my role as an Ontario Library Association board member to discuss the plans around a new Canadian union catalogue based on OCLC's hosted services. Following are some … Library catalogues and HTTP status codes I noticed in Google's Webmaster Tools that our catalogue had been returning some Soft 404s. Curious, I checked into some of the URIs suffering from this condition, and realized that Evergreen returns an HTTP status code of 200 OK when it serves up a record details page for a record … Library catalogues and HTTP status codes I noticed in Google's Webmaster Tools that our catalogue had been returning some Soft 404s. Curious, I checked into some of the URIs suffering from this condition, and realized that Evergreen returns an HTTP status code of 200 OK when it serves up a record details page for a record … Dear database vendor: defending against sci-hub.org scraping is going to be very difficult Our library receives formal communications from various content/database vendors about "serious intellectual property infringement" on a reasonably regular basis, that urge us to "pay particular attention to proxy security". Here is part of the response I sent to the most recent such request: We use the UsageLimit directives that … Dear database vendor: defending against sci-hub.org scraping is going to be very difficult Our library receives formal communications from various content/database vendors about "serious intellectual property infringement" on a reasonably regular basis, that urge us to "pay particular attention to proxy security". Here is part of the response I sent to the most recent such request: We use the UsageLimit directives that … Putting the "Web" back into Semantic Web in Libraries 2014 I was honoured to lead a workshop and speak at this year's edition of Semantic Web in Bibliotheken (SWIB) in Bonn, Germany. It was an amazing experience; there were so many rich projects being described with obvious dividends for the users of libraries, once again the European library community fills … Putting the "Web" back into Semantic Web in Libraries 2014 I was honoured to lead a workshop and speak at this year's edition of Semantic Web in Bibliotheken (SWIB) in Bonn, Germany. It was an amazing experience; there were so many rich projects being described with obvious dividends for the users of libraries, once again the European library community fills … Social networking for researchers: ResearchGate and their ilk The Centre for Research in Occupational Safety and Health asked me to give a lunch'n'learn presentation on ResearchGate today, which was a challenge I was happy to take on... but I took the liberty of stretching the scope of the discussion to focus on social networking in the context of … Social networking for researchers: ResearchGate and their ilk The Centre for Research in Occupational Safety and Health asked me to give a lunch'n'learn presentation on ResearchGate today, which was a challenge I was happy to take on... but I took the liberty of stretching the scope of the discussion to focus on social networking in the context of … How discovery layers have closed off access to library resources, and other tales of schema.org from LITA Forum 2014 At the LITA Forum yesterday, I accused (presentation) most discovery layers of not solving the discoverability problems of libraries, but instead exacerbating them by launching us headlong to a closed, unlinkable world. Coincidentally, Lorcan Dempsey's opening keynote contained a subtle criticism of discovery layers. I wasn't that subtle. Here's why … How discovery layers have closed off access to library resources, and other tales of schema.org from LITA Forum 2014 At the LITA Forum yesterday, I accused (presentation) most discovery layers of not solving the discoverability problems of libraries, but instead exacerbating them by launching us headlong to a closed, unlinkable world. Coincidentally, Lorcan Dempsey's opening keynote contained a subtle criticism of discovery layers. I wasn't that subtle. Here's why … DCMI 2014: schema.org holdings in open source library systems My slides from DCMI 2014: schema.org in the wild: open source libraries++. Last week I was at the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative 2014 conference, where Richard Wallis, Charles MacCathie Nevile and I were slated to present on schema.org and the work of the W3C Schema.org Bibliographic Extension … My small contribution to schema.org this week Version 1.91 of the http://schema.org vocabulary was released a few days ago, and I once again had a small part to play in it. With the addition of the workExample and exampleOfWork properties, we (Richard Wallis, Dan Brickley, and I) realized that examples of these CreativeWork example … My small contribution to schema.org this week Version 1.91 of the http://schema.org vocabulary was released a few days ago, and I once again had a small part to play in it. With the addition of the workExample and exampleOfWork properties, we (Richard Wallis, Dan Brickley, and I) realized that examples of these CreativeWork example … Posting on the Laurentian University library blog Since returning from my sabbatical, I've felt pretty strongly that one of the things our work place is lacking is open communication about the work that we do--not just outside of the library, but within the library as well. I'm convinced that the more that we know about the demands … Posting on the Laurentian University library blog Since returning from my sabbatical, I've felt pretty strongly that one of the things our work place is lacking is open communication about the work that we do--not just outside of the library, but within the library as well. I'm convinced that the more that we know about the demands … Cataloguing for the open web: schema.org in library catalogues and websites tldr; my slides are href="http://stuff.coffeecode.net/2014/understanding_schema">here, and the slides from Jenn and Jason are also available from href="http://connect.ala.org/node/222959">ALA Connect. On Sunday, June 29th Jenn Riley, Jason Clark, and I presented at the ALCTS/LITA jointly sponsored session … Cataloguing for the open web: schema.org in library catalogues and websites tldr; my slides are href="http://stuff.coffeecode.net/2014/understanding_schema">here, and the slides from Jenn and Jason are also available from href="http://connect.ala.org/node/222959">ALA Connect. On Sunday, June 29th Jenn Riley, Jason Clark, and I presented at the ALCTS/LITA jointly sponsored session … Linked data interest panel, part 1 Good talk by Richard Wallis this morning at the ALA Annual Conference on publishing entities on the web. Many of his points map extremely closely to what I've been saying and will be saying tomorrow during my own session (albeit with ten fewer minutes). I was particularly heartened to hear … Linked data interest panel, part 1 Good talk by Richard Wallis this morning at the ALA Annual Conference on publishing entities on the web. Many of his points map extremely closely to what I've been saying and will be saying tomorrow during my own session (albeit with ten fewer minutes). I was particularly heartened to hear … RDFa introduction and codelabs for libraries My RDFa introduction and codelab materials for the ALA 2014 preconference on Practical linked data with open source are now online! And now I've finished leading the RDFa + schema.org codelab that I've been stressing over and refining for about a month at the American Library Association annual conference Practical … RDFa introduction and codelabs for libraries My RDFa introduction and codelab materials for the ALA 2014 preconference on Practical linked data with open source are now online! And now I've finished leading the RDFa + schema.org codelab that I've been stressing over and refining for about a month at the American Library Association annual conference Practical … Dropping back into the Semantic Web I've been at the 2014 Extended (formerly European) Semantic Web Conference ( ESWC) in Anissaras, Greece for four days now. My reason for attending was to present my paper Seeding structured data by default in open source library systems (presentation) (paper). It has been fantastic. As a librarian attending a conference … Dropping back into the Semantic Web I've been at the 2014 Extended (formerly European) Semantic Web Conference ( ESWC) in Anissaras, Greece for four days now. My reason for attending was to present my paper Seeding structured data by default in open source library systems (presentation) (paper). It has been fantastic. As a librarian attending a conference … RDFa, schema.org, and open source library systems Two things of note: I recently submitted the camera-ready copy for my ESWC 2014 paper, Seeding Structured Data by Default via Open Source Library Systems (**preprint**). The paper focuses on the work I've done with Evergreen, Koha, and VuFind to use emerging web standards such as RDFa Lite and schema … RDFa, schema.org, and open source library systems Two things of note: I recently submitted the camera-ready copy for my ESWC 2014 paper, Seeding Structured Data by Default via Open Source Library Systems (**preprint**). The paper focuses on the work I've done with Evergreen, Koha, and VuFind to use emerging web standards such as RDFa Lite and schema … Mapping library holdings to the Product / Offer mode in schema.org Back in August, I mentioned that I taught Evergreen, Koha, and VuFind how to express library holdings in schema.org via the http://schema.org/Offer class. What I failed to mention was how others can do the same with their own library systems (well, okay, I linked to the … Mapping library holdings to the Product / Offer mode in schema.org Back in August, I mentioned that I taught Evergreen, Koha, and VuFind how to express library holdings in schema.org via the http://schema.org/Offer class. What I failed to mention was how others can do the same with their own library systems (well, okay, I linked to the … What would you understand if you read the entire world wide web? On Tuesday, February 4th, I'll be participating in Laurentian University's Research Week lightning talks. Unlike most five-minute lightning talk events in which I've participated, the time limit for each talk tomorrow will be one minute. Imagine 60 different researchers getting up to summarize their research in one minute each, and … What would you understand if you read the entire world wide web? On Tuesday, February 4th, I'll be participating in Laurentian University's Research Week lightning talks. Unlike most five-minute lightning talk events in which I've participated, the time limit for each talk tomorrow will be one minute. Imagine 60 different researchers getting up to summarize their research in one minute each, and … Ups and downs Tuesday was not the greatest day, but at least each setback resulted in a triumph... First, the periodical proposal for schema.org--that I have poured a good couple of months of effort into--took a step closer to reality when Dan Brickley announced on the public-vocabs list that he had … Ups and downs Tuesday was not the greatest day, but at least each setback resulted in a triumph... First, the periodical proposal for schema.org--that I have poured a good couple of months of effort into--took a step closer to reality when Dan Brickley announced on the public-vocabs list that he had … Broadening support for linked data in MARC The following is an email that I sent to the MARC mailing list on January 24, 2014 that might be of interest to those looking to provide better support for linked data in MARC (hopefully as just a transitional step): In the spirit of making it possible to express linked … Broadening support for linked data in MARC The following is an email that I sent to the MARC mailing list on January 24, 2014 that might be of interest to those looking to provide better support for linked data in MARC (hopefully as just a transitional step): In the spirit of making it possible to express linked … Want citations? Release your work! Last week I was putting the finishing touches on the first serious academic paper I have written in a long time, and decided that I wanted to provide backup for some of the assertions I had made. Naturally, the deadline was tight, so getting any articles via interlibrary loan was … Want citations? Release your work! Last week I was putting the finishing touches on the first serious academic paper I have written in a long time, and decided that I wanted to provide backup for some of the assertions I had made. Naturally, the deadline was tight, so getting any articles via interlibrary loan was … File_MARC: 1.0.1 release fixes data corruption bug I released File_MARC 1.0.1 yesterday after receiving a bug report from the most excellent Mark Jordan about a basic (but data corrupting) problem that had existed since the very early days (almost seven years ago). If you generate MARC binary output from File_MARC, you should upgrade immediately. In … File_MARC: 1.0.1 release fixes data corruption bug I released File_MARC 1.0.1 yesterday after receiving a bug report from the most excellent Mark Jordan about a basic (but data corrupting) problem that had existed since the very early days (almost seven years ago). If you generate MARC binary output from File_MARC, you should upgrade immediately. In … Talk proposal: Structuring library data on the web with schema.org: we're on it! I submitted the following proposal to the Library Technology Conference 2014 and thought it might be of general interest. Structuring library data on the web with schema.org: we're on it! Abstract Until recently, there has been a disappointing level of adoption of schema.org structured data in traditional core … Talk proposal: Structuring library data on the web with schema.org: we're on it! I submitted the following proposal to the Library Technology Conference 2014 and thought it might be of general interest. Structuring library data on the web with schema.org: we're on it! Abstract Until recently, there has been a disappointing level of adoption of schema.org structured data in traditional core … File_MARC makes it to stable 1.0.0 release (finally!) Way back in 2006, I thought "It's a shame there is no PHP library for parsing MARC records!", and given that much of my most recent coding experience was in the PHP realm, I thought it would be a good way of contributing to the world of code4lib. Thus File_MARC … File_MARC makes it to stable 1.0.0 release (finally!) Way back in 2006, I thought "It's a shame there is no PHP library for parsing MARC records!", and given that much of my most recent coding experience was in the PHP realm, I thought it would be a good way of contributing to the world of code4lib. Thus File_MARC … Finally tangoed with reveal.js to create presentations ... and I have enjoyed the dance. Yes, I know I'm way behind the times. Over the past few years I was generating presentations via asciidoc, and I enjoyed its very functional approach and basic output. However, recently I used Google Drive to quickly create a few slightly prettier but much … Finally tangoed with reveal.js to create presentations ... and I have enjoyed the dance. Yes, I know I'm way behind the times. Over the past few years I was generating presentations via asciidoc, and I enjoyed its very functional approach and basic output. However, recently I used Google Drive to quickly create a few slightly prettier but much … RDFa and schema.org all the library things TLDR: The Evergreen and Koha integrated library systems now express their record details in the schema.org vocabulary out of the box using RDFa. Individual holdings are expressed as Offer instances per the W3C Schema Bib Extension community group proposal to parallel commercial sales offers. And I have published a … RDFa and schema.org all the library things TLDR: The Evergreen and Koha integrated library systems now express their record details in the schema.org vocabulary out of the box using RDFa. Individual holdings are expressed as Offer instances per the W3C Schema Bib Extension community group proposal to parallel commercial sales offers. And I have published a … A Flask of full-text search in PostgreSQL Update: More conventional versions of the slides are available from Google Docs or in on Speakerdeck (PDF) . On August 10, 2013, I gave the following talk at the PyCon Canada 2013 conference: I’m a systems librarian at Laurentian University. For the past six years, my day job and research … A Flask of full-text search in PostgreSQL Update: More conventional versions of the slides are available from Google Docs or in on Speakerdeck (PDF) . On August 10, 2013, I gave the following talk at the PyCon Canada 2013 conference: I’m a systems librarian at Laurentian University. For the past six years, my day job and research … Parsing the schema.org vocabulary for fun and frustration For various reasons I've spent a few hours today trying to parse the schema.org vocabulary into a nice, searchable database structure. Unfortunately, for a linked data effort that's two years old now and arguably one of the most important efforts out there, it's been an exercise in frustration. OWL … Parsing the schema.org vocabulary for fun and frustration For various reasons I've spent a few hours today trying to parse the schema.org vocabulary into a nice, searchable database structure. Unfortunately, for a linked data effort that's two years old now and arguably one of the most important efforts out there, it's been an exercise in frustration. OWL … Linked data irony, example one of probably many I'm currently ramping up my knowledge of the linked dataworld, and ran across the Proceedings of the WWW2013 Workshop on Linked Data on the Web. Which are published on the web (yay!) as open access (yay!) in PDF (what?). Thus, the papers from the linked data workshop at the W3 … Linked data irony, example one of probably many I'm currently ramping up my knowledge of the linked dataworld, and ran across the Proceedings of the WWW2013 Workshop on Linked Data on the Web. Which are published on the web (yay!) as open access (yay!) in PDF (what?). Thus, the papers from the linked data workshop at the W3 … PyCon Canada 2013 - PostgreSQL full-text search and Flask On August 10, 2013, I'll be giving a twenty-minute talk at PyCon Canada on A Flask of full-text search with PostgreSQL. I'm very excited to be talking about Python, at a Python conference, and to be giving the Python audience a peek at PostgreSQL's full-text search capabilities. With a twenty … PyCon Canada 2013 - PostgreSQL full-text search and Flask On August 10, 2013, I'll be giving a twenty-minute talk at PyCon Canada on A Flask of full-text search with PostgreSQL. I'm very excited to be talking about Python, at a Python conference, and to be giving the Python audience a peek at PostgreSQL's full-text search capabilities. With a twenty … CARLCore Metadata Application Profile for institutional repositories A long time ago, in what seemed like another life, I attended the Access 2006 conference as a relatively new systems librarian at Laurentian University. The subject of the preconference was this totally new-to-me thing called "institutional repositories", which I eventually worked out were basically web applications oriented towards content … CARLCore Metadata Application Profile for institutional repositories A long time ago, in what seemed like another life, I attended the Access 2006 conference as a relatively new systems librarian at Laurentian University. The subject of the preconference was this totally new-to-me thing called "institutional repositories", which I eventually worked out were basically web applications oriented towards content … Making the Evergreen catalogue mobile-friendly via responsive CSS Back in November the Evergreen community was discussing the desire for a mobile catalogue, and expressed a strong opinion that the right way forward would be to teach the current catalogue to be mobile-friendly by applying principles of responsive design. In fact, I stated: Almost all of this can be … Making the Evergreen catalogue mobile-friendly via responsive CSS Back in November the Evergreen community was discussing the desire for a mobile catalogue, and expressed a strong opinion that the right way forward would be to teach the current catalogue to be mobile-friendly by applying principles of responsive design. In fact, I stated: Almost all of this can be … Structured data: making metadata matter for machines Update 2013-04-18: Now with video of the presentation, thanks to the awesome #egcon2013 volunteers! I've been attending the Evergreen 2013 Conference in beautiful Vancouver. This morning, I was honoured to be able to give a presentation on some of the work I've been doing on implementing linked data via schema … Structured data: making metadata matter for machines Update 2013-04-18: Now with video of the presentation, thanks to the awesome #egcon2013 volunteers! I've been attending the Evergreen 2013 Conference in beautiful Vancouver. This morning, I was honoured to be able to give a presentation on some of the work I've been doing on implementing linked data via schema … Introducing version control & git in 1.5 hours to undergraduates Our university offers a Computer Science degree, but the formal curriculum does not cover version control (or a number of other common tools and practices in software development). Students that have worked for me in part-time jobs or summer positions have said things like: if it wasn't for that one … Introducing version control & git in 1.5 hours to undergraduates Our university offers a Computer Science degree, but the formal curriculum does not cover version control (or a number of other common tools and practices in software development). Students that have worked for me in part-time jobs or summer positions have said things like: if it wasn't for that one … Triumph of the tiny brain: Dan vs. Drupal / Panels A while ago I inherited responsibility for a Drupal 6 instance and a rather out-of-date server. (You know it's not good when your production operating system is so old that it is no longer getting security updates). I'm not a Drupal person. I dabbled with Drupal years and years ago … Triumph of the tiny brain: Dan vs. Drupal / Panels A while ago I inherited responsibility for a Drupal 6 instance and a rather out-of-date server. (You know it's not good when your production operating system is so old that it is no longer getting security updates). I'm not a Drupal person. I dabbled with Drupal years and years ago … Finding DRM-free books on the Google Play store John Mark Ockerbloom recently said, while trying to buy a DRM-free copy of John Scalzi's Redshirts on the Google Play Store: “The catalog page doesn’t tell me what format it’s in, or whether it has DRM; it instead just asks me to sign in to buy it.” I … Finding DRM-free books on the Google Play store John Mark Ockerbloom recently said, while trying to buy a DRM-free copy of John Scalzi's Redshirts on the Google Play Store: “The catalog page doesn’t tell me what format it’s in, or whether it has DRM; it instead just asks me to sign in to buy it.” I … First Go program: converting Google Scholar XML holdings to EBSCO Discovery Service holdings Update 2012-06-19: And here's how to implement stream-oriented XML parsing Many academic libraries are already generating electronic resource holdings summaries in the Google Scholar XML holdingsformat, and it seems to provide most of the metadata you would need to provide a discovery layer summary in a nice, granular format … First Go program: converting Google Scholar XML holdings to EBSCO Discovery Service holdings Update 2012-06-19: And here's how to implement stream-oriented XML parsing Many academic libraries are already generating electronic resource holdings summaries in the Google Scholar XML holdingsformat, and it seems to provide most of the metadata you would need to provide a discovery layer summary in a nice, granular format … What does a system librarian do? Preface: I'm talking to my daughter's kindergarten class tomorrow about my job. Exciting! So I prepped a little bit; it will probably go entirely different, but here's how it's going to go in my mind... My name is Dan Scott. I’m Amber’s dad. I’m a systems librarian … Farewell, old Google Books APIs Since the announcement of the new v1 Google Books API, I've been doing a bit of work with it in Python (following up on my part of the conversation). Today, Google announced that many of their older APIs were now officially deprecated. Included in that list are the Google Books … The new Google Books API and possibilities for libraries On the subject of the new Google Books API that was unveiled during the Google IO 2011 conference last week, Jonathan Rochkind states: Once you have an API key, it can keep track of # requests for that key — it’s not clear to me if they rate limit you, and … Creating a MARC record from scratch in PHP using File_MARC In the past couple of days, two people have written me email essentially saying: "Dan, this File_MARC library sounds great - but I can't figure out how to create a record from scratch with it! Can you please help me?" Yes, when you're dealing with MARC, you'll quickly get all weepy … Access Conference 2011 in beautiful British Columbia The official announcement for the Canadian Library Association (CLA) Emerging Technology Interest Group (ETIG)-sponsored Access Conference for 2011 went out back in November, announcing Vancouver, British Columbia, as the host. Note that the schedule has changed from its original dates to October 19-22! I've told a number of people … Troubleshooting Ariel send and receive functionality I'm posting the following instructions for testing the ports required by Ariel interlibrary loan software. I get requests for this information a few times a year, and at some point it will be easier to find on my blog than to dig through my email archives from over 3 years … Chilifresh-using libraries: are you violating copyright? When I was preparing my Access 2010 presentation about social sharing and aggregation in library software, I came across Chilifresh, a company that aggregates reviews written by library patrons from across libraries that subscribe to the company's review service. I was a bit disappointed to see that the service almost … On avoiding accusations of forking a project Sometimes forking a project is necessary to reassert community control over a project that has become overly dominated by a single corporate rules: see OpenIndiana and LibreOffice for recent examples. And in the world of distributed version control systems, forking is viewed positively; it's a form of evolution, where experimental … Library hackers want you to throw down the gauntlet On October 13th, a very special event is happening: the Access Hackfest. A tradition since Access 2002, the Hackfest brings together library practitioners of all kinds to tackle challenges and problems from the mundane to the sublime to the ridiculous. If you can imagine a spectrum with three axes, you … File_MARC 0.6.0 - now offering two tasty flavours of MARC-as-JSON output I've just released the PHP PEAR library File_MARC 0.6.0. This release brings two JSON serialization output methods for MARC to the table: toJSONHash() returns JSON that adheres to Bill Dueber's proposal for the array-oriented MARC-HASH JSON format at New interest in MARC-HASH JSON toJSON() returns JSON that adheres … In which I perceive that gossip is not science Marshall Breeding published the results of his 2009 International Survey of Library Automation a few days ago. Juicy stuff, with averages, medians, and modes for the negative/positive responses on a variety of ILS and vendor-related questions, and some written comments from the respondents. One would expect the library geek … PKG_CHECK_MODULES syntax error near unexpected token 'DEPS,' The next time you bash your brains against autotools for a while wondering why your perfectly good PKG_CHECK_MODULES() macro, as cut and paste directly from the recommended configure.ac entry for the package you're trying to integrate (in this case libmemcached), and you get the error message PKG_CHECK_MODULES syntax error … MARC library for C# coders C# isn't in my go-to list of programming languages, but I can understand why others would be interested in developing applications in C#. So it's good news to the C# community of library developers (it would be interesting to find out how many of you are out there) that there … Doing useful things with the TXT dump of SFX holdings, part 1: database There must be other people who have much more intelligent things than me with the TXT dump of SFX holdings that you can generate via the Web administration interface, but as I've gone through this process at least twice and rediscovered it each time, perhaps I'll save myself an hour … Transparent acquisitions budgets and expenditures for academic libraries In my most recent post over at the Academic Matters site, after a general discussion about "new books lists" in academic libraries, I tackle one of the dirty laundry areas for academic libraries: exposing how collection development funds are allocated to departments. Here's a relevant quote: For 2008-2009, we decided … Making Skype work in a Windows XP VirtualBox guest instance If you, like me, install Skype in a Windows XP VirtualBox guest instance running on an Ubuntu host on a ThinkPad T60 with an Intel 2300 dual-core 32-bit processor, it might throw Windows exceptions and generate error reports as reported in VirtualBox ticket #1710. If you then go into your … In which my words also appear elsewhere I'm excited to announce the availability of my first post as an invited contributor to the More than Bookends blog over at the revamped Academic Matters web site. My fellow contributors are Anne Fullerton and Amy Greenberg, and I'm delighted to be included with them in our appointed task of … Presentation: LibX and Zotero Direct link to the instructional presentation on LibX and Zotero at Laurentian University (ODT) (PDF) I had the pleasure of giving an instructional session to a class of graduate students on Monday, November 24th. The topic I had been asked to present was an extended version of the Artificially Enhanced … Archive of OCLC WorldCat Policy as posted 2008-11-02 I noticed last night (Sunday, November 2nd, 2008) that the new and much-anticipated / feared OCLC WorldCat Policy had been posted. As far as the clarified terms went, I was willing to give them the benefit of the doubt until they were actually posted. I was first alerted to the freshly … Dear Dan: why is using Flash for navigation a bad idea? I received the following email late last week, and took the time to reply to it tonight. I had originally been asked by a friend to help diagnose why his organization's site navigation wasn't working in some of his browsers. I noticed that the navigation bar was implemented in Flash … Boss me around, s'il vous plait My place of work, Laurentian University, is looking for a new Director of the J.N. Desmarais Library. The call for applications closes October 30th. I think our library has done some impressive work (participating in the food security project for the Democratic Republic of Congo, building the Mining Environment … Software Freedom Day 2008 - Sudbury I opted to do something out of the unusual (for me) this year when I learned about Software Freedom Day; I signed up to organize an event in Sudbury. Given everything that was already on my plate, it was pure foolishness to do so - but it was also important to … In which digital manifestations of myself plague the Internets Over the past few months, I've been fortunate enough to participate in a few events that have been recorded and made available on the 'net for your perpetual amusement. Well - amusing if you're a special sort of person. Following are the three latest such adventures, in chronological order: CouchDB: delicious … Test server strategies Occasionally on the #OpenILS-Evergreen IRC channel, a question comes up what kind of hardware a site should buy if they're getting serious about trying out Evergreen. I had exactly the same chat with Mike Rylander back in December, so I thought it might be useful to share the strategy we … Inspiring confidence that my problem will be solved Hmm. I think I'm in trouble if the support site itself is incapable of displaying accented characters properly. Corrupted characters in a problem report about corrupted characters. Oh dear. My analysis of the problem is that the content in the middle is contained within a frame, and is actually encoded … CouchDB: delicious sacrilege Well, the talk about CouchDB (an open-source document database similar in concept to Lotus Notes, but with a RESTful API and JSON as an interchange format) wasn't as much of a train wreck as it could have been. I learned a lot putting it together, and had some fun with … Oooh... looks like I've got (even more) work cut out for me PHP is getting a native doubly-linked list structure. This is fabulous news; when I wrote the File_MARC PEAR package, I ended up having to implement a linked list class in PEAR to support it. File_MARC does its job today (even though I haven't taken it out of alpha yet), but … Geek triumph What a night. I upgraded Serendipity, DokuWiki, Drupal, involving four different servers and three different Linux distros, and shifted one application from one server to another (with seamless redirects from the old server to the new) with close to no downtime. I think this is the first time I've completed … A chance to work at Laurentian University library Hey folks, if you're interested in working at Laurentian University, we've got a couple of tenure-track positions looking for qualified people who can stand the thought of working with me... (nothing like narrowing the field dramatically, ah well). The following position descriptions are straight out of the Employment Vacancies page … Ariel: Go back to your room, NOW! I've been working on automating the delivery of electronic documents to our patrons; most of the work over the summer was spent in ensuring that we had our legal and policy bases covered. I read through the documentation for Ariel, our chosen ILL software, to ensure that everything we wanted … "A canonical example of a next-generation OPAC?" Ooh, yes, I remember writing that now. Not about Evergreen, which has book bags and format limiters and facets and whiz-bangy unAPI goodness whose potential for causing mayhem has barely been scratched - but about Fac-Back-OPAC, the Django-and-Solr-and-Jython beast that Mike Beccaria and I picked up from Casey Durfee's scraps pile … The pain: discovery layer selection I returned from a week of vacation to land solidly in the middle of a discovery layer selection process -- not for our library, yet, but from a consortial perspective clearly having some impact on possible decisions for us further on down the road. As the systems librarian, I was nominated … Access 2007 draft program is online! I had been getting anxious about the lack of news on the Access 2007 conference front, but just saw in my trusty RSS feed that the draft program schedule is now available. I'm already looking forward to Jessamyn West's opening keynote and Roy Tennant's closing keynote. They always bring … Evergreen VMWare image available for download After much iteration and minor bug-squashing in my configuration, I am pleased to announce the Evergreen on Gentoo VMWare image is available for download. The download itself is approximately 500MB as a zipped image; when you unzip the image, it will require approximately 6GB of disk space. (1) Basic instructions … In which I make one apology, and two lengthy explanations I recently insulted Richard Wallis and Rob Styles of Talis by stating on Dan Chudnov's blog: To me it felt like Talis was in full sales mode during both Richard's API talk and Rob's lightning talk I must apologize for using the terms "sales mode" and "sales pitch" to describe … FacBackOPAC: making Casey Durfee's code talk to Unicorn For the past couple of days, I've been playing with Casey Durfee's code that uses Solr and Django to offer a faceted catalogue. My challenge? Turn a dense set of code focused on Dewey and Horizon ILS into a catalogue that speaks LC and Unicorn. Additionally, I want it to … Lightning talk: File_MARC for PHP I gave a lightning talk at the code4lib conference today on “File_MARC for PHP” introducing the File_MARC library to anybody who hasn't already heard about it. I crammed nine slides of information into five minutes, which was hopefully enough to convince people to start using it and provide feedback on … Google Summer of code4lib? Google just announced that they will start accepting applications in March for the Google Summer of Code (GSoC) 2007. In 2006, over 100 organizations participated in the GSoC, and Google expects to have a similar number participating in 2007. There are no lack of potential open-source development projects in the … Long time, no wild conjecture So here's the first of two posts based on purely wild conjecture. In a lengthening chain of trackbacks, Ryan Eby mentioned Christina's observation that Springlink has started displaying Google ads, presumably to supplement their subscription and pay-per-article income. Ryan goes on to wonder: Will vendors continue with the subscription model … A short-term SirsiDynix prediction The second of tonight's wild conjecture-based predictions. One of the things that I was thinking about as I was shovelling the snow off our driveway on Monday (other than yes! finally some snow... one of these days Amber is going to go rolling around in it) was the position that … Reflections at the start of 2007 2006 was a year full of change - wonderful, exhausting change. Here's a month-by-month summary of the highlights of 2006: January I did a whole lot of work on the PECL ibm_db2 extension, reviewed a good book on XML and PHP, and finally fixed up my blog a little bit. I've … Oh, Vista has _acquired_ SirsiDynix... A little over a week ago, I made the following prediction following the extremely under-the-radar press release on December 22nd that Vista Equity Partners was investing in SirsiDynix: I'll go out on a limb and say that a merger or acquisition of SirsiDynix in 2007 is unlikely (33% confidence), but … Musing about SirsiDynix's new investment partner Sirsi Corporation merged with Dynix Corporation in June 2005. Now SirsiDynix has announced that Vista Equity Partners is investing in their company. Let's take a look at Vista's investment philosophy: *We invest in companies that uniquely leverage technology to deliver best-of-class products or services.* I wonder if Vista confused "most … Save your forehead from flattening prematurely I gave up on trying to get Ubuntu 6.10 (Edgy Eft) to run ejabberd today; it looks like there are some fundamental issues going on between the version of erlang and the version of ejabberd that get bundled together. That was a fairly serious setback to my "Evergreen on … BiblioCommons wireframe walk-through After the Future of the ILS Symposium wrapped up, Beth Jefferson walked some of us through the current state of the BiblioCommons mocked-up Web UI for public library catalogs; the project grew out of a youth literacy project designed to encourage kids to read through the same sort of social … Future of the ILS Symposium: building our community and a business case I headed down to Windsor early on Tuesday morning for the Future of the ILS Symposium hosted by the Leddy Library at the University of Windsor. It was a good thing I decided to take the 12 hours of bus + train approach to getting there, as Sudbury's airport was completely … Neat-o: Archimède uses Apache Derby A while back I mentioned on the DSpace-devel mailing list that I was interested in adapting DSpace to use embedded Apache Derby as the default database, rather than PostgreSQL, as a means of lowering the installation and configuration barriers involved with setting up access to an external database. I haven't … PEAR File_MARC 0.1.0 alpha officially released Just a short note to let y'all know that I received the thumbs-up from my fellow PEAR developers to add File_MARC as an official PEAR package. What does this mean? Well, assuming you have PHP 5.1+ and PEAR installed, you can now download and install File_MARC and its prerequisite … Belated Access 2006 notes: Saturday, Oct. 14th Final entry in publishing my own hastily jotted Access 2006 conference notes--primarily for my own purposes, but maybe it will help you indirectly find some real content relating to your field of interest at the official podcast/presentation Web site for Access 2006. Contents include: consortial updates from ASIN, Quebec … Getting the Goods: Libraries and the Last Mile In my continuing series of publishing my Access 2006 notes, Roy Tennant's keynote on finishing the task of connecting our users to the information they need is something to which every librarian should pay attention. If you don't understand something I've written, there's always the podcast of Roy's talk. In … Access 2006 notes: October 12 My continuing summaries from Access 2006. Thursday, October 12th was the first "normal" day of the conference featuring the following presentations: Open access, open source, content deals: who pays? (Leslie Weir) Our Ontario: Yours to Recover (Art Rhyno, Walter Lewis) Improving the Catalogue Interface using Endeca (Tito Sierra) Lightning talks … Library Geeks in human form So, I think I read somewhere on #code4lib that Dan Chudnov, the most excellent host of the Library Geeks podcast, refused to make human-readable links to the MP3 files for the podcasts available in plain old HTML because he had bought into the stodgy old definition of podcasts (hah! "stodgy … Double-barreled PHP releases I'm the proud parent of two new releases over the past couple of days: one official PEAR release for linked list fans, and another revision of the File_MARC proposal for library geeks. Structures_LinkedList A few days ago marked the first official PEAR release of the Structures_LinkedList. Yes, it's only at … Feeling sorry for our vendor So I'm here in rainy Alabama (the weather must have followed me from Ottawa) taking a training course from our ILS vendor. I'm getting some disturbing insights into the company that are turning my general state of disbelief at the state of the system that we're paying lots of money … Backlog of Access 2006 notes Following on my plea for access to Access presentations, I'm in the process of posting the notes I took at the CARL instutitional repository pre-conference and Access 2006. I probably should have posted these to a wiki so that others (like the presenters) could go ahead and make corrections/additions … Calling for access to all future Access presentations It's a bit late now, but as the guy in the corner with the clicky keyboard desperately trying to take notes during the presentations (when not stifling giggles and snorts from #code4lib), I would be a lot more relaxed if I was certain that the presentations were going to be … Secretssss of Free WiFi at Access 2006 The bulk of the Access 2006 conference is being held at a hotel-that-shall-not-be-named-for-reasons-that-will-become-apparent-shortly in Ottawa this week. I was at the CARL Pre-Conference on Institutional Repositories today and a kind man (Wayne Johnston from the University of Guelph) tipped me off that the hotel's pay-for-wifi system is a little bit … Laundry list systems librarians On the always excellent Techessence, Dorothea Salo posted Hiring a systems librarian. The blog post warned against libraries who put together a “laundry-list job description” for systems librarians: Sure, it'd be nice to have someone who can kick-start a printer, put together a desktop machine from scraps, re-architect a website … File_MARC and Structure_Linked_List: new alpha releases Earlier in the month I asked for feedback on the super-alpha MARC package for PHP. Most of the responses I received were along the lines of "Sounds great!" but there hasn't been much in the way of real suggestions for improvement. In the mean time, I've figured out (with Lukas … Super-alpha MARC package for PHP: comments requested Okay, I've been working on this project (let's call it PEAR_MARC, although it's not an official PEAR project yet) in my spare moments over the past month or two. It's a new PHP package for working with MARC records. The package tries to follow the PEAR project standards (coding, documentation … commonplace-net-5050 ---- commonplace.net – Data. The final frontier. Skip to content commonplace.net Data. The final frontier. Publications A Common Place All Posts About Contact Infrastructure for heritage institutions – ARK PID’s November 3, 2020November 11, 2020 Lukas KosterData, Infrastructure, Library In the Digital Infrastructure program at the Library of the University of Amsterdam we have reached a first milestone. In my previous post in the Infrastructure for heritage institutions series, “Change of course“, I mentioned the coming implementation of ARK persistent identifiers for our collection objects. Since November 3, 2020, ARK PID’s are available for our university library Alma catalogue through the Primo user interface. Implementation of ARK PID’s for the other collection description systems […] Read more Infrastructure for heritage institutions – change of course June 23, 2020 Lukas KosterData, Infrastructure, Library In July 2019 I published the first post about our planning to realise a “coherent and future proof digital infrastructure” for the Library of the University of Amsterdam. In February I reported on the first results. As frequently happens, since then the conditions have changed, and naturally we had to adapt the direction we are following to achieve our goals. In other words: a change of course, of course.  Projects  I will leave aside the […] Read more Infrastructure for heritage institutions – first results February 24, 2020February 25, 2020 Lukas KosterData, Infrastructure, Library In July 2019 I published the post Infrastructure for heritage institutions in which I described our planning to realise a “coherent and future proof digital infrastructure” for the Library of the University of Amsterdam. Time to look back: how far have we come? And time to look forward: what’s in store for the near future? Ongoing activities I mentioned three “currently ongoing activities”:  Monitoring and advising on infrastructural aspects of new projects Maintaining a structured dynamic overview […] Read more Infrastructure for heritage institutions July 11, 2019January 11, 2020 Lukas KosterData, Infrastructure, Library During my vacation I saw this tweet by LIBER about topics to address, as suggested by the participants of the LIBER 2019 conference in Dublin: It shows a word cloud (yes, a word cloud) containing a large number of terms. I list the ones I can read without zooming in (so the most suggested ones, I guess), more or less grouped thematically: Open scienceOpen dataOpen accessLicensingCopyrightsLinked open dataOpen educationCitizen science Scholarly communicationDigital humanities/DHDigital scholarshipResearch assessmentResearch […] Read more Ten years linked open data June 4, 2016February 13, 2020 Lukas KosterData, Library This post is the English translation of my original article in Dutch, published in META (2016-3), the Flemish journal for information professionals. Ten years after the term “linked data” was introduced by Tim Berners-Lee it appears to be time to take stock of the impact of linked data for libraries and other heritage institutions in the past and in the future. I will do this from a personal historical perspective, as a library technology professional, […] Read more Maps, dictionaries and guidebooks August 3, 2015February 3, 2020 Lukas KosterData Interoperability in heterogeneous library data landscapes Libraries have to deal with a highly opaque landscape of heterogeneous data sources, data types, data formats, data flows, data transformations and data redundancies, which I have earlier characterized as a “data maze”. The level and magnitude of this opacity and heterogeneity varies with the amount of content types and the number of services that the library is responsible for. Academic and national libraries are possibly dealing with more […] Read more Standard deviations in data modeling, mapping and manipulation June 16, 2015February 3, 2020 Lukas KosterData Or: Anything goes. What are we thinking? An impression of ELAG 2015 This year’s ELAG conference in Stockholm was one of many questions. Not only the usual questions following each presentation (always elicited in the form of yet another question: “Any questions?”). But also philosophical ones (Why? What?). And practical ones (What time? Where? How? How much?). And there were some answers too, fortunately. This is my rather personal impression of the event. For a […] Read more Analysing library data flows for efficient innovation November 27, 2014February 14, 2020 Lukas KosterLibrary In my work at the Library of the University of Amsterdam I am currently taking a step forward by actually taking a step back from a number of forefront activities in discovery, linked open data and integrated research information towards a more hidden, but also more fundamental enterprise in the area of data infrastructure and information architecture. All for a good cause, for in the end a good data infrastructure is essential for delivering high […] Read more Looking for data tricks in Libraryland September 5, 2014January 12, 2020 Lukas KosterLibrary IFLA 2014 Annual World Library and Information Congress Lyon – Libraries, Citizens, Societies: Confluence for Knowledge After attending the IFLA 2014 Library Linked Data Satellite Meeting in Paris I travelled to Lyon for the first three days (August 17-19) of the IFLA 2014 Annual World Library and Information Congress. This year’s theme “Libraries, Citizens, Societies: Confluence for Knowledge” was named after the confluence or convergence of the rivers Rhône and Saône where the city of […] Read more Library Linked Data Happening August 26, 2014January 12, 2020 Lukas KosterLibrary On August 14 the IFLA 2014 Satellite Meeting ‘Linked Data in Libraries: Let’s make it happen!’ took place at the National Library of France in Paris. Rurik Greenall (who also wrote a very readable conference report) and I had the opportunity to present our paper ‘An unbroken chain: approaches to implementing Linked Open Data in libraries; comparing local, open-source, collaborative and commercial systems’. In this paper we do not go into reasons for libraries to […] Read more Posts navigation Older posts Profiles and social @lukask on Twitter @lukask on Mastodon My ORCID My Impactstory My Zotero My UvA profile Recent Posts Infrastructure for heritage institutions – ARK PID’s Infrastructure for heritage institutions – change of course Infrastructure for heritage institutions – first results Infrastructure for heritage institutions Ten years linked open data Maps, dictionaries and guidebooks Most Popular Posts Is an e-book a book? (8,441 views) Who needs MARC? (5,809 views) Linked Data for Libraries (5,050 views) Mobile app or mobile web? 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Let's say we want to find the product of two numbers - one stored in location 2:3 and another stored in location 5:2 - and then store the product back in the location 2:3. The CISC Approach The primary goal of CISC architecture is to complete a task in as few lines of assembly as possible. This is achieved by building processor hardware that is capable of understanding and executing a series of operations. For this particular task, a CISC processor would come prepared with a specific instruction (we'll call it "MULT"). When executed, this instruction loads the two values into separate registers, multiplies the operands in the execution unit, and then stores the product in the appropriate register. Thus, the entire task of multiplying two numbers can be completed with one instruction: MULT 2:3, 5:2 MULT is what is known as a "complex instruction." It operates directly on the computer's memory banks and does not require the programmer to explicitly call any loading or storing functions. It closely resembles a command in a higher level language. For instance, if we let "a" represent the value of 2:3 and "b" represent the value of 5:2, then this command is identical to the C statement "a = a * b." One of the primary advantages of this system is that the compiler has to do very little work to translate a high-level language statement into assembly. Because the length of the code is relatively short, very little RAM is required to store instructions. The emphasis is put on building complex instructions directly into the hardware. The RISC Approach RISC processors only use simple instructions that can be executed within one clock cycle. Thus, the "MULT" command described above could be divided into three separate commands: "LOAD," which moves data from the memory bank to a register, "PROD," which finds the product of two operands located within the registers, and "STORE," which moves data from a register to the memory banks. In order to perform the exact series of steps described in the CISC approach, a programmer would need to code four lines of assembly: LOAD A, 2:3 LOAD B, 5:2 PROD A, B STORE 2:3, A At first, this may seem like a much less efficient way of completing the operation. Because there are more lines of code, more RAM is needed to store the assembly level instructions. The compiler must also perform more work to convert a high-level language statement into code of this form. CISC RISC Emphasis on hardware Emphasis on software Includes multi-clock complex instructions Single-clock, reduced instruction only Memory-to-memory: "LOAD" and "STORE" incorporated in instructions Register to register: "LOAD" and "STORE" are independent instructions Small code sizes, high cycles per second Low cycles per second, large code sizes Transistors used for storing complex instructions Spends more transistors on memory registers However, the RISC strategy also brings some very important advantages. Because each instruction requires only one clock cycle to execute, the entire program will execute in approximately the same amount of time as the multi-cycle "MULT" command. These RISC "reduced instructions" require less transistors of hardware space than the complex instructions, leaving more room for general purpose registers. Because all of the instructions execute in a uniform amount of time (i.e. one clock), pipelining is possible. Separating the "LOAD" and "STORE" instructions actually reduces the amount of work that the computer must perform. After a CISC-style "MULT" command is executed, the processor automatically erases the registers. If one of the operands needs to be used for another computation, the processor must re-load the data from the memory bank into a register. In RISC, the operand will remain in the register until another value is loaded in its place. The Performance Equation The following equation is commonly used for expressing a computer's performance ability: The CISC approach attempts to minimize the number of instructions per program, sacrificing the number of cycles per instruction. RISC does the opposite, reducing the cycles per instruction at the cost of the number of instructions per program. RISC Roadblocks Despite the advantages of RISC based processing, RISC chips took over a decade to gain a foothold in the commercial world. This was largely due to a lack of software support. Although Apple's Power Macintosh line featured RISC-based chips and Windows NT was RISC compatible, Windows 3.1 and Windows 95 were designed with CISC processors in mind. Many companies were unwilling to take a chance with the emerging RISC technology. Without commercial interest, processor developers were unable to manufacture RISC chips in large enough volumes to make their price competitive. Another major setback was the presence of Intel. Although their CISC chips were becoming increasingly unwieldy and difficult to develop, Intel had the resources to plow through development and produce powerful processors. Although RISC chips might surpass Intel's efforts in specific areas, the differences were not great enough to persuade buyers to change technologies. The Overall RISC Advantage Today, the Intel x86 is arguable the only chip which retains CISC architecture. This is primarily due to advancements in other areas of computer technology. The price of RAM has decreased dramatically. In 1977, 1MB of DRAM cost about $5,000. By 1994, the same amount of memory cost only $6 (when adjusted for inflation). 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Slides Slides on GitHub Hi everyone, hope you’re enjoying Code4libBC so far. While I’m up here, I just want to take a quick moment to thank the organizers past and present. We’re on our 7th one and still going strong. I hope to continue attending and see this event … Continue reading "Presentation: Implementing Values in Practical Ways" Implementing Values: Learning from GitLab: Transparency This is the sixth value covered in a series of blog posts on what we can learn in implementing values that are the same or similar to GitLab’s CREDIT values. For background and links to the other posts, please check out the overview post. Transparency I have never encountered an organization that was more open … Continue reading "Implementing Values: Learning from GitLab: Transparency" Implementing Values: Learning from GitLab: Iteration This is the fifth value covered in a series of blog posts on what we can learn in implementing values that are the same or similar to GitLab’s CREDIT values. For background and links to the other posts, please check out the overview post. Iteration Iteration is closely intertwined with results since the better we … Continue reading "Implementing Values: Learning from GitLab: Iteration" Implementing Values: Learning from GitLab: Diversity & inclusion This is the fourth value covered in a series of blog posts on what we can learn in implementing values that are the same or similar to GitLab’s CREDIT values. For background and links to the other posts, please check out the overview post. Diversity & inclusion There are a number of initiatives around diversity … Continue reading "Implementing Values: Learning from GitLab: Diversity & inclusion" cynthiang-ca-8676 ---- Learning (Lib)Tech – Stories from my Life as a Technologist Skip to content Learning (Lib)Tech Stories from my Life as a Technologist Menu About Me About this Blog Contact Me Twitter GitHub LinkedIn Flickr RSS Reflection Part 2: My second year at GitLab and on becoming Senior again This reflection is a direct continuation of part 1 of my time at GitLab so far. If you haven’t, please read the first part before beginning this one. Continue reading “Reflection Part 2: My second year at GitLab and on becoming Senior again” Author CynthiaPosted on June 17, 2020June 28, 2020Categories Update, Work cultureTags GitLab, organizational culture, reflectionLeave a comment on Reflection Part 2: My second year at GitLab and on becoming Senior again Reflection Part 1: My first year at GitLab and becoming Senior About a year ago, I wrote a reflection on Summit and Contribute, our all staff events, and later that year, wrote a series of posts on the GitLab values and culture from my own perspective. There is a lot that I mention in the blog post series and I’ll try not to repeat myself (too much), but I realize I never wrote a general reflection at year 1, so I’ve decided to write about both years now but split into 2 parts. 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I’d expect that’s not the case for those who read my blog, but I thought it’d be worth reflecting on anyway. Continue reading “Working remotely at home as a remote worker during a pandemic” Author CynthiaPosted on May 4, 2020May 2, 2020Categories Work cultureTags remoteLeave a comment on Working remotely at home as a remote worker during a pandemic Code4libBC Lightning Talk Notes: Day 2 Code4libBC Day 2 lightning talk notes! Continue reading “Code4libBC Lightning Talk Notes: Day 2” Author CynthiaPosted on November 29, 2019Categories EventsTags authentication, big data, c4lbc, code, code4lib, digital collections, privacy, reference, teachingLeave a comment on Code4libBC Lightning Talk Notes: Day 2 Code4libBC Lightning Talk Notes: Day 1 Code4libBC Day 1 lightning talk notes! Continue reading “Code4libBC Lightning Talk Notes: Day 1” Author CynthiaPosted on November 28, 2019Categories EventsTags c4lbc, digital collections, intranet, MARC, metadata, teachingLeave a comment on Code4libBC Lightning Talk Notes: Day 1 Presentation: Implementing Values in Practical Ways This was presented at Code4libBC 2019. Continue reading “Presentation: Implementing Values in Practical Ways” Author CynthiaPosted on November 28, 2019November 28, 2019Categories Events, Work cultureTags c4lbc, organizational culture, presentation, valuesLeave a comment on Presentation: Implementing Values in Practical Ways Implementing Values: Learning from GitLab: Transparency This is the sixth value covered in a series of blog posts on what we can learn in implementing values that are the same or similar to GitLab’s CREDIT values. For background and links to the other posts, please check out the overview post. Continue reading “Implementing Values: Learning from GitLab: Transparency” Author CynthiaPosted on September 6, 2019August 31, 2019Categories Work cultureTags GitLab, organizational culture, reflection, valuesLeave a comment on Implementing Values: Learning from GitLab: Transparency Implementing Values: Learning from GitLab: Iteration This is the fifth value covered in a series of blog posts on what we can learn in implementing values that are the same or similar to GitLab’s CREDIT values. For background and links to the other posts, please check out the overview post. Continue reading “Implementing Values: Learning from GitLab: Iteration” Author CynthiaPosted on September 5, 2019August 30, 2019Categories Work cultureTags GitLab, organizational culture, reflection, valuesLeave a comment on Implementing Values: Learning from GitLab: Iteration Implementing Values: Learning from GitLab: Diversity & inclusion This is the fourth value covered in a series of blog posts on what we can learn in implementing values that are the same or similar to GitLab’s CREDIT values. For background and links to the other posts, please check out the overview post. 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IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 3. Examples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 3.1. Simple example . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 3.2. Longest Match . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 4. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 4.1. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 4.2. URIs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Author's Address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 1. Introduction This document applies to services that provide resources that clients can access through URIs as defined in RFC3986 [1]. For example, in the context of HTTP, a browser is a client that displays the content of a web page. Crawlers are automated clients. Search engines for instance have crawlers to recursively traverse links for indexing as defined in RFC8288 [2]. It may be inconvenient for service owners if crawlers visit the entirety of their URI space. 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The +1 Button: Now Faster Improved handling of URLs with parameters Validation: measuring and tracking code quality June Beyond PageRank: Graduating to actionable metrics +1 reporting in Google Webmaster Tools and Google Analytics +1 around the world Protecting your site with Gruyere Webinar: Implementing the +1 Button Announcing Instant Pages Authorship markup and web search Pilot Webmaster Tools’ Search Queries data in Google Analytics Introducing schema.org: Search engines come together for a richer web Add +1 to help your site stand out May Troubleshooting Instant Previews in Webmaster Tools Easier URL removals for site owners Website Security for Webmasters Introducing the Google Webmaster Team Page Speed Online has a shiny new API More guidance on building high-quality sites Flash support in Instant Previews Do 404s hurt my site? April An update on Google Video: Finding an easier way to migrate Google Video content to YouTube WordPress Plugin for Webmaster Tools verification Your fast pass through security Sharing advice from our London site clinic High-quality sites algorithm goes global, incorporates user feedback Our SEO Guide — now available in ten more languages March Changes in the Chrome user agent Introducing Page Speed Online, with mobile support Mo’ better to also detect mobile user-agent Introducing the +1 button Tag Your TV Shows! Page Speed for Chrome, and in 40 languages! February Introducing Recipe View, based on rich snippets markup Making Websites Mobile Friendly Beyond Times and Arial - The New Web Safe Fonts Linking Google Analytics to Webmaster Tools Update to Webmaster Tools Search Queries January Using Webmaster Tools like an SEO How to deal with planned site downtime Understanding your Opportunities with AdSense 2010 December "It's on Google! 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Even better indexing of SWF content Instant Previews A Chrome extension for reporting webspam How to help Google identify web spam Make your websites run faster, automatically -- try mod_pagespeed for Apache Rich snippets for shopping sites Best practices for running multiple sites October Website clinic: Call for submissions Optimizing sites for TV Webmaster Tools - Links to your site updated Webmaster Tools: Updates to Search queries, Parameter handling and Messages September SEO Starter Guide updated Finding Places on the Web: Rich Snippets for Local Search Video Sitemaps: Is your video part of a gallery? Tips for getting help with your site Unifying content under multilingual templates Google Instant: Impact on Search queries New ways to view Webmaster Tools messages Rich snippets: testing tool improvements, breadcrumbs, and events August Google now indexes SVG Showing more results from a domain Verification time savers — Analytics included! To err is human, Video Sitemap feedback is divine! Video Sitemaps: Understanding location tags July New Message Center notifications for detecting an increase in Crawl Errors Video Sitemaps 101: Making your videos searchable June Sitemaps: One file, many content types Quality links to your site Google Videos best practices Our new search index: Caffeine Crawl Errors now reports soft 404s Grab bag videos are back! May Chrome Extensions for web development Top Search Queries is now Search Queries with Average Position and Stars Call for webspam reports in Thai, Indonesian, Romanian, Czech and Farsi Do know evil URL removal explained, Part IV: Tracking your requests & what not to remove You and site performance, sitting in a tree... April Rich snippets go international To slash or not to slash URL removal explained, Part III: Removing content that you don't own Help Google index your videos Updated malware feature in Webmaster Tools Webmasters - configure Google services at your hosting panel More data and charts in Top Search Queries Better recipes on the web: Introducing recipe rich snippets Using site speed in web search ranking When and why was my site flagged for malware? Learn in near real-time! Adding Images to your Sitemaps URL removals explained, part II: Removing sensitive text from a page A word on site clinics March DNS Verification FTW URL removal explained, Part I: URLs & directories Will the Real Please Stand Up? Working with multilingual websites Sharing advice from our site clinic Working with multi-regional websites Microdata support for Rich Snippets Fetch as Googlebot Mobile and Claim your Sidewiki comment - added to Webmaster Tools Labs! Sharing the verification love Google's SEO Report Card Is your site hacked? New Message Center notifications for hacking and abuse February How did you do on the Webmaster Quiz? January Request visitors' permission before installing software Protect your site from spammers with reCAPTCHA Introducing a new Rich Snippets format: Events Google SEO resources for beginners State of the Index 2009 Test your webmaster know-how! Answering your December Grab Bag questions 2009 December Helping webmasters from user to user Handling legitimate cross-domain content duplication Your site's performance in Webmaster Tools How fast is your site? New User Agent for News Region Tags in Google Search Results Changes in First Click Free November GENERIC CIALIS on my website? I think my site has been hacked! Hard facts about comment spam 'New software version' notifications for your site Running desktop and mobile versions of your site Pros and cons of watermarked images Help Google index your mobile site Post-Halloween Treat: New Keywords User Interface! New personalization features in Google Friend Connect Get your site ready for the holidays: Webmasters - make your list and check it twice! October Using RSS/Atom feeds to discover new URLs Help us make the web better: An update on Rich Snippets Verifying a Blogger blog in Webmaster Tools One million YouTube views! Dealing with low-quality backlinks Let's make the mobile web faster Managing your reputation through search results Fetch as Googlebot and Malware details -- now in Webmaster Tools Labs! A proposal for making AJAX crawlable Reunifying duplicate content on your website New parameter handling tool helps with duplicate content issues Google Friend Connect: No more FTP... just get started! 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Advanced Q&A from (the appropriately-named) SMX Advanced July Webmaster Tools gets a "Summer Shine" Google Friend Connect - Now in 47 new languages Webmaster Central YouTube update for July 6th - 10th Google Maps gadget: Help customers find their way Webmaster Central YouTube update for June 29th - July 3rd June Webmaster Central YouTube update for June 22nd - 26th Traffic drops and site architecture issues Spam2.0: Fake user accounts and spam profiles Tell us what you think! Watch out for your .yu domain! Let's make the web faster Webmaster Central YouTube update for June 15th - 19th Flash indexing with external resource loading Reconsideration requests: Now with notifications Best practices for Product Search Webmaster Central YouTube update for June 8th - 12th An Update on Sitemaps at Google Out with the old, in with the new Message Forwarding Webmaster Central YouTube update for June 1st - 5th SEO Starter Guide now available in 40 languages Introducing Page Speed Webmaster Central YouTube update for May 26-29 May Let visitors recommend your content Introducing Rich Snippets Google Trends for your website More ways to engage your community Survey says... April Spring time design refresh! Google Webmaster Help Forums in more languages Research study of Sitemaps Tips on requesting reconsideration One-line sitelinks March Helping your site look great with Google Chrome Making more tools available with just a click Get up-to-date on Image Search Using stats from site: and Sitemap details February Canonical Link Element: presentation from SMX West Introducing the Google Webmaster Central YouTube Channel Best practices against hacking State of the Index: my presentation from PubCon Vegas Specify your canonical Help us help you Google Friend Connect introduces the social bar January Open redirect URLs: Is your site being abused? Year in Review Adding a social playlist to your site Seamless verification of Google Sites and Blogger with Webmaster Tools A new Google Sitemap Generator for your website Preventing Virtual Blight: my presentation from Web 2.0 Summit 2008 December Japanese WMC Blog launched Feliz Navidad from the Spanish Webmaster Central team! Wishing you and your site a happy holiday! Quick and easy tips for the holiday rush Sitemap Submission Made Simple Webmaster Tools in 40 languages! Message Center info through our API Reintroducing your English Webmaster Help Google Guides Friend Connect now available in beta to everyone One place for changing your site's settings A new look for our Webmaster Help Group More control of Googlebot's crawl rate November Date with Googlebot, Part II: HTTP status codes and If-Modified-Since Better targeting your indic language site On-Demand Sitemaps for Custom Search Google's SEO Starter Guide October Spookier than malware Reflections on the "Tricks and Treats" webmaster event Malware? We don't need no stinking malware! Webmaster chat event: Vote early and often! Join us for our third live online webmaster chat! Where's my data? First Click Free for Web Search Message Center warnings for hackable sites Video Tutorial: Google for Webmasters Helping you break the language barrier Webmaster Tools API updated with Site Settings Webmaster Tools shows Crawl error sources Good times with inbound links Linking out: Often it's just applying common sense Importance of link architecture Links information straight from the source September Advanced Website Diagnostics with Google Webmaster Tools Keeping comment spam off your site and away from users More webmaster questions - Answered! Dynamic URLs vs. static URLs Webmaster Tools made easier in French, Italian, German and Spanish Demystifying the "duplicate content penalty" Your burning questions - Answered! Workin' it on all browsers August The Impact of User Feedback, Part 2 (and more Popular Picks!) silver_medal_count++ Hey Google, I no longer have badware Make your 404 pages more useful More on 404 Farewell to soft 404s It's 404 week at Webmaster Central How to start a multilingual site To infinity and beyond? No! July A day in the life of webmaster support Matt Cutts on ranking, spam and the future of search Google Trifecta recording now available Helping yourself to Webmaster Tools Requesting reconsideration using Google Webmaster Tools June Improved Flash indexing What are your SEO recommendations? Free online seminar: The Google Trifecta Get the audio and Q&As from our recent live chat One year of monitored European Webmaster Help Groups Get Cooking with the Webmaster Tools API A new layer to Google Trends Join us for another live chat - June 19, 2008 Duplicate content due to scrapers The Impact of User Feedback, Part 1 Improving on Robots Exclusion Protocol How Google defines IP delivery, geolocation, and cloaking May Making more housecalls Webmaster Tools now in 26 languages Becoming Social Design patterns for accessible, crawlable and indexable content Sitemaps offer better coverage for your Custom Search Engine April Where in the world is your site? Retiring support for OAI-PMH in Sitemaps Best practices when moving your site Webmaster tips for creating accessible, crawlable sites Crawling through HTML forms My site's been hacked - now what? Improvements to iGoogle Gadgets for Webmaster Tools March Making harmonious use of Webmaster Tools and Analytics Speaking the language of robots Bionic Posters help webmasters worldwide Taking advantage of universal search, part 2 Join us for an online live chat this Friday! Good housekeeping SES London Calling! Tips for making information universally accessible German Webmaster Blog turns one Webmaster Tools keeps your "messages waiting" First date with the Googlebot: Headers and compression February iGoogle Gadgets for Webmaster Tools Cross-submissions via robots.txt on Sitemaps.org Leap day hackathon for Google Gadgets, Maps, and more 7 must-read Webmaster Central blog posts January Feeling lucky at PubCon Sitemaps FAQs Remove your content from Google Growing the Webmaster Help Groups Team Looking back on 2007 2007 December A Festivus for our webmasterus The Ultimate Fate of Supplemental Results Taking feeds out of our web search results Introducing Video Sitemaps FYI on Google Toolbar's latest features New: Content analysis and Sitemap details, plus more languages Using ALT attributes smartly Answering more popular picks: meta tags and web search Information about buying and selling links that pass PageRank November The anatomy of a search result A dozen ways to discuss "webmaster help" Bringing the conference to you Go Daddy and Google offer easy access to Webmaster Tools A spider's view of Web 2.0 October Happy Halloween to our spooktacular webmasters! 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Beginners guide to Search Console Advanced SEO Get started Guidelines Control crawling and indexing Change your Search appearance Optimize page experience Blog Events Documentation updates Home Google Search Central What's new Google Search Central Blog [{ "type": "thumb-down", "id": "missingTheInformationINeed", "label":"Missing the information I need" },{ "type": "thumb-down", "id": "tooComplicatedTooManySteps", "label":"Too complicated / too many steps" },{ "type": "thumb-down", "id": "outOfDate", "label":"Out of date" },{ "type": "thumb-down", "id": "samplesCodeIssue", "label":"Samples/Code issue" },{ "type": "thumb-down", "id": "otherDown", "label":"Other" }] [{ "type": "thumb-up", "id": "easyToUnderstand", "label":"Easy to understand" },{ "type": "thumb-up", "id": "solvedMyProblem", "label":"Solved my problem" },{ "type": "thumb-up", "id": "otherUp", "label":"Other" }] Need to tell us more? Send feedback Formalizing the Robots Exclusion Protocol Specification Monday, July 01, 2019 For 25 years, the Robots Exclusion Protocol (REP) has been one of the most basic and critical components of the web. It allows website owners to exclude automated clients, for example web crawlers, from accessing their sites - either partially or completely. In 1994, Martijn Koster (a webmaster himself) created the initial standard after crawlers were overwhelming his site. With more input from other webmasters, the REP was born, and it was adopted by search engines to help website owners manage their server resources easier. However, the REP was never turned into an official Internet standard, which means that developers have interpreted the protocol somewhat differently over the years. And since its inception, the REP hasn't been updated to cover today's corner cases. This is a challenging problem for website owners because the ambiguous de-facto standard made it difficult to write the rules correctly. We wanted to help website owners and developers create amazing experiences on the internet instead of worrying about how to control crawlers. Together with the original author of the protocol, webmasters, and other search engines, we've documented how the REP is used on the modern web, and submitted it to the IETF. The proposed REP draft reflects over 20 years of real world experience of relying on robots.txt rules, used both by Googlebot and other major crawlers, as well as about half a billion websites that rely on REP. These fine grained controls give the publisher the power to decide what they'd like to be crawled on their site and potentially shown to interested users. It doesn't change the rules created in 1994, but rather defines essentially all undefined scenarios for robots.txt parsing and matching, and extends it for the modern web. Notably: Any URI based transfer protocol can use robots.txt. For example, it's not limited to HTTP anymore and can be used for FTP or CoAP as well. Developers must parse at least the first 500 kibibytes of a robots.txt. Defining a maximum file size ensures that connections are not open for too long, alleviating unnecessary strain on servers. A new maximum caching time of 24 hours or cache directive value if available, gives website owners the flexibility to update their robots.txt whenever they want, and crawlers aren't overloading websites with robots.txt requests. For example, in the case of HTTP, Cache-Control headers could be used for determining caching time. The specification now provisions that when a previously accessible robots.txt file becomes inaccessible due to server failures, known disallowed pages are not crawled for a reasonably long period of time. Additionally, we've updated the augmented Backus-Naur form in the internet draft to better define the syntax of robots.txt, which is critical for developers to parse the lines. RFC stands for Request for Comments, and we mean it: we uploaded the draft to IETF to get feedback from developers who care about the basic building blocks of the internet. As we work to give web creators the controls they need to tell us how much information they want to make available to Googlebot, and by extension, eligible to appear in Search, we have to make sure we get this right. If you'd like to drop us a comment, ask us questions, or just say hi, you can find us on Twitter and in our Webmaster Community, both offline and online. 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24/09/2018 a 16/05/2019 ui-button Ernandes Lopes Bezerra De 19/03/2015 a 08/03/2018 ui-button Ewilla Cunha De 29/08/2018 a 13/05/2019 ui-button Fábio Luiz Daudt Morais De 11/11/2014 a 20/03/2018 ui-button Fernanda Weschenfelder De 07/11/2014 a 08/03/2018 ui-button Fernando William Cruz De 06/07/2016 a 08/03/2018 ui-button Flávio Duque Estrada Soares Pereira De 30/01/2017 a 08/03/2018 ui-button Flávio Duque Estrada Soares Pereira De 31/07/2018 a 04/02/2020 ui-button Frederico Augusto dos Santos Ângelo De 11/05/2015 a 04/02/2020 ui-button Frederico Holtz Filho De 29/08/2018 a 17/05/2019 ui-button Gabriela Miranda do Carmo De 21/09/2018 a 15/05/2019 ui-button Gelci Rostirolla De 19/05/2015 a 08/03/2018 ui-button Gercina Ângela de Lima De 10/03/2016 a 08/03/2018 ui-button Gerson Luiz de Abreu Henriques De 29/08/2018 a 10/05/2019 ui-button Giovani Pieri De 14/03/2016 a 08/03/2018 ui-button Gregori Schneider De 29/08/2018 a 13/05/2019 ui-button Guilherme da Silva Fontes Lopes De 09/05/2019 a 04/02/2020 ui-button Igor Garcia Ballhausen Sampaio De 29/08/2018 a 09/05/2019 ui-button Isadora Pinheiro Barbieri De 29/08/2018 a 13/05/2019 ui-button Ivana Aparecida Ferrer Silva De 29/08/2018 a 08/05/2019 ui-button Jéssica Cristina Silva do Vale De 24/09/2018 a 16/05/2019 ui-button João Felipe Barbosa Araripe Silva De 29/08/2018 a 15/05/2019 ui-button João Pedro Buzzi De 29/08/2018 a 15/05/2019 ui-button João Ricardo Chagas dos Santos De 25/02/2015 a 08/03/2018 ui-button João Thiago de Guimarães Anchieta e Araújo Campos De 29/08/2018 a 21/05/2019 ui-button Johnatan Marlyn Ribeiro de Oliveira De 29/08/2018 a 20/05/2019 ui-button Jorge Luiz Cardoso De 29/08/2018 a 20/05/2019 ui-button José Augusto de Oliveira De 21/09/2018 a 16/05/2019 ui-button José Henrique Adriano dos Santos De 25/11/2014 a 14/03/2016 ui-button Juliana Vianna de Oliveira De 29/08/2018 a 10/05/2019 ui-button Kathryn Cardim Araujo De 31/10/2014 a 10/03/2016 ui-button Larissa Gouvêa Trescastro De 29/08/2018 a 21/05/2019 ui-button Lauro Bessa Lamenza De 13/08/2015 a 08/03/2018 ui-button Lauro Soares de Freitas De 21/09/2018 a 15/05/2019 ui-button Leandro de Amorim Maia De 29/08/2018 a 15/05/2019 ui-button Leonardo de Carvalho Gomes De 29/08/2018 a 09/05/2019 ui-button Letícia Moreira da Silva De 24/09/2018 a 16/05/2019 ui-button Lívia Cavalcanti Figueiredo De 29/08/2018 a 09/05/2019 ui-button Lucas Afrânio Silva de Siqueira De 25/09/2018 a 09/05/2019 ui-button Lucas da Costa Pinto Camacho De 21/09/2018 a 13/05/2019 ui-button Lucas Do Monte Barbosa De 29/08/2018 a 13/05/2019 ui-button Lucas Vieira da Silva De 29/08/2018 a 09/05/2019 ui-button Luis Eduardo Brandão Paiva De 29/08/2018 a 20/05/2019 ui-button Luiz Carlos de Mello Flores Júnior De 29/08/2018 a 15/05/2019 ui-button Luiz Filipe Medina Bastos De 21/09/2016 a 25/01/2017 ui-button Marco Antonio Catussi Paschoalotto De 24/09/2018 a 16/05/2019 ui-button Marcos Paulo Gomes Lara De 21/09/2018 a 16/05/2019 ui-button Mariana Gomes Magalhães 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Universidade Estadual de Campinas UNICAMP SP Visualizar espelho da instituição parceira ui-button Indicadores de recursos humanos do grupo Formação acadêmica Pesquisadores Estudantes Técnicos Colaboradores estrangeiros Total Doutorado 28 0 0 2 30 Mestrado 20 0 0 1 21 Mestrado Profissional 1 0 0 0 1 Especialização 7 0 0 0 7 Graduação 14 0 0 1 15 Ensino Médio (2o grau) 1 0 0 0 1 Equipamentos e Softwares Relevantes O grupo de pesquisa possui equipamentos de P&D próprios e que não fazem parte de laboratório/infraestrutura de pesquisa da instituição, com valor superior a R$100 mil? 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]]> Mary Meeker presented her 2016 Internet Trends report earlier this month. If you want a better understanding of how tech and the tech industry is evolving, you should watch her talk and read her slides.

This year’s talk was fairly time constrained, and she did not go into as much detail as she has in years past. That being said, there is still an enormous amount of value in the data she presents and the trends she identifies via that data.

Some interesting takeaways:

  • The growth in total number of internet users worldwide is slowing (the year-to-year growth rate is flat; overall growth is around 7% new years per year)
  • However, growth in India is still accelerating, and India is now the #2 global user market (behind China; USA is 3rd)
  • Similarly, there is a slowdown in the growth of the number of smartphone users and number of smartphones being shipped worldwide (still growing, but at a slower rate)
  • Android continues to demonstrate growth in marketshare; Android devices are continuing to be less costly by a significant margin than Apple devices.
  • Overall, there are opportunities for businesses that innovate / increase efficiency / lower prices / create jobs
  • Advertising continues to demonstrate strong growth; advertising efficacy still has a ways to go (internet advertising is effective and can be even more so)
  • Internet as distribution channel continues to grow in use and importance
  •  Brand recognition is increasingly important
  • Visual communication channel usage is increasing – Generation Z relies more on communicating with images than with text
  • Messaging is becoming a core communication channel for business interactions in addition to social interactions
  • Voice on mobile rapidly rising as important user interface – lots of activity around this
  • Data as platform – important!

So, what kind of take-aways might be most useful to consider in the library context? Some top-of-head thoughts:

  • In the larger context of the Internet, Libraries need to be more aggressive in marketing their brand and brand value. We are, by nature, fairly passive, especially compared to our commercial competition, and a failure to better leverage the opportunity for brand exposure leaves the door open to commercial competitors.
  • Integration of library services and content through messaging channels will become more important, especially with younger users. (Integration may actually be too weak a term; understanding how to use messaging inherently within the digital lifestyles of our users is critical)
  • Voice – are any libraries doing anything with voice? Integration with Amazon’s Alexa voice search? How do we fit into the voice as platform paradigm?

One parting thought, that I’ll try to tease out in a follow-up post: Libraries need to look very seriously at the importance of personalized, customized curation of collections for users, something that might actually be antithetical to the way we currently approach collection development. Think Apple Music, but for books, articles, and other content provided by libraries. It feels like we are doing this in slices and pieces, but that we have not yet established a unifying platform that integrates with the larger Internet ecosystem.

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http://digitallibrarian.org/?feed=rss2&p=229 0 Meaningful Web Metrics http://digitallibrarian.org/?p=207 http://digitallibrarian.org/?p=207#respond Sun, 03 Jan 2016 20:10:52 +0000 http://digitallibrarian.org/?p=207 Meaningful Web Metrics Read More »

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This article from Wired magazine is a must-read if you are interested in more impactful metrics for your library’s web site. At MPOE, we are scaling up our need for in-house web product expertise, but regardless of how much we invest in terms of staffing, it is likely that the amount of requested web support will always exceed the amount of resourcing we have for that support. Leveraging meaningful impact metrics can help us understand the value we get from the investment we make in our web presence, and more importantly help us define what types of impact we want to achieve through that investment. This is no easy feat, but it is good to see that others in the information ecosystem are looking at the same challenges.

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Just a quick note – digitallibrarian.org has been migrated to a new server. You may see a few quirks here and there, but things should be mostly in good shape. If you notice anything major, send me a Challah. Really. A nice bread. Or just an email. Your choice. 🙂

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The new iPad http://digitallibrarian.org/?p=141 http://digitallibrarian.org/?p=141#comments Sun, 18 Mar 2012 16:20:55 +0000 http://digitallibrarian.org/?p=141 The new iPad Read More »

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I decided that it was time to upgrade my original iPad, so I pre-ordered a new iPad, which arrived this past Friday. After a few days, here are my initial thoughts / observations:

  • Compared to the original iPad, the new iPad is a huge improvement. Much zipper, feels lighter (compared to the original), and of course the display is fantastic.
  • I’ve just briefly tried the dictation feature, and though I haven’t used it extensively yet, the accuracy seems pretty darned good. I wonder if a future update will support Siri?
  • The beauty of the display cannot be understated – crisp, clear (especially for someone with aging eyes)
  • I purchased a 32-Gb model with LTE, but I have not tried the cell network yet. I did see 4G show up, so I’m hoping that Tucson indeed has the newer network.
  • Not really new, but going from the original iPad to the new iPad, I really like the smart cover approach. Ditto with the form factor.
  • Again, not specific to the new model, the ability to access my music, videos, and apps via iCloud means that I can utilize the storage on the iPad more effectively.
  • All-in-all, I can see myself using the new iPad consistently for a variety of tasks, not just for consuming information. Point-in-fact, this post was written with the new iPad.

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    3rd SITS Meeting – Geneva http://digitallibrarian.org/?p=130 http://digitallibrarian.org/?p=130#respond Wed, 03 Aug 2011 09:38:19 +0000 http://digitallibrarian.org/?p=130 3rd SITS Meeting – Geneva Read More »

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    Back in June I attend the 3rd SITS (Scholarly Infrastructure Technical Summit) meeting, held in conjunction with the OAI7 workshop and sponsored by JISC and the Digital Library Federation. This meeting, held in lovely Geneva, Switzerland, brought together library technologists and technology leaders from North America, Europe, Australia, and Asia for the purpose of exploring common technology and technology-related issues that crossed our geographic boundaries.

    This is the first SITS meeting that I attended – prior to this meeting, there were two other SITS meetings (one in London and one in California). As this SITS meeting was attached to the OAI7 conference, it brought together a group of stakeholders who’s roles in their organizations spanned from technology implementors to technology strategists and decision makers. From having chatted with some of the folks who had attended previous SITS meetings, the attendees at those meetings tended to weigh heavily on the technology implementer / developer side, while this particular instance of SITS had a broader range of discussion that, while centered on technology, also incorporated much of the context to which technology was being applied. For me, that actually made this a more intriguing and productive discussion, as I think that while there are certainly a great variety of strictly technical issues with which we grapple, what often gets lost when talking semantic web, linked data, digital preservation, etc. is the context and focus of the purpose of deploying said technology. So, with that particular piece of context, I’ll describe some of the conversation that occurred at this particular SITS event.

    Due to the schedule of OAI7, this SITS meeting was held in two parts – the afternoon of 24 June, and the morning of 25 June. For the first session, the group met in one of the lecture rooms at the conference venue, and this worked out quite nicely. SITS uses an open agenda / open meeting format, which allows the attendees to basically nominate and elect the topics of discussion for the meeting. After initial introductions, we began proposing topics. I tried to capture as best I could all of the topics that were proposed, though I might have missed one or two:

    * stable links for linked data vs. stable bitstreams for preservation
    * authority hubs / clustered IDs / researcher IDs / ORCID in DSpace
    * effective synchronization of digital resources
    * consistency and usage of usage data
    * digital preservation architecture – integration of tape-based storage and other storage anvironments (external to the library)
    * integration between repositories and media delivery (i.e. streaming) – particularly to access control enforcement
    * nano publications and object granularity
    * pairing storage with different types of applications
    * linking research data to scholarly publications to faculty assessment
    * well-behaved document
    * research impacts and outputs
    * linked open data: from vision to deployment
    * Relationship between open linked data and open research data
    * Name disambiguation

    Following process, we took the above brainstormed list and proceeded to vote on which topic to begin discussion. The first topic chosen was researcher identities, which began with discussion around ORCID, a project that currently has reasonable mindshare behind it. While there are a lot of backers of ORCID, it is not clear whether the approach of a singular researcher ID is a feasible approach, though I believe we’ll discover the answer based on the success (or not) of the project. In general, I think that most of the attendees will be paying attention to ORCID, but that also a wait and see approach is likely as there are many, many issues around researcher IDs that still need to be worked through.

    The next topic was the assessment of research impacts and outputs. This particular topic was not particularly technically focused, but did bring about some interesting discussion about the impact of assessment activities, both positive and negative.

    The next topic, linking research data to scholarly publications to faculty assessment, was a natural progression from the previous topic, and much of the discussion revolved around how to support such relationships. I must admit that while I think this topic is important, I didn’t feel that the discussion really resolved any of the potential issues with supporting researchers in linking data to publications (and then capturing this data for assessment purposes). What is clear is that the concept of publishing data, especially open data, is one that is not necessarily as straight-forward as one would hope when you get into the details, such as where to publish data, how to credit such publication, how is the data maintained, etc. There is a lot of work to be done here.

    Next to be discussed was the preservation of data and software. It was brought up that the sustainability and preservation of data, especially open data, was somewhat analogous to the sustainability and preservation of software, in that both required a certain number of active tasks in order to ensure that both data and software were continually usable. It is also clear that much data requires the proper software in order to be usable, and therefore the issues of software and data sustainability and preservation are in my senses interwoven.

    The group then moved to a brief discussion of the harvesting and use of usage data. Efforts such as COUNTER and popirus2 were mentioned. The ability to track data in a way that balances anonymity and privacy vs. added value back to the user was discussed – the fact that usage data can be leveraged to provide better services back to users was a key consideration.

    The next discussion topic was influenced by the OAI7 workshop. The issue of the synchronisation of resources was discussed, and during OAI7, there was a breakout session that looked at the future of OAI-PMH, both in terms of 1.x sustainability as well as work that might end up with the result of OAI-PMH 2.0. Interestingly, there was some discussion of even the need for data synchronization with the advent of linked data; I can see why this would come up, but I personally believe that linked data isn’t at the point where other methods for ensuring synchronized data aren’t necessary (nor may it ever be).

    Speaking of linked data, the concept arose in many of the SITS discussions, though the group did not officially address it until late in the agenda. I must admit that I’ve yet to drink the linked data lemonade, in the sense that I really don’t see it being the silver bullet that many of its proponents make it out to be, but I do see it as one approach for enabling extended use of data and resources. In the discussion, one of the challenges of the linked data approach that was discussed was the need to map between ontologies.

    At this point, it was getting a bit late into the meeting, but we did talk about two more topics: One was very pragmatic, while the other was a bit more future-thinking (though there might be some disagreement on that). The first was a discussion about how organizationally digital preservation architectures were being supported – were they being supported by central IT, by the Library IT, or otherwise? It seemed that (not surprisingly) a lot depended upon the specific organization, and that perhaps more coordination could be undertaken through efforts such as PASIG. The second discussion was on the topic of “nano-publications”, which the group defined as “things that simply tell you what is being asserted (e.g. Europe is a continent)”. I must admit I got a bit lost about the importance and purpose of nano-publications, but again, it was close to the end of the meeting.

    BTW, as I’m finishing this an email just came through with the official notes from the SITS meeting, which can be accessed at http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/22546/

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    David Lewis’ presentation on Collections Futures http://digitallibrarian.org/?p=126 http://digitallibrarian.org/?p=126#comments Wed, 02 Mar 2011 21:05:12 +0000 http://digitallibrarian.org/?p=126 David Lewis’ presentation on Collections Futures Read More »

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    Peter Murray (aka the Disruptive Library Technology Jester) has provided an audio-overlay of David Lewis’ slideshare of his plenary at the last June’s RLG Annual Partners meeting. If you are at all interested in understanding the future of academic libraries, you should take an hour of your time and listen to this presentation. Of particular note, because David says it almost in passing, is that academic libraries are moving away from being collectors of information to being provisioners of information – the difference being that instead of purchasing everything that might be used, academic libraries instead are moving to ensuring that there is a path for provisioning access to materials that actually requested for use by their users. Again, well worth an hour of your time.

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    Librarians are *the* search experts… http://digitallibrarian.org/?p=121 http://digitallibrarian.org/?p=121#respond Thu, 19 Aug 2010 14:22:46 +0000 http://digitallibrarian.org/?p=121 …so I wonder how many librarians know all of the tips and tricks for using Google that are mentioned here?

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    What do we want from Discovery? Maybe it’s to save the time of the user…. http://digitallibrarian.org/?p=119 http://digitallibrarian.org/?p=119#comments Wed, 18 Aug 2010 13:14:04 +0000 http://digitallibrarian.org/?p=119 What do we want from Discovery? Maybe it’s to save the time of the user…. Read More »

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    Just a quick thought on discovery tools – the major newish discovery services being vended to libraries (WorldCat local, Summon, Ebsco Discovery Service, etc.) all have their strengths, their complexity, their middle-of-the-road politician trying to be everything to everybody features. One question I have asked and not yet had a good answer to is “How does your tool save the time of the user?”. For me, that’s the most important feature of any discovery tool.

    Show me data or study results that prove your tool saves the time of the user as compared to other vended tools (and Google and Google Scholar), and you have a clear advantage, at least in what I am considering when choosing to implement a discovery tool.

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    Putting a library in Starbucks http://digitallibrarian.org/?p=114 http://digitallibrarian.org/?p=114#respond Thu, 12 Aug 2010 09:40:58 +0000 http://digitallibrarian.org/?p=114 Putting a library in Starbucks Read More »

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    It is not uncommon to find a coffee shop in a library these days. Turn that concept around, though – would you expect a library inside a Starbucks? Or maybe that’s the wrong question – how would you react to having a library inside a Starbucks? Well, that concept shuffling its way towards reality, as Starbucks is now experimenting with offering premium (i.e. non-free) content to users while they are on the free wireless that Starbucks provides. In fact, Starbucks actually has a collection development policy for their content – they are providing content in the following areas, which they call channels: News, Entertainment, Wellness, Business & Careers and My Neighborhood. They even call their offerings “curated content”.

    Obviously, this isn’t the equivalent of putting the full contents of a library into a coffee shop, but it is worth our time to pay attention to how this new service approach from Starbucks evolves. Starbucks isn’t giving away content for free just to get customers in the door; they are looking at how they might monetize this service through upsell techniques. The business models and agreements are going to have impact on how libraries do business, and we need to pay attention to how Starbucks brokers agreements with content providers. Eric Hellman’s current favorite term, monopsony, comes to mind here – though in reality Starbucks isn’t buying anything, as no money is actually changing hands, at least to start. Content providers are happy to allow Starbucks to provide limited access (i.e. limited by geographic location / network access) to content for free in order to promote their content and provide a discovery to delivery path that will allow users to extend their use of the content for a price.

    This begs the question – should libraries look at upsell opportunities, especially if it means we can reduce our licensing costs? At the very least, the idea is worth exploring.

    Source: Yahoo News

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    1 week of iPad http://digitallibrarian.org/?p=101 http://digitallibrarian.org/?p=101#comments Wed, 14 Apr 2010 11:10:36 +0000 http://digitallibrarian.org/?p=101 1 week of iPad Read More »

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    It has been a little over a week since My iPad was delivered, and in that time I have had the opportunity to try it out at home, at work, and on the road. In fact, I’m currently typing this entry on it from the hotel restaurant at the CNI Spring task force meeting. I feel that I have used it enough now to provide some of my insights and thoughts about the iPad, how I am using it, and what I think of it.

    So, how best to describe the iPad? Fun. Convenient. Fun again. The iPad is more than the sum of its parts; much like the iPhone, it provides an overall experience, one that is enjoyable and yes, efficient. Browsing is great fun; I have only run into one site where because of the lack of flash support was completely inaccessible (a local restaurant site). A number of sites that I regularly peruse have some flash aspect that is not available via the iPad, but typically this isn’t a big loss. For example, if there is an engadget article that contains video, I won’t get the video. However, the NY Times, ESPN, and other major sites are already supporting HTML 5 embedded video, and I expect to see a strong push towards HTML 5 and away from flash. In the grand scheme of things, most of the sites I browse are text and image based, and have no issues.

    Likewise for email and calendaring – both work like a charm. Email on the iPad is easy, fun, and much better than on the iPhone. The keyboard, when in landscape mode, is actually much better than I expected, and very suitable for email replies (not to mention blog posts). I’d go as far to say that the usability of the onscreen keyboard (when the iPad is in landscape mode) is as good or better than a typical net book keyboard. Also, an unintended bonus is that typing on the keyboard is pretty much silent; this is somewhat noticeable during conference sessions where a dozen or so attendees are typing their notes and the clack of their keyboards starts to add up.

    So, how am I using my iPad? Well, on this trip, I have used it to read (one novel and a bunch of work-related articles), do email, listen to music, watch videos, stream some netflix, browse the web, draft a policy document for my place of employment, diagram a repository architecture, and take notes during conference sessions. Could I do all of this on a laptop? Sure. Could I do all of this on a laptop without plugging in at any point in the day? Possibly, with the right laptop or net book. But here’s the thing – at the conference, instead of lugging my laptop bag around with me, my iPad replaced the laptop, my notepad, and everything else I would have dragged around in my bag. I literally only took my iPad, which is actually smaller than a standard paper notebook, and honestly I didn’t miss a beat. Quickly jot down a note? Easy. Sketch out an idea? Ditto. It’s all just right there, all the functionality, in a so-much-more convenient form factor.

    Is the iPad perfect? By no means – the desktop interface is optimized for the iPhone / iTouch, and feels a bit inefficient for the larger iPad. Because of the current lack of multitasking (something that Apple has already announced will be available in the next version of the OS), I can’t keep an IM client running in the background. There is no inherent folder system, so saving files outside of applications is more complex then it should be. Fingerprints show up much more than I expected, though they wipe away fairly easily with a cloth. The weight (1.5 lbs) is just enough to make you need to shift how you hold the iPad after a period of time.

    Again, here’s the thing: the iPad doesn’t need to be perfect, it needs to be niche. Is it niche? Ask my laptop bag.

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    digitallibrarian-org-9180 ---- The Digital Librarian – Information. Organization. Access. ↓ Skip to Main Content The Digital Librarian Information. Organization. Access. Main Navigation Menu Home About Libraries and the state of the Internet By jaf Posted on June 27, 2016 Posted in digital libraries No Comments Mary Meeker presented her 2016 Internet Trends report earlier this month. If you want a better understanding of how tech and the tech industry is evolving, you should watch her talk and read her slides. This year’s talk was fairly … Libraries and the state of the Internet Read more » Meaningful Web Metrics By jaf Posted on January 3, 2016 Posted in Web metrics No Comments This article from Wired magazine is a must-read if you are interested in more impactful metrics for your library’s web site. At MPOE, we are scaling up our need for in-house web product expertise, but regardless of how much we … Meaningful Web Metrics Read more » Site migrated By jaf Posted on October 1, 2012 Posted in blog No Comments Just a quick note – digitallibrarian.org has been migrated to a new server. You may see a few quirks here and there, but things should be mostly in good shape. If you notice anything major, send me a Challah. Really. … Site migrated Read more » The new iPad By jaf Posted on March 18, 2012 Posted in Apple, Hardware, iPad 1 Comment I decided that it was time to upgrade my original iPad, so I pre-ordered a new iPad, which arrived this past Friday. After a few days, here are my initial thoughts / observations: Compared to the original iPad, the new … The new iPad Read more » 3rd SITS Meeting – Geneva By jaf Posted on August 3, 2011 Posted in Conferences, digital libraries, Uncategorized, workshops No Comments Back in June I attend the 3rd SITS (Scholarly Infrastructure Technical Summit) meeting, held in conjunction with the OAI7 workshop and sponsored by JISC and the Digital Library Federation. This meeting, held in lovely Geneva, Switzerland, brought together library technologists … 3rd SITS Meeting – Geneva Read more » Tagged with: digital libraries, DLF, SITS David Lewis’ presentation on Collections Futures By jaf Posted on March 2, 2011 Posted in eBooks, Librarianship 1 Comment Peter Murray (aka the Disruptive Library Technology Jester) has provided an audio-overlay of David Lewis’ slideshare of his plenary at the last June’s RLG Annual Partners meeting. If you are at all interested in understanding the future of academic libraries, … David Lewis’ presentation on Collections Futures Read more » Tagged with: collections, future, provisioning Librarians are *the* search experts… By jaf Posted on August 19, 2010 Posted in Librarianship No Comments …so I wonder how many librarians know all of the tips and tricks for using Google that are mentioned here? What do we want from Discovery? Maybe it’s to save the time of the user…. By jaf Posted on August 18, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized 1 Comment Just a quick thought on discovery tools – the major newish discovery services being vended to libraries (WorldCat local, Summon, Ebsco Discovery Service, etc.) all have their strengths, their complexity, their middle-of-the-road politician trying to be everything to everybody features. … What do we want from Discovery? Maybe it’s to save the time of the user…. Read more » Putting a library in Starbucks By jaf Posted on August 12, 2010 Posted in digital libraries, Librarianship No Comments It is not uncommon to find a coffee shop in a library these days. Turn that concept around, though – would you expect a library inside a Starbucks? Or maybe that’s the wrong question – how would you react to … Putting a library in Starbucks Read more » Tagged with: coffee, digital library, library, monopsony, starbucks, upsell 1 week of iPad By jaf Posted on April 14, 2010 Posted in Apple, eBooks, Hardware, iPad 1 Comment It has been a little over a week since My iPad was delivered, and in that time I have had the opportunity to try it out at home, at work, and on the road. In fact, I’m currently typing this … 1 week of iPad Read more » Tagged with: Apple, digital lifestyle, iPad, mobile, tablet Posts navigation 1 2 3 Next © 2020 | Powered by Responsive Theme dltj-org-1162 ---- None dltj-org-1600 ---- None dltj-org-2977 ---- None dltj-org-3425 ---- GetFTR | Disruptive Library Technology Jester Skip links Skip to primary navigation Skip to content Skip to footer Disruptive Library Technology Jester About Resume Toggle search Toggle menu GetFTR User Behavior Access Controls at a Library Proxy Server are Okay 9 minute read Earlier this month, my Twitter timeline lit up with mentions of a half-day webinar called Cybersecurity Landscape - Protecting the Scholarly Infrastructure. ... Enter your search term... Twitter GitHub Feed © 2020 Peter Murray. 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Powered by Jekyll & Minimal Mistakes. dltj-org-4853 ---- User Behavior Access Controls at a Library Proxy Server are Okay | Disruptive Library Technology Jester Skip links Skip to primary navigation Skip to content Skip to footer Disruptive Library Technology Jester About Resume Toggle search Toggle menu Peter Murray Library technologist, open source advocate, striving to think globally while acting locally Follow Columbus, Ohio Email Twitter Keybase GitHub LinkedIn StackOverflow ORCID Email User Behavior Access Controls at a Library Proxy Server are Okay Posted on November 28, 2020 and updated on November 30, 2020     9 minute read Earlier this month, my Twitter timeline lit up with mentions of a half-day webinar called Cybersecurity Landscape - Protecting the Scholarly Infrastructure. What had riled up the people I follow on Twitter was the first presentation: “Security Collaboration for Library Resource Access” by Cory Roach, the chief information security officer at the University of Utah. Many of the tweets and articles linked in tweets were about a proposal for a new round of privacy-invading technology coming from content providers as a condition of libraries subscribing to publisher content. One of the voices that I trust was urging caution: I highly recommend you listen to the talk, which was given by a university CIO, and judge if this is a correct representation. FWIW, I attended the event and it is not what I took away. — Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe (@lisalibrarian) November 14, 2020 As near as I can tell, much of the debate traces back to this article: Scientific publishers propose installing spyware in university libraries to protect copyrights - Coda Story https://t.co/rtCokIukBf — Open Access Tracking Project (@oatp) November 14, 2020 The article describes Cory’s presentation this way: One speaker proposed a novel tactic publishers could take to protect their intellectual property rights against data theft: introducing spyware into the proxy servers academic libraries use to allow access to their online services, such as publishers’ databases. The “spyware” moniker is quite scary. It is what made me want to seek out the recording from the webinar and hear the context around that proposal. My understanding (after watching the presentation) is that the proposal is not nearly as concerning. Although there is one problematic area—the correlation of patron identity with requested URLs—overall, what is described is a sound and common practice for securing web applications. To the extent that it is necessary to determine a user’s identity before allowing access to licensed content (an unfortunate necessity because of the state of scholarly publishing), this is an acceptable proposal. (Through the university communications office, Corey published a statement about the reaction to his talk.) In case you didn’t know, a web proxy server ensures the patron is part of the community of licensed users, and the publisher trusts requests that come through the web proxy server. The point of Cory’s presentation is that the username/password checking at the web proxy server is a weak form of access control that is subject to four problems: phishing (sending email to tricking a user into giving up their username/password) social engineering (non-email ways of tricking a user into giving up their username/password) credential reuse (systems that are vulnerable because the user used the same password in more than one place) hactivism (users that intentionally give out their username/password so others can access resources) Right after listing these four problems, Cory says: “But anyway we look at it, we can safely say that this is primarily a people problem and the technology alone is not going to solve that problem. Technology can help us take reasonable precautions… So long as the business model involves allowing access to the data that we’re providing and also trying to protect that same data, we’re unlikely to stop theft entirely.” His proposal is to place “reasonable precautions” in the web proxy server as it relates to the campus identity management system. This is a slide from his presentation: Slide from presentation by Cory Roach I find this layout (and lack of labels) somewhat confusing, so I re-imagined the diagram as this: Revised 'Modern Library Design' The core of Cory’s presentation is to add predictive analytics and per-user blocking automation to the analysis of the log files from the web proxy server and the identity management server. By doing so, the university can react quicker to compromised usernames and passwords. In fact, it could probably do so more quicker than the publisher could do with its own log analysis and reporting back to the university. Where Cory runs into trouble is this slide: Slide from presentation by Cory Roach In this part of the presentation, Cory describes the kinds of patron-identifying data that the university could-or-would collect and analyze to further the security effort. In search engine optimization, these sorts of data points are called “signals” and are used to improve the relevance of search results; perhaps there is an equivalent term in access control technology. But for now, I’ll just call them “signals”. There are some problems in gathering these signals—most notably the correlation between user identity and “URLs Requested”. In the presentation, he says: “You can also move over to behavioral stuff. So it could be, you know, why is a pharmacy major suddenly looking up a lot of material on astrophysics or why is a medical professional and a hospital suddenly interested in internal combustion. Things that just don’t line up and we can identify fishy behavior.” It is core to the library ethos that we make our best effort to not track what a user is interested in—to not build a profile of a user’s research unless they have explicitly opted into such data collection. As librarians, we need to gracefully describe this professional ethos and work that into the design of the systems used on campus (and at the publishers). Still, there is much to be said for using some of the other signals to analyze whether a particular request is from an authorized community member. For instance, Cory says: “We commonly see this user coming in from the US and today it’s coming in from Botswana. You know, has there been enough time that they could have traveled from the US to Botswana and actually be there? Have they ever access resources from that country before is there residents on record in that country?” The best part of what Cory is proposing is that the signals’ storage and processing is at the university and not at the publisher. I’m not sure if Cory knew this, but a recent version of EZProxy added a UsageLimit directive that builds in some of these capabilities. It can set per-user limits based on the number of page requests or the amount of downloaded information over a specified interval. One wonders if somewhere in OCLC’s development queue is the ability to detect IP addresses from multiple networks (geographic detection) and browser differences across a specified interval. Still, pushing this up to the university’s identity provider allows for a campus-wide view of the signals…not just the ones coming through the library. Also, in designing the system, there needs to be clarity about how the signals are analyzed and used. I think Cory knew this as well: “we do have to be careful about not building bias into the algorithms.” Yeah, the need for this technology sucks. Although it was the tweet to the Coda Story about the presentation that blew up, the thread of the story goes through TechDirt to a tangential paragraph from Netzpolitik in an article about Germany’s licensing struggle with Elsevier. With this heritage, any review of the webinar’s ideas are automatically tainted by the disdain the library community in general has towards Elsevier. It is reality—an unfortunate reality, in my opinion—that the traditional scholarly journal model has publishers exerting strong copyright protection on research and ideas behind paywalls. (Wouldn’t it be better if we poured the anti-piracy effort into improving scholarly communication tools in an Open Access world? Yes, but that isn’t the world we live in.) Almost every library deals with this friction by employing a web proxy server as an agent between the patron and the publisher’s content. The Netzpolitik article says: …but relies on spyware in the fight against „cybercrime“ Of Course, Sci-Hub and other shadow libraries are a thorn in Elsevier’s side. Since they have existed, libraries at universities and research institutions have been much less susceptible to blackmail. Their staff can continue their research even without a contract with Elsevier. Instead of offering transparent open access contracts with fair conditions, however, Elsevier has adopted a different strategy in the fight against shadow libraries. These are to be fought as „cybercrime“, if necessary also with technological means. Within the framework of the „Scholarly Networks Security Initiative (SNSI)“, which was founded together with other large publishers, Elsevier is campaigning for libraries to be upgraded with security technology. In a SNSI webinar entitled „Cybersecurity Landscape – Protecting the Scholarly Infrastructure“*, hosted by two high-ranking Elsevier managers, one speaker recommended that publishers develop their own proxy or a proxy plug-in for libraries to access more (usage) data („develop or subsidize a low cost proxy or a plug-in to existing proxies“). With the help of an „analysis engine“, not only could the location of access be better narrowed down, but biometric data (e.g. typing speed) or conspicuous usage patterns (e.g. a pharmacy student suddenly interested in astrophysics) could also be recorded. Any doubts that this software could also be used—if not primarily—against shadow libraries were dispelled by the next speaker. An ex-FBI analyst and IT security consultant spoke about the security risks associated with the use of Sci-Hub. The other commentary that I saw was along similar lines: [Is the SNSI the new PRISM? bjoern.brembs.blog](http://bjoern.brembs.net/2020/10/is-the-snsi-the-new-prism/) [Academics band together with publishers because access to research is a cybercrime chorasimilarity](https://chorasimilarity.wordpress.com/2020/11/14/academics-band-together-with-publishers-because-access-to-research-is-a-cybercrime/) [WHOIS behind SNSI & GetFTR? Motley Marginalia](https://csulb.edu/~ggardner/2020/11/16/snsi-getftr/) Let’s face it: any friction beyond follow-link-to-see-PDF is more friction than a researcher deserves. I doubt we would design a scholarly communication system this way were we to start from scratch. But the system is built on centuries of evolving practice, organizations, and companies. It really would be a better world if we didn’t have to spend time and money on scholarly publisher paywalls. And I’m grateful for the Open Access efforts that are pivoting scholarly communications into an open-to-all paradigm. That doesn’t negate the need to provide better options for content that must exist behind a paywall. So what is this SNSI thing? The webinar where Cory presented was the first mention I’d seen of a new group called the Scholarly Networks Security Initiative (SNSI). SNSI is the latest in a series of publisher-driven initiatives to reduce the paywall’s friction for paying users or library patrons coming from licensing institutions. GetFTR (my thoughts) and Seamless Access (my thoughts). (Disclosure: I’m serving on two working groups for Seamless Access that are focused on making it possible for libraries to sensibly and sanely integrate the goals of Seamless Access into campus technology and licensing contracts.) Interestingly, while the Seamless Access initiative is driven by a desire to eliminate web proxy servers, this SNSI presentation upgrades a library’s web proxy server and makes it a more central tool between the patron and the content. One might argue that all access on campus should come through the proxy server to benefit from this kind of access control approach. It kinda makes one wonder about the coordination of these efforts. Still, SNSI is on my radar now, and I think it will be interesting to see what the next events and publications are from this group. Tags: GetFTR, SeamlessAccess, SNSI Categories: Raw Technology Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Previous Next You May Also Enjoy As a Cog in the Election System: Reflections on My Role as a Precinct Election Official 9 minute read I may nod off several times in composing this post the day after election day. Hopefully, in reading it, you won’t. It is a story about one corner of democ... 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The R12000 processor has been on the market for more than 20 years and so cannot be subject to patent claims. Therefore, the R12000 and older processors are fully open. Registers General purpose 32 Floating point 32 MIPS (Microprocessor without Interlocked Pipelined Stages)[1] is a reduced instruction set computer (RISC) instruction set architecture (ISA)[2]:A-1[3]:19 developed by MIPS Computer Systems, now MIPS Technologies, based in the United States. There are multiple versions of MIPS: including MIPS I, II, III, IV, and V; as well as five releases of MIPS32/64 (for 32- and 64-bit implementations, respectively). The early MIPS architectures were 32-bit only; 64-bit versions were developed later. As of April 2017, the current version of MIPS is MIPS32/64 Release 6.[4][5] MIPS32/64 primarily differs from MIPS I–V by defining the privileged kernel mode System Control Coprocessor in addition to the user mode architecture. The MIPS architecture has several optional extensions. MIPS-3D which is a simple set of floating-point SIMD instructions dedicated to common 3D tasks,[6] MDMX (MaDMaX) which is a more extensive integer SIMD instruction set using the 64-bit floating-point registers, MIPS16e which adds compression to the instruction stream to make programs take up less room,[7] and MIPS MT, which adds multithreading capability.[8] Computer architecture courses in universities and technical schools often study the MIPS architecture.[9] The architecture greatly influenced later RISC architectures such as Alpha. Contents 1 History 2 Design 3 Versions 3.1 MIPS I 3.1.1 Registers 3.1.2 Instruction formats 3.1.3 CPU instructions 3.2 MIPS II 3.3 MIPS III 3.4 MIPS IV 3.5 MIPS V 3.6 MIPS32/MIPS64 3.7 microMIPS 4 Application-specific extensions 5 Calling conventions 6 Uses 7 Simulators 8 See also 9 References 10 Further reading 11 External links History[edit] This section needs expansion. You can help by adding to it. (February 2020) See also: MIPS Technologies The first version of the MIPS architecture was designed by MIPS Computer Systems for its R2000 microprocessor, the first MIPS implementation. Both MIPS and the R2000 were introduced together in 1985.[citation needed] When MIPS II was introduced, MIPS was renamed MIPS I to distinguish it from the new version.[3]:32 MIPS Computer Systems' R6000 microprocessor (1989) was the first MIPS II implementation.[3]:8 Designed for servers, the R6000 was fabricated and sold by Bipolar Integrated Technology, but was a commercial failure. During the mid-1990s, many new 32-bit MIPS processors for embedded systems were MIPS II implementations because the introduction of the 64-bit MIPS III architecture in 1991 left MIPS II as the newest 32-bit MIPS architecture until MIPS32 was introduced in 1999.A[3]:19 MIPS Computer Systems' R4000 microprocessor (1991) was the first MIPS III implementation. It was designed for use in personal, workstation, and server computers. MIPS Computer Systems aggressively promoted the MIPS architecture and R4000, establishing the Advanced Computing Environment (ACE) consortium to advance its Advanced RISC Computing (ARC) standard, which aimed to establish MIPS as the dominant personal computing platform. ARC found little success in personal computers, but the R4000 (and the R4400 derivative) were widely used in workstation and server computers, especially by its largest user, Silicon Graphics. Other uses of the R4000 included high-end embedded systems and supercomputers. MIPS III was eventually implemented by a number of embedded microprocessors. Quantum Effect Design's R4600 (1993) and its derivatives was widely used in high-end embedded systems and low-end workstations and servers. MIPS Technologies' R4200 (1994), was designed for embedded systems, laptop, and personal computers. A derivative, the R4300i, fabricated by NEC Electronics, was used in the Nintendo 64 game console. The Nintendo 64, along with the PlayStation, were among the highest volume users of MIPS architecture processors in the mid-1990s. The first MIPS IV implementation was the MIPS Technologies R8000 microprocessor chipset (1994). The design of the R8000 began at Silicon Graphics, Inc. and it was only used in high-end workstations and servers for scientific and technical applications where high performance on large floating-point workloads was important. Later implementations were the MIPS Technologies R10000 (1996) and the Quantum Effect Devices R5000 (1996) and RM7000 (1998). The R10000, fabricated and sold by NEC Electronics and Toshiba, and its derivatives were used by NEC, Pyramid Technology, Silicon Graphics, Inc., and Tandem Computers (among others) in workstations, servers, and supercomputers. The R5000 and R7000 found use in high-end embedded systems, personal computers, and low-end workstations and servers. A derivative of the R5000 from Toshiba, the R5900, was used in Sony Computer Entertainment's Emotion Engine, which powered its PlayStation 2 game console. Announced on October 21, 1996 at the Microprocessor Forum 1996 alongside the MIPS Digital Media Extensions (MDMX) extension, MIPS V was designed to improve the performance of 3D graphics transformations.[10] In the mid-1990s, a major use of non-embedded MIPS microprocessors were graphics workstations from SGI. MIPS V was completed by the integer-only MDMX extension to provide a complete system for improving the performance of 3D graphics applications.[11] MIPS V implementations were never introduced. On May 12, 1997, SGI announced the "H1" ("Beast") and "H2" ("Capitan") microprocessors. The former was to have been the first MIPS V implementation, and was due to be introduced in the first half of 1999.[12] The "H1" and "H2" projects were later combined and were eventually canceled in 1998. While there have not been any MIPS V implementations, MIPS64 Release 1 (1999) was based on MIPS V and retains all of its features as an optional Coprocessor 1 (FPU) feature called Paired-Single. When MIPS Technologies was spun-out of Silicon Graphics in 1998, it refocused on the embedded market. Up to MIPS V, each successive version was a strict superset of the previous version, but this property was found to be a problem,[citation needed] and the architecture definition was changed to define a 32-bit and a 64-bit architecture: MIPS32 and MIPS64. Both were introduced in 1999.[13] MIPS32 is based on MIPS II with some additional features from MIPS III, MIPS IV, and MIPS V; MIPS64 is based on MIPS V.[13] NEC, Toshiba and SiByte (later acquired by Broadcom) each obtained licenses for MIPS64 as soon as it was announced. Philips, LSI Logic, IDT, Raza Microelectronics, Inc., Cavium, Loongson Technology and Ingenic Semiconductor have since joined them. MIPS32/MIPS64 Release 5 was announced on December 6, 2012.[14] Release 4 was skipped because the number four is perceived as unlucky in many Asian cultures.[15] In December 2018, Wave Computing, the new owner of the MIPS architecture, announced that MIPS ISA would be open-sourced in a program dubbed the MIPS Open initiative.[16] The program was intended to open up access to the most recent versions of both the 32-bit and 64-bit designs making them available without any licensing or royalty fees as well as granting participants licenses to existing MIPS patents.[17][18][19] In March 2019, one version of the architecture was made available under a royalty-free license,[20] but later that year the program was shut down again.[21] Design[edit] This section needs expansion. You can help by adding to it. (February 2020) MIPS is a modular architecture supporting up to four coprocessors (CP0/1/2/3). In MIPS terminology, CP0 is the System Control Coprocessor (an essential part of the processor that is implementation-defined in MIPS I–V), CP1 is an optional floating-point unit (FPU) and CP2/3 are optional implementation-defined coprocessors (MIPS III removed CP3 and reused its opcodes for other purposes). For example, in the PlayStation video game console, CP2 is the Geometry Transformation Engine (GTE), which accelerates the processing of geometry in 3D computer graphics. Versions[edit] MIPS I[edit] MIPS is a load/store architecture (also known as a register-register architecture); except for the load/store instructions used to access memory, all instructions operate on the registers. Registers[edit] MIPS I has thirty-two 32-bit general-purpose registers (GPR). Register $0 is hardwired to zero and writes to it are discarded. Register $31 is the link register. For integer multiplication and division instructions, which run asynchronously from other instructions, a pair of 32-bit registers, HI and LO, are provided. There is a small set of instructions for copying data between the general-purpose registers and the HI/LO registers. The program counter has 32 bits. The two low-order bits always contain zero since MIPS I instructions are 32 bits long and are aligned to their natural word boundaries. Instruction formats[edit] Instructions are divided into three types: R, I and J. Every instruction starts with a 6-bit opcode. In addition to the opcode, R-type instructions specify three registers, a shift amount field, and a function field; I-type instructions specify two registers and a 16-bit immediate value; J-type instructions follow the opcode with a 26-bit jump target.[2]:A-174 The following are the three formats used for the core instruction set: Type -31-                                 format (bits)                                 -0- R opcode (6) rs (5) rt (5) rd (5) shamt (5) funct (6) I opcode (6) rs (5) rt (5) immediate (16) J opcode (6) address (26) CPU instructions[edit] MIPS I has instructions that load and store 8-bit bytes, 16-bit halfwords, and 32-bit words. Only one addressing mode is supported: base + displacement. Since MIPS I is a 32-bit architecture, loading quantities fewer than 32 bits requires the datum to be either signed- or zero-extended to 32 bits. The load instructions suffixed by "unsigned" perform zero extension; otherwise sign extension is performed. Load instructions source the base from the contents of a GPR (rs) and write the result to another GPR (rt). Store instructions source the base from the contents of a GPR (rs) and the store data from another GPR (rt). All load and store instructions compute the memory address by summing the base with the sign-extended 16-bit immediate. MIPS I requires all memory accesses to be aligned to their natural word boundaries, otherwise an exception is signaled. To support efficient unaligned memory accesses, there are load/store word instructions suffixed by "left" or "right". All load instructions are followed by a load delay slot. The instruction in the load delay slot cannot use the data loaded by the load instruction. The load delay slot can be filled with an instruction that is not dependent on the load; a nop is substituted if such an instruction cannot be found. MIPS I has instructions to perform addition and subtraction. These instructions source their operands from two GPRs (rs and rt), and write the result to a third GPR (rd). Alternatively, addition can source one of the operands from a 16-bit immediate (which is sign-extended to 32 bits). The instructions for addition and subtraction have two variants: by default, an exception is signaled if the result overflows; instructions with the "unsigned" suffix do not signal an exception. The overflow check interprets the result as a 32-bit two's complement integer. MIPS I has instructions to perform bitwise logical AND, OR, XOR, and NOR. These instructions source their operands from two GPRs and write the result to a third GPR. The AND, OR, and XOR instructions can alternatively source one of the operands from a 16-bit immediate (which is zero-extended to 32 bits). The Set on relation instructions write one or zero to the destination register if the specified relation is true or false. These instructions source their operands from two GPRs or one GPR and a 16-bit immediate (which is sign-extended to 32 bits), and write the result to a third GPR. By default, the operands are interpreted as signed integers. The variants of these instructions that are suffixed with "unsigned" interpret the operands as unsigned integers (even those that source an operand from the sign-extended 16-bit immediate). The Load Immediate Upper instruction copies the 16-bit immediate into the high-order 16 bits of a GPR. It is used in conjunction with the Or Immediate instruction to load a 32-bit immediate into a register. MIPS I has instructions to perform left and right logical shifts and right arithmetic shifts. The operand is obtained from a GPR (rt), and the result is written to another GPR (rd). The shift distance is obtained from either a GPR (rs) or a 5-bit "shift amount" (the "sa" field). MIPS I has instructions for signed and unsigned integer multiplication and division. These instructions source their operands from two GPRs and write their results to a pair of 32-bit registers called HI and LO, since they may execute separately from (and concurrently with) the other CPU instructions. For multiplication, the high- and low-order halves of the 64-bit product is written to HI and LO (respectively). For division, the quotient is written to LO and the remainder to HI. To access the results, a pair of instructions (Move from HI and Move from LO) is provided to copy the contents of HI or LO to a GPR. These instructions are interlocked: reads of HI and LO do not proceed past an unfinished arithmetic instruction that will write to HI and LO. Another pair of instructions (Move to HI or Move to LO) copies the contents of a GPR to HI and LO. These instructions are used to restore HI and LO to their original state after exception handling. Instructions that read HI or LO must be separated by two instructions that do not write to HI or LO. All MIPS I control flow instructions are followed by a branch delay slot. Unless the branch delay slot is filled by an instruction performing useful work, an nop is substituted. MIPS I branch instructions compare the contents of a GPR (rs) against zero or another GPR (rt) as signed integers and branch if the specified condition is true. Control is transferred to the address computed by shifting the 16-bit offset left by two bits, sign-extending the 18-bit result, and adding the 32-bit sign-extended result to the sum of the program counter (instruction address) and 810. Jumps have two versions: absolute and register-indirect. Absolute jumps ("Jump" and "Jump and Link") compute the address control is transferred to by shifting the 26-bit instr_index left by two bits and concatenating the 28-bit result with the four high-order bits of the address of the instruction in the branch delay slot. Register-indirect jumps transfer control to the instruction at the address sourced from a GPR (rs). The address sourced from the GPR must be word-aligned, else an exception is signaled after the instruction in the branch delay slot is executed. Branch and jump instructions that link (except for "Jump and Link Register") save the return address to GPR 31. The "Jump and Link Register" instruction permits the return address to be saved to any writable GPR. MIPS I has two instructions for software to signal an exception: System Call and Breakpoint. System Call is used by user mode software to make kernel calls; and Breakpoint is used to transfer control to a debugger via the kernel's exception handler. Both instructions have a 20-bit Code field that can contain operating environment-specific information for the exception handler. MIPS has 32 floating-point registers. Two registers are paired for double precision numbers. Odd numbered registers cannot be used for arithmetic or branching, just as part of a double precision register pair, resulting in 16 usable registers for most instructions (moves/copies and loads/stores were not affected). Single precision is denoted by the .s suffix, while double precision is denoted by the .d suffix. MIPS II[edit] MIPS II removed the load delay slot[3]:41 and added several sets of instructions. For shared-memory multiprocessing, the Synchronize Shared Memory, Load Linked Word, and Store Conditional Word instructions were added. A set of Trap-on-Condition instructions were added. These instructions caused an exception if the evaluated condition is true. All existing branch instructions were given branch-likely versions that executed the instruction in the branch delay slot only if the branch is taken.[3]:40 These instructions improve performance in certain cases by allowing useful instructions to fill the branch delay slot.[3]:212 Doubleword load and store instructions for COP1–3 were added. Consistent with other memory access instructions, these loads and stores required the doubleword to be naturally aligned. The instruction set for the floating point coprocessor also had several instructions added to it. An IEEE 754-compliant floating-point square root instruction was added. It supported both single- and double-precision operands. A set of instructions that converted single- and double-precision floating-point numbers to 32-bit words were added. These complemented the existing conversion instructions by allowing the IEEE rounding mode to be specified by the instruction instead of the Floating Point Control and Status Register. MIPS III[edit] MIPS III is a backwards-compatible extension of MIPS II that added support for 64-bit memory addressing and integer operations. The 64-bit data type is called a doubleword, and MIPS III extended the general-purpose registers, HI/LO registers, and program counter to 64 bits to support it. New instructions were added to load and store doublewords, to perform integer addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, and shift operations on them, and to move doubleword between the GPRs and HI/LO registers. Existing instructions originally defined to operate on 32-bit words were redefined, where necessary, to sign-extend the 32-bit results to permit words and doublewords to be treated identically by most instructions. Among those instructions redefined was Load Word. In MIPS III it sign-extends words to 64 bits. To complement Load Word, a version that zero-extends was added. The R instruction format's inability to specify the full shift distance for 64-bit shifts (its 5-bit shift amount field is too narrow to specify the shift distance for doublewords) required MIPS III to provide three 64-bit versions of each MIPS I shift instruction. The first version is a 64-bit version of the original shift instructions, used to specify constant shift distances of 0–31 bits. The second version is similar to the first, but adds 3210 the shift amount field's value so that constant shift distances of 32–64 bits can be specified. The third version obtains the shift distance from the six low-order bits of a GPR. MIPS III added a supervisor privilege level in between the existing kernel and user privilege levels. This feature only affected the implementation-defined System Control Processor (Coprocessor 0). MIPS III removed the Coprocessor 3 (CP3) support instructions, and reused its opcodes for the new doubleword instructions. The remaining coprocessors gained instructions to move doublewords between coprocessor registers and the GPRs. The floating general registers (FGRs) were extended to 64 bits and the requirement for instructions to use even-numbered register only was removed. This is incompatible with earlier versions of the architecture; a bit in the floating-point control/status register is used to operate the MIPS III floating-point unit (FPU) in a MIPS I- and II-compatible mode. The floating-point control registers were not extended for compatibility. The only new floating-point instructions added were those to copy doublewords between the CPU and FPU convert single- and double-precision floating-point numbers into doubleword integers and vice versa. MIPS IV[edit] MIPS IV is the fourth version of the architecture. It is a superset of MIPS III and is compatible with all existing versions of MIPS. MIPS IV was designed to mainly improve floating-point (FP) performance. To improve access to operands, an indexed addressing mode (base + index, both sourced from GPRs) for FP loads and stores was added, as were prefetch instructions for performing memory prefetching and specifying cache hints (these supported both the base + offset and base + index addressing modes). MIPS IV added several features to improve instruction-level parallelism. To alleviate the bottleneck caused by a single condition bit, seven condition code bits were added to the floating-point control and status register, bringing the total to eight. FP comparison and branch instructions were redefined so they could specify which condition bit was written or read (respectively); and the delay slot in between an FP branch that read the condition bit written to by a prior FP comparison was removed. Support for partial predication was added in the form of conditional move instructions for both GPRs and FPRs; and an implementation could choose between having precise or imprecise exceptions for IEEE 754 traps. MIPS IV added several new FP arithmetic instructions for both single- and double-precision FPNs: fused-multiply add or subtract, reciprocal, and reciprocal square-root. The FP fused-multiply add or subtract instructions perform either one or two roundings (it is implementation-defined), to exceed or meet IEEE 754 accuracy requirements (respectively). The FP reciprocal and reciprocal square-root instructions do not comply with IEEE 754 accuracy requirements, and produce results that differ from the required accuracy by one or two units of last place (it is implementation defined). These instructions serve applications where instruction latency is more important than accuracy. MIPS V[edit] MIPS V added a new data type, the Paired Single (PS), which consisted of two single-precision (32-bit) floating-point numbers stored in the existing 64-bit floating-point registers. Variants of existing floating-point instructions for arithmetic, compare and conditional move were added to operate on this data type in a SIMD fashion. New instructions were added for loading, rearranging and converting PS data.[3]:426–429 It was the first instruction set to exploit floating-point SIMD with existing resources.[11] MIPS32/MIPS64[edit] The first release of MIPS32, based on MIPS II, added conditional moves, prefetch instructions, and other features from the R4000 and R5000 families of 64-bit processors.[13] The first release of MIPS64 adds a MIPS32 mode to run 32-bit code.[13] The MUL and MADD (multiply-add) instructions, previously available in some implementations, were added to the MIPS32 and MIPS64 specifications, as were cache control instructions.[13] MIPS32/MIPS64 Release 6 in 2014 added the following:[22] a new family of branches with no delay slot: unconditional branches (BC) and branch-and-link (BALC) with a 26-bit offset, conditional branch on zero/non-zero with a 21-bit offset, full set of signed and unsigned conditional branches compare between two registers (e.g. BGTUC) or a register against zero (e.g. BGTZC), full set of branch-and-link which compare a register against zero (e.g. BGTZALC). index jump instructions with no delay slot designed to support large absolute addresses. instructions to load 16-bit immediates at bit position 16, 32 or 48, allowing to easily generate large constants. PC-relative load instructions, as well as address generation with large (PC-relative) offsets. bit-reversal and byte-alignment instructions (previously only available with the DSP extension). multiply and divide instructions redefined so that they use a single register for their result). instructions generating truth values now generate all zeroes or all ones instead of just clearing/setting the 0-bit, instructions using a truth value now only interpret all-zeroes as false instead of just looking at the 0-bit. Removed infrequently used instructions: some conditional moves branch likely instructions (deprecated in previous releases). integer overflow trapping instructions with 16-bit immediate integer accumulator instructions (together HI/LO registers, moved to the DSP Application-Specific Extension) unaligned load instructions (LWL and LWR), (requiring that most ordinary loads and stores support misaligned access, possibly via trapping and with the addition of a new instruction (BALIGN)) Reorganized the instruction encoding, freeing space for future expansions. microMIPS[edit] The microMIPS32/64 architectures are supersets of the MIPS32 and MIPS64 architectures (respectively) designed to replace the MIPS16e ASE. A disadvantage of MIPS16e is that it requires a mode switch before any of its 16-bit instructions can be processed. microMIPS adds versions of the most-frequently used 32-bit instructions that are encoded as 16-bit instructions. This allows programs to intermix 16- and 32-bit instructions without having to switch modes. microMIPS was introduced alongside of MIPS32/64 Release 3, and each subsequent release of MIPS32/64 has a corresponding microMIPS32/64 version. A processor may implement microMIPS32/64 or both microMIPS32/64 and its corresponding MIPS32/64 subset. Starting with MIPS32/64 Release 6, support for MIPS16e ended, and microMIPS is the only form of code compression in MIPS. Application-specific extensions[edit] The base MIPS32 and MIPS64 architectures can be supplemented with a number of optional architectural extensions, which are collectively referred to as application-specific extensions (ASEs). These ASEs provide features that improve the efficiency and performance of certain workloads, such as digital signal processing. MIPS MCU Enhancements for microcontroller applications. The MCU ASE (application-specific extension) has been developed to extend the interrupt controller support, reduce the interrupt latency and enhance the I/O peripheral control function typically required in microcontroller system designs. Separate priority and vector generation Supports up to 256 interrupts in EIC (External Interrupt Controller) mode and eight hardware interrupt pins Provides 16-bit vector offset address Pre-fetching of the interrupt exception vector Automated Interrupt Prologue – adds hardware to save and update system status before the interrupt handling routine Automated Interrupt Epilogue – restores the system state previously stored in the stack for returning from the interrupt. Interrupt Chaining – supports the service of pending interrupts without the need to exit the initial interrupt routine, saving the cycles required to store and restore multiple active interrupts Supports speculative pre-fetching of the interrupt vector address. Reduces the number of interrupt service cycles by overlapping memory accesses with pipeline flushes and exception prioritization Includes atomic bit set/clear instructions which enables bits within an I/O register that are normally used to monitor or control external peripheral functions to be modified without interruption, ensuring the action is performed securely. MIPS16 MIPS16 is an Application-Specific Extension for MIPS I through to V designed by LSI Logic and MIPS Technologies, announced on October 21, 1996 alongside its first implementation, the LSI Logic TinyRISC processor.[23] MIPS16 was subsequently licensed by NEC Electronics, Philips Semiconductors, and Toshiba (among others); and implemented as an extension to the MIPS I, II, an III architectures. MIPS16 decreases the size of application by up to 40% by using 16-bit instructions instead of 32-bit instructions' and also improves power efficiency, the instruction cache hit rate, and is equivalent in performance to its base architecture.[24] It is supported by hardware and software development tools from MIPS Technologies and other providers. MIPS16e is an improved version of MIPS16 first supported by MIPS32 and MIPS64 Release 1. MIPS16e2 is an improved version of MIPS16 that is supported by MIPS32 and MIPS64 (up to Release 5). Release 6 replaced it with microMIPS. MIPS DSP The DSP ASE is an optional extension to the MIPS32/MIPS64 Release 2 and newer instruction sets which can be used to accelerate a large range of "media" computations—particularly audio and video. The DSP module comprises a set of instructions and state in the integer pipeline and requires minimal additional logic to implement in MIPS processor cores. Revision 2 of the ASE was introduced in the second half of 2006. This revision adds extra instructions to the original ASE, but is otherwise backwards-compatible with it.[25] Unlike the bulk of the MIPS architecture, it's a fairly irregular set of operations, many chosen for a particular relevance to some key algorithm. Its main novel features (vs original MIPS32):[26] Saturating arithmetic (when a calculation overflows, deliver the representable number closest to the non-overflowed answer). Fixed-point arithmetic on signed 32- and 16-bit fixed-point fractions with a range of -1 to +1 (these are widely called "Q31" and "Q15"). The existing integer multiplication and multiply-accumulate instructions, which deliver results into a double-size accumulator (called "hi/lo" and 64 bits on MIPS32 CPUs). The DSP ASE adds three more accumulators, and some different flavours of multiply-accumulate. SIMD instructions operating on 4 x unsigned bytes or 2 x 16-bit values packed into a 32-bit register (the 64-bit variant of the DSP ASE supports larger vectors, too). SIMD operations are basic arithmetic, shifts and some multiply-accumulate type operations. MIPS SIMD architecture Instruction set extensions designed to accelerate multimedia. 32 vector registers of 16 x 8-bit, 8 x 16-bit, 4 x 32-bit, and 2 x 64 bit vector elements Efficient vector parallel arithmetic operations on integer, fixed-point and floating-point data Operations on absolute value operands Rounding and saturation options available Full precision multiply and multiply-add Conversions between integer, floating-point, and fixed-point data Complete set of vector-level compare and branch instructions with no condition flag Vector (1D) and array (2D) shuffle operations Typed load and store instructions for endian-independent operation IEEE Standard for Floating-Point Arithmetic 754-2008 compliant Element precise floating-point exception signaling Pre-defined scalable extensions for chips with more gates/transistors Accelerates compute-intensive applications in conjunction with leveraging generic compiler support Software-programmable solution for consumer electronics applications or functions not covered by dedicated hardware Emerging data mining, feature extraction, image and video processing, and human-computer interaction applications High-performance scientific computing MIPS virtualization Hardware supported virtualization technology. MIPS multi-threading Each multi-threaded MIPS core can support up to two VPEs (Virtual Processing Elements) which share a single pipeline as well as other hardware resources. However, since each VPE includes a complete copy of the processor state as seen by the software system, each VPE appears as a complete standalone processor to an SMP Linux operating system. For more fine-grained thread processing applications, each VPE is capable of supporting up to nine TCs allocated across two VPEs. The TCs share a common execution unit but each has its own program counter and core register files so that each can handle a thread from the software. The MIPS MT architecture also allows the allocation of processor cycles to threads, and sets the relative thread priorities with an optional Quality of Service (QoS) manager block. This enables two prioritization mechanisms that determine the flow of information across the bus. The first mechanism allows the user to prioritize one thread over another. The second mechanism is used to allocate a specified ratio of the cycles to specific threads over time. The combined use of both mechanisms allows effective allocation of bandwidth to the set of threads, and better control of latencies. In real-time systems, system-level determinism is very critical, and the QoS block facilitates improvement of the predictability of a system. Hardware designers of advanced systems may replace the standard QoS block provided by MIPS Technologies with one that is specifically tuned for their application. SmartMIPS SmartMIPS is an Application-Specific Extension (ASE) designed by Gemplus International and MIPS Technologies to improve performance and reduce memory consumption for smart card software. It is supported by MIPS32 only, since smart cards do not require the capabilities of MIPS64 processors. Few smart cards use SmartMIPS. MDMX MIPS-3D Calling conventions[edit] MIPS has had several calling conventions, especially on the 32-bit platform. The O32 ABI is the most commonly-used ABI, owing to its status as the original System V ABI for MIPS.[27][28] It is strictly stack-based, with only four registers $a0-$a3 available to pass arguments. Space on the stack is reserved in case the callee needs to save its arguments, but the registers are not stored there by the caller. The return value is stored in register $v0; a second return value may be stored in $v1. This perceived slowness, along with an antique floating-point model with 16 registers only, has encouraged the proliferation of many other calling conventions. The ABI took shape in 1990 and was never updated since 1994. It is only defined for 32-bit MIPS, but GCC has created a 64-bit variation called O64.[29] For 64-bit, the N64 ABI by Silicon Graphics is most commonly used. The most important improvement is that eight registers are now available for argument passing; it also increases the number of floating-point registers to 32. There is also an ILP32 version called N32, which uses 32-bit pointers for smaller code, analogous to the x32 ABI. Both run under the 64-bit mode of the CPU.[29] The N32 and N64 ABIs pass the first eight arguments to a function in the registers $a0-$a7; subsequent arguments are passed on the stack. The return value (or a pointer to it) is stored in the registers $v0; a second return value may be stored in $v1. In both the N32 and N64 ABIs all registers are considered to be 64-bits wide. A few attempts have been made to replace O32 with a 32-bit ABI that resembles N32 more. A 1995 conference came up with MIPS EABI, for which the 32-bit version was quite similar.[30] EABI inspired MIPS Technologies to propose a more radical "NUBI" ABI additionally reuse argument registers for the return value.[31] MIPS EABI is supported by GCC but not LLVM, and neither supports NUBI. For all of O32 and N32/N64, the return address is stored in a $ra register. This is automatically set with the use of the JAL (jump and link) or JALR (jump and link register) instructions. The function prologue of a (non-leaf) MIPS subroutine pushes the return address (in $ra) to the stack.[32][33] On both O32 and N32/N64 the stack grows downwards, but the N32/N64 ABIs require 64-bit alignment for all stack entries. The frame pointer ($30) is optional and in practice rarely used except when the stack allocation in a function is determined at runtime, for example, by calling alloca(). For N32 and N64, the return address is typically stored 8 bytes before the stack pointer although this may be optional. For the N32 and N64 ABIs, a function must preserve the $S0-$s7 registers, the global pointer ($gp or $28), the stack pointer ($sp or $29) and the frame pointer ($30). The O32 ABI is the same except the calling function is required to save the $gp register instead of the called function. For multi-threaded code, the thread local storage pointer is typically stored in special hardware register $29 and is accessed by using the mfhw (move from hardware) instruction. At least one vendor is known to store this information in the $k0 register which is normally reserved for kernel use, but this is not standard. The $k0 and $k1 registers ($26–$27) are reserved for kernel use and should not be used by applications since these registers can be changed at any time by the kernel due to interrupts, context switches or other events. Registers for O32 calling convention Name Number Use Callee must preserve? $zero $0 constant 0 N/A $at $1 assembler temporary No $v0–$v1 $2–$3 values for function returns and expression evaluation No $a0–$a3 $4–$7 function arguments No $t0–$t7 $8–$15 temporaries No $s0–$s7 $16–$23 saved temporaries Yes $t8–$t9 $24–$25 temporaries No $k0–$k1 $26–$27 reserved for OS kernel N/A $gp $28 global pointer Yes (except PIC code) $sp $29 stack pointer Yes $fp $30 frame pointer Yes $ra $31 return address N/A Registers for N32 and N64 calling conventions[34] Name Number Use Callee must preserve? $zero $0 constant 0 N/A $at $1 assembler temporary No $v0–$v1 $2–$3 values for function returns and expression evaluation No $a0–$a7 $4–$11 function arguments No $t4–$t7 $12–$15 temporaries No $s0–$s7 $16–$23 saved temporaries Yes $t8–$t9 $24–$25 temporaries No $k0–$k1 $26–$27 reserved for OS kernel N/A $gp $28 global pointer Yes $sp $29 stack pointer Yes $s8 $30 frame pointer Yes $ra $31 return address N/A Registers that are preserved across a call are registers that (by convention) will not be changed by a system call or procedure (function) call. For example, $s-registers must be saved to the stack by a procedure that needs to use them, and $sp and $fp are always incremented by constants, and decremented back after the procedure is done with them (and the memory they point to). By contrast, $ra is changed automatically by any normal function call (ones that use jal), and $t-registers must be saved by the program before any procedure call (if the program needs the values inside them after the call). The userspace calling convention of position-independent code on Linux additionally requires that when a function is called the $t9 register must contain the address of that function.[35] This convention dates back to the System V ABI supplement for MIPS.[36] Uses[edit] This section needs expansion. You can help by adding to it. (February 2020) Parts of this article (those related to 2010s) need to be updated. Please update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information. (August 2020) MIPS processors are used in embedded systems such as residential gateways and routers. Originally, MIPS was designed for general-purpose computing. During the 1980s and 1990s, MIPS processors for personal, workstation, and server computers were used by many companies such as Digital Equipment Corporation, MIPS Computer Systems, NEC, Pyramid Technology, SiCortex, Siemens Nixdorf, Silicon Graphics, and Tandem Computers. Historically, video game consoles such as the Nintendo 64, Sony PlayStation, PlayStation 2, and PlayStation Portable used MIPS processors. MIPS processors also used to be popular in supercomputers during the 1990s, but all such systems have dropped off the TOP500 list. These uses were complemented by embedded applications at first, but during the 1990s, MIPS became a major presence in the embedded processor market, and by the 2000s, most MIPS processors were for these applications. In the mid- to late-1990s, it was estimated that one in three RISC microprocessors produced was a MIPS processor.[37] By the late 2010s, MIPS machines are still commonly used in embedded markets, including automotive, wireless router, LTE modems (mainly via MediaTek), and microcontrollers (for example the PIC32M). They have mostly faded out of the personal, server, and application space. Simulators[edit] Open Virtual Platforms (OVP)[38] includes the freely available for non-commercial use simulator OVPsim, a library of models of processors, peripherals and platforms, and APIs which enable users to develop their own models. The models in the library are open source, written in C, and include the MIPS 4K, 24K, 34K, 74K, 1004K, 1074K, M14K, microAptiv, interAptiv, proAptiv 32-bit cores and the MIPS 64-bit 5K range of cores. These models are created and maintained by Imperas[39] and in partnership with MIPS Technologies have been tested and assigned the MIPS-Verified mark. Sample MIPS-based platforms include both bare metal environments and platforms for booting unmodified Linux binary images. These platforms–emulators are available as source or binaries and are fast, free for non-commercial usage, and are easy to use. OVPsim is developed and maintained by Imperas and is very fast (hundreds of million of instructions per second), and built to handle multicore homogeneous and heterogeneous architectures and systems. There is a freely available MIPS32 simulator (earlier versions simulated only the R2000/R3000) called SPIM for use in education. EduMIPS64[40] is a GPL graphical cross-platform MIPS64 CPU simulator, written in Java/Swing. It supports a wide subset of the MIPS64 ISA and allows the user to graphically see what happens in the pipeline when an assembly program is run by the CPU. MARS[41] is another GUI-based MIPS emulator designed for use in education, specifically for use with Hennessy's Computer Organization and Design. WebMIPS[42] is a browser-based MIPS simulator with visual representation of a generic, pipelined processor. This simulator is quite useful for register tracking during step by step execution. More advanced free emulators are available from the GXemul (formerly known as the mips64emul project) and QEMU projects. These emulate the various MIPS III and IV microprocessors in addition to entire computer systems which use them. Commercial simulators are available especially for the embedded use of MIPS processors, for example Wind River Simics (MIPS 4Kc and 5Kc, PMC RM9000, QED RM7000, Broadcom/Netlogic ec4400, Cavium Octeon I), Imperas (all MIPS32 and MIPS64 cores), VaST Systems (R3000, R4000), and CoWare (the MIPS4KE, MIPS24K, MIPS25Kf and MIPS34K). WepSIM[43] is a browser-based simulator where a subset of MIPS instructions are micro-programmed. This simulator is very useful in order to learn how a CPU works (microprogramming, MIPS routines, traps, interruptions, system calls, etc.). See also[edit] DLX List of MIPS architecture processors MIPS architecture processors Pipeline (computing) References[edit] ^ Patterson, David (2014). Computer Organization and Design. http://booksite.elsevier.com/9780124077263/downloads/historial%20perspectives/section_4.16.pdf: Elsevier. pp. 4.16–4. ISBN 978-0-12-407726-3.CS1 maint: location (link) ^ a b Price, Charles (September 1995). MIPS IV Instruction Set (Revision 3.2), MIPS Technologies, Inc. ^ a b c d e f g h Sweetman, Dominic (1999). See MIPS Run. Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, Inc. ISBN 1-55860-410-3. ^ "MIPS32 Architecture". MIPS. Retrieved March 20, 2020. ^ "MIPS64 Architecture". MIPS. Retrieved March 20, 2020. ^ "MIPS-3D ASE". Imagination Technologies. Archived from the original on 3 January 2014. Retrieved 4 January 2014. ^ "MIPS16e". MIPS. Retrieved March 20, 2020. ^ "MIPS Multithreading". MIPS. Retrieved March 20, 2020. ^ University of California, Davis. "ECS 142 (Compilers) References & Tools page". 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EE Times. 10 December 2012. Archived from the original on 17 April 2014. ^ "Wave Computing Extends AI Lead by Targeting Edge of Cloud Through Acquisition of MIPS". June 15, 2018. ^ "Wave Computing® Launches the MIPS Open Initiative To Accelerate Innovation for the Renowned MIPS® Architecture". December 17, 2018. ^ "MIPS Processor ISA To Be Open-Sourced In 2019 - Phoronix". ^ Yoshida, Junko (December 17, 2018). "MIPS Goes Open Source". EE Times. ^ "MIPS R6 Architecture Now Available for Open Use". March 28, 2019. ^ "Wave Computing Closes Its MIPS Open Initiative with Immediate Effect, Zero Warning". November 15, 2019. ^ "MIPS – Market-leading RISC CPU IP processor solutions". imgtec.com. Archived from the original on 9 March 2016. Retrieved 11 February 2016. ^ "Silicon Graphics Introduces Compact MIPS RISC Microprocessor Code For High Performance at a Low Cost" (Press release). October 21, 1996. ^ Sweetman, Dominic (2007). See MIPS Run (2nd ed.). San Francisco, California: Morgan Kaufmann Publishers. pp. 425–427. ISBN 978-0-12-088421-6. ^ "Using the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC): MIPS DSP Built-in Functions". gcc.gnu.org. Archived from the original on 20 April 2017. ^ "Instruction Set Architecture - LinuxMIPS". www.linux-mips.org. Archived from the original on 20 April 2017. ^ Sweetman, Dominic. See MIPS Run, 2nd edition. Morgan Kaufmann. ISBN 0-12088-421-6. ^ "MIPS32 Instruction Set Quick Reference". ^ a b "MIPS ABI History". ^ Eric Christopher (June 11, 2003). "mips eabi documentation". binutils@sources.redhat.com (Mailing list). Retrieved June 19, 2020. ^ "NUBI". ^ Karen Miller. "The MIPS Register Usage Conventions". 2006. ^ Hal Perkins. ""MIPS Calling Convention". 2006. ^ MIPSpro N32 ABI Handbook (PDF). Silicon Graphics. ^ "PIC code – LinuxMIPS". www.linux-mips.org. Retrieved September 21, 2018. ^ "System V Application Binary Interface MIPS RISC Processor Supplement, 3rd Edition" (PDF). pp. 3–12. ^ Rubio, Victor P. "A FPGA Implementation of a MIPS RISC Processor for Computer Architecture Education" (PDF). New Mexico State University. Archived (PDF) from the original on 15 April 2012. Retrieved 22 December 2011. ^ "OVP: Fast Simulation, Free Open Source Models. Virtual Platforms for software development". Ovpworld.org. Archived from the original on 8 June 2012. Retrieved 30 May 2012. ^ "Imperas". Imperas. 3 March 2008. Archived from the original on 14 June 2012. Retrieved 30 May 2012. ^ "EduMIPS64". Edumips.org. Archived from the original on 7 May 2012. Retrieved 30 May 2012. ^ "MARS MIPS simulator - Missouri State University". Courses.missouristate.edu. Archived from the original on 2 May 2012. Retrieved 30 May 2012. ^ "WebMIPS - MIPS CPU PIPLINED SIMULATION On Line". Archived from the original on 31 December 2012. Retrieved 13 January 2012. (online demonstration) "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 10 October 2011. Retrieved 13 January 2012.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) (source) ^ "WepSim". (Web version with examples). Archived from the original on 1 October 2017. Retrieved 21 October 2019. "WepSim". (GitHub site with source). Archived from the original on 3 January 2018. Retrieved 21 October 2019. Further reading[edit] Farquhar, Erin; Philip Bunce (1994). MIPS Programmer's Handbook. Morgan Kaufmann Publishers. ISBN 1-55860-297-6. Patterson, David A; John L. Hennessy. Computer Organization and Design: The Hardware/Software Interface. Morgan Kaufmann Publishers. ISBN 1-55860-604-1. Sweetman, Dominic (1999). See MIPS Run. Morgan Kaufmann Publishers. ISBN 1-55860-410-3. Sweetman, Dominic (2007). See MIPS Run, 2nd edition. Morgan Kaufmann Publishers. ISBN 978-0-12-088421-6. External links[edit] Wikibooks has a book on the topic of: MIPS Assembly Wikimedia Commons has media related to MIPS microprocessors. MIPS Processors prpl Foundation (a non-profit foundation founded by Imagination Technologies to support the MIPS platform) MIPS Architecture history diagram at the Wayback Machine (archived 2013-05-30) Online MIPS emulator MIPS Instructions - MIPS Instruction Set v t e MIPS microprocessors MIPS architecture MIPS architecture processors List of MIPS architecture processors General processors MIPS64 compatible Loongson 3 Series LS3A1000/LS3A1000-I(LS3A1000-i) LS3A2000/LS3A1500-I LS3A3000/LS3A3000-I(LS3A3000-i) LS3A4000/LS3A4000-I(LS3A4000-i) LS3B1000 LS3B1500 LS3B2000 LS3B3000 LS3B4000 Application processors MIPS32 compatible Ingenic XBurst JZ4720 Ben NanoNote JZ4730 (Skytone Alpha-400) JZ4740 (Dingoo A320) JZ4750 (Game Gadget) JZ4760 Velocity Micro T103 Cruz Velocity Micro T301 Cruz JZ4770 Ainol Novo7 Paladin NEOGEO-X GCW-Zero JZ4780 MIPS64 compatible Loongson 2 Series LS2H LS2K1000/LS2K2000 Microcontrollers (embedded device) M4K Microchip Technology PIC32MX 4Kc/4KEc ATI/AMD/Broadcom Xilleon MIPS32 compatible Loongson 1 Series LS1A0300 LS1B LS1C300 LS1C101 LS1D LS1G LS1H Networking 4Kc/4KEc Qualcomm Atheros AR2313 AR2318 MediaTek RT2880 Texas Instruments/Infineon/Lantiq AR7 Lantiq AMAZON 5Kc Marvell 88E6318 "Link Street" 24Kc/24KEc Qualcomm Atheros AR7240 AR7161 AR9132 AR9331 MediaTek RT3050 RT3052 RT3350 RT5350 RT6856 MT7620 Lantiq DANUBE VINAX 34Kc Lantiq AR188 VRX288 GRX388 Ikanos Fusiv Vx175/173 Fusiv Vx180 Fusiv Vx185/183 74Kc Qualcomm Atheros AR9344 QCA9558 MediaTek RT3662 RT3883 Broadcom BCM4706 1004Kc MediaTek MT7621 1074Kc Realtek RTL8198C MIPS32 compatible Broadcom various Cavium various Alchemy Semiconductor Alchemy RMI Corporation XLR MIPS64 compatible Broadcom various Cavium Octeon Gaming various PlayStation 1 MIPS R3000A-compatible Nintendo 64 NEC VR4300 PlayStation Portable R4000-based PlayStation 2 Emotion Engine Supercomputer MIPS64 compatible Loongson-based systems LS2F/LS2F1000 LS3A1000 LS3B1000 SiCortex Aerospace MIPS64 compatible Loongson 1 Series LS1E0300/LS1E1000 MIPS32 compatible Loongson 1 Series LS1E04 LS1F04/LS1F0300 LS1J Classic processors MIPS I R2000 R3000 MIPS II R6000 MIPS III R4000 R4400 R4200 R4300i R4600 R4700 MIPS IV R5000 R8000 R10000 R12000 R12000A R14000 R14000A R16000 R16000A R18000 MIPS V H1 "Beast" H2 "Capitan" v t e Reduced instruction set computer (RISC) architectures IBM 801 Berkeley RISC Stanford MIPS Active Analog Devices Blackfin ARC ARM AVR eSi-RISC LatticeMico8 LatticeMico32 MIPS OpenRISC Power ISA Renesas M32R Renesas SuperH Renesas V850 RISC-V Sunway SPARC Unicore Xilinx MicroBlaze Xilinx PicoBlaze Historic Alpha AMD Am29000 Apollo PRISM Atmel AVR32 Clipper CRISP DEC Prism Intel i860 Intel i960 Meta MIPS-X Motorola 88000 Motorola M·CORE PA-RISC ROMP POWER PowerPC v t e Processor technologies Models Turing machine Universal Post–Turing Quantum Belt machine Stack machine Finite-state machine with datapath Hierarchical Queue automaton Register machines Counter Pointer Random-access 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Worldwide, several MPW services are available from government-supported institutions or from private firms including Canadian Microelectronics Corporation (CMC),[1] MOSIS,[2] CMP,[3] Europractice,[4] eSilicon,[5], WaferCatalyst[6], and Muse Semiconductor [7]. The first well known MPW service was MOSIS (Metal Oxide Silicon Implementation Service), established by DARPA as a technical and human infrastructure for VLSI. MOSIS began in 1981 after Lynn Conway organized the first VLSI System Design Course at MIT in 1978. MOSIS primarily services commercial users now but continues to serve university students and researchers. With MOSIS, designs are submitted for fabrication using either open (i.e., non-proprietary) VLSI layout design rules or vendor proprietary rules. Designs are pooled into common lots and run through the fabrication process at foundries. The completed chips (packaged or unpackaged) are returned to customers. 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Privacy policy About Wikipedia Disclaimers Contact Wikipedia Mobile view Developers Statistics Cookie statement en-wikipedia-org-2947 ---- RISC-V - Wikipedia RISC-V From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search Open-source CPU hardware instruction set architecture RISC-V Designer University of California, Berkeley Bits 32 64 128 Introduced 2010 Version unprivileged ISA 20191213,[1] privileged ISA 20190608[2] Design RISC Type Load-store Encoding Variable Branching Compare-and-branch Endianness Little[1][3] Page size 4 KiB Extensions M: Multiplication A: Atomic F: Floating point (32-bit) D: FP Double (64-bit) Q: FP Quad (128-bit) C: Compressed instructions(16-bit) A: Atomics - LR/SC & fetch-and-op Open Yes, and royalty free Registers General purpose 16 32 (including one always-zero register) Floating point 32 (optional) RISC-V (pronounced "risk-five"[1]:1) is an open standard instruction set architecture (ISA) based on established reduced instruction set computer (RISC) principles. Unlike most other ISA designs, the RISC-V ISA is provided under open source licenses that do not require fees to use. A number of companies are offering or have announced RISC-V hardware, open source operating systems with RISC-V support are available and the instruction set is supported in several popular software toolchains. Notable features of the RISC-V ISA include a load–store architecture, bit patterns to simplify the multiplexers in a CPU, IEEE 754 floating-point, a design that is architecturally neutral, and placing most-significant bits at a fixed location to speed sign extension.[1] The instruction set is designed for a wide range of uses. It is variable-width and extensible so that more encoding bits can always be added. It supports three word-widths, 32, 64, and 128 bits, and a variety of subsets. The definitions of each subset vary slightly for the three word-widths. The subsets support small embedded systems, personal computers, supercomputers with vector processors, and warehouse-scale 19 inch rack-mounted parallel computers. The instruction set space for the 128-bit stretched version of the ISA was reserved because 60 years of industry experience has shown that the most unrecoverable error in instruction set design is a lack of memory address space. As of 2016[update], the 128-bit ISA remains undefined intentionally, because there is yet so little practical experience with such large memory systems.[1] There are proposals to implement variable-width instructions up to 864 bits long, 27 times the usual length.[1][4] The project began in 2010 at the University of California, Berkeley along with many volunteer contributors not affiliated with the university.[5] Unlike other academic designs which are typically optimized only for simplicity of exposition, the designers intended that the RISC-V instruction set be useable for practical computers. As of June 2019, version 2.2 of the user-space ISA[1] and version 1.11 of the privileged ISA[2] are frozen, permitting software and hardware development to proceed. The user-space ISA, now renamed the Unprivileged ISA, was updated, ratified and frozen as version 20191213.[6] A debug specification is available as a draft, version 0.13.2.[2] Contents 1 Rationale 2 History 2.1 RISC-V Foundation and RISC-V International 2.2 Awards 3 Design 3.1 ISA base and extensions 3.2 Register sets 3.3 Memory access 3.4 Immediates 3.5 Subroutine calls, jumps, and branches 3.6 Arithmetic and logic sets 3.7 Atomic memory operations 3.8 Compressed subset 3.9 Embedded subset 3.10 Privileged instruction set 3.11 Bit manipulation 3.12 Packed SIMD 3.13 Vector set 3.14 External debug system 4 Implementations 4.1 Existing 4.2 In development 4.3 Open source 5 Software 6 See also 7 References 8 Further reading 9 External links Rationale[edit] RISC-V processor prototype, January 2013 CPU design requires design expertise in several specialties: electronic digital logic, compilers, and operating systems. To cover the costs of such a team, commercial vendors of computer designs, such as ARM Holdings and MIPS Technologies charge royalties for the use of their designs, patents and copyrights.[7][8][9] They also often require non-disclosure agreements before releasing documents that describe their designs' detailed advantages. In many cases, they never describe the reasons for their design choices. RISC-V was started with a goal to make a practical ISA that was open-sourced, usable academically and in any hardware or software design without royalties.[1][10] Also, the rationales for every part of the project are explained, at least broadly. The RISC-V authors are academics that have substantial experience in computer design. The RISC-V ISA is a direct development from a series of academic computer-design projects. It was originated in part to aid such projects.[1][10] In order to build a large, continuing community of users and therefore accumulate designs and software, the RISC-V ISA designers planned to support a wide variety of practical uses: Small, fast, and low-power real-world implementations,[1][11] without over-architecting for a particular microarchitecture.[1][12][13][14] A need for a large base of contributors is part of the reason why RISC-V was engineered to fit so many uses. The designers say that the instruction set is the main interface in a computer because it lies between the hardware and the software. If a good instruction set were open, available for use by all, then it should dramatically reduce the cost of software by permitting far more reuse. It should also increase competition among hardware providers, who can use more resources for design and less for software support.[10] The designers assert that new principles are becoming rare in instruction set design, as the most successful designs of the last forty years have become increasingly similar. Of those that failed, most did so because their sponsoring companies failed commercially, not because the instruction sets were poor technically. So, a well-designed open instruction set designed using well-established principles should attract long-term support by many vendors.[10] RISC-V also supports the designers' academic uses. The simplicity of the integer subset permits basic student exercises. The integer subset is a simple ISA enabling software to control research machines. The variable-length ISA enables extensions for both student exercises and research.[1] The separated privileged instruction set permits research in operating system support, without redesigning compilers.[15] RISC-V's open intellectual property allows its designs to be published, reused, and modified.[1] History[edit] The term RISC dates from about 1980.[16] Before this, there was some knowledge that simpler computers could be effective, but the design principles were not widely described. Simple, effective computers have always been of academic interest. Academics created the RISC instruction set DLX for the first edition of Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach in 1990. David Patterson was an author, and later assisted RISC-V. DLX was intended for educational use; academics and hobbyists implemented it using field-programmable gate arrays, but it was not a commercial success. ARM CPUs, versions 2 and earlier, had a public-domain instruction set, and it is still supported by the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC), a popular free-software compiler. Three open-source cores exist for this ISA, but they have not been manufactured.[17][18] OpenRISC is an open-source ISA based on DLX, with associated RISC designs. It is fully supported with GCC and Linux implementations, although it has few commercial implementations. Krste Asanović at the University of California, Berkeley, found many uses for an open-source computer system. In 2010, he decided to develop and publish one in a "short, three-month project over the summer". The plan was to help both academic and industrial users.[10] David Patterson at Berkeley also aided the effort. He originally identified the properties of Berkeley RISC,[16] and RISC-V is one of his long series of cooperative RISC research projects. At this stage, students inexpensively provided initial software, simulations, and CPU designs.[5] First Raven1 bring up ST28nm at BWRC June 2012 The RISC-V authors and their institution originally provided the ISA documents[19] and several CPU designs under BSD licenses, which allow derivative works—such as RISC-V chip designs—to be either open and free, or closed and proprietary. The ISA specification itself (i.e., the encoding of the instruction set) was published in 2011 with all rights reserved. The actual tech report text (an expression of the specification) was later put under a Creative Commons license to allow it to be improved by external contributors through the RISC-V Foundation, and later RISC-V International. A full history of RISC-V has been published on the RISC-V International website.[20] RISC-V Foundation and RISC-V International[edit] Commercial users require an ISA to be stable before they can use it in a product that may last many years. To address this issue, the RISC-V Foundation was formed to own, maintain, and publish intellectual property related to RISC-V's definition.[21] The original authors and owners have surrendered their rights to the foundation.[22] In November 2019, the RISC-V Foundation announced that it would relocate to Switzerland, citing concerns over U.S. trade regulations.[23] As of March 2020, the organization was named RISC-V International, a Swiss nonprofit business association.[24] As of 2019[update], RISC-V International freely publishes the documents defining RISC-V and permits unrestricted use of the ISA for design of software and hardware. However, only members of RISC-V International can vote to approve changes, and only member organizations use the trademarked compatibility logo.[22] Awards[edit] 2017: The Linley Group's Analyst's Choice Award for Best Technology (for the instruction set)[25] Design[edit] ISA base and extensions[edit] RISC-V has a modular design, consisting of alternative base parts, with added optional extensions. The ISA base and its extensions are developed in a collective effort between industry, the research community and educational institutions. The base specifies instructions (and their encoding), control flow, registers (and their sizes), memory and addressing, logic (i.e., integer) manipulation, and ancillaries. The base alone can implement a simplified general-purpose computer, with full software support, including a general-purpose compiler. The standard extensions are specified to work with all of the standard bases, and with each other without conflict. Many RISC-V computers might implement the compact extension to reduce power consumption, code size, and memory use.[1] There are also future plans to support hypervisors and virtualization.[15] Together with a supervisor instruction set extension, S, an RVGC defines all instructions needed to conveniently support a general purpose operating system. ISA base and extensions (20191213) Name Description Version Status[a] Base RVWMO Weak Memory Ordering 2.0 Ratified RV32I Base Integer Instruction Set, 32-bit 2.1 Ratified RV32E Base Integer Instruction Set (embedded), 32-bit, 16 registers 1.9 Open RV64I Base Integer Instruction Set, 64-bit 2.1 Ratified RV128I Base Integer Instruction Set, 128-bit 1.7 Open Extension M Standard Extension for Integer Multiplication and Division 2.0 Ratified A Standard Extension for Atomic Instructions 2.1 Ratified F Standard Extension for Single-Precision Floating-Point 2.2 Ratified D Standard Extension for Double-Precision Floating-Point 2.2 Ratified G Shorthand for the base integer set (I) and above extensions (MAFD) N/A N/A Q Standard Extension for Quad-Precision Floating-Point 2.2 Ratified L Standard Extension for Decimal Floating-Point 0.0 Open C Standard Extension for Compressed Instructions 2.0 Ratified B Standard Extension for Bit Manipulation 0.92 Open J Standard Extension for Dynamically Translated Languages 0.0 Open T Standard Extension for Transactional Memory 0.0 Open P Standard Extension for Packed-SIMD Instructions 0.2 Open V Standard Extension for Vector Operations 0.9 Open N Standard Extension for User-Level Interrupts 1.1 Open H Standard Extension for Hypervisor 0.4 Open ZiCSR Control and Status Register (CSR) 2.0 Ratified Zifencei Instruction-Fetch Fence 2.0 Ratified Zam Misaligned Atomics 0.1 Open Ztso Total Store Ordering 0.1 Frozen ^ Frozen parts are expected to have their final feature set and to receive only clarifications before being ratified. 32-bit RISC-V instruction formats Format Bit 31 30 29 28 27 26 25 24 23 22 21 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0 Register/register funct7 rs2 rs1 funct3 rd opcode Immediate imm[11:0] rs1 funct3 rd opcode Upper immediate imm[31:12] rd opcode Store imm[11:5] rs2 rs1 funct3 imm[4:0] opcode Branch [12] imm[10:5] rs2 rs1 funct3 imm[4:1] [11] opcode Jump [20] imm[10:1] [11] imm[19:12] rd opcode opcode (7 bits): Partially specifies which of the 6 types of instruction formats. funct7, and funct3 (10 bits): These two fields, further than the opcode field, specify the operation to be performed. rs1 (5 bits): Specifies, by index, the register containing first operand (i.e., source register). rs2 (5 bits): Specifies the second operand register. rd (5 bits): Specifies the destination register to which the computation result will be directed. To tame the combinations of functionality that may be implemented, a nomenclature is defined to specify them in Chapter 27 of the current ratified Unprivileged ISA Specification. The instruction set base is specified first, coding for RISC-V, the register bit-width, and the variant; e.g., RV64I or RV32E. Then follows letters specifying implemented extensions, in the order of the above table. Each letter may be followed by a major optionally followed by "p" and a minor option number. If the minor version number is omitted it defaults to 0 and if the version number is omitted completely, it defaults to 1.0. Thus RV64IMAFD may be written as RV64I1p0M1p0A1p0F1p0D1p0 or more simply as RV64I1M1A1F1D1. Underscores may be used between extensions for readability, for example RV32I2_M2_A2. The base, extended integer and floating point calculations, and synchronisation primitives for multi-core computing, the base and extensions MAFD, are considered to be necessary for general-purpose computation, and thus have the shorthand, G. A small 32-bit computer for an embedded system might be RV32EC. A large 64-bit computer might be RV64GC; i.e., shorthand for RV64IMAFDC. With the growth in the number of extensions, the standard now provides for extensions to be named by a single "Z" followed by an alphabetical name and an optional version number. For example Zifencei names the instruction-fetch extension. Zifencei2 and Zifencei2p0 name version 2.0 of the same. The first letter following the "Z" by convention indicates the most closely related alphabetical extension category, IMAFDQLCBJTPVN. Thus the Zam extension for misaligned atomics relates to the "A" standard extension. Unlike single character extensions, Z extensions must be separated by underscores, grouped by category and then alphabetically within each category. For example Zicsr Zifencei Zam. Extensions specific to supervisor privilege level are named in the same way using "S" for prefix. Extensions specific to hypervisor level are named using "H" for prefix. Machine level extensions are prefixed with the three letters "Zxm". Supervisor, hypervisor and machine level instruction set extensions are named after less privileged extensions. RISC-V developers may create their own non-standard instruction set extensions. These follow the "Z" naming convention, but with "X" as the prefix. They should be specified after all standard extensions, and if multiple non-standard extensions are listed, they should be listed alphabetically. Register sets[edit] Register name Symbolic name Description Saved by 32 integer registers x0 Zero Always zero x1 ra Return address Caller x2 sp Stack pointer Callee x3 gp Global pointer x4 tp Thread pointer x5 t0 Temporary / alternate return address Caller x6–7 t1–2 Temporary Caller x8 s0/fp Saved register / frame pointer Callee x9 s1 Saved register Callee x10–11 a0–1 Function argument / return value Caller x12–17 a2–7 Function argument Caller x18–27 s2–11 Saved register Callee x28–31 t3–6 Temporary Caller 32 floating-point extension registers f0–7 ft0–7 Floating-point temporaries Caller f8–9 fs0–1 Floating-point saved registers Callee f10–11 fa0–1 Floating-point arguments/return values Caller f12–17 fa2–7 Floating-point arguments Caller f18–27 fs2–11 Floating-point saved registers Callee f28–31 ft8–11 Floating-point temporaries Caller RISC-V has 32 (or 16 in the embedded variant) integer registers, and, when the floating-point extension is implemented, separate 32 floating-point registers. Except for memory access instructions, instructions address only registers. The first integer register is a zero register, and the remainder are general-purpose registers. A store to the zero register has no effect, and a read always provides 0. Using the zero register as a placeholder makes for a simpler instruction set. move rx to ry becomes add r0 to rx and store in ry.[1] Control and status registers exist, but user-mode programs can access only those used for performance measurement and floating-point management. No instructions exist to save and restore multiple registers. Those were thought to be needless, too complex, and perhaps too slow.[1] Memory access[edit] Like many RISC designs, RISC-V is a load–store architecture: instructions address only registers, with load and store instructions conveying to and from memory. Most load and store instructions include a 12-bit offset and two register identifiers. One register is the base register. The other register is the source (for a store) or destination (for a load.) The offset is added to a base register to get the address. Forming the address as a base register plus offset allows single instructions to access data structures. For example, if the base register points to the top of a stack, single instructions can access a subroutine's local variables in the stack. Likewise the load and store instructions can access a record-style structure or a memory-mapped I/O device. Using the constant zero register as a base address allows single instructions to access memory near address zero.[1] Memory is addressed as 8-bit bytes, with words being in little-endian order.[1] Words, up to the register size, can be accessed with the load and store instructions. Accessed memory addresses need not be aligned to their word-width, but accesses to aligned addresses may be faster; for example, simple CPUs may implement unaligned accesses with slow software emulation driven from an alignment failure interrupt.[1] Like many RISC instruction sets (and some complex instruction set computer (CISC) instruction sets, such as x86 and IBM System/360 families), RISC-V lacks address-modes that write back to the registers. For example, it does not auto-increment.[1] RISC-V manages memory systems that are shared between CPUs or threads by ensuring a thread of execution always sees its memory operations in the programmed order. But between threads and I/O devices, RISC-V is simplified: It doesn't guarantee the order of memory operations, except by specific instructions, such as fence. A fence instruction guarantees that the results of predecessor operations are visible to successor operations of other threads or I/O devices. fence can guarantee the order of combinations of both memory and memory-mapped I/O operations. E.g. it can separate memory read and write operations, without affecting I/O operations. Or, if a system can operate I/O devices in parallel with memory, fence doesn't force them to wait for each other. One CPU with one thread may decode fence as nop. RISC-V is little-endian to resemble other familiar, successful computers, for example, x86. This also reduces a CPU's complexity and costs slightly because it reads all sizes of words in the same order. For example, the RISC-V instruction set decodes starting at the lowest-addressed byte of the instruction. The specification leaves open the possibility of non-standard big-endian or bi-endian systems.[1] Some RISC CPUs (such as MIPS, PowerPC, DLX, and Berkeley's RISC-I) place 16 bits of offset in the loads and stores. They set the upper 16 bits by a load upper word instruction. This permits upper-halfword values to be set easily, without shifting bits. However, most use of the upper half-word instruction makes 32-bit constants, like addresses. RISC-V uses a SPARC-like combination of 12-bit offsets and 20-bit set upper instructions. The smaller 12-bit offset helps compact, 32-bit load and store instructions select two of 32 registers yet still have enough bits to support RISC-V's variable-length instruction coding.[1] Immediates[edit] RISC-V handles 32-bit constants and addresses with instructions that set the upper 20 bits of a 32-bit register. Load upper immediate lui loads 20 bits into bits 31 through 12. Then a second instruction such as addi can set the bottom 12 bits. This method is extended to permit position-independent code by adding an instruction, auipc that generates 20 upper address bits by adding an offset to the program counter and storing the result into a base register. This permits a program to generate 32-bit addresses that are relative to the program counter. The base register can often be used as-is with the 12-bit offsets of the loads and stores. If needed, addi can set the lower 12 bits of a register. In 64-bit and 128-bit ISAs,lui and auipc sign-extend the result to get the larger address.[1] Some fast CPUs may interpret combinations of instructions as single fused instructions. lui or auipc may be good candidates to fuse with addi, loads or stores. Subroutine calls, jumps, and branches[edit] RISC-V's subroutine call jal (jump and link) places its return address in a register. This is faster in many computer designs, because it saves a memory access compared to systems that push a return address directly on a stack in memory. jal has a 20-bit signed (2's complement) offset. The offset is multiplied by 2, then added to the PC to generate a relative address to a 32-bit instruction. If the result is not at a 32-bit address (i.e., evenly divisible by 4), the CPU may force an exception.[1] RISC-V CPUs jump to calculated addresses using a jump and link-register, jalr instruction. jalr is similar to jal, but gets its destination address by adding a 12-bit offset to a base register. (In contrast,jal adds a larger 20-bit offset to the PC.) jalr's bit format is like the register-relative loads and stores. Like them, jalr can be used with the instructions that set the upper 20 bits of a base register to make 32-bit branches, either to an absolute address (using lui) or a PC-relative one (using auipc for position-independent code). (Using a constant zero base address allows single-instruction calls to a small (the offset), fixed positive or negative address.) RISC-V recycles jal and jalr to get unconditional 20-bit PC-relative jumps and unconditional register-based 12-bit jumps. Jumps just make the linkage register 0 so that no return address is saved.[1] RISC-V also recycles jalr to return from a subroutine: To do this, jalr's base register is set to be the linkage register saved by jal or jalr. jalr's offset is zero and the linkage register is zero, so that there is no offset, and no return address is saved. Like many RISC designs, in a subroutine call, a RISC-V compiler must use individual instructions to save registers to the stack at the start, and then restore these from the stack on exit. RISC-V has no save multiple or restore multiple register instructions. These were thought to make the CPU too complex, and possibly slow.[26] This can take more code space. Designers planned to reduce code size with library routines to save and restore registers.[27] RISC-V has no condition code register or carry bit. The designers believed that condition codes make fast CPUs more complex by forcing interactions between instructions in different stages of execution. This choice makes multiple-precision arithmetic more complex. Also, a few numerical tasks need more energy. As a result, predication (the conditional execution of instructions) is not supported. The designers claim that very fast, out-of-order CPU designs do predication anyway, by doing the comparison branch and conditional code in parallel, then discarding the unused path's effects. They also claim that even in simpler CPUs, predication is less valuable than branch prediction, which can prevent most stalls associated with conditional branches. Code without predication is larger, with more branches, but they also claim that a compressed instruction set (such as RISC-V's set C) solves that problem in most cases.[1] Instead, RISC-V has short branches that perform comparisons: equal, not-equal, less-than, unsigned less-than, greater-than or equal and unsigned greater-than or equal. Ten comparison-branch operations are implemented with only six instructions, by reversing the order of operands in the assembler. For example, branch if greater than can be done by less-than with a reversed order of operands.[1] The comparing branches have a twelve-bit signed range, and jump relative to the PC.[1] Unlike some RISC architectures, RISC-V does not include a branch delay slot, a position after a branch instruction that can be filled with an instruction that is executed whether or not the branch is taken. RISC-V omits a branch delay slot because it complicates multicycle CPUs, superscalar CPUs, and long pipelines. Dynamic branch predictors have succeeded well enough to reduce the need for delayed branches.[1] On the first encounter with a branch, RISC-V CPUs should assume that a negative relative branch (i.e. the sign bit of the offset is "1") will be taken.[1] This assumes that a backward branch is a loop, and provides a default direction so that simple pipelined CPUs can fill their pipeline of instructions. Other than this, RISC-V does not require branch prediction, but core implementations are allowed to add it. RV32I reserves a "HINT" instruction space that presently does not contain any hints on branches.[1] Arithmetic and logic sets[edit] RISC-V segregates math into a minimal set of integer instructions (set I) with add, subtract, shift, bit-wise logic and comparing-branches. These can simulate most of the other RISC-V instruction sets with software. (The atomic instructions are a notable exception.) RISC-V currently lacks the count leading zero and bit-field operations normally used to speed software floating-point in a pure-integer processor. The integer multiplication instructions (set M) includes signed and unsigned multiply and divide. Double-precision integer multiplies and divides are included, as multiplies and divides that produce the high word of the result. The ISA document recommends that implementors of CPUs and compilers fuse a standardized sequence of high and low multiply and divide instructions to one operation if possible.[1] The floating-point instructions (set F) includes single-precision arithmetic and also comparison-branches similar to the integer arithmetic. It requires an additional set of 32 floating-point registers. These are separate from the integer registers. The double-precision floating point instructions (set D) generally assume that the floating-point registers are 64-bit (i.e., double-width), and the F subset is coordinated with the D set. A quad-precision 128-bit floating-point ISA (Q) is also defined. RISC-V computers without floating-point can use a floating-point software library.[1] RISC-V does not cause exceptions on arithmetic errors, including overflow, underflow, subnormal, and divide by zero. Instead, both integer and floating-point arithmetic produce reasonable default values and set status bits. Divide-by-zero can be discovered by one branch after the division. The status bits can be tested by an operating system or periodic interrupt.[1] Atomic memory operations[edit] RISC-V supports computers that share memory between multiple CPUs and threads. RISC-V's standard memory consistency model is release consistency. That is, loads and stores may generally be reordered, but some loads may be designated as acquire operations which must precede later memory accesses, and some stores may be designated as release operations which must follow earlier memory accesses.[1] The base instruction set includes minimal support in the form of a fence instruction to enforce memory ordering. Although this is sufficient (fence r, rw provides acquire and fence rw, w provides release), combined operations can be more efficient.[1] The atomic memory operation extension supports two types of atomic memory operations for release consistency. First, it provides general purpose load-reserved lr and store-conditional sc instructions. lr performs a load, and tries to reserve that address for its thread. A later store-conditional sc to the reserved address will be performed only if the reservation is not broken by an intervening store from another source. If the store succeeds, a zero is placed in a register. If it failed, a non-zero value indicates that software needs to retry the operation. In either case, the reservation is released.[1] The second group of atomic instructions perform read-modify-write sequences: a load (which is optionally a load-acquire) to a destination register, then an operation between the loaded value and a source register, then a store of the result (which may optionally be a store-release). Making the memory barriers optional permits combining the operations. The optional operations are enabled by acquire and release bits which are present in every atomic instruction. RISC-V defines nine possible operations: swap (use source register value directly); add; bitwise and, or, and exclusive-or; and signed and unsigned minimum and maximum.[1] A system design may optimize these combined operations more than lr and sc. For example, if the destination register for a swap is the constant zero, the load may be skipped. If the value stored is unmodified since the load, the store may be skipped.[1] The IBM System/370 and its successors including z/Architecture, and x86, both implement a compare-and-swap (cas) instruction, which tests and conditionally updates a location in memory: if the location contains an expected old value, cas replaces it with a given new value; it then returns an indication of whether it made the change. However, a simple load-type instruction is usually performed before the cas to fetch the old value. The classic problem is that if a thread reads (loads) a value A, calculates a new value C, and then uses (cas) to replace A with C, it has no way to know whether concurrent activity in another thread has replaced A with some other value B and then restored the A in between. In some algorithms (e.g., ones in which the values in memory are pointers to dynamically allocated blocks), this ABA problem can lead to incorrect results. The most common solution employs a double-wide cas instruction to update both the pointer and an adjacent counter; unfortunately, such an instruction requires a special instruction format to specify multiple registers, performs several reads and writes, and can have complex bus operation.[1] The lr/sc alternative is more efficient. It usually requires only one memory load, and minimizing slow memory operations is desirable. It's also exact: it controls all accesses to the memory cell, rather than just assuring a bit pattern. However, unlike cas, it can permit livelock, in which two or more threads repeatedly cause each other's instructions to fail. RISC-V guarantees forward progress (no livelock) if the code follows rules on the timing and sequence of instructions: 1) It must use only the I subset. 2) To prevent repetitive cache misses, the code (including the retry loop) must occupy no more than 16 consecutive instructions. 3) It must include no system or fence instructions, or taken backward branches between the lr and sc. 4) The backward branch to the retry loop must be to the original sequence.[1] The specification gives examples of how to use this subset to lock a data structure.[1] Compressed subset[edit] The standard RISC-V ISA specifies that all instructions are 32 bits. This makes for a particularly simple implementation, but like other RISC processors with such an instruction encoding, results in larger code size than in other instruction sets.[1][26] To compensate, RISC-V's 32-bit instructions are actually 30 bits; ​3⁄4 of the opcode space is reserved for an optional (but recommended) variable-length compressed instruction set, RVC, that includes 16-bit instructions. Like ARM's Thumb and the MIPS16, the compressed instructions are simply aliases for a subset of the larger instructions. Unlike ARM's Thumb or the MIPS compressed set, space was reserved from the beginning so there is no separate operating mode. Standard and compressed instructions may be intermixed freely.[1][26] (letter C)[27] Because (like Thumb-1 and MIPS16) the compressed instructions are simply alternate encodings (aliases) for a selected subset of larger instructions, the compression can be implemented in the assembler, and it is not essential for the compiler to even know about it. A prototype of RVC was tested in 2011.[26] The prototype code was 20% smaller than an x86 PC and MIPS compressed code, and 2% larger than ARM Thumb-2 code.[26] It also substantially reduced both the needed cache memory and the estimated power use of the memory system.[26] The researcher intended to reduce the code's binary size for small computers, especially embedded computer systems. The prototype included 33 of the most frequently used instructions, recoded as compact 16-bit formats using operation codes previously reserved for the compressed set.[26] The compression was done in the assembler, with no changes to the compiler. Compressed instructions omitted fields that are often zero, used small immediate values or accessed subsets (16 or 8) of the registers. addi is very common and often compressible.[26] Much of the difference in size compared to ARM's Thumb set occurred because RISC-V, and the prototype, have no instructions to save and restore multiple registers. Instead, the compiler generated conventional instructions that access the stack. The prototype RVC assembler then often converted these to compressed forms that were half the size. However, this still took more code space than the ARM instructions that save and restore multiple registers. The researcher proposed to modify the compiler to call library routines to save and restore registers. These routines would tend to remain in a code cache and thus run fast, though probably not as fast as a save-multiple instruction.[26] Standard RVC requires occasional use of 32-bit instructions. Several nonstandard RVC proposals are complete, requiring no 32-bit instructions, and are said to have higher densities than standard RVC.[28][29] Another proposal builds on these, and claims to use less coding range as well.[30] Embedded subset[edit] An instruction set for the smallest embedded CPUs (set E) is reduced in other ways: Only 16 of the 32 integer registers are supported. Floating-point instructions should not be supported (the specification forbids it as uneconomical), so a floating-point software library must be used.[1] The compressed set C is recommended. The privileged instruction set supports only machine mode, user mode and memory schemes that use base-and-bound address relocation.[15] Discussion has occurred for a microcontroller profile for RISC-V, to ease development of deeply embedded systems. It centers on faster, simple C-language support for interrupts, simplified security modes and a simplified POSIX application binary interface.[31] Correspondents have also proposed smaller, non-standard, 16-bit RV16E ISAs: Several serious proposals would use the 16-bit C instructions with 8 × 16-bit registers.[29][28] An April fools' joke proposed a very practical arrangement: Utilize 16 × 16-bit integer registers, with the standard EIMC ISAs (including 32-bit instructions.) The joke was to propose bank switching, when a 32-bit CPU would be clearly superior with the larger address space.[32] Privileged instruction set[edit] RISC-V's ISA includes a separate privileged instruction set specification. As of August 2019[update], version 1.11 is ratified by RISC-V International.[2][15] Version 1.11 of the specification supports several types of computer systems: Systems that have only machine mode, perhaps for embedded systems, Systems with both machine mode (for the supervisor) and user-mode to implement operating systems that run the kernel in a privileged mode. Systems with machine-mode, hypervisors, multiple supervisors, and user-modes under each supervisor. These correspond roughly to systems with up to four rings of privilege and security, at most: machine, hypervisor, supervisor and user. Each layer also is expected to have a thin layer of standardized supporting software that communicates to a more-privileged layer, or hardware.[15] The overall plan for this ISA is to make the hypervisor mode orthogonal to the user and supervisor modes.[33] The basic feature is a configuration bit that either permits supervisor-level code to access hypervisor registers, or causes an interrupt on accesses. This bit lets supervisor mode directly handle the hardware needed by a hypervisor. This simplifies a type 2 hypervisor, hosted by an operating system. This is a popular mode to run warehouse-scale computers. To support type 1, unhosted hypervisors, the bit can cause these accesses to interrupt to a hypervisor. The bit simplifies nesting of hypervisors, in which a hypervisor runs under a hypervisor. It's also said to simplify supervisor code by letting the kernel use its own hypervisor features with its own kernel code. As a result, the hypervisor form of the ISA supports five modes: machine, supervisor, user, supervisor-under-hypervisor and user-under-hypervisor. The privileged instruction set specification explicitly defines hardware threads, or harts. Multiple hardware threads are a common practice in more-capable computers. When one thread is stalled, waiting for memory, others can often proceed. Hardware threads can help make better use of the large number of registers and execution units in fast out-of-order CPUs. Finally, hardware threads can be a simple, powerful way to handle interrupts: No saving or restoring of registers is required, simply executing a different hardware thread. However, the only hardware thread required in a RISC-V computer is thread zero.[15] The existing control and status register definitions support RISC-V's error and memory exceptions, and a small number of interrupts. For systems with more interrupts, the specification also defines an interrupt controller. Interrupts always start at the highest-privileged machine level, and the control registers of each level have explicit forwarding bits to route interrupts to less-privileged code. For example, the hypervisor need not include software that executes on each interrupt to forward an interrupt to an operating system. Instead, on set-up, it can set bits to forward the interrupt.[15] Several memory systems are supported in the specification. Physical-only is suited to the simplest embedded systems. There are also three UNIX-style virtual memory systems for memory cached in mass-storage systems. The virtual memory systems have three sizes, with addresses sized 32, 39 and 48 bits. All virtual memory systems support 4 KiB pages, multilevel page-table trees and use very similar algorithms to walk the page table trees. All are designed for either hardware or software page-table walking. To optionally reduce the cost of page table walks, super-sized pages may be leaf pages in higher levels of a system's page table tree. SV32 has a two-layer page table tree and supports 4 MiB superpages. SV39 has a three level page table, and supports 2 MiB superpages and 1 GiB gigapages. SV48 is required to support SV39. It also has a 4-level page table and supports 2 MiB superpages, 1 GiB gigapages, and 512 GiB terapages. Superpages are aligned on the page boundaries for the next-lowest size of page.[15] Bit manipulation[edit] An unapproved bit-manipulation (B) ISA for RISC-V was under review in January 2020.[clarification needed] Done well, a bit-manipulation subset can aid cryptographic, graphic, and mathematical operations. The criteria for inclusion documented in the draft were compliance with RV5 philosophies and ISA formats, substantial improvements in code density or speed (i.e., at least a 3-for-1 reduction in instructions), and substantial real-world applications, including preexisting compiler support. Version 0.92 includes[34] instructions to count leading zeros, count one bits, perform logic operations with complement, pack two words in one register, take the min or max, sign-extend, single-bit operations, shift ones, rotates, a generalized bit-reverse and shuffle, or-combines, bit-field place and extract, carry-less multiply, CRC instructions, bit-matrix operations (RV64 only), conditional mix, conditional move, funnel shifts, and unsigned address calculations. Packed SIMD[edit] Packed-SIMD instructions are widely used by commercial CPUs to inexpensively accelerate multimedia and other digital signal processing.[1] For simple, cost-reduced RISC-V systems, the base ISA's specification proposed to use the floating-point registers' bits to perform parallel single instruction, multiple data (SIMD) sub-word arithmetic. In 2017 a vendor published a more detailed proposal to the mailing list, and this can be cited as version 0.1.[35] As of 2019[update], the efficiency of this proposed ISA varies from 2x to 5x a base CPU for a variety of DSP codecs.[36] The proposal lacked instruction formats and a license assignment to RISC-V International, but it was reviewed by the mailing list.[35] Some unpopular parts of this proposal were that it added a condition code, the first in a RISC-V design, linked adjacent registers (also a first), and has a loop counter that could be difficult to implement in some microarchitectures. A previous, well-regarded implementation for a 64-bit CPU was PA-RISC's multimedia instructions: Multimedia Acceleration eXtensions. It increased the CPU's performance on digital signal processing tasks by 48-fold or more, enabling practical real-time video codecs in 1995.[37][38] Besides its native 64-bit math, the PA-RISC MAX2 CPU could do arithmetic on four 16-bit subwords at once, with several overflow methods. It also could move subwords to different positions. PA-RISC's MAX2 was intentionally simplified. It lacked support for 8-bit or 32-bit subwords. The 16-bit subword size was chosen to support most digital signal processing tasks. These instructions were inexpensive to design and build. Vector set[edit] The proposed vector-processing instruction set may make the packed SIMD set obsolete. The designers hope to have enough flexibility that a CPU can implement vector instructions in a standard processor's registers. This would enable minimal implementations with similar performance to a multimedia ISA, as above. However, a true vector coprocessor could execute the same code with higher performance.[39] As of 29 June 2015[update], the vector-processing proposal is a conservative, flexible design of a general-purpose mixed-precision vector processor, suitable to execute compute kernels. Code would port easily to CPUs with differing vector lengths, ideally without recompiling.[39] In contrast, short-vector SIMD extensions are less convenient. These are used in x86, ARM and PA-RISC. In these, a change in word-width forces a change to the instruction set to expand the vector registers (in the case of x86, from 64-bit MMX registers to 128-bit Streaming SIMD Extensions (SSE), to 256-bit Advanced Vector Extensions (AVX), and AVX-512). The result is a growing instruction set, and a need to port working code to the new instructions. In the RISC-V vector ISA, rather than fix the vector length in the architecture, an instruction (setvl) is available which takes a requested size and sets the vector length to the minimum of the hardware limit and the requested size. So, the RISC-V proposal is more like a Cray's long-vector design or ARM's Scalable Vector Extension. That is, each vector in up to 32 vectors is the same length.[39] The application specifies the total vector width it requires, and the processor determines the vector length it can provide with available on-chip resources. This takes the form of an instruction (vsetcfg) with four immediate operands, specifying the number of vector registers of each available width needed. The total must be no more than the addressable limit of 32, but may be less if the application does not require them all. The vector length is limited by the available on-chip storage divided by the number of bytes of storage needed for each entry. (Added hardware limits may also exist, which in turn may permit SIMD-style implementations.)[39] Outside of vector loops, the application can zero the number of requested vector registers, saving the operating system the work of preserving them on context switches.[39] The vector length is not only architecturally variable, but designed to vary at run time also. To achieve this flexibility, the instruction set is likely to use variable-width data paths and variable-type operations using polymorphic overloading.[39] The plan is that these can reduce the size and complexity of the ISA and compiler.[39] Recent experimental vector processors with variable-width data paths also show profitable increases in operations per: second (speed), area (lower cost), and watt (longer battery life).[40] Unlike a typical modern graphics processing unit, there are no plans to provide special hardware to support branch predication. Instead, lower cost compiler-based predication will be used.[39][41] External debug system[edit] There is a preliminary specification for RISC-V's hardware-assisted debugger. The debugger will use a transport system such as Joint Test Action Group (JTAG) or Universal Serial Bus (USB) to access debug registers. A standard hardware debug interface may support either a standardized abstract interface or instruction feeding.[42][43] As of January 2017[update], the exact form of the abstract interface remains undefined, but proposals include a memory mapped system with standardized addresses for the registers of debug devices or a command register and a data register accessible to the communication system.[42] Correspondents claim that similar systems are used by Freescale's background debug mode interface (BDM) for some CPUs, ARM, OpenRISC, and Aeroflex's LEON.[42] In instruction feeding, the CPU will process a debug exception to execute individual instructions written to a register. This may be supplemented with a data-passing register and a module to directly access the memory. Instruction feeding lets the debugger access the computer exactly as software would. It also minimizes changes in the CPU, and adapts to many types of CPU. This was said to be especially apt for RISC-V because it is designed explicitly for many types of computers. The data-passing register allows a debugger to write a data-movement loop to RAM, and then execute the loop to move data into or out of the computer at a speed near the maximum speed of the debug system's data channel.[42] Correspondents say that similar systems are used by MIPS Technologies MIPS, Intel Quark, Tensilica's Xtensa, and for Freescale Power ISA CPUs' background debug mode interface (BDM).[42] A vendor proposed a hardware trace subsystem for standardization, donated a conforming design, and initiated a review.[44][45] The proposal is for a hardware module that can trace code execution on most RV5 CPUs. To reduce the data rate, and permit simpler or less-expensive paths for the trace data, the proposal does not generate trace data that could be calculated from a binary image of the code. It sends only data that indicates "uninferrable" paths through the program, such as which conditional branches are taken. To reduce the data rates, branches that can be calculated, such as unconditional branches, are not traced. The proposed interface between the module and the control unit is a logic signal for each uninferrable type of instruction. Addresses and other data are to be provided in a specialized bus attached to appropriate data sources in a CPU. The data structure sent to an external trace unit is a series of short messages with the needed data. The details of the data channel are intentionally not described in the proposal, because several are likely to make sense. Implementations[edit] The RISC-V organization maintains a list of RISC-V CPU and SoC implementations.[46] Existing[edit] Existing proprietary implementations include: Alibaba Group, in July 2019 announced the 2.5 GHz 16-core 64-bit (RV64GCV) XuanTie 910 out-of-order processor[47] Andes Technology Corporation, a founding member of RISC-V International[48] which joined the consortium in 2016, released its first two RISC-V cores in 2017. The cores, the N25 and NX25, come with complete design ecosystems and a number of RISC-V partners. Andes is actively driving the development of RISC-V ecosystem and expects to release several new RISC-V products in 2018. CloudBEAR is a processor IP company that develops its own RISC-V cores for a range of applications.[49] Codasip and UltraSoC have developed fully supported intellectual property for RISC-V embedded SOCs that combine Codasip's RISC-V cores and other IP with UltraSoC's debug, optimization and analytics.[50] Cortus, a founding platinum member of the RISC-V foundation, has a number of RISC-V implementations and a complete IDE/toolchain/debug eco-system which it offers for free as part of its SoC design business. GigaDevice has a series of MCUs based on RISC-V (RV32IMAC, GD32V series),[51] with one of them used on the Longan Nano board produced by a Chinese electronic company Sipeed.[52] GreenWaves Technologies announced the availability of GAP8, a 32-bit 1 controller plus 8 compute cores, 32-bit SoC (RV32IMC) and developer board in February 2018. Their GAPuino GAP8 development board started shipping in May 2018.[53][54][55] IAR Systems released the first version of IAR Embedded Workbench for RISC-V, which supports RV32 32-bit RISC-V cores and extensions in the first version. Future releases will include 64-bit support and support for the smaller RV32E base instruction set, as well as functional safety certification and security solutions. Instant SoC RISC-V cores from FPGA Cores. System On Chip, including RISC-V cores, defined by C++. Micro Magic Inc. announced the world's fastest 64-bit RISC-V core achieving 5GHz and 13,000 CoreMarks on October 2020. SEGGER added support for RISC-V cores to their debug probe J-Link,[56] their integrated development environment Embedded Studio,[57] and their RTOS embOS and embedded software.[58] SiFive, a company established specifically for developing RISC-V hardware, has processor models released in 2017.[59][60] These include a quad-core, 64-bit (RV64GC) system on a chip (SoC) capable of running general-purpose operating systems such as Linux.[61] Syntacore,[62] a founding member of RISC-V International and one of the first commercial RISC-V IP vendors, develops and licenses family of RISC-V IP since 2015. As of 2018[update], product line includes eight 32- and 64-bit cores, including open-source SCR1 MCU core (RV32I/E[MC]).[63] First commercial SoCs, based on the Syntacore IP were demonstrated in 2016.[64] UltraSOC proposed a standard trace system and donated an implementation. Western Digital, in December 2018 announced an RV32IMC core called SweRV. The SweRV features an in-order 2-way superscalar and nine-stage pipeline design. WD plans to use SweRV based processors in their flash controllers and SSDs, and released it as open-source to third parties in January 2019.[65][66][67] Espressif[68] added a RISC-V ULP coprocessor to their ESP32-S2 microcontroller.[69] As of 2020, Indian defence and strategic sector started using 64-bit RISC-V based 100-350 MHz Risecreek processor developed by Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT-Madras) and fabricated by Intel with 22nm FinFET technology under Shakti Microprocessor programme.[70][71] In development[edit] ASTC developed a RISC-V CPU for embedded ICs.[72] Centre for Development of Advanced Computing, India (C-DAC) is developing a 64-bit out-of-order quad-core RISC-V processor.[73] Cobham Gaisler NOEL-V 64-bit.[74] Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, in collaboration with the FreeBSD Project, has ported that operating system to 64-bit RISC-V to use as a hardware-software research platform.[75] Esperanto Technologies announced that they are developing three RISC-V based processors: the ET-Maxion high-performance core, ET-Minion energy-efficient core, and ET-Graphics graphics processor.[76] ETH Zurich and the University of Bologna have cooperatively developed the open-source RISC-V PULPino processor[77] as part of the Parallel Ultra-Low Power (PULP) project for energy-efficient IoT computing.[78] European Processor Initiative (EPI), RISC-V Accelerator Stream.[79][80] Indian Institute of Technology Madras is developing six RISC-V open-source CPU designs for six distinct uses, from a small 32-bit CPU for the Internet of Things (IoT) to large, 64-bit CPUs designed for warehouse-scale computers such as server farms based on RapidIO and Hybrid Memory Cube technologies.[13][81] 32-bit Moushik successfully booted by IIT-Madras for the application of Credit cards, Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs), surveillance cameras, safe locks, personalized Health Management Systems.[71] lowRISC is a non profit project to implement a fully open-source hardware system on a chip (SoC) based on the 64-bit RISC-V ISA.[82] Nvidia plans to use RISC-V to replace their Falcon processor on their GeForce graphics cards.[83] SiFive announced their first RISC-V out-of-order high performance CPU core, the U8 Series Processor IP.[84] Open source[edit] There are many open-sourced RISC-V CPU designs, including: The Berkeley CPUs. These are implemented in a unique hardware design language, Chisel, and some are named for famous train engines: 64-bit Rocket.[85] Rocket may suit compact, low-power intermediate computers such as personal devices. Named for Stephenson's Rocket. The 64-bit Berkeley Out of Order Machine (BOOM).[86] The Berkeley Out-of-Order Machine (BOOM) is a synthesizable and parameterizable open source RV64GC RISC-V core written in the Chisel hardware construction language. BOOM uses much of the infrastructure created for Rocket, and may be usable for personal, supercomputer, and warehouse-scale computers. Five 32-bit Sodor CPU designs from Berkeley,[87] designed for student projects.[88] Sodor is the fictional island of trains in childrens' stories about Thomas the Tank Engine. picorv32 by Claire Wolf,[89] a 32-bit microcontroller unit (MCU) class RV32IMC implementation in Verilog. scr1 from Syntacore,[90]a 32-bit microcontroller unit (MCU) class RV32IMC implementation in Verilog. PULPino (Riscy and Zero-Riscy) from ETH Zürich / University of Bologna.[91] The cores in PULPino implement a simple RV32IMC ISA for microcontrollers (Zero-Riscy) or a more powerful RV32IMFC ISA with custom DSP extensions for embedded signal processing. Software[edit] A normal problem for a new instruction set is a lack of CPU designs and software. Both issues limit its usability and reduce adoption.[10] The design software includes a design compiler, Chisel[92], which can reduce the designs to Verilog for use in devices. The website includes verification data for testing core implementations. Available RISC-V software tools include a GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) toolchain (with GDB, the debugger), an LLVM toolchain, the OVPsim simulator (and library of RISC-V Fast Processor Models), the Spike simulator, and a simulator in QEMU (RV32GC/RV64GC). Operating system support exists for the Linux kernel, FreeBSD, and NetBSD, but the supervisor-mode instructions were unstandardized prior to June 2019,[15] so this support is provisional. The preliminary FreeBSD port to the RISC-V architecture was upstreamed in February 2016, and shipped in FreeBSD 11.0.[93][75] Ports of Debian[94] and Fedora[95] are stabilizing (both only support 64-bit RISC-V, with no plans to support 32-bit version). A port of Das U-Boot exists.[96] UEFI Spec v2.7 has defined the RISC-V binding and a TianoCore port has been done by HPE engineers[97] and is expected to be upstreamed. There is a preliminary port of the seL4 microkernel.[98][99] Hex Five released the first Secure IoT Stack for RISC-V with FreeRTOS support.[100] Also xv6, a modern reimplementation of Sixth Edition Unix in ANSI C used for pedagogical purposes in MIT, was ported. Pharos RTOS has been ported to 64-bit RISC-V[101] (including time and memory protection). Also see Comparison of real-time operating systems. A simulator exists to run a RISC-V Linux system on a web browser using JavaScript.[102][103][104] The educational simulator WepSIM[105][106] implements (microprogrammed) a subset of RISC-V instructions (RV32I + M) and allows the execution of subroutines in assembly. Moreover, it is possible to add more RISC-V instructions (by microprogramming these instructions) and test the impact of its implementation. The WepSIM simulator can be used from a Web browser and facilitates learning various aspects of how a CPU works (microprogramming, interruptions, system calls, etc.) using RISC-V assembly. QEMU supports running (using binary translation) 32- and 64-bit RISC-V systems (i.e. Linux) with a number of emulated or virtualized devices (serial, parallel, USB, network, storage, real time clock, watchdog, audio), as well as running RISC-V Linux binaries (translating syscalls to the host kernel). 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Retrieved 1 April 2020. ^ "ANGEL is a Javascript RISC-V ISA (RV64) Simulator that runs riscv-linux with BusyBox". RISCV.org. Archived from the original on 11 November 2018. Retrieved 17 January 2019. ^ Lee, Yunsup (5 March 2014). "Boot RISC-V Linux in your web browser!". RISC-V International. Retrieved 4 September 2020. ^ "ANGEL - RISC-V". riscv.org.s3-website-us-west-1.amazonaws.com. Retrieved 4 September 2020. ^ WepSIM with RISC-V_im example: https://acaldero.github.io/wepsim/ws_dist/wepsim-classic.html?mode=ep&example=36&simulator=assembly:registers¬ify=false ^ WepSIM source code in GitHub: https://github.com/wepsim/wepsim ^ "Documentation/Platforms/RISCV - QEMU". wiki.qemu.org. Retrieved 7 May 2020. Further reading[edit] Library resources about RISC-V Resources in your library Resources in other libraries "The RISC-V Instruction Set Manual". RISC-V. "RISC-V Assembly Language Programming". GitHub. 8 November 2019. "Design of the RISC-V Instruction Set Architecture" (PDF). EECS Department, University of California, Berkeley. Asanović, Krste; Patterson, David A. (6 August 2014). "Instruction Sets Should Be Free: The Case For RISC-V". EECS Department, University of California, Berkeley. UCB/EECS-2014-146. Waterman, Andrew; Lee, Yunsup; Avizienis, Rimas; Cook, Henry; Patterson, David A.; Asanović, Krste (25–27 August 2013). The RISC-V Instruction Set (PDF). Hot Chips 25. Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, USA. Dabbelt, Palmer (7–11 February 2015). RISC-V Software Ecosystem (PDF). High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA) 2015. San Francisco, California, USA. Lee, Yunsup (7–11 February 2015). RISC-V "Rocket Chip" SoC Generator in Chisel (PDF). High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA) 2015. San Francisco, California, USA. Waterman, Andrew; Lee, Yunsup; Patterson, David A.; Asanović, Krste (5 November 2015). "The RISC-V Compressed Instruction Set Manual Version 1.9 (draft)" (PDF). RISC-V. External links[edit] Wikimedia Commons has media related to RISC-V. Official website RISC-V Instruction Set Reference Card "RISC-V: An Open Standard for SoCs: The case for an open ISA". EETimes. 8 July 2014. Hruska, Joel (21 August 2014). "RISC rides again: New RISC-V architecture hopes to battle ARM and x86 by being totally open source". ExtremeTech. "Analyzing the RISC-V Instruction Set Architecture". 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Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply. By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization. Privacy policy About Wikipedia Disclaimers Contact Wikipedia Mobile view Developers Statistics Cookie statement en-wikipedia-org-3679 ---- Robots exclusion standard - Wikipedia Robots exclusion standard From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 29 November 2020. Jump to navigation Jump to search Standard used to advise web crawlers and scrapers not to index a web page or site The robots exclusion standard, also known as the robots exclusion protocol or simply robots.txt, is a standard used by websites to communicate with web crawlers and other web robots. The standard specifies how to inform the web robot about which areas of the website should not be processed or scanned. Robots are often used by search engines to categorize websites. Not all robots cooperate with the standard; email harvesters, spambots, malware and robots that scan for security vulnerabilities may even start with the portions of the website where they have been told to stay out. The standard can be used in conjunction with Sitemaps, a robot inclusion standard for websites. Contents 1 History 2 Standard 3 Security 4 Alternatives 5 Examples 6 Nonstandard extensions 6.1 Crawl-delay directive 6.2 Allow directive 6.3 Sitemap 6.4 Host 6.5 Universal "*" match 7 Meta tags and headers 8 See also 9 References 10 External links History[edit] The standard was proposed by Martijn Koster,[1][2] when working for Nexor[3] in February 1994[4] on the www-talk mailing list, the main communication channel for WWW-related activities at the time. Charles Stross claims to have provoked Koster to suggest robots.txt, after he wrote a badly-behaved web crawler that inadvertently caused a denial-of-service attack on Koster's server.[5] It quickly became a de facto standard that present and future web crawlers were expected to follow; most complied, including those operated by search engines such as WebCrawler, Lycos, and AltaVista.[6] On July 1, 2019 Google announced[7] the proposal of the Robots Exclusion Protocol as an official standard under Internet Engineering Task Force. The draft[8] will now undergo acceptance process. Standard[edit] When a site owner wishes to give instructions to web robots they place a text file called robots.txt in the root of the web site hierarchy (e.g. https://www.example.com/robots.txt). This text file contains the instructions in a specific format (see examples below). Robots that choose to follow the instructions try to fetch this file and read the instructions before fetching any other file from the website. If this file doesn't exist, web robots assume that the website owner does not wish to place any limitations on crawling the entire site. A robots.txt file on a website will function as a request that specified robots ignore specified files or directories when crawling a site. This might be, for example, out of a preference for privacy from search engine results, or the belief that the content of the selected directories might be misleading or irrelevant to the categorization of the site as a whole, or out of a desire that an application only operates on certain data. Links to pages listed in robots.txt can still appear in search results if they are linked to from a page that is crawled.[9] A robots.txt file covers one origin. For websites with multiple subdomains, each subdomain must have its own robots.txt file. If example.com had a robots.txt file but a.example.com did not, the rules that would apply for example.com would not apply to a.example.com. In addition, each protocol and port needs its own robots.txt file; http://example.com/robots.txt does not apply to pages under http://example.com:8080/ or https://example.com/. Some major search engines following this standard include Ask,[10] AOL,[11] Baidu,[12] DuckDuckGo,[13] Google,[14] Yahoo!,[15] and Yandex.[16] Bing[17] still is not fully[18] compatible with the standard[3] as it cannot inherit settings from the wildcard (*). The volunteering group Archive Team explicitly ignores robots.txt for the most part, viewing it as an obsolete standard that hinders web archival efforts. According to project leader Jason Scott, "unchecked, and left alone, the robots.txt file ensures no mirroring or reference for items that may have general use and meaning beyond the website's context."[19] For some years, the Internet Archive did not crawl sites with robots.txt, but in April 2017, it announced[20] that it would no longer honour directives in the robots.txt files. “Over time we have observed that the robots.txt files that are geared toward search engine crawlers do not necessarily serve our archival purposes".[21] This was in response to entire domains being tagged with robots.txt when the content became obsolete.[21] Security[edit] Despite the use of the terms "allow" and "disallow", the protocol is purely advisory[22] and relies on the compliance of the web robot. Malicious web robots are unlikely to honor robots.txt; some may even use the robots.txt as a guide to find disallowed links and go straight to them. While this is sometimes claimed to be a security risk,[23] this sort of security through obscurity is discouraged by standards bodies. The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in the United States specifically recommends against this practice: "System security should not depend on the secrecy of the implementation or its components."[24] In the context of robots.txt files, security through obscurity is not recommended as a security technique.[25] Alternatives[edit] Many robots also pass a special user-agent to the web server when fetching content.[26] A web administrator could also configure the server to automatically return failure (or pass alternative content) when it detects a connection using one of the robots.[27][28] Some sites, such as Google, host a humans.txt file that displays information meant for humans to read.[29] Some sites such as GitHub redirect humans.txt to an about page.[30] Previously Google had a joke file hosted at /killer-robots.txt instructing the Terminator not to kill the company founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin.[31][32] Examples[edit] This example tells all robots that they can visit all files because the wildcard * stands for all robots and the Disallow directive has no value, meaning no pages are disallowed. User-agent: * Allow: / The same result can be accomplished with an empty or missing robots.txt file. This example tells all robots to stay out of a website: User-agent: * Disallow: / This example tells all robots not to enter three directories: User-agent: * Disallow: /cgi-bin/ Disallow: /tmp/ Disallow: /junk/ This example tells all robots to stay away from one specific file: User-agent: * Disallow: /directory/file.html All other files in the specified directory will be processed. This example tells a specific robot to stay out of a website: User-agent: BadBot # replace 'BadBot' with the actual user-agent of the bot Disallow: / This example tells two specific robots not to enter one specific directory: User-agent: BadBot # replace 'BadBot' with the actual user-agent of the bot User-agent: Googlebot Disallow: /private/ Example demonstrating how comments can be used: # Comments appear after the "#" symbol at the start of a line, or after a directive User-agent: * # match all bots Disallow: / # keep them out It is also possible to list multiple robots with their own rules. The actual robot string is defined by the crawler. A few robot operators, such as Google, support several user-agent strings that allow the operator to deny access to a subset of their services by using specific user-agent strings.[14] Example demonstrating multiple user-agents: User-agent: googlebot # all Google services Disallow: /private/ # disallow this directory User-agent: googlebot-news # only the news service Disallow: / # disallow everything User-agent: * # any robot Disallow: /something/ # disallow this directory Nonstandard extensions[edit] Crawl-delay directive[edit] The crawl-delay value is supported by some crawlers to throttle their visits to the host. Since this value is not part of the standard, its interpretation is dependent on the crawler reading it. It is used when the multiple burst of visits from bots is slowing down the host. Yandex interprets the value as the number of seconds to wait between subsequent visits.[16] Bing defines crawl-delay as the size of a time window (from 1 to 30 seconds) during which BingBot will access a web site only once.[33] Google provides an interface in its search console for webmasters, to control the GoogleBot's subsequent visits.[34] User-agent: bingbot Allow : / Crawl-delay: 10 Allow directive[edit] Some major crawlers support an Allow directive, which can counteract a following Disallow directive.[35][36] This is useful when one tells robots to avoid an entire directory but still wants some HTML documents in that directory crawled and indexed. While by standard implementation the first matching robots.txt pattern always wins, Google's implementation differs in that Allow patterns with equal or more characters in the directive path win over a matching Disallow pattern.[37] Bing uses either the Allow or Disallow directive, whichever is more specific, based on length, like Google.[17] In order to be compatible to all robots, if one wants to allow single files inside an otherwise disallowed directory, it is necessary to place the Allow directive(s) first, followed by the Disallow, for example: Allow: /directory1/myfile.html Disallow: /directory1/ This example will Disallow anything in /directory1/ except /directory1/myfile.html, since the latter will match first. The order is only important to robots that follow the standard; in the case of the Google or Bing bots, the order is not important. Sitemap[edit] Some crawlers support a Sitemap directive, allowing multiple Sitemaps in the same robots.txt in the form Sitemap: full-url:[38] Sitemap: http://www.example.com/sitemap.xml Host[edit] Some crawlers (Yandex) support a Host directive, allowing websites with multiple mirrors to specify their preferred domain:[39] Host: hosting.example.com This is not supported by all crawlers. Universal "*" match[edit] The Robot Exclusion Standard does not mention the "*" character in the Disallow: statement.[40] Meta tags and headers[edit] In addition to root-level robots.txt files, robots exclusion directives can be applied at a more granular level through the use of Robots meta tags and X-Robots-Tag HTTP headers. The robots meta tag cannot be used for non-HTML files such as images, text files, or PDF documents. On the other hand, the X-Robots-Tag can be added to non-HTML files by using .htaccess and httpd.conf files.[41] A "noindex" meta tag A "noindex" HTTP response header X-Robots-Tag: noindex The X-Robots-Tag is only effective after the page has been requested and the server responds, and the robots meta tag is only effective after the page has loaded, whereas robots.txt is effective before the page is requested. Thus if a page is excluded by a robots.txt file, any robots meta tags or X-Robots-Tag headers are effectively ignored because the robot will not see them in the first place.[41] See also[edit] ads.txt, a standard for listing authorized ad sellers security.txt, a file to describe the process for security researchers to follow in order to report security vulnerabilities Automated Content Access Protocol – a failed proposal to extend robots.txt BotSeer – now inactive search engine for robots.txt files Distributed web crawling Focused crawler Internet Archive National Digital Library Program (NDLP) National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP) Nofollow Perma.cc Meta elements for search engines Sitemaps Spider trap Web archiving Web crawler noindex References[edit] ^ "Historical". Greenhills.co.uk. Archived from the original on 2017-04-03. Retrieved 2017-03-03. ^ Fielding, Roy (1994). 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External links[edit] Official website Robots Database (list of bot names) Robots.txt checker tool Microsoft bingbot official documentation Internet portal Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Robots_exclusion_standard&oldid=991385881" Categories: World Wide Web Internet bots Hidden categories: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list Wikipedia pending changes protected pages Articles with short description Short description matches Wikidata Official website different in Wikidata and Wikipedia AC with 0 elements Navigation menu Personal tools Not logged in Talk Contributions Create account Log in Namespaces Article Talk Variants Views Read Edit View history More Search Navigation Main page Contents Current events Random article About Wikipedia Contact us Donate Contribute Help Learn to edit Community portal Recent changes Upload file Tools What links here Related changes Upload file Special pages Permanent link Page information Cite this page Wikidata item Print/export Download as PDF Printable version Languages العربية Boarisch Català Čeština Dansk Deutsch Español فارسی Français 한국어 Bahasa Indonesia Italiano עברית Nederlands 日本語 Polski Português Русский Simple English Српски / srpski Suomi Svenska Türkçe Українська 中文 Edit links This page was last edited on 29 November 2020, at 19:54 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply. By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization. Privacy policy About Wikipedia Disclaimers Contact Wikipedia Mobile view Developers Statistics Cookie statement en-wikipedia-org-4815 ---- Desire path - Wikipedia Desire path From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search "Desire lines" redirects here. For other uses, see Desire lines (disambiguation). A typical desire path A desire path (often referred to as a desire line in transportation planning, and also known as a game trail, social trail, fishermen trail, herd path, cow path, elephant path, goat track, pig trail, use trail, and bootleg trail) is a path created as a consequence of erosion caused by human or animal foot traffic. The path usually represents the shortest or most easily navigated route between an origin and destination. The width and severity of erosion are often indicators of the traffic level that a path receives. Desire paths emerge as shortcuts where constructed paths take a circuitous route, have gaps, or are non-existent. Contents 1 Parks and nature areas 1.1 Accommodation 2 Other uses of the concept 3 See also 4 References 5 External links Parks and nature areas[edit] Clover indicates a desire path through a protected woodland and wildlife area at Theydon Bois in Essex, England Desire paths sometimes cut through sensitive habitats and exclusion zones, threatening wildlife and park security. However, they also provide park management with an indicator of activity concentration. In Yosemite National Park, the National Park Service uses these indicators to help guide its management plan.[1] A desire path (right) merges with a footpath (center) in Helsinki, Finland Trampling studies have consistently documented that impacts on soil and vegetation occur rapidly with initial use of desire paths. As few as 15 passages over a site can be enough to create a distinct trail, the existence of which then attracts further use.[2]:27 This finding contributed to the creation of the Leave No Trace education program, which instructs travelers in nature areas to either stay on designated trails or, when off trail, distribute their travel lines so as to not inadvertently create new trails in unsustainable locations.[3] Land managers have devised a variety of techniques to block the creation of desire paths, including fences, dense vegetation, and signage, though none are foolproof. Modern trail design attempts to avoid the need for barriers and restrictions, by aligning trail layout and user desire through physical design and persuasive outreach .[2]:16 Accommodation[edit] Landscapers sometimes accommodate desire paths by paving them, thereby integrating them into the official path network rather than blocking them.[4][5] Sometimes, land planners have deliberately left land fully or partially unpathed, waiting to see what desire paths are created, and then paving those.[4] In Finland, planners are known to visit parks immediately after the first snowfall, when the existing paths are not visible.[6][unreliable source?] The naturally chosen desire paths, marked by footprints, can then be used to guide the routing of new purpose-built paths. A desire path roped off for revegetation in Brisbane, Australia Other uses of the concept[edit] Images of desire paths have been employed as a metaphor for anarchism, intuitive design, individual creativity, and the wisdom of crowds.[7][8][9][10][11][12] In urban planning, desire paths have been used to analyze traffic patterns for a given mode of travel. For example, the 1959 Chicago Area Transportation Study used desire paths to illustrate commuter choices regarding railroad and subway trips.[13] In software design, the term is used to describe users' wide adoption of the same methods to overcome limitations in the software.[14] For example, Twitter has "paved" a number of desire paths by integrating them into the service, including @ replies, hashtags, and group discussions.[15][16] See also[edit] Wayfinding Sneckdown References[edit] ^ Lubell, Mark. "ESP172 Lecture 9: National Parks" (PDF). University of California, Davis. ^ a b Hampton, Bruce; Cole, David (1988). Soft paths: how to enjoy the wilderness without harming it. Harrisburg, PA: Stackpole Books. ISBN 978-0-8117-2234-6. ^ Marion, Jeffrey L.; Reid, Scott E. (January 2001). "Development of the U.S. Leave No Trace Program: An Historical Perspective" (PDF). Leave No Trace: Center for Outdoor Ethics. ^ a b Kurt Kohlstedt (January 30, 2016). "Least Resistance: How Desire Paths Can Lead to Better Design". 99% Invisible. Retrieved February 3, 2016. ^ Bob Spieldenner (August 5, 2014). "Dirt paths on Drillfield to be paved". Virginia Tech News. Retrieved February 3, 2016. ^ "Earls Court Project Application 1: The 21st Century High Street" (PDF). June 2011. ^ Myhill, Carl (2004), "Commercial Success by Looking for Desire Lines" (PDF), in Masodian, M; Jones, S; Rogers, B (eds.), 6th Asia Pacific Computer-Human Interaction Conference (APCHI 2004), Rotorua, New Zealand: Springer-Verlag ^ Lidwell, William; Holden, Katrina; Butler, Jill (2010). Universal principles of design: 125 ways to enhance usability, influence perception, increase appeal, make better design decisions, and teach through design. Rockport Publishers. ISBN 978-1-59253-587-3. ^ Norman, Donald (2010). Living with Complexity. The MIT Press. ISBN 978-0-262-01486-1. ^ Throgmorton, James; Eckstein, Barbara. "Desire Lines: The Chicago Area Transportation Study and the Paradox of Self in Post-War America". The 3Cities Project. Archived from the original on 6 July 2015. Retrieved 26 May 2015. ^ "WGBH: A Cape Cod Notebook - Desire Lines by Robert Finch". Archived from the original on 2012-02-12. Retrieved 2006-06-06. ^ Nichols, Laura (2014). "Social desire paths: a new theoretical concept to increase the usability of social science research in society". Theory & Society. 43 (6): 647–665. doi:10.1007/s11186-014-9234-3. ^ State of Illinois. (1959) "Chicago Area Transportation Study" p. 40. State of Illinois, Springfield, IL. Retrieved 14 March 2012 from Paul V. Galvin Library, Illinois Institute of Technology. ^ Malone, Erin; Crumlish, Christian. "Pave the Cowpaths". Designing Social Interfaces. Retrieved 26 May 2015. ^ Honeycutt, C; Herring, S C (2009). "Beyond Microblogging: Conversation and Collaboration via Twitter". Proceedings of the 42nd Hawai'i International Conference on System Sciences: 1–10. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.692.9575. doi:10.1109/HICSS.2009.89. ISBN 978-0-7695-3450-3. ^ Draucker, Fawn; Collister, Lauren (2015-11-09). "Managing Participation through Modal Affordances on Twitter". Open Library of Humanities. 1 (1). doi:10.16995/olh.21. ISSN 2056-6700. External links[edit] Wikimedia Commons has media related to Desire paths. Look up desire line or desire path in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. 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SPARC Designer Sun Microsystems (acquired by Oracle Corporation)[1][2] Bits 64-bit (32 → 64) Introduced 1986 (production) 1987 (shipments) Version V9 (1993) / OSA2017 Design RISC Type Register-Register Encoding Fixed Branching Condition code Endianness Bi (Big → Bi) Page size 8 KB (4 KB → 8 KB) Extensions VIS 1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0 Open Yes, and royalty free Registers General purpose 31 (G0 = 0; non-global registers use register windows) Floating point 32 (usable as 32 single-precision, 32 double-precision, or 16 quad-precision) A Sun UltraSPARC II microprocessor (1997) SPARC (Scalable Processor Architecture) is a reduced instruction set computing (RISC) instruction set architecture (ISA) originally developed by Sun Microsystems.[1][2] Its design was strongly influenced by the experimental Berkeley RISC system developed in the early 1980s. First developed in 1986 and released in 1987,[3][2] SPARC was one of the most successful early commercial RISC systems, and its success led to the introduction of similar RISC designs from a number of vendors through the 1980s and 90s. The first implementation of the original 32-bit architecture (SPARC V7) was used in Sun's Sun-4 workstation and server systems, replacing their earlier Sun-3 systems based on the Motorola 68000 series of processors. SPARC V8 added a number of improvements that were part of the SuperSPARC series of processors released in 1992. SPARC V9, released in 1993, introduced a 64-bit architecture and was first released in Sun's UltraSPARC processors in 1995. Later, SPARC processors were used in symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) and non-uniform memory access (CC-NUMA) servers produced by Sun, Solbourne and Fujitsu, among others. The design was turned over to the SPARC International trade group in 1989, and since then its architecture has been developed by its members. SPARC International is also responsible for licensing and promoting the SPARC architecture, managing SPARC trademarks (including SPARC, which it owns), and providing conformance testing. SPARC International was intended to grow the SPARC architecture to create a larger ecosystem; SPARC has been licensed to several manufacturers, including Atmel, Bipolar Integrated Technology, Cypress Semiconductor, Fujitsu, Matsushita and Texas Instruments. Due to SPARC International, SPARC is fully open, non-proprietary and royalty-free. As of September 2017, the latest commercial high-end SPARC processors are Fujitsu's SPARC64 XII (introduced in 2017 for its SPARC M12 server) and Oracle's SPARC M8 introduced in September 2017 for its high-end servers. On Friday, September 1, 2017, after a round of layoffs that started in Oracle Labs in November 2016, Oracle terminated SPARC design after the completion of the M8. Much of the processor core development group in Austin, Texas, was dismissed, as were the teams in Santa Clara, California, and Burlington, Massachusetts.[4][5] SPARC development continues with Fujitsu returning to the role of leading provider of SPARC servers, with a new CPU due in the 2020 time frame.[6] Contents 1 Features 2 History 3 SPARC architecture licensees 4 Implementations 5 Operating system support 6 Open source implementations 7 Supercomputers 8 See also 9 References 10 External links Features[edit] The SPARC architecture was heavily influenced by the earlier RISC designs, including the RISC I and II from the University of California, Berkeley and the IBM 801. These original RISC designs were minimalist, including as few features or op-codes as possible and aiming to execute instructions at a rate of almost one instruction per clock cycle. This made them similar to the MIPS architecture in many ways, including the lack of instructions such as multiply or divide. Another feature of SPARC influenced by this early RISC movement is the branch delay slot. The SPARC processor usually contains as many as 160 general purpose registers. According to the "Oracle SPARC Architecture 2015" specification an "implementation may contain from 72 to 640 general-purpose 64-bit" registers.[7] At any point, only 32 of them are immediately visible to software — 8 are a set of global registers (one of which, g0, is hard-wired to zero, so only seven of them are usable as registers) and the other 24 are from the stack of registers. These 24 registers form what is called a register window, and at function call/return, this window is moved up and down the register stack. Each window has 8 local registers and shares 8 registers with each of the adjacent windows. The shared registers are used for passing function parameters and returning values, and the local registers are used for retaining local values across function calls. The "Scalable" in SPARC comes from the fact that the SPARC specification allows implementations to scale from embedded processors up through large server processors, all sharing the same core (non-privileged) instruction set. One of the architectural parameters that can scale is the number of implemented register windows; the specification allows from three to 32 windows to be implemented, so the implementation can choose to implement all 32 to provide maximum call stack efficiency, or to implement only three to reduce cost and complexity of the design, or to implement some number between them. Other architectures that include similar register file features include Intel i960, IA-64, and AMD 29000. The architecture has gone through several revisions. It gained hardware multiply and divide functionality in Version 8.[8][9] 64-bit (addressing and data) were added to the version 9 SPARC specification published in 1994.[10] In SPARC Version 8, the floating point register file has 16 double-precision registers. Each of them can be used as two single-precision registers, providing a total of 32 single precision registers. An odd-even number pair of double precision registers can be used as a quad-precision register, thus allowing 8 quad precision registers. SPARC Version 9 added 16 more double precision registers (which can also be accessed as 8 quad precision registers), but these additional registers can not be accessed as single precision registers. No SPARC CPU implements quad-precision operations in hardware as of 2004.[11] Tagged add and subtract instructions perform adds and subtracts on values checking that the bottom two bits of both operands are 0 and reporting overflow if they are not. This can be useful in the implementation of the run time for ML, Lisp, and similar languages that might use a tagged integer format. The endianness of the 32-bit SPARC V8 architecture is purely big-endian. The 64-bit SPARC V9 architecture uses big-endian instructions, but can access data in either big-endian or little-endian byte order, chosen either at the application instruction (load-store) level or at the memory page level (via an MMU setting). The latter is often used for accessing data from inherently little-endian devices, such as those on PCI buses. History[edit] There have been three major revisions of the architecture. The first published version was the 32-bit SPARC Version 7 (V7) in 1986. SPARC Version 8 (V8), an enhanced SPARC architecture definition, was released in 1990. The main differences between V7 and V8 were the addition of integer multiply and divide instructions, and an upgrade from 80-bit "extended precision" floating-point arithmetic to 128-bit "quad-precision" arithmetic. SPARC V8 served as the basis for IEEE Standard 1754-1994, an IEEE standard for a 32-bit microprocessor architecture. SPARC Version 9, the 64-bit SPARC architecture, was released by SPARC International in 1993. It was developed by the SPARC Architecture Committee consisting of Amdahl Corporation, Fujitsu, ICL, LSI Logic, Matsushita, Philips, Ross Technology, Sun Microsystems, and Texas Instruments. Newer specifications always remain compliant with the full SPARC V9 Level 1 specification. In 2002, the SPARC Joint Programming Specification 1 (JPS1) was released by Fujitsu and Sun, describing processor functions which were identically implemented in the CPUs of both companies ("Commonality"). The first CPUs conforming to JPS1 were the UltraSPARC III by Sun and the SPARC64 V by Fujitsu. Functionalities which are not covered by JPS1 are documented for each processor in "Implementation Supplements". At the end of 2003, JPS2 was released to support multicore CPUs. The first CPUs conforming to JPS2 were the UltraSPARC IV by Sun and the SPARC64 VI by Fujitsu. In early 2006, Sun released an extended architecture specification, UltraSPARC Architecture 2005. This includes not only the non-privileged and most of the privileged portions of SPARC V9, but also all the architectural extensions developed through the processor generations of UltraSPARC III, IV IV+ as well as CMT extensions starting with the UltraSPARC T1 implementation: the VIS 1 and VIS 2 instruction set extensions and the associated GSR register multiple levels of global registers, controlled by the GL register Sun's 64-bit MMU architecture privileged instructions ALLCLEAN, OTHERW, NORMALW, and INVALW access to the VER register is now hyperprivileged the SIR instruction is now hyperprivileged In 2007, Sun released an updated specification, UltraSPARC Architecture 2007, to which the UltraSPARC T2 implementation complied. In August 2012, Oracle Corporation made available a new specification, Oracle SPARC Architecture 2011, which besides the overall update of the reference, adds the VIS 3 instruction set extensions and hyperprivileged mode to the 2007 specification.[12] In October 2015, Oracle released SPARC M7, the first processor based on the new Oracle SPARC Architecture 2015 specification.[7][13] This revision includes VIS 4 instruction set extensions and hardware-assisted encryption and silicon secured memory (SSM) [14] SPARC architecture has provided continuous application binary compatibility from the first SPARC V7 implementation in 1987 through the Sun UltraSPARC Architecture implementations. Among various implementations of SPARC, Sun's SuperSPARC and UltraSPARC-I were very popular, and were used as reference systems for SPEC CPU95 and CPU2000 benchmarks. The 296 MHz UltraSPARC-II is the reference system for the SPEC CPU2006 benchmark. SPARC architecture licensees[edit] The following organizations have licensed the SPARC architecture: Afara Websystems Bipolar Integrated Technology (BIT) Cypress Semiconductor European Space Research and Technology Center (ESTEC) Fujitsu (and its Fujitsu Microelectronics subsidiary) Gaisler Research HAL Computer Systems Hyundai LSI Logic Matra Harris Semiconductors (MHS) Matsushita Electrical Industrial Co. Meiko Scientific Metaflow Technologies Philips Electronics Prisma Ross Technology Solbourne Computer Systems & Processes Engineering Corporation (SPEC) TEMIC Weitek Implementations[edit] Name (codename) Model Frequency (MHz) Arch. version Year Total threads[note 1] Process (nm) Transistors (millions) Die size (mm2) IO pins Power (W) Voltage (V) L1 Dcache (KB) L1 Icache (KB) L2 cache (KB) L3 cache (KB) SPARC MB86900 Fujitsu[1][3][2] 14.28–33 V7 1986 1×1=1 1300 0.11 — 256 — — 0–128 (unified) none none SPARC Various[note 2] 14.28–40 V7 1989–1992 1×1=1 800–1300 ~0.1–1.8 — 160–256 — — 0–128 (unified) none none MN10501 (KAP) Solbourne Computer, Matsushita[15] 33-36 V8 1990-1991 1x1=1 — 1.0[16] — — — — 8 8 0–256 none microSPARC I (Tsunami) TI TMS390S10 40–50 V8 1992 1×1=1 800 0.8 225? 288 2.5 5 2 4 none none SuperSPARC I (Viking) TI TMX390Z50 / Sun STP1020 33–60 V8 1992 1×1=1 800 3.1 — 293 14.3 5 16 20 0–2048 none SPARClite Fujitsu MB8683x 66–108 V8E 1992 1×1=1 — — — 144, 176 — 2.5/3.3–5.0 V, 2.5–3.3 V 1, 2, 8, 16 1, 2, 8, 16 none none hyperSPARC (Colorado 1) Ross RT620A 40–90 V8 1993 1×1=1 500 1.5 — — — 5? 0 8 128–256 none microSPARC II (Swift) Fujitsu MB86904 / Sun STP1012 60–125 V8 1994 1×1=1 500 2.3 233 321 5 3.3 8 16 none none hyperSPARC (Colorado 2) Ross RT620B 90–125 V8 1994 1×1=1 400 1.5 — — — 3.3 0 8 128–256 none SuperSPARC II (Voyager) Sun STP1021 75–90 V8 1994 1×1=1 800 3.1 299 — 16 — 16 20 1024–2048 none hyperSPARC (Colorado 3) Ross RT620C 125–166 V8 1995 1×1=1 350 1.5 — — — 3.3 0 8 512–1024 none TurboSPARC Fujitsu MB86907 160–180 V8 1996 1×1=1 350 3.0 132 416 7 3.5 16 16 512 none UltraSPARC (Spitfire) Sun STP1030 143–167 V9 1995 1×1=1 470 3.8 315 521 30[note 3] 3.3 16 16 512–1024 none UltraSPARC (Hornet) Sun STP1030 200 V9 1995 1×1=1 420 5.2 265 521 — 3.3 16 16 512–1024 none hyperSPARC (Colorado 4) Ross RT620D 180–200 V8 1996 1×1=1 350 1.7 — — — 3.3 16 16 512 none SPARC64 Fujitsu (HAL) 101–118 V9 1995 1×1=1 400 — Multichip 286 50 3.8 128 128 — — SPARC64 II Fujitsu (HAL) 141–161 V9 1996 1×1=1 350 — Multichip 286 64 3.3 128 128 — — SPARC64 III Fujitsu (HAL) MBCS70301 250–330 V9 1998 1×1=1 240 17.6 240 — — 2.5 64 64 8192 — UltraSPARC IIs (Blackbird) Sun STP1031 250–400 V9 1997 1×1=1 350 5.4 149 521 25[note 4] 2.5 16 16 1024 or 4096 none UltraSPARC IIs (Sapphire-Black) Sun STP1032 / STP1034 360–480 V9 1999 1×1=1 250 5.4 126 521 21[note 5] 1.9 16 16 1024–8192 none UltraSPARC IIi (Sabre) Sun SME1040 270–360 V9 1997 1×1=1 350 5.4 156 587 21 1.9 16 16 256–2048 none UltraSPARC IIi (Sapphire-Red) Sun SME1430 333–480 V9 1998 1×1=1 250 5.4 — 587 21[note 6] 1.9 16 16 2048 none UltraSPARC IIe (Hummingbird) Sun SME1701 400–500 V9 1999 1×1=1 180 Al — — 370 13[note 7] 1.5–1.7 16 16 256 none UltraSPARC IIi (IIe+) (Phantom) Sun SME1532 550–650 V9 2000 1×1=1 180 Cu — — 370 17.6 1.7 16 16 512 none SPARC64 GP Fujitsu SFCB81147 400–563 V9 2000 1×1=1 180 30.2 217 — — 1.8 128 128 8192 — SPARC64 GP -- 600–810 V9 — 1×1=1 150 30.2 — — — 1.5 128 128 8192 — SPARC64 IV Fujitsu MBCS80523 450–810 V9 2000 1×1=1 130 — — — — — 128 128 2048 — UltraSPARC III (Cheetah) Sun SME1050 600 JPS1 2001 1×1=1 180 Al 29 330 1368 53 1.6 64 32 8192 none UltraSPARC III (Cheetah) Sun SME1052 750–900 JPS1 2001 1×1=1 130 Al 29 — 1368 — 1.6 64 32 8192 none UltraSPARC III Cu (Cheetah+) Sun SME1056 900–1200 JPS1 2001 1×1=1 130 Cu 29 232 1368 50[note 8] 1.6 64 32 8192 none UltraSPARC IIIi (Jalapeño) Sun SME1603 1064–1593 JPS1 2003 1×1=1 130 87.5 206 959 52 1.3 64 32 1024 none SPARC64 V (Zeus) Fujitsu 1100–1350 JPS1 2003 1×1=1 130 190 289 269 40 1.2 128 128 2048 — SPARC64 V+ (Olympus-B) Fujitsu 1650–2160 JPS1 2004 1×1=1 90 400 297 279 65 1 128 128 4096 — UltraSPARC IV (Jaguar) Sun SME1167 1050–1350 JPS2 2004 1×2=2 130 66 356 1368 108 1.35 64 32 16384 none UltraSPARC IV+ (Panther) Sun SME1167A 1500–2100 JPS2 2005 1×2=2 90 295 336 1368 90 1.1 64 64 2048 32768 UltraSPARC T1 (Niagara) Sun SME1905 1000–1400 UA2005 2005 4×8=32 90 300 340 1933 72 1.3 8 16 3072 none SPARC64 VI (Olympus-C) Fujitsu 2150–2400 JPS2 2007 2×2=4 90 540 422 — 120–150 1.1 128×2 128×2 4096–6144 none UltraSPARC T2 (Niagara 2) Sun SME1908A 1000–1600 UA2007 2007 8×8=64 65 503 342 1831 95 1.1–1.5 8 16 4096 none UltraSPARC T2 Plus (Victoria Falls) Sun SME1910A 1200–1600 UA2007 2008 8×8=64 65 503 342 1831 — — 8 16 4096 none SPARC64 VII (Jupiter)[17] Fujitsu 2400–2880 JPS2 2008 2×4=8 65 600 445 — 150 — 64×4 64×4 6144 none UltraSPARC "RK" (Rock)[18] Sun SME1832 2300 ???? canceled[19] 2×16=32 65 ? 396 2326 ? ? 32 32 2048 ? SPARC64 VIIIfx (Venus)[20][21] Fujitsu 2000 JPS2 / HPC-ACE 2009 1×8=8 45 760 513 1271 58 ? 32×8 32×8 6144 none LEON2FT Atmel AT697F 100 V8 2009 1×1=1 180 — — 196 1 1.8/3.3 16 32 — —|none SPARC T3 (Rainbow Falls) Oracle/Sun 1650 UA2007 2010 8×16=128 40[22] ???? 371 ? 139 ? 8 16 6144 none Galaxy FT-1500 NUDT (China) 1800 UA2007? 201? 8×16=128 40 ???? ??? ? 65 ? 16×16 16×16 512×16 4096 SPARC64 VII+ (Jupiter-E or M3)[23][24] Fujitsu 2667–3000 JPS2 2010 2×4=8 65 — — — 160 — 64×4 64×4 12288 none LEON3FT Cobham Gaisler GR712RC 100 V8E 2011 1×2=2 180 — — — 1.5[note 9] 1.8/3.3 4x4Kb 4x4Kb none none R1000 MCST (Russia) 1000 JPS2 2011 1×4=4 90 180 128 — 15 1, 1.8, 2.5 32 16 2048 none SPARC T4 (Yosemite Falls)[25] Oracle 2850–3000 OSA2011 2011 8×8=64 40 855 403 ? 240 ? 16×8 16×8 128×8 4096 SPARC64 IXfx[26][27][28] Fujitsu 1850 JPS2 / HPC-ACE 2012 1x16=16 40 1870 484 1442 110 ? 32×16 32×16 12288 none SPARC64 X (Athena)[29] Fujitsu 2800 OSA2011 / HPC-ACE 2012 2×16=32 28 2950 587.5 1500 270 ? 64×16 64×16 24576 none SPARC T5 Oracle 3600 OSA2011 2013 8×16=128 28 1500 478 ? ? ? 16×16 16×16 128×16 8192 SPARC M5[30] Oracle 3600 OSA2011 2013 8×6=48 28 3900 511 ? ? ? 16×6 16×6 128×6 49152 SPARC M6[31] Oracle 3600 OSA2011 2013 8×12=96 28 4270 643 ? ? ? 16×12 16×12 128×12 49152 SPARC64 X+ (Athena+)[32] Fujitsu 3200–3700 OSA2011 / HPC-ACE 2014 2×16=32 28 2990 600 1500 392 ? 64×16 64×16 24M none SPARC64 XIfx[33] Fujitsu 2200 JPS2 / HPC-ACE2 2014 1×(32+2)=34 20 3750 ? 1001 ? ? 64×34 64×34 12M×2 none SPARC M7[34][35] Oracle 4133 OSA2015 2015 8×32=256 20 >10,000 ? ? ? ? 16×32 16×32 256×24 65536 SPARC S7[36][37] Oracle 4270 OSA2015 2016 8×8=64 20 ???? ? ? ? ? 16×8 16×8 256×2+256×4 16384 SPARC64 XII[38] Fujitsu 4250 OSA201? / HPC-ACE 2017 8×12=96 20 5500 795 1860 ? ? 64×12 64×12 512×12 32768 SPARC M8[39][40] Oracle 5000 OSA2017 2017 8×32=256 20 ? ? ? ? ? 32×32 16×32 128×32+256×8 65536 LEON4 Cobham Gaisler GR740 250 [note 10] V8E 2017 1×4=4 32 — — — — 1.2/2.5/3.3 4x4 4x4 2048 none LEON5 Cobham Gaisler — V8E 2019 ? ? — — — — — ? ? 16–8192 none Name (codename) Model Frequency (MHz) Arch. version Year Total threads[note 1] Process (nm) Transistors (millions) Die size (mm2) IO pins Power (W) Voltage (V) L1 Dcache (KB) L1 Icache (KB) L2 cache (KB) L3 cache (KB) Notes: ^ a b Threads per core × number of cores ^ Various SPARC V7 implementations were produced by Fujitsu, LSI Logic, Weitek, Texas Instruments, Cypress and Temic. A SPARC V7 processor generally consisted of several discrete chips, usually comprising an integer unit (IU), a floating-point unit (FPU), a memory management unit (MMU) and cache memory. Conversely, the Atmel (now Microchip Technology) TSC695 is a single-chip SPARC V7 implementation. ^ @167 MHz ^ @250 MHz ^ @400 MHz ^ @440 MHz ^ max. @500 MHz ^ @1200 MHz ^ excluding I/O buses ^ nominal; specification from 100 to 424 MHz depending on attached RAM capabilities Operating system support[edit] SPARC machines have generally used Sun's SunOS, Solaris, or OpenSolaris including derivatives illumos and OpenIndiana, but other operating systems have also been used, such as NeXTSTEP, RTEMS, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, and Linux. In 1993, Intergraph announced a port of Windows NT to the SPARC architecture,[41] but it was later cancelled. In October 2015, Oracle announced a "Linux for SPARC reference platform".[42] Open source implementations[edit] Several fully open source implementations of the SPARC architecture exist: LEON, a 32-bit radiation-tolerant, SPARC V8 implementation, designed especially for space use. Source code is written in VHDL, and licensed under the GPL. OpenSPARC T1, released in 2006, a 64-bit, 32-thread implementation conforming to the UltraSPARC Architecture 2005 and to SPARC Version 9 (Level 1). Source code is written in Verilog, and licensed under many licenses. Most OpenSPARC T1 source code is licensed under the GPL. Source based on existent open source projects will continue to be licensed under their current licenses. Binary programs are licensed under a binary software license agreement. S1, a 64-bit Wishbone compliant CPU core based on the OpenSPARC T1 design. It is a single UltraSPARC v9 core capable of 4-way SMT. Like the T1, the source code is licensed under the GPL. OpenSPARC T2, released in 2008, a 64-bit, 64-thread implementation conforming to the UltraSPARC Architecture 2007 and to SPARC Version 9 (Level 1). Source code is written in Verilog, and licensed under many licenses. Most OpenSPARC T2 source code is licensed under the GPL. Source based on existing open source projects will continue to be licensed under their current licenses. Binary programs are licensed under a binary Software License Agreement. A fully open source simulator for the SPARC architecture also exists: RAMP Gold, a 32-bit, 64-thread SPARC Version 8 implementation, designed for FPGA-based architecture simulation. RAMP Gold is written in ~36,000 lines of SystemVerilog, and licensed under the BSD licenses. Supercomputers[edit] For HPC loads Fujitsu builds specialized SPARC64 fx processors with a new instruction extensions set, called HPC-ACE (High Performance Computing – Arithmetic Computational Extensions). Fujitsu's K computer ranked No. 1 in the TOP500 June 2011 and November 2011 lists. It combines 88,128 SPARC64 VIIIfx CPUs, each with eight cores, for a total of 705,024 cores—almost twice as many as any other system in the TOP500 at that time. The K Computer was more powerful than the next five systems on the list combined, and had the highest performance-to-power ratio of any supercomputer system.[43] It also ranked No. 6 in the Green500 June 2011 list, with a score of 824.56 MFLOPS/W.[44] In the November 2012 release of TOP500, the K computer ranked No. 3, using by far the most power of the top three.[45] It ranked No. 85 on the corresponding Green500 release.[46] Newer HPC processors, IXfx and XIfx, were included in recent PRIMEHPC FX10 and FX100 supercomputers. Tianhe-2 (TOP500 No. 1 as of November 2014[47]) has a number of nodes with Galaxy FT-1500 OpenSPARC-based processors developed in China. However, those processors did not contribute to the LINPACK score.[48][49] See also[edit] ERC32 — based on SPARC V7 specification Ross Technology, Inc. — a SPARC microprocessor developer during the 1980s and 1990s Sparcle — a modified SPARC with multiprocessing support used by the MIT Alewife project LEON — a space rated SPARC V8 processor. R1000 — a Russian quad-core microprocessor based on SPARC V9 specification Galaxy FT-1500 — a Chinese 16-core OpenSPARC based processor References[edit] ^ a b c "Fujitsu to take ARM into the realm of Super". The CPU Shack Museum. June 21, 2016. Retrieved June 30, 2019. ^ a b c d "Timeline". SPARC International. Retrieved June 30, 2019. ^ a b "Fujitsu SPARC". cpu-collection.de. Retrieved June 30, 2019. ^ Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols (September 5, 2017). "Sun set: Oracle closes down last Sun product lines". ZDNet. ^ Shaun Nichols (August 31, 2017). "Oracle finally decides to stop prolonging the inevitable, begins hardware layoffs". 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Private research university located in Stanford, California, US Stanford University Motto German: Die Luft der Freiheit weht[1] Motto in English "The wind of freedom blows"[1] Type Private research university Established 1891 (1891)[2][3] Founder Leland and Jane Stanford Academic affiliations AAU Space-grant Endowment $27.7 billion (2019)[4] Budget $6.5 billion (2018–19)[5] President Marc Tessier-Lavigne Provost Persis Drell Academic staff 2,240[6] Administrative staff 12,508[7] excluding SHC Students 17,249 (Fall 2019)[8] Undergraduates 6,996 (Fall 2019)[8] Postgraduates 10,253 (Fall 2019)[8] Location Stanford , California , United States 37°25′42″N 122°10′08″W / 37.4282293°N 122.1688576°W / 37.4282293; -122.1688576[9]Coordinates: 37°25′42″N 122°10′08″W / 37.4282293°N 122.1688576°W / 37.4282293; -122.1688576[9] Campus Suburban, 8,180 acres (12.8 sq mi; 33.1 km2)[6] Academic term Quarter Colors Cardinal and white[10]           Nickname Cardinal Sporting affiliations NCAA Division I FBS Pac-12 (primary) IRA PCCSC MPSF Mascot None[11] Website www.stanford.edu Stanford University, officially Leland Stanford Junior University,[12] is a private research university located in Stanford, California. Stanford was founded in 1885 by Leland and Jane Stanford in memory of their only child, Leland Stanford Jr., who had died of typhoid fever at age 15 the previous year.[2] Stanford was a U.S. Senator and former Governor of California who made his fortune as a railroad tycoon. The school admitted its first students on October 1, 1891,[2][3] as a coeducational and non-denominational institution. Stanford struggled financially after the death of Leland Stanford in 1893 and again after much of the campus was damaged by the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.[13] Following World War II, provost Frederick Terman supported faculty and graduates' entrepreneurialism to build self-sufficient local industry in what would later be known as Silicon Valley.[14] Stanford is today ranked among the top universities in the world by major education publications, and is also one of the top fundraising institutions in the country, becoming the first school to raise more than a billion dollars in a year.[15] The university is organized around seven schools: three schools consisting of 40 academic departments at the undergraduate level as well as four professional schools that focus on graduate programs in law, medicine, education, and business. All schools are on the same campus. Students compete in 36 varsity sports, and the university is one of two private institutions in the Division I FBS Pac-12 Conference. It has gained 126 NCAA team championships,[16] and Stanford has won the NACDA Directors' Cup for 24 consecutive years, beginning in 1994–1995.[17] In addition, Stanford students and alumni have won 270 Olympic medals including 139 gold medals.[18] As of October 2020, 84 Nobel laureates, 28 Turing Award laureates,[note 1] and 8 Fields Medalists have been affiliated with Stanford as students, alumni, faculty, or staff.[39] In addition, Stanford University is particularly noted for its entrepreneurship and is one of the most successful universities in attracting funding for start-ups.[40][41][42][43][44] Stanford alumni have founded numerous companies, which combined produce more than $2.7 trillion in annual revenue and have created 5.4 million jobs as of 2011, roughly equivalent to the 7th largest economy in the world (as of 2020[update]).[45][46][47] Stanford is the alma mater of one president of the United States (Herbert Hoover), 74 living billionaires, and 17 astronauts.[48] It is also one of the leading producers of Fulbright Scholars, Marshall Scholars, Rhodes Scholars, and members of the United States Congress.[49] Contents 1 History 2 Land 2.1 Central campus 2.2 Non-central campus 2.3 Faculty residences 2.4 Other uses 2.5 Landmarks 3 Administration and organization 3.1 Endowment and donations 4 Academics 4.1 Teaching and learning 4.2 Research centers and institutes 4.3 Libraries and digital resources 4.4 Arts 4.5 Reputation and rankings 5 Discoveries and innovation 5.1 Natural sciences 5.2 Computer and applied sciences 5.3 Businesses and entrepreneurship 6 Student life 6.1 Student body 6.2 Dormitories and student housing 6.3 Athletics 6.4 Traditions 6.5 Religious life 6.6 Greek life 6.7 Student groups 6.8 Safety 6.8.1 People v. Turner 6.8.2 Joe Lonsdale 7 People 7.1 Award laureates and scholars 8 See also 9 Notes 10 References 11 Further reading 12 External links History[edit] Center of the campus in 1891.[50] Main article: History of Stanford University Stanford University was founded in 1885 by Leland and Jane Stanford, dedicated to Leland Stanford Jr, their only child. The institution opened in 1891 on Stanford's previous Palo Alto farm. Despite being impacted by earthquakes in both 1906 and 1989, the campus was rebuilt each time. In 1919, The Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace was started by Herbert Hoover to preserve artifacts related to World War I. The Stanford Medical Center, completed in 1959, is a teaching hospital with over 800 beds. The SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (originally named the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center), established in 1962, performs research in particle physics.[51] Jane and Leland Stanford modeled their university after the great eastern universities, most specifically Cornell University. Stanford opened being called the "Cornell of the West" in 1891 due to faculty being former Cornell affiliates (either professors, alumni, or both) including its first president, David Starr Jordan. Both Cornell and Stanford were among the first to have higher education be accessible, nonsectarian, and open to women as well as to men. Cornell is credited as one of the first American universities to adopt this radical departure from traditional education, and Stanford became an early adopter as well.[52] Land[edit] An aerial photograph of the center of the Stanford University campus in 2008. Most of Stanford University is on an 8,180-acre (12.8 sq mi; 33.1 km2)[6] campus, one of the largest in the United States.[note 2] It is located on the San Francisco Peninsula, in the northwest part of the Santa Clara Valley (Silicon Valley) approximately 37 miles (60 km) southeast of San Francisco and approximately 20 miles (30 km) northwest of San Jose. In 2008, 60% of this land remained undeveloped.[55] Stanford's main campus includes a census-designated place within unincorporated Santa Clara County, although some of the university land (such as the Stanford Shopping Center and the Stanford Research Park) is within the city limits of Palo Alto. The campus also includes much land in unincorporated San Mateo County (including the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and the Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve), as well as in the city limits of Menlo Park (Stanford Hills neighborhood), Woodside, and Portola Valley.[56] Central campus[edit] The academic central campus is adjacent to Palo Alto, bounded by El Camino Real, Stanford Avenue, Jane Stanford Way, and Sand Hill Road. The United States Postal Service has assigned it two ZIP Codes: 94305 for campus mail and 94309 for P.O. box mail. It lies within area code 650. View of the main quadrangle of Stanford University with Memorial Church in the center background from across the grass-covered Oval. Non-central campus[edit] Stanford currently operates in various locations outside of its central campus. On the founding grant: Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve is a 1,200-acre (490 ha) natural reserve south of the central campus owned by the university and used by wildlife biologists for research. SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory is a facility west of the central campus operated by the university for the Department of Energy. It contains the longest linear particle accelerator in the world, 2 miles (3.2 km) on 426 acres (172 ha) of land.[57] Golf course and a seasonal lake: The university also has its own golf course and a seasonal lake (Lake Lagunita, actually an irrigation reservoir), both home to the vulnerable California tiger salamander. As of 2012 Lake Lagunita was often dry and the university had no plans to artificially fill it.[58] Off the founding grant: Hopkins Marine Station, in Pacific Grove, California, is a marine biology research center owned by the university since 1892. Study abroad locations: unlike typical study abroad programs, Stanford itself operates in several locations around the world; thus, each location has Stanford faculty-in-residence and staff in addition to students, creating a "mini-Stanford."[59] Redwood City campus for many of the university's administrative offices located in Redwood City, California, a few miles north of the main campus. In 2005, the university purchased a small, 35-acre (14 ha) campus in Midpoint Technology Park intended for staff offices; development was delayed by The Great Recession.[60][61] In 2015 the university announced a development plan[62] and the Redwood City campus opened in March 2019.[63] The Bass Center in Washington, DC provides a base, including housing, for the Stanford in Washington program for undergraduates.[64] It includes a small art gallery open to the public.[65] China: Stanford Center at Peking University, housed in the Lee Jung Sen Building, is a small center for researchers and students in collaboration with Peking University.[66][67] Lake Lagunita in winter; the Dish, a large radio telescope, and local landmark, is visible in the Stanford-owned foothills behind the lake and is the high point of a popular campus jogging and walking trail. Faculty residences[edit] Many Stanford faculty members live in the "Faculty Ghetto," within walking or biking distance of campus.[68] The Faculty Ghetto is composed of land owned entirely by Stanford. Similar to a condominium, the houses can be bought and sold but the land under the houses is rented on a 99-year lease. Houses in the "Ghetto" appreciate and depreciate, but not as rapidly as overall Silicon Valley values. Other uses[edit] Some of the land is managed to provide revenue for the university such as the Stanford Shopping Center and the Stanford Research Park. Stanford land is also leased for a token rent by the Palo Alto Unified School District for several schools including Palo Alto High School and Gunn High School.[69] El Camino Park, the oldest Palo Alto city park (established 1914), is also on Stanford land.[70] Landmarks[edit] Contemporary campus landmarks include the Main Quad and Memorial Church, the Cantor Center for Visual Arts and the Bing Concert Hall, the Stanford Mausoleum with the nearby Angel of Grief, Hoover Tower, the Rodin sculpture garden, the Papua New Guinea Sculpture Garden, the Arizona Cactus Garden, the Stanford University Arboretum, Green Library and the Dish. Frank Lloyd Wright's 1937 Hanna–Honeycomb House and the 1919 Lou Henry Hoover House are both listed on the National Historic Register. White Memorial Fountain (also known as "The Claw") between the Stanford Bookstore and the Old Union is a popular place to meet and to engage in the Stanford custom of "fountain hopping"; it was installed in 1964 and designed by Aristides Demetrios after a national competition as a memorial for two brothers in the class of 1949, William N. White and John B. White II, one of whom died before graduating and one shortly after in 1952.[71][72][73][74] Interior of the Stanford Memorial Church at the center of the Main Quad Lou Henry Hoover House, the official residence of the University President Hoover Tower, at 285 feet (87 m), the tallest building on campus The Dish, a 150 feet (46 m) diameter radio telescope on the Stanford foothills overlooking the main campus The original Golden spike on display at the Cantor Arts Museum at Stanford University Stanford Quad with Memorial Church in the background White Memorial Fountain (The Claw) Administration and organization[edit] Stanford University is a private, non-profit university that is administered as a corporate trust governed by a privately appointed board of trustees with a maximum membership of 38.[7][note 3] Trustees serve five-year terms (not more than two consecutive terms) and meet five times annually.[77] A new trustee is chosen by the current trustees by ballot.[75] The Stanford trustees also oversee the Stanford Research Park, the Stanford Shopping Center, the Cantor Center for Visual Arts, Stanford University Medical Center, and many associated medical facilities (including the Lucile Packard Children's Hospital).[78] The board appoints a president to serve as the chief executive officer of the university, to prescribe the duties of professors and course of study, to manage financial and business affairs, and to appoint nine vice presidents.[79] The provost is the chief academic and budget officer, to whom the deans of each of the seven schools report.[80][81] Persis Drell became the 13th provost in February 2017. As of 2018, the university was organized into seven academic schools.[82] The schools of Humanities and Sciences (27 departments),[83] Engineering (9 departments),[84] and Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences (4 departments)[85] have both graduate and undergraduate programs while the Schools of Law, Medicine, Education and Business have graduate programs only. The powers and authority of the faculty are vested in the Academic Council, which is made up of tenure and non-tenure line faculty, research faculty, senior fellows in some policy centers and institutes, the president of the university, and some other academic administrators, but most matters are handled by the Faculty Senate, made up of 55 elected representatives of the faculty.[86] The Associated Students of Stanford University (ASSU) is the student government for Stanford University and all registered students are members. Its elected leadership consists of the Undergraduate Senate elected by the undergraduate students, the Graduate Student Council elected by the graduate students, and the President and Vice President elected as a ticket by the entire student body.[87] Stanford is the beneficiary of a special clause in the California Constitution, which explicitly exempts Stanford property from taxation so long as the property is used for educational purposes.[88] Endowment and donations[edit] The university's endowment, managed by the Stanford Management Company, was valued at $27.7 billion as of August 31, 2019.[4] Payouts from the Stanford endowment covered approximately 21.8% of university expenses in the 2019 fiscal year.[4] In the 2018 NACUBO-TIAA survey of colleges and universities in the United States and Canada, only Harvard University, the University of Texas System, and Yale University had larger endowments than Stanford.[89] In 2006, President John L. Hennessy launched a five-year campaign called the Stanford Challenge, which reached its $4.3 billion fundraising goal in 2009, two years ahead of time, but continued fundraising for the duration of the campaign. It concluded on December 31, 2011, having raised a total of $6.23 billion and breaking the previous campaign fundraising record of $3.88 billion held by Yale.[90][91] Specifically, the campaign raised $253.7 million for undergraduate financial aid, as well as $2.33 billion for its initiative in "Seeking Solutions" to global problems, $1.61 billion for "Educating Leaders" by improving K-12 education, and $2.11 billion for "Foundation of Excellence" aimed at providing academic support for Stanford students and faculty. Funds supported 366 new fellowships for graduate students, 139 new endowed chairs for faculty, and 38 new or renovated buildings. The new funding also enabled the construction of a facility for stem cell research; a new campus for the business school; an expansion of the law school; a new Engineering Quad; a new art and art history building; an on-campus concert hall; a new art museum; and a planned expansion of the medical school, among other things.[92][93] In 2012, the university raised $1.035 billion, becoming the first school to raise more than a billion dollars in a year.[15] Academics[edit] Teaching and learning[edit] Walkway in the Main Quad Stanford follows a quarter system with the autumn quarter usually beginning in late September and the spring quarter ending in mid-June.[94] The full-time, four-year undergraduate program has an arts and sciences focus with high graduate student coexistence.[94] Stanford is accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges.[95] Stanford's admission process is need-blind for U.S. citizens and permanent residents; while it is not need-blind for international students, 64% are on need-based aid, with an average aid package of $31,411.[8] In 2012–13, the university awarded $126 million in need-based financial aid to 3,485 students, with an average aid package of $40,460.[8] Eighty percent of students receive some form of financial aid.[8] Stanford has a no-loan policy.[8] For undergraduates admitted starting in 2015, Stanford waives tuition, room, and board for most families with incomes below $65,000, and most families with incomes below $125,000 are not required to pay tuition; those with incomes up to $150,000 may have tuition significantly reduced.[96] Seventeen percent of students receive Pell Grants,[8] a common measure of low-income students at a college. Research centers and institutes[edit] Hoover Tower, inspired by the cathedral tower at Salamanca in Spain Main article: Stanford University centers and institutes Stanford is classified among "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research activity."[94] The university's research expenditure in fiscal year 2018 was $1.157 billion.[97] As of 2016 the Office of the Vice Provost and Dean of Research oversaw eighteen independent laboratories, centers, and institutes.[98] Other Stanford-affiliated institutions include the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (originally the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center), the Stanford Research Institute (an independent institution which originated at the university), the Hoover Institution (a conservative[99] think tank that staffed numerous positions in the Trump administration[100]) and the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design (a multidisciplinary design school in cooperation with the Hasso Plattner Institute of University of Potsdam that integrates product design, engineering, and business management education).[citation needed] Stanford is home to the Martin Luther King Jr. Research and Education Institute which grew out of and still contains the Martin Luther King Jr. Papers Project, a collaboration with the King Center to publish the King papers held by the King Center.[101] It also runs the John S. Knight Fellowship for Professional Journalists and the Center for Ocean Solutions, which brings together marine science and policy to address challenges facing the ocean.[102] Together with UC Berkeley and UC San Francisco, Stanford is part of the Biohub, a new medical science research center founded in 2016 by a $600 million commitment from Facebook CEO and founder Mark Zuckerberg and pediatrician Priscilla Chan. Libraries and digital resources[edit] Green Library Main article: Stanford University Libraries As of 2014, Stanford University Libraries (SUL) held a collection of more than 9.3 million volumes, nearly 300,000 rare or special books, 1.5 million e-books, 2.5 million audiovisual materials, 77,000 serials, nearly 6 million microform holdings, and thousands of other digital resources.[103] The main library in the SU library system is Green Library, which also contains various meeting and conference rooms, study spaces, and reading rooms. Lathrop Library (previously Meyer Library, demolished in 2015), holds various student-accessible media resources and houses one of the largest East Asia collections with 540,000 volumes. Arts[edit] Bronze statues by Auguste Rodin are scattered throughout the campus, including these Burghers of Calais. Stanford is home to the Cantor Center for Visual Arts, a museum with 24 galleries, sculpture gardens, terraces, and a courtyard first established in 1891 by Jane and Leland Stanford as a memorial to their only child. The center's collection of works by Rodin is among the largest in the world.[104] The Thomas Welton Stanford Gallery, which was built in 1917, serves as a teaching resource for the Department of Art & Art History as well as an exhibition venue. In 2014, Stanford opened the Anderson Collection, a new museum focused on postwar American art and founded by the donation of 121 works by food service moguls Mary and Harry Anderson.[105][106][107] There are outdoor art installations throughout the campus, primarily sculptures, but some murals as well. The Papua New Guinea Sculpture Garden near Roble Hall features includes wood carvings and "totem poles." The Stanford music department sponsors many ensembles including five choirs, the Stanford Symphony Orchestra, Stanford Taiko, and the Stanford Wind Ensemble. Extracurricular activities include theater groups such as Ram's Head Theatrical Society, the Stanford Improvisors,[108] the Stanford Shakespeare Society, and the Stanford Savoyards, a group dedicated to performing the works of Gilbert and Sullivan. Stanford is also host to ten a cappella groups, including the Mendicants (Stanford's first),[109] Counterpoint (the first all-female group on the West Coast),[110] the Stanford Fleet Street Singers,[111] Harmonics, Mixed Company,[112] Testimony, Talisman, Everyday People, Raagapella,[113] and O-Tone. Reputation and rankings[edit] University rankings National ARWU[114] 2 Forbes[115] 2 THE/WSJ[116] 4 U.S. News & World Report[117] 6 Washington Monthly[118] 1 Global ARWU[119] 2 QS[120] 2 THE[121] 2 U.S. News & World Report[122] 3 National Program Rankings[123] Program Ranking Biological Sciences 1 Business 1 Chemistry 2 Computer Science 1 Earth Sciences 2 Economics 1 Education 3 Engineering 2 English 3 Fine Arts 32 History 1 Law 2 Mathematics 2 Medicine: Primary Care 30 Medicine: Research 4 Physician Assistant 21 Physics 1 Political Science 1 Psychology 1 Sociology 5 Statistics 1 Global Subject Rankings[124] Program Ranking Arts & Humanities 10 Biology & Biochemistry 3 Cardiac & Cardiovascular Systems 6 Chemistry 2 Clinical Medicine 5 Computer Science 9 Economics & Business 4 Electrical & Electronic Engineering 47 Engineering 10 Environment/Ecology 3 Geosciences 27 Immunology 8 Materials Science 2 Mathematics 1 Mechanical Engineering 35 Microbiology 10 Molecular Biology & Genetics 3 Neuroscience & Behavior 2 Oncology 19 Pharmacology & Toxicology 11 Physics 2 Plant & Animal Science 34 Psychiatry/Psychology 3 Social Sciences & Public Health 3 Space Science 6 Surgery 13 Notably, Stanford ranks high and often first in many domestic college ranking measures, leading Slate to dub Stanford in 2014 as "the Harvard of the 21st century,"[125] and The New York Times in the same year to conclude that "Stanford University has become America's 'it' school, by measures that Harvard once dominated."[126] From polls done by The Princeton Review in 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019, the most commonly named "dream college" for students was Stanford; separately, parents, too, most frequently named Stanford their "dream college."[127] The inaugural 2017 Wall Street Journal/Times Higher Education College Rankings picked Stanford as the No. 1 school in the United States.[128] Gate to the Main Quad Globally, the Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) ranked Stanford second in the world most years from 2003 to 2016.[129] In 2019, it ranked 4th among the universities around the world by SCImago Institutions Rankings.[130] Additionally, Times Higher Education recognized Stanford as one of the world's "six super brands" on its World Reputation Rankings, along with Berkeley, Cambridge, Harvard, MIT, and Oxford.[131] Stanford was ranked fifth in the 2016,[132] 2017,[133] and 2018[134] Nature Index Annual Tables, which measure the largest contributors to papers published in 82 leading journals.[135] Discoveries and innovation[edit] See also: Carnegie Mellon discoveries and innovation, Illinois discoveries and innovation, MIT discoveries and innovation, and UC Berkeley discoveries and innovation Natural sciences[edit] Biological synthesis of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) – Arthur Kornberg synthesized DNA material and won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1959 for his work at Stanford. First Transgenic organism – Stanley Cohen and Herbert Boyer were the first scientists to transplant genes from one living organism to another, a fundamental discovery for genetic engineering.[136][137] Thousands of products have been developed on the basis of their work, including human growth hormone and hepatitis B vaccine. Laser – Arthur Leonard Schawlow shared the 1981 Nobel Prize in Physics with Nicolaas Bloembergen and Kai Siegbahn for his work on lasers.[138][139] Nuclear magnetic resonance – Felix Bloch developed new methods for nuclear magnetic precision measurements, which are the underlying principles of the MRI.[140][141] Computer and applied sciences[edit] ARPANET – Stanford Research Institute, formerly part of Stanford but on a separate campus, was the site of one of the four original ARPANET nodes.[142][143] Internet—Stanford University was the site where the original design of the Internet was undertaken. Vint Cerf led a research group to elaborate the design of the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP/IP) that he originally co-created with Robert E. Kahn (Bob Kahn) in 1973 and which formed the basis for the architecture of the Internet. Frequency modulation synthesis – John Chowning of the Music department invented the FM music synthesis algorithm in 1967, and Stanford later licensed it to Yamaha Corporation. Google – Google began in January 1996 as a research project by Larry Page and Sergey Brin when they were both PhD students at Stanford.[144] They were working on the Stanford Digital Library Project (SDLP). The SDLP's goal was "to develop the enabling technologies for a single, integrated and universal digital library" and it was funded through the National Science Foundation, among other federal agencies.[145] Klystron tube – invented by the brothers Russell and Sigurd Varian at Stanford. Their prototype was completed and demonstrated successfully on August 30, 1937.[146] Upon publication in 1939, news of the klystron immediately influenced the work of U.S. and UK researchers working on radar equipment. RISC – ARPA funded VLSI project of microprocessor design. Stanford and UC Berkeley are most associated with the popularization of this concept. The Stanford MIPS would go on to be commercialized as the successful MIPS architecture, while Berkeley RISC gave its name to the entire concept, commercialized as the SPARC. Another success from this era were IBM's efforts that eventually led to the IBM POWER instruction set architecture, PowerPC, and Power ISA. As these projects matured, a wide variety of similar designs flourished in the late 1980s and especially the early 1990s, representing a major force in the Unix workstation market as well as embedded processors in laser printers, routers and similar products.[147] SUN workstation – Andy Bechtolsheim designed the SUN workstation for the Stanford University Network communications project as a personal CAD workstation,[148] which led to Sun Microsystems. Businesses and entrepreneurship[edit] Main article: List of companies founded by Stanford University alumni Stanford is one of the most successful universities in creating companies and licensing its inventions to existing companies; it is often held up as a model for technology transfer.[40][41] Stanford's Office of Technology Licensing is responsible for commercializing university research, intellectual property, and university-developed projects. The university is described as having a strong venture culture in which students are encouraged, and often funded, to launch their own companies.[42] Companies founded by Stanford alumni generate more than $2.7 trillion in annual revenue, equivalent to the 10th-largest economy in the world.[46] Some companies closely associated with Stanford and their connections include: Hewlett-Packard, 1939, co-founders William R. Hewlett (B.S, PhD) and David Packard (M.S). Silicon Graphics, 1981, co-founders James H. Clark (Associate Professor) and several of his grad students. Sun Microsystems, 1982, co-founders Vinod Khosla (M.B.A), Andy Bechtolsheim (PhD) and Scott McNealy (M.B.A). Cisco, 1984, founders Leonard Bosack (M.S) and Sandy Lerner (M.S) who were in charge of Stanford Computer Science and Graduate School of Business computer operations groups respectively when the hardware was developed.[149] Yahoo!, 1994, co-founders Jerry Yang (B.S, M.S) and David Filo (M.S). Google, 1998, co-founders Larry Page (M.S) and Sergey Brin (M.S). LinkedIn, 2002, co-founders Reid Hoffman (B.S), Konstantin Guericke (B.S, M.S), Eric Lee (B.S), and Alan Liu (B.S). Instagram, 2010, co-founders Kevin Systrom (B.S) and Mike Krieger (B.S). Snapchat, 2011, co-founders Evan Spiegel and Bobby Murphy (B.S). Coursera, 2012, co-founders Andrew Ng (Associate Professor) and Daphne Koller (Professor, PhD). Student life[edit] Student body[edit] Demographics of students 2011/2012 and comparison to California and United States Census 2011 estimates[8][150][151] Undergraduate Adjusted Percentage [notedemo 1] Graduate California United States Black or African American[notedemo 2] 7.32% (507) 8.22% 3% (279) 6.6% 13.1% Asian[notedemo 2] 18.15% (1257) 19.64% 13% (1182)[notedemo 3] 13.6% 5.0% White[notedemo 2] 36.45% (2525) 39.45% 36% (3163) 39.7% 63.4% Hispanic/Latino 16.60% (1150) 17.97% 5% (475) 38.1% 16.7% American Indian / N. Alaskan[notedemo 2] 0.91% (63) 0.98% 1% (68) 1.7% 1.2% Native Hawaiian / U.S. Pacific Islander 0.46% (32) 0.46% n/a[notedemo 3] 0.5% 0.2% Two or more races 11.58% (802) 12.53% n/a[notedemo 3] 3.6% 2.3% Race/ethnicity unknown 0.94% (65) 1.02% 1% (61) n/a n/a International student 7.59% (526) 33% 33% (2893) n/a n/a Notes ^ adjusted for US citizens and permanent residents only since racial breakdown in the Stanford data is not given for students here on temporary visas. The census data for California and the United States as a whole does include people who are here on temporary visas or who are undocumented. ^ a b c d Does not include Hispanic Americans ^ a b c The data for graduate students merges Asian with Pacific Islander. Also no separate category for multiple races. Stanford enrolled 6,996 undergraduate[8] and 10,253 graduate students[8] as of the 2019–2020 school year. Women comprised 50.4% of undergraduates and 41.5% of graduate students.[8] In the same academic year, the freshman retention rate was 99%. Stanford awarded 1,819 undergraduate degrees, 2,393 master's degrees, 770 doctoral degrees, and 3270 professional degrees in the 2018–2019 school year.[8] The four-year graduation rate for the class of 2017 cohort was 72.9%, and the six-year rate was 94.4%.[8] The relatively low four-year graduation rate is a function of the university's coterminal degree (or "coterm") program, which allows students to earn a master's degree as a 1-to-2-year extension of their undergraduate program.[152] As of 2010, fifteen percent of undergraduates were first-generation students.[153] Dormitories and student housing[edit] Main article: Stanford University student housing As of 2013, 89% of undergraduate students lived in on-campus university housing. First-year undergraduates are required to live on campus, and all undergraduates are guaranteed housing for all four undergraduate years.[8][154] Undergraduates live in 80 different houses, including dormitories, co-ops, row houses, and fraternities and sororities.[155] At Manzanita Park, 118 mobile homes were installed as "temporary" housing from 1969 to 1991, but as of 2015 was the site of newer dorms Castano, Kimball, Lantana, and the Humanities House, completed in 2015.[156][157] Most student residences are just outside the campus core, within ten minutes (on foot or bike) of most classrooms and libraries. Some are reserved for freshman, sophomores, or upperclass students and some are open to all four classes. Most residences are co-ed; seven are all-male fraternities, three are all-female sororities, and there is also one all-female non-sorority house, Roth House. In most residences, men and women live on the same floor, but a few dorms are configured for men and women to live on separate floors (single-gender floors).[158] Many students use bicycles to get around the large campus. Several residences are considered theme houses. The Academic, Language and Culture Houses include EAST (Education And Society Themed House), Hammarskjöld (International Themed House), Haus Mitteleuropa (Central European Themed House), La Casa Italiana (Italian Language and Culture), La Maison Française (French Language and Culture House), Slavianskii Dom (Slavic/East European Themed House), Storey (Human Biology Themed House), and Yost (Spanish Language and Culture). Cross-Cultural Themed Houses include Casa Zapata (Chicano/Latino Theme in Stern Hall), Muwekma-tah-ruk (American Indian/Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian Themed House), Okada (Asian-American Themed House in Wilbur Hall), and Ujamaa (Black/African-American Themed House in Lagunita Court). Focus Houses include Freshman-Sophomore College (Academic Focus), Branner Hall (Community Service), Kimball (Arts & Performing Arts), Crothers (Global Citizenship), and Toyon (Sophomore Priority).[155] Theme houses predating the current "theme" classification system are Columbae (Social Change Through Nonviolence, since 1970),[159] and Synergy (Exploring Alternatives, since 1972).[160] Co-ops or "Self-Ops" are another housing option. These houses feature cooperative living, where residents and eating associates each contribute work to keep the house running, such as cooking meals or cleaning shared spaces. These houses have unique themes around which their community is centered. Many co-ops are hubs of music, art and philosophy. The co-ops on campus are 576 Alvarado Row (formerly Chi Theta Chi), Columbae, Enchanted Broccoli Forest (EBF), Hammarskjöld, Kairos, Terra (the unofficial LGBT house),[161] and Synergy.[162] Phi Sigma, at 1018 Campus Drive was formerly Phi Sigma Kappa fraternity, but in 1973 became a Self-Op.[163] As of 2015 around 55 percent of the graduate student population lived on campus.[164] First-year graduate students are guaranteed on-campus housing. Stanford also subsidizes off-campus apartments in nearby Palo Alto, Menlo Park, and Mountain View for graduate students who are guaranteed on-campus housing but are unable to live on campus due to a lack of space.[165] Athletics[edit] Main article: Stanford Cardinal The new Stanford Stadium, site of home football games. The Leland Stanford Junior University Marching Band rallies football fans with arrangements of "All Right Now" and other contemporary music. As of 2016 Stanford had 16 male varsity sports and 20 female varsity sports,[166] 19 club sports[167] and about 27 intramural sports[168] In 1930, following a unanimous vote by the Executive Committee for the Associated Students, the athletic department adopted the mascot "Indian." The Indian symbol and name were later dropped by President Richard Lyman in 1972, after objections from Native American students and a vote by the student senate.[169] The sports teams are now officially referred to as the "Stanford Cardinal," referring to the deep red color, not the cardinal bird. Stanford is a member of the Pac-12 Conference in most sports, the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation in several other sports, and the America East Conference in field hockey[170] with the participation in the inter-collegiate NCAA's Division I FBS. Its traditional sports rival is Berkeley, the neighbor to the north in the East Bay. The winner of the annual "Big Game" between the Cal and Cardinal football teams gains custody of the Stanford Axe.[171] Stanford has had at least one NCAA team champion every year since the 1976–77 school year[172] and has earned 126 NCAA national team titles since its establishment, the most among universities,[16] and Stanford has won 522 individual national championships, the most by any university.[173] Stanford has won the award for the top-ranked Division 1 athletic program — the NACDA Directors' Cup, formerly known as the Sears Cup – annually for the past twenty-four straight years.[174][175][176][177] Stanford athletes have won medals in every Olympic Games since 1912, winning 270 Olympic medals total, 139 of them gold.[178] In the 2008 Summer Olympics, and 2016 Summer Olympics, Stanford won more Olympic medals than any other university in the United States.[179][180] Stanford athletes won 16 medals at the 2012 Summer Olympics (12 gold, 2 silver and 2 bronze), and 27 medals at the 2016 Summer Olympics.[181] Traditions[edit] Vintage Stanford University postcard The unofficial motto of Stanford University, selected by President Jordan, is "Die Luft der Freiheit weht."[182] Translated from the German language, this quotation from Ulrich von Hutten means, "The wind of freedom blows." The motto was controversial during World War I, when anything in German was suspect; at that time the university disavowed that this motto was official.[1] "Hail, Stanford, Hail!" is the Stanford Hymn sometimes sung at ceremonies or adapted by the various University singing groups. It was written in 1892 by mechanical engineering professor Albert W. Smith and his wife, Mary Roberts Smith (in 1896 she earned the first Stanford doctorate in Economics and later became associate professor of Sociology), but was not officially adopted until after a performance on campus in March 1902 by the Mormon Tabernacle Choir.[183][184] Uncommon Man/Uncommon Woman: Stanford does not award honorary degrees,[185][186] but in 1953 the degree of Uncommon Man/Uncommon Woman was created to recognize individuals who give rare and extraordinary service to the University. Technically, this degree is awarded by the Stanford Associates, a voluntary group that is part of the university's alumni association. As Stanford's highest honor, it is not conferred at prescribed intervals, but only when appropriate to recognize extraordinary service. Recipients include Herbert Hoover, Bill Hewlett, Dave Packard, Lucile Packard, and John Gardner.[187] Big Game events: The events in the week leading up to the Big Game vs. UC Berkeley, including Gaieties (a musical written, composed, produced, and performed by the students of Ram's Head Theatrical Society),[188] Viennese Ball: a formal ball with waltzes that was initially started in the 1970s by students returning from the now-closed Stanford in Vienna overseas program.[189] It is now open to all students. Full Moon on the Quad: An annual event at Main Quad, where students gather to kiss one another starting at midnight. Typically organized by the Junior class cabinet, the festivities include live entertainment, such as music and dance performances. Band Run: An annual festivity at the beginning of the school year, where the band picks up freshmen from dorms across campus while stopping to perform at each location, culminating in a finale performance at Main Quad. Mausoleum Party: An annual Halloween Party at the Stanford Mausoleum, the final resting place of Leland Stanford Jr. and his parents. A 20-year tradition, the Mausoleum party was on hiatus from 2002 to 2005 due to a lack of funding, but was revived in 2006.[190] In 2008, it was hosted in Old Union rather than at the actual Mausoleum, because rain prohibited generators from being rented.[191] In 2009, after fundraising efforts by the Junior Class Presidents and the ASSU Executive, the event was able to return to the Mausoleum despite facing budget cuts earlier in the year.[192] Former campus traditions include the Big Game bonfire on Lake Lagunita (a seasonal lake usually dry in the fall), which was formally ended in 1997 because of the presence of endangered salamanders in the lake bed.[193] Religious life[edit] Students and staff at Stanford are of many different religions. The Stanford Office for Religious Life's mission is "to guide, nurture and enhance spiritual, religious and ethical life within the Stanford University community" by promoting enriching dialogue, meaningful ritual, and enduring friendships among people of all religious backgrounds. It is headed by a dean with the assistance of a senior associate dean and an associate dean. Stanford Memorial Church, in the center of campus, has a Sunday University Public Worship service (UPW) usually in the "Protestant Ecumenical Christian" tradition where the Memorial Church Choir sings and a sermon is preached usually by one of the Stanford deans for Religious Life. UPW sometimes has multifaith services.[194] In addition, the church is used by the Catholic community and by some of the other Christian denominations at Stanford. Weddings happen most Saturdays and the university has for over 20 years allowed blessings of same-gender relationships and now legal weddings. In addition to the church, the Office for Religious Life has a Center for Inter-Religious Community, Learning and Experiences (CIRCLE) on the third floor of Old Union. It offers a common room, an interfaith sanctuary, a seminar room, a student lounge area, and a reading room, as well as offices housing a number of Stanford Associated Religions (SAR) member groups and the Senior Associate Dean and Associate Dean for Religious Life. Most though not all religious student groups belong to SAR. The SAR directory includes organizations that serve atheist, Baha'i, Buddhist, Christian, Hindu, Islam, Jewish, and Sikh groups, though these groups vary year by year.[195] The Windhover Contemplation Center was dedicated in October 2014, and was intended to provide spiritual sanctuary for students and staff in the midst of their course and work schedules; the center displays the "Windhover" paintings by Nathan Oliveira, the late Stanford professor and artist.[196] Some religions have a larger and more formal presence on campus in addition to the student groups; these include the Catholic Community at Stanford[197] and Hillel at Stanford.[198] Greek life[edit] Fraternities and sororities have been active on the Stanford campus since 1891, when the university first opened. In 1944, University President Donald Tresidder banned all Stanford sororities due to extreme competition.[199] However, following Title IX, the Board of Trustees lifted the 33-year ban on sororities in 1977.[200] Students are not permitted to join a fraternity or sorority until spring quarter of their freshman year.[201] As of 2016 Stanford had 31 Greek organizations, including 14 sororities and 16 fraternities. Nine of the Greek organizations were housed (eight in University-owned houses and one, Sigma Chi, in their own house, although the land is owned by the University[202]). Six chapters were members of the African American Fraternal and Sororal Association, 11 chapters were members of the Interfraternity Council, seven chapters belonged to the Intersorority Council, and six chapters belonged to the Multicultural Greek Council.[203] Stanford is home to three unhoused historically National Pan-Hellenic Council (NPHC or "Divine Nine") sororities (Alpha Kappa Alpha, Delta Sigma Theta, and Sigma Gamma Rho) and three unhoused NPHC fraternities (Alpha Phi Alpha, Kappa Alpha Psi, and Phi Beta Sigma). These fraternities and sororities operate under the African American Fraternal Sororal Association (AAFSA) at Stanford.[204][citation needed] Seven historically National Panhellenic Conference (NPC) sororities, four of which are unhoused (Alpha Phi, Alpha Epsilon Phi, Chi Omega, and Kappa Kappa Gamma) and three of which are housed (Delta Delta Delta, Kappa Alpha Theta, and Pi Beta Phi) call Stanford home. These sororities operate under the Stanford Inter-sorority Council (ISC).[204][citation needed] Eleven historically National Interfraternity Conference (NIC) fraternities are also represented at Stanford, including five unhoused fraternities (Alpha Epsilon Pi, Delta Kappa Epsilon, Delta Tau Delta, Sigma Alpha Epsilon, and Sigma Phi Epsilon), and six housed fraternities (Kappa Alpha Order, Kappa Sigma, Phi Kappa Psi, Sigma Chi, Sigma Nu, and Theta Delta Chi). These fraternities operate under the Stanford Inter-fraternity Council (IFC).[204][citation needed] There are also four unhoused Multicultural Greek Council (MGC) sororities on campus (Alpha Kappa Delta Phi, Lambda Theta Nu, Sigma Psi Zeta, and Sigma Theta Psi), as well as two unhoused MGC fraternities (Gamma Zeta Alpha and Lambda Phi Epsilon). Lambda Phi Epsilon is recognized by the National Interfraternity Conference (NIC).[205] Student groups[edit] As of 2020, Stanford had more than 600 student organizations.[206] Groups are often, though not always, partially funded by the University via allocations directed by the student government organization, the ASSU. These funds include "special fees," which are decided by a Spring Quarter vote by the student body. Groups span Athletics/Recreation (see section on Athletics), Careers/Pre-professional, Community Service, Ethnic/Cultural, Fraternities/Sororities, Health/Counseling, Media/Publications, Music/Dance/Creative Arts (see section on Arts), Political/Social Awareness and Religious/Philosophical. Stanford is home to a set of student journalism publications. The Stanford Daily is a student-run daily newspaper and has been published since the University was founded in 1892.[207] The student-run radio station, KZSU Stanford 90.1 FM, features freeform music programming, sports commentary, and news segments; it started in 1947 as an AM radio station.[208] The Stanford Review is a conservative student newspaper founded in 1987.[209] The Fountain Hopper (FoHo) is a financially independent, anonymous student-run campus rag publication, notable for having broken the Brock Turner story.[210] Stanford is also home to a large number of pre-professional student organizations, organized around missions from startup incubation to paid consulting. The Business Association of Stanford Entrepreneurial Students (BASES) is one of the largest professional organizations in Silicon Valley, with over 5,000 members.[citation needed] Its goal is to support the next generation of entrepreneurs.[citation needed] StartX is a non-profit startup accelerator for student and faculty-led startups[211] that over 12% of the study body has applied to.[citation needed] It is staffed primarily by students.[citation needed] Stanford Women In Business (SWIB) is an on-campus business organization, aimed at helping Stanford women find paths to success in the generally male-dominated technology industry.[212] Stanford Marketing is a student group that provides students hands-on training through research and strategy consulting projects with Fortune 500 clients, as well as workshops led by people from industry and professors in the Stanford Graduate School of Business.[213][214] Stanford Finance provides mentoring and internships for students who want to enter a career in finance. Students run SUpost.com, an online marketplace for Stanford students and alumni, in partnership with Stanford Student Enterprises (SSE) and the Stanford Pre-Business Association.[215][better source needed] The latter is intended to build connections among industry, alumni, and student communities.[citation needed] Other groups include: The Stanford Axe Committee is the official guardian of the Stanford Axe and the rest of the time assists the Stanford Band as a supplementary spirit group. It has existed since 1982.[216] The Stanford solar car project, in which students build a solar-powered car every 2 years and race it in either the North American Solar Challenge or the World Solar Challenge. Stanford American Indian Organization (SAIO) which hosts the annual Stanford Powwow started in 1971. This is the largest student run event on campus and the largest student run powwow in the country.[217][218] The Stanford Improvisors (SIMPS for short) teach and perform improvisational theatre on campus and in the surrounding community.[219] In 2014 the group finished second in the Golden Gate Regional College Improv tournament[220] and they've since been invited twice to perform at the annual San Francisco Improv Festival.[221] Asha for Education is a national student group founded in 1991. It focuses mainly on education in India and supporting nonprofit organizations that work mainly in the education sector. Asha's Stanford chapter organizes events like Holi as well as lectures by prominent leaders from India the university campus.[222][223][224] Safety[edit] Stanford's Department of Public Safety is responsible for law enforcement and safety on the main campus. Its deputy sheriffs are peace officers by arrangement with the Santa Clara County Sheriff's Office.[225] The department is also responsible for publishing an annual crime report covering the previous three years as required by the Clery Act.[226] Fire protection has been provided by contract with the Palo Alto Fire Department since 1976.[227] Murder is rare on the campus though a few of the cases have been notorious including Theodore Streleski's murder of his professor in 1978 and the unsolved 1974 murder of Arlis Perry in Stanford Memorial Church.[228] In 2014, Stanford University was the tenth highest in the nation in "total of reports of rape" on their main campus, with 26 reports of rape.[229] In Stanford University's 2015 Campus Climate Survey, 4.7 percent of female undergraduates reported experiencing sexual assault as defined by the university and 32.9 percent reported experiencing sexual misconduct.[230] According to the survey, 85% of perpetrators of misconduct were Stanford students and 80% were men.[230] Perpetrators of sexual misconduct were frequently aided by alcohol or drugs, according to the survey: "Nearly three-fourths of the students whose responses were categorized as sexual assault indicated that the act was accomplished by a person or person taking advantage of them when they were drunk or high, according to the survey. Close to 70 percent of students who reported an experience of sexual misconduct involving nonconsensual penetration and/or oral sex indicated the same."[230] Associated Students of Stanford University and student and alumni activists with the anti-rape group Stand with Leah criticized the survey methodology for downgrading incidents involving alcohol if students did not check two separate boxes indicating they were both intoxicated and incapacity while sexually assaulted.[230] Reporting on the Brock Turner rape case, a reporter from The Washington Post analyzed campus rape reports submitted by universities to the U.S. Department of Education, and found that Stanford was one of the top ten universities in campus rapes in 2014, with 26 reported that year, but when analyzed by rapes per 1000 students, Stanford was not among the top ten.[231] People v. Turner[edit] Main article: People v. Turner On the night of January 17–18, 2015, 22-year-old Chanel Miller, who had visited campus to attend a party at the Kappa Alpha fraternity, was sexually assaulted by Brock Turner, a freshman who had a swimming scholarship. Two graduate students witnessed the attack and intervened, catching Turner when he tried to flee and holding him down on the ground until police arrived.[232] Stanford immediately referred the case to prosecutors and offered Miller counseling, and within two weeks had barred Turner from campus after conducting an investigation.[233] Turner was convicted on three felony charges in March 2016 and in June 2016 he received a jail sentence of six months and was declared a sex offender, requiring him to register as such for the rest of his life; prosecutors had sought a six-year prison sentence out of the maximum 14 years that was possible.[234] The case and the relatively lenient sentence drew nationwide attention.[235] Two years later the judge in the case, Stanford graduate Aaron Persky, was recalled by the voters.[236] Joe Lonsdale[edit] See also: Joe Lonsdale § Personal In February 2015, Elise Clougherty filed a sexual assault and harassment lawsuit against venture capitalist Joe Lonsdale.[237][238] Lonsdale and Clougherty entered into a relationship in the spring of 2012 when she was a junior and he was her mentor in a Stanford entrepreneurship course.[238] By the spring of 2013 Clougherty had broken off the relationship and filed charges at Stanford that Lonsdale had broken the Stanford policy against consensual relationships between students and faculty and that he had sexually assaulted and harassed her, which resulted in Lonsdale being banned from Stanford for 10 years.[238] Lonsdale challenged Stanford's finding that he had had sexually assaulted and harassed her and Stanford rescinded that finding and the campus ban in the fall of 2015.[239] Clougherty withdrew her suit that fall as well.[240] People[edit] For a more comprehensive list, see List of Stanford University people and List of Nobel laureates affiliated with Stanford University. As of late 2016, Stanford had 2,153 tenure-line faculty, senior fellows, center fellows, and medical center faculty.[241] Award laureates and scholars[edit] Stanford's current community of scholars includes: 19 Nobel Prize laureates (as of October 2020, 85 affiliates in total);[241] 171 members of the National Academy of Sciences;[241] 109 members of National Academy of Engineering;[241] 76 members of National Academy of Medicine;[241] 288 members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences;[241] 19 recipients of the National Medal of Science;[241] 1 recipient of the National Medal of Technology;[241] 4 recipients of the National Humanities Medal;[241] 49 members of American Philosophical Society;[241] 56 fellows of the American Physics Society (since 1995);[242] 4 Pulitzer Prize winners;[241] 31 MacArthur Fellows;[241] 4 Wolf Foundation Prize winners;[241] 2 ACL Lifetime Achievement Award winners;[243] 14 AAAI fellows;[244] 2 Presidential Medal of Freedom winners.[241][245] Stanford's faculty and former faculty includes 48 Nobel laureates,[241] 5 Fields Medalists, as well as 16 winners of the Turing Award, the so-called "Nobel Prize in computer science," comprising one third of the awards given in its 44-year history. The university has 27 ACM fellows. It is also affiliated with 4 Gödel Prize winners, 4 Knuth Prize recipients, 10 IJCAI Computers and Thought Award winners, and about 15 Grace Murray Hopper Award winners for their work in the foundations of computer science. Stanford alumni have started many companies and, according to Forbes, has produced the second highest number of billionaires of all universities.[246][247][248] Herbert Hoover, 31st President of the United States (BA, 1895) Susan Rice, 27th United States Ambassador to the United Nations (BA, 1986) Julián Castro, 16th United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; former presidential candidate (BA, 1996) Sandra Day O'Connor, Former Associate Justice of the United States (BA, 1950) Anthony Kennedy, Former Associate Justice of the United States (LLB, 1961) Stephen Breyer, Associate Justice of the United States (BA, 1959) Dianne Feinstein, U.S. Senator from California and former Mayor of San Francisco (BA, 1955) Cory Booker, U.S. Senator from New Jersey; former presidential candidate (BA, 1991; MA, 1992) Mitt Romney, U.S. Senator from Utah, former Governor of Massachusetts, and former presidential candidate (Did not graduate) Jeff Merkley, U.S. Senator from Oregon (BA, 1979) Adam Schiff, U.S. Representative from California (BA, 1982) Philippe of Belgium, 7th King of the Belgians (MA, 1985) Yukio Hatoyama, 93rd Prime Minister of Japan (PhD, 1976) Rishi Sunak, British politician and Chancellor of the Exchequer (MBA, 2006) Sally Ride, astronaut and physicist; first woman in space (MS, 1975; PhD, 1978) Tom Steyer, billionaire hedge fund manager and former presidential candidate (MBA, 1983) Carly Fiorina, CEO of Hewlett-Packard, former presidential candidate (BA, 1976) Mukesh Ambani, billionaire business magnate and chairman of Reliance Industries (Did not graduate) Peter Thiel, billionaire venture capitalist and co-founder of PayPal (BA, 1989; JD, 1992) Larry Page, co-founder and former CEO of Google (MS, 1997) Jerry Yang, co-founder and CEO of Yahoo! (BS, MS, 1990) Elon Musk, billionaire founder and CEO of Tesla and SpaceX (Did not graduate) Reed Hastings, co-founder and CEO of Netflix (MS 1988) Sam Harris, author and public intellectual (BA, 2000) Gretchen Carlson, broadcast journalist and former host of Fox & Friends (BA, 1990) Rachel Maddow, journalist and host of The Rachel Maddow Show (BA, 1994) Raymond Burr, Emmy Award-winning actor Reese Witherspoon, Academy Award-winning actress (Did not graduate) Jennifer Connelly, Academy Award-winning actress (Did not graduate) Sterling K. Brown, Emmy Award-winning actor (BA, 1998) Alexander Payne, Academy Award-winning film director (BA, 1983) Tiger Woods, golfer (Did not graduate) John Elway, former football quarterback and general manager of the Denver Broncos (BS, 1983) John McEnroe, tennis player (Did not graduate) John Steinbeck, Nobel Prize-winning author of The Grapes of Wrath, East of Eden, and Of Mice and Men (Did not graduate) As of 2020, 14 Stanford alumni have won the Nobel Prize.[249][250][251][252][253] As of 2019, 122 Stanford students or alumni have been named Rhodes Scholars.[254] See also[edit] San Francisco Bay Area portal California portal List of universities by number of billionaire alumni List of colleges and universities in California S*, a collaboration between seven universities and the Karolinska Institute for training in bioinformatics and genomics Stanford School Notes[edit] ^ Undergraduate school alumni who received the Turing Award: Vint Cerf: BS Math Stanford 1965; MS CS UCLA 1970; PhD CS UCLA 1972.[19] Allen Newell: BS Physics Stanford 1949; PhD Carnegie Institute of Technology 1957.[20] Graduate school alumni who received the Turing Award: Martin Hellman: BE New York University 1966, MS Stanford University 1967, PhD Stanford University 1969, all in electrical engineering. Professor at Stanford 1971–1996.[21] John Hopcroft: BS Seattle University; MS EE Stanford 1962, Phd EE Stanford 1964.[22] Barbara Liskov: BSc Berkeley 1961; PhD Stanford.[23] Raj Reddy: BS from Guindy College of Engineering (Madras, India) 1958; M Tech, University of New South Wales 1960; PhD Stanford 1966.[24] Ronald Rivest: BA Yale 1969; PhD Stanford 1974.[25] Robert Tarjan: BS Caltech 1969; MS Stanford 1971, PhD 1972.[26] Non-alumni former and current faculty, staff, and researchers who received the Turing Award: Whitfield Diffie: BS mathematics Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1965. Visiting scholar at Stanford 2009–2010 and an affiliate from 2010–2012; currently a consulting professor at CISAC (The Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University).[27] Doug Engelbart: BS EE Oregon State University 1948; MS EE Berkeley 1953; PhD Berkeley 1955. Researcher/Director at Stanford Research Institute (SRI) 1957–1977; Director (Bootstrap Project) at Stanford University 1989–1990.[28] Edward Feigenbaum: BS Carnegie Institute of Technology 1956, PhD Carnegie Institute of Technology 1960. Associate Professor at Stanford 1965–1968; Professor at Stanford 1969–2000; Professor Emeritus at Stanford (2000–present).[29] Robert W. Floyd: BA 1953, BSc Physics, both from University of Chicago. Professor at Stanford (1968–1994).[30] Sir Antony Hoare: Undergraduate at Oxford University. Visiting Professor at Stanford 1973.[31] Alan Kay: BA/BS from University of Colorado at Boulder, PhD 1969 from University of Utah. Researcher at Stanford 1969–1971.[32] John McCarthy: BS Math, Caltech; PhD Princeton. Assistant Professor at Stanford 1953–1955; Professor at Stanford 1962–2011.[33] Robin Milner: BSc 1956 from Cambridge University. Researcher at Stanford University 1971–1972.[34] Amir Pnueli: BSc Math from Technion 1962, PhD Weizmann Institute of Science 1967. Instructor at Stanford 1967; Visitor at Stanford 1970[35] Dana Scott: BA Berkeley 1954, PhD Princeton 1958. Associate Professor at Stanford 1963–1967.[36] Niklaus Wirth: BS Swiss Federal Institute of Technology 1959, MSC Universite Laval, Canada, 1960; PhD Berkeley 1963. Assistant Professor at Stanford University 1963–1967.[37] Andrew Yao: BS physics National University of Taiwan 1967; AM Physics Harvard 1969; PhD Physics, Harvard 1972; PhD CS University of Illinois Urbana–Champagin 1975 Assistant Professor at Stanford University 1976–1981; Professor at Stanford University 1982–1986.[38] ^ It is often stated that Stanford has the largest contiguous campus in the world (or the United States)[53][54] but that depends on definitions. Berry College with over 26,000 acres (40.6 sq mi; 105.2 km2), Paul Smith's College with 14,200 acres (22.2 sq mi; 57.5 km2), and the United States Air Force Academy with 18,500 acres (7,500 ha) are larger but are not usually classified as universities. Duke University at 8,610 acres (13.5 sq mi; 34.8 km2) does have more land, but it is not contiguous. However the University of the South has over 13,000 acres (20.3 sq mi; 52.6 km2). ^ The rules governing the board have changed over time. The original 24 trustees were appointed for life in 1885 by the Stanfords as were some of the subsequent replacements. In 1899 Jane Stanford changed the maximum number of trustees from 24 to 15 and set the term of office to 10 years. On June 1, 1903, she resigned her powers as founder and the board took on its full powers. 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Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply. By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization. Privacy policy About Wikipedia Disclaimers Contact Wikipedia Mobile view Developers Statistics Cookie statement en-wikipedia-org-5533 ---- Wave Hill walk-off - Wikipedia Wave Hill walk-off From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search 1966 strike by Aboriginal Australians on a cattle station in the Northern Territory lasting 9 years Coordinates: 17°23′13″S 131°06′59″E / 17.38698°S 131.11641°E / -17.38698; 131.11641 The Wave Hill walk-off, also known as the Gurindji strike, was a walk-off and strike by 200 Gurindji stockmen, house servants and their families, starting on 23 August 1966 and lasting for about nine years. It took place at Wave Hill, a cattle station in Kalkarindji (formerly known as Wave Hill), Northern Territory, Australia, and was led by Gurindji man Vincent Lingiari. Initially interpreted as purely a strike against working and living conditions, it became apparent that these were not the only or main reasons. The primary demand was for return of some of the traditional lands of the Gurindji people, which had covered approximately 3,250 square kilometres (1,250 sq mi) of the Northern Territory before European settlement. The walk-off persisted until the time of the Whitlam government (1972–1975). On 16 August 1975, after brokering an agreement with the owners, the Vestey Group, Prime Minister Gough Whitlam was able to give the rights to a small piece of land back to the Gurindji people in a highly symbolic handover ceremony. It was a key moment in the movement for Aboriginal land rights in Australia, which was one of the main events leading to the passing of the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act 1976. This legislation was the basis on which Indigenous Australians could apply for freehold title to traditional lands (known as native title in Australia) in the Northern Territory. The event was later celebrated in the song "From Little Things Big Things Grow", written by Paul Kelly and Kev Carmody in 1991, and Freedom Day is celebrated in August of each year at Kalkarindji to commemorate the strike. On 8 September 2020 the traditional owners were granted native title over 5,000 square kilometres (1,900 sq mi) of the Wave Hill Station land. Contents 1 Gurindji and the pastoralists 2 Conditions on the station 3 1966–75: Strike years 3.1 The walk-off 3.2 Support for the Gurindji grows 3.3 1972–75 Whitlam government 4 1975 – Handback 5 Significance and legacy of the strike 6 2020 native title recognition 7 The Gurindji Strike in popular culture 7.1 Gurindji Blues 7.2 From Little Things Big Things Grow 7.3 Wave Hill Walk Off 7.4 Freedom Day 8 See also 9 References 10 Further reading Gurindji and the pastoralists[edit] The Gurindji, an Aboriginal Australian people, had lived on their traditional land in the Victoria River area for tens of thousands of years.[1] These lands cover approximately 3,250 square kilometres (1,250 sq mi) of what is now the Northern Territory. They first encountered Europeans in the 1854–5, when explorer Augustus Gregory crossed into their territory.[2] From 1855 to 1856 Gregory led an expedition from the plains of the Victoria River eastward across the NT to the Queensland coast.[3] In 1879 Alexander Forrest journeyed through this land from the coast of Western Australia to the Overland Telegraph Line.[2] An area of about 3,000 km2 (1,200 sq mi), which included the Kalkaringi and Daguragu area, was granted to pastoralist Nathaniel Buchanan in 1883[1] for the Wave Hill cattle station. It was stocked with 1000 cattle in 1884, and 10 years later there were 15,000 cattle and 8,000 bullocks, which started to degrade the environment.[1][4] The land management practices adhered to by the Gurindji for millennia could not be followed.[1] The Gurindji and other Aboriginal peoples found their waterholes and soakages fenced off or fouled by cattle, which also ate or trampled fragile desert plant life, such as bush tomato. Dingo hunters ("doggers") regularly shot the people's hunting dogs as well as kangaroos as they competed with cattle for water and grazing land. Gurindji suffered lethal reprisals for any attempt to eat the cattle – anything from a skirmish to a massacre. There was little choice to stay alive but to move onto the cattle stations, receive rations, adopt a more sedentary life and, where possible, take work as stockmen and domestic help. If they couldn't continue their traditional way of life, then at least to be on their own land – the foundation for their spiritual beliefs – seemed crucial.[citation needed] The pastoralists wanted cheap labour, and workers were exploited and abused. Legislation passed in 1913 required employers to provide Aboriginal workers food, clothes, tea and tobacco in exchange for their work.[4] Pastoralists were able to make use of the now landless Aboriginal people, who wanted to stay on their traditional lands, as extremely cheap manual labour. On stations across the north, Aboriginal people became the backbone of the cattle industry for the next 70 years.[1] In 1914, Wave Hill Station was bought by Vestey Brothers, then an international meat-packing company founded and run by William and Edmund Vestey.[1] The Vesteys refused to pay their workers in wages, leading to tensions and arguments from the beginning.[4] Conditions on the station[edit] There had been complaints from Indigenous employees about conditions over many years. A Northern Territory government inquiry held in the 1930s said of Vesteys:[5] It was obvious that they had been ... quite ruthless in denying their Aboriginal labour proper access to basic human rights. However, little was done over the decades leading up to the strike. While it was illegal up until 1968 to pay Aboriginal workers more than a specified amount in goods and money, a 1945 inquiry found Vesteys was not even paying Aboriginal workers the 5 shillings a day minimum wage set up for Aboriginal workers under the Aboriginals Ordinance 1918. Non-Indigenous males were receiving £2/8/- a week in 1945. Gurindji lived in humpies made of corrugated iron, without floors, lighting, sanitation, furniture or cooking facilities. Billy Bunter Jampijinpa, who lived on Wave Hill Station at the time said:[6] We were treated just like dogs. We were lucky to get paid the 50 quid a month we were due, and we lived in tin humpies you had to crawl in and out on your knees. There was no running water. The food was bad – just flour, tea, sugar and bits of beef like the head or feet of a bullock. The Vesteys mob were hard men. They didn't care about blackfellas. A 1946 report by anthropologists (Catherine Berndt and Ronald Berndt[7]) exposed the conditions faced by the workers. Aboriginal children under 12 were working illegally, housing and food was inadequate, there was sexual abuse of Aboriginal women, and prostitution in exchange for rations and clothing was occurring. Sanitation was poor and there was no safe drinking water.[1] Gurindji who received minimal government benefits had these paid into pastoral company accounts over which they had no control. In contrast, non-Aboriginal workers enjoyed minimum wage security with no legal limit on the maximum they could be paid. They were housed in comfortable homes with gardens and had full control over their finances.[8] In 1953, the Aboriginals Ordinance 1953 amended the Aboriginals Ordinance 1918 (NT). This empowered the Director of Native Affairs (previously Chief Protector of Aborigines until changed by the Aboriginals Ordinance 1939) with legal guardianship of all "aboriginals", thus making them wards of the state. He would also oversee many matters relevant to the lives of Aboriginal people.[9][1][10] In 1959, the Wards Employment Regulations[11] set out a scale of wages, rations and conditions applicable to wards of the state, at rates up to 50 per cent lower than those of non-Aboriginal people working in similar occupations. Still Samuel Vestey, 3rd Baron Vestey, known as Lord Vestey, refused to pay any wages to the company's Aboriginal workers.[1][12] In 1965 the North Australian Workers' Union (NAWU), under pressure from the Northern Territory Council for Aboriginal Rights[1] (NTCAR)[13] and driven by their own Aboriginal organiser, Dexter Daniels,[14] applied to the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Commission to amend the Northern Territory’s pastoral award to remove sections discriminating against Aboriginal workers. The pastoralists resisted strongly; the Commission eventually agreed in March 1966,[1] but in consideration of the pastoralists' concerns of what it would cost them, delayed implementation by three years.[4] By August 1966 the Gurindji had had enough of waiting for an improvement to their living and working conditions,[4] and a campaign in solidarity with their cause had stirred support across the country. Writer Frank Hardy organised a speaking tour for Daniels, and through their networks and unions in Sydney and Melbourne collected thousands of pounds for a strike fund.[14] NTCAR provided support and publicity for the strike.[13] 1966–75: Strike years[edit] The walk-off[edit] On 23 August 1966, led by Lingiari, about 200 workers (stockmen and domestic servants) and their families walked off Wave Hill and began their ten-year strike for better pay and conditions and land rights.[8][1] Lingiari led the Gurindji, as well as Ngarinman, Bilinara, Warlpiri and Mudbara workers.[14] In March 1967 the Gurindji decided to move from their first camp in the dry bed of the Victoria River to an important sacred site nearby at Wattie Creek/Daguragu. Initially, the action was interpreted by most of the white people as purely a strike against work and living conditions. However, it soon became clear that the strikers not only demanded wages equal to those of white stockmen, but also the return of their land.[8][4] The move was symbolic, away from the cattle station and closer to the Gurindji sacred sites, and marked.[1] At the time of the move, the strikers drafted a petition to the then Governor-General of Australia, Lord Casey, asking for a lease of 1,300 km2 (500 sq mi) around Daguragu, to be run cooperatively by the Gurundji as a mining and cattle lease. The petition said "We feel that morally the land is ours and should be returned to us". However, in June Casey refused the lease.[1] "This bin [been] Gurindji country long time before them Vestey mob", Vincent Lingiari told Hardy at the time.[15] Hardy records Pincher Manguari as saying:[16] We want them Vestey mob all go away from here. Wave Hill Aboriginal people bin called Gurindji. We bin here long time before them Vestey mob. This is our country, all this bin Gurindji country. Wave Hill bin our country. We want this land; we strike for that. Billy Bunter Jampijinpa was 16 years old at the time of the walk-off: The Vesteys mob came and said they would get two killers (slaughtered beasts) and raise our wages if we came back. But old Vincent said, 'No, we're stopping here'. Then in early 1967 we walked to our new promised land, we call it Daguragu (Wattie Creek), back to our sacred places and our country, our new homeland. "Vincent, May 1968" (Vincent Lingiari); charcoal on paper, by Frank Hardy, drawn while researching his book, The Unlucky Australians. The Gurindji stayed on at Daguragu from 1967 until 1974, although under Australian law this was an illegal occupation. Other petitions and requests move back and forth between the Gurindji and the Northern Territory and Australian Governments, without resolution.[1] While living at Daguragu, the Gurindji people drew up maps showing areas they wanted excised from pastoralist land and returned to them. In 1967, they petitioned the Governor-General, claiming 1,295 square kilometres (500 sq mi) of land near Wave Hill.[17] Their claim was rejected.[18] The strike started having an impact on nearby stations; some had increased their Aboriginal workers' pay, fearing strike action.[14] In late 1966 the Northern Territory government offered a compromise pay rise of 125 per cent, but the strikers still demanded wages equal to those of white stockmen and return of their land. The Government also made moves to cut off means of Gurindji obtaining food supplies and threatened evictions. The Gurindji persisted with their protest and stayed at Daguragu.[8] Support for the Gurindji grows[edit] The tide of public opinion was beginning to turn in Australia. Demonstrations and arrests occurred in southern Australia, and many church, student and trade union groups gave practical and fundraising support to the Gurindji struggle. The struggle would, however, continue for another eight years, during which Lingiari, Jampijinpa and others toured the country, giving talks, raising awareness, and building support for their cause. They arranged meetings with prominent lawyers and politicians.[8] Writer Frank Hardy recalled one fundraising meeting at which a donor gave A$500 after hearing Lingiari speak. The donor – who said he had never before met an Aboriginal person – was a young Dr Fred Hollows, the eye surgeon and Communist activist. Brian Manning garnered support at the Waterside Workers' conference in Sydney, recommending to members a A$1 per member national levy to support the Gurindji claim for their land. This raised a A$17,000 in the Gurindji's battle for their land rights. The money spent on building fences as well as a massive campaign.[8] Workers in Vesteys' meatworks in London took a day of strike action and sent donations.[14] Several significant events marked a change in public opinion in Australia. In 1967, an overwhelming majority of Australians – over 90 per cent of voters and a majority in all six states – voted "Yes" to giving the Federal Government power to make laws specifically for Indigenous Australians, in the 1967 Referendum.[19] In 1968, 60 Aboriginal workers at another Vestey's property, Limbunya, also joined the strike when they walked off the job.[20] In 1968 Hardy published The Unlucky Australians, with a foreword by Donald Horne and contributions by Lingiari, Aboriginal Union organiser Daniel Dexter, Aboriginal actor Robert Tudawali and Captain Major, telling the story of the Gurindji people based on personal narratives, and the Gurindji Strike.[21] Also in 1968, the Liberal-National Coalition federal government under John Gorton offered 20 houses at Wave Hill Welfare Settlement (now Kalkarindji), but the Gurindji would not be enticed by this.[22] In 1969 the government was given a proposal to give 8 square kilometres (3.1 sq mi) back to the Gurindji. Cabinet refused even to discuss the issue.[citation needed] Meanwhile, the Yolngu people of northeast Arnhem Land were taking their grievances to the courts, in the case of Milirrpum v Nabalco, also known as the Gove land rights case, after unsuccessfully petitioning the Commonwealth government with the Yirrkala bark petitions. The judge's decision in Gove in April 1971 relied on the doctrine of terra nullius to deny the Yolngu rights to their land and ensure the security of a bauxite mine by Nabalco. Coupled with the ongoing Gurindji strike, this case highlighted the very real need for Aboriginal land rights.[23][24] 1972–75 Whitlam government[edit] Further information: Whitlam government and Indigenous land rights in Australia On 2 December 1972 the Australian Labor Party (ALP) came to power under Prime Minister Gough Whitlam.[4][1] Aboriginal land rights was an issue high on the Whitlam government's agenda. It called a halt to development leases granted by the Northern Territory Land Board that might damage Indigenous rights and suspended mining exploration licences.[25] The Whitlam government established the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Land Rights in the Northern Territory, headed by Justice Woodward in 1972 ("the Woodward Royal Commission"). The Inquiry's task was to examine the legal establishment of land rights.[24] The Commission recommended government financial support for the creation of reserves and incorporated land trusts, administered by traditional owners or land councils.[26] The original Wave Hill contract ended in March 1973, and two new ones were drafted, one for Vestey and one for the Gurindji, through their Murramulla Gurindji Company.[4] 1975 – Handback[edit] Gough Whitlam and Vincent Lingiari, 16 August 1975 In 1975, the Labor government of Gough Whitlam finally negotiated with Vesteys to give the Gurindji back a small portion of their land. Whitlam arrived in Daguragu on 16 August 1975. This was a symbolic moment in the land rights movement in Australia for Indigenous Australians, although only an initial step towards the final land handback; it was only a 30-year pastoral lease over a very small area.[14] Whitlam poured a handful of soil through Lingiari’s fingers addressed him and the Gurindji people, saying:[4][1] On this great day, I, Prime Minister of Australia, speak to you on behalf of all Australian people – all those who honour and love this land we live in. For them I want to say to you: I want this to acknowledge that we Australians have still much to do to redress the injustice and oppression that has for so long been the lot of Black Australians. Vincent Lingiari, I solemnly hand to you these deeds as proof, in Australian law, that these lands belong to the Gurindji people and I put into your hands part of the earth itself as a sign that this land will be the possession of you and your children forever. Mervyn Bishop's photograph of Whitlam pouring sand into Lingiari's hand on that day, has become an iconic one in Australian history.[27] Significance and legacy of the strike[edit] As a result of the recommendations of the Woodward Inquiry, the Whitlam government drafted the Aboriginal Land Rights Bill. The legislation was not passed by parliament prior to the Whitlam government's dismissal in 1975,[28] but the subsequent Fraser government passed effectively similar legislation – the Aboriginal Land Rights Act 1976 (ALRA) – on 9 December 1976.[29] This was the first legislation in Australia which allows for a claim of land title if the claimants can provide evidence of their traditional connection to the land (i.e. via native title).[1] Vincent Lingiari confronted the vast economic and political forces arrayed against him and his people. The walk-off and strike were landmark events in the struggle for Aboriginal land rights in Australia. The Gurindji strike was not the first or the only demand by Aboriginal people for the return of their lands – but it was the first one to attract wide public support within Australia for land rights. For the first time recognition was given of Indigenous people, their rights and responsibilities for the land, and their ability to practise their law, language and culture. In August every year, a large celebration is held at Kalkaringi to mark the anniversary of the strike and walk-off. Known as Freedom Day, people gather from many parts of Australia to celebrate and re-enact the walk-off.[citation needed] However, it wasn’t until May 1986 that the Gurindji won a more significant claim under the ALRA, when the Hawke government at last handed over the inalienable Aboriginal freehold title deeds to the Gurindji.[22][30] Also, the ALRA was limited to the NT, and explicitly excluded urban claims such those made by the Larrakia people of Darwin.[14] In 2006 an Australian Senate report looked into the matter of underpayment of Indigenous workers in the past. A group of those involved in the Wave Hill walk-off have said that they would be prepared to make a reparation claim for underpaid and stolen wages as a test case.[31] The walk-off route was listed on the Northern Territory Heritage Register on 23 August 2006 and on the Australian National Heritage List on 9 August 2007.[32][33] There are also seven other associated sites on the National Heritage List.[34] Unfortunately, Lingiari's vision of "a separate but equal settlement, land and cultural and political autonomy" did not happen. The Murramulla Aboriginal-owned cattle business did not survive, for a range of reasons.[35][36] The Wave Hill Welfare Settlement attracted more people because of government funding and services, and Kalkarindji (as it is now known) is the service centre for the smaller Dagaragu (formerly Wattie Creek) settlement. Since a 2008 local government restructure, Kalkarindji/Daguragu ward is one of five wards of the Victoria Daly Region council.[37] 2020 native title recognition[edit] A native title claim was lodged in 2016 by the Central Land Council, as there were mining interests in area covered by Wave Hill Station's pastoral lease.[38] On 8 September 2020, the Federal Court of Australia recognised the native title rights of the Gurindji people to 5,000 square kilometres (1,900 sq mi) of the Wave Hill Station, allowing them to receive royalties as compensation from resource companies who explore the area. Justice Richard White said that the determination recognised Indigenous involvement (Jamangku, Japuwuny, Parlakuna-Parkinykarni and Yilyilyimawu peoples) with the land "at least since European settlement and probably for millennia".[38][39] The court sitting took place nearly 800 kilometres (500 mi) south of Darwin, and descendants of Lingiari and others involved in the walk-off celebrated the determination.[38] The traditional owners will participate in the mining negotiations and exploration work, from which royalties may flow in the future, but just as important is the right to hunt, gather, teach and perform cultural activities and ceremonies, and allow the young people to connect with their land.[38] The Gurindji Strike in popular culture[edit] "Gurindji Blues" Single by Galarrwuy Yunupingu B-side "The Tribal Land" Released 1971 (1971) Length Introduction by Vincent Lingiari – 1:06 Gurindji Blues – 2:30 Label RCA Victor Songwriter(s) Ted Egan Producer(s) Ron Wills Gurindji Blues[edit] Ted Egan wrote the "Gurindji Blues" in the 1969 with Lingiari. The words to the first verse are:[40][41] Poor Bugger Me, Gurindji Me bin sit down this country Long before no Lord Vestey All about land belong to we Egan says he was moved to write "Gurindji Blues" after he heard Peter Nixon, then Minister for the Interior, say in parliament that if the Gurindji wanted land, they should save up and buy it, like any other Australian. Nixon also gets a mention in the song:[40] Poor bugger me, Gurindji Peter Nixon talk long we: 'Buy you own land, Gurindji Buyim back from the Lord Vestey' In 1971 the song was recorded by in Sydney, with Egan singing along with Galarrwuy Yunupingu, a Yolngu man actively involved in land rights for his own people through the Yirrkala bark petitions and Gove land rights case (who also sings on the B-side). Lingiari speaks the introduction, first in Gurindji and then in English.[40] From Little Things Big Things Grow[edit] In 1991, Paul Kelly and Kev Carmody recorded "From Little Things Big Things Grow". The words to the first verse are: Gather round people let me tell you a story An eight year-long story of power and pride British Lord Vestey and Vincent Lingiari Were opposite men on opposite sides The words to the last verse are: That was the story of Vincent Lingiari But this is the story of something much more How power and privilege can not move a people Who know where they stand and stand in the law. The song was added to the National Film and Sound Archive's Sounds of Australia registry in 2010.[42] Wave Hill Walk Off[edit] Irish folk musician Damien Dempsey's song "Wave Hill Walk Off", on his 2016 album No Force on Earth, commemorates the Gurindji strike and the struggle for Aboriginal land rights.[43][44] The words to the first verse are:[44] In the year of Lord Jesus nineteen and sixty six, A great rumbling sound came from up in the sticks, All these gentle black warriors they dreamed of a Bill, And enough was enough, so they walked off Wave Hill. The words to the last verse are:[44] For nine hungry years they kept up their bold stand, And took off with and poured land into Vincent's hand For indigenous land rights it was finally time, For to make reparations for a giant of a crime. Freedom Day[edit] In the Gurindji language, the song set Freedom Day[45] celebrates the walk-off and is performed by Gurindji singers at the annual Freedom Day festival[46] at Kalkarindji. It is an example of wajarra, popular songs performed for fun and entertainment.[47] See also[edit] Organized labour portal Native title in Australia References[edit] ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r Lawford, Elliana; Zillman, Stephanie (18 August 2016). "Timeline: From Wave Hill protest to land handbacks". ABC News. Retrieved 9 August 2020. ^ a b Croft, Brenda L. "Still in my mind: Gurindji location, experience and visuality" (PDF). An Artback NT Education Resource. Charles Darwin University: 13. Retrieved 9 August 2020. 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Jump to navigation Jump to search Forced relocation of the southeastern American tribes Trail of Tears Part of Indian removal The Trail of Tears memorial monuments at the New Echota Historic Site in New Echota, Georgia, which honors the 4,000 Cherokees who died on the Trail of Tears Location Southeastern United States and Indian Territory Attack type Population transfer, ethnic cleansing, genocide Deaths Cherokee (4,000) Creek Seminole (3,000 in Second Seminole War – 1835–1842) Chickasaw (3,500) Choctaw (2,500–6,000) Ponca (200) Victims Five Civilized Tribes of Cherokee, Muscogee, Seminole, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Ponca and Ho-Chunk/Winnebago nations Perpetrators U.S. Federal Government, U.S. Army, state militias Motive Acquisition of Native American land east of the Mississippi River. The Trail of Tears was a series of forced relocations of approximately 46,000 Native Americans between 1830 and 1850 by the United States government.[1] Members of the Cherokee, Muscogee (Creek), Seminole, Chickasaw, and Choctaw nations (including thousands of their black slaves[2]) were forcibly removed from their ancestral homelands in the Southeastern United States to areas to the west of the Mississippi River that had been designated as 'Indian Territory'.[1] The forced relocations were carried out by government authorities (state and local militias) after the passage of the Indian Removal Act in 1830.[3] The Cherokee removal in 1838 (the last forced removal east of the Mississippi) was brought on by the discovery of gold near Dahlonega, Georgia in 1828, resulting in the Georgia Gold Rush.[4] The relocated peoples suffered from exposure, disease, and starvation while en route to their newly designated reserve. Thousands died before reaching their destinations or shortly after from disease.[5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13] Contents 1 Historical context 1.1 Jackson's role 1.2 Terminology 2 Legal background 3 Choctaw removal 4 Seminole resistance 5 Creek dissolution 6 Chickasaw monetary removal 7 Cherokee forced relocation 7.1 Eastern Cherokee Restitution 8 Statistics 9 Landmarks and commemorations 9.1 Trail of Tears outdoor historical drama, Unto These Hills 9.2 Commemorative medallion 9.3 In literature and oral history 10 See also 11 References 12 Bibliography 13 Documents 14 Documentary 15 External links Historical context[edit] A map of the process of Indian Removal, 1830–1838. Oklahoma is depicted in light yellow-green. In 1830, a group of Indian tribes, collectively referred to as the "Five Civilized Tribes" (the Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Muscogee, and Seminole tribes) were living as autonomous nations in what would be later termed the American Deep South. The process of cultural transformation from their traditional way of life towards a white American way of life as proposed by George Washington and Henry Knox was gaining momentum, especially among the Cherokee and Choctaw.[14] American settlers had been pressuring the federal government to remove Indians from the Southeast; many settlers were encroaching on Indian lands, while others wanted more land made available to the settlers. Although the effort was vehemently opposed by some, including U.S. Congressman Davy Crockett of Tennessee, President Andrew Jackson was able to gain Congressional passage of the Indian Removal Act of 1830, which authorized the government to extinguish any Indian title to land claims in the Southeast. In 1831, the Choctaw became the first Nation to be removed, and their removal served as the model for all future relocations. After two wars, many Seminoles were removed in 1832. The Creek removal followed in 1834, the Chickasaw in 1837, and lastly the Cherokee in 1838.[15] Some managed to evade the removals, however, and remained in their ancestral homelands; some Choctaw still reside in Mississippi, Creek in Alabama and Florida, Cherokee in North Carolina, and Seminole in Florida. A small group of Seminole, fewer than 500, evaded forced removal; the modern Seminole Tribe of Florida is descended from these individuals.[16] A small number of non-Native Americans who lived with the tribes, including some of African descent (including over 4,000 slaves, and others as spouses or freedmen), also accompanied the Indians on the trek westward.[15] By 1837, 46,000 Indians from the southeastern states had been removed from their homelands, thereby opening 25 million acres (100,000 km2) for white settlement.[15] Prior to 1838, the fixed boundaries of these autonomous tribal nations, comprising large areas of the United States, were subject to continual cession and annexation, in part due to pressure from squatters and the threat of military force in the newly declared U.S. territories—federally administered regions whose boundaries supervened upon the Native treaty claims. As these territories became U.S. states, state governments sought to dissolve the boundaries of the Indian nations within their borders, which were independent of state jurisdiction, and to expropriate the land therein. These pressures were exacerbated by U.S. population growth and the expansion of slavery in the South, with the rapid development of cotton cultivation in the uplands after the invention of the cotton gin by Eli Whitney.[17] Jackson's role[edit] Andrew Jackson's support for removal of Native Americans began at least a decade before his presidency.[18] Indian removal was Jackson's top legislative priority upon taking office.[19] The removals, conducted under both President Jackson and Van Buren, followed the Indian Removal Act of 1830, which provided the president with powers to exchange land with Native tribes and provide infrastructure improvements on the existing lands. The law also gave the president power to pay for transportation costs to the West, should tribes willingly choose to relocate. The law did not, however, allow the president to force tribes to move west without a mutually agreed-upon treaty.[20] Referring to the Indian Removal Act, Martin Van Buren, Jackson's vice president and successor, is quoted as saying "There was no measure, in the whole course of [Jackson's] administration, of which he was more exclusively the author than this."[19] In the years after the Act, the Cherokee filed several lawsuits regarding conflicts with the state of Georgia. Some of these cases reached the Supreme Court, the most influential being Worcester v. Georgia (1832). Samuel Worcester and other non-Indians were convicted by Georgia law for residing in Cherokee territory in the state of Georgia without a license. Worcester was sentenced to prison for four years and appealed the ruling, arguing that this sentence violated treaties made between Indian nations and the United States federal government by imposing state laws on Cherokee lands. The Court ruled in Worcester's favor, declaring that the Cherokee Nation was subject only to federal law and that the Supremacy Clause barred legislative interference by the state of Georgia. Chief Justice Marshall argued, "The Cherokee nation, then, is a distinct community occupying its own territory in which the laws of Georgia can have no force. The whole intercourse between the United States and this Nation, is, by our constitution and laws, vested in the government of the United States."[21] Andrew Jackson did not listen to the Supreme Court mandate barring Georgia from intruding on Cherokee lands. He feared that enforcement would lead to open warfare between federal troops and the Georgia militia, which would compound the ongoing crisis in South Carolina and lead to a broader civil war. Instead, he vigorously negotiated a land exchange treaty with the Cherokee.[22] Political opponents Henry Clay and John Quincy Adams, who supported the Worcester decision, were outraged by Jackson's refusal to uphold Cherokee claims against the state of Georgia.[23] Author and political activist Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote an account of Cherokee assimilation into the American culture, declaring his support of the Worcester decision.[24] Jackson chose to continue with Indian removal, and negotiated the Treaty of New Echota, on December 29, 1835, which granted the Cherokee two years to move to Indian Territory (modern-day Oklahoma). Only a fraction of the Cherokees left voluntarily. The U.S. government, with assistance from state militias, forced most of the remaining Cherokees west in 1838.[25] The Cherokees were temporarily remanded in camps in eastern Tennessee. In November, the Cherokee were broken into groups of around 1,000 each and began the journey west. They endured heavy rains, snow, and freezing temperatures. When the Cherokee negotiated the Treaty of New Echota, they exchanged all their land east of the Mississippi for land in modern Oklahoma and a $5 million payment from the federal government. Many Cherokee felt betrayed that their leadership accepted the deal, and over 16,000 Cherokee signed a petition to prevent the passage of the treaty. By the end of the decade in 1840, tens of thousands of Cherokee and other tribes had been removed from their land east of the Mississippi River. The Creek, Choctaw, Seminole, and Chicksaw were also relocated under the Indian Removal Act of 1830. One Choctaw leader portrayed the removal as "A Trail of Tears and Deaths", a devastating event that removed most of the Native population of the southeastern United States from their traditional homelands.[26] Terminology[edit] The latter forced relocations have sometimes been referred to as "death marches", in particular with reference to the Cherokee march across the Midwest in 1838, which occurred on a predominantly land route.[17] Native Americans who had the means initially provided for their own removal. Contingents that were led by conductors from the U.S. Army included those led by Edward Deas, who was claimed to be a sympathizer for the Cherokee plight.[citation needed] The largest death toll from the Cherokee forced relocation comes from the period after the May 23, 1838 deadline. This was at the point when the remaining Cherokee were rounded into camps and pressed into oversized detachments, often over 700 in size (larger than the populations of Little Rock or Memphis at that time). Communicable diseases spread quickly through these closely quartered groups, killing many. These contingents were among the last to move, but following the same routes the others had taken; the areas they were going through had been depleted of supplies due to the vast numbers that had gone before them. The marchers were subject to extortion and violence along the route. In addition, these final contingents were forced to set out during the hottest and coldest months of the year, killing many. Exposure to the elements, disease and starvation, harassment by local frontiersmen, and insufficient rations similarly killed up to one-third of the Choctaw and other nations on the march.[27] There exists some debate among historians and the affected tribes as to whether the term "Trail of Tears" should be used to refer to the entire history of forced relocations from the United States east of the Mississippi into Indian Territory (as was the stated U.S. policy), or to the five tribes described above, to the route of the land march specifically, or to specific marches in which the remaining holdouts from each area were rounded up. Legal background[edit] This section needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (January 2014) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) The territorial boundaries claimed as sovereign and controlled by the Indian nations living in what were then known as the Indian Territories—the portion of the early United States west of the Mississippi River not yet claimed or allotted to become Oklahoma—were fixed and determined by national treaties with the United States federal government. These recognized the tribal governments as dependent but internally sovereign, or autonomous nations under the sole jurisdiction of the federal government. While retaining their tribal governance, which included a constitution or official council in tribes such as the Iroquois and Cherokee, many portions of the southeastern Indian nations had become partially or completely economically integrated into the economy of the region. This included the plantation economy in states such as Georgia, and the possession of slaves. These slaves were also forcibly relocated during the process of removal.[17] Under the history of U.S. treaty law, the territorial boundaries claimed by federally recognized tribes received the same status under which the Southeastern tribal claims were recognized; until the following establishment of reservations of land, determined by the federal government, which were ceded to the remaining tribes by de jure treaty, in a process that often entailed forced relocation. The establishment of the Indian Territory and the extinguishment of Indian land claims east of the Mississippi anticipated the establishment of the U.S. Indian reservation system. It was imposed on remaining Indian lands later in the 19th century. The statutory argument for Indian sovereignty persisted until the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Cherokee Nation v. Georgia (1831), that (e.g.) the Cherokee were not a sovereign and independent nation, and therefore not entitled to a hearing before the court. However, in Worcester v. Georgia (1832), the court re-established limited internal sovereignty under the sole jurisdiction of the federal government, in a ruling that both opposed the subsequent forced relocation and set the basis for modern U.S. case law. While the latter ruling was defied by Jackson,[28] the actions of the Jackson administration were not isolated because state and federal officials had violated treaties without consequence, often attributed to military exigency, as the members of individual Indian nations were not automatically United States citizens and were rarely given standing in any U.S. court. Jackson's involvement in what became known as the Trail of Tears shaped what occurred immensely: in a speech regarding Indian removal, Jackson said, It will separate the Indians from immediate contact with settlements of whites; free them from the power of the States; enable them to pursue happiness in their own way and under their own rude institutions; will retard the progress of decay, which is lessening their numbers, and perhaps cause them gradually, under the protection of the Government and through the influence of good counsels, to cast off their savage habits and become an interesting, civilized, and Christian community. According to Jackson, the move would be nothing but beneficial for all parties. His point of view garnered support from many Americans, many of whom would benefit economically from the forced removals. This was compounded by the fact that while citizenship tests existed for Indians living in newly annexed areas before and after forced relocation, individual U.S. states did not recognize tribal land claims, only individual title under State law, and distinguished between the rights of white and non-white citizens, who often had limited standing in court; and Indian removal was carried out under U.S. military jurisdiction, often by state militias. As a result, individual Indians who could prove U.S. citizenship were nevertheless displaced from newly annexed areas.[17] The military actions and subsequent treaties enacted by Jackson's and Martin Van Buren's administrations pursuant to the 1830 law, which Tennessee Congressman Davy Crockett had unsuccessfully voted against,[29] are widely considered to have directly caused the expulsion or death of a substantial part of the Indian population then living in the southeastern United States. Choctaw removal[edit] Main article: Choctaw Trail of Tears George W. Harkins, Choctaw chief. The Choctaw nation resided in large portions of what are now the U.S. states of Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana. After a series of treaties starting in 1801, the Choctaw nation was reduced to 11,000,000 acres (45,000 km2). The Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek ceded the remaining country to the United States and was ratified in early 1831. The removals were only agreed to after a provision in the Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek allowed some Choctaw to remain. The chief of the Choctaw tribe, George W. Harkins, wrote to the citizens of the United States before the removals were to commence: It is with considerable diffidence that I attempt to address the American people, knowing and feeling sensibly my incompetency; and believing that your highly and well improved minds would not be well entertained by the address of a Choctaw. But having determined to emigrate west of the Mississippi river this fall, I have thought proper in bidding you farewell to make a few remarks expressive of my views, and the feelings that actuate me on the subject of our removal.... We as Choctaws rather chose to suffer and be free, than live under the degrading influence of laws, which our voice could not be heard in their formation. — George W. Harkins, George W. Harkins to the American People[30] United States Secretary of War Lewis Cass appointed George Gaines to manage the removals. Gaines decided to remove Choctaws in three phases starting in 1831 and ending in 1833. The first was to begin on November 1, 1831 with groups meeting at Memphis and Vicksburg. A harsh winter would batter the emigrants with flash floods, sleet, and snow. Initially the Choctaws were to be transported by wagon but floods halted them. With food running out, the residents of Vicksburg and Memphis were concerned. Five steamboats (the Walter Scott, the Brandywine, the Reindeer, the Talma, and the Cleopatra) would ferry Choctaws to their river-based destinations. The Memphis group traveled up the Arkansas for about 60 miles (100 km) to Arkansas Post. There the temperature stayed below freezing for almost a week with the rivers clogged with ice, so there could be no travel for weeks. Food rationing consisted of a handful of boiled corn, one turnip, and two cups of heated water per day. Forty government wagons were sent to Arkansas Post to transport them to Little Rock. When they reached Little Rock, a Choctaw chief referred to their trek as a "trail of tears and death".[31] The Vicksburg group was led by an incompetent guide and was lost in the Lake Providence swamps. Alexis de Tocqueville, French political thinker and historian Alexis de Tocqueville, the French philosopher, witnessed the Choctaw removals while in Memphis, Tennessee in 1831: In the whole scene there was an air of ruin and destruction, something which betrayed a final and irrevocable adieu; one couldn't watch without feeling one's heart wrung. The Indians were tranquil, but sombre and taciturn. There was one who could speak English and of whom I asked why the Chactas were leaving their country. "To be free," he answered, could never get any other reason out of him. We ... watch the expulsion ... of one of the most celebrated and ancient American peoples. — Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America[32] Nearly 17,000 Choctaws made the move to what would be called Indian Territory and then later Oklahoma.[33] About 2,500–6,000 died along the trail of tears. Approximately 5,000–6,000 Choctaws remained in Mississippi in 1831 after the initial removal efforts.[27][34] The Choctaws who chose to remain in newly formed Mississippi were subject to legal conflict, harassment, and intimidation. The Choctaws "have had our habitations torn down and burned, our fences destroyed, cattle turned into our fields and we ourselves have been scourged, manacled, fettered and otherwise personally abused, until by such treatment some of our best men have died".[34] The Choctaws in Mississippi were later reformed as the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians and the removed Choctaws became the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma. The Choctaws were the first to sign a removal treaty presented by the federal government. President Andrew Jackson wanted strong negotiations with the Choctaws in Mississippi, and the Choctaws seemed much more cooperative than Andrew Jackson had imagined. When commissioners and Choctaws came to negotiation agreements it was said the United States would bear the expense of moving their homes and that they had to be removed within two and a half years of the signed treaty.[35] Seminole resistance[edit] Main article: Seminole Wars The U.S. acquired Florida from Spain via the Adams–Onís Treaty and took possession in 1821. In 1832 the Seminoles were called to a meeting at Payne's Landing on the Ocklawaha River. The Treaty of Payne's Landing called for the Seminoles to move west, if the land were found to be suitable. They were to be settled on the Creek reservation and become part of the Creek tribe, who considered them deserters[full citation needed]; some of the Seminoles had been derived from Creek bands but also from other tribes. Those among the tribe who once were members of Creek bands did not wish to move west to where they were certain that they would meet death for leaving the main band of Creek Indians. The delegation of seven chiefs who were to inspect the new reservation did not leave Florida until October 1832. After touring the area for several months and conferring with the Creeks who had already settled there, the seven chiefs signed a statement on March 28, 1833 that the new land was acceptable. Upon their return to Florida, however, most of the chiefs renounced the statement, claiming that they had not signed it, or that they had been forced to sign it, and in any case, that they did not have the power to decide for all the tribes and bands that resided on the reservation. The villages in the area of the Apalachicola River were more easily persuaded, however, and went west in 1834.[36] On December 28, 1835 a group of Seminoles and blacks ambushed a U.S. Army company marching from Fort Brooke in Tampa to Fort King in Ocala, killing all but three of the 110 army troops. This came to be known as the Dade Massacre. Seminole warrior Tuko-see-mathla, 1834 As the realization that the Seminoles would resist relocation sank in, Florida began preparing for war. The St. Augustine Militia asked the War Department for the loan of 500 muskets. Five hundred volunteers were mobilized under Brig. Gen. Richard K. Call. Indian war parties raided farms and settlements, and families fled to forts, large towns, or out of the territory altogether. A war party led by Osceola captured a Florida militia supply train, killing eight of its guards and wounding six others. Most of the goods taken were recovered by the militia in another fight a few days later. Sugar plantations along the Atlantic coast south of St. Augustine were destroyed, with many of the slaves on the plantations joining the Seminoles.[37] Other warchiefs such as Halleck Tustenuggee, Jumper, and Black Seminoles Abraham and John Horse continued the Seminole resistance against the army. The war ended, after a full decade of fighting, in 1842. The U.S. government is estimated to have spent about $20,000,000 on the war, at the time an astronomical sum, and equal to $529,862,069 today. Many Indians were forcibly exiled to Creek lands west of the Mississippi; others retreated into the Everglades. In the end, the government gave up trying to subjugate the Seminole in their Everglades redoubts and left fewer than 500 Seminoles in peace. Other scholars state that at least several hundred Seminoles remained in the Everglades after the Seminole Wars.[38] As a result of the Seminole Wars, the surviving Seminole band of the Everglades claims to be the only federally recognized tribe which never relinquished sovereignty or signed a peace treaty with the United States. In general the American people tended to view the Indian resistance as unwarranted. An article published by the Virginia Enquirer on January 26, 1836, called the "Hostilities of the Seminoles", assigned all the blame for the violence that came from the Seminole's resistance to the Seminoles themselves. The article accuses the Indians of not staying true to their word—the promises they supposedly made in the treaties and negotiations from the Indian Removal Act.[39] Creek dissolution[edit] Main article: Muscogee Selocta (or Shelocta) was a Muscogee chief who appealed to Andrew Jackson to reduce the demands for Creek lands at the signing of the Treaty of Fort Jackson. After the War of 1812, some Muscogee leaders such as William McIntosh signed treaties that ceded more land to Georgia. The 1814 signing of the Treaty of Fort Jackson signaled the end for the Creek Nation and for all Indians in the South.[40] Friendly Creek leaders, like Selocta and Big Warrior, addressed Sharp Knife (the Indian nickname for Andrew Jackson) and reminded him that they keep the peace. Nevertheless, Jackson retorted that they did not "cut (Tecumseh's) throat" when they had the chance, so they must now cede Creek lands. Jackson also ignored Article 9 of the Treaty of Ghent that restored sovereignty to Indians and their nations. Jackson opened this first peace session by faintly acknowledging the help of the friendly Creeks. That done, he turned to the Red Sticks and admonished them for listening to evil counsel. For their crime, he said, the entire Creek Nation must pay. He demanded the equivalent of all expenses incurred by the United States in prosecuting the war, which by his calculation came to 23,000,000 acres (93,000 km2) of land. — Robert V. Remini, Andrew Jackson[40] Eventually, the Creek Confederacy enacted a law that made further land cessions a capital offense. Nevertheless, on February 12, 1825, McIntosh and other chiefs signed the Treaty of Indian Springs, which gave up most of the remaining Creek lands in Georgia.[41] After the U.S. Senate ratified the treaty, McIntosh was assassinated on April 30, 1825, by Creeks led by Menawa. The Creek National Council, led by Opothle Yohola, protested to the United States that the Treaty of Indian Springs was fraudulent. President John Quincy Adams was sympathetic, and eventually the treaty was nullified in a new agreement, the Treaty of Washington (1826).[42] The historian R. Douglas Hurt wrote: "The Creeks had accomplished what no Indian nation had ever done or would do again — achieve the annulment of a ratified treaty."[43] However, Governor George Troup of Georgia ignored the new treaty and began to forcibly remove the Indians under the terms of the earlier treaty. At first, President Adams attempted to intervene with federal troops, but Troup called out the militia, and Adams, fearful of a civil war, conceded. As he explained to his intimates, "The Indians are not worth going to war over." Although the Creeks had been forced from Georgia, with many Lower Creeks moving to the Indian Territory, there were still about 20,000 Upper Creeks living in Alabama. However, the state moved to abolish tribal governments and extend state laws over the Creeks. Opothle Yohola appealed to the administration of President Andrew Jackson for protection from Alabama; when none was forthcoming, the Treaty of Cusseta was signed on March 24, 1832, which divided up Creek lands into individual allotments.[44] Creeks could either sell their allotments and receive funds to remove to the west, or stay in Alabama and submit to state laws. The Creeks were never given a fair chance to comply with the terms of the treaty, however. Rampant illegal settlement of their lands by Americans continued unabated with federal and state authorities unable or unwilling to do much to halt it. Further, as recently detailed by historian Billy Winn in his thorough chronicle of the events leading to removal, a variety of fraudulent schemes designed to cheat the Creeks out of their allotments, many of them organized by speculators operating out of Columbus, Georgia and Montgomery, Alabama, were perpetrated after the signing of the Treaty of Cusseta.[45] A portion of the beleaguered Creeks, many desperately poor and feeling abused and oppressed by their American neighbors, struck back by carrying out occasional raids on area farms and committing other isolated acts of violence. Escalating tensions erupted into open war with the United States after the destruction of the village of Roanoke, Georgia, located along the Chattahoochee River on the boundary between Creek and American territory, in May 1836. During the so-called "Creek War of 1836" Secretary of War Lewis Cass dispatched General Winfield Scott to end the violence by forcibly removing the Creeks to the Indian Territory west of the Mississippi River. With the Indian Removal Act of 1830 it continued into 1835 and after as in 1836 over 15,000 Creeks were driven from their land for the last time. 3,500 of those 15,000 Creeks did not survive the trip to Oklahoma where they eventually settled.[26] Chickasaw monetary removal[edit] See also: Chickasaw Historic Marker in Marion, Arkansas, for the Trail of Tears Play media Fragment of the Trail of Tears still intact at Village Creek State Park, Arkansas (2010) The Chickasaw received financial compensation from the United States for their lands east of the Mississippi River. In 1836, the Chickasaws had reached an agreement to purchase land from the previously removed Choctaws after a bitter five-year debate. They paid the Choctaws $530,000 (equal to $12,339,364 today) for the westernmost part of the Choctaw land. The first group of Chickasaws moved in 1836 and was led by John M. Millard. The Chickasaws gathered at Memphis on July 4, 1836, with all of their assets—belongings, livestock, and slaves. Once across the Mississippi River, they followed routes previously established by the Choctaws and the Creeks. Once in Indian Territory, the Chickasaws merged with the Choctaw nation. Cherokee forced relocation[edit] Main article: Cherokee removal Cherokee Principal Chief John Ross, photographed before his death in 1866 By 1838, about 2,000 Cherokee had voluntarily relocated from Georgia to Indian Territory (present day Oklahoma). Forcible removals began in May 1838 when General Winfield Scott received a final order from President Martin Van Buren to relocate the remaining Cherokees.[26] Approximately 4,000 Cherokees died in the ensuing trek to Oklahoma.[46] In the Cherokee language, the event is called nu na da ul tsun yi ("the place where they cried") or nu na hi du na tlo hi lu i (the trail where they cried). The Cherokee Trail of Tears resulted from the enforcement of the Treaty of New Echota, an agreement signed under the provisions of the Indian Removal Act of 1830, which exchanged Indian land in the East for lands west of the Mississippi River, but which was never accepted by the elected tribal leadership or a majority of the Cherokee people.[47] The sparsely inhabited Cherokee lands were highly attractive to Georgian farmers experiencing population pressure, and illegal settlements resulted. Long-simmering tensions between Georgia and the Cherokee Nation were brought to a crisis by the discovery of gold near Dahlonega, Georgia, in 1829, resulting in the Georgia Gold Rush, the second gold rush in U.S. history. Hopeful gold speculators began trespassing on Cherokee lands, and pressure mounted to fulfill the Compact of 1802 in which the US Government promised to extinguish Indian land claims in the state of Georgia. When Georgia moved to extend state laws over Cherokee lands in 1830, the matter went to the U.S. Supreme Court. In Cherokee Nation v. Georgia (1831), the Marshall court ruled that the Cherokee Nation was not a sovereign and independent nation, and therefore refused to hear the case. However, in Worcester v. Georgia (1832), the Court ruled that Georgia could not impose laws in Cherokee territory, since only the national government — not state governments — had authority in Indian affairs. Worcester v Georgia is associated with Andrew Jackson's famous, though apocryphal, quote "John Marshall has made his decision; now let him enforce it!" In reality, this quote did not appear until 30 years after the incident and was first printed in a textbook authored by Jackson critic Horace Greeley.[22] Elizabeth "Betsy" Brown Stephens (1903), a Cherokee Indian who walked the Trail of Tears in 1838 Fearing open warfare between federal troops and the Georgia militia, Jackson decided not to enforce Cherokee claims against the state of Georgia. He was already embroiled in a constitutional crisis with South Carolina (i.e. the nullification crisis) and favored Cherokee relocation over civil war.[22] With the Indian Removal Act of 1830, the U.S. Congress had given Jackson authority to negotiate removal treaties, exchanging Indian land in the East for land west of the Mississippi River. Jackson used the dispute with Georgia to put pressure on the Cherokees to sign a removal treaty.[48] The final treaty, passed in Congress by a single vote, and signed by President Andrew Jackson, was imposed by his successor President Martin Van Buren. Van Buren allowed Georgia, Tennessee, North Carolina, and Alabama an armed force of 7,000 militiamen, army regulars, and volunteers under General Winfield Scott to relocate about 13,000 Cherokees to Cleveland, Tennessee. After the initial roundup, the U.S. military oversaw the emigration to Oklahoma. Former Cherokee lands were immediately opened to settlement. Most of the deaths during the journey were caused by disease, malnutrition, and exposure during an unusually cold winter.[49] In the winter of 1838 the Cherokee began the 1,000-mile (1,600 km) march with scant clothing and most on foot without shoes or moccasins. The march began in Red Clay, Tennessee, the location of the last Eastern capital of the Cherokee Nation. Because of the diseases, the Indians were not allowed to go into any towns or villages along the way; many times this meant traveling much farther to go around them.[50] After crossing Tennessee and Kentucky, they arrived at the Ohio River across from Golconda in southern Illinois about the 3rd of December 1838. Here the starving Indians were charged a dollar a head (equal to $24.01 today) to cross the river on "Berry's Ferry" which typically charged twelve cents, equal to $2.88 today. They were not allowed passage until the ferry had serviced all others wishing to cross and were forced to take shelter under "Mantle Rock", a shelter bluff on the Kentucky side, until "Berry had nothing better to do". Many died huddled together at Mantle Rock waiting to cross. Several Cherokee were murdered by locals. The Cherokee filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Government through the courthouse in Vienna, suing the government for $35 a head (equal to $840.33 today) to bury the murdered Cherokee.[50] As they crossed southern Illinois, on December 26, Martin Davis, Commissary Agent for Moses Daniel's detachment, wrote: There is the coldest weather in Illinois I ever experienced anywhere. The streams are all frozen over something like 8 or 12 inches [20 or 30 cm] thick. We are compelled to cut through the ice to get water for ourselves and animals. It snows here every two or three days at the fartherest. We are now camped in Mississippi [River] swamp 4 miles (6 km) from the river, and there is no possible chance of crossing the river for the numerous quantity of ice that comes floating down the river every day. We have only traveled 65 miles (105 km) on the last month, including the time spent at this place, which has been about three weeks. It is unknown when we shall cross the river....[51] A volunteer soldier from Georgia who participated in the removal recounted: I fought through the civil war and have seen men shot to pieces and slaughtered by thousands, but the Cherokee removal was the cruelest work I ever knew.[52] A Trail of Tears map of Southern Illinois from the USDA – U.S. Forest Service It eventually took almost three months to cross the 60 miles (97 kilometres) on land between the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers.[53] The trek through southern Illinois is where the Cherokee suffered most of their deaths. However a few years before forced removal, some Cherokee who opted to leave their homes voluntarily chose a water-based route through the Tennessee, Ohio and Mississippi rivers. It took only 21 days, but the Cherokee who were forcibly relocated were wary of water travel.[54] Removed Cherokees initially settled near Tahlequah, Oklahoma. When signing the Treaty of New Echota in 1835 Major Ridge said "I have signed my death warrant." The resulting political turmoil led to the killings of Major Ridge, John Ridge, and Elias Boudinot; of the leaders of the Treaty Party, only Stand Watie escaped death.[55] The population of the Cherokee Nation eventually rebounded, and today the Cherokees are the largest American Indian group in the United States.[56] There were some exceptions to removal. Approximately 100 Cherokees evaded the U.S. soldiers and lived off the land in Georgia and other states. Those Cherokees who lived on private, individually owned lands (rather than communally owned tribal land) were not subject to removal. In North Carolina, about 400 Cherokees, sometimes referred to as the Oconaluftee Cherokee due to their settlement near to the river of the same name, lived on land in the Great Smoky Mountains owned by a white man named William Holland Thomas (who had been adopted by Cherokees as a boy), and were thus not subject to removal. Added to this were some 200 Cherokee from the Nantahala area allowed to stay in the Qualla Boundary after assisting the U.S. Army in hunting down and capturing the family of the old prophet, Tsali (who faced a firing squad after capture). These North Carolina Cherokees became the Eastern Band of the Cherokee Nation. A local newspaper, the Highland Messenger, said July 24, 1840, “that between nine hundred and a thousand of these deluded beings … are still hovering about the homes of their fathers, in the counties of Macon and Cherokee" and "that they are a great annoyance to the citizens" who wanted to buy land there believing the Cherokee were gone; the newspaper reported that President Martin Van Buren said "they … are, in his opinion, free to go or stay.’ [57] Eastern Cherokee Restitution[edit] The United States Court of Claims ruled in favor of the Eastern Cherokee Tribe's claim against the U.S. on May 18, 1905. This resulted in the appropriation of $1 million (equal to $27,438,023.04 today) to the Tribe's eligible individuals and families. Interior Department employee Guion Miller created a list using several rolls and applications to verify tribal enrollment for the distribution of funds, known as the Guion Miller Roll. The applications received documented over 125,000 individuals; the court approved more than 30,000 individuals to share in the funds.[58][page needed] Statistics[edit] Nation Population east of the Mississippi before removal treaty Removal treaty & year signed Years of major emigration Total number emigrated or forcibly removed Number stayed in Southeast Deaths during removal Deaths from warfare Choctaw 19,554[59] + white citizens of the Choctaw Nation + 500 black slaves Dancing Rabbit Creek (1830) 1831–1836 12,500 7,000[60] 2,000–4,000+ (Cholera) none Creek 22,700 + 900 black slaves[61] Cusseta (1832) 1834–1837 19,600[62] 100s 3,500 (disease after removal)[63] ? (Second Creek War) Chickasaw 4,914 + 1,156 black slaves Pontotoc Creek (1832) 1837–1847 over 4,000 100s 500–800 none Cherokee 21,500 + 2,000 black slaves New Echota (1835) 1836–1838 20,000 + 2,000 slaves 1,000 2,000–8,000 [5][6][7][8][9][10] Seminole 5,000 + fugitive slaves Payne's Landing (1832) 1832–1842 2,833[64] 250[64] 500[65][66] 700 (Second Seminole War) Landmarks and commemorations[edit] Map of National Historic trails In 1987, about 2,200 miles (3,500 km) of trails were authorized by federal law to mark the removal of 17 detachments of the Cherokee people.[67] Called the "Trail of Tears National Historic Trail", it traverses portions of nine states and includes land and water routes.[68] Trail of Tears outdoor historical drama, Unto These Hills[edit] A historical drama based on the Trail of Tears, Unto These Hills written by Kermit Hunter, has sold over five million tickets for its performances since its opening on July 1, 1950, both touring and at the outdoor Mountainside Theater of the Cherokee Historical Association in Cherokee, North Carolina.[69][70] Commemorative medallion[edit] Cherokee artist Troy Anderson was commissioned to design the Cherokee Trail of Tears Sesquicentennial Commemorative Medallion. The falling-tear medallion shows a seven-pointed star, the symbol of the seven clans of the Cherokees.[71] In literature and oral history[edit] Family Stories From the Trail of Tears is a collection edited by Lorrie Montiero and transcribed by Grant Foreman, taken from the Indian-Pioneer History Collection[72] Walking the Trail (1991) is a book by Jerry Ellis describing his 900-mile walk retracing of the Trail of Tears in reverse See also[edit] Ethnic cleansing and forced migration, modern terms for the forced relocation of an ethnic group Hopkinsville, Kentucky Long Walk of the Navajo, a later forced removal California Genocide 1837 Great Plains smallpox epidemic Comanche campaign Yavapai Wars Northern Cheyenne Exodus Native American slaves Population transfer Potawatomi Trail of Death Timeline of Cherokee removal References[edit] ^ a b Minges, Patrick (1998). "Beneath the Underdog: Race, Religion, and the Trail of Tears". US Data Repository. 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Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply. By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization. Privacy policy About Wikipedia Disclaimers Contact Wikipedia Mobile view Developers Statistics Cookie statement en-wikipedia-org-5712 ---- Berkeley RISC - Wikipedia Berkeley RISC From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search Research project into RISC-based microprocessor design Berkeley RISC is one of two seminal research projects into RISC-based microprocessor design taking place under ARPA's VLSI project. RISC was led by David Patterson (who coined the term RISC) at the University of California, Berkeley between 1980 and 1984.[1] The other project took place a short distance away at Stanford University under their MIPS effort starting in 1981 and running until 1984. Berkeley's project was so successful that it became the name for all similar designs to follow; even the MIPS would become known as a "RISC processor". The Berkeley RISC design was later commercialized by Sun Microsystems as the SPARC architecture, and inspired the ARM architecture.[2] Contents 1 The RISC concept 2 RISC I 3 RISC II 4 Follow-ons 5 See also 6 Notes 7 References The RISC concept[edit] Main article: Reduced instruction set computing Both RISC and MIPS were developed from the realization that the vast majority of programs did not use the vast majority of a processor's instructions. In one calculation[by whom?] it was found that the entire Unix system, when compiled, used only 30% of the available instructions on the Motorola 68000. Much of the circuitry in the CPU was dedicated to decoding these instructions which were never being used. The RISC idea was to include only those instructions that were really used, using the space that had been used for the removed circuitry for other circuits that would speed the system up instead. To do this, RISC concentrated on adding many more registers, small bits of memory holding temporary values that can be accessed very rapidly. This contrasts with normal main memory, which might take several cycles to access. By providing more registers, and making sure the compilers actually used them, programs should run much faster. Additionally, the speed of the processor would be more closely defined by its clock speed, because less of its time would be spent waiting for memory accesses. Transistor for transistor, a RISC design would outperform a conventional CPU, hopefully by a lot. On the downside, the instructions being removed were generally performing several "sub-instructions". For instance, the ADD instruction of a traditional design would generally come in several flavours, one that added the numbers in two registers and placed it in a third, another that added numbers found in main memory and put the result in a register, etc. The RISC designs, on the other hand, included only a single flavour of any particular instruction, the ADD, for instance, would always use registers for all operands. This forced the programmer to write additional instructions to load the values from memory, if needed, making a RISC program "less dense". In the era of expensive memory this was a real concern, notably because memory was also much slower than the CPU. Since a RISC design's ADD would actually require four instructions (two loads, an add, and a save), the machine would have to do much more memory access to read the extra instructions, potentially slowing it down considerably. This was offset to some degree by the fact that the new designs used what was then a very large instruction word of 32-bits, allowing small constants to be folded directly into the instruction instead of having to be loaded separately. Additionally, the results of one operation are often used soon after by another, so by skipping the write to memory and storing the result in a register, the program did not end up much larger, and could in theory run much faster. For instance, a string of instructions carrying out a series of mathematical operations might require only a few loads from memory, while the majority of the numbers being used would be either constants in the instructions themselves or intermediate values left in the registers from previous calculations. In a sense, in this technique some registers are used to "shadow" memory locations, so that the registers are used as proxies for the memory locations until their final values after a group of instructions have been determined. To the casual observer, it was not clear that the RISC concept would improve performance, and it might even make it worse. The only way to be sure was to simulate it. The results of such simulations were clear; in test after test, every simulation showed an enormous overall benefit in performance from this design. Where the two projects, RISC and MIPS, differed was in the handling of the registers. MIPS simply added lots of registers and left it to the compilers (or assembly-language programmers) to make use of them. RISC, on the other hand, added circuitry to the CPU to "help" the compiler. RISC used the concept of register windows, in which the entire "register file" was broken down into blocks, allowing the compiler to "see" one block for global variables, and another for local variables. The idea was to make one particularly common instruction, the procedure call, extremely easy to implement. Almost all computer languages use a system known as an activation record or stack frame for each procedure which contains the address from which the procedure was called, the data (parameters) that were passed in, and space for any result values that need to be returned. In the vast majority of cases these frames are small, typically with three or fewer inputs and one or no outputs (and sometimes an input is reused as an output). In the Berkeley design, then, a register window was a set of several registers, enough of them that the entire procedure stack frame would most likely fit entirely within the register window. In this case, the call into and return from a procedure is simple and extremely fast. A single instruction is called to set up a new block of registers—a new register window—and then, with operands passed into the procedure in the "low end" of the new window, the program jumps into the procedure. On return, the results are placed in the window at the same end, and the procedure exits. The register windows are set up to overlap at the ends, so that the results from the call simply "appear" in the window of the caller, with no data having to be copied. Thus the common procedure call does not have to interact with main memory, greatly accelerating it. On the downside, this approach means that procedures with large numbers of local variables are problematic, and ones with fewer lead to registers—an expensive resource—being wasted. There are a finite number of register windows in the design, e.g. eight, so procedures can only be nested that many levels deep before the register windowing mechanism reaches its limit; once the last window is reached, no new window can be set up for another nested call. And if procedures are only nested a few levels deep, registers in the windows above the deepest call nesting level can never be accessed at all, so these are completely wasted. It was Stanford's work on compilers that led them to ignore the register window concept, believing that an efficient compiler could make better use of the registers than a fixed system in hardware. (The same reasoning would apply for a smart assembly-language programmer.) RISC I[edit] The first attempt to implement the RISC concept was originally known as Gold. Work on the design started in 1980 as part of a VLSI design course, but the then-complicated design crashed almost all existing design tools. The team had to spend considerable amounts of time improving or re-writing the tools, and even with these new tools it took just under an hour to extract the design on a VAX-11/780. The final design, known as RISC I, was published in ACM ISCA in 1981. It had 44,500 transistors implementing 31 instructions and a register file containing 78 32-bit registers. This allowed for six register windows containing 14 registers. Of those 14 registers, 4 were overlapped from the previous window. The total is then: 10*6 registers in windows + 18 globals = 78 registers total. The control and instruction decode section occupied only 6% of the die, whereas the typical design of the era used about 50% for the same role. The register file took up most of that space.[3] RISC I also featured a two-stage instruction pipeline for additional speed, but without the complex instruction re-ordering of more modern designs. This makes conditional branches a problem, because the compiler has to fill the instruction following a conditional branch (the so-called "branch delay slot"), with something selected to be "safe" (i.e., not dependent on the outcome of the conditional). Sometimes the only suitable instruction in this case is NOP. A notable number of later RISC-style designs still require the consideration of branch delay. After a month of validation and debugging, the design was sent to the innovative MOSIS service for production on June 22, 1981, using a 2 μm (2,000 nm) process. A variety of delays forced them to abandon their masks four separate times, and wafers with working examples did not arrive back at Berkeley until May 1982. The first working RISC I "computer" (actually a checkout board) ran on June 11. In testing, the chips proved to have lesser performance than expected. In general, an instruction would take 2 μs to complete, while the original design allotted for about .4 µs (five times as fast). The precise reasons for this problem were never fully explained. However, throughout testing it was clear that certain instructions did run at the expected speed, suggesting the problem was physical, not logical. Had the design worked at full speed, performance would have been excellent. Simulations using a variety of small programs compared the 4 MHz RISC I to the 5 MHz 32-bit VAX 11/780 and the 5 MHz 16-bit Zilog Z8000 showed this clearly. Program size was about 30% larger than the VAX but very close to that of the Z8000, validating the argument that the higher code density of CISC designs was not actually all that impressive in reality. In terms of overall performance, the RISC I was twice as fast as the VAX, and about four times that of the Z8000. The programs ended up performing about the same overall amount of memory access because the large register file dramatically improved the odds the needed operand was already on-chip. It is important to put this performance in context. Even though the RISC design had run slower than the VAX, it made no difference to the importance of the design. RISC allowed for the production of a true 32-bit processor on a real chip die using what was already an older fab. Traditional designs simply could not do this; with so much of the chip surface dedicated to decoder logic, a true 32-bit design like the Motorola 68020 required newer fabs before becoming practical. Using the same fabs, RISC I could have largely outperformed the competition. On February 12, 2015, IEEE installed a plaque at UC Berkeley to commemorate the contribution of RISC-I.[4] The plaque reads: UC Berkeley students designed and built the first VLSI reduced instruction-set computer in 1981. The simplified instructions of RISC-I reduced the hardware for instruction decode and control, which enabled a flat 32-bit address space, a large set of registers, and pipelined execution. A good match to C programs and the Unix operating system, RISC-I influenced instruction sets widely used today, including those for game consoles, smartphones and tablets. RISC II[edit] While the RISC I design ran into delays, work at Berkeley had already turned to the new Blue design. Work on Blue progressed slower than Gold, due both to the lack of a pressing need now that Gold was going to fab, as well as changeovers in the classes and students staffing the effort. This pace also allowed them to add in several new features that would end up improving the design considerably. The key difference was simpler cache circuitry that eliminated one line per bit (from three to two), dramatically shrinking the register file size. The change also required much tighter bus timing, but this was a small price to pay and in order to meet the needs several other parts of the design were sped up as well. The savings due to the new design were tremendous. Whereas Gold contained a total of 78 registers in 6 windows, Blue contained 138 registers broken into 8 windows of 16 registers each, with another 10 globals. This expansion of the register file increases the chance that a given procedure can fit all of its local storage in registers, as well as increasing the nesting depth. Nevertheless, the larger register file required fewer transistors, and the final Blue design, fabbed as RISC II, implemented all of the RISC instruction set with only 39,000 transistors. The other major change was to include an "instruction-format expander", which invisibly "up-converted" 16-bit instructions into a 32-bit format. This allowed smaller instructions, typically things with one or no operands, like NOP, to be stored in memory in a smaller 16-bit format, and for two such instructions to be packed into a single machine word. The instructions would be invisibly expanded back to 32-bit versions before they reached the ALU, meaning that no changes were needed in the core logic. This simple technique yielded a surprising 30% improvement in code density, making an otherwise identical program on Blue run faster than on Gold due to the decreased number of memory accesses. RISC II proved to be much more successful in silicon and in testing outperformed almost all minicomputers on almost all tasks. For instance, performance ranged from 85% of VAX speed to 256% on a variety of loads. RISC II was also benched against the famous Motorola 68000, then considered to be the best commercial chip implementation, and outperformed it by 140% to 420%. Follow-ons[edit] Work on the original RISC designs ended with RISC II, but the concept itself lived on at Berkeley. The basic core was re-used in SOAR in 1984, basically a RISC converted to run Smalltalk (in the same way that it could be claimed RISC ran C), and later in the similar VLSI-BAM that ran PROLOG instead of Smalltalk. Another effort was SPUR, which was a full set of chips needed to build a complete 32-bit workstation. RISC is less famous, but more influential, for being the basis of the commercial SPARC processor design from Sun Microsystems. It was the SPARC that first clearly demonstrated the power of the RISC concept; when they shipped in the first Sun-4s they outperformed anything on the market. This led to virtually every Unix vendor hurrying for a RISC design of their own, leading to designs like the DEC Alpha and PA-RISC, while SGI purchased MIPS Computer Systems. By 1986, most large chip vendors followed, working on efforts like the Motorola 88000, Fairchild Clipper, AMD 29000 and the PowerPC. On February 13, 2015, IEEE installed a plaque at Oracle Corporation in Santa Clara.[5] It reads Sun Microsystems introduced SPARC (Scalable Processor Architecture) RISC (Reduced Instruction-Set Computing) in 1987. Building upon UC Berkeley RISC and Sun compiler and operating system developments, SPARC architecture was highly adaptable to evolving semiconductor, software, and system technology and user needs. The architecture delivered the highest performance, scalable workstations and servers, for engineering, business, Internet, and cloud computing applications. Techniques developed for and alongside the idea of the reduced instruction set have also been adopted in successively more powerful implementations and extensions of the traditional "complex" x86 architecture. Much of a modern microprocessor's transistor count is devoted to large caches, many pipeline stages, superscalar instruction dispatch, branch prediction and other modern techniques which are applicable regardless of instruction architecture. The amount of silicon dedicated to instruction decoding on a modern x86 implementation is proportionately quite small, so the distinction between "complex" and RISC processor implementations has become blurred. See also[edit] RISC-V Power ISA Notes[edit] ^ Reilly, Edwin D. (2003). Milestones in Computer Science and Information Technology. p. 50. ISBN 1573565210. ^ Chisnal, David (2010-08-23). "Understanding ARM Architectures". Informit. Retrieved 13 October 2015. ^ James B. Peek (1983-06-02). "The VLSI Circuitry of RISC I" (pdf). University of California at Berkeley Berkeley, CA, USA. pp. 13/59. ^ "memorabilia [RISC-I Reunion]". risc.berkeley.edu. Retrieved 2020-03-19. ^ Gee, Kelvin. "Oracle to Receive IEEE Milestone Award for SPARC RISC Architecture". blogs.oracle.com. Retrieved 2020-03-19. References[edit] 'Design and Implementation of RISC I' - original journal article by C.H. Sequin and D.A.Patterson Berkeley RISC II Tabak, Daniel (1987). RISC Architecture. 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Illegal immigration refers to the migration of people into a country through means that violates the immigration laws of that country, or the continued residence of people without the legal right to live in that country. Illegal immigration tends to be financially upward, from poorer to richer countries.[1] Illegal residence in another country creates the risk of detention, deportation, and/or other sanctions.[2] Asylum seekers who are denied asylum may face impediment to expulsion if the home country refuses to receive the person or if new asylum evidence emerges after the decision. In some cases, these people are considered undocumented immigrants, and in others, they may receive a temporary residence permit, for example with reference to the principle of non-refoulement in the international Refugee Convention. The European Court of Human Rights, referring to the European Convention on Human Rights, has shown in a number of indicative judgments that there are enforcement barriers to expulsion to certain countries, for example, due to the risk of torture.[3] Contents 1 Terminology 1.1 Campaigns against the term "illegal" 1.2 Usage 1.2.1 News media 1.2.2 U.S. Government 2 Effects of illegal immigration 2.1 Economy and labor market 3 Reasons for illegal immigration 3.1 Poverty 3.2 Overpopulation 3.3 Family reunification 3.4 Asylum 3.5 Deprivation of citizenship 3.6 Education 4 Problems faced by undocumented immigrants 4.1 Lack of access to services 4.2 Slavery 4.3 Kidnapping and ransoms 4.4 Prostitution 4.5 Exploitation of labour 4.6 Injury and illness 4.6.1 Death 5 Methods 5.1 Illegal border crossing 5.2 Overstaying visa 5.3 Sham marriages 6 Irregular immigrant populations by country or region 6.1 Africa 6.1.1 Angola 6.1.2 South Africa 6.2 South to East Asia 6.2.1 Bangladesh 6.2.2 Bhutan 6.2.3 India 6.2.4 Malaysia 6.2.5 Pakistan 6.2.6 Philippines 6.2.7 South Korea 6.2.8 Other countries 6.3 Americas 6.3.1 Brazil 6.3.2 Canada 6.3.3 Mexico 6.3.4 United States 6.3.5 Other countires 6.4 Eurasia and Oceania 6.4.1 Australia 6.4.2 Russia 6.4.3 Turkey 6.5 Europe 6.5.1 France 6.5.2 Hungary 6.5.3 United Kingdom 6.5.4 Other countries 6.6 Middle East 6.6.1 Iran 6.6.2 Israel 6.6.3 Libya 6.6.4 Saudi Arabia 6.6.5 Syria 7 See also 8 References 9 Further reading Terminology[edit] There are campaigns that discourage the use of the term illegal immigrant, generally based on the argument that the act of immigrating illegally does not make the people themselves illegal, but rather they are "people who have immigrated illegally." Depending on jurisdiction, culture, or context, terms used instead of illegal immigrant can include irregular migrant, undocumented immigrant, undocumented person, unauthorized immigrant, and illegal alien.[4][5][6][7][8][9] In some contexts the term illegal immigrants is shortened, often pejoratively,[10] to "illegals".[11][12][13][14] Campaigns against the term "illegal"[edit] In the United States, a "Drop the I-Word" campaign was launched in 2010 advocating for the use of such terms as undocumented immigrants or unauthorized immigrants when referring to the foreign nationals who reside in a country illegally.[4] In Europe, the Platform for International Cooperation on Undocumented Migrants (PICUM) launched its international "Words Matter"[15] campaign in 2014 to promote the use of the terms undocumented or irregular migrants instead of illegal.[16][17][18][19] Usage[edit] Irregular migration is a related term that is sometimes used, e.g., by the International Organization for Migration; however, because of the word migration, this term describes a somewhat wider concept which also includes illegal emigration.[6] News media[edit] News associations that have discontinued or discourage (excluding direct quotations) the use of the adjective illegal to qualify nouns that describe people include the Associated Press (US),[20] Press Association (UK), European Journalism Observatory,[21] European Journalism Centre,[22] Association of European Journalists, Australian Press Council,[23] and Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance (AU).[24] Related terms that describe actions are not similarly discouraged by these campaigns. For example, the Associated Press continues to use the term illegal immigration, whereby illegal describes the action rather than the person.[20] On the other hand, the term undocumented has been cited by the New York Times as a "term preferred by many immigrants and their advocates, but it has a flavor of euphemism and should be used with caution outside quotation."[5] Newsweek questions the use of the phrase undocumented immigrants as a method of euphemistic framing, namely, "a psychological technique that can influence the perception of social phenomena."[25] Newsweek also suggests that persons who enter a country unlawfully cannot be entirely "undocumented," as they "just lack the certain specific documents for legal residency and employment," while "[m]any have driver's licences, debit cards, library cards, and school identifications which are useful documents in specific contexts but not nearly so much for immigration."[25] For example, in the US, youths brought into the country illegally are granted access to public K-12 education and benefits regardless of citizenship status;[26] therefore the youths are not entirely undocumented, since they are in fact documented for educational purposes. U.S. Government[edit] Title 8 of the US Code is the portion of United States law that contains legislation on citizenship, nationality, and immigration, with such laws using the phrase illegal immigrant at least in some contexts. Defining the legal term alien as "any person not a citizen or national of the United States,"[7] terminology used in Title 8 includes illegal alien (33 times), unauthorized alien (21 times), undocumented alien (18 times), illegal immigrant (6 times), undocumented person (2 times), and others.[8] An analysis by PolitiFact, however, concluded that the term illegal alien "occurs scarcely, often undefined or part of an introductory title or limited to apply to certain individuals convicted of felonies."[9] In the United States, while overstaying a visa is a civil violation handled by immigration court, entering (including re-entering) the US without approval from an immigration officer is a crime; specifically a misdemeanor on the first offense. Illegal reentry after deportation is a felony offense. This is the distinction between the larger group referred to as unauthorized immigrants and the smaller subgroup referred to as criminal immigrants.[27][failed verification] Effects of illegal immigration[edit] Further information: Human migration § Theories for migration for work in the 21st century Economy and labor market[edit] Further information: Economic results of migration, Economic migrant, and Unreported employment Research on the economic effects of illegal immigration is scant but existing studies suggest that the effects can be positive for the native population,[28][29] and for public coffers.[30][31] One 2015 study shows that "increasing deportation rates and tightening border control weakens low-skilled labor markets, increasing unemployment of native low-skilled workers. Legalization, instead, decreases the unemployment rate of low-skilled natives and increases income per native."[32] Studies show that legalization of undocumented immigrants would boost the U.S. economy: a 2013 study found that granting amnesty to undocumented immigrants would raise their incomes by a quarter (increasing U.S. GDP by approximately $1.4 trillion over a 10-year period);[33] a 2016 study found that "legalization would increase the economic contribution of the unauthorized population by about 20%, to 3.6% of private-sector GDP;"[34] and 2018 National Bureau of Economic Research paper found that undocumented immigrants to the United States "generate higher surplus for US firms relative to natives, hence restricting their entry has a depressing effect on job creation and, in turn, on native labor markets."[35] According to economist George Borjas, immigrants may have caused the decline of real wages of US workers without a high school degree by 9% between 1980 and 2000 due to increased competition.[36] Other economists, such as Gordon Hanson, criticized these findings.[37] Douglas Massey argues that developed countries need unskilled immigrant labor to fill undesirable jobs, which citizens do not seek regardless of wages.[38] Massey argues that this may refute claims that undocumented immigrants are "lowering wages" or stealing jobs from native-born workers, and that it instead shows that undocumented immigrants "take jobs that no one else wants."[38] A paper by Spanish economists found that, upon legalizing the undocumented immigrant population in Spain, the fiscal revenues increased by around €4,189 per newly legalized immigrant.[31] The paper found that the wages of the newly legalized immigrants increased after legalization, some low-skilled natives had worse labor market outcomes and high-skilled natives had improved labor market outcomes.[31] Since the decline of working class blue-collar jobs in manufacturing and industry, younger native-born generations have acquired higher education. In the US, only 12% of the labor force has less than a high school education, but 70% of irregular workers from Mexico lack a high school degree.[37] The majority of new blue-collar jobs qualify as Massey's "underclass" work, and suffer from unreliability, subservient roles and, critically, a lack of potential for advancement. These "underclass" jobs, which have a disproportionate number of undocumented immigrants, include harvesting crops, unskilled labor in landscaping and construction, house-cleaning, and maid and busboy work in hotels and restaurants. However, as even these "underclass" jobs have higher relative wages than those in home countries they are still attractive for undocumented immigrants and since many undocumented immigrants often anticipate working only temporarily in the destination country, the lack of opportunity for advancement is seen by many as less of a problem. Support for this claim can be seen in a Pew Hispanic Center poll of over 3,000 undocumented immigrants from Mexico in the US, which found that 79% would voluntarily join a temporary worker program that allowed them to work legally for several years but then required them to leave.[39] From this, it is assumed that the willingness to take undesirable jobs is what gives undocumented immigrants their employment.[38] Evidence for this may be seen in the average wages of undocumented day laborers in California, which was between $10 and $12 per hour according to a 2005 study, and the fact that this was higher than many entry-level white collar or service jobs.[40] Entry-level white collar and service jobs offer advancement opportunities only for people with work permits and citizenship. Research[which?] indicates that the advantage to firms employing undocumented immigrants increases as more firms in the industry do so, further increases with the breadth[clarification needed] of a firm's market, and also with the labor intensity of the firm's production process. However, the advantage decreases with the skill level of the firm's workers, meaning that undocumented immigrants do not provide as much competitive advantage when a high-skilled workforce is required.[41] Reasons for illegal immigration[edit] Poverty[edit] Undocumented immigrants are not impoverished by the standards of their home countries. The poorest classes in a developing country may lack the resources needed to mount an attempt to cross illegally, or the connections to friends or family already in the destination country. Studies from the Pew Hispanic Center have shown that the education and wage levels of undocumented Mexican immigrants in the US are around the median for Mexico and that they are not a suitable predictor of one's choice to immigrate.[39] Other examples do show that increases in poverty, especially when associated with immediate crises, can increase the likelihood of illegal migration. The 1994 economic crisis in Mexico, subsequent to the start of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), was associated with widespread poverty and a lower valuation for the peso relative to the dollar.[42] It also marked the start of a massive swell in Mexican immigration, in which net illegal migration to the US increased every year from the mid-1990s until the mid-2000s. There are also examples where natural disasters and overpopulation can amplify poverty-driven migration flows.[43] Overpopulation[edit] Further information: Human overpopulation Population growth that exceeds the carrying capacity of an area or environment results in overpopulation.[44] Virginia Abernethy notes that immigration is a road that provides a "relief valve" to overpopulation that stops a population from addressing the consequences of its overpopulation and that exports this overpopulation to another location or country.[45] Overpopulation and its consequences is a bigger issue in developing countries. Family reunification[edit] Some undocumented immigrants seek to live with loved ones, such as a spouse or other family members.[46][47][48] Having a family who have immigrated or being from a community with many immigrants is a much better predictor of one's choice to immigrate than poverty.[39] Family reunification visas may be applied for by legal residents or naturalized citizens to bring their family members into a destination state legally, but these visas may be limited in number and subject to yearly quotas. This may result in family members entering illegally in order to reunify. From studying Mexican migration patterns, Douglas Massey finds that the likelihood that a Mexican national will emigrate illegally to the US increases dramatically if they have one or more family members already residing in the United States, legally or illegally.[38] Asylum[edit] Arrested refugees/immigrants in Fylakio detention centre, Evros, northern Greece. Unauthorised arrival into another country may be prompted by the need to escape civil war or repression in the country of origin. However, somebody who flees such a situation is in most countries under no circumstances an undocumented immigrant.[citation needed] If victims of forced displacement apply for asylum in the country they fled to and are granted refugee status they have the right to remain permanently. If asylum seekers are not granted some kind of legal protection status, then they may have to leave the country, or stay as irregular immigrants. According to the 1951 Refugee Convention refugees should be exempted from immigration laws and should expect protection from the country they entered.[49] It is, however, up to the countries involved to decide if a particular immigrant is a refugee or not, and hence whether they are subject to the immigration controls. Furthermore, countries that did not sign the 1951 Refugee Convention or do not attempt to follow its guidelines are likely to consider refugees and asylum seekers as irregular immigrants. Deprivation of citizenship[edit] See also: Denaturalization In a 2012 news story, the CSM reported, "The estimated 750,000 Rohingya, one of the most miserable and oppressed minorities in the world, are deeply resentful of their almost complete absence of civil rights in Myanmar. In 1982, the military junta stripped the Rohingya of their Myanmar citizenship, classing them as irregular immigrants and rendering them stateless."[50] In some countries, people born on national territory (henceforth not "immigrants") do not automatically obtain the nationality of their birthplace, and may have no legal title of residency.[51] Education[edit] Families want to have better lives for their children and to succeed. In the article "Learning to be illegal" it discusses the safety the children have in K-12 schooling. The children are guaranteed education in a safe environment.[26] Problems faced by undocumented immigrants[edit] Aside from the possibility that they may be intercepted and deported, undocumented immigrants also face other problems.[52] Lack of access to services[edit] Undocumented immigrants usually have no or very limited access to public health systems, proper housing, education and banks. Some immigrants forge identity documents to get the access.[citation needed] Slavery[edit] Main article: Human Trafficking For example, research at San Diego State University estimates that there are 2.4 million victims of human trafficking among irregular Mexican immigrants in the United States.[53] Some workers are smuggled into the United States and Canada by human traffickers.[54] People have been kidnapped or tricked into slavery to work as laborers, after entering the country, for example in factories. Those trafficked in this manner often face additional barriers to escaping slavery, since their status as undocumented immigrants makes it difficult for them to gain access to help or services. For example, Burmese women trafficked into Thailand and forced to work in factories or as prostitutes may not speak the language and may be vulnerable to abuse by police due to their undocumented immigrant status.[55] Kidnapping and ransoms[edit] In some regions, people that are still en route to their destination country are also sometimes kidnapped, for example for ransom. In some instances, they are also tortured, raped, and killed if the requested ransom does not arrive. One case in point are the Eritrean migrants that are en route to Israel. A large number of them are captured in north Sinai (Egypt) and Eastern Sudan and held in the buildings in north Sinai.[56][57] Prostitution[edit] Main article: Sex trafficking Some people forced into sexual slavery face challenges of charges of illegal immigration.[58] Since the fall of the Iron Curtain, Western Europe is being confronted with a serious problem related to the sexual exploitation of undocumented immigrants (especially from Eastern Europe), for the purpose of prostitution.[59] In the United States, human trafficking victims often pass through the porous border with Mexico. In an effort to curb the spread of this affliction, California Attorney General Kamala Harris and Mexico Attorney General Marisela Morales Ibáñez signed an accord in 2012 to expand prosecutions of criminals typically members of transnational gangs who engage in the trafficking of human beings between the two countries.[60] Exploitation of labour[edit] Main article: Exploitation of labour Most countries have laws requiring workers to have proper documentation, often intended to prevent or minimize the employment of undocumented immigrants.[citation needed] However the penalties against employers are often small and the acceptable identification requirements vague, ill-defined and seldom checked or enforced, making it easy for employers to hire illegal labor.[citation needed] Where the minimum wage is several times the prevailing wage in the home country, employers sometimes pay less than the legal minimum wage or have unsafe working conditions, relying on the reluctance of undocumented workers to report the violations to the authorities.[61][citation needed] Injury and illness[edit] The search for employment is central to illegal international migration.[62] According to data from the U.S. Census Bureau, undocumented immigrants in the United States often work in dangerous industries such as agriculture and construction.[63] A recent study suggests that the complex web of consequences resulting from irregular immigrant status limits irregular workers' ability to stay safe at work.[64] In addition to physical danger at work, the choice to immigrate for work often entails work-induced lifestyle factors which impact the physical, mental and social health of immigrants and their families.[65] Death[edit] Each year there are several hundred deaths along the U.S.–Mexico border[66] of immigrants crossing the border illegally. Death by exposure occurs in the deserts of Southwestern United States during the hot summer season.[67] In 2016 there were approximately 8,000 migrant deaths, with about 63% of deaths occurring within the Mediterranean.[68] Methods[edit] Illegal border crossing[edit] Border patrol at sea by the U.S. Customs and Border Protection HMC Vigilant, one of several customs cutters of the UK Border Force, and capable of speeds up to 26 knots, departing Portsmouth Naval Base. Immigrants from countries that do not have automatic visa agreements, or who would not otherwise qualify for a visa, often cross the borders illegally in some areas like the United States–Mexico border, the Mona Channel between the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico, the Strait of Gibraltar, Fuerteventura, and the Strait of Otranto. Because these methods are illegal, they are often dangerous. Would-be immigrants have been known to suffocate in shipping containers,[69] boxcars,[70] and trucks,[71] sink in shipwrecks caused by unseaworthy vessels, die of dehydration[72] or exposure during long walks without water. An official estimate puts the number of people who died in illegal crossings across the U.S.–Mexican border between 1998 and 2004 at 1,954 (see immigrant deaths along the U.S.-Mexico border). Human smuggling is the practice of intermediaries aiding undocumented immigrants in crossing over international borders in financial gain, often in large groups. Human smuggling differs from, but is sometimes associated with, human trafficking. A human smuggler will facilitate illegal entry into a country for a fee, but on arrival at their destination, the smuggled person is usually free. Trafficking involves a process of using physical force, fraud, or deception to obtain and transport people. Types of notorious human smugglers include Snakehead gangs present in mainland China (especially in Fujian) that smuggle laborers into Pacific Rim states (making Chinatowns frequent centers of illegal immigration) and "coyotes", who smuggle undocumented immigrants to the Southwestern United States and have been known to abuse or even kill their passengers.[73] Sometimes undocumented immigrants are abandoned by their human traffickers if there are difficulties, often dying in the process. Others may be victims of intentional killing. Overstaying visa[edit] Many undocumented immigrants are migrants who originally arrive in a country lawfully but overstay their authorized residence (overstaying a visa).[74][75] For example, most of the estimated 200,000 undocumented immigrants in Canada (perhaps as high as 500,000) are refugee claimants whose refugee applications were rejected but who have not yet been expelled from the country.[76] Another example is formed by children of foreigners born in countries observing jus soli ("right of territory"), such as was the case in France until 1994[77] and in Ireland until 2005.[78] In these countries, it was possible to obtain French or Irish nationality (respectively) solely by being born in France before 1994 or in Ireland before 2005[78] (respectively). At present, a French born child of foreign parents does not automatically obtain French nationality until residency duration conditions are met.[74] Since 1 January 2005, a child born in Ireland does not automatically acquire Irish nationality unless certain conditions are met.[78] Sham marriages[edit] Some people enter into sham marriages, whereby marriage is contracted into for purely immigration advantage by a couple who are not in a genuine relationship. Common reasons for sham marriages are to gain immigration (i.e., immigration fraud),[79][80] residency, work, or citizenship rights for one or both of the spouses, or for other benefits. In the United Kingdom, those who arrange, participate in, or officiate over a sham marriage may be charged with a number of offenses, including assisting unlawful immigration and conspiracy to facilitate a breach of immigration law.[81] The United States has a penalty of a $250,000 fine and five-year prison sentence for such arrangements.[82] The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the Justice Department say that they do not have accurate numbers on the rate of attempted marriage fraud.[83] In the 2009 fiscal year, 506 (0.2%) of the 241,154 petitions filed were denied for suspected fraud; 7% were denied on other grounds.[84] Irregular immigrant populations by country or region[edit] This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items with reliable sources. Africa[edit] Angola[edit] Main article: Illegal immigration in Angola In 2007 around 44,000 Congolese were forced to leave Angola.[85] Since 2004, more than 400,000 irregular immigrants, almost all from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, have been expelled from Angola.[86][87] South Africa[edit] Main article: Illegal immigration in South Africa No accurate estimates of the number of undocumented migrants living in South Africa exist.[88] Estimates that have been published vary widely. A 1996 Human Sciences Research Council study estimated that there were between 2.5 million and 4.1 million undocumented migrants in the country. In their 2008/09 annual report, the South African Police Service stated: "According to various estimates, the number of undocumented immigrants in South Africa may vary between three and six million people". Other estimates have put the figure as high as 10 million.[89] As of April 2015[update], Statistics South Africa's official estimate is of between 500,000 and one million undocumented migrants.[90] A large number of Zimbabweans have fled to South Africa as a result of instability in Zimbabwe, with many living as undocumented migrants in South Africa.[88][89][91] Sociologist Alice Bloch notes that migrants in South Africa have been the victims of xenophobia and violence, regardless of their immigration status.[91] South to East Asia[edit] Bangladesh[edit] There are about 1.2 million Indians living in Bangladesh illegally as of 2014.[92][93] The undocumented migrants are mainly from the poorest states in India including West Bengal, Meghalaya, Assam and Manipur, which surround Bangladesh. They illegally immigrate to Bangladesh in search of jobs in the metropolitan hubs and a better standard of living. Bangladesh is fifth among the nations sending highest remittances to India. Indians working in Bangladesh sent more than $3.7 billion back to India in 2012.[94] There is a significant number of Burmese undocumented immigrants in Bangladesh. As of 2012, the Bangladesh government estimated about 500,000 undocumented Burmese immigrants living across Bangladesh.[95] Bhutan[edit] Main article: Illegal immigration in Bhutan Immigration in Bhutan by Nepalese settlers (Lhotshampa) began slowly towards the end of the 19th century. The government passed the Bhutanese Citizenship Act 1985 to clarify and try to enforce the Bhutanese Citizenship Act 1958 to control the flood of illegal immigration. Those individuals who could not provide proof of residency prior to 1958 were adjudged to be undocumented immigrants. In 1991 and 1992, Bhutan expelled roughly 139,110 ethnic Nepalis, most of whom have been living in seven refugee camps in eastern Nepal ever since. The United States has offered to resettle 60,000 of the 107,000 Bhutanese refugees of Nepalese origin now living in U.N. refugee camps in Nepal. The Bhutanese government, even today, has not been able to sort the problem of giving citizenship to those people who are married to Bhutanese, even though they have been in the country for 40 years.[96] India[edit] Main article: Illegal immigration in India ABVP against Bangladeshi undocumented immigrants It is estimated that several tens of millions of undocumented immigrants live in India. Precise figures are not available, but the numbers run in tens of millions, at least 10 million are from Bangladesh, others being from Pakistan, Afghanistan and others.[97] According to the Government of India, there at least 20 million undocumented immigrants from Bangladesh alone.[98] This makes India the country with the largest number of undocumented immigrants in the world.[99] During the Bangladesh Liberation War at least 10 million Bangladeshis crossed into India illegally to seek refuge from widespread rape and genocide.[100] According to Indian Home Ministry, at least 1.4 Million Bangladeshi crossed over into India in the last decade alone.[100] Samir Guha Roy of the Indian Statistical Institute called these estimates "motivatedly exaggerated". After examining the population growth and demographic statistics, Roy instead states that a significant numbers of internal migration is sometimes falsely thought to be immigrants. An analysis of the numbers by Roy revealed that on average around 91000 Bangladeshi nationals might have crossed over to India every year during the years 1981–1991 but how many of them were identified and pushed back is not known. It is possible that a large portion of these irregular immigrants returned on their own to their place of origin.[101] According to a pro-Indian scholar, the trip to India from Bangladesh is one of the cheapest in the world, with a trip costing around Rs.2000 (around $30 US), which includes the fee for the "Tour Operator". As Bangladeshis are cultural similar to the Bengali people in India, they are able to pass off as Indian citizens and settle down in any part of India to establish a future.,[100] for a very small price. This false identity can be bolstered with false documentation available for as little as Rs.200 ($3 US) can even make them part of the vote bank.[101] India is constructing barriers on its eastern borders to combat the surge of migrants. The Indo-Bangladeshi barrier is 4,000 km (2,500 mi) long. Presently, India is constructing a fence along the border to restrict illegal traffic from Bangladesh.[102] This obstruction will virtually isolate Bangladesh from India. The barrier's plan is based on the designs of the Israeli West Bank barrier and will be 3.6 m (11.8 ft) high. The stated aim of the fence is to stop infiltration of terrorists, prevent smuggling, and end illegal immigration from Bangladesh.[103][104] Malaysia[edit] Main article: Illegal immigration to Malaysia There are an estimated 800,000 undocumented immigrants in Malaysia.[105] In January 2009, Malaysia banned the hiring of foreign workers in factories, stores and restaurants to protect its citizens from mass unemployment amid the late 2000s recession.[106] An ethnic Indian Malaysian was recently sentenced to whipping and 10 months in prison for hiring six undocumented immigrants at his restaurant. "I think that after this, Malaysian employers will be afraid to take in foreign workers (without work permits). They will think twice", said immigration department prosecutor Azlan Abdul Latiff. "This is the first case where an employer is being sentenced to caning", he said. Undocumented immigrants also face caning before being deported.[107] Pakistan[edit] Main articles: Illegal immigration to Pakistan and Immigration to Pakistan § Illegal aliens As of 2005, 2.1% of the population of Pakistan had foreign origins, however the number of immigrants population in Pakistan recently grew sharply. Immigrants from South Asia make up a growing proportion of immigrants in Pakistan. The five largest immigrant groups in Pakistan are in turn Afghans,[108] Bangladeshi,[109] Tajiks, Uzbeks, Turkmens, Iranians, Indians, Sri Lankan, Burmese[110][111] and Britons[112] including a sizeable number of those of Pakistani origin. Other significant expatriate communities in the country are Armenians, Australians, Turks, Chinese,[113] Americans,[114] Filipinos,[115] Bosnians[116] and many others. Migrants from different countries of Arab world specially Egypt, Iraq, Palestine, Syria, Kuwait, Libya, Saudi Arabia, and Yemen are in thousands. Nearly all undocumented migrants in Pakistan are Muslim refugees and they are accepted by the local population. There is no political support or legislation to deport these refugees from Pakistan. Philippines[edit] It was estimated by Teresita Ang-See, a prominent leader and activist of the Chinese Filipino community, that by 2007, as much as 100,000 undocumented immigrants from China are living in the Philippines, a tenth of the ethnic Chinese population. The latest influx has come in part because of Manila's move in 2005 to liberalise entry procedures for Chinese tourists and investors, a move that helped triple the number of Chinese visitors to 133,000 last year. Many of the new Chinese immigrants encounter hostility from many Filipinos, including Filipino-born Chinese, for being perceived as engaging in criminal activities and fraud.[117] South Korea[edit] According to the Republic of Korea Immigration Service, as of 31 December 2014, there were 208,778 undocumented immigrants, which is 11.6% of 1,797,618 total foreign nationals who resided in South Korea. Most undocumented immigrants in South Korea are Asian. The top 10 home countries of those undocumented immigrants all came from other Asian countries with China at number 1 followed by Thailand, Vietnam, Philippines, Mongolia, Indonesia, Uzbekistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Cambodia.[118] Other countries[edit] China: (see Illegal immigration in China.) China is building a security barrier along its border with North Korea to prevent the defectors or refugees from North Korea.[119] Also, many undocumented immigrants from Mongolia have tried to make it to China. There might be as many as 100,000 Africans in Guangzhou, mostly undocumented overstayers.[120] To encourage people to report foreigners living illegally in China, the police are giving a 100 yuan reward to whistle blowers whose information successfully leads to an expulsion.[121] Nepal: In 2008, Nepal's Maoist-led government has initiated a major crackdown against Tibetan exiles with the aim to deport to China all Tibetans living illegally in the country. Tibetans started pouring into Nepal after a failed anti-Chinese uprising in Tibet in 1959.[122] Thailand: (see Illegal immigration to Thailand.) Americas[edit] Brazil[edit] See also: Illegal immigration in Brazil Brazil has long been part of international migration routes. In 2009, the government estimated the number of undocumented immigrants at about 200,000 people; a Catholic charity working with immigrants said there were 600,000 undocumented immigrants (75,000 of whom were from Bolivia). That same year, the National Congress of Brazil approved an amnesty, opening a six-month window for all foreigners to seek legalization irrespective of their previous standing before the law. Brazil had last legalized all immigrants in 1998; bilateral deals, one of which promoted the legalization of all reciprocal immigrants with Bolivia to date, signed in 2005, are also common.[123] Undocumented immigrants in Brazil enjoy the same legal privileges as native Brazilians regarding access to social services such as public education and the Brazilian public healthcare system.[123] A Federal Police operation investigated Chinese immigrants who traveled through six countries before arriving in São Paulo to work under substandard conditions in the textile industry.[124] After signing the 2009 amnesty bill into law, President Lula da Silva said, in a speech, that "repression and intolerance against immigrants will not solve the problems caused by" the financial crisis of 2007–2008, thereby also harshly criticizing the "policy of discrimination and prejudice" against immigrants in developed nations. An October 2009 piece from O Globo, quoting a UNDP study, estimates the number of undocumented immigrants at 0.7 million,[125] and points out to a recent wave of xenophobia among the general populace.[126] Canada[edit] Main article: Illegal immigration in Canada There is no credible information available on illegal immigration in Canada. Estimates range between 35,000 and 120,000 undocumented immigrants in Canada.[127] James Bissett, a former head of the Canadian Immigration Service, has suggested that the lack of any credible refugee screening process, combined with a high likelihood of ignoring any deportation orders, has resulted in tens of thousands of outstanding warrants for the arrest of rejected refugee claimants, with little attempt at enforcement.[128] Refugee claimants in Canada do not have to attempt re-entry to learn the status of their claim. A 2008 report by the Auditor General Sheila Fraser stated that Canada has lost track of as many as 41,000 undocumented immigrants.[129][130] This number was predicted to increase drastically with the expiration of temporary employer work permits issued in 2007 and 2008, which were not renewed in many cases because of the shortage of work due to the recession.[131] Mexico[edit] Main article: Illegal immigration in Mexico In the first six months of 2005, more than 120,000 people from Central America were deported, as compared to 2002, when for the entire year, only 130,000 were deported.[132] People of Han Chinese origin pay about $5,500 to smugglers to be taken to Mexico from Hong Kong. It is estimated that 2.4% of rejections for work permits in Mexico correspond to Chinese citizens.[133] In a 2010 news story, USA Today reported, "... Mexico's Arizona-style law requires local police to check IDs. And Mexican police freely engage in racial profiling and routinely harass Central American migrants, say immigration activists."[134] Many women from Eastern Europe, Asia, and Central and South America take jobs at table dance establishments in large cities. The National Institute of Migration (INM) in Mexico raids strip clubs and deports foreigners who work without proper documentation.[135] In 2004, the INM deported 188,000 people at a cost of US$10 million.[136] In September 2007, Mexican President Calderón harshly criticized the United States government for the crackdown on undocumented immigrants, saying it has led to the persecution of immigrant workers without visas. "I have said that Mexico does not stop at its border, that wherever there is a Mexican, there is Mexico", he said.[137] However, Mexico has also deported US citizens, deporting 2,000 cases in 2015 and 1,243 in 2014.[138] Illegal immigration of Cubans through Cancún tripled from 2004 to 2006.[139] In October 2008, Mexico tightened its immigration rules and agreed to deport Cubans who use the country as an entry point to the US. It also criticized US policy that generally allows Cubans who reach US territory to stay. Cuban Foreign Minister said the Cuban-Mexican agreement would lead to "the immense majority of Cubans being repatriated."[140] United States[edit] Undocumented immigrant rights march for amnesty in downtown Los Angeles, California on May Day, 2006 Main articles: Illegal immigration to the United States, Illegal immigrant population of the United States, and Illegal immigration to Puerto Rico See also: Central American migrant caravans, Coyote (person), and Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Approximately 11 million undocumented immigrants were estimated to be living in the United States in 2006.[141] The Pew Hispanic Center estimated that this peaked at 12 million in March 2007 and declined to 11 million again in March 2009.[142] The majority of the undocumented immigrants are from Mexico.[143] The issue of illegal immigration has long been controversial in the United States. In 2007, President George W. Bush called for Congress to endorse his guest worker proposal, stating that undocumented immigrants took jobs that Americans would not take.[144] The Pew Hispanic Center notes that while the number of legal immigrants arriving has not varied substantially since the 1980s, the number of undocumented immigrants has increased dramatically and, since the mid-1990s, has surpassed the number of legal immigrants.[145] Penalties for employers of undocumented immigrants, of $2,000–$10,000 and up to six months' imprisonment,[146] go largely unenforced. Political groups like Americans for Legal Immigration have formed to demand enforcement of immigration laws and secure borders. ALIPAC has also called for "safe departure" border checkpoints, free of criminal checks.[147] In a 2011 news story, the Los Angeles Times reported, ...illegal immigrants in 2010 were parents of 5.5 million children, 4.5 million of whom were born in the U.S. and are citizens. Because illegal immigrants are younger and more likely to be married, they represented a disproportionate share of births—8% of the babies born in the U.S. between March 2009 and March 2010 were to at least one illegal immigrant parent.[148] Immigration from Mexico to the United States has slowed in recent years.[149] This has been attributed to the slowing of the U.S. economy, the buildup in security along the border and increased violence on the Mexican side of the Mexico–United States border.[150] In 2016, the Library of Congress announced it would use "noncitizens" and "unauthorized immigration" rather than "illegal aliens" as a bibliographical term. It said the once common phrase had become offensive, and was not precise.[151] However, as of June 2019 it still uses "illegal aliens".[152] In 2018, Attorney General Jeff Sessions instructed the US attorneys offices not to use the term "undocumented immigrants", but to instead refer to people as "illegal aliens".[153] Other countires[edit] Venezuela: An estimated 200,000 Colombians have fled the Colombian civil war and sought safety in Venezuela. Most of them lack identity documents and this hampers their access to services, as well as to the labor market. The Venezuelan government has no specific policies on refugees.[154][155] A much greater number of Venezuelans entered Colombia trying to escape from the political, economic and humanitarian crisis in the 21st century, especially during the last five to 10 years.[156][157] Chile: Chile has recently become a new pole of attraction for undocumented immigrants, mostly from neighboring Peru and Bolivia but also Ecuador, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Paraguay, Venezuela and Haiti. According to the 2002 national census, Chile's foreign-born foreign population has increased by 75% since 1992.[158] Dominican Republic: The Dominican Republic is a nation that shares the island of Hispaniola with Haiti. An estimated 1,000,000 Haitians live and work in the Dominican Republic, which has a total population of about ten million. The percentage of Haitians that have illegally immigrated to the Dominican Republic is not accurately known, and "many Dominicans have come to resent the influx of lower-paid workers from across the border and have sought to make their country less hospitable to noncitizens."[159] (See also Haitians in the Dominican Republic.) Eurasia and Oceania[edit] Australia[edit] Main article: Immigration in Australia Official government sources put the number of visa overstayers in Australia at approximately 50,000. This has been the official number of undocumented immigrants for about 25 years and is considered to be low. Other sources have placed it at up to 100,000, but no detailed study has been completed to quantify this number, which could be significantly higher. On 1 June 2013, the Migration Amendment (Reform of Employer Sanctions) Act 2013 commenced. This new law puts the onus on businesses to ensure that their employees maintain the necessary work entitlements in Australia. The new legislation also enables the Australian Department of Immigration and Citizenship to levy infringement notices against business (AUD $15,300) and individual (AUD $3,060) employers on a strict liability basis – meaning that there is no requirement to prove fault, negligence or intention.[160][161] Russia[edit] Main article: Illegal immigration in Russia Russia experiences a constant flow of immigration. On average, 200,000 legal immigrants enter the country every year; about half are ethnic Russians from other republics of the former Soviet Union. There are an estimated 10–12 million foreigners working in the country without legal permission to be there.[162] There has been a significant influx of ethnic Georgians, Armenians, Azerbaijanis, Tajiks, and Uzbeks into large Russian cities in recent years, which has been viewed very unfavorably by many citizens and contributed to nationalist sentiments.[163][164][165] Many immigrant ethnic groups have much higher birth rates than native Russians, further shifting the balance. Some Chinese flee the overpopulation and birth control regulations of their home country and settle in the Far East and in southern Siberia. Russia's main Pacific port and naval base of Vladivostok, once closed to foreigners, today is bristling with Chinese markets, restaurants and trade houses.[166] This has been occurring a lot since the Soviet collapse. Illegal border crossing is considered a crime, and captured illegal border crossers have been sentenced to prison terms. For example, Rossiyskaya Gazeta reported in October 2008 the case of a North Korean who was detained after illegally crossing the Amur River from China. Considered by Russian authorities an "economic migrant", he was sentenced to 6 months in prison and was to be deported to the country of his nationality after serving his sentence, even though he may now risk an even heavier penalty there. That was just one of the 26 cases year-to-date of irregular entrants, of various nationalities, receiving criminal punishment in Amur Oblast.[167] Turkey[edit] Main article: Illegal immigration in Turkey Turkey receives many economic migrants from nearby countries such as Azerbaijan, Georgia, Armenia, but also from North Caucasus, Central Asia, Afghanistan and Pakistan.[168][169] The Iraq War is thought to have increased the flow of illegal immigration into Turkey, and the global parties directly involved in the conflict have been accused of extending a less-helping hand than Turkey itself to resolve the precarious situation of immigrants stranded in passage.[170] Europe[edit] See also: European migrant crisis and Open borders Eurostat: Non-EU citizens found to be illegally present in the EU-28 and EFTA, 2015 The Schengen Area is a multilateral agreement between 26 states in which they in most cases abolish the border control among themselves. These states include most of the EU countries, as well as the EEC countries Norway, Switzerland and Iceland. Any person who is physically inside any of the Schengen states will usually be able to travel to any other Schengen state without hindrance from the law enforcement, even if he or she has no legal right to enter another Schengen Area member state. A person who wishes to immigrate illegally to a Schengen Area member state may therefore find it more practical to enter it through another member state. According to a BBC report from 2012, over 80% of undocumented immigrants entering the European Union pass through Greece.[171] EU countries that are not members of the Schengen Agreement are still committed to allow lawful entry by citizens of EU countries;[172] they may however exercise border control at their discretion. Migrants along the Balkan route crossing from Serbia into Hungary, 24 August 2015 This typically presents a significant hindrance to persons who are trying to enter those countries illegally. Citizens within The EU is an economic and political partnership between 28 European countries that together cover much of the European continent.[173] A citizen of an EU member state has the right to seek employment within any other member state.[174] The Schengen Agreement does not regulate treatment of persons who enter the Schengen Area illegally. This is therefore left to the individual states, and other applicable international treaties and European case law. Illegal immigration to Schengen and to Europe in general was increasing sharply since approximately early 2014.[175] The main causes for this increase are the conflicts that followed the Arab Spring; in particular, the civil war in Syria has driven millions of people from their homes, and the disintegration of the Libyan government removed a major barrier for the African migrants. Illegal immigration to some of the Schengen Area states might face different consideration depending on countries such as Bulgaria, France, Greece. France[edit] Main article: Immigration to France Children born to noncitizens in France are not immigrants themselves, but they are considered foreigners under French law, until they reach the age of 18, at which time they automatically become citizens.[176] French citizenship is based in the idea of political unity; therefore, French citizenship may be more accessible than other EU countries, such as Germany and the UK. However, many French citizens feel that those who gain French citizenship should conform to the cultural aspects of French life.[177] Foreigners can also become French citizens if they serve in the Foreign Legion. French law prohibits anyone from assisting or trying to assist "the entry, movement, or irregular stay of a foreigner in France."[178] France has an Immigration Ministry (L'immigration, l'intégration, l'asile et le développement solidaire) which begun functioning in 2007 under President Sarkozy. The government seek to combat smugglers who profit financially from moving immigrants into, through, and out of France, according to the Immigration Minister, Éric Besson.[176][178] Hungary[edit] See also: Hungarian border barrier The Hungarian–Serbian border fence In 2014, Hungary registered 43,000 asylum seekers and 80,000 up to July 2015.[179] In the summer of 2015, Hungary started building a 4m high fence along its 175 km border to neighbouring Serbia to keep out the tens of thousands undocumented immigrants from the Middle East and migrants trying to reach the European Union.[180] The border was sealed on 15 September 2015 and the fence was the following day attacked by refugees and defended by riot police.[181] With the Hungary-Serbia border closed, migrants then started heading to Croatia, but as Croatia led the migrants to the Hungary-Croatia border, Hungary then started the construction of a second fence along its border with Croatia on 18 September 2015.[179] United Kingdom[edit] Main article: Illegal immigration in the United Kingdom Many try to cross the English Channel from Calais to seek asylum or refugee status in Great Britain.[182] Truck drivers can be fined up to €2,500 if irregular immigrants are found on board.[183] The Home Office has its agents working alongside French police and immigration agents, to prevent unauthorized people from entering the zone. An area of Calais known as "the Jungle" had a police raid in September 2009 to control illegal immigration.[182] The French also try to stop undocumented immigrants from entering France from the southern part of the country.[184] Non-governmental organizations, such as Secours Catholique and the Red Cross provide food, showers, and shelter to sans papiers who gather waiting to cross the Channel. In 1986, an Iranian man was sent back to Paris, from London, as he was unable to present any ID to British immigration officers. He stayed at the airport for nearly twenty years and his story loosely inspired a film, The Terminal.[185] As of 2009[update] there were between 550,000 and 950,000 undocumented immigrants in the United Kingdom. The United Kingdom is a difficult country to reach as it is mostly located on one island and part of another, but traffickers in Calais, France have tried to smuggle undocumented immigrants into the UK. Many undocumented immigrants come from Africa and Asia. As of 2008 there were also many from Eastern Europe and Latin America having overstayed their visas.[186][187] A 2012 study carried out by the University of Oxford's Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS) has estimated that there were 120,000 irregular migrant children in the UK, of whom 65,000 were born in the UK to parents without legal status. According to the study these children are at risk of destitution, exploitation and social exclusion because of contradictory and frequently changing rules and regulations which jeopardize their access to healthcare, education, protection by the police and other public services.[188] The Home Office estimated that 4,000 to 10,000 applications a year to stay in the UK are made on the basis of a sham marriage.[189] Many undocumented immigrants or asylum seekers have tried to enter the UK from France, by hiding inside trucks or trains.[190] On 11 August 2020, the Government of Britain and France worked together on a single channel to finalize a new plan for blocking illegal migrant route. Many of the migrants who aimed to emigrate to Britain came from Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, Syria and countries in Africa, fleeing poverty, persecution or war.[191] Other countries[edit] Bulgaria: In 2013, 11,000 persons attempted to enter Bulgaria via its border with Turkey.[192] Their aim is not believed by Bulgarian border officials to remain in Bulgaria, but to go to other European countries.[192] In November 2013, Bulgaria started building a razor wire fence on its Turkey border, which was completed in 2015.[192] Norway: The number of undocumented immigrants in Norway was estimated to roughly 20 thousand in 2009,[193] and to between 18 and 56 thousand in 2017.[194] Estimates by organizations working with undocumented migrants are much lower, between 5 thousand and 10 thousand in 2011.[195] Germany: The number of irregular immigrants caught in Germany from January to November 2018 was 38,000 according to the Federal Police. Over 28,000 people entered Germany by land and 10,300 entering from Austria. Some 9,270 people also arrived illegally at airports and more than 1,120 people at sea ports. Most of the migrants were from Afghanistan, Nigeria, Iraq, Syria and Turkey.[196] Switzerland: It is estimated that at least 100,000 individuals reside in Switzerland without being registered with the authorities and thus are considered undocumented immigrants by the state. Many are also workers, employed as nannies, labourers on farms or construction sites, as well as waiters or kitchen or other ancillary staff in the restaurant and hotel industry.[197] Middle East[edit] Iran[edit] Wikinews has related news: 46 illegal Afghan immigrants suffocate in truck in Pakistan Since late April 2007, the Iranian government has forcibly deported back Afghans living and working in Iran to Afghanistan at a rate between 250,000 and 300,000 per year. The forceful evictions of the refugees, who lived in Iran and Pakistan for nearly three decades, are part of the two countries' larger plans to repatriate all Afghan refugees within a few years. Iran said that it would send 1,000,000 by March 2008, and Pakistan announced that all 2,400,000 Afghan refugees, most living in camps, must return home by 2009. Aimal Khan, a political analyst at the Sustainable Development Policy Institute in Islamabad said it would be "disastrous" for Afghanistan.[198][199][200] Israel[edit] See also: Illegal immigration from Africa to Israel Demonstration against the expulsion of undocumented immigrants and their families from Israel, Tel Aviv, 2009 Tens of thousands of migrants, mostly from Sudan and Eritrea, had crossed the Israeli border between 2009 and 2012.[201] Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that "This phenomenon is very grave and threatens the social fabric of society, our national security and our national identity."[202] In May 2012, Israel introduced a law which would allow undocumented immigrants to be detained for up to three years, a measure that the Interior Ministry intended to stem the flow of Africans entering Israel across the desert border with Egypt.[201] As a result, completing a barrier along the border with Egypt, illegal immigration from Africa decreased by over 99%.[203] Israel faces substantial (estimated at 40,000 in 2009)[204] illegal immigration of Arab workers from the Palestinian Authority territories, a migration that includes both workers seeking employment, and homosexuals escaping the social opprobrium of Arab society.[205][206][207][204][208] Thousands of foreign workers who entered the country on temporary visas have overstayed and live illegally in Israel.[209] There is a debate within Israel as to whether the Israel-born children of foreign workers should be allowed to remain in the country.[210] Libya[edit] Wikinews has related news: Shipwreck off coast of Libya; hundreds of African migrants feared dead Main article: Illegal immigration in Libya Before the Libyan civil war, Libya was home to a large undocumented Sub-Saharan African population which numbers as much as 2,000,000.[211] The mass expulsion plan to summarily deport all undocumented foreigners was announced by then-current Libyan leader Colonel Muammar al-Gaddafi in January 2008, "No resident without a legal visa will be excluded."[212][213] Saudi Arabia[edit] Main article: Illegal immigration in Saudi Arabia In 2004, Saudi Arabia began construction of a Saudi–Yemen barrier between its territory and Yemen to prevent the unauthorized movement of people and goods into and out of the Kingdom. Anthony H. Cordesman labeled it a "separation barrier".[214] In February 2004, The Guardian reported that Yemeni opposition newspapers likened the barrier to the Israeli West Bank barrier,[215] while The Independent wrote "Saudi Arabia, one of the most vocal critics in the Arab world of Israel's 'security fence' in the West Bank, is quietly emulating the Israeli example by erecting a barrier along its porous border with Yemen".[216] Saudi officials rejected the comparison saying it was built to prevent infiltration and smuggling.[215] Syria[edit] Since the US-led invasion of Iraq in March 2003, there are more refugees from Iraq. The United Nations estimates that nearly 2,200,000 Iraqis have fled the country since 2003,[217] with nearly 100,000 fleeing to Syria and Jordan each month.[218][219] Most ventured to Jordan and Syria, creating demographic shifts that have worried both governments. Refugees are mired in poverty as they are generally barred from working in their host countries.[220][221] Syrian authorities worried that the new influx of refugees would limit the country's resources. Sources like oil, heat, water and electricity were said to be becoming scarcer as demand were rising.[222] On 1 October 2007, news agencies reported that Syria reimposed restrictions on Iraqi refugees, as stated by a spokesperson for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. 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"Fences and Border Protection: The Question of Establishing Technical Barriers in Europe." AARMS 16(1):77–87. Bischoff, Christine, Francesca Falk, and Sylvia Kafehsy. 2010 November. "Images of Illegalized Immigration. Towards a Critical Iconology of Politics." Bielefeld: transcript. ISBN 978-3-8376-1537-1 Borjas, G.J. 1994. "The economics of immigration." Journal of Economic Literature (32):1667–717. Cull, Nicholas J. and Davíd Carrasco, ed. 2004. Alambrista and the US–Mexico Border: Film, Music, and Stories of undocumented immigrants U. of New Mexico Press. 225 pp. De La Torre, Miguel A. 2009. "Trails of Terror: Testimonies on the Current Immigration Debate." Orbis Books. Dowling, Julie A., and Jonathan Xavier Inda, eds. 2013. "Governing Immigration Through Crime: A Reader ." Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. Espenshade, Thomas J. 1995. "Unauthorized Immigration to the United States" Annual Review of Sociology (21):195+. Flores, William V (2003). "New Citizens, New Rights: illegal Immigrants and Latino Cultural Citizenship". Latin American Perspectives. 30 (2): 87–100. doi:10.1177/0094582X02250630. S2CID 143873638. Hunter, W. 2019. Undocumented Nationals: Between Statelessness and Citizenship. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Inda, Jonathan Xavier. 2006. "Targeting Immigrant: Government, Technology, and Ethics." Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell. Kennedy, Marie, and Chris Tilly. 2008. 'They Work Here, They Live Here, They Stay Here!': French immigrants strike for the right to work—and win. Dollars & Sense (July/August 2008). Magaña, Lisa. 2003. Straddling the Border: Immigration Policy and the INS . Marquardt, Marie Friedmann, Timothy Steigenga, Philip Williams, and Manuel Vasquez. 2011. Living "Illegal": The Human Face of Unauthorized Immigration , The New Press. Mohl, Raymond A. 2002. "Latinization in the Heart of Dixie: Hispanics in Late-twentieth-century Alabama" Alabama Review 55(4):243–74. ISSN 0002-4341 9–4894945651. Myers, Dowell. 2007. Immigrants and Boomers: Forging a New Social Contract for the Future of America. Russell Sage Foundation, ISBN 978-0-87154-636-4. Ngai, Mae M. 2003. "The Strange Career of the Illegal Alien: Immigration Restriction and Deportation Policy in the United States, 1921–1965." Law and History Review 21(1):69–107. ISSN 0738-2480 . Full text in History Cooperative. ——2004. Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America. Range, Peter R. 1993 May. "Europe faces an immigrant tide." National Geographic Magazine . Rosello, Mireille. 1998. "Representing undocumented immigrants in France: From Clandestins to L'affaire Des Sans-Papiers De Saint-Bernard." Journal of European Studies 28: 959525126. Schaeffer, Peter V.; Kahsai, Mulugeta S. (2011). "A Theoretical Note on the Relationship between Documented and Undocumented Migration". International Journal of Population Research. 2011: 1–7. doi:10.1155/2011/873967. Tranaes, T., and K. F. Zimmermann, eds. 2004. Migrants, Work, and the Welfare State , Odense, University Press of Southern Denmark. Venturini, A. 2004. Post-War Migration in Southern Europe. An Economic Approach Cambridge University Press. Vicino, Thomas J. 2013. Suburban Crossroads: The Fight for Local Control of Immigration Policy . Lanham, MD: Lexington Books. Zimmermann, K. F., ed. 2005. European Migration: What Do We Know? 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(October 2016) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) A Sun UltraSPARC, a RISC microprocessor A reduced instruction set computer, or RISC (/rɪsk/), is a computer with a small, highly optimized set of instructions, rather than the more specialized set often found in other types of architecture, such as in a complex instruction set computer (CISC).[1] The main distinguishing feature of RISC architecture is that the instruction set is optimized with a large number of registers and a highly regular instruction pipeline, allowing a low number of clock cycles per instruction (CPI). Another common RISC feature is the load/store architecture,[2] in which memory is accessed through specific instructions rather than as a part of most instructions in the set. Although a number of computers from the 1960s and 1970s have been identified as forerunners of RISCs, the modern concept dates to the 1980s. In particular, two projects at Stanford University and the University of California, Berkeley are most associated with the popularization of this concept. Stanford's MIPS would go on to be commercialized as the successful MIPS architecture, while Berkeley's RISC gave its name to the entire concept and was commercialized as the SPARC. Another success from this era was IBM's effort that eventually led to the IBM POWER instruction set architecture, PowerPC, and Power ISA. As these projects matured, a variety of similar designs flourished in the late 1980s and especially the early 1990s, representing a major force in the Unix workstation market as well as for embedded processors in laser printers, routers and similar products. The many varieties of RISC designs include ARC, Alpha, Am29000, ARM, Atmel AVR, Blackfin, i860, i960, M88000, MIPS, PA-RISC, Power ISA (including PowerPC), RISC-V, SuperH, and SPARC. The use of ARM architecture processors in smartphones and tablet computers such as the iPad and Android devices provided a wide user base for RISC-based systems. RISC processors are also used in supercomputers, such as Fugaku, which, as of June 2020[update], is the world's fastest supercomputer.[3] Contents 1 History and development 2 Characteristics and design philosophy 2.1 Instruction set philosophy 2.2 Instruction format 2.3 Hardware utilization 3 Comparison to other architectures 4 Use of RISC architectures 4.1 Low-end and mobile systems 4.2 Workstations, servers, and supercomputers 5 See also 6 References 7 External links History and development[edit] Alan Turing's 1946 Automatic Computing Engine (ACE) design had many of the characteristics of a RISC architecture.[4] A number of systems, going back to the 1960s, have been credited as the first RISC architecture, partly based on their use of load/store approach.[5] The term RISC was coined by David Patterson of the Berkeley RISC project, although somewhat similar concepts had appeared before.[6] The CDC 6600 designed by Seymour Cray in 1964 used a load/store architecture with only two addressing modes (register+register, and register+immediate constant) and 74 operation codes, with the basic clock cycle being 10 times faster than the memory access time.[7] Partly due to the optimized load/store architecture of the CDC 6600, Jack Dongarra says that it can be considered a forerunner of modern RISC systems, although a number of other technical barriers needed to be overcome for the development of a modern RISC system.[8] An IBM PowerPC 601 RISC microprocessor Michael J. Flynn views the first RISC system as the IBM 801 design, begun in 1975 by John Cocke and completed in 1980.[2] The 801 was eventually produced in a single-chip form as the IBM ROMP in 1981, which stood for 'Research OPD [Office Products Division] Micro Processor'.[9] This CPU was designed for "mini" tasks, and was also used in the IBM RT PC in 1986, which turned out to be a commercial failure.[10] But the 801 inspired several research projects, including new ones at IBM that would eventually lead to the IBM POWER instruction set architecture.[11][12] In the mid-1970s, researchers (particularly John Cocke at IBM and similar projects elsewhere) demonstrated that the majority of combinations of these orthogonal addressing modes and instructions were not used by most programs generated by compilers available at the time. It proved difficult in many cases to write a compiler with more than limited ability to take advantage of the features provided by conventional CPUs. It was also discovered that, on microcoded implementations of certain architectures, complex operations tended to be slower than a sequence of simpler operations doing the same thing. This was in part an effect of the fact that many designs were rushed, with little time to optimize or tune every instruction; only those used most often were optimized, and a sequence of those instructions could be faster than a less-tuned instruction performing an equivalent operation as that sequence. One infamous example was the VAX's INDEX instruction.[13] As mentioned elsewhere, core memory had long since been slower than many CPU designs. The advent of semiconductor memory reduced this difference, but it was still apparent that more registers (and later caches) would allow higher CPU operating frequencies. Additional registers would require sizeable chip or board areas which, at the time (1975), could be made available if the complexity of the CPU logic was reduced. The most public RISC designs, however, were the results of university research programs run with funding from the DARPA VLSI Program. The VLSI Program, practically unknown today, led to a huge number of advances in chip design, fabrication, and even computer graphics. The Berkeley RISC project started in 1980 under the direction of David Patterson and Carlo H. Sequin.[6][13][14] Berkeley RISC was based on gaining performance through the use of pipelining and an aggressive use of a technique known as register windowing.[13][14] In a traditional CPU, one has a small number of registers, and a program can use any register at any time. In a CPU with register windows, there are a huge number of registers, e.g., 128, but programs can only use a small number of them, e.g., eight, at any one time. A program that limits itself to eight registers per procedure can make very fast procedure calls: The call simply moves the window "down" by eight, to the set of eight registers used by that procedure, and the return moves the window back.[15] The Berkeley RISC project delivered the RISC-I processor in 1982. Consisting of only 44,420 transistors (compared with averages of about 100,000 in newer CISC designs of the era) RISC-I had only 32 instructions, and yet completely outperformed any other single-chip design. They followed this up with the 40,760 transistor, 39 instruction RISC-II in 1983, which ran over three times as fast as RISC-I.[14] The MIPS project grew out of a graduate course by John L. Hennessy at Stanford University in 1981, resulted in a functioning system in 1983, and could run simple programs by 1984.[16] The MIPS approach emphasized an aggressive clock cycle and the use of the pipeline, making sure it could be run as "full" as possible.[16] The MIPS system was followed by the MIPS-X and in 1984 Hennessy and his colleagues formed MIPS Computer Systems.[16][17] The commercial venture resulted in a new architecture that was also called MIPS and the R2000 microprocessor in 1985.[17] RISC-V prototype chip (2013). In the early 1980s, significant uncertainties surrounded the RISC concept, and it was uncertain if it could have a commercial future, but by the mid-1980s the concepts had matured enough to be seen as commercially viable.[10][16] In 1986 Hewlett Packard started using an early implementation of their PA-RISC in some of their computers.[10] In the meantime, the Berkeley RISC effort had become so well known that it eventually became the name for the entire concept and in 1987 Sun Microsystems began shipping systems with the SPARC processor, directly based on the Berkeley RISC-II system.[10][18] The US government Committee on Innovations in Computing and Communications credits the acceptance of the viability of the RISC concept to the success of the SPARC system.[10] The success of SPARC renewed interest within IBM, which released new RISC systems by 1990 and by 1995 RISC processors were the foundation of a $15 billion server industry.[10] Since 2010 a new open source instruction set architecture (ISA), RISC-V, has been under development at the University of California, Berkeley, for research purposes and as a free alternative to proprietary ISAs. As of 2014, version 2 of the user space ISA is fixed.[19] The ISA is designed to be extensible from a barebones core sufficient for a small embedded processor to supercomputer and cloud computing use with standard and chip designer defined extensions and coprocessors. It has been tested in silicon design with the ROCKET SoC which is also available as an open-source processor generator in the CHISEL language. Characteristics and design philosophy[edit] This section needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (March 2012) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) Further information: Processor design Instruction set philosophy[edit] A common misunderstanding of the phrase "reduced instruction set computer" is the mistaken idea that instructions are simply eliminated, resulting in a smaller set of instructions.[20] In fact, over the years, RISC instruction sets have grown in size, and today many of them have a larger set of instructions than many CISC CPUs.[21][22] Some RISC processors such as the PowerPC have instruction sets as large as the CISC IBM System/370, for example; conversely, the DEC PDP-8—clearly a CISC CPU because many of its instructions involve multiple memory accesses—has only 8 basic instructions and a few extended instructions.[23] The term "reduced" in that phrase was intended to describe the fact that the amount of work any single instruction accomplishes is reduced—at most a single data memory cycle—compared to the "complex instructions" of CISC CPUs that may require dozens of data memory cycles in order to execute a single instruction.[24] In particular, RISC processors typically have separate instructions for I/O and data processing.[25] The term load/store architecture is sometimes preferred. Instruction format[edit] Most RISC architectures have fixed-length instructions (commonly 32 bits) and a simple encoding, which simplifies fetch, decode, and issue logic considerably. One drawback of 32-bit instructions is reduced code density, which is more adverse a characteristic in embedded computing than it is in the workstation and server markets RISC architectures were originally designed to serve. To address this problem, several architectures, such as ARM, Power ISA, MIPS, RISC-V, and the Adapteva Epiphany, have an optional short, feature-reduced instruction format or instruction compression feature. The SH5 also follows this pattern, albeit having evolved in the opposite direction, having added longer media instructions to an original 16-bit encoding. Hardware utilization[edit] For any given level of general performance, a RISC chip will typically have far fewer transistors dedicated to the core logic which originally allowed designers to increase the size of the register set and increase internal parallelism. Other features of RISC architectures include: Processor average throughput nears 1 instruction per cycle Uniform instruction format, using single word with the opcode in the same bit positions for simpler decoding All general purpose registers can be used equally as source/destination in all instructions, simplifying compiler design (floating point registers are often kept separate) Simple addressing modes with complex addressing performed by instruction sequences Few data types in hardware (no byte string or BCD, for example) RISC designs are also more likely to feature a Harvard memory model, where the instruction stream and the data stream are conceptually separated; this means that modifying the memory where code is held might not have any effect on the instructions executed by the processor (because the CPU has a separate instruction and data cache), at least until a special synchronization instruction is issued. On the upside, this allows both caches to be accessed simultaneously, which can often improve performance. Many early RISC designs also shared the characteristic of having a branch delay slot, an instruction space immediately following a jump or branch. The instruction in this space is executed, whether or not the branch is taken (in other words the effect of the branch is delayed). This instruction keeps the ALU of the CPU busy for the extra time normally needed to perform a branch. Nowadays the branch delay slot is considered an unfortunate side effect of a particular strategy for implementing some RISC designs, and modern RISC designs generally do away with it (such as PowerPC and more recent versions of SPARC and MIPS).[citation needed] Some aspects attributed to the first RISC-labeled designs around 1975 include the observations that the memory-restricted compilers of the time were often unable to take advantage of features intended to facilitate manual assembly coding, and that complex addressing modes take many cycles to perform due to the required additional memory accesses. It was argued that such functions would be better performed by sequences of simpler instructions if this could yield implementations small enough to leave room for many registers, reducing the number of slow memory accesses. In these simple designs, most instructions are of uniform length and similar structure, arithmetic operations are restricted to CPU registers and only separate load and store instructions access memory. These properties enable a better balancing of pipeline stages than before, making RISC pipelines significantly more efficient and allowing higher clock frequencies. Yet another impetus of both RISC and other designs came from practical measurements on real-world programs. Andrew Tanenbaum summed up many of these, demonstrating that processors often had oversized immediates. For instance, he showed that 98% of all the constants in a program would fit in 13 bits, yet many CPU designs dedicated 16 or 32 bits to store them. This suggests that, to reduce the number of memory accesses, a fixed length machine could store constants in unused bits of the instruction word itself, so that they would be immediately ready when the CPU needs them (much like immediate addressing in a conventional design). This required small opcodes in order to leave room for a reasonably sized constant in a 32-bit instruction word. Since many real-world programs spend most of their time executing simple operations, some researchers decided to focus on making those operations as fast as possible. The clock rate of a CPU is limited by the time it takes to execute the slowest sub-operation of any instruction; decreasing that cycle-time often accelerates the execution of other instructions.[26] The focus on "reduced instructions" led to the resulting machine being called a "reduced instruction set computer" (RISC). The goal was to make instructions so simple that they could easily be pipelined, in order to achieve a single clock throughput at high frequencies. Later, it was noted that one of the most significant characteristics of RISC processors was that external memory was only accessible by a load or store instruction. All other instructions were limited to internal registers. This simplified many aspects of processor design: allowing instructions to be fixed-length, simplifying pipelines, and isolating the logic for dealing with the delay in completing a memory access (cache miss, etc.) to only two instructions. This led to RISC designs being referred to as load/store architectures.[27] Comparison to other architectures[edit] Some CPUs have been specifically designed to have a very small set of instructions – but these designs are very different from classic RISC designs, so they have been given other names such as minimal instruction set computer (MISC) or transport triggered architecture (TTA). RISC architectures have traditionally had few successes in the desktop PC and commodity server markets, where the x86-based platforms remain the dominant processor architecture. However, this may change, as ARM-based processors are being developed for higher performance systems.[28] Manufacturers including Cavium, AMD, and Qualcomm have released server processors based on the ARM architecture.[29][30] ARM is further partnered with Cray in 2017 to produce an ARM-based supercomputer.[31] On the desktop, Microsoft announced that it planned to support the PC version of Windows 10 on Qualcomm Snapdragon-based devices in 2017 as part of its partnership with Qualcomm. These devices will support Windows applications compiled for 32-bit x86 via an x86 processor emulator that translates 32-bit x86 code to ARM64 code.[32][33] Apple announced they will transition their Mac desktop and laptop computers from Intel processors to internally developed ARM64-based SoCs called Apple Silicon. Macs with Apple Silicon will be able to run x86-64 binaries with Rosetta 2, an x86-64 to ARM64 translator.[34] Outside of the desktop arena, however, the ARM RISC architecture is in widespread use in smartphones, tablets and many forms of embedded device. It is also the case that since the Pentium Pro (P6), Intel x86 processors have internally translated x86 CISC instructions into one or more RISC-like micro-operations, scheduling and executing the micro-operations separately.[35] While early RISC designs differed significantly from contemporary CISC designs, by 2000 the highest-performing CPUs in the RISC line were almost indistinguishable from the highest-performing CPUs in the CISC line.[36][37][38] Use of RISC architectures[edit] RISC architectures are now used across a range of platforms, from smartphones and tablet computers to some of the world's fastest supercomputers such as Summit, the fastest on the TOP500 list as of November 2018[update].[39] Low-end and mobile systems[edit] By the beginning of the 21st century, the majority of low-end and mobile systems relied on RISC architectures.[40] Examples include: The ARM architecture dominates the market for low power and low cost embedded systems (typically 200–1800 MHz in 2014). It is used in a number of systems such as most Android-based systems, the Apple iPhone and iPad, Microsoft Windows Phone (former Windows Mobile), RIM devices, Nintendo Game Boy Advance, DS, 3DS and Switch, Raspberry Pi, etc. IBM's PowerPC was used in the GameCube, Wii, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and Wii U gaming consoles. The MIPS line (at one point used in many SGI computers) was used in the PlayStation, PlayStation 2, Nintendo 64, PlayStation Portable game consoles, and residential gateways like Linksys WRT54G series. Hitachi's SuperH, originally in wide use in the Sega Super 32X, Saturn and Dreamcast, now developed and sold by Renesas as the SH4. Atmel AVR used in a variety of products ranging from Xbox handheld controllers and the Arduino open-source microcontroller platform to BMW cars. RISC-V, the open-source fifth Berkeley RISC ISA, with 32- or 64-bit address spaces, a small core integer instruction set, and an experimental "Compressed" ISA for code density and designed for standard and special purpose extensions. Workstations, servers, and supercomputers[edit] Apple-designed processors based on the ARM architecture will be used by Apple's lineup of desktop and laptop computers following its transition from Intel processors.[41] MIPS, by Silicon Graphics (ceased making MIPS-based systems in 2006). SPARC, by Oracle (previously Sun Microsystems), and Fujitsu. IBM's IBM POWER instruction set architecture, PowerPC, and Power ISA, most famously known for its use on many Macintosh computer models prior to the completion of its transition to Intel processors,[42] and in many of IBM's supercomputers, mid-range servers and workstations. Hewlett-Packard's PA-RISC, also known as HP-PA (discontinued at the end of 2008). 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Nth re-posting of CISC vs RISC (or what is RISC, really) v t e Reduced instruction set computer (RISC) architectures IBM 801 Berkeley RISC Stanford MIPS Active Analog Devices Blackfin ARC ARM AVR eSi-RISC LatticeMico8 LatticeMico32 MIPS OpenRISC Power ISA Renesas M32R Renesas SuperH Renesas V850 RISC-V Sunway SPARC Unicore Xilinx MicroBlaze Xilinx PicoBlaze Historic Alpha AMD Am29000 Apollo PRISM Atmel AVR32 Clipper CRISP DEC Prism Intel i860 Intel i960 Meta MIPS-X Motorola 88000 Motorola M·CORE PA-RISC ROMP POWER PowerPC v t e Processor technologies Models Turing machine Universal Post–Turing Quantum Belt machine Stack machine Finite-state machine with datapath Hierarchical Queue automaton Register machines Counter Pointer Random-access Random-access stored program Architecture Microarchitecture Von Neumann Harvard modified Dataflow Transport-triggered Cellular Endianness Memory access NUMA HUMA Load/store Register/memory Cache hierarchy Memory hierarchy Virtual memory Secondary storage Heterogeneous Fabric Multiprocessing Cognitive Neuromorphic Instruction set architectures Types CISC RISC Application-specific EDGE TRIPS VLIW EPIC MISC OISC NISC ZISC Comparison Addressing modes Instruction sets x86 ARM MIPS Power ISA SPARC Itanium Unicore MicroBlaze RISC-V LMC Others Execution Instruction pipelining Pipeline stall Operand forwarding Classic RISC pipeline Hazards Data dependency Structural Control False sharing Out-of-order Tomasulo algorithm Reservation station Re-order buffer Register renaming Speculative Branch prediction Memory dependence prediction Parallelism Level Bit Bit-serial Word Instruction Pipelining Scalar Superscalar Task Thread Process Data Vector Memory Distributed Multithreading Temporal Simultaneous Hyperthreading Speculative Preemptive Cooperative Flynn's taxonomy SISD SIMD SWAR SIMT MISD MIMD SPMD Processor performance Transistor count Instructions per cycle (IPC) Cycles per instruction (CPI) Instructions per second (IPS) Floating-point operations per second (FLOPS) Transactions per second (TPS) Synaptic updates per second (SUPS) Performance per watt (PPW) Cache performance metrics Computer performance by orders of magnitude Types Central processing unit (CPU) Graphics processing unit (GPU) GPGPU Vector Barrel Stream Coprocessor ASIC FPGA CPLD Multi-chip module (MCM) System in package (SiP) By application Microprocessor Microcontroller Mobile Notebook Ultra-low-voltage ASIP Systems on chip System on a chip (SoC) Multiprocessor (MPSoC) Programmable (PSoC) Network on a chip (NoC) Hardware accelerators AI accelerator Vision processing unit (VPU) Physics processing unit (PPU) Digital signal processor (DSP) Tensor processing unit (TPU) Secure cryptoprocessor Network processor Baseband processor Word size 1-bit 4-bit 8-bit 12-bit 15-bit 16-bit 24-bit 32-bit 48-bit 64-bit 128-bit 256-bit 512-bit bit slicing others variable Core count Single-core Multi-core Manycore Heterogeneous architecture Components Core Cache CPU cache replacement policies coherence Bus Clock rate Clock signal FIFO Functional units Arithmetic logic unit (ALU) Address generation unit (AGU) Floating-point unit (FPU) Memory management unit (MMU) Load–store unit Translation lookaside buffer (TLB) Integrated memory controller (IMC) Logic Combinational Sequential Glue Logic gate Quantum Array Registers Processor register Status register Stack register Register file Memory buffer Program counter Control unit Instruction unit Data buffer Write buffer Microcode ROM Counter Datapath Multiplexer Demultiplexer Adder Multiplier CPU Binary decoder Address decoder Sum addressed decoder Barrel shifter Circuitry Integrated circuit 3D Mixed-signal Power management Boolean Digital Analog Quantum Switch Power management PMU APM ACPI Dynamic frequency scaling Dynamic voltage scaling Clock gating Performance per watt (PPW) Race to sleep Related History of general-purpose CPUs Microprocessor chronology Processor design Digital electronics Hardware security 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Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply. By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization. Privacy policy About Wikipedia Disclaimers Contact Wikipedia Mobile view Developers Statistics Cookie statement en-wikipedia-org-5821 ---- OCLC - Wikipedia OCLC From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search global library cooperative For information on using OCLC Control Numbers in Wikipedia articles, see Template:OCLC. OCLC, Inc. OCLC headquarters Type Nonprofit cooperative Industry Information Founded July 5, 1967; 53 years ago (1967-07-05) (as Ohio College Library Center) Founder Frederick G. Kilgour Headquarters Dublin, Ohio , US Area served Worldwide Key people Skip Prichard, President and CEO Products WorldCat FirstSearch Dewey Decimal Classification Tipasa VDX WebJunction Wise WorldShare Revenue $203 million[1] (2015–16) Total assets $425 million[2] (2015–16) Total equity $239 million[2] (2015–16) Members 16,964 libraries in 122 countries[1] (2015–16) Website Official website } OCLC, Inc., doing business as OCLC,[3] is an American nonprofit cooperative organization "dedicated to the public purposes of furthering access to the world's information and reducing information costs".[4] It was founded in 1967 as the Ohio College Library Center, then became the Online Computer Library Center as it expanded. In 2017, the name was formally changed to OCLC, Inc.[3] OCLC and its member libraries cooperatively produce and maintain WorldCat, the largest online public access catalog (OPAC) in the world.[5] OCLC is funded mainly by the fees that libraries pay (around $200 million annually in total as of 2016[update]) for the many different services it offers.[1] OCLC also maintains the Dewey Decimal Classification system. Contents 1 History 2 Services 2.1 QuestionPoint 3 Software 4 Research 5 Advocacy 6 Online database: WorldCat 7 Identifiers and linked data 8 Company acquisitions 9 Criticism 10 See also 11 References 12 Further reading 13 External links History[edit] OCLC began in 1967, as the Ohio College Library Center, through a collaboration of university presidents, vice presidents, and library directors who wanted to create a cooperative, computerized network for libraries in the state of Ohio. The group first met on July 5, 1967, on the campus of the Ohio State University to sign the articles of incorporation for the nonprofit organization[6] and hired Frederick G. Kilgour, a former Yale University medical school librarian, to design the shared cataloging system.[7] Kilgour wished to merge the latest information storage and retrieval system of the time, the computer, with the oldest, the library. The plan was to merge the catalogs of Ohio libraries electronically through a computer network and database to streamline operations, control costs, and increase efficiency in library management, bringing libraries together to cooperatively keep track of the world's information in order to best serve researchers and scholars. The first library to do online cataloging through OCLC was the Alden Library at Ohio University on August 26, 1971. This was the first online cataloging by any library worldwide.[6] Membership in OCLC is based on use of services and contribution of data. Between 1967 and 1977, OCLC membership was limited to institutions in Ohio, but in 1978, a new governance structure was established that allowed institutions from other states to join. In 2002, the governance structure was again modified to accommodate participation from outside the United States.[8] As OCLC expanded services in the United States outside Ohio, it relied on establishing strategic partnerships with "networks", organizations that provided training, support and marketing services. By 2008, there were 15 independent United States regional service providers. OCLC networks played a key role in OCLC governance, with networks electing delegates to serve on the OCLC Members Council. During 2008, OCLC commissioned two studies to look at distribution channels; at the same time, the council approved governance changes that had been recommended by the Board of Trustees severing the tie between the networks and governance. In early 2009, OCLC negotiated new contracts with the former networks and opened a centralized support center.[9] Services[edit] OCLC provides bibliographic, abstract and full-text information to anyone. OCLC and its member libraries cooperatively produce and maintain WorldCat—the OCLC Online Union Catalog, the largest online public access catalog (OPAC) in the world.[5] WorldCat has holding records from public and private libraries worldwide. The Online Computer Library Center acquired the trademark and copyrights associated with the Dewey Decimal Classification System when it bought Forest Press in 1988. A browser[10] for books with their Dewey Decimal Classifications was available until July 2013; it was replaced by the Classify Service. Until August 2009, when it was sold to Backstage Library Works, OCLC owned a preservation microfilm and digitization operation called the OCLC Preservation Service Center,[11] with its principal office in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Starting in 1971, OCLC produced catalog cards for members alongside its shared online catalog; the company printed its last catalog cards on October 1, 2015.[12] QuestionPoint[edit] QuestionPoint,[13] an around-the-clock reference service provided to users by a cooperative of participating global libraries, was acquired by Springshare from OCLC in 2019 and migrated to Springshare's LibAnswers platform.[14][15] Software[edit] OCLC commercially sells software, such as: CONTENTdm for managing digital collections[16][17][18] Wise, an integrated library system and "community engagement system"[19][20] WorldCat Discovery, a bibliographic discovery system that allows library patrons to use a single search interface to access an institution's catalog, ebooks, database subscriptions and more[21][22] WorldShare Management Services, an electronic resource management system[23][22] Research[edit] OCLC has been conducting research for the library community for more than 30 years. In accordance with its mission, OCLC makes its research outcomes known through various publications.[24] These publications, including journal articles, reports, newsletters, and presentations, are available through the organization's website. OCLC Publications – Research articles from various journals including The Code4Lib Journal, OCLC Research, Reference and User Services Quarterly, College & Research Libraries News, Art Libraries Journal, and National Education Association Newsletter. The most recent publications are displayed first, and all archived resources, starting in 1970, are also available.[25] Membership Reports – A number of significant reports on topics ranging from virtual reference in libraries to perceptions about library funding.[26] Newsletters – Current and archived newsletters for the library and archive community.[27] Presentations – Presentations from both guest speakers and OCLC research from conferences, webcasts, and other events. The presentations are organized into five categories: Conference presentations, Dewey presentations, Distinguished Seminar Series, Guest presentations, and Research staff presentations.[28] Advocacy[edit] Advocacy has been a part of OCLC's mission since its founding in 1967. OCLC staff members meet and work regularly with library leaders, information professionals, researchers, entrepreneurs, political leaders, trustees, students and patrons to advocate "advancing research, scholarship, education, community development, information access, and global cooperation".[29][30] WebJunction, which provides training services to librarians,[31] is a division of OCLC funded by grants from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation beginning in 2003.[32][33] OCLC partnered with search engine providers in 2003 to advocate for libraries and share information across the Internet landscape. Google, Yahoo!, and Ask.com all collaborated with OCLC to make WorldCat records searchable through those search engines.[29] OCLC's advocacy campaign "Geek the Library", started in 2009, highlights the role of public libraries. The campaign, funded by a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, uses a strategy based on the findings of the 2008 OCLC report, "From Awareness to Funding: A study of library support in America".[34] Other past advocacy campaigns have focused on sharing the knowledge gained from library and information research. Such projects have included communities such as the Society of American Archivists, the Open Archives Initiative, the Institute for Museum and Library Services, the International Organization for Standardization, the National Information Standards Organization, the World Wide Web Consortium, the Internet Engineering Task Force, and Internet2. One of the most successful contributions to this effort was the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative, "an open forum of libraries, archives, museums, technology organizations, and software companies who work together to develop interoperable online metadata standards that support a broad range of purposes and business models."[29] OCLC has collaborated with the Wikimedia Foundation and the Wikimedia volunteer community, through integrating library metadata with Wikimedia projects, hosting a Wikipedian in residence, and doing a national training program through WebJunction called "Wikipedia + Libraries: Better Together".[35][36][37] Online database: WorldCat[edit] Main article: WorldCat OCLC's WorldCat database is used by the general public and by librarians for cataloging and research. WorldCat is available to the public for searching via a subscription web-based service called FirstSearch,[38] as well as through the publicly available WorldCat.org.[39] Identifiers and linked data[edit] OCLC assigns a unique control number (referred to as an "OCN" for "OCLC Control Number") to each new bibliographic record in the WorldCat. Numbers are assigned serially, and as of mid-2013 over a billion OCNs had been created. In September 2013, the OCLC declared these numbers to be in the public domain, removing a perceived barrier to widespread use of OCNs outside OCLC itself.[40] The control numbers link WorldCat's records to local library system records by providing a common reference key for a record across libraries.[41] OCNs are particularly useful as identifiers for books and other bibliographic materials that do not have ISBNs (e.g., books published before 1970). OCNs are used as identifiers often in Wikipedia and Wikidata. In October 2013, it was reported that out of 29,673 instances of book infoboxes in Wikipedia, "there were 23,304 ISBNs and 15,226 OCNs", and regarding Wikidata: "of around 14 million Wikidata items, 28,741 were books. 5403 Wikidata items have an ISBN associated with them, and 12,262 have OCNs."[42] OCLC also runs the Virtual International Authority File (VIAF), an international name authority file, with oversight from the VIAF Council composed of representatives of institutions that contribute data to VIAF.[43] VIAF numbers are broadly used as standard identifiers, including in Wikipedia.[35][44] Company acquisitions[edit] OCLC offices in Leiden (the Netherlands) OCLC acquired NetLibrary, a provider of electronic books and textbooks, in 2002 and sold it in 2010 to EBSCO Industries.[45] OCLC owns 100% of the shares of OCLC PICA, a library automation systems and services company which has its headquarters in Leiden in the Netherlands and which was renamed "OCLC" at the end of 2007.[46] In July 2006, the Research Libraries Group (RLG) merged with OCLC.[47][48] On January 11, 2008, OCLC announced[49] that it had purchased EZproxy. It has also acquired OAIster. The process started in January 2009 and from October 31, 2009, OAIster records are freely available via WorldCat.org. In 2013 OCLC acquired the Dutch library automation company HKA[50][51] and its integrated library system Wise,[20] which OCLC calls a "community engagement system" that "combines the power of customer relationship management, marketing, and analytics with ILS functions".[19] OCLC began offering Wise to libraries in the United States in 2019.[20] In January 2015, OCLC acquired Sustainable Collection Services (SCS). SCS offered consulting services based on analyzing library print collection data to help libraries manage and share materials.[52] In 2017, OCLC acquired Relais International, a library interlibrary loan service provider based in Ottawa, Canada.[53] Criticism[edit] In May 2008, OCLC was criticized by Jeffrey Beall for monopolistic practices, among other faults.[54] Library blogger Rick Mason responded that although he thought Beall had some "valid criticisms" of OCLC, he demurred from some of Beall's statements and warned readers to "beware the hyperbole and the personal nature of his criticism, for they strongly overshadow that which is worth stating".[55] In November 2008, the Board of Directors of OCLC unilaterally issued a new Policy for Use and Transfer of WorldCat Records[56] that would have required member libraries to include an OCLC policy note on their bibliographic records; the policy caused an uproar among librarian bloggers.[57][58] Among those who protested the policy was the non-librarian activist Aaron Swartz, who believed the policy would threaten projects such as the Open Library, Zotero, and Wikipedia, and who started a petition to "Stop the OCLC powergrab".[59][60] Swartz's petition garnered 858 signatures, but the details of his proposed actions went largely unheeded.[58] Within a few months, the library community had forced OCLC to retract its policy and to create a Review Board to consult with member libraries more transparently.[58] In August 2012, OCLC recommended that member libraries adopt the Open Data Commons Attribution (ODC-BY) license when sharing library catalog data, although some member libraries have explicit agreements with OCLC that they can publish catalog data using the CC0 Public Domain Dedication.[61][62] In July 2010, the company was sued by SkyRiver, a rival startup, in an antitrust suit.[63] Library automation company Innovative Interfaces joined SkyRiver in the suit.[64] The suit was dropped in March 2013, however, following the acquisition of SkyRiver by Innovative Interfaces.[65] Innovative Interfaces was later bought by ExLibris, therefore passing OCLC as the dominant supplier of ILS services in the USA (over 70% market share for academic libraries and over 50% for public libraries for ExLibris, versus OCLC's 10% market share of both types of libraries in 2019).[66] See also[edit] Dynix (software) Public library advocacy References[edit] ^ a b c 2015/2016 OCLC annual report. 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Blackman, Cathy; Moore, Erica Rae; Seikel, Michele; Smith, Mandi (July 2014). "WorldCat and SkyRiver: a comparison of record quantity and fullness". Library Resources & Technical Services. 58 (3): 178–186. doi:10.5860/lrts.58n3.178. Breeding, Marshall (May 2015). "Library services platforms: a maturing genre of products". Library Technology Reports. 51 (4): 1–38. doi:10.5860/ltr.51n4. Jordan, Jay, ed. (2011). Weaving libraries into the web: OCLC 1998–2008. London; New York: Routledge. ISBN 9780415576901. OCLC 759584353. Maciuszko, Kathleen L. (1984). OCLC, a decade of development, 1967–1977. Littleton, Colo.: Libraries Unlimited. ISBN 0872874079. OCLC 10483157. Matthews, Joseph R. (July 2016). "An environmental scan of OCLC alternatives: a management perspective". Public Library Quarterly. 35 (3): 175–187. doi:10.1080/01616846.2016.1210440. Richardson, Ellen (January 2012). "Ain't no (Sky)River wide enough to keep me from getting to you: SkyRiver, Innovative, OCLC, and the fight for control over the bibliographic data, cataloging services, ILL, and ILS markets". Legal Reference Services Quarterly. 31 (1): 37–64. doi:10.1080/0270319X.2012.654065. Smith, K. Wayne, ed. (1998). OCLC, 1967–1997: thirty years of furthering access to the world's information. New York: Haworth Press. ISBN 0789005360. OCLC 38732191. "WorldCat data licensing" (PDF). oclc.org. Retrieved December 31, 2018. See also: "Data licenses & attribution". oclc.org. January 14, 2017. Retrieved December 31, 2018. Information about licensing of WorldCat records and some other OCLC data. External links[edit] Wikimedia Commons has media related to OCLC. Official website "Hanging Together – the OCLC Research blog". "OCLC Annual Reports collection". OCLC Archives. "WorldCat.org". Works by or about OCLC in libraries (WorldCat catalog) Authority control BIBSYS: 90089898 BNE: XX133903 CiNii: DA00183680 GND: 1046905-9 ISNI: 0000 0001 1482 1326 LCCN: n78015294 LNB: 000129426 NKC: kn20010711319 NLA: 36515105 NLI: 000100820 NLP: A20356043 NSK: 000471661 SELIBR: 125746 SNAC: w6gb6xgb VcBA: 494/15627 VIAF: 145425848 WorldCat Identities: lccn-n78015294 Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=OCLC&oldid=991430490" Categories: OCLC 1967 establishments in Ohio Bibliographic database providers Companies based in Dublin, Ohio Cooperatives in the United States Library automation Library cataloging and classification Library centers Library-related organizations Organizations established in 1967 Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description matches Wikidata Use American English from May 2017 All Wikipedia articles written in American English Use mdy dates from September 2017 Articles containing potentially dated statements from 2016 All articles containing potentially dated statements Commons category link is on Wikidata Wikipedia articles with BIBSYS identifiers Wikipedia articles with BNE identifiers Wikipedia articles with CINII identifiers Wikipedia articles with GND identifiers Wikipedia articles with ISNI identifiers Wikipedia articles with LCCN identifiers Wikipedia articles with LNB identifiers Wikipedia articles with NKC identifiers Wikipedia articles with NLA identifiers Wikipedia articles with NLI identifiers Wikipedia articles with NLP identifiers Wikipedia articles with NSK identifiers Wikipedia articles with SELIBR identifiers Wikipedia articles with SNAC-ID identifiers Wikipedia articles with VcBA identifiers Wikipedia articles with VIAF identifiers Wikipedia articles with WORLDCATID identifiers Navigation menu Personal tools Not logged in Talk Contributions Create account Log in Namespaces Article Talk Variants Views Read Edit View history More Search Navigation Main page Contents Current events Random article About Wikipedia Contact us Donate Contribute Help Learn to edit Community portal Recent changes Upload file Tools What links here Related changes Upload file Special pages Permanent link Page information Cite this page Wikidata item Print/export Download as PDF Printable version In other projects Wikimedia Commons Languages Afrikaans العربية Aragonés Asturianu Azərbaycanca বাংলা Bân-lâm-gú Български Boarisch Bosanski Català Čeština Cymraeg Dansk Deutsch Ελληνικά Español Esperanto Euskara فارسی Français Galego ગુજરાતી 한국어 Հայերեն हिन्दी Hrvatski Ilokano Bahasa Indonesia Italiano עברית Kapampangan ქართული Kurdî Македонски മലയാളം Bahasa Melayu Nederlands नेपाली 日本語 Norsk bokmål ਪੰਜਾਬੀ Polski Português Română Русский Shqip Simple English Slovenčina Slovenščina Српски / srpski Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски Suomi Svenska Tagalog தமிழ் ไทย Türkçe Українська Tiếng Việt 吴语 中文 Edit links This page was last edited on 30 November 2020, at 01:03 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply. By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization. Privacy policy About Wikipedia Disclaimers Contact Wikipedia Mobile view Developers Statistics Cookie statement en-wikipedia-org-6453 ---- Brian Deer Classification System - Wikipedia Brian Deer Classification System From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search The Brian Deer Classification System (BDC) is a library classification system used to organize materials in libraries with specialized Indigenous collections. The system was created in the 1970s by Canadian Kahnawake Mohawk librarian A. Brian Deer, and has been adapted for use by a small number of First Nations libraries in Canada.[1] Contents 1 History and usage 2 Structure 3 References 4 External links History and usage[edit] Deer designed his classification system while working in the library of the National Indian Brotherhood from 1974 to 1976; instead of using a standard library classification scheme, he created a new system to organize the library's historic research materials and papers.[2] He went on to work at the Cultural Centre at Kahnawake and the Kahnawake Branch branch of the Mohawk Nation Office, creating new schemes for their collections.[2] The new systems Deer created were designed specifically for the materials in each collection according to the concerns of local Indigenous people at the time (for example, categories included land claims, treaty rights, resource management, and Elders' stories).[2][3] Between 1978 and 1980, the system was adapted for use in British Columbia by Gene Joseph and Keltie McCall while working at the Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs.[1] Though the Brian Deer Classification was not created as a universal classification solution for Indigenous resources, the system has provided a foundation for specialized libraries to create their own localized classification schemes.[3][4]:24 Variations of the Brian Deer Classification System are used in a small number of Canadian libraries.[1] One prominent library using BDC is the X̱wi7x̱wa Library at the University of British Columbia, which uses a British Columbia-focused version of BDC along with First Nations House of Learning subject headings.[1] The Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs Resource Centre revised the BDC in 2013, with the goal of providing users with a more flexible and culturally appropriate approach to organizing their resources.[2] The Aanischaaukamikw Cree Cultural Institute in Oujé-Bougoumou, Quebec implemented a local adaptation of BDC when they opened in 2012.[3][5] In 2020 the Carrier Sekani Tribal Council in Prince George, British Columbia moved from organizing its library with the Dewey Decimal Classification to a version of the BDC, adding new categories for topics of local interest such as the Missing and murdered Indigenous women epidemic.[6] Structure[edit] The organizational structure of BDC reflects a First Nations worldview, with an emphasis on relationships between and among people, animals, and the land.[4]:22 Subcategories demonstrate the relationships among First Nations by grouping them geographically as opposed to alphabetically, as is frequently used for specific topics in the Library of Congress Classification.[4]:20[7] The top-level hierarchy of the X̱wi7x̱wa Library adaptation of BDC demonstrates the emphasis on access to subjects prioritized by a First Nation collection:[8][9]:21 Reference Materials Local History History International Education Economic Development Housing and Community Development Criminal Justice System Constitution (Canada) and First Nations Self Government Rights and Title Natural Resources Community Resources Health World View Fine Arts Languages Literature The system is not designed to provide a comprehensive description of all topics of interest to North American Indigenous peoples; in addition, its use is limited in scope, being intended for small and specialized libraries.[2][9]:22 While English is used in the classification scheme as a common language among First Nations peoples and non-Indigenous library users, Indigenous spellings and terminology that local library users would expect to find are used to provide access.[4]:20[2] Short and easily remembered call numbers are used to facilitate use by both library workers and patrons, with the recognition that Indigenous libraries often have a small staff and limited resources to devote to cataloging.[2][9]:21 Beyond its simplicity, one potential drawback of the system is its shortage of clear guidelines for application, which provides flexibility but can also result in inconsistencies within and between library catalogs.[9]:21[4]:23 Because few libraries use the BDC and there are limited examples for use as case studies, implementing the system and keeping it up-to-date can prove a challenge for libraries with limited resources.[9]:27[4]:18 However, X̱wi7x̱wa Library head librarian Ann Doyle describes the system as "an important part of the body of Indigenous scholarship" that should be retained as a reflection of Indigenous worldviews, as well as for ease of access for Indigenous library users.[9]:27 References[edit] ^ a b c d Doyle, Ann M.; Lawson, Kimberley; Dupont, Sarah (December 2015). "Indigenization of Knowledge Organization at the Xwi7xwa Library". Journal of Library and Information Studies. 13 (2): 112. doi:10.6182/jlis.2015.13(2).107. Retrieved 11 March 2016. ^ a b c d e f g Cherry, Alissa; Mukunda, Keshav (31 Jul 2015). "A Case Study in Indigenous Classification: Revisiting and Reviving the Brian Deer Scheme". Cataloging & Classification Quarterly. 53 (5–6): 548–567. doi:10.1080/01639374.2015.1008717. ^ a b c Swanson, Raegan (31 July 2015). "Adapting the Brian Deer Classification System for Aanischaaukamikw Cree Cultural Institute". Cataloging & Classification Quarterly. 53 (5–6): 568–579. doi:10.1080/01639374.2015.1009669. ^ a b c d e f Gilman, Isaac (March 2006). From Marginalization to Accessibility: Classification of Indigenous Materials (MLIS). Pacific University. Retrieved 1 February 2019. ^ Bosum, Annie; Dunne, Ashley (31 Oct 2017). "Implementing the Brian Deer Classification Scheme for Aanischaaukamikw Cree Cultural Institute". Collection Management. 42 (3–4): 280–293. doi:10.1080/01462679.2017.1340858. ^ Szeto, Winston (16 September 2020). "B.C. First Nations council is moving to Indigenous-developed library system". CBC News. Retrieved 22 October 2020. ^ Lin, Brian (2006). "Stubbornness kept unique library open". Raven's Eye. 9 (8). Retrieved 2 February 2019. ^ "Brian Deer Classification Scheme" (PDF). Xwi7xwa Library. Retrieved 2 February 2019. ^ a b c d e f Tomren, Holly (2004). "Classification, Bias, and American Indian Materials" (PDF). Retrieved 2 February 2019. 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Privacy policy About Wikipedia Disclaimers Contact Wikipedia Mobile view Developers Statistics Cookie statement en-wikipedia-org-6982 ---- MusicBrainz - Wikipedia MusicBrainz From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search Online music metadata database MusicBrainz MusicBrainz homepage Type of site Online music encyclopedia[1] Available in English Owner MetaBrainz Foundation Created by Robert Kaye URL musicbrainz.org Commercial No Registration Optional (required for editing data) Users ~250,000 active ever[2] Launched July 17, 2000; 20 years ago (2000-07-17)[3] Current status Online Content license Part Creative Commons Zero (open data) and part CC-BY-NC-SA (not open); commercial licensing available Written in Perl with PostgreSQL database MusicBrainz is a project which aims to create a collaborative music database that is similar to the freedb project. MusicBrainz was founded in response to the restrictions placed on the Compact Disc Database (CDDB), a database for software applications to look up audio CD information on the Internet. MusicBrainz has expanded its goals to reach beyond a CD metadata (this is information about the performers, artists, songwriters, etc.) storehouse to become a structured online database for music.[4][5] MusicBrainz captures information about artists, their recorded works, and the relationships between them. Recorded works entries capture at a minimum the album title, track titles, and the length of each track. These entries are maintained by volunteer editors who follow community written style guidelines. Recorded works can also store information about the release date and country, the CD ID, cover art, acoustic fingerprint, free-form annotation text and other metadata. As of September 2020[update], MusicBrainz contained information on roughly 1.7 million artists, 2.6 million releases, and 23 million recordings.[2] End-users can use software that communicates with MusicBrainz to add metadata tags to their digital media files, such as ALAC, FLAC, MP3, Ogg Vorbis or AAC. Contents 1 Cover Art Archive 2 Fingerprinting 2.1 Proprietary services 2.2 AcoustID and Chromaprint 3 Licensing 4 Client software 5 See also 6 References 7 Further reading 8 External links Cover Art Archive[edit] MusicBrainz allows contributors to upload cover art images of releases to the database; these images are hosted by Cover Art Archive (CAA), a joint project between Internet Archive and MusicBrainz started in 2012. Internet Archive provides the bandwidth, storage and legal protection for hosting the images, while MusicBrainz stores metadata and provides public access through the web and via an API for third parties to use. As with other contributions, the MusicBrainz community is in charge of maintaining and reviewing the data.[6] Cover art is also provided for items on sale at Amazon.com and some other online resources, but CAA is now preferred because it gives the community more control and flexibility for managing the images. Fingerprinting[edit] Besides collecting metadata about music, MusicBrainz also allows looking up recordings by their acoustic fingerprint. A separate application, such as MusicBrainz Picard, must be used for this. Proprietary services[edit] In 2000, MusicBrainz started using Relatable's patented TRM (a recursive acronym for TRM Recognizes Music) for acoustic fingerprint matching. This feature attracted many users and allowed the database to grow quickly. However, by 2005 TRM was showing scalability issues as the number of tracks in the database had reached into the millions. This issue was resolved in May 2006 when MusicBrainz partnered with MusicIP (now AmpliFIND), replacing TRM with MusicDNS.[7] TRMs were phased out and replaced by MusicDNS in November 2008. In October 2009 MusicIP was acquired by AmpliFIND.[8] Some time after the acquisition, the MusicDNS service began having intermittent problems. AcoustID and Chromaprint[edit] Since the future of the free identification service was uncertain, a replacement for it was sought. The Chromaprint acoustic fingerprinting algorithm, the basis for AcoustID identification service, was started in February 2010 by a long-time MusicBrainz contributor Lukáš Lalinský.[9] While AcoustID and Chromaprint are not officially MusicBrainz projects, they are closely tied with each other and both are open source. Chromaprint works by analyzing the first two minutes of a track, detecting the strength in each of 12 pitch classes, storing these 8 times per second. Additional post-processing is then applied to compress this fingerprint while retaining patterns.[10] The AcoustID search server then searches from the database of fingerprints by similarity and returns the AcoustID identifier along with MusicBrainz recording identifiers if known. Licensing[edit] Since 2003,[11] MusicBrainz's core data (artists, recordings, releases, and so on) are in the public domain, and additional content, including moderation data (essentially every original content contributed by users and its elaborations), is placed under the Creative Commons CC-BY-NC-SA-2.0 license.[12] The relational database management system is PostgreSQL. The server software is covered by the GNU General Public License. The MusicBrainz client software library, libmusicbrainz, is licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License, which allows use of the code by proprietary software products. In December 2004, the MusicBrainz project was turned over to the MetaBrainz Foundation, a non-profit group, by its creator Robert Kaye.[13] On 20 January 2006, the first commercial venture to use MusicBrainz data was the Barcelona, Spain-based Linkara in their Linkara Música service.[14] On 28 June 2007, BBC announced that it had licensed MusicBrainz's live data feed to augment their music web pages. The BBC online music editors would also join the MusicBrainz community to contribute their knowledge to the database.[15] On 28 July 2008, the beta of the new BBC Music site was launched, which publishes a page for each MusicBrainz artist.[16][17] Client software[edit] Amarok – KDE audio player Banshee – multi-platform audio player Beets – automatic CLI music tagger/organiser for Unix-like systems Clementine – multi-platform audio player CDex – Microsoft Windows CD ripper Demlo – a dynamic and extensible music manager using a CLI iEatBrainz – Mac OS X, deprecated foo_musicbrainz component for foobar2000 – music library/pudio Player Jaikoz – Java mass tag editor Max – Mac OS X CD ripper and audio transcoder Mp3tag – Windows metadata editor and music organizer MusicBrainz Picard – cross-platform album-oriented tag editor MusicBrainz Tagger – deprecated Microsoft Windows tag editor puddletag – a tag editor for PyQt under the GPLv3 Rhythmbox music player – an audio player for Unix-like systems Sound Juicer – GNOME CD ripper Zortam Mp3 Media Studio – Windows music organizer and ID3 tag editor Freedb clients could also access MusicBrainz data through the freedb protocol by using the MusicBrainz to FreeDB gateway service, mb2freedb. The gateway was shutdown on March 18, 2019.[18] See also[edit] List of online music databases References[edit] ^ "About". MusicBrainz. MetaBrainz. Archived from the original on 2015-05-08. Retrieved 4 May 2015. ^ a b "Database Statistics". MusicBrainz. Archived from the original on 2011-07-22. Retrieved 2018-09-20. ^ "WHOIS Lookup". ICANN. Archived from the original on 2015-04-02. Retrieved 23 March 2015. ^ Highfield, Ashley. "Keynote speech given at IEA Future Of Broadcasting Conference Archived 2008-04-22 at the Wayback Machine", BBC Press Office, 2007-06-27. Retrieved on 2008-02-11. ^ Swartz, A. (2002). "MusicBrainz: A semantic Web service" (PDF). IEEE Intelligent Systems. 17: 76–77. doi:10.1109/5254.988466. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2015-04-03. Retrieved 2015-08-28. ^ Fabian Scherschel (10 October 2012). "MusicBrainz and Internet Archive create cover art database". The H. Archived from the original on 7 December 2013. ^ "New fingerprinting technology available now!" (Press release). MusicBrainz community blog. 2006-03-12. Archived from the original on 2008-08-07. Retrieved 2006-08-03. ^ AmpliFIND Music Services: News Archived 2013-09-21 at the Wayback Machine ^ "Introducing Chromaprint – Lukáš Lalinský". Oxygene.sk. 2010-07-24. Archived from the original on 2018-10-10. Retrieved 2018-04-10. ^ Jang, Dalwon; Yoo, Chang D; Lee, Sunil; Kim, Sungwoong; Kalker, Ton (2011-01-18). "How does Chromaprint work? – Lukáš Lalinský". IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security. 4 (4): 995–1004. doi:10.1109/TIFS.2009.2034452. S2CID 1502596. Retrieved 2018-04-10. ^ "MusicBrainz Licenses". Archived from the original on April 13, 2003. Retrieved 2015-10-23.CS1 maint: BOT: original-url status unknown (link) ^ MusicBrainz License as of 13-11-2010. ^ Kaye, Robert (2006-03-12). "The MetaBrainz Foundation launches!" (Press release). MusicBrainz community blog. Archived from the original on 2011-05-19. Retrieved 2006-08-03. ^ Kaye, Robert (2006-01-20). "Introducing: Linkara Musica". MusicBrainz. Archived from the original on 2008-09-07. Retrieved 2006-08-12. ^ Kaye, Robert (2007-06-28). "The BBC partners with MusicBrainz for Music Metadata". MusicBrainz. Archived from the original on 2007-06-30. Retrieved 2007-07-10. ^ Shorter, Matthew (2008-07-28). "BBC Music Artist Pages Beta". BBC. Archived from the original on 2009-01-24. Retrieved 2009-02-12. ^ MusicBrainz and the BBC Archived 2018-02-20 at the Wayback Machine as of 2013-03-16 ^ "Freedb gateway: End of life notice, March 18, 2019". MetaBrainz Blog. 2018-09-18. Retrieved 2020-02-12. Further reading[edit] Making Metadata: The Case of MusicBrainz. Jess Hemerly. Master's project at UC Berkeley. 2011. External links[edit] Wikimedia Commons has media related to MusicBrainz. 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Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply. By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization. Privacy policy About Wikipedia Disclaimers Contact Wikipedia Mobile view Developers Statistics Cookie statement en-wikipedia-org-7921 ---- Stanford MIPS - Wikipedia Stanford MIPS From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search Not to be confused with MIPS architecture or MIPS-X. This article includes a list of general references, but it remains largely unverified because it lacks sufficient corresponding inline citations. Please help to improve this article by introducing more precise citations. (May 2017) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) MIPS, an acronym for Microprocessor without Interlocked Pipeline Stages, was a research project conducted by John L. Hennessy at Stanford University between 1981 and 1984. MIPS investigated a type of instruction set architecture (ISA) now called Reduced Instruction Set Computer (RISC), its implementation as a microprocessor with very large scale integration (VLSI) semiconductor technology, and the effective exploitation of RISC architectures with optimizing compilers. MIPS, together with the IBM 801 and Berkeley RISC, were the three research projects that pioneered and popularized RISC technology in the mid-1980s. In recognition of the impact MIPS made on computing, Hennessey was awarded the IEEE John von Neumann Medal in 2000 by the IEEE (shared with David A. Patterson), the Eckert–Mauchly Award in 2001 by the Association for Computing Machinery, the Seymour Cray Computer Engineering Award in 2001 by the IEEE Computer Society, and, again with David Patterson, the Turing Award in 2017 by the ACM. The project was initiated in 1981 in response to reports of similar projects at IBM (the 801) and the University of California, Berkeley (the RISC). MIPS was conducted by Hennessy and his graduate students until its conclusion in 1984. Hennessey founded MIPS Computer Systems in the same year to commercialize the technology developed by the project. In 1985, MIPS Computer Systems announced a new ISA, also called MIPS, and its first implementation, the R2000 microprocessor. The commercial MIPS ISA, and its implementations went on to be widely used, appearing in embedded computers, personal computers, workstations, servers, and supercomputers. As of May 2017, the commercial MIPS ISA is owned by Imagination Technologies, and is used mainly in embedded computers. In the late 1980s, a follow-up project called MIPS-X was conducted by Hennessy at Stanford. The MIPS ISA was based on a 32-bit word. It supported 32-bit addressing, and was word-addressed. It was a load/store architecture—all references to memory used load and store instructions that copied data between the main memory and 32 general-purpose registers (GPRs). All other instructions, such as integer arithmetic, operated on the GPRs. It possessed a basic instruction set consisting of instructions for control flow, integer arithmetic, and logical operations. To minimize pipeline stalls, all instructions except for load and store had to be executed in one clock cycle. There were no instructions for integer multiplication or division, or operations for floating-point numbers. The architecture exposed all hazards caused by the five-stage pipeline with delay slots. The compiler scheduled instructions to avoid hazards resulting in incorrect computation whilst simultaneously ensuring that the generated code minimized execution time. MIPS instructions are 16 or 32 bit long. The decision to expose all hazards was motivated by the desire to maximize performance by minimizing critical paths, which interlock circuits lengthened. Instructions were packed into 32-bit instruction words (as MIPS is word-addressed). A 32-bit instruction word could contain two 16-bit operations. These were included to reduce the size of machine code. The MIPS microprocessor was implemented in NMOS logic. References[edit] Tanenbaum, Andrew S. Structured Computer Organization (5 ed.). Stallings, William. Computer Organization and Architecture: Designing for Performance (9 ed.). Tabak, Daniel (1987). RISC Architecture. Research Studies Press. pp. 60–68. v t e MIPS microprocessors MIPS architecture MIPS architecture processors List of MIPS architecture processors General processors MIPS64 compatible Loongson 3 Series LS3A1000/LS3A1000-I(LS3A1000-i) LS3A2000/LS3A1500-I LS3A3000/LS3A3000-I(LS3A3000-i) LS3A4000/LS3A4000-I(LS3A4000-i) LS3B1000 LS3B1500 LS3B2000 LS3B3000 LS3B4000 Application processors MIPS32 compatible Ingenic XBurst JZ4720 Ben NanoNote JZ4730 (Skytone Alpha-400) JZ4740 (Dingoo A320) JZ4750 (Game Gadget) JZ4760 Velocity Micro T103 Cruz Velocity Micro T301 Cruz JZ4770 Ainol Novo7 Paladin NEOGEO-X GCW-Zero JZ4780 MIPS64 compatible Loongson 2 Series LS2H LS2K1000/LS2K2000 Microcontrollers (embedded device) M4K Microchip Technology PIC32MX 4Kc/4KEc ATI/AMD/Broadcom Xilleon MIPS32 compatible Loongson 1 Series LS1A0300 LS1B LS1C300 LS1C101 LS1D LS1G LS1H Networking 4Kc/4KEc Qualcomm Atheros AR2313 AR2318 MediaTek RT2880 Texas Instruments/Infineon/Lantiq AR7 Lantiq AMAZON 5Kc Marvell 88E6318 "Link Street" 24Kc/24KEc Qualcomm Atheros AR7240 AR7161 AR9132 AR9331 MediaTek RT3050 RT3052 RT3350 RT5350 RT6856 MT7620 Lantiq DANUBE VINAX 34Kc Lantiq AR188 VRX288 GRX388 Ikanos Fusiv Vx175/173 Fusiv Vx180 Fusiv Vx185/183 74Kc Qualcomm Atheros AR9344 QCA9558 MediaTek RT3662 RT3883 Broadcom BCM4706 1004Kc MediaTek MT7621 1074Kc Realtek RTL8198C MIPS32 compatible Broadcom various Cavium various Alchemy Semiconductor Alchemy RMI Corporation XLR MIPS64 compatible Broadcom various Cavium Octeon Gaming various PlayStation 1 MIPS R3000A-compatible Nintendo 64 NEC VR4300 PlayStation Portable R4000-based PlayStation 2 Emotion Engine Supercomputer MIPS64 compatible Loongson-based systems LS2F/LS2F1000 LS3A1000 LS3B1000 SiCortex Aerospace MIPS64 compatible Loongson 1 Series LS1E0300/LS1E1000 MIPS32 compatible Loongson 1 Series LS1E04 LS1F04/LS1F0300 LS1J Classic processors MIPS I R2000 R3000 MIPS II R6000 MIPS III R4000 R4400 R4200 R4300i R4600 R4700 MIPS IV R5000 R8000 R10000 R12000 R12000A R14000 R14000A R16000 R16000A R18000 MIPS V H1 "Beast" H2 "Capitan" v t e Reduced instruction set computer (RISC) architectures IBM 801 Berkeley RISC Stanford MIPS Active Analog Devices Blackfin ARC ARM AVR eSi-RISC LatticeMico8 LatticeMico32 MIPS OpenRISC Power ISA Renesas M32R Renesas SuperH Renesas V850 RISC-V Sunway SPARC Unicore Xilinx MicroBlaze Xilinx PicoBlaze Historic Alpha AMD Am29000 Apollo PRISM Atmel AVR32 Clipper CRISP DEC Prism Intel i860 Intel i960 Meta MIPS-X Motorola 88000 Motorola M·CORE PA-RISC ROMP POWER PowerPC Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Stanford_MIPS&oldid=968133094" Categories: MIPS architecture Instruction set architectures Microprocessors American inventions Stanford University Hidden categories: Articles lacking in-text citations from May 2017 All articles lacking in-text citations Navigation menu Personal tools Not logged in Talk Contributions Create account Log in Namespaces Article Talk Variants Views Read Edit View history More Search Navigation Main page Contents Current events Random article About Wikipedia Contact us Donate Contribute Help Learn to edit Community portal Recent changes Upload file Tools What links here Related changes Upload file Special pages Permanent link Page information Cite this page Wikidata item Print/export Download as PDF Printable version Languages Español Edit links This page was last edited on 17 July 2020, at 12:44 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply. By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization. Privacy policy About Wikipedia Disclaimers Contact Wikipedia Mobile view Developers Statistics Cookie statement en-wikipedia-org-8109 ---- Enclosure - Wikipedia Enclosure From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search Not to be confused with exclosure. For other uses, see Enclosure (disambiguation). Legal process in England of consolidating (enclosing) small landholdings into larger farms Enclosure, sometimes termed inclosure, was the legal process in England of consolidating (enclosing) small landholdings into larger farms[1] from the 13th century onward. Once enclosed, use of the land became restricted and available only to the owner, and it ceased to be common land for communal use. In England and Wales the term is also used for the process that ended the ancient system of arable farming in open fields. Under enclosure, such land is fenced (enclosed) and deeded or entitled to one or more owners. The process of enclosure began to be a widespread feature of the English agricultural landscape during the 16th century. By the 19th century, unenclosed commons had become largely restricted to rough pasture in mountainous areas and to relatively small parts of the lowlands. Enclosure could be accomplished by buying the ground rights and all common rights to accomplish exclusive rights of use, which increased the value of the land. The other method was by passing laws causing or forcing enclosure, such as Parliamentary enclosure involving an Inclosure Act. The latter process of enclosure was sometimes accompanied by force, resistance, and bloodshed, and remains among the most controversial areas of agricultural and economic history in England. Marxist historians argue that rich landowners used their control of state processes to appropriate public land for their private benefit.[2] During the Georgian era, the process of enclosure created a landless working class that provided the labour required in the new industries developing in the north of England. For example: "In agriculture the years between 1760 and 1820 are the years of wholesale enclosure in which, in village after village, common rights are lost."[3] E. P. Thompson argues that "Enclosure (when all the sophistications are allowed for) was a plain enough case of class robbery."[4][5] W. A. Armstrong, among others, argued that this is perhaps an oversimplification, that the better-off members of the European peasantry encouraged and participated actively in enclosure, seeking to end the perpetual poverty of subsistence farming. "We should be careful not to ascribe to [enclosure] developments that were the consequence of a much broader and more complex process of historical change."[6] Armstrong notes that enclosure had varying impacts on levels of poor relief in western and eastern counties, and suggests the decrease in agricultural wages in this period (and subsequent emigration to urban areas) was more related to overall rural population growth instead.[7][8] Enclosure is considered one of the causes of the British Agricultural Revolution. Enclosed land was under control of the farmer who was free to adopt better farming practices. There was widespread agreement in contemporary accounts that profit making opportunities were better with enclosed land.[9] Following enclosure, crop yields increased while at the same time labour productivity increased enough to create a surplus of labour. The increased labour supply is considered one of the causes of the Industrial Revolution.[10][page needed] Karl Marx argued in Capital that enclosure played a constitutive role in the revolutionary transformation of feudalism into capitalism, both by transforming land from a means of subsistence into a means to realize profit on commodity markets (primarily wool in the English case), and by creating the conditions for the modern labour market by unifying smallholders and pastoralists into the mass of agricultural wage-labourers, i.e. those whose opportunities to exit the market declined as the common lands were enclosed.[11] Contents 1 Early history 2 Tudor enclosures 2.1 Anti-enclosure legislation 2.2 Inflation and enclosure 2.3 Enclosure riots 2.3.1 Midland Revolt 2.3.2 Newton Rebellion: 8 June 1607 2.3.3 Western Rising 1630–32 and forest enclosure 3 Parliamentary enclosure and open fields 4 Enclosure roads 5 Contemporary worldwide movements against enclosure 6 See also 6.1 In other countries 7 Notes 8 References 9 Further reading 10 External links Early history[edit] Conjectural map of a mediaeval English manor. The part allocated to 'common pasture' is shown in the north-east section, shaded green. Decaying hedges mark the lines of the straight field boundaries created by the 1768 Parliamentary Act of Enclosure of Boldron Moor, County Durham. Enclosure of manorial common land was authorised by the Statute of Merton (1235) and the Statute of Westminster (1285). Throughout the medieval and modern periods, piecemeal enclosure took place in which adjacent strips were fenced off from the common field. This was sometimes undertaken by small landowners, but more often by large landowners and lords of the manor. Significant enclosures (or emparkments) took place to establish deer parks. Some (but not all) of these enclosures took place with local agreement.[12] Most if not all emparkments were of already fenced land. Often large land was owned by the major landowners and lords. Tudor enclosures[edit] From as early as the 12th century, some open fields in Britain were being enclosed into individually owned fields. However there was a significant rise in enclosure during the Tudor period. These enclosures largely resulted in conversion of land use from arable to pasture – usually sheep farming. These enclosures were often undertaken unilaterally by the landowner. Enclosures during the Tudor period were often accompanied by a loss of common rights and could result in the destruction of whole villages.[13] English champaign (extensive, open land) had been commonly enclosed as pastureland for sheep from the fourteenth to the sixteenth century as populations declined. Foreign demand for English wool also helped encourage increased production, and the wool industry was often thought to be more profitable for landowners who had large decaying farmlands. Some manorial lands lay in disrepair from a lack of tenants, which made them undesirable to both prospective tenants and landowners who could be fined and ordered to make repairs. Enclosure and sheep herding (which required very few labourers) were a solution to the problem, but resulted in unemployment, the displacement of impoverished rural labourers, and decreased domestic grain production which made England more susceptible to famine and higher prices for domestic and foreign grain. In Great Britain, the process sped up during the 15th and 16th centuries as sheep farming grew more profitable. In the 16th and early 17th centuries, the practice of enclosure, particularly of depopulating enclosure, was denounced by the Church and the government and legislation was drawn up against it. But elite opinion began to turn towards support for enclosure, and rate of enclosure increased in the seventeenth century. This led to a series of government acts addressing individual regions, which were given a common framework in the Inclosure Consolidation Act of 1801. Sir Thomas More, in his 1516 work Utopia suggests that the practice of enclosure was responsible for some of the social problems affecting England at the time, specifically theft: "But I do not think that this necessity of stealing arises only from hence; there is another cause of it, more peculiar to England." "What is that?" said the Cardinal. "The increase of pasture," said I, "by which your sheep, which are naturally mild, and easily kept in order, may be said now to devour men and unpeople, not only villages, but towns; for wherever it is found that the sheep of any soil yield a softer and richer wool than ordinary, there the nobility and gentry, and even those holy men, the abbots not contented with the old rents which their farms yielded, nor thinking it enough that they, living at their ease, do no good to the public, resolve to do it hurt instead of good. They stop the course of agriculture, destroying houses and towns – reserving only the churches – and enclose grounds that they may lodge their sheep in them."[14] The loss of agricultural labour also hurt others like millers whose livelihood relied on agricultural produce. Fynes Moryson reported on these problems in his 1617 work An Itinerary:[15] England abounds with corn [wheat and other grains], which they may transport, when a quarter (in some places containing six, in others eight bushels) is sold for twenty shillings, or under; and this corn not only serves England, but also served the English army in the civil wars of Ireland, at which time they also exported great quantity thereof into foreign parts, and by God's mercy England scarce once in ten years needs a supply of foreign corn, which want commonly proceeds of the covetousness of private men, exporting or hiding it. Yet I must confess, that daily this plenty of corn decreaseth, by reason that private men, finding greater commodity in feeding of sheep and cattle than in the plow, requiring the hands of many servants, can by no law be restrained from turning cornfields into enclosed pastures, especially since great men are the first to break these laws. Anti-enclosure legislation[edit] Manorial lords' enclosure of common land (particularly to monopolise local sheep farming) and the consequent eviction of commoners or villagers from their homes and their livelihoods became an important political issue for the Tudors. Enclosure led to homeless, displaced inhabitants, potential underclass rebels. The King's advisers were extremely nervous about such impoverishment or "beggaring". Commoners kept informal homes and farms, a broad stream of non-collectivised tax revenues. Workers were strong-limbed, frequent military conscripts for the crown. In the sixteenth century, lack of income made one a pauper. If one lost one's home as well, one became a vagrant; and vagrants were regarded (and treated) as criminals. The authorities saw many people becoming what they regarded as vagabonds and thieves as a result of enclosure and depopulation of villages. Reflecting these factors, the anti-enclosure acts of 1489 began those aimed to stem enclosure. From the time of Henry VII, Parliament began passing Acts to stop enclosure, to limit its effects, or at least to fine those responsible. Over the next 150 years, there were 11 more Acts of Parliament and eight commissions of enquiry on the subject.[16] Initially, enclosure was not itself an offence, but where it was accompanied by the destruction of houses, half the (land's annual) profits would go to the Crown until the lost houses were rebuilt (the 1489 Act gave half these net revenues to the superior landlord, who might not be the Crown, but an Act of 1536 allowed the Crown to receive this half share if the superior landlord had not taken action to claim it). In 1515, conversion from arable to pasture became an offence. Once again, half the profits from conversion would go to the Crown until the arable land was restored. Neither the 1515 Act nor the previous laws were watertight in stopping enclosure, so in 1517 Cardinal Wolsey established a commission of enquiry to determine where offences had taken place – and to ensure the Crown received its punitive half-share of annual agricultural profits. Inflation and enclosure[edit] Alongside population growth,[17] inflation was a major reason for enclosure.[18] When Henry VIII became King in 1509, he found the royal finances in good shape thanks to the prudence of his father Henry VII (reigned 1485–1509). But this soon changed as Henry VIII doubled household expenditure and started costly wars against both France and Scotland. With his wealth rapidly decreasing, Henry VIII imposed a series of taxes devised by his Chancellor, Thomas Wolsey (in office 1515–1529). Soon the people began to resent Wolsey's taxes and the administration had to find a new source of finance: in 1544, Henry reduced the silver content of new coins by about 50%; he repeated the process to a lesser extent the following year. This, combined with injection of bullion from the New World, increased the money supply in England, which led to continuing price inflation. The debasement of the coinage was not seen as a cause of inflation (and therefore of enclosures) until the Duke of Somerset became Lord Protector (1547–1549) during the reign of Edward VI (1547–1553). Until then enclosures were seen as the cause of inflation, not the outcome. When Thomas Smith advised Somerset that enclosure resulted from inflation, Somerset ignored him. It was not until John Dudley, 1st Duke of Northumberland became de facto ruler that his Secretary of State William Cecil (in office 1550–1553) took action on debasement to try to stop enclosure.[citation needed] Enclosure riots[edit] After 1529 or so, the problem of untended farmland disappeared with the rising population. There was a desire for more arable land along with much antagonism toward the tenant-graziers with their flocks and herds. Increased demand along with a scarcity of tillable land caused rents to rise dramatically in the 1520s to mid-century. The 1520s appear to have been the point at which the rent increases became extreme, with complaints of rack-rent appearing in popular literature, such as the works of Robert Crowley. There were popular efforts to remove old enclosures, and much legislation of the 1530s and 1540s concerns this shift. Angry tenants impatient to reclaim pastures for tillage were illegally destroying enclosures. Beginning with Kett's Rebellion in 1549, agrarian revolts swept all over the nation, and other revolts occurred periodically throughout the century. The popular rural mentality was to restore the security, stability, and functionality of the old commons system. Historians would write that they were asserting ancient traditional and constitutional rights granted to the free and sturdy English yeoman as opposed to the enslaved and effeminate French. This emphasis on rights was to have a pivotal role in the modern era unfolding from the Enlightenment. D. C. Coleman writes that the English commons were disturbed by the loss of common rights under enclosure which might involve the right "to cut underwood, to run pigs". Midland Revolt[edit] Further information: Midland Revolt In 1607, beginning on May Eve in Haselbech, Northamptonshire and spreading to Warwickshire and Leicestershire throughout May,[citation needed] riots took place as a protest against the enclosure of common land. Now known as the Midland Revolt, it drew considerable support and was led by John Reynolds, otherwise known as 'Captain Pouch', a tinker said to be from Desborough, Northamptonshire.[citation needed] He told the protesters he had authority from the King and the Lord of Heaven to destroy enclosures and promised to protect protesters by the contents of his pouch, carried by his side, which he said would keep them from all harm (after he was captured, his pouch was opened; all that was in it was a piece of green cheese). Thousands of people were recorded at Hillmorton, Warwickshire and at Cotesbach, Leicestershire. A curfew was imposed in the city of Leicester, as it was feared citizens would stream out of the city to join the riots. A gibbet was erected in Leicester as a warning, and was pulled down by the citizens. Newton Rebellion: 8 June 1607[edit] The Newton Rebellion was one of the last times that the non-mining commoners of England and the gentry were in open, armed conflict.[19] Things had come to a head in early June. James I issued a Proclamation and ordered his Deputy Lieutenants in Northamptonshire to put down the riots.[citation needed] It is recorded that women and children were part of the protest. Over a thousand had gathered at Newton, near Kettering, pulling down hedges and filling ditches, to protest against the enclosures of Thomas Tresham.[19] The Treshams were unpopular for their voracious enclosing of land – the family at Newton and their better-known Roman Catholic cousins at nearby Rushton, the family of Francis Tresham, who had been involved two years earlier in the Gunpowder Plot and had by announcement died in London's Tower. Sir Thomas Tresham of Rushton was vilified as 'the most odious man' in Northamptonshire. The old Roman Catholic gentry family of the Treshams had long argued with the emerging Puritan gentry family, the Montagus of Boughton, about territory. Now Tresham of Newton was enclosing common land – The Brand – that had been part of Rockingham Forest.[19] Edward Montagu, one of the Deputy Lieutenants, had stood up against enclosure in Parliament some years earlier, but was now placed by the King in the position effectively of defending the Treshams. The local armed bands and militia refused the call-up, so the landowners were forced to use their own servants to suppress the rioters on 8 June 1607. The Royal Proclamation of King James was read twice. The rioters continued in their actions, although at the second reading some ran away. The gentry and their forces charged. A pitched battle ensued in which 40–50 people were killed; the ringleaders were hanged and quartered. A much-later memorial stone to those killed stands at the former church of St Faith, Newton.[19] The Tresham family declined soon after 1607. The Montagu family went on through marriage to become the Dukes of Buccleuch, enlarging the wealth of the senior branch substantially.[19] Western Rising 1630–32 and forest enclosure[edit] Although Royal forests were not technically commons, they were used as such from at least the 1500s onwards. By the 1600s, when Stuart Kings examined their estates to find new revenues, it had become necessary to offer compensation to at least some of those using the lands as commons when the forests were divided and enclosed. The majority of the disafforestation took place between 1629–40, during Charles I of England's Personal Rule. Most of the beneficiaries were Royal courtiers, who paid large sums to enclose and sublet the forests. Those dispossessed of the commons, especially recent cottagers and those who were outside of tenanted lands belonging to manors, were granted little or no compensation, and rioted in response.[20] Parliamentary enclosure and open fields[edit] Further information: Inclosure Act and British Agricultural Revolution View of the Scafell massif from Yewbarrow, Wasdale, Cumbria. In the valley are older enclosures and higher up on the fell-side are the parliamentary enclosures following straight lines regardless of terrain. During the 18th and 19th centuries, enclosures were by means of local acts of Parliament, called the Inclosure Acts. These parliamentary enclosures consolidated strips in the open fields into more cohesive units, and enclosed much of the remaining pasture commons or wastes. Parliamentary enclosures usually provided commoners with some other land in compensation for the loss of common rights, although often of poor quality and much smaller. Enclosure consisted of exchange in land, and an extinguishing of common rights. This allowed farmers consolidated and fenced off plots of land, in contrast to multiple small strips spread out and separated. Parliamentary enclosure was also used for the division and privatisation of common "wastes" (in the original sense of uninhabited places), such as fens, marshes, heathland, downland, moors. Voluntary enclosure was also frequent at that time.[21] At the time of the parliamentary enclosures, each manor had seen de facto consolidation of farms into multiple large landholdings. Multiple larger landholders already held the bulk of the land.[22] They 'held' but did not legally own in today's sense. They also had to respect the open field system rights, when demanded, even when in practice the rights were not widely in use. Similarly each large landholding would consist of scattered patches, not consolidated farms. In many cases enclosures were largely an exchange and consolidation of land, and exchange not otherwise possible under the legal system. It did also involve the extinguishing of common rights. Without extinguishment, one man in an entire village could unilaterally impose the common field system, even if everyone else did not desire to continue the practice. De jure rights were not in accord with de facto practice. With land one held, one could not formally exchange the land, consolidate fields, or entirely exclude others. Parliamentary enclosure was seen as the most cost-effective method of creating a legally binding settlement. This is because of the costs (time, money, complexity) of the barriers in the common law and in equity to extinguishing customary and long-use rights. Parliament required consent of the owners of ​4⁄5 of affected (the copyholders and freeholders). The primary benefits to large land holders came from increased value of their own land, not from expropriation.[23] Smaller holders could sell their land to larger ones for a higher price post enclosure.[24] There was not much evidence that the common rights were particularly valuable.[25] Protests against Parliamentary Enclosure continued, sometimes in Parliament itself, frequently in the villages affected, and sometimes as organised mass revolts.[26] Voluntary enclosure was frequent at that time.[21] Enclosed land was twice as valuable, a price which could be sustained only by its higher productivity.[27] Marxist historians have focused on enclosure as a part of the class conflict that eventually eliminated the English peasantry and saw the emergence of the bourgeoisie. From this viewpoint, the English Civil War provided the basis for a major acceleration of enclosures. The parliamentary leaders supported the rights of landlords vis-a-vis the King, whose Star Chamber court, abolished in 1641, had provided the primary legal brake on the enclosure process. By dealing an ultimately crippling blow to the monarchy (which, even after the Restoration, no longer posed a significant challenge to enclosures) the Civil War paved the way for the eventual rise to power in the 18th century of what has been called a "committee of Landlords",[28] a prelude to the UK's parliamentary system. The economics of enclosures also changed. Whereas earlier land had been enclosed to make it available for sheep farming, by 1650 the steep rise in wool prices had ended.[29] Thereafter, the focus shifted to implementation of new agricultural techniques, including fertilizer, new crops, and crop rotation, all of which greatly increased the profitability of large-scale farms.[30] The enclosure movement probably peaked from 1760 to 1832; by the latter date it had essentially completed the destruction of the medieval peasant community.[31] Before enclosure, much of the arable land in the central region of England was organised into an open field system. Enclosure was not simply the fencing of existing holdings, but led to fundamental changes in agricultural practice. Scattered holdings of strips in the common field were consolidated to create individual farms that could be managed independently of other holdings. Prior to enclosure, rights to use the land were shared between land owners and villagers (commoners). For example, commoners would have the right (common right) to graze their animals when crops or hay were not being grown, and on common pasture land. The land in a manor under this system would consist of: Two or three very large common arable fields Several very large common hay meadows Closes – small areas of enclosed private land such as paddocks, orchards or gardens, mostly near houses In some cases, a park around the principal house, the manor house Common waste – rough pasture land (effectively everything not in the previous categories) Note that at this time field meant only the unenclosed and open arable land; most of what would now be called 'fields' would then have been called closes. The only boundaries would be those separating the various types of land, and around the closes. In each of the two waves of enclosure, two different processes were used. One was the division of the large open fields and meadows into privately controlled plots of land, usually hedged and known at the time as severals. In the course of enclosure, the large fields and meadows were divided and common access restricted. Most open-field manors in England were enclosed in this manner, with the notable exception of Laxton, Nottinghamshire and parts of the Isle of Axholme in North Lincolnshire. The history of enclosure in England is different from region to region.[32] Not all areas of England had open-field farming in the medieval period. Parts of south-east England (notably parts of Essex and Kent) retained a pre-Roman system of farming in small enclosed fields. Similarly in much of west and north-west England, fields were either never open, or were enclosed early. The primary area of open field management was in the lowland areas of England in a broad band from Yorkshire and Lincolnshire diagonally across England to the south, taking in parts of Norfolk and Suffolk, Cambridgeshire, large areas of the Midlands, and most of south central England. These areas were most affected by the first type of enclosure, particularly in the more densely settled areas where grazing was scarce and farmers relied on open field grazing after the harvest and on the fallow to support their animals. The second form of enclosure affected those areas, such as the north, the far south-west, and some other regions such as the East Anglian Fens, and the Weald, where grazing had been plentiful on otherwise marginal lands, such as marshes and moors. Access to these common resources had been an essential part of the economic life in these strongly pastoral regions, and in the Fens, large riots broke out in the seventeenth century, when attempts to drain the peat and silt marshes were combined with proposals to partially enclose them. Both economic and social factors drove the enclosure movement. In particular, the demand for land in the seventeenth century, increasing regional specialisation, engrossment in landholding and a shift in beliefs regarding the importance of "common wealth" (usually implying common livelihoods) as opposed to the "public good" (the wealth of the nation or the GDP) all laid the groundwork for a shift of support among elites to favour enclosure. Enclosures were conducted by agreement among the landholders (not necessarily the tenants) throughout the seventeenth century; enclosure by Parliamentary Act began in the eighteenth century. Enclosed lands normally could demand higher rents than unenclosed, and thus landlords had an economic stake in enclosure, even if they did not intend to farm the land directly. While many villagers received plots in the newly enclosed manor, for small landholders this compensation was not always enough to offset the costs of enclosure and fencing. Many historians believe that enclosure was an important factor in the reduction of small landholders in England, as compared to the Continent, though others believe that this process had already begun from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Enclosure faced a great deal of popular resistance because of its effects on the household economies of smallholders and landless labourers. Common rights had included not just the right of cattle or sheep grazing, but also the grazing of geese, foraging for pigs, gleaning, berrying, and fuel gathering. During the period of parliamentary enclosure, employment in agriculture did not fall, but failed to keep pace with the growing population.[33] Consequently, large numbers of people left rural areas to move into the cities where they became labourers in the Industrial Revolution. Thus in a real way the English Parliament, seeking to increase profits on farm land also created the workers needed to increase the rapid expansion of the factory work force, by forcing people out of the surround county into cities.[34] By the end of the 19th century enclosure had been carried out in most parishes, leaving a village green, any foreshore below the high-tide mark and occasionally a lower number of small common pastures. Many landowners became rich through the enclosure of the commons, while many ordinary folk had a centuries-old right taken away. Land enclosure has been condemned as a gigantic swindle on the part of large landowners. In 1770 Oliver Goldsmith wrote The Deserted Village, deploring rural depopulation. An anonymous protest poem from the 17th century summed up the anti-enclosure feeling, and has been repeated in many variants since, even being applied to the contemporary privatization of the Internet:[35] The law locks up the man or woman Who steals the goose from off the common, But lets the greater felon loose Who steals the common from the goose.[36] George Orwell wrote in 1944: Stop to consider how the so-called owners of the land got hold of it. They simply seized it by force, afterwards hiring lawyers to provide them with title-deeds. In the case of the enclosure of the common lands, which was going on from about 1600 to 1850, the land-grabbers did not even have the excuse of being foreign conquerors; they were quite frankly taking the heritage of their own countrymen, upon no sort of pretext except that they had the power to do so.[37] In April 1772, a paper signed "near Dorchester", was addressed to the King (the newspapers taking notice of His Majesty's desire to see the price of provisions lowered), to lay before him the evils of forestalling and engrossing. As examples of engrossing in the neighbourhood of Dorchester, the writer instances the manors of Came, Whitcomb, Muncton, and Bockhampton. The first, he says, about thirty years before, had many inhabitants, many holding leasehold estates under the lord of the manor for three lives. Some of these had estates of 15l.,[a] 20l.,[b] and 30l a year, being for the most part careful, industrious people, obliged to be careful to keep a little cash to keep the estate in the family if a life should drop. Their corn was brought to market, and they were content with the market price. Their cattle were sold in the same manner. Their children when of proper age were married, and children begotten, without fear of poverty. But the lord had since turned out all the people, and the whole place was in his own hands, while not half the quantity of corn was sown that formerly had been. The writer also gives an account how one Wm. Taunton, though only a tenant of the Dean and Chapter of Exon, was gradually getting the whole parish into his own hands. He says, comparing his own with past times, that formerly a farmer that occupied 100l. a year was thought a tolerable one, and he that occupied four or five hundred pounds a very great one indeed; but now they had farmers that occupied from one thousand to two thousand per annum, who did not want money to pay their rent, as did the little farmers, who were obliged to sell their corn, etc. The writer gives it as the general opinion that the kingdom had become greatly depopulated, some averring the population to have decreased by a fourth within the preceding hundred years. He further says: Your Majesty must put a stop to inclosures, or oblige ye lord of ye manor to keep up ye antient custom of it, and not suffer him to buy his tenant's interest; to have all the houses pulled down, and ye whole parish turn'd into a farm: this is a fashionable practice, and by none more yn Jn° Damer, Esq., ye owner of Came, and his brother Lord Milton.[38] Enclosure roads[edit] A parliamentary enclosure road near Lazonby in Cumbria. The roads were made as straight as possible, and the boundaries much wider than a cart width to reduce the ground damage of driving sheep and cattle. Public roads through enclosed common land were made to an accepted width between boundaries. In the late eighteenth century this was at least 60 feet (18 m), but from the 1790s this was decreased to 40 feet (12 m), and later 30 feet as the normal maximum width. The reason for these wide roads to was to prevent excessive churning of the road bed, and allow easy movement of flocks and herds of animals.[39] Contemporary worldwide movements against enclosure[edit] Abahlali baseMjondolo in South Africa The Bhumi Uchhed Pratirodh Committee in India The Zapatista Army of National Liberation in Mexico Fanmi Lavalas in Haiti The Free Software Foundation The Homeless Workers' Movement in Brazil The Landless Peoples Movement in South Africa The Landless Workers' Movement in Brazil Narmada Bachao Andolan in India The Western Cape Anti-Eviction Campaign in South Africa See also[edit] British Agricultural Revolution Gerrard Winstanley and the Diggers Highland Clearances Lowland Clearances Primitive accumulation of capital Swing Riots Abandoned village Accumulation by dispossession In other countries[edit] Bocage Range war Notes[edit] ^ equivalent to £1,932 in 2019. ^ equivalent to £2,575 in 2019. ^ The Cultural Landscape: An Introduction to Human Geography, James M. 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[O]nly the overwhelming compulsion of population increase, together with accompanying price rises, can explain why enclosure made such swift progress and was such a burning issue in two separate periods […], the sixteenth and late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. ^ Thirsk 1958, p. 9. ^ a b c d e Monbiot, George (22 February 1995). "A Land Reform Manifesto". The Guardian. 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Further reading[edit] Beckett, J. V. (1991). "The Disappearance of the Cottager and the Squatter from the English Countryside: The Hammonds Revisited.". In Holderness, B. A.; Turner, Michael (eds.). Land, Labour and Agriculture, 1700 1920. London: Hambledon Press. Chambers, Jonathan D. "Enclosure and labour supply in the industrial revolution." Economic History Review 5.3 (1953): 319-343. in JSTOR Dahlman, Carl J (1980). The Open Field System and Beyond: A Property Rights Analysis of an Economic Institution. Cambridge University Press. Everitt, Alan (2000). "Common Land". In Thirsk, Joan (ed.). The English Rural Landscape. Oxford University Press. Gonner, E. C. K (1912). Common Land and Inclosure. London: Macmillan & Co. [1] Humphries, J. (1990). "Enclosures, commons rights, and women". Journal of Economic History. 50 (1): 17–42. doi:10.1017/s0022050700035701. McCloskey, Donald N. "The enclosure of open fields: Preface to a study of its impact on the efficiency of English agriculture in the eighteenth century." Journal of Economic History 32.1 (1972): 15-35 online. Thirsk, Joan (29 December 1964). "The Common Fields". Past and Present. pp. 3 25. Literary references Judt, Tony (25 March 2010). Ill Fares the Land. Allen Lane/Penguin. ISBN 978-1-84614-359-5. (Title taken from Goldsmith's work The Deserted Village) Marx, Karl. "27. Expropriation of the Agricultural Population from the Land". Das Kapital [Capital]. Marxists.org (in German). 1. Retrieved 4 March 2012. The Yellow Admiral by Patrick O'Brian External links[edit] Wikiquote has quotations related to: Enclosure Look up enclosure in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Look up champaign in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. 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It defines the kinds of calls or requests that can be made, how to make them, the data formats that should be used, the conventions to follow, etc. It can also provide extension mechanisms so that users can extend existing functionality in various ways and to varying degrees.[1] An API can be entirely custom, specific to a component, or designed based on an industry-standard to ensure interoperability. Through information hiding, APIs enable modular programming, allowing users to use the interface independently of the implementation. Contents 1 Purpose 2 History of the term 3 Usage 3.1 Libraries and frameworks 3.2 Operating systems 3.3 Remote APIs 3.4 Web APIs 4 Design 5 Release policies 5.1 Public API implications 6 Documentation 7 Copyright controversy 8 Examples 9 See also 10 References 11 Further reading Purpose[edit] In building applications, an API (application programming interface) simplifies programming by abstracting the underlying implementation and only exposing objects or actions the developer needs. While a graphical interface for an email client might provide a user with a button that performs all the steps for fetching and highlighting new emails, an API for file input/output might give the developer a function that copies a file from one location to another without requiring that the developer understand the file system operations occurring behind the scenes.[2] History of the term[edit] A diagram from 1978 proposing the expansion of the idea of the API to become a general programming interface, beyond application programs alone.[3] The meaning of the term API has expanded over its history. It first described an interface only for end-user-facing programs, known as application programs. This origin is still reflected in the name "application programming interface." Today, the term API is broader, including also utility software and even hardware interfaces.[4] The idea of the API is much older than the term. British computer scientists Wilkes and Wheeler worked on modular software libraries in the 1940s for the EDSAC computer. Joshua Bloch claims that Wilkes and Wheeler "latently invented" the API, because it is more of a concept that is discovered than invented.[4] Although the people who coined the term API were implementing software on a Univac 1108, the goal of their API was to make hardware independent programs possible.[5] The term "application program interface" (without an -ing suffix) is first recorded in a paper called Data structures and techniques for remote computer graphics presented at an AFIPS conference in 1968.[6][4] The authors of this paper use the term to describe the interaction of an application — a graphics program in this case — with the rest of the computer system. A consistent application interface (consisting of Fortran subroutine calls) was intended to free the programmer from dealing with idiosyncrasies of the graphics display device, and to provide hardware independence if the computer or the display were replaced.[5] The term was introduced to the field of databases by C. J. Date[7] in a 1974 paper called The Relational and Network Approaches: Comparison of the Application Programming Interface.[8] An API became a part of ANSI/SPARC framework for database management systems. This framework treated the application programming interface separately from other interfaces, such as the query interface. Database professionals in the 1970s observed these different interfaces could be combined; a sufficiently rich application interface could support the other interfaces as well.[3] This observation lead to APIs that supported all types of programming, not just application programming. By 1990, the API was defined simply as "a set of services available to a programmer for performing certain tasks" by technologist Carl Malamud.[9] The conception of the API was expanded again with the dawn of web APIs. Roy Fielding's dissertation Architectural Styles and the Design of Network-based Software Architectures at UC Irvine in 2000 outlined Representational state transfer (REST) and described the idea of a "network-based Application Programming Interface" that Fielding contrasted with traditional "library-based" APIs.[10] XML and JSON web APIs saw widespread commercial adoption beginning in 2000 and continuing as of 2020. The web API is now the most common meaning of the term API.[11] When used in this way, the term API has some overlap in meaning with the terms communication protocol and remote procedure call. Usage[edit] Libraries and frameworks[edit] An API usually is related to a software library. The API describes and prescribes the "expected behavior" (a specification) while the library is an "actual implementation" of this set of rules. A single API can have multiple implementations (or none, being abstract) in the form of different libraries that share the same programming interface. The separation of the API from its implementation can allow programs written in one language to use a library written in another. For example, because Scala and Java compile to compatible bytecode, Scala developers can take advantage of any Java API.[12] API use can vary depending on the type of programming language involved. An API for a procedural language such as Lua could consist primarily of basic routines to execute code, manipulate data or handle errors while an API for an object-oriented language, such as Java, would provide a specification of classes and its class methods.[13][14] Language bindings are also APIs. By mapping the features and capabilities of one language to an interface implemented in another language, a language binding allows a library or service written in one language to be used when developing in another language.[15] Tools such as SWIG and F2PY, a Fortran-to-Python interface generator, facilitate the creation of such interfaces.[16] An API can also be related to a software framework: a framework can be based on several libraries implementing several APIs, but unlike the normal use of an API, the access to the behavior built into the framework is mediated by extending its content with new classes plugged into the framework itself. Moreover, the overall program flow of control can be out of the control of the caller and in the framework's hands by inversion of control or a similar mechanism.[17][18] Operating systems[edit] An API can specify the interface between an application and the operating system.[19] POSIX, for example, specifies a set of common APIs that aim to enable an application written for a POSIX conformant operating system to be compiled for another POSIX conformant operating system. Linux and Berkeley Software Distribution are examples of operating systems that implement the POSIX APIs.[20] Microsoft has shown a strong commitment to a backward-compatible API, particularly within its Windows API (Win32) library, so older applications may run on newer versions of Windows using an executable-specific setting called "Compatibility Mode".[21] An API differs from an application binary interface (ABI) in that an API is source code based while an ABI is binary based. For instance, POSIX provides APIs while the Linux Standard Base provides an ABI.[22][23] Remote APIs[edit] Remote APIs allow developers to manipulate remote resources through protocols, specific standards for communication that allow different technologies to work together, regardless of language or platform. For example, the Java Database Connectivity API allows developers to query many different types of databases with the same set of functions, while the Java remote method invocation API uses the Java Remote Method Protocol to allow invocation of functions that operate remotely, but appear local to the developer.[24][25] Therefore, remote APIs are useful in maintaining the object abstraction in object-oriented programming; a method call, executed locally on a proxy object, invokes the corresponding method on the remote object, using the remoting protocol, and acquires the result to be used locally as a return value. A modification of the proxy object will also result in a corresponding modification of the remote object.[26] Web APIs[edit] Main article: Web API Web APIs are the defined interfaces through which interactions happen between an enterprise and applications that use its assets, which also is a Service Level Agreement (SLA) to specify the functional provider and expose the service path or URL for its API users. An API approach is an architectural approach that revolves around providing a program interface to a set of services to different applications serving different types of consumers.[27] When used in the context of web development, an API is typically defined as a set of specifications, such as Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) request messages, along with a definition of the structure of response messages, usually in an Extensible Markup Language (XML) or JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) format. An example might be a shipping company API that can be added to an eCommerce-focused website to facilitate ordering shipping services and automatically include current shipping rates, without the site developer having to enter the shipper's rate table into a web database. While "web API" historically has been virtually synonymous with web service, the recent trend (so-called Web 2.0) has been moving away from Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) based web services and service-oriented architecture (SOA) towards more direct representational state transfer (REST) style web resources and resource-oriented architecture (ROA).[28] Part of this trend is related to the Semantic Web movement toward Resource Description Framework (RDF), a concept to promote web-based ontology engineering technologies. Web APIs allow the combination of multiple APIs into new applications known as mashups.[29] In the social media space, web APIs have allowed web communities to facilitate sharing content and data between communities and applications. In this way, content that is created in one place dynamically can be posted and updated to multiple locations on the web.[30] For example, Twitter's REST API allows developers to access core Twitter data and the Search API provides methods for developers to interact with Twitter Search and trends data.[31] Design[edit] The design of an API has significant impact on its usage.[2] The principle of information hiding describes the role of programming interfaces as enabling modular programming by hiding the implementation details of the modules so that users of modules need not understand the complexities inside the modules.[32] Thus, the design of an API attempts to provide only the tools a user would expect.[2] The design of programming interfaces represents an important part of software architecture, the organization of a complex piece of software.[33] Release policies[edit] APIs are one of the more common ways technology companies integrate. Those that provide and use APIs are considered as being members of a business ecosystem.[34] The main policies for releasing an API are:[35] Private: The API is for internal company use only. Partner: Only specific business partners can use the API. For example, vehicle for hire companies such as Uber and Lyft allow approved third-party developers to directly order rides from within their apps. This allows the companies to exercise quality control by curating which apps have access to the API, and provides them with an additional revenue stream.[36] Public: The API is available for use by the public. For example, Microsoft makes the Windows API public, and Apple releases its API Cocoa, so that software can be written for their platforms. Not all public APIs are generally accessible by everybody. For example, Internet service providers like Cloudflare or Voxility, use RESTful APIs to allow customers and resellers access to their infrastructure information, DDoS stats, network performance or dashboard controls.[37] Access to such APIs is granted either by “API tokens”, or customer status validations.[38] Public API implications[edit] An important factor when an API becomes public is its "interface stability". Changes to the API—for example adding new parameters to a function call—could break compatibility with the clients that depend on that API.[39] When parts of a publicly presented API are subject to change and thus not stable, such parts of a particular API should be documented explicitly as "unstable". For example, in the Google Guava library, the parts that are considered unstable, and that might change soon, are marked with the Java annotation @Beta.[40] A public API can sometimes declare parts of itself as deprecated or rescinded. This usually means that part of the API should be considered a candidate for being removed, or modified in a backward incompatible way. Therefore, these changes allow developers to transition away from parts of the API that will be removed or not supported in the future.[41] Client code may contain innovative or opportunistic usages that were not intended by the API designers. In other words, for a library with a significant user base, when an element becomes part of the public API, it may be used in diverse ways.[42] On February 19, 2020, Akamai published their annual “State of the Internet” report, showcasing the growing trend of cybercriminals targeting public API platforms at financial services worldwide. From December 2017 through November 2019, Akamai witnessed 85.42 billion credential violation attacks. About 20%, or 16.55 billion, were against hostnames defined as API endpoints. Of these, 473.5 million have targeted financial services sector organizations.[43] Documentation[edit] API documentation describes what services an API offers and how to use those services, aiming to cover everything a client would need to know for practical purposes. Documentation is crucial for the development and maintenance of applications using the API.[44] API documentation is traditionally found in documentation files but can also be found in social media such as blogs, forums, and Q&A websites.[45] Traditional documentation files are often presented via a documentation system, such as Javadoc or Pydoc, that has a consistent appearance and structure. However, the types of content included in the documentation differs from API to API.[46] In the interest of clarity, API documentation may include a description of classes and methods in the API as well as "typical usage scenarios, code snippets, design rationales, performance discussions, and contracts", but implementation details of the API services themselves are usually omitted. Restrictions and limitations on how the API can be used are also covered by the documentation. For instance, documentation for an API function could note that its parameters cannot be null, that the function itself is not thread safe,[47] Because API documentation tends to be comprehensive, it is a challenge for writers to keep the documentation updated and for users to read it carefully, potentially yielding bugs.[39] API documentation can be enriched with metadata information like Java annotations. This metadata can be used by the compiler, tools, and by the run-time environment to implement custom behaviors or custom handling.[48] It is possible to generate API documentation in a data-driven manner. By observing many programs that use a given API, it is possible to infer the typical usages, as well the required contracts and directives.[49] Then, templates can be used to generate natural language from the mined data. Copyright controversy[edit] Main article: Oracle America, Inc. v. Google, Inc. In 2010, Oracle Corporation sued Google for having distributed a new implementation of Java embedded in the Android operating system.[50] Google had not acquired any permission to reproduce the Java API, although permission had been given to the similar OpenJDK project. Judge William Alsup ruled in the Oracle v. Google case that APIs cannot be copyrighted in the U.S and that a victory for Oracle would have widely expanded copyright protection and allowed the copyrighting of simple software commands: To accept Oracle's claim would be to allow anyone to copyright one version of code to carry out a system of commands and thereby bar all others from writing its different versions to carry out all or part of the same commands.[51][52] In 2014, however, Alsup's ruling was overturned on appeal to the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, though the question of whether such use of APIs constitutes fair use was left unresolved.[53] In 2016, following a two-week trial, a jury determined that Google's reimplementation of the Java API constituted fair use, but Oracle vowed to appeal the decision.[54] Oracle won on its appeal, with the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruling that Google's use of the APIs did not qualify for fair use.[55] In 2019, Google appealed to the Supreme Court of the United States over both the copyrightability and fair use rulings, and the Supreme Court granted review.[56] Examples[edit] Main category: Application programming interfaces ASPI for SCSI device interfacing Cocoa and Carbon for the Macintosh DirectX for Microsoft Windows EHLLAPI Java APIs ODBC for Microsoft Windows OpenAL cross-platform sound API OpenCL cross-platform API for general-purpose computing for CPUs & GPUs OpenGL cross-platform graphics API OpenMP API that supports multi-platform shared memory multiprocessing programming in C, C++, and Fortran on many architectures, including Unix and Microsoft Windows platforms. Server Application Programming Interface (SAPI) Simple DirectMedia Layer (SDL) See also[edit] API testing API writer Augmented web Calling convention Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA) Comparison of application virtual machines Document Object Model (DOM) Double-chance function Foreign function interface Front and back ends Interface (computing) Interface control document List of 3D graphics APIs Microservices Name mangling Open API Open Service Interface Definitions Parsing Plugin RAML (software) Software development kit (SDK) Web API Web content vendor XPCOM References[edit] ^ Fisher, Sharon (1989). "OS/2 EE to Get 3270 Interface Early". Google Books. ^ a b c 3333Clarke, Steven (2004). "Measuring API Usability". Dr. Dobb's. Retrieved 29 July 2016. ^ a b Database architectures—a feasibility workshop (Report). Washington D.C.: U.S. Department of Commerce, National Bureau of Standards. April 1981. pp. 45–47. hdl:2027/mdp.39015077587742. LCCN 81600004. 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"Google asks Supreme Court to overrule disastrous ruling on API copyrights". Ars Technica. Retrieved February 8, 2019. Further reading[edit] Taina Bucher (16 November 2013). "Objects of Intense Feeling: The Case of the Twitter API". Computational Culture (3). ISSN 2047-2390. 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Seltzer is also a Fellow with Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet & Society, where she founded and leads the Lumen clearinghouse, which is aimed at helping Internet users to understand their rights in response to cease-and-desist threats related to intellectual property and other legal demands.[2] Seltzer sits on the board of directors of the World Wide Web Foundation.[3] A former At-large Liaison to the ICANN board of directors,[4] she has advocated for increased transparency of the organization of, and for increased protection of, the privacy of Internet users. Previously, she was a visiting assistant professor at the Northeastern University School of Law and Brooklyn Law School, and a fellow at the Information Society Project at Yale Law School.,[5] and served on the board of directors of the Tor Project.[6] Before that, she was a staff attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, specializing in intellectual property and free speech issues. Seltzer has an A.B. from Harvard College and a J.D. from Harvard Law School. She is also a Perl programmer.[7] References[edit] ^ "Who's Who at the World Wide Web Consortium". Retrieved 2012-01-31. ^ "Wendy Seltzer (profile)". Berkman Center for Internet and Society. Retrieved 2008-11-30. ^ "World Wide Web Foundation Boards of Directors". Retrieved 2012-01-31. ^ "ICANN Board of Directors". Retrieved 2012-01-31. ^ "Yale Law School". Retrieved 2011-10-25. ^ "Tor Project, a Digital Privacy Group, Reboots With New Board". Retrieved 2016-07-13. ^ Wendy.seltzer.org External links[edit] Wikimedia Commons has media related to Wendy Seltzer. 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Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply. By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization. Privacy policy About Wikipedia Disclaimers Contact Wikipedia Mobile view Developers Statistics Cookie statement en-wikipedia-org-8595 ---- Istvan Banyai - Wikipedia Istvan Banyai From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search Hungarian illustrator and animator This article is missing information about Banyai's animated works. Please expand the article to include this information. Further details may exist on the talk page. (December 2018) Istvan Banyai (born February 27, 1949 in Budapest, [ñ]]) is a Hungarian illustrator and animator. He received his BFA from Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design. In 1995 Banyai produced his first wordless children's book, Zoom. Honored as one of the best children's books of the year by The New York Times and Publishers Weekly, Zoom was soon published in 18 languages.[citation needed] He went on to author four more books and illustrate many more in collaboration with other writers and poets. "It's refreshing to encounter a group of virtually wordless books that invite children to consider their world from a point of view they may not have otherwise considered. The most stunning is Zoom, written—or, rather, imagined and then illustrated—by Istvan Banyai." [1] While he continues to produce commercial illustrations for publications such as The New Yorker, Playboy, Rolling Stone, Time and The Atlantic Monthly; cover art for Sony and Verve Records; and animated short films for Nickelodeon and MTV Europe, he is internationally respected for his unique philosophical and iconoclastic vision, thus transcending the status of commercial illustrator to gifted artist. Banyai describes his art as "an organic combination of turn-of-the-century Viennese retro, interjected with American pop, some European absurdity added for flavor, served on a cartoon-style color palette... no social realism added."[2] Having moved from Budapest to live in Paris, Los Angeles, and Manhattan, Banyai now lives with his wife in rural Connecticut. Contents 1 Books 2 Awards 3 Articles 4 Exhibitions 5 References Books[edit] Zoom (New York: Viking, 1995) Re-Zoom (New York: Penguin Group, 1998) REM: Rapid Eye Movement (New York: Viking, 1998) Delzell, Tom. The Slang of Sin (Merriam Webster, 1998) Sandburg, Carl. Poems for Children: Nowhere near Old Enough to Vote (Random House, 1999) Minus Equals Plus introduction by Kurt Andersen (New York: Abrams, 2001) The Other Side (Chronicle Books, 2005) Wiedemann, Julius, ed.Illustration Now! (Köln: Taschen, 2005) Park, Linda Sue. Tap Dancing on the Roof (Clarion Books, 2007 Awards[edit] Ten Best Books of the Year, New York Times Book Review,1995 International Reading Association (IRA) Children's Choices Award,1997[3] Publishers's Weekly, Best Books, 1995 American Illustration Cover, No18, November 1999 "Professor Emeritus", Moholy Nagy Academy of Art, Budapest, 2005 The Society of illustrators, Best illustrated childrenbook, "The Other Side", Gold Medal, 2007 3x3, magazine of contemporary illustration, Silver Medal, 2008 Notable Children’s Books, Committee of the Association for Library Service to Children.[4] Articles[edit] Mark Vallen, "Illustrating War," Foreign Policy in Focus, March 18, 2009[5] Patricia McCormick, "All Things Considered" November 12, 1995, The New York Times[6] Sean Kelly, "Spring Children's Books: Stuff and Nonsense" May 16, 1999, The New York Times[7] School Library Journal[8] Step Inside Design[9] "Hungary: an open book"[10] Exhibitions[edit] "Stranger in a Strange Land", Retrospective solo exhibition in the Norman Rockwell Museum, Massachusetts, 2013.[11] "Artists Against The War," Society of Illustrators, New York, January 2008 "Illuminare" Design Week Budapest. Hungary, 2005 Wordless book Festival, Kyoto, Japan, 2005 “America Illustrated” or the Best Contemporary American Illustrators, Teatrio association together with the Italian Foreign Affairs Department and the Embassy of the United States of America. Catalogue Cover Art, Published by Associazione Culturale Teatrio. Italy, 2000 Eastern European illustrators for The New York Times "Op-Ed". SVA, New York, 1998 References[edit] ^ Patricia McCormick (1995-11-12). "All Things Reconsidered". The New York Times. Retrieved 2014-06-27. ^ "Minus Equals Plus by Istvan Banyai | 9780810929906 | Paperback | Barnes & Noble". Search.barnesandnoble.com. Retrieved 2014-06-27. ^ "Welcome to the International Reading Association". Reading.org. 2014-03-18. Archived from the original on 2009-02-24. Retrieved 2014-06-27. ^ "Notable Children's Books: 2008". Booklist Online. 2008-03-01. Retrieved 2014-06-27. ^ [1] Archived September 9, 2008, at the Wayback Machine ^ (https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F01E4D61439F931A25752C1A963958260 ^ Sean Kelly (1999-05-16). "Spring Children's Books; Stuff and Nonsense". The New York Times. Retrieved 2014-06-27. ^ http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/article/CA6297234.html?q=istvan+banyai ^ "STEP Design 100 Annual 2007: Editorial". Web.archive.org. 2011-07-16. Archived from the original on 2012-04-15. Retrieved 2014-06-27. ^ [2] Archived August 18, 2007, at the Wayback Machine ^ JClowe (2012-11-25). "Istvan Banyai: Stranger in a Strange Land | Norman Rockwell MuseumNorman Rockwell Museum". Nrm.org. Archived from the original on 2014-04-24. Retrieved 2014-06-27. 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There’s also a list of all the posters and an overview of the Unconference Skills for curation of diverse datasets Here in the UK and elsewhere, you’re unlikely to find many institutions claiming to apply a deep level of curation to every dataset/software package/etc deposited with them. There are so many different kinds of data and so few people in any one institution doing “curation” that it’s impossible to do this for everything. Absent the knowledge and skills required to fully evaluate an object the best that can be done is usually to make a sense check on the metadata and flag up with the depositor potential for high-level issues such as accidental disclosure of sensitive personal information. The Data Curation Network in the United States is aiming to address this issue by pooling expertise across multiple organisations. The pilot has been highly successful and they’re now looking to obtain funding to continue this work. The Swedish National Data Service is experimenting with a similar model, also with a lot of success. As well as sharing individual expertise, the DCN collaboration has also produced some excellent online quick-reference guides for curating common types of data. We had some further discussion as part of the Unconference on the final day about what it would look like to introduce this model in the UK. There was general agreement that this was a good idea and a way to make optimal use of sparse resources. There were also very valid concerns that it would be difficult in the current financial climate for anyone to justify doing work for another organisation, apparently for free. In my mind there are two ways around this, which are not mutually exclusive by any stretch of the imagination. First is to Just Do It: form an informal network of curators around something simple like a mailing list, and give it a try. Second is for one or more trusted organisations to provide some coordination and structure. There are several candidates for this including DCC, Jisc, DPC and the British Library; we all have complementary strengths in this area so it’s my hope that we’ll be able to collaborate around it. In the meantime, I hope the discussion continues. Artificial intelligence, machine learning et al As you might expect at any tech-oriented conference there was a strong theme of AI running through many presentations, starting from the very first keynote from Francine Berman. Her talk, The Internet of Things: Utopia or Dystopia? used self-driving cars as a case study to unpack some of the ethical and privacy implications of AI. For example, driverless cars can potentially increase efficiency, both through route-planning and driving technique, but also by allowing fewer vehicles to be shared by more people. However, a shared vehicle is not a private space in the way your own car is: anything you say or do while in that space is potentially open to surveillance. Aside from this, there are some interesting ideas being discussed, particularly around the possibility of using machine learning to automate increasingly complex actions and workflows such as data curation and metadata enhancement. I didn’t get the impression anyone is doing this in the real world yet, but I’ve previously seen theoretical concepts discussed at IDCC make it into practice so watch this space! Playing games! Training is always a major IDCC theme, and this year two of the most popular conference submissions described games used to help teach digital curation concepts and skills. Mary Donaldson and Matt Mahon of the University of Glasgow presented their use of Lego to teach the concept of sufficient metadata. Participants build simple models before documenting the process and breaking them down again. Then everyone had to use someone else’s documentation to try and recreate the models, learning important lessons about assumptions and including sufficient detail. Kirsty Merrett and Zosia Beckles from the University of Bristol brought along their card game “Researchers, Impact and Publications (RIP)”, based on the popular “Cards Against Humanity”. RIP encourages players to examine some of the reasons for and against data sharing with plenty of humour thrown in. Both games were trialled by many of the attendees during Thursday’s Unconference. Summary I realised in Dublin that it’s 8 years since I attended my first IDCC, held at the University of Bristol in December 2011 while I was still working at the nearby University of Bath. While I haven’t been every year, I’ve been to every one held in Europe since then and it’s interesting to see what has and hasn’t changed. We’re no longer discussing data management plans, data scientists or various other things as abstract concepts that we’d like to encourage, but dealing with the real-world consequences of them. The conference has also grown over the years: this year was the biggest yet, boasting over 300 attendees. There has been especially big growth in attendees from North America, Australasia, Africa and the Middle East. That’s great for the diversity of the conference as it brings in more voices and viewpoints than ever. With more people around to interact with I have to work harder to manage my energy levels but I think that’s a small price to pay. Iosevka: a nice fixed-width-font Iosevka is a nice, slender monospace font with a lot of configurable variations. Check it out: https://typeof.net/Iosevka/ SSI Fellowship 2020 I’m honoured and excited to be named one of this year’s Software Sustainability Institute Fellows. There’s not much to write about yet because it’s only just started, but I’m looking forward to sharing more with you. In the meantime, you can take a look at the 2020 fellowship announcement and get an idea of my plans from my application video: Replacing comments with webmentions Just a quickie to say that I’ve replaced the comment section at the bottom of each post with webmentions, which allows you to comment by posting on your own site and linking here. It’s a fundamental part of the IndieWeb, which I’m slowly getting to grips with having been a halfway member of it for years by virtue of having my own site on my own domain. I’d already got rid of Google Analytics to stop forcing that tracking on my visitors, I wanted to get rid of Disqus too because I’m pretty sure the only way that is free for me is if they’re selling my data and yours to third parties. Webmention is a nice alternative because it relies only on open standards, has no tracking and allows people to control their own comments. While I’m currently using a third-party service to help, I can switch to self-hosted at any point in the future, completely transparently. Thanks to webmention.io, which handles incoming webmentions for me, and webmention.js, which displays them on the site, I can keep it all static and not have to implement any of this myself, which is nice. It’s a bit harder to comment because you have to be able to host your own content somewhere, but then almost no-one ever commented anyway, so it’s not like I’ll lose anything! Plus, if I get Bridgy set up right, you should be able to comment just by replying on Mastodon, Twitter or a few other places. A spot of web searching shows that I’m not the first to make the Disqus -> webmentions switch (yes, I’m putting these links in blatantly to test outgoing webmentions with Telegraph…): So long Disqus, hello webmention — Nicholas Hoizey Bye Disqus, hello Webmention! — Evert Pot Implementing Webmention on a static site — Deluvi Let’s see how this goes! Bridging Carpentries Slack channels to Matrix It looks like I’ve accidentally taken charge of bridging a bunch of The Carpentries Slack channels over to Matrix. Given this, it seems like a good idea to explain what that sentence means and reflect a little on my reasoning. I’m more than happy to discuss the pros and cons of this approach If you just want to try chatting in Matrix, jump to the getting started section What are Slack and Matrix? Slack (see also on Wikipedia), for those not familiar with it, is an online text chat platform with the feel of IRC (Internet Relay Chat), a modern look and feel and both web and smartphone interfaces. By providing a free tier that meets many peoples’ needs on its own Slack has become the communication platform of choice for thousands of online communities, private projects and more. One of the major disadvantages of using Slack’s free tier, as many community organisations do, is that as an incentive to upgrade to a paid service your chat history is limited to the most recent 10,000 messages across all channels. For a busy community like The Carpentries, this means that messages older than about 6-7 weeks are already inaccessible, rendering some of the quieter channels apparently empty. As Slack is at pains to point out, that history isn’t gone, just archived and hidden from view unless you pay the low, low price of $1/user/month. That doesn’t seem too pricy, unless you’re a non-profit organisation with a lot of projects you want to fund and an active membership of several hundred worldwide, at which point it soon adds up. Slack does offer to waive the cost for registered non-profit organisations, but only for one community. The Carpentries is not an independent organisation, but one fiscally sponsored by Community Initiatives, which has already used its free quota of one elsewhere rendering the Carpentries ineligible. Other umbrella organisations such as NumFocus (and, I expect, Mozilla) also run into this problem with Slack. So, we have a community which is slowly and inexorably losing its own history behind a paywall. For some people this is simply annoying, but from my perspective as a facilitator of the preservation of digital things the community is haemhorraging an important record of its early history. Enter Matrix. Matrix is a chat platform similar to IRC, Slack or Discord. It’s divided into separate channels, and users can join one or more of these to take part in the conversation happening in those channels. What sets it apart from older technology like IRC and walled gardens like Slack & Discord is that it’s federated. Federation means simply that users on any server can communicate with users and channels on any other server. Usernames and channel addresses specify both the individual identifier and the server it calls home, just as your email address contains all the information needed for my email server to route messages to it. While users are currently tied to their home server, channels can be mirrored and synchronised across multiple servers making the overall system much more resilient. Can’t connect to your favourite channel on server X? No problem: just connect via its alias on server Y and when X comes back online it will be resynchronised. The technology used is much more modern and secure than the aging IRC protocol, and there’s no vender lock-in like there is with closed platforms like Slack and Discord. On top of that, Matrix channels can easily be “bridged” to channels/rooms on other platforms, including, yes, Slack, so that you can join on Matrix and transparently talk to people connected to the bridged room, or vice versa. So, to summarise: The current Carpentries Slack channels could be bridged to Matrix at no cost and with no disruption to existing users The history of those channels from that point on would be retained on matrix.org and accessible even when it’s no longer available on Slack If at some point in the future The Carpentries chose to invest in its own Matrix server, it could adopt and become the main Matrix home of these channels without disruption to users of either Matrix or (if it’s still in use at that point) Slack Matrix is an open protocol, with a reference server implementation and wide range of clients all available as free software, which aligns with the values of the Carpentries community On top of this: I’m fed up of having so many different Slack teams to switch between to see the channels in all of them, and prefer having all the channels I regularly visit in a single unified interface; I wanted to see how easy this would be and whether others would also be interested. Given all this, I thought I’d go ahead and give it a try to see if it made things more manageable for me and to see what the reaction would be from the community. How can I get started? Reminder Please remember that, like any other Carpentries space, the Code of Conduct applies in all of these channels. First, sign up for a Matrix account. The quickest way to do this is on the Matrix “Try now” page, which will take you to the Riot Web client which for many is synonymous with Matrix. Other clients are also available for the adventurous. Second, join one of the channels. The links below will take you to a page that will let you connect via your preferred client. You’ll need to log in as they are set not to allow guest access, but, unlike Slack, you won’t need an invitation to be able to join. #general — the main open channel to discuss all things Carpentries #random — anything that would be considered offtopic elsewhere #welcome — join in and introduce yourself! That’s all there is to getting started with Matrix. To find all the bridged channels there’s a Matrix “community” that I’ve added them all to: Carpentries Matrix community. There’s a lot more, including how to bridge your favourite channels from Slack to Matrix, but this is all I’ve got time and space for here! If you want to know more, leave a comment below, or send me a message on Slack (jezcope) or maybe Matrix (@petrichor:matrix.org)! I’ve also made a separate channel for Matrix-Slack discussions: #matrix on Slack and Carpentries Matrix Discussion on Matrix MozFest19 first reflections Discussions of neurodiversity at #mozfest · Photo by Jennifer Riggins The other weekend I had my first experience of Mozilla Festival, aka #mozfest. It was pretty awesome. I met quite a few people in real life that I’ve previously only known (/stalked) on Twitter, and caught up with others that I haven’t seen for a while. I had the honour of co-facilitating a workshop session on imposter syndrome and how to deal with it with the wonderful Yo Yehudi and Emmy Tsang. We all learned a lot and hope our participants did too; we’ll be putting together a summary blog post as soon as we can get our act together! I also attended a great session, led by Kiran Oliver (psst, they’re looking for a new challenge), on how to encourage and support a neurodiverse workforce. I was only there for the one day, and I really wish that I’d taken the plunge and committed to the whole weekend. There’s always next year though! To be honest, I’m just disappointed that I never had the courage to go sooner, Music for working Today3 the office conversation turned to blocking out background noise. (No, the irony is not lost on me.) Like many people I work in a large, open-plan office, and I’m not alone amongst my colleagues in sometimes needing to find a way to boost concentration by blocking out distractions. Not everyone is like this, but I find music does the trick for me. I also find that different types of music are better for different types of work, and I use this to try and manage my energy better. There are more distractions than auditory noise, and at times I really struggle with visual noise. Rather than have this post turn into a rant about the evils of open-plan offices, I’ll just mention that the scientific evidence doesn’t paint them in a good light1, or at least suggests that the benefits are more limited in scope than is commonly thought2, and move on to what I actually wanted to share: good music for working to. There are a number of genres that I find useful for working. Generally, these have in common a consistent tempo, a lack of lyrics, and enough variation to prevent boredom without distracting. Familiarity helps my concentration too so I’ll often listen to a restricted set of albums for a while, gradually moving on by dropping one out and bringing in another. In my case this includes: Traditional dance music, generally from northern and western European traditions for me. This music has to be rhythmically consistent to allow social dancing, and while the melodies are typically simple repeated phrases, skilled musicians improvise around that to make something beautiful. I tend to go through phases of listening to particular traditions; I’m currently listening to a lot of French, Belgian and Scandinavian. Computer game soundtracks, which are specifically designed to enhance gameplay without distracting, making them perfect for other activities requiring a similar level of concentration. Chiptunes and other music incorporating it; partly overlapping with the previous category, chiptunes is music made by hacking the audio chips from (usually) old computers and games machines to become an instrument for new music. Because of the nature of the instrument, this will have millisecond-perfect rhythm and again makes for undistracting noise blocking with an extra helping of nostalgia! Purists would disagree with me, but I like artists that combine chiptunes with other instruments and effects to make something more complete-sounding. Retrowave/synthwave/outrun, synth-driven music that’s instantly familiar as the soundtrack to many 90s sci-fi and thriller movies. Atmospheric, almost dreamy, but rhythmic with a driving beat, it’s another genre that fits into the “pleasing but not too surprising” category for me. So where to find this stuff? One of the best resources I’ve found is Music for Programming which provides carefully curated playlists of mostly electronic music designed to energise without distracting. They’re so well done that the tracks move seamlessly, one to the next, without ever getting boring. Spotify is an obvious option, and I do use it quite a lot. However, I’ve started trying to find ways to support artists more directly, and Bandcamp seems to be a good way of doing that. It’s really easy to browse by genre, or discover artists similar to what you’re currently hearing. You can listen for free as long as you don’t mind occasional nags to buy the music you’re hearing, but you can also buy tracks or albums. Music you’ve paid for is downloadable in several open, DRM-free formats for you to keep, and you know that a decent chunk of that cash is going directly to that artist. I also love noise generators; not exactly music, but a variety of pleasant background noises, some of which nicely obscure typical office noise. I particularly like mynoise.net, which has a cornucopia of different natural and synthetic noises. Each generator comes with a range of sliders allowing you to tweak the composition and frequency range, and will even animate them randomly for you to create a gently shifting soundscape. A much simpler, but still great, option is Noisli with it’s nice clean interface. Both offer apps for iOS and Android. For bonus points, you can always try combining one or more of the above. Adding in a noise generator allows me to listen to quieter music while still getting good environmental isolation when I need concentration. Another favourite combo is to open both the cafe and rainfall generators from myNoise, made easier by the ability to pop out a mini-player then open up a second generator. I must be missing stuff though. What other musical genres should I try? What background sounds are nice to work to? See e.g.: Lee, So Young, and Jay L. Brand. ‘Effects of Control over Office Workspace on Perceptions of the Work Environment and Work Outcomes’. Journal of Environmental Psychology 25, no. 3 (1 September 2005): 323–33. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvp.2005.08.001. ↩ Open plan offices can actually work under certain conditions, The Conversation ↩ Well, you know. The other day. Whatever. ↩ Working at the British Library: 6 months in It barely seems like it, but I’ve been at the British Library now for nearly 6 months. It always takes a long time to adjust and from experience I know it’ll be another year before I feel fully settled, but my team, department and other colleagues have really made me feel welcome and like I belong. One thing that hasn’t got old yet is the occasional thrill of remembering that I work at my national library now. Every now and then I’ll catch a glimpse of the collections at Boston Spa or step into one of the reading rooms and think “wow, I actually work here!” I also like having a national and international role to play, which means I get to travel a bit more than I used to. Budgets are still tight so there are limits, and I still prefer to be home more often than not, but there is more scope in this job than I’ve had previously for travelling to conferences, giving talks that change the way people think, and learning in different contexts. I’m learning a lot too, especially how to work with and manage people split across multiple sites, and the care and feeding of budgets. As well as missing mo old team at Sheffield, I do also miss some of the direct contact I had with researchers in HE. I especially miss the teaching work, but also the higher-level influencing of more senior academics to change practices on a wider scale. Still, I get to use those influencing skills in different ways now, and I’m still involved with the Carpentries which should let me keep my hand in with teaching. I still deal with my general tendency to try and do All The Things, and as before I’m slowly learning to recognise it, tame it and very occasionally turn it to my advantage. That also leads to feelings of imposterism that are only magnified by the knowledge that I now work at a national institution! It’s a constant struggle some days to believe that I’ve actually earned my place here through hard work, Even if I don’t always feel that I have, my colleagues here certainly have, so I should have more faith in their opinion of me. Finally, I couldn’t write this type of thing without mentioning the commute. I’ve gone from 90 minutes each way on a good day (up to twice that if the trains were disrupted) to 35 minutes each way along fairly open roads. I have less time to read, but much more time at home. On top of that, the library has implemented flexitime across all pay grades, with even senior managers strongly encouraged to make full use. Not only is this an important enabler of equality across the organisation, it relieves for me personally the pressure to work over my contracted hours and the guilt I’ve always felt at leaving work even 10 minutes early. If I work late, it’s now a choice I’m making based on business needs instead of guilt and in full knowledge that I’ll get that time back later. So that’s where I am right now. I’m really enjoying the work and the culture, and I look forward to what the next 6 months will bring! RDA Plenary 13 reflection Photo by me I sit here writing this in the departure lounge at Philadelphia International Airport, waiting for my Aer Lingus flight back after a week at the 13th Research Data Alliance (RDA) Plenary (although I’m actually publishing this a week or so later at home). I’m pretty exhausted, partly because of the jet lag, and partly because it’s been a very full week with so much to take in. It’s my first time at an RDA Plenary, and it was quite a new experience for me! First off, it’s my first time outside Europe, and thus my first time crossing quite so many timezones. I’ve been waking at 5am and ready to drop by 8pm, but I’ve struggled on through! Secondly, it’s the biggest conference I’ve been to for a long time, both in number of attendees and number of parallel sessions. There’s been a lot of sustained input so I’ve been very glad to have a room in the conference hotel and be able to escape for a few minutes when I needed to recharge. Thirdly, it’s not really like any other conference I’ve been to: rather than having large numbers of presentations submitted by attendees, each session comprises lots of parallel meetings of RDA interest groups and working groups. It’s more community-oriented: an opportunity for groups to get together face to face and make plans or show off results. I found it pretty intense and struggled to take it all in, but incredibly valuable nonetheless. Lots of information to process (I took a lot of notes) and a few contacts to follow up on too, so overall I loved it! erambler-co-uk-7158 ---- eRambler eRambler a blog about research communication & higher education & open culture & technology & making & librarianship & stuff by Jez Cope home about talks tags archive rdm resources feed orcid gitlab github keybase keyoxide mastodon twitter linkedin pypi When is a persistent identifier not persistent? Or an identifier? 2020-09-08 08:19 I wrote a post on the problems with ISBNs as persistent identifiers (PIDS) for work, so check it out if that sounds interesting. IDCC20 reflections 2020-03-03 12:21 · Read in about 5 min In which I pull out a few themes and thoughts from the 15th International Digital Curation Conference in Dublin Read more → 2020-01-28 11:26 Iosevka is a nice, slender monospace font with a lot of configurable variations. Check it out: https://typeof.net/Iosevka/ Permalink 2020-01-22 19:30 I’m honoured and excited to be named one of this year’s Software Sustainability Institute Fellows. There’s not much to write about yet because it’s only just started, but I’m looking forward to sharing more with you. In the meantime, you can take a look at the 2020 fellowship announcement and get an idea of my plans from my application video: Permalink Replacing comments with webmentions 2020-01-16 20:42 · Read in about 2 min In which I rip out Disqus in favour of something decentralised and free (as in speech) Read more → Bridging Carpentries Slack channels to Matrix 2019-11-25 23:03 · Read in about 5 min In which I try to save some of the history of The Carpentries by bridging Slack to its open source cousin Matrix Read more → MozFest19 first reflections 2019-11-24 21:11 · Read in about 2 min TLDR; It was my first #mozfest experience and it was pretty good Read more → Music for working 2019-10-26 18:53 · Read in about 4 min In which I share a few thoughts on noise-blockers for work Read more → Working at the British Library: 6 months in 2019-05-05 13:45 · Read in about 3 min In which I look back on my first few months in the new job Read more → RDA Plenary 13 reflection 2019-04-13 20:19 · Read in about 2 min In which I take a first look back at my first trip to the US Read more → Navigation Older posts back to top Contents © 2020 Jez Cope (except where noted) - Powered by Nikola en-wikipedia-org-9743 ---- Illegal immigration - Wikipedia Illegal immigration From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search "Illegals" redirects here. For the Russian spy network, see Illegals Program. For the band, see Los Illegals. "Illegal residence" redirects here. For the building of illegal housing, see Illegal construction. See also: Illegal emigration Migration of people across national borders in a way that violates the immigration laws of the destination country A large group of people claimed by the U.S. Customs and Border Protection to be undocumented immigrants. Illegal immigration refers to the migration of people into a country through means that violates the immigration laws of that country, or the continued residence of people without the legal right to live in that country. Illegal immigration tends to be financially upward, from poorer to richer countries.[1] Illegal residence in another country creates the risk of detention, deportation, and/or other sanctions.[2] Asylum seekers who are denied asylum may face impediment to expulsion if the home country refuses to receive the person or if new asylum evidence emerges after the decision. In some cases, these people are considered undocumented immigrants, and in others, they may receive a temporary residence permit, for example with reference to the principle of non-refoulement in the international Refugee Convention. The European Court of Human Rights, referring to the European Convention on Human Rights, has shown in a number of indicative judgments that there are enforcement barriers to expulsion to certain countries, for example, due to the risk of torture.[3] Contents 1 Terminology 1.1 Campaigns against the term "illegal" 1.2 Usage 1.2.1 News media 1.2.2 U.S. Government 2 Effects of illegal immigration 2.1 Economy and labor market 3 Reasons for illegal immigration 3.1 Poverty 3.2 Overpopulation 3.3 Family reunification 3.4 Asylum 3.5 Deprivation of citizenship 3.6 Education 4 Problems faced by undocumented immigrants 4.1 Lack of access to services 4.2 Slavery 4.3 Kidnapping and ransoms 4.4 Prostitution 4.5 Exploitation of labour 4.6 Injury and illness 4.6.1 Death 5 Methods 5.1 Illegal border crossing 5.2 Overstaying visa 5.3 Sham marriages 6 Irregular immigrant populations by country or region 6.1 Africa 6.1.1 Angola 6.1.2 South Africa 6.2 South to East Asia 6.2.1 Bangladesh 6.2.2 Bhutan 6.2.3 India 6.2.4 Malaysia 6.2.5 Pakistan 6.2.6 Philippines 6.2.7 South Korea 6.2.8 Other countries 6.3 Americas 6.3.1 Brazil 6.3.2 Canada 6.3.3 Mexico 6.3.4 United States 6.3.5 Other countires 6.4 Eurasia and Oceania 6.4.1 Australia 6.4.2 Russia 6.4.3 Turkey 6.5 Europe 6.5.1 France 6.5.2 Hungary 6.5.3 United Kingdom 6.5.4 Other countries 6.6 Middle East 6.6.1 Iran 6.6.2 Israel 6.6.3 Libya 6.6.4 Saudi Arabia 6.6.5 Syria 7 See also 8 References 9 Further reading Terminology[edit] There are campaigns that discourage the use of the term illegal immigrant, generally based on the argument that the act of immigrating illegally does not make the people themselves illegal, but rather they are "people who have immigrated illegally." Depending on jurisdiction, culture, or context, terms used instead of illegal immigrant can include irregular migrant, undocumented immigrant, undocumented person, unauthorized immigrant, and illegal alien.[4][5][6][7][8][9] In some contexts the term illegal immigrants is shortened, often pejoratively,[10] to "illegals".[11][12][13][14] Campaigns against the term "illegal"[edit] In the United States, a "Drop the I-Word" campaign was launched in 2010 advocating for the use of such terms as undocumented immigrants or unauthorized immigrants when referring to the foreign nationals who reside in a country illegally.[4] In Europe, the Platform for International Cooperation on Undocumented Migrants (PICUM) launched its international "Words Matter"[15] campaign in 2014 to promote the use of the terms undocumented or irregular migrants instead of illegal.[16][17][18][19] Usage[edit] Irregular migration is a related term that is sometimes used, e.g., by the International Organization for Migration; however, because of the word migration, this term describes a somewhat wider concept which also includes illegal emigration.[6] News media[edit] News associations that have discontinued or discourage (excluding direct quotations) the use of the adjective illegal to qualify nouns that describe people include the Associated Press (US),[20] Press Association (UK), European Journalism Observatory,[21] European Journalism Centre,[22] Association of European Journalists, Australian Press Council,[23] and Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance (AU).[24] Related terms that describe actions are not similarly discouraged by these campaigns. For example, the Associated Press continues to use the term illegal immigration, whereby illegal describes the action rather than the person.[20] On the other hand, the term undocumented has been cited by the New York Times as a "term preferred by many immigrants and their advocates, but it has a flavor of euphemism and should be used with caution outside quotation."[5] Newsweek questions the use of the phrase undocumented immigrants as a method of euphemistic framing, namely, "a psychological technique that can influence the perception of social phenomena."[25] Newsweek also suggests that persons who enter a country unlawfully cannot be entirely "undocumented," as they "just lack the certain specific documents for legal residency and employment," while "[m]any have driver's licences, debit cards, library cards, and school identifications which are useful documents in specific contexts but not nearly so much for immigration."[25] For example, in the US, youths brought into the country illegally are granted access to public K-12 education and benefits regardless of citizenship status;[26] therefore the youths are not entirely undocumented, since they are in fact documented for educational purposes. U.S. Government[edit] Title 8 of the US Code is the portion of United States law that contains legislation on citizenship, nationality, and immigration, with such laws using the phrase illegal immigrant at least in some contexts. Defining the legal term alien as "any person not a citizen or national of the United States,"[7] terminology used in Title 8 includes illegal alien (33 times), unauthorized alien (21 times), undocumented alien (18 times), illegal immigrant (6 times), undocumented person (2 times), and others.[8] An analysis by PolitiFact, however, concluded that the term illegal alien "occurs scarcely, often undefined or part of an introductory title or limited to apply to certain individuals convicted of felonies."[9] In the United States, while overstaying a visa is a civil violation handled by immigration court, entering (including re-entering) the US without approval from an immigration officer is a crime; specifically a misdemeanor on the first offense. Illegal reentry after deportation is a felony offense. This is the distinction between the larger group referred to as unauthorized immigrants and the smaller subgroup referred to as criminal immigrants.[27][failed verification] Effects of illegal immigration[edit] Further information: Human migration § Theories for migration for work in the 21st century Economy and labor market[edit] Further information: Economic results of migration, Economic migrant, and Unreported employment Research on the economic effects of illegal immigration is scant but existing studies suggest that the effects can be positive for the native population,[28][29] and for public coffers.[30][31] One 2015 study shows that "increasing deportation rates and tightening border control weakens low-skilled labor markets, increasing unemployment of native low-skilled workers. Legalization, instead, decreases the unemployment rate of low-skilled natives and increases income per native."[32] Studies show that legalization of undocumented immigrants would boost the U.S. economy: a 2013 study found that granting amnesty to undocumented immigrants would raise their incomes by a quarter (increasing U.S. GDP by approximately $1.4 trillion over a 10-year period);[33] a 2016 study found that "legalization would increase the economic contribution of the unauthorized population by about 20%, to 3.6% of private-sector GDP;"[34] and 2018 National Bureau of Economic Research paper found that undocumented immigrants to the United States "generate higher surplus for US firms relative to natives, hence restricting their entry has a depressing effect on job creation and, in turn, on native labor markets."[35] According to economist George Borjas, immigrants may have caused the decline of real wages of US workers without a high school degree by 9% between 1980 and 2000 due to increased competition.[36] Other economists, such as Gordon Hanson, criticized these findings.[37] Douglas Massey argues that developed countries need unskilled immigrant labor to fill undesirable jobs, which citizens do not seek regardless of wages.[38] Massey argues that this may refute claims that undocumented immigrants are "lowering wages" or stealing jobs from native-born workers, and that it instead shows that undocumented immigrants "take jobs that no one else wants."[38] A paper by Spanish economists found that, upon legalizing the undocumented immigrant population in Spain, the fiscal revenues increased by around €4,189 per newly legalized immigrant.[31] The paper found that the wages of the newly legalized immigrants increased after legalization, some low-skilled natives had worse labor market outcomes and high-skilled natives had improved labor market outcomes.[31] Since the decline of working class blue-collar jobs in manufacturing and industry, younger native-born generations have acquired higher education. In the US, only 12% of the labor force has less than a high school education, but 70% of irregular workers from Mexico lack a high school degree.[37] The majority of new blue-collar jobs qualify as Massey's "underclass" work, and suffer from unreliability, subservient roles and, critically, a lack of potential for advancement. These "underclass" jobs, which have a disproportionate number of undocumented immigrants, include harvesting crops, unskilled labor in landscaping and construction, house-cleaning, and maid and busboy work in hotels and restaurants. However, as even these "underclass" jobs have higher relative wages than those in home countries they are still attractive for undocumented immigrants and since many undocumented immigrants often anticipate working only temporarily in the destination country, the lack of opportunity for advancement is seen by many as less of a problem. Support for this claim can be seen in a Pew Hispanic Center poll of over 3,000 undocumented immigrants from Mexico in the US, which found that 79% would voluntarily join a temporary worker program that allowed them to work legally for several years but then required them to leave.[39] From this, it is assumed that the willingness to take undesirable jobs is what gives undocumented immigrants their employment.[38] Evidence for this may be seen in the average wages of undocumented day laborers in California, which was between $10 and $12 per hour according to a 2005 study, and the fact that this was higher than many entry-level white collar or service jobs.[40] Entry-level white collar and service jobs offer advancement opportunities only for people with work permits and citizenship. Research[which?] indicates that the advantage to firms employing undocumented immigrants increases as more firms in the industry do so, further increases with the breadth[clarification needed] of a firm's market, and also with the labor intensity of the firm's production process. However, the advantage decreases with the skill level of the firm's workers, meaning that undocumented immigrants do not provide as much competitive advantage when a high-skilled workforce is required.[41] Reasons for illegal immigration[edit] Poverty[edit] Undocumented immigrants are not impoverished by the standards of their home countries. The poorest classes in a developing country may lack the resources needed to mount an attempt to cross illegally, or the connections to friends or family already in the destination country. Studies from the Pew Hispanic Center have shown that the education and wage levels of undocumented Mexican immigrants in the US are around the median for Mexico and that they are not a suitable predictor of one's choice to immigrate.[39] Other examples do show that increases in poverty, especially when associated with immediate crises, can increase the likelihood of illegal migration. The 1994 economic crisis in Mexico, subsequent to the start of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), was associated with widespread poverty and a lower valuation for the peso relative to the dollar.[42] It also marked the start of a massive swell in Mexican immigration, in which net illegal migration to the US increased every year from the mid-1990s until the mid-2000s. There are also examples where natural disasters and overpopulation can amplify poverty-driven migration flows.[43] Overpopulation[edit] Further information: Human overpopulation Population growth that exceeds the carrying capacity of an area or environment results in overpopulation.[44] Virginia Abernethy notes that immigration is a road that provides a "relief valve" to overpopulation that stops a population from addressing the consequences of its overpopulation and that exports this overpopulation to another location or country.[45] Overpopulation and its consequences is a bigger issue in developing countries. Family reunification[edit] Some undocumented immigrants seek to live with loved ones, such as a spouse or other family members.[46][47][48] Having a family who have immigrated or being from a community with many immigrants is a much better predictor of one's choice to immigrate than poverty.[39] Family reunification visas may be applied for by legal residents or naturalized citizens to bring their family members into a destination state legally, but these visas may be limited in number and subject to yearly quotas. This may result in family members entering illegally in order to reunify. From studying Mexican migration patterns, Douglas Massey finds that the likelihood that a Mexican national will emigrate illegally to the US increases dramatically if they have one or more family members already residing in the United States, legally or illegally.[38] Asylum[edit] Arrested refugees/immigrants in Fylakio detention centre, Evros, northern Greece. Unauthorised arrival into another country may be prompted by the need to escape civil war or repression in the country of origin. However, somebody who flees such a situation is in most countries under no circumstances an undocumented immigrant.[citation needed] If victims of forced displacement apply for asylum in the country they fled to and are granted refugee status they have the right to remain permanently. If asylum seekers are not granted some kind of legal protection status, then they may have to leave the country, or stay as irregular immigrants. According to the 1951 Refugee Convention refugees should be exempted from immigration laws and should expect protection from the country they entered.[49] It is, however, up to the countries involved to decide if a particular immigrant is a refugee or not, and hence whether they are subject to the immigration controls. Furthermore, countries that did not sign the 1951 Refugee Convention or do not attempt to follow its guidelines are likely to consider refugees and asylum seekers as irregular immigrants. Deprivation of citizenship[edit] See also: Denaturalization In a 2012 news story, the CSM reported, "The estimated 750,000 Rohingya, one of the most miserable and oppressed minorities in the world, are deeply resentful of their almost complete absence of civil rights in Myanmar. In 1982, the military junta stripped the Rohingya of their Myanmar citizenship, classing them as irregular immigrants and rendering them stateless."[50] In some countries, people born on national territory (henceforth not "immigrants") do not automatically obtain the nationality of their birthplace, and may have no legal title of residency.[51] Education[edit] Families want to have better lives for their children and to succeed. In the article "Learning to be illegal" it discusses the safety the children have in K-12 schooling. The children are guaranteed education in a safe environment.[26] Problems faced by undocumented immigrants[edit] Aside from the possibility that they may be intercepted and deported, undocumented immigrants also face other problems.[52] Lack of access to services[edit] Undocumented immigrants usually have no or very limited access to public health systems, proper housing, education and banks. Some immigrants forge identity documents to get the access.[citation needed] Slavery[edit] Main article: Human Trafficking For example, research at San Diego State University estimates that there are 2.4 million victims of human trafficking among irregular Mexican immigrants in the United States.[53] Some workers are smuggled into the United States and Canada by human traffickers.[54] People have been kidnapped or tricked into slavery to work as laborers, after entering the country, for example in factories. Those trafficked in this manner often face additional barriers to escaping slavery, since their status as undocumented immigrants makes it difficult for them to gain access to help or services. For example, Burmese women trafficked into Thailand and forced to work in factories or as prostitutes may not speak the language and may be vulnerable to abuse by police due to their undocumented immigrant status.[55] Kidnapping and ransoms[edit] In some regions, people that are still en route to their destination country are also sometimes kidnapped, for example for ransom. In some instances, they are also tortured, raped, and killed if the requested ransom does not arrive. One case in point are the Eritrean migrants that are en route to Israel. A large number of them are captured in north Sinai (Egypt) and Eastern Sudan and held in the buildings in north Sinai.[56][57] Prostitution[edit] Main article: Sex trafficking Some people forced into sexual slavery face challenges of charges of illegal immigration.[58] Since the fall of the Iron Curtain, Western Europe is being confronted with a serious problem related to the sexual exploitation of undocumented immigrants (especially from Eastern Europe), for the purpose of prostitution.[59] In the United States, human trafficking victims often pass through the porous border with Mexico. In an effort to curb the spread of this affliction, California Attorney General Kamala Harris and Mexico Attorney General Marisela Morales Ibáñez signed an accord in 2012 to expand prosecutions of criminals typically members of transnational gangs who engage in the trafficking of human beings between the two countries.[60] Exploitation of labour[edit] Main article: Exploitation of labour Most countries have laws requiring workers to have proper documentation, often intended to prevent or minimize the employment of undocumented immigrants.[citation needed] However the penalties against employers are often small and the acceptable identification requirements vague, ill-defined and seldom checked or enforced, making it easy for employers to hire illegal labor.[citation needed] Where the minimum wage is several times the prevailing wage in the home country, employers sometimes pay less than the legal minimum wage or have unsafe working conditions, relying on the reluctance of undocumented workers to report the violations to the authorities.[61][citation needed] Injury and illness[edit] The search for employment is central to illegal international migration.[62] According to data from the U.S. Census Bureau, undocumented immigrants in the United States often work in dangerous industries such as agriculture and construction.[63] A recent study suggests that the complex web of consequences resulting from irregular immigrant status limits irregular workers' ability to stay safe at work.[64] In addition to physical danger at work, the choice to immigrate for work often entails work-induced lifestyle factors which impact the physical, mental and social health of immigrants and their families.[65] Death[edit] Each year there are several hundred deaths along the U.S.–Mexico border[66] of immigrants crossing the border illegally. Death by exposure occurs in the deserts of Southwestern United States during the hot summer season.[67] In 2016 there were approximately 8,000 migrant deaths, with about 63% of deaths occurring within the Mediterranean.[68] Methods[edit] Illegal border crossing[edit] Border patrol at sea by the U.S. Customs and Border Protection HMC Vigilant, one of several customs cutters of the UK Border Force, and capable of speeds up to 26 knots, departing Portsmouth Naval Base. Immigrants from countries that do not have automatic visa agreements, or who would not otherwise qualify for a visa, often cross the borders illegally in some areas like the United States–Mexico border, the Mona Channel between the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico, the Strait of Gibraltar, Fuerteventura, and the Strait of Otranto. Because these methods are illegal, they are often dangerous. Would-be immigrants have been known to suffocate in shipping containers,[69] boxcars,[70] and trucks,[71] sink in shipwrecks caused by unseaworthy vessels, die of dehydration[72] or exposure during long walks without water. An official estimate puts the number of people who died in illegal crossings across the U.S.–Mexican border between 1998 and 2004 at 1,954 (see immigrant deaths along the U.S.-Mexico border). Human smuggling is the practice of intermediaries aiding undocumented immigrants in crossing over international borders in financial gain, often in large groups. Human smuggling differs from, but is sometimes associated with, human trafficking. A human smuggler will facilitate illegal entry into a country for a fee, but on arrival at their destination, the smuggled person is usually free. Trafficking involves a process of using physical force, fraud, or deception to obtain and transport people. Types of notorious human smugglers include Snakehead gangs present in mainland China (especially in Fujian) that smuggle laborers into Pacific Rim states (making Chinatowns frequent centers of illegal immigration) and "coyotes", who smuggle undocumented immigrants to the Southwestern United States and have been known to abuse or even kill their passengers.[73] Sometimes undocumented immigrants are abandoned by their human traffickers if there are difficulties, often dying in the process. Others may be victims of intentional killing. Overstaying visa[edit] Many undocumented immigrants are migrants who originally arrive in a country lawfully but overstay their authorized residence (overstaying a visa).[74][75] For example, most of the estimated 200,000 undocumented immigrants in Canada (perhaps as high as 500,000) are refugee claimants whose refugee applications were rejected but who have not yet been expelled from the country.[76] Another example is formed by children of foreigners born in countries observing jus soli ("right of territory"), such as was the case in France until 1994[77] and in Ireland until 2005.[78] In these countries, it was possible to obtain French or Irish nationality (respectively) solely by being born in France before 1994 or in Ireland before 2005[78] (respectively). At present, a French born child of foreign parents does not automatically obtain French nationality until residency duration conditions are met.[74] Since 1 January 2005, a child born in Ireland does not automatically acquire Irish nationality unless certain conditions are met.[78] Sham marriages[edit] Some people enter into sham marriages, whereby marriage is contracted into for purely immigration advantage by a couple who are not in a genuine relationship. Common reasons for sham marriages are to gain immigration (i.e., immigration fraud),[79][80] residency, work, or citizenship rights for one or both of the spouses, or for other benefits. In the United Kingdom, those who arrange, participate in, or officiate over a sham marriage may be charged with a number of offenses, including assisting unlawful immigration and conspiracy to facilitate a breach of immigration law.[81] The United States has a penalty of a $250,000 fine and five-year prison sentence for such arrangements.[82] The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the Justice Department say that they do not have accurate numbers on the rate of attempted marriage fraud.[83] In the 2009 fiscal year, 506 (0.2%) of the 241,154 petitions filed were denied for suspected fraud; 7% were denied on other grounds.[84] Irregular immigrant populations by country or region[edit] This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items with reliable sources. Africa[edit] Angola[edit] Main article: Illegal immigration in Angola In 2007 around 44,000 Congolese were forced to leave Angola.[85] Since 2004, more than 400,000 irregular immigrants, almost all from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, have been expelled from Angola.[86][87] South Africa[edit] Main article: Illegal immigration in South Africa No accurate estimates of the number of undocumented migrants living in South Africa exist.[88] Estimates that have been published vary widely. A 1996 Human Sciences Research Council study estimated that there were between 2.5 million and 4.1 million undocumented migrants in the country. In their 2008/09 annual report, the South African Police Service stated: "According to various estimates, the number of undocumented immigrants in South Africa may vary between three and six million people". Other estimates have put the figure as high as 10 million.[89] As of April 2015[update], Statistics South Africa's official estimate is of between 500,000 and one million undocumented migrants.[90] A large number of Zimbabweans have fled to South Africa as a result of instability in Zimbabwe, with many living as undocumented migrants in South Africa.[88][89][91] Sociologist Alice Bloch notes that migrants in South Africa have been the victims of xenophobia and violence, regardless of their immigration status.[91] South to East Asia[edit] Bangladesh[edit] There are about 1.2 million Indians living in Bangladesh illegally as of 2014.[92][93] The undocumented migrants are mainly from the poorest states in India including West Bengal, Meghalaya, Assam and Manipur, which surround Bangladesh. They illegally immigrate to Bangladesh in search of jobs in the metropolitan hubs and a better standard of living. Bangladesh is fifth among the nations sending highest remittances to India. Indians working in Bangladesh sent more than $3.7 billion back to India in 2012.[94] There is a significant number of Burmese undocumented immigrants in Bangladesh. As of 2012, the Bangladesh government estimated about 500,000 undocumented Burmese immigrants living across Bangladesh.[95] Bhutan[edit] Main article: Illegal immigration in Bhutan Immigration in Bhutan by Nepalese settlers (Lhotshampa) began slowly towards the end of the 19th century. The government passed the Bhutanese Citizenship Act 1985 to clarify and try to enforce the Bhutanese Citizenship Act 1958 to control the flood of illegal immigration. Those individuals who could not provide proof of residency prior to 1958 were adjudged to be undocumented immigrants. In 1991 and 1992, Bhutan expelled roughly 139,110 ethnic Nepalis, most of whom have been living in seven refugee camps in eastern Nepal ever since. The United States has offered to resettle 60,000 of the 107,000 Bhutanese refugees of Nepalese origin now living in U.N. refugee camps in Nepal. The Bhutanese government, even today, has not been able to sort the problem of giving citizenship to those people who are married to Bhutanese, even though they have been in the country for 40 years.[96] India[edit] Main article: Illegal immigration in India ABVP against Bangladeshi undocumented immigrants It is estimated that several tens of millions of undocumented immigrants live in India. Precise figures are not available, but the numbers run in tens of millions, at least 10 million are from Bangladesh, others being from Pakistan, Afghanistan and others.[97] According to the Government of India, there at least 20 million undocumented immigrants from Bangladesh alone.[98] This makes India the country with the largest number of undocumented immigrants in the world.[99] During the Bangladesh Liberation War at least 10 million Bangladeshis crossed into India illegally to seek refuge from widespread rape and genocide.[100] According to Indian Home Ministry, at least 1.4 Million Bangladeshi crossed over into India in the last decade alone.[100] Samir Guha Roy of the Indian Statistical Institute called these estimates "motivatedly exaggerated". After examining the population growth and demographic statistics, Roy instead states that a significant numbers of internal migration is sometimes falsely thought to be immigrants. An analysis of the numbers by Roy revealed that on average around 91000 Bangladeshi nationals might have crossed over to India every year during the years 1981–1991 but how many of them were identified and pushed back is not known. It is possible that a large portion of these irregular immigrants returned on their own to their place of origin.[101] According to a pro-Indian scholar, the trip to India from Bangladesh is one of the cheapest in the world, with a trip costing around Rs.2000 (around $30 US), which includes the fee for the "Tour Operator". As Bangladeshis are cultural similar to the Bengali people in India, they are able to pass off as Indian citizens and settle down in any part of India to establish a future.,[100] for a very small price. This false identity can be bolstered with false documentation available for as little as Rs.200 ($3 US) can even make them part of the vote bank.[101] India is constructing barriers on its eastern borders to combat the surge of migrants. The Indo-Bangladeshi barrier is 4,000 km (2,500 mi) long. Presently, India is constructing a fence along the border to restrict illegal traffic from Bangladesh.[102] This obstruction will virtually isolate Bangladesh from India. The barrier's plan is based on the designs of the Israeli West Bank barrier and will be 3.6 m (11.8 ft) high. The stated aim of the fence is to stop infiltration of terrorists, prevent smuggling, and end illegal immigration from Bangladesh.[103][104] Malaysia[edit] Main article: Illegal immigration to Malaysia There are an estimated 800,000 undocumented immigrants in Malaysia.[105] In January 2009, Malaysia banned the hiring of foreign workers in factories, stores and restaurants to protect its citizens from mass unemployment amid the late 2000s recession.[106] An ethnic Indian Malaysian was recently sentenced to whipping and 10 months in prison for hiring six undocumented immigrants at his restaurant. "I think that after this, Malaysian employers will be afraid to take in foreign workers (without work permits). They will think twice", said immigration department prosecutor Azlan Abdul Latiff. "This is the first case where an employer is being sentenced to caning", he said. Undocumented immigrants also face caning before being deported.[107] Pakistan[edit] Main articles: Illegal immigration to Pakistan and Immigration to Pakistan § Illegal aliens As of 2005, 2.1% of the population of Pakistan had foreign origins, however the number of immigrants population in Pakistan recently grew sharply. Immigrants from South Asia make up a growing proportion of immigrants in Pakistan. The five largest immigrant groups in Pakistan are in turn Afghans,[108] Bangladeshi,[109] Tajiks, Uzbeks, Turkmens, Iranians, Indians, Sri Lankan, Burmese[110][111] and Britons[112] including a sizeable number of those of Pakistani origin. Other significant expatriate communities in the country are Armenians, Australians, Turks, Chinese,[113] Americans,[114] Filipinos,[115] Bosnians[116] and many others. Migrants from different countries of Arab world specially Egypt, Iraq, Palestine, Syria, Kuwait, Libya, Saudi Arabia, and Yemen are in thousands. Nearly all undocumented migrants in Pakistan are Muslim refugees and they are accepted by the local population. There is no political support or legislation to deport these refugees from Pakistan. Philippines[edit] It was estimated by Teresita Ang-See, a prominent leader and activist of the Chinese Filipino community, that by 2007, as much as 100,000 undocumented immigrants from China are living in the Philippines, a tenth of the ethnic Chinese population. The latest influx has come in part because of Manila's move in 2005 to liberalise entry procedures for Chinese tourists and investors, a move that helped triple the number of Chinese visitors to 133,000 last year. Many of the new Chinese immigrants encounter hostility from many Filipinos, including Filipino-born Chinese, for being perceived as engaging in criminal activities and fraud.[117] South Korea[edit] According to the Republic of Korea Immigration Service, as of 31 December 2014, there were 208,778 undocumented immigrants, which is 11.6% of 1,797,618 total foreign nationals who resided in South Korea. Most undocumented immigrants in South Korea are Asian. The top 10 home countries of those undocumented immigrants all came from other Asian countries with China at number 1 followed by Thailand, Vietnam, Philippines, Mongolia, Indonesia, Uzbekistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Cambodia.[118] Other countries[edit] China: (see Illegal immigration in China.) China is building a security barrier along its border with North Korea to prevent the defectors or refugees from North Korea.[119] Also, many undocumented immigrants from Mongolia have tried to make it to China. There might be as many as 100,000 Africans in Guangzhou, mostly undocumented overstayers.[120] To encourage people to report foreigners living illegally in China, the police are giving a 100 yuan reward to whistle blowers whose information successfully leads to an expulsion.[121] Nepal: In 2008, Nepal's Maoist-led government has initiated a major crackdown against Tibetan exiles with the aim to deport to China all Tibetans living illegally in the country. Tibetans started pouring into Nepal after a failed anti-Chinese uprising in Tibet in 1959.[122] Thailand: (see Illegal immigration to Thailand.) Americas[edit] Brazil[edit] See also: Illegal immigration in Brazil Brazil has long been part of international migration routes. In 2009, the government estimated the number of undocumented immigrants at about 200,000 people; a Catholic charity working with immigrants said there were 600,000 undocumented immigrants (75,000 of whom were from Bolivia). That same year, the National Congress of Brazil approved an amnesty, opening a six-month window for all foreigners to seek legalization irrespective of their previous standing before the law. Brazil had last legalized all immigrants in 1998; bilateral deals, one of which promoted the legalization of all reciprocal immigrants with Bolivia to date, signed in 2005, are also common.[123] Undocumented immigrants in Brazil enjoy the same legal privileges as native Brazilians regarding access to social services such as public education and the Brazilian public healthcare system.[123] A Federal Police operation investigated Chinese immigrants who traveled through six countries before arriving in São Paulo to work under substandard conditions in the textile industry.[124] After signing the 2009 amnesty bill into law, President Lula da Silva said, in a speech, that "repression and intolerance against immigrants will not solve the problems caused by" the financial crisis of 2007–2008, thereby also harshly criticizing the "policy of discrimination and prejudice" against immigrants in developed nations. An October 2009 piece from O Globo, quoting a UNDP study, estimates the number of undocumented immigrants at 0.7 million,[125] and points out to a recent wave of xenophobia among the general populace.[126] Canada[edit] Main article: Illegal immigration in Canada There is no credible information available on illegal immigration in Canada. Estimates range between 35,000 and 120,000 undocumented immigrants in Canada.[127] James Bissett, a former head of the Canadian Immigration Service, has suggested that the lack of any credible refugee screening process, combined with a high likelihood of ignoring any deportation orders, has resulted in tens of thousands of outstanding warrants for the arrest of rejected refugee claimants, with little attempt at enforcement.[128] Refugee claimants in Canada do not have to attempt re-entry to learn the status of their claim. A 2008 report by the Auditor General Sheila Fraser stated that Canada has lost track of as many as 41,000 undocumented immigrants.[129][130] This number was predicted to increase drastically with the expiration of temporary employer work permits issued in 2007 and 2008, which were not renewed in many cases because of the shortage of work due to the recession.[131] Mexico[edit] Main article: Illegal immigration in Mexico In the first six months of 2005, more than 120,000 people from Central America were deported, as compared to 2002, when for the entire year, only 130,000 were deported.[132] People of Han Chinese origin pay about $5,500 to smugglers to be taken to Mexico from Hong Kong. It is estimated that 2.4% of rejections for work permits in Mexico correspond to Chinese citizens.[133] In a 2010 news story, USA Today reported, "... Mexico's Arizona-style law requires local police to check IDs. And Mexican police freely engage in racial profiling and routinely harass Central American migrants, say immigration activists."[134] Many women from Eastern Europe, Asia, and Central and South America take jobs at table dance establishments in large cities. The National Institute of Migration (INM) in Mexico raids strip clubs and deports foreigners who work without proper documentation.[135] In 2004, the INM deported 188,000 people at a cost of US$10 million.[136] In September 2007, Mexican President Calderón harshly criticized the United States government for the crackdown on undocumented immigrants, saying it has led to the persecution of immigrant workers without visas. "I have said that Mexico does not stop at its border, that wherever there is a Mexican, there is Mexico", he said.[137] However, Mexico has also deported US citizens, deporting 2,000 cases in 2015 and 1,243 in 2014.[138] Illegal immigration of Cubans through Cancún tripled from 2004 to 2006.[139] In October 2008, Mexico tightened its immigration rules and agreed to deport Cubans who use the country as an entry point to the US. It also criticized US policy that generally allows Cubans who reach US territory to stay. Cuban Foreign Minister said the Cuban-Mexican agreement would lead to "the immense majority of Cubans being repatriated."[140] United States[edit] Undocumented immigrant rights march for amnesty in downtown Los Angeles, California on May Day, 2006 Main articles: Illegal immigration to the United States, Illegal immigrant population of the United States, and Illegal immigration to Puerto Rico See also: Central American migrant caravans, Coyote (person), and Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Approximately 11 million undocumented immigrants were estimated to be living in the United States in 2006.[141] The Pew Hispanic Center estimated that this peaked at 12 million in March 2007 and declined to 11 million again in March 2009.[142] The majority of the undocumented immigrants are from Mexico.[143] The issue of illegal immigration has long been controversial in the United States. In 2007, President George W. Bush called for Congress to endorse his guest worker proposal, stating that undocumented immigrants took jobs that Americans would not take.[144] The Pew Hispanic Center notes that while the number of legal immigrants arriving has not varied substantially since the 1980s, the number of undocumented immigrants has increased dramatically and, since the mid-1990s, has surpassed the number of legal immigrants.[145] Penalties for employers of undocumented immigrants, of $2,000–$10,000 and up to six months' imprisonment,[146] go largely unenforced. Political groups like Americans for Legal Immigration have formed to demand enforcement of immigration laws and secure borders. ALIPAC has also called for "safe departure" border checkpoints, free of criminal checks.[147] In a 2011 news story, the Los Angeles Times reported, ...illegal immigrants in 2010 were parents of 5.5 million children, 4.5 million of whom were born in the U.S. and are citizens. Because illegal immigrants are younger and more likely to be married, they represented a disproportionate share of births—8% of the babies born in the U.S. between March 2009 and March 2010 were to at least one illegal immigrant parent.[148] Immigration from Mexico to the United States has slowed in recent years.[149] This has been attributed to the slowing of the U.S. economy, the buildup in security along the border and increased violence on the Mexican side of the Mexico–United States border.[150] In 2016, the Library of Congress announced it would use "noncitizens" and "unauthorized immigration" rather than "illegal aliens" as a bibliographical term. It said the once common phrase had become offensive, and was not precise.[151] However, as of June 2019 it still uses "illegal aliens".[152] In 2018, Attorney General Jeff Sessions instructed the US attorneys offices not to use the term "undocumented immigrants", but to instead refer to people as "illegal aliens".[153] Other countires[edit] Venezuela: An estimated 200,000 Colombians have fled the Colombian civil war and sought safety in Venezuela. Most of them lack identity documents and this hampers their access to services, as well as to the labor market. The Venezuelan government has no specific policies on refugees.[154][155] A much greater number of Venezuelans entered Colombia trying to escape from the political, economic and humanitarian crisis in the 21st century, especially during the last five to 10 years.[156][157] Chile: Chile has recently become a new pole of attraction for undocumented immigrants, mostly from neighboring Peru and Bolivia but also Ecuador, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Paraguay, Venezuela and Haiti. According to the 2002 national census, Chile's foreign-born foreign population has increased by 75% since 1992.[158] Dominican Republic: The Dominican Republic is a nation that shares the island of Hispaniola with Haiti. An estimated 1,000,000 Haitians live and work in the Dominican Republic, which has a total population of about ten million. The percentage of Haitians that have illegally immigrated to the Dominican Republic is not accurately known, and "many Dominicans have come to resent the influx of lower-paid workers from across the border and have sought to make their country less hospitable to noncitizens."[159] (See also Haitians in the Dominican Republic.) Eurasia and Oceania[edit] Australia[edit] Main article: Immigration in Australia Official government sources put the number of visa overstayers in Australia at approximately 50,000. This has been the official number of undocumented immigrants for about 25 years and is considered to be low. Other sources have placed it at up to 100,000, but no detailed study has been completed to quantify this number, which could be significantly higher. On 1 June 2013, the Migration Amendment (Reform of Employer Sanctions) Act 2013 commenced. This new law puts the onus on businesses to ensure that their employees maintain the necessary work entitlements in Australia. The new legislation also enables the Australian Department of Immigration and Citizenship to levy infringement notices against business (AUD $15,300) and individual (AUD $3,060) employers on a strict liability basis – meaning that there is no requirement to prove fault, negligence or intention.[160][161] Russia[edit] Main article: Illegal immigration in Russia Russia experiences a constant flow of immigration. On average, 200,000 legal immigrants enter the country every year; about half are ethnic Russians from other republics of the former Soviet Union. There are an estimated 10–12 million foreigners working in the country without legal permission to be there.[162] There has been a significant influx of ethnic Georgians, Armenians, Azerbaijanis, Tajiks, and Uzbeks into large Russian cities in recent years, which has been viewed very unfavorably by many citizens and contributed to nationalist sentiments.[163][164][165] Many immigrant ethnic groups have much higher birth rates than native Russians, further shifting the balance. Some Chinese flee the overpopulation and birth control regulations of their home country and settle in the Far East and in southern Siberia. Russia's main Pacific port and naval base of Vladivostok, once closed to foreigners, today is bristling with Chinese markets, restaurants and trade houses.[166] This has been occurring a lot since the Soviet collapse. Illegal border crossing is considered a crime, and captured illegal border crossers have been sentenced to prison terms. For example, Rossiyskaya Gazeta reported in October 2008 the case of a North Korean who was detained after illegally crossing the Amur River from China. Considered by Russian authorities an "economic migrant", he was sentenced to 6 months in prison and was to be deported to the country of his nationality after serving his sentence, even though he may now risk an even heavier penalty there. That was just one of the 26 cases year-to-date of irregular entrants, of various nationalities, receiving criminal punishment in Amur Oblast.[167] Turkey[edit] Main article: Illegal immigration in Turkey Turkey receives many economic migrants from nearby countries such as Azerbaijan, Georgia, Armenia, but also from North Caucasus, Central Asia, Afghanistan and Pakistan.[168][169] The Iraq War is thought to have increased the flow of illegal immigration into Turkey, and the global parties directly involved in the conflict have been accused of extending a less-helping hand than Turkey itself to resolve the precarious situation of immigrants stranded in passage.[170] Europe[edit] See also: European migrant crisis and Open borders Eurostat: Non-EU citizens found to be illegally present in the EU-28 and EFTA, 2015 The Schengen Area is a multilateral agreement between 26 states in which they in most cases abolish the border control among themselves. These states include most of the EU countries, as well as the EEC countries Norway, Switzerland and Iceland. Any person who is physically inside any of the Schengen states will usually be able to travel to any other Schengen state without hindrance from the law enforcement, even if he or she has no legal right to enter another Schengen Area member state. A person who wishes to immigrate illegally to a Schengen Area member state may therefore find it more practical to enter it through another member state. According to a BBC report from 2012, over 80% of undocumented immigrants entering the European Union pass through Greece.[171] EU countries that are not members of the Schengen Agreement are still committed to allow lawful entry by citizens of EU countries;[172] they may however exercise border control at their discretion. Migrants along the Balkan route crossing from Serbia into Hungary, 24 August 2015 This typically presents a significant hindrance to persons who are trying to enter those countries illegally. Citizens within The EU is an economic and political partnership between 28 European countries that together cover much of the European continent.[173] A citizen of an EU member state has the right to seek employment within any other member state.[174] The Schengen Agreement does not regulate treatment of persons who enter the Schengen Area illegally. This is therefore left to the individual states, and other applicable international treaties and European case law. Illegal immigration to Schengen and to Europe in general was increasing sharply since approximately early 2014.[175] The main causes for this increase are the conflicts that followed the Arab Spring; in particular, the civil war in Syria has driven millions of people from their homes, and the disintegration of the Libyan government removed a major barrier for the African migrants. Illegal immigration to some of the Schengen Area states might face different consideration depending on countries such as Bulgaria, France, Greece. France[edit] Main article: Immigration to France Children born to noncitizens in France are not immigrants themselves, but they are considered foreigners under French law, until they reach the age of 18, at which time they automatically become citizens.[176] French citizenship is based in the idea of political unity; therefore, French citizenship may be more accessible than other EU countries, such as Germany and the UK. However, many French citizens feel that those who gain French citizenship should conform to the cultural aspects of French life.[177] Foreigners can also become French citizens if they serve in the Foreign Legion. French law prohibits anyone from assisting or trying to assist "the entry, movement, or irregular stay of a foreigner in France."[178] France has an Immigration Ministry (L'immigration, l'intégration, l'asile et le développement solidaire) which begun functioning in 2007 under President Sarkozy. The government seek to combat smugglers who profit financially from moving immigrants into, through, and out of France, according to the Immigration Minister, Éric Besson.[176][178] Hungary[edit] See also: Hungarian border barrier The Hungarian–Serbian border fence In 2014, Hungary registered 43,000 asylum seekers and 80,000 up to July 2015.[179] In the summer of 2015, Hungary started building a 4m high fence along its 175 km border to neighbouring Serbia to keep out the tens of thousands undocumented immigrants from the Middle East and migrants trying to reach the European Union.[180] The border was sealed on 15 September 2015 and the fence was the following day attacked by refugees and defended by riot police.[181] With the Hungary-Serbia border closed, migrants then started heading to Croatia, but as Croatia led the migrants to the Hungary-Croatia border, Hungary then started the construction of a second fence along its border with Croatia on 18 September 2015.[179] United Kingdom[edit] Main article: Illegal immigration in the United Kingdom Many try to cross the English Channel from Calais to seek asylum or refugee status in Great Britain.[182] Truck drivers can be fined up to €2,500 if irregular immigrants are found on board.[183] The Home Office has its agents working alongside French police and immigration agents, to prevent unauthorized people from entering the zone. An area of Calais known as "the Jungle" had a police raid in September 2009 to control illegal immigration.[182] The French also try to stop undocumented immigrants from entering France from the southern part of the country.[184] Non-governmental organizations, such as Secours Catholique and the Red Cross provide food, showers, and shelter to sans papiers who gather waiting to cross the Channel. In 1986, an Iranian man was sent back to Paris, from London, as he was unable to present any ID to British immigration officers. He stayed at the airport for nearly twenty years and his story loosely inspired a film, The Terminal.[185] As of 2009[update] there were between 550,000 and 950,000 undocumented immigrants in the United Kingdom. The United Kingdom is a difficult country to reach as it is mostly located on one island and part of another, but traffickers in Calais, France have tried to smuggle undocumented immigrants into the UK. Many undocumented immigrants come from Africa and Asia. As of 2008 there were also many from Eastern Europe and Latin America having overstayed their visas.[186][187] A 2012 study carried out by the University of Oxford's Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS) has estimated that there were 120,000 irregular migrant children in the UK, of whom 65,000 were born in the UK to parents without legal status. According to the study these children are at risk of destitution, exploitation and social exclusion because of contradictory and frequently changing rules and regulations which jeopardize their access to healthcare, education, protection by the police and other public services.[188] The Home Office estimated that 4,000 to 10,000 applications a year to stay in the UK are made on the basis of a sham marriage.[189] Many undocumented immigrants or asylum seekers have tried to enter the UK from France, by hiding inside trucks or trains.[190] On 11 August 2020, the Government of Britain and France worked together on a single channel to finalize a new plan for blocking illegal migrant route. Many of the migrants who aimed to emigrate to Britain came from Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, Syria and countries in Africa, fleeing poverty, persecution or war.[191] Other countries[edit] Bulgaria: In 2013, 11,000 persons attempted to enter Bulgaria via its border with Turkey.[192] Their aim is not believed by Bulgarian border officials to remain in Bulgaria, but to go to other European countries.[192] In November 2013, Bulgaria started building a razor wire fence on its Turkey border, which was completed in 2015.[192] Norway: The number of undocumented immigrants in Norway was estimated to roughly 20 thousand in 2009,[193] and to between 18 and 56 thousand in 2017.[194] Estimates by organizations working with undocumented migrants are much lower, between 5 thousand and 10 thousand in 2011.[195] Germany: The number of irregular immigrants caught in Germany from January to November 2018 was 38,000 according to the Federal Police. Over 28,000 people entered Germany by land and 10,300 entering from Austria. Some 9,270 people also arrived illegally at airports and more than 1,120 people at sea ports. Most of the migrants were from Afghanistan, Nigeria, Iraq, Syria and Turkey.[196] Switzerland: It is estimated that at least 100,000 individuals reside in Switzerland without being registered with the authorities and thus are considered undocumented immigrants by the state. Many are also workers, employed as nannies, labourers on farms or construction sites, as well as waiters or kitchen or other ancillary staff in the restaurant and hotel industry.[197] Middle East[edit] Iran[edit] Wikinews has related news: 46 illegal Afghan immigrants suffocate in truck in Pakistan Since late April 2007, the Iranian government has forcibly deported back Afghans living and working in Iran to Afghanistan at a rate between 250,000 and 300,000 per year. The forceful evictions of the refugees, who lived in Iran and Pakistan for nearly three decades, are part of the two countries' larger plans to repatriate all Afghan refugees within a few years. Iran said that it would send 1,000,000 by March 2008, and Pakistan announced that all 2,400,000 Afghan refugees, most living in camps, must return home by 2009. Aimal Khan, a political analyst at the Sustainable Development Policy Institute in Islamabad said it would be "disastrous" for Afghanistan.[198][199][200] Israel[edit] See also: Illegal immigration from Africa to Israel Demonstration against the expulsion of undocumented immigrants and their families from Israel, Tel Aviv, 2009 Tens of thousands of migrants, mostly from Sudan and Eritrea, had crossed the Israeli border between 2009 and 2012.[201] Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that "This phenomenon is very grave and threatens the social fabric of society, our national security and our national identity."[202] In May 2012, Israel introduced a law which would allow undocumented immigrants to be detained for up to three years, a measure that the Interior Ministry intended to stem the flow of Africans entering Israel across the desert border with Egypt.[201] As a result, completing a barrier along the border with Egypt, illegal immigration from Africa decreased by over 99%.[203] Israel faces substantial (estimated at 40,000 in 2009)[204] illegal immigration of Arab workers from the Palestinian Authority territories, a migration that includes both workers seeking employment, and homosexuals escaping the social opprobrium of Arab society.[205][206][207][204][208] Thousands of foreign workers who entered the country on temporary visas have overstayed and live illegally in Israel.[209] There is a debate within Israel as to whether the Israel-born children of foreign workers should be allowed to remain in the country.[210] Libya[edit] Wikinews has related news: Shipwreck off coast of Libya; hundreds of African migrants feared dead Main article: Illegal immigration in Libya Before the Libyan civil war, Libya was home to a large undocumented Sub-Saharan African population which numbers as much as 2,000,000.[211] The mass expulsion plan to summarily deport all undocumented foreigners was announced by then-current Libyan leader Colonel Muammar al-Gaddafi in January 2008, "No resident without a legal visa will be excluded."[212][213] Saudi Arabia[edit] Main article: Illegal immigration in Saudi Arabia In 2004, Saudi Arabia began construction of a Saudi–Yemen barrier between its territory and Yemen to prevent the unauthorized movement of people and goods into and out of the Kingdom. Anthony H. Cordesman labeled it a "separation barrier".[214] In February 2004, The Guardian reported that Yemeni opposition newspapers likened the barrier to the Israeli West Bank barrier,[215] while The Independent wrote "Saudi Arabia, one of the most vocal critics in the Arab world of Israel's 'security fence' in the West Bank, is quietly emulating the Israeli example by erecting a barrier along its porous border with Yemen".[216] Saudi officials rejected the comparison saying it was built to prevent infiltration and smuggling.[215] Syria[edit] Since the US-led invasion of Iraq in March 2003, there are more refugees from Iraq. The United Nations estimates that nearly 2,200,000 Iraqis have fled the country since 2003,[217] with nearly 100,000 fleeing to Syria and Jordan each month.[218][219] Most ventured to Jordan and Syria, creating demographic shifts that have worried both governments. 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"Fences and Border Protection: The Question of Establishing Technical Barriers in Europe." AARMS 16(1):77–87. Bischoff, Christine, Francesca Falk, and Sylvia Kafehsy. 2010 November. "Images of Illegalized Immigration. Towards a Critical Iconology of Politics." Bielefeld: transcript. ISBN 978-3-8376-1537-1 Borjas, G.J. 1994. "The economics of immigration." Journal of Economic Literature (32):1667–717. Cull, Nicholas J. and Davíd Carrasco, ed. 2004. Alambrista and the US–Mexico Border: Film, Music, and Stories of undocumented immigrants U. of New Mexico Press. 225 pp. De La Torre, Miguel A. 2009. "Trails of Terror: Testimonies on the Current Immigration Debate." Orbis Books. Dowling, Julie A., and Jonathan Xavier Inda, eds. 2013. "Governing Immigration Through Crime: A Reader ." Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. Espenshade, Thomas J. 1995. "Unauthorized Immigration to the United States" Annual Review of Sociology (21):195+. Flores, William V (2003). "New Citizens, New Rights: illegal Immigrants and Latino Cultural Citizenship". Latin American Perspectives. 30 (2): 87–100. doi:10.1177/0094582X02250630. S2CID 143873638. Hunter, W. 2019. Undocumented Nationals: Between Statelessness and Citizenship. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Inda, Jonathan Xavier. 2006. "Targeting Immigrant: Government, Technology, and Ethics." Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell. Kennedy, Marie, and Chris Tilly. 2008. 'They Work Here, They Live Here, They Stay Here!': French immigrants strike for the right to work—and win. Dollars & Sense (July/August 2008). Magaña, Lisa. 2003. Straddling the Border: Immigration Policy and the INS . Marquardt, Marie Friedmann, Timothy Steigenga, Philip Williams, and Manuel Vasquez. 2011. Living "Illegal": The Human Face of Unauthorized Immigration , The New Press. Mohl, Raymond A. 2002. "Latinization in the Heart of Dixie: Hispanics in Late-twentieth-century Alabama" Alabama Review 55(4):243–74. ISSN 0002-4341 9–4894945651. Myers, Dowell. 2007. Immigrants and Boomers: Forging a New Social Contract for the Future of America. Russell Sage Foundation, ISBN 978-0-87154-636-4. Ngai, Mae M. 2003. "The Strange Career of the Illegal Alien: Immigration Restriction and Deportation Policy in the United States, 1921–1965." Law and History Review 21(1):69–107. ISSN 0738-2480 . Full text in History Cooperative. ——2004. Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America. Range, Peter R. 1993 May. "Europe faces an immigrant tide." National Geographic Magazine . Rosello, Mireille. 1998. "Representing undocumented immigrants in France: From Clandestins to L'affaire Des Sans-Papiers De Saint-Bernard." Journal of European Studies 28: 959525126. Schaeffer, Peter V.; Kahsai, Mulugeta S. (2011). "A Theoretical Note on the Relationship between Documented and Undocumented Migration". International Journal of Population Research. 2011: 1–7. doi:10.1155/2011/873967. Tranaes, T., and K. F. Zimmermann, eds. 2004. Migrants, Work, and the Welfare State , Odense, University Press of Southern Denmark. Venturini, A. 2004. Post-War Migration in Southern Europe. An Economic Approach Cambridge University Press. Vicino, Thomas J. 2013. Suburban Crossroads: The Fight for Local Control of Immigration Policy . Lanham, MD: Lexington Books. Zimmermann, K. F., ed. 2005. European Migration: What Do We Know? 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Public research university in California, United States University of California, Berkeley Former names University of California (1868–1958) Motto Fiat lux (Latin) Motto in English Let there be light Type Public land-grant research university Established March 23, 1868; 152 years ago (1868-03-23)[1] Parent institution University of California Academic affiliations AAU IARU URA APRU APLU Space-grant Endowment $4.79 billion (2019)[2] Chancellor Carol T. Christ Provost Paul Alivisatos Students 43,204 (fall 2019)[3] Undergraduates 31,348 (fall 2019)[3] Postgraduates 11,856 (fall 2019)[3] Location Berkeley , California , United States 37°52′19″N 122°15′31″W / 37.871899°N 122.258537°W / 37.871899; -122.258537[4]Coordinates: 37°52′19″N 122°15′31″W / 37.871899°N 122.258537°W / 37.871899; -122.258537[4] Campus Urban college town Core Campus 178 acres (72 ha)[5] Total land owned 8,163 acres (3,303 ha)[6] Colors Berkeley Blue California Gold[7]      Athletics NCAA Division I FBS Nickname Golden Bears Sporting affiliations Pac-12 America East MPSF Mascot Oski the Bear Website www.berkeley.edu The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California)[8][9] is a public research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the state's first land-grant university, it is the oldest campus of the University of California system and a founding member of the Association of American Universities. Its 14 colleges and schools offer over 350 degree programs and enroll some 31,000 undergraduate and 12,000 graduate students.[3][10][11] Berkeley is ranked among the world's top universities by major educational publications.[12] Berkeley hosts many leading research institutes, including the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute and the Space Sciences Laboratory. It founded and maintains close relationships with three national laboratories at Berkeley, Livermore and Los Alamos,[13] and has played a prominent role in many scientific advances, from the Manhattan Project and the discovery of 16 chemical elements to breakthroughs in computer science and genomics.[14] Berkeley is also known for the Free Speech Movement of the 1960s.[15] Berkeley alumni and faculty count among their ranks 110 Nobel laureates (34 alumni), 25 Turing Award winners (11 alumni), and 14 Fields Medalists as well as 28 Wolf Prize winners, 103 MacArthur "Genius Grant" recipients, 30 Pulitzer Prize winners, and 19 Academy Award winners. The university has produced seven heads of state or government; five chief justices, including Chief Justice of the United States Earl Warren;[16] 20 cabinet-level officials; 11 governors; and 25 living billionaires.[17] It is also a leading producer of Fulbright Scholars, MacArthur Fellows, and Marshall Scholars.[18] Berkeley alumni, widely recognized for their entrepreneurship, have founded many notable companies.[19][20] The university, which competes in the Pac-12 Conference as the California Golden Bears, has won 97 national championships, and its students and alumni have won 207 Olympic medals.[21][22] Contents 1 History 1.1 Founding 1.2 20th century 1.3 21st century 2 Organization and administration 2.1 Name 2.2 Governance 2.3 Funding 3 Academics 3.1 Undergraduate programs 3.2 Graduate and professional programs 3.3 Faculty and research 3.4 Library system 3.5 Rankings 3.6 Admissions and enrollment 4 Discoveries and innovation 4.1 Natural sciences 4.2 Computer and applied sciences 4.3 Companies and entrepreneurship 5 Campus 5.1 Architecture 5.2 Natural features 6 Student life and traditions 6.1 Student housing 6.1.1 University housing 6.1.2 Cooperative housing 6.1.3 Fraternities and sororities 6.2 Student-run organizations 6.2.1 Associated Students of the University of California (ASUC) 6.2.2 Media and publications 6.2.3 Student groups 6.3 Athletics 7 Notable alumni, faculty, and staff 7.1 Faculty and staff 7.2 Alumni 8 Controversies 9 See also 10 References 11 Further reading 12 External links History[edit] View from Memorial Glade of Sather Tower (the Campanile), the center of Berkeley—the ring of its bells and clock can be heard from all over campus. Sather Tower (the Campanile) looking out over the San Francisco Bay and Mount Tamalpais Main article: History of the University of California, Berkeley Founding[edit] Made possible by President Lincoln's signing of the Morrill Act in 1862, the University of California was founded in 1868 as the state's first land-grant university, merging the private College of California and the public Agricultural, Mining, and Mechanical Arts College. California's Organic Act states that the "University shall have for its design, to provide instruction and thorough and complete education in all departments of science, literature and art, industrial and professional pursuits, and general education, and also special courses of instruction in preparation for the professions".[23][24] Ten faculty members and 40 students made up the fledgling university when it opened in Oakland in 1869.[25] Frederick H. Billings, a trustee of the College of California, suggested that a new campus site north of Oakland be named in honor of Anglo-Irish philosopher George Berkeley.[26] The university began admitting women the following year.[27] In 1870, Henry Durant, founder of the College of California, became its first president. With the completion of North and South Halls in 1873, the university relocated to its Berkeley location with 167 male and 22 female students.[28][29] Beginning in 1891, Phoebe Apperson Hearst made several large gifts to Berkeley, funding a number of programs and new buildings and sponsoring, in 1898, an international competition in Antwerp, Belgium, where French architect Émile Bénard submitted the winning design for a campus master plan. 20th century[edit] In 1905, the University Farm was established near Sacramento, ultimately becoming the University of California, Davis.[30] In 1919, Los Angeles State Normal School became the southern branch of the University, which ultimately became the University of California, Los Angeles.[31] By 1920s, the number of campus buildings had grown substantially and included twenty structures designed by architect John Galen Howard.[32] In 1917, one of the nation's first ROTC programs was established at Berkeley[33] and its School of Military Aeronautics began training pilots, including Gen. Jimmy Doolittle. Berkeley ROTC alumni include former Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara and Army Chief of Staff Frederick C. Weyand as well as 16 other generals.[34] In 1926, future fleet admiral Chester W. Nimitz established the first Naval ROTC unit at Berkeley.[35] In the 1930s, Ernest Lawrence helped establish the Radiation Laboratory (now Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) and invented the cyclotron, which won him the Nobel physics prize in 1939.[36] Using the cyclotron, Berkeley professors and Berkeley Lab researchers went on to discover 16 chemical elements – more than any other university in the world.[37][38] In particular, during World War II and following Glenn Seaborg's then-secret discovery of plutonium, Ernest Orlando Lawrence's Radiation Laboratory began to contract with the U.S. Army to develop the atomic bomb. Physics professor J. Robert Oppenheimer was named scientific head of the Manhattan Project in 1942.[39][40] Along with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley founded and was then a partner in managing two other labs, Los Alamos National Laboratory (1943) and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (1952). By 1942, the American Council on Education ranked Berkeley second only to Harvard in the number of distinguished departments.[41] In 1952, the University of California reorganized itself into a system of semi-autonomous campuses, with each campus given its own chancellor, and Clark Kerr became Berkeley's first Chancellor, while Sproul remained in place as the President of the University of California.[41] Berkeley gained a worldwide reputation for political activism in the 1960s.[42][43] In 1964, the Free Speech Movement organized student resistance to the university's restrictions on political activities on campus – most conspicuously, student activities related to the Civil Rights Movement. The arrest in Sproul Plaza of Jack Weinberg, a recent Berkeley alumnus and chair of Campus CORE, in October 1964, prompted a series of student-led acts of formal remonstrance and civil disobedience that ultimately gave rise to the Free Speech Movement, which movement would prevail and serve as precedent for student opposition to America's involvement in the Vietnam War.[44][45][46] In 1982, the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI) was established on campus with support from the National Science Foundation and at the request of three Berkeley mathematicians — Shiing-Shen Chern, Calvin Moore and Isadore M. Singer. The institute is now widely regarded as a leading center for collaborative mathematical research, drawing thousands of visiting researchers from around the world each year.[47][48][49] 21st century[edit] In the current century, Berkeley has become less politically active and more focused on entrepreneurship and fundraising, especially for STEM disciplines.[50][51] Modern Berkeley students are less politically radical, with a greater percentage of moderates and conservatives than in the 1960s and 70s.[52][53] Democrats outnumber Republicans on the faculty by a ratio of 9:1.[54] On the whole, Democrats outnumber Republicans on American university campuses by a ratio of 10:1.[55] In 2007, the Energy Biosciences Institute was established with funding from BP and Stanley Hall, a research facility and headquarters for the California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences, opened. The next few years saw the dedication of the Center for Biomedical and Health Sciences, funded by a lead gift from billionaire Li Ka-shing; the opening of Sutardja Dai Hall, home of the Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society; and the unveiling of Blum Hall, housing the Blum Center for Developing Economies. Supported by a grant from alumnus James Simons, the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing was established in 2012. In 2014, Berkeley and its sister campus, UCSF, established the Innovative Genomics Institute, and, in 2020, an anonymous donor pledged $252 million to help fund a new center for computing and data science.[56] Since 2000, Berkeley alumni and faculty have received 40 Nobel Prizes, behind only Harvard and MIT among US universities; five Turing Awards, behind only MIT and Stanford; and five Fields Medals, second only to Princeton. According to PitchBook, Berkeley ranks second, just behind Stanford, in producing VC-backed entrepreneurs.[57] Organization and administration[edit] Although the University of California system does not have an official flagship campus, many scholars and experts consider Berkeley to be its unofficial flagship. In some cases, it shares this unofficial status with the University of California, Los Angeles.[58] Name[edit] Officially the University of California, Berkeley, its name is often shortened to Berkeley in general reference or in an academic context (www.berkeley.edu, Berkeley Law, Berkeley Haas) or to California or Cal, particularly when referring to its athletic teams (California Golden Bears).[8][9][59] Governance[edit] The University of California is governed by a 26-member Board of Regents, 18 of whom are appointed by the Governor of California to 12-year terms. The board also has seven ex officio members, a student regent, and a non-voting student regent-designate.[60] Prior to 1952, Berkeley was the University of California, so the university president was also Berkeley's chief executive. However, in 1952, the university reorganized itself into a system of semi-autonomous campuses, with each campus having its own chief executive, a chancellor, who would, in turn, report to the president of the university system. Twelve vice chancellors report directly to Berkeley's chancellor, and the deans of the 14 colleges and schools report to the executive vice chancellor and provost, Berkeley's chief academic officer.[61] Twenty-five presidents and chancellors have led Berkeley since its founding.[62][41] Presidents 1868–1869 Henry Durant 1869–1870 John LeConte 1870–1872 Henry Durant 1872–1875 Daniel Coit Gilman 1875–1881 John LeConte 1881–1885 W.T. Reid 1885–1888 Edward S. Holden 1888–1890 Horace Davis 1890–1899 Martin Kellogg 1899–1919 Benjamin Ide Wheeler 1919–1923 David Prescott Barrows 1923–1930 William Wallace Campbell 1930–1952 Robert Gordon Sproul Chancellors 1952–1958 Clark Kerr 1958–1961 Glenn T. Seaborg 1961–1965 Edward W. Strong 1965–1965 Martin E. Meyerson (acting) 1965–1971 Roger Heyns 1971–1980 Albert H. Bowker 1980–1990 Ira Michael Heyman 1990–1997 Chang-Lin Tien 1997–2004 Robert M. Berdahl 2004–2013 Robert J. Birgeneau 2013–2017 Nicholas B. Dirks 2017–present: Carol T. Christ Funding[edit] See also: University of California finances Berkeley receives funding from a variety of federal, state, and private sources. With the exception of government contracts, public support is apportioned to Berkeley and the other campuses of the University of California system through the UC Office of the President and accounts for some 12 percent of Berkeley's total revenues.[63] Berkeley has long benefited from private philanthropy, with considerable gifts from the Flood, Hearst, Durant, Strauss, Lick, Harmon, and Bacon families in the 19th century and from the Hearst, Doe, Sather, Rockefeller, Cowell, Haviland, Bowles, Boalt, and Stern families, among others, in the first half of the 20th century. More recently, alumni and their foundations have given to the university for operations and capital expenditures.[citation needed] Berkeley has also benefited from the giving of individuals, corporations, and foundations, notable among which are Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan (pledged $600 million, shared with UCSF and Stanford University, to form the Biohub);[citation needed] BP (pledged $400 million to research biofuels); the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (over $68 million since the foundation's creation), billionaire Sir Li Ka-Shing (multiple gifts, most notably a $40-million gift in 2005), Israeli-Russian billionaire Yuri Milner, Thomas and Stacey Siebel, Sanford and Joan Weill, and professor Gordon Rausser ($50-million gift in 2020).[citation needed] Several significant gifts have been made anonymously, including a 1999 gift of $50 million to support molecular engineering, a 2018 gift of $50 million to support STEM faculty,[64] a $70-million gift in 2019 to support the BioEnginuity Hub,[65] and a gift in 2020 of $252 million to support data science.[66] The 2008–13 Campaign for Berkeley raised $3.13 billion from 281,855 donors, and the “Light the Way” campaign, announced in early 2020, is scheduled to raise $6 billion by the end of 2023.[67] Academics[edit] Wheeler Hall, home to Berkeley's largest lecture hall, was the location of a Nobel Prize conferral during WWII. The interior of the Hearst Mining Building, dedicated by Phoebe Hearst in honor of her late husband, George. Berkeley is a large, primarily residential Tier One research university with a majority of its enrollment in undergraduate programs but also offering a comprehensive doctoral program.[68] The university has been accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges Senior College and University Commission since 1949.[69] The university operates on a semester calendar and awarded 8,725 bachelor's, 3,286 master's or professional and 1,272 Doctoral degrees in 2018–2019.[11] The university's academic enterprise is organized into 14 colleges and schools, which, in turn, comprise 180 departments and 80 interdisciplinary units offering over 350 degree programs. Colleges serve both undergraduate and graduate students, while schools are generally graduate only, though some offer undergraduate majors or minors. College of Chemistry College of Engineering College of Environmental Design College of Letters and Science Graduate School of Education Graduate School of Journalism Haas School of Business Goldman School of Public Policy Rausser College of Natural Resources School of Information School of Law School of Optometry School of Public Health School of Social Welfare UC Berkeley Extension (currently has three locations in downtown Berkeley, downtown San Francisco and Belmont) Undergraduate programs[edit] The north facade of Doe Library, designed by John Galen Howard, with Memorial Glade in the foreground. The four-year, full-time undergraduate program offers 107 bachelor's degrees across the Haas School of Business (1), College of Chemistry (5), College of Engineering (20), College of Environmental Design (4), College of Letters and Science (67), Rausser College of Natural Resources (10), and individual majors (2).[70] The most popular majors are Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Political Science, Molecular and Cell Biology, Environmental Science, and Economics.[71] Requirements for undergraduate degrees are set by four authorities: the University of California system, the Berkeley campus, the college or school, and the department. These requirements include an entry-level writing requirement before enrollment (typically fulfilled by minimum scores on standardized admissions exams such as the SAT or ACT), completing coursework on "American History and Institutions" before or after enrollment by taking an introductory class, passing an "American Cultures Breadth" class at Berkeley, as well as requirements for reading and composition and specific requirements declared by the department and school.[72] Three-hour final examinations are required in most undergraduate classes and take place over a week following the last day of instruction in mid-December for the Fall semester and in mid-May for the Spring semester.[73] Academic grades are reported on a four-point, five-letter scale (A thru F) with grade points being modified by three-tenths of point for pluses and minuses, save for the A+, which carries just four points.[74] Requirements for academic honors are specified by individual schools and colleges, scholarly prizes are typically awarded by departments, and students are elected to honor societies based on these organizations' criteria.[75] Graduate and professional programs[edit] The Morrison Library, a reading room located in Doe Library, often is used to host speeches and panels on campus. Berkeley has a "comprehensive" graduate program, with high coexistence with the programs offered to undergraduates, and offers interdisciplinary graduate programs with the medical schools at UCSF (various masters and doctoral) and Stanford (MD/MPH). The university offers Master of Art, Master of Science, Master of Fine Art, and PhD degrees in addition to professional degrees such as the Juris Doctor, Master of Business Administration, Master of Public Health, and Master of Design.[68][76] The university awarded 963 doctoral degrees and 3,531 master's degrees in 2017.[77] Admission to graduate programs is decentralized; applicants apply directly to the department or degree program. Most graduate students are supported by fellowships, teaching assistantships, or research assistantships.[77] The 2010 United States National Research Council Rankings identified UC Berkeley as having the highest number of top-ranked doctoral programs in the nation.[78] Berkeley doctoral programs that received a #1 ranking include Agricultural and Resource Economics, Astrophysics, Chemistry, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Computer Science, English, Epidemiology, Geography, German, Mathematics, Mechanical Engineering, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Genetics, Genomics, and Development, Physics, Plant Biology, and Political Science. Berkeley was also the #1 recipient of National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships between 2001 and 2010, with 1,333 awards.[77] Faculty and research[edit] Main articles: List of UC Berkeley faculty; Research centers and laboratories at UC Berkeley; and List of Nobel laureates associated with University of California, Berkeley Berkeley is classified among "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research activity".[68] In fiscal year 2018, Berkeley spent $797 million on research and development (R&D).[79] There are 1,629 full-time and 896 part-time faculty members among more than 130 academic departments and more than 80 interdisciplinary research units.[10] The current faculty includes 260 American Academy of Arts and Sciences Fellows, three Fields Medalists, 77 Fulbright Scholars, 139 Guggenheim Fellows, 78 members of the National Academy of Engineering, 149 members of the National Academy of Sciences,[80] eight Nobel Prize winners, four Pulitzer Prize winners, 125 Sloan Fellows, 7 Wolf Prize winners and 1 Pritzker Prize winner.[10][81][82][83] Library system[edit] The on-campus University of California Museum of Paleontology hosts a life-size replica of a T-Rex. Main article: University of California, Berkeley Library System Berkeley's 32 libraries together contain more than 13 million volumes and cover over 12 acres (4.9 ha) of land, forming one of the largest library complexes in the world.[84][85] Doe Library serves as the library system's reference, periodical, and administrative center, while most of the main collections reside in the subterranean Gardner Main Stacks and Moffitt Undergraduate Library. The Bancroft Library, which has over 400,000 printed volumes and 70 million manuscripts, pictures, and maps, maintains special collections that document the history of the western part of North America, with an emphasis on California, Mexico and Central America. The Bancroft Library also houses the Mark Twain Papers,[86] the Oral History Center,[87] the Center for the Tebtunis Papyri[88] and the University Archives.[89] Rankings[edit] University rankings National ARWU[90] 4 Forbes[91] 13 THE/WSJ[92] 34 U.S. News & World Report[93] 22 Washington Monthly[94] 17 Global ARWU[95] 5 QS[96] 30 THE[97] 7 U.S. News & World Report[98] 4 National Program Rankings[99] Program Ranking Biological Sciences 1 Business 7 Chemistry 2 Clinical Psychology 3 Computer Science 1 Earth Sciences 2 Economics 1 Education 20 Engineering 3 English 1 Fine Arts 15 History 4 Law 9 Mathematics 2 Physics 3 Political Science 4 Psychology 1 Public Affairs 3 Public Health 9 Social Work 3 Sociology 1 Statistics 2 Global Subject Rankings[100] Program Ranking Arts & Humanities 9 Biology & Biochemistry 4 Chemistry 1 Civil Engineering 5 Clinical Medicine 145 Computer Science 28 Economics & Business 3 Electrical & Electronic Engineering 32 Engineering 7 Environment/Ecology 2 Geosciences 6 Immunology 63 Materials Science 5 Mathematics 5 Mechanical Engineering 66 Microbiology 12 Molecular Biology & Genetics 15 Neuroscience & Behavior 20 Physics 3 Plant & Animal Science 4 Psychiatry/Psychology 30 Social Sciences & Public Health 15 Space Science 3 Rank 2018 QS World Ranking by Subject 4 Art and Humanities (OVERALL) 4 Architecture 4 English Language 5 History 8 Philosophy 8 Engineering and Technology (OVERALL) 4 Computer and Information System 3 Chemical Engineering 2 Civil and Structural Engineering 3 Electronic and Electrical Engineering =4 Mechanical Aeronautical & Manufacturing 7 Natural Sciences (OVERALL) 2 Chemistry 1 Environmental Sciences 4 Geography 6 Mathematics 3 Material Sciences 5 Physics & Astronomy 7 Social Sciences & Management (OVERALL) 8 Accounting & Finance 10 Business & Management Studies =6 Communication & Media Studies 4 Economics & Econometrics 8 Education & Training 8 Law 9 Political & International Studies 2 Sociology 4 Statistics & Operations Research Nationally, the 2019–20 U.S. News & World Report's "Best Colleges" ranks Berkeley second among public universities and 22nd among national universities.[101] The 2019 Forbes America's Top Colleges report ranks Berkeley the top public university and 13th among 650 universities and liberal arts colleges in the United States.[102] Washington Monthly ranked Berkeley 17th among national universities in 2020, with criteria based on research, community service, and social mobility. For 2020, QS World University Rankings places Berkeley fourth among all US universities and first among publics.[103] The 2018–19 Center for World University Rankings (CWUR) ranked the university the top public university in the nation and fourth overall based on quality of education, alumni employment, quality of faculty, publications, influence, and citations.[104] The Money Magazine Best Colleges ranking for 2015 ranked Berkeley 9th in the United States, based on educational quality, affordability and alumni earnings.[105] For 2015 Kiplinger ranked Berkeley the 4th best-value public university in the nation for in-state students, and 6th for out-of-state students.[106] In 2014, The Daily Beast's Best Colleges report ranked Berkeley 11th in the country.[107] The 2013 Top American Research Universities report by the Center for Measuring University Performance ranked Berkeley 8th over-all, 5th in resources, faculty, and education, 9th in resources and education, and 1st in education.[108] Berkeley produces more Nobel laureates and billionaires than any other public university in the United States. Berkeley was listed as a "Public Ivy" in Richard Moll's 1985 Public Ivies.[109] Globally, for 2020–21 Berkeley is ranked 4th by U.S. News & World Report, 5th by the Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU), 7th by Times Higher Education World University Rankings, and 30th in the QS World University Rankings. Additionally, the Times Higher Education considers Berkeley, based on reputation, to be one of the world's "six super brands" along with Cambridge, Harvard, MIT, Oxford and Stanford.[110][111][112][113][114] For 2020–21, the Center for World University Rankings (CWUR) ranked the university 12th in the world based on quality of education, alumni employment, quality of faculty, and research performance.[115] In 2017, the Nature Index ranked the university the ninth largest contributor to papers published in 82 leading journals.[116][117] Admissions and enrollment[edit] Demographics of student body (Fall 2019)[11][118] Undergraduate Graduate California U.S. Census Black 1.9% 4.0% 6.5% 13.2% Asian 35.5% 18.1% 14.4% 5.5% Non-Hispanic White 24.0% 32.9% 38.5% 61.7% Hispanic (of any race) 16.1% 8.4% 38.6% 17.7% Native American 0.1% 0.6% 1.7% 1.2% International 12.7% 28.7% N/A N/A Other/Unknown 9.5% 7.3% 3.7% 2.8% For Fall 2019, Berkeley's total enrollment was 43,695: 31,780 undergraduate and 11,915 graduate students, with women accounting for 54 percent of undergraduates and 46 percent of graduate and professional students.[11] The acceptance rate for freshmen was 16.8 percent. Of enrolled freshmen, 55 percent were women. Enrolled freshman had an average unweighted GPA of 3.89 and an average SAT score of 1425. The interquartile range for SAT scores was 1330–1520. Berkeley and other campuses of the University of California do not superscore. Fall Freshman Profile   2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 Applicants[11][119][120][121][122][123] 87,398 89,621 85,057 82,571 78,923 73,794 67,713 61,702 52,953 Admits[119][120][121][122][123] 14,676 13,308 14,552 14,429 13,332 13,338 14,181 13,038 13,523 Admit rate[119][120][121][122][123] 16.8% 14.8% 17.1% 17.5% 16.9% 18.1% 20.9% 21.1% 25.5% Enrolled[11][119][120][124][125] 6,454 6,012 6,379 6,253 5,832 5,813 5,848 5,365 5,640 SAT range [11][119][120][126][127][128][129][130][131] 1330–1520 1300–1530 1300–1540 1930–2290 1870–2250 1840–2230 1870–2240 1840–2240 1870–2230 ACT average [11][119][120][126][127][128][129][130][131] 31 31 32 32 32 31 30 30 31 GPA (unweighted) [11][119][120][126][127][128][129][130][131] 3.89 3.89 3.91 3.86 3.87 3.85 3.86 3.84 3.83 Berkeley students are eligible for a variety of public and private financial aid. Generally, financial aid inquiries are processed through the Financial Aid and Scholarships Office, although some schools, such as the Haas School of Business[132] and Berkeley Law,[133] have their own financial aid offices. Berkeley's enrollment of National Merit Scholars was third in the nation until 2002, when participation in the National Merit program was discontinued.[134] For 2017–18, Berkeley ranked fourth in enrollment of recipients of the National Merit $2,500 Scholarship (124 scholars).[135] Twenty-seven percent of admitted students receive federal Pell grants.[136] Discoveries and innovation[edit] Simplified evolution of Unix systems and BSD forks A number of significant inventions and discoveries have been made by the Berkeley faculty and researchers:[14] Natural sciences[edit] Atomic bomb – Physics professor J. Robert Oppenheimer was wartime director of Los Alamos National Laboratory and the Manhattan Project. Carbon 14 & Photosynthesis – Martin Kamen and Sam Ruben first discovered carbon 14 in 1940, and Nobel laureate Melvin Calvin and his colleagues used carbon 14 as a molecular tracer to reveal the carbon assimilation path in photosynthesis, known as Calvin cycle.[137] Carcinogens – Identified chemicals that damage DNA. The Ames test was described in a series of papers in 1973 by Bruce Ames and his group at the University. Chemical Elements – 16 elements have been discovered at Berkeley (astatine, neptunium, plutonium, curium, americium, berkelium, californium, einsteinium, fermium, mendelevium, nobelium, lawrencium, dubnium, seaborgium, technetium, and rutherfordium).[138][139] Covalent bond – Gilbert N. Lewis in 1916 described the sharing of electron pairs between atoms, and invented the Lewis notation to describe the mechanisms. CRISPR gene editing – Nobel laureate Jennifer Doudna discovers a precise and inexpensive way for manipulating DNA in human cells.[140] Cyclotron – Ernest O. Lawrence created a particle accelerator in 1934, and was awarded the Nobel Physics Prize in 1939.[141] Dark energy – Saul Perlmutter and many others in the Supernova Cosmology Project discover the universe is expanding because of dark energy 1998. Flu vaccine – Wendell M. Stanley and colleagues discovered the vaccine in the 1940s. Hydrogen bomb – Edward Teller, the father of hydrogen bomb, was a professor at Berkeley and a researcher at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory & the Los Alamos National Laboratory. Immunotherapy of cancer – James P. Allison discovers and develops monoclonal antibody therapy that uses the immune system to combat cancer 1992–1995. Molecular clock – Allan Wilson discovery in 1967. Neuroplasticity – Marian Diamond discovers structural, biochemical, and synaptic changes in brain caused by environmental enrichment 1964 Oncogene – Peter Duesberg discovers first cancer causing gene in a virus 1970s. Telomerase – Elizabeth H. Blackburn, Carol Greider, and Jack Szostak discover enzyme that promotes cell division and growth 1985. Vitamin E – Gladys Anderson Emerson isolates Vitamin E in a pure form in 1952.[142] Computer and applied sciences[edit] Berkeley RISC – David Patterson leads ARPA's VLSI project of microprocessor design 1980–1984.[143] Berkeley UNIX/Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) – The Computer Systems Research Group was a research group at Berkeley that was dedicated to enhancing AT&T Unix operating system and funded by Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. Bill Joy modified the code and released it in 1977 under the open source BSD license, starting an open-source revolution. Deep sea diving – Joel Henry Hildebrand used helium with oxygen to mitigate decompression sickness.[144] GIMP – In 1995, Spencer Kimball and Peter Mattis began developing GIMP as a semester-long project at Berkeley. Polygraph – invented by John Augustus Larson and a police officer from the Berkeley Police Department in 1921.[145] Project Genie – DARPA funded project. It produced an early time-sharing system including the Berkeley Timesharing System, which was then commercialized as the SDS 940. Concepts from Project Genie influenced the development of the TENEX operating system for the PDP-10, and Unix, which inherited the concept of process forking from it.[146] Unix co-creator Ken Thompson worked on Project Genie while at Berkeley. SPICE – Donald O. Pederson develops the Simulation Program with Integrated Circuit Emphasis (SPICE) 1972.[147] Tcl programming language – developed by John Ousterhout in 1988.[148] Three-dimensional Transistor – Chenming Hu won the 2014 National Medal of Technology for developing the "first 3-dimensional transistors, which radically advanced semiconductor technology."[149] Vi text editor – Bill Joy created the first Vi editor in 1976.[150] Wetsuit – Hugh Bradner invents first wetsuit 1952.[151] Companies and entrepreneurship[edit] Main article: List of companies founded by UC Berkeley alumni Berkeley alumni and faculty have founded many companies, some of which are shown below.[152][19] Berkeley has often been cited as one of the universities that have produced most entrepreneurs, and boasts its own startup incubator, Berkeley SkyDeck.[19][153][154][155][156] Activision Blizzard, 1979 (as Activision), co-founder Alan Miller (BS) and Larry Kaplan (BA) AIG, 1919, founder Cornelius Vander Starr (Attended) Apple, 1976, co-founder Steve Wozniak (BS) Coursera, 2012, co-founder Andrew Ng (PhD) eBay, 1995, founder Pierre Omidyar (Attended)[157][158] Gap Inc., 1969, co-founder Donald Fisher (BS) HTC Corporation, 1997, co-founder Cher Wang (BA) Intel, 1968, co-founders Gordon Moore (BS) and Andy Grove (PhD) Marvell Technology Group, 1995, co-founders Sehat Sutardja (MS, PhD) and Weili Dai (BA) Morgan Stanley, 1924 (as Dean Witter & Co.), co-founder Dean G. Witter (BA) Mozilla Corporation, 2005, co-founder Mitchell Baker (BA, JD) Myspace, 2003, co-founder Tom Anderson (BA) Renaissance Technologies, 1982, founder James Simons (PhD) Rotten Tomatoes, 1998, founders Senh Duong (BA), Patrick Y. Lee (BA) and Stephen Wang (BA) SanDisk, 1988, co-founder Sanjay Mehrotra (BS, MS) Softbank, 1981, founder Masayoshi Son (BA) Sun Microsystems, 1982, co-founder Bill Joy (MS) Tesla, 2003, co-founder Marc Tarpenning (BS) VMware, 1998, co-founders Diane Greene (MS) and Mendel Rosenblum (PhD) Campus[edit] Main article: Campus of the University of California, Berkeley Sather Gate, connecting Sproul Plaza to the inner campus, was a center of the Free Speech Movement. The Berkeley campus encompasses approximately 1,232 acres (499 ha), though the "central campus" occupies only the low-lying western 178 acres (72 ha) of this area. Of the remaining acres, approximately 200 acres (81 ha) are occupied by the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; other facilities above the main campus include the Lawrence Hall of Science and several research units, notably the Space Sciences Laboratory, the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, an 800-acre (320 ha) ecological preserve, the University of California Botanical Garden and a recreation center in Strawberry Canyon. Portions of the mostly undeveloped, eastern area of the campus are actually within the City of Oakland; these portions extend from the Claremont Resort north through the Panoramic Hill neighborhood to Tilden Park.[159] The Doe Library, Bancroft Library, and Sather Tower looking south. To the west of the central campus is the downtown business district of Berkeley; to the northwest is the neighborhood of North Berkeley, including the so-called Gourmet Ghetto, a commercial district known for high quality dining due to the presence of such world-renowned restaurants as Chez Panisse. Immediately to the north is a quiet residential neighborhood known as Northside with a large graduate student population;[160] situated north of that are the upscale residential neighborhoods of the Berkeley Hills. Immediately southeast of campus lies fraternity row and beyond that the Clark Kerr Campus and an upscale residential area named Claremont. The area south of the university includes student housing and Telegraph Avenue, one of Berkeley's main shopping districts with stores, street vendors and restaurants catering to college students and tourists. In addition, the University also owns land to the northwest of the main campus, a 90-acre (36 ha) married student housing complex in the nearby town of Albany ("Albany Village" and the "Gill Tract"), and a field research station several miles to the north in Richmond, California. The UC Botanical Garden, located in the Berkeley Hills and by the Berkeley Lab. The campus is home to several museums including the University of California Museum of Paleontology, the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, and the Lawrence Hall of Science. The Museum of Paleontology, found in the lobby of the Valley Life Sciences Building, showcases a variety of dinosaur fossils including a complete cast of a Tyrannosaurus Rex. The campus also offers resources for innovation and entrepreneurship, such as the Big Ideas Competition (Blum Center for Developing Economies), SkyDeck, the Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology, and the Berkeley Haas Innovation Lab.[161] The campus is also home to the University of California Botanical Garden, one of the most diverse plant collections in the United States, famous for its large number of rare and endangered species, with more than 12,000 individual species. Outside of the Bay Area, the University owns various research laboratories and research forests in both northern and southern Sierra Nevada. 360-degree-view of the UC Berkeley campus Architecture[edit] South Hall (1873), one of the two original buildings of the University of California, still stands on the Berkeley campus What is considered the historic campus today was the result of the 1898 "International Competition for the Phoebe Hearst Architectural Plan for the University of California", funded by William Randolph Hearst's mother and initially held in the Belgian city of Antwerp; eleven finalists were judged again in San Francisco in 1899.[162] The winner was Frenchman Émile Bénard, however he refused to personally supervise the implementation of his plan and the task was subsequently given to architecture professor John Galen Howard. Howard designed over twenty buildings, which set the tone for the campus up until its expansion in the 1950s and 1960s. The structures forming the "classical core" of the campus were built in the Beaux-Arts Classical style, and include Hearst Greek Theatre, Hearst Memorial Mining Building, Doe Memorial Library, California Hall, Wheeler Hall, (Old) Le Conte Hall, Gilman Hall, Haviland Hall, Wellman Hall, Sather Gate, and the 307-foot (94 m) Sather Tower (nicknamed "the Campanile" after its architectural inspiration, St Mark's Campanile in Venice), the tallest university clock tower in the United States.[163] Buildings he regarded as temporary, nonacademic, or not particularly "serious" were designed in shingle or Collegiate Gothic styles; examples of these are North Gate Hall, Dwinelle Annex, and Stephens Hall. Many of Howard's designs are recognized California Historical Landmarks[164] and are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Built in 1873 in a Victorian Second-Empire-style, South Hall, designed by David Farquharson, is the oldest university building in California. It, and the Frederick Law Olmsted-designed Piedmont Avenue east of the main campus, are two of the only surviving examples of the nineteenth-century campus. Other notable architects and firms whose work can be found in the campus and surrounding area are Bernard Maybeck[165] (Faculty Club); Julia Morgan (Hearst Women's Gymnasium and Julia Morgan Hall); William Wurster (Stern Hall); Moore Ruble Yudell (Haas School of Business); Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects (C.V. Starr East Asian Library), and Diller Scofidio + Renfro (Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive). Natural features[edit] The south fork of Strawberry Creek, as seen between Dwinelle Hall and Lower Sproul Plaza. Flowing into the main campus are two branches of Strawberry Creek. The south fork enters a culvert upstream of the recreational complex at the mouth of Strawberry Canyon and passes beneath California Memorial Stadium before appearing again in Faculty Glade. It then runs through the center of the campus before disappearing underground at the west end of campus. The north fork appears just east of University House and runs through the glade north of the Valley Life Sciences Building, the original site of the Campus Arboretum. Trees in the area date from the founding of the university. The campus features numerous wooded areas, including: Founders' Rock, Faculty Glade, Grinnell Natural Area, and the Eucalyptus Grove, which is both the tallest stand of such trees in the world and the tallest stand of hardwood trees in North America.[166] The campus sits on the Hayward Fault, which runs directly through California Memorial Stadium.[167] Student life and traditions[edit] Fans atop Tightwad Hill watch the Cal Band, with views of the stadium and the San Francisco Bay. The official university mascot is Oski the Bear, who debuted in 1941. Previously, live bear cubs were used as mascots at Memorial Stadium until it was decided in 1940 that a costumed mascot would be a better alternative. Named after the Oski-wow-wow yell, he is cared for by the Oski Committee, whose members have exclusive knowledge of the identity of the costume-wearer.[168] The University of California Marching Band, which has served the university since 1891, performs at every home football game and at select road games as well. A smaller subset of the Cal Band, the Straw Hat Band, performs at basketball games, volleyball games, and other campus and community events.[169] The UC Rally Committee, formed in 1901, is the official guardian of California's Spirit and Traditions. Wearing their traditional blue and gold rugbies, Rally Committee members can be seen at all major sporting and spirit events. Committee members are charged with the maintenance of the five Cal flags, the large California banner overhanging the Memorial Stadium Student Section and Haas Pavilion, the California Victory Cannon, Card Stunts and The Big "C" among other duties. The Rally Committee is also responsible for safekeeping of the Stanford Axe when it is in Cal's possession.[170] The Chairman of the Rally Committee holds the title "Custodian of the Axe" while it is in the Committee's care. The Cal Mic Men, a standard at home football games, has recently expanded to involve basketball and volleyball. The traditional role comes from students holding megaphones and yelling, but now includes microphones, a dedicated platform during games, and the direction of the entire student section.[171] Both men and women are allowed to fulfill the role, despite the name.Overlooking the main Berkeley campus from the foothills in the east, The Big "C" is an important symbol of California school spirit. The Big "C" has its roots in an early 20th-century campus event called "Rush", which pitted the freshman and sophomore classes against each other in a race up Charter Hill that often developed into a wrestling match. It was eventually decided to discontinue Rush and, in 1905, the freshman and sophomore classes banded together in a show of unity to build "the Big C".[172] Owing to its prominent position, the Big "C" is often the target of pranks by rival Stanford University students who paint the Big "C" red and also fraternities and sororities who paint it their organization's colors. One of the Rally Committee's functions is to repaint the Big "C" to its traditional color of King Alfred Yellow. Cal students invented the college football tradition of card stunts. Then known as Bleacher Stunts, they were first performed during the 1910 Big Game and consisted of two stunts: a picture of the Stanford Axe and a large blue "C" on a white background. The tradition continues today in the Cal student section and incorporates complicated motions, for example tracing the Cal script logo on a blue background with an imaginary yellow pen.[173] The California Victory Cannon, placed on Tightwad Hill overlooking the stadium, is fired before every football home game, after every score, and after every Cal victory. First used in the 1963 Big Game, it was originally placed on the sidelines before moving to Tightwad Hill in 1971. The only time the cannon ran out of ammunition was during a game against Pacific in 1991, when Cal scored 12 touchdowns.[174] Student housing[edit] Main article: Housing at the University of California, Berkeley Berkeley students are offered a variety of housing options, including university-owned or affiliated residences, private residences, fraternities and sororities, and cooperative housing (co-ops). University housing[edit] The International House was opened in 1930 with the funding of John D. Rockefeller. Christian Hall The university runs twelve different residence halls: seven undergraduate residence halls or complexes, both with and without themes; family student housing; re-entry student housing; and optional international student housing at the International House, built with a gift from John D. Rockefeller, Jr. and the erstwhile home of six Nobel laureates. Undergraduate residence halls are located off-campus in the city of Berkeley. Units 1, 2 and 3, located on the south side of campus, offer high-rise accommodations with common areas on every other floor. Units 1 and 2 share a common dining hall, Crossroads. The oldest unit, Unit 3, has its own dining hall, Café 3, on the first floor.[175] At the beginning of the 2018–2019 school year, a new building called Blackwell Hall, was opened across the street from Unit 3. These buildings share a dining hall. Further away and also on the south side of campus is Clark Kerr, an undergraduate residential complex that houses many student athletes and was once a school for the deaf and blind. In the foothills east of the central campus, there are three additional undergraduate residence halls: Foothill, Stern, and Bowles. Foothill is a co-ed, suite-style hall reminiscent of a Swiss chalet. Just south of Foothill, overlooking the Hearst Greek Theatre, is the all-women's traditional-style Stern Hall, which boasts an original mural by Diego Rivera. Because of their proximity to the College of Engineering and College of Chemistry, these residence halls often house science and engineering majors. They tend to be quieter than the southside complexes but often get free glimpses of concerts owing to their proximity to the theater. Bowles Hall, the country's oldest residential college, is located on the north side of campus between California Memorial Stadium and the Hearst Greek Theater. Gifted by Mary McNear Bowles in 1929 to honor her late husband, Regent Philip E. Bowles, the college began as a student-governed residence hall.[176] The hall was originally all male until its reopening in 2016 following a $45 million renovation.[177] Bowles is known for its Collegiate Gothic architecture, its sense of community, and its unusual traditions and pranks.[178] Bowles Hall, a co-ed residential college, neighbors the Hearst Greek Theatre. The Channing-Bowditch and Ida Jackson apartments cater to re-entry students,[179][180] while the 58-acre University Village, located some 3 miles (4.8 km) northwest of campus, provides housing for students with families. Clark Kerr Residential Campus Cooperative housing[edit] Main article: Berkeley Student Cooperative Berkeley students, and those of other local schools, have the option of living in one of the twenty cooperative houses participating in the Berkeley Student Cooperative (BSC), a nonprofit housing cooperative network consisting of 20 residences and 1250 member-owners.[181] Notable BCS alumni include Norman Mineta, Steve Wozniak, Gordon Moore, Nathan Huggins, Marion Nestle, and Beverly Cleary. Fraternities and sororities[edit] About three percent of undergraduate men and nine percent of undergraduate women—or 3,400 of total undergraduates—are active in Berekeley's Greek system.[182] University-sanctioned fraternities and sororities comprise over 60 houses affiliated with four Greek councils.[183][184] Fraternities (IFC)[185] Sororities (PHC)[185] Alpha Delta Phi Alpha Epsilon Pi Alpha Gamma Omega Alpha Kappa Lambda Alpha Sigma Phi Alpha Tau Omega Chi Phi Chi Psi Delta Chi Delta Kappa Epsilon Delta Sigma Phi Delta Upsilon Kappa Alpha Order Kappa Sigma Kappa Delta Rho Nu Alpha Kappa Phi Delta Theta Phi Kappa Psi Phi Kappa Tau Pi Kappa Alpha Pi Kappa Phi Pi Lambda Phi Sigma Alpha Epsilon Sigma Alpha Mu Sigma Chi Sigma Nu Sigma Phi Epsilon Sigma Pi Tau Kappa Epsilon Theta Chi Theta Delta Chi Zeta Beta Tau Zeta Psi Alpha Chi Omega Alpha Delta Pi Alpha Phi Chi Omega Delta Delta Delta Delta Gamma Gamma Phi Beta Kappa Alpha Theta Kappa Kappa Gamma Omega Phi Beta Pi Beta Phi Sigma Kappa Sigma Psi Zeta Zeta Tau Alpha Student-run organizations[edit] Associated Students of the University of California (ASUC)[edit] Main article: Associated Students of the University of California Wellness Room sleep pods: part of a program created by the ASUC, UC Berkeley's official student association The Associated Students of the University of California (ASUC) is the official student association that controls funding for student groups and organizes on-campus student events. It is considered[by whom?] the most autonomous student government at any university in the U.S. due to its independent funding model, level of university involvement and resources.[citation needed] The two main political parties are "Student Action"[186] and "CalSERVE."[187] The organization was founded in 1887 and has an annual operating budget of $1.7 million (excluding the budget of the Graduate Assembly of the ASUC), in addition to various investment assets. Its alumni include multiple State Senators, Assemblymembers, and White House Administration officials.[188][circular reference] The ASUC's Student Union Program, Entertainment, and Recreation Board (SUPERB) is a student-run, non-profit branch dedicated to providing entertainment for the campus and community. Founded in 1964, SUPERB's programming includes the Friday Film Series, free Noon Concerts on Lower Sproul Plaza, Comedy Competitions, Poker Tournaments, free Sneak Previews of upcoming movies, and more. Media and publications[edit] Berkeley's student-run online television station, CalTV, was formed in 2005 and broadcasts online. It is run by students with a variety of backgrounds and majors. Since the mid-2010s, it has been a program of the ASUC.[189] Berkeley's independent student-run newspaper is The Daily Californian. Founded in 1871, The Daily Cal became independent in 1971 after the campus administration fired three senior editors for encouraging readers to take back People's Park. The Daily Californian has both a print and online edition. Print circulation is about 10,000. The newspaper is an important source of information for students, faculty, staff, and the surrounding City of Berkeley. Berkeley's FM Student radio station, KALX, broadcasts on 90.7 MHz. It is run largely by volunteers, including both students and community members. Berkeley also features an assortment of student-run publications: California Law Review, law journal published by Berkeley Law, est. 1912. Berkeley Fiction Review, American literary magazine, est. 1981. Berkeley Poetry Review, national poetry journal, est. 1974. Berkeley Political Review, nonpartisan political magazine, est. 2001. Berkeley Economic Review, economics journal, est. 2016. Business Berkeley, Haas undergraduate journal. Caliber Magazine, an "everything magazine," featuring articles and blogs on a wide range of topics, est. 2008. Free Peach, satirical newspaper, est. 2019. B-Side, music magazine, est. 2013. California Patriot, conservative political magazine, est. 2000. Smart Ass, liberal magazine, est. 2015. Student groups[edit] "DeCal" redirects here. For other uses, see DeCal (disambiguation). Berkeley Dance Marathon, one of the campus's student-led fundraising events Zellerbach Hall, home of the Cal Performances theater group There are some 94 political student groups on campus, including MEChXA de UC Berkeley, Berkeley ACLU, Berkeley Students for Life, Campus Greens, The Sustainability Team (STEAM), the Berkeley Student Food Collective, Students for Sensible Drug Policy, Cal Berkeley Democrats, and the Berkeley College Republicans.[190] The Residence Hall Assembly (RHA) is the student-led umbrella organization that oversees event planning, legislation, sponsorships and other activities for over 7,2000 on-campus undergraduate residents.[191] Berkeley students also run a number of consulting groups, including the Berkeley Group, founded in 2003 and affiliated with the Haas School.[192] Students from various concentrations are recruited and trained to work on pro-bono consulting engagements with actual nonprofit clients. Berkeley Consulting, founded in 1996, has served over 140 companies across the high-tech, retail, banking, and non-profit sectors.[193] ImagiCal[194] has been the college chapter of the American Advertising Federation at Berkeley since the late 1980s. The team competes annually in the National Student Advertising Competition, with students from disparate majors working together on a marketing case underwritten by a corporate sponsor. The Berkeley Forum is a nonpartisan student organization that hosts panels, debates, and speeches across a variety of fields.[195] Past speakers include Senator Rand Paul, entrepreneur and venture capitalist Peter Thiel, and Khan Academy founder Salman Khan. UC Berkeley Symphony Orchestra Democratic Education at Cal, or DeCal, is a program that promotes the creation of professor-sponsored, student-facilitated classes.[196] DeCal arose out of the 1960s Free Speech movement and was officially established in 1981. The program offers around 150 courses on a vast range of subjects that appeal to the student community, including classes on the Rubik's Cube, blockchain, web design, metamodernism, cooking, Jewish art, 3D animation, and bioprinting.[197] The campus is home to several a cappella groups, including Drawn to Scale, Artists in Resonance, Berkeley Dil Se, the UC Men's Octet, the California Golden Overtones, and Noteworthy. The University of California Men's Octet was founded in 1948 and features a repertoire of barbershop, doo-wop, contemporary pop, modern alternative, and fight songs. Hewing to tradition, the groups perform weekly under Sather Gate on alternating days. Berkeley hosts a myriad other performing arts groups in comedy, dance, acting and instrumental music, and include jericho!, Improv & Sketch Comedy, The Movement, Taiko drumming, BareStage student musical theater, the Remedy Music Project, Main Stacks, AFX Dance, and TruElement. Since 1967, students and staff jazz musicians have had an opportunity to perform and study with the University of California Jazz Ensembles. Under the direction of Dr. David W. Tucker, who was hired by the Cal Band as a composer, arranger, and associate director, but was later asked to direct the jazz ensembles as it grew in popularity and membership, the group grew rapidly from one big band to multiple big bands, numerous combos, and numerous instrumental classes with multiple instructors. For several decades it hosted the Pacific Coast Collegiate Jazz Festival, part of the American Collegiate Jazz Festival, a competitive forum for student musicians. PCCJF brought jazz luminaries such as Hubert Laws, Sonny Rollins, Freddie Hubbard, and Ed Shaughnessy to the Berkeley campus as performers, clinicians, and adjudicators. The festival later included high school musicians. Michael Wolff and Andy Narell are just a couple of its more famous alumni. Berkeley student organizations also hosts many other conferences, seminars, and musical and theatrical performances, including the annual Sociological Research Symposium. Athletics[edit] Main article: California Golden Bears The base of the California Memorial Stadium. The interior of Haas Pavilion during a Cal Basketball game. The Cal Bears face off against the Stanford Cardinal in the Big Game. The university's athletic teams are known as the California Golden Bears (often shortened to "Cal Bears" or just "Cal") and are primarily members of the NCAA Division I Pac-12 Conference (Pac-12). Cal is also a member of the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation in several sports not sponsored by the Pac-12 and the America East Conference in women's field hockey. The first school colors, established in 1873 by a committee of students, were Blue (specifically Yale Blue) and Gold.[198][199] Yale Blue was originally chosen because many of the university's inaugural faculty were Yale graduates, including Henry Durant, its first president. Blue and Gold were specified and made the official colors of the university and the state colors of California in 1955.[198][200] However, the athletic department has recently specified a darker blue, close to but not the same as the Berkeley Blue now used by the university.[201][202] The California Golden Bears have a long history of excellence in athletics, having won national titles in football, men's basketball, baseball, softball, men's and women's crew, men's gymnastics, men's tennis, men's and women's swimming, men's water polo, men's Judo, men's track, and men's rugby. In addition, Cal athletes have won numerous individual NCAA titles in track, gymnastics, swimming and tennis. On January 31, 2009, the university's Hurling club made athletic history by defeating Stanford in the first collegiate hurling match ever played on American soil. Berkeley teams have won national championships in baseball (2), men's basketball (2), men's crew (15), women's crew (3), football (5), men's golf (1), men's gymnastics (4), men's lacrosse (1), men's rugby (26), softball (1), men's swimming & diving (4), women's swimming & diving (3), men's tennis (1), men's track & field (1), and men's water polo (13). Cal students and alumni have also won 207 Olympic medals.[203] California finished in first place[204] in the 2007–08 Fall U.S. Sports Academy Directors' Cup standings (Now the NACDA Directors' Cup), a competition measuring the best overall collegiate athletic programs in the country, with points awarded for national finishes in NCAA sports. Cal finished the 2007–08 competition in seventh place with 1119 points.[205] Most recently, California finished in third place in the 2010–11 NACDA Directors' Cup with 1219.50 points, finishing behind Stanford and Ohio State. This is California's highest ever finish in the Director's Cup.[206] The Golden Bears' traditional arch-rival is the Stanford Cardinal, and the most anticipated sporting event between the two universities is the annual football match dubbed the Big Game, celebrated with spirit events on both campuses. Since 1933, the winner of the Big Game has been awarded custody of the Stanford Axe. Other sporting games between these rivals have related names such as the Big Splash (water polo) or the Big Kick (soccer).[207] One of the most famous moments in college football history occurred during the 85th Big Game on November 20, 1982. In what has become known as "the band play" or simply The Play, Cal scored the winning touchdown in the final seconds with a kickoff return that involved a series of laterals and the Stanford marching band rushing onto the field. Notable alumni, faculty, and staff[edit] Berkeley alumni, faculty and staff have distinguished themselves in a wide range of endeavors and include 110 Nobel laureates (34 alumni), 25 Turing Award winners (11 alumni), 14 Fields Medalists, 28 Wolf Prize winners, 103 MacArthur Fellows (62 alumni) , 30 Pulitzer Prize recipients, 19 Academy Award winners, five foreign heads of state, chief justices of the United States and California,[16] 21 cabinet members, ten state governors, numerous members of Congress, 36 general and flag officers of the United States Armed Forces, 40 billionaires, and the founders or co-founders of many world-renowned companies. Earl Warren, BA 1912, JD 1914, 14th Chief Justice of the United States, 30th Governor of California Steven Chu, PhD 1976, Nobel laureate and former United States Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm, BA 1984, First female Governor of Michigan Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, BA 1950,[208] 4th President of Pakistan, 9th Prime Minister of Pakistan Robert Reich, Professor of Public Policy, 22nd United States Secretary of Labor Christina Romer, Professor of Economics, 25th Chairperson of the President's Council of Economic Advisers Steve Wozniak, BS 1986, cofounder of Apple Inc. Gordon Moore, BS 1950, cofounder of semiconductor company Intel Eric Schmidt, MS 1979, PhD 1982, Executive Chairman of Alphabet Edmund Gerald "Jerry" Brown, Jr, BA 1961, Governor of California, former California Attorney General Gregory Peck, BA 1939, Academy Award-winning actor Natalie Coughlin, BA 2005, multiple gold medal-winning Olympic swimmer Haakon Magnus, Crown Prince of Norway, BA 1999[209] Robert McNamara, BA 1937, President of World Bank (1968–81), United States Secretary of Defense (1961–68), President of Ford Motor Company (1960) Daniel Kahneman, PhD 1961, awarded the 2002 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics for his work in Prospect theory Harold Urey, PhD 1923, Nobel laureate and discoverer of deuterium Faculty and staff[edit] Further information: List of University of California, Berkeley faculty and List of Nobel laureates affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley Shiing-Shen Chern, a leading geometer of the 20th century, co-founded the renowned Mathematical Sciences Research Institute and served as its founding Director until 1984.[210][47] Physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer was scientific director of the Manhattan Project and was the founder of the Berkeley Center for Theoretical Physics.[211] Faculty member Edward Teller was (together with Stanislaw Ulam) the "father of the hydrogen bomb", who laid important foundations for the establishment of Space Sciences Laboratory at Berkeley.[212] Ernest Lawrence, a Nobel laureate in physics who invented the cyclotron at Berkeley, and founded the Radiation Laboratory on campus, which later became the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.[213] Gilbert N. Lewis, former Dean of the College of Chemistry, was nominated 41 times for Nobel Prize in Chemistry.[214][215] He mentored and influenced numerous Berkeley Nobel laureates, including Harold Urey (1934 Nobel Prize), William F. Giauque (1949 Nobel Prize), Glenn T. Seaborg (1951 Nobel Prize), Willard Libby (1960 Nobel Prize), and Melvin Calvin (1961 Nobel Prize).[216][217] Nobel laureate Glenn T. Seaborg discovered or co-discovered 10 chemical elements at Berkeley and served as Chancellor from 1958 to 1961.[218][219] Hans Albert Einstein, the first son of Albert Einstein and a world's leading scholar in hydraulic engineering, was a long-time faculty member at Berkeley.[220] Former United States Secretary of Energy and Nobel laureate Steven Chu (PhD 1976), was Director of Berkeley Lab, 2004–2009. Janet Yellen, the 15th Chair of the Federal Reserve Board, is a professor emeritus at Berkeley Haas School of Business and the Department of Economics.[221][222] Alumni[edit] Further information: List of University of California, Berkeley alumni The computer mouse was invented by Turing Award laureate Doug Engelbart, BEng 1952, PhD 1955 Berkeley alumni have served in a range of prominent government offices, both domestic and foreign, including Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court (Earl Warren, BA, JD); United States Attorney General (Edwin Meese III, JD); United States Secretary of State (Dean Rusk, LLB); United States Secretary of the Treasury (W. Michael Blumenthal, BA, and G. William Miller, JD); United States Secretary of Defense (Robert McNamara, BS); United States Secretary of the Interior (Franklin Knight Lane, 1887); United States Secretary of Transportation and United States Secretary of Commerce (Norman Mineta, BS); United States Secretary of Agriculture (Ann Veneman, MPP); National Security Advisor (Robert C. O'Brien, JD); scores of federal judges and members of the United States Congress (10 currently serving) and United States Foreign Service; governors of California (George C. Pardee; Hiram W. Johnson; Earl Warren, BA and LLB; Jerry Brown, BA; and Pete Wilson, JD), Michigan (Jennifer Granholm, BA), and the United States Virgin Islands (Walter A. Gordon, BA); Chief of Staff of the United States Army (Frederick C. Weyand, Class of 1938); Lieutenant General of the United States Army (Jimmy Doolittle); Vice Admiral of the United States Navy (Murry L. Royar, Class of 1916); Major General of the United States Marine Corps (Oliver Prince Smith); Brigadier General of the United States Marine Corps (Bertram A. Bone); Director of the Central Intelligence Agency and Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission (John A. McCone, BS); chair and members of the Council of Economic Advisors (Michael Boskin, BA, PhD.; Sandra Black, BA; Jesse Rothstein, PhD; Robert Seamans, PhD; Jay Shambaugh, PhD; James Stock, MA, PhD); Governor of the Federal Reserve System (H. Robert Heller, PhD) and President and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (William Dudley, PhD); Commissioners of the SEC (Troy A. Paredes, BA) and the FCC (Rachelle Chong, BA); and United States Surgeon General (Kenneth P. Moritsugu, MPH). Tonika Sealy-Thompson appointed Barbados' Ambassador to Brazil Foreign alumni include the President of Colombia 1922–1926, (Pedro Nel Ospina Vázquez, BA, Mining Engineering); the President of Mexico (Francisco I. Madero, attended 1892–93); the President and Prime Minister of Pakistan; the Premier of the Republic of China (Sun Fo, BA); the President of Costa Rica (Miguel Angel Rodriguez, MA, PhD); and members of parliament of the United Kingdom (House of Lords, Lydia Dunn, Baroness Dunn, BS), India (Rajya Sabha, the upper house, Prithviraj Chavan, MS); Iran (Mohammad Javad Larijani, PhD); Nigerian Minister of Science and Technology and first Executive Governor of Abia State (Ogbonnaya Onu, PhD Chemical Engineering); Barbados' Ambassador to Brazil (Tonika Sealy-Thompson). Alumni have also served in many supranational posts, notable among which are President of the World Bank (Robert McNamara, BS); Deputy Prime Minister of Spain and Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (Rodrigo Rato, MBA); Executive Director of UNICEF (Ann Veneman, MPP); member of the European Parliament (Bruno Megret, MS); and judge of the World Court (Joan Donoghue, JD). Robert Laughlin, BA 1972, Nobel laureate Alumni have made important contributions to science. Some have concentrated their studies on the very small universe of atoms and molecules. Nobel laureate William F. Giauque (BS 1920, PhD 1922) investigated chemical thermodynamics, Nobel laureate Willard Libby (BS 1931, PhD 1933) pioneered radiocarbon dating, Nobel laureate Willis Lamb (BS 1934, PhD 1938) examined the hydrogen spectrum, Nobel laureate Hamilton O. Smith (BA 1952) applied restriction enzymes to molecular genetics, Nobel laureate Robert Laughlin (BA math 1972) explored the fractional quantum Hall effect, and Nobel laureate Andrew Fire (BA math 1978) helped to discover RNA interference-gene silencing by double-stranded RNA. Nobel laureate Glenn T. Seaborg (PhD 1937) collaborated with Albert Ghiorso (BS 1913) to discover 12 chemical elements, such as americium, berkelium, and californium. David Bohm (PhD 1943) discovered Bohm Diffusion. Nobel laureate Yuan T. Lee (PhD 1965) developed the crossed molecular beam technique for studying chemical reactions. Carol Greider (PhD 1987), professor of molecular biology and genetics at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, was awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize in medicine for discovering a key mechanism in the genetic operations of cells, an insight that has inspired new lines of research into cancer. Harvey Itano (BS 1942) conducted breakthrough work on sickle cell anemia that marked the first time a disease was linked to a molecular origin.[223] While he was valedictorian of UC Berkeley's class of 1942, he was unable to attend commencement exercises due to internment.[223] Narendra Karmarkar (PhD 1983) is known for the interior point method, a polynomial algorithm for linear programming known as Karmarkar's algorithm.[224] National Medal of Science laureate Chien-Shiung Wu (PhD 1940), often known as the "Chinese Madame Curie", disproved the Law of Conservation of Parity for which she was awarded the inaugural Wolf Prize in Physics.[225] Kary Mullis (PhD 1973) was awarded the 1993 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his role in developing the polymerase chain reaction,[226] a method for amplifying DNA sequences. Daniel Kahneman was awarded the 2002 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics for his work in Prospect theory. Richard O. Buckius, engineer, Bachelor's in Mechanical Engineering '72, Masters '73, PhD '75, currently Chief Operating Officer of the National Science Foundation. Edward P. Tryon (PhD 1967) is the physicist who first said our universe originated from a quantum fluctuation of the vacuum.[227][228][229] John N. Bahcall (BS 1956) worked on the Standard Solar Model and the Hubble Space Telescope,[230] resulting in a National Medal of Science.[230] Peter Smith (BS 1969) was the principal investigator and project leader for the NASA robotic explorer Phoenix,[231] which physically confirmed the presence of water on the planet Mars for the first time.[232] Astronauts James van Hoften (BS 1966), Margaret Rhea Seddon (BA 1970), Leroy Chiao (BS 1983), and Rex Walheim (BS 1984) have orbited the earth in NASA's fleet of space shuttles. Undergraduate alumni have founded or cofounded such companies as Apple Computer,[233] Intel,[234] LSI Logic[235] The Gap,[236] MySpace,[237] PowerBar,[238] Berkeley Systems,[239] Bolt, Beranek and Newman[240] (which created a number of underlying technologies that govern the Internet), Chez Panisse,[241] GrandCentral (known now as Google Voice),[242] HTC Corporation,[243] VIA Technologies,[243] Marvell Technology Group,[244] MoveOn.org,[239] Opsware,[245] RedOctane,[246] Rimon Law P.C.,[247] SanDisk,[248] Scharffen Berger Chocolate Maker,[249] VMware[250] and Zilog,[251] while graduate school alumni have cofounded companies such as DHL,[252] KeyHole Inc (known now as Google Earth),[253] Sun Microsystems,[254] and The Learning Company.[255] Berkeley alumni have also led various technology companies such as Electronic Arts,[256] Google,[257] Adobe Systems,[258] Softbank (Masayoshi Son) and Qualcomm.[259] Turing Award laureate Ken Thompson (left), BS 1965, MS 1966, and fellow laureate and colleague Dennis Ritchie (right), created Unix together Berkeley alumni have developed a number of key technologies associated with the personal computer and the Internet.[260] Unix was created by alumnus Ken Thompson (BS 1965, MS 1966) along with colleague Dennis Ritchie. Alumni such as L. Peter Deutsch[261][262][263] (PhD 1973), Butler Lampson (PhD 1967), and Charles P. Thacker (BS 1967)[264] worked with Ken Thompson on Project Genie and then formed the ill-fated US Department of Defense-funded Berkeley Computer Corporation (BCC), which was scattered throughout the Berkeley campus in non-descript offices to avoid anti-war protestors.[265] After BCC failed, Deutsch, Lampson, and Thacker joined Xerox PARC, where they developed a number of pioneering computer technologies, culminating in the Xerox Alto that inspired the Apple Macintosh. In particular, the Alto used a computer mouse, which had been invented by Doug Engelbart (BEng 1952, PhD 1955). Thompson, Lampson, Engelbart, and Thacker[266] all later received a Turing Award. Also at Xerox PARC was Ronald V. Schmidt (BS 1966, MS 1968, PhD 1971), who became known as "the man who brought Ethernet to the masses".[267] Another Xerox PARC researcher, Charles Simonyi (BS 1972), pioneered the first WYSIWIG word processor program and was recruited personally by Bill Gates to join the fledgling company known as Microsoft to create Microsoft Word. Simonyi later became the first repeat space tourist, blasting off on Russian Soyuz rockets to work at the International Space Station orbiting the earth. In 1977, a graduate student in the computer science department named Bill Joy (MS 1982) assembled[268] the original Berkeley Software Distribution, commonly known as BSD Unix. Joy, who went on to co-found Sun Microsystems, also developed the original version of the terminal console editor vi, while Ken Arnold (BA 1985) created Curses, a terminal control library for Unix-like systems that enables the construction of text user interface (TUI) applications. Working alongside Joy at Berkeley were undergraduates William Jolitz (BS 1997) and his future wife Lynne Jolitz (BA 1989), who together created 386BSD, a version of BSD Unix that runs on Intel CPUs and evolved into the BSD family of free operating systems and the Darwin operating system underlying Apple Mac OS X.[269] Eric Allman (BS 1977, MS 1980) created SendMail, a Unix mail transfer agent that delivers about 12 percent of the email in the world.[270] The XCF, an undergraduate research group located in Soda Hall, has been responsible for a number of notable software projects, including GTK+ (created by Peter Mattis, BS 1997), The GIMP (Spencer Kimball, BS 1996), and the initial diagnosis of the Morris worm.[271] In 1992, Pei-Yuan Wei,[272] an undergraduate at the XCF, created ViolaWWW, one of the first graphical web browsers. ViolaWWW was the first browser to have embedded scriptable objects, stylesheets, and tables. In the spirit of Open Source, he donated the code to Sun Microsystems, inspiring Java applets( Kim Polese (BS 1984) was the original product manager for Java at Sun Microsystems.) ViolaWWW also inspired researchers at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications to create the Mosaic web browser,[273] a pioneering web browser that became Microsoft Internet Explorer. Robert Penn Warren, MA 1927 – novelist and poet, who received the Pulitzer Prize three times Alumni collectively have won at least twenty-five Pulitzer Prizes. Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Marguerite Higgins (BA 1941) was a pioneering female war correspondent[274][275] who covered World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War.[276] Novelist Robert Penn Warren (MA 1927) won three Pulitzer Prizes,[277] including one for his novel All the King's Men, which was later made into an Academy Award-winning[278] movie. Pulitzer Prize–winning cartoonist Rube Goldberg (BS 1904) invented the comically complex—yet ultimately trivial—contraptions known as Rube Goldberg machines. Journalist Alexandra Berzon (MA 2006) won a Pulitzer Prize in 2009,[279] and journalist Matt Richtel (BA 1989), who also coauthors the comic strip Rudy Park under the pen name of "Theron Heir",[280] won the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting.[281] Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Leon Litwack (BA[282] 1951, PhD 1958) taught as a professor at UC Berkeley for 43 years;[283] three other UC Berkeley professors have also received the Pulitzer Prize. Alumna and professor Susan Rasky won the Polk Award for journalism in 1991. USC Professor and Berkeley alumnus Viet Thanh Nguyen's (PhD 1997) first novel The Sympathizer won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction[284] Alumni have also written novels and screenplays that have attracted Oscar-caliber talent, including The Call of the Wild author Jack London. Irving Stone (BA 1923) wrote the novel Lust for Life, which was later made into an Academy Award-winning film of the same name starring Kirk Douglas as Vincent van Gogh. Stone also wrote The Agony and the Ecstasy, which was later made into a film of the same name starring Oscar winner Charlton Heston as Michelangelo. Mona Simpson (BA 1979) wrote the novel Anywhere But Here, which was later made into a film of the same name starring Oscar-winning actress Susan Sarandon. Terry McMillan (BA 1986) wrote How Stella Got Her Groove Back, which was later made into a film of the same name starring Oscar-nominated actress Angela Bassett. Randi Mayem Singer (BA 1979) wrote the screenplay for Mrs. Doubtfire, which starred Oscar-winning actor Robin Williams and Oscar-winning actress Sally Field. Audrey Wells (BA 1981) wrote the screenplay The Truth About Cats & Dogs, which starred Oscar-nominated actress Uma Thurman. James Schamus (BA 1982, MA 1987, PhD 2003) has collaborated on screenplays with Oscar-winning director Ang Lee on the Academy Award-winning movies Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Brokeback Mountain. Emmy and Golden Globe Award winning actress Kathy Baker, BA 1977 Collectively, alumni have won at least 20 Academy Awards. Gregory Peck (BA 1939), nominated for four Oscars during his career, won an Oscar for acting in To Kill a Mockingbird. Chris Innis (BA 1991) won the 2010 Oscar for film editing for her work on best picture winner, The Hurt Locker. Walter Plunkett (BA 1923) won an Oscar for costume design (for An American in Paris). Freida Lee Mock (BA 1961) and Charles H. Ferguson (BA 1978) have each[285][286] won an Oscar for documentary filmmaking. Mark Berger (BA 1964) has won four Oscars for sound mixing and is an adjunct professor at UC Berkeley.[287] Edith Head (BA 1918), who was nominated for 34 Oscars during her career, won eight Oscars for costume design. Joe Letteri (BA 1981[288]) has won four Oscars for Best Visual Effects in the James Cameron film Avatar and the Peter Jackson films King Kong, The Two Towers, and The Return of the King.[289] Alumni have collectively won at least 25 Emmy Awards: Jon Else (BA 1968) for cinematography; Andrew Schneider (BA 1973) for screenwriting; Linda Schacht (BA 1966, MA 1981), two for broadcast journalism;[290][291] Christine Chen (dual BA's 1990), two for broadcast journalism;[292] Kristen Sze (BA), two for broadcast journalism;[293] Kathy Baker (BA 1977), three for acting; Ken Milnes (BS 1977), four for broadcasting technology; and Leroy Sievers (BA),[294] twelve for production. Elisabeth Leamy is the recipient of 13 Emmy awards. [295][296][297] Alumni have acted in classic television series that are still broadcast on TV today. Karen Grassle (BA 1965) played the mother Caroline Ingalls in Little House on the Prairie, Jerry Mathers (BA 1974) starred in Leave it to Beaver, and Roxann Dawson (BA 1980) portrayed B'Elanna Torres on Star Trek: Voyager. Former undergraduates have participated in the contemporary music industry, such as Grateful Dead bass guitarist Phil Lesh, The Police drummer Stewart Copeland,[298] Rolling Stone Magazine founder Jann Wenner, The Bangles lead singer Susanna Hoffs (BA 1980), Counting Crows lead singer Adam Duritz, electronic music producer Giraffage, MTV correspondent Suchin Pak (BA 1997),[299] AFI musicians Davey Havok and Jade Puget (BA 1996), and solo artist Marié Digby (Say It Again). People Magazine included Third Eye Blind lead singer and songwriter Stephan Jenkins (BA 1987) in the magazine's list of 50 Most Beautiful People.[300] Alumni have also participated in the world of sports. Tennis athlete Helen Wills Moody (BA 1925) won 31 Grand Slam titles, including eight singles titles at Wimbledon. Tarik Glenn (BA 1999) is a Super Bowl XLI champion, and Mitchell Schwartz (2011) is an All-Pro NFL offensive tackle. Michele Tafoya (BA 1988) is a sports television reporter for ABC Sports and ESPN.[301] Sports agent Leigh Steinberg ( BA 1970, JD 1973) has represented professional athletes such as Steve Young, Troy Aikman, and Oscar De La Hoya; Steinberg has been called the real-life inspiration[302] for the title character in the Oscar-winning[303] film Jerry Maguire (portrayed by Tom Cruise). Matt Biondi (BA 1988) won eight Olympic gold medals during his swimming career, in which he participated in three different Olympics. At the Beijing Olympics in 2008, Natalie Coughlin (BA 2005) became the first American female athlete in modern Olympic history[304] to win six medals in one Olympics. Berkeley alumni—often generous benefactors—have long been among the billionaire ranks, their largess giving rise to many of the campus' eponymous schools, pavilions, centers, institutes, and halls, and with some of the more prominent being J. Paul Getty, Ann Getty, Sanford Diller and Helen Diller, Donald Fisher, Flora Lamson Hewlett, David Schwartz (Bio-Rad) and members of the Haas (Walter A. Haas, Rhoda Haas Goldman, Walter A. Haas Jr., Peter E. Haas, Bob Haas), Hearst, and Bechtel families. There are at least 29 living alumni billionaires: Gordon Moore (Intel founder), James Harris Simons (Renaissance Technologies), Masayoshi Son (SoftBank),[305] Jon Stryker (Stryker Medical Equipment),[306] Eric Schmidt (former Google Chairman) and Wendy Schmidt, Michael Milken, Bassam Alghanim, Kutayba Alghanim,[307] Charles Simonyi (Microsoft), Cher Wang (HTC), Robert Haas (Levi Strauss & Co.), Carlos Rodriguez-Pastor (Interbank, Peru),[308] Fayez Sarofim, Daniel S. Loeb, Paul Merage, David Hindawi, Orion Hindawi, Bill Joy (computer programmer and Sun Microsystems founder), Victor Koo, Lowell Milken, Nathaniel Simons and Laura Baxter-Simons, Elizabeth Simons and Mark Heising,[309] Oleg Tinkov, Liong Tek Kwee (BS 1968), Liong Seen Kwee (BS 1974) and Alice Schwartz. Controversies[edit] Various human and animal rights groups have conflicted with Berkeley. Native Americans conflicted with the school over repatriation of remains from the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology.[310] Cal's seismically unsafe Memorial Stadium reopened September 2012 after a $321-million renovation. The university incurred a controversial $445 million of debt for the stadium and a new $153-million student athletic center, which it planned to finance with the sale of special stadium endowment seats. However, in June 2013 news surfaced that the university has had trouble selling the seats.[311] The roughly $18-million interest-only annual payments on the debt consumes 20 percent of Cal's athletics' budget; principal repayment begins in 2032 and is scheduled to conclude in 2113.[312] On May 1, 2014, Berkeley was named one of fifty-five higher education institutions under investigation by the Office of Civil Rights "for possible violations of federal law over the handling of sexual violence and harassment complaints" by the White House Task Force to Protect Students from Sexual Assault.[313] Investigations have continued into 2016, with hundreds of pages of records released in April 2016, showing a pattern of documented sexual harassment and firings of non-tenured staff.[314] On July 25, 2019, Berkeley was removed from the U.S. News Best Colleges Ranking for misreporting statistics. 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IRC Logs Official Documentation · © 2020 Evergreen ILS · Powered by · Designed with the Customizr theme · everybodyslibraries-com-1370 ---- From Wikipedia to our libraries | Everybody's Libraries Everybody's Libraries Libraries for everyone, by everyone, shared with everyone, about everything Skip to content Home About About the Free Decimal Correspondence Free Decimal Correspondence ILS services for discovery applications John Mark Ockerbloom The Metadata Challenge ← From my library to yours Updates on library linking, Wikipedia, and what you can do → From Wikipedia to our libraries Posted on March 4, 2013 by John Mark Ockerbloom I’ve heard the lament in more than one library discussion over the years.  “People aren’t coming to our library like they should,” librarians have told me.  “We’ve got a rich collection, and we’ve expended lots of resources on an online presence, but lots of our patrons just go to Google and Wikipedia without checking to see what we have.”  The pattern of quick online information-finding using search engines and Wikipedia is well-known enough that it has its own acronym: GWR, for Google -> Wikipedia -> References.  (David White gives a good description of that pattern in the linked article.) Some people I’ve talked to think we should break this pattern.  With the right search tool or marketing plan, some say, we can get patrons to start with us first, instead of Google or Wikipedia.  This idea seems to me both futile and beside the point.  Between them, Google and Wikipedia cover a vast array of online information, more than librarians could hope to replicate or index ourselves in that medium.  Also, if we truly have better resources available in our libraries than can be found on the open Web, it’s less important that our researchers start from our libraries’ websites than that they end up finding the knowledge resources our libraries make available to them. Looked at the right way, Wikipedia can be a big help in making online readers aware of their library’s offerings.  One of the things we spend a lot of time on in libraries is organizing information into distinct, conceptual categories.  That’s what Wikipedia does too: so far,  their English edition has over 4 million concepts identified, described, and often populated with reference links.  And Wikipedia has encouraged people to add links to relevant digital library collections on various topics, through programs like Wikipedia Loves Libraries and Wikipedian in Residence programs.  But while these programs help bring some library resources online, and direct people to those selected resources, there’s still a lot of other relevant library material that users can’t get to via Wikipedia, but can via the libraries that are near them. So how do we get people from Wikipedia articles to the related offerings of our local libraries?  Essentially we need three things: First, we need ways to embed links in Wikipedia to the libraries that readers use.  (We can’t reasonably add individual links from an article to each library out there, because there are too many of them– there has to be a way that each Wikipedia reader can get to their own favored libraries via the same links.)  Second, we need ways to derive appropriate library concepts and local searches from the subjects of Wikipedia articles, so the links go somewhere useful.  Finally, we need good summaries of the resources a reader’s library makes available on those concepts, so the links end up showing something useful.  With all of these in place, it should be possible for researchers to get from a Wikipedia article on a topic straight to a guide to their local library’s offerings on that topic in a single click. I’ve developed some tools to enable these one-click Wikipedia -> library transitions.  For the first thing we need, I’ve created a set of Wikipedia templates for adding library links. The documentation for the Library resources box template, for instance, describes how to use it to create a sidebar box with links to resources about (or by) the topic of  a Wikipedia article in a reader’s library, or in another library a reader might want to consult.  (There’s also an option for direct links to my Online Books Page, if there are relevant books online; it may be easier in some cases for readers to access those than to access their local library’s books.) For the links to work, we need to know about the reader’s preferred library.  Users can register their preferred library (which will set a cookie in their browser recording that choice), or select it for each individual search.  We know how to link to several dozen libraries so far, and can add more libraries on request.  Worldcat.org, which includes holdings of thousands of libraries worldwide, is also an option.  Besides the “Library resources box” template, I’ve also provided templates for in-text links to library resources, if those work better in a given article.  Links to these templates can be found at the end of the “Library resources box” documentation. For the second thing we need, I’ve created a library forwarding service (“Forward to Libraries”, or FTL– catchier name suggestions welcome) that transforms links from Wikipedia into searches for appropriate  headings or keywords in local libraries.  This is the same service I describe in my “From my library to yours” blog post from last month, but it now supports links from Wikipedia as well as to Wikipedia. Thanks to information included in the Library of Congress’ Authorities and Vocabularies datasets, OCLC’s VIAF data feeds, Wikipedia’s database downloads, and my own metadata compiled at The Online Books Page, FTL already knows how to link directly to over 240,000 distinct authority-controlled headings known to the Library of Congress from their corresponding Wikipedia articles.   (Library of Congress headings are used in most sizable US libraries, and many English-language libraries outside the US also use similar headings.) For other articles, FTL by default will try a general keyword search based on the Wikipedia article’s title, which will often turn up useful results at the destination library.  Alternatively, my templates allow Wikipedia editors to determine a specific Library of Congress heading to use in library links, if appropriate.  I’m hoping to incorporate suggested headings into FTL’s own knowledge base as I detect them showing up in Wikipedia articles.  I also plan to publish FTL’s data sets under open access terms, so that others can use and improve on them as well. The third part of this solution– displaying relevant resources at the destination library— can be implemented differently at each library.  For most of the libraries in FTL’s current knowledge base, links go to searches in the library’s regular online catalog.  But with some libraries, I’ve linked to another discovery system, if it seems to be the main search promoted at that library, and it seems to produce useful results.  The Online Books Page’s subject map displays also have features that I think will be useful to Wikipedia subject researchers arriving at my site, such as also showing related subjects and books filed under those subjects.  I hope in future posts to talk more about other useful guideposts and contextual information we could be providing to readers arriving from Wikipedia. But if you’ve read this far, you probably want to see how this all works in practice.  So I’ve added some example library resources boxes in a few Wikipedia articles that seemed particularly relevant this month, including those for Women’s history, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Flannery O’Connor.  Look down in the “External links” or “Further reading” sections of those articles for the boxes, and view the page source of the articles to see how those boxes are constructed. As with most things related to Wikipedia, this service is experimental, and subject to change (and, hopefully,  improvement) over time.  I’d love to hear thoughts and suggestions from users and maintainers of Wikipedia and libraries.  And if you find creating these sort of links from Wikipedia useful, and need help getting started, I’d be happy to help you bring them to your favorite Wikipedia topics and local libraries, as time permits. Share this: Email Print Twitter Facebook Reddit Like this: Like Loading... Related About John Mark Ockerbloom I'm a digital library strategist at the University of Pennsylvania, in Philadelphia. View all posts by John Mark Ockerbloom → This entry was posted in citizen librarians, discovery, libraries, online books, subjects. Bookmark the permalink. ← From my library to yours Updates on library linking, Wikipedia, and what you can do → 24 Responses to From Wikipedia to our libraries David Haskiya says: March 5, 2013 at 6:08 am Hi John, This is a great idea! And by linking to a generic re-direct service like this I would hope it would be more acceptable to the Wikipedia community than adding direct links to a GLAM (those are very often deleted esp. if added by the GLAM itself). If you’d like you could include also links to Europeana (who I work for)? Perhaps in resources in other libraries? In any case we link only to digitized content. For Women’s history (and other subjects) I’d recommend making phrase search out of it by adding citations, like so: http://www.europeana.eu/portal/search.html?query=“women’s+history” Since we have multi-lingual content a search in any other language versions of the same article should work, e.g.: http://www.europeana.eu/portal/search.html?query=“Histoire+des+femmes” and for persons/authors/creators to do a who-search like so: http://www.europeana.eu/portal/search.html?query=who: thomas+jefferson thus limiting results to only records where he’s either in dc:creator or dc:contributor (Though as a rule we’re not at our strongest when searching for U.S authors) More advance mashups could be done via our API but linking could be a first good step. Cheers, David Breandán says: March 5, 2013 at 3:32 pm Let us know if we at TheEuropeanLibrary.org can help! John Mark Ockerbloom says: March 5, 2013 at 6:24 pm Thanks! I’ve used Europeana fairly often to look for European-digitized content. I’ve gladly added it to the “global library services” options in the list of libraries to choose from. My mapping to your search terms isn’t perfect at this point, but it will hopefully be enough to be useful. We can talk offline about what sorts of filters might be best to put on search terms fed to your system. (I have a few filters I can use now, but there seem to be compatibility issues with some of them when used with Europeana; but hopefully what I have will be at least somewhat useful.) mattmaldre says: March 5, 2013 at 1:58 pm This reminds me a bit like the Chrome Add-on, “Library Extension” that adds a box onto Amazon.com, so when you are browsing a particular book, this box will tell you if it’s available in your local library system. Tasha Bergson-Michelson says: March 12, 2013 at 1:16 pm And similar to Google Books’ “Find in a library” link that takes you right into WorldCat. (Disclaimer: I am a Google Search Educator.) mace says: March 5, 2013 at 2:30 pm Wikipedia has the Special:BookSources -feature (f.ex. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/184046450X), which ISBN numbers link to. Also, regarding GWR, so you guys remember the now extinct search engine called WikiSeek? The idea was that it indexed all of Wikipedia, and all the pages Wikipedia linked to… thus, using Wikipedia as a humanmade proxy index. Very novel idea! stacymckenna says: March 5, 2013 at 3:28 pm I’d be particularly interested in seeing GLAM special collections linked more easily. For instance, I’ve been volunteering at LAPL for the past year and just last week learned we have an entire collection on bullfighting. The only mention of it on our web page is a single line on the Rare Books collection page, but we’ve had people come from as far as Spain to see it (apparently word gets around within enthusiast circles). The cataloging of the collection makes it difficult to find via our main catalog, but if articles relevant to particular niche collections (like our Thomas Bros. Guide collection, for instance – recently expanded to be more comprehensive than the publisher’s own collection, or our menus, or citrus box labels…) could include links to these kinds of holdings, many GLAMs would benefit from increased use of their specialty holdings. Robin says: March 7, 2013 at 3:45 pm Seconded! I spent many hours adding links to articles like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_DeSalvo#Imprisonment_and_death mentioning instances where people’s papers are located my library’s archives or special collections. What’s the best way to note these major collections of someone’s personal papers or records? Addition to this template, other new or existing template, or inline as I have? Don Simpson says: March 5, 2013 at 4:24 pm I would certainly like to register more than one preferred library. Where I live, there’s a county library branch a few blocks away, a city library branch some blocks further on (but still walkable), and a local university (with a large set of libraries) a short bus ride beyond that. John Mark Ockerbloom says: March 5, 2013 at 6:57 pm Thanks for your suggestion! I too live in a city with multiple libraries nearby. Right now, the Wikipedia templates let you pick a primary library, which the “your library” links will then go to when you select them. For other libraries, you’ll need to select the “other libraries” link. A page will then come up listing all the libraries available, and you can select the one you want to check. That list of libraries is going to be getting quite a bit bigger before long– word about this project has gotten around online, and I’ve got a number of additional libraries requested, that I’ll be adding as time permits. I’m hoping, once things calm down a bit, to upgrade the “choose a library” page so that it’s easier to find the libraries you want quickly. One idea I’ve considered, for instance, is letting people pick a set of favorites that would appear right at the start of the library choices offered. Is this something that you’d find useful? Let me know what you think. I’m quite interested in hearing ideas about what could make it easier to choose from a growing set of libraries. Don Simpson says: March 5, 2013 at 9:02 pm Well, I think it would be good if someone could pick a list of favorites. It might also be good to have a list of all libraries previously selected by/for the particular user, in most-recent to least-recent order, with an option for other sorts, such as alphabetic. And if the master list of libraries had location data (GPS co-ordinates might be nice), an evocable list of those within a certain distance could be useful. notconfusing says: March 5, 2013 at 5:46 pm Hello, Thanks for the fantastic reuse of the Wikipedia -> VIAF links that Andrew Gray and myself implemented last year in our Authority Control Integration Project through VIAFbot. To understand more about VIAFbot, the debriefing is available here: http://hangingtogether.org/?p=2306 John Mark Ockerbloom says: March 5, 2013 at 7:07 pm Thank *you* for creating those links! FTL wouldn’t be able to automatically find suitable headings for most of the Wikipedia articles that are in its current knowledge base were it not for the data that the VIAFbot has compiled, and recorded in lots of WIkipedia articles about people and other authors. Folks who are putting Library resources templates on pages the VIAFbot has touched can look for the “Authority control” line late in the article to find the VIAF identifier, and put it into the template as specified in its documentation. (The links will often work without the viaf argument explicitly included, but adding it will make the links more reliable in case the article, or the LC subject heading, changes its name in the future.) Helen says: March 5, 2013 at 10:12 pm What about worldcat.org? It will tell you which libraries have it in expanding radii. I have looked up some books that the nearest copy was down the street and others only available across the country. Many other places, especially in academia, already link to it. John Mark Ockerbloom says: March 6, 2013 at 12:17 pm Yes, worldcat.org is often a good choice, especially when you have multiple libraries in a nearby area that you want to consult, like Don Simpson does. While there’s no way that I know of in WorldCat to constrain subject and author searches to libraries in a particular geographic region (correct me if I’m wrong), once you find a particular book you’re interested in, worldcat.org will tell you what libraries near you have it, including how far away they are from your apparent location. Claire says: March 6, 2013 at 10:32 am John, this is awesome!! Last year I attended a webinar about Wikipedia and libraries and then began a project in which I was adding links to my library’s online oral histories and other digital holdings. To be able to highlight them in a box like you’ve designed, though, is even better. Bravo! I will definitely be revisiting my project and giving your code a try very soon! val forrestal says: March 6, 2013 at 1:11 pm So this is a completely different implementation, and doesn’t scale to general Wikipedia users, but my colleague and I built a browser-based tool that pulls the title of a wikipedia article and searches our academic library collection for the topic. Here’s the link to the project description: http://theinfobabe.blogspot.com/2010/10/bridging-gap-from-wikipedia-to.html; link to the customizable code files: http://theinfobabe.blogspot.com/2011/04/search-bookmarklet-code-files.html; and a link to the published article (unfortunately behind a paywall) about the bookmarklet, including our research on why we need to care about wikipedia as a research tool: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10691316.2012.693361 Scott Leslie says: March 6, 2013 at 2:12 pm Hi John, a chance link in my twitter feed brought me here. I am not a librarian but have been working on this idea, of ways of turning wikipedia from “the competition” into the front door for additional resources, be they library holdings or other valuable materials like open educational resources, for some time now, as have others. You may have seen these slides from a few years back http://www.slideshare.net/val_forrestal/metr-obookmarklet-preso that use a bookmarklet-based approach. For my own part, while I appreciate that wikipedia as a whole seems interested in this idea and that services like worldcat provide the closest to a single search end-point we have, I have been investigating ways to do this that don’t require their participation and that can work for any individual institution (well, any institution whose catalogue can provide search results back in reusable format.) I like worldcat, but as a dues-based system, there are many many institutions (especially where I live in Canada) who are not covered by it. While I have had success getting javascript/greasemonkey/wikipedia-user-scripts style solutions working, I think the problem with these is that they require a sophistication in the end user that many do not have. Thus I am moving towards proxy-based solutions that individual campuses can implement. The idea being that any request for a wikipedia page is caught by the proxy, a search sent to the library catalogue based on the keyword (which currently I just use the page name, perhaps not ideal, but an 80/20 style solution) and the resulting wikipedia page augmented on the fly with links to specific holdings. I hadn’t seen the “Library Resources Box” template before, so this is helpful. I am trying to build this for a single library now, but the hope is to build it as an open source piece that any library can implement, and to develop a number of connectors for the different catalog systems. While it’s way more work than going through worldcat, the nice thing is that it becomes extensible to other non-library catalogues too. Anyways, just wanted to connect through this comment. It’s a good idea and hopefully more folks will cotton on to it. Cheers, Scott minopret says: March 7, 2013 at 9:40 am Is there anything recent to say about LibX and “OpenURL Referrer”? I liked that they could add links to WorldCat from Wikipedia citation items. But I didn’t make frequent use of those plugins. And I feel certain that the public is not very aware of them. val forrestal says: March 7, 2013 at 4:00 pm As far as I know, the LibX project is alive and well. I believe they have stopped supporting IE, but now support both Firefox and Chrome. It looks like they are also doing some work specifically with Summon integration. http://libx.org/ quriosity says: March 15, 2013 at 12:57 pm Reblogged this on A Thinking Person, a.k.a. Cogit8R and commented: John Mark Ockerbloom has outlined an exciting concept and system for dynamically incorporating a user’s local library resources into Wikipedia articles. protestant lurker says: March 16, 2013 at 12:26 am [This comment kicked off a dispute about attribution, identity, and other matters that quickly diverged from the topic of this post and into disputes concerning another blog. To stop a derail of the Wikipedia-library discussion, I have deleted it and all followups. Comments have been archived for any principals who need to refer to them, but I would request that no further postings on the dispute be made here. – JMO] Casey says: March 22, 2013 at 9:18 am John, I work as a librarian, and I have a question about this project. The way that Google Scholar works is that it can tell you if articles it has found are available full-text at your library (at least, I know this works for college/university libraries) provided that you’re online on-site. My understanding is that this recognizes the user’s library based on the IP address. The library itself must set this up with Google to begin with, but there is then less work on the user’s part to get to the resources. Do you think that the Wikipedia library resources box would be able to work this way? I think the currently functionality is very good, and one of the ideas that I keep reading about in studies on online usability is the fewer clicks, the better. There are only a handful of libraries participating at the moment, and I wonder if, once that list grows, having to scroll through the list to find the preferred library might be a deterrent to some users (though I did see that you have plans to reformat that page to make that part easier). John Mark Ockerbloom says: March 22, 2013 at 2:43 pm “There are only a handful of libraries participating at the moment, and I wonder if, once that list grows, having to scroll through the list to find the preferred library might be a deterrent to some users” You’re quite right. I am starting to include data on known IP ranges of some institutions, so that users on those institutions’ local networks can go straight there without having to register a preference first. This is currently an experimental feature, and participating institutions have to be willing to let me publish the IP ranges in question as part of the open data I provide for this project. (In fact, most institutional IP ranges can already be found through public sources, though some institutions seem to be a bit skittish about this.) Local users can still register a different preference if they want to use another library as their default. If you’re interested in possibly setting this up for your institution, email me. Everyone else, or people who are following links from outside their local institutions, will need to register their preference for the links to reach their libraries in 1 click. But at least once they register, they don’t have to do it again, unless their registration cookie expires or they want to use a different library. More details on IP forwarding services and other FTL issues in a followup post (coming shortly). Comments are closed. 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Email check failed, please try again Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email. %d bloggers like this: everybodyslibraries-com-1491 ---- From my library to yours | Everybody's Libraries Everybody's Libraries Libraries for everyone, by everyone, shared with everyone, about everything Skip to content Home About About the Free Decimal Correspondence Free Decimal Correspondence ILS services for discovery applications John Mark Ockerbloom The Metadata Challenge ← Public Domain Day 2013: or, There and Back Again From Wikipedia to our libraries → From my library to yours Posted on February 11, 2013 by John Mark Ockerbloom Even with well over one and half million books and serials, the collection I maintain at The Online Books Page is far from comprehensive.  The gaps in coverage are not hard to notice at sites like mine, because most material published under copyright– which can be as much as 90 years old at this point– is not made freely available online.  But all libraries, no matter how large or well-provisioned, have their gaps.  No one can collect everything, and a persistent reader or researcher will eventually find that their questions and interests go beyond the bounds of any particular collection. However, there are lots of libraries out there, as well as lots of online information and literature that hasn’t been collected into an institutional library.  A good library, of whatever size, serves its users well by collecting the most useful materials it can get for their needs, and helping them get whatever else they need in other places.  Jeff Jarvis expressed this basic idea well a few years ago when discussing news organizations: “Cover what you do best.  Link to the rest.” Many libraries already do this, in certain ways.  The inter-library loan system helps library users who know they want a particular title their own library doesn’t have.  Many libraries also maintain links to websites on various topics from their own library website or catalog.  But these links, often maintained separately by each library, can only cover so much ground, as librarians have limited time to collect and maintain links.  Even consortially maintained collections of links struggle to go beyond fairly generalized or particular-niche focuses, and stay current. Libraries can do more, though.  People coming to a library often have a particular topic in mind that they want to learn or read more about.  They’re often looking for something they can pick up quickly, and for free.  Knowing what that topic is, we should be able to point them towards useful literature they can quickly and freely obtain, whether or not it’s a title they already had in mind, and whether or not it’s in our own collection or something we link to directly.  That’s the purpose of some new links now available on The Online Books Page. For example, say you’re a high school student looking for books on the Underground Railroad.  If you browse to this subject on the Online Books Page, you’ll find a number of free online books I list on this topic, and related topics.  As before, you can explore those related topics, if you’re interested (maybe checking out fugitive slave biographies, for instance); or you can try digging deeper for books specifically on the Underground Railroad via the extended shelves. But most of what you’ll find on my site will be 19th century and early 20th century materials.  Your local library is likely to have books you can freely read as well, reflecting more up-to-date historical research, as well as books that might be more accessible to a high school student.  There might also be useful research materials online that you can look at for free. That’s why there’s a new “See also…” note just under the big “Underground Railroad” heading.  If you click on the words “your library” in that note, you’ll be referred to your regular library, if we know about it, to see what they have on the Underground Railroad.  (If you haven’t already told us which local library you want to use regularly, we give you a list of choices.  It’s a pretty small list to start with, but I’m taking requests for more libraries to add.  Or you can opt for OCLC’s Worldcat.org– they cover lots of libraries throughout North America and beyond.)  Even after you register a preferred library, you’re not stuck with only using that one.  You can click on the “elsewhere” link in the note to try a different library or service from the one you usually check– like maybe the university library that’s near your public library (or vice versa). You might also want to find online research resources that aren’t books.  For some of those, try clicking on the Wikipedia link provided for this subject.  While the quality and reliability of Wikipedia articles themselves can vary, most mature Wikipedia entries include a rich set of useful links to more information.  (I’ve discussed previously how useful Wikipedia is as a concept-oriented catalog.)  The references and external links on Wikipedia’s Underground Railroad article, for instance, cover a wide range of informational websites, contemporary and current books, and digital library collections. Similarly, if you’re looking at a list of online books by a particular author (like, say, W. E. B. Dubois), you’ll find a link at the bottom of the page to find more books by the author in libraries, as well as links to online books or Wikipedia articles about the author near the top.  There are also links to find library copies of a particular book on its detailed catalog page; see for instance, the links at the bottom of our catalog entry for The Souls of Black Folk.  This can be useful for people who want a print copy, or a different edition from the ones we list. So far, I’ve added links from The Online Books Page to Wikipedia for more than 17,000 subjects, and links to library catalogs for millions of subjects, authors, and titles.  (My thanks to OCLC, the Library of Congress, and Wikipedia for providing bulk access to the data that makes it possible to do much of this automatically.)  I’ll be developing this service further, and doing more things with this data, in ways that I hope to describe here shortly.  But I hope this first step is a useful demonstration of ways that different kinds of libraries and catalogs– online and local, academic and public, institutional and informal– can support each other through user-directed, context-sensitive, concept-level links between collections. Share this: Email Print Twitter Facebook Reddit Like this: Like Loading... Related About John Mark Ockerbloom I'm a digital library strategist at the University of Pennsylvania, in Philadelphia. View all posts by John Mark Ockerbloom → This entry was posted in libraries, online books. Bookmark the permalink. ← Public Domain Day 2013: or, There and Back Again From Wikipedia to our libraries → 2 Responses to From my library to yours Jonah says: February 28, 2013 at 2:53 pm Hey John, I have this idea, and I would like your opinion. I’ve been reading your blog and you seem very passionate to the idea of openness and free books, obviously. I’m writing a novel and I want to release it for free. For a couple reasons, to not do so seems strikingly dissident with its content, and because I think it’s an incredibly interesting experiment. I can see multiple problems in this, but the biggest thing I’m worried about is how do you suggest that it’s good content while still making it free? (I’m sure you are already wary of this. My uncle tells this story, he worked in a skate shop, they charged 7 bucks for a sharpen, but when they raised the price to 22 they tripled their business, as the premier sharpeners in town. I also think it has other ideas, the physical, malleable copy of a book is something you commit to buy. ‘Well since I bought this book I should probably read it’). Convincing people to read the book has to consider, incredibly, ease of access. So I’ve been thinking of starting my own website, or a simple WordPress blog, but ideally I would not like to host it, an option that occurred to me after seeing sites like yours. With this new wave of ebooks, a route I considered, there are already many suggestions on building an online presence yadda yadda, but I think ideas can do more. Anyways, there are many other considerations, editing, and the aesthetics of the online page. I’m curious what you think. Elaine says: March 14, 2013 at 4:01 pm Looking for book to read on my phone, title Ambitious love by Rosie Harris? Comments are closed. 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Email check failed, please try again Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email. %d bloggers like this: everybodyslibraries-com-1837 ---- From our subjects to yours (and vice versa) | Everybody's Libraries Everybody's Libraries Libraries for everyone, by everyone, shared with everyone, about everything Skip to content Home About About the Free Decimal Correspondence Free Decimal Correspondence ILS services for discovery applications John Mark Ockerbloom The Metadata Challenge ← Everybody’s Library Questions: Finding films in the public domain From our subjects to yours (and vice versa) Posted on December 3, 2020 by John Mark Ockerbloom (TL;DR: I’m starting to implement services and publish data to support searching across library collections that use customized subject headings, such as the increasingly-adopted substitutes for LCSH terms like “Illegal aliens”. Read on for what I’m doing, why, and where I would value advice and discussion on how to proceed.) I’ve run the Forward to Libraries service for a few years now. As I’ve noted in earlier posts here, it’s currently used on The Online Books Page and in some Wikipedia articles to search for resources in your local library (or any other library you’re interested in) on a subject you’re exploring. One of the key pieces of infrastructure that makes it work is the Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) system, which many research libraries use to describe their holdings. Using the headings in the system, along with mappings between it and other systems for describing subjects (such as the English Wikipedia article titles that Forward to Libraries knows how to relate to LCSH) allows researchers to find materials on the same subjects across multiple collections, using common terminology. There are limitations to relying on LCSH for cross-collection subject searches, though. First of all, many libraries, particularly those outside the US, do not use LCSH. Some use other subject vocabularies. If a mapping has been defined between LCSH and another subject vocabulary (as has been done, for example, with MeSH) one can use that mapping to determine search terms to use in libraries that use that subject vocabulary. We don’t yet have that capability in Forward to Libraries, but I’m hoping to add it eventually. Changing the subjects I’m now also seeing more libraries that use LCSH, but that also use different terms for certain subjects that they find more appropriate for their users. While there is a process for updating LCSH terms (and its terms get updated on a monthly basis) the process can be slow, hard for non-specialists to participate in, and contentious, particularly for larger-scale subject heading changes. It can also be subject to pressure by non-librarians. The Library of Congress ultimately answers to Congress (as its name suggests), and members of Congress have used funding bills to block changes in subject headings that the librarian-run process had approved. They did that in 2016 for the subject heading “Illegal aliens”, where librarians had recommended using other terms to cover subjects related to unauthorized immigration. The documentary film “Change the Subject” (linked with context in this article) has a detailed report on this controversy. Four years after the immigration subject changes were blocked, some libraries have decided not to wait for LCSH to change, and are introducing their own subject terms. The University of Colorado Boulder, for example, announced in 2018 that they would use the term “Undocumented immigrants” where the Library of Congress had “Illegal aliens”. Other libraries have recently announced similar changes. Some library consortia have organized systematic programs to supersede outdated and offensive terms in LCSH in their catalogs. Some groups now maintain specialized subject vocabularies that can both supplement and supersede LCSH terms, such as Homosaurus for LGBT+-related subjects. And there’s also been increasing interest in using subject terms and classifications adapted to local communities. For instance, the Brian Deer Classification System is intended to be both used and shaped by local indigenous communities, and therefore libraries in different locations that use it may well use different terms for some subjects, depending on local usage and interests. Supporting cross-collection search in a community of localized catalogs We can still search across collections that use local terms, as long as we know what those terms are and how to translate between them. Forward to Libraries already uses a data file indicating Wikipedia article titles that correspond closely to LCSH subjects, and vice versa. By extension, we can also create a data file indicating terms to use at a given library that correspond to terms in LCSH and other vocabularies, so we can see what resources are available at different places on a given topics. You can see how that works in practice at The Online Books Page. As I write this, we’re still using the unaltered LCSH subjects (updated to October 2020), so we have a subject page showing free online books on “Illegal aliens”. You can follow links from there to see what other libraries have. If you select the “elsewhere” link in the upper left column and choose the Library of Congress as the library to search, you’ll see what they hold under that subject heading. But if you instead choose the University of Colorado Boulder, you’ll see what they have under “Undocumented immigrants”, the subject term they’ve adopted there. Similar routing happens from Wikipedia. The closest related Wikipedia article at present is “Illegal immigration”, and if you go down to the Further Reading section and select links in the Library Resources box, selecting “Online books” or most libraries will currently take you to their “Illegal aliens” subject search. But selecting University of Colorado Boulder (from “Resources in other libraries” if you don’t already have it specified as your preferred library in Wikipedia) will take you to their “Undocumented immigrants” search. This routing applies two mappings, one from Wikipedia terms to LCSH terms, and another from LCSH terms to local library terms. A common data resource These sorts of transformations are fundamentally data-driven. My Forward to Libraries Github repository now includes a data file listing local subject terms that different libraries use, and how they relate to LCSH subject terms. (The library codes used in the file are the same ones that are used in my libraries data file, and are based on OCLC and/or ISIL identifiers.) The local subject terms file is very short for now– as I write this, it only has enough data for the examples I’ve described above, but I’ll be adding more data shortly for other libraries that have announced and implemented subject headings changes. (And I’ll be glad to hear about more so I can add them.) As with other data in this repository, the data in this file is CC0, so it can be used by anyone for any purpose. In particular, it could be be used by services other than my Forward to Libraries tool, such as by aggregated catalogs that incorporate data from multiple libraries, some of which might use localized subject terms that have LCSH analogues. Where to go next What I’ve shown so far is not far removed from a proof-of-concept demo, but I hope it suggests ways that services can be developed to support searches among and across library collections with diverse subject headings. As I mentioned, I’ll be adding more data on localized subject headings as I hear about it, as well as adding more functionality to the Forward to Libraries service (such as the ability to link from a collection with localized subject headings, so I can support them in The Online Books Page, or in other libraries that have such headings and want to use to the service). There are some extensions that could be done to the basic data model to support scaling up these sorts of localizations, such as customizations used by all the libraries in a given consortium, or ones that adopt wholesale an alternative set of subjects, whether that be MeSH, Homosaurus, or the subject thesaurus of a national library outside the US. Even with data declarations supporting those sorts of “bulk” subject mappings, a universal subject mapping knowledge base could get large over time. I’ve created my own mapping file for my services, and for now I’m happy to grow it as needed and share the data freely. But if there is another suitable mapping hub already available or in the works, I’m happy to consider using that instead. It’s important to support exploration across a community of diverse libraries with a diverse array of subject terms and descriptions. I hope the tools and data I’ve described here will help advance us towards that goal, and that I can help grow them from their current nascent state to make them more broadly useful. Share this: Email Print Twitter Facebook Reddit Like this: Like Loading... Related About John Mark Ockerbloom I'm a digital library strategist at the University of Pennsylvania, in Philadelphia. 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Email check failed, please try again Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email. %d bloggers like this: everybodyslibraries-com-8368 ---- Everybody's Libraries | Libraries for everyone, by everyone, shared with everyone, about everything Everybody's Libraries Libraries for everyone, by everyone, shared with everyone, about everything Skip to content Home About About the Free Decimal Correspondence Free Decimal Correspondence ILS services for discovery applications John Mark Ockerbloom The Metadata Challenge ← Older posts From our subjects to yours (and vice versa) Posted on December 3, 2020 by John Mark Ockerbloom (TL;DR: I’m starting to implement services and publish data to support searching across library collections that use customized subject headings, such as the increasingly-adopted substitutes for LCSH terms like “Illegal aliens”. Read on for what I’m doing, why, and where I would value advice and discussion on how to proceed.) I’ve run the Forward to Libraries service for a few years now. As I’ve noted in earlier posts here, it’s currently used on The Online Books Page and in some Wikipedia articles to search for resources in your local library (or any other library you’re interested in) on a subject you’re exploring. One of the key pieces of infrastructure that makes it work is the Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) system, which many research libraries use to describe their holdings. Using the headings in the system, along with mappings between it and other systems for describing subjects (such as the English Wikipedia article titles that Forward to Libraries knows how to relate to LCSH) allows researchers to find materials on the same subjects across multiple collections, using common terminology. There are limitations to relying on LCSH for cross-collection subject searches, though. First of all, many libraries, particularly those outside the US, do not use LCSH. Some use other subject vocabularies. If a mapping has been defined between LCSH and another subject vocabulary (as has been done, for example, with MeSH) one can use that mapping to determine search terms to use in libraries that use that subject vocabulary. We don’t yet have that capability in Forward to Libraries, but I’m hoping to add it eventually. Changing the subjects I’m now also seeing more libraries that use LCSH, but that also use different terms for certain subjects that they find more appropriate for their users. While there is a process for updating LCSH terms (and its terms get updated on a monthly basis) the process can be slow, hard for non-specialists to participate in, and contentious, particularly for larger-scale subject heading changes. It can also be subject to pressure by non-librarians. The Library of Congress ultimately answers to Congress (as its name suggests), and members of Congress have used funding bills to block changes in subject headings that the librarian-run process had approved. They did that in 2016 for the subject heading “Illegal aliens”, where librarians had recommended using other terms to cover subjects related to unauthorized immigration. The documentary film “Change the Subject” (linked with context in this article) has a detailed report on this controversy. Four years after the immigration subject changes were blocked, some libraries have decided not to wait for LCSH to change, and are introducing their own subject terms. The University of Colorado Boulder, for example, announced in 2018 that they would use the term “Undocumented immigrants” where the Library of Congress had “Illegal aliens”. Other libraries have recently announced similar changes. Some library consortia have organized systematic programs to supersede outdated and offensive terms in LCSH in their catalogs. Some groups now maintain specialized subject vocabularies that can both supplement and supersede LCSH terms, such as Homosaurus for LGBT+-related subjects. And there’s also been increasing interest in using subject terms and classifications adapted to local communities. For instance, the Brian Deer Classification System is intended to be both used and shaped by local indigenous communities, and therefore libraries in different locations that use it may well use different terms for some subjects, depending on local usage and interests. Supporting cross-collection search in a community of localized catalogs We can still search across collections that use local terms, as long as we know what those terms are and how to translate between them. Forward to Libraries already uses a data file indicating Wikipedia article titles that correspond closely to LCSH subjects, and vice versa. By extension, we can also create a data file indicating terms to use at a given library that correspond to terms in LCSH and other vocabularies, so we can see what resources are available at different places on a given topics. You can see how that works in practice at The Online Books Page. As I write this, we’re still using the unaltered LCSH subjects (updated to October 2020), so we have a subject page showing free online books on “Illegal aliens”. You can follow links from there to see what other libraries have. If you select the “elsewhere” link in the upper left column and choose the Library of Congress as the library to search, you’ll see what they hold under that subject heading. But if you instead choose the University of Colorado Boulder, you’ll see what they have under “Undocumented immigrants”, the subject term they’ve adopted there. Similar routing happens from Wikipedia. The closest related Wikipedia article at present is “Illegal immigration”, and if you go down to the Further Reading section and select links in the Library Resources box, selecting “Online books” or most libraries will currently take you to their “Illegal aliens” subject search. But selecting University of Colorado Boulder (from “Resources in other libraries” if you don’t already have it specified as your preferred library in Wikipedia) will take you to their “Undocumented immigrants” search. This routing applies two mappings, one from Wikipedia terms to LCSH terms, and another from LCSH terms to local library terms. A common data resource These sorts of transformations are fundamentally data-driven. My Forward to Libraries Github repository now includes a data file listing local subject terms that different libraries use, and how they relate to LCSH subject terms. (The library codes used in the file are the same ones that are used in my libraries data file, and are based on OCLC and/or ISIL identifiers.) The local subject terms file is very short for now– as I write this, it only has enough data for the examples I’ve described above, but I’ll be adding more data shortly for other libraries that have announced and implemented subject headings changes. (And I’ll be glad to hear about more so I can add them.) As with other data in this repository, the data in this file is CC0, so it can be used by anyone for any purpose. In particular, it could be be used by services other than my Forward to Libraries tool, such as by aggregated catalogs that incorporate data from multiple libraries, some of which might use localized subject terms that have LCSH analogues. Where to go next What I’ve shown so far is not far removed from a proof-of-concept demo, but I hope it suggests ways that services can be developed to support searches among and across library collections with diverse subject headings. As I mentioned, I’ll be adding more data on localized subject headings as I hear about it, as well as adding more functionality to the Forward to Libraries service (such as the ability to link from a collection with localized subject headings, so I can support them in The Online Books Page, or in other libraries that have such headings and want to use to the service). There are some extensions that could be done to the basic data model to support scaling up these sorts of localizations, such as customizations used by all the libraries in a given consortium, or ones that adopt wholesale an alternative set of subjects, whether that be MeSH, Homosaurus, or the subject thesaurus of a national library outside the US. Even with data declarations supporting those sorts of “bulk” subject mappings, a universal subject mapping knowledge base could get large over time. I’ve created my own mapping file for my services, and for now I’m happy to grow it as needed and share the data freely. But if there is another suitable mapping hub already available or in the works, I’m happy to consider using that instead. It’s important to support exploration across a community of diverse libraries with a diverse array of subject terms and descriptions. I hope the tools and data I’ve described here will help advance us towards that goal, and that I can help grow them from their current nascent state to make them more broadly useful. Posted in discovery, metadata, subjects, wikipedia | Leave a comment Everybody’s Library Questions: Finding films in the public domain Posted on March 30, 2020 by John Mark Ockerbloom Welcome to another installment of Everybody’s Library Questions, where I give answers to questions people ask me (in comments or email) that seem to be useful for general consumption. Before I start, though, I want to put in a plug for your local librarians.  Even though many library buildings are closed now (as they should be) while we’re trying to get propagation and treatment for COVID-19 under control, many of those libraries offer online services, including interactive online help from librarians. (Many of our libraries are also expanding the scope and hours of these services during this health crisis.)   Your local librarians will have the best knowledge of what’s available to you, can find out more about your needs when they talk to you, and will usually be able to respond to questions faster than I or other specific folks on the Internet can. Check out your favorite library’s website, and look for links like “get help” or “online chat” and see what they offer. OK, now here’s the question, extracted from a comment made by Nicholas Escobar to a recent post: I am currently studying at the University of Edinburgh getting masters degree in film composition. For my final project I am required to score a 15 minute film. I was thinking of picking a short silent film (any genre) in the public domain that is 15 minutes (or very close to that length) and was wondering if you had any suggestions? There are three questions implied by this one: First, how do you find out what films exist that meet your content criteria?  Second, how do you find out whether films in that set are in the public domain?  Finally, how can you get access to a film so you can do things with it (such as write a score for it)? There are a few ways you can come up with films to consider.  One is to ask your local librarian (see above) or professor to recommend reference works or data sources that feature short films.  (Information about feature films, which run longer, are often easier to find, but there’s a fair bit out there as well on short films.)  Another is to search some of the reference works and online data sources I’ll mention in the other answers below. The answer to the copyright question depends on where you are.  In the United States, there are basically three categories of public domain films: First, there are films copyrighted before 1925.  All such films’ copyrights have now expired in the US.  This covers most, but not all, of the commercial silent-film era; once The Jazz Singer came out in 1927, movie studies quickly switched to films with sound. Second, there are US films that entered the public domain because they did not take the steps required to secure or maintain their copyrights.  Researching whether this has occurred with a particular film can be complicated, but because there’s been so much interest in cinema history, others have already researched the copyright history of many US films.  The Wikipedia article “List of films in the public domain in the United States” cites a number of reference sources you can check for the status of various films.  (It also lists specific films believed to be in the public domain, but you should check sources cited in the article for those films, and not just take the word of what could be a random Internet user before relying on that information.) Third, there are films created in their entirety by the US government.  There’s a surprisingly large number of these, in various genres and lengths, with tens of thousands or more digitized in the Internet Archive’s United States Government film collection or listed in the National Archives catalog.  You can do lots of things with works of the United States government, which are generally not subject to copyright. That’s the situation in the United States, at least.  However, if you’re not in the United States, different rules may apply.  In Edinburgh and elsewhere in the United Kingdom (and in most of the rest of Europe), works are generally copyrighted until the end of the 70th year after the death of the last author.  In the UK, the authors of a film are considered to be the principal director, the screenwriter(s), and the composer(s).  (For more specifics, see the relevant portion of UK law.)  However, some countries will also let the copyrights of foreign works expire when they do in their country of origin, and in those a US film that’s in the public domain in the US would also be public domain in those countries.  As you can see in the UK law section I link to, the UK does apply such a “rule of the shorter term” to films from outside the European Economic Area (EEA), if none of the authors are EEA nationals.  So you might be good to go in the UK with many, but not all, US films that are public domain in the US.  (I’m not a UK copyright expert, though; you might want to talk to one to be sure.) Let’s suppose you’ve come up with some suitable possible films, either ones that are in the public domain, ones that have suitable Creative Commons licenses or you can otherwise get permission to score, or ones that are in-copyright but that you could score in the context of a study project, even if you couldn’t publish the resulting audiovisual work.  (Educational fair use is a thing, though its scope also varies from country to country.  Here a guide from the British Library on how it works in the UK.)  We then move on to the last question: How do you get hold of a copy so you can write a score for it? The answer to that question depends on your situation.  Right now, the situation for many of us is that we’re stuck at home, and can’t visit libraries or archives in person.  (And our ability to get physical items like DVDs or videotapes may be limited too.)  So for now, you may be limited to films you can obtain online.  There are various free sources of public domain films: I’ve already mentioned the Internet Archive, whose moving image archive includes many films that are in the public domain (and many that are not, so check rights before choosing one to score).  The Library of Congress also offers more than 2,000 compilations and individual films free to all online.  And your local library may well offer more, as digital video, or as physical recordings (if you can still obtain those).  A number of streaming services that libraries or individuals can subscribe to offer films in the public domain that you can free free to set to music.  Check with your librarian or browse the collection of your favorite streaming service. I’m not an expert in films myself.  Folks reading this who know more, or have more suggestions, should feel free to add comments to this post while comments are open.  In general, the first librarians you talk to won’t usually be experts about the questions you ask.  But even when we can’t give definitive answers on our own, we’re good at sending researchers in productive directions, whether that’s to useful research and reference sources, or to more knowledgeable people.  I hope you’ll take advantage of your librarians’ help, especially during this health crisis.  And, for my questioner and other folks who are interested in scoring or otherwise building on public domain films, I’ll be very interested in hearing about the new works you produce from them.   Posted in copyright, publicdomain, Questions | Leave a comment Build a better registry: My intended comments to the Library of Congress on the next Register of Copyrights Posted on March 19, 2020 by John Mark Ockerbloom The Library of Congress is seeking public input on abilities and priorities desired for the next Register of Copyrights, who heads the Copyright Office, a department within the Library of Congress.  The deadline for comments as I write this is March 20, though I’m currently having trouble getting the form to accept my input, and operations at the Library, like many other places, are in flux due to the COVID-19 pandemic.  Below I reproduce the main portion of the comments I’m hoping to get in before the deadline, in the hope that they will be useful for both them and others interested in copyright.  I’ve added a few hyperlinks for context. At root, the Register of Copyrights needs to do the job the position title implies: Build and maintain an effective copyright registry. A well designed, up-to-date digital registry should make it easy for rightsholders to register, and for the public to use registration information. Using today’s copyright registry involves outdated, cumbersome, and costly technologies and practices. Much copyright data is not online, and the usability of what is online is limited. The Library of Congress is now redesigning its catalogs for linked data and modern interfaces. Its Copyright Office thus also has an opportunity to build a modern copyright registry linked to Library databases and to the world, with compatible linked data technologies, robust APIs, and free open bulk downloads. The Copyright Office’s registry and the Library of Congress’s bibliographic and authority knowledge bases could share data, using global identifiers to name and describe entities they both cover, including publications, works, creators, rightsholders, publishers, serials and other aggregations, registrations, relationships, and transactions. The Copyright Office need not convert wholesale to BIBFRAME, or to other Library-specific systems. It simply needs to create and support identifiers for semantic entities described in the registry (“things, not strings“), associate data with them, and exchange data in standard formats with the Library of Congress catalog and other knowledge bases. As a comprehensive US registry for creative works of all types, the Copyright Office is uniquely positioned to manage such data. The Deep Backfile project at the University of Pennsylvania (which I maintain) provides one example of uses that can be made of linked copyright data. At is a page showing selected copyrights associated with Collier’s Magazine (1888-1957). It links to online copies of public domain issues, contents and descriptive information from external sources like FictionMags, Wikidata, and Wikipedia, and rights contact information for some of its authors. The information shown has no rights restrictions, and can be used by humans and machines. JSON files, and the entire Deep Backfile knowledge base, are available from this page and from Github. It is not the Copyright Office’s job to produce applications like these. But it can provide data that powers them. Much of our Deep Backfile data was copied manually from scanned Catalog of Copyright Entries pages, and from online catalogs lacking easily exported or linked data. The Copyright Office and the Library of Congress could instead produce such data natively (first prospectively, eventually retrospectively). In the process, they could also cross-pollinate each other’s knowledge bases. To implement this vision, the Register needs to understand library standards and linked open data technologies, gather and manage a skilled implementation team, and be sufficiently persuasive, trusted, and organized to bring stakeholders together inside and outside the Copyright Office and the Library of Congress to support and fund a new system’s development. If explained and implemented well, a registry of the sort described here could greatly benefit copyright holders and copyright users alike. The Register of Copyrights should also know copyright law thoroughly, implement sensible regulations required by copyright law and policy, and be a trusted and inclusive expert that rightsholders, users, and policymakers can consult. I expect other commenters to go into more detail about these skills, which are also useful in building a trustworthy registry of the sort I describe. But the Copyright Office is long overdue to be led by a Register who can revitalize its defining purpose: Register copyrights, in up-to-date, scalable, and flexible ways that encourage wide use of the creations they cover, and thus promote the progress of science and useful arts. Update, March 20: As of the late afternoon on the day of the deadline, the form appears to be still rejecting my submission, without a clear error message.  It did, however, accept a very short submission without any attachment, and with a URL pointing here.  So below I include the rest of my intended comment, listing 3 top priorities. (The essay above was for the longer comment asked for about knowledge, skills, and abilities.) These priorities largely restate in summary form what I wrote above.   If anyone else reading this was unable to post their full comment by the deadline due to technical difficulties, you can try emailing something to me (or leaving a comment to this post) and posting a simple comment to that effect on the LC site, and I’ll do my best to get your full comment posted on this blog. Priority #1: Make copyright registration data easy to use: Data should be easy to search, consult, and analyze, individually and in bulk, by people and machines, linked with the Library of Congress’s rich bibliographic data, facilitating verification of copyright ownership, licensing from rightsholders, and cataloging and analysis by libraries, publishers, vendors, and researchers. Priority #2: Make effective copyright registration easy to do: Ensure copyright registration is simple, inexpensive, supports a variety of electronic and physical deposits, and where possible supports persistent, addressible identifiers and accompanying data for semantic entities described in registrations, and their relationships. Priority #3: Be a trusted, inclusive resource for understanding copyright and its uses: Creators, publishers, consumers, and policymakers all are concerned with copyright, and with possible reforms. The Register should help all understand their rights, and provide expert and impartial advice and mediation for diverse copyright stakeholders and policymaking priorities. Other factors: The Register of Copyrights should also be capable of creating, implementing, and keeping up to date appropriate regulations and practices required or implied by Congressional statutes.  (For the “additional comments” attachment, I had a static PDF attachment showing the Collier’s web page linked from my main essay, as it was on March 19.)   Posted in copyright, data, metadata, open access, serials | Leave a comment Welcome to everybody’s online libraries Posted on March 16, 2020 by John Mark Ockerbloom As coronavirus infections spread throughout the world, lots of people are staying home to slow down the spread and save lives.  In the US, many universities, schools, and libraries have closed their doors.  (Here’s what happening at the library where I work, which as I write this has closed all its buildings.)  But lots of people are still looking for information, to continue studies online, or just to find something good to read. Libraries are stepping up to provide these things online.  Many libraries have provided online information for years, through our own websites, electronic resources that we license, create, or link to, and other online services.  During this crisis, as our primary forms of interaction move online, many of us will be working hard to meet increased demand for digital materials and services (even as many library workers also have to cope with increased demands and stresses on their personal lives). Services are likely to be in flux for a while.  I have a few suggestions for the near term: Check your libraries’ web sites regularly. They should tell you whether the libraries are now physically open or closed (many are closed now, for good reason), and what services the library is currently offering.  Those might change over time, sometimes quickly.  Our main library location at Penn, for instance, was declared closed indefinitely last night, less than 12 hours before it was next due to reopen.   On the other hand, some digitally mediated library services and resources might not be available initially, but then become available after we have safe and workable procedures set up for them and sufficient staffing.    Many library web sites also prominently feature their most useful electronic resources and services, and have extensive collections of electronic resources in their catalogs or online directories.  They may be acquiring more electronic resources to meet increased user demand for online content. Some providers are also increasing what they offer to their library customers during the crisis, and sometimes making some of their material free for all to access. If  you need particular things from your library during this crisis, reach out to them using the contact information given on their website.  When libraries know what their users need, they can often make those needs a priority, and can let you know if and when they can provide them. Check out other free online library services.    I run one of them, The Online Books Page, which now lists over 3 million books and serials freely readable online due to their public domain status or the generosity of their rightsholders.   We’ll be adding more material there over the next few weeks as we incorporate the listings of more collections, and respond to your requests.  There are many other services online as well.   Wikipedia serves not only as a crowd-sourced collection of articles on millions of topics, but also as a directory of further online resources related to those topics.   And the Internet Archive also offers access millions of books and other information resources no longer readily commercially available, many through controlled digital lending and other manifestations of fair use.  (While the limits of fair use are often subject to debate, library copyright specialists make a good case that its bounds tend to increase during emergencies like this one.  See also Kyle Courtney’s blog for more discussion of useful things libraries can do in a health crisis with their copyright powers.) Support the people who provide the informative and creative resources you value.  The current health crisis has also triggered an economic crisis that will make life more precarious for many creators.  If you have funds you can spare, send some of them their way so they can keep making and publishing the content you value.  Humble Bundles, for instance, offer affordable packages of ebooks, games, and other online content you can enjoy while you’re staying home, and pay for to support their authors, publishers, and associated charities.  (I recently bought their Tachyon SF bundle with that in mind; it’s on offer for two more weeks as I write this.)  Check the websites of your favorite authors and artists to see if they offer ways to sponsor their work, or specific projects they’re planning.  Buy books from your favorite independent booksellers (and if they’re closed now, check their website or call them to see if you can buy gift cards to keep them afloat now and redeem them for books later on).  Pay for journalism you value.  Support funding robust libraries in your community. Consider ways you can help build up online libraries.  Many research papers on COVID-19 and related topics have been opened to free access by their authors or publishers since the crisis began.  Increasing numbers of scholarly and other works are also being made open access, especially by those who have already been paid for creating them.   If you’re interested in sharing your work more broadly, and want to learn more about how you can secure rights to do so, the Authors’ Alliance has some useful resources. As libraries shift focus from in-person to online service, some librarians may be busy with new tasks, while others may be left hanging until new plans and procedures get put into motion.  If you’re in the latter category, and want something to do, there are various library-related projects you can work on or learn about.  One that I’m running is the deep backfile project to identify serial issues that are in the public domain in less-than-obvious ways, and to find or create free digital copies of these serials (so that, among other things, people who are stuck at home can read them online).  I’ve recently augmented my list of serial backfiles to research to include serials held by the library in which I work, in the hopes that we could eventually find or produce digital surrogates for some of them that our readers (and anyone else interested) could access from afar.  I can also add sets for other libraries; if you’re interested in one for yours, let me know and I can go into more detail about the data I’m looking for.  (I’m not too worried about creating too many serial sets to research, especially since once information about a serial is added into one of the serial sets, it also gets automatically added into any other sets that include that serial.) Take care of yourself, and your loved ones.  Whether you work in libraries of just use them, this is a stressful time.  Give yourself and those around you room and resources to cope, as we disengage from much of our previous activities, and deal with new responsibilities and concerns.  I’m gratified to see the response of the Wikimedia Foundation, for instance, which is committed both to keeping the world well-informed and up-to-date through Wikipedia and related projects, and also to letting its staff and contractors work half-time for the same pay during the crisis, and waiving sick-day limits. Among new online community support initiatives, I’m also pleased to see librarian-created resources like the Ontario Library Association’s pandemic information brief, with useful information for library users and workers, and the COVID4GLAM Discord community, a discussion space to support the professional and personal needs of people working in libraries, archives, galleries and museums. These will be difficult times ahead.  Our libraries can make a difference online, even as our doors are closed.  I hope you’ll be able to put them to good use.   Posted in libraries, online books, open access | 4 Comments Public Domain Day 2020: Coming Around Again Posted on January 1, 2020 by John Mark Ockerbloom I’m very happy for 2020 to be arriving.  As the start of the 2020s, it represents a new decade in which we can have a fresh start, and hope to make better decisions and have better outcomes than some of what we’ve gone through in recent years.  And I’m also excited to have a full year’s worth of copyrighted works entering the public domain in much of the world, including in the US for the second year in a row after a 20-year public domain freeze. Outside the US, in countries that still use the Berne Convention‘s “life plus 50 years” copyright terms, works by authors who died in 1969 are now in the public domain.  (Such countries include Canada, New Zealand, and a number of other countries mostly in Asia and Africa.)  Many other countries, including most European countries, have extended copyright terms to life of the author(s) plus 70 years, often under pressure from the United States or the European Union.  In those countries, works by authors who died in 1949 are now in the public domain.  The Public Domain Review has a “class of 2020” post featuring some of these authors, along with links to lists of other people who died in the relevant years. In the US, nearly all remaining copyrights from 1924 have now expired, just as copyrights from 1923 expired at the start of last year.  (The exceptions are sound recordings, which will still be under copyright for a little while longer.   But thanks to recent changes in copyright law, those too will join the public domain soon instead of remaining indefinitely in state copyright.)  I discussed some of the works joining the public domain in a series of blog posts last month, in the last one linking to some posts by others that mentioned new public domain arrivals from 1924.  But I’m happy not just because of these specific works, but also because new arrivals to the US public domain are now an annual event, and not just something that happens with published works at rare intervals.  I could get used to this. It isn’t all good news this year.  The most recent draft of the intellectual property chapter of the US-Canada-Mexico trade agreement requires Canada to extend its copyrights another 20 years, making it freeze its public domain not long after we’ve unfrozen our own in the US.  But the agreement hasn’t yet been ratified, and could conceivably still be changed or rejected.  And the continued force of copyrights from the second half of the previous ’20s while we’re entering a new set of ’20s is a reminder that US copyright terms remain overlong; so long, in fact, that many works from that era are lost or severely deteriorated before their copyrights expire. But there’s now an annual checklist of things to do for me and for many other library organizations.  For me, some of the things to do for The Online Books Page include: Updating our documentation on what’s public domain  (done) and on what versions of our site are public domain (also done; as in previous years, I’m dedicating to the public domain works that I wrote whose copyrights I control that are were published more than 14 years ago.  This year that includes the 2005 copyrights to The Online Books Page.) Removing the “no US access” notices from 1924 books I’d linked to at non-US sites, when I couldn’t previously establish that they were public domain here; and removing “US access only” notices for 1879 volumes at HathiTrust, which over the next few days will be making 140-year-old volumes globally accessible without requiring author-death-date review.   (This and other activities below will start tomorrow and continue until done.) Updating our list of first active renewals for serials and our “Determining copyright status of serial issues” decision guide to reflect the expiration of 1924’s copyrights.  As part of this process, I’ll be deleting all the 1924 serial issue and contribution renewals currently recorded in our serials knowledge base, since they’re no longer in force.  If anyone wants to know what they were for historical or other analytical purposes, I have a zipped collection of all our serial renewals records as of the end of 2019, available on request.  They can also be found in the January 1, 2020 commit of this Github directory. Adding newly opened or scanned 1924 books to our listings, through our automated OAI harvests of selected digital collections, readers’ suggestions and requests, surveys of prize winners and other relevant collections, and our own bibliographer selections. All of this is work I’m glad to be doing this year, and hope to be doing more in the years to come.  (And I’m already streamlining our processes to make it easier to do in years to come.)  Its the job of libraries to collect and preserve works of knowledge and creativity and make them easy for people to discover, access, and use.  It’s also our job to empower our users to draw on those works to make new ones.  As the public domain grows, we can freely collect and widely share more works, and our users can likewise build on and reuse more public domain works in their own creations. Supporting the public domain, then, is supporting the work and mission of libraries.  I therefore hope that all libraries and their users will support a robust public domain, and have more works to celebrate and work with every year.  Happy Public Domain Day!       Posted in publicdomain | Leave a comment 2020 vision #5: Rhapsody in Blue by George Gershwin Posted on December 31, 2019 by John Mark Ockerbloom It’s only a few hours from the new year where I write this, but before I ring in the new year, and a new year’s worth of public domain material, I’d like to put in a request for what music to ring it in with: George Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue, which joins the public domain in the US as the clock strikes twelve, over 95 years after it was first performed. The unofficial song for Public Domain Day 2019 turned out to be “Yes! We Have No Bananas”, one of the members of the first big class of US public domain works in the last 20 years.  That’s a fun novelty song, and certainly memorable, but not something I necessarily want to hear a lot.  In contrast, for me Rhapsody in Blue has a freshness that makes it a joy for me to hear repeatedly, right from the opening clarinet glissando (apparently the idea of clarinetist Ross Gorman, who took the scale that Gershwin had composed for the piece and gave it the bendy, slidy wail that tells you right away that this is no ordinary concert piece).  It’s brought together classical, popular, high-art and everyday music, as it’s been played and recorded countless times by jazz bands (the original scoring is for jazz band and piano), symphony orchestras, and pop musicans like Billy Joel.  Even its licensing as an theme tune for an airline hasn’t diminished it. There’s lots of other work joining the public domain along with Gershwin’s tune.  I’ve only had a chance to mention a few others in my short series, but others have mentioned more works you may find of interest. At the Internet Archive’s blog, Elizabeth Townsend Gard writes about Vera Brittain’s Not without Honour and other 1924 works that will be in the public domain very soon.  Duke’s Public Domain Day 2020 post mentions various books, films, and musical compositions joining the public domain as well (and has more to say on Rhapsody in Blue).  Wikipedia’s various 1924 articles also mention various works that will either be joining the public domain, or becoming more clearly established there.  And Hathitrust will begin opening access to tens of thousands of scanned volumes from 1924 over the next few days. I’ll have more to say on the new arrivals tomorrow, sometime after the midnight bells chime.  By tradition, the first tune played in the New Year is usually the public domain song “Auld Lang Syne”.  But after that, at your new years’ party or at a later Public Domain celebration, you might enjoy hearing or playing Gershwin’s new arrival in the public domain.     Posted in publicdomain | Leave a comment 2020 vision #4: Ding Dong Merrily on High by George Ratcliffe Woodward and others Posted on December 19, 2019 by John Mark Ockerbloom It’s beginning to sound a lot like Christmas everywhere I go.  The library where I work had its holiday party earlier this week, where I joined librarian colleagues singing Christmas, Hanukkah, and winter-themed songs in a pick-up chorus.  Radio stations and shopping centers play a familiar rotation of popular seasonal songs whose biggest hits are from a surprisingly narrow date range centered in the 1950s.  And more traditional familiar Christmas carols, hymns, and songs are being sung and played in concert halls and churches well into January. The more “classic” Christmas music often feels timeless to those of us singing and hearing it.  But while their roots often go back far, the form in which we know them is often much newer that we might think.  Notice how the list in the previous link, for instance, includes “Carol of the Bells”, dated 1936.  That’s when it was first published as a Christmas song, one that’s still under copyright.  Its roots are older, and darker, as is made clear in a recent Slate article well worth reading. As noted there, the melody is based on a Ukrainian folk tune (date unknown), its full musical setting composed by Mykola Leontovych (assassinated by a Soviet agent in 1921), and Christmas-themed lyrics written by the Ukrainian-descended American musician Peter Wilhousky (who lived until 1978). While “Carol of the Bells” still has a number of years left to go on its copyright, another classic Christmas carol will most likely be joining the public domain in the US in just under two weeks.  Like Carol of the Bells, “Ding Dong Merrily on High” is based on a folk tune, in this case a secular dance tune first published in France in the 16th century under the title “Branle de l’Official”.  In 1924, George Ratcliffe Woodward, an English cleric already known for publishing collections of old songs, wrote lyrics for the tune recalling earlier ages, and included them in the Cambridge Carol-Book, published that year by the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. Charles Wood, who’d collaborated with Woodward on the earlier Cowley Carol Book,  wrote a harmonization to go with it.  While you won’t hear it at every Christmas service, it remains widely sung this time of year.  That’s in large part because it’s so much fun to sing, with its dance-like rhythms, its long bell-like vocal runs on “Gloria” (something also heard in “Angels We Have Heard on High“), and its praise of various forms of music (musicians liking to hear good things about themselves as much as anyone else). I don’t actually know for sure that “Ding Dong Merrily on High” is still under copyright here.  I have not found a 1951 or 1952 copyright renewal for the song or the book it was published in, but I’m assuming that, if nothing else, GATT restoration retroactively secured and automatically renewed a 1924 US copyright for the song as published in the Cambridge Carol-Book.  (Folks with more knowledge or legal expertise are free to correct me on that.)  Later published arrangements of the song may continue to have active copyrights, but only for material original to those arrangements.  1924’s remaining copyrights, on the other hand, all end in the US on January 1.   (And since Woodward and Wood both died over 70 years ago, the song’s already public domain in most other countries.) The arrival of 2020, then, should at least clear up any ambiguity about the public domain status of the basic carol.  I appreciate that, in part because this song, like many other Christmas carols, lives in a sort of liminal space between the private property regimes set up for copyright holders and the older, more informal understandings of folk culture.  Both kinds of spaces have good reason to exist. On the one hand, it’s good to have more than a few people who can earn a living through music, and one important way many musicians do so is by controlling rights to their compositions.  On the other hand, the folk process, which originally gave rise to the tunes for both “Ding Dong Merrily on High” and “Carol of the Bells”, is also a very good way of creating and passing on shared cultural works. Conflict can rage when two different sets of cultural expectations around creative works try to occupy the same space.  That’s one reason we’ve seen decades of conflict in academia over open access, where scholarly work is largely published by companies that depend on its control and sale to earn money, while it’s largely written by scholars who earn their money in other ways, and tend to prefer free, widespread availability of their work.  Sometimes informal arrangements work best to keep the peace.  Publishers, for instance, have grown more used to free preprint servers, and memes and fan fiction communities have become more widely accepted (and even winning awards) as long as they stay well away from unauthorized commercial exploitation (where both big and small creators tend to draw the line). Sometimes, though, it’s best to have a more formal understanding that works are free for anyone to freely use as we like.  That’s what we’ll have when 1924’s copyrights end, and the works they cover, such as “Ding Dong Merrily on High” are clearly seen to be in the public domain.  And then, those of us who are so inclined can freely sing “hosanna in excelsis!“ Posted in publicdomain | Leave a comment 2020 vision #3: The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell Posted on December 13, 2019 by John Mark Ockerbloom “Be a realist. The world is made up of two classes–the hunters and the huntees. Luckily, you and I are hunters.” Sanger Rainsford speaks these words at the start of “The Most Dangerous Game”, one of the most famous short stories of all time. First published in Collier’s magazine in 1924, it’s been reprinted in numerous anthologies, been adapted for radio, TV, and multiple movies, and assigned in countless middle and high school English classes.  The tropes established in the story, in which a hunter finds himself a “huntee”, are so well-established in present-day American culture that there are lengthy TV Tropes pages not just for the story itself, but for the trope named by its title. Up until now, the story’s been under copyright in the US, as well as in Europe and other countries that have “life plus 70 years” copyright terms.  (The author, Richard Connell,  died just over 70 years ago in 1949, so as of January 1, it will be public domain nearly everywhere in the world.)  Anyone reprinting the story, or explicitly adapting it for drama or art has had to get permission or pay a royalty.  On the other hand, many creators have reused its basic idea– humans being hunted for sport or entertainment– without getting such permission. That’s because ideas themselves are not copyrightable, but rather the expression of those ideas.  And the basic idea long predates this particular story: Consider, for instance, gladiators in Roman arenas, or tributes being hunted down in the Labyrinth by the Minotaur of Greek mythology.  But the particular formulation in Connell’s short story, in which General Zaroff, a former nobleman bored with hunting animals, lures humans to his private island to hunt and kill them for sport, is both distinctively memorable, and copyrightable.  Stray too close to it, or quote too much from the story, and you may find yourself the target of lawyers.  (But perhaps not if you yourself are dangerous enough game.  I don’t know if the makers of “The Incredibles“, which also featured a rich recluse using his wits and inventions to hunt humans on a private island, paid royalties to Connell’s estate, or relied on fair use or arguments about uncopyrightable ideas.  But in any case, Disney is better equipped to either negotiate or defend themselves against infringement lawsuits than others would be.) Rereading the story recently, I’m struck by both how it reflects its time in some ways, and in how its action is surprisingly economical.  In 1924, we were still living in the shadow of the First World War, in which multiple empires and noble houses fell, while others continued but began to teeter.  The deadly spectacles of public executions and lynchings were still not uncommon in the United States.  And the dividing of people into two classes– those who are inherently privileged and those who are left in the cold or even considered fair game– was particularly salient that year, as the second incarnation of the Ku Klux Klan neared its peak in popularity, and as immigration law was changed to explicitly keep out people of the “wrong” national origin or race.  Those sorts of division haunt our society to this day. Rainsford objects to Zaroff’s dehumanizing game in what we now tend to think of the story’s setup, which actually takes most of the story’s telling.  (The description of the hunt itself is relatively brief, and no words at all are used to describe the final showdown, which implicitly takes place in the gap between the story’s last two sentences.)  In the end, though, Rainsford prevails by beating his opponent at his own game.  He doesn’t want to kill another human being, but when pressed to the extreme, he adopts his opponent’s rules (at the end giving Zaroff the sporting warning “I am still a beast at bay… Get ready”) and proves to be the better killer. With the story entering the public domain in less than three weeks, we’ll have the chance to reuse, adapt, and critique the story in quotation more freely than ever before.  I hope we use the opportunity not just to recapitulate the story, but to go beyond it in new ways. That’s what happens in the best reuses of tropes.  Consider for instance, how in the Hunger Games books, the main character Katniss repeatedly finds ways to subvert the trope of killing others for entertainment.  Instead of prevailing by beating opponents at the deadly human-hunting game the enemy has created, she and her allies find ways to reject the game’s premise, cut it short, or prevent its recurrence. When, in 19 days, we get another year’s worth of public domain works, I hope we too find ways not just to revisit what’s come before, but make new and better work out of them.  That’s something that the public domain allows everyone, and not just members of some privileged class, to do.           Posted in publicdomain 2020 vision #2: When We Were Very Young by A. A. Milne Posted on December 5, 2019 by John Mark Ockerbloom I mentioned in my previous post that I was looking forward to works entering the public domain in the US as a routine annual event. This coming January 1, we’ll have the second large expiration of copyrights in the US since 1998 (the first being the most recent January 1).  I’ve sometimes heard cynicism expressed that this would ever happen. Some public domain fans will tell you that Disney had been responsible for preventing valuable characters like Mickey Mouse from entering the public domain for decades, and that they’ll force more copyright extensions through before his copyright is scheduled to expire in a few years. Personally, I think that’s a myth that makes despair too easy.  While Disney has indeed been one of the companies that has lobbied for longer copyrights, they’re far from the only group that has done so, and their role is often exaggerated relative to other entertainment and publishing industry groups.  Moreover, copyrights to some of their most profitable characters are already starting to expire, and  so far they have neither pushed hard to extend them, nor to my knowledge seen a loss in their profitably. I’m referring here to the A. A. Milne characters that Disney now owns (after some earlier legal battles were resolved): Winnie-the-Pooh, and his friends Christopher Robin, Piglet, Owl, and the other inhabitants of the Hundred Acre Wood.  By some accounts they are as profitable as Mickey, possibly more so.  And they probably will remain profitable even as their copyrights end. Christopher Robin’s first published appearance as a character, for instance, was in the poem “Vespers” (whose most famous line is “Christopher Robin is saying his prayers”). It appeared in the January 1923 issue of Vanity Fair, and is already in the public domain in the US, as of the start of this year.  Beginning in January 1924, Milne published more children’s poems featuring Christopher Robin and others in Punch, which were republished later in the year in the book When We Were Very Young.  That book was an international best-seller, and along with the later book Winnie-the-Pooh, it launched Milne, his son, and his stuffed toys to worldwide fame and fortune (which, as I noted in last year’s post on Milne’s Success, was at best a mixed blessing for them.) I find When We Were Very Young a delightful book.  Like its successors, it isn’t straight-up nostalgic whimsy, but has a gently wry sensibility that parents may notice more readily than their children do.  Along with “Vespers”, some of the other verses (like the ones about changing guards at Buckingham Palace, and the king who likes “a little bit of butter in my bread”) are still well-known.  But the book is significant not just for the text, which is already in the public domain in some other countries with terms less than “life plus 70 years”, but for Ernest Shepard’s illustrations for the book, which will be joining the public domain in the US along with Milne’s poems.  Those include recognizable likenesses not just of Christopher Robin, but of a certain bear that appears a few times, including in the upper left of the book’s cover: (Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons; they and I consider this low-resolution image fair use in our respective contexts.) The bear doesn’t yet have the name “Winnie-the-Pooh”.   In this book he’s just called “Teddy Bear”, or more formally, Mr. “Edward Bear” (a name also used in his later book).  His appearance, as established in this book, joins the public domain next month.   The year after that, it will be joined by his “Pooh” name and his first prose story (“The Wrong Sort of Bees”, published in London’s Evening News at Christmastime 1925).  The following year, most of the rest of Pooh’s Hundred Acre Wood friends will join the public domain, along with the book Winnie-the-Pooh (which includes Pooh’s bee story as its first chapter). Tigger, who bounced into print two years later in The House at Pooh Corner, will be the last of the major Milne characters to join the public domain, the same year as we can expect Mickey Mouse’s first copyrights to expire in the US. But Disney will still have be able to profit substantially from its rights to Pooh (and Mickey).  After all, the Winnie-the-Pooh cartoons and movies they made came later, and their copyrights still have decades left on them.  Disney’s likenesses of Pooh and his friends also differ substantially from Shepard’s, and will therefore also be under copyright for many more years. Moreover, much of the revenue Disney gets from these characters is not from their stories or cartoons, but from the merchandise associated with them– clothing, housewares, toys, and the like.  Those can be protected by trademark, and unlike copyrights, trademarks for various kinds of goods and services do not expire as long as their owners keep using them along similar lines.  (For example, while the character Peter Pan is no longer copyrighted in most countries, trademarks restrict using him to promote things like peanut butter and bus transportation to his current licensees.) Someone who wants to reuse Christopher Robin, Pooh, and Mickey Mouse in creative works after their copyrights expire might still need to be careful about how they promote that work.  But courts have made it clear in cases like Dastar v. Twentieth Century Fox that trademark cannot be used to create a de-facto perpetual copyright.  I expect that over the next few years we’ll see some legal skirmishing over where to draw the line between unrestricted creativity and restricted merchandising, for Disney’s characters now entering the public domain.  (We’ve seen similar conflicts over Tarzan in the past, even as many of his stories have long been in the public domain and freely available online.) Personally, I’m content if Winnie-the-Pooh-branded bedsheets and bubble bath remain Disney’s domain, as long as readers can freely enjoy Milne’s stories and Shepard’s drawings, and writers and artists can adapt them into new stories, scenes, and objects (and promote those new works within reasonable guidelines).  I’m hoping we’ll keep getting new arrivals to the public domain every year, from 1924 in January, then 1925 next year, and so on. And I’m hopeful that we will, as long as so many of us appreciate and make clear the value of a growing public domain, that those who might otherwise try to extend copyright further can’t ignore us. Posted in publicdomain 2020 vision #1: Opportunity Posted on December 2, 2019 by John Mark Ockerbloom In just thirty days from when this post appears, a new crop of works will join the public domain. Exactly what will come out of copyright will vary by country.  In Europe and other places with “life+70 years” copyright terms, works by authors who died in 1949 will join the public domain on January 1, 2020.  In countries that still have “life+50 years” terms, works by authors who died in 1969 will.  And in the United States, copyrights that were secured in 1924 that are still in force will expire. As an American, I’m especially excited about the works in that last set.  For most of the 21st century to date, almost nothing entered the public domain in the US, after a 1998 law extended copyright terms by 20 years.  Then last year, all copyrights still active from 1923 expired, and we finally had a Public Domain Day here with lots of new published works that many people noted and celebrated.  And it looks like we’re going to get another big set of works from 1924 in the public domain next month. Last year, I was so excited about the coming of the first substantial Public Domain Day here in a long time that I wrote advent calendar posts every day in December, discussing 31 works from 1923 that would (and did!) join the public domain in 2019.  It was a lot of fun, but also a lot of work. I thought it worth the effort, though, to note such a big change in the copyright environment we’d grown accustomed to.  But I wasn’t planning to do all that work again this year. A few thing, though, have made me reconsider, at least in part.   One of them was an article I saw today about a new collection of stories by Zora Neale Hurston being published in early 2020, Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick.  Now recognized as a major 20th century American writer, Hurston published works in a variety of genres and forums from the 1920s through the 1950s.  However, she was not well known outside of African American and literary scholarship circles until the 1970s, when Alice Walker wrote an article in Ms. Magazine in appreciation of her work, and her novel Their Eyes Were Watching God was reprinted and became a best-seller. Hurston’s new collection brings back into print a number of her early short stories, which the publisher’s blurb describes as “lost” and “in forgotten periodicals and archives”.  My first thought on reading the blurb was to be annoyed about the erasure of the librarians and archivists who collected, cataloged, and preserved those publications and thereby ensured that they were not, in fact, lost or forgotten.  But then, on further reflection, I realized that for much of the general public, they might as well have been lost, since many people do not have easy access to the libraries and archives that hold them. One of Hurston’s early stories, “Drenched in Light”, appeared in the December 1924 issue of Opportunity: Journal of Negro Life, which published a variety of articles, stories, poems, studies, and art by African Americans.  The journal began in 1923, and HathiTrust opened access to its first volume on Public Domain Day at the start of this year.  My listing for the journal also includes some later volumes of the magazine, since as it turns out, the publishers did not renew copyrights for issues prior to the 1940s.  (Most of its authors didn’t renew their contributions either, as you can see in the full set of renewals we’ve found for Opportunity.)  My listings do not yet, however, include the 1924 volume.  HathiTrust has a scan of it, but neither they nor anyone else has yet opened access to it, presumably because no one with a scan feels confident enough about its rights status to do so yet.  I expect it to become visible in 30 days, when 1924’s remaining copyrights expire in the US and HathiTrust opens its volumes from 1924. Those without access to Opportunity in print might be able to read “Drenched in Light” before then in Hurston’s previously published Complete Stories collection.  But they won’t be able to view the rich context in which it first appeared, from all the other writers and artists who had work published in Opportunity in 1924– even though as I noted in one of last year’s advent calendar entries, many early African-American publications, including many of Hurston’s stories, did not get renewed copyrights. Between now and Public Domain Day 2020, I’ll be posting on works published in 1924, both the famous and the obscure, that I look forward to coming into clearer view in the new year.  Some will be joining the public domain on January 1.  Some, like the 1924 Opportunity issues, are already in the public domain, but are not as widely accessible as they could be.  (Though many of them can be found in my library, and perhaps in yours.)  I won’t write a post every day, but I hope to publish a fair number on a variety of works by the new year.  You’re welcome to participate, either directly, such as by suggesting works or contributing comments, or indirectly, such as by contributing further information about what’s in the public domain or soon will be.  (Our copyright information for Opportunity, for instance, is part of Penn’s serials copyright knowledge base that you can add to.) I hope Public Domain Day will be an annual cause for celebration in the United States and elsewhere.  I want new arrivals to the public domain to become routine, but not taken for granted, lest the public domain be frozen again as it was for far too many years.  I hope this series of posts, and other work being done by libraries, readers, and fans of the public domain worldwide, help us recognize the treasures of the public domain and bring more of them to light. 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Menu Skip to content Home About Luddites, Trumpism and Change: A crossroads for libraries Posted on December 6, 2016 by mryanhess “Globalization is a proxy for technology-powered capitalism, which tends to reward fewer and fewer members of society.” – Om Malik Corner someone and they will react. We may be seeing this across the world as change, globalization, technology and economic dislocation force more and more people into the corner of benefit-nots. They are reacting out of desperation. It’s not rational. It’s not pretty. But it shouldn’t be surprising. Years ago at a library conference, one of the keynote speakers forecast that there would be a return to the analog (sorry my Twitter-based memory does not identify the person). The rapidity of digitization would be met by a reaction. People would scurry back to the familiar, he said. They always do. Fast forward to 2016, where the decades-long trends toward globalization, borderless labor markets, denationalization, exponential technological change and corresponding social revolutions has hit the wall of public reaction. Brexit. Global Trumpism. Call it what you will. We’re in a change moment. The reaction is here. Reacting to the Reaction People in the Blue Zones, the Technorati, the beneficiaries of cheap foreign labor, free trade and technological innovation are scratching their heads. For all their algorithms and AI, they didn’t see this coming. Everything looked good on their feeds. No danger could possibly burst their self-assured bubble of inevitability. All was quiet. It was like a clear blue, September 2001, morning in New York City. It was like the boardroom in the Federal Reserve in 2006. The serenity was over in an instant. Since Brexit, and then Trump’s election, the Glittery Digitarians have initiated a period of introspection. They’re looking up from their stock tickers and gold-plated smart watches to find a grim reality: the world is crowded with people that have lost much ground at the expense of the global maelstrom that has elevated a very small, lucky few to greatness. They are now seeing, as for the first time, the shuttered towns. The empty retail stores. The displaced and homeless. Suddenly their confident talk of personal AI assistants has turned from technolust to terror. Their success suddenly looks short-sighted. Om Malik wrote in his recent New Yorker op-ed, that Silicon Valley may soon find itself equated with the super villains on Wall Street. He posits that a new business model needs to account for the public good…or else. I recently read Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus: How Growth Became the Enemy of Prosperity by Douglas Rushkoff. If you haven’t read it, now would be a good time. Like Bernie Sanders and others, Rushkoff has been warning of this kind of reaction for awhile. The system is not designed for the public good, but only around a narrow set of shareholder requirements. All other considerations do not compute. My Reaction Let me put this in personal perspective. In my work, I engage the public in “the heart of Silicon Valley” on what they want from their community and what’s missing. What I hear is concern about the loss of quiet, of connection to others, of a pace of life that is not 24/7 always a click away. This is consistent. People feel overwhelmed. As one of the chief technologists for my library, this puts me in a strange place. And I’ve been grappling with it for the past few months. On the one hand, people are curious. They’re happy to try the next big thing. But you also hear the frustration. Meanwhile, the burden of the Tech Industry is more than inflated rents and traffic. There’s a very obvious divide between long-time residents and newcomers. There’s a sense that something has been lost. There’s anger too, even here in the shadow of Google and Facebook. The Library as a Philosophy The other day, I was visited by a Eurpean Library Director who wanted to talk about VR. He asked me where I thought we’d be in ten years. I hesitated. My thoughts immediately went back to the words of despair that I’d been hearing from the public lately. Of course, the genie’s out of the bottle. We can’t stop the digital era. VR interface revolutions will likely emerge. The robots will come. But we can harness this change to our benefit. We can add rules to heal it to our collective needs. This is where the Library comes in. We have a sharing culture. A model that values bridging divides, pooling resources and re-distributing knowledge. It’s a model that is practically unique to the library if you think about it. As I read Rushkoff, I kept coming back to the Librarian’s philosophy on sharing. In his book, he contends that we need to re-imagine (re-code) our economy to work for people. He recalls technologies like HTTP and RSS which were invented and then given away to the world to share and re-use. This sounded very ‘librarian’ to me. We share knowledge in the form of access to technology, after all. We host training on new maker gear, coding, robotics, virtual reality. Perhaps we need to double-down on this philosophy. Perhaps, we can be more than just a bridge. Maybe we can be the engine driving our communities to the other side. We can not just advocate, but do. Have a hackathon? Build a public alternative to the Airbnb app to be used by people in your town. Know the Future In the end, libraires, technologists and digitarians need to tell a better story. We need to get outside our bubbles and tell that story with words that resonate with the benefit-nots. And more, we need that story to be backed up with real-world benefits. It starts with asking the community what kind of world they want to live it? What obstacles keep them from living that way? And then how the library and technology can help make change. We have the philosophy, we have the spaces and we have public permission. Let’s get to work. Posted in innovation, librarianship, society, technology, Uncategorized | Leave a comment Is 3D Printing Dying? Posted on October 12, 2016 by mryanhess Inc.’s John Brandon recently wrote about The Slow, Sad, and Ultimately Predictable Decline of 3D Printing. Uh, not so fast. 3D Printing is just getting started. For libraries whose adopted mission is to introduce people to emerging technologies, this is a fantastic opportunity to do so. But it has to be done right. Another dead end? Brandon cites a few reasons for his pessimism: 3D printed objects are low quality and the printers are finicky 3D printing growth is falling behind initial estimates people in manufacturing are not impressed and the costs are too high I won’t get into all that’s wrong with this analysis, as I feel like most of it is incorrect, or at the very least, a temporary problem typical of a new technology. Instead, I’d like to discuss this in the library maker context. And in fact, you can apply these ideas to any tech project. How to make failure a win—no matter what Libraries are quick to jump on tech. Remember those QR Codes that would revolutionize mobile access? Did your library consider a Second Life branch? How about those Chromebooks! Inevitably, these experiments are going to fail. But that’s okay. As this blog often suggests, failure is a win when doing so teaches you something. Experimenting is the first step in the process of discovery. And that’s really what all these kinds of projects need to be. In the case of a 3D Printing project at your library, it’s important to keep this notion front and center. A 3D Printing pilot with the goal of introducing the public to the technology can be successful if people simply try it out. That seems easy enough. But to be really successful, even this kind of basic 3D Printing project needs to have a fair amount of up-front planning attached to it. Chicago Public Library created a successful Maker Lab. Their program was pretty simple: Hold regular classes showing people how to use the 3D printers and then allow those that completed the introductory course to use the printers in open studio lab times. When I tried this out at CPL, it was quite difficult to get a spot in the class due to popularity. The grant-funded project was so successful, based on the number of attendees, that it was extended and continues to this day. As a grant-funded endeavor, CPL likely wrote out the specifics before any money was handed over. But even an internally-funded project should do this. Keep the goals simple and clear so expectations on the front line match those up the chain of command. Figure out what your measurements of success are before you even purchase the first printer. Be realistic. Always document everything. And return to that documentation throughout the project’s timeline. Taking it to the next level San Diego Public Library is an example of a Maker Project that went to the next level. Uyen Tran saw an opportunity to merge startup seminars with their maker tools at her library. She brought aspiring entrepreneurs into her library for a Startup Weekend event where budding innovators learned how the library could be a resource for them as they launched their companies. 3D printers were part of this successful program. It’s important to note that Uyen already had the maker lab in place before she launched this project. And it would be risky for a library to skip the establishment of a rudimentary 3D printer program before trying for this more ambitious program. But it could be done if that library was well organized with solid project managers and deep roots in the target community. But that’s a tall order to fill. What’s the worst thing that could go wrong? The worst thing that could go wrong is doubling down on failure: repeating one failed project after another without changing the flawed approach behind it. I’d also add that libraries are often out ahead of the public on these technologies, so dead ends are inevitable. To address this, I would also add one more tactic to your tech projects: listening. The public has lots of concerns about a variety of things. If you ask them, they’ll tell you all about them. Many of their concerns are directly related to libraries, but we can often help. We have permission to do so. People trust us. It’s a great position to be in. But we have to ask them to tell us what’s on their mind. We have to listen. And then we need to think creatively. Listening and thinking outside the box was how San Diego took their 3D Printers to the next level. The Long Future of 3D Printing The Wright Brothers first flight managed only 120 feet in the air. A year later, they flew 24 miles. These initial attempts looked nothing like the jet age and yet the technology of flight was born from these humble experiments. Already, 3D printing is being adopted in multiple industries. Artists are using it to prototype their designs. Astronauts are using it to print parts aboard the International Space Station. Bio-engineers are now looking at printing stem-cell structures to replace organs and bones. We’re decades away from the jet age of 3D printing, but this tech is here to stay. John Brandon’s read is incorrect simply because he’s looking at the current state and not seeing the long-term promise. When he asks a Ford engineer for his take on 3D Printing in the assembly process, he gets a smirk. Not a hotbed of innovation. What kind of reaction would he have gotten from an engineer at Tesla? At Apple? Fundamentally, he’s approaching 3D Printers from the wrong perspective and this is why it looks doomed. Libraries should not make this mistake. The world is changing ever more quickly and the public needs us to help them navigate the new frontier. We need to do this methodically, with careful planning and a good dose of optimism. Posted in innovation, technology | Tagged 3D printing, innovation, project planning | 2 Comments The State of the Library Website Posted on September 28, 2016 by mryanhess T’was a time when the Library Website was an abomination. Those dark days have lightened significantly. But new clouds have appeared on the horizon. Darkest Before the Dawn In the dark ages of Library Websites, users suffered under UX regimes that were rigid, unhelpful and confusing. This was before responsive design became a standard in the library world. It was before search engine optimization started to creep into Library meetings. It was before user experience became an actual librarian job title. We’ve come a long way since I wrote The Ugly Truth About Library Websites. Most libraries have evolved beyond the old “website as pamphlet” paradigm to one that is dynamic and focused on user tasks. Public libraries have deployed platforms like BiblioCommons to serve responsive, task-oriented interfaces that integrate their catalogs, programming and website into a single social platform. Books, digital resources, programs and even loanable equipment are all accessible via a single search. What’s more, the critical social networking aspects of library life are also embedded along the user’s path. Celebrated examples of this integrated solution include the San Francisco Public Library and Chicago Public Library. Queens is also hard at work to develop a custom solution. In the academic realm, libraries have turned to unified discovery layers like WorldCat Discovery and EBSCO Discovery Service to simplify (Googlize) the research process. These systems put a single-search box front and center that access resources on the shelf, but also all those electronic resources that make up the bulk of academic budgets. And while there are still many laggards, few libraries ignore these problems outright. The Storm Ahead While the general state of online library interfaces has improved, the unforgiving, hyperbolic curve of change continues to press forward. And libraries cannot stay put. Indeed, we need to quicken our pace and prepare our organizations for ongoing recalibration as the tempo of change increases. The biggest problem for library websites, is that there is little future for the library website. That’s because people will get less and less information through web browsers. Indeed, consider how often you use a web browser on your phone versus an app. Developments in AI, Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality will compound that trend. If you’re like Chris Milk, videographer and VR evangelist, you see the writing on the wall. The modes of how we experience information are about to undergo a fundamental revolution. Milk likens the current state of VR to the old black and white silent films at the dawn of motion pictures. I’d extend this line of thinking to the web page. Within a decade or two, I expect people will look back on web pages as a brief, transitory medium bridging print information to linked data. And as our AI, VR and AR technologies take off, they will liberate information from the old print paradigms altogether. In short, people will interact with information in more direct ways. They will ask a computer to provide them the answer. They will virtually travel to a “space” where they can experience the information they seek. Get Ready to Re-invent the Library…again So where does the library fit into this virtualized and automated future? One possibility is that the good work to transform library data into linked data will enable us to survive this revolution. In fact, it may be our best hope. Another hope is that we continue to emphasize the library as a social space for people to come together around ideas. Whether its a virtual library space or a physical one, the library can be the place in both local and global communities where people meet their universal thirst for connecting with others. The modes of those ideas (books, ebooks, videos, games) will matter far less than the act of connecting. In a sense, you could define the future online library as something between an MMORPG, Meetup.com and the TED conference. So, the library website is vastly improved, but we won’t have long to rest on our laurels. Ready Player One? Put on your VR goggles. Call up Siri. Start rethinking everything you know about the Library website.     Posted in information architecture, librarianship | Tagged internet, libraries, user experience, web design, websites | 1 Comment Virtual Realty is Getting Real in the Library Posted on June 20, 2016 by mryanhess My library just received three Samsung S7 devices with Gear VR goggles. We put them to work right away. The first thought I had was: Wow, this will change everything. My second thought was: Wow, I can’t wait for Apple to make a VR device! The Samsung Gear VR experience is grainy and fraught with limitations, but you can see the potential right away. The virtual reality is, after all, working off a smartphone. There is no high-end graphics card working under the hood. Really, the goggles are just a plastic case holding the phone up to your eyes. But still, despite all this, it’s amazing. Within twenty-four hours, I’d surfed beside the world’s top surfers on giant waves off Hawaii, hung out with the Masai in Africa and shared an intimate moment with a pianist and his dog in their (New York?) apartment. It was all beautiful. We’ve Been Here Before Remember when the Internet came online? If you’re old enough, you’ll recall the crude attempts to chat on digital bulletin board systems (BBS) or, much later, the publication of the first colorful (often jarringly so) HTML pages. It’s the Hello World! moment for VR now. People are just getting started. You can tell the content currently available is just scratching the surface of potentialities for this medium. But once you try VR and consider the ways it can be used, you start to realize nothing will be the same again. The Internet Will Disappear So said Google CEO Erik Schmidt in 2015. He was talking about the rise of AI, wearable tech and many other emerging technologies that will transform how we access data. For Schmidt, the Internet will simply fade into these technologies to the point that it will be unrecognizable. I agree. But being primarily a web librarian, I’m mostly concerned with how new technologies will translate in the library context. What will VR mean for library websites, online catalogs, eBooks, databases and the social networking aspects of libraries. So after trying out VR, I was already thinking about all this. Here are some brief thoughts: Visiting the library stacks in VR could transform the online catalog experience Library programming could break out of the physical world (virtual speakers, virtual locations) VR book discussions could incorporate virtual tours of topics/locations touched on in books Collections of VR experiences could become a new source for local collections VR maker spaces and tools for creatives to create VR experiences/objects Year Zero? Still, VR makes your eyes tired. It’s not perfect. It has a long way to go. But based on my experience sharing this technology with others, it’s addictive. People love trying it. They can’t stop talking about it afterward. So, while it may be some time before the VR revolution disrupts the Internet (and virtual library services with it), it sure feels imminent. Posted in innovation, librarianship, technology | Tagged gear vr, internet, oculus, samsung, virtual reality, vr | Leave a comment W3C’s CSS Framework Review Posted on May 10, 2016 by mryanhess I’m a longtime Bootstrap fan, but recently I cheated on my old framework. Now I’m all excited by the W3C’s new framework. Like Bootstrap, the W3C’s framework comes with lots of nifty utilities and plug and play classes and UI features. Even if you have a good CMS, you’ll find many of their code libraries quite handy. And if you’re CMS-deficient, this framework will save you time and headaches! Why a Framework? Frameworks are great for saving time. You don’t have to reinvent the wheel for standard UI chunks like navigation, image positioning, responsive design, etc. All you need to do is reference the framework in your code and you can start calling the classes to make your site pop. And this is really great since not all well-meaning web teams have an eye for good design. Most quality frameworks look really nice, and they get updated periodically to keep up with design trends. And coming from this well-known standards body, you can also be assured that the W3C’s framework complies with all the nitty-gritty standards all websites should aspire to. Things to Love Some of the things I fell in love with include: CSS-driven navigation menus. There’s really no good reason to rely on JavaScript for a responsive, interactive navigation menu. The W3C agrees. Icon support. This framework allows you to choose from three popular icon sets to bring icons right into your interface. Image support: Lots of great image styling including circular cropping, shadowing, etc. Cards. Gotta love cards in your websites and this framework has some very nice looking card designs for you to use. Built-in colors. Nuff sed. Animations. There are plenty of other nice touches like buttons that lift off the screen, elements that drop into place and much more. I give it a big thumbs up! Check it out at the W3C.org.     Posted in reviews | Tagged css, frameworks, w3c, web design | 1 Comment AI First Posted on May 2, 2016 by mryanhess Looking to the future, the next big step will be for the very concept of the “device” to fade away. Over time, the computer itself—whatever its form factor—will be an intelligent assistant helping you through your day. We will move from mobile first to an AI first world. Google Founder’s Letter, April 2016 My Library recently finalized a Vision Document for our virtual library presence. Happily, our vision was aligned with the long-term direction of technology as understood by movers and shakers like Google. As I’ve written previously, the Library Website will disappear. But this is because the Internet (as we currently understand it) will also disappear. In its place, a new mode of information retrieval and creation will move us away from the paper-based metaphor of web pages. Information will be more ubiquitous. It will be more free-form, more adaptable, more contextualized, more interactive. Part of this is already underway. For example, people are becoming a data set. And other apps are learning about you and changing how they work based on who you are. Your personal data set contains location data, patterns in speech and movement around the world, consumer history, keywords particular to your interests, associations based on your social networks, etc. AI Emerging All of this information makes it possible for emerging AI systems like Siri and Cortana to better serve you. Soon, it will allow AI to control the flow of information based on your mood and other factors to help you be more productive. And like a good friend that knows you very, very well, AI will even be able to alert you to serendipitous events or inconveniences so that you can navigate life more happily. People’s expectations are already being set for this kind of experience. Perhaps you’ve noticed yourself getting annoyed when your personal assistant just fetches a Wikipedia article when you ask it something. You’re left wanting. What we want is that kernel of gold we asked about. But what we get right now, is something too general to be useful. But soon, that will all change. Nascent AI will soon be able to provide exactly the piece of information that you really want rather than a generalized web page. This is what Google means when they make statements like “AI First” or “the Web will die.” They’re talking about a world where information is not only presented as article-like web pages, but broken down into actual kernels of information that are both discrete and yet interconnected. AI First in the Library Library discussions often focus on building better web pages or navigation menus or providing responsive websites. But the conversation we need to have is about pulling our data out of siloed systems and websites and making it available to all modes like AI, apps and basic data harvesters. You hear this conversation in bits and pieces. The ongoing linked data project is part of this long-term strategy. So too with next-gen OPACs. But on the ground, in our local strategy meetings, we need to tie every big project we do to this emerging reality where web browsers are increasingly no longer relevant. We need to think AI First. Posted in librarianship, society, tech industry | Tagged artificial intelligence, google, internet, libraries, linked data | Leave a comment Google Analytics and Privacy Posted on April 27, 2016 by mryanhess Collecting web usage data through services like Google Analytics is a top priority for any library. But what about user privacy? Most libraries (and websites for that matter) lean on Google Analytics to measure website usage and learn about how people access their online content. It’s a great tool. You can learn about where people are coming from (the geolocation of their IP addresses anyway), what devices, browsers and operating systems they are using. You can learn about how big their screen is. You can identify your top pages and much much more. Google Analytics is really indispensable for any organization with an online presence. But then there’s the privacy issue. Is Google Analytics a Privacy Concern? The question is often asked, what personal information is Google Analytics actually collecting? And then, how does this data collection jive with our organization’s privacy policies. It turns out, as a user of Google Analytics, you’ve already agreed to publish a privacy document on your site outlining the why and what of your analytics program. So if you haven’t done so, you probably should if only for the sake of transparency. Personally Identifiable Data Fact is, if someone really wanted to learn about a particular person, it’s not entirely outside the realm of possibility that they could glean a limited set of personal attributes from the generally anonymized data Google Analytics collects. IP addresses can be loosely linked to people. If you wanted to, you could set up filters in Google Analytics that look at a single IP. Of course, on the Google side, any user that is logged into their Gmail, YouTube or other Google account, is already being tracked and identified by Google. This is a broadly underappreciated fact. And it’s a critical one when it comes to how approach the question of dealing with the privacy issue. In both the case of what your organization collects with Google Analytics and what all those web trackers, including Google’s trackers, collect, the onus falls entirely on the user. The Internet is Public Over the years, the Internet has become a public space and users of the Web should understand it as such. Everything you do, is recorded and seen. Companies like Google, Facebook, Mircosoft, Yahoo! and many, many others are all in the data mining business. Carriers and Internet Service Providers are also in this game. They deploy technologies in websites that identify you and then sell what your interests, shopping habits, web searches and other activities are to companies interested in selling to you. They’ve made billions on selling your data. Ever done a search on Google and then seen ads all over the Web trying to sell you that thing you searched last week? That’s the tracking at work. Only You Can Prevent Data Fires The good news is that with little effort, individuals can stop most (but not all) of the data collection. Browsers like Chrome and Firefox have plugins like Ghostery, Avast and many others that will block trackers. Google Analytics can be stopped cold by these plugins. But it won’t solve all the problems. Users also need to set up their browsers to delete cookies websites save to their browsers. And moving off of accounts provided from data mining companies “for free” like Facebook accounts, Gmail and Google.com can also help. But you’ll never be completely anonymous. Super cookies are a thing and are very difficult to stop without breaking websites. And some trackers are required in order to load content. So sometimes you need to pay with your data to play. Policies for Privacy Conscious Libraries All of this means that libraries wishing to be transparent and honest about their data collection, need to also contextualize the information in the broader data mining debate. First and foremost, we need to educate our users on what it means to go online. We need to let them know its their responsibility alone to control their own data. And we need to provide instructions on doing so. Unfortunately, this isn’t an opt-in model. That’s too bad. It actually would be great if the world worked that way. But don’t expect the moneyed interests involved in data mining to allow the US Congress to pass anything that cuts into their bottom line. This ain’t Germany, after all. There are ways with a little javascript to create a temporary opt-in/opt-out feature to your site. This will toggle tags added by Google Tag Manager on and off with a single click. But let’s be honest. Most people will ignore it. And if they do opt-out, it will be very easy for them to overlook everytime without a much more robust opt-in/opt-out functionality baked in to your site. But for most sites and users, this is asking alot. Meanwhile, it diverts attention from the real solution: users concerned about privacy need to protect themselves and not take a given websites word for it. We actually do our users a service by going with the opt-out model. This underlines the larger privacy problems on the Wild Wild Web, which our sites are a part of. Posted in online security & privacy, society | Tagged data mining, google analytics, online security & privacy | 2 Comments The L Word Posted on March 21, 2016 by mryanhess I’ve been working with my team on a vision document for what we want our future digital library platform to look like. This exercise keeps bringing us back to defining the library of the future. And that means addressing the very use of the term, ‘Library.’ When I first exited my library (and information science) program, I was hired by Adobe Systems to work in a team of other librarians. My manager warned us against using the word ‘Librarian’ among our non-librarian colleagues. I think the gist was: too much baggage there. So, we used the word ‘Information Specialist.’ Fast forward a few years to my time in an academic environment at DePaul University Library and this topic came up in the context of services the library provided. Faculty and students associated the library in very traditional ways: a quiet, book-filled space. But the way they used the library was changing despite the lag in their semantic understanding. The space and the virtual tools we put in place online helped users not only find and evaluate information, but also create, organize and share information. A case in point was our adoption of digital publishing tools like Bepress and Omeka, but also the Scholar’s Lab. I’m seeing a similar contradiction in the public library space. Say library and people think books. Walk into a public library and people do games, meetings, trainings and any number of online tasks. This disconnect between what the word ‘Library’ evokes in the mind’s eye and what it means in practice is telling. We’ve got a problem with our brand. In fact, we may need a new word. Taken literally, a library has  been a word for a physical collection of written materials. The Library of Alexandria held scrolls for example. Even code developers rely on ‘libraries’ today, which are collections of materials. In every case, the emphasis is on the collection of things. Now, I’m not suggesting that we move away from books. Books are vessels for ideas and libraries will always be about ideas. In fact, this focus on ideas rather than any one mode for transmitting ideas is key. In today’s library’s people not only read about ideas, they meet to discuss ideas, they brainstorm ideas. I don’t pretend to have the magic word. In fact, maybe it’s taking so long for us to drop ‘Library’ because there is not a good word in existence. Maybe we need create a new one. One tactic that comes to mind as we navigate this terminological evolution is to retain the library, but subsume it inside of something new. I’ve seen this done to various degrees in other libraries. For example, Loyola University in Chicago built an entirely new building adjacent to the book-filled library. Administratively, the building is run by the library, but it is called the Klarchek Information Commons. In that rather marvelous space looking out over Lake Michigan, you’ll find the modern ‘library’ in all its glory. Computers, Collaboration booths, etc. I like this model for fixing our identity problem and I think it would work without throwing the baby out with the bathwater. However, its done, one thing is for sure. Our users have moved on from ‘the library’ and are left with no accurate way to describe that place that they love to go to when they want to engage with ideas. Let’s put our thinking caps on and puts a word on their lips that does justice to what the old library has become. Let’s get past the L Word. Posted in librarianship | Tagged branding, information commons | Leave a comment Locking Down Windows Posted on March 10, 2016 by mryanhess I’ve recently moved Back to Windows for my desktop computing. But Windows 10 comes with enormous privacy and security issues that people need to take into account…and get under a semblance of control. Here’s how I did it. There has been much written on this subject, so what I’m including here is more of a digest of what I’ve found elsewhere with perspective on how it worked out for me over time. Windows Tweaker This is a pretty good tool that does what Windows should do out of the box: give you one-stop access to all Windows’ settings. As it is, Windows 10 has spread out many settings, including those for Privacy, to the Settings screen as well as Registry Editor and Group Policy Editor. There are dozens of look and feel tweaks, including an easy way to force Windows to use the hidden Dark Theme. The Privacy Tab, however, is the single most important. There, you can easily turn of all the nasty privacy holes in Windows 10, such as how the OS sends things like keystrokes (that’s right!) back to Microsoft. The list of holes it will close is long: Telemetry, Biometrics, Advertising ID, Cortana, etc. Cortana Speaking of Cortana, I was really excited that this kind of virtual assistant was embedded in Windows 10. I looked forward to trying it out. But then I read the fine print. Cortana is a privacy nightmare. She can’t be trusted. She’s a blabbermouth and repeats back everything you tell her to not just Microsoft, but indirectly to all of their advertising partners. And who knows where all that data goes and how secure it is in the long run. Yuck! Turn her off. Pull the plug. Zero her out. The easiest way to disable her is to set up a Local Account. But there’s more info out there, including this at PC World. Local Account When you first install Windows 10, unplug the ethernet and shut down wifi. Then, when you’re certain that all of MSFT’s listeners can’t communicate with your machine, go through the Installation Set Up process and when asked to create/log in to your Microsoft Account, don’t. Instead, use the Local Account option. The down sides of going this route are that you can’t sync your experience, accounts and apps across devices. You also won’t be able to use Cortana. The up sides are that using a Local account means you will be far more secure and private in whatever you do with your computer (as long as you maintain the many other privacy settings). Reduce Risk and Streamline Your PC Windows 10 comes crammed with many programs you may not want. Some of these may even be tracking and sharing, so if you don’t actually use it, why not lighten the load on your system and remove them. You can do this the slow way, one app at a time, or you can use the Powershell nuclear option and kill them all at once. I did this and haven’t regretted it one bit. So fire away… Privacy Settings I won’t go into all of this. There is plenty of solid advise on reducing your exposure on other sites (like at PC World) and some lengthy YouTube videos which you can easily find. But it is critical that you go into the Settings panel and turn everything off at the very least. That’s my feeling. Some tell you that you even need to set up IP blocks to keep your machine from reporting back to Microsoft and its advertising partners. Others say this is somewhat overblown, and not unique to Windows, like over at LifeHacker, so I’ll leave it to you to decide. Conclusion It’s really too bad that operating systems have gone down this road. Our PCs should be tools for us and not the other way around. Imagine if everything that happened on your device stayed private. Imagine if it was all encrypted and nobody could hack into your PC or Microsoft’s servers or their advertisers’ databases and learn all kinds of things about you, your family, your work, your finances, your secrets. And yet, this is precisely what Microsoft (and iOS, Android and others) did, intentionally. Frankly, I think its bordering on criminal negligence, but good luck suing when your data gets exploited. Better safe than sorry…that’s my take. Do a little work and lock down your computer. Good luck out there…   Posted in online security & privacy, technology | Tagged microsoft, online security & privacy, security, Windows | Leave a comment Killer Apps & Hacks for Windows 10 Posted on March 3, 2016 by mryanhess Did the UX people at Microsoft ever test Windows 10? Here are some must have apps and hacks I’ve found to make life on Windows 10 quick and easy. Set Hotkeys for Apps Sometimes you just want to launch an app from your keyboard. Using a method on Laptopmag.com, you can do this for most any program. I use this in combination with macros like those noted below. Quick Switch to VPN VPN Macro If you’re a smart and secure Internet user, you probably already use a VPN service to encrypt the data and web requests you send over the Internet (especially while on public wif-fi networks). But Windows 10 makes connecting to your VPN service a bit of a chore (I use Private Internet Access, by the way). It’s weird because Windows actually placed the Connect to VPN in the Communications Center, but you still need to click into that, then click the VPN you want and then click Connect…that’s 3 clicks if you’re counting. I’ve tried two methods to make this at least a little easier. One caveat on all of this: if you log in with an administrator account (which I don’t because I’m concerned about security after all!), you could have your VPN client launch at start, but you’d still need to click the connect button and anytime you put the machine to sleep, it would disconnect (why they do that is beyond me). With both methods, you need to manually add a VPN account to Windows built-in VPN feature. Anyway, here are my two methods: Macro Method You can record actions as a “macro” and then save it as an executable program. You can then save the program to your desktop, start or taskbar. It’s a bit of a chore and in the end, the best you get is two-click access to your VPN connection…not the one-click you would get on a Mac. If my memory serves, this method only works if you log-in with an administrator account. Otherwise, you’ll be prompted for an administrator password each time…an who wants that? Create shortcut to Settings page Add a hotkey to shortcut: Create Macro using something like JitBit that uses the new hotkey. Save as executable Create a shortcut to the desktop and pin to Start Optionally, change the icon to look pretty Pin the Communicator VPN app to your Start pane. This is actually how I ended up going in the end. To do this, you need to ‘hack’ a shortcut that points to your VPN settings panel (where the Connect button resides). On your desktop, right-click and select New > Shortcut A Shortcut wizard will open Paste ms-settings:network-vpn into the form Now pin the shortcut to your Start and you have quick access to the Connect dialog for your VPN Switch between Audio Devices Sometimes I want to jump between my speakers and my headphones and because I hate clicking and loath jumping out of Windows 10’s Metro design into the old-school looking Audio Device Controller, I followed the advice from The Windows Club. Their solution uses freeware called Audio Switcher to assign a hotkey to different audio devices. I added Audio Switcher to my startup to make this a little more automated. Unfortunately, because I normally work in a non-administrator account on Windows 10, I get asked for an Admin password to launch this app at Startup. Egads! In my case, I can now click the F1 (Headphones) and F2 (Speakers)  keys to switch playback devices for sound. Overcoming the Windows Education or Windows Pro watermark Windows embeds a horrible little Windows Education or Windows Pro watermark over the lower right corner of your desktop if you use one of those versions. There are two solutions to removing this remarkably distracting bit of text. Use a white background to “disappear” the white text Or, have an app sit over that space. I use MusicBee (recommended by LifeHacker) and set position the mini-version over that spot. Supposedly there’s a Regex trick where you delete the text but that’s a bit much work for me for such a slight annoyance. Other Tricks There are a couple other tricks that I’ve used to clean up Windows. Removing Metro Apps. This allows you to remove all the built-in apps that are there simply to confound your privacy and peddle your identity to Microsoft’s advertising partners. Remove them. Removing default folders from Explorer. If you’re like me and want better performance, you use a separate hard disk drive for your music, video and images and another drive (probably an SSD) for your OS and programs. Windows 10 is confusing for people with this kind of set up by placing folders in the File Explorer to your Images, Documents, etc. on your C Drive. In my case, that’s not the right drive. So I used the method linked above to remove those from Explorer. 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Using a method on Laptopmag.com, you can do this for most […] feeds-feedburner-com-1115 ---- The Code4Lib Journal The Code4Lib Journal Editorial: For Pandemic Times Such as This A pandemic changes the world and changes libraries. Open Source Tools for Scaling Data Curation at QDR This paper describes the development of services and tools for scaling data curation services at the Qualitative Data Repository (QDR). Through a set of open-source tools, semi-automated workflows, and extensions to the Dataverse platform, our team has built services for curators to efficiently and effectively publish collections of qualitatively derived data. The contributions we seek to make in this paper are as follows: 1. We describe ‘human-in-the-loop’ curation and the tools that facilitate this model at QDR; 2. We provide an in-depth discussion of the design and implementation of these tools, including applications specific to the Dataverse software repository, as well as standalone archiving tools written in R; and 3. We highlight the role of providing a service layer for data discovery and accessibility of qualitative data. Keywords: Data curation; open-source; qualitative data From Text to Map: Combing Named Entity Recognition and Geographic Information Systems This tutorial shows readers how to leverage the power of named entity recognition (NER) and geographic information systems (GIS) to extract place names from text, geocode them, and create a public-facing map. This process is highly useful across disciplines. For example, it can be used to generate maps from historical primary sources, works of literature set in the real world, and corpora of academic scholarship. In order to lead the reader through this process, the authors work with a 500 article sample of the COVID-19 Open Research Dataset Challenge (CORD-19) dataset. As of the date of writing, CORD-19 includes 45,000 full-text articles with metadata. Using this sample, the authors demonstrate how to extract locations from the full-text with the spaCy library in Python, highlight methods to clean up the extracted data with the Pandas library, and finally teach the reader how to create an interactive map of the places using ArcGIS Online. The processes and code are described in a manner that is reusable for any corpus of text Using Integrated Library Systems and Open Data to Analyze Library Cardholders The Harrison Public Library in Westchester County, New York operates two library buildings in Harrison: The Richard E. Halperin Memorial Library Building (the library’s main building, located in downtown Harrison) and a West Harrison branch location. As part of its latest three-year strategic plan, the library sought to use existing resources to improve understanding of its cardholders at both locations. To do so, we needed to link the circulation data in our integrated library system, Evergreen, to geographic data and demographic data. We decided to build a geodemographic heatmap that incorporated all three aforementioned types of data. Using Evergreen, American Community Survey (ACS) data, and Google Maps, we plotted each cardholder’s residence on a map, added census boundaries (called tracts) and our town’s borders to the map, and produced summary statistics for each tract detailing its demographics and the library card usage of its residents. In this article, we describe how we acquired the necessary data and built the heatmap. We also touch on how we safeguarded the data while building the heatmap, which is an internal tool available only to select authorized staff members. Finally, we discuss what we learned from the heatmap and how libraries can use open data to benefit their communities. Update OCLC Holdings Without Paying Additional Fees: A Patchwork Approach Accurate OCLC holdings are vital for interlibrary loan transactions. However, over time weeding projects, replacing lost or damaged materials, and human error can leave a library with a catalog that is no longer reflected through OCLC. While OCLC offers reclamation services to bring poorly maintained collections up-to-date, the associated fee may be cost prohibitive for libraries with limited budgets. This article will describe the process used at Austin Peay State University to identify, isolate, and update holdings using OCLC Collection Manager queries, MarcEdit, Excel, and Python. Some portions of this process are completed using basic coding; however, troubleshooting techniques will be included for those with limited previous experience. Data reuse in linked data projects: a comparison of Alma and Share-VDE BIBFRAME networks This article presents an analysis of the enrichment, transformation, and clustering used by vendors Casalini Libri/@CULT and Ex Libris for their respective conversions of MARC data to BIBFRAME. The analysis considers the source MARC21 data used by Alma then the enrichment and transformation of MARC21 data from Share-VDE partner libraries. The clustering of linked data into a BIBFRAME network is a key outcome of data reuse in linked data projects and fundamental to the improvement of the discovery of library collections on the web and within search systems. CollectionBuilder-CONTENTdm: Developing a Static Web ‘Skin’ for CONTENTdm-based Digital Collections Unsatisfied with customization options for CONTENTdm, librarians at University of Idaho Library have been using a modern static web approach to creating digital exhibit websites that sit in front of the digital repository. This "skin" is designed to provide users with new pathways to discover and explore collection content and context. This article describes the concepts behind the approach and how it has developed into an open source, data-driven tool called CollectionBuilider-CONTENTdm. The authors outline the design decisions and principles guiding the development of CollectionBuilder, and detail how a version is used at the University of Idaho Library to collaboratively build digital collections and digital scholarship projects. Automated Collections Workflows in GOBI: Using Python to Scrape for Purchase Options The NC State University Libraries has developed a tool for querying GOBI, our print and ebook ordering vendor platform, to automate monthly collections reports. These reports detail purchase options for missing or long-overdue items, as well as popular items with multiple holds. GOBI does not offer an API, forcing staff to conduct manual title-by-title searches that previously took up to 15 hours per month. To make this process more efficient, we wrote a Python script that automates title searches and the extraction of key data (price, date of publication, binding type) from GOBI. This tool can gather data for hundreds of titles in half an hour or less, freeing up time for other projects. This article will describe the process of creating this script, as well as how it finds and selects data in GOBI. It will also discuss how these results are paired with NC State’s holdings data to create reports for collection managers. Lastly, the article will examine obstacles that were experienced in the creation of the tool and offer recommendations for other organizations seeking to automate collections workflows. Testing remote access to e-resource with CodeceptJS At the Badische Landesbibliothek Karlsruhe (BLB) we offer a variety of e-resources with different access requirements. On the one hand, there is free access to open access material, no matter where you are. On the other hand, there are e-resources that you can only access when you are in the rooms of the BLB. We also offer e-resources that you can access from anywhere, but you must have a library account for authentication to gain access. To test the functionality of these access methods, we have created a project to automatically test the entire process from searching our catalogue, selecting a hit, logging in to the provider's site and checking the results. For this we use the End 2 End Testing Framework CodeceptJS. Editorial An abundance of information sharing. Leveraging Google Drive for Digital Library Object Storage This article will describe a process at the University of Kentucky Libraries for utilizing an unlimited Google Drive for Education account for digital library object storage. For a number of recent digital library projects, we have used Google Drive for both archival file storage and web derivative file storage. As a part of the process, a Google Drive API script is deployed in order to automate the gathering of of Google Drive object identifiers. Also, a custom Omeka plugin was developed to allow for referencing web deliverable files within a web publishing platform via object linking and embedding. For a number of new digital library projects, we have moved toward a small VM approach to digital library management where the VM serves as a web front end but not a storage node. This has necessitated alternative approaches to storing web addressable digital library objects. One option is the use of Google Drive for storing digital objects. An overview of our approach is included in this article as well as links to open source code we adopted and more open source code we produced. Building a Library Search Infrastructure with Elasticsearch This article discusses our implementation of an Elastic cluster to address our search, search administration and indexing needs, how it integrates in our technology infrastructure, and finally takes a close look at the way that we built a reusable, dynamic search engine that powers our digital repository search. We cover the lessons learned with our early implementations and how to address them to lay the groundwork for a scalable, networked search environment that can also be applied to alternative search engines such as Solr. How to Use an API Management platform to Easily Build Local Web Apps Setting up an API management platform like DreamFactory can open up a lot of possibilities for potential projects within your library. With an automatically generated restful API, the University Libraries at Virginia Tech have been able to create applications for gathering walk-in data and reference questions, public polling apps, feedback systems for service points, data dashboards and more. This article will describe what an API management platform is, why you might want one, and the types of potential projects that can quickly be put together by your local web developer. Git and GitLab in Library Website Change Management Workflows Library websites can benefit from a separate development environment and a robust change management workflow, especially when there are multiple authors. This article details how the Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine Library use Git and GitLab in a change management workflow with a serverless development environment for their website development team. Git tracks changes to the code, allowing changes to be made and tested in a separate branch before being merged back into the website. GitLab adds features such as issue tracking and discussion threads to Git to facilitate communication and planning. Adoption of these tools and this workflow have dramatically improved the organization and efficiency of the OUWB Medical Library web development team, and it is the hope of the authors that by sharing our experience with them others may benefit as well. Experimenting with a Machine Generated Annotations Pipeline The UCLA Library reorganized its software developers into focused subteams with one, the Labs Team, dedicated to conducting experiments. In this article we describe our first attempt at conducting a software development experiment, in which we attempted to improve our digital library’s search results with metadata from cloud-based image tagging services. We explore the findings and discuss the lessons learned from our first attempt at running an experiment. Leveraging the RBMS/BSC Latin Place Names File with Python To answer the relatively straight-forward question “Which rare materials in my library catalog were published in Venice?” requires an advanced knowledge of geography, language, orthography, alphabet graphical changes, cataloging standards, transcription practices, and data analysis. The imprint statements of rare materials transcribe place names more faithfully as it appears on the piece itself, such as Venetus, or Venetiae, rather than a recognizable and contemporary form of place name, such as Venice, Italy. Rare materials catalogers recognize this geographic discoverability and selection issue and solve it with a standardized solution. To add consistency and normalization to imprint locations, rare materials catalogers utilize hierarchical place names to create a special imprint index. However, this normalized and contemporary form of place name is often missing from legacy bibliographic records. This article demonstrates using a traditional rare materials cataloging aid, the RBMS/BSC Latin Place Names File, with programming tools, Jupyter Notebook and Python, to retrospectively populate a special imprint index for 17th-century rare materials. This methodology enriched 1,487 MAchine Readable Cataloging (MARC) bibliographic records with hierarchical place names (MARC 752 fields) as part of a small pilot project. This article details a partially automated solution to this geographic discoverability and selection issue; however, a human component is still ultimately required to fully optimize the bibliographic data. Tweeting Tennessee’s Collections: A Case Study of a Digital Collections Twitterbot Implementation This article demonstrates how a Twitterbot can be used as an inclusive outreach initiative that breaks down the barriers between the web and the reading room to share materials with the public. These resources include postcards, music manuscripts, photographs, cartoons and any other digitized materials. Once in place, Twitterbots allow physical materials to converge with the technical and social space of the Web. Twitterbots are ideal for busy professionals because they allow librarians to make meaningful impressions on users without requiring a large time investment. This article covers the recent implementation of a digital collections bot (@UTKDigCollBot) at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville (UTK), and provides documentation and advice on how you might develop a bot to highlight materials at your own institution. Building Strong User Experiences in LibGuides with Bootstrapr and Reviewr With nearly fifty subject librarians creating LibGuides, the LibGuides Management Team at Notre Dame needed a way to both empower guide authors to take advantage of the powerful functionality afforded by the Bootstrap framework native to LibGuides, and to ensure new and extant library guides conformed to brand/identity standards and the best practices of user experience (UX) design. To accomplish this, we developed an online handbook to teach processes and enforce styles; a web app to create Twitter Bootstrap components for use in guides (Bootstrapr); and a web app to radically speed the review and remediation of guides, as well as better communicate our changes to guide authors (Reviewr). This article describes our use of these three applications to balance empowering guide authors against usefully constraining them to organizational standards for user experience. We offer all of these tools as FOSS under an MIT license so that others may freely adapt them for use in their own organization. IIIF by the Numbers The UCLA Library began work on building a suite of services to support IIIF for their digital collections. The services perform image transformations and delivery as well as manifest generation and delivery. The team was unsure about whether they should use local or cloud-based infrastructure for these services, so they conducted some experiments on multiple infrastructure configurations and tested them in scenarios with varying dimensions. Trust, But Verify: Auditing Vendor-Supplied Accessibility Claims Despite a long-overdue push to improve the accessibility of our libraries’ online presences, much of what we offer to our patrons comes from third party vendors: discovery layers, OPACs, subscription databases, and so on. We can’t directly affect the accessibility of the content on these platforms, but rely on vendors to design and test their systems and report on their accessibility through Voluntary Product Accessibility Templates (VPATS). But VPATs are self-reported. What if we want to verify our vendors’ claims? We can’t thoroughly test the accessibility of hundreds of vendor systems, can we? In this paper, we propose a simple methodology for spot-checking VPATs. Since most websites struggle with the same accessibility issues, spot checking particular success criteria in a library vendor VPAT can tip us off to whether the VPAT as a whole can be trusted. Our methodology combines automated and manual checking, and can be done without any expensive software or complex training. What’s more, we are creating a repository to share VPAT audit results with others, so that we needn’t all audit the VPATs of all our systems. Editorial on diversity and mentoring Scraping BePress: Downloading Dissertations for Preservation This article will describe our process developing a script to automate downloading of documents and secondary materials from our library's BePress repository. Our objective was to collect the full archive of dissertations and associated files from our repository into a local disk for potential future applications and to build out a preservation system. Unlike at some institutions, our students submit directly into BePress, so we did not have a separate repository of the files; and the backup of BePress content that we had access to was not in an ideal format (for example, it included "withdrawn" items and did not effectively isolate electronic theses and dissertations). Perhaps more importantly, the fact that BePress was not SWORD-enabled and lacked a robust API or batch export option meant that we needed to develop a data-scraping approach that would allow us to both extract files and have metadata fields populated. Using a CSV of all of our records provided by BePress, we wrote a script to loop through those records and download their documents, placing them in directories according to a local schema. We dealt with over 3,000 records and about three times that many items, and now have an established process for retrieving our files from BePress. Details of our experience and code are included. Persistent identifiers for heritage objects Persistent identifiers (PID’s) are essential for getting access and referring to library, archive and museum (LAM) collection objects in a sustainable and unambiguous way, both internally and externally. Heritage institutions need a universal policy for the use of PID’s in order to have an efficient digital infrastructure at their disposal and to achieve optimal interoperability, leading to open data, open collections and efficient resource management. Here the discussion is limited to PID’s that institutions can assign to objects they own or administer themselves. PID’s for people, subjects etc. can be used by heritage institutions, but are generally managed by other parties. The first part of this article consists of a general theoretical description of persistent identifiers. First of all, I discuss the questions of what persistent identifiers are and what they are not, and what is needed to administer and use them. The most commonly used existing PID systems are briefly characterized. Then I discuss the types of objects PID’s can be assigned to. This section concludes with an overview of the requirements that apply if PIDs should also be used for linked data. The second part examines current infrastructural practices, and existing PID systems and their advantages and shortcomings. Based on these practical issues and the pros and cons of existing PID systems a list of requirements for PID systems is presented which is used to address a number of practical considerations. This section concludes with a number of recommendations. Dimensions & VOSViewer Bibliometrics in the Reference Interview The VOSviewer software provides easy access to bibliometric mapping using data from Dimensions, Scopus and Web of Science. The properly formatted and structured citation data, and the ease in which it can be exported open up new avenues for use during citation searches and reference interviews. This paper details specific techniques for using advanced searches in Dimensions, exporting the citation data, and drawing insights from the maps produced in VOS Viewer. These search techniques and data export practices are fast and accurate enough to build into reference interviews for graduate students, faculty, and post-PhD researchers. The search results derived from them are accurate and allow a more comprehensive view of citation networks embedded in ordinary complex boolean searches. Automating Authority Control Processes Authority control is an important part of cataloging since it helps provide consistent access to names, titles, subjects, and genre/forms. There are a variety of methods for providing authority control, ranging from manual, time-consuming processes to automated processes. However, the automated processes often seem out of reach for small libraries when it comes to using a pricey vendor or expert cataloger. This paper introduces ideas on how to handle authority control using a variety of tools, both paid and free. The author describes how their library handles authority control; compares vendors and programs that can be used to provide varying levels of authority control; and demonstrates authority control using MarcEdit. Managing Electronic Resources Without Buying into the Library Vendor Singularity Over the past decade, the library automation market has faced continuing consolidation. Many vendors in this space have pushed towards monolithic and expensive Library Services Platforms. Other vendors have taken "walled garden" approaches which force vendor lock-in due to lack of interoperability. For these reasons and others, many libraries have turned to open-source Integrated Library Systems (ILSes) such as Koha and Evergreen. These systems offer more flexibility and interoperability options, but tend to be developed with a focus on public libraries and legacy print resource functionality. They lack tools important to academic libraries such as knowledge bases, link resolvers, and electronic resource management systems (ERMs). Several open-source ERM options exist, including CORAL and FOLIO. This article analyzes the current state of these and other options for libraries considering supplementing their open-source ILS either alone, hosted or in a consortial environment. Shiny Fabric: A Lightweight, Open-source Tool for Visualizing and Reporting Library Relationships This article details the development and functionalities of an open-source application called Fabric. Fabric is a simple to use application that renders library data in the form of network graphs (sociograms). Fabric is built in R using the Shiny package and is meant to offer an easy-to-use alternative to other software, such as Gephi and UCInet. In addition to being user friendly, Fabric can run locally as well as on a hosted server. This article discusses the development process and functionality of Fabric, use cases at the New College of Florida's Jane Bancroft Cook Library, as well as plans for future development. Analyzing and Normalizing Type Metadata for a Large Aggregated Digital Library The Illinois Digital Heritage Hub (IDHH) gathers and enhances metadata from contributing institutions around the state of Illinois and provides this metadata to the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) for greater access. The IDHH helps contributors shape their metadata to the standards recommended and required by the DPLA in part by analyzing and enhancing aggregated metadata. In late 2018, the IDHH undertook a project to address a particularly problematic field, Type metadata. This paper walks through the project, detailing the process of gathering and analyzing metadata using the DPLA API and OpenRefine, data remediation through XSL transformations in conjunction with local improvements by contributing institutions, and the DPLA ingestion system’s quality controls. Scaling IIIF Image Tiling in the Cloud The International Archive of Women in Architecture, established at Virginia Tech in 1985, collects books, biographical information, and published materials from nearly 40 countries that are divided into around 450 collections. In order to provide public access to these collections, we built an application using the IIIF APIs to pre-generate image tiles and manifests which are statically served in the AWS cloud. We established an automatic image processing pipeline using a suite of AWS services to implement microservices in Lambda and Docker. By doing so, we reduced the processing time for terabytes of images from weeks to days. In this article, we describe our serverless architecture design and implementations, elaborate the technical solution on integrating multiple AWS services with other techniques into the application, and describe our streamlined and scalable approach to handle extremely large image datasets. Finally, we show the significantly improved performance compared to traditional processing architectures along with a cost evaluation. Where Do We Go From Here: A Review of Technology Solutions for Providing Access to Digital Collections The University of Toronto Libraries is currently reviewing technology to support its Collections U of T service. Collections U of T provides search and browse access to 375 digital collections (and over 203,000 digital objects) at the University of Toronto Libraries. Digital objects typically include special collections material from the university as well as faculty digital collections, all with unique metadata requirements. The service is currently supported by IIIF-enabled Islandora, with one Fedora back end and multiple Drupal sites per parent collection (see attached image). Like many institutions making use of Islandora, UTL is now confronted with Drupal 7 end of life and has begun to investigate a migration path forward. This article will summarise the Collections U of T functional requirements and lessons learned from our current technology stack. It will go on to outline our research to date for alternate solutions. The article will review both emerging micro-service solutions, as well as out-of-the-box platforms, to provide an overview of the digital collection technology landscape in 2019. Note that our research is focused on reviewing technology solutions for providing access to digital collections, as preservation services are offered through other services at the University of Toronto Libraries. feeds-dltj-org-8526 ---- Disruptive Library Technology Jester Disruptive Library Technology Jester We're Disrupted, We're Librarians, and We're Not Going to Take It Anymore User Behavior Access Controls at a Library Proxy Server are Okay Earlier this month, my Twitter timeline lit up with mentions of a half-day webinar called Cybersecurity Landscape - Protecting the Scholarly Infrastructure. What had riled up the people I follow on Twitter was the first presentation: “Security Collaboration for Library Resource Access” by Cory Roach, the chief information security officer at the University of Utah. Many of the tweets and articles linked in tweets were about a proposal for a new round of privacy-invading technology coming from content providers as a condition of libraries subscribing to publisher content. One of the voices that I trust was urging caution: I highly recommend you listen to the talk, which was given by a university CIO, and judge if this is a correct representation. FWIW, I attended the event and it is not what I took away.— Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe (@lisalibrarian) November 14, 2020 As near as I can tell, much of the debate traces back to this article: Scientific publishers propose installing spyware in university libraries to protect copyrights - Coda Story https://t.co/rtCokIukBf— Open Access Tracking Project (@oatp) November 14, 2020 The article describes Cory’s presentation this way: One speaker proposed a novel tactic publishers could take to protect their intellectual property rights against data theft: introducing spyware into the proxy servers academic libraries use to allow access to their online services, such as publishers’ databases. The “spyware” moniker is quite scary. It is what made me want to seek out the recording from the webinar and hear the context around that proposal. My understanding (after watching the presentation) is that the proposal is not nearly as concerning. Although there is one problematic area—the correlation of patron identity with requested URLs—overall, what is described is a sound and common practice for securing web applications. To the extent that it is necessary to determine a user’s identity before allowing access to licensed content (an unfortunate necessity because of the state of scholarly publishing), this is an acceptable proposal. (Through the university communications office, Corey published a statement about the reaction to his talk.) In case you didn’t know, a web proxy server ensures the patron is part of the community of licensed users, and the publisher trusts requests that come through the web proxy server. The point of Cory’s presentation is that the username/password checking at the web proxy server is a weak form of access control that is subject to four problems: phishing (sending email to tricking a user into giving up their username/password) social engineering (non-email ways of tricking a user into giving up their username/password) credential reuse (systems that are vulnerable because the user used the same password in more than one place) hactivism (users that intentionally give out their username/password so others can access resources) Right after listing these four problems, Cory says: “But anyway we look at it, we can safely say that this is primarily a people problem and the technology alone is not going to solve that problem. Technology can help us take reasonable precautions… So long as the business model involves allowing access to the data that we’re providing and also trying to protect that same data, we’re unlikely to stop theft entirely.” His proposal is to place “reasonable precautions” in the web proxy server as it relates to the campus identity management system. This is a slide from his presentation: Slide from presentation by Cory Roach I find this layout (and lack of labels) somewhat confusing, so I re-imagined the diagram as this: Revised 'Modern Library Design' The core of Cory’s presentation is to add predictive analytics and per-user blocking automation to the analysis of the log files from the web proxy server and the identity management server. By doing so, the university can react quicker to compromised usernames and passwords. In fact, it could probably do so more quicker than the publisher could do with its own log analysis and reporting back to the university. Where Cory runs into trouble is this slide: Slide from presentation by Cory Roach In this part of the presentation, Cory describes the kinds of patron-identifying data that the university could-or-would collect and analyze to further the security effort. In search engine optimization, these sorts of data points are called “signals” and are used to improve the relevance of search results; perhaps there is an equivalent term in access control technology. But for now, I’ll just call them “signals”. There are some problems in gathering these signals—most notably the correlation between user identity and “URLs Requested”. In the presentation, he says: “You can also move over to behavioral stuff. So it could be, you know, why is a pharmacy major suddenly looking up a lot of material on astrophysics or why is a medical professional and a hospital suddenly interested in internal combustion. Things that just don’t line up and we can identify fishy behavior.” It is core to the library ethos that we make our best effort to not track what a user is interested in—to not build a profile of a user’s research unless they have explicitly opted into such data collection. As librarians, we need to gracefully describe this professional ethos and work that into the design of the systems used on campus (and at the publishers). Still, there is much to be said for using some of the other signals to analyze whether a particular request is from an authorized community member. For instance, Cory says: “We commonly see this user coming in from the US and today it’s coming in from Botswana. You know, has there been enough time that they could have traveled from the US to Botswana and actually be there? Have they ever access resources from that country before is there residents on record in that country?” The best part of what Cory is proposing is that the signals’ storage and processing is at the university and not at the publisher. I’m not sure if Cory knew this, but a recent version of EZProxy added a UsageLimit directive that builds in some of these capabilities. It can set per-user limits based on the number of page requests or the amount of downloaded information over a specified interval. One wonders if somewhere in OCLC’s development queue is the ability to detect IP addresses from multiple networks (geographic detection) and browser differences across a specified interval. Still, pushing this up to the university’s identity provider allows for a campus-wide view of the signals…not just the ones coming through the library. Also, in designing the system, there needs to be clarity about how the signals are analyzed and used. I think Cory knew this as well: “we do have to be careful about not building bias into the algorithms.” Yeah, the need for this technology sucks. Although it was the tweet to the Coda Story about the presentation that blew up, the thread of the story goes through TechDirt to a tangential paragraph from Netzpolitik in an article about Germany’s licensing struggle with Elsevier. With this heritage, any review of the webinar’s ideas are automatically tainted by the distain the library community in general has towards Elsevier. It is reality—an unfortunate reality, in my opinion—that the traditional scholarly journal model has publishers exerting strong copyright protection on research and ideas behind paywalls. (Wouldn’t it be better if we poured the anti-piracy effort into improving scholarly communication tools in an Open Access world? Yes, but that isn’t the world we live in.) Almost every library deals with this friction by employing a web proxy server as an agent between the patron and the publisher’s content. The Netzpolitik article says: …but relies on spyware in the fight against „cybercrime“ Of Course, Sci-Hub and other shadow libraries are a thorn in Elsevier’s side. Since they have existed, libraries at universities and research institutions have been much less susceptible to blackmail. Their staff can continue their research even without a contract with Elsevier. Instead of offering transparent open access contracts with fair conditions, however, Elsevier has adopted a different strategy in the fight against shadow libraries. These are to be fought as „cybercrime“, if necessary also with technological means. Within the framework of the „Scholarly Networks Security Initiative (SNSI)“, which was founded together with other large publishers, Elsevier is campaigning for libraries to be upgraded with security technology. In a SNSI webinar entitled „Cybersecurity Landscape – Protecting the Scholarly Infrastructure“*, hosted by two high-ranking Elsevier managers, one speaker recommended that publishers develop their own proxy or a proxy plug-in for libraries to access more (usage) data („develop or subsidize a low cost proxy or a plug-in to existing proxies“). With the help of an „analysis engine“, not only could the location of access be better narrowed down, but biometric data (e.g. typing speed) or conspicuous usage patterns (e.g. a pharmacy student suddenly interested in astrophysics) could also be recorded. Any doubts that this software could also be used—if not primarily—against shadow libraries were dispelled by the next speaker. An ex-FBI analyst and IT security consultant spoke about the security risks associated with the use of Sci-Hub. The other commentary that I saw was along similar lines: [Is the SNSI the new PRISM? bjoern.brembs.blog](http://bjoern.brembs.net/2020/10/is-the-snsi-the-new-prism/) [Academics band together with publishers because access to research is a cybercrime chorasimilarity](https://chorasimilarity.wordpress.com/2020/11/14/academics-band-together-with-publishers-because-access-to-research-is-a-cybercrime/) [WHOIS behind SNSI & GetFTR? Motley Marginalia](https://csulb.edu/~ggardner/2020/11/16/snsi-getftr/) Let’s face it: any friction beyond follow-link-to-see-PDF is more friction than a researcher deserves. I doubt we would design a scholarly communication system this way were we to start from scratch. But the system is built on centuries of evolving practice, organizations, and companies. It really would be a better world if we didn’t have to spend time and money on scholarly publisher paywalls. And I’m grateful for the Open Access efforts that are pivoting scholarly communications into an open-to-all paradigm. That doesn’t negate the need to provide better options for content that must exist behind a paywall. So what is this SNSI thing? The webinar where Cory presented was the first mention I’d seen of a new group called the Scholarly Networks Security Initiative (SNSI). SNSI is the latest in a series of publisher-driven initiatives to reduce the paywall’s friction for paying users or library patrons coming from licensing institutions. GetFTR (my thoughts) and Seamless Access (my thoughts). (Disclosure: I’m serving on two working groups for Seamless Access that are focused on making it possible for libraries to sensibly and sanely integrate the goals of Seamless Access into campus technology and licensing contracts.) Interestingly, while the Seamless Access initiative is driven by a desire to eliminate web proxy servers, this SNSI presentation upgrades a library’s web proxy server and makes it a more central tool between the patron and the content. One might argue that all access on campus should come through the proxy server to benefit from this kind of access control approach. It kinda makes one wonder about the coordination of these efforts. Still, SNSI is on my radar now, and I think it will be interesting to see what the next events and publications are from this group. As a Cog in the Election System: Reflections on My Role as a Precinct Election Official I may nod off several times in composing this post the day after election day. Hopefully, in reading it, you won’t. It is a story about one corner of democracy. It is a journal entry about how it felt to be a citizen doing what I could do to make other citizens’ voices be heard. It needed to be written down before the memories and emotions are erased by time and naps. Yesterday I was a precinct election officer (PEO—a poll worker) for Franklin County—home of Columbus, Ohio. It was my third election as a PEO. The first was last November, and the second was the election aborted by the onset of the coronavirus in March. (Not sure that second one counts.) It was my first as a Voting Location Manager (VLM), so I felt the stakes were high to get it right. Would there be protests at the polling location? Would I have to deal with people wearing candidate T-shirts and hats or not wearing masks? Would there be a crash of election observers, whether official (scrutinizing our every move) or unofficial (that I would have to remove)? It turns out the answer to all three questions was “no”—and it was a fantastic day of civic engagement by PEOs and voters. There were well-engineered processes and policies, happy and patient enthusiasm, and good fortune along the way. This story is going to turn out okay, but it could have been much worse. Because of the complexity of the election day voting process, last year Franklin County started allowing PEOs to do some early setup on Monday evenings. The early setup started at 6 o’clock. I was so anxious to get it right that the day before I took the printout of the polling room dimensions from my VLM packet, scanned it into OmniGraffle on my computer, and designed a to-scale diagram of what I thought the best layout would be. The real thing only vaguely looked like this, but it got us started. What I imagined our polling place would look like We could set up tables, unpack equipment, hang signs, and other tasks that don’t involve turning on machines or breaking open packets of ballots. One of the early setup tasks was updating the voters’ roster on the electronic poll pads. As happened around the country, there was a lot of early voting activity in Franklin County, so the update file must have been massive. The electronic poll pads couldn’t handle the update; they hung at step 8-of-9 for over an hour. I called the Board of Elections and got ahold of someone in the equipment warehouse. We tried some of the simple troubleshooting steps, and he gave me his cell phone number to call back if it wasn’t resolved. By 7:30, everything was done except for the poll pad updates, and the other PEOs were wandering around. I think it was 8 o’clock when I said everyone could go home while the two Voting Location Deputies and I tried to get the poll pads working. I called the equipment warehouse and we hung out on the phone for hours…retrying the updates based on the advice of the technicians called in to troubleshoot. I even “went rogue” towards the end. I searched the web for the messages on the screen to see if anyone else had seen the same problem with the poll pads. The electronic poll pad is an iPad with a single, dedicated application, so I even tried some iPad reset options to clear the device cache and perform a hard reboot. Nothing worked—still stuck at step 8-of-9. The election office people sent us home at 10 o’clock. Even on the way out the door, I tried a rogue option: I hooked a portable battery to one of the electronic polling pads to see if the update would complete overnight and be ready for us the next day. It didn’t, and it wasn’t. Text from Board of Elections Polling locations in Ohio open at 6:30 in the morning, and PEOs must report to their sites by 5:30. So I was up at 4:30 for a quick shower and packing up stuff for the day. Early in the setup process, the Board of Elections sent a text that the electronic poll pads were not going to be used and to break out the “BUMPer Packets” to determine a voter’s eligibility to vote. At some point, someone told me what “BUMPer” stood for. I can’t remember, but I can imagine it is Back-Up-something-something. “Never had to use that,” the trainers told me, but it is there in case something goes wrong. Well, it is the year 2020, so was something going to go wrong? Fortunately, the roster judges and one of the voting location deputies tore into the BUMPer Packet and got up to speed on how to use it. It is an old fashioned process: the voter states their name and address, the PEO compares that with the details on the paper ledger, and then asks the voter to sign beside their name. With an actual pen…old fashioned, right? The roster judges had the process down to a science. They kept the queue of verified voters full waiting to use the ballot marker machines. The roster judges were one of my highlights of the day. And boy did the voters come. By the time our polling location opened at 6:30 in the morning, they were wrapped around two sides of the building. We were moving them quickly through the process: three roster tables for checking in, eight ballot-marking machines, and one ballot counter. At our peak capacity, I think we were doing 80 to 90 voters an hour. As good as we were doing, the line never seemed to end. The Franklin County Board of Elections received a grant to cover the costs of two greeters outside that helped keep the line orderly. They did their job with a welcoming smile, as did our inside greeter that offered masks and a squirt of hand sanitizer. Still, the voters kept back-filling that line, and we didn’t see a break until 12:30. The PEOs serving as machine judges were excellent. This was the first time that many voters had seen the new ballot equipment that Franklin County put in place last year. I like this new equipment: the ballot marker prints your choices on a card that it spits out. You can see and verify your choices on the card before you slide it into a separate ballot counter. That is reassuring for me, and I think for most voters, too. But it is new, and it takes a few extra moments to explain. The machine judges got the voters comfortable with the new process. And some of the best parts of the day were when they announced to the room that a first-time voter had just put their card into the ballot counter. We would all pause and cheer. The third group of PEOs at our location were the paper table judges. They handle all of the exceptions. Someone wants to vote with a pre-printed paper ballot rather than using a machine? To the paper table! The roster shows that someone requested an absentee ballot? That voter needs to vote a “provisional” ballot that will be counted at the Board of Elections office if the absentee ballot isn’t received in the mail. The paper table judges explain that with kindness and grace. In the wrong location? The paper table judges would find the correct place. The two paper table PEOs clearly had experience helping voters with the nuances of election processes. Rounding out the team were two voting location deputies (VLD). By law, a polling location can’t have a VLD and a voting location manager (VLM) of the same political party. That is part of the checks and balances built into the system. One VLD had been a VLM at this location, and she had a wealth of history and wisdom about running a smooth polling location. For the other VLD, this was his first experience as a precinct election officer, and he jumped in with both feet to do the visible and not-so-visible things that made for a smooth operation. He reminded me a bit of myself a year ago. My first PEO position was as a voting location deputy last November. The pair handled a challenging curbside voter situation where it wasn’t entirely clear if one of the voters in the car was sick. I’d be so lucky to work with them again. The last two hours of the open polls yesterday were dreadfully dull. After the excitement of the morning, we may have averaged a voter every 10 minutes for those last two hours. Everyone was ready to pack it in early and go home. (Polls in Ohio close at 7:30, so counting the hour early for setup and the half an hour for tear down, this was going to be a 14 to 15 hour day.) Over the last hour, I gave the PEOs little tasks to do. At one point, I said they could collect the barcode scanners attached to the ballot markers. We weren’t using them anyway because the electronic poll pads were not functional. Then, in stages (as it became evident that there was no final rush of voters), they could pack up one or two machines and put away tables. Our second to last voter was someone in medical scrubs that just got off their shift. I scared our last voter because she walked up to the roster table at 7:29:30. Thirty seconds later, I called out that the polls are closed (as I think a VLM is required to do), and she looked at me startled. (She got to vote, of course; that’s the rule.) She was our last voter; 799 voters in our precinct that day. Then our team packed everything up as efficiently as they had worked all day. We had put away the equipment and signs, done our final counts, closed out the ballot counter, and sealed the ballot bin. At 8:00, we were done and waving goodbye to our host facility’s office manager. One of the VLD rode along with me to the board of elections to drop off the ballots, and she told me of a shortcut to get there. We were among the first reporting results for Franklin County. I was home again by a quarter of 10—exhausted but proud. I’m so happy that I had something to do yesterday. After weeks of concern and anxiety for how the election was going to turn out, it was a welcome bit of activity to ensure the election was held safely and that voters got to have their say. It was certainly more productive than continually reloading news and election results pages. The anxiety of being put in charge of a polling location was set at ease, too. I’m proud of our polling place team and that the voters in our charge seemed pleased and confident about the process. Maybe you will find inspiration here. If you voted, hopefully it felt good (whether or not the result turned out as you wanted). If you voted for the first time, congratulations and welcome to the club (be on the look-out for the next voting opportunity…likely in the spring). If being a poll worker sounded like fun, get in touch with your local board of elections (here is information about being a poll worker in Franklin County). Democracy is participatory. You’ve got to tune in and show up to make it happen. Certificate of Appreciation Running an All-Online Conference with Zoom [post removed] This is an article draft that was accidentally published. I hope to work on a final version soon. If you really want to see it, I saved a copy on the Internet Archive Wayback Machine. With Gratitude for the NISO Ann Marie Cunningham Service Award During the inaugural NISO Plus meeting at the end of February, I was surprised and proud to receive the Ann Marie Cunningham Service award. Todd Carpenter, NISO’s executive director, let me know by tweet as I was not able to attend the conference. Pictured in that tweet is my co-recipient, Christine Stohn, who serves NISO with me as the co-chair of the Information Delivery and Interchange Topic Committee. This got me thinking about what NISO has meant to me. As I think back on it, my activity in NISO spans at least four employers and many hours of standard working group meetings, committee meetings, presentations, and ballot reviews. NISO Ann Marie Cunningham Service Award I did not know Ms Cunningham, the award’s namesake. My first job started when she was the NFAIS executive director in the early 1990s, and I hadn’t been active in the profession yet. I read her brief biography on the NISO website: The Ann Marie Cunningham Service award was established in 1994 to honor NFAIS members who routinely went above and beyond the normal call of duty to serve the organization. It is named after Ann Marie Cunningham who, while working with abstracting and information services such as Biological Abstracts and the Institute for Scientific Information (both now part of NISO-member Clarivate Analytics), worked tirelessly as an dedicated NFAIS volunteer. She ultimately served as the NFAIS Executive Director from 1991 to 1994 when she died unexpectedly. NISO is pleased to continue to present this award to honor a NISO volunteer who has shown the same sort of commitment to serving our organization. As I searched the internet for her name, I came across the proceedings of the 1993 NFAIS meeting, in which Ms Cunningham wrote the introduction with Wendy Wicks. These first sentences from some of the paragraphs of that introduction are as true today as they were then: In an era of rapidly expanding network access, time and distance no longer separate people from information. Much has been said about the global promise of the Internet and the emerging concept of linking information highways, to some people, “free” ways. What many in the networking community, however, seem to take for granted is the availability of vital information flowing on these high-speed links. I wonder what Ms Cunningham of 1993 would think of the information landscape today? Hypertext linking has certainly taken off, if not taken over, the networked information landscape. How that interconnectedness has improved with the adaptation of print-oriented standards and the creation of new standards that match the native capabilities of the network. In just one corner of that space, we have the adoption of PDF as a faithful print replica and HTML as a common tool for displaying information. In another corner, MARC has morphed into a communication format that far exceeds its original purpose of encoding catalog cards; we have an explosion of purpose-built metadata schemas and always the challenge of finding common ground in tools like Dublin Core and Schema.org. We’ve seen several generations of tools and protocols for encoding, distributing, and combining data in new ways to reach users. And still we strive to make it better…to more easily deliver a paper to its reader—a dataset to its next experimenter—an idea to be built upon by the next generation. It is that communal effort to make a better common space for ideas that drives me forward. To work in a community at the intersection of libraries, publishers, and service providers is an exciting and fulfilling place to be. I’m grateful to my employers that have given me the ability to participate while bringing the benefits of that connectedness to my organizations. I was not able to be at NISO Plus to accept the award in person, but I was so happy to be handed it by Jason Griffey of NISO about a week later during the Code4lib conference in Pittsburgh. What made that even more special was to learn that Jason created it on his own 3D printer. Thank you to the new NFAIS-joined-with-NISO community for honoring me with this service award. Tethering a Ubiquity Network to a Mobile Hotspot I saw it happen. The cable-chewing device The contractor in the neighbor’s back yard with the Ditch Witch trencher burying a cable. I was working outside at the patio table and just about to go into a Zoom meeting. Then the internet dropped out. Suddenly, and with a wrenching feeling in my gut, I remembered where the feed line was buried between the house and the cable company’s pedestal in the right-of-way between the properties. Yup, he had just cut it. To be fair, the utility locator service did not mark the my cable’s location, and he was working for a different cable provider than the one we use. (There are three providers in our neighborhood.) It did mean, though, that our broadband internet would be out until my provider could come and run another line. It took an hour of moping about the situation to figure out a solution, then another couple of hours to put it in place: an iPhone tethered to a Raspberry Pi that acted as a network bridge to my home network’s UniFi Security Gateway 3P. Network diagram with tethered iPhone A few years ago I was tired of dealing with spotty consumer internet routers and upgraded the house to UniFi gear from Ubiquity. Rob Pickering, a college comrade, had written about his experience with the gear and I was impressed. It wasn’t a cheap upgrade, but it was well worth it. (Especially now with four people in the household working and schooling from home during the COVID-19 outbreak.) The UniFi Security Gateway has three network ports, and I was using two: one for the uplink to my cable internet provider (WAN) and one for the local area network (LAN) in the house. The third port can be configured as another WAN uplink or as another LAN port. And you can tell the Security Gateway to use the second WAN as a failover for the first WAN (or as load balancing the first WAN). So that is straight forward enough, but do I get the Personal Hotspot on the iPhone to the second WAN port? That is where the Raspberry Pi comes in. The Raspberry Pi is a small computer with USB, ethernet, HDMI, and audio ports. The version I had laying around is a Raspberry Pi 2—an older model, but plenty powerful enough to be the network bridge between the iPhone and the home network. The toughest part was bootstrapping the operating system packages onto the Pi with only the iPhone Personal Hotspot as the network. That is what I’m documenting here for future reference. Bootstrapping the Raspberry Pi The Raspberry Pi runs its own operating system called Raspbian (a Debian/Linux derivative) as well as more mainstream operating systems. I chose to use the Ubuntu Server for Raspberry Pi instead of Raspbian because I’m more familiar with Ubuntu. I tethered my MacBook Pro to the iPhone to download the Ubuntu 18.04.4 LTS image and follow the instructions for copying that disk image to the Pi’s microSD card. That allows me to boot the Pi with Ubuntu and a basic set of operating system packages. The Challenge: Getting the required networking packages onto the Pi It would have been really nice to plug the iPhone into the Pi with a USB-Lightning cable and have it find the tethered network. That doesn’t work, though. Ubuntu needs at least the usbmuxd package in order to see the tethered iPhone as a network device. That package isn’t a part of the disk image download. And of course I can’t plug my Pi into the home network to download it (see first paragraph of this post). My only choice was to tether the Pi to the iPhone over WiFi with a USB network adapter. And that was a bit of Ubuntu voodoo. Fortunately, I found instructions on configuring Ubuntu to use a WPA-protected wireless network (like the one that the iPhone Personal Hotspot is providing). In brief: sudo -i cd /root wpa_passphrase my_ssid my_ssid_passphrase > wpa.conf screen -q wpa_supplicant -Dwext -iwlan0 -c/root/wpa.conf <control-a> c dhclient -r dhclient wlan0 Explanation of lines: Use sudo to get a root shell Change directory to root’s home Use the wpa_passphrase command to create a wpa.conf file. Replace my_ssid with the wireless network name provided by the iPhone (your iPhone’s name) and my_ssid_passphrase with the wireless network passphrase (see the “Wi-Fi Password” field in Settings -> Personal Hotspot). Start the screen program (quietly) so we can have multiple pseudo terminals. Run the wpa_supplicant command to connect to the iPhone wifi hotspot. We run this the foreground so we can see the status/error messages; this program must continue running to stay connected to the wifi network. Use the screen hotkey to create a new pseudo terminal. This is control-a followed by a letter c. Use dhclient to clear out any DHCP network parameters Use dhclient to get an IP address from the iPhone over the wireless network. Now I was at the point where I could install Ubuntu packages. (I ran ping www.google.com to verify network connectivity.) To install the usbmuxd and network bridge packages (and their prerequisites): apt-get install usbmuxd bridge-utils If your experience is like mine, you’ll get an error back: couldn't get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock-frontend The Ubuntu Pi machine is now on the network, and the automatic process to install security updates is running. That locks the Ubuntu package registry until it finishes. That took about 30 minutes for me. (I imagine this varies based on the capacity of your tethered network and the number of security updates that need to be downloaded.) I monitored the progress of the automated process with the htop command and tried the apt-get command when it finished. If you are following along, now would be a good time to skip ahead to Configuring the UniFi Security Gateway if you haven’t already set that up. Turning the Raspberry Pi into a Network Bridge With all of the software packages installed, I restarted the Pi to complete the update: shutdown -r now While it was rebooting, I pulled out the USB wireless adapter from the Pi and plugged in the iPhone’s USB cable. The Pi now saw the iPhone as eth1, but the network did not start until I went to the iPhone to say that I “Trust” the computer that it is plugged into. When I did that, I ran these commands on the Ubuntu Pi: dhclient eth1 brctl addbr iphonetether brctl addif iphonetether eth0 eth1 brctl stp iphonetether on ifconfig iphonetether up Explanation of lines: Get an IP address from the iPhone over the USB interface Add a network bridge (the iphonetether is an arbitrary string; some instructions simply use br0 for the zero-ith bridge) Add the two ethernet interfaces to the network bridge Turn on the Spanning Tree Protocol (I don’t think this is actually necessary, but it does no harm) Bring up the bridge interface The bridge is now live! Thanks to Amitkumar Pal for the hints about using the Pi as a network bridge. More details about the bridge networking software is on the Debian Wiki. Configuring the UniFi Security Gateway I have a UniFi Cloud Key, so I could change the configuration of the UniFi network with a browser. (You’ll need to know the IP address of the Cloud Key; hopefully you have that somewhere.) I connected to my Cloud Key at https://192.168.1.58:8443/ and clicked through the self-signed certificate warning. First I set up a second Wide Area Network (WAN—your uplink to the internet) for the iPhone Personal Hotspot: Settings -> Internet -> WAN Networks. Select “Create a New Network”: Network Name: Backup WAN IPV4 Connection Type: Use DHCP IPv6 Connection Types: Use DHCPv6 DNS Server: 1.1.1.1 and 1.0.0.1 (CloudFlare’s DNS servers) Load Balancing: Failover only The last selection is key…I wanted the gateway to only use this WAN interfaces as a backup to the main broadband interface. If the broadband comes back up, I want to stop using the tethered iPhone! Second, assign the Backup WAN to the LAN2/WAN2 port on the Security Gateway (Devices -> Gateway -> Ports -> Configure interfaces): Port WAN2/LAN2 Network: WAN2 Speed/Duplex: Autonegotiate Apply the changes to provision the Security Gateway. After about 45 seconds, the Security Gateway failed over from “WAN iface eth0” (my broadband connection) to “WAN iface eth2” (my tethered iPhone through the Pi bridge). These showed up as alerts in the UniFi interface. Performance and Results So I’m pretty happy with this setup. The family has been running simultaneous Zoom calls and web browsing on the home network, and the performance has been mostly normal. Web pages do take a little longer to load, but whatever Zoom is using to dynamically adjust its bandwidth usage is doing quite well. This is chewing through the mobile data quota pretty fast, so it isn’t something I want to do every day. Knowing that this is possible, though, is a big relief. As a bonus, the iPhone is staying charged via the 1 amp power coming through the Pi. Managing Remote Conference Presenters with Zoom Bringing remote presenters into a face-to-face conference is challenging and fraught with peril. In this post, I describe a scheme using Zoom that had in-person attendees forgetting that the presenter was remote! The Code4Lib conference was this week, and with the COVID-19 pandemic breaking through many individuals and institutions made decisions to not travel to Pittsburgh for the meeting. We had an unprecedented nine presentations that were brought into the conference via Zoom. I was chairing the livestream committee for the conference (as I have done for several years—skipping last year), so it made the most sense for me to arrange a scheme for remote presenters. With the help of the on-site A/V contractor, we were able to pull this off with minimal requirements for the remote presenter. List of Requirements 2 Zoom Pro accounts 1 PC/Mac with video output, as if you were connecting an external monitor (the “Receiving Zoom” computer) 1 PC/Mac (the “Coordinator Zoom” computer) 1 USB audio interface Hardwired network connection for the Receiving Zoom computer (recommended) The Pro-level Zoom accounts were required because we needed to run a group call for longer than 40 minutes (to include setup time). And two were needed: one for the Coordinator Zoom machine and one for the dedicated Receiving Zoom machine. It would have been possible to consolidate the two Zoom Pro accounts and the two PC/Mac machines into one, but we had back-to-back presenters at Code4Lib, and I wanted to be able to help one remote presenter get ready while another was presenting. In addition to this equipment, the A/V contractor was indispensable in making the connection work. We fed the remote presenter’s video and audio from the Receiving Zoom computer to the contractor’s A/V switch through HDMI, and the contractor put the video on the ballroom projectors and audio through the ballroom speakers. The contractor gave us a selective audio feed of the program audio minus the remote presenter’s audio (so they wouldn’t hear themselves come back through the Zoom meeting). This becomes a little clearer in the diagram below. Physical Connections and Setup This diagram shows the physical connections between machines. The Audio Mixer and Video Switch were provided and run by the A/V contractor. The Receiving Zoom machine was the one that is connected to the A/V contractor’s Video Switch via an HDMI cable coming off the computer’s external monitor connection. In the Receiving Zoom computer’s control panel, we set the external monitor to mirror what was on the main monitor. The audio and video from the computer (i.e., the Zoom call) went out the HDMI cable to the A/V contractor’s Video Switch. The A/V contractor took the audio from the Receiving Zoom computer through the Video Switch and added it to the Audio Mixer as an input channel. From there, the audio was sent out to the ballroom speakers the same way audio from the podium microphone was amplified to the audience. We asked the A/V contractor to create an audio mix that includes all of the audio sources except the Receiving Zoom computer (e.g., in-room microphones) and plugged that into the USB Audio interface. That way, the remote presenter could hear the sounds from the ballroom—ambient laughter, questions from the audience, etc.—in their Zoom call. (Note that it was important to remove the remote presenter’s own speaking voice from this audio mix; there was a significant, distracting delay between the time the presenter spoke and the audio was returned to them through the Zoom call.) We used a hardwired network connection to the internet, and I would recommend that—particularly with tech-heavy conferences that might overflow the venue wi-fi. (You don’t want your remote presenter’s Zoom to have to compete with what attendees are doing.) Be aware that the hardwired network connection will cost more from the venue, and may take some time to get functioning since this doesn’t seem to be something that hotels often do. In the Zoom meeting, we unmuted the microphone and selected the USB Audio interface as the microphone input. As the Zoom meeting was connected, we made the meeting window full-screen so the remote presenter’s face and/or presentation were at the maximum size on the ballroom projectors. Setting Up the Zoom Meetings The two Zoom accounts came from the Open Library Foundation. (Thank you!) As mentioned in the requirements section above, these were Pro-level accounts. The two accounts were olf_host2@openlibraryfoundation.org and olf_host3@openlibraryfoundation.org. The olf_host2 account was used for the Receiving Zoom computer, and the olf_host3 account was used for the Coordinator Zoom computer. The Zoom meeting edit page looked like this: This is for the “Code4Lib 2020 Remote Presenter A” meeting with the primary host as olf_host2@openlibraryfoundation.org. Note these settings: A recurring meeting that ran from 8:00am to 6:00pm each day of the conference. Enable join before host is checked in case the remote presenter got on the meeting before I did. Record the meeting automatically in the cloud to use as a backup in case something goes wrong. Alternative Hosts is olf_host3@openlibraryfoundation.org The “Code4Lib 2020 Remote Presenter B” meeting was exactly the same except the primary host was olf_host3, and olf_host2 was added as an alternative host. The meetings were set up with each other as the alternative host so that the Coordinator Zoom computer could start the meeting, seamlessly hand it off to the Receiving Zoom computer, then disconnect. Preparing the Remote Presenter Remote presenters were given this information: Code4Lib will be using Zoom for remote presenters. In addition to the software, having the proper audio setup is vital for a successful presentation. Microphone: The best option is a headset or earbuds so a microphone is close to your mouth. Built-in laptop microphones are okay, but using them will make it harder for the audience to hear you. Speaker: A headset or earbuds are required. Do not use your computer’s built-in speakers. The echo cancellation software is designed for small rooms and cannot handle the delay caused by large ballrooms. You can test your setup with a test Zoom call. Be sure your microphone and speakers are set correctly in Zoom. Also, try sharing your screen on the test call so you understand how to start and stop screen sharing. The audience will see everything on your screen, so quit/disable/turn-off notifications that come from chat programs, email clients, and similar tools. Plan to connect to the Zoom meeting 30 minutes before your talk to work out any connection or setup issues. At the 30-minute mark before the remote presentation, I went to the ballroom lobby and connected to the designated Zoom meeting for the remote presenter using the Coordinator Zoom computer. I used this checklist with each presenter: Check presenter’s microphone level and sound quality (make sure headset/earbud microphone is being used!) Check presenter’s speakers and ensure there is no echo Test screen-sharing (start and stop) with presenter Remind presenter to turn off notifications from chat programs, email clients, etc. Remind the presenter that they need to keep track of their own time; there is no way for us to give them cues about timing other than interrupting them when their time is up The critical item was making sure the audio worked (that their computer was set to use the headset/earbud microphone and audio output). The result was excellent sound quality for the audience. When the remote presenter was set on the Zoom meeting, I returned to the A/V table and asked a livestream helper to connect the Receiving Zoom to the remote presenter’s Zoom meeting. At this point, the remote presenter can hear the audio in the ballroom of the speaker before them coming through the Receiving Zoom computer. Now I would lock the Zoom meeting to prevent others from joining and interrupting the presenter (from the Zoom Participants panel, select More then Lock Meeting). I hung out on the remote presenter’s meeting on the Coordinator Zoom computer in case they had any last-minute questions. As the speaker in the ballroom was finishing up, I wished the remote presenter well and disconnected the Coordinator Zoom computer from the meeting. (I always selected Leave Meeting rather than End Meeting for All so that the Zoom meeting continued with the remote presenter and the Receiving Zoom computer.) As the remote presenter was being introduced—and the speaker would know because they could hear it in their Zoom meeting—the A/V contractor switched the video source for the ballroom projectors to the Receiving Zoom computer and unmuted the Receiving Zoom computer’s channel on the Audio Mixer. At this point, the remote speaker is off-and-running! Last Thoughts This worked really well. Surprisingly well. So well that I had a few people comment that they were taken aback when they realized that there was no one standing at the podium during the presentation. I’m glad I had set up the two Zoom meetings. We had two cases where remote presenters were back-to-back. I was able to get the first remote presenter set up and ready on one Zoom meeting while preparing the second remote presenter on the other Zoom meeting. The most stressful part was at the point when we disconnected the first presenter’s Zoom meeting and quickly connected to the second presenter’s Zoom meeting. This was slightly awkward for the second remote presenter because they didn’t hear their full introduction as it happened and had to jump right into their presentation. This could be solved by setting up a second Receiving Zoom computer, but this added complexity seemed to be too much for the benefit gained. I would definitely recommend making this setup a part of the typical A/V preparations for future Code4Lib conferences. We don’t know when an individual’s circumstances (much less a worldwide pandemic) might cause a last-minute request for a remote presentation capability, and the overhead of the setup is pretty minimal. What is known about GetFTR at the end of 2019 In early December 2019, a group of publishers announced Get-Full-Text-Research, or GetFTR for short. There was a heck of a response on social media, and the response was—on the whole—not positive from my librarian-dominated corner of Twitter. For my early take on GetFTR, see my December 3rd blog post “Publishers going-it-alone (for now?) with GetFTR.” As that post title suggests, I took the five founding GetFTR publishers to task on their take-it-or-leave-it approach. I think that is still a problem. To get you caught up, here is a list of other commentary. Roger Schonfeld’s December 3rd “Publishers Announce a Major New Service to Plug Leakage” piece in The Scholarly Kitchen Tweet from Herbert Van de Sompel, the lead author of the OpenURL spec, on solving the appropriate copy problem December 5th post “Get To Fulltext Ourselves, Not GetFTR.” on the Open Access Button blog Twitter thread on December 7th between @cshillum and @lisalibrarian on the positioning of GetFTR in relation to link resolvers and an unanswered question about how GetFTR aligns with library interests Twitter thread started by @TAC_NISO on December 9th looking for more information with a link to an STM Association presentation added by @aarontay A tree of tweets starting from @mrgunn’s [I don’t trust publishers to decide] is the crux of the whole thing. In particular, threads of that tweet that include Jason Griffey of NISO saying he knew nothing about GetFTR and Bernhard Mittermaier’s point about hidden motivations behind GetFTR Twitter thread started by @aarontay on December 7th saying “GetFTR is bad for researchers/readers and librarians. It only benefits publishers, change my mind.” Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe’s December 10th “Why are Librarians Concerned about GetFTR?” in The Scholarly Kitchen and take note of the follow-up discussion in the comments Twitter thread between @alison_mudditt and @lisalibrarian clarifying PLOS is not on the Advisory Board with some @TAC_NISO as well. Ian Mulvany’s December 11th “thoughts on GetFTR” on ScholCommsProd GetFTR’s December 11th “Updating the community” post on their website The Spanish Federation of Associations of Archivists, Librarians, Archaeologists, Museologists and Documentalists (ANABAD)’s December 12th “GetFTR: new publishers service to speed up access to research articles” (original in Spanish, Google Translate to English) December 20th news entry from eContent Pro with the title “What GetFTR Means for Journal Article Access” which I’ll only quarrel with this sentence: “Thus, GetFTR is a service where Academic articles are found and provided to you at absolutely no cost.” No—if you are in academia the cost is born by your library even if you don’t see it. But this seems like a third party service that isn’t directly related to publishers or libraries, so perhaps they can be forgiven for not getting that nuance. Wiley’s Chemistry Views news post on December 26th titled simply “Get Full Text Research (GetFTR)” is perhaps only notable for the sentence “Growing leakage has steadily eroded the ability of the publishers to monetize the value they create.” If you are looking for a short list of what to look at, I recommend these posts. GetFTR’s Community Update On December 11—after the two posts I list below—an “Updating the Community” web page was posted to the GetFTR website. From a public relations perspective, it was…interesting. We are committed to being open and transparent This section goes on to say, “If the community feels we need to add librarians to our advisory group we will certainly do so and we will explore ways to ensure we engage with as many of our librarian stakeholders as possible.” If the GetFTR leadership didn’t get the indication between December 3 and December 12 that librarians feel strongly about being at the table, then I don’t know what will. And it isn’t about being on the advisory group; it is about being seen and appreciated as important stakeholders in the research discovery process. I’m not sure who the “community” is in this section, but it is clear that librarians are—at best—an afterthought. That is not the kind of “open and transparent” that is welcoming. Later on in the Questions about library link resolvers section is this sentence: We have, or are planning to, consult with existing library advisory boards that participating publishers have, as this enables us to gather views from a significant number of librarians from all over the globe, at a range of different institutions. As I said in my previous post, I don’t know why GetFTR is not engaging in existing cross-community (publisher/technology-supplier/library) organizations to have this discussion. It feels intentional, which colors the perception of what the publishers are trying to accomplish. To be honest, I don’t think the publishers are using GetFTR to drive a wedge between library technology service providers (who are needed to make GetFTR a reality for libraries) and libraries themselves. But I can see how that interpretation could be made. Understandably, we have been asked about privacy. I punted on privacy in my previous post, so let’s talk about it here. It remains to be seen what is included in the GetFTR API request between the browser and the publisher site. Sure, it needs to include the DOI and a token that identifies the patron’s institution. We can inspect that API request to ensure nothing else is included. But the fact that the design of GetFTR has the browser making the call to the publisher site means that the publisher site knows the IP address of the patron’s browser, and the IP address can be considered personally identifiable information. This issue could be fixed by having the link resolver or the discovery layer software make the API request, and according to the Questions about library link resolvers section of the community update, this may be under consideration. So, yes, an auditable privacy policy and implementation is key for for GetFTR. GetFTR is fully committed to supporting third-party aggregators This is good to hear. I would love to see more information published about this, including how discipline-specific repositories and institutional repositories can have their holdings represented in GetFTR responses. My Take-a-ways In the second to last paragraph: “Researchers should have easy, seamless pathways to research, on whatever platform they are using, wherever they are.” That is a statement that I think every library could sign onto. This Updating the Community is a good start, but the project has dug a deep hole of trust and it hasn’t reached level ground yet. Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe’s “Why are Librarians Concerned about GetFTR?” Posted on December 10th in The Scholarly Kitchen, Lisa outlines a series of concerns from a librarian perspective. I agree with some of these; others are not an issue in my opinion. Librarian Concern: The Connection to Seamless Access Many librarians have expressed a concern about how patron information can leak to the publisher through ill-considered settings at an institution’s identity provider. Seamless Access can ease access control because it leverages a campus’ single sign-on solution—something that a library patron is likely to be familiar with. If the institution’s identity provider is overly permissive in the attributes about a patron that get transmitted to the publisher, then there is a serious risk of tying a user’s research activity to their identity and the bad things that come from that (patrons self-censoring their research paths, commoditization of patron activity, etc.). I’m serving on a Seamless Access task force that is addressing this issue, and I think there are technical, policy, and education solutions to this concern. In particular, I think some sort of intermediate display of the attributes being transmitted to the publisher is most appropriate. Librarian Concern: The Limited User Base Enabled As Lisa points out, the population of institutions that can take advantage of Seamless Access, a prerequisite for GetFTR, is very small and weighted heavily towards well-resourced institutions. To the extent that projects like Seamless Access (spurred on by a desire to have GetFTR-like functionality) helps with the adoption of SAML-based infrastructure like Shibboleth, then the whole academic community benefits from a shared authentication/identity layer that can be assumed to exist. Librarian Concern: The Insertion of New Stumbling Blocks Of the issues Lisa mentioned here, I’m not concerned about users being redirected to their campus single sign-on system in multiple browsers on multiple machines. This is something we should be training users about—there is a single website to put your username/password into for whatever you are accessing at the institution. That a user might already be logged into the institution single sign-on system in the course of doing other school work and never see a logon screen is an attractive benefit to this system. That said, it would be useful for an API call from a library’s discovery layer to a publisher’s GetFTR endpoint to be able to say, “This is my user. Trust me when I say that they are from this institution.” If that were possible, then the Seamless Access Where-Are-You-From service could be bypassed for the GetFTR purpose of determining whether a user’s institution has access to an article on the publisher’s site. It would sure be nice if librarians were involved in the specification of the underlying protocols early on so these use cases could be offered. Update Lisa reached out on Twitter to say (in part): “Issue is GetFTR doesn’t redirect and SA doesnt when you are IPauthenticated. Hence user ends up w mishmash of experience.” I went back to read her Scholarly Kitchen post and realized I did not fully understand her point. If GetFTR is relying on a Seamless Access token to know which institution a user is coming from, then that token must get into the user’s browser. The details we have seen about GetFTR don’t address how that Seamless Access institution token is put in the user’s browser if the user has not been to the Seamless Access select-your-institution portal. One such case is when the user is coming from an IP-address-authenticated computer on a campus network. Do the GetFTR indicators appear even when the Seamless Access institution token is not stored in the browser? If at the publisher site the GetFTR response also uses the institution IP address table to determine entitlements, what does a user see when they have neither the Seamless Access institution token nor the institution IP address? And, to Lisa’s point, how does one explain this disparity to users? Is the situation better if the GetFTR determination is made in the link resolver rather than in the user browser? Librarian Concern: Exclusion from Advisory Committee See previous paragraph. That librarians are not at the table offering use cases and technical advice means that the developers are likely closing off options that meet library needs. Addressing those needs would ease the acceptance of the GetFTR project as mutually beneficial. So an emphatic “AGREE!” with Lisa on her points in this section. Publishers—what were you thinking? Librarian Concern: GetFTR Replacing the Library Link Resolver Libraries and library technology companies are making significant investments in tools that ease the path from discovery to delivery. Would the library’s link resolver benefit from a real-time API call to a publisher’s service that determines the direct URL to a specific DOI? Oh, yes—that would be mighty beneficial. The library could put that link right at the top of a series of options that include a link to a version of the article in a Green Open Access repository, redirection to a content aggregator, one-click access to an interlibrary-loan form, or even an option where the library purchases a copy of the article on behalf of the patron. (More likely, the link resolver would take the patron right to the article URL supplied by GetFTR, but the library link resolver needs to be in the loop to be able to offer the other options.) My Take-a-ways The patron is affiliated with the institution, and the institution (through the library) is subscribing to services from the publisher. The institution’s library knows best what options are available to the patron (see above section). Want to know why librarians are concerned? Because they are inserting themselves as the arbiter of access to content, whether it is in the patron’s best interest or not. It is also useful to reinforce Lisa’s closing paragraph: Whether GetFTR will act to remediate these concerns remains to be seen. In some cases, I would expect that they will. In others, they may not. Publishers’ interests are not always aligned with library interests and they may accept a fraying relationship with the library community as the price to pay to pursue their strategic goals. Ian Mulvany’s “thoughts on GetFTR” Ian’s entire post from December 11th in ScholCommsProd is worth reading. I think it is an insightful look at the technology and its implications. Here are some specific comments: Clarifying the relation between SeamlessAccess and GetFTR There are a couple of things that I disagree with: OK, so what is the difference, for the user, between seamlessaccess and GetFTR? I think that the difference is the following - with seamless access you the user have to log in to the publisher site. With GetFTR if you are providing pages that contain DOIs (like on a discovery service) to your researchers, you can give them links they can click on that have been setup to get those users direct access to the content. That means as a researcher, so long as the discovery service has you as an authenticated user, you don’t need to even think about logins, or publisher access credentials. To the best of my understanding, this is incorrect. With SeamlessAccess, the user is not “logging into the publisher site.” If the publisher site doesn’t know who a user is, the user is bounced back to their institution’s single sign-on service to authenticate. If the publisher site doesn’t know where a user is from, it invokes the SeamlessAccess Where-Are-You-From service to learn which institution’s single sign-on service is appropriate for the user. If a user follows a GetFTR-supplied link to a publisher site but the user doesn’t have the necessary authentication token from the institution’s single sign-on service, then they will be bounced back for the username/password and redirected to the publisher’s site. GetFTR signaling that an institution is entitled to view an article does not mean the user can get it without proving that they are a member of the institution. What does this mean for Green Open Access A key point that Ian raises is this: One example of how this could suck, lets imagine that there is a very usable green OA version of an article, but the publisher wants to push me to using some “e-reader limited functionality version” that requires an account registration, or god forbid a browser exertion, or desktop app. If the publisher shows only this limited utility version, and not the green version, well that sucks. Oh, yeah…that does suck, and it is because the library—not the publisher of record—is better positioned to know what is best for a particular user. Will GetFTR be adopted? Ian asks, “Will google scholar implement this, will other discovery services do so?” I do wonder if GetFTR is big enough to attract the attention of Google Scholar and Microsoft Research. My gut tells me “no”: I don’t think Google and Microsoft are going to add GetFTR buttons to their search results screens unless they are paid a lot. As for Google Scholar, it is more likely that Google would build something like GetFTR to get the analytics rather than rely on a publisher’s version. I’m even more doubtful that the companies pushing GetFTR can convince discovery layers makers to embed GetFTR into their software. Since the two widely adopted discovery layers (in North America, at least) are also aggregators of journal content, I don’t see the discovery-layer/aggregator companies devaluing their product by actively pushing users off their site. My Take-a-ways It is also useful to reinforce Ian’s closing paragraph: I have two other recommendations for the GetFTR team. Both relate to building trust. First up, don’t list orgs as being on an advisory board, when they are not. Secondly it would be great to learn about the team behind the creation of the Service. At the moment its all very anonymous. Where Do We Stand? Wow, I didn’t set out to write 2,500 words on this topic. At the start I was just taking some time to review everything that happened since this was announced at the start of December and see what sense I could make of it. It turned into a literature review of sort. While GetFTR has some powerful backers, it also has some pretty big blockers: Can GetFTR help spur adoption of Seamless Access enough to convince big and small institutions to invest in identity provider infrastructure and single sign-on systems? Will GetFTR grab the interest of Google, Google Scholar, and Microsoft Research (where admittedly a lot of article discovery is already happening)? Will developers of discovery layers and link resolvers prioritize GetFTR implementation in their services? Will libraries find enough value in GetFTR to enable it in their discovery layers and link resolvers? Would libraries argue against GetFTR in learning management systems, faculty profile systems, and other campus systems if its own services cannot be included in GetFTR displays? I don’t know, but I think it is up to the principles behind GetFTR to make more inclusive decisions. The next steps is theirs. Publishers going-it-alone (for now?) with GetFTR In early December 2019, a group of publishers announced Get-Full-Text-Research, or GetFTR for short. I read about this first in Roger Schonfeld’s “Publishers Announce a Major New Service to Plug Leakage” piece in The Scholarly Kitchen via Jeff Pooley’s Twitter thread and blog post. Details about how this works are thin, so I’m leaning heavily on Roger’s description. I’m not as negative about this as Jeff, and I’m probably a little more opinionated than Roger. This is an interesting move by publishers, and—as the title of this post suggests—I am critical of the publisher’s “go-it-alone” approach. First, some disclosure might be in order. My background has me thinking of this in the context of how it impacts libraries and library consortia. For the past four years, I’ve been co-chair of the NISO Information Discovery and Interchange topic committee (and its predecessor, the “Discovery to Delivery” topic committee), so this is squarely in what I’ve been thinking about in the broader library-publisher professional space. I also traced the early development of RA21 and more recently am volunteering on the SeamlessAccess Entity Category and Attribute Bundles Working Group; that’ll become more important a little further down this post. I was nodding along with Roger’s narrative until I stopped short here: The five major publishing houses that are the driving forces behind GetFTR are not pursuing this initiative through one of the major industry collaborative bodies. All five are leading members of the STM Association, NISO, ORCID, Crossref, and CHORUS, to name several major industry groups. But rather than working through one of these existing groups, the houses plan instead to launch a new legal entity.  While [Vice President of Product Strategy & Partnerships for Wiley Todd] Toler and [Senior Director, Technology Strategy & Partnerships for the American Chemical Society Ralph] Youngen were too politic to go deeply into the details of why this might be, it is clear that the leadership of the large houses have felt a major sense of mismatch between their business priorities on the one hand and the capabilities of these existing industry bodies. At recent industry events, publishing house CEOs have voiced extensive concerns about the lack of cooperation-driven innovation in the sector. For example, Judy Verses from Wiley spoke to this issue in spring 2018, and several executives did so at Frankfurt this fall. In both cases, long standing members of the scholarly publishing sector questioned if these executives perhaps did not realize the extensive collaborations driven through Crossref and ORCID, among others. It is now clear to me that the issue is not a lack of knowledge but rather a concern at the executive level about the perceived inability of existing collaborative vehicles to enable the new strategic directions that publishers feel they must pursue.  This is the publishers going-it-alone. To see Roger describe it, they are going to create this web service that allows publishers to determine the appropriate copy for a patron and do it without input from the libraries. Librarians will just be expected to put this web service widget into their discovery services to get “colored buttons indicating that the link will take [patrons] to the version of record, an alternative pathway, or (presumably in rare cases) no access at all.” (Let’s set aside for the moment the privacy implications of having a fourth-party web service recording all of the individual articles that come up in a patron’s search results.) Librarians will not get to decide the “alternative pathway” that is appropriate for the patron: “Some publishers might choose to provide access to a preprint or a read-only version, perhaps in some cases on some kind of metered basis.” (Roger goes on to say that he “expect[s] publishers will typically enable some alternative version for their content, in which case the vast majority of scholarly content will be freely available through publishers even if it is not open access in terms of licensing.” I’m not so confident.) No, thank you. If publishers want to engage in technical work to enable libraries and others to build web services that determine the direct link to an article based on a DOI, then great. Libraries can build a tool that consumes that information as well as takes into account information about preprint services, open access versions, interlibrary loan and other methods of access. But to ask libraries to accept this publisher-controlled access button in their discovery layers, their learning management systems, their scholarly profile services, and their other tools? That sounds destined for disappointment. I am only somewhat encouraged by the fact that RA21 started out as a small, isolated collaboration of publishers before they brought in NISO and invited libraries to join the discussion. Did it mean that it slowed down deployment of RA21? Undoubtedly yes. Did persnickety librarians demand transparent discussions and decisions about privacy-related concerns like what attributes the publisher would get about the patron in the Shibboleth-powered backchannel? Yes, but because the patrons weren’t there to advocate for themselves. Will it likely mean wider adoption? I’d like to think so. Have publishers learned that forcing these kinds of technologies onto users without consultation is a bad idea? At the moment it would appear not. Some of what publishers are seeking with GetFTR can be implemented with straight-up OpenURL or—at the very least—limited-scope additions to OpenURL (the Z39.88 open standard!). So that they didn’t start with OpenURL, a robust existing standard, is both concerning and annoying. I’ll be watching and listening for points of engagement, so I remain hopeful. A few words about Jeff Pooley’s five-step “laughably creaky and friction-filled effort” that is SeamlessAccess. Many of the steps Jeff describes are invisible and well-established technical protocols. What Jeff fails to take into account is the very visible and friction-filled effect of patrons accessing content beyond the boundaries of campus-recognized internet network addresses. Those patrons get stopped at step two with a “pay $35 please” message. I’m all for removing that barrier entirely by making all published content “open access”. It is folly to think, though, that researchers and readers can enforce an open access business model on all publishers, so solutions like SeamlessAccess will have a place. (Which is to say nothing of the benefit of inter-institutional resource collaboration opened up by a more widely deployed Shibboleth infrastructure powered by SeamlessAccess.) Reflections on “Responsibilities of Citizenship for Immigrants and our Daughter” Eighteen years ago, on Friday, September 7th, 2001, I was honored to be asked to participate in a naturalization ceremony for 46 new citizens of the United States in a courtroom of Judge Alvin Thompson in Hartford, Connecticut. I published those remarks on a website that has long since gone dormant. In light of the politics of the day, I was thinking back to that ceremony and what it meant to me to participate. I regret the corny reference to Star Trek, but I regret nothing else I said on that day. I titled the remarks “Responsibilities of Citizenship for Immigrants and our Daughter”. Good afternoon. I’m honored to be here as you take your final step to become a citizen of the United States of America. My wife Celeste, who will soon give birth to another new American citizen, is here to celebrate this joyous occasion with you. And if you’ll pardon the musings of a proud soon-to-be father, I would like to share some thoughts about citizenship inspired by this ceremony and the impending arrival of our first child. Our daughter will be a citizen by birth, but you have made a choice to become an American. This choice may or may not have been easy for you, but I have the utmost respect for you for making that choice. I don’t know what compelled you to submit yourself to the naturalization process – perhaps economic, political, social, or religious reasons. I have to think that you did it to better your life and the lives of your family. But you should know that the process does not stop here. Along with the rights of citizenship come the responsibilities expected of you. Perhaps you are more aware of these responsibilities than I given your choice to become a citizen, but please allow me to enumerate some of them. Exercise your right to be heard on matters of concern to you. Vote in every election that you can. When asked to do so, eagerly perform your duty as a member of a jury. Watch what is happening around you, and form your own opinions. Practice your religion and respect the right of others to do the same. These are the values we will try to instill in our daughter; I hope you take them to heart, instill them in your family members, and inspire your fellow citizens to do the same. But as you take this final, formal step of citizenship, be aware that becoming an American does not mean you have to leave your native culture behind. A part of American culture is the 1960’s show Star Trek, which promoted the concept of IDIC: Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations. In that futuristic world, diverse cultures and ideas are respected with the realization that society is stronger because of them. While we cannot claim to have reached that ideal world, one can say that the American Dream is best realized when our diversity is celebrated and shared by the members of this country. My daughter will be the celebration of that diversity: the product of Irish, German, Polish, and English immigrants. By adding your own history and experiences to the fabric of our country, you make America stronger. In addition to all of the formal responsibilities asked of you as a new citizen, I charge you to share with your fellow citizens that which makes you unique. Our past honored citizens fought hard to make this country what it is today. As they showed courage, we too must be prepared to show courage. As they endured pain, we too must be prepared to make sacrifices for the good of our nation. Like them, we too must strive for liberty and justice for all. As Americans, we are all filled with these hopes and dreams. On behalf of my wife and our daughter soon to be born, and my parents, brother, and sister, Celeste’s parents, two sisters and their families, and on behalf of the people of Hartford, the State of Connecticut, and the citizens of all 50 states, I congratulate you on your new role as citizens of the United States of America. Please use the power that is now vested in you to advance the cause of hope and opportunity and diversity. I invite you to be active participants in the next chapter of America’s history of progress toward the goals of freedom and equality for all. Four days later—September 11, 2001—the trajectory of the lives of the people in that courtroom would change. We couldn’t know how much they would change. We still don’t know how much they will change. To these newly naturalized citizens, I spoke of beliefs that I thought were universally American. They were the beliefs that I grew up with…that were infused in me by my parents and the communities I lived in. Did I grow up in a bubble? Have there always been fellow citizens around me that wanted to block other people from coming to this country and throw out anyone that didn’t look like them? Were there always cruel agents of the government that thought it reasonable to lock fellow humans in cages, to separate children from caregiving adults, to single out people of another race for extraordinary scrutiny, and seem to find joy in doing so? I’m now struggling with these questions. I’m struggling to understand how the election of a person to lead our country has been the focusing lens for division. (Trump? Obama?) I struggle to comprehend the toxic mix of willful ignorance and arrogance of cultures has come to shape the way we look at each other, the way we hear each other, and the way we speak to each other. I want to believe there are common threads of humanity weaving around and between citizens and visitors of America—threads that bind us tight enough to work towards shared purposes and loose enough to allow for individual character. I speak and I listen. I struggle and I believe. I have to…for my daughter, her brother that followed, and for the 46 new citizens I welcomed 18 years ago. Engaging with Open Source Technologies These are the presentation notes for the Engaging with Open Source Technologies presentation during the Open Source Publishing Technologies: Current Status and Emerging Possibilities webinar on Wednesday, August 14, 2019. Webinar Description This session will focus on discussions of open source publishing platforms and systems. What is the value proposition? What functionalities are commonplace? Where are the pitfalls in adoption and use by publishers or by libraries? What potential is there for scholarly societies who are similarly responsible for publication support and dissemination? Given the rising interest in open access and open educational resources, this session will offer professionals a sense of what is available, a sense of practical concerns and a general sense of their future direction. Talk Abstract An open source project that focuses only on the code is missing out on some of the biggest opportunities that the open source philosophy offers. To be sure, developing software with an open source philosophy brings a diversity of knowledge and shares the development burden over a wide group. But a community that embraces that philosophy in the conception, design, specification, and development of a project can build exceptionally useful software and a fulfilling experience for all involved. This portion of the program  explores some of the structures and processes found in successful open source communities using examples from projects inside and outside of field. Slides PDF of slides Resources Arp, Laurie Gemmill, and Megan Forbes. “It Takes a Village: Open Source Software Sustainability,” LYRASIS, February 2018. https://doi.org/10.7916/D89G70BS Fitzgerald, Brian. (2006). “The Transformation of Open Source Software.” MIS Quarterly, 30(3), 587. https://doi.org/10.2307/25148740 Maxwell, John W, et al “Mind the Gap: A Landscape Analysis of Open Source Publishing Tools and Platforms,” July 2019. https://mindthegap.pubpub.org/ Photo/Illustration Acknowledgments Slide 1: “Codex Claustroneoburgensis 980” from College of Saint Benedict & Saint John’s University via DPLA Slide 10: “Agile Project Management by Planbox” via Wikimedia Commons Slide 15: “kiyomi gets chin scratches in PHX airport pet relief area” by Taro the Shiba Inu via Flickr Slide 16: “Sunset” from the National Archives and Records Administration via DPLA Key Quotations from Resources Brian Fitzgerald in 2006 wrote of a significant shift in how open-source software projects were being considered and operated. Fitzgerald noted that the rise of successful open-source software (which he called “OSS 1.0”) was characterized by self-organized, Internet-based projects that gathered loose communities around sheer willingness to participate. Fitzgerald identified a newer mode, which he called “OSS 2.0,” characterized by “purposeful design” and institution-sponsored “vertical domains,” and much more likely to include paid developers. From Mind the Gap. The fear of enclosure is certainly not the only force driving open-source development. Many funding agencies require that software developed under a grant be released as OSS in order to keep the fruits of their funding from disappearing into some corporation’s vaults. There is also the hope, at least, of increased scale: a publisher or a library, interested to develop a bespoke tool, will find it difficult to justify the cost of development and maintenance if the only user will ever be itself. For many, the idea of open source implies a shared deployment model that distributes, if not the cost, at least the value, across a larger community. From Mind the Gap. feeds-feedburner-com-1138 ---- Zotero Zotero Collect, organize, cite, and share your research Move Zotero Citations Between Google Docs, Word, and LibreOffice Last year, we added Google Docs integration to Zotero, bringing to Google Docs the same powerful citation functionality — with support for over 9,000 citation styles — that Zotero offers in Word and LibreOffice. Today we’re adding a feature that lets you move documents between Google Docs and Word or LibreOffice while preserving active Zotero citations. […] Retracted item notifications with Retraction Watch integration Zotero can now help you avoid relying on retracted publications in your research by automatically checking your database and documents for works that have been retracted. We’re providing this service in partnership with Retraction Watch, which maintains the largest database of retractions available, and we’re proud to help sustain their important work. How It Works […] Scan Books into Zotero from Your iPhone or iPad Zotero makes it easy to collect research materials with a single click as you browse the web, but what do you do when you want to add a real, physical book to your Zotero library? If you have an iPhone or iPad running iOS 12, you can now save a book to Zotero just by […] Zotero Comes to Google Docs We’re excited to announce the availability of Zotero integration with Google Docs, joining Zotero’s existing support for Microsoft Word and LibreOffice. The same powerful functionality that Zotero has long offered for traditional word processors is now available for Google Docs. You can quickly search for items in your Zotero library, add page numbers and other […] Improved PDF retrieval with Unpaywall integration As an organization dedicated to developing free and open-source research tools, we care deeply about open access to scholarship. With the latest version of Zotero, we’re excited to make it easier than ever to find PDFs for the items in your Zotero library. While Zotero has always been able to download PDFs automatically as you […] Introducing ZoteroBib: Perfect bibliographies in minutes We think Zotero is the best tool for almost anyone doing serious research, but we know that a lot of people — including many students — don’t need all of Zotero’s power just to create the occasional bibliography. Today, we’re introducing ZoteroBib, a free service to help people quickly create perfect bibliographies. Powered by the same technology […] Zotero 5.0.36: New PDF features, faster citing in large documents, and more The latest version of Zotero introduces some major improvements for PDF-based workflows, a new citing mode that can greatly speed up the use of the word processor plugin in large documents, and various other improvements and bug fixes. New PDF features Improved PDF metadata retrieval While the “Save to Zotero” button in the Zotero Connector […] Zotero 5.0 and Firefox: Frequently Asked Questions In A Unified Zotero Experience, we explained the changes introduced in Zotero 5.0 that affect Zotero for Firefox users. See that post for a full explanation of the change, and read on for some additional answers. What’s changing? Zotero 5.0 is available only as a standalone program, and Zotero 4.0 for Firefox is being replaced […] New Features for Chrome and Safari Connectors We are excited to announce major improvements to the Zotero Connectors for Chrome and Safari. Chrome The Zotero Connector for Chrome now includes functionality that was previously available only in Zotero for Firefox. Automatic Institutional Proxy Detection Many institutions provide a way to access electronic resources while you are off-campus by signing in to a […] A Unified Zotero Experience Since the introduction of Zotero Standalone in 2011, Zotero users have had two versions to choose from: the original Firefox extension, Zotero for Firefox, which provides deep integration into the Firefox user interface, and Zotero Standalone, which runs as a separate program and can be used with any browser. Starting with the release of Zotero […] feeds-feedburner-com-1228 ---- None feeds-feedburner-com-134 ---- commonplace.net commonplace.net Data. The final frontier. Infrastructure for heritage institutions – ARK PID’s In the Digital Infrastructure program at the Library of the University of Amsterdam we have reached a first milestone. In my previous post in the Infrastructure for heritage institutions series, “Change of course“, I mentioned the coming implementation of ARK persistent identifiers for our collection objects. Since November 3, 2020, ARK PID’s are available for our university library Alma catalogue through the Primo user interface. Implementation of ARK PID’s for the other collection description systems […] Infrastructure for heritage institutions – change of course In July 2019 I published the first post about our planning to realise a “coherent and future proof digital infrastructure” for the Library of the University of Amsterdam. In February I reported on the first results. As frequently happens, since then the conditions have changed, and naturally we had to adapt the direction we are following to achieve our goals. In other words: a change of course, of course.  Projects  I will leave aside the […] Infrastructure for heritage institutions – first results In July 2019 I published the post Infrastructure for heritage institutions in which I described our planning to realise a “coherent and future proof digital infrastructure” for the Library of the University of Amsterdam. Time to look back: how far have we come? And time to look forward: what’s in store for the near future? Ongoing activities I mentioned three “currently ongoing activities”:  Monitoring and advising on infrastructural aspects of new projects Maintaining a structured dynamic overview […] Infrastructure for heritage institutions During my vacation I saw this tweet by LIBER about topics to address, as suggested by the participants of the LIBER 2019 conference in Dublin: It shows a word cloud (yes, a word cloud) containing a large number of terms. I list the ones I can read without zooming in (so the most suggested ones, I guess), more or less grouped thematically: Open scienceOpen dataOpen accessLicensingCopyrightsLinked open dataOpen educationCitizen science Scholarly communicationDigital humanities/DHDigital scholarshipResearch assessmentResearch […] Ten years linked open data This post is the English translation of my original article in Dutch, published in META (2016-3), the Flemish journal for information professionals. Ten years after the term “linked data” was introduced by Tim Berners-Lee it appears to be time to take stock of the impact of linked data for libraries and other heritage institutions in the past and in the future. I will do this from a personal historical perspective, as a library technology professional, […] Maps, dictionaries and guidebooks Interoperability in heterogeneous library data landscapes Libraries have to deal with a highly opaque landscape of heterogeneous data sources, data types, data formats, data flows, data transformations and data redundancies, which I have earlier characterized as a “data maze”. The level and magnitude of this opacity and heterogeneity varies with the amount of content types and the number of services that the library is responsible for. Academic and national libraries are possibly dealing with more […] Standard deviations in data modeling, mapping and manipulation Or: Anything goes. What are we thinking? An impression of ELAG 2015 This year’s ELAG conference in Stockholm was one of many questions. Not only the usual questions following each presentation (always elicited in the form of yet another question: “Any questions?”). But also philosophical ones (Why? What?). And practical ones (What time? Where? How? How much?). And there were some answers too, fortunately. This is my rather personal impression of the event. For a […] Analysing library data flows for efficient innovation In my work at the Library of the University of Amsterdam I am currently taking a step forward by actually taking a step back from a number of forefront activities in discovery, linked open data and integrated research information towards a more hidden, but also more fundamental enterprise in the area of data infrastructure and information architecture. All for a good cause, for in the end a good data infrastructure is essential for delivering high […] Looking for data tricks in Libraryland IFLA 2014 Annual World Library and Information Congress Lyon – Libraries, Citizens, Societies: Confluence for Knowledge After attending the IFLA 2014 Library Linked Data Satellite Meeting in Paris I travelled to Lyon for the first three days (August 17-19) of the IFLA 2014 Annual World Library and Information Congress. This year’s theme “Libraries, Citizens, Societies: Confluence for Knowledge” was named after the confluence or convergence of the rivers Rhône and Saône where the city of […] Library Linked Data Happening On August 14 the IFLA 2014 Satellite Meeting ‘Linked Data in Libraries: Let’s make it happen!’ took place at the National Library of France in Paris. Rurik Greenall (who also wrote a very readable conference report) and I had the opportunity to present our paper ‘An unbroken chain: approaches to implementing Linked Open Data in libraries; comparing local, open-source, collaborative and commercial systems’. In this paper we do not go into reasons for libraries to […] feeds-feedburner-com-1408 ---- Library Hat Library Hat http://www.bohyunkim.net/blog/ Blockchain: Merits, Issues, and Suggestions for Compelling Use Cases * This post was also published in ACRL TechConnect.*** Blockchain holds a great potential for both innovation and disruption. The adoption of blockchain also poses certain risks, and those risks will need to be addressed and mitigated before blockchain becomes mainstream. A lot of people have heard of blockchain at this point. But many are […] Taking Diversity to the Next Level ** This post was also published in ACRL TechConnect on Dec. 18, 2017.*** Getting Minorities on Board I recently moderated a panel discussion program titled “Building Bridges in a Divisive Climate: Diversity in Libraries, Archives, and Museums.”1 Participating in organizing this program was interesting experience. During the whole time, I experienced my perspective constantly shifting […] From Need to Want: How to Maximize Social Impact for Libraries, Archives, and Museums At the NDP at Three event organized by IMLS yesterday, Sayeed Choudhury on the “Open Scholarly Communications” panel suggested that libraries think about return on impact in addition to return on investment (ROI). He further elaborated on this point by proposing a possible description of such impact. His description was that when an object or […] How to Price 3D Printing Service Fees ** This post was originally published in ACRL TechConnect on May. 22, 2017.*** Many libraries today provide 3D printing service. But not all of them can afford to do so for free. While free 3D printing may be ideal, it can jeopardize the sustainability of the service over time. Nevertheless, many libraries tend to worry […] Post-Election Statements and Messages that Reaffirm Diversity These are statements and messages sent out publicly or internally to re-affirm diversity, equity, and inclusion by libraries or higher ed institutions. I have collected these – some myself and many others through my fellow librarians. Some of them were listed on my blog post, “Finding the Right Words in Post-Election Libraries and Higher Ed.” […] Finding the Right Words in Post-Election Libraries and Higher Ed ** This post was originally published in ACRL TechConnect on Nov. 15, 2016.*** This year’s election result has presented a huge challenge to all of us who work in higher education and libraries. Usually, libraries, universities, and colleges do not comment on presidential election result and we refrain from talking about politics at work. But […] Say It Out Loud – Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion I usually and mostly talk about technology. But technology is so far away from my thought right now. I don’t feel that I can afford to worry about Internet surveillance or how to protect privacy at this moment. Not that they are unimportant. Such a worry is real and deserves our attention and investigation. But […] Cybersecurity, Usability, Online Privacy, and Digital Surveillance ** This post was originally published in ACRL TechConnect on May. 9, 2016.*** Cybersecurity is an interesting and important topic, one closely connected to those of online privacy and digital surveillance. Many of us know that it is difficult to keep things private on the Internet. The Internet was invented to share things with others […] Three Recent Talks of Mine on UX, Data Visualization, and IT Management I have been swamped at work and pretty quiet here in my blog. But I gave a few talks recently. So I wanted to share those at least. I presented about how to turn the traditional library IT department and its operation that is usually behind the scene into a more patron-facing unit at the recent American Library Association Midwinter […] Near Us and Libraries, Robots Have Arrived ** This post was originally published in ACRL TechConnect on Oct. 12, 2015.*** The movie, Robot and Frank, describes the future in which the elderly have a robot as their companion and also as a helper. The robot monitors various activities that relate to both mental and physical health and helps Frank with various house chores. […] feeds-feedburner-com-1409 ---- None feeds-feedburner-com-160 ---- None feeds-feedburner-com-1829 ---- None feeds-feedburner-com-2046 ---- None feeds-feedburner-com-2172 ---- None feeds-feedburner-com-2256 ---- None feeds-feedburner-com-2437 ---- None feeds-feedburner-com-2972 ---- None feeds-feedburner-com-3278 ---- Free Range Librarian Free Range Librarian K.G. Schneider's blog on librarianship, writing, and everything else (Dis)Association I have been reflecting on the future of a national association I belong to that has struggled with relevancy and with closing the distance between itself and its members, has distinct factions that differ on fundamental matters of values, faces declining national and chapter membership, needs to catch up on the technology curve, has sometimes […] I have measured out my life in Doodle polls You know that song? The one you really liked the first time you heard it? And even the fifth or fifteenth? But now your skin crawls when you hear it? That’s me and Doodle. In the last three months I have filled out at least a dozen Doodle polls for various meetings outside my organization. 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I revised this post in November, but at the time hesitated […] What burns away We are among the lucky ones. We did not lose our home. We did not spend day after day evacuated, waiting to learn the fate of where we live. We never lost power or Internet. We had three or four days where we were mildly inconvenienced because PG&E wisely turned off gas to many neighborhoods, […] Neutrality is anything but “We watch people dragged away and sucker-punched at rallies as they clumsily try to be an early-warning system for what they fear lies ahead.” — Unwittingly prophetic me, March, 2016. Sometime after last November, I realized something very strange was happening with my clothes. My slacks had suddenly shrunk, even if I hadn’t washed them. After […] MPOW in the here and now I have coined a few biblioneologisms in my day, but the one that has had the longest legs is MPOW (My Place of Work), a convenient, mildly-masking shorthand for one’s institution. For the last four years I haven’t had the bandwidth to coin neologisms, let alone write about MPOW*. This silence could be misconstrued. I […] Questions I have been asked about doctoral programs About six months ago I was visiting another institution when someone said to me, “Oh, I used to read your blog, BACK IN THE DAY.” Ah yes, back in the day, that Pleistocene era when I wasn’t working on a PhD while holding down a big job and dealing with the rest of life’s shenanigans. […] A scholar’s pool of tears, Part 2: The pre in preprint means not done yet Note, for two more days, January 10 and 11, you (as in all of you) have free access to my article, To be real: Antecedents and consequences of sexual identity disclosure by academic library directors. Then it drops behind a paywall and sits there for a year. When I wrote Part 1 of this blog […] feeds-feedburner-com-3525 ---- None feeds-feedburner-com-3608 ---- None feeds-feedburner-com-3724 ---- None feeds-feedburner-com-3824 ---- None feeds-feedburner-com-3931 ---- None feeds-feedburner-com-4257 ---- None feeds-feedburner-com-4287 ---- What I Learned Today… What I Learned Today… Taking a Break I’m sure those of you who are still reading have noticed that I haven’t been updating this site much in the past few years. I was sharing my links with you all but now Delicious has started adding ads to that. I’m going to rethink how I can use this site effectively going forward. For […] Bookmarks for May 3, 2016 Today I found the following resources and bookmarked them on Delicious. Start A Fire Grow and expand your audience by recommending your content within any link you share Digest powered by RSS Digest Bookmarks for April 4, 2016 Today I found the following resources and bookmarked them on Delicious. 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September 11, 2015 Collections of items in time and space Fetching Web Resources September 10, 2015 Using Resource and Collection interfaces to retrieve data from the web Quantifying journals September 10, 2015 Metrics for scoring and ranking journals It's a shame about Google Plus September 10, 2015 URLs for people Distributed Asynchronous Composable Resources September 10, 2015 Filling out data tables using promises and computed properties Access-Control-Allow-Origin: * April 21, 2015 Add the Access-Control-Allow-Origin: * header to the data you publish No More Documents April 19, 2015 Client-side XML validation in JavaScript April 18, 2015 Using an Emscripten port of xmllint to validate XML against a DTD in a web browser. Organising, building and deploying static web sites/applications March 1, 2015 Using Jekyll (remote or local) or Yeoman (local) to build, serve and deploy a GitHub Pages site or application Visualising political donations February 15, 2015 Using Tableau Public to visualise donations to UK political parties Force-directed tag clouds February 15, 2015 Using artists as the dark matter in a graph of tags, to visualise the thematic content of radio shows Exploring a personal Twitter network January 25, 2015 Using Gephi to create a network graph showing the most highly-connected Twitter friends of those I follow. Searching for mergeable tables January 12, 2015 Finding tabular data sets that can be merged, using URLs for data types UK Prospective Parliamentary Candidates January 4, 2015 The people who will be standing as candidates in the 2015 General Election Creating a map of Grade I listed buildings January 4, 2015 Filtering an Environment Agency Shapefile to create a custom map UK parliamentary constituencies January 3, 2015 Boundaries, names and codes of the UK's parliamentary constituencies The trouble with scientific software December 31, 2014 Scientific software is often opaque, and difficult to obtain and cite Archiving and displaying tweets with dat September 18, 2014 Don't just publish JSON-LD June 19, 2014 Publish plain, simple JSON, with a linked context document for consumers that want it vege-table: the data table that grows, with leaves May 16, 2014 The easiest, most resourceful way to harvest, explore and publish a collection of data. Line-oriented data formats February 26, 2014 Iterating Arrays February 20, 2014 JavaScript methods for iterating arrays Publishing research on the web January 27, 2014 Two examples of publishing code, data and a human-readable report jQuery Microdata January 13, 2014 A jQuery plugin for working with HTML Microdata Creating printable cards with HTML and CSS December 22, 2013 Use HTML and CSS to fill a printed card with content Post-humanist technology December 19, 2013 If you can't tell why a technology would be useful to you, it's for the robots Collecting article metrics with OpenRefine December 16, 2013 Using OpenRefine to collect article metrics data JSON templates December 16, 2013 Using JSON templates to describe objects and query by example JSON-LD December 12, 2013 Using context documents to map local property names to shared URLs CSV on the Web, with PHP December 12, 2013 Fetching, parsing and publishing CSV Publishing, Versioning and Persistence December 12, 2013 Some rules for publishing a resource online SELECT * FROM WEB December 11, 2013 OK Guha Describing Objects December 11, 2013 Using names and classes as shorthand for object properties Switching off HubMed's RSS and Atom feeds August 14, 2013 HubMed's RSS and Atom feeds are discontinued Web Components July 7, 2013 Using Web Components to define custom HTML elements Internet Surveillance June 10, 2013 Methods of gathering information from the internet. Citing Articles Within Articles March 2, 2013 HTML markup for inline citations in scholarly articles Open, Social, Academic Bookmarking: Save to App.net February 5, 2013 Using App.net's File API to create an open, personal reading library. HTML metadata for journal articles November 28, 2012 A summary of ontologies for describing journal articles Ten years of HubMed November 28, 2012 An overview of the ten years since HubMed was created Publishing a podcast using Google Drive (in theory) September 20, 2012 Generate a podcast feed for audio files stored on Google Drive, using Apps Script and Yahoo Pipes Publishing Articles Using Gists September 5, 2012 Introducing macrodocs.org, a client-side renderer for articles stored in Gists Music Seeds and More Like These August 17, 2012 Sources for music recommendation; querying by example Querying Data Sets using Google BigQuery August 17, 2012 Using Google Fusion Tables to provide an API to data files August 15, 2012 Resourceful Web Interfaces August 2, 2012 Classlessness June 26, 2012 A Resourceful Alternative to OAI-PMH June 4, 2012 Adding Files to Google Drive using PHP May 1, 2012 Working with the Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset April 27, 2012 BBC Radio -> XSPF Bookmarklet March 12, 2012 How To Text Mine Open Access Documents February 22, 2012 Open Access Author Manuscripts in PubMed Central February 20, 2012 ISSN(L)s And Serial Title Abbreviations February 9, 2012 Extracting Text From A PDF Using Only Javascript November 18, 2011 Open Graph wins the Semantic Web September 29, 2011 Citing With URIs in Google Docs September 16, 2011 Client-Side PubMed Searching July 23, 2011 Capturing a manipulated web page with PhantomJS March 25, 2011 This Weblog In (Some) URLs March 6, 2011 A Modular System for Automatic Entity Extraction and Manual Annotation of Academic Papers February 3, 2011 Getting and Sending Binary Files with XMLHttpRequest December 15, 2010 AOTY 2010 November 18, 2010 ReCo: a music recommender October 18, 2010 Artists October 7, 2010 Creating a single file, lossless rip of a DVD chapter in Ubuntu August 22, 2010 London Cycle Hire data/apps August 7, 2010 Writing Firefox Add-ons with the JetPack SDK July 31, 2010 UK Fuel Consumption for Energy Use July 1, 2010 Current UK Reservoir Stocks July 1, 2010 eCryptfs in Ubuntu (Lucid) June 27, 2010 Using STIX fonts with @font-face June 10, 2010 Inline annotations/formatting in HTML May 20, 2010 Command line Twitter authentication using the PECL OAuth library May 20, 2010 Automatically mounting a remote directory in Ubuntu using autofs + sshfs May 15, 2010 A Simple Hit Counter with Node.js and Redis May 13, 2010 Voting Correlation (UK General Election 2010) May 9, 2010 UK General Election 2010 May 8, 2010 Installing PHP 5.3 etc on Ubuntu Karmic (9.10) May 5, 2010 Maps at the British Library, and on the BBC May 4, 2010 mapstvBillions April 15, 2010 Archiving Timestamped Copies of Bookmarked Web Content March 30, 2010 A WSDL 2.0 description of the EUtils EFetch web service March 28, 2010 phpschemaxmlREST Web Services, XML and Data Typing March 27, 2010 phpxmlGoogle Bookmarks Lists March 24, 2010 googlelistsmapsA Solr index of Wikipedia on EC2/EBS March 17, 2010 ec2lucenesolrMapping XML Named Character References to Unicode Characters March 16, 2010 A Pipe for New Episodes in a BBC series March 8, 2010 bbce4xjavascriptpipesrdfxmlyahooyqlIndependent UK Record Labels on Spotify March 4, 2010 Adding Spotify links to BBC Radio playlists, via RDFa, using Greasemonkey and rdfQuery March 2, 2010 Indexing JSON data in MongoDB using PHP February 23, 2010 Showing Delicious bookmarks of pages within a domain February 19, 2010 ElasticSearch in PHP February 16, 2010 Describing REST APIs with HTML5 forms February 2, 2010 The Top Google Search Result for each Unicode Character January 22, 2010 Listing Unicode Characters January 22, 2010 Spotify Playlist: The Hype Machine Top 1000 Albums of 2009 January 21, 2010 On A Bus updated January 19, 2010 Using the Bing Maps Web Services in PHP January 19, 2010 Publishing Files using a Public Folder in Google Docs January 12, 2010 Web Applications January 11, 2010 Installing platform-specific applications January 11, 2010 Operating Systems and Application Launching January 11, 2010 An OS X Single Site Browser with HTML5 Storage Support? January 6, 2010 A Basic Web App With A Settings Page, Using jQTouch and PHP January 5, 2010 OpenURL + OpenSearch January 4, 2010 Map Overlays January 2, 2010 mapsThird-Party Cookies December 23, 2009 Spotify lookup and Playdar in AOTY December 10, 2009 aotyplaydarspotifyOpenSearch + YQL December 10, 2009 Importing GeoPlanet data into MySQL December 10, 2009 Semantic Assistants November 16, 2009 Text Mining November 16, 2009 SoyLatte: Java 1.6 for 32-bit OS X November 11, 2009 javaosxTransforming XML files with XSLT 2.0 and Saxon-HE on OS X, using an XML catalog October 26, 2009 xmlLatest NPG articles in PubMed Central October 22, 2009 Exploring PubChem via SPARQL October 7, 2009 Bacode October 7, 2009 Yahoo! APIs Terms of Use changed October 2, 2009 Using PubMed's autocomplete data in JQuery September 30, 2009 HTML template September 30, 2009 htmlSheevaPlug as a Torrent Seed Box September 19, 2009 Graphing weather time series data with Timetric September 10, 2009 dataweatherConverting PDF to PNG using ImageMagick or Ghostscript August 20, 2009 The Music Industry (version) August 11, 2009 QR code testing on the iPhone August 7, 2009 Embedding chemical structure information in image files August 6, 2009 applescriptchemistryUsing the Tesco API with PHP August 5, 2009 apiphpTopic Modelling with MALLET August 3, 2009 Travel with an iPhone August 2, 2009 iphonetravelMarking up a bibliographic reference with RDFa July 30, 2009 Entities in Scientific News Stories June 18, 2009 onabus.com June 16, 2009 Annotation of Scientific Articles June 14, 2009 annotationNow Playing in Songbird June 14, 2009 musicnow-playingsongbirdA Private Radio Archive June 14, 2009 notuberadioDealing with election results data June 11, 2009 Adding Bing search results to Google June 4, 2009 Extracting keyphrases from documents using MeSH terms and KEA June 1, 2009 Scraping with YQL Execute June 1, 2009 scrapingClustering documents with CLUTO May 28, 2009 Exploring an OAI-PMH repository May 26, 2009 oaiYahoo! PlaceMaker May 21, 2009 apilocationyahooFetching article citation counts from Web of Science May 21, 2009 apiPHP, DOM, DTDs and named entities May 20, 2009 phpxmlPHP, DOM and XML encodings May 20, 2009 phpxmlRecording video from a webcam in Ubuntu May 17, 2009 ubuntuvideoQuerying BBC programmes in a Talis data store May 15, 2009 bbcrdfuriOAI, YQL and JSON May 14, 2009 phpyqlWhat's the Unicode character for "irony"? May 7, 2009 Updating local copies of databases and ontologies May 6, 2009 Server-side DOM scraping with Javascript: options April 29, 2009 domjavascriptSolr/Lucene on EC2/EBS April 20, 2009 ec2lucenesolrInstalling CouchDB from source on OS X April 17, 2009 Everything? April 7, 2009 Playdar as an OpenURL resolver? April 3, 2009 audiocoinsopenurlplaydarresolutionGraph of new albums added to Spotify April 1, 2009 Analysing 'science' bookmarks in Delicious March 29, 2009 deliciousPosting shared items from Google Reader to Delicious March 29, 2009 deliciousphpResolving URLs with PHP March 29, 2009 phpFinding all occurrences of a UTF-8-encoded needle in a UTF-8-encoded haystack March 25, 2009 phpUsing YQL and Pipes to make a screensaver of The Big Picture March 25, 2009 pipesyqlPages tagged as 'science' on Delicious, by co-tags March 21, 2009 delicioussciencePopular pages tagged as 'science' on Delicious March 21, 2009 deliciousscienceSelecting Wikipedia articles by InChI March 20, 2009 chemistryinchirdfContent Hashing March 19, 2009 similarityYQL Open Data Tables March 16, 2009 scrapingyqlFestive 50 Spotify Playlists March 15, 2009 playlistsradioxspfTfL feeds March 13, 2009 Semantic/Scientific Authoring Add-ins for Microsoft Word March 13, 2009 publishingsemanticData, Science and Stories March 12, 2009 dataMusic Recipe March 12, 2009 musicDelicious Network Meme Tracker March 12, 2009 deliciousComparing similar articles and categorisation with Wikipedia March 12, 2009 Fetching articles from the NY Times API March 11, 2009 apiGuardian + Lucene = Similar Articles + Categorisation March 10, 2009 Guardian Open Platform March 10, 2009 apiCloudMade February 23, 2009 mapsAn open question to authors of text mining tools February 22, 2009 text-miningHTML + WMV -> XSPF + MP4 February 21, 2009 phpvideoAnalysing the ticTOCs collection of journal TOC feeds February 18, 2009 Freebase: Types, Topics, Timelines and Mentions February 7, 2009 freebaseontologyGoogle, jQuery and plugin loading February 3, 2009 googlejavascriptjqueryYouMomus February 2, 2009 BigMaps with Modest Maps January 31, 2009 mapsQuestion for a map January 31, 2009 mapsBigMaps with CutyCapt and Xvfb January 30, 2009 ecsstract: Scraping in XULRunner with JSON/CSS selectors January 29, 2009 Generating Standard Chemical Identifiers (Standard InChI) January 22, 2009 PubMed XML in eXist on OS X January 21, 2009 Difficult Album Titles of 2008 January 19, 2009 musicPrivacy online: prevent tracking using Adblock Plus' site-specific filters January 19, 2009 adblockprivacyExtracting a certificate/key pair from a Java keystore January 19, 2009 Spotified SXSW Catalog January 19, 2009 greasemonkeyspotifyDefining scraper mappings using CSS selectors January 19, 2009 An Annotated Timeline of U.S. Public Debt, using Google Spreadsheet and Google Calendar January 16, 2009 dataGenerative art in Second Life January 13, 2009 Installing an independent PHP 5.3 to run from the command line January 13, 2009 phpNotes on using the Ubuntu EC2 AMI January 13, 2009 Events! January 11, 2009 Radio Now January 6, 2009 iplayerradioUbuntu on EC2 January 5, 2009 Displaying new episodes from BBC iPlayer January 4, 2009 bbciplayertvZemanta API January 2, 2009 Making a Lucene index of Wikipedia for MoreLikeThis queries January 2, 2009 lucenephpwikipediaAlbums of the Year collages January 1, 2009 musicEnd-of-year TV (UK only) January 1, 2009 tvSkyrails December 19, 2008 graphnetworkvisualisationSpotification December 19, 2008 greasemonkeyUniProt / RDF / SPARQL December 19, 2008 rdfuniprotGetting a visitor's location (city) December 15, 2008 Browse My Privates December 10, 2008 Firefox 3.1, maxVersion for extensions December 10, 2008 firefoxAlbums of the Year 2008 December 10, 2008 nokeepalive December 9, 2008 POTAtoo December 6, 2008 greasemonkeySongbird links and bookmarks December 3, 2008 Libxml2, PHP and UTF-8 December 2, 2008 The 16 Most Interesting Regions in Second Life November 24, 2008 secondlifeOn A Bus November 21, 2008 iphonemapstransportSecond Life 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lifeVideo Encoding Recommendations October 2, 2008 videoMaximise OS X windows with a keyboard shortcut September 26, 2008 Query Parameters in URIs September 26, 2008 Logout/Login CSRF September 24, 2008 Pure Data September 22, 2008 audiopuredataPlaylist Builder using Freebase Suggest September 22, 2008 freebasemetadataWeb Playlist Tool September 22, 2008 mediaplaylistsPreprints and Categorisation September 18, 2008 Creating a Freebase data view September 18, 2008 datafreebaseRasmus Lerdorf on PHP performance September 14, 2008 phpUbiquity PubMed search September 12, 2008 Audacity September 12, 2008 PHP, SimpleXML, XPath and namespaced attributes September 11, 2008 Removing 'for each' from Javascript examples September 10, 2008 PubMed JSON API September 8, 2008 apijavascriptjsonpubmedLinux music players: compilations and watching folders September 7, 2008 audiolinuxBBC AOD Filter Pipe September 4, 2008 audiobbcpipesGoPubMed export API September 4, 2008 Ubiquity commands September 2, 2008 National Rail bus service sparklines September 1, 2008 businfographictransportGmail MenuExtra SSB in Fluid August 29, 2008 Veodia August 28, 2008 second lifevideoPulseAudio resampling August 28, 2008 audioprojectM-pulseaudio August 27, 2008 audioubuntu,visualisationLondon: cycling and walking route maps August 26, 2008 London: Visitors bus map, mobile TFL August 26, 2008 PulseAudio voodoo August 24, 2008 audioubuntuUKPA negotiates a licence for commercial music podcasting August 23, 2008 podcastGeoNames NearbyWikipedia API August 21, 2008 apijavascriptjquerylocationwikipediaAideRSS PostRank API August 21, 2008 apijqueryUK Postcode -> Bus Stop prototype August 20, 2008 maptransport400,000 bus stops August 20, 2008 locationphpFull-text feeds as a route around censorship August 20, 2008 feedsEPUB and Stanza August 20, 2008 epubliteraturepdfMendeley August 19, 2008 bibliographypdfCreating MapTube maps with Neighbourhood Statistics data August 19, 2008 mapsAn Amazon Wishlist Competition/Contest August 18, 2008 amazoncompetitionwishlistListen Later updated August 18, 2008 audiobbcextensionfirefoxMobile bus departures August 18, 2008 locationtransportUpload to Google Docs bookmarklet August 18, 2008 bookmarkletgoogleGrowl Alerts for Gmail Messages from Address Book August 18, 2008 applescriptgmailRadio 4 Comedy Feeds August 18, 2008 bbcradioSending a URL from Safari to Firefox August 18, 2008 applescriptosxWriting an Atom feed in PHP 5 August 13, 2008 atomphpHow to Share a Social Network August 12, 2008 portabilityprivacyLocatory August 11, 2008 Britain From Above August 10, 2008 bbctvMeta-TV August 8, 2008 tviPhone reader for Google Reader Starred Items August 8, 2008 feedsgoogleiphoneFree August 6, 2008 iphoneCOUNT/DISTINCT queries August 5, 2008 mysqlrdfxqueryManipulating Forms in Google Spreadsheets August 4, 2008 googlespreadsheetsTiddlyWiki zoomable interface August 4, 2008 tiddlywikiiPhone interface for Delicious Network August 4, 2008 deliciousiphoneMapping Statistics mini-presentation at BarCamb August 4, 2008 mapsDS Game Classics July 29, 2008 dsgamesLondon Age Distribution Maps Part 2 July 29, 2008 mapsLondon Age Distribution Maps July 29, 2008 mapsdata URI for a Google search box July 26, 2008 googleiphoneSecurity Email Addresses that are Black Holes July 26, 2008 securityBeware of the App July 26, 2008 iphonesecurityXMPP comments July 26, 2008 xmppUpcoming API (PHP5) July 24, 2008 apiphpSend PDFs from Skim to Gmail July 24, 2008 applescriptgmailpdfListen Direct /programmes July 17, 2008 bbcgreasemonkeyradioInstalling Java Advanced Imaging in Ubuntu Hardy July 12, 2008 javaubuntuConvert AMR files to WAV in Ubuntu Hardy July 9, 2008 audiolinuxubuntuNeighbourhood Statistics API July 4, 2008 apiphpsoapOrdnance Survey-based BigMap of the UK July 2, 2008 mapArtist -> BBC Radio Shows lookup June 24, 2008 bbcmusicphpradioSoul Bubbles June 22, 2008 gamesEssential Add-ons for Firefox 3 June 19, 2008 extensionsfirefoxChris Wetherell on Google Reader June 18, 2008 feedsgooglePod-U-Like June 17, 2008 app-enginepodcastsUsing Google to Fetch All of a Feed's Items June 17, 2008 apifeedsgooglephpFirefox, OpenSearch and Autocomplete June 14, 2008 firefoxopensearchOpenCalais API June 11, 2008 apiSkim: Open All With Papers June 9, 2008 applescriptosxpdfTumblr Auto-Pager June 9, 2008 greasemonkeyWebClipCountUpDown June 7, 2008 csssafariCreate a calendar from del.icio.us bookmarks June 6, 2008 calendardel.icio.usPod News June 5, 2008 podcastsBringing a publisher's content to the Life Science researcher May 29, 2008 presentationpublishingslidestext-miningThe rules of Web 3.0 May 28, 2008 Publications May 28, 2008 app-enginemedlineopensocialpublicationspythonOn the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness, from Penny Arcade May 25, 2008 gameOpenSocial terminology May 24, 2008 opensocialMy Speediest Gatherers updated May 21, 2008 del.icio.usphpUpgrading to Gmail May 11, 2008 emailWith or Without UIDs May 8, 2008 metadatapresentationsearchslidesxtechI'm Feeling Unlucky May 8, 2008 googlegreasemonkeyMeta Latest May 7, 2008 searchDealing with corrupt preference files on OS X May 4, 2008 osxRecipeBook April 29, 2008 drupalrecipebookrecipesMixingIt April 26, 2008 drupalminingphpradiotextGazelle April 22, 2008 musicp2pNow Playing on the radio April 22, 2008 bbcradioxmppRealPlayer 11 for Linux April 21, 2008 linuxradiorealplayerPubMed search URL April 16, 2008 pubmedHow to Make Someone Fetch a URL with a Blank Referer Header April 15, 2008 securityReification April 15, 2008 rdfSecurity against SQL injection in Wordpress April 14, 2008 phpsecuritywordpressTwubble April 10, 2008 twitterGoogle Docs April 7, 2008 Code quality in contributed Drupal modules April 5, 2008 drupalNDS April 2, 2008 dsgamesSecure password hashing April 1, 2008 drupalopenpasswordssecuritysourcewordpressHow IdentiFight works April 1, 2008 identifightprivacySemgine's myMap for exploring semantic networks of information April 1, 2008 datagraphinterfacerdfVST instruments in Linux March 30, 2008 linuxvstGoogle Site Search bookmarklet March 30, 2008 bookmarkletgoogleBookMooch, LibraryThing March 30, 2008 booksSneetchalizer March 28, 2008 audiolinuxLast.fm Fingerprinting Client March 28, 2008 last.fmmetadatamusicDecentralised music subscription services March 28, 2008 musicDrupalCPP March 28, 2008 drupalS01E01 March 28, 2008 tvPenguin March 28, 2008 booksIdentiFight additions March 27, 2008 identifightprivacyIdentiFight March 26, 2008 identifightprivacySpokeo March 18, 2008 identityPHP script for downloading MP4 files from iPlayer March 16, 2008 bbcphpTopCited March 13, 2008 citationpublishingDownload TV shows from the BBC iPlayer as MP4 March 8, 2008 bbctvClimate Change March 4, 2008 climate-changeconferenceparticipationLocating London Buses March 3, 2008 busesopen-dataBuilding a "Now Playing" Wall February 20, 2008 amarokxmppMusicBrainz artist info API February 17, 2008 apimusicbrainzphpLast.fm artist info API February 17, 2008 lastfmphp"Relation" metadata February 14, 2008 metadatapublishingXMPP, Publish-Subscribe, PEP and User Tune February 14, 2008 pubsubxmppFull OpenURL metadata from CrossRef February 14, 2008 openurlSetting the height of a cross-domain iframe using postMessage February 13, 2008 htmljavascriptNo Frills Fullscreen February 12, 2008 extensionsfirefoxKitte February 12, 2008 designwordpressCrossRef Citation plugin February 11, 2008 citationcrossref"Play in Sidebar" Firefox extension February 6, 2008 audioextensionfirefoxplaylistvlcCoding Niggles February 5, 2008 codeZowbar February 5, 2008 firefoxmetadatazoterorefactormycode February 3, 2008 codeWindows-less? February 3, 2008 linuxmusicrenoisewindowsCanon printers in Ubuntu February 3, 2008 printubuntuLinking to papers February 3, 2008 citationconversationsdisambiguationUnpredictability of influence January 29, 2008 XMPP January 27, 2008 firefoxxmppUpdating "Selected Text" Bookmarklets January 25, 2008 bookmarkletsFinding Conversations around Academic Publications January 24, 2008 citationconversationscintillaCanonical PubMed URLs January 22, 2008 pubmedListen Later January 22, 2008 bbcextensionfirefoxradioHow a Firefox Extension Works January 22, 2008 extensionsfirefoxFSDL January 21, 2008 searchSingle Window mode January 21, 2008 firefoxMozilla, Chrome and FUEL January 21, 2008 firefoxFirefox 3, del.icio.us posting extension January 21, 2008 del.icio.usextensionfirefoxOpenURLed January 18, 2008 openurlFeed Deltas: What's Changed? January 18, 2008 feedsBlog Remix January 16, 2008 musicxspfAnnotations in XML January 16, 2008 annotationSubmitting Author Manuscripts to PubMed Central January 15, 2008 publishingDepositing Nature articles in PubMed Central January 15, 2008 natureopen-accesspublishingBPR3 markup January 14, 2008 citationmicroformatsCrowbar January 14, 2008 scrapingzoteroThe Long Arm of Copyright January 13, 2008 copyrightgamesAll Nature papers now available online January 10, 2008 natureAccessing the UMLSKS SOAP Web Service using PHP5 January 10, 2008 apiphpCoverFlow-ish for Newest Amarok Albums January 6, 2008 amarokphpCommunicating with Amarok from a local web page January 6, 2008 amarokHTTP POST in PHP5 January 6, 2008 phpArchiving del.icio.us bookmarks January 3, 2008 del.icio.usdrupalprojectM in Amarok December 28, 2007 audiovisualisationContextLinks Amarok plugin December 23, 2007 amarokAmarok: Record Labels from MusicBrainz December 22, 2007 amarokmusicbrainzpythonAmarok: Album Release Dates from MusicBrainz December 22, 2007 amarokmusicbrainzpythonTV on the Internet December 20, 2007 bbctvBBC Cross-Platform iPlayer December 18, 2007 bbcradiotvBest Albums of 2007 lists December 18, 2007 drupalmusicPresenting replicates in a table December 11, 2007 datahtmlpublishingCharting features December 7, 2007 datajavascriptvisualisationAIR December 5, 2007 e4xEasylistener bookmarklet December 5, 2007 bookmarkletplayrAIDA Toolkit Entity Extraction API December 3, 2007 medlineminingReasons for loving CASH Music December 3, 2007 musicmyExperiment December 3, 2007 bioinformaticsXNAT workflow December 3, 2007 scienceFirefox's Sandbox December 2, 2007 firefoxsecurityjQuery in Zotero November 29, 2007 jqueryzoteroThe World is 67108864 Pixels at Zoom Level 5 November 28, 2007 googlemapConditionally hiding HTML elements with jQuery/CSS November 27, 2007 jqueryAmazon AWS API November 26, 2007 amazonapiPubChem (EUtilities) API November 20, 2007 apieutilsphpCross-platform Javascript omissions November 20, 2007 javascriptRenoise November 18, 2007 musicrenoiseSideload/MP3tunes vs EMI November 15, 2007 copyrightmusicPredictive accuracy is substantially improved when blending multiple predictors November 14, 2007 algorithmsServer-side scraping with Javascript November 12, 2007 javascriptmetadataCureHunter's graph viewer November 9, 2007 visualisationScraping web pages with PHP 5 November 8, 2007 phpscrapingMaking a screencast November 8, 2007 screencastvideorev="review" November 8, 2007 citationmicroformatsPreserving PDF metadata November 6, 2007 metadatapdfGutsy November 6, 2007 ubuntuBPR3 November 5, 2007 citationmicroformatsStill OiNK-less November 3, 2007 musicp2pted November 1, 2007 p2ptvMySpace -> File2HD Greasemonkey script November 1, 2007 greasemonkeyMetadata Scrapers October 31, 2007 metadatadel.icio.us / earlier October 31, 2007 del.icio.usHype Machine October 17, 2007 musicsongbirdGetting a local copy of MEDLINE October 9, 2007 medlinephppubmedBBC Radio Player as a separate application, with WebRunner October 6, 2007 bbcfirefoxradioI Forgot My Password October 3, 2007 securityXUL FTW October 3, 2007 xulFix SSH in Mac OS X by reinstalling Kerberos.framework October 1, 2007 osxMail -> Thunderbird October 1, 2007 emailMethods for private Atom/RSS feeds October 1, 2007 feedssecurityLinux and wireless devices September 30, 2007 linuxwifiGmail vulnerability September 27, 2007 emailsecurityThings that Taste Great Together September 20, 2007 Notes From DrupalCon Barcelona 2007 September 20, 2007 drupalUpdate: Artist popularity in specific countries September 12, 2007 lastfmNCBI Resource Locator September 11, 2007 pubmedhCalendar, Microformats and Google Calendar September 10, 2007 microformatsDealing with hard drives in Ubuntu September 8, 2007 ubuntuLondon Cinema Today September 4, 2007 cinemadrupalHigh Usage of PubMed's "Related Articles" August 23, 2007 pubmedsearchInline Wikipedia History August 22, 2007 greasemonkeywikipediaOn The Wire has a podcast August 21, 2007 radioMusicSun August 16, 2007 audioscrobblervisualisationNon-destructive faceted browsing August 15, 2007 searchvisualisationquite |kw?t| August 15, 2007 Adding Random Email Addresses to Facebook August 15, 2007 Geocoding APIs August 14, 2007 apigeoGene Network API August 14, 2007 apibioinformaticsphpPostgenomic API August 14, 2007 apicitationWhatizit API August 14, 2007 apibioinformaticsphpPubMed API August 13, 2007 apiphppubmedClearForest SWS API August 13, 2007 apimetadataphpCSS Workarounds for Internet Explorer < 7 August 3, 2007 cssWikipedia API July 31, 2007 apiFreebase API July 30, 2007 apiScopus API July 30, 2007 apicitationRSS Nightmare July 30, 2007 feedsLazyTube July 26, 2007 screencastvideoPublishing data tables July 26, 2007 datapublishingUser Styles July 19, 2007 cssFarewell Azureus July 19, 2007 p2pEPUB and Adobe Digital Editions July 14, 2007 publishingIf It's Ready, Release It July 13, 2007 musicOpera Mini 4 Beta July 9, 2007 Faceted Search in Solr/Drupal July 3, 2007 drupalsearchmusic.of.interest July 1, 2007 musicPeel Sessions July 1, 2007 drupalradioScintilla June 14, 2007 naturescintillaCreate a Google Custom Search Engine on the fly June 14, 2007 googlesearchXTech 2007 Science BOF slides June 7, 2007 presentationxtechUnofficial London RSS feeds June 6, 2007 feedslondonBenchmarking PHP 5.2.3 string manipulation June 5, 2007 phpBenchmarking PHP 5.1.4 string manipulation June 2, 2007 phpExpanding Abbreviations in HubMed June 1, 2007 hubmedMahalo June 1, 2007 searchPodule #10 May 31, 2007 podulesLast.fm listening graph May 31, 2007 lastfmvisualisationPodcast Awards May 30, 2007 podcastXSS vulnerabilities by PageRank May 30, 2007 securityRIAA-safe Top 100 May 24, 2007 musicp2pCompiling and installing Xalan on OS X May 24, 2007 osxProgramming Language Reference Widgets for Dashboard May 23, 2007 osxWebjay → last.fm playlists May 22, 2007 lastfmplaylistsNotes From XTech 2007 May 22, 2007 xtechPredictions/Observations for 2007 May 16, 2007 Mobile Feed Reader May 10, 2007 feedsReal-time, 32-bit audio processing May 10, 2007 audioPlay This Gene May 3, 2007 greasemonkeyItems You Rated in Amazon May 2, 2007 amazonrecommendationRate items quickly in Amazon with Greasemonkey April 30, 2007 amazongreasemonkeyXTech 2007 April 29, 2007 xtechMultiple "Related Articles" in PubMed April 26, 2007 pubmedR4DS April 25, 2007 ds2500 album covers April 25, 2007 musicvisualisationFetching cover art for a list of albums April 25, 2007 amarokmusicmusicbrainzpythonAdd publications from HubMed to PublicationsList.org April 23, 2007 greasemonkeyhubmedpublicationsMirror last.fm listening statistics April 4, 2007 lastfmmusicphpMobile Mapping/GPS April 3, 2007 gpsZotero ? HubMed Tags April 1, 2007 extensionfirefoxhubmedzoteroOwnership of user-contributed data March 31, 2007 data-portabilityTouchGraph relaunched March 29, 2007 touchgraphAmarok → Last.fm links (My First Ruby) March 29, 2007 amaroklastfmmusicrubyAdding MusicBrainz data to an Amarok database March 29, 2007 amarokmusicmusicbrainzpythonSmall Pieces Please March 27, 2007 p2pThe Sorry State of Online Music March 27, 2007 musicVideo Aggregators March 27, 2007 video32-bit Firefox on 64-bit Ubuntu March 27, 2007 ubuntuWhat's on your Google Homepage? March 26, 2007 googleVisual Scrapers March 26, 2007 automationscrapingXHTML vs HTML March 9, 2007 xhtmlFour Tenets of Web Security March 8, 2007 securityOne column layouts March 6, 2007 cssFirefox offline browsing March 4, 2007 firefoxpublishinglast.fm user listening data March 3, 2007 lastfmScientific article conversations and distributed libraries February 20, 2007 citationSearch-and-replace February 19, 2007 bashWarning: don't use hpmount February 17, 2007 linuxPLoS One February 13, 2007 publishingOpenSearchFox February 13, 2007 extensionfirefoxCopying bookmarks from del.icio.us to Connotea February 13, 2007 bookmarksdel.icio.use4xgreasemonkeyGetting an audio file in another format from an M4P on OS X February 8, 2007 audioosxmemcached and Drupal February 8, 2007 drupalDrupal module for Solr February 8, 2007 drupalsearchUbuntu Edgy, Bluetooth and Sony Ericsson k800i February 6, 2007 mobileubuntuMAME reviews February 5, 2007 drupalgamesA web interface to search and download albums in an Amarok library February 4, 2007 amarokphpQ: What am I using iTunes for? January 31, 2007 musicPosting machine tags to del.icio.us January 25, 2007 del.icio.usDrupal 5 January 21, 2007 drupalBeryl 0.2 beta2 January 21, 2007 berylubuntuBT have been busy January 21, 2007 btThings You Need To Play Arcade Games January 20, 2007 gamesdvd::rip January 19, 2007 dvdlinuxNew server January 13, 2007 server365 Days Of London widget January 2, 2007 drupallondonosxPLoS Too December 23, 2006 drupalpublishingmetrack December 21, 2006 del.icio.usgreasemonkeyAutomatically play YouTube videos in a full window December 17, 2006 greasemonkeyyoutubePlaying web video in fullscreen December 17, 2006 playlistsTits & Sharks & Acid December 5, 2006 audiomashupNautilus Actions December 1, 2006 ubuntuPlaying YouTube videos in Ubuntu December 1, 2006 ubuntuvideoSound from a microphone on HDA Intel in Ubuntu December 1, 2006 ubuntumetalicious November 28, 2006 javascriptperlMusicBrainz Picard Tagger November 26, 2006 metadatamusicmusicbrainzUniform Requirements for Manuscripts November 20, 2006 citationVisual jQuery user style November 13, 2006 cssjqueryCheap-ish Windows XP November 7, 2006 windowsGeocoding UK postcodes with PostcodeAnywhere November 7, 2006 geophpYahoo! Bookmarks November 2, 2006 bookmarksGMap Geocoding UK Postcodes November 2, 2006 geoLast.fm events calendar October 21, 2006 lastfmNovelty vs Necessity October 21, 2006 ubuntuFitting in Ubuntu October 19, 2006 firefoxubuntuAmarok, MySQL, JSON and Greasemonkey October 19, 2006 amarokgreasemonkeyphpThe case of the disappearing comments October 16, 2006 Wikipedia export format for citing papers from HubMed October 16, 2006 greasemonkeyhubmedunapiwikipediaTGN1412 analysis in The Lancet October 16, 2006 immunologytgn1412HubMed speed October 16, 2006 hubmedNNW Sneak Peek Release October 16, 2006 netnewswireZotero and compound documents October 11, 2006 metadatapublishingzoteroMetaphors that have had their day October 9, 2006 Google Webpage Gadgets October 4, 2006 googleprivacyDreamhost promotion today October 3, 2006 MSN.co.uk doesn't rank Firefox October 1, 2006 firefoxsearchI Candy September 30, 2006 ubuntuAll You Need On A (Consumer) PC September 29, 2006 appsosxubuntuwindowsUbuntu and Core2 Duo PCs September 25, 2006 ubuntuMigrate Movable Type to Drupal (4.7) September 22, 2006 drupalmtSecurity as a non-admin user in OS X September 21, 2006 securityNetNewsWire: "Mark All As Read And Proceed" September 20, 2006 netnewswireBuilding a site to handle images in Drupal September 17, 2006 drupalBT Home Hub September 16, 2006 btPodcasts For People Who Say They Don't Know Any Good Podcasts September 7, 2006 podcastsSharing a list of podcasts September 7, 2006 podcastsFirefox 2 Beta 2 September 4, 2006 firefoxWhy is MySpace popular August 30, 2006 myspace2 Steps to Making MySpace Nicer August 28, 2006 cssgreasemonkeymyspaceScan in iTunes August 21, 2006 applescriptitunesGenerate a bookmarklet to automate offprint requests August 12, 2006 bookmarkletpublishingNature.com CSS August 1, 2006 cssnaturestylishCleanliness July 28, 2006 osxNotate July 27, 2006 annotationpublishingAggademia July 26, 2006 aggregationdrupalnatureunAPI link enabler for Greasemonkey July 25, 2006 greasemonkeyunapiHubMed paper in Nucleic Acids Research July 17, 2006 hubmedSphere It! July 5, 2006 bookmarkletRSS feeds for Bloglines citation searches July 4, 2006 bloglinesfeedsFerret: Lucene for Ruby July 3, 2006 lucenerubysearch2006-06-28 Data Webs Conference June 28, 2006 conferenceMore About/Like This Page June 25, 2006 bookmarkletsMapping and Tagging Greasemonkey scripts June 22, 2006 connoteagreasemonkeyGraph your Connotea library June 22, 2006 connoteatouchgraphvisualisationXSL files for publishing from NLM XML May 30, 2006 publishingxslLucene 2.0 May 29, 2006 lucenesearchMeSH information in HubMed May 24, 2006 hubmedmeshPodule #8 May 22, 2006 podulesQuery statistics in HubMed May 17, 2006 hubmedSentence ordering in OTMI May 17, 2006 text-miningGoogle Co-op May 15, 2006 googlesearchAdd HubMed links to Google search results May 11, 2006 greasemonkeyhubmedAdd radio commands to BBC Radio Player May 11, 2006 bbcgreasemonkeyradioStructure of a scientific article May 9, 2006 publishingRelated Articles algorithms May 9, 2006 hubmedHealth-related queries in Google May 8, 2006 googleRecommendations from HubMed May 6, 2006 hubmedrecommendationA Plan for Publishing Journal Articles May 6, 2006 publishingTreemaps of MEDLINE May 3, 2006 medlinevisualisationPlaying Streaming Radio [RealAudio, BBC, OS X] Through an Airport Express May 3, 2006 osxA Network of Politicians and Interviewers/Journalists on the BBC May 1, 2006 touchgraophvisualisationTouchGraph of BBC TV/Radio Collaborators April 30, 2006 bbctouchgraphvisualisationRecent Papers in HubMed Search Results April 30, 2006 hubmedPersonalisation and Privacy April 28, 2006 hubmedpersonalisationMarkov-chained text from MEDLINE abstracts April 19, 2006 medlineiTunes Alarm Clock (iCal + Applescript) April 19, 2006 applescriptitunesosxEmail notifications in Gnome April 17, 2006 emailubuntuDocument clustering in HubMed April 12, 2006 hubmedRecording Streaming Radio (improved) April 12, 2006 bashradioVLC, XSPF, Dapper and Tango April 10, 2006 playlistsubuntuOpen Text Mining Interface (OTMI) April 7, 2006 text-miningInterDB links in HubMed April 7, 2006 hubmedex-HTML April 1, 2006 htmlHubMed extension for MediaWiki March 29, 2006 hubmedCTLA-4-Ig March 25, 2006 immunologyAdobe XMP SDK 4 beta March 25, 2006 metadatapdfxmpPeer Review with Marginalia March 25, 2006 annotationpublishingFulltext links from HubMed's feeds March 24, 2006 hubmedA Week of TV in Pictures (comedy, mostly) March 24, 2006 tvCriticker March 23, 2006 filmrecommendationFeedback down March 20, 2006 Playr's XSPF player March 20, 2006 playrPodule #7 March 18, 2006 podulesTGN1412 March 17, 2006 immunologytgn1412My Most Played Artists This Week, from Last.fm March 17, 2006 lastfmXHTML, SVG and MathML March 16, 2006 xhtmlGetting Document Elements Out Of The Clipboard March 16, 2006 bookmarkletHobbs on Rewind March 12, 2006 Lots of Comment Spam March 10, 2006 mtGetting Document Elements Into The Clipboard March 10, 2006 bookmarkletExclusive Photo of the New Google Colander March 8, 2006 googleCopy and Paste with unAPI March 7, 2006 unapiLinking and Storing Supplementary Data March 7, 2006 dataNotepress for Wordpress 2 March 6, 2006 wordpressConnecting to the Nintendo WFC March 1, 2006 dsSupplementary Data March 1, 2006 dataBluetooth Intellimouse Explorer on OS X March 1, 2006 osxSound in Ubuntu February 27, 2006 ubuntuTorrentbot missed some episodes February 26, 2006 p2pManaging Metadata for Academic PDFs February 21, 2006 bibdeskbibtexmetadatapdfScalable Bar Charts with Tables and CSS February 20, 2006 cssOpenURL For Music February 20, 2006 openurlPimp My Paper! February 18, 2006 publishingWhere to Download Firefox February 16, 2006 firefoxsearchUniProt Creative Commons licensed, available as RDF February 10, 2006 rdfThe state of online biomedical full text articles February 10, 2006 publishingAllFullText February 8, 2006 bookmarkletshubmedA_List of Podcasts February 7, 2006 podcastsThe State of Biomedical PDFs February 6, 2006 publishingManaging Academic Papers (almost) Like MP3s February 3, 2006 publishingQuery Expansion in HubMed February 3, 2006 hubmedWebphones February 3, 2006 audioAuthor Contributions in Scientific Paper Metadata February 2, 2006 publishingUpcoming.org simple event posting form February 2, 2006 calendareventsInterview with David Lipman of the NCBI February 2, 2006 pubmedBritish Albums vs Mercury Nominees February 2, 2006 musicPodule #6 January 31, 2006 podulesThings That Reek Of Greatness January 21, 2006 Normalising URIs January 18, 2006 citationAd-hoc XML databases with MySQL 5.1 January 18, 2006 mysqlxlmPubMed lookup for Structure Blogging January 12, 2006 hubmednotepressRelevance-ranked search results in HubMed January 12, 2006 hubmedPopulate iTunes With Webjay Playlists update January 11, 2006 applescriptituneswebjayNLM2MODS January 11, 2006 xsltCreating an Atom feed in Perl January 10, 2006 atomperlTV January 9, 2006 tvCreating an OpenOffice document in Perl January 9, 2006 openofficeperlA suggestion for OpenSearch January 9, 2006 opensearchListenable retrospectives January 7, 2006 feedsmusicBest Albums of 2006 January 7, 2006 musicrvwHubMed BibTeX changes January 6, 2006 bibtexhubmedCiteProxy January 5, 2006 citationidentifiersmodsxmlReading Feeds January 3, 2006 feedsosxsoftwaremp3blog TopList updated January 2, 2006 blogsmusicVideo chat between Mac and PC December 31, 2005 imosxvideoA script for Slogger December 30, 2005 bookmarksextensionfirefoxMachineProse December 18, 2005 biomedicalontologypublishingrdfAcademic metadata workflow December 17, 2005 metadataNow That's What I Call Weblogs... Vol 1 December 15, 2005 weblogsGoogle Music Search December 15, 2005 googleUpdated OpenSearch templates for Movable Type December 13, 2005 mtMore Useful Firefox Extensions December 12, 2005 firefoxDragThing [OS X] December 12, 2005 osxsoftwareEasyNews search plugin December 11, 2005 firefoxsearchpluginsSpacer December 11, 2005 bookmarkletExtracting Knowledge from Biomedical Text December 8, 2005 biomedicalhubmedrdftextBioinformatics Workflows December 8, 2005 bioinformaticsAlbums of 2005 snapshot December 5, 2005 musicThings of Interest Added to HubMed December 2, 2005 hubmedIndestructible user profiles December 2, 2005 searchGoggle update December 1, 2005 greasemonkeyRDF interoperability for social bookmarking tools December 1, 2005 feedshubmedrdftagsPopulate iTunes With Webjay Playlists November 29, 2005 applescriptituneswebjaySequence Manipulation En-Suite November 29, 2005 javascriptscienceIndex Diagnosticus November 29, 2005 searchBest Of: Bookmarklets November 27, 2005 bookmarkletsStylish November 27, 2005 firefoxBest Of: Games on OS X November 27, 2005 gamesosxBest Of: Applescripts for iTunes November 27, 2005 itunesosxBest Of: Firefox extensions November 27, 2005 extensionsfirefoxMechanical Turking November 23, 2005 amazonRDF export from HubMed Tags November 22, 2005 hubmedrdftagsContent Negotiation for HubMed Tags November 22, 2005 hubmedpiggybankrdftagsYahoo! Canada Movies feed November 22, 2005 cinemafeedCached web pages and Spurl November 20, 2005 bookmarkscacheUTF-8 citation export from HubMed November 17, 2005 hubmedA modular dynamic web page for bioinformatics searches November 16, 2005 bioinformaticsperlLast.fm search plugin November 16, 2005 firefoxlastfmDated web page snapshots with My Web November 16, 2005 bookmarkletcachemywebSubmitting reviews to Google Base November 16, 2005 googlegreasemonkeyrvwCreating a citable archive of a web page November 15, 2005 archivebookmarkscitationEeeeeeeeeeeevil November 14, 2005 googleThe Wire on Resonance FM podcast November 13, 2005 musicplayrpodcastMIME types and feed handlers November 13, 2005 feedspodcastsPodule #5 November 12, 2005 musicpodulesFOAF + hCard November 12, 2005 Yahoo's My Web 2.0 November 11, 2005 taggingVisible changes in HubMed this week November 11, 2005 hubmedDisabling Caps Lock in Ubuntu November 11, 2005 ubuntuVisible changes to HubMed this week November 4, 2005 hubmedBlogBridge November 3, 2005 softwareJEdit November 3, 2005 softwareTemporary feed subscriptions and individual item archives November 3, 2005 feedsOpenOffice 2 on OS X November 3, 2005 openofficeosxNotePress October 24, 2005 notepressresearchwordpressFlock October 22, 2005 firefoxflockHealthline October 19, 2005 healthsearchA definite lack of standards for academic metadata October 19, 2005 metadataLooking for MP3s? October 17, 2005 firefoxsearchpluginsTweaking Firefox for user-side accessibility October 16, 2005 accessibilitycssfirefoxstart.com gadgets October 15, 2005 A couple of music videos on slow servers October 15, 2005 musicPublishing whole documents using an open XML standard format October 13, 2005 publishingxmlSomeone Comes To Town October 7, 2005 torontoSomeone Leaves Town October 7, 2005 parisFixation October 6, 2005 hubmedrvwTiny Greasemonkey script for Flickr page titles October 6, 2005 flickrgreasemonkeyNews.com graph visualisation for related stories October 4, 2005 Anti-personal portal aggregators October 3, 2005 BlogPulse Alert Feed for Recently Played Artists September 28, 2005 audioscrobblerfeedslast.fmmusicPodule #4 September 26, 2005 musicpodulesOpenSearch Description and Atom-based Response templates for Movable Type September 24, 2005 atommovabletypeopensearchsearchUbuntu Breezy September 24, 2005 breezyubuntuReplace the Guardian logo September 22, 2005 greasemonkeyOpenSearch 1.1 September 20, 2005 firefoxopensearchsearchsruSpyware 2.0 September 20, 2005 security142 September 19, 2005 fruityloopsmusicFirefox search plugin for Google Blog Search September 16, 2005 firefoxgooglesearchpluginsMetadata in feeds (again) September 14, 2005 atommetadatardfreviewsThou shalt not make me squint September 14, 2005 accessibilitycssfirefoxFlickr vs Yahoo sign-up September 13, 2005 flickrsecurityyahooBookmark Folders September 12, 2005 bookmarksfirefoxChanging Feed Format September 12, 2005 atomfeedsrdfrssDVD ripping to Matroska September 12, 2005 dvdmatroskaoggxvidMovable Type + Tags September 7, 2005 movabletypetagAudioscrobbler Browser update September 7, 2005 last.fmmusictouchgraphCOinS Browser Extensions updated September 7, 2005 bookmarkletcoinsgreasemonkeyopenurlTV August 31, 2005 torrentbottvSort del.icio.us popular (again) August 31, 2005 deliciousgreasemonkeyGetting Firefox bookmarks into Spotlight August 31, 2005 firefoxspotlightDYLD_FALLBACK_LIBRARY_PATH (OS X) August 31, 2005 osxExport citations from HubMed to Refworks August 29, 2005 bookmarklethubmedSelf-contained Firefox search plugins August 28, 2005 firefoxsearchpluginsxsltFirefox Search Plugin Template for a Movable Type Weblog August 25, 2005 firefoxmovabletypesearchpluginsTalk To Google August 24, 2005 googleprivacyExtracting microcontent (XSLT, GRDDL, RDF) August 24, 2005 firefoxgreasemonkeymicrocontentrdfsome handy links for del.icio.us August 20, 2005 deliciousCOinS to CrossRef resolver script August 20, 2005 coinsgreasemonkeymicrocontentopenurlA better cite bookmarklet August 18, 2005 bookmarkletcitemicrocontentAdding to last.fm with Greasemonkey August 15, 2005 flittergreasemonkeylast.fmmusicTorrentbot additions August 15, 2005 torrentbotTurning a Java jar into an Application bundle (OS X) August 14, 2005 Jackson & His Computer Band (a test of Bleep.com's Web Tools) August 11, 2005 Hide Flickr comments from specific users August 11, 2005 flickrgreasemonkeyPlayr Atom feed August 11, 2005 atomplayrPandora August 9, 2005 musicAudioscrobbler & last.fm relaunch August 9, 2005 audioscrobblerlast.fmdel.icio.us Firefox extension security update August 8, 2005 deliciousfirefoxPodule #3 August 5, 2005 musicpodulesServer speed August 5, 2005 debianNTRSTNG (OS X) August 4, 2005 flickrperlHide Flickr Comments (Greasemonkey) August 3, 2005 flickrgreasemonkeyPublication of cytokines August 1, 2005 Converting RTF to plain text (OS X) July 31, 2005 osxGatherers of the Month #2 July 31, 2005 deliciousMaking a big old map July 30, 2005 perlPlayr's MP3 blogs section July 30, 2005 playrpodcastsOpenURL COinS July 30, 2005 coinsopenurlPodule #2 July 27, 2005 musicpodulesBBC Air Time July 23, 2005 bbcvisualisationAtom 1.0 in HubMed July 22, 2005 atomfeedshubmedLinux Applications July 18, 2005 linuxsoftwareubuntuFirefox form widgets in OS X July 16, 2005 firefoxosxAtom 1.0 July 15, 2005 atomfeedsInsecure RSS encryption July 15, 2005 greasemonkeysecuritydel.icio.us inbox in Firefox's sidebar July 12, 2005 deliciousfirefoxOS X URL handler to open links to local files July 11, 2005 applescriptosxwordpressFlickr Pro accounts July 11, 2005 Almost Everything About HubMed July 7, 2005 hubmedStatistics in Nature Immunology July 2, 2005 publishingstatisticsiTunes podcasts June 29, 2005 itunesplayrpodcastsExtracting Microcontent June 21, 2005 greasemonkeymicrocontentIt's about the catalogue June 19, 2005 musicp2pEasyNewzBin June 18, 2005 greasemonkeyHubMed Tag Storage June 17, 2005 hubmedtagGive us a big Back! June 12, 2005 cssfirefoxSpotlight June 9, 2005 osxSemantic weblog posts with Movable Type June 8, 2005 movabletyperdfTV June 6, 2005 tvMore feeds please, vicar June 4, 2005 feedsClient-side M3U generation June 4, 2005 playrGoggle update May 27, 2005 googlegreasemonkeyOperation D-Elite May 26, 2005 p2pWeb Assistants May 25, 2005 firefoxRDF data in HubMed May 24, 2005 hubmedpiggybankrdfParis 1911 May 22, 2005 mapsparisG.W.A. May 22, 2005 googleprivacyFoF May 22, 2005 feedonfeedsAbout reviews and microformats May 22, 2005 microcontentreviewsConcatenating multiple MP3s into one big playable MP3 May 22, 2005 musicsoftwarePodules May 21, 2005 musicpodcastspodulesTag search May 21, 2005 searchtagBagram May 21, 2005 M.I.A. loop May 21, 2005 musicGoggle May 19, 2005 firefoxgooglegreasemonkeyScreencast of HubMed and BibDesk May 12, 2005 bibliographyhubmedscreencastPubMed RSS May 9, 2005 Automator Plug-Ins May 4, 2005 osxGot Adblock? May 1, 2005 firefoxOpen Sourcing APIs April 28, 2005 opensourceThe Hype Machine April 28, 2005 musicEmail reply notifications (Mail and Growl) April 27, 2005 applescriptgrowlosxHow to get a Firefox that works (OS X) April 27, 2005 firefoxosxTargeted advertising April 26, 2005 cssnetnewswirePlay LHB Daily Downloads April 26, 2005 playrBrowser anti-aliasing April 24, 2005 firefoxItems for consideration April 23, 2005 bibliographyidentifiersopenurlSidєɳotÑ” April 20, 2005 osxsoftwareSkinning del.icio.us with Firefox and URIid April 19, 2005 deliciousfirefoxFirefox search plugin for Audioscrobbler April 19, 2005 audioscrobblerfirefoxsearchpluginsSend Me A File April 18, 2005 gpgJavascript benchmarks April 17, 2005 firefoxosxsafariSwitching from Safari to Firefox April 17, 2005 firefoxosxFirefox search plugin installer April 17, 2005 firefoxsearchpluginsBest albums of 2005 April 12, 2005 musicreviewsPrefetch Google ad links April 10, 2005 googlegreasemonkeyNew rvw! April 9, 2005 deliciousreviewsDeliciousify Audioscrobbler April 5, 2005 audioscrobblerdeliciousgreasemonkeyLesInrocksParis March 30, 2005 concertsfeedsparisFlash + XSPF in Playr March 29, 2005 xspfUpcoming API March 28, 2005 TV March 25, 2005 tvUpdates March 24, 2005 Why upcoming.org isn't more popular March 21, 2005 upcomingOpenSearch March 16, 2005 feedssearchFlitter v1.1 March 14, 2005 flittersearchGive Me All Your Cookies March 12, 2005 greasemonkeyOpenURL resolver bookmarklet March 7, 2005 bookmarkletopenurlAdd search links to Audioscrobbler artist pages March 5, 2005 audioscrobblerbookmarkletgreasemonkeyArtist popularity in specific countries March 4, 2005 audioscrobblermusicvisualisationRemove PDF delay for journal articles March 4, 2005 pithhelmetHubMed UTF-8 export March 1, 2005 bibtexhubmedrisutf-8US vs UK band popularity February 28, 2005 audioscrobblermusicvisualisationBlackwell's 'author pays' publishing February 27, 2005 biomedicalSkip SourceForge delay page February 26, 2005 pithhelmetHide selected content with CSS (in the future) February 21, 2005 cssnetnewswireSSL certificates for Apache2, Courier, Exim4 and Jabberd2 on Debian February 21, 2005 debiansslXML-based book authoring February 20, 2005 softwaresubversionWordPress 1.5 February 15, 2005 softwarewordpressChilibot February 15, 2005 biomedicaldatavisualisationRadio 4 RSS feeds February 15, 2005 bbcfeedsradioBD Graphit floating (modified) style for NetNewsWire February 15, 2005 cssnetnewswireTorrentbot moved February 15, 2005 torrentbotSorted lists of reviews, using rvw! and del.icio.us February 15, 2005 deliciousreviewsFlickrdesk update February 12, 2005 flickrsoftwareSorting del.icio.us/popular February 11, 2005 bookmarkletdeliciousMap interfaces February 8, 2005 googlemapsgre.gario.us February 7, 2005 deliciousDynamic OpenURL resolver links February 7, 2005 openurlPubMed tabs and Amplify February 6, 2005 biomedicalosxpubmedsoftwareMy Speediest Gatherers February 2, 2005 deliciousGatherers of the Month February 1, 2005 deliciousSwervedriver oddities February 1, 2005 musicPithHelmet HubMed redirect January 31, 2005 hubmedpithhelmetOrdnance Survey copyright annoyance (again) January 30, 2005 mapsMFeeds January 30, 2005 feedsmusicplayrBeagle January 29, 2005 linuxsoftwareWPA January 29, 2005 ubuntuMore Paris RSS feeds January 28, 2005 feedsparisOCLC software contest January 28, 2005 A9's street photos January 27, 2005 mapsGraph del.icio.us subscriptions network January 26, 2005 deliciousvisualisationGraph del.icio.us related tags January 26, 2005 deliciousvisualisationExplosion January 23, 2005 playrm3ucast update January 21, 2005 m3ucastosxplayrsoftwaregames TopList January 20, 2005 deliciousblogresearch TopList January 20, 2005 deliciousmp3blog TopList January 18, 2005 deliciousmusicYesterday's KEXP January 18, 2005 musicradioFlitter with del.icio.us links January 18, 2005 deliciousflitterLugRadio interviews Mark Shuttleworth January 17, 2005 radioubuntuCoral too slow January 17, 2005 p2pplayrFlitter with band photos January 14, 2005 flitterFlickrdesk update January 14, 2005 flickrsoftwareJavascript drag-and-drop ordered lists January 12, 2005 javascriptUnshuffly iPod January 12, 2005 SVG maps from PDF January 11, 2005 mapspdfsvgXSPF + SWF January 11, 2005 xspfListmania January 10, 2005 listsTechnorati TouchGraph January 9, 2005 touchgraphvisualisationA mini SVG map January 9, 2005 mapsparissvgUpcoming.org for Paris concerts January 6, 2005 feedsparisupcomingBreezy Listening January 4, 2005 Flitter bookmarklet January 2, 2005 flitteriTunes Music Store gift certificates January 2, 2005 musicp2pBands of 2004 January 2, 2005 musicBe The Coolest December 29, 2004 bookmarkletdeliciousCatching Up December 28, 2004 feedsmusicp2ptvLocalOpenURL and LocalSFX for HubMed pages December 13, 2004 openurlXSLT export from OmniOutliner Pro December 12, 2004 osxsoftwarexsltParis Concerts RSS feed update December 12, 2004 concertsfeedsparisCompiled live Swervedriver albums December 8, 2004 Search a restricted set of feeds December 7, 2004 feedssearchGoogle Reviews December 7, 2004 googlereviewsWi-Fi iPod December 7, 2004 musicp2pHubMed tutorials? December 7, 2004 hubmedAmiga Emulation December 6, 2004 emulationWindows Applications December 4, 2004 softwarewindowsVennMaster December 3, 2004 biomedicalvisualisationWorlds Apart December 3, 2004 musicFlitter December 2, 2004 musicMusic in del.icio.us December 2, 2004 playlistsHorizontal Amazon music thing December 1, 2004 amazonPricenoia December 1, 2004 amazonucomics Atom feeds for NetNewsWire November 30, 2004 feedperlGoogle Scholar bookmarklet November 27, 2004 bookmarkletTouchGraph browser for Amazon Citations November 24, 2004 touchgraphCiteSeer OAI compliance November 24, 2004 citeseerTouchGraph browser for Google Scholar November 22, 2004 googletouchgraphvisualisationPaper CD Case November 20, 2004 John Peel's final show November 20, 2004 musicAdium Groupchats November 18, 2004 Links to Google Scholar November 18, 2004 Free shipping for books at Amazon France November 17, 2004 More TV November 17, 2004 Mark Steel Lectures November 17, 2004 OS X Applications November 14, 2004 osxClusty PubMed November 12, 2004 Dowser November 12, 2004 Momentum November 11, 2004 CiteULike November 10, 2004 A decent setup for writing (OS X, with LaTeX) November 9, 2004 Sending files from one computer to another November 9, 2004 Motorcasting November 9, 2004 Fluxpod November 3, 2004 Visitors October 31, 2004 Flickrdesk: daily updated desktop pictures from Flickr (OS X) October 29, 2004 Define The Lie October 28, 2004 Netgear WG311FS and Airport Express on Ubuntu October 24, 2004 Ubuntu October 24, 2004 M3Ucast October 19, 2004 Desktop pictures from Flickr, using Magpie and OS X October 15, 2004 Making Podcasts from MP3 blogs October 13, 2004 What's in your menubar? October 13, 2004 RealPlayer update October 4, 2004 Fulltext links from HubMed October 4, 2004 Must... resist... October 4, 2004 Torrentbot missed episodes September 30, 2004 Bookmarklets September 30, 2004 Review sites reviewed September 30, 2004 reviewsFirefox extensions updated September 30, 2004 Glit_9 September 26, 2004 Hercules/PowerVR drivers September 26, 2004 Storing or aggregating microcontent September 26, 2004 NetNewsWire 2.0 beta September 22, 2004 Feed Your Reader September 20, 2004 MP3.com community features September 19, 2004 Albums for people who are bored of music September 19, 2004 deliciousPresidential candidates on science September 17, 2004 A Buttload of Bootlegs September 15, 2004 bootlegsNew web software releases September 14, 2004 softwareMolecular Systems Biology - a new open access journal from NPG September 14, 2004 open-accessMedical literature info sorting overload September 12, 2004 Aggregate feeds as impromptu record labels September 12, 2004 musicDivision of Laura Lee September 12, 2004 musicGoogle vs MEDLINE September 12, 2004 pubmedThe Return of STG September 10, 2004 p2pDocco September 10, 2004 documentssearchvisualisationDiebold's tamper-conducive vote counter August 31, 2004 securityCoral August 30, 2004 cacheData retention August 30, 2004 googleArtificial meme tracking August 30, 2004 memeNobel laureates call for open access to public-funded research August 30, 2004 open-accessThe 99p challenge August 28, 2004 radioFactory resetting an Airport Express August 25, 2004 appleiBook/PowerBook + iPod rebate August 25, 2004 appleDevendra Banhart August 24, 2004 musicThings Google knows about you August 24, 2004 googleBlogger's Next Blog tour August 22, 2004 IngentaConnect August 21, 2004 RSS munging with Urchin August 21, 2004 AWS 4.0 beta August 21, 2004 Rilo Kiley + others August 20, 2004 I wish I had a tripod August 19, 2004 The Guardian Digital Music survey August 18, 2004 ALAC droplet August 18, 2004 Some people say 'Tax the Rich' August 17, 2004 Audio channelling August 17, 2004 OSXPlanet is fantastic August 14, 2004 FLAC → ALAC August 13, 2004 What to do if you're running out of bandwidth August 12, 2004 RSS feeds of playlist recommendations from Playr August 12, 2004 Inducement to Hymn August 12, 2004 JustePort streams audio to an Airport Express August 11, 2004 Create a wishlist of videos to rent August 11, 2004 AllMusic desertion August 5, 2004 Caching media files August 5, 2004 Brain Hacks August 4, 2004 Joggle Tellybot August 4, 2004 Tagged reviews August 3, 2004 Cover art in del.icio.us RSS feeds August 3, 2004 Sidebar stars August 2, 2004 meme destruction project August 2, 2004 rvw! tool repurposed August 1, 2004 deliciousReview of an Airport Express August 1, 2004 AllConsuming book list July 29, 2004 Connected bands July 28, 2004 Cross-cluster navigation July 28, 2004 Nodule Organiser July 28, 2004 Hallowed be thy game July 26, 2004 Punk Voter playlist July 23, 2004 PageRank 10 sites July 23, 2004 PubMed search field tags July 23, 2004 PDF warning from CSS July 22, 2004 A 13.8GB torrent July 21, 2004 Open Source + Television July 18, 2004 DRM denial July 17, 2004 CacheM3U July 16, 2004 Mobile RFID reader July 16, 2004 Feed autodetection in Firefox July 16, 2004 iPapers July 15, 2004 BioMail July 14, 2004 OMG - NoMusic July 13, 2004 HTML2wget2M3U2mpg123 July 11, 2004 BBC News video console July 11, 2004 wget M3U playlist files July 10, 2004 MP3 blog playlists July 10, 2004 Simpler TODO RSS feed July 10, 2004 Music to go to sleep by July 9, 2004 Audioscrobbler Browser bugfix July 4, 2004 Twitch 14 July 3, 2004 CrossRef/Google search July 3, 2004 Choose your open access with Springer July 3, 2004 A Ghost Is Born July 2, 2004 RealPlayer 10 beta for OS X July 1, 2004 Getting the web out of the browser July 1, 2004 Data auto-detection in browsers July 1, 2004 Identifying papers with content hashes June 30, 2004 RIS format confusion June 30, 2004 Document publishing diagram June 30, 2004 HubMed.org June 29, 2004 Apple Tiger June 29, 2004 Compressing PDFs containing colour images June 29, 2004 Server switch June 29, 2004 Mail.app, IMAP and Courier June 27, 2004 Torrentbot updates June 22, 2004 Live music from the Sonar festival June 19, 2004 Webjay Alarm Clock June 17, 2004 clevercactus share June 17, 2004 SOAP interface for E-Utilities June 16, 2004 Suprnova discographies (-ish) feed June 16, 2004 Firefox 0.9 June 16, 2004 Favourite albums at/of the moment June 16, 2004 OS X root email account forwarding June 16, 2004 RVW 0.2 June 9, 2004 JEM archives June 8, 2004 Blogdigger Media June 7, 2004 Muziekhobbyist Webradio June 6, 2004 Your kids need drugs June 6, 2004 Pocket Radio June 4, 2004 Goliath X June 3, 2004 Scopus links from HubMed June 3, 2004 DrupalEd and DrupalBlog June 3, 2004 OME June 2, 2004 HubMed history tab June 2, 2004 Music file data hashes June 2, 2004 All Back To Mine May 31, 2004 rvw! formatter May 30, 2004 Détente May 29, 2004 Boosh on TV May 29, 2004 Elsevier author self-archiving May 28, 2004 Server co-op May 26, 2004 PNAS offers Open Access option May 24, 2004 Real BBC Radio May 23, 2004 That Man Will Not Hang May 21, 2004 Bastet May 20, 2004 Swervedriver May 20, 2004 MP3.com May 17, 2004 Safari vulnerability May 17, 2004 Google Groups Atom feeds May 17, 2004 Printing from Windows 98 to a shared CUPS printer on Panther using SAMBA May 17, 2004 Endnote incompatibility May 17, 2004 Infomediaries May 16, 2004 Sente: like iTunes, for biomedical literature May 16, 2004 Penance Soirée May 15, 2004 Red Cross reports May 15, 2004 Dropload May 11, 2004 Fillable, home-networked file servers May 11, 2004 HubMed search box May 11, 2004 RSS feeds for new album releases May 10, 2004 Rock Ahoy May 10, 2004 A big red blip May 9, 2004 Synchronized Multimedia Working Group May 8, 2004 Printer sharing May 8, 2004 The Golden Apples of the Sun May 7, 2004 Hey Hey 16k May 6, 2004 Franz Ferdinand 2004-04-22 May 6, 2004 prefuse visualisation toolkit May 6, 2004 Electric Chill Noise May 4, 2004 Searching scientific papers online May 3, 2004 Unbinding May 3, 2004 iPod pricing May 3, 2004 Returned-to Albums May 2, 2004 FNAC listings in Paris concerts RSS feed May 1, 2004 Be Not Afraid April 30, 2004 Blosxom 3 April 28, 2004 iTunes 4.5 April 28, 2004 Flickr photo badging April 27, 2004 GeneInfoViz April 27, 2004 Inline del.icio.us April 27, 2004 Random MP3.com playlist April 26, 2004 Inline Musilog April 25, 2004 Academic PDF workflow April 23, 2004 Collaborative playlists April 22, 2004 Current advantages of IM clients April 21, 2004 Follow mouse focus in X11 windows April 21, 2004 DaFONT April 21, 2004 Lab notebook database system April 21, 2004 Genotyping a meme April 20, 2004 OS X fonts in GTK2/Gimp April 20, 2004 Google ads April 19, 2004 Unicode vs Latin-1 April 19, 2004 Pixies Reunion Show April 16, 2004 PDF Browser plugin April 14, 2004 CulturePool April 13, 2004 ImageMagick 6 April 13, 2004 musiCompass April 12, 2004 TV torrent/RSS automation April 12, 2004 Spillsbury April 11, 2004 Fibonacci Ratios and Musical Intervals April 10, 2004 A shared word processor-bibliographic manager interface April 9, 2004 Musiclogging from Winamp April 8, 2004 Torrentbot Pt 2 April 8, 2004 Torrentbot April 8, 2004 Smell the satire April 7, 2004 Musiclogging April 6, 2004 MLtorrents bookmarklet April 5, 2004 Wonderfalls April 5, 2004 ml_www April 4, 2004 Outcesticide Set April 3, 2004 The live music archive is huge April 3, 2004 Repaying generosity April 3, 2004 BitTorrent command line client on OS X April 2, 2004 Bitcollider April 2, 2004 Entrez search updates April 2, 2004 MediaSeek April 2, 2004 Link extraction bookmarklet for Webjay March 31, 2004 User-centric data services March 31, 2004 AIBrainz March 31, 2004 AMG New Releases March 30, 2004 Gimp.app March 30, 2004 Album cover art tagging for Windows March 28, 2004 TV Shows March 28, 2004 OpenURL Router March 25, 2004 Text mining March 25, 2004 Science Commons March 24, 2004 Remembering konspire March 24, 2004 Music ownership in an open, online database March 23, 2004 PerlPrimer March 22, 2004 Music Publishers, Sales and Metadata March 22, 2004 Atomly March 22, 2004 HubMed SVG graphs March 19, 2004 Free Software directory March 15, 2004 LIARS March 12, 2004 Playr update March 10, 2004 Time Shifting March 10, 2004 pyget***** March 9, 2004 SHN and FLAC tools March 8, 2004 X11 on OS X March 8, 2004 Acknowledgements March 8, 2004 LaTeX add-ons March 8, 2004 LaTeX for Dummies March 8, 2004 LaTeX for the Modern Age March 8, 2004 How To Find (More Of) What You Want March 8, 2004 iPod Whamb skin with volume March 7, 2004 Join groups, find better music March 6, 2004 propa' mash-up ragga-rave dubplate bloodclot jungle tekno tour-de-force March 6, 2004 Semantic HiFi March 5, 2004 Document Handling LinkDump March 5, 2004 /cores March 5, 2004 Sparklines March 2, 2004 Closed-access data from open-acces publications March 1, 2004 HubMed Atom feeds March 1, 2004 Power laws and purchasing priorities February 29, 2004 One World in March February 29, 2004 Audioscrobbler Browser update February 29, 2004 Darkplace February 29, 2004 reviewsKimya Dawson February 28, 2004 Netlabel Catalogue February 27, 2004 Releasing Mac Word 6.0 February 27, 2004 Groupthinking, but on which side? February 26, 2004 The Advancement of Science and Culture February 25, 2004 Ranchero's Big Cat Scripts plugin February 25, 2004 Movable Type 'Edit This Entry' bookmarklet February 25, 2004 AdvanceMAME February 25, 2004 Zoom Player February 24, 2004 LaTeX February 20, 2004 GTK/Panther February 20, 2004 RAM February 19, 2004 Yahoo search bookmarklet February 19, 2004 Mperia February 17, 2004 Jukebox 45 MP3 collection for £3.99 February 13, 2004 Recommend playlists with Flickr February 13, 2004 Berlin Bastard Lesson February 12, 2004 Raster Noton February 11, 2004 Reviewr February 11, 2004 reviewsSubviral RNA February 11, 2004 America's Sweetheart February 10, 2004 Dear Microsoft Word February 10, 2004 Listening post February 10, 2004 DeepVacuum [OS X] February 8, 2004 Throttled [OS X] February 8, 2004 CiteSpace February 3, 2004 Open-source audio, tools for endless music [OS X] February 3, 2004 OmniaMea February 2, 2004 EndNote PubMed import filter February 2, 2004 Compiling an MP3-playing Helix Client on Panther February 1, 2004 Helix developer grants February 1, 2004 NetNewsWire has no Atom February 1, 2004 Ecto final January 31, 2004 betterPropaganda January 30, 2004 QuickTime for M3U January 30, 2004 Kazaa/Kapsule test needed January 30, 2004 Emotilinks January 30, 2004 USB floppy drive with Red Hat Linux January 29, 2004 Install Classic after Panther January 29, 2004 Primer design for cDNA amplification January 29, 2004 Vienna RNA January 28, 2004 It's called I Like January 26, 2004 Webjay.org January 26, 2004 Nothing in return January 25, 2004 Playlist bookmarklet update January 25, 2004 Sente January 23, 2004 Automatically update iTunes library with daapd January 23, 2004 Earth Map Desktop January 22, 2004 MacGDE January 22, 2004 Musicplasma January 22, 2004 iTunes Music Store RSS Generator January 22, 2004 MTCommentAuthorLink January 21, 2004 M3U playlists page January 20, 2004 Artemis sequence viewer January 20, 2004 iTunes Opener January 19, 2004 JPEGs progress January 18, 2004 Pick of the bastard pops January 18, 2004 RealPlayer 10 installation January 18, 2004 Copper, prions and TSE January 18, 2004 Suprnova RSS feed January 18, 2004 HubMed print-friendly pages January 17, 2004 Scientific stories January 17, 2004 MP3 to M3U or SMIL playlist January 16, 2004 Return of the Mac January 14, 2004 kX project and AVG January 14, 2004 Firebird Tabbrowser Extensions January 11, 2004 Morality of software patches January 11, 2004 Transmission 3000 January 10, 2004 Pitchfork Singles of 2003 January 7, 2004 Are you feeling throaty? January 7, 2004 1&1 free hosting January 7, 2004 largehearted boy January 5, 2004 What a difference a year makes January 5, 2004 Linking to MusicBrainz January 5, 2004 Fountain of Youth January 4, 2004 Collections of music files from distributed sources January 3, 2004 Trying this again January 2, 2004 iBook display problems? January 1, 2004 2003 Festive Fifty January 1, 2004 Happy New Year January 1, 2004 Some contributions to saving the internet December 31, 2003 Who represents my points of view December 31, 2003 Scientists for Dean December 31, 2003 Social software interfaces December 31, 2003 Movable Type plugins December 31, 2003 Using religion for aggression December 31, 2003 Playlist distribution December 31, 2003 GPSWeb December 31, 2003 RPXP web service December 19, 2003 MLDonkey [OS X] December 19, 2003 Vocal removal December 19, 2003 Pester December 18, 2003 Make GTK apps pretty December 17, 2003 MAD plugin eats track numbers December 17, 2003 The Signaling Gateway December 16, 2003 Movable Type on Windows XP December 16, 2003 XStream Radio December 16, 2003 SourceForge December 16, 2003 No Fink December 12, 2003 Fluorescence microscopy movies December 12, 2003 GoFigure December 12, 2003 Rumoured demise of BioMedNet December 11, 2003 SemBlogBibMan December 9, 2003 Not safe for work December 9, 2003 RDF for last played tracks, via Audioscrobbler December 9, 2003 MP3 blogs are switched on December 7, 2003 RSS feed for Paris concerts December 7, 2003 Google irregularity December 6, 2003 Festival Octopus December 4, 2003 Azureus December 4, 2003 0day audio December 4, 2003 Kid 606 video December 4, 2003 Album continuum December 3, 2003 Laptop DJ December 3, 2003 Firebird [OS X] December 3, 2003 Playlist tracklisting update December 3, 2003 WEASEL December 2, 2003 Electromagnetism December 2, 2003 QOTSA/Kyuss circle of collaboration December 1, 2003 musictouchgraphBBC Radio interface November 30, 2003 The Shins on KCRW November 29, 2003 Unfree the music November 28, 2003 Movable Type spam vulnerability November 26, 2003 French-speaking weblog rankings November 24, 2003 QTFairUse November 23, 2003 Got FOAF November 23, 2003 cgi_buffer November 22, 2003 blam2 for trial November 22, 2003 Vorbis updates November 21, 2003 BibDesk November 21, 2003 The perfect email November 20, 2003 Singingfish November 20, 2003 GLC November 19, 2003 bleep.com November 18, 2003 Free- or donation-ware updates for Panther November 18, 2003 You will require... November 8, 2003 XML for individual entries November 6, 2003 Eugene Garfield commentaries November 6, 2003 Styling RSS with CSS to make it browser-friendly November 6, 2003 SciDev Open Access section November 5, 2003 Reviews-enabled Movable Type November 5, 2003 Sublime electronica November 5, 2003 Excel add-in to remove low numbers November 4, 2003 Fixed the blaxm reviews exchange November 3, 2003 Blogware with reviews metadata November 2, 2003 A Tune Called Grin October 31, 2003 Longhorn October 30, 2003 iTunes playlist hint October 29, 2003 Facil-o-SMIL update for M3U and CC October 29, 2003 Phrase searching in PubMed October 28, 2003 The Knowledge Society October 28, 2003 FlowJo October 28, 2003 Wow. A big clock. October 28, 2003 PlayLouder MSP October 27, 2003 Soulseek recommendations October 25, 2003 WinAMP5 October 25, 2003 PDC Pokemon October 24, 2003 Fink upgrade for gcc 3.3 October 24, 2003 Google Glossary October 22, 2003 PLOS Biology October 21, 2003 Chutes Too Narrow October 19, 2003 Constant playlist October 18, 2003 Facil-o-SMIL October 18, 2003 Weed October 18, 2003 GNU Privacy Guard October 18, 2003 OS X IM: MSN IS ON October 18, 2003 PLOS Biology trackbacks in HubMed October 17, 2003 PLOS Biology October 17, 2003 From The Ashes October 17, 2003 Stop the Leaks October 16, 2003 tunA October 15, 2003 Empty pages in search results October 15, 2003 Steam [OS X] October 13, 2003 Calendar events from XHTML October 13, 2003 Sound October 12, 2003 In defence of open access October 10, 2003 EMusic pricing changes October 9, 2003 Digital Accretion October 9, 2003 Daily MP3s from Pitchforkmedia October 9, 2003 Albums Of The Year (so far) October 8, 2003 Dynamo playlist October 7, 2003 Pure Data DSP software October 7, 2003 Open Source Democracy October 6, 2003 Bad spiders October 6, 2003 Mercora October 6, 2003 Boom Selected October 2, 2003 HeadCloud October 2, 2003 Flat-fee P2P model October 2, 2003 Neuro-info-transmitters October 2, 2003 What's on my docks? October 2, 2003 Metadata in the MetaWeblog API October 1, 2003 RDF review vocabulary October 1, 2003 The Wellcome Trust supports open access October 1, 2003 Shareable playlists October 1, 2003 Bloglines recommendations October 1, 2003 Mini-links RSS feed September 30, 2003 Research Mapper September 30, 2003 Downstream September 29, 2003 iWebCal September 29, 2003 Dynamic event files September 29, 2003 Freak Up, Look Smart September 28, 2003 X11 goodies September 25, 2003 Export an event from a web page to iCal September 25, 2003 Terminally ill September 24, 2003 iCal events from web pages September 24, 2003 Fingertips September 24, 2003 NatureEvents September 24, 2003 KDE September 24, 2003 Share The Music September 22, 2003 Jumbled words September 22, 2003 Equinox September 19, 2003 Syncato September 18, 2003 WSIL for blogroll autodiscovery September 17, 2003 TV listings and audio streaming licensing September 17, 2003 Worst Jobs in Science September 17, 2003 Digital marketplace summary September 16, 2003 UK data surveillance measures September 16, 2003 Intellectual is not physical September 16, 2003 Collective payment September 15, 2003 ICARIS 2003 September 10, 2003 The importance of open access for semantic research September 10, 2003 DEVONagent [OS X] September 9, 2003 Polished turds September 9, 2003 Fame *and* fortune (if you're good enough) September 9, 2003 Open source bibliography format September 8, 2003 biologging September 8, 2003 Science and Religion forum September 8, 2003 Scientific publishing September 7, 2003 Konspire radio channel September 7, 2003 Subscribe to comments September 5, 2003 Trackbacks September 4, 2003 Nicotine September 4, 2003 Waypath September 4, 2003 my.PubMed RSS feeds September 4, 2003 Musical interlude September 4, 2003 Biotech protocols September 2, 2003 Smokescreen September 1, 2003 Openam.com subdomains August 29, 2003 Armagetron Tron clone August 26, 2003 NetNewsWire with WebKit August 26, 2003 Fun with XMLTV August 26, 2003 Peel Sessions August 25, 2003 The return of OpenAm August 25, 2003 BBC Creative Archive August 25, 2003 radioLaw Enforcement Against Prohibition August 21, 2003 EarthStation5 August 21, 2003 MSN network rejigged August 21, 2003 Tofu August 21, 2003 Album cover artwork August 21, 2003 FreakMachine August 20, 2003 Human Knowledge Navigator August 14, 2003 Peer review under scrutiny August 11, 2003 Tools for handling information August 11, 2003 mCode August 9, 2003 Classification of associations August 9, 2003 Morale-o-Meter August 9, 2003 Miranda IM August 9, 2003 PRISM for RDF August 9, 2003 Who's going to pay? August 8, 2003 Perception August 8, 2003 BluFilter August 8, 2003 Trillian Pro 2.0 beta August 7, 2003 Protein Interaction Browser August 7, 2003 Music Browser repaired August 6, 2003 109 August 6, 2003 Jobs as RSS extensions August 6, 2003 Quick Release August 5, 2003 Test August 1, 2003 OpenAm linking July 31, 2003 Rock-It Launcher July 30, 2003 AOL Journals July 29, 2003 Myths and legends of file sharing July 29, 2003 OS X Show Desktop July 28, 2003 The same thing, again July 28, 2003 Digital sales network July 25, 2003 YAPC July 25, 2003 Buy back continues July 22, 2003 blosxom.com July 21, 2003 Vague memories July 21, 2003 Amazon tracks search box July 18, 2003 Perl Culture July 18, 2003 We're all going straight to hell :-) July 17, 2003 BioMed Central links July 17, 2003 Faculty of 1000 links July 17, 2003 Open bibliography software July 15, 2003 Musical artifacts July 11, 2003 WireTap July 11, 2003 The Marigolds July 9, 2003 The Holy Grail July 9, 2003 Audioscrobbler + last.fm July 9, 2003 Safari FullScreen bookmarklet July 9, 2003 BioMed Central articles in one big zip July 9, 2003 Negative Feedback on eBay July 9, 2003 Copyright for scientific papers in Eprint archives July 7, 2003 Performance at the cost of expansibility July 7, 2003 I (heart symbol) MP3 July 7, 2003 When Fireworks Attack July 7, 2003 Online electronic hardware stores July 7, 2003 TouchGraph LiveJournal Browser July 7, 2003 Zane Lowe on Radio 1 July 4, 2003 Clutter update July 2, 2003 Endnote v7 July 2, 2003 RSS legacy July 2, 2003 Did you know? July 2, 2003 Open access conference reports June 30, 2003 Phone GPS June 30, 2003 Searching for the social benefits of technological progress June 30, 2003 EFF seeks P2P licensing scheme June 27, 2003 Cites and Insights July June 27, 2003 Public Access to Science Act June 27, 2003 Blosxom rating plugin June 27, 2003 PithHelmet June 25, 2003 NITLE Blog Census API June 25, 2003 Blogs ! US June 25, 2003 Concept clustering June 25, 2003 Molecular Graphics on OS X June 25, 2003 How I got Soulseek to work on OS X June 25, 2003 Handy hints June 25, 2003 Public Library of Science June 24, 2003 ID card consultation figures June 20, 2003 Nature PDF content extraction June 20, 2003 OpenURL draft standard June 20, 2003 Politics and the English Language June 20, 2003 Four Tet Favourites June 18, 2003 Costs of illicit MP3 downloading June 18, 2003 Spoogefest June 12, 2003 Unicode characters in HubMed June 11, 2003 Paid for software June 10, 2003 Site redesign June 10, 2003 Ontologies in scientific research June 10, 2003 Concert listings June 10, 2003 PDF annotation June 10, 2003 Spared from internet hell June 10, 2003 Political positioning June 6, 2003 Technicalities of a P2P Music Market June 5, 2003 Modelling social interactions June 5, 2003 Andromeda on OS X May 29, 2003 Back on Track May 27, 2003 RVW specification May 27, 2003 Jack Valenti says May 26, 2003 kast/konspire2b May 21, 2003 Come Together May 21, 2003 Emergence May 20, 2003 iTunes script May 20, 2003 Emusic signs Beggars Group May 20, 2003 Principles of Emergent Democracy May 20, 2003 Lo-Fi May 19, 2003 Jabber notification of new referrers May 19, 2003 LameBrain May 18, 2003 Kwiki and VoodooPad May 17, 2003 Music recommendations May 17, 2003 Technorati API in blaxm! May 17, 2003 If they want to do this the hard way... May 17, 2003 SFX/OpenURL interview May 16, 2003 Advertoys May 16, 2003 Nodalpoint - moderated bioinformatics papers from PubMed May 15, 2003 RVW success May 14, 2003 Test review for RVW markup in RSS 2.0 May 14, 2003 Photopal May 14, 2003 Geograffiti May 14, 2003 RVW format in RSS 2.0 May 14, 2003 Video Sans Frontieres May 14, 2003 The Scientist in RSS May 14, 2003 RVW format in RSS May 14, 2003 Arrowsmith May 13, 2003 WinAMP AAC/MP4 input plugin May 13, 2003 iSuck May 13, 2003 iTunes, again May 13, 2003 Global Friendster visualisation May 13, 2003 Peer-to-peer search spidering May 9, 2003 DRM within AAC files May 8, 2003 Processing Soda May 8, 2003 Improving science through online commentary May 8, 2003 RVW standard metadata format for reviews May 7, 2003 DJ Martian's page May 6, 2003 iTunes download May 5, 2003 FOS News catchup May 4, 2003 Scrobbleyou May 4, 2003 On The Wire May 1, 2003 EMusic upgrade May 1, 2003 iTunes 4 May 1, 2003 Electric Six - Fire April 30, 2003 iTunes Music Store top downloads April 30, 2003 CD industry seeks niche April 29, 2003 Echocloud April 29, 2003 Music licensing April 27, 2003 Semantic blogging demonstrator April 27, 2003 Modular, extensible RDF April 27, 2003 TouchGraph Audioscrobbler Browser April 26, 2003 Antisocial behaviour in online communities April 26, 2003 Laszlo April 22, 2003 The World Live Web April 21, 2003 Finding people April 21, 2003 The Wipers - Box Set -- Is This Real April 21, 2003 Librarians on the offensive April 20, 2003 Environmental Noise Retards Auditory Cortical Development April 20, 2003 The liberation will not be nationalised April 19, 2003 Fire with intent April 19, 2003 Thinkbot April 18, 2003 Globe Alive April 17, 2003 Journal of Mammalogy April 17, 2003 Open Access April 16, 2003 EQUATOR April 15, 2003 Last.fm April 15, 2003 Completion of the Human Genome Project April 15, 2003 RDF braindump April 14, 2003 WaveFinder, DAB April 14, 2003 Microsound April 13, 2003 Sumeria April 13, 2003 George Boosh April 11, 2003 Terrestrial jukebox April 10, 2003 Not content April 10, 2003 Summarise this April 10, 2003 Queens of the Stone Age - Feel Good Hit of the Summer April 10, 2003 Many to many April 10, 2003 Digital video April 10, 2003 Digital music streaming April 9, 2003 An excellent lab web page April 8, 2003 W3C drafting, drifting April 8, 2003 Internet Explorer 6 April 8, 2003 Winamp 2.9 April 6, 2003 Phoenix April 6, 2003 Clarity of Writing April 6, 2003 a miscommunication with civilians April 6, 2003 A few blam! and blaxm! updates April 6, 2003 Not in My Name ++ April 5, 2003 Some radio shows April 5, 2003 Automata and visualisation April 5, 2003 Complexity Digest RSS April 5, 2003 Political fiction April 5, 2003 Distributing music on plastic discs one album at a time April 4, 2003 Discussion from CTO forum April 4, 2003 Blueprint for phased access journals April 4, 2003 MP3 ripping and encoding benchmark April 3, 2003 New Clinic album April 3, 2003 A Tune April 3, 2003 Rock & Roll Library April 2, 2003 More sites on sticks April 1, 2003 The day music became priceless April 1, 2003 blaxm!, FOAF, RSS March 31, 2003 MP3 track IDs March 31, 2003 Death of an activist March 29, 2003 Iraqi opposition March 29, 2003 Web applications March 28, 2003 Anacubis visual Google March 27, 2003 BeOS file system with metadata for OS X March 26, 2003 BioinforMatrix March 26, 2003 AcroMed March 26, 2003 FOAF Browser March 26, 2003 Thinkbot March 25, 2003 Lock down March 25, 2003 Empire March 21, 2003 A global discussion forum, by invitation only. March 21, 2003 Techgnosis March 20, 2003 blam! + Radio March 20, 2003 blam! + Blogger March 19, 2003 XNap hint for OS X March 19, 2003 Standardised review metadata March 19, 2003 blam! + Moveable Type March 19, 2003 OAI searches from HubMed March 18, 2003 Newzcrawler update March 18, 2003 IMDB moveabletype hack March 18, 2003 Amazon CD track listings March 17, 2003 Not unexpectedly pleasant March 17, 2003 blam!: Amazon review creator March 17, 2003 Research buy-back March 15, 2003 Endnote March 15, 2003 MP3 Sushi March 15, 2003 But why? March 15, 2003 Making money March 13, 2003 ScienceDirect Backfiles March 13, 2003 A simplified valuation of commoditised art March 12, 2003 Apple Java Hooray March 11, 2003 iBook USB FM radio tuner March 11, 2003 More mini-things March 10, 2003 Digital collection and peer review March 10, 2003 SpirographX March 10, 2003 Biopedia March 8, 2003 The Ends of the Internet March 7, 2003 biologging part 2 March 6, 2003 Oral traditions in online communication March 4, 2003 Value of music March 4, 2003 Biologging March 4, 2003 Spiders March 3, 2003 Citation Trackbacks March 3, 2003 Keyboard shortcuts March 2, 2003 GiftBoX March 2, 2003 CNPS March 2, 2003 AllAbstracts bookmarklet March 2, 2003 Citation Maps February 28, 2003 Science Citation Index February 27, 2003 Medscape Headlines in RSS February 25, 2003 iScrobbler February 25, 2003 Open Access Literature Part III February 24, 2003 Open Access Literature Part II February 23, 2003 Visualisations of political polarisation February 23, 2003 Better late than never February 22, 2003 Andromeda/PHP on OS X February 18, 2003 Open Access Literature February 18, 2003 HubLink February 17, 2003 allmusic-to-magnet-URI bookmarklet February 15, 2003 Semantic Blogging and Bibliographies February 15, 2003 Linking Services February 14, 2003 Nice Titles February 14, 2003 EndNote import filter updated February 13, 2003 endnotehubmedExceptions to copyright February 10, 2003 Latent Semantic Indexing February 9, 2003 Fair use February 7, 2003 Proper P2P February 7, 2003 Taking the internet outside February 7, 2003 The Infography February 7, 2003 Safari cookies February 2, 2003 cookiessafariTOC alerts January 31, 2003 alertsnewsreaderpushrsszetoc evaluation January 31, 2003 ParaTools January 27, 2003 citationparaciteparsingIntegrated Comments and TrackBacks January 25, 2003 commentstrackbackFixed TouchGraph scripts January 23, 2003 applettouchgraphvisualisationCitation parser update January 22, 2003 citationparsereferencesCollaboration Network Browser January 22, 2003 Analogies with TrackBack variants January 21, 2003 analogiesbiomedicalliteraturenetworksself-organisingtrackbackMake A List January 21, 2003 collaborativelisttrackbackweblogEDINA Join-Up January 20, 2003 openurlCitation matcher updated for multiple references January 20, 2003 citationparseRIS citation export file suffix January 20, 2003 exportfilerisCitation matching January 18, 2003 citationopcitparseHubLog RSS update January 18, 2003 hublogrssTrackBack January 18, 2003 trackbackAlternative software for community-driven literature management January 15, 2003 blogcommunitysitesoftwarePersonal/group publishing January 15, 2003 knowledgeliteraturepersonalpublishingwebImmunoLog launched January 15, 2003 collaborativejournalJoining the dots - advances in online biomedical literature management. January 14, 2003 biomedicalknowledgeliteraturemanagementSafari, TouchGraph update January 11, 2003 touchgraphSFX Lookup bookmarklet January 10, 2003 bookmarkletsfx03-01-08: Perl scripts for organising PDFs January 9, 2003 acrobatperl03-01-03: Library Lookup ISSN bookmarklet January 9, 2003 bookmarkletlibrarylookup03-01-03: Experimental links January 9, 2003 citationdoi02-12-20: Gnutella P2P January 9, 2003 gnutellamagnetp2p02-12-16: BibTex output January 9, 2003 bibtexpubmed02-12-08: Endnote and RIS import filters January 9, 2003 endnoteexportpubmed02-12-04: Related Articles algorithm January 9, 2003 articlespubmedrelated02-12-03: LinkOut URLs January 9, 2003 fulltextlinkoutpubmed02-12-02: PubMed Javascript January 9, 2003 javascriptpubmed02-11-25: HubMed online. January 9, 2003 perlpubmedutilitiesxml feeds-feedburner-com-7326 ---- None feeds-feedburner-com-7348 ---- None feeds-feedburner-com-7501 ---- None feeds-feedburner-com-8030 ---- None feeds-feedburner-com-8090 ---- None feeds-feedburner-com-8312 ---- None feeds-feedburner-com-8802 ---- None feeds-feedburner-com-8829 ---- None feeds-feedburner-com-9140 ---- Dan Cohen Dan Cohen Vice Provost, Dean, and Professor at Northeastern University When We Look Back on 2020, What Will We See? It is far too early to understand what happened in this historic year of 2020, but not too soon to grasp what we will write that history from: data—really big data, gathered from our devices and ourselves. Sometimes a new technology provides an important lens through which a historical event is recorded, viewed, and remembered. […] More than THAT “Less talk, more grok.” That was one of our early mottos at THATCamp, The Humanities and Technology Camp, which started at the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason University in 2008. It was a riff on “Less talk, more rock,” the motto of WAAF, the hard rock station in Worcester, Massachusetts. And […] Humane Ingenuity: My New Newsletter With the start of this academic year, I’m launching a new newsletter to explore technology that helps rather than hurts human understanding, and human understanding that helps us create better technology. It’s called Humane Ingenuity, and you can subscribe here. (It’s free, just drop your email address into that link.) Subscribers to this blog know […] Engagement Is the Enemy of Serendipity Whenever I’m grumpy about an update to a technology I use, I try to perform a self-audit examining why I’m unhappy about this change. It’s a helpful exercise since we are all by nature resistant to even minor alterations to the technologies we use every day (which is why website redesign is now a synonym […] On the Response to My Atlantic Essay on the Decline in the Use of Print Books in Universities I was not expecting—but was gratified to see—an enormous response to my latest piece in The Atlantic, “The Books of College Libraries Are Turning Into Wallpaper,” on the seemingly inexorable decline in the circulation of print books on campus. I’m not sure that I’ve ever written anything that has generated as much feedback, commentary, and […] What’s New Season 2 Wrap-up With the end of the academic year at Northeastern University, the library wraps up our What’s New podcast, an interview series with researchers who help us understand, in plainspoken ways, some of the latest discoveries and ideas about our world. This year’s slate of podcasts, like last year’s, was extraordinarily diverse, ranging from the threat […] When a Presidential Library Is Digital I’ve got a new piece over at The Atlantic on Barack Obama’s prospective presidential library, which will be digital rather than physical. This has caused some consternation. We need to realize, however, that the Obama library is already largely digital: The vast majority of the record his presidency left behind consists not of evocative handwritten […] Robin Sloan’s Fusion of Technology and Humanity When Roy Rosenzweig and I wrote Digital History 15 years ago, we spent a lot of time thinking about the overall tone and approach of the book. It seemed to us that there were, on the one hand, a lot of our colleagues in professional history who were adamantly opposed to the use of digital […] Presidential Libraries and the Digitization of Our Lives Buried in the recent debates (New York Times, Chicago Tribune, The Public Historian) about the nature, objectives, and location of the Obama Presidential Center is the inexorable move toward a world in which virtually all of the documentation about our lives is digital. To make this decades-long shift—now almost complete—clear, I made the following infographic […] Kathleen Fitzpatrick’s Generous Thinking Generosity and thoughtfulness are not in abundance right now, and so Kathleen Fitzpatrick‘s important new book, Generous Thinking: A Radical Approach to Saving the University, is wholeheartedly welcome. The generosity Kathleen seeks relates to lost virtues, such as listening to others and deconstructing barriers between groups. As such, Generous Thinking can be helpfully read alongside […] feeds-feedburner-com-9249 ---- Hanging Together Hanging Together the OCLC Research blog The way forward to a more open future … together On 5 November 2020, Astrid Verheusen (Executive Director of LIBER), and OCLC Research program officers Rebecca Bryant and Titia van der Werf presented a webinar to summarize the OCLC-LIBER Open Science Discussion Series. This … The post The way forward to a more open future … together appeared first on Hanging Together. さようなら (Sayōnara) This is my 116th—and last—blog post. I’m retiring at the end of November, something I’ve deferred as I’ve had such a great time hanging with all of you—staff at our … The post さようなら (Sayōnara) appeared first on Hanging Together. OCLC-LIBER Open Science Discussion on Citizen Science Thanks to Sarah Bartlett, technology writer, for contributing this guest blog post. How is Citizen Science—the active contribution of the general public in scientific research activities—developing, and what should research … The post OCLC-LIBER Open Science Discussion on Citizen Science appeared first on Hanging Together. OCLC Research and the National Finding Aid Network project We are very pleased to share details about our involvement in the Building a National Finding Aid Network project, which has received funding from the Institute of Museum and Library Services. OCLC will be working with the University … The post OCLC Research and the National Finding Aid Network project appeared first on Hanging Together. OCLC-LIBER Open Science Discussion on Research Integrity What does research integrity mean in an ideal open science ecosystem and how can libraries contribute to heighten professional ethics and standards required by open science? The sixth session of … The post OCLC-LIBER Open Science Discussion on Research Integrity appeared first on Hanging Together. OCLC-LIBER Open Science Discussion on Skills I had the pleasure of attending the OCLC-LIBER Open Science Skills discussion. Before sketching the landscape of the ideal future state, one of the participants suggested we start with a … The post OCLC-LIBER Open Science Discussion on Skills appeared first on Hanging Together. OCLC-LIBER Open Science Discussion on Metrics and Rewards What is the role of metrics and rewards in an ideal open science ecosystem? What are the challenges in getting there? What would collective action look like? The fourth session … The post OCLC-LIBER Open Science Discussion on Metrics and Rewards appeared first on Hanging Together. OCLC-LIBER Open Science Discussion on Research Infrastructures and the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) Thanks to Astrid Verheusen, Executive Director of LIBER, for contributing this guest blog post. What is the ideal future vision for the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) in the global … The post OCLC-LIBER Open Science Discussion on Research Infrastructures and the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) appeared first on Hanging Together. OCLC-LIBER Open Science Discussion on the FAIR Principles What is the ideal future vision of an open science ecosystem supporting FAIR data? What are the challenges in getting there? These were the topics of the second installment of … The post OCLC-LIBER Open Science Discussion on the FAIR Principles appeared first on Hanging Together. OCLC-LIBER Open Science Discussion on Scholarly Publishing Recently OCLC Research and LIBER (the Association of European Research Libraries) hosted the first of seven small group discussions comprising the OCLC-LIBER Open Science Discussion Series. This discussion series, which … The post OCLC-LIBER Open Science Discussion on Scholarly Publishing appeared first on Hanging Together. feeds-feedburner-com-9284 ---- None feeds-fiander-info-4535 ---- Rapid Communications Rapid Communications Rapid, but irregular, communications from the frontiers of Library Technology Mac OS vs Emacs: Getting on the right (exec) PATH Finding ISBNs in the the digits of π Software Upgrades and The Parable of the Windows Using QR Codes in the Library A Manifesto for the Library I'm a Shover and Maker! LITA Tears Down the Walls A (Half) Year in Books The Desk Set Drinking Game July Book a Month Challenge: Independence June Book a Month Challenge: Knowledge Anthony Hope and the Triumph of the Public Domain May Book a Month Challenge: Mother Eric S. 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Deadline: 12 Oct. #code4lib code4lib https://twitter.com/ https://pinboard.in/u:miaridge/b:e26e92731fb6/ 20 - C4L [5] Future Role of Libraries in Researcher Workflows - Google Slides 2020-03-11T00:13:42+00:00 https://t.co/JCoE2mVhD5 elibtronic research-lifecycle code4lib publish scholarly-communication https://pinboard.in/u:elibtronic/b:7282952b4f7a/ Twitter 2020-02-18T09:20:53+00:00 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1229697282284625920 aarontay New issue of the The #Code4Lib Journal published. Some terrific looking papers, including a review of PIDs for heri… Code4Lib https://twitter.com/ https://pinboard.in/u:aarontay/b:8525b50b475d/ (500) https://journal.code4lib.org/ 2020-02-18T08:24:34+00:00 https://journal.code4lib.org/ miaridge RT @kiru: I am very happy to announce the publication of the @Code4Lib Journal issue #47: webscraping… 47 code4lib https://twitter.com/ https://pinboard.in/u:miaridge/b:8f5c33d4d11c/ The Code4Lib Journal – COLUMN: We Love Open Source Software. No, You Can’t Have Our Code 2019-12-09T23:24:08+00:00 https://journal.code4lib.org/articles/527 pfhyper Librarians are among the strongest proponents of open source software. Paradoxically, libraries are also among the least likely to actively contribute their code to open source projects. This article identifies and discusses six main reasons this dichotomy exists and offers ways to get around them. Code4Lib library LIBT opensource finalproject https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:pfhyper/b:4da9d5a48b61/ The Code4Lib Journal – Barriers to Initiation of Open Source Software Projects in Libraries 2019-12-09T23:20:43+00:00 https://journal.code4lib.org/articles/10665 pfhyper Libraries share a number of core values with the Open Source Software (OSS) movement, suggesting there should be a natural tendency toward library participation in OSS projects. However Dale Askey’s 2008 Code4Lib column entitled “We Love Open Source Software. No, You Can’t Have Our Code,” claims that while libraries are strong proponents of OSS, they are unlikely to actually contribute to OSS projects. He identifies, but does not empirically substantiate, six barriers that he believes contribute to this apparent inconsistency. In this study we empirically investigate not only Askey’s central claim but also the six barriers he proposes. In contrast to Askey’s assertion, we find that initiation of and contribution to OSS projects are, in fact, common practices in libraries. However, we also find that these practices are far from ubiquitous; as Askey suggests, many libraries do have opportunities to initiate OSS projects, but choose not to do so. Further, we find support for only four of Askey’s six OSS barriers. Thus, our results confirm many, but not all, of Askey’s assertions. Code4Lib library LIBT opensource finalproject https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:pfhyper/b:74f337d2e129/ Twitter 2019-11-07T05:59:14+00:00 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1191993029948780545 jbfink RT @kiru: The #Code4Lib Journal's issue 46 (2019/4) has been just published: . Worldcat Search API, Go… Code4Lib https://twitter.com/ https://pinboard.in/u:jbfink/b:d0cd0f6754e5/ Twitter 2019-11-01T15:40:51+00:00 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1190292574008987648 jbfink RT @mjingle: Who's excited for the next #code4lib conference?! It will be in Pittsburgh, PA from March 8-11. Is your org interes… code4lib https://twitter.com/ https://pinboard.in/u:jbfink/b:14defc6eb027/ Attempto Project 2019-09-13T09:31:25+00:00 http://attempto.ifi.uzh.ch/site/ blebo nlp basic cnl computationalLinguistics controlledLanguage controlled_language code4lib compsci english knowledgeRepresentation https://pinboard.in/u:blebo/b:5a5b84f3a2fd/ Twitter 2019-08-22T22:54:45+00:00 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1164566585371066368 danbri When our grandchildren ask about the Great #code4lib IRC Battle of the Tisane, we will serve them both tea and coff… code4lib https://twitter.com/ https://pinboard.in/u:danbri/b:3ce9a224628e/ Code4Lib 2019 Recap – bloggERS! 2019-07-23T17:38:41+00:00 https://saaers.wordpress.com/2019/04/02/code4lib-2019-recap/ geephroh code4lib digitallibraries research saa archives https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:geephroh/b:232421afd001/ Digital Technologies Development Librarian | NC State University Libraries 2019-07-09T15:54:39+00:00 https://www.lib.ncsu.edu/jobs/ehra/dtdl2019 cdmorris We're hiring a Digital Technologies Development Librarian @ncsulibraries ! #job #libjobs #code4lib #dlf #libtech dlf libtech code4lib job libjobs https://twitter.com/ https://pinboard.in/u:cdmorris/b:cf25e0f15239/ Twitter 2019-07-03T13:01:26+00:00 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1146403575649787904 jbfink 3) All the men who want to preserve the idea of a #Code4Lib discussion space as one that's free of such topics as s… Code4Lib https://twitter.com/ https://pinboard.in/u:jbfink/b:d2f274738572/ Google Refine cheat sheet (code4lib) 2019-05-31T23:23:19+00:00 https://code4libtoronto.github.io/2018-10-12-access/GoogleRefineCheatSheets.pdf Psammead openRefine code4lib how-to cheatsheet https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:Psammead/b:d34452c7d709/ Untitled (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICbLVnCHpnw) 2019-05-31T19:41:08+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICbLVnCHpnw cdmorris Code4Lib Southeast happening today! Live stream starting at 9:30am eastern. #code4libse2019 #code4lib code4libse2019 code4lib https://twitter.com/ https://pinboard.in/u:cdmorris/b:d06090cf849c/ Twitter 2019-04-12T16:27:34+00:00 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1116739648724897792 lbjay It occurs to me the #code4lib statement of support for Chris Bourg, , offers a better model… code4lib https://twitter.com/ https://pinboard.in/u:lbjay/b:d8424d01c06f/ GitHub - code4lib/c4l18-keynote-statement: Code4Lib Community Statement in Support of Chris Bourg 2019-04-12T16:27:34+00:00 https://github.com/code4lib/c4l18-keynote-statement lbjay It occurs to me the #code4lib statement of support for Chris Bourg, , offers a better model… code4lib https://twitter.com/ https://pinboard.in/u:lbjay/b:80b4ef487c08/ Twitter 2019-03-01T18:42:32+00:00 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1101553322773770240 jbfink Now that the #code4lib Discord is up & running, I'm contemplating leaving Slack overall, with exception for plannin… code4lib https://twitter.com/ https://pinboard.in/u:jbfink/b:c5d0f0ddd90d/ (429) https://twitter.com/palcilibraries/status/1098658932589965312/photo/1 2019-02-22T03:01:16+00:00 https://twitter.com/palcilibraries/status/1098658932589965312/photo/1 cdmorris Talking privacy and RA21 at #c4l19 with Dave Lacy from @TempleLibraries #code4lib c4l19 code4lib https://twitter.com/ https://pinboard.in/u:cdmorris/b:9f144c1c99f8/ SCOPE: An access interface for DIPs from Archivematica 2019-02-21T00:55:32+00:00 https://github.com/CCA-Public/dip-access-interface sdellis archives code4lib https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:sdellis/b:1489ef99d5c6/ Review, Appraisal and Triage of Mail (RATOM) 2019-02-21T00:48:05+00:00 http://ratom.web.unc.edu/ sdellis archives code4lib https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:sdellis/b:5cdd23154090/ National Web Privacy Forum - MSU Library | Montana State University 2019-02-20T21:36:08+00:00 http://www.lib.montana.edu/privacy-forum/ sdellis privacy analytics code4lib https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:sdellis/b:0b1957db96e2/ The Code4Lib Journal 2019-01-16T14:25:26+00:00 https://journal.code4lib.org/ ratledge Code4lib Library_Technology Journal https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:ratledge/b:8a9f4c764b97/ Code4Lib | We are developers and technologists for libraries, museums, and archives who are dedicated to being a diverse and inclusive community, seeking to share ideas and build collaboration. 2018-12-05T14:35:01+00:00 https://code4lib.org/ ratledge Code4lib https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:ratledge/b:113cfc93ccb3/ Twitter 2018-11-15T09:00:52+00:00 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1062993826913099781 verwinv Ne'er had the pleasure to attend #Code4lib myself ... but if you're thinking about it but can't afford to go - ther… Code4lib https://twitter.com/ https://pinboard.in/u:verwinv/b:f42046813ceb/ Twitter 2018-07-26T23:19:49+00:00 https://twitter.com/justindlc/status/1022612508979355649/photo/1 LibrariesVal RT @justindlc: Pre-conference meetup at Ormsby's for Code4Lib Southeast 2018! #code4libse2018 #code4lib code4lib code4libse2018 https://twitter.com/ https://pinboard.in/u:LibrariesVal/b:465c39ad24b0/ Twitter 2018-05-26T00:10:08+00:00 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1000167164471529477 jbfink Thanks @lydia_zv @redlibrarian and Jolene (are you on Twitter, I can find you?) for a great #code4lib day! It was… code4lib https://twitter.com/ https://pinboard.in/u:jbfink/b:64faa19e4bad/ Twitter 2018-05-11T14:55:10+00:00 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/994954070707273728 jbfink My slides and speakers notes from #code4lib #c4ln18 on Ursula Franklin's "Real World of Technology" (which I really… code4lib c4ln18 https://twitter.com/ https://pinboard.in/u:jbfink/b:a2ed9a40fc54/ Twitter 2018-05-10T09:27:02+00:00 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/994509105006956544 jbfink In an unfortunate timing, it appears the code4lib wiki is down the first day of #code4lib North - there's a cache o… code4lib https://twitter.com/ https://pinboard.in/u:jbfink/b:099edcfb623c/ Twitter 2018-05-08T11:57:24+00:00 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/993775574291230720 jbfink RT @kiru: Just off the (word)press: the #Code4Lib Journal issue 40 is available: . Great articles writ… Code4Lib https://twitter.com/ https://pinboard.in/u:jbfink/b:db3c0bb083a8/ The Code4Lib Journal 2018-05-08T11:57:24+00:00 http://journal.code4lib.org/ jbfink RT @kiru: Just off the (word)press: the #Code4Lib Journal issue 40 is available: . Great articles writ… Code4Lib https://twitter.com/ https://pinboard.in/u:jbfink/b:9be441405213/ Twitter 2018-03-22T18:28:45+00:00 https://twitter.com/GitWishes/status/976754075164438528 lbjay this is all of #code4lib working on @bot4lib circa 2012. code4lib https://twitter.com/ https://pinboard.in/u:lbjay/b:3e91697b52b4/ Twitter 2018-03-19T19:07:46+00:00 https://twitter.com/gmcharlt/status/975810223842713601 danbri This is fabulous news for the cultural heritage open source world. Big ups to @code4lib and @CLIRDLF! #code4lib code4lib https://twitter.com/ https://pinboard.in/u:danbri/b:8cbe22ff2f58/ Twitter 2018-03-11T20:39:02+00:00 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/972894218237743105 miaridge RT @achdotorg: We too co-sign the #code4lib Community Statement in Support of @mchris4duke. We continue to admire an honor our col… code4lib https://twitter.com/ https://pinboard.in/u:miaridge/b:cf4f6d5494e3/ code4lib/c4l18-keynote-statement: Code4Lib Community Statement in Support of Chris Bourg 2018-03-10T00:33:33+00:00 https://github.com/code4lib/c4l18-keynote-statement jbfink code4lib github https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jbfink/b:12610b3f6bd6/ Code4Lib Community Statement in Support of Chris Bourg | c4l18-keynote-statement 2018-03-09T22:50:57+00:00 https://code4lib.github.io/c4l18-keynote-statement/ wragge RT @CLIRDLF: We’re proud to stand with the #code4lib community in support of #c4l18 keynoter @mchris4duke: code4lib c4l18 https://twitter.com/ https://pinboard.in/u:wragge/b:d81e2b3e7158/ Matthew Reidsma : Auditing Algorithms 2018-02-20T16:41:34+00:00 https://matthew.reidsrow.com/talks/206 malantonio
    Talks about libraries, technology, and the Web by Matthew Reidsma.
    algorithms bias search libraries technology code4lib code4lib-2018 https://pinboard.in/u:malantonio/b:7dd04c469f56/ For the love of baby unicorns: My Code4Lib 2018 Keynote | Feral Librarian 2018-02-19T17:49:48+00:00 https://chrisbourg.wordpress.com/2018/02/14/for-the-love-of-baby-unicorns-my-code4lib-2018-keynote/ petej code4lib diversity technology libraries inclusion mansplaining https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:petej/b:18d1e6f30875/ JIRA for archives - Google Slides 2018-02-15T14:37:38+00:00 https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1uwYWg04-nT6Qjm-j5HAAvsoH88iKzUCAX0eFBNLcy34/edit#slide=id.g306a7ccaec_0_0 malantonio see https://youtu.be/4cNo3SERnXI?t=1h45m28s for presentation code4lib code4lib-2018 libraries work-life https://pinboard.in/u:malantonio/b:5fc7b215e268/ Twitter 2018-02-07T10:53:30+00:00 https://twitter.com/justin_littman/status/960859481914605568/photo/1 aarontay RT @justin_littman: Peer review of my #code4lib poster on "Where to get Twitter data for academic research." code4lib https://twitter.com/ https://pinboard.in/u:aarontay/b:c54955c97e7d/ Availability Calendar - Kalorama Guest House 2018-01-16T17:55:55+00:00 https://secure.rezovation.com/Reservations/AvailabilityCalendar.aspx?s=UT57fw2WiD skorasaurus KALORAMA GUEST HOUSE CODE4LIB https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:skorasaurus/b:10f300ea6594/ (429) https://twitter.com/i/web/status/941746243352563712 2017-12-20T21:22:21+00:00 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/941746243352563712 DocDre RT @nowviskie: ICYMI: #Code4Lib 2018 registration is open! @mmsubram & @mchris4duke to keynote, reception in the Great Hall… Code4Lib https://twitter.com/ https://pinboard.in/u:DocDre/b:9e19136f92cb/ (429) https://twitter.com/freethefiles/status/938843684572889090/photo/1 2017-12-07T18:52:31+00:00 https://twitter.com/freethefiles/status/938843684572889090/photo/1 verwinv Yay! I'm presenting at #code4lib. And I can say hello to Walter Forsberg, @hbmcd4 and @cristalyze! code4lib https://twitter.com/ https://pinboard.in/u:verwinv/b:86bf904d3371/ (429) https://twitter.com/i/web/status/938488557911576576 2017-12-06T19:21:23+00:00 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/938488557911576576 verwinv Registration for #code4lib is now open! And its being held in #WashingtonDC where our #MemoryLab is - so come visit… WashingtonDC code4lib MemoryLab https://twitter.com/ https://pinboard.in/u:verwinv/b:19769bc2fa8c/ code4lib 2018 - Washington, D.C. 2017-11-13T23:02:58+00:00 http://2018.code4lib.org/ verwinv Last day to vote #code4lib 2018 program! don't forget 😓! code4lib https://twitter.com/ https://pinboard.in/u:verwinv/b:1efcaa1db5a7/ 2018 Presentation Voting Survey 2017-10-23T19:49:45+00:00 https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/c4l2018-presentations verwinv vote #code4lib proposals rather than the presenters. new anonymity feature! check it: Got until 11/13 code4lib https://twitter.com/ https://pinboard.in/u:verwinv/b:81a15e672b49/ LODLAM Challenge Winners 2017-06-29T14:06:06+00:00 https://summit2017.lodlam.net/2017/06/29/lodlam-challenge-winners/ miaridge RT @LODLAM: #LODLAM Challenge prize winners congrats to DIVE+ (Grand) & WarSampo (Open data) teams #DH #musetech #code4lib DH musetech LODLAM code4lib https://twitter.com/ https://pinboard.in/u:miaridge/b:c6429902bd26/ JobBoard 2017-05-11T16:33:41+00:00 https://jobs.code4lib.org/ lbjay Some heroes don't wear capes, y'all. back online and and better than ever thanks to @ryanwick and @_cb_ #code4lib code4lib https://twitter.com/ https://pinboard.in/u:lbjay/b:a7f06f02b03e/ Digital Technologies Development Librarian | NCSU Libraries 2017-05-08T12:56:52+00:00 https://www.lib.ncsu.edu/jobs/ehra/digital-technologies-development-librarian jbfink RT @ronallo: Job opening: Digital Technologies Development Librarian @ncsulibraries #code4lib #libtechwomen Know someone? libtechwomen code4lib https://twitter.com/ https://pinboard.in/u:jbfink/b:3a5951bff6fd/ Who's Using IPFS in Libraries, Archives and Museums - Communities / Libraries, Archives and Museums - discuss.ipfs.io 2017-04-19T20:32:44+00:00 https://discuss.ipfs.io/t/whos-using-ipfs-in-libraries-archives-and-museums/130 sdellis career ipfs libraries code4lib https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:sdellis/b:df848f7bc65b/ Scott W. H. Young on Twitter: "Slides for my talk on participatory design with underrepresented populations. Thank you, #c4l17 :) https://t.co/rVS2Zdv25u" 2017-04-02T17:47:47+00:00 https://twitter.com/hei_scott/status/839523334744236033 brainwane refers to my Code4Lib keynote on empathy & UX yay Code4Lib https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:brainwane/b:4c2ef624cde4/ Twitter 2017-03-23T12:45:58+00:00 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/844892979965890560 lbjay Have not read the full report but based on the abstract seems useful to those involved in the #code4lib incorporati… code4lib https://twitter.com/ https://pinboard.in/u:lbjay/b:96f82f0b17b3/ ResistanceIsFertile - Google Drive 2017-03-09T18:06:41+00:00 https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B74oOQcTdnHjMy1WN003ZW5HTXc pmhswe code4lib harlow keynote https://pinboard.in/u:pmhswe/b:1760658453c2/ ResistanceIsFertile - Google Drive 2017-03-09T17:22:43+00:00 https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B74oOQcTdnHjMy1WN003ZW5HTXc markpbaggett code4lib harlow keynote https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:markpbaggett/b:cffeeb1e58e6/ Google Drive CMS 2017-03-09T16:08:39+00:00 https://www.drivecms.xyz/ jju webdev programming tech 2017 Code4Lib https://pinboard.in/u:jju/b:f9af0e34a8a0/ Code4Lib | Docker Presentation - Google Slides 2017-03-08T19:48:57+00:00 https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/12P1pR3p67dXIKXJWE5_sHa-RSktax-hzquo-Ffz-TH0/edit#slide=id.p markpbaggett code4lib docker https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:markpbaggett/b:bd340aec487e/ Best Catalog Results Page Ever 2017-03-08T19:05:25+00:00 https://www.dropbox.com/s/jbxe4jpbdck874z/deibel-c4l17-best-ever.pptx markpbaggett code4lib accessibility presentation https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:markpbaggett/b:56f2b0fea47a/ Participatory User Experience Design with Underrepresented Populations: A Model for Disciplined Empathy 2017-03-08T18:09:13+00:00 http://2017.code4lib.org/talks/Participatory-User-Experience-Design-with-Underrepresented-Populations-A-Model-for-Disciplined-Empathy brainwane Am honored & humbled to see #c4l17 Glad my talk/article was helpful! Wish I were at #code4lib to thank you in person c4l17 code4lib https://twitter.com/ https://pinboard.in/u:brainwane/b:9bf7ebd61d5d/ Twitter 2017-02-01T14:02:05+00:00 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/826792743464792065 bsscdt Why don't you join us in the #libux slack? Sign yourself up: #litaux #ux #code4lib… ux libux litaux code4lib https://twitter.com/ https://pinboard.in/u:bsscdt/b:961f3bd08a75/ Untitled (http://libux.co/slack?utm_content=buffer0f822&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer) 2017-02-01T14:02:05+00:00 http://libux.co/slack bsscdt Why don't you join us in the #libux slack? Sign yourself up: #litaux #ux #code4lib… ux libux litaux code4lib https://twitter.com/ https://pinboard.in/u:bsscdt/b:839a04bf9612/ Twitter 2016-12-23T18:11:41+00:00 https://twitter.com/jschneider/status/812360040082456576/photo/1 jcarletonoh Ten Principles for User Protection: #code4lib #privacy #ISCHOOLUI ISCHOOLUI privacy code4lib https://twitter.com/ https://pinboard.in/u:jcarletonoh/b:3bf57dea160b/ Technology in Hostile States: Ten Principles for User Protection | The Tor Blog 2016-12-23T18:11:41+00:00 https://blog.torproject.org/blog/technology-hostile-states-ten-principles-user-protection jcarletonoh Ten Principles for User Protection: #code4lib #privacy #ISCHOOLUI ISCHOOLUI privacy code4lib https://twitter.com/ https://pinboard.in/u:jcarletonoh/b:729712aebf8a/ Analyzing MARC with MicroXPath, part 1 - U. 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Help us out: #c4l17 Code4Lib c4l17 https://twitter.com/ https://pinboard.in/u:verwinv/b:fe39b74c928e/ Library of Congress LCCN Permalink sh2016001442 2016-09-15T13:02:28+00:00 https://lccn.loc.gov/sh2016001442 anneheathen RT @JulieSwierczek: #code4lib #c4l16 - "Black Lives Matter movement" is now a SUBJECT HEADING. . Catalogers, make sure you USE IT! c4l16 code4lib https://twitter.com/ https://pinboard.in/u:anneheathen/b:3de84d0358ff/ Library of Congress LCCN Permalink sh2016001442 2016-09-15T02:30:47+00:00 https://lccn.loc.gov/sh2016001442 wlanderson RT @JulieSwierczek: #code4lib #c4l16 - "Black Lives Matter movement" is now a SUBJECT HEADING. . Catalogers, make sure you USE IT! c4l16 code4lib https://twitter.com/ https://pinboard.in/u:wlanderson/b:2e99a5f8e9f9/ Twitter 2016-08-05T07:06:02+00:00 https://twitter.com/benglabs/status/761458223106912256/photo/1 verwinv Lovely round-up on playing with @OpenCultuurData in the lab [NL] #reuse #musetech #code4lib reuse musetech code4lib https://twitter.com/ https://pinboard.in/u:verwinv/b:5cd8050834f2/ Spelen met open cultuur data: nieuwe technologie | Open Cultuur Data 2016-08-05T07:06:02+00:00 http://www.opencultuurdata.nl/2016/08/spelen-met-open-cultuur-data-nieuwe-technologie/ verwinv Lovely round-up on playing with @OpenCultuurData in the lab [NL] #reuse #musetech #code4lib reuse musetech code4lib https://twitter.com/ https://pinboard.in/u:verwinv/b:136c391bcdbf/ The Code4Lib Journal – Metadata Analytics, Visualization, and Optimization: Experiments in statistical analysis of the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) 2016-07-19T22:12:07+00:00 http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/11752 wragge RT @chrpr: Hey so I published a thing about visualization & predictive analytics of #DPLA metadata in the #code4lib journal. 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Report Abuse  Forms     forum2020-diglib-org-5720 ---- 2020 DLF Forum Community Journalists - DLF Forum 2020 Skip to content Home About Code of Conduct CoC Reporting Form Thank You COVID-19 Resources Information for Attendees Active Bystanders Creating Accessible Presentations Schedule Keynotes Shared Notes Repository Recordings Community Working Groups Social & Wellness Activities Wellness Resources 2020 DLF Forum Community Journalists Affiliated Events Learn@DLF NDSA’s #DigiPres20 DHC: 5 for 5 Sponsors Sponsorship Opportunities Hall of Sponsors Registration Search for: Toggle Navigation Toggle Navigation Home About Code of Conduct CoC Reporting Form Thank You COVID-19 Resources Information for Attendees Active Bystanders Creating Accessible Presentations Schedule Keynotes Shared Notes Repository Recordings Community Working Groups Social & Wellness Activities Wellness Resources 2020 DLF Forum Community Journalists Affiliated Events Learn@DLF NDSA’s #DigiPres20 DHC: 5 for 5 Sponsors Sponsorship Opportunities Hall of Sponsors Registration Search for: 2020 DLF Forum Community Journalists Meet our Community Journalists The 2020 Virtual DLF Forum looks different from our typical event in almost every way imaginable. Due to the fact that we aren’t convening in person and registration is free, we decided to offer a different kind of fellowship opportunity. Because the guiding purpose of this year’s Virtual DLF Forum is building community while apart, through our re-envisioned fellowship program, we are highlighting new voices from “community journalists” in the field. We are providing $250 stipends to a cohort of 10 Virtual DLF Forum attendees from a variety of backgrounds and will feature their voices and experiences on the DLF blog after our events this fall. We are excited to announce this year’s DLF Forum Community Journalists: Arabeth Balasko Arabeth Balasko (she/her) is an archivist and historian dedicated to public service and proactive stewardship. As a professional archivist, her overarching goals are to curate collections that follow a shared standardization practice, are user-centric, and are searchable and accessible to all via physical and digital platforms. She believes that an archive should be a welcoming place for all people and should be an inclusive environment which advocates to collect, preserve, and make accessible the stories and histories of diverse voices. By getting individuals involved in telling THEIR story and making THEIR history part of the ever-growing story of humanity, we all win! Rebecca Bayeck (@rybayeck) Rebecca Y. Bayeck is a dual-PhD holder in Learning Design & Technology and Comparative & International Education from the Pennsylvania State University. Currently a CLIR postdoctoral fellow at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture where she engages in digital research, data curation, and inclusive design. Her interdisciplinary research is at the interface of several fields including the learning sciences, literacy studies, and game studies. At this intersection, she explores literacies and learning in games, particularly board games, the interaction of culture, space, and context on design, learning, research, literacies.    Shelly Black (@ShellyYBlack) Shelly Black is the Cyma Rubin Library Fellow at North Carolina State University Libraries where she supports digital preservation in the Special Collections Research Center. She also works on a strategic project involving immersive technology spaces and digital scholarship workflows. Previously she was a marketing specialist at the University of Arizona Libraries and promoted library services and programs through social media, news stories, and newsletters. Shelly was recently selected as a 2020 Emerging Leader by the American Library Association and is a provisional member of the Academy of Certified Archivists. She received a MLIS and a Certificate in Archival Studies from the University of Arizona where she was a Knowledge River scholar. She also holds a BFA in photography and minor in Japanese from the UA. Lisa Covington (@prof_cov) Lisa Covington, MA is a PhD Candidate at The University of Iowa studying Sociology of Education, Digital Humanities and African American Studies. Her dissertation work is “Mediating Black Girlhood: A Multi-level Comparative Analysis of Narrative Feature Films.” This research identifies mechanisms in which media operates as an institution, (mis)informing individual and social ontological knowledge.   In 2020, Lisa received the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Award from the Iowa Department of Human Rights. She is the Director of the Ethnic Studies Leadership Academy in Iowa City, an educational leadership program for Black youth, in middle school and high school, to learn African American advocacy through incorporating digital humanities and social sciences.    Lisa received her MA from San Diego State University in Women & Gender Studies. As a youth development professional, Lisa develops curriculum for weekly programming with girls of color, trains teachers on best practices for working with underrepresented youth, and directs programs in preschool through college settings in California, Pennsylvania, Iowa, New Jersey, New York and Washington, D.C.  Ana Hilda Figueroa de Jesús Ana Hilda Figueroa de Jesús will be graduating next spring from the Universidad de Puerto Rico in Río Piedras with a BA in History of Art. Her research interest focuses on education, accessibility and publicity of minority, revolutionary Puerto Rican art including topics such as race, gender and transnationalism. She has interned at Visión Doble: Journal of Criticism and History of Art, and volunteered at MECA International Art Fair 2019 and Instituto Nueva Escuela. Ana works as assistant for the curator and director of the Museum of History, Anthropology and Art at UPR. She is currently a Katzenberger Art History Intern at Smithsonian Libraries. Amanda Guzman Amanda Guzman is an anthropological archaeologist with a PhD in Anthropology (Archaeology) from the University of California, Berkeley. She specializes in the field of museum anthropology with a research focus on the history of collecting and exhibiting Puerto Rico at the intersection of issues of intercultural representation and national identity formation. She applies her collections experience as well as her commitment to working with and for multiple publics to her object-based inquiry teaching practice that privileges a more equitable, co-production of knowledge in the classroom through accessible engagement in cultural work. Amanda is currently the Ann Plato Post-Doctoral Fellow in Anthropology and American Studies at Trinity College in Hartford, CT.  Carolina Hernandez (@carolina_hrndz) Carolina Hernandez is currently an Instruction Librarian at the University of Houston where she collaborates on creating inclusive learning environments for students. Previously, she was the Journalism Librarian at the University of Oregon, where she co-managed the Oregon Digital Newspaper Program. Her MLIS is from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her current research interests are in critical information literacy, inclusive pedagogy, and most recently, the intersection of digital collections and pedagogy. Jocelyn Hurtado Jocelyn Hurtado is a native Miamian who worked as an Archivist at a community repository for four year. She is experienced in working with manuscript, art and artifact collections pertaining to a community of color whose history has often been overlooked. Ms. Hurtado, understands the responsibility and the significance of the work done by community archivists and has seen firsthand that this work not only affects the present-day community but that it will continue to have a deep-rooted impact on generations to come. Ms. Hurtado also has experience promoting collections through exhibits, presentations, instructional sessions, and other outreach activities which includes the development and execution of an informative historical web-series video podcast.  Ms. Hurtado earned her Associate Degree in Anthropology from Miami-Dade College and a Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology from the University of Florida. She also completed the Georgia Archives Institute Program.  Melde Rutledge (@MeldeRutledge) Melde Rutledge is the Digital Collections Librarian at Wake Forest University’s Z. Smith Reynolds Library. He is responsible for leading the library’s digitization services—primarily in support of ZSR’s Special Collections and Archives, as well as providing support for university departments.  He earned his MLIS from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, and has served in librarianship for approximately 12 years. His background also includes 8 years of newspaper journalism, where he wrote news, sports, and feature articles for several locally published newspapers in North Carolina.  He currently lives in Winston-Salem, NC, with his wife and three sons. Hsiu-Ann Tom Hsiu-Ann Tom is the Digital Archivist at The Amistad Research Center in New Orleans, LA where her work focuses on born digital collection development. She received her Masters in Library and Information Science with a concentration in Archives Management from Simmons University in Boston in 2019. She is a graduate of Columbia University (BA, Sociology) and Harvard University (MA, Religion and Politics), and is a member of the Academy of Certified Archivists. Prior to working in the archival field, Hsiu-Ann served in the United States Army intelligence field as a cryptolinguistic analyst, attending the Defense Language Institute in Monterey, California. Before coming to Amistad, Hsiu-Ann worked on the archives staff of Boston University’s Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center working with the Military Historical Society of Massachusetts Collection. She recently obtained the Society of American Archivist Digital Archivist Specialist certification and enjoys supporting students and new professionals in their educational development through her work as a member of SAA’s Graduate Archival Education Committee.   Kevin Winstead (@Kaerf1) Kevin is a 2019-2021 CLIR Postdoctoral Fellow at Penn State, earning his PhD in American Studies at the University of Maryland. His scholarship includes published articles on social movements and religion. In “Black Catholicism and Black Lives Matter: the process towards joining a movement” (Ethnic and Racial Studies, 2017), Kevin uses an adaptation of social movement frame analysis to examine how Black Catholics define and construct the ongoing political issues within the Black Lives Matter movement. His current research interest centers around social movements, digital studies, religion, the social construction of knowledge, and digital misinformation.   In his previous work, Kevin served as project manager for the Andrew W. Mellon funded African American History, Culture, and Digital Humanities, where he produced project events and other scholarly activities, making the digital humanities more inclusive of African American scholarship while enriching African American studies research with new methods, archives, and tools. Kevin also served as project manager for Baltimore Stories: Narratives and Life of an American City, funded by the NEH Humanities in the Public Square grant in partnership with Maryland Humanities, the University of Maryland Baltimore County, Enoch Pratt Free Library, and the Greater Baltimore Cultural Alliance. Betsy Yoon (@betsyoon) Betsy Yoon (she/they) is an Adjunct Assistant Professor and OER/Reference Librarian at the College of Staten Island, CUNY and earned her MLIS in 2019. She also has a Master of International Affairs. She lives in occupied Lenapehoking and is a longtime member of Nodutdol, a grassroots organization of diasporic Koreans and comrades working to advance peace, decolonization, and self-determination on the Korean Peninsula and Turtle Island (North America). Interests include critical approaches to OER and openness, the free/libre software movement, understanding and addressing root causes over symptom management, and the role that libraries and archives can play in our collective liberation. Want forum news? Subscribe to our newsletter now and stay informed! Subscribe Sponsorship Opportunities About DLF Join DLF Contact futurearchives-blogspot-com-2889 ---- futureArch, or the future of archives... Monday, 5 September 2016 This blog is no longer being updated But you will find posts on some of our digital archives work here: http://blogs.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/archivesandmanuscripts/category/activity/digital-archives/  Posted by Susan Thomas at 17:33 No comments: Thursday, 31 October 2013 Born Digital: Guidance for Donors, Dealers, and Archival Repositories Today CLIR published a report which is designed to provide guidance on the acquisition of archives in a digital world. The report provides recommendations for donors and dealers, and for repository staff, based on the experiences of archivists and curators at ten repositories in the UK and US, including the Bodleian. You can read it here: http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub159 Posted by Susan Thomas at 17:49 No comments: Labels: acquisitions, dealers, donors, guidance, scoping, sensitivity review, transfers Thursday, 31 January 2013 Digital Preservation: What I wish I knew before I started The Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) and Archives and Records Association event ‘Digital Preservation: What I wish I knew before I started, 2013’ took place at Birkbeck College, London on 24 January 2013. A half-day conference, it brought together a group of leading specialists in the filed to discuss the challenges of digital collection. William Kilbride kicked off events with his presentation ‘What’s the problem with digital preservation’. He looked at the traditional -or in his words "bleak"- approach that is too often characterised by data loss. William suggested we need to create new approaches, such as understanding the actual potential and value of output; data loss is not the issue if there is no practical case for keeping or digitising material. Some key challenges facing digital archivists were also outlined and it was argued that impediments such as obsolescence issues and storage media failure are a problem bigger than one institution, and collaboration across the profession is paramount. Helen Hockx-Yu discussed how the British Library is collaborating with other institutions to archive websites of historical and cultural importance through the UK Web Archive. Interestingly, web archiving at the British Library is now a distinct business unit with a team of eight people. Like William, Helen also emphasised how useful it is to share experiences and work together, both internally and externally. Next, Dave Thompson, Digital Curator at the Wellcome Library stepped up with a lively presentation entitled ‘So You Want to go Digital’. For Dave, it is “not all glamour, metadata and preservation events”, which he illustrated with an example of his diary for the week. He then looked at the planning side of digital preservation, arguing that if digital preservation is going to work, not only are we required to be creative, but we need to be sure what we are doing is sustainable. Dave highlighted some key lessons from his career thus far: 1.     We must be willing to embrace change 2.     Data preservation is not solely an exercise in technology but requires engagement with data and consumers. 3.     Little things we do everyday in the workplace are essential to efficient digital preservation, including backup, planning, IT infrastructure, maintenance and virus checking. 4.     It needs to be easy to do and within our control, otherwise the end product is not preservation. 5.     Continued training is essential so we can make the right decisions in appraisal, arrangement, context, description and preservation. 6.     We must understand copyright access. Patricia Sleeman, Digital Archivist at University of London Computer Centre then highlighted a selection of practical skills that should underpin how we move forward with digital preservation. For instance, she stressed that information without context is meaningless and has little value without the appropriate metadata. Like the other speakers, she suggested planning is paramount, and before we start a project we must look forward and learn about how we will finish it. As such, project management is an essential tool, including the ability to understand budgets. Adrian Brown from the Parliamentary Archives continued with his presentation 'A Day in the Life of a Digital Archivist'. His talk was a real eye-opener on just how busy and varied the role is. A typical day for Adrian might involve talking to information owners about possible transfers, ingesting and cataloguing new records into the digital repository, web archiving, providing demos to various groups, drafting preservation policies and developing future requirements such as building software, software testing and preservation planning. No room to be bored here! Like Dave Thompson, Adrian noted that while there are more routine tasks such as answering emails and endless meetings, the rewards from being involved in a new and emerging discipline far outweigh the more mundane moments. We then heard from Simon Rooks from the BBC Multi-Media Archive who described the varied roles at his work (I think some of the audience were feeling quite envious here!). In keeping with the theme of the day, Simon reflected on his career path. Originally trained as a librarian, he argued that he would have benefited immensely as a digital archivist if he had learnt the key functions of an archivist’s role early on. He emphasised how the same archival principles (intake, appraisal and selection, cataloguing, access etc.) underpin our practices, whether records are paper or digital, and whether we are in archives or records management. These basic functions help to manage many of the issues concerning digital content. Simon added that the OAIS functional model is an approach that has encouraged multi-disciplinary team-work amongst those working at the BBC. After some coffee there followed a Q&A session, which proved lively and engaging. A lot of ground was covered including how appropriate it is to distinguish 'digital archivists' from 'archivists'. We also looked at issues of cost modelling and it was suggested that while we need to articulate budgets better, we should perhaps be less obsessed with costs and focus on the actual benefits and return of investment from projects. There was then some debate about what students should expect from undertaking the professional course. Most agreed that it is simply not enough to have the professional qualification, and continually acquiring new skill sets is essential. A highly enjoyable afternoon then, with some thought-provoking presentations, which were less about the techie side of digital preservation, and more a valuable lesson on the planning and strategies involved in managing digital assets. Communications, continued learning and project planning were central themes of the day, and importantly, that we should be seeking to build something that will have value and worth. Posted by Anonymous at 10:42 No comments: Tuesday, 13 November 2012 Transcribe at the arcHIVE I do worry from time to time that textual analogue records will come to suffer from their lack of searchability when compared with their born-digital peers. For those records that have been digitised, crowd-sourcing transcription could be an answer. A rather neat example of just that is the arcHIVE platform from the National Archives of Australia. arHIVE is a pilot from NAA's labs which allows anyone to contribute to the transcription of records. To get started they have chosen a selection of records from their Brisbane office which are 'known to be popular'. Not too many of them just yet, but at this stage I guess they're just trying to prove the concept works. All the items have been OCR-ed, and users can choose to improve or overwrite the results from the OCR process. There are lots of nice features here, including the ability to choose documents by a difficulty rating (easy, medium or hard) or by type (a description of the series by the looks of it). The competitive may be inspired by the presence of a leader board, while the more collaborative may appreciate the ability to do as much as you can, and leave the transcription for someone else to finish up later. You can register for access to some features, but you don't have to either. Very nice. Posted by Susan Thomas at 09:37 No comments: Labels: crowdsourcing, searchability, transcription Friday, 19 October 2012 Atlas of digital damages An Atlas of digital damage has been created on Flickr, which will provide a handy resource for illustrating where digital preservation has failed. Perhaps 'failed' is a little strong. In some cases the imperfection may be an acceptable trade off. A nice, and useful, idea. Contribute here. Posted by Susan Thomas at 17:48 No comments: Labels: corruption, damage Saturday, 13 October 2012 DayOfDigitalArchives 2012 Yesterday was Day of Digital Archives 2012! (And yes, I'm a little late posting...) This 'Day' was initiated last year to encourage those working with digital archives to use social media to raise awareness of digital archives: "By collectively documenting what we do, we will be answering questions like: What are digital archives? Who uses them? How are they created and managed? Why are they important?" . So in that spirit, here is a whizz through my week. Coincidentally not only does this week include the Day of Digital Archives but it's also the week that the Digital Preservation Coalition (or DPC) celebrated its 10th birthday. On Monday afternoon I went to the reception at the House of Lords to celebrate that landmark anniversary. A lovely event, during which the shortlist for the three digital preservation awards was announced. It's great to see three award categories this time around, including one that takes a longer view: 'the most outstanding contribution to digital preservation in the last decade'. That's quite an accolade. On the train journey home from the awards I found some quiet time to review a guidance document on the subject of acquiring born-digital materials. There is something about being on a train that puts my brain in the right mode for this kind of work. Nearing its final form, this guidance is the result of a collaboration between colleagues from a handful of archive repositories. The document will be out for further review before too long, and if we've been successful in our work it should prove helpful to creators, donors, dealers and repositories. Part of Tuesday I spent reviewing oral history guidance drafted by a colleague to support the efforts of Oxford Medical Alumni in recording interviews with significant figures in the world of Oxford medicine. Oral histories come to us in both analogue and digital formats these days, and we try to digitise the former as and when we can. The development of the guidance is in the context of our Saving Oxford Medicine initiative to capture important sources for the recent history of medicine in Oxford. One of the core activities of this initiative is survey work, and it is notable that many archives surveyed include plenty of digital material. Web archiving is another element of the 'capturing' work that the Saving Oxford Medicine team has been doing, and you can see what has been archived to-date via Archive-It, our web archiving service provider. Much of Wednesday morning was given over to a meeting of our building committee, which had very little to do with digital archives! In the afternoon, however, we were pleased to welcome visitors from MIT - Nancy McGovern and Kari Smith. I find visits like these are one of the most important ways of sharing information, experiences and know-how, and as always I got a lot out of it. I hope Nancy and Kari did too! That same afternoon, colleagues returned from a trip to London to collect another tranche of a personal archive. I'm not sure if this instalment contains much in the way of digital material, but previous ones have included hundreds of floppies and optical media, some zip discs and two hard disks. Also arriving on Wednesday, some digital Library records courtesy of our newly retired Executive Secretary; these supplement materials uploaded to BEAM (our digital archives repository) last week. On Thursday, I found some time to work with developer Carl Wilson on our SPRUCE-funded project. Becky Nielsen (our recent trainee, now studying at Glasgow) kicked off this short project with Carl, following on from her collaboration with Peter May at a SPRUCE mashup in Glasgow. I'm picking up some of the latter stages of testing and feedback work now Becky's started her studies. The development process has been an agile one with lots of chat and testing. I've found this very productive - it's motivating to see things evolving, and to be able to provide feedback early and often. For now you can see what's going on at github here, but this link will likely change once we settle on a name that's more useful than 'spruce-beam' (doesn't tell you much, does it?! Something to do with trees...) One of the primary aims of this tool is to facilitate collection analysis, so we know better what our holdings are in terms of format and content. We expect that it will be useful to others, and there will be more info. on it available soon. Friday was more SPRUCE work with Carl, among other things. Also a few meetings today - one around funding and service models for digital archiving, and a meeting of the Bodleian's eLegal Deposit Group (where my special interest is web archiving). The curious can read more about e-legal deposit at the DCMS website.  One fun thing that came out of the day was that the Saving Oxford Medicine team decided to participate in a Women in Science wikipedia editathon. This will be hosted by the Radcliffe Science Library on 26 October as part of a series of 'Engage' events on social media organised by the Bodleian and the University's Computing Services. It's fascinating to contemplate how the range and content of Wikipedia articles change over time, something a web archive would facilitate perhaps.  For more on working with digital archives, go take a look at the great posts at the Day of Digital Archives blog! Posted by Susan Thomas at 19:45 No comments: Labels: acquisition, collection analysis, DayofDigArc, DODA12, dpc, mashup, SPRUCE, webarchiving Friday, 8 June 2012 Sprucing up the TikaFileIdentifier As it's International Archives Day tomorrow, I thought it would be nice to quickly share some news of a project we are working on, which should help us (and others!) to carry out digital preservation work a little bit more efficiently. Following the SPRUCE mashup I attended in April, we are very pleased to be one of the organizations granted a SPRUCE Project funding award, which will allow us to 'spruce' up the TikaFileIdentifier tool. (Paul has written more about these funding awards on the OPF site.) TikaFileIdentifier is the tool which was developed at the mashup to address a problem several of us were having extracting metadata from batches of files, in our case within ISO images. Due to the nature of the mashup event the tool is still a bit rough around the edges, and this funding will allow us to improve on it. We aim to create a user interface and a simpler install process, and carry out performance improvements. Plus, if resources allow, we hope to scope some further functionality improvements. This is really great news, as with the improvements that this funding allows us to make, the TikaFileIdentifier will provide us with better metadata for our digital files more efficiently than our current system of manually checking each file in a disk image. Hopefully the simpler user interface and other improvements means that other repositories will want to make use of it as well; I certainly think it will be very useful! Posted by Rebecca Nielsen at 17:18 No comments: Labels: metadata, SPRUCE, TikaFileIdentifier Friday, 20 April 2012 SPRUCE Mashup: 16th-18th April 2012 Earlier this week I attended a 3 day mashup event in Glasgow, organised as part of the SPRUCE project.  SPRUCE aims to enable Higher Education Institutions to address preservation gaps and articulate the business case of digital preservation, and the mashup serves as a way to bring practitioners and developers together to work on these problems. Practitioners took along a collection which they were having issues with, and were paired off with a developer who could work on a tool to provide a solution.  Day 1 After some short presentations on the purpose of SPRUCE and the aims of the mashup, the practitioners presented some lightning talks on our collections and problems. These included dealing with email attachments, preserving content off Facebook, software emulation, black areas in scanned images, and identifying file formats with incorrect extensions, amongst others. I took along some disk images, as we find it very time-consuming to find out date ranges, file types and content of the files in the disk image, and we wanted a more efficient way to get this metadata. More information on the collections and issues presented can be found at the wiki. After a short break for coffee (and excellent cakes and biscuits) we were sorted into small groups of collection owners and developers to discuss our issues in more detail. In my group this led to conversations about natural language processing, and the possibilities of using predefined subjects to identify files as being about a particular topic, which we thought could be really helpful, but somewhat impossible to create in a couple of days! We were then allocated our developers. As there were a few of us with problems with file identification, we were assigned to the same developer, Peter May from the BL. The day ended with a short presentation from William Kilbride on the value of digital collections and Neil Beagrie's benefits framework. Day 2 The developers were packed off to another room to work on coding, while we collection owners started to look into the business case for digital preservation. We used Beagrie’s framework to consider the three dimensions of benefits (direct or indirect, near- or long-term, and internal or external), as they apply to our institutions. When we reported back, it was interesting to see how different organisations benefit in different ways. We also looked at various stakeholders and how important or influential they are to digital preservation. Write ups of these sessions are also available at the wiki.   The developers came back at several points throughout the day to share their progress with us, and by lunchtime the first solution had been found! The first steps to solving our problem were being made; Peter had found a program, Apache Tika, which can parse a file and extract metadata (it can also identify the content type of files with incorrect extensions), and had written a script so that it could work through a directory of files, and output the information into a CSV spreadsheet. This was a really promising start, especially due to the amount of metadata that could potentially be extracted (provided it exists within the file), and the ability to identify file types with incorrect extensions. Day 3 We had another catch up with the developers and their overnight progress. Peter had written a script that took the information from the CSV file and summarised it into one row, so that it fits into the spreadsheets we use at BEAM. Unfortunately, mounting the ISO image to check it with Apache Tika was slightly more complicated than anticipated, so our disk images couldn't be checked this way without further work. While the developers set about finalizing their solutions, we continued to work on the business case, doing a skills gap analysis to consider whether our institutions had the skills and resources to carry out digital preservation. Reporting back, we had a very interesting discussion on skills gaps within the broader archives sector, and the need to provide digital preservation training to students as well as existing professionals. We then had to prepare an ‘elevator pitch’ for those occasions when we find ourselves in a lift with senior management, which neatly brought together all the things we had discussed, as we had to explain the specific benefits of digital preservation to our institution and our goals in about a minute.  To wrap up the developers presented their solutions, which solved many of the problems we had arrived with. A last minute breakthrough in mounting ISO images using  WinCDEmu and running scripts on them meant that we are able to use the Tika script on our disk images. However, because we were so short on time, there are still some small problems that need addressing. I'm really happy with our solution, and I was very impressed by all the developers and how much they were able to get done in such a short space of time. I felt that this event was a very useful way to get thinking about the business case for what we do, and to get to see what other people within the sector are doing and what problems they are facing. It was also really helpful as a non-techie to get to talk with developers and get an idea of what it is possible to build tools to do (and get them made!). I would definitely recommend this type of event – in fact, I’d love to go along again if I get the opportunity! Posted by Rebecca Nielsen at 15:52 2 comments: Monday, 26 March 2012 Media Recognition: DV part 3 DVCAM (encoding) Type: Digital videotape cassette encoding Introduced: 1996 Active: Yes, but few new camcorders are being produced. Cessation: - Capacity: 184 minutes (large), 40 minutes (MiniDV). Compatibility: DVCAM is an enhancement of the widely adopted DV format, and uses the same encoding. Cassettes recorded in DVCAM format can be played back in DVCAM VTRs (Video Tape Recorders), newer DV VTRs (made after the introduction of DVCAM), and DVCPRO VTRs, as long as the correct settings are specified (this resamples the signal to 4:1:1). DVCAM can also be played back in compatible HDV players. Users: Professional / Industrial. File Systems: - Common Manufacturers: Sony, Ikegami. DVCAM is Sony’s enhancement of the DV format for the professional market. DVCAM uses the same encoding as DV, although it records ‘locked’ rather than ‘unlocked’ audio. It also differs from DV as it has a track width of 15 microns and a tape speed of 28.215 mm/sec to make it more robust. Any DV cassette can contain DVCAM format video, but some are sold with DVCAM branding on them. Recognition DVCAM labelled cassettes come in large (125.1 x 78 x 14.6 mm) or MiniDV (66 x 48 x 12.2mm) sizes. Tape width is ¼”. Large cassettes are used in editing and recording decks, while the smaller cassettes are used in camcorders. They are marked with the DVCAM logo, usually in the upper-right hand corner.  HDV (encoding) Type: Digital videotape cassette encoding Introduced: 2003 Active: Yes, although industry experts do not expect many new HDV products. Cessation: - Capacity: 1 hour (MiniDV), up to 4.5 hours (large) Compatibility: Video is recorded in the popular MPEG-2 video format. Files can be transferred to computers without loss of quality using an IEEE 1394 connection. There are two types of HDV, HDV 720p and HDV 1080, which are not cross-compatible. HDV can be played back in HDV VTRs. These are often able to support other formats such as DV and DVCAM. Users: Amateur/Professional File Systems: - Common Manufacturers: Format developed by JVC, Sony, Canon and Sharp. Unlike the other DV enhancements, HDV uses MPEG-2 compression rather than DV encoding. Any DV cassette can contain HDV format video, but some are sold with HDV branding on them.  There are two different types of HDV: HDV 720p (HD1, made by JVC) and HDV 1080 (HD2, made by Sony and Canon). HDV 1080 devices are not generally compatible with HDV 720p devices. The type of HDV used is not always identified on the cassette itself, as it depends on the camcorder used rather than the cassette. Recognition  HDV is a tape only format which can be recorded on normal DV cassettes. Some MiniDV cassettes with lower dropout rates are indicated as being for HDV, either with text or the HDV logo. These are not essential for recording HDV video.  Posted by Rebecca Nielsen at 14:52 No comments: Labels: digital video, DVCAM, HDV, media recoginition, video Media Recognition: DV part 2 DV (encoding) Type: Digital videotape cassette encoding Introduced: 1995 Active: Yes, but tapeless formats such as MPEG-1, MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 are becoming more popular. Cessation: - Capacity: MiniDV cassettes can hold up to 80/120 minutes SP/LP. Medium cassette size can hold up to 3.0/4.6 hrs SP/LP. Files sizes can be up to 1GB per 4 minutes of recording. Compatibility: DV format is widely adopted. Cassettes recorded in the DV format can be played back on DVCAM, DVCPRO and HDV replay devices. However, LP recordings cannot be played back in these machines. Users: DV is aimed at a consumer market – may also be used by ‘prosumer’ film makers. File Systems: - Common Manufacturers: A consortium of over 60 manufacturers including Sony, Panasonic, JVC, Canon, and Sharp. DV has a track width of 10 microns and a tape speed of 18.81mm/sec. It can be found on any type of DV cassette, regardless of branding, although most commonly it is the format used on MiniDV cassettes.  Recognition DV cassettes are usually found in the small size, known as MiniDV. Medium size (97.5 × 64.5 × 14.6 mm) DV cassettes are also available, although these are not as popular as MiniDV. DV cassettes are labelled with the DV logo. DVCPRO (encoding) Type: Digital videotape cassette encoding Introduced: 1995 (DVCPRO), 1997 (DVCPRO 50), 2000 (DVCPRO HD) Active: Yes, but few new camcorders are being produced. Cessation: - Capacity: 126 minutes (large), 66 minutes (medium). Compatibility: DVCPRO is an enhancement of the widely adopted DV format, and uses the same encoding. Cassettes recorded in DVCPRO format can be played back only in DVCPRO Video Tape Recorders (VTRs) and some DVCAM VTRs. Users: Professional / Industrial; designed for electronic news gathering File Systems: - Common Manufacturers: Panasonic, also Philips, Ikegami and Hitachi. DVCPRO is Panasonic’s enhancement of the DV format, which is aimed at a professional market. DVCPRO uses the same encoding as DV, but it features ‘locked’ audio, and uses 4:1:1 sampling instead of 4:2:0. It has an 18 micron track width, and a tape speed of 33.82 mm/sec which makes it more robust. DVCPRO uses Metal Particle (MP) tape rather than Metal Evaporate( ME) to improve durability. DVCPRO 50 and DVCPRO HD are further developments of DVCPRO, which use the equivalent of 2 or 4 DV codecs in parallel to increase the video data rate. Any DV cassette can contain DVCPRO format video, but some are sold with DVCPRO branding on them. Recognition DVCPRO branded cassettes come in medium (97.5 × 64.5 × 14.6mm) or large (125 × 78 × 14.6mm) cassette sizes. The medium size is for use in camcorders, and the large size in editing and recording decks. DVCPRO 50 and DVCPRO HD branded cassettes are extra-large cassettes (172 x 102 x 14.6mm). Tape width is ¼”. DVCPRO labelled cassettes have different coloured tape doors depending on their type; DVCPRO has a yellow tape door, DVCPRO50 has a blue tape door, and DVCPRO HD has a red tape door. Images of DVCPRO cassettes are available at the Panasonic website. Posted by Rebecca Nielsen at 14:31 No comments: Labels: digital video, DV, DVCPRO, media recoginition, video Media Recognition: DV part 1 DV can be used to refer to both a digital tape format, and a codec for digital video. DV tape usually carries video encoded with the DV codec, although it can hold any type of data. The DV format was developed in the mid 1990s by a consortium of video manufacturers, including Sony, JVC and Panasonic, and quickly became the de facto standard for home video production after introduction in 1995. Videos are recorded in .dv or .dif formats, or wrapped in an AVI, QuickTime or MXF container. These can be easily transferred to a computer with no loss of data over an IEEE 1394 (Fire Wire) connection. DV tape is ¼ inch (6.35mm) wide. DV cassettes come in four different sizes: Small, also known as MiniDV (66 x 48 x 12.2 mm), medium (97.5 × 64.5 × 14.6 mm), large (125.1 x 78 x 14.6 mm), and extra-large (172 x 102 x 14.6 mm). MiniDV is the most popular cassette size. DV cassettes can be encoded with one of four formats; DV, DVCAM, DVCPRO, or HDV. DV is the original encoding, and is used in consumer devices. DVCPRO and DVCAM were developed by Panasonic and Sony respectively as an enhancement of DV, and are aimed at a professional market. The basic encoding algorithm is the same as with DV, but a higher track width (18 and 15 microns versus DV’s 10 micron track width) and faster tape speed means that these formats are more robust and better suited to professional users. HDV is a high-definition variant, aimed at professionals and consumers, which uses MPEG-2 compression rather than the DV format. Depending on the recording device, any of the four DV encodings can be recorded on any size DV cassette. However, due to different recording speeds, the formats are not always backwards compatible. A cassette recorded in an enhanced format, such as HDV, DVCAM or DVCPRO, will not play back on a standard DV player. Also, as they are supported by different companies, there are some issues with playing back a DVCPRO cassette on DVCAM equipment, and vice versa. Although all DV cassette sizes can record any format of DV, some are marketed specifically as being of a certain type; e.g. DVCAM. The guide below looks at some of the most common varieties of DV cassette that might be encountered, and the encodings that may be used with them. It is important to remember that any type of encoding may be found on any kind of cassette, depending on what system the video was recorded on. MiniDV (cassette) Type: Digital videotape cassette Introduced: 1995 Active: Yes, but is being replaced in popularity by hard disk and flash memory recording. At the International Consumer Electronics Show 2011 no camcorders were presented which record on tape. Cessation: - Capacity: Up to 80 minutes SP / 120 minutes LP, depending on the tape used; 60/90 minutes SP/LP is standard. This can also depend on the encoding used (see further entries). Files sizes can be up to 1GB per 4 minutes of recording. Compatibility: DV file format is widely adopted. Requires Fire Wire (IEEE 1394) port for best transfer. Users: Consumer and ‘Prosumer’ film makers, some professionals. File Systems: - Common Manufacturers: A consortium of over 60 manufacturers including Sony, Panasonic, JVC, Canon, and Sharp MiniDV refers to the size of the cassette; as noted above, it can come with any encoding. As a consumer format they generally use DV encoding. DVCAM and HDV cassettes also come in MiniDV size. MiniDV is the most popular DV cassette, and is used for consumer and semi-professional (‘prosumer’) recordings due to its high quality. Recognition These cassettes are the small cassette size, measuring 66 x 48 x 12.2mm. Tape width is ¼”. They carry the MiniDV logo, as seen below: Posted by Rebecca Nielsen at 13:03 No comments: Labels: digital video, DV, media recoginition, MiniDV, video Monday, 30 January 2012 Digital Preservation: What I Wish I Knew Before I Started Tuesday 24th January, 2012 Last week I attended a student conference, hosted by the Digital Preservation Coalition, on what digital preservation professionals wished they had known before they started. The event covered a great deal of the challenges faced by those involved in digital preservation, and the skills required to deal with these challenges. The similarities between traditional archiving and digital preservation were highlighted at the beginning of the afternoon, when Sarah Higgins translated terms from the OAIS model into more traditional ‘archive speak’. Dave Thompson also emphasized this connection, arguing that digital data “is just a new kind of paper”, and that trained archivists already have 85-90% of the skills needed for digital preservation. Digital preservation was shown to be a human rather than a technical challenge. Adrian Brown argued that much of the preservation process (the "boring stuff") can be automated. Dave Thompson stated that many of the technical issues of digital preservation, such as migration, have been solved, and that the challenge we now face is to retain the context and significance of the data. The point made throughout the afternoon was that you don’t need to be a computer expert in order to carry out effective digital preservation. The urgency of intervention was another key lesson for the afternoon. As William Kilbride put it; digital preservation won’t do itself, won’t go away, and we shouldn't wait for perfection before we begin to act. Access to data in the future is not guaranteed without input now, and digital data is particularly intolerant to gaps in preservation. Andrew Fetherstone added to this argument, noting that doing something is (usually) better than doing nothing, and that even if you are not in a position to carry out the whole preservation process, it is better to follow the guidelines as far as you can, rather than wait and create a backlog. The scale of digital preservation was another point illustrated throughout the afternoon. William Kilbride suggested that the days of manual processing are over, due to the sheer amount of digital data being created (estimated to reach 35ZB by 2020!). He argued that the ability to process this data is more important to the future of digital preservation than the risks of obsolescence. The impossibility of preserving all of this data was illustrated by Helen Hockx-Yu, who offered the statistic the the UK Web Archive and National Archives Web Archive combined have archived less than 1% of UK websites. Adrian Brown also pointed out that as we move towards dynamic, individualised content on the web, we must decide exactly what the information is that we are trying to preserve. During the Q&A session, it was argued that the scale of digital data means that we have to accept that we can’t preserve everything, that not everything needs to be preserved, and that there will be data loss. The importance of collaboration was another theme which was repeated by many speakers. Collaboration between institutions on a local, national and even international level was encouraged, as by sharing solutions to problems and implementing common standards we can make the task of digital preservation easier. This is only a selection of the points covered in a very engaging afternoon of discussion. Overall, the event showed that, despite the scale of the task, digital preservation needn't be a frightening prospect, as archivists already have many of the necessary skills. The DPC have uploaded the slides used during the event, and the event was also live-tweeted, using the hashtag #dpc_wiwik, if you are interested in finding out more. Posted by Rebecca Nielsen at 09:41 1 comment: Labels: http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif Tuesday, 18 October 2011 What is ‘The Future of the Past of the Web’? ‘The Future of the Past of the Web’, Digital Preservation Coalition Workshop British Library, 7 October 2011 Chrissie Webb and Liz McCarthy In his keynote address to this event – organised by the Digital Preservation Coalition , the Joint Information Systems Committee and the British Library – Herbert van der Sompel described the purpose of web archiving as combating the internet’s ‘perpetual now’. Stressing the importance to researchers of establishing the ‘temporal context’ of publications and information, he explained how the framework of his Memento Project uses a ‘ timegate’ implemented via web plugins to show what a resource was like at a particular date in the past. There is a danger, however, that not enough is being archived to provide the temporal context; for instance, although DOIs provide stable documents, the resources they link to may disappear (‘link rot’). The Memento Project Firefox plugin uses a sliding timeline (here, just below the Google search box) to let users choose an archived date A session on using web archives picked up on the theme of web continuity in a presentation by The National Archives on the UK Government Web Archive, where a redirection solution using open source software helps tackle the problems that occur when content is moved or removed and broken links result. Current projects are looking at secure web archiving, capturing internal (e.g. intranet) sources, social media capture and a semantic search tool that helps to tag ‘unstructured’ material. In a presentation that reinforced the reason for the day’s ‘use and impact’ theme, Eric Meyer of the Oxford Internet Institute wondered whether web archives were in danger of becoming the ‘dusty archives’ of the future, contrasting their lack of use with the mass digitisation of older records to make them accessible. Is this due to a lack of engagement with researchers, their lack of confidence with the material or the lingering feeling that a URL is not a ‘real’ source? Archivists need to interrupt the momentum of ‘learned’ academic behaviour, engaging researchers with new online material and developing archival resources in ways that are relevant to real research – for instance, by helping set up mechanisms for researchers to trigger archiving activity around events or interests, or making more use of server logs to help them understand use of content and web traffic. One of the themes of the second session on emerging trends was the shift from a ‘page by page’ approach to the concept of ‘data mining’ and large scale data analysis. Some of the work being done in this area is key to addressing the concerns of Eric Meyer’s presentation; it has meant working with researchers to determine what kinds and sources of data they could really use in their work. Representatives of the UK Web Archive and the Internet Archive described their innovations in this field, including visualisation and interactive tools. Archiving social networks was also a major theme, and Wim Peters outlined the challenges of the ARCOMEM project, a collaboration between Sheffield and Hanover Universities that is tackling the problems of archiving ‘community memory’ through the social web, confronting extremely diverse and volatile content of varying quality for which future demand is uncertain. Richard Davis of the University of London Computer Centre spoke about the BlogForever project, a multi-partner initiative to preserve blogs, while Mark Williamson of Hanzo Archives spoke about web archiving from a commercial perspective, noting that companies are very interested in preserving the research opportunities online information offers. The final panel session raised the issue of the changing face of the internet, as blogs replace personal websites and social media rather than discrete pages are used to create records of events. The notion of ‘web pages’ may eventually disappear, and web archivists must be prepared to manage the dispersed data that will take (and is taking) their place. Other points discussed included the need for advocacy and better articulation of the demand for web archiving (proposed campaign: ‘Preserve!: Are you saving your digital stuff?’), duplication and deduplication of content, the use of automated selection for archiving and the question of standards. Posted by lizrosemccarthy at 13:40 No comments: Labels: Future of the Past of the Web, webarchives, workshop Older Posts Home Subscribe to: Posts (Atom) What's the futureArch blog? A place for sharing items of interest to those curating hybrid archives & manuscripts. Legacy computer bits wanted! At Bodleian Electronic Archives and Manuscripts (BEAM) we are always on the lookout for older computers, disk drives, technical manuals and software that can help us recover digital archives. 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Schneider's blog on librarianship, writing, and everything else Skip to content About Free Range Librarian Comment guidelines Writing: Clips & Samples (Dis)Association Monday, May 27, 2019 Walking two roses to their new home, where they would be planted in the front yard. I have been reflecting on the future of a national association I belong to that has struggled with relevancy and with closing the distance between itself and its members, has distinct factions that differ on fundamental matters of values, faces declining national and chapter membership, needs to catch up on the technology curve, has sometimes problematic vendor relationships, struggles with member demographics and diversity,  and has an uneven and sometimes conflicting national message and an awkward at best relationship with modern communications; but represents something important that I believe in and has a spark of vitality that is the secret to its future. I am not, in fact, writing about the American Library Association, but the American Rose Society.  Most readers of Free Range Librarian associate me with libraries, but the rose connection may be less visible. I’ve grown roses in nine places I’ve lived in the last thirty-plus years, starting with roses planted in front of a rental house in Clovis, New Mexico, when I was stationed at Cannon Air Force Base in the 1980s, and continuing in pots or slices of garden plots as I moved around the world and later, the United States. Basically, if I had an outdoor spot to grow in, I grew roses, either in-ground or in pots, whether it was a slice of sunny backyard in Wayne, New Jersey, a tiny front garden area in Point Richmond, California, a sunny interior patio in our fake Eichler rental in Palo Alto, or a windy, none-too-sunny, and cold (but still much-appreciated) deck in our rental in San Francisco. When Sandy and I bought our sweet little house in Santa Rosa, part of the move involved rolling large garden pots on my Radio Flyer from our rental two blocks away. Some of you know I’m an association geek, an avocation that has waxed as the years have progressed. I join associations because I’m from a generation where that’s done, but another centripetal pull for staying and being involved is that associations, on their own, have always interested me. It’s highly likely that a long time ago, probably when I was stationed in New Mexico and, later, Germany (the two duty stations where I had the ability to grow roses), that I was a member of the American Rose Society for two or three years. I infer this because I accumulated, then later recycled, their house magazine, American Rose, and I also have vague memories of receiving the annual publication, Handbook for Selecting Roses. Early this year I joined the Redwood Empire Rose Society and a few weeks after that joined the American Rose Society. I joined the local society because I was eager to plant roses in our new home’s garden and thought this would be a way to tap local expertise, and was won over by the society’s programming, a range of monthly educational events that ranged from how to sharpen pruning shears to the habits and benefits of bees (a program where the audience puffed with pride, because roses--if grown without toxic chemical intervention–are highly beneficial bee-attracting pollen plants). I joined the national society less out of need than because I was curious about what ARS had to offer to people like me who are rose-lovers but average gardeners, and I was also inquisitive about how the society had (or had not) repositioned itself over the years. My own practices around rose gardening have gradually changed, reflecting broader societal trends. Thirty years ago, I was an unwitting cog in the agricultural-industrial rose complex. I planted roses that appealed to my senses — attractive, repeat-blooming, and fragrant — and then managed their ability to grow and produce flowers not only through providing the two things all roses need to grow– sun and water — but also through liberal applications of synthetic food and toxic pest and disease products. The roses I purchased were bred for the most part with little regard for their ability to thrive without toxic intervention or for their suitability for specific regions. Garden by garden, my behavior changed. I slowly adopted a “thrive or die” mantra. If a rose could not exist without toxic chemical interventions, then it did not belong in my garden, and I would, in rosarian parlance, “shovel-prune” it and replace it with a rose that could succeed with sun, water, good organic food and amendments, and an occasional but not over-fussy attention. Eventually, as I moved toward organic gardening and became more familiar with sustainability in general, I absorbed the message that roses are plants, and the soil they grow in is like the food I put in my body: it influences their health. So I had the garden soil tested this winter while I was moving and replacing plants, digging holes that were close to two feet wide and deep. Based on the test results, I adjusted the soil accordingly: I used organic soil sulphur to lower the ph, dug in slow-release nitrogen in the form of feathermeal, and bathed the plants in a weak solution of organic liquid manganese. As I now do every spring, when it warmed up a bit I also resumed my monthly treatment of fish fertilizer, and this year, based on local rose advice, in a folksier vein dressed all the bushes with organic worm castings and alfalfa, both known to have good fertilizing capabilities. Alfalfa also has a lot of trace nutrients we know less about but appear to be important. Princesse Charlene de Monaco, hybrid tea rose bred by Meilland Guess what? Science is real! Nearly all of the rose bushes are measurably larger and more vigorous. Carding Mill, a David Austin rose, went from a medium shrub to a flowering giant. New roses I planted this spring, such as Grand Dame and Pinkerbelle, are growing much more vigorously than last year’s new plantings. Some of this is due to the long, gloomy, wet winter, which gave roses opportunities to snake their long roots deeper into the good soil we have in Sonoma County; my friends are reporting great spring flushes this year. But roses planted even in the last six weeks, such as Princesse Charlene de Monaco and Sheila’s Perfume, are taking off like a rocket, so it’s not just the rain or the variety. (You do not need to do all this to grow roses that will please you and your garden visitors, including bees and other beneficial insects. I enjoy the process. The key thing is that nearly all of my roses are highly rated for disease resistance and nearly all are reported to grow well in our region.) Science–under attack in our national conversations–is also an area of conflict within the ARS. Presidents of the ARS have three-year terms, and the previous president, Pat Shanley, was an advocate of sustainable rose growing. She spoke and wrote about the value of organic gardening, and championed selecting varieties that do not require toxic intervention to thrive. The theme of the 2018 American Rose Annual was “Roses are for Everyone,” and this Annual is a fascinating look at the sustainable-gardening wing of the ARS. Most of the articles emphasized the value of what Paul Zimmerman, a rose evangelist, calls “garden roses,” flowers that everyday people like you and me can grow and enjoy. The message in this Annual is reinforced by recent books by longtime rose advocates and ARS members, such as Peter Kukielski’s Roses without Chemicals and Zimmerman’s Everyday Roses, books I highly recommend for library collections as well as personal use. (Roses without Chemicals is a book I use when I wake up at odd hours worried about things, because it is beautifully written and photographed and the roses are listed alphabetically.) Now the ARS has a new president, Bob Martin, a longtime exhibitor, who in editorials has promoted chemical intervention for roses. “And yes Virginia we do spray our roses,” he wrote in the March/April “First Word” editorial in American Rose, the house organ of the ARS. “As does nearly every serious rose exhibitor and those who want their rose bushes to sustainably produce the most beautiful blooms [emphasis mine].” American Rose does not appear to publish letters to the editor. There is no section listed for letters that I can find in any recent issue, and the masthead only lists a street address for “member and subscription correspondence.” Otherwise, I would write a short letter protesting the misuse of the term “sustainably,” as well as the general direction of this editorial. I am a rose amateur, and make no bones about it. But I know that equating chemical spraying with sustainability is, hands-down, fake news. It’s one thing to soak roses in toxins and call it a “health maintenance” program, as he does in this article. That’s close to the line but not over it, since he’s from the exhibitors’ wing of ARS. But it’s just plain junk science to claim that there is anything connected to sustainability about this approach. I also can’t imagine that this “toxins forever” message is attracting new ARS members or encouraging them to renew. It feels disconnected from what motivates average gardeners like me to grow roses today (to enjoy them in their gardens) and from how they want to grow them today (in a manner that honors the earth). Frankly, one of the happiest moments in my garden last year was not from personal enjoyment of the flowers or even the compliments of neighbors and passers-by, but when I saw bees doing barrel-rolls in the stamens of my roses, knowing that I was helping, not hurting, their survival. The vast majority of people buying and planting roses these days have no idea there is a single-plant society dedicated to this plant, or even less that this society believes it understands their motivations for and interest in roses. My environmental scan of the literature and the quantities of roses provided by garden stores makes me suspect that many people buy roses based on a mix of personal recommendations, marketing guidance (what the vendors are promoting), and what they remember from their family gardens. (I would love to learn there had been market research in this area; vendors may have taken this up.) For average gardeners, their memories include roses such as Peace and Mr. Lincoln, which were bred in the middle of the last century, when the focus was not on disease resistance but on producing the hourglass hybrid tea shape that became the de facto standard for exhibiting. We can get sentimental about roses from the late 20th century, but many of these varieties also helped perpetuate the idea that roses are hard to grow, despite the many varieties that grew just fine for thousands of years (or in the case of Excellenz von Schubert, which I planted this year, 110 years and counting). Market persuasion continues today; vendors tempt buyers through savvy marketing plans such as the Downton Abbey rose series from Weeks or David Austin’s persistent messaging about “English” roses. Note — I own a lovely rose from the Downton Abbey line, Violet’s Pride, that is quite the garden champ, and have three David Austin roses (Carding Mill, Munstead Wood, and Gentle Hermione). I’m just noting market behavior. It is well-documented in rose literature that the rose that seems to have shaken the ARS to the core is the Knockout series, which introduced maintenance-free roses to a generation short on time and patience and increasingly invested in sustainable practices throughout their lives, including their gardens. Again, smart marketing was part of the formula, because there always have been sustainable roses, and ome companies, such as Kordes, moved to disease-resistant hybridizing decades ago. But the Knockout roses were promoted as an amazing breakthrough. (It may help to know that new varieties of roses have 20-year patents during which propagation is only legally through license. I don’t begrudge hybridizers their income, given how much work–sometimes thousands of seedlings–goes into producing a single good rose, but this does factor into how and why roses are marketed.) You don’t need a certificate as a master gardener or membership in a rose society to grow Knockout roses or newer competitors such as the Oso Easy line. You don’t really need to know anything about roses at all, other than roses grow in sun, not shade, and appreciate water. You also don’t need to spray Knockout roses with powerful fungicides to prevent blackspot and mildew. Regardless of the public’s reaction to easy-to-grow roses, the rose world’s reception of the Knockout rose by the rose world was mixed, to use an understatement. Though the Knockout rose was the 2004 ARS members’ choice rose, rumblings abounded, and Knockout was even blamed in popular literature as a vector for the rose rosette virus (RRV), though this was later debunked. Fifty years ago RRV was observed in a number of rose varieties, long before the Knockout rose appeared. (This mite-spread virus was promulgated in the United States to control a pest rose, rosa multiflora, that was itself introduced without realizing what havoc it would wreak.) Again, I’m no scientist, but I would think the appearance of RRV in “domesticated” roses was inevitable, regardless of which rose variety was first identified by name as carrying this disease. Rose hybridizing is now catching up with the public’s interests and the wider need for roses with strong disease resistance. Rose companies prominently tout disease resistance and many new varieties can be grown toxin-free. I selected Princesse Charlene de Monaco in part because it medaled as best hybrid tea in the 2018 Biltmore International Rose Trials, for which roses must perform well in terms of vigor and disease resistance as well as aesthetic qualities. There were companies such as Kordes who walked this walk before it was fashionable, but in typical change-adoption fashion, other vendors are adapting their own practices, because the market is demanding it. But association leadership is driven by different goals than that for for-profit companies. A colleague of mine, after sharing his support for my successful run for ALA Executive Board, commented that it takes expertise to run a $50 million organization–skills not everyone has in equal abundance. My further reflection is that the kind of leadership we need at any one time is also unique to that moment, though–with absolutely no aspersions on our current crop of excellent leaders in ALA–historically, we have not always selected leadership for either general expertise or current needs, an issue hardly unique to ARS or ALA. So I watch the ARS seesaw. As just one more example, recently I read an article within the same ARS email newsletter touting the value of lacewings for insect management, followed by an article about the value of chemical interventions that I know are toxic to beneficial insects. These aren’t just contradictory ideas; they are contradictory values, contradictory messages, and contradictory branding. And these conflicting messages are evident even before we look at the relationship between the national association and local societies (organized differently than ALA chapters but with the similar intent). If I could deduce the current priorities for ARS from its magazine, website, and email newsletters, it would be the renovation of the ARS garden in Shreveport. The plan to update the 84-year-old “national rosarium” makes sense, if you like rose gardens, but it sounds more like a call to the passionate few than the general public. It’s hard to infer other priorities when website sections such as “Cyber Rosarian” invite members to ask questions that then go unanswered for over a year. The section called “Endorsed Products” is its own conflicted mix of chemical interventions, artificial fertilizers, and organic rose food. The website section on rose preservation–a goal embedded in the ARS mission statement, “The American Rose Society exists to promote the culture, preservation and appreciation of the Rose”–is a blank page with a note it is under construction. A section with videos by Paul Zimmerman is useful, but the rose recommendations by district are incomplete, and also raise the issue that ARS districts are organized geopolitically, not by climate. A rose suited for the long dry summers of Sonoma County may not do as well in Maui. The ARS “Modern Roses” database has value, listing over 37,000 cultivars. But if I want insight into a specific rose, I use Helpmefind.com, which despite its generic name and rustic interface is the de facto go-to site for rose information, questions, and discussion, often in the context of region, climate, and approaches to sustainability. I pay a small annual fee for premium access, in part to get HMF’s extra goodies (advanced search, and access to lineage information) but primarily because this site gives me value and I want to support their work. Though I couldn’t find data on the ARS website for membership numbers in national, district, or local societies, I intuit membership overall is declining. It is in our local society, where despite great programming in a region where many people grow roses, I am one of the younger members. Again, there are larger forces at work with association membership, but pointing to those forces and then doing business as usual is a recipe for slow death. Interestingly, the local rose society is aware of its challenges and interested in what it might mean to reposition itself for survival. Most recently, we founded a Facebook group that anyone could join (look for Redwood Empire Rose Society). But the society doesn’t have very much time, and a Facebook group isn’t the magic bullet. To loop back to ALA for a moment: I can remember when the response to concerns about membership decline were that the library field was contracting as a whole and association membership was also less popular in general. But these days, ALA is invested in moving past these facts and asking, what then? ALA is willing to change to survive. And I believe that is why ALA will be around 100 years from now, assuming we continue to support human life on this continent. As I ponder all this, deep in my association geekiness, I’m left with these questions: if the ARS can’t save itself, who will be there for the roses? Will the ad hoc, de facto green-garden rosarians form a new society, will they simply soldier on as a loose federation, or will the vendors determine the future of roses? Have rose societies begun talking about strategic redirection, consolidation, and other new approaches? Does the ARS see itself as a change leader? Where does the ARS see itself in 25 years? Am I just a naive member in the field, totally missing the point, or is there something to what I’m observing, outside the palace walls? I’ve been writing this off and on for months. It’s Memorial Day and it’s now light enough outside to wander into our front yard, pruners and deadheading bucket in hand, iPhone in my pocket so I can share what bloomed while I slept. Over time I changed how I grow roses, but not why I grow roses. Somewhere in there is an insight, but it’s time to garden. Bookmark to: Filed in Uncategorized | | Comments Off on (Dis)Association I have measured out my life in Doodle polls Wednesday, April 10, 2019 You know that song? The one you really liked the first time you heard it? And even the fifth or fifteenth? But now your skin crawls when you hear it? That’s me and Doodle. In the last three months I have filled out at least a dozen Doodle polls for various meetings outside my organization. I complete these polls at work, where my two-monitor setup means I can review my Outlook calendar while scrolling through a Doodle poll with dozens of date and time options. I don’t like to inflict Doodle polls on our library admin because she has her hands full enough, including managing my real calendar. I have largely given up on earmarking dates on my calendar for these polls, and I just wait for the inevitable scheduling conflicts that come up. Some of these polls have so many options I would have absolutely no time left on my calendar for work meetings, many of which need to be made on fairly short notice. Not only that, I gird my loins for the inevitable “we can’t find a date, we’re Doodling again” messages that mean once again, I’m going to spend 15 minutes checking my calendar against a Doodle poll. I understand the allure of Doodle; when I first “met” Doodle, I was in love. At last, a way to pick meeting dates without long, painful email threads! But we’re now deep into the Tragedy of the Doodle Commons, with no relief in sight. Here are some Doodle ideas–you may have your own to toss in. First, when possible, before Doodling, I ask for blackout dates. That narrows the available date/time combos and helps reduce the “we gotta Doodle again” scenarios. Second, if your poll requires more than a little right-scrolling, reconsider how many options you’re providing. A poll with 40 options might as well be asking me to block out April. And I can’t do that. Third, I have taken exactly one poll where the pollster chose to suppress other people’s responses, and I hope to never see that again. There is a whole gaming side to Doodling in which early respondents get to drive the dates that are selected, and suppressing other’s responses eliminates that capability. Plus I want to know who has and hasn’t responded, and yes, I may further game things when I have that information. Also, if you don’t have to Doodle, just say no. Bookmark to: Filed in Uncategorized | | Comments (4) Memento DMV Saturday, March 30, 2019 This morning I spent 40 minutes in the appointment line at the Santa Rosa DMV to get my license renewed and converted to REAL ID, but was told I was “too early” to renew my license, which expires in September, so I have to return after I receive my renewal notice. I could have converted to REAL ID today, but I would still need to return to renew my license, at least as it was explained to me, and I do hope that was correct. CC BY 4.0, https://wellcomecollection.org/works/m8wh2kmc But–speaking as a librarian, and therefore from a profession steeped in resource management–I predict chaos in 2020 if DMV doesn’t rethink their workflow. We’re 18 months out from October 2020, the point at which people will not be able to board domestic flights if they don’t have a REAL ID or a valid passport, or another (and far less common) substitute. Then again, California DMV is already in chaos. Their longtime leader retired, the replacement lasted 32 days, and their new leader has been there ca. 60 days. Last year featured the license renewal debacle, which I suspect impacted the man standing behind me. He said he was there to apply for his license again because he never received the one he applied for last fall. And California DMV is one of 10 states that still needs a REAL ID extension because it didn’t have it together on time. Indeed, I was on the appointment line, and nearly everyone in that line was on their second visit to DMV for the task they were trying to accomplish, and not for lack of preparation on their part. Some of that was due to various DMV crises, and some of it is baked into DMV processes. Based on how their current policies were explained to me today at Window 13, I should never have been on that line in the first place; somewhere, in the online appointment process, the DMV should have prevented me from completing that task. I needlessly took up staff time at DMV. But the bigger problem is a system that gets in its own way, like libraries that lock book drops during the day to force users to enter the libraries to return books. With me standing there at Window 13 with my online appointment, my license, and my four types of ID, the smart thing to do would be to complete the process and get me out of the pipeline of REAL ID applicants–or any other DMV activity. But that didn’t happen. And I suspect I’m just one drop in a big, and overflowing, bucket. I suppose an adroit side move is to ensure your passport is current, but I hope we don’t reach the point where we need a passport to travel in our own country. Bookmark to: Filed in Uncategorized | | Comments Off on Memento DMV An Old-Skool Blog Post Friday, March 29, 2019 I get up early these days and get stuff done — banking and other elder-care tasks for my mother, leftover work from the previous day, association or service work. A lot of this is writing, but it’s not writing. I have a half-dozen unfinished blog posts in WordPress, and even more in my mind. I map them out and they are huge topics, so then I don’t write them. But looking back at the early days of this blog — 15 years ago! — I didn’t write long posts. I still wrote long-form for other media, but my blog posts were very much in the moment. So this is an old-skool post designed to ease me back in the writing habit. I’ll strive for twice a week, which is double the output of the original blogger, Samuel Johnson. I’ll post for 15 minutes and move on to other things. I am an association nerd, and I spend a lot of time thinking about associations of all kinds, particularly the American Library Association, the American Homebrewers Association, the American Rose Society, the Redwood Empire Rose Society, the local library advisory boards, my church, and our neighborhood association. Serving on the ALA Steering Committee on Organizational Effectiveness, I’m reminded of a few indelible truths. One is that during the change management process you need to continuously monitor the temperature of the association you’re trying to change and in the words of one management pundit, keep fiddling with the thermostat. An association didn’t get that big or bureaucratic overnight, and it’s not going to get agile overnight, either. Another is that the same people show up in each association, and–more interesting to me–stereotypes are not at play in determining who the change agents are. I had a great reminder of that 20 years ago, when I served as the library director for one of those tiny Barbie Dream libraries in upstate New York, and I led the migration from a card catalog to a shared system in a consortium. Too many people assumed that the library staff–like so many employees in these libraries, all female, and nearly all older women married to retired spouses–would be resistant to this change. In fact, they loved this change. They were fully on board with the relearning process and they were delighted and proud that they were now part of a larger system where they could not only request books from 30 other libraries but sometimes even lend books as well from our wee collection. There were changes they and the trustees resisted, and that was a good lesson too, but the truism of older women resisting technology was dashed against the rocks of reality. My 15 minutes are up. I am going in early today because I need to print things, not because I am an older woman who fears technology but because our home printer isn’t working and I can’t trust that I’ll have seatback room on my flight to Chicago to open my laptop and read the ALA Executive Board manual electronically, let alone annotate it or mark it up. I still remember the time I was on a flight, using my RPOD (Red Pen of Death, a fine-point red-ink Sharpie) to revise an essay, and the passenger next to me turned toward me wide-eyed and whispered, “Are you a TEACHER?” Such is the power of RPOD, an objective correlative that can immediately evoke the fear of correction from decades ago. Bookmark to: Filed in American Liberry Ass'n, Association Nerd | | Comments (1) Keeping Council Saturday, January 20, 2018 Editorial note: Over half of this post was composed in July 2017. At the time, this post could have been seen as politically neutral (where ALA is the political landscape I’m referring to) but tilted toward change and reform. Since then, Events Have Transpired. I revised this post in November, but at the time hesitated to post it because Events Were Still Transpiring. Today, in January 2018, I believe even more strongly in what I write here, but take note that the post didn’t have a hidden agenda when I wrote it, and, except where noted, it still reflects my thoughts from last July, regardless of ensuing events. My agendas tend to be fairly straightforward. — KGS   Original Post, in which Councilors are Urged to Council Edits in 2018 noted with bolding. As of July 2017, I am back on ALA Council for my fifth (non-consecutive) term since joining the American Library Association in 1991. In June I attended Council Orientation, and though it was excellent–the whole idea that Councilors would benefit from an introduction to the process is a beneficial concept that emerged over the last two decades–it did make me reflect on what I would add if there had been a follow-on conversation with sitting Councilors called “sharing the wisdom.” I was particularly alerted to that by comments during Orientation which pointed up a traditional view of the Council process where ALA’s largest governing body is largely inactive for over 350 days a year, only rousing when we prepare to meet face to face. Take or leave what I say here, or boldly contradict me, but it does come from an abundance of experience. You are a Councilor year-round Most newly-elected Councilors “take their seats” immediately after the annual conference following their election — a factoid with significance. Council, as a body, struggles with being a year-round entity that takes action twice a year during highly-condensed meetings during a conference with many other things happening. I have written about this before, in a dryly wonky post from 2012 that also addresses Council’s composition and the role of chapters. I proposed that Council meet four times a year, in a solstice-and-equinox model. Two of those meetings (the “solstice” meetings) could  be online. (As far back as 2007 I was hinting around about the overhead and carbon footprint of Midwinter.) I doubt Midwinter will go to an online format even within the next decade–it’s a moneymaker for ALA, if less so than before, and ALA’s change cycle is glacial–but the proposal was intended to get people thinking about how Council does, and doesn’t, operate. In lieu of any serious reconsideration of Council, here are some thoughts. First, think of yourself as a year-round Councilor, even if you do not represent a constituency such as a state chapter or a division that meets and takes action outside of ALA. Have at least a passing familiarity with the ALA Policy Manual. Bookmark it and be prepared to reference it. Get familiar with ALA’s financial model through the videos that explain things such as the operating agreement. Read and learn about ALA. Share news. Read the reports shared on the list, and post your thoughts and your questions. Think critically about what you’re reading. It’s possible to love your Association, believe with your heart that it has a bright future, and still raise your eyebrows about pat responses to budget questions, reassurances that membership figures and publishing revenue will rebound, and glib responses about the value of units such as the Planning and Budget Assembly. Come to Council prepared. Read everything you can in advance, speak with other Councilors, and apply solid reflection, and research if needed, before you finish packing for your trip. Preparation requires an awareness that you will be deluged with reading just as you are struggling to button up work at your library and preparing to be away for nearly a week, so skimming is essential. I focus on issues where I know I can share expertise, and provide input when I can. Also, I am proud we do memorial resolutions and other commemorations but I don’t dwell on them in advance unless I have helped write them or had close familiarity with the people involved. Fee, Fie, Foe, Forum Coming prepared to Council is one of those values Council has struggled with. Looking at the Council list for the week prior to Annual 2017, the only conversation was a discussion about the relocation of the Council Forum meeting room from one hotel to another, complete with an inquiry asking if ALA could rent a special bus to tote Councilors to and from the Forum hotel. Council Forum is an informal convening that has taken place for decades to enable Council to discuss resolutions and other actions outside of the strictures of parliamentary procedure. It meets three times during ALA, in the evening, and though it is optional, I agree with the Councilor who noted that important work happens at this informal gathering. I am conflicted about Forum. It allows substantive discussion about key resolutions to happen outside of the constrictive frameworks of parliamentary procedure. Forum is also well-run, with volunteer Councilors managing the conversation. But Forum also appears to have morphed into a substitute for reading and conversation in advance. It also means that Councilors have to block out yet more time to do “the work of the Association,” which in turn takes us away from other opportunities during the few days we are together as an Association. I don’t say this to whine about the sacrifice of giving up dinners and networking with ALA colleagues, though those experiences are important to me, but rather to point out that Forum as a necessary-but-optional Council activity takes a silo–that Brobdingnabian body that is ALA Council–and further silos it. That can’t be good for ALA. As Councilors, we benefit from cross-pollination with the work of the Association. Resolved: To tread lightly with resolutions New Councilors, and I was one of them once, are eager to solve ALA’s problems by submitting resolutions. Indeed, there are new Councilors who see resolutions as the work of Council, and there have been round tables and other units that clearly saw their work as generating reams of lightly-edited, poorly-written resolutions just prior to and during the conference. There are at least three questions to ask before submitting a resolution (other than memorial and other commemorative resolutions): Can the resolution itself help solve a problem? Has it been coordinated with the units and people involved in the issue it addresses? Is it clear and well-written? There are other questions worth considering, such as, if the issue this resolution proposed to address cropped up a month after Council met, would you still push it online with your Council colleagues, or ask the ALA Executive Board to address it? Which is another way to ask, is it important? Tread lightly with Twitter Overall, since coming through the stress of living through the Santa Rosa fires, I’m feeling weary, and perhaps wary, of social media. Though I appreciate the occasional microbursts taking on idiots insulting libraries and so on, right now much of social media feels at once small and overwrought. If I seem quieter on social media, that’s true. (But I have had more conversations with neighbors and area residents during and after the fires than I have since we moved to Santa Rosa in early 2015, and those convos are the real thing.) More problematically, as useful as Twitter can be for following real-world issues–including ALA–Twitter also serves as a place where people go to avoid the heavy lifting involved with crucial conversations. I find I like #alacouncil Twitter best when it is gently riffing on itself or amplifying action that the larger ALA body would benefit hearing about. [the following, to the end of this post, is all new content] I like #alacouncil Twitter least when it is used as a substitute for authentic conversation, used to insult other Councilors, or otherwise undermining the discourse taking place in the meatware world. Twitter is also particularly good at the unthinking pile-on, and many people have  vulnerabilities in this area that are easily exploited. Sometimes those pile-ons hit me close to home, as happened a little over a year ago. Other times these pile-ons serve only to amuse the minx in me, such as when a Famous Author (™) recently scolded me for “trafficking in respectability politics” because I was recommending a list of books written by writers from what our fearless leader calls “s–thole countries.” Guilty as charged! Indeed, I have conducted two studies where a major theme was “Do I look too gay?” I basically have a Ph.D. in respectability politics. And like all writers–including Famous Author (™)–I traffic in them. I chuckled and walked on by. Walking on by, on Twitter, takes different forms. As an administrator, I practice a certain pleasant-but-not-sugary facial expression that stays on my face regardless of what’s going on in my head. I’m not denying my emotions, which would be the sugary face; I’m managing them. It’s a kind of discipline that also helps me fjord difficult conversations, in which the discipline of managing my face also helps me manage my brain. The equivalent of my Admin Face for me for #alacouncil Twitter is to exercise the mute button. I have found it invaluable. People don’t know they are muted (or unmuted). If only real life had mute buttons–can you imagine how much better some meetings would be if you could click a button and the person speaking would be silenced, unaware that you couldn’t hear them? Everyone wins. But that aside, I have yet to encounter a situation on Twitter when–for me–muting was the wrong call. It’s as if you stepped off the elevator and got away from that person smacking gum. Another car will be along momentarily. My last thought on this post has to do with adding the term “sitting” before Councilors in the first part of this post. When I was not on Council I tried very hard not to be “that” former Councilor who is always kibitizing behind scene, sending Councilors messages about how things should be and how, in the 1960s, ALA did something bad and therefore we can never vote online because nobody knows how to find ALA Connect and it’s all a nefarious plot hatched by the ALA President, his dimwitted sycophants, and the Executive Board, and why can’t MY division have more representation because after all we’re the 800-pound gorilla (ok, I just got political, but you’ll note I left out anything about what should or should not be required for a Very Special Job). Yes, once in a while I sent a note if I thought it was helpful, the way some of my very ALA-astute friends will whisper in my ear about policy and process I may be unfamiliar with. Michael Golrick, a very connected ALA friend of mine, must have a third brain hemisphere devoted to the ALA policy manual and bylaws. And during a time when I was asking a lot of questions about the ALA budget (boiling down to one question: who do you think you’re fooling?), I was humbled by the pantheon of ALA luminaries whispering in my ear, providing encouragement as well as crucial guidance and information. But when I am no longer part of something, I am mindful that things can and should change and move on, and that I may not have enough information to inform that change. We don’t go to ALA in horse-and-buggies any more, but we conduct business as if we do, and when we try to change that, the fainting couches are rolled out and the smelling salts waved around as if we had, say, attempted to change the ALA motto, which is, I regret to inform you, “The best reading, for the largest number, at the least cost”–and yes, attempts to change that have been defeated. My perennial question is, if you were starting an association today, how would it function? If the answer is “as it did in 1893” (when that motto was adopted), perhaps your advice on a current situation is less salient than you fancy. You may succeed at what you’re doing, but that doesn’t make you right. And with that, I go off to Courthouse Square today to make exactly that point about events writ much, much larger, and of greater significance, than our fair association. But I believe how we govern makes a difference, and I believe in libraries and library workers, and I believe in ALA. Especially today. Bookmark to: Filed in American Liberry Ass'n, Librarianship | | Comments (2) What burns away Thursday, November 16, 2017 We are among the lucky ones. We did not lose our home. We did not spend day after day evacuated, waiting to learn the fate of where we live. We never lost power or Internet. We had three or four days where we were mildly inconvenienced because PG&E wisely turned off gas to many neighborhoods, but we showered at the YMCA and cooked on an electric range we had been planning to upgrade to gas later this fall (and just did, but thank you, humble Frigidaire electric range, for being there to let me cook out my anxiety). We kept our go-bags near the car, and then we kept our go-bags in the car, and then, when it seemed safe, we took them out again. That, and ten days of indoor living and wearing masks when we went out, was all we went through. But we all bear witness. The Foreshadowing It began with a five-year drought that crippled forests and baked plains, followed by an soaking-wet winter and a lush  spring that crowded the hillsides with greenery. Summer temperatures hit records several times, and the hills dried out as they always do right before autumn, but this time unusually crowded with parched foliage and growth. The air in Santa Rosa was hot and dry that weekend, an absence of humidity you could snap between your fingers. In the southwest section of the city, where we live, nothing seemed unusual. Like many homes in Santa Rosa our home does not have air conditioning, so for comfort’s sake I grilled our dinner, our 8-foot backyard fence buffering any hint of the winds gathering speed northeast of us. We watched TV and went to bed early. Less than an hour later one of several major fires would be born just 15 miles east of where we slept. Reports vary, but accounts agree it was windy that Sunday night, with windspeeds ranging between 35 and 79 miles per hour, and a gust northwest of Santa Rosa reaching nearly 100 miles per hour. If the Diablo winds were not consistently hurricane-strength, they were exceptionally fast, hot, and dry, and they meant business. A time-lapse map of 911 calls shows the first reports of downed power lines and transformers coming in around 10 pm.  The Tubbs fire was named for a road that is named for a 19th-century winemaker who lived in a house in  Calistoga that burned to the ground in an eerily similar fire in 1964. In three hours this fire sped 12 miles southwest, growing in size and intent as it gorged on hundreds and then thousands of homes in its way, breaching city limits and expeditiously laying waste to 600 homes in the Fountaingrove district before it tore through the Journey’s End mobile home park, then reared back on its haunches and leapt across a six-lane divided section of Highway 101, whereupon it gobbled up big-box stores and fast food restaurants flanking Cleveland Avenue, a business road parallel to the highway.  Its swollen belly, fat with miles of fuel, dragged over the area and took out buildings in the  the random manner of fires. Kohl’s and KMart were totaled and Trader Joe’s was badly damaged, while across the street from KMart, JoAnn Fabrics was untouched. The fire demolished one Mexican restaurant, hopscotched over another, and feasted on a gun shop before turning its ravenous maw toward the quiet middle-class neighborhood of Coffey Park, making short work of thousands more homes. Santa Rosa proper is itself only 41 square miles, approximately 13 miles north-south and 9 miles east-west, including the long tail of homes flanking the Annadel mountains. By the time Kohl’s was collapsing, the “wildfire” was less than 4 miles from our home. I woke up around 2 am, which I tend to do a lot anyway. I walked outside and smelled smoke, saw people outside their homes looking around, and went on Twitter and FaceBook. There I learned of a local fire, forgotten by most in the larger conflagration, but duly noted in brief by the Press Democrat: a large historic home at 6th and Pierson burned to the ground, possibly from  a downed transformer, and the fire licked the edge of the Santa Rosa Creek Trail for another 100 feet. Others in the West End have reported the same experience of reading about the 6th Street house fire on social media and struggling to reconcile the reports of this fire with reports of panic and flight from areas north of us and videos of walls of flame. At 4 am I received a call that the university had activated its Emergency Operations Center and I asked if I should report in. I showered and dressed, packed a change of clothes in a tote bag, threw my bag of important documents in my purse, and drove south on my usual route to work, Petaluma Hill Road. The hills east of the road flickered with fire, the road itself was packed with fleeing drivers, and halfway to campus I braked at 55 mph when a massive buck sprang inches in front of my car, not running in that “oops, is this a road?” way deer usually cross lanes of traffic but yawing too and fro, its eyes wide. I still wonder, was it hurt or dying. As I drove onto campus I thought, the cleaning crew. I parked at the Library and walked through the building, already permeated with smoky air. I walked as quietly as I could, so that if they were anywhere in the building I would hear them. As I walked through the silent building I wondered, is this the last time I will see these books? These computers? The new chairs I’m so proud of? I then went to the EOC and found the cleaning crew had been accounted for, which was a relief. At Least There Was Food And Beer A few hours later I went home. We had a good amount of food in the house, but like many of us who were part of this disaster but not immediately affected by it, I decided to stock up. The entire Santa Rosa Marketplace– CostCo and Trader Joe’s, Target–on Santa Rosa Avenue was closed, and Oliver’s had a line outside of people waiting to get in. I went to the “G&G Safeway”–the one that took over a down-at-the-heels family market known as G&G and turned it into a spiffy market with a wine bar, no less–and it was without power, but open for business and, thanks to a backup system, able to take ATM cards. I had emergency cash on me but was loathe to use it until I had to. Sweating through an N95 mask I donned to protect my lungs, I wheeled my cart through the dark store, selecting items that would provide protein and carbs if we had to stuff them in our go-bags, but also fresh fruit and vegetables, dairy and eggs–things I thought we might not see for a while, depending on how the disaster panned out. (Note, we do already have emergency food, water, and other supplies.) The cold case for beer was off-limits–Safeway was trying to retain the cold in its freezer and fridge cases in case it could save the food–but there was a pile of cases of Lagunitas Lil Sumpin Sumpin on sale, so that with a couple of bottles of local wine went home with me too. And with one wild interlude, for most of the rest of the time we stayed indoors with the windows closed.  I sent out email updates and made phone calls, kept my phone charged and read every Nexil alert, and people at work checked in with one another. My little green library emergency contact card stayed in my back pocket the entire time. We watched TV and listened to the radio, including extraordinary local coverage by KSRO, the Little Station that Could; patrolled newspapers and social media; and rooted for Sheriff Rob, particularly after his swift smack-down of a bogus, Breitbart-fueled report that an undocumented person had started the fires. Our home was unoccupied for a long time before we moved in this September, possibly up to a decade, while it was slowly but carefully upgraded. The electric range was apparently an early purchase; it was a line long discontinued by Frigidaire, with humble electric coils. But it had been unused until we arrived, and was in perfect condition. If an electric range could express gratitude for finally being useful, this one did. I used it to cook homey meals: pork loin crusted with Smithfield bacon; green chili cornbread; and my sui generis meatloaf, so named because every time I make it, I grind and add meat scraps from the freezer for a portion of the meat mixture. (It would be several weeks before I felt comfortable grilling again.) We cooked. We stirred. We sauteed. We waited. On Wednesday, we had to run an errand. To be truthful, it was an Amazon delivery purchased that Saturday, when the world was normal, and sent to an Amazon locker at the capacious Whole Foods at Coddington Mall, a good place to send a package until the mall closes down because the northeast section of the city is out of power and threatened by a massive wildfire. By Wednesday, Whole Foods had reopened, and after picking up my silly little order–a gadget that holds soda cans in the fridge–we drove past Russian River Brewing Company and saw it was doing business, so we had salad and beer for lunch, because it’s a luxury to have beer at lunch and the fires were raging and it’s so hard to get seating there nights and weekends, when I have time to go there, but there we were. We asked our waiter how he was doing, and he said he was fine but he motioned to the table across from ours, where a family was enjoying pizza and beer, and he said they had lost their homes. There were many people striving for routine during the fires, and to my surprise, even the city planning office returned correspondence regarding some work we have planned for our new home, offering helpful advice on the permitting process required for minor improvements for homes in historic districts. Because it turns out developers and engineers could serenely ignore local codes and build entire neighborhoods in Santa Rosa in areas known to be vulnerable to wildfire; but to replace bare dirt with a little white wooden picket fence, or to restore front windows from 1950s-style plate glass to double-hung wooden windows with mullions–projects intended to reinstate our house to its historic accuracy, and to make it more welcoming–requires a written justification of the project, accompanying photos, “Proposed Elevations (with Landscape Plan IF you are significantly altering landscape) (5 copies),” five copies of a paper form, a Neighborhood Context and Vicinity Map provided by the city, and a check for $346, followed by “8-12 weeks” before a decision is issued. The net result of this process is like the codes about not building on ridges, though much less dangerous; most people ignore the permitting process, so that the historic set piece that is presumably the goal is instead rife with anachronisms. And of course, first I had to bone up on the residential building code and the historic district guidelines, which contradict one another on key points, and because the permitting process is poorly documented I have an email traffic thread rivaling in word count Byron’s letters to his lovers. But the planning people are very pleasant, and we all seemed to take comfort in plodding through the administrivia of city bureaucracy as if we were not all sheltering in place, masks over our noses and mouths, go-bags in our cars, while fires raged just miles from their office and our home. The Wild Interlude, or, I Have Waited My Entire Career For This Moment Regarding the wild interlude, the first thing to know about my library career is that nearly everywhere I have gone where I have had the say-so to make things happen, I have implemented key management. That mishmosh of keys in  a drawer, the source of so much strife and arguments, becomes an orderly key locker with numbered labels. It doesn’t happen overnight, because keys are control and control is political and politics are what we tussle about in libraries because we don’t have that much money, but it happens. Sometimes I even succeed in convincing people to sign keys out so we know who has them. Other times I convince people to buy a locker with a keypad so we sidestep the question of where the key to the key locker is kept. But mostly, I leave behind the lockers, and, I hope, an appreciation for lockers. I realize it’s not quite as impressive as founding the Library of Alexandria, and it’s not what people bring up when I am introduced as a keynote speaker, and I have never had anyone ask for a tour of my key lockers nor have I ever been solicited to write a peer-reviewed article on key lockers. However unheralded, it’s a skill. My memory insists it was Tuesday, but the calendar says it was late Monday night when I received a call that the police could not access a door to an area of the library where we had high-value items. It would turn out that this was a rogue lock, installed sometime soon after the library opened in 2000, that unlike others did not have a master registered with the campus, an issue we have since rectified. But in any event, the powers that be had the tremendous good fortune to contact the person who has been waiting her entire working life to prove beyond doubt that KEY LOCKERS ARE IMPORTANT. After a brief internal conversation with myself, I silently nixed the idea of offering to walk someone through finding the key. I said I knew where the key was, and I could be there in twenty minutes to find it. I wasn’t entirely sure this was the case, because as obsessed as I am with key lockers, this year I have been preoccupied with things such as my deanly duties, my doctoral degree completion, national association work, our home purchase and household move, and the selection of geegaws like our new gas range (double oven! center griddle!). This means I had not spend a lot of time perusing this key locker’s manifest. So there was an outside chance I would have to find the other key, located somewhere in an another department, which would require a few more phone calls. I was also in that liminal state between sleep and waking; I had been asleep for two hours after being up since 2 am, and I would have agreed to do just about anything. Within minutes I was dressed and again driving down Petaluma Hill Road, still busy with fleeing cars.  The mountain ridges to the east of the road roiled with flames, and I gripped the steering wheel, watching for more animals bolting from fire. Once in the library, now sour with smoke, I ran up the stairs into my office suite and to the key locker, praying hard that the key I sought was in it. My hands shook. There it was, its location neatly labeled by the key czarina who with exquisite care had overseen the organization of the key locker. The me who lives in the here-and-now profusely thanked past me for my legacy of key management, with a grateful nod to the key czarina as well. What a joy it is to be able to count on people! Items were packed up, and off they rolled. After a brief check-in at the EOC, home I went, to a night of “fire sleep”–waking every 45 minutes to sniff the air and ask, is fire approaching?–a type of sleep I would have for the next ten days, and occasionally even now. How we speak to one another in the here and now Every time Sandy and I interact with people, we ask, how are you. Not, hey, how are ya, where the expected answer is “fine, thanks” even if you were just turned down for a mortgage or your mother died. But no, really, how are you. Like, fire-how-are-you. And people usually tell you, because everyone has a story. Answers range from: I’m ok, I live in Petaluma or Sebastopol or Bodega Bay (in SoCo terms, far from the fire), to I’m ok but I opened my home to family/friends/people who evacuated or lost their homes; or, I’m ok but we evacuated for a week; or, as the guy from Home Depot said, I’m ok and so is my wife, my daughter, and our 3 cats, but we lost our home. Sometimes they tell you and they change the subject, and sometimes they stop and tell you the whole story: when they first smelled smoke, how they evacuated, how they learned they did or did not lose their home. Sometimes they have before-and-after photos they show you. Sometimes they slip it in between other things, like our cat sitter, who mentioned that she lost her apartment in Fountaingrove and her cat died in the fire but in a couple of weeks she would have a home and she’d be happy to cat-sit for us. Now, post-fire, we live in that tritest of phrases, a new normal. The Library opened that first half-day back, because I work with people who like me believe that during disasters libraries should be the first buildings open and the last to close. I am proud to report the Library also housed NomaCares, a resource center for those at our university affected by the fire. That first Friday back we held our Library Operations meeting, and we shared our stories, and that was hard but good. But we also resumed regular activity, and soon the study tables and study rooms were full of students, meetings were convened, work was resumed, and the gears of life turned. But the gears turned forward, not back. Because there is no way back. I am a city mouse, and part of moving to Santa Rosa was our decision to live in a highly citified section, which turned out to be a lucky call. But my mental model of city life has been forever twisted by this fire. I drive on 101 just four miles north of our home, and there is the unavoidable evidence of a fire boldly leaping into an unsuspecting city. I go to the fabric store, and I pass twisted blackened trees and a gun store totaled that first night. I drive to and from work with denuded hills to my east a constant reminder. But that’s as it should be. Even if we sometimes need respite from those reminders–people talk about taking new routes so they won’t see scorched hills and devastated neighborhoods–we cannot afford to forget. Sandy and I have moved around the country in our 25 years together, and we have seen clues everywhere that things are changing and we need to take heed. People like to lapse into the old normal, but it is not in our best interests to do so. All of our stories are different. But we share a collective loss of innocence, and we can never return to where we were. We can only move forward, changed by the fire, changed forever. Bookmark to: Filed in Santa Rosa Living | | Comments Off on What burns away Neutrality is anything but Saturday, August 19, 2017 “We watch people dragged away and sucker-punched at rallies as they clumsily try to be an early-warning system for what they fear lies ahead.” — Unwittingly prophetic me, March, 2016. Sheet cake photo by Flickr user Glane23. CC by 2.0 Sometime after last November, I realized something very strange was happening with my clothes. My slacks had suddenly shrunk, even if I hadn’t washed them. After months of struggling to keep myself buttoned into my clothes, I gave up and purchased slacks and jeans one size larger. I call them my T***p Pants. This post is about two things. It is about the lessons librarians are learning in this frightening era about the nuances and qualifications shadowing our deepest core values–an era so scary that quite a few of us, as Tina Fey observed, have acquired T***p Pants. And it’s also some advice, take it or leave it, on how to “be” in this era. I suspect many librarians have had the same thoughts I have been sharing with a close circle of colleagues. Most librarians take pride in our commitment to free speech. We see ourselves as open to all viewpoints. But in today’s new normal, we have seen that even we have limits. This week, the ACRL Board of Directors put out a statement condemning the violence in Charlottesville. That was the easy part. The Board then stated, “ACRL is unwavering in its long-standing commitment to free exchange of different viewpoints, but what happened in Charlottesville was not that; instead, it was terrorism masquerading as free expression.” You can look at what happened in Charlottesville and say there was violence “from many sides,” some of it committed by “very fine people” who just happen to be Nazis surrounded by their own private militia of heavily-armed white nationalists. Or you can look at Charlottesville and see terrorism masquerading as free expression, where triumphant hordes descended upon a small university town under the guise of protecting some lame-ass statue of an American traitor, erected sixty years after the end of the Civil War, not coincidentally during a very busy era for the Klan. Decent people know the real reason the Nazis were in Charlottesville: to tell us they are empowered and emboldened by our highest elected leader. There is no middle ground. You can’t look at Charlottesville and see everyday people innocently exercising First Amendment rights. As I and many others have argued for some time now, libraries are not neutral.  Barbara Fister argues, “we stand for both intellectual freedom and against bigotry and hate, which means some freedoms are not countenanced.” She goes on to observe, “we don’t have all the answers, but some answers are wrong.” It goes to say that if some answers are wrong, so are some actions. In these extraordinary times, I found myself for the first time ever thinking the ACLU had gone too far; that there is a difference between an unpopular stand, and a stand that is morally unjustifiable. So I was relieved when the national ACLU concurred with its three Northern California chapters that “if white supremacists march into our towns armed to the teeth and with the intent to harm people, they are not engaging in activity protected by the United States Constitution. The First Amendment should never be used as a shield or sword to justify violence.” But I was also sad, because once again, our innocence has been punctured and our values qualified. Every asterisk we put after “free speech” is painful. It may be necessary and important pain, but it is painful all the same. Many librarians are big-hearted people who like to think that our doors are open to everyone and that all viewpoints are welcome, and that enough good ideas, applied frequently, will change people. And that is actually very true, in many cases, and if I didn’t think it was true I would conclude I was in the wrong profession. But we can’t change people who don’t want to be changed. Listen to this edition of The Daily, a podcast from the New York Times, where American fascists plan their activities. These are not people who are open to reason. As David Lankes wrote, “there are times when a community must face the fact that parts of that community are simply antithetical to the ultimate mission of a library.” We urgently need to be as one voice as a profession around these issues. I was around for–was part of–the “filtering wars” of the 1990s, when libraries grappled with the implications of the Internet bringing all kinds of content into libraries, which also challenged our core values. When you’re hand-selecting the materials you share with your users, you can pretend you’re open to all points of view. The Internet challenged that pretense, and we struggled and fought, and were sometimes divided by opportunistic outsiders. We are fortunate to have strong ALA leadership this year. The ALA Board and President came up swinging on Tuesday with an excellent presser that stated unequivocally that “the vile and racist actions and messages of the white supremacist and neo-Nazi groups in Charlottesville are in stark opposition to the ALA’s core values,” a statement that (in the tradition of ensuring chapters speak first) followed a strong statement from our Virginia state association.  ARL also chimed in with a stemwinder of a statement.  I’m sure we’ll see more. But ALA’s statement also describes the mammoth horns of the library dilemma. As I wrote colleagues, “My problem is I want to say I believe in free speech and yet every cell in my body resists the idea that we publicly support white supremacy by giving it space in our meeting rooms.” If you are in a library institution that has very little likelihood of exposure to this or similar crises, the answers can seem easy, and our work appears done. But for more vulnerable libraries, it is crucial that we are ready to speak with one voice, and that we be there for those libraries when they need us. How we get there is the big question. I opened this post with an anecdote about my T***p pants, and I’ll wrap it up with a concern. It is so easy on social media to leap in to condemn, criticize, and pick apart ideas. Take this white guy, in an Internet rag, the week after the election, chastising people for not doing enough.  You know what’s not enough? Sitting on Twitter bitching about other people not doing enough. This week, Siva Vaidhyanathan posted a spirited defense of a Tina Fey skit where she addressed the stress and anxiety of these political times.  Siva is in the center of the storm, which gives him the authority to state an opinion about a sketch about Charlottesville. I thought Fey’s skit was insightful on many fronts. It addressed the humming anxiety women have felt since last November (if not earlier). It was–repeatedly–slyly critical of inaction: “love is love, Colin.” It even had a Ru Paul joke. A lot of people thought it was funny, but then the usual critics came out to call it naive, racist, un-funny, un-woke, advocating passivity, whatever. We are in volatile times, and there are provocateurs from outside, but also from inside. Think. Breathe. Step away from the keyboard. Take a walk. Get to know the mute button in Twitter and the unfollow feature in Facebook. Pull yourself together and think about what you’re reading, and what you’re planning to say. Interrogate your thinking, your motives, your reactions. I’ve read posts by librarians deriding their peers for creating subject guides on Charlottesville, saying instead we should be punching Nazis. Get a grip. First off, in real life, that scenario is unlikely to transpire. You, buried in that back cubicle in that library department, behind three layers of doors, are not encountering a Nazi any time soon, and if you did, I recommend fleeing, because that wackdoodle is likely accompanied by a trigger-happy militiaman carrying a loaded gun. (There is an entire discussion to be had about whether violence to violence is the politically astute response, but that’s for another day.) Second, most librarians understand that their everyday responses to what is going on in the world are not in and of themselves going to defeat the rise of fascism in America. But we are information specialists and it’s totally wonderful and cool to respond to our modern crisis with information, and we need to be supportive and not go immediately into how we are all failing the world. Give people a positive framework for more action, not scoldings for not doing enough. In any volatile situation, we need to slow the eff down and ask how we’re being manipulated and to what end; that is a lesson the ACLU just learned the hard way. My colleague Michael Stephens is known for saying, “speak with a human voice.” I love his advice, and I would add, make it the best human voice you have. We need one another, more than we know.   Bookmark to: Filed in Intellectual Freedom, Librarianship | | Comments (2) MPOW in the here and now Sunday, April 9, 2017 Sometimes we have monsters and UFOs, but for the most part it’s a great place to work I have coined a few biblioneologisms in my day, but the one that has had the longest legs is MPOW (My Place of Work), a convenient, mildly-masking shorthand for one’s institution. For the last four years I haven’t had the bandwidth to coin neologisms, let alone write about MPOW*. This silence could be misconstrued. I love what I do, and I love where I am. I work with a great team on a beautiful campus for a university that is undergoing a lot of good change. We are just wrapping up the first phase of a visioning project to help our large, well-lit building serve its communities well for the decades to come. We’re getting ready to join the other 22 CSU libraries on OneSearch, our first-ever unified library management system. We have brought on some great hires, thrown some great events (the last one featured four Black Panthers talking about their life work — wow!). With a new dean (me) and a changing workforce, we are developing our own personality. It’s all good… and getting better The Library was doing well when I arrived, so my job was to revitalize and switch it up. As noted in one of the few posts about MPOW, the libraries in my system were undergoing their own reassessment, and that has absorbed a fair amount of our attention, but we continue to move forward. Sometimes it’s the little things. You may recall I am unreasonably proud of the automated table of contents I generated for my dissertation, and I also feel that way about MPOW’s slatwall book displays, which in ten areas beautifully market new materials in spaces once occupied by prison-industry bookcases or ugly carpet and unused phones (what were the phones for? Perhaps we will never know). The slatwall was a small project that was a combination of expertise I brought from other libraries, good teamwork at MPOW, and knowing folks. The central problem was answered quickly by an email to a colleague in my doctoral program (hi, Cindy!) who manages public libraries where I saw the displays I thought would be a good fit. The team selected the locations, a staff member with an eye for design recommended the color, everyone loves it, and the books fly off the shelves. If there is any complaining, it is that we need more slatwall. Installed slatwall needs to wait until we know if we are moving/removing walls as part of our building improvements. A bigger holdup is that we need to hire an Access Services Manager, and really, anything related to collections needs the insight of a collections librarian. People… who need people… But we had failed searches for both these positions… in the case of collections, twice. *cue mournful music* We have filled other positions with great people now doing great things, and are on track to fill more positions, but these two, replacing people who have retired, are frustrating us. The access services position is a managerial role, and the collections librarian is a tenure-track position. Both offer a lot of opportunity. We are relaunching both searches very soon (I’ll post a brief update when that happens), and here’s my pitch. If you think you might qualify for either position, please apply. Give yourself the benefit of the doubt. If you know someone who would be a good fit for either position, ask them to apply. I recently mentored someone who was worried about applying to a position. “Will that library hold it against me if I am not qualified?” The answer is of course not!  (And if they do, well, you dodged that bullet!) I have watched far too many people self-select out of positions they were qualified for (hrrrrmmmm particularly one gender…). Qualification means expertise + capacity + potential. We expect this to be a bit of a stretch to you. If a job is really good, most days will have a “fake it til you make it” quality. This is also not a “sink or swim” institution. If it ever was, those days are in the dim past, long before I arrived. The climate is positive. People do great things and we do our best to support them. I see our collective responsibility as an organization as to help one another succeed. Never mind me and my preoccupation with slatwall (think of it as something to keep the dean busy and happy, like a baby with a binky). We are a great team, a great library, on a great campus, and we’re a change-friendly group with a minimum of organizational issues, and I mean it. I have worked enough places to put my hand on a Bible and swear to that. It has typical organizational challenges, and it’s a work in progress… as are we all. The area is crazily expensive, but it’s also really beautiful and so convenient for any lifestyle. You like city? We got city. You like suburb, or ocean, or mountain, or lake? We got that! Anyway, that’s where I am with MPOW: I’m happy enough, and confident enough, to use this blog post to BEG YOU OH PLEASE HELP US FILL THESE POSITIONS. The people who join us will be glad you did. ### *   Sidebar: the real hilarity of coining neologisms is that quite often someone, generally of a gender I do not identify with, will heatedly object to the term, as happened in 2004 when I coined the term biblioblogosphere. Then, as I noted in that post from 2012, others will defend it. That leads me to believe that creating new words is the linguistic version of lifting one’s hind leg on a tree. Bookmark to: Filed in Uncategorized | | Comments (1) Questions I have been asked about doctoral programs Wednesday, March 29, 2017 About six months ago I was visiting another institution when someone said to me, “Oh, I used to read your blog, BACK IN THE DAY.” Ah yes, back in the day, that Pleistocene era when I wasn’t working on a PhD while holding down a big job and dealing with the rest of life’s shenanigans. So now the PhD is done–I watched my committee sign the signature page, two copies of it, even, before we broke out the champers and celebrated–and here I am again. Not blogging every day, as I did once upon a time, but still freer to put virtual pen to electronic paper as the spirit moves me. I have a lot to catch up on–for example, I understand there was an election last fall, and I hear it may not have gone my way–but the first order of business is to address the questions I have had from library folk interested in doctoral programs. Note that my advice is not directed at librarians whose goal is to become faculty in LIS programs. Dropping Back In One popular question comes from people who had dropped out of doctoral programs. Could they ever be accepted into a program again? I’m proof there is a patron saint for second chances. I spent one semester in a doctoral program in 1995 and dropped out for a variety of reasons–wrong time, wrong place, too many life events happening. At the time, I felt that dropping out was the academic equivalent of You’ll Never Eat Lunch In This Town Again, but part of higher education is a series of head games, and that was one of them. The second time around, I had a much clearer idea of what I wanted from a program and what kind of program would work for me, and I had the confluence of good timing and good luck. The advice Tom Galvin gave me in 1999, when Sandy and I were living in Albany and when Tom–a longtime ALA activist and former ALA Exec Director–was teaching at SUNY Albany, still seems sound: you can drop out of one program and still find your path back to a doctorate, just don’t drop out of two programs. I also have friends who suffered through a semester or two, then decided it wasn’t for them. When I started the program, I remember thinking “I need this Ph.D. because I could never get a job at, for example, X without it.” Then I watched as someone quite accomplished, with no interest in ever pursuing even a second masters, was hired at X. There is no shame in deciding the cost/benefit analysis isn’t there for you–though I learned, through this experience, that I was in the program for other, more sustainable reasons. Selecting Your Program I am also asked what program to attend. To that my answer is, unless you are very young and can afford to go into, and hopefully out of, significant amounts of debt, pick the program that is most affordable and allows you to continue working as a professional (though if you are at a point in life when you can afford to take a couple years off and get ‘er done, more power to you). That could be a degree offered by your institution or in cooperation with another institution, or otherwise at least partially subsidized. I remember pointing out to an astonished colleague that the Ed.D. he earned for free (plus many Saturdays of sweat equity) was easily worth $65,000, based on the tuition rate at his institution. Speaking of which, I get asked about Ph.D. versus Ed.D. This can be a touchy question. My take: follow the most practical and affordable path available to you that gets you the degree you will be satisfied with and that will be the most useful to you in your career. But whether Ed.D. or Ph.D., it’s still more letters after your name than you had before you started. Where Does It Hurt? What’s the hardest part of a doctoral program? For me, that was a two-way tie between the semester coursework and the comprehensive exams. The semester work was challenging because it couldn’t be set aside or compartmentalized. The five-day intensives were really seven days for me as I had to fly from the Left Coast to Boston. The coursework had deadlines that couldn’t be put aside during inevitable crises. The second semester was the hardest, for so many reasons, not the least of which is that once I had burned off the initial adrenaline, the finish line seemed impossibly far away; meanwhile, the tedium of balancing school and work was settling in, and I was floundering in alien subjects I was struggling to learn long-distance. Don’t get me wrong, the coursework was often excellent: managing in a political environment, strategic finance, human resources, and other very practical and interesting topics. But it was a bucket o’ work, and when I called a colleague with a question about chair manufacturers (as one does) and heard she was mired in her second semester, I immediately informed her This Too Shall Pass. Ah, the comprehensive exams. I would say I shall remember them always, except they destroyed so much of my frontal lobe, that will not be possible. The comps required memorizing piles of citations–authors and years, with salient points–to regurgitate during two four-hour closed-book tests.  I told myself afterwards that the comps helped me synthesize major concepts in grand theory, which is a dubious claim but at least made me feel better about the ordeal. A number of students in my program helped me with comps. My favorite memory is of colleague Gary Shaffer, who called me from what sounded like a windswept city corner to offer his advice. I kept hearing this crinkling sound. The crinkling became louder. “Always have your cards with you,” Gary said. He had brought a sound prop: the bag of index cards he used to constantly drill himself. I committed myself to continuous study until done, helped by partnering with my colleague Chuck in long-distance comps prep. We didn’t study together, but we compared timelines and kept one another apprised of our progress. You can survive a doctoral program without a study buddy, but whew, is it easier if you have one. Comps were an area where I started with old tech–good old paper index cards–and then asked myself, is this how it’s done these days? After research, I moved on to electronic flashcards through Quizlet. When I wasn’t flipping through text cards on my phone, iPad, or computer, I was listening to the cards on my phone during my run or while driving around running errands. Writing != Not Writing So about that dissertation. It was a humongous amount of work, but the qualifying paper that preceded it and the coursework and instruction in producing dissertation-quality research gave me the research design skills I needed to pull it off. Once I had the data gathered, it was just a lot of writing. This, I can do. Not everyone can. Writing is two things (well, writing is many things, but we’ll stick with two for now): it is a skill, and it is a discipline. If you do not have those two things, writing will be a third thing: impossible. Here is my method. It’s simple. You schedule yourself, you show up, and you write. You do not talk about how you are going to write, unless you are actually going to write. You do not tweet that you are writing (because then you are tweeting, not writing). You do not do other things and feel guilty because you are not writing. (If you do other things, embrace them fully.) I would write write write write write, at the same chair at the same desk (really, a CostCo folding table) facing the same wall with the same prompts secured to the wall with painter’s tape that on warm days would loosen, requiring me to crawl under my “desk” to retrieve the scattered papers, which on many days was pretty much my only form of exercise. Then I would write write write write write some more, on weekends, holiday breaks, and the occasional “dissercation day,” as I referred to vacation days set aside for this purpose. Dissercation Days had the added value that  I was very conscious I was using vacation time to write, so I didn’t procrastinate–though in general I find procrastinating at my desk a poor use of time; if I’m going to procrastinate, let me at least get some fresh air. People will advise you when and how to write. A couple weekends ago I was rereading Stephen King’s On Writing–now that I can read real books again–in which King recommends writing every day. If that works for you, great. What worked for me was using weekends, holidays, or vacation days; writing early in the day, often starting as early as 4 am; taking a short exercise break or powering through until mid-afternoon; and then stopping no later than 4 pm, many times more like 2 pm if I hadn’t stopped by then. When I tried to write on weekday mornings, work would distract me. Not actual tasks, but the thought of work. It would creep into my brain and then I would feel the urgent need to see if the building consultant had replied to my email or if I had the agenda ready for the program and marketing meeting. It also takes me about an hour to get into a writing groove, so by the time the words were flowing it was time to get ready for work. As for evenings, a friend of mine observed that I’m a lark, not an owl. The muse flees me by mid-afternoon. (This also meant I saved the more chore-like tasks of writing for the afternoon.) The key is to find your own groove and stick to it. If your groove isn’t working, maybe it’s not your groove after all. Do not take off too much time between writing sessions. I had to do that a couple of times for six to eight weeks each time, during life events such as household moves and so on, and it took some revisiting to reacquaint myself with my writing (which was Stephen King’s main, and excellent, point in his recommendation to write daily). Even when I was writing on a regular basis I often spent at least an hour at the start of the weekend rereading my writing from page 1 to ensure that my most recent writing had a coherent flow of reasoning and narrative and that the writing for that day would be its logical descendant. Another universal piece of advice is to turn off the technology. I see people tweeting “I’m writing my dissertation right now” and I think, no you aren’t. I used a Mac app called Howler timer to give me writing sieges of 45, 60, 75, or 90 minutes, depending on my degree of focus for that day, during which all interruptions–email, Facebook, Twitter, etc.–were turned off. Twitter and Facebook became snack breaks, though I timed those snacks as well. I had favorite Pandora stations to keep me company and drown out ambient noise, and many, many cups of herbal tea. Technology Will Save Us All A few technical notes about technology and doctoral programs. With the exception of the constant allure of social networks and work email, it’s a good thing. I used Kahn Academy and online flash cards to study for the math portion of the GRE.  As noted earlier, I used Quizlet for my comps, in part because this very inexpensive program not only allowed me to create digital flashcards but also read them aloud to me on my iPhone while I exercised or ran errands. I conducted interviews using FaceTime with an inexpensive plug-in, Call Recorder, that effortlessly produced digital recordings, from which the audio files could be easily split out. I then emailed the audio files to Valerie, my transcriptionist, who lives several thousand miles away but always felt as if she were in the next room, swiftly and flawlessly producing transcripts. I used Dedoose, a cloud-based analytical product, to mark up the narratives, and with the justifiable paranoia of any doctoral student, exported the output to multiple secure online locations. I dimly recall life before such technology, but cannot fathom operating in such a world again, or how much longer some of the tasks would have taken.  I spent some solid coin on things like paying a transcriptionist, but when I watch friends struggling to transcribe their own recordings, I have no regrets. There are parts of my dissertation I am exceptionally proud of, but I admit particular pride for my automatically-generated table of contents, just one of many skills I learned through YouTube (spoiler alert: the challenge is not marking up the text, it’s changing the styles to match your requirements. Word could really use a style set called Just Times Roman Please). And of course, there were various library catalogs and databases, and hundreds of e-journals to plumb, activity I accomplished as far away from your typical “library discovery layer” as possible. You can take Google Scholar away from me when you pry it from my cold, dead hands. I also plowed through a lot of print books, and many times had to do backflips to get the book in that format. Journal articles work great in e-format (though I do have a leaning paper pillar of printed journal articles left over from comps review and classes). Books, not so much. I needed to have five to fifteen books simultaneously open during a writing session, something ebooks are lame at.  I don’t get romantic about the smell of paper blah blah blah, but when I’m writing, I need my tools in the most immediately accessible format possible, and for me that is digital for articles and paper for books. Nothing Succeeds Like Success Your cohort can be very important,  and indeed I remember all of them with fondness but one with particular gratitude. Nevertheless, you alone will cross the finish line. I was unnerved when one member of our cohort dropped out after the first semester, but I shouldn’t have been. Doctoral student attrition happens throughout the academy, no less so in LibraryLand. Like the military, or marriage, you really have no idea what it’s like until you’re in it, and it’s not for everyone. It should be noted that the program I graduated from has graduated, or will graduate, nearly all of the students who made it past the first two semesters, which in turn is most of the people who entered the program in its short but glorious life–another question you should investigate while looking at programs. It turned out that for a variety of reasons that made sense, the cohort I was in was the last for this particular doctoral program. That added a certain pressure since each class was the last one to ever be offered, but it also encouraged me to keep my eyes on the prize. I also, very significantly, had a very supportive committee, and most critically, I fully believed they wanted me to succeed. I also had a very supportive spouse, with whom I racked up an infinity of backlogged honey-dos and I-owe-you-for-this promises. Regarding success and failure, at the beginning of the program, I asked if anyone had ever failed out of the program. The answer was no, everyone who left self-selected. I later asked the same question regarding comps: had anyone failed comps? The answer was that a student or two had retaken a section of comps in order to pass, but no one had completely failed (and you got one do-over if that happened). These were crucial questions for me. It also helped me to reflect on students who had bigger jobs, or were also raising kids, or otherwise were generally worse off than me in the distraction department. If so-and-so, with the big Ivy League job, or so-and-so, with the tiny infant, could do it, couldn’t I? (There is a fallacy inherent here that more prestigious schools are harder to administer, but it is a fallacy that comforted me many a day.) Onward I am asked what I will “do” with my Ph.D. In higher education, a doctorate is the expected degree for administrators, and indeed, the news of my successful doctoral defense was met with comments such as “welcome to the club.” So, mission accomplished. Also, I have a job I love, but having better marketability is never a bad idea, particularly in a political moment that can best be described as volatile and unpredictable. I can consult. I can teach (yes, I already could teach, but now more fancy-pants). I could make a reservation at a swanky bistro under the name Dr. Oatmeal and only half of that would be a fabrication. The world is my oyster! Frankly, I did not enter the program with the idea that I would gain skills and develop the ability to conduct doctoral-quality research (I was really shooting for the fancy six-sided tam), but that happened and I am pondering what to do with this expertise. I already have the joy of being pedantic, if only quietly to myself. Don’t tell me you are writing a “case study” unless it has the elements of a case study not to mention the components of any true research design. Otherwise it’s just anecdata. And of course, when it comes to owning the area of LGTBQ leadership in higher education, I am totally M.C. Hammer: u can’t touch this! I would not mind being part of the solution for addressing the dubious quality of so much LIS “research.” LibraryLand needs more programs such as the Institute for Research Design in Librarianship to address the sorry fact that basic knowledge of the fundamentals of producing industry-appropriate research is in most cases not required for a masters degree in library science, which at least for academic librarianship, given the student learning objectives we claim to support, is absurd. I also want to write a book, probably continuing the work I have been doing with documenting the working experiences of LGBTQ librarians. But first I need to sort and purge my home office, revisit places such as Hogwarts and Narnia, and catch up on some of those honey-dos and I-owe-you-for-this promises. And buy a six-sided tam. Bookmark to: Filed in Uncategorized | | Comments (2) A scholar’s pool of tears, Part 2: The pre in preprint means not done yet Tuesday, January 10, 2017 Note, for two more days, January 10 and 11, you (as in all of you) have free access to my article, To be real: Antecedents and consequences of sexual identity disclosure by academic library directors. Then it drops behind a paywall and sits there for a year. When I wrote Part 1 of this blog post in late September, I had keen ambitions of concluding this two-part series by discussing “the intricacies of navigating the liminal world of OA that is not born OA; the OA advocacy happening in my world; and the implications of the publishing environment scholars now work in.” Since then, the world, and my priorities have changed. My goals are to prevent nuclear winter and lead our library to its first significant building upgrades since it opened close to 20 years ago. But at some point I said on Twitter, in response to a conversation about posting preprints, that I would explain why I won’t post a preprint of To be real. And the answer is very simple: because what qualifies as a preprint for Elsevier is a draft of the final product that presents my writing before I incorporated significant stylistic guidance from the second reviewer, and that’s not a version of the article I want people to read. In the pre-Elsevier draft, as noted before, my research is present, but it is overshadowed by clumsy style decisions that Reviewer 2 presented far more politely than the following summary suggests: quotations that were too brief; rushing into the next thought without adequately closing out the previous thought; failure to loop back to link the literature review to the discussion; overlooking a chance to address the underlying meaning of this research; and a boggy conclusion. A crucial piece of advice from Reviewer 2 was to use pseudonyms or labels to make the participants more real. All of this advice led to a final product, the one I have chosen to show the world. That’s really all there is to it. It would be better for the world if my article were in an open access publication, but regardless of where it is published, I as the author choose to share what I know is my best work, not my work in progress. The OA world–all sides of it, including those arguing against OA–has some loud, confident voices with plenty of “shoulds,” such as the guy (and so many loud OA voices are male) who on a discussion list excoriated an author who was selling self-published books on Amazon by saying “people who value open access should praise those scholars who do and scorn those scholars who don’t.” There’s an encouraging appproach! Then there are the loud voices announcing the death of OA when a journal’s submissions drop, followed by the people who declare all repositories are Potemkin villages, and let’s not forget the fellow who curates a directory of predatory OA journals that is routinely cited as an example of what’s wrong with scholarly publishing. I keep saying, the scholarly-industrial complex is broken. I’m beyond proud that the Council of Library Deans for the California State University–my 22 peers–voted to encourage and advocate for open access publishing in the CSU system. I’m also excited that my library has its first scholarly communications librarian who is going to bat on open access and open educational resources and all other things open–a position that in consultation with the library faculty I prioritized as our first hire in a series of retirement/moving-on faculty hires. But none of that translates to sharing work I consider unfinished. We need to fix things in scholarly publishing and there is no easy, or single, path. And there are many other things happening in the world right now. I respect every author’s decision about what they will share with the world and when and how they will share it. As for my decision–you have it here. Bookmark to: Filed in Uncategorized | | Comments Off on A scholar’s pool of tears, Part 2: The pre in preprint means not done yet ‹ Older posts Search for: Recto and verso About Free Range Librarian Comment guidelines Writing: Clips & Samples You were saying… K.G. 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Schneider ¶ Thanks, WordPress. ¶ veryplaintxt theme by Scott Allan Wallick. ¶ It's nice XHTML & CSS. futurearchives-blogspot-com-7563 ---- futureArch, or the future of archives... futureArch, or the future of archives... A place for thoughts on hybrid archives and manuscripts at the Bodleian Library. This blog is no longer being updated Born Digital: Guidance for Donors, Dealers, and Archival Repositories Digital Preservation: What I wish I knew before I started Transcribe at the arcHIVE Atlas of digital damages DayOfDigitalArchives 2012 Sprucing up the TikaFileIdentifier SPRUCE Mashup: 16th-18th April 2012 Media Recognition: DV part 3 Media Recognition: DV part 2 Media Recognition: DV part 1 Digital Preservation: What I Wish I Knew Before I Started What is ‘The Future of the Past of the Web’? Day of Digital Archives, 2011 Another source for old software Comparing software tools Mobile forensics Preserving born-digital video - what are good practices? 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Hit Control-R to reload the page and get a list of the HTTP requests that the browser makes. We get something like this: There’s a lot to like here: every request was made using HTTPS rather than HTTP, and almost all of the requests were made to the Koha server. (If you can’t trust the library catalog, who can you trust? Well… that doesn’t have an answer as clear as we would like, but I won’t tackle that question here.) However, the two cover images on the result’s page come from Amazon: https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/0974458902.01.TZZZZZZZ.jpg https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/1849350949.01.TZZZZZZZ.jpg What did I trade in exchange for those two cover images? Let’s click on the request on and see: :authority: images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com :method: GET :path: /images/P/0974458902.01.TZZZZZZZ.jpg :scheme: https accept: image/webp,image/apng,image/,/*;q=0.8 accept-encoding: gzip, deflate, br accept-language: en-US,en;q=0.9 cache-control: no-cache dnt: 1 pragma: no-cache referer: https://catalog.libraryguardians.com/cgi-bin/koha/opac-search.pl?q=anarchist sec-fetch-dest: image sec-fetch-mode: no-cors sec-fetch-site: cross-site user-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/80.0.3987.116 Safari/537.36 Here’s what was sent when I used Firefox: Host: images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:73.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/73.0 Accept: image/webp,/ Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5 Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate, br Connection: keep-alive Referer: https://catalog.libraryguardians.com/cgi-bin/koha/opac-search.pl?q=anarchist DNT: 1 Pragma: no-cache Amazon also knows what my IP address is. With that, it doesn’t take much to figure out that I am in Georgia and am clearly up to no good; after all, one look at the Referer header tells all. Let’s switch over to using Google Book’s cover images: https://books.google.com/books/content?id=phzFwAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=5 https://books.google.com/books/content?id=wdgrJQAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=5 This time, the request headers are in Chrome: :authority: books.google.com :method: GET :path: /books/content?id=phzFwAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=5 :scheme: https accept: image/webp,image/apng,image/,/*;q=0.8 accept-encoding: gzip, deflate, br accept-language: en-US,en;q=0.9 cache-control: no-cache dnt: 1 pragma: no-cache referer: https://catalog.libraryguardians.com/ sec-fetch-dest: image sec-fetch-mode: no-cors sec-fetch-site: cross-site user-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/80.0.3987.116 Safari/537.36 x-client-data: CKO1yQEIiLbJAQimtskBCMG2yQEIqZ3KAQi3qsoBCMuuygEIz6/KAQi8sMoBCJe1ygEI7bXKAQiNusoBGKukygEYvrrKAQ== and in Firefox: Host: books.google.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:73.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/73.0 Accept: image/webp,/ Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5 Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate, br Connection: keep-alive Referer: https://catalog.libraryguardians.com/ DNT: 1 Pragma: no-cache Cache-Control: no-cache On the one hand… the Referer now contains only the base URL of the catalog. I believe this is due to a difference in how Koha figures out the correct image URL. When using Amazon for cover images, the ISBN of the title is normalized and used to construct a URL for an tag. Koha doesn’t currently set a Referrer-Policy, so the default of no-referrer-when-downgrade is used and the full referrer is sent. Google Book’s cover image URLs cannot be directly constructed like that, so a bit of JavaScript queries a web service and gets back the image URLs, and for reasons that are unclear to me at the moment, doesn’t send the full URL as the referrer. (Cover images from OpenLibrary are fetched in a similar way, but full Referer header is sent.) As a side note, the x-client-data header sent by Chrome to books.google.com is… concerning. There are some relatively simple things that can be done to limit leaking the full referring URL to the likes of Google and Amazon, including Setting the Referrer-Policy header via web server configuration or meta tag to something like origin or origin-when-cross-origin. Setting referrerpolicy for Request Format The API supports the following query parameters. bibkeys List of IDs to request the information. The API supports ISBNs, LCCNs, OCLC numbers and OLIDs (Open Library IDs). ISBN Ex. &bibkeys=ISBN:0451526538 (The API supports both ISBN 10 and 13.) OCLC &bibkeys=OCLC:######### LCCN &bibkeys=LCCN:######### OLID &bibkeys=OLID:OL123M format Optional parameter which specifies the response format. Possible values are json and javascript. The default format is javascript. callback Optional parameter which specifies the name of the JavaScript function to call with the result. This is considered only when the format is javascript. jscmd Optional parameter to decide what information to provide for each matched bib_key. Possible values are viewapi and data. The default value is viewapi. The Response Format The response of the API contains a JSON object for each matched bib_key. The contents of the JSON object are decided by the jscmd parameter. By default, the API returns the response as Javascript. $ curl 'http://openlibrary.org/api/books?bibkeys=ISBN:0201558025,LCCN:93005405' var _OLBookInfo = { "ISBN:0201558025": { ... }, "LCCN:93005405": { ... } }; When optional callback parameter is passed, the response is wrapped in a Javascript function call. $ curl 'https://openlibrary.org/api/books?bibkeys=ISBN:0201558025,LCCN:93005405&callback=processBooks' processBooks({ "ISBN:0201558025": { ... }, "LCCN:93005405": { ... } }); When format=json parameter is passed, the API returns the response as JSON instead of Javascript. This is useful when accessing the API at the server-side. $ curl 'https://openlibrary.org/api/books?bibkeys=ISBN:0201558025,LCCN:93005405&format=json' { "ISBN:0201558025": { ... }, "LCCN:93005405": { ... } } The Data Format The contents of each JSON object will be decided by the jscmd parameter. jscmd=viewapi When jscmd is not specified or when jscmd=viewapi, each JSON object will contain the following: bib_key Identifier used to query this book. info_url A URL to the book page in the Open Library. preview Preview state - either "noview" or "full". preview_url A URL to the preview of the book. This links to the archive.org page when a readable version of the book is available, otherwise it links to the book page on openlibrary.org. Please note that the preview_url is always provided even if there is no readable version available. The preview property should be used to test if a book is readable. thumbnail_url A URL to a thumbnail of the cover of the book. This is provided only when thumbnail is available. For example: $ curl 'https://openlibrary.org/api/books?bibkeys=ISBN:0385472579,LCCN:62019420&format=json' { "ISBN:0385472579": { "bib_key": "ISBN:0385472579", "preview": "noview", "thumbnail_url": "https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/240726-S.jpg", "preview_url": "https://openlibrary.org/books/OL1397864M/Zen_speaks", "info_url": "https://openlibrary.org/books/OL1397864M/Zen_speaks" }, "LCCN:62019420": { "bib_key": "LCCN:62019420", "preview": "full", "thumbnail_url": "https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/6121771-S.jpg", "preview_url": "https://archive.org/details/adventurestomsa00twaigoog", "info_url": "https://openlibrary.org/books/OL23377687M/adventures_of_Tom_Sawyer" } } jscmd=data When the jscmd=data, data about each matching book is returned. It includes the following: url URL of the book title and subtitle Title and subtitle of the book. authors List of authors. Each entry will be in the following format: { "name": "...", "url": "https://openlibrary.org/authors/..." } identifiers All identifiers of the book in the following format: { "isbn_10": [...], "isbn_13": [...], "lccn": [...], "oclc": [...], "goodreads": [...] } classifications All classifications of the book in the following format. { "lc_classifications": [...], "dewey_decimal_class": [...] } subjects, subject_places, subject_people and subject_times List of subjects, places, people and times of the book. Each entry will be in the following format: { "url": "https://openlibrary.org/subjects/history", "name": "History" } publishers List of publishers. Each publisher will be in the following format: { "name": "..." } publish_places List of publish places. Each entry will be in the following format: { "name": "..." } publish_date Published date as a string. excerpts List of excerpts to that book. Each entry will be in the following format: { "comment": "...", "text": "..." } links List of links to the book. Each link will be in the following format: { "url": "https://...", "title": "..." } cover URLs to small, medium and large covers. { "small": "https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/1-S.jpg", "medium": "https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/1-M.jpg", "large": "https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/1-L.jpg", } ebooks List of ebooks. Each entry will be in the following format: { "preview_url": "https://archive.org/details/..." } number_of_pages Number of pages in that book. weight Weight of the book. For example, here is a sample request. $ curl 'https://openlibrary.org/api/books?bibkeys=ISBN:9780980200447&jscmd=data&format=json' { "ISBN:9780980200447": { "publishers": [ { "name": "Litwin Books" } ], "identifiers": { "google": [ "4LQU1YwhY6kC" ], "lccn": [ "2008054742" ], "isbn_13": [ "9780980200447" ], "amazon": [ "098020044X" ], "isbn_10": [ "1234567890" ], "oclc": [ "297222669" ], "librarything": [ "8071257" ], "project_gutenberg": [ "14916" ], "goodreads": [ "6383507" ] }, "classifications": { "dewey_decimal_class": [ "028/.9" ], "lc_classifications": [ "Z1003 .M58 2009" ] }, "links": [ { "url": "http://johnmiedema.ca", "title": "Author's Website" } ], "weight": "1 grams", "title": "Slow reading", "url": "https://openlibrary.org/books/OL22853304M/Slow_reading", "number_of_pages": 80, "cover": { "small": "https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/5546156-S.jpg", "large": "https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/5546156-L.jpg", "medium": "https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/5546156-M.jpg" }, "subjects": [ { "url": "https://openlibrary.org/subjects/books_and_reading", "name": "Books and reading" }, { "url": "https://openlibrary.org/subjects/reading", "name": "Reading" } ], "publish_date": "2009", "authors": [ { "url": "https://openlibrary.org/authors/OL6548935A/John_Miedema", "name": "John Miedema" } ], "excerpts": [ { "comment": "test purposes", "text": "test first page" } ], "publish_places": [ { "name": "Duluth, Minn" } ] } } jscmd=details When jscmd=details is passed, additional details are provided in addition to the info provided by viewapi. The provided details are same as the data provided by the RESTful API. It is advised to use jscmd=data instead of this as that is more stable format. $ curl 'https://openlibrary.org/api/books?bibkeys=ISBN:9780980200447&jscmd=details&format=json' { "ISBN:9780980200447": { "info_url": "https://openlibrary.org/books/OL22853304M/Slow_reading", "bib_key": "ISBN:9780980200447", "preview_url": "https://openlibrary.org/books/OL22853304M/Slow_reading", "thumbnail_url": "https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/5546156-S.jpg", "preview": "noview", "details": { "number_of_pages": 80, "table_of_contents": [ { "title": "The personal nature of slow reading", "type": { "key": "/type/toc_item" }, "level": 0 }, { "title": "Slow reading in an information ecology", "type": { "key": "/type/toc_item" }, "level": 0 }, { "title": "The slow movement and slow reading", "type": { "key": "/type/toc_item" }, "level": 0 }, { "title": "The psychology of slow reading", "type": { "key": "/type/toc_item" }, "level": 0 }, { "title": "The practice of slow reading.", "type": { "key": "/type/toc_item" }, "level": 0 } ], "weight": "1 grams", "covers": [ 5546156 ], "lc_classifications": [ "Z1003 .M58 2009" ], "latest_revision": 14, "source_records": [ "marc:marc_loc_updates/v37.i01.records.utf8:4714764:907", "marc:marc_loc_updates/v37.i24.records.utf8:7913973:914", "marc:marc_loc_updates/v37.i30.records.utf8:11406606:914" ], "title": "Slow reading", "languages": [ { "key": "/languages/eng" } ], "subjects": [ "Books and reading", "Reading" ], "publish_country": "mnu", "by_statement": "by John Miedema.", "oclc_numbers": [ "297222669" ], "type": { "key": "/type/edition" }, "physical_dimensions": "1 x 1 x 1 inches", "revision": 14, "publishers": [ "Litwin Books" ], "description": "\"A study of voluntary slow reading from diverse angles\"--Provided by publisher.", "physical_format": "Paperback", "last_modified": { "type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2010-08-07T19:35:52.482887" }, "key": "/books/OL22853304M", "authors": [ { "name": "John Miedema", "key": "/authors/OL6548935A" } ], "publish_places": [ "Duluth, Minn" ], "pagination": "80p.", "classifications": {}, "created": { "type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2009-01-07T22:16:11.381678" }, "lccn": [ "2008054742" ], "notes": "Includes bibliographical references and index.", "identifiers": { "amazon": [ "098020044X" ], "google": [ "4LQU1YwhY6kC" ], "project_gutenberg": [ "14916" ], "goodreads": [ "6383507" ], "librarything": [ "8071257" ] }, "isbn_13": [ "9780980200447" ], "dewey_decimal_class": [ "028/.9" ], "isbn_10": [ "1234567890" ], "publish_date": "2009", "works": [ { "key": "/works/OL13694821W" } ] } } } Earlier these details were provided when details=true parameter is passed. It is equivalent to jscmd=details and it is retained only for backward-compataibilty. History Created October 27, 2008 18 revisions September 13, 2020 Edited by Mek Documented other json endpoints October 22, 2013 Edited by Anand Chitipothu changed all urls in example and response to https. November 10, 2011 Edited by Anand Chitipothu Edited without comment. September 23, 2011 Edited by mikemccabe typo October 27, 2008 Created by Anand Chitipothu OL Books API Open Library Vision Volunteer Careers Blog Terms of Service Donate Discover Home Books Authors Subjects Advanced Search Return to Top Develop Development Center API Documentation Bulk Data Dumps Writing Bots Add a Book Help Help Center Report A Problem Suggesting Edits twitter github Open Library is an initiative of the Internet Archive, a 501(c)(3) non-profit, building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. 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It has been solved by empowering the targets and systematically calling out minor acts of racism and bigotry so it becomes de-normalised. There have been lots of great suggestions as to how to empowering the targets in the last couple of days; listen to the targets on how they need to be empowered, not a white guy like me. Enact a law that permanently raises the New Zealand refugee quota automatically in response to anti-immigrant hate crimes (starting with the Christchurch incident). This explicitly and clearly makes anti-immigrant hate crimes’ primary motivation self-defeating. Doubling our quote also raises it in line with international norms. Ban the commercial trading of firearms, moving their import to the not-for-profit sector (i.e. gun clubs) or to a personal activity. This removes the incentives behind the current Gun City advertisements and tempers commercial incentives for importing guns. Introduce a systematic buy-back program for weapons (guns, replica swords, etc). Make owning a gun an inconvenience, doubly so in urban areas. This likely involves significantly tightening the licencing requirements (restricting types of guns, requiring advanced first aid and similar courses, etc) and random checks on licensees’ secure lockup measures, etc. It may also involve requiring licensees to report shooting trips, shooting range visits, etc, etc. Done right, this may even have the side-effect of improving our conservation efforts by getting a better idea of who’s shooting what introduced and native animals Gun range licenses should be managed in a similar way to alcohol licenses, with renewals, public notifications etc. Update the rules around legal deposit so that when organisations and publishers selectively remove or update content from their websites they are required to notify the National Library and that National Library can broadcast this taken-down content. This attempts to preserve the public record by amplifying the Streisand effect; efforts by public figures to sanitise their pasts without public apology need to be resisted. If we’re orchestrating large-scale take-downs of offensive New Zealand content (such as videos of shooters shooting people) from the web, we need to reconcile this with certain statutory duties, such as the requirement that the National Library collect and archive New Zealand web content. Collecting and archiving such offensive material may sound bizarre, but not doing so leaves us open to the kinds of revisionism that appears to fuel this kind of behaviour. If we’re going to continue to have religious education / schooling, it needs to address issues of religious hate rather than being a covert recruitment operation as it appears to be at the moment. We need to ask ourselves whether some of our brands (particularly sports brands) need to change their branding. The most effective way is probably the Christchurch City Council drafting a bylaw saying that local sports people and teams using it’s facilities must be named after animals with no negative connotations, with a limited 10 year exception for existing teams to meet their contractual obligations. Other councils would soon follow and giving a realistic time frame for renaming allows for planning around merchandising, team apparel and so forth. Have an explicit fund for public actors (museums, galleries, libraries, academics, tohunga, imams, etc) to generate ‘content’ (everything from peer review papers to museum experiences, from school teaching resources to Te Ara articles, from poetry competitions to murals) on some of the deeper issues here. There’s a great need for young and old to engage with these issues, now and in the decades to come. Find ways to amplify minority / oppressed voices. In theory blogs and social media were meant to be a way that we could find and the media pick up on theses voices in times like these, but across many media outlets this is manifestly not happening. We’re seeing straight white males write that New Zealand has no discrimination problems and editors sending those pieces to print. We’re seeing ‘but he was such a nice young man’ stories. It’s no coincidence that the media outlets and pundits that are doing this are largely the same ones who have previously be accused of racism. We need to find ways to fix this, if necessary leveraging advertisers and/or adding conditions to spectrum licenses. We need to seriously reflect on whether an apology is needed in relation to the 2007 New Zealand police raids, which now stand in a new light. The law of unintended consequences means that there will be side effects. The most obvious two from this list may be increased barriers to recreational gun clubs (including Olympic pistol shooting, which is pretty hard to argue isn’t a genuine sport, but which has never really been all that big in New Zealand) and the decreased amateur shooting of pest species (deer, pig, etc) on public conservation land (which is a more serious issue). Posted by Stuart Yeates at 22:27 No comments: Monday, 3 October 2016 How would we know when it was time to move from TEI/XML to TEI/JSON? This post inspired by TEI Next by Hugh Cayless. How would we know when it was time to move from TEI/XML to TEI/JSON? If we stand back and think about what it is we (the TEI community) need from the format : A common format for storing and communicating Texts and augmentations of Texts (Transcriptions, Manuscript Description, Critical Apparatus, Authority Control, etc, etc.). A body of documentation for shared use and understanding of that format. A method of validating Texts in the format as being in the format. A method of transforming Texts in the format for computation, display or migration. The ability to reuse the work of other communities so we don't have to build everything for ourselves (Unicode, IETF language tags, URIs, parsers, validators, outsourcing providers who are tooled up to at least have a conversation about what we're trying to do, etc) [Everyone will have their slightly different priorities for a list like this, but I'm sure we can agree that a list of important functionality could be drawn up and expanded to requirements list at a sufficiently granular level so we can assess different potential technologies against those items. ]  If we really want to ponder whether TEI/JSON is the next step after TEI/XML we need to compare the two approaches against such as list of requirements. Personally I'm confident that TEI/XML will come out in front right now. Whether javascript has potential to replace XSLT as the preferred method for really exciting interfaces to TEI/XML docs is a much more open question, in my mind.   That's not to say that the criticisms of XML aren't true (they are) or valid (they are) or worth repeating (they are), but perfection is commonly the enemy of progress. Posted by Stuart Yeates at 21:21 2 comments: Sunday, 2 October 2016 Whither TEI? The Next Thirty Years This post is a direct response to some of the organisational issues raised in https://scalablereading.northwestern.edu/?p=477 I completely agree that we need to significantly broaden the base of the TEI. A 200 x 500 campaign is a great idea, but better is a 2,000 x 250 goal, or a 20,000 x 250 goal. If we can reduce the cost to the normal range of a hardback text, most libraries will have delegated signing authority to individuals in acquisitions and only one person will need to be convinced, rather than a chain of people. But how could we scale 20,000 institutions? To scale like that, we to think (a) in terms of scale and (b) in terms of how to make it easy for members to be a part of us. Scale (1) A recent excellent innovation in the the TEI community has been the appointment of a social media coordinator. This is a great thing and I’ve certainly learnt about happenings I would not have otherwise been exposed to. But by nature the concept of ‘a social media coordinator’ can’t scale (one person in one time zone with one set of priorities...). If we look at what mature large-scale open projects do for social media (debian, wikimedia, etc), planets are almost always part of the solution. A planet for TEI might include (in no particular): 20x blog feeds from TEI-specific projects 20x blog feeds from TEI-using projects (limited to those posts tagged TEI) 1x RSS feed for changes to the TEI wiki (limited to one / day each) 1x RSS feed for jenkins server (limited to successful build only; limited to one / day each; tweaked to include full context and links) 20x RSS feeds for github repositories not covered by jenkins server (limited to one / day each) 10x RSS feeds for other sundry repositories (limited to one / day each) 50x blog feeds from TEI-people (limited to those posts tagged TEI) 15x RSS feeds from TEI-people’s zotero bibliographic databases (limited to those bibs tagged TEI; limited to one / day each) 1x RSS feed for official TEI news 7x RSS feed of edits for the TEI article on each language wikipedia (limited to one / day each) 1x RSS feed of announcements from the JTEI 1x RSS feed of new papers in the JTEI … The diversity of the planet would be incredible compared to current views of the TEI community and it’s all generated as a byproduct of what people are already doing. There might be some pressure to improve commit messages in some repos, but that might not be all bad. Of course the whole planet is available as an RSS feed and there are RSS-to-facebook (and twitter, yammer, etc) converters if you wish to do TEI in your favourite social media. If the need for a curated facebook feed remains, there is now a diverse constant feed of items to select within. This is a social media approach at scale. Scale (2) There is an annual international conference which is great to attend. There is a perception that engagement in the TEI community requires attendance at the said conference. It’s a huge barrier to entry to small projects, particularly those in far-away places (think global south / developing world / etc). The TEI community should seriously consider a policy for decision making that explicitly removes assumptions about attendances. Something as simple as requiring draft papers intended for submission and agendas to be published and 30 days in advance of meetings and a notice to be posted to TEI-L. That would allow for thoughtful global input, scaling community from those who can attend an annual international conference to a wider group of people who care about the TEI and have time to contribute. Make it easy (1) Libraries (at least the library I work in and libraries I talk to) buy resources based on suggestions and lobbying by faculty but renew resources based largely on usage. If we want 20,000 libraries to have TEI on automatic renewal we need usage statistics. The players in the field are SUSHI and COUNTER (SUSHI is a harvesting system for COUNTER). Maybe the TEI offers members stats at 10 diverse TEI-using sites. It’s not clear to me without deep investigation whether the TEI could offer these stats to members at very little on-going cost to us, but it would be a member benefit that all acquisitions librarians, their supervisors and their auditors could understand and use to evaluate their TEI membership subscription. I believe that that comparison would be favourable. Of course, the TEI-using sites generating the traffic are going to want at least some cut of the subs, even if it’s just a discount against their own membership (thus driving the number of participating sites up and the perceived member benefits up) and free support for the stats-generating infrastructure. For the sake of clarity: I’m not suggesting charging for access to content, I’m suggesting charging institutions for access to statistics related to access to the content by their users. Make it easy (2) Academics using computers for research, whether or not they think or call the field digital humanities face a relatively large number of policies and rules imposed by their institutions, funders and governments. The TEI community can / should be selling itself as he approach to meet these. Copyright issues? Have some corpora that are available under a CC license. Need to prove academic outputs are archivable? Here’s the PRONOM entry (Note: I’m currently working on this) Management doesn’t think the department as the depth of TEI experience to enroll PhDs in TEI-centric work? Here’s a map of global TEI people to help you find local backups in case staff move on. Looking for a TEI consultant? A different facet of the same map gives you what you need. You’re a random academic who knows nothing about the TEI but assigned a TEI-centric paper as part of a national research assessment exercise? Here’s an outline of TEI’s academic credentials. .... Make it easy (3) Librarians love quality MARC / MARCXML records. Many of us have quality MARC / MARCXML records for our TEI-based web content. Might this be offered as a member benefit? Make it easy (4) As far as I can tell the TEI community makes very little attempt to reach out to academic communities other than ‘literature departments and cognate humanities disciplines’ attracting a more diverse range of skills and academics will increase our community in depth and breadth. Outreach could be: Something like CSS Zen Garden http://www.csszengarden.com/ only backed by TEI rather than HTML A list of ‘hard problems’ that we face that various divergent disciplines might want to set as second or third year projects. Each problem would have a brief description of the problem, pointers to Things like: Transformation for display for documents have five foot levels of footnotes, multiple obscure scripts, non-Unicode characters, and so forth. Schema / ODD auto-generation from a corpus of documents ... Engaging with a group like http://software-carpentry.org/ to ubiquify TEI training .. End Note I'm not advocating that any particular approach is the cure-all for everything that might be ailing the TEI community, but the current status-quo is increasingly seeming like benign neglect. We need to change the way we think about TEI as a community. Posted by Stuart Yeates at 09:38 No comments: Tuesday, 20 October 2015 Thoughts on the NDFNZ wikipedia panel Last week I was on an NDFNZ wikipedia panel with Courtney Johnston, Sara Barham and Mike Dickison. Having reflected a little and watched the youtube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3b8X2SQO1UA I've got some comments to make (or to repeat, as the case may be). Many people, including apparently including Courtney, seemed to get the most enjoyment out of writing the ‘body text’ of articles. This is fine, because the body text (the core textual content of the article) is the core of what the encyclopaedia is about. If you can’t be bothered with wikiprojects, categories, infoboxes, common names and wikidata, you’re not alone and there’s no reason you need to delve into them to any extent. If you start an article with body text and references that’s fine; other people will to a greater or less extent do that work for you over time. If you’re starting a non-trivial number of similar articles, get yourself a prototype which does most of the stuff for you (I still use https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Stuartyeates/sandbox/academicbio which I wrote for doing New Zealand women academics). If you need a prototype like this, feel free to ask me. If you have a list of things (people, public art works, exhibitions) in some machine readable format (Excel, CSV, etc) it’s pretty straightforward to turn them into a table like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_New_Zealand/Requested_articles/Craft#Proposed_artists or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enjoy_Public_Art_Gallery Send me your data and what kind of direction you want to take it. If you have a random thing that you think needs a Wikipedia article, add to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_New_Zealand/Requested_articles  if you have a hundred things that you think need articles, start a subpage, a la https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_New_Zealand/Requested_articles/Craft and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_New_Zealand/Requested_articles/New_Zealand_academic_biographies both completed projects of mine. Sara mentioned that they were thinking of getting subject matter experts to contribute to relevant wikipedia articles. In theory this is a great idea and some famous subject matter experts contributed to Britannica, so this is well-established ground. However, there have been some recent wikipedia failures particularly in the sciences. People used to ground-breaking writing may have difficulty switching to a genre where no original ideas are permitted and everything needs to be balanced and referenced. Preparing for the event, I created a list of things the awesome Dowse team could do as follow-ups to they craft artists work, but we never got to that in the session, so I've listed them here: [[List of public art in Lower Hutt]] Since public art is out of copyright, someone could spend a couple of weeks taking photos of all the public art and creating a table with clickable thumbnail, name, artist, date, notes and GPS coordinates. Could probably steal some logic from somewhere to make the table convertible to a set of points inside a GPS for a tour. Publish from their archives a complete list of every exhibition ever held at the Dowse since founding. Each exhibition is a shout-out to the artists involved and the list can be used to check for potentially missing wikipedia articles. Digitise and release photos taken at exhibition openings, capturing the people, fashion and feeling of those era. The hard part of this, of course, is labelling the people. Reach out to their broader community to use the Dowse blog to publish community-written obituaries and similar content (i.e. encourage the generation of quality secondary sources). Engage with your local artists and politicians by taking pictures at Dowse events, uploading them to commons and adding them to the subjects’ wikipedia articles—have attending a Dowse exhibition opening being the easiest way for locals to get a new wikipedia image. I've not listed the 'digitise the collections' option, since at the end of the day, the value of this (to wikipedia) declines over time (because there are more and more alternative sources) and the price of putting them online declines. I'd much rather people tried new innovative things when they had the agility and leadership that lets them do it, because that's how the community as a whole moves forward. Posted by Stuart Yeates at 07:24 No comments: Labels: wikipedia Thursday, 15 October 2015 Feedback on NLNZ ‘DigitalNZ Concepts API‘ This blog post is feedback on a recent blog post ‘Introducing the DigitalNZ Concepts API’ http://digitalnz.org/blog/posts/introducing-the-digitalnz-concepts-api by the National Library of New Zealand’s DigitalNZ team. Some of the feedback also rests on conversations I've had with various NLNZ staffers and other interested parties and a great stack of my own prejudices. I've not actually generated an API key and run the thing, since I'm currently on parental leave. Parts of the Concepts API look very much like authority control, but authority control is not mentioned in the blog post or the docs that I can find. It may be that there are good reasons for this (such as parallel comms in the pipeline for the authority control community) but there are also potentially very worrying reasons. Clarity is needed here when the system goes live. All the URLs in examples are HTTP, but the ALA’s Freedom to Read Statement requires all practical measures be taken to ensure the confidentiality of the reader’s searching and reading. Thus, if the API is to be used for real-time searching, HTTPS URLs must be an option.  There is insufficient detail of of the identifiers in use. If I'm building a system to interoperate with the Concepts API, which identifiers should I be keeping at my end to identify things that the DigitalNZ end? The clearer this definition is, the more robust this interoperability is likely to be, there’s a very good reason for the highly structured formats of identifiers such as ISNI and ISBN. If nothing else a regexp would be very useful. Personally I’d recommend browsing around http://id.loc.gov/ a little and rethinking the URL structure too. There needs to be an insanely clear statement on the exact relationship between DigitalNZ Concepts and those authority control systems mapped into VIAF. Both DigitalNZ Concepts and VIAF are semi-automated authority matching systems and if we’re not carefully they’ll end up polluting each other (as for example, DNB already has with gender data).  Deep interoperability is going to require large-scale matching of DigitalNZ Concepts with things in a wide variety of GLAM collections and incorporating identifiers into those collections’ metadata. That doesn't appear possible with the current licensing arrangements. Maybe a flat-file dump (csv or json) of all the Concepts under a CC0 license? URLs to rights-obsessed partners could be excluded. If non-techies are to understand Concepts, http://api.digitalnz.org/concepts/448 is going to have to provide human-comprehensible content without an API key (I’m guessing that this is going to happen when it comes out of beta?) Mistakes happen (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:VIAF/errors for recently found errors in VIAF, for example). There needs to be a clear contact point and likely timescale for getting errors fixed.  Having said all that, it looks great! Posted by Stuart Yeates at 10:02 2 comments: Monday, 14 July 2014 BIBFRAME Adrian Pohl ‏wrote some excellent thoughts about the current state of BIBFRAME at http://www.uebertext.org/2014/07/name-authority-files-linked-data.html The following started as a direct response but, after limiting myself to where I felt I knew what I was talking about and felt I was being constructive, turned out to be much much narrower in scope. My primary concern in relation to BIBFRAME is interlinking and in particular authority control. My concern is that a number of the players (BIBFRAME, ISNI, GND, ORCID, Wikipedia, etc) define key concepts differently and that without careful consideration and planning we will end up muddying our data with bad mappings. The key concepts in question are those for persons, names, identities, sex and gender (there may be others that I’m not aware of). Let me give you an example. In the 19th Century there was a mass creation of male pseudonyms to allow women to publish novels. A very few of these rose to such prominence that the authors outed themselves as women (think Currer Bell), but the overwhelming majority didn’t. In the late 20th and early 21st Centuries, entries for the books published were created in computerised catalogue systems and some entries found their way into the GND. My understanding is that the GND assigned gender to entries based entirely on the name of the pseudonym (I’ll admit I don’t have a good source for that statement, it may be largely parable). When a new public-edited encyclopedia based on reliable sources called Wikipedia arose, the GND was very successfully cross-linked with Wikipedia, with hundreds of thousands of articles were linked to the catalogues of their works. Information that was in the GND was sucked into a portion of Wikipedia called Wikidata. A problem now arose: there were no reliable sources for the sex information in GND that had been sucked Wikidata by GND, the main part of Wikipedia (which requires strict sources) blocked itself from showing Wikidata sex information. A secondary problem was that the GND sex data was in ISO 5218 format (male/female/unknown/not applicable) whereas Wikipedia talks not about sex but gender and is more than happy for that to include fa'afafine and similar concepts. Fortunately, Wikidata keeps track of where assertions come from, so the sex info can, in theory, be removed; but while people in Wikipedia care passionately about this, no one on the Wikidata side of the fence seems to understand what the problem is. Stalemate. There were two separate issues here: a mismatch between the Person in Wikipedia and the Pseudonym (I think) in GND; and a mismatch between a cataloguer-assigned ISO 5218 value and a free-form self-identified value.  The deeper the interactions between our respective authority control systems become, the more these issues are going to come up, but we need them to come up at the planning and strategy stages of our work, rather than halfway through (or worse, once we think we’ve finished). My proposed solution to this is examples: pick a small number of ‘hard cases’ and map them between as many pairs of these systems as possible. The hard cases should include at least: Charlotte Brontë (or similar); a contemporary author who has transitioned between genders and published broadly similar work under both identities; a contemporary author who publishes in different genre using different identities; ... The cases should be accompanied by instructions for dealing with existing mistakes found (and errors will be found, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:VIAF/errors for some of the errors recently found during he Wikipedia/VIAF matching). If such an effort gets off the ground, I'll put my hand up to do the Wikipedia component (as distinct from the Wikidata component). Posted by Stuart Yeates at 09:27 3 comments: Labels: bibframe, GND, linked data, VIAF, wikipedia Wednesday, 19 June 2013 A wikipedia strategy for the Royal Society of New Zealand Over the last 48 hours I’ve had a very unsatisfactory conversation with the individual(s) behind the @royalsocietynz twitter account regarding wikipedia. Rather than talk about what went wrong, I’d like to suggest a simple strategy that builds the Society’s causes in the long term. First up, our resources: we have three wikipedia pages strongly related the Society, Royal Society of New Zealand, Rutherford Medal (Royal Society of New Zealand) and Hector Memorial Medal; we have a twitter account that appears to be widely followed; we have some employee of RSNZ with no apparent wikipedia skills wanting to use wikipedia to advance the public-facing causes of the Society, which are: “to foster in the New Zealand community a culture that supports science, technology, and the humanities, including (without limitation)—the promotion of public awareness, knowledge, and understanding of science, technology, and the humanities; and the advancement of science and technology education: to encourage, promote, and recognise excellence in science, technology, and the humanities” The first thing to notice is that promoting the Society is not a cause of the Society, so no effort should be expending polishing the Royal Society of New Zealand article (which would also breach wikipedia’s conflict of interest guidelines). The second thing to notice is that the two medal pages contain long lists of recipients, people whose contributions to science and the humanities in New Zealand are widely recognised by the Society itself. This, to me, suggests a strategy: leverage @royalsocietynz’s followers to improve the coverage of New Zealand science and humanities on wikipedia: Once a week for a month or two, @royalsocietynz tweets about a medal recipient with a link to their wikipedia biography. In the initial phase recipients are picked with reasonably comprehensive wikipedia pages (possibly taking steps to improve the gender and racial demographic of those covered to meet inclusion targets). By the end of this part followers of @royalsocietynz have been exposed to wikipedia biographies of New Zealand people. In the second part, @royalsocietynz still tweets links to the wikipedia pages of recipients, but picks ‘stubs’ (wikipedia pages with little or almost no actual content). Tweets could look like ‘Hector Medal recipient XXX’s biography is looking bare. Anyone have secondary sources on them?’ In this part followers of @royalsocietynz are exposed to wikipedia biographies and the fact that secondary sources are needed to improve them. Hopefully a proportion of @royalsocietynz’s followers have access to the secondary sources and enough crowdsourcing / generic computer confidence to jump in and improve the article. In the third part, @royalsocietynz picks recipients who don’t yet have a wikipedia biography at all. Rather than linking to wikipedia, @royalsocietynz links to an obituary or other biography (ideally two or three) to get us started. In the fourth part @royalsocietynz finds other New Zealand related lists and get the by-now highly trained editors to work through them in the same fashion. This strategy has a number of pitfalls for the unwary, including: Wikipedia biographies of living people (BLPs) are strictly policed (primarily due to libel laws); the solution is to try new and experimental things out on the biographies of people who are safely dead. Copyright laws prevent cut and pasting content into wikipedia; the solution is to encourage people to rewrite material from a source into an encyclopedic style instead. Recentism is a serious flaw in wikipedia (if the Society is 150 years old, each of those decades should be approximately equally represented; coverage of recent political machinations or triumphs should not outweigh entire decades); the solution is to identify sources for pre-digital events and promote their use. Systematic bias is an on-going problem in wikipedia, just as it is elsewhere; a solution in this case might be to set goals for coverage of women, Māori and/or non-science academics; another solution might be for the Society to trawl it's records and archives lists of  minorities to publish digitally. Everything on wikipedia needs to be based on significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject; the solution is to start with the sources first. Conflict of interest statement: I’m a high-active editor on wikipedia and am a significant contributor to all many of the wikipedia articles linked to from this post. Posted by Stuart Yeates at 19:46 No comments: Friday, 2 December 2011 Prep notes for NDF2011 demonstration I didn't really have a presentation for my demonstration at the NDF, but the event team have asked for presentations, so here are the notes for my practice demonstration that I did within the library. The notes served as an advert to attract punters to the demo; as a conversation starter in the actual demo and as a set of bookmarks of the URLs I wanted to open. Depending on what people are interested in, I'll be doing three things *) Demonstrating basic editing, perhaps by creating a page from the requested articles at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_New_Zealand/Requested_articles *) Discussing some of the quality control processes I've been involved with (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_pages_patrol) *) Discussing how wikipedia handles authority control issues using redirects (https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Wikipedia:Redirect ) and disambiguation (https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Wikipedia:Disambiguation ) I'm also open to suggestions of other things to talk about. Posted by Stuart Yeates at 14:11 No comments: Labels: NDF, wikipedia Thursday, 1 December 2011 Metadata vocabularies LODLAM NZ cares about At today's LODLAM NZ, in Wellington, I co-hosted a vocabulary schema / interoperability session. I kicked off the session with a list of the metadata schema we care about and counts of how many people in the room cared about it. Here are the results: 8 Library of Congress / NACO Name Authority List 7 Māori Subject Headings 6 Library of Congress Subject Headings 5 SONZ 5 Linnean 4 Getty Thesauri 3 Marsden Research Subject Codes / ANZRSC Codes 3 SCOT 3 Iwi Hapū List 2 Australian Pictorial Thesaurus 1 Powerhouse Object Names Thesaurus 0 MESH This straw poll naturally only reflects on the participants who attended this particular session and counting was somewhat haphazard (people were still coming into the room), but is gives a sample of the scope. I don't recall whether the heading was "Metadata we care about" or "Vocabularies we care about," but it was something very close to that. Posted by Stuart Yeates at 20:20 4 comments: Wednesday, 30 November 2011 Unexpected advice During the NDF2011 today I was in "Digital initiatives in Māori communities" put on the the talented Honiana Love and Claire Hall from the Te Reo o Taranaki Charitable Trust about their work on He Kete Kōrero. At the end I asked a question "Most of us [the audience] are in institutions with te Reo Māori holdings or cultural objects of some description. What small thing can we do to help enable our collections for the iwi and hapū source communities? Use Māori Subject Headings? The Iwi / Hapū list? Geotagging? ..." Quick-as-a-blink the response was "Geotagging." If I understood the answer (given mainly by Honiana) correctly, the point was that geotagging is much more useful because it's much more likely to be done right in contexts like this. Presumably because geotagging lends itself to checking, validation and visualisations that make errors easy to spot in ways that these other metadata forms don't; it's better understood by those processing the documents and processing the data. I think it's fabulous that we're getting feedback from indigenous groups using information systems in indigenous contexts, particularly feedback about previous attempts to cater to their needs. If this is the experience of other indigenous groups, it's really important. Posted by Stuart Yeates at 21:08 No comments: Labels: Māori, metadata, NDF Saturday, 26 November 2011 Goodbye 'social-media' world You may or may not have noticed, but recently a number of 'social media' services have begun looking and working very similarly. Facebook is the poster-child, followed by google+ and twitter. Their modus operandi is to entice you to interact with family-members, friends and acquaintances and then leverage your interactions to both sell your attention advertisers and entice other members of you social circle to join the service. There are, naturally, a number of shiny baubles you get for participating it the sale of your eyeballs to the highest bidder, but recently I have come to the conclusion that my eyeballs (and those of my friends, loved ones and colleagues) are worth more. I'll be signing off google plus, twitter and facebook shortly. I my return for particular events, particularly those with a critical mass the size of Jupiter, but I shall not be using them regularly. I remain serenely confident that all babies born in my extended circle are cute, I do not need to see their pictures. I will continue using other social media as before (email, wikipedia, irc, skype, etc) as usual. My deepest apologies to those who joined at least party on my account. Posted by Stuart Yeates at 21:58 No comments: Labels: facebook, social network, twitter Sunday, 6 November 2011 Recreational authority control Over the last week or two I've been having a bit of a play with Ngā Ūpoko Tukutuku / The Māori Subject Headings (for the uninitiated, think of the widely used Library of Congress Subject Headings, done Post-Colonial and bi-lingually but in the same technology) the main thing I've been doing is trying to munge the MSH into Wikipedia (Wikipedia being my addiction du jour). My thinking has been to increase the use of MSH by taking it, as it were, to where the people are. I've been working with the English language Wikipedia, since the Māori language Wikipedia has fewer pages and sees much less use. My first step was to download the MSH in MARC XML format (available from the website) and use XSL to transform it into a wikipedia table (warning: large page). When looking at that table, each row is a subject heading, with the first column being the the te reo Māori term, the second being permutations of the related terms and the third being the scope notes. I started a discussion about my thoughts (warning: large page) and got a clear green light to create redirects (or 'related terms' in librarian speak) for MSH terms which are culturally-specific to Māori culture. I'm about 50% of the way through the 1300 terms of the MSH and have 115 redirects in the newly created Category:Redirects from Māori language terms. That may sound pretty average, until you remember that institutions are increasingly rolling out tools such as Summon, which use wikipedia redirects for auto-completion, taking these mappings to the heart of most Māori speakers in higher and further education. I don't have a time-frame for the redirects to appear, but they haven't appeared in Otago's Summon, whereas redirects I created ~ two years ago have; type 'jack yeates' and pause to see it at work. Posted by Stuart Yeates at 21:24 No comments: Tuesday, 16 August 2011 Thoughts on "Letter about the TEI" from Martin Mueller Thoughts on "Letter about the TEI" from Martin Mueller Note: I am a member of the TEI council, but this message is should be read as personal position at the time of writing, not a council position, nor the position of my employer. Reading Martin's missive was painful. I should have responded earlier, I think perhaps I was hoping someone else could say what I wanted to say and I could just say "me too." They haven't so I've become the someone else. I don't think that Martin's "fairly radical model" is nearly radical enough. I'd like to propose a significantly more radical model as strawman: 1) The TEI shall maintain a document called the 'The TEI Principals.' The purpose of The TEI is to advance The TEI Principals. 2) Institutional membership of The TEI is open to groups which publish, collect and/or curate documents in formats released by The TEI. Institutional membership requires members acknowledge The TEI Principals and permits the members to be listed at http://www.tei-c.org/Activities/Projects/ and use The TEI logos and branding. 3) Individual membership of The TEI is open to individuals; individual membership requires members acknowledge The TEI Principals and subscribe to The TEI mailing list at http://listserv.brown.edu/?A0=TEI-L. 4) All business of The TEI is conducted in public. Business which needs be conducted in private (for example employment matters, contract negotiation, etc) shall be considered out of scope for The TEI. 5) Changes to the structure of The TEI will be discussed on the TEI mailing list and put to a democratic vote with a voting period of at least one month, a two-thirds majority of votes cast is required to pass a motion, which shall be in English. 6) Groups of members may form for activities from time-to-time, such as members meetings, summer schools, promotions of The TEI or collective digitisation efforts, but these groups are not The TEI, even if the word 'TEI' appears as part of their name. I'll admit that there are a couple of issues not covered here (such as who holds the IPR), but it's only a straw man for discussion. Feel free to fire it as necessary. Posted by Stuart Yeates at 19:46 1 comment: Thursday, 23 June 2011 unit testing framework for XSL transformations? I'm part of the TEI community, which maintains an XML standard which is commonly transformed to HTML for presentation (more rarely PDF). The TEI standard is relatively large but relatively well documented, the transformation to HTML has thus far been largely piecemeal (from a software engineering point of view) and not error free. Recently we've come under pressure to introduce significantly more complexity into transformations, both to produce ePub (which is wrapped HTML bundled with media and metadata files) and HTML5 (which can represent more of the formal semantics in TEI). The software engineer in me sees unit testing the a way to reduce our errors while opening development up to a larger more diverse group of people with a larger more diverse set of features they want to see implemented. The problem is, that I can't seem to find a decent unit testing framework for XSLT. Does anyone know of one? Our requirements are: XSLT 2.0; free to use; runnable on our ubuntu build server; testing the transformation with multiple arguments; etc; We're already using: XSD, RNG, DTD and schematron schemas, epubcheck, xmllint, standard HTML validators, etc. Having the framework drive these too would be useful. The kinds of things we want to test include: Footnotes appear once and only once Footnotes are referenced in the text and there's a back link from the footnote to the appropriate point in the text Internal references (tables of contents, indexes, etc) point somewhere Language encoding used xml:lang survives from the TEI to the HTML That all the paragraphs in the TEI appear at least once in the HTML That local links work Sanity check tables Internal links within parallel texts .... Any of many languages could be used to represent these tests, but ideally it should have a DOM library and be able to run that library across entire directories of files. Most of our community speak XML fluently, so leveraging that would be good. Posted by Stuart Yeates at 22:02 No comments: Wednesday, 23 March 2011 Is there a place for readers' collectives in the bright new world of eBooks? The transition costs of migrating from the world of books-as-physical-artefacts-of-pulped-tree to the world of books-as-bitstreams are going to be non-trivial. Current attempts to drive the change (and by implication apportion those costs to other parties) have largely been driven by publishers, distributors and resellers of physical books in combination with the e-commerce and electronics industries which make and market the physical eBook readers on which eBooks are largely read. The e-commerce and electronics industries appear to see traditional publishing as an industry full of lumbering giants unable to compete with the rapid pace of change in the electronics industry and the associated turbulence in business models, and have moved to poach market-share. By-and-large they've been very successful. Amazon and Apple have shipped millions of devices billed as 'eBook readers' and pretty much all best-selling books are available on one platform or another. This top tier, however, is the easy stuff. It's not surprising that money can be made from the latest bodice-ripping page-turner, but most of the interesting reading and the majority of the units sold are outside the best-seller list, on the so-called 'long tail.' There's a whole range of books that I'm interested in that don't appear to be on the business plan of any of the current eBook publishers, and I'll miss them if they're not converted: The back catalogue of local poetry. Almost nothing ever gets reprinted, even if the original has a tiny print run and the author goes on to have a wonderfully successful career. Some gets anthologised and a few authors are big enough to have a posthumous collected works, when their work is no longer cutting edge. Some fabulous theses. I'm thinking of things like: http://ir.canterbury.ac.nz/handle/10092/1978, http://victoria.lconz.ac.nz/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=69659 and http://otago.lconz.ac.nz/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=241527 Lots of te reo Māori material (pick your local indigenous language if you're reading this outside New Zealand) Local writing by local authors. Note that all of these are local content---no foreign mega-corporation is going to regard this as their home-turf. Getting these documents from the old world to the new is going to require a local program run by (read funded by) locals. Would you pay for these things? I would, if it gave me what I wanted. What is it that readers want? We're all readers, of one kind or another, and we all want a different range of things, but I believe that what readers want / expect out of the digital transition is: To genuinely own books. Not to own them until they drop their eReader in the bath and lose everything. Not to own them until a company they've never heard of goes bust and turns off a DRM server they've never heard of. Not to own them until technology moves on and some new format is in use. To own them in a manner which enables them to use them for at least their entire lifetime. To own them in a manner that poses at least a question for their heirs. A choice of quality books. Quality in the broadest sense of the word. Choice in the broadest sense of the word. Universality is a pipe-dream, of course, but with releasing good books faster than I can read them. A quality recommendation service. We all have trusted sources of information about books: friends, acquaintances, librarians or reviewers that history have suggested have similar ideas as us about what a good read is. To get some credit for already having bought the book in pulp-of-murdered-tree work. Lots of us have collections of wood-pulp and like to maintain the illusion that in some way that makes us well read. Books bought to their attention based on whether they're worth reading, rather than what publishers have excess stock of. Since the concept of 'stock' largely vanishes with the transition from print to digital this shouldn't be too much of a problem. Confidentially for their reading habits. If you've never come across it, go and read the ALA's The Freedom to Read Statement A not-for-profit readers' collective It seems to me that the way to manage the transition from the old world to the new is as a not-for-profit readers' collective. By that I mean a subscription-funded system in which readers sign up for a range of works every year. The works are digitised by the collective (the expensive step, paid for up-front), distributed to the subscribers in open file formats such as ePub (very cheap via the internet) and kept in escrow for them (a tiny but perpetual cost, more on this later). Authors, of course, need to pay their mortgage, and part of the digitisation would be obtaining the rights to the work. Authors of new work would be paid a 'reasonable' sum, based on their statue as authors (I have no idea what the current remuneration of authors is like, so I won't be specific). The collective would acquire (non-exclusive) the rights to digitise the work if not born digital, to edit it, distribute it to collective members and to sell it to non-members internationally (i.e. distribute it through 'conventional' digital book channels). In the case of sale to non-members through conventional digital book channels the author would get a cut. Sane and mutually beneficial deals could be worked out with libraries of various sizes. Generally speaking, I'd anticipate the rights to digitise and distribute in-copyright but out-of-print poetry would would be fairly cheap; the rights to fabulous old university theses cheaper; and rights to out-of-copyright materials are, of course, free. The cost of rights to new novels / poetry would hugely depend on statue of the author and the quality of the work, which is where the collective would need to either employ a professional editor to make these calls or vote based on sample chapters / poems or some combination of the two. Costs of quality digitisation is non-trivial, but costs are much lower in bulk and dropping all the time. Depending on the platform in use, members of the collective might be recruited as proof-readers for OCR errors. That leaves the question of how to fund the the escrow. The escrow system stores copies of all the books the collective has digitised for the future use of the collectives' members and is required to give efficacy to the promise that readers really own the books. By being held in escrow, the copies survive the collective going bankrupt, being wound up, or evolving into something completely different, but requires funding. The simplest method of obtaining funding would be to align the collective with another established consumer of local literature and have them underwrite the escrow, a university, major library, or similar. The difference between a not-for-profit readers' collective and an academic press? Of hundreds of years, major universities have had academic presses which publish quality content under the universities' auspices. The key difference between the not-for-profit readers' collective I am proposing and an academic press is that the collective would attempt to publish the unpublished and out-of-print books that the members wanted rather than aiming to meet some quality criterion. I acknowledge a popularist bias here, but it's the members who are paying the subscriptions. Which links in the book chain do we want to cut out? There are some links in the current book production chain which we need to keep, there are others wouldn't have a serious future in a not-for-profit. Certainly there is a role for judgement in which works to purchase with the collective's money. There is a role for editing, both large-scale and copy-editing. There is a role for illustrating works, be it cover images or icons. I don't believe there is a future for roles directly relating to the production, distribution, accounting for, sale, warehousing or pulping of physical books. There may be a role for the marketing books, depending on the business model (I'd like to think that most of the current marketing expense can be replaced by combination of author-driven promotion and word-of-month promotion, but I've been known to dream). Clearly there is an evolving techie role too. The role not mentioned above that I'd must like to see cut, of course, is that of the multinational corporation as gatekeeper, holding all the copyrights and clipping tickets (and wings). Posted by Stuart Yeates at 20:13 5 comments: Saturday, 20 November 2010 HOWTO: Deep linking into the NZETC site As the heaving mass of activity that is the mixandmash competition heats up, I have come to realise that I should have better documented a feature of the NZETC site, the ability to extract the TEI xml annotated with the IDs for deep linking. Our content's archival form is TEI xml, which we massage for various output formats. There is a link from the top level of every document to the TEI for the document, which people are welcome to use in their mashups and remixes. Unfortunately, between that TEI and our HTML output is a deep magic that involves moving footnotes, moving page breaks, breaking pages into nicely browsable chunks, floating marginal notes, etc., and this makes it hard to deep link back to the website from anything derived from that TEI. There is another form of the TEI available which is annotated with whether or not each structural element maps 1:1 to an HTML: nzetc:has-text and what the ID of that page is: nzetc:id This annotated XML is found by replacing the 'tei-source' in the URL with 'etexts' Thus for The Laws of England, Compiled and translated into the Māori language at http://www.nzetc.org/tm/scholarly/tei-GorLaws.html there is the raw TEI at http://www.nzetc.org/tei-source/GorLaws.xml and the annotated TEI at http://www.nzetc.org/etexts/GorLaws.xml Looking in the annotated TEI at http://www.nzetc.org/etexts/GorLaws.xml we see for example:
    This means that this div has it's own page (because it has nzetc:has-text="true" and that the ID of that page is tei-GorLaws-t1-g1-t1-front1-tp1 (because of the nzetc:id="tei-GorLaws-t1-g1-t1-front1-tp1"). The ID can be plugged into: http://www.nzetc.org/tm/scholarly/.html to get a URL for the HTML. Thus the URL for this div is http://www.nzetc.org/tm/scholarly/tei-GorLaws-t1-g1-t1-front1-tp1.html This process should work for both text and figures. Happy remixing everyone! Posted by Stuart Yeates at 10:20 1 comment: Sunday, 8 November 2009 ePubs and quality You may have heard news about the release of "bookserver" by the good folks at the Internet Archive. This is a DRM-free ePub ecosystem, initially stocked with the prodigious output of Google's book scanning project and the Internet Archive's own book scanning project. To see how the NZETC stacked up against the much larger (and better funded) collection I picked one of our Maori Language dictionaries. Our Maori and Pacifica dictionaries month-after-month make up the bulk of our top five must used resources, so they're in-demand resources. They're also an appropriate choice because when they were encoded by the NZETC into TEI, the decision was made not to use full dictionary encoding, but a cheaper/easier tradeoff which didn't capture the linguistic semantics of the underlying entries, but treated them as typeset text. I was interested in how well this tradeoff was wearing. I did my comparison using the new firefox ePub plugin, things will be slightly different if you're reading these ePubs on an iPhone or Kindle. The ePub I looked at was A Dictionary of the Maori Language by Herbert W. Williams. The NZETC has the 1957 sixth edition. There are two versions of the work on bookserver. A 1852 second edition scanned by Google books (original at the New York Public library) and a 1871 third edition scanned by the Internet Archive in association with Microsoft (original in the University of California library system). All the processing of both works appear to be been done in the U.S. The original print used macrons (NZETC), acutes (Google) and breves (Internet Archive) to mark long vowels. Find them here. Lets take a look at some entries from each, starting at 'kapukapu': NZETC: kapukapu. 1. n. Sole of the foot. 2. Apparently a synonym for kaunoti, the firestick which was kept steady with the foot. Tena ka riro, i runga i nga hanga a Taikomako, i te kapukapu, i te kaunoti (M. 351). 3. v.i. Curl (as a wave). Ka kapukapu mai te ngaru. 4. Gush. 5. Gleam, glisten. Katahi ki te huka o Huiarau, kapukapu ana tera. Kapua, n. 1. Cloud, bank of clouds. E tutakitaki ana nga kapua o te rangi, kei runga te Mangoroa e kopae pu ana (P.). 2. A flinty stone. = kapuarangi. 3. Polyprion oxygeneios, a fish. = hapuku. 4. An edible species of fungus. 5. Part of the titi pattern of tattooing. Kapuarangi, n. A variety of matā, or cutting stone, of inferior quality. = kapua, 2. Kāpuhi, kāpuhipuhi, n. Cluster of branches at the top of a tree. Kāpui, v.t. 1. Gather up in a bunch. Ka kapuitia nga rau o te kiekie, ka herea. 2. Lace up or draw in the mouth of a bag. 3. Earth up crops, or cover up embers with ashes to keep them alight. kāpuipui, v.t. Gather up litter, etc. Kāpuka, n. Griselinia littoralis, a tree. = papauma. Kapukiore, n. Coprosma australis, a shrub. = kanono. Kāpuku = kōpuku, n. Gunwale. Google Books: Kapukapu, s. Sole of the foot, Eldpukdpu, v. To curl* as a wave. Ka kapukapu mai te ngaru; The wave curls over. Kapunga, v. To take up with both hands held together, Kapungatia he kai i te omu; Take up food from the oven. (B. C, Kapura, s. Fire, -' Tahuna he kapura ; Kindle a fire. Kapurangi, s. Rubbish; weeds, Kara, s. An old man, Tena korua ko kara ? How are you and the old man ? Kara, s> Basaltic stone. He kara te kamaka nei; This stone is kara. Karaha, s. A calabash. ♦Kardhi, *. Glass, Internet Archive: kapukapu, n. sole of the foot. kapukapu, v. i. 1. curl (as a wave). Ka kapukapu mai te ngaru. 2. gush. kakapii, small basket for cooked food. Kapua, n. cloud; hank of clouds, Kapunga, n. palm of the hand. kapunga, \. t. take up in both hands together. Kapiira, n. fire. Kapiiranga, n. handful. kapuranga, v. t. take up by hand-fuls. Kapurangatia nga otaota na e ia. v. i. dawn. Ka kapuranga te ata. Kapur&ngi, n. rubbish; uveds. I. K&r&, n. old man. Tena korua ko kara. II. K&r&, n. secret plan; conspiracy. Kei te whakatakoto kara mo Te Horo kia patua. k&k&r&, D. scent; smell. k&k&r&, a. savoury; odoriferous. k^ar&, n. a shell-iish. Unlike the other two, the NZETC version has accents, bold and italics in the right place. It' the only one with a workable and useful table of contents. It is also edition which has been extensively revised and expanded. Google's second edition has many character errors, while the Internet Archive's third edition has many 'á' mis-recognised as '&.' The Google and Internet Achive versions are also available as PDFs, but of course, without fancy tables of contents these PDFs are pretty challenging to navigate and because they're built from page images, they're huge. It's tempting to say that the NZETC version is better than either of the others, and from a naïve point of it is, but it's more accurate to say that it's different. It's a digitised version of a book revised more than a hundred years after the 1852 second edition scanned by Google books. People who're interested in the history of the language are likely to pick the 1852 edition over the 1957 edition nine times out of ten. Technical work is currently underway to enable third parties like the Internet Archive's bookserver to more easily redistribute our ePubs. For some semi-arcane reasons it's linked to upcoming new search functionality. Posted by Stuart Yeates at 20:36 No comments: Labels: library, macrons, maori, nzetc What LibraryThing metadata can the NZETC reasonable stuff inside it's CC'd epubs? This is the second blog following on from an excellent talk about librarything by LibraryThing's Tim given the VUW in Wellington after his trip to LIANZA. The NZETC publishes all of it's works as epubs (a file format primarily aimed at mobile devices), which are literally processed crawls of it's website bundled with some metadata. For some of the NZETC works (such as Erewhon and The Life of Captain James Cook), LibraryThing has a lot more metadata than the NZETC, becuase many LibraryThing users have the works and have entered metadata for them. Bundling as much metadata into the epubs makes sense, because these are commonly designed for offline use---call-back hooks are unlikely to be avaliable. So what kinds of data am I interested in? 1) Traditional bibliographic metadata. Both LT and NZETC have this down really well. 2) Images. LT has many many cover images, NZETC has images of plates from inside many works too. 3) Unique identification (ISBNs, ISSNs, work ids, etc). LT does very well at this, NZETC very poorly 4) Genre and style information. LT has tags to do fancy statistical analysis on, and does. NZETC has full text to do fancy statistical analysis on, but doesn't. 5) Intra-document links. LT has work as the smallest unit. NZETC reproduces original document tables of contents and indexes, cross references and annotations. 6) Inter-document links. LT has none. NZETC captures both 'mentions' and 'cites' relationships between documents. While most current-generation ebook readers, of course, can do nothing with most of this metadata, but I'm looking forward to the day when we have full-fledged OpenURL resolvers which can do interesting things, primarily picking the best copy (most local / highest quality / most appropiate format / cheapest) of a work to display to a user; and browsing works by genre (LibraryThing does genre very well, via tags). Posted by Stuart Yeates at 14:56 1 comment: Labels: epubs, library, librarything, nzetc Thursday, 15 October 2009 Interlinking of collections: the quest continues After an excellent talk today about LibraryThing by LibraryThing's Tim, I got enthused to see how LibraryThing stacks up against other libraries for having matches in it's authority control system for entities we (the NZETC) care about. The answer is averagely. For copies of printed books less than a hundred years old (or reprinted in the last hundred years), and their authors, LibraryThing seems to do every well. These are the books likely to be in active circulation in personal libraries, so it stands to reason that these would be well covered. I tried half a dozen books from our Nineteenth-Century Novels Collection, and most were missing, Erewhon, of course, was well represented. LibraryThing doesn't have the "Treaty of Waitangi" (a set of manuscripts) but it does have "Facsimiles of the Treaty of Waitangi." It's not clear to me whether these would be merged under their cataloguing rules. Coverage of non-core bibliographic entities was lacking. Places get a little odd. Sydney is "http://www.librarything.com/place/Sydney,%20New%20South%20Wales,%20Australia" but Wellington is "http://www.librarything.com/place/Wellington" and Anzac Cove appears to be is missing altogether. This doesn't seem like a sane authority control system for places, as far as I can see. People who are the subjects rather than the authors of books didn't come out so well. I couldn't find Abel Janszoon Tasman, Pōtatau Te Wherowhero or Charles Frederick Goldie, all of which are near and dear to our hearts. Here is the spreadsheet of how different web-enabled systems map entities we care about. Correction: It seems that the correct URL for Wellington is http://www.librarything.com/place/Wellington,%20New%20Zealand which brings sanity back. Posted by Stuart Yeates at 21:36 No comments: Labels: authority, community building, metadata, semantic web, social network, taxonomy Saturday, 19 September 2009 eBook readers need OpenURL resolvers Everyone's talking about the next generation of eBook readers having larger reading area, more battery life and more readable screen. I'd give up all of those, however, for an eBook reader that had an internal OpenURL resolver. OpenURL is the nifty protocol that libraries use to find the closest copy of a electronic resources and direct patrons to copies that the library might have already licensed from commercial parties. It's all about finding the version of a resource that is most accessible to the user, dynamically. Say I've loaded 500 eBooks into my eBook reader: a couple of encyclopedias and dictionaries; a stack of books I was meant to read in school but only skimmed and have been meaning to get back to; current block-busters; guidebooks to the half-dozen countries I'm planning on visiting over the next couple of years; classics I've always meant to read (Tolstoy, Chaucer, Cervantes, Plato, Descartes, Nietzsche); and local writers (Baxter, Duff, Ihimaera, Hulme, ...). My eBooks by Nietzsche are going to refer to books by Descartes and Plato; my eBooks by Descartes are going to refer to books by Plato; my encyclopaedias are going to refer to pretty much everything; most of the works in translation are going to contain terms which I'm going to need help with (help which theencyclopedias and dictionaries can provide). Ask yourself, though, whether you'd want to flick between works on the current generation of readers---very painful, since these devices are not designed for efficient navigation between eBooks, but linear reading of them. You can't follow links between them, of course, because on current systems links must point either with the same eBook or out on to the internet---pointing to other eBooks on the same device is verboten. OpenURL can solve this by catching those URLs and making them point to local copies of works (and thus available for free even when the internet is unavailable) where possible while still retaining their Until eBook readers have a mechanism like this eBooks will be at most a replacement only for paperback novels---not personal libraries. 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Create an Account Learn More Hide this message Copyright © 2011-2020 Center for Open Science | Terms of Use | Privacy Policy | Status | API TOP Guidelines | Reproducibility Project: Psychology | Reproducibility Project: Cancer Biology outgoing-typepad-com-2651 ---- Outgoing Outgoing Library metadata techniques and trends by Thom Hickey Astronimcal FITS images Now for something a little different: Since retiring from OCLC I don't do a lot with library metadata, but I've recently had some fun exploring astronomical images, which come with their own data/metadata format FITS, the Flexible Image Transport System. Everyone that wants to share astronomy data uses FITS.  It was developed in the early 1980's and has a strong FORTRAN flavor in the how the data is stored.  Having processed the variable length fields inherent in MARC records with FORTRAN I can appreciate the attractiveness of fixed length blocks, arrays of binary data and 80-byte card images to the engineers/scientists of the time. One of the wonders of our time is all the astronomical work that is being done, and that within a year or two of the observations much of the data is publicly available.  The image at the head of this post came from the Hubble Legacy Archive which has an interface that will allow you to search by name and star catalog numbers, select the type of image you are interested in, and view previews of images before downloading the FITS file. Of course most of the fun in working with the images is writing some of the code that makes it possible.  There are lots of programs available that will help you look at FITS files, such as FITS Liberator which will 'liberate' FITS images into something that Photoshop can process.  Those are nice, but farther away from bare metal than I like to be.  So I wrote a little program in J that does some rudimentary processing with FITS data.  J (download it here) is a slightly obscure (but actively used and maintained) language derived from APL. Possibly more accurately J evolved from APL in an effort led by Kenneth Iverson, the inventor of APL.  While it does take some initial effort to become proficient in array languages such as J, it is remarkable how much can be done in a few characters.  Admittedly those few characters may take some deciphering, but so would the much longer code they replace.  In some ways it reminds me of trying to use a new alphabet, such as Cyrillic.  At first the script is confusing or actually misleading, but once learned they just become letters.  I got introduced to APL in the late 1970's when I first joined OCLC.  At the time OCLC ran on Sigma computers from Xerox/Honeywell.  Xerox tried to compete with IBM in the early 70's and  APL that was one of the few languages available on Sigma machines (in general we did most things in CP-V assembler which was really quite nice).  Their APL was clunky and slow and OCLC didn't have an APL terminal, but it worked and I used it to do some research into how people were using search keys on the OCLC system (not so well!). J can be described as a fusion of APL and Backus's FP.  It is open source, easy to install, does not require a special alphabet and the things it can do with arrays are amazing, if not always immediately obvious.  One of the things I like about it is the brevity of the code.  Having experimented with compact code in Python (Z39.50 client on a t-shirt),  it is surprisingly easy to work with dense code because you can see so much of it at once. J does invite a certain amount of points-free coding, a style that confuses me at times, but can be quite elegant. Map-reduce, is another style of functional programming that can be difficult at first to get comfortable with, but turns out to be very powerful.  We used map-reduce extensively at OCLC, so I came to J with some familiarity of that aspect of the language.  The code that produced the image at the top of the post can be found at github.com/ThomasBHickey/JFits.  It consists of about 60 lines of code in two files and has a couple of sample FITS image samples as well.  Since it is one of my first J programs, I asked the J programming forum to take a look at it, and they came back with a number of suggestions, so most of the clever code probably came from them.  I've tried to keep the code reasonably straightforward so it might be worth a look, but if you are interested in astronomy, it isn't that hard to explore what's available without doing any programming at all.  Don't expect the images to look just like the ones you see published, however.  Those have had a fair amount of processing (often in Photoshop) to tease out the most pleasing parts and suppress many of the instrument artifacts that seem to be in all the images. --Th       April 22, 2018 | Permalink | Comments (0) FRBR and Humphry Clinker Some may remember OCLC Research's work (obsession?) with Tobias Smollett's The Adventures of Humphry Clinker.  I believe it was Ed O'Neill that got us started with it, using it as an example of a work with a well defined text (it was Smollett's last novel and evidently never revised by him), but with many manifestations since it first appeared in 1771.  It is an important early (picaresque epistolary) novel, and popular through most of the 19th century. At any rate, we spent quite a bit of time with the bibliographic records in WorldCat that describe the various editions of Humphry Clinker and I recently happened upon a notebook that had printouts of 106 Humphry Clinker records as they were in WorldCat in August of 1988.  The highest OCLC number in the group is just under 17 million, and we thought that was a lot (they are now nearing one billion). At any rate, 106 records isn't that many, so I thought it would be interesting to compare them to current WorldCat and our FRBR work clustering. The first thing that struck me was how old fashioned the records look now.  Comparing them to the current records, they have all been touched in some way.  They now have many more subject headings and class numbers, RDA fields, typos corrected and quite few have been merged as duplicates. Here's a summary of what I found, comparing them to the 'enhanced' version of WorldCat used for FRBR processing. 10 of the 106 records have been merged into other WorldCat records (properly as far as I could tell).  All of the others except one are collected together in one FRBR 'work' and linked to the VIAF work record http://viaf.org/viaf/180810175. The one exception turns out to be bound with Smollett's Peregrine Pickle, and so qualifies as a collected work and currently is not linked to either one. In fact, the FRBR cluster found an additional 14 records created before August 1988 that it considers Humprhy Clinker.  Looking at them, they all either spelled Humphry as Humphrey, or didn't have the title in English.  Evidently I didn't pull in the Humphrey Clinkers, either by design or oversight.  In fact, back in the 1980's, our software wasn't sophisticated to find even small spelling variants such as Humprhy vs Humphrey, much less non-English versions. As part of this retrospective, I pulled all the WorldCat records in the current Humphry Clinker work set: 730 records! I mentioned earlier that all the records appear to have been 'touched' since 1988.  To get some feel for that, I looked at the records' 040 field that shows who modified the record.  The earliest 20 of the 1988 records had 14 modifications made to them, half by OCLC and half by other libraries.  The earliest 20 in the current sample found almost 10 times that: 136 modifications, 85 of those made by OCLC. In contrast, the most recent 20 records added to WorldCat have been modified 9 times, all by OCLC.  Altogether, the 730 current records show 1,856 modifications, 1,502 of those by OCLC. Of course, one of the most striking changes that WorldCat has undergone since 1988 is the addition of metadata in languages other than English.  In fact, 301 of the 730 current Humphry Clinker records are non-Engish descriptions, altogether in 14 different languages: English, German, French, Danish, Polish, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, Catalan, Swedish, Romanian, Hungarian, Slovenian, and Serbian. Looking at the language of the books being described, 49 of the 730 were not in English, not counting the 15 'undetermined': German, Russian, French, Hungarian, Romanian and Danish.  VIAF was able to find (or create) 8 non-English expression records. --Th The image at the top is by Isaac Cruikshank from the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.  February 26, 2016 | Permalink | Comments (1) More about justlinks We had an earlier post about the 'justlinks' view of VIAF clusters, but I thought it would be worthwhile to explore how that can combine with other VIAF functionality. First a reminder of how the justlinks view works.  While the default view of clusters to Web browsers is the HTML interface, VIAF clusters can be displayed in several ways, including the raw XML, RDF XML, MARC-21 and justlinks JSON.  Here's a request for justlinks.json: http://viaf.org/viaf/36978042/justlinks.json which returns: { "viafID":"36978042", "B2Q":["0000279733"], "BAV":["ADV11117013"], "BNE":["XX904401"], "BNF":["http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb122767803"], "DNB":["http://d-nb.info/gnd/114712638"], "ISNI":["000000010888091X"], "LAC":["0064G7865"], "LC":["n90602202"], "LNB":["LNC10-000054199"], "N6I":["vtls000101241"], "NKC":["js20080511012"], "NLA":["000035338539"], "NLI":["000501536"], "NLP":["a11737736"], "NSK":["000051380"], "NTA":["073902861"], "NUKAT":["vtls000205390"], "PTBNP":["70922"], "SELIBR":["256753"], "SUDOC":["031580661"], "WKP":["Q6678817"], "XA":["2219"], "ORCID":["http://orcid.org/0000000229258764"], "Wikipedia":["http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorcan_Dempsey"]} Ralph LeVan came up with this and we think it is pretty neat!  But wait, it gets even better! Each of the IDs in this record that is a 'source record' ID to VIAF (in this case everything except the ORCID ID and the en.wikipedia URI) can be used to retrieve the cluster.  Here's how to pull justlinks.json using the LC ID: http://viaf.org/viaf/sourceID/LC|n90602202/justlinks.json HTTPS works too: https://viaf.org/viaf/sourceID/NSK|000051380/justlinks.json All the different views of the clusters can be requested either through the explicit URI's shown here, or through HTTP headers, and they in turn can be  combined with sourceID redirection. --Th November 09, 2015 | Permalink | Comments (0) Extracting information from VIAF Occasionally I run into someone trying to extract information out of VIAF and having a difficult time. Here's a simple example of how I'd begin extracting titles for a given VIAF ID.  Far from industrial strength, but might get you started. The problem: Have a file of VIAF IDs (one/line).  Want a file of the titles, each proceeded by the VIAF ID of the record they were found in. There are lots of ways to do this, but my inclination is to do it in Python (I ran this in version 2.7.1) and to use the raw VIAF XML record: from __future__ import print_function import sys, urllib from xml.etree import cElementTree as ET # reads in list of VIAF IDs one/line # writes out VIAFID\tTitle one/line # worry about the name space ns = {'v':'http://viaf.org/viaf/terms#'} ttlPath='v:titles/v:work/v:title' def titlesFromVIAF(viafXML, path):     vel = ET.fromstring(viafXML)     for el in vel.findall(path, ns):         yield el.text for line in sys.stdin:     viafid = line.strip()     viafURL = 'https://viaf.org/viaf/%s'%viafid     viafXML = urllib.urlopen(viafURL).read()     for ttl in titlesFromVIAF(viafXML, ttlPath):       print('%s\t%s'%(viafid, ttl.encode('utf-8'))) That's about as short as I could get it and have it readable in this narrow window.  We've been using the new print function (and division!) for some time now, with an eye towards Python 3. --Th Update 2015.09.16: Cleaned up how namespace is specified September 14, 2015 | Permalink | Comments (0) Next » About Search   Recent Posts Astronimcal FITS images FRBR and Humphry Clinker More about justlinks Extracting information from VIAF Matching names to VIAF In defense of MARC VIAF RDF Changes Moving to Wikidata Testing date parsing by fuzzing Another JSON encoding for MARC data Subscribe to this blog's feed Links Weibel Lines Inquiring Librarian Quædam cuiusdam LibraryCog Lorcan Dempsey's weblog Some Sculptures Furniture in Ohio Archives April 2018 February 2016 November 2015 September 2015 May 2015 April 2015 March 2015 February 2015 October 2014 July 2014 April 2018 Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30           philomousos-blogspot-com-360 ---- Scriptio Continua Scriptio Continua Thoughts on software development, Digital Humanities, the ancient world, and whatever else crosses my radar. All original content herein is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license. Friday, June 02, 2017 Reminder In the midst of the ongoing disaster that has befallen the country, I had a reminder recently that healthcare in the USA is still a wreck. When I had my episode of food poisoning (or whatever it was) in Michigan recently, my concerned wife took me to an urgent care. We of course had to pay out-of-pocket for service (about $100), as we were way outside our network (the group of providers who have agreements with our insurance company). I submitted the paperwork to our insurance company when we got home (Duke uses Aetna), to see if they would reimburse some of that amount. Nope. Rejected, because we didn't call them first to get approval—not something you think of at a time like that. Thank God I waved off the 911 responders when my daughter called them after I first got sick and almost passed out. We might have been out thousands of dollars. And this is with really first-class insurance, mind you. I have great insurance through Duke. You can't get much better in this country. People from countries with real healthcare systems find this kind of thing shocking, but it's par for the course here. And our government is actively trying to make it worse. It's just one more bit of dreadful in a sea's worth, but it's worth remembering that the disastrous state of healthcare in the US affects all of us, even the lucky ones with insurance through our jobs. And again, our government is trying its best to make it worse. You can be quite sure it will be worse for everyone. Posted by Unknown at 9:07 AM No comments: Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to FacebookShare to Pinterest Monday, May 01, 2017 Experiencing Technical Difficulties I've been struggling with a case of burnout for a while now. It's a common problem in programming, where we have to maintain a fairly high level of creative energy all the time, and unlike my colleagues in academia or the library, I'm not eligible for research leave or sabbaticals. Vacation is the only opportunity for recharging my creative batteries, but that's hard too when there are a lot of tasks that can't wait. I have taken the day off to work before, but that just seems stupid. So I grind away, hoping the fog will lift. A few weeks ago, the kids and I joined my wife on a work trip to Michigan. It was supposed to be a mini-vacation for us, but I got violently ill after lunch one day—during a UMich campus tour. It sucked about as much as it possibly could. My marvelous elder daughter dealt with the situation handily, but of course we ended up missing most of the tour, and I ended up in bed the rest of the day, barring the occasional run to the bathroom. My world narrowed down to a point. I was quite happy to lie there, not thinking. I could have read or watched television, but I didn't want to. Trying the occasional sip of gatorade was as much as I felt like. For someone who normally craves input all the time, it was very peaceful. It revealed to me again on how much of a knife-edge my consciousness really is. It would take very little to knock it off the shelf to shatter on the ground. My father has Alzheimer's Disease, and this has already happened to him. Where once there was an acutely perceptive and inquiring mind, there remains only his personality, which seems in his case to be the last thing to go. I try to spend time with him at least once or twice a week, both to take a little pressure off my mother and to check on their general well-being. We take walks. Physically, he's in great shape for a man in his 80s. And there are still flashes of the person he was. He can't really hold a conversation, and will ask the same questions over and over again, my answers slipping away as soon as they're heard, but as we walked the other day, accompanied by loud birdsong, he piped up "We hear you!" to the birds, his sense of humor suddenly back on the surface. We are lucky that my parents have fantastic insurance and a good retirement plan, courtesy of an employer, the Episcopal Church, that cares about its people beyond the period of their usefulness. Burnout is a species of depression, really. It is the same sort of thing as writer's block. Your motivation simply falls out from under you. You know what needs to be done, but it's hard to summon the energy to do it. The current political climate doesn't help, as we careen towards the cliff's edge like the last ride of Thelma and Louise, having (I hope metaphorically, but probably not for many of us) chosen death over a constrained future, for the sake of poking authority in the eye. My children will suffer because the Baby Boomers have decided to try to take it all with them, because as a society we've fallen in love with Death. All we can do really is try to arm the kids against the hard times to come, their country having chosen war, terror, and oppression in preference to the idea that someone undeserving might receive any benefit from society. We Gen-Xers at least had some opportunity to get a foot on the ladder. Their generation will face a much more tightly constrained set of choices, with a much bigger downside if they make the wrong ones. I don't write much about my children online, because we want to keep them as much as possible out of the view of the social media Panopticon until they're mature enough to make their own decisions about confronting it. At least they may have a chance to start their lives without the neoliberal machine knowing everything about them. They won't have anything like the support I had, and when we've dismantled our brief gesture towards health care as a human right and insurance decisions are made by AIs that know everything about you going back to your childhood, things are going to be quite difficult. A symptom, I think, of my burnout is my addiction to science fiction and urban fantasy novels. They give me a chance to check out from the real world for a while, but I think it's become a real addiction rather than an escape valve. Our society rolls ever forward toward what promises to be an actual dystopia with all the trappings: oppressed, perhaps enslaved underclasses, policed by unaccountable quasi-military forces, hyper-wealthy elites living in walled gardens with the latest technology, violent and unpredictable weather, massive unemployment and social unrest, food and water shortages, and ubiquitous surveillance. Escapism increasingly seems unwise. Some of that future can be averted if we choose not to be selfish and paranoid, to stop oppressing our fellow citizens and to stop demonizing immigrants, to put technology at the service of bettering society and surviving the now-inevitable changes to our climate. But we are not making good choices. Massive unemployment is a few technological innovations away. It doesn't have to be a disaster, indeed it could lead to a renaissance, but I think we're too set in our thinking to avoid the disaster scenario. The unemployed are lazy after all, our culture tells us, they must deserve the bad things that have happened to them. Our institutions are set up to push them back towards work by curtailing their benefits. But It could never happen to me, could it? And that comes back around to why I try to grind my way through burnout rather than taking time to recover from it. I live in an "at will" state. I could, in theory, be fired because my boss saw an ugly dog on the way in to work. That wouldn't happen, I hasten to say—I work with wonderful, supportive people. But there are no guarantees to be had. People can be relied on, but institutions that have not been explicitly set up to support us cannot, and institutional structures and rules tend to win in the end. Best to keep at it and hope the spark comes back. It usually does. Posted by Unknown at 12:28 PM No comments: Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to FacebookShare to Pinterest Monday, February 22, 2016 Thank You Back in the day, Joel Spolsky had a very influential tech blog, and one of the pieces he wrote described the kind of software developer he liked to hire, one who was "Smart, and gets things done." He later turned it into a book (http://www.amazon.com/Smart-Gets-Things-Done-Technical/dp/1590598385). Steve Yegge, who was also a very influential blogger in the oughties, wrote a followup, in which he tackled the problem of how you find and hire developers who are smarter than you. Given the handicaps of human psychology, how do you even recognize what you're looking at? His rubric for identifying these people (flipping Spolsky's) was "Done, and gets things smart". That is, this legendary "10X" developer was the sort who wouldn't just get done the stuff that needed to be done, but would actually anticipate what needed to be done. When you asked them to add a new feature, they'd respond that it was already done, or that they'd just need a few minutes, because they'd built things in such a way that adding your feature that you just thought of would be trivial. They wouldn't just finish projects, they'd make everything better—they'd create code that other developers could easily build upon. Essentially, they'd make everyone around them more effective as well. I've been thinking a lot about this over the last few months, as I've worked on finishing a project started by Sebastian Rahtz: integrating support for the new "Pure ODD" syntax into the TEI Stylesheets. The idea is to have a TEI syntax for describing the content an element can have, rather than falling back on embedded RelaxNG. Lou Burnard has written about it here: https://jtei.revues.org/842. Sebastian wrote the XSLT Stylesheets and the supporting infrastructure which are both the reference implementation for publishing TEI and the primary mechanism by which the TEI Guidelines themselves are published. And they are the basis of TEI schema generation as well. So if you use TEI at all, you have Sebastian to thank. Picking up after Sebastian's retirement last year has been a tough job. It was immediately obvious to me just how much he had done, and had been doing for the TEI all along. When Gabriel Bodard described to me how the TEI Council worked, after I was elected for the first time, he said something like: "There'll be a bunch of people arguing about how to implement a feature, or even whether it can be done, and then Sebastian will pipe up from the corner and say 'Oh, I just did it while you were talking.'" You only have to look at the contributors pages for both the TEI and the Stylesheets to see that Sebastian was indeed operating at a 10X level. Quietly, without making any fuss about it, he's been making the TEI work for many years. The contributions of software developers are often easily overlooked. We only notice when things don't work, not when everything goes smoothly, because that's what's supposed to happen, isn't it? Even in Digital Humanities, which you'd expect to be self-aware about this sort of thing, the intellectual contributions of software developers can often be swept under the rug. So I want to go on record, shouting a loud THANK YOU to Sebastian for doing so much and for making the TEI infrastructure smart. ***** UPDATE 2016-3-16 I heard the sad news last night that Sebastian passed away yesterday on the Ides of March. We are much diminished by his loss. Posted by Unknown at 12:38 PM 1 comment: Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to FacebookShare to Pinterest Friday, October 25, 2013 DH Data Talk Last night I was on a panel organized by Duke Libraries' Digital Scholarship group. The panelists each gave some brief remarks and then we had what I thought was a really productive and interesting discussion. The following are my own remarks, with links to my slides (opens a new tab). In my notes, //slide// means click forward (not always to a new slide, maybe just a fragment). This is me, and I work //slide// for this outfit. I'm going to talk just a little about a an old project and a new one, and not really give any details about either, but surface a couple of problems that I hope will be fodder for discussion. //slide// The old project is Papyri.info and publishes all kinds of data about ancient documents mostly written in ink on papyrus. The new one, Integrating Digital Epigraphies (IDEs), is about doing much the same thing for ancient documents mostly incised on stone. If I had to characterize (most of) the work I'm doing right now, I'd say I'm working on detecting and making machine-actionable the scholarly links and networks embedded in a variety of related projects, with data sources including plain text, XML, Relational Databases, web services, and images. These encompass critical editions of texts (often in large corpora), bibliography, citations in books and articles, images posted on Flickr, and databases of texts. You could think of what I'm doing as recognizing patterns and then converting those into actual links; building a scaffold for the digital representation of networks of scholarship. This is hard work. //slide// It's hard because while superficial patterns are easy to detect, //slide// without access to the system of thought underlying those patterns (and computers can't do that yet—maybe never), those patterns are really just proxies kicked up by the underlying system. They don't themselves have meaning, but they're all you have to hold on to. //slide// Our brains (with some prior training) are very good at navigating this kind of mess, but digital systems require explicit instructions //slide// —though granted, you can sometimes use machine learning techniques to generate those. When I say I'm working on making scholarly networks machine actionable, I'm talking about encoding as digital relations the graph of references embedded in these books, articles and corpora, and in the metadata of digital images. There are various ways one might do this, and the one we're most deeply into right now is called //slide// RDF. RDF models knowledge as a set of simple statements in the form Subject, Predicate, Object. //slide// So A cites B, for example. RDF is a web technology, so all three of these elements may be URIs that you could open in a web browser, //slide// and if you use URIs in RDF, then the object of one statement can be the subject of another, and so on. //slide// So you can use it to model logical chains of knowledge. Now notice that these statements are axioms. You can't qualify them, at least not in a fine-grained way. So this works great in a closed system (papyri.info), where we get to decide what the facts are; it's going to be much more problematic in IDEs, where we'll be coordinating data from at least half a dozen partners. Partners who may not agree on everything. //slide// What I've got is the same problem from a different angle—I need to model a big pile of opinion but all I have to do it with are facts. Part of the solution to these problems has to be about learning how to make the insertion of machine-actionable links and facts (or at least assertions), part of—that is, a side-effect of—the normal processes of resource creation and curation. But it also has to be about building systems that can cope with ambiguity and opinion. Posted by Unknown at 9:48 AM No comments: Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to FacebookShare to Pinterest Wednesday, September 11, 2013 Outside the tent Yesterday was a bad day. I’m chasing a messed-up software problem whose main symptom is the application consuming all available memory and then falling over without leaving a useful stacktrace. Steve Ramsay quit Twitter. A colleague I have huge respect for is leaving a project that’s foundational and is going to be parked because of it (that and the lack of funding). This all sucks. As I said on Twitter, it feels like we’ve hit a tipping point. I think DH has moved on and left a bunch of us behind. I have to start this off by saying that I really have nothing to complain about, even if some of this sounds like whining. I love my job, my colleagues, and I’m doing my best to get over being a member of a Carolina family working at Duke :-). I’m also thinking about these things a lot in the run up to Speaking in Code. For some time now I’ve been feeling uneasy about how I should present myself and my work. A few years ago, I’d have confidently said I work on Digital Humanities projects. Before that, I was into Humanities Computing. But now? I’m not sure what I do is really DH any more. I suspect the DH community is no longer interested in the same things as people like me, who write software to enable humanistic inquiry and also like to think (and when possible write and teach) about how that software instantiates ideas about the data involved in humanistic inquiry. On one level, this is fine. Time, and academic fashion, marches on. It is a little embarrassing though given that I’m a “Senior Digital Humanities Programmer”. Moreover, the field of “programming” daily spews forth fresh examples of unbelievable, poisonous, misogyny and seems largely incapable of recognizing what a shitty situation its in because of it. The tech industry is in moral crisis. We live in a dystopian, panoptic geek revenge fantasy infested by absurd beliefs in meritocracy, full of entrenched inequalities, focused on white upper-class problems, inherently hostile to minorities, rife with blatant sexism and generally incapable of reaching anyone beyond early adopter audiences of people just like us. (from https://medium.com/about-work/f6ccd5a6c197) I think communities who fight against this kind of oppression, like #DHPoco, for example, are where DH is going. But while I completely support them and think they’re doing good, important work, I feel a great lack of confidence that I can participate in any meaningful way in those conversations, both because of the professional baggage I bring with me and because they’re doing a different kind of DH. I don’t really see a category for the kinds of things I write about on DHThis or DHNow, for example. If you want to be part of a community that HELPS DEFINE #digitalhumanities please join and promote #DHThis today! http://t.co/VTWjtGQbgr — Adeline Koh (@adelinekoh) September 10, 2013 This is great stuff, but it’s also not going to be a venue for me wittering on about Digital Classics or text encoding. It could be my impostor syndrome kicking in, but I really doubt they’re interested. It does seem like a side-effect of the shift toward a more theoretical DH is an environment less welcoming to participation by “staff”. It’s paradoxical that the opening up of DH also comes with a reversion to the old academic hierarchies. I’m constantly amazed at how resilient human insitutions are. If Digital Humanities isn’t really what I do, and if Programmer comes with a load of toxic slime attached to it, perhaps “Senior” is all I have left. Of course, in programmer terms, “senior” doesn’t really mean “has many years of experience”, it’s code for “actually knows how to program”. You see ads for senior programmers with 2-3 years of experience all the time. By that standard, I’m not Senior, I’m Ancient. Job titles are something that come attached to staff, and they are terrible, constricting things. I don’t think that what I and many of my colleagues do has become useless, even if we no longer fit the DH label. It still seems important to do that work. Maybe we’re back to doing Humanities Computing. I do think we’re mostly better off because Digital Humanities happened, but maybe we have to say goodbye to it as it heads off to new horizons and get back to doing the hard work that needs to be done in a Humanities that’s at least more open to digital approaches than it used to be. What I’m left wondering is where the place of the developer (and, for that matter other DH collaborators) is in DH if DH is now the establishment and looks structurally pretty much like the old establishment did. Is digital humanities development a commodity? Are DH developers interchangeable? Should we be? Programming in industry is typically regarded as a commodity. Programmers are in a weird position, both providers of indispensable value, and held at arm’s length. The problem businesses have is how to harness a resource that is essentially creative and therefore very subject to human inconsistency. It’s hard to find good programmers, and hard to filter for programming talent. Programmers get burned out, bored, pissed off, distracted. Best to keep a big pool of them and rotate them out when they become unreliable or too expensive or replace them when they leave. Comparisons to graduate students and adjunct faculty may not escape the reader, though at least programmers are usually better-compensated. Academia has a slightly different programmer problem: it’s really hard to find good DH programmers and staffing up just for a project may be completely impossible. The only solution I see is to treat it as analogous to hiring faculty: you have to identify good people and recruit them and train people you’d want to hire. You also have to give them a fair amount of autonomy—to deal with them as people rather than commodities. What you can’t count on doing is retaining them as contingent labor on soft money. But here we’re back around to the faculty/staff problem: the institutions mostly only deal with tenure-track faculty in this way. Libraries seem to be the only academic institutions capable of addressing the problem at all. But they’re also the insitutions most likely to come under financial pressure and they have other things to worry about. It’s not fair to expect them to come riding over the hill. The ideal would situation would be if there existed positions to which experts could be recruited who had sufficient autonomy to deal with faculty on their own level (this essentially means being able to say ‘no’), who might or might not have advanced degrees, who might teach and/or publish, but wouldn’t have either as their primary focus. They might be librarians, or research faculty, or something else we haven’t named yet. All of this would cost money though. What’s the alternative? Outsourcing? Be prepared to spend all your grant money paying industry rates. Grad Students? Many are very talented and have the right skills, but will they be willing to risk sacrificing the chance of a faculty career by dedicating themselves to your project? Will your project be maintainable when they move on? Mia Ridge, in her twitter feed, reminds me that in England there exist people called “Research Software Engineers”. Notes from #rse2013 breakout discussions appearing at https://t.co/PD0ItLBb8t - lots of resonances with #musetech #codespeak — Mia (@mia_out) September 11, 2013 There are worse labels, but it sounds like they have exactly the same set of problems I’m talking about here. Posted by Unknown at 1:05 PM 12 comments: Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to FacebookShare to Pinterest Monday, July 15, 2013 Missing DH I'm watching the tweets from #dh2013 starting to roll in and feeling kind of sad (and, let's be honest, left out) not to be there. Conference attendance has been hard the last few years because I didn't have any travel funding in my old job. So I've tended only to go to conferences close to home or where I could get grant funding to pay for them. It's also quite hard sometimes to decide what conferences to go to. On a self-funded basis, I can manage about one a year. So deciding which one can be hard. I'm a technologist working in a library, on digital humanities projects, with a focus on markup technologies and on ancient studies. So my list is something like: DH JCDL One of many language-focused conferences The TEI annual meeting Balisage I could also make a case for conferences in my home discipline, Classics, but I haven't been to the APA annual meeting in over a decade. Now that the Digital Classics Association exists, that might change. I tend to cycle through the list above. Last year I went to the TEI meeting, the year before, I went to Clojure/conj and DH (because a grant paid). The year before that, I went to Balisage, which is an absolutely fabulous conference if you're a markup geek like me (seriously, go if you get the chance). DH is a nice compromise though, because you get a bit of everything. It's also attended by a whole bunch of my friends, and people I'd very much like to become friends with. I didn't bother submitting a proposal for this year, because my job situation was very much up in the air at the time, and indeed, I started working at DC3 just a couple of weeks ago. DH 2013 would have been unfeasible for all kinds of reasons, but I'm still bummed out not to be there. Have a great time y'all. I'll be following from a distance. Posted by Unknown at 4:31 PM No comments: Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to FacebookShare to Pinterest Wednesday, February 06, 2013 First Contact It seems like I've had many versions of this conversation in the last few months, as new projects begin to ramp up: Client: I want to do something cool to publish my work. Developer: OK. Tell me what you'd like to do. Client: Um. I need you to to tell me what's possible, so I can tell you what I want. Developer: We can do pretty much anything. I need you to tell me what you want so I can figure out how to make it. Almost every introductory meeting with a client/customer starts out this way. There's a kind of negotiation period where we figure out how to speak each other's language, often by drawing crude pictures. We look at things and decide how to describe them in a way we both understand. We wave our hands in the air and sometimes get annoyed that the other person is being so dense. It's crucially important not to short-circuit this process though. You and your client likely have vastly different understandings of what can be done, how hard it is to do what needs to be done, and even whether it's worth doing. The initial negotiation sets the tone for the rest of the relationship. If you hurry through it, and let things progress while there are still major misunderstandings in the air, Bad Things will certainly happen. Like: Client: This isn't what I wanted at all! Developer: But I built exactly what you asked for! 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Powered by Blogger. pinboard-in-1771 ---- Pinboard bookmarks tagged code4lib Pinboard recent ‧ popular ‧ tour ‧ howto     log in code4lib   2671 « earlier     LISTSERV 16.5 - CODE4LIB Archives RT @kiru: I forgot to post the call earlier: The Code4Lib Journal () is looking for volunteers to join its editorial committee. Deadline: 12 Oct. #code4lib code4lib  from twitter 11 weeks ago by miaridge  copy to mine 20 - C4L [5] Future Role of Libraries in Researcher Workflows - Google Slides research-lifecycle  code4lib  publish  scholarly-communication  march 2020 by elibtronic  copy to mine Twitter New issue of the The #Code4Lib Journal published. Some terrific looking papers, including a review of PIDs for heri… Code4Lib  from twitter_favs february 2020 by aarontay  copy to mine (500) https://journal.code4lib.org/ RT @kiru: I am very happy to announce the publication of the @Code4Lib Journal issue #47: webscraping… 47  code4lib  from twitter february 2020 by miaridge  copy to mine The Code4Lib Journal – COLUMN: We Love Open Source Software. No, You Can’t Have Our Code Librarians are among the strongest proponents of open source software. Paradoxically, libraries are also among the least likely to actively contribute their code to open source projects. This article identifies and discusses six main reasons this dichotomy exists and offers ways to get around them. Code4Lib  library  LIBT  opensource  finalproject  december 2019 by pfhyper  copy to mine The Code4Lib Journal – Barriers to Initiation of Open Source Software Projects in Libraries Libraries share a number of core values with the Open Source Software (OSS) movement, suggesting there should be a natural tendency toward library participation in OSS projects. However Dale Askey’s 2008 Code4Lib column entitled “We Love Open Source Software. No, You Can’t Have Our Code,” claims that while libraries are strong proponents of OSS, they are unlikely to actually contribute to OSS projects. He identifies, but does not empirically substantiate, six barriers that he believes contribute to this apparent inconsistency. In this study we empirically investigate not only Askey’s central claim but also the six barriers he proposes. In contrast to Askey’s assertion, we find that initiation of and contribution to OSS projects are, in fact, common practices in libraries. 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Problems or questions? Contact . TOS ‧ privacy ‧ about ‧ blog ‧ FAQ ‧ resources ‧ security planetcataloging-org-3764 ---- Planet Cataloging Planet Cataloging July 30, 2020 OCLC Next The New Model Library. Welcome home. Imagine heading out for a well-earned, two-week vacation. To a place you love to visit and know well. When you get there? It’s all as you remembered. And you packed perfectly. As a frequent tourist, you know what you can buy if you need and what the hotel shop has and where you can go for a good … Then, abruptly, you’re told—you can’t go home. You’re no longer a visitor. You are now a resident. This place where you were so comfortable and relaxed as a tourist? You have to live and work here now. For many students, professors, teachers, and researchers forced by the COVID-19 pandemic to work at home full-time, all the time, that’s what has happened. They went from being skilled digital visitors to unwilling digital residents. Washed up on the shores of Zoom My colleagues and I have been researching and writing on the topic of “Digital Visitors and Residents” for many years now. It’s a simple concept to define, but with many deep implications for how we approach library research, teaching, and scholarship. If you want a fun, quick introduction, I suggest you try out the interactive “mapping app” we put together. At its most fundamental level, though, what we know is this: people approach some digital tools and spaces as visitors and others as residents. A student, for example, may use email almost exclusively for classwork and to get messages from faculty and only when absolutely necessary. For her, that is a “digital visitor” activity. Likewise, she may use YouTube for study, to upload videos for friends and family, and to watch entertainment and news. She’s very comfortable with it in all aspects of her life. So, for her, she is a “digital resident” of YouTube. Many of us are hybrids—in some situations we may be digital visitors while in other situations we are digital residents. The New Model Library. Welcome home. #OCLCnext Click To Tweet Just like tourists mix and mingle with the locals, digital visitors’ and residents’ online lives overlap all the time, of course. But—again, the similarity is striking—just like with real life tourists and locals. Passing through a lovely seaside town to go surfing for a week in July is very different from living there all winter. What we found during the COVID-19 crisis was that many, many people working in education and libraries and many of the communities they served were forced to switch, very quickly, from using digital tools as visitors to adopting them as residents. In some cases, these were tools and processes that some librarians had been pushing for years. But, to be honest, in some cases these tools and processes had been avoided. “If we weren’t pushed, we would be doing smoke signals with the students.” ~ Head Librarian, community college, North America And how many stories have we heard—funny, sad, frustrating, and sweet—about professors, students, library users, and staff—trying to make all this “new” technology work during the past few months? How many Zoom meeting horror (or comedy) stories have you heard? These are the frustrations of a group of people trying to accommodate new digital lives using a set of tools they’d packed for a vacation. But now they have to live here. And where can they turn to understand the transition? Who can help them go from visitors to residents when it comes to understanding these important shifts? Welcome to the New Model Library. A project that provides the OCLC Research team an opportunity to discuss with global library leaders the changes that were made in library practices and policies to accommodate their communities during the COVID-19 pandemic. And where library leaders can also reflect on how a New Model Library could evolve beyond these changes. We are guides, cartographers, and hosts Librarians have been doing this for decades. Maybe forever, depending on how you look at it. When there are new “containers” for information, we’re there helping both visitors and residents figure out how to use them. For people in my generation, the library often was the first place where we used a copier, printer, or videotape player. For many others, it was—and sometimes still is—the only place where they could go to get access to a computer and, later, the internet. We know that many students and users don’t care which “container” their content comes in. They often can’t recognize if a quote, fact, study, or paragraph came from a reputable article, database, primary source document, book, magazine, or out-of-date journal. They just want a citation they can use in their final paper, and they want it now. Library staff and educators have had to do as much work educating about the telltale signs of epitext and peritext as they do the technical tangles of log-ins and Boolean search parameters. “Before that [the pandemic] library [was] just a building, now they know the contents of the library, what we have online in the library. Access to libraries has increased a great deal during [the] pandemic; students realize importance of [the] library. Hope that continues.” ~ University Librarian, research library, Asia Pacific We know how to help evaluate the needs of individual digital novices, get them to the right tools and resources, provide good maps, and establish them as successful digital residents or visitors—whichever is appropriate for them—in their journeys. What we haven’t done before is deal with a wave of forced resettlement on a scale like that of a world-changing geological event, massive drought, or … global pandemic. The New Model Library That’s what I and some of my colleagues are calling a library that is, first and foremost, an institution built for digital natives … and for those who have washed up on this shore, or who came as tourists and are now being asked to stay. Whatever happens after COVID-19, we know that a large number of these new, “mandatory digital residents” will not be moving back. They might not be comfortable doing so much online at first. But their jobs, their schools, their universities will require it, and will provide more digital options. They will want—and need—libraries that support them in this new land. “I think that is the beauty of virtual—it is much easier to share. I think that will become more prevalent going forward.”  ~ Chief Executive Officer, large metropolitan public library in North America And for some of them, the library will be the only place where they will be fully, digitally “at home.” We already are seeing new cracks in the digital divide. Laptops, smartphones, and home Wi-Fi that may work fine for casual or entertainment purposes … that may work for one adult for checking email or minimal web surfing … will not be enough to support a full family of digital residents. These individuals may need to “live” at your library for a time. Not literally, of course. Because we’re talking about “digital residents.” But we all knew children—maybe you were that child—who didn’t have access to books at home. And we say of them, lovingly, that they “lived at the library” when they were young. That will hold true for some of these new digital residents at the New Model Library. They will find their home with you as they learn to navigate a world where school, work, and life are more online than ever before. This is, I believe, a wonderful opportunity for us. “Getting embedded in the LMS [Learning Management System] makes it clear that the library isn’t just some place over there if that is in fact what some students still think—the library is all around us. It is here; it is wherever you need to be; it’s wherever you are. So, as long as they are online.” ~ University Librarian, four-year college library, North America We can learn from many of the changes that were forced on us because of COVID-19. We can make transitions to longer term, positive transformations. The library leaders we’re in discussion with are sharing how they think the New Model Library might emerge. A report of these discussions and this vision will be available later in 2020. We already are very good at these things. We are good at sharing. We are good at learning. We are good at virtual and electronic. Now, we just have to be even better and more purposeful as we help these new residents find their place. They only packed for a vacation. They weren’t prepared for this. But we are. The post The New Model Library. Welcome home. appeared first on OCLC Next. by Lynn Silipigni Connaway, Ph.D. at July 30, 2020 08:14 PM July 28, 2020 TSLL TechScans (Technical Services Law Librarians) From Cancellations to Coding: Pandemic-Centered Tech Topics on Day Two of the OBS/TS Summit 2020 So far, day two of the summit has delivered fantastic programming. I wish I could attend it all! The final virtual event takes place at 6 PM EST tonight. This morning my two favorite sessions both dealt with the new realities we are living in post COVID-19 closures, touching on this from the perspective of budget cuts to work from home workarounds. Here were my takeaways: Top Left to Bottom Right: Gilda Chiu-Ousland, Wendy Moore, Heather Buckwalkter, Anne Lawless-Collins. TS Resource Management Roundtable: Budget Cuts & Collecting Pivots I was really on the fence about which of the earliest morning sessions to attend, and I am so glad I selected this one on resource management and collecting pivots. Wendy Moore from the University of Georgia Law Library led the discussion with a powerful statement that really summarizes the entire roundtable and the timeliness of the topics: "Crisis can lead to LOTS of creativity." What followed were introductions from each of the panelists including Heather Buckwalter, Gilda Chiu-Ousland, and Anna Lawless-Collins. Each shared the state of things at their institution, the fallout from COVID-19 closures including the stopping of shipments and the addition of online study aids and other e-resources to help students and faculty get through a quick pivot to virtual learning, and the budget (if they had %'s or figures yet) that they are each facing for fiscal year 2021 and 2022. This session (as with several from day one of the summit) was not recorded to allow attendees to feel more comfortable sharing the details and situations of their library, law school, or larger institution. Two polls were executed in the larger Zoom room before dividing into smaller groups for more personalized and in depth discussions. The polls were very interesting, revealing many of us still do not know our budget, or have vague %'s that are yet to be approved, and that the majority of us are cutting print journals more than any other area of our collections. In the smaller groups, attendees were better able to share their own situations, including some very creative strategies for how to negotiate with vendors, what data they are using to make those decisions about what and how to cut items from the collection, and what they have already or are planning to cancel to meet the demands of the coming fiscal year. There was a big focus on mitigating expectations of faculty and other stakeholders, and many were open about having these difficult conversations with their faculty members related to monograph acquisitions and with their institutions related to print course reserve materials. Overall an excellent program that was really open to sharing their situations so we can all learn from one another and continue best serving our library users. Hot Topic: Technologies We Use Presented by Jesse Lambertson, this session was more of an open discussion than a straight-forward presentation. Sharing his own library system as the beginning example, Lambertson pitched questions to the audience with lively responses in real time and invited members to un-mute and speak to their specific system challenges in the work from home environment. It was really interesting to hear individuals sharing the pros and cons of their various integrated library system platforms once they were catapulted into teleworking. The clear up-side to having a web-based interface was the ease that these librarians and their staff could quickly pivot to working from home without the hassle of using VPN or requiring remote desktop. These included those using TIND and Alma to name a couple. Several of us still working with iii's Sierra were able to join in chorus about our struggles in working from home with spotty VPN support and the differences in Sierra web as compared to the desktop client. Presenter Jesse Lambertson screen shares Python script snippets hack for working with CSV data. For importing and exporting records, both individually or in batches, many hacks were shared including creative ways use Marc Edit when working from home and the potential for more API's between Marc Edit and the ILS. It is of course that time of year when we are all gathering statistics. With much overlap from the previous session I attended, many of us commented we are accessing collection and user data much more right now to better inform decision making in a time of budget cuts. As a result, further roadblocks and workflow workarounds were discussed for various systems. Several attendees shared how they query their system for cataloging and other statistics, the issues they experience in the format of the data they pull out, and the obstacles that come with trying to do this type of work from home or with very limited access to the library. Many individuals (myself included!) are periodically retrieving data from their systems, exporting it at txt or csv files, and then taking it home on laptops of flash drives to be able to spend more time with it when teleworking. However, and few shared more innovative approaches to both massaging data as well as collecting and sharing it. Lambertson shared a highly creative approach using Python scripts to automate certain aspects of the csv to Excel conversion of his data. Another attendee shared their library's customized Google Sheets dashboard which pulls data from the ILS into the same location as reference transactions statistics (populated by Google Form responses). A truly fantastic session with lots of open dialogue between attendees. I am so glad I attended and I can't wait to see and hear how the experiential system and data approaches our members are working with now unfold in the coming months and years as access to our offices and systems remains largely unknown during a pandemic. TSLL Tech Scans Blog by noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) at July 28, 2020 05:21 PM July 27, 2020 TSLL TechScans (Technical Services Law Librarians) Functioning at Lightspeed: Day One of the OBS/TS Summit 2020 & Linked Data in Libraries Conference Screenshot from the Summit's OBS-SIS Business Meeting Seriously, how fast is time going by these days? It seems like just yesterday I was attending the Work Smarter Not Harder Technical Services virtual conference from Amigos in mid-February, but here we are at the end of July on the heels of AALL 2020! Today the first ever summit of our two special interest sections is literally happening as I type this blog post. I could not contain my excitement for the topics covered so far, and felt compelled to go ahead and blog about two of the sessions. To find out more about the summit schedule which is still underway, (including business meetings too!) visit the AALL Calendar item. A big announcement from the OBS-SIS business meeting is that the official name of the SIS was voted to change to "Library Systems and Resource Discovery"! Now without delay, here are my two favorites with takeaways: Facilitating Open Knowledge: The Intersection of Wikidata and Libraries - Presenters shared how "inter-collectional connections broaden the experience to go into parallel and related items". What a fantastic summary of Linked Data, and Wikidata in particular. The hyperlink for this session title will take you to the slides which I highly recommend saving as a resource if you are interested in more Wikidata. Many slides gave specific examples of using Wikidata for legal faculty scholarship.  Of course it was noted in the session and from commenters in the Q&A that "we’re in the wild west days of wikidata (just like wikipedia used to be - it is very community based)." When considering Wikidata, remember that most things in wikipedia are in wiki data, but it is not always true the other way around. The discussion following the presentation focused heavily on "notability". Presenters made sure to comment that Wikidata allows you to create entries for faculty members that might not make it into Wikipedia. Questions were asked like "is just being a faculty member enough notability to be in Wikidata?" But the goal here is to build a robust citation network in Wikidata, adding items to support structure and more. One problem discussed what that not all language versions of Wikipedia have embraced Wikidata (yet) so the benefit of Wikidata is not across the board. Presenters also shared about a new Wiki-project called Wiki abstract which hopes to dynamically pull summaries from Wikidata). The biggest takeaway was “Notability (wikidata) is not the same as bibliographic warrant (authority control - NACO)”. Finding the Silver Lining in System Migrations-  What I discovered at the end of this session was that it was originally intended as a large face-to-face program in new Orleans had the AALL annual meeting and conference not gone virtual. It was planned to be a platform-neutral panel with speakers from a variety of law libraries talking about their migrations. As a result of things going virtual, this smaller session amd the one following it (Hot Topic/Local Systems Committee Meeting Making Post System Migration Efficient and Effective") covered the same terrain in two slices. There were so many takeaways from this session that I can't possibly share them all here, and even though the two speakers talked primarily about their library platforms, their joint experiences with systems and the discussion from attendees still rounded the session out to include a vareity of platforms including iii to alma, aleph, tind, wms, folio, sirsi, etc. A few of my favorite quotes and lessons from the presenters included: You have to always look out for other people (not just the records you touch) Always draw on the experience of people at other institutions who migrated before you, and don't be afraid to ask them "Please help me! How did you do this?" You’ve got to build your own team. There’s the team you are forced to be part of (your department, your library, your university, your consortium) and then your own external team. That is the team you can build yourself, where you can gather info about the migration process from those at other institutions, and share it with others like you later after you have gone through it.  Carve out management and leadership opportunities for staff and other librarians  using migration as the backbone, since it is such a major effort, it can be a milestone for any individual's professional growth and take them further in their career.  Turn it into a bootcamp (like a mini 2 day conference) where you are migrating from one platform to another. Invite others in your area going through the same process (example was a DC area libraries migrating from Sierra to Alma).  Know that other things may have to be sacrificed along the way. You will not survive migration if you try to do everything you have always done during a migration (or any other major project). If you’re the manager, you should be shielding your team from the onslaught of "all the things" during a big migration. If you keep trying to do it all you will not do any of it very well...and you may not make it. You have to think about prioritizing things in advance. What will you stop or delay to get the new, major work done?  3 years out and many are STILL cleaning up post-migration data messes. But it becomes the new normal… so it will be OK! Get to know and use your university IT department as much as you can. That has been more helpful for people migrating than their law school's IT when there is not an ILS expert in your library or a true systems librarian at your library.  Negotiate with staff and librarians to parse out what they really want and need to know how to do (you may need to reference interview the reference librarians!) Host a series of in-person if you can (or virtual if you can't) sessions to show staff and librarians how to do all the things they need for workflows as a live demo. Keep track of your training offerings and other documentation so you can show you did your due diligence for your library. Also still currently happening throughout this week is TONS of programming from the Linked Data in Libraries 2020 Conference. The entire slate of sessions have been FREE to attend! You can find the schedule including links to the sessions in sched. You can also find all completed session recordings in the YouTube LD4 2020 playlist. I'm going to embed that below, but first my favorite session (so far) was today's "Linked Data for Sound" session. This excellent live program presented the work of Bethany Radcliff of the University of Texas in Austin. She talked about AudiAnnotate, and shared all of the resources related to the project. The session slides are available online, which include links to GitHub and all of the other pieces of this project. It was fascinating to hear how Bethany is using Linked Data in a practical way to make audio more accessible. The tool is also being used by professors as a teaching tool for literary criticism. Part of Bethany's resources realted to AudiAnnotate include short virtual workshops that show you how to download and use Audactiy (one of my personal favorite free audio editing tools!) to make annotations to audio of all kinds. The discussion was interesting and robust too, with attendees speculating how the tool could be expanded and adapted for video, or for non-traditional audio recordings like bird songs. The conversations and discussions are continuing throughout this week on LD4 2020's slack channel. Join in if you can, and watch the wide variety of sessions (there are 46 videos and counting!!) that already have recordings available in YouTube below:   TSLL Tech Scans Blog by noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) at July 27, 2020 08:19 PM Planet Cataloging is an automatically-generated aggregation of blogs related to cataloging and metadata designed and maintained by Jennifer W. Baxmeyer and Kevin S. 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Oh, my! HathiTrust Workset Browser on GitHub HathiTrust Resource Center Workset Browser Marrying close and distant reading: A THATCamp project Text files Hands-on text analysis workshop distance.cgi – My first Python-based CGI script Great Books Survey My second Python script, dispersion.py My first R script, wordcloud.r My first Python script, concordance.py Doing What I’m Not Suppose To Do Hundredth Psalm to the Tune of "Green Sleeves": Digital Approaches to Shakespeare's Language of Genre Publishing LOD with a bent toward archivists Theme from Macroanalysis: Digital Methods and Literary History (Topics in the Digital Humanities) Fun with Koha Matisse: "Jazz" Jazz, (Henri Matisse) Context for the creation of Jazz Lexicons and sentiment analysis – Notes to self What’s Eric Reading? 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Archival linked data use cases Beginner’s glossary to linked data RDF serializations CURL and content-negotiation Questions from a library science student about RDF and linked data Paper Machines Linked Archival Metadata: A Guidebook — a fledgling draft RDF ontologies for archival descriptions Simple text analysis with Voyant Tools LiAM Guidebook tools LiAM Guidebook linked data sites LiAM Guidebook citations Publishing archival descriptions as linked data via databases Publishing linked data by way of EAD files Semantic Web in Libraries 2013 LiAM SPARQL Endpoint Initial pile of RDF Illustrating RDF Transforming MARC to RDF Tiny list of part-of-speech taggers Simple linked data recipe for libraries, museums, and archives OAI2LOD RDF triple stores Fun with bibliographic indexes, bibliographic data management software, and Z39.50 Quick And Dirty Website Analysis EAD2RDF OAI2LOD Server Network Detroit and Great Lakes THATCamp Data Information Literacy @ Purdue 3-D printing in the Center For Digital Scholarship Initialized a list of tools in the LiAM Guidebook, plus other stuff Guidebook moved to liamproject HathiTrust Research Center Perl Library What is Linked Data and why should I care? 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Collecting water and putting it on the Web (Part III of III) Collecting water and putting it on the Web (Part II of III) Collecting water and putting it on the Web (Part I of III) Web-scale discovery services How to make a book (#1 of 3) Book review of Larry McMurtry’s Books Browsing the Alex Catalogue Indexing and searching the Alex Catalogue History of Science Microsoft Surface at Ball State What's needed next: A Culture of candor Frequent term-based text clustering Web-scale discovery indexes and "next generation" library catalogs Automatic metadata generation Linked data applications Alex on Google Top Tech Trends for ALA Annual, Summer 2009 Mass Digitization Mini-Symposium: A Reverse Travelogue Atlantic Ocean at Christ of the Abyss statue (Key Largo, FL) Lingua::EN::Bigram (version 0.01) Lingua::Concordance (version 0.01) Mississippi River at Gateway To The West (St. Louis, MO) EAD2MARC Text mining: Books and Perl modules Interent Archive content in “discovery” systems TFIDF In Libraries: Part III of III (For thinkers) Tidal Basin at the Jefferson Memorial (Washington, DC) Mass digitization and opportunities for librarianship in 15 minutes The decline of books Implementing user-centered experiences in a networked environment Code4Lib Software Award: Loose ends TFIDF In Libraries: Part II of III (For programmers) Ralph Waldo Emerson’s Essays TFIDF In Libraries: Part I of III (For Librarians) Statistical interpretation of term specificity and its application in retrieval A day at CIL 2009 Quick Trip to Purdue Library Technology Conference, 2009: A Travelogue Open source software: Controlling your computing environment "Next-Generation" Library Catalogs Mississippi River at St. Anthony Falls (Minneapolis) Technology Trends and Libraries: So many opportunities Code4Lib Open Source Software Award Code4Lib Conference, Providence (Rhode Island) 2009 Henry David Thoreau’s Walden Eric Lease Morgan’s Top Tech Trends for ALA Mid-Winter, 2009 YAAC: Yet Another Alex Catalogue ISBN numbers Fun with WebService::Solr, Part III of III Why you can't find a library book in your search engine Fun with WebService::Solr, Part II of III Mr. Serials is dead. Long live Mr. Serials Fun with WebService::Solr, Part I of III LCSH, SKOS, and Linked Data Visit to Ball State University A Day with OLE ASIS&T Bulletin on open source software Fun with the Internet Archive Snow blowing and librarianship Tarzan of the Apes Open Source Software in Libraries: Opportunities and Expenses WorldCat Hackathon VUFind at PALINET Next-Generation Library Catalogues: A Presentation at Libraries Australia Darling Harbor, Sydney (Australia) Lake Ontario at Hamilton, Ontario (Canada) Lake Huron at Sarnia (Canada) Dinner with Google MyLibrary: A digital library framework &amp; toolkit MyLibrary: A Digital library framework & toolbox MBooks, revisited wordcloud.pl Last of the Mohicans and services against texts Crowd sourcing TEI files Metadata and data structures Origami is arscient, and so is librarianship On the move with the Mobile Web TPM — technological protection measures Against The Grain is not E-journal archiving solutions Web 2.0 and “next-generation” library catalogs Alex Lite: A Tiny, standards-compliant, and portable catalogue of electronic texts Indexing MARC records with MARC4J and Lucene Encoded Archival Description (EAD) files everywhere eXtensible Catalog (XC): A very transparent approach Top Tech Trends for ALA (Summer ’08) Google Onebox module to search LDAP DLF ILS Discovery Internet Task Group Technical Recommendation Introduction to the Catholic Research Resources Alliance HyperNote Pro: a text annotating HyperCard stack Steve Cisler Feather River at Paradise, California Code4Lib Journal Perl module (version .003) Open Library, the movie! get-mbooks.pl Hello, World! Cape Cod Bay at Race Point Next Generation Data Format Salto do Itiquira Open Library Developer's Meeting: One Web Page for Every Book Ever Published Atom Syndication Format Getting to know the Atom Publishing Protocol, Part 1: Create and edit Web resources with the Atom Publishing Protocol Atom Publishing Protocol Today's digital information landscape Dr. Strangelove, or How we learned to live with Google Next Generation Library Catalogs in Fifteen Minutes Success of Open Source by Steven Weber: A book review Catalog Collectivism: XC and the Future of Library Search Headwaters of the Missouri River Open source software at the Montana State University Libraries Symposium Original MyLibrary Canal surrounding Kastellet, Copenhagen, Denmark Sum Top Tech Trends for the Summer of 2007 Lake Erie at Cedar Point Amusement Park, OH Mineral water from Puyehue, Chile Lago Paranoa, Brazilia (Brazil) Leading a large group Wise crowds with long tails Trip to Rochester to Learn about XC Open Repositories, 2007: A Travelogue Unordered list of "top tech trends" Whirlwind in Windsor surrounding integrated library systems: My symposium notes Thinking outside the books: A Travel log MyLibrary 3.x and a Next Generation Library Catalogue ECDL 2006: A Travel log Mediterranean Sea at Alicante (Spain) Building the "next generation" library catalog Institute on Scholarly Communication: A travel log North Channel at Laurentian Isle, Canada American Library Association Annual Meeting, 2006 Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, 2006 Mississippi River at Oak Alley Plantation Rethink the role of the library catalog Top Tech Trends for ALA 2006; "Sum" pontifications Next generation library catalog What is SRW/U? first monday on a tuesday: a travel log Ohio Valley Group of Technical Services Librarian Annual Meeting Being innovative Atlantic Ocean at the Forty Steps (Newport, RI) Mass digitization (again) All things open Mass digitization Zagreb, Croatia: A travel log MyLibrary workshop Fountain at Trg Bana Jelacica Open source software for libraries in 30 minutes Library services and in-house software development OAI4: To CERN and Back Again Lake Geneva at Jet d Eau, Geneva, Switzerland Exploiting "Light-weight" Protocols and Open Source Tools to Implement Digital Library Collections and Services Technical Skills of Librarianship Creating and managing XML with open source software Rock Run at Ralston, PA Introduction to Web Services Top Technology Trends, 2005 Implementing SRU in Perl Morgan Territory Regional Park, CA IOLUG Spring Program Short visit to CRL Agean Sea at Kos, Greece Erie Canal at Fairport, NY So you want a new website IESR/OCKHAM in Manchester Indiana Library Federation Annual Meeting River Lune, Lancaster, UK My personal TEI publishing system Atlantic Ocean at Hay Beach, Shelter Island, NY Open access publishing Roman Bath, Bath, UK Symposium on open access and digital preservation Jimmy Carter Water, Atlanta, GA European Conference on Digital Libraries, 2004 Puget Sound at Port Orchard, WA OCKHAM in Corvallis, OR Marys Peak spring water Ogle Lake, Brown County State Park, IN Natural Bridges State Park, Monterey Bay, Santa Cruz, CA Yellowstone River Fountain of Youth, St. Augustine, FL Introduction to Search/Retrieve URL Service (SRU) Portal implementation issues and challenges Bath Creek at Bath, NC Open source software in libraries Really Rudimentary Catalog MCN Annual Conference Lake Mead at Hoover Dam LITA National Forum, 2003 Open source software in libraries: A workshop MyLibrary: A Copernican revolution in libraries Caribbean Sea at Lime Cay, Kingston, Jamaica Gulf of Mexico at Galveston Island State Park Mill Water at Mission San Jose, San Antonio, TX What is information architecture? 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Categories Arkisto Platform Data Packaging Standards DataCrate DataCrate, Repositories, eResearch eResearch File Data Capture Housekeeping How to jiscPUB misc Repositories ScholarlyHTML Word Processing Links Work Play Twitter: @ptsefton Photos This site is hosted by webfaction, and has been since 2004, with no problems whatsoever, and steadily decreasing cost. If you sign up I can get a small discount on my hosting. © 2020 Peter (Petie) Sefton · Powered by pelican-bootstrap3, Pelican, Bootstrap Back to top ptsefton-com-7051 ---- ptsefton.com ptsefton.com An open, composable standards–based research eResearch platform: Arkisto This is a talk delivered in recorded format by Peter Sefton, Nick Thieberger, Marco La Rosa and Mike Lynch at eResearch Australasia 2020. Also posted on the UTS eResearch website. ' title='1' border='1' width='85%'/> Research data from all disciplines has interest and value that extends beyond funding cycles and must continue to be managed … You won't believe this shocking semantic web trick I use to avoid publishing my own ontologies! Will I end up going to hell for this? [Update - as soon as this went live I spotted an error in the final example and fixed it]. In this post I describe a disgusting, filthy, but possibly beautiful hack* I devised to get around a common problem in data description using semantic web techniques, specifically JSON-LD and schema.org … eResearch Australasia 2019 trip report By Mike Lynch and Peter Sefton I'm re-posting / self-archiving this from the UTS eResearch Blog. Mike Lynch and Peter Sefton attended the 2019 eResearch Australasia conference in Brisbane from 22-24 October 2019, where we presented a few things - and a pre-conference summit on the 21st held by the Australian Research … FAIR Simple Scalable Static Research Data Repository This presentation was given by Peter Sefton & Michael Lynch at the eResearch Australasia 2019 Conference in Brisbane, on the 24th of October 2019. Welcome - we’re going to share this presentation. Peter/Petie will talk through the two major standards we’re building on, and Mike will talk about the … Meet RO-Crate By Peter Sefton This presentation was given by Peter Sefton at the eResearch Australasia 2019 Conference in Brisbane, on the 24th of October 2019. ' title='Meet RO-Crate ' border='1' width='85%'/> This presentation is part of a series of talks delivered here at eResearch Australasia - so it won’t go back over all of the detail already … DataCrate - a progress report on packaging research data for distribution via your repository ' title='DataCrate: a progress report on packaging research data for distribution via your repository Peter Sefton University of Technology Sydney ' border='1' width='85%'/> This is a talk that I delivered at Open Repositories 2019 in Hamburg Germany, reporting on developments in the DataCrate specification for research data description and packaging. The big news is that DataCrate is now part of a broader international effort known as RO-Crate. I spent several hours at the … Implementation of a Research Data Repository using the Oxford Common File Layout standard at the University of Technology Sydney This is a presentation by Michael Lynch and Peter Sefton, delivered by Peter Sefton at Open Repositories 2019 in Hamburg. My travel was funded by the University of Technology Sydney. ' title='Implementation of a Research Data Repository using the Oxford Common File Layout standard at the University of Technology Sydney Michael Lynch, Peter Sefton University of Technology Sydney, Australia ' border='1' width='85%'/> This presentation will discuss an implementation of the Oxford Common File Layout (OCFL) in an institutional research data repository at … Trip Report - Open Repositories 2019 - Peter Sefton This is reposted from the UTS eResearch Website with minor edits. This year Open Repositories was in Hamburg, Germany. I was funded by my employer the University of Technology Sydney to attend. I gave two presentations, one on our work on scalable research data repositories and other on research data … DataCrate: a method of packaging, distributing, displaying and archiving Research Objects Here are the slides for presentation I delivered this week at Research Object 2018 in Amsterdam. The paper we wrote for this workshop is available. The contributors to the article are: Peter Sefton Michael Lynch Gerard Devine Duncan Loxton Sharyn Wise Christian Evenhuis This presentation is my view on some … Trip Report (with bonus opinions) - Open Repositories 2018, Bozeman Montana, USA I (Peter Sefton) recently attended OR2018, the Open Repositories conference from June 4-7, 2018 in Bozeman Montana. This post is being posted on the UTS eResearch site and on my site. My trip was funded by the University of Technology Sydney (UTS). Mission Gavin Kennedy from QCIF was also in … planet-infomotions-com-9041 ---- Planet Eric Lease Morgan Home Alex Catalogue Serials Blog Musings Planet Sandbox Writings Catholic Portal DH @ Notre Dame LiAM: Linked Archival Metadata Life of a Librarian Mini-musings Musings Readings Water collection About this planet Timeline view February 09, 2020 Life of a Librarian OpenRefine and the Distant Reader The student, researcher, or scholar can use OpenRefine to open one or more different types of delimited files. OpenRefine will then parse the file(s) into fields. It can makes many things easy such as finding/replacing, faceting (think “grouping”), filtering (think “searching”), sorting, clustering (think “normalizing/cleannig”), counting & tabulating, and finally, exporting data. OpenRefine is an excellent go-between when spreadsheets fail and full-blown databases are too hard to use. OpenRefine eats delimited files for lunch. Many (actually, most) of the files in a study carrel are tab-delimited files, and they will import into OpenRefine with ease. For example, after all a carrel’s part-of-speech (pos) files are imported into OpenRefine, the student, researcher, or scholar can very easily count, tabulate, search (filter), and facet on nouns, verbs, adjectives, etc. If the named entities files (ent) are imported, then it is easy to see what types of entities exist and who might be the people mentioned in the carrel: Facets (counts & tabulations) of parts-of-speech Most frequent nouns Types of named-entities Who is mentioned in a file and how often OpenRefine recipes Like everything else, using OpenRefine requires practice. The problem to solve is not so much learning how to use OpenRefine. Instead, the problem to solve is to ask and answer interesting questions. That said, the student, researcher, or scholar will want to sort the data, search/filter the data, and compare pieces of the data to other pieces to articulate possible relationships. The following recipes endeavor to demonstrate some such tasks. The first is to simply facet (count & tabulate) on parts-of-speech files: Download, install, and run OpenRefine Create a new project and as input, randomly chose any file from a study carrel’s part-of-speech (pos) directory Continue to accept the defaults, and continue with “Create Project »”; the result ought to be a spreadsheet-like interface Click the arrow next to the POS column and select Facet/Text facet from the resulting menu; the result ought to be a new window containing a column of words and a column of frequencies — counts & tabulations of each type of part-of-speech in the file Go to Step #4, until you get tired, but this time facet by other values Faceting is a whole like like “grouping” in the world of relational databases. Faceting alphabetically sorts a list and then counts the number of times each item appears in the list. Different types of works have different parts-of-speech ratios. For example, it is not uncommon for there to be a preponderance of past-tense verbs stories. Counts & tabulations of personal pronouns as well as proper nouns give senses of genders. A more in-depth faceting against adjectives allude to sentiment. This recipe outlines how to filter (“search”): Click the “Remove All” button, if it exists; this ought to reset your view of the data Click the arrow next to the “token” column and select “Text filter” from the resulting menu In your mind, think of a word of interest, and enter it into the resulting search box Take notice of how the content in the spreadsheet view changes Go to Step #3 until you get tired Click the “Remove All” button to reset the view Text filter on the “token” column but search for “^N” (which is code for any noun) and make sure the “regular expression” check box is… checked Text facet on the “lemma” column; the result ought to be a count & tabulation of all the nouns Go to Step #6, but this time search for “^V” or “^J”, which are the codes for any verb or any adjective, respectively By combining the functionalities of faceting and filtering the student, researcher, or scholar can investigate the original content more deeply or at least in different ways. The use of OpenRefine in this way is akin to leafing through book or a back-of-the-book index. As patterns & anomalies present themselves, they can be followed up more thoroughly through the use of a concordance and literally see the patterns & anomalies in context. This recipe answers the question, “Who is mentioned in a corpus, and how often?“: Download, install, and run OpenRefine Create a new project and as input, select all of the files in the named-entity (ent) directory Continue to accept the defaults, but remember, all the almost all of the files in a study carrel are tab-delimited files, so remember to import them as “CSV / TSV / separator-based files”, not Excel files Continue to accept the defaults, and continue with “Create Project »”; the result ought to be a spreadsheet-like interface Click the arrow next to “type” column and select Facet/Text facet from the resulting menu; the result ought to be a new window containing a column of words and a column of frequencies — counts & tabulations of each type of named-entity in the whole of the study carrel Select “PERSON” from the list of named entities; the result ought to be a count & tabulation of the names of the people mentioned in the whole of the study carrel Go to Step #5 until tired, but each time select a different named-entity value This final recipe is a visualization: Create a new parts-of-speech or named-entity project Create any sort of meaningful set of faceted results Select the “choices” link; the result ought to be a text area containing the counts & tabulation Copy the whole of the resulting text area Paste the result into your text editor, find all tab characters and change them to colons (:), copy the whole of the resulting text Open Wordle and create a word cloud with the contents of your clipboard; word counts may only illustrate frequencies, but sometimes the frequencies are preponderance. A study carrel’s parts-of-speech (pos) and named-entities (ent) files enumerate each and every word or named-entity in each and every sentence of each and every item in the study carrel. Given a question relatively quantitative in nature and pertaining to parts-of-speech or named-entities, the pos and ent files are likely to be able to address the question. The pos and ent files are tab-delimited files, and OpenRefine is a very good tool for reading and analyzing such files. It does much more than was outlined here, but enumerating them here is beyond scope. Such is left up to the… reader. by Eric Lease Morgan at February 09, 2020 09:19 PM February 06, 2020 Life of a Librarian Topic Modeling Tool – Enumerating and visualizing latent themes Technically speaking, topic modeling is an unsupervised machine learning process used to extract latent themes from a text. Given a text and an integer, a topic modeler will count & tabulate the frequency of words and compare those frequencies with the distances between the words. The words form “clusters” when they are both frequent and near each other, and these clusters can sometimes represent themes, topics, or subjects. Topic modeling is often used to denote the “aboutness” of a text or compare themes between authors, dates, genres, demographics, other topics, or other metadata items. Topic Modeling Tool is a GUI/desktop topic modeler based on the venerable MALLET suite of software. It can be used in a number of ways, and it is relatively easy to use it to: list five distinct themes from the Iliad and the Odyssey, compare those themes between books, and, assuming each chapter occurs chronologically, compare the themes over time. Simple list of topics Topics distributed across a corpus Comparing the two books of Homer Topics compared over time Topic Modeling Tool Recipes These few recipes are intended to get you up and running when it comes to Topic Modeling Tool. They are not intended to be a full-blown tutorial. This first recipe merely divides a corpus into the default number of topics and dimensions: Download and install Topic Modeling Tool Copy (not move) the whole of the txt directory to your computer’s desktop Create a folder/directory named “model” on your computer’s desktop Open Topic Modeling Tool Specify the “Input Dir…” to be the txt folder/directory on your desktop Specify the “Output Dir…” to be the folder/directory named “model” on your desktop Click “Learn Topics”; the result ought to be a a list of ten topics (numbered 0 to 9), and each topic is denoted with a set of scores and twenty words (“dimensions”), and while functional, such a result is often confusing This recipe will make things less confusing: Change the number of topics from the default (10) to five (5) Click the “Optional Settings…” button Change the “The number of topic words to print” to something smaller, say five (5) Click the “Ok” button Click “Learn Topics”; the result will include fewer topics and fewer dimensions, and the result will probably be more meaningful, if not less confusing There is no correct number of topics to extract with the process of topic modeling. “When considering the whole of Shakespeare’s writings, what is the number of topics it is about?” This being the case, repeat and re-repeat the previous recipe until you: 1) get tired, or 2) feel like the results are at least somewhat meaningful. This recipe will help you make the results even cleaner by removing nonsense from the output: Copy the file named “stopwords.txt” from the etc directory to your desktop Click “Optional Settings…”; specify “Stopword File…” to be stopwords.txt; click “Ok” Click “Learn Topics” If the results contain nonsense words of any kind (or words that you just don’t care about), edit stopwords.txt to specify additional words to remove from the analysis Go to Step #3 until you get tired; the result ought to be topics with more meaningful words Adding individual words to the stopword list can be tedious, and consequently, here is a power-user’s recipe to accomplish the same goal: Identify words or regular expressions to be excluded from analysis, and good examples include all numbers (\d+), all single-letter words (\b\w\b), or all two-letter words (\b\w\w\b) Use your text editor’s find/replace function to remove all occurrences of the identified words/patterns from the files in the txt folder/directory; remember, you were asked to copy (not move) the whole of the txt directory, so editing the files in the txt directory will not effect your study carrel Run the topic modeling process Go to Step #1 until you: 1) get tired, or 2) are satisfied with the results Now that you have somewhat meaningful topics, you will probably want to visualize the results, and one way to do that is to illustrate how the topics are dispersed over the whole of the corpus. Luckily, the list of topics displayed in the Tool’s console is tab-delimited, making it easy to visualize. Here’s how: Topic model until you get a set of topics which you think is meaningful Copy the resulting topics, and this will include the labels (numbers 0 through n), the scores, and the topic words Open your spreadsheet application, and paste the topics into a new sheet; the result ought to be three columns of information (labels, scores, and words) Sort the whole sheet by the second column (scores) in descending numeric order Optionally replace the generic labels (numbers 0 through n) with a single meaningful word, thus denoting a topic Create a pie chart based on the contents of the first two columns (labels and scores); the result will appear similar to an illustration above and it will give you an idea of how large each topic is in relation to the others Because of a great feature in Topic Modeling Tool it is relatively easy to compare topics against metadata values such as authors, dates, formats, genres, etc. To accomplish this goal the raw numeric information output by the Tool (the actual model) needs to be supplemented with metadata, the data then needs to be pivoted, and subsequently visualized. This is a power-user’s recipe because it requires: 1) a specifically shaped comma-separated values (CSV) file, 2) Python and a few accompanying modules, and 3) the ability to work from the command line. That said, here’s a recipe to compare & contrast the two books of Homer: Copy the file named homer-books.csv to your computer’s desktop Click “Optional Settings…”; specify “Metadata File…” to be homer-books.csv; click “Ok” Click “Learn Topics”; the result ought to pretty much like your previous results, but the underlying model has been enhanced Copy the file named pivot.py to your computer’s desktop When the modeling is complete, open up a terminal application and navigate to your computer’s desktop Run the pivot program (python pivot.py); the result ought to an error message outlining the input pivot.py expects Run pivot.py again, but this time give it input; more specifically, specify “./model/output_csv/topics-metadata.csv” as the first argument (Windows users will specify .\model\output_csv\topics-metadata.csv), specify “barh” for the second argument, and “title” as the third argument; the result ought to be a horizontal bar chart illustrating the differences in topics across the Iliad and the Odyssey, and ask yourself, “To what degree are the books similar?” The following recipe is very similar to the previous recipe, but it illustrates the ebb & flow of topics throughout the whole of the two books: Copy the file named homer-chapters.csv to your computer’s desktop Click “Optional Settings…”; specify “Metadata File…” to be homer-chapters.csv; click “Ok” Click “Learn Topics” When the modeling is complete, open up a terminal application and navigate to your computer’s desktop Run pivot.py and specify “./model/output_csv/topics-metadata.csv” as the first argument (Windows users will specify .\model\output_csv\topics-metadata.csv), specify “line” for the second argument, and “title” as the third argument; the result ought to be a line chart illustrating the increase & decrease of topics from the beginning of the saga to the end, and ask yourself “What topics are discussed concurrently, and what topics are discussed when others are not?” Topic modeling is an effective process for “reading” a corpus “from a distance”. Topic Modeling Tool makes the process easier, but the process requires practice. Next steps are for the student to play with the additional options behind the “Optional Settings…” dialog box, read the Tool’s documentation, take a look at the structure of the CSV/metadata file, and take a look under the hood at pivot.py. by Eric Lease Morgan at February 06, 2020 01:41 AM January 31, 2020 Life of a Librarian The Distant Reader and concordancing with AntConc Concordancing is really a process about find, and AntConc is a very useful program for this purpose. Given one or more plain text files, AntConc will enable the student, researcher, or scholar to: find all the occurrences of a word, illustrate where the word is located, navigate through document(s) where the word occurs, list word collocations, and calculate quite a number of useful statistics regarding a word. Concordancing, dating from the 13th Century, is the oldest form of text mining. Think of it as control-F (^f) on steroids. AntConc does all this and more. For example, one can load all of the Iliad and the Odyssey into AntConc. Find all the occurrences of the word ship, visualize where ship appears in each chapter, and list the most significant words associated with the word ship. Occurrences of a word Dispersion charts “interesting” words AntConc recipes This recipe simply implements search: Download and install AntConc Use the “Open Files(s)…” menu option to open all files in the txt directory Select the Concordance tab Enter a word of interest into the search box Click the Start button The result ought to be a list of phrases where the word of interest is displayed in the middle of the screen. In modern-day terms, such a list is called a “key word in context” (KWIC) index. This recipe combines search with “control-F”: Select the Concordance tab Enter a word of interest into the search box Click the Start button Peruse the resulting phrases and click on one of interest; the result ought to a display of a text and the search term(s) is highlighted in the larger context Go to Step #1 until tired This recipe produces a dispersion plot, an illustration of where a search term appears in a document: Select the Concordance tab Enter a word of interest into the search box Select the “Concordance Plot” tab The result will be a list of illustrations. Each illustration will include zero or more vertical lines denoting the location of your search term in a given file. The more lines in each illustrations, the more times the search terms appear in the document. This recipe counts & tabulates the frequency of words: Select the “Word List” tab Click the Start button; the result will be a list of all the words and their frequencies Scroll up and down the list to get a feel for what is common Select a word of interest; the result will be the same as if you entered the word in Recipe #1 It is quite probable the most frequent words will be “stop words” like the, a, an, etc. AntConc supports the elimination of stop words, and the Reader supplies a stop word list. Describing how to implement this functionality is too difficult to put into words. (No puns intended.) But here is an outline: Select the “Tool Preferences” menu option Select the “Word List” category Use the resulting dialog box to select a stop words list, and such a list is called stopwords.txt found in the etc directory Click the Apply button Go to Step #1; and the result will be a frequency list sans any stop words, and the result will be much more meaningful Ideas are rarely articulated through the use of individual words; ideas are usually articulated through the use of sets of words (ngrams, sentences, paragraphs, etc.). Thus, as John Rupert Firth once said, “You shall know a word by the company it keeps.” This recipe outlines how to list word co-occurrences and collocations: Select the “Cluster/N-grams” tab Enter a word of interest in the search box Click the Start button; the result ought to be a list of two-word phrases (bigrams) sort in frequency order Select a phrase of interest, and the result will just as if you had search for the phrase in Recipe #1 Go to Step #1 until tired Select the Collocates tab Enter a word of interest in the search box Click the Start button; the result ought to be a list of words and associated scores, and the scores compare the frequencies of the search word and the given word; words with higher scores can be considered “more interesting” Select “Sort by Freq” from the “Sort by” pop-up menu Click the Sort button; the result will be the same list of words and associated scores, but this time the list will be sorted by the frequency of the search term/given word combination Again, a word is known by the company it keeps. Use the co-occurrences and collocations features to learn how a given word (or phrase) is associated with other words. There is much more to AntConc than outlined in the recipes outlined above. Learning more is left up to you, the student, research, and scholar. by Eric Lease Morgan at January 31, 2020 08:02 PM The Distant Reader Workbook I am in the process of writing a/the Distant Reader workbook, which will make its debut at a Code4Lib preconference workshop in March. Below is both the “finished” introduction and table-of-contents. Hands-on with the Distant Reader: A Workbook This workbook outlines sets of hands-on exercises surrounding a computer system called the Distant Reader — https://distantreader.org. By going through the workbook, you will become familiar with the problems the Distant Reader is designed to address, how to submit content to the Reader, how to download the results (affectionately called “study carrels”), and how to interpret them. The bulk of the workbook is about the later. Interpretation can be as simple as reading a narrative report in your Web browser, as complex as doing machine learning, and everything else in-between. You will need to bring very little to the workbook in order to get very much out. At the very least, you will need a computer with a Web browser and an Internet connection. A text editor such as Notepad++ for Windows or BBEdit for Macintosh will come in very handy, but a word processor of any type will do in a pinch. You will want some sort of spreadsheet application for reading tabular data, and Microsoft Excel or Macintosh Numbers will both work quite well. All the other applications used in the workbook are freely available for downloading and cross-platform in nature. You may need to install a Java virtual machine in order to use some of them, but Java is probably already installed on your computer. I hope you enjoy using the Distant Reader. It helps me use and understand large volumes of text quickly and easily. Table of contents I. What is the Distant Reader, and why should I care? A. The Distant Reader is a tool for reading B. How it works C. What it does II. Five different types of input A. Introduction B. A file C. A URL D. A list of URLs E. A zip file F. A zip file with a companion CSV file F. Summary III. Submitting "experiments" and downloading "study carrels" IV. An introduction to study carrels V. The structured data of study carrels; taking inventory through the manifest VI. Using combinations of desktop tools to analyze the data A. Introduction - The three essential types of desktop tools B. Text editors C. Spreadsheet/database applications D. Analysis applications i. Wordle and Wordle recipes ii. AntConc and AntConc recipes iii. Excel and Excel recipes iv. OpenRefine and OpenRefine recipes v. Topic Modeling Tool and Tool recipes VII. Using command-line tools to dig even deeper VIII. Summary/conclusion IX. About the author As per usual these days, the “code” is available on GitHub. by Eric Lease Morgan at January 31, 2020 06:57 PM January 29, 2020 Life of a Librarian Wordle and the Distant Reader Visualized word frequencies, while often considered sophomoric, can be quite useful when it comes to understanding a text, especially when the frequencies are focused on things like parts-of-speech, named entities, or co-occurrences. Wordle visualizes such frequencies very well. For example, the 100 most frequent words in the Iliad and the Odyssey, the 100 most frequent nouns in the Iliad and the Odyssey, or the statistically significant words associated with the word ship from the Iliad and the Odyssey. simple word frequencies frequency of nouns Significant words related to ship Wordle recipes Here is a generic Wordle recipe where Wordle will calculate the frequencies for you: Download and install Wordle. It is a Java application, so you may need to download and install Java along the way, but Java is probably already installed on your computer. Use your text editor to open reader.txt which is located in the etc directory/folder. Once opened, copy all of the text. Open Wordle, select the “Your Text” tab, and paste the whole of the text file into the window. Click the “Wordle” tab and your word cloud will be generated. Use the Wordle’s menu options to customize the output. Congratulations, you have just visualized the whole of your study carrel. Here is another recipe, a recipe where you supply the frequencies (or any other score): Download and install AntConc. Use the “Open Files(s)…” menu option to open any file in the txt directory. Click the “Word list” tab, and then click the “Start” button. The result will be a list of words and their frequencies. Use the “Save Output to Text File…” menu option, and save the frequencies accordingly. Open the resulting file in your spreadsheet. Remove any blank rows, and remove the columns that are not the words and their frequencies Invert the order of the remaining two columns; make the words the first column and the frequencies the second column. Copy the whole of the spreadsheet and paste it into your text editor. Use the text editor’s find/replace function to find all occurrences of the tab character and replace them with the colon (:) character. Copy the whole of the text editor’s contents. Open Wordle, click the “Your text” tab, paste the frequencies into the resulting window. Finally, click the “Wordle” tab to generate the word cloud. Notice how you used a variety of generic applications to achieve the desired result. The word/value pairs given to Wordle do not have be frequencies. Instead they can be any number of different scores or weights. Keep your eyes open for word/value combinations. They are everywhere. Word clouds have been given a bad rap. Wordle is a very useful tool. by Eric Lease Morgan at January 29, 2020 06:13 PM January 18, 2020 Life of a Librarian The Distant Reader and a Web-based demonstration The following is an announcement of a Web-based demonstration to the Distant Reader: Please join us for a web-based demo and Q&A on The Distant Reader, a web-based text analysis toolset for reading and analyzing texts that removes the hurdle of acquiring computational expertise. The Distant Reader offers a ready way to onboard scholars to text analysis and its possibilities. Eric Lease Morgan (Notre Dame) will demo his tool and answer your questions. This session is suitable for digital textual scholars at any level, from beginning to expert. When: February 12, 2020 @ 1-2pm Pacific Standard Time Where: Online (https://ucla.zoom.us/j/3107947789) or at UCLA in 1041 Public Affairs Building The Distant Reader: Reading at scale The Distant Reader is a tool for reading. It takes an arbitrary amount of unstructured data (text) as input, and it outputs sets of structured data for analysis — reading. Given a corpus of just about any size (hundreds of books or thousands of journal articles), the Distant Reader analyzes the corpus, and outputs a myriad of reports enabling the researcher to use and understand the corpus. Designed with college students, graduate students, scientists, or humanists in mind, the Distant Reader is intended to supplement the traditional reading process. This presentation outlines the problems the Reader is intended to address as well as the way it is implemented on the Jetstream platform with the help of both software and personnel resources from XSEDE. The Distant Reader is freely available for anybody to use at https://distantreader.org. Other Distant Reader links of possible interest include: “study carrels” – http://carrels.distantreader.org blog postings – http://sites.nd.edu/emorgan/category/distant-reader/ Slack channel – http://bit.ly/distantreader-slack Twitter feed – http://twitter.com/readerdistant source code – https://github.com/ericleasemorgan/reader ‘Hope to see you there? by Eric Lease Morgan at January 18, 2020 12:07 AM December 28, 2019 Life of a Librarian Distant Reader “study carrels”: A manifest The results of the Distant Reader process is the creation of a “study carrel” — a set of structured data files intended to help you to further “read” your corpus. Using a previously created study carrel as an example, this blog posting enumerates & outlines the contents of a typical carrel. A future blog posting will describe ways to use & understand the files outlined here. Therefore, the text below is merely a kind of manifest. Wall Paper by Eric The Distant Reader takes an arbitrary amount of unstructured data (text) as input, and it outputs sets of structured data files for analysis — reading. Given a corpus of any size, the Distant Reader will analyze the corpus, and it will output a myriad of reports enabling you to use & understand the corpus. The Distant Reader is intended to supplement the traditional reading process. Given a question of a rather quantitative nature, a Distant Reader study carrel may very well contain a plausible answer. The results of downloading and uncompressing the Distant Reader study carrel is a directory/folder containing a standard set of files and subdirectories. Each of these files and subdirectories are listed & described below: A1426341535 – This, or a very similarly named file, is an administrative file, a unique identifier created by the system (Airivata) which processed the study carrel. [1] In the future, this file may not be included. On the other hand, since the file’s name is a unique identifier, then it could be exploited by a developer. adr – This subdirectory contains a set of tab-delimited files. Each file contains a set of email addresses extracted from the documents in your corpus. While the files’ names end in .adr, they are plain text files that can be imported into for favorite spreadsheet, database, or analysis application. The files have two columns: 1) id, and 2) address. The definitions of these columns and possible uses of these files are described elsewhere, but in short, these files can humorously answer the question “Who are you gonna call?” bib – This subdirectory contains a set of tab-delimited files. Each file contains a set of rudimentary bibliographic information from a given document in your corpus. While the files’ names end in .bib, they are plain text files that can be imported into for favorite spreadsheet, database, or analysis application. The files have thirteen columns: 1) id, 2) author, 3) title, 4) date, 5) page 6), extension, 7) mime, 8) words, 9) sentences, 10) flesch, 11) summary, 12) cache, and 13) txt. The definitions of these columns and possible uses of these files are described elsewhere, but in short, these files help answer the question “What items are in my corpus, and how can they be described?” cache – This subdirectory contains original copies of the files you intended for analysis. It is populated by harvesting content from URLs or were supplied in the zip file you uploaded to the Reader. Each file is named with a unique and somewhat meaningful name and an extension. These files are intended for reading on your computer, or better yet, printed and then read in the more traditional manner. css – This subdirectory contains a set of cascading stylesheets used by the HTML files in the carrel. If you really desired, one could edit these files in order to change the appearance of the carrel. input.zip – This file, or something named very similarly, is the file originally used to create your study carrel. It has already served its intended purpose, but it is retained for reasons of provenance. ent – This subdirectory contains a set of tab-delimited files, and each file contains a set of named entities from a given document in your corpus. While the files’ names end in .ent, they are plain text files that can be imported into for favorite spreadsheet, database, or analysis application. The files have five columns: 1) id, 2) sid, 3) eid, 4) entity, and 5) type. The definitions of these columns and possible uses of these files are described elsewhere, but in short, these files help answer questions regarding who, what, when, where, how, and how many. etc – This subdirectory contains a set of ancillary files, and each are described below: model-data.txt – the data file used by topic-model.htm, and it is essentially an enhanced version of reader.txt queries.sql – a set of SQL queries used to generate report.txt, and this file is an excellent introduction to the use of reader.db reader.db – an SQLite database file, and it is essentially the amalgamation of the contents of the adr, bib, ent, pos, urls, and wrd directories; the intelligent use of this file can be used to answer just about any question answerable by the carrel reader.sql – a set SQL commands denoting the structure of reader.db reader.txt – the concatenation of all files in the txt directory; a plain text version of the whole of the corpus is often used for other purposes and it is provided here as a convienence report.txt – the result of applying queries.sql to reader.db; this file has the exact same content as standard-output.txt stopwords.txt – a list of function words (i.e. “a”, “an”, “the”, etc.) used through the creation of the study carrel figures – This subdirectory contains a set of image files used by the carrel’s HTML files: adjectives.png – a word cloud illustrating the most frequent adjectives in the corpus adverbs.png – a word cloud illustrating the most frequent adverbs in the corpus bigrams.png – a word cloud illustrating the most frequent bigrams (two-word phrases) in the corpus flesch-boxplot.png – a box plot illustrating the average, quartile, and outlier readability scores of the items in the corpus flesch-histogram.png – a histogram illustrating the distribution of readability scores of the items in the corpus keywords.png – a word cloud illustrating the most frequent keywords (statistically significant unigrams) in the corpus nouns.png – a word cloud illustrating the most frequent nouns in the corpus pronouns.png – a word cloud illustrating the most frequent pronouns in the corpus proper-nouns.png – a word cloud illustrating the most frequent proper nouns in the corpus sizes-boxplot.png – a box plot illustrating the average, quartile, and outlier sizes of the items (measured in unigrams) in the corpus sizes-histogram.png – a histogram illustrating the distribution of sizes of the items (measured in unigrams) in the corpus topics.png – a pie chart illustrating how the corpus is subdivided if topic modeling were applied to the corpus, and the desired number of topics (latent themes) equals five unigrams.png – a word cloud illustrating the most frequent unigrams (individual words) in the corpus verbs.png – a word cloud illustrating the most frequent verbs in the corpus htm – This subdirectory contains a set of interactive HTML files linked from the file named index.htm. The functionality of each file is outlined below: adjective-noun.htm – search, sort, and browse adjective/noun combinations by adjective, noun, or frequency adjectives.htm – search, sort, and browse adjectives and/or their frequency adverbs.htm – search, sort, and browse adverbs and/or their frequency bigrams.htm – search, sort, and browse bigrams (two-word phrases) and/or their frequency entities.htm – search, sort, and browse named-entities, their type, and/or their frequency keywords.htm – search, sort, and browse keywords (statistically significant unigrams) and/or their frequency noun-verb.htm – search, sort, and browse noun/verb combinations by noun, verb, or frequency nouns.htm – search, sort, and browse nouns and/or their frequency pronouns.htm – search, sort, and browse pronouns and/or their frequency proper-nouns.htm – search, sort, and browse proper nouns and/or their frequency quadgrams.htm – search, sort, and browse quadgrams (four-word phrases) and/or their frequency questions.htm – search, sort, and browse questions (sentences ending with a question mark) and from which items they were extracted search.htm – a free text query interface based on the narrative summaries of each item in the corpus topic-model.htm – a topic modeler; a tool used to enumerate as well as compare & contrast latent themes in the corpus trigrams.htm – search, sort, and browse trigrams (three-word phrases) and/or their frequency unigrams.htm – search, sort, and browse unigrams (individual words) and/or their frequency verbs.htm – search, sort, and browse verbs and/or their frequencies index.htm – This HTML file narratively reports on the content of your study carrel. It is the best place to begin once you have downloaded and unzipped the carrel. MANIFEST.htm – This file, and it is the third best place to begin once you have downloaded and unzipped a carrel. job_1819387465.slurm – This file, or a very similarly named file, is the batch file used to initially create your study carrel. In the future, this file may be removed from the study carrel all together because it serves only an administrative purpose. js – This subdirectory includes a set of Javascript libraries supporting the functionality of index.htm as well as the HTML files in the htm directory. Because these files are here your computer does not need to be connected to the Internet in order to effectively read your carrel. Study carrels are designed to be stand-alone file systems usable for years to come. LICENSE – This is the license file; each study carrel is distributed under a GNU Public License. pos – This subdirectory contains a set of tab-delimited files, and each file contains a set of part-of-speech files from a given document in your corpus. While the files’ names end in .pos, they are plain text files that can be imported into for favorite spreadsheet, database, or analysis application. The files have six columns: 1) id, 2) sid, 3) tid, 4) token, 5) lemma, and 6) pos. The definitions of these columns are described in another blog posting. The definitions of these columns and possible uses of these files are described elsewhere, but in short, these files help answer question regarding who, what, how, how many, and actions as well as grammer and style. README – This file contains the very briefest of introductions to the carrel. standard-error.txt – As each study carrel is being created, error and status messages are output to this file. It is a log file. If the creation of your study carrel fails, then this is a good place to look for clues on what went wrong. Send me this file if you are stymied. standard-output.txt – After your study carrel as been created and distilled into a database, sets of queries are applied against the database. This file is the second best place to begin once you have downloaded and unzipped a carrel. tsv – Except for one (questions.tsv), this subdirectory contains a set of frequency tables in the form of tab-delimited text files. The exception is a tab-delimited text file too, but it is just not a frequency file. All of these files can be imported into for favorite spreadsheet, database, or analysis application. Possible uses for these files are destined to be outlined in future postings, but in short, perusal of these files will help you answer questions regarding your corpus’s “aboutness” as well as who, what, when, where, how, how many, and why questions. The structure of each file is listed below: adjective-noun.tsv – three columns: 1) adjective, 2) noun, and 3) frequency where frequency denotes the number of times the given adjective appears immediately before the given noun in the corpus adjectives.tsv – two columns: 1) adjective, and 2) frequency adverbs.tsv – two columns: 1) adverb, and 2) frequency bigrams.tsv – two columns: 1) bigram (two-word phrase), and 2) frequency entities.tsv – three columns: 1) entity, 2) type, and 3) frequency keywords.tsv – two columns: 1) keyword (statistically significant unigram), and 2) frequency noun-verb.tsv – three columns: 1) noun, 2) verb, and 3) a frequency where frequency denotes the number of times the given noun appears immediately before the given verb in the entire corpus nouns.tsv – two columns: 1) noun, and 2) frequency pronouns.tsv – two columns: 1) pronoun, and 2) frequency proper-nouns.tsv – two columns: 1) proper, and 2) frequency quadgrams.tsv – two columns: 1) quadgram (four-word phrase), and 2) frequency questions.tsv – two columns: 1) identifier, and 2) question where each question is a “sentence” ending in a question mark trigrams.tsv – two columns: 1) trigram (three-word phrase), and 2) frequency unigrams.tsv – two columns: 1) unigram (individual word), and 2) frequency verbs.tsv – two columns: 1) verb, and 2) frequency txt – This subdirectory contains plain text versions of the files stored in the cache directory. A plain text version of each & every item in the cache directory ought to exist in this directory. The contents of this directory is what was used to do the Reader’s analysis. The contents of this directory are excellent candidates for further analysis with tools such as concordances, indexers, or topic modelers. urls – This subdirectory contains a set of tab-delimited files, and each file contains a set of URLs from a given document in your corpus. While the files’ names end in .url, they are plain text files that can be imported into for favorite spreadsheet, database, or analysis application. The files have three columns: 1) id, 2) domain, and 3) url. The definitions of these columns and possible uses of these files are described elsewhere, but in short, these files help answer questions regarding document provenance and relationships as well as addressing the perenial issue of “finding more like this one”. wrd – This subdirectory contains a set of tab-delimited files, and each file contains a set of computed keywords from a given document in your corpus. While the files’ names end in .wrd, they are plain text files that can be imported into for favorite spreadsheet, database, or analysis application. The files have two columns: 1) id, and 2 keyword. The definitions of these columns and possible uses of these files are described elsewhere, but in short, these files help answer questions such as “What is this document about?” Links [1] Airivata – https://airavata.apache.org by Eric Lease Morgan at December 28, 2019 12:10 AM December 17, 2019 Life of a Librarian A Distant Reader Field Trip to Bloomington Yesterday I was in Bloomington (Indiana) for a Distant Reader field trip. More specifically, I met with Marlon Pierce and Team XSEDE to talk about Distant Reader next steps. We discussed the possibility of additional grant opportunities, possible ways to exploit the Airivata/Django front-end, and Distant Reader embellishments such as: Distant Reader Lite – a desktop version of the Reader which processes single files Distant Reader Extras – a suite of tools for managing collections of “study carrels” The Distant Reader Appliance – a stand-alone piece of hardware built with Raspberry Pi’s Along the way Marlon & I visited the data center where I actually laid hands on the Reader. We also visited John Walsh of the HathiTrust Research Center where I did a two-fold show & tell: 1) downloading HathiTrust plain text files as well as PDF documents using htid2books, and 2) the Distant Reader, of course. As a bonus, there was cool mobile hanging from the ceiling of Luddy Hall. “A good time was had by all.” by Eric Lease Morgan at December 17, 2019 09:00 PM November 09, 2019 Life of a Librarian What is the Distant Reader and why should I care? The Distant Reader is a tool for reading. [1] Wall Paper by Eric The Distant Reader takes an arbitrary amount of unstructured data (text) as input, and it outputs sets of structured data for analysis — reading. Given a corpus of any size, the Distant Reader will analyze the corpus, and it will output a myriad of reports enabling you to use & understand the corpus. The Distant Reader is intended to supplement the traditional reading process. The Distant Reader empowers one to use & understand large amounts of textual information both quickly & easily. For example, the Distant Reader can consume the entire issue of a scholarly journal, the complete works of a given author, or the content found at the other end of an arbitrarily long list of URLs. Thus, the Distant Reader is akin to a book’s table-of-contents or back-of-the-book index but at scale. It simplifies the process of identifying trends & anomalies in a corpus, and then it enables a person to further investigate those trends & anomalies. The Distant Reader is designed to “read” everything from a single item to a corpus of thousand’s of items. It is intended for the undergraduate student who wants to read the whole of their course work in a given class, the graduate student who needs to read hundreds (thousands) of items for their thesis or dissertation, the scientist who wants to review the literature, or the humanist who wants to characterize a genre. How it works The Distant Reader takes five different forms of input: a URL – good for blogs, single journal articles, or long reports a list of URLs – the most scalable, but creating the list can be problematic a file – good for that long PDF document on your computer a zip file – the zip file can contain just about any number of files from your computer a zip file plus a metadata file – with the metadata file, the reader’s analysis is more complete Once the input is provided, the Distant Reader creates a cache — a collection of all the desired content. This is done via the input or by crawling the ‘Net. Once the cache is collected, each & every document is transformed into plain text, and along the way basic bibliographic information is extracted. The next step is analysis against the plain text. This includes rudimentary counts & tabulations of ngrams, the computation of readability scores & keywords, basic topic modeling, parts-of-speech & named entity extraction, summarization, and the creation of a semantic index. All of these analyses are manifested as tab-delimited files and distilled into a single relational database file. After the analysis is complete, two reports are generated: 1) a simple plain text file which is very tabular, and 2) a set of HTML files which are more narrative and graphical. Finally, everything that has been accumulated & generated is compressed into a single zip file for downloading. This zip file is affectionately called a “study carrel“. It is completely self-contained and includes all of the data necessary for more in-depth analysis. What it does The Distant Reader supplements the traditional reading process. It does this in the way of traditional reading apparatus (tables of content, back-of-book indexes, page numbers, etc), but it does it more specifically and at scale. Put another way, the Distant Reader can answer a myriad of questions about individual items or the corpus as a whole. Such questions are not readily apparent through traditional reading. Examples include but are not limited to: How big is the corpus, and how does its size compare to other corpora? How difficult (scholarly) is the corpus? What words or phrases are used frequently and infrequently? What statistically significant words characterize the corpus? Are there latent themes in the corpus, and if so, then what are they and how do they change over both time and place? How do any latent themes compare to basic characteristics of each item in the corpus (author, genre, date, type, location, etc.)? What is discussed in the corpus (nouns)? What actions take place in the corpus (verbs)? How are those things and actions described (adjectives and adverbs)? What is the tone or “sentiment” of the corpus? How are the things represented by nouns, verbs, and adjective related? Who is mentioned in the corpus, how frequently, and where? What places are mentioned in the corpus, how frequently, and where? People who use the Distant Reader look at the reports it generates, and they often say, “That’s interesting!” This is because it highlights characteristics of the corpus which are not readily apparent. If you were asked what a particular corpus was about or what are the names of people mentioned in the corpus, then you might answer with a couple of sentences or a few names, but with the Distant Reader you would be able to be more thorough with your answer. The questions outlined above are not necessarily apropos to every student, researcher, or scholar, but the answers to many of these questions will lead to other, more specific questions. Many of those questions can be answered directly or indirectly through further analysis of the structured data provided in the study carrel. For example, each & every feature of each & every sentence of each & every item in the corpus has been saved in a relational database file. By querying the database, the student can extract every sentence with a given word or matching a given grammer to answer a question such as “How was the king described before & after the civil war?” or “How did this paper’s influence change over time?” A lot of natural language processing requires pre-processing, and the Distant Reader does this work automatically. For example, collections need to be created, and they need to be transformed into plain text. The text will then be evaluated in terms of parts-of-speech and named-entities. Analysis is then done on the results. This analysis may be as simple as the use of concordance or as complex as the application of machine learning. The Distant Reader “primes the pump” for this sort of work because all the raw data is already in the study carrel. The Distant Reader is not intended to be used alone. It is intended to be used in conjunction with other tools, everything from a plain text editor, to a spreadsheet, to database, to topic modelers, to classifiers, to visualization tools. Conclusion I don’t know about you, but now-a-days I can find plenty of scholarly & authoritative content. My problem is not one of discovery but instead one of comprehension. How do I make sense of all the content I find? The Distant Reader is intended to address this question by making observations against a corpus and providing tools for interpreting the results. Links [1] Distant Reader – https://distantreader.org by Eric Lease Morgan at November 09, 2019 02:25 AM November 06, 2019 Life of a Librarian Project Gutenberg and the Distant Reader The venerable Project Gutenberg is perfect fodder for the Distant Reader, and this essay outlines how & why. (tl;dnr: Search my mirror of Project Gutenberg, save the result as a list of URLs, and feed them to the Distant Reader.) Project Gutenberg Wall Paper by Eric A long time ago, in a galaxy far far away, there was a man named Micheal Hart. Story has it he went to college at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champagne. He was there during a summer, and the weather was seasonably warm. On the other hand, the computer lab was cool. After all, computers run hot, and air conditioning is a must. To cool off, Micheal went into the computer lab to be in a cool space.† While he was there he decided to transcribe the United States Declaration of Independence, ultimately, in the hopes of enabling people to use a computers to “read” this and additional transcriptions. That was in 1971. One thing led to another, and Project Gutenberg was born. I learned this story while attending a presentation by the now late Mr. Hart on Saturday, February 27, 2010 in Roanoke (Indiana). As it happened it was also Mr. Hart’s birthday. [1] To date, Project Gutenberg is a corpus of more than 60,000 freely available transcribed ebooks. The texts are predominantly in English, but many languages are represented. Many academics look down on Project Gutenberg, probably because it is not as scholarly as they desire, or maybe because the provenance of the materials is in dispute. Despite these things, Project Gutenberg is a wonderful resource, especially for high school students, college students, or life-long learners. Moreover, its transcribed nature eliminates any problems of optical character recognition, such as one encounters with the HathiTrust. The content of Project Gutenberg is all but perfectly formatted for distant reading. Unfortunately, the interface to Project Gutenberg is less than desirable; the index to Project Gutenberg is limited to author, title, and “category” values. The interface does not support free text searching, and there is limited support for fielded searching and Boolean logic. Similarly, the search results are not very interactive nor faceted. Nor is there any application programmer interface to the index. With so much “clean” data, so much more could be implemented. In order to demonstrate the power of distant reading, I endeavored to create a mirror of Project Gutenberg while enhancing the user interface. To create a mirror of Project Gutenberg, I first downloaded a set of RDF files describing the collection. [2] I then wrote a suite of software which parses the RDF, updates a database of desired content, loops through the database, caches the content locally, indexes it, and provides a search interface to the index. [3, 4] The resulting interface is ill-documented but 100% functional. It supports free text searching, phrase searching, fielded searching (author, title, subject, classification code, language) and Boolean logic (using AND, OR, or NOT). Search results are faceted enabling the reader to refine their query sans a complicated query syntax. Because the cached content includes only English language materials, the index is only 33,000 items in size. Project Gutenberg & the Distant Reader The Distant Reader is a tool for reading. It takes an arbitrary amount of unstructured data (text) as input, and it outputs sets of structured data for analysis — reading. Given a corpus of any size, the Distant Reader will analyze the corpus, and it will output a myriad of reports enabling you to use & understand the corpus. The Distant Reader is intended to supplement the traditional reading process. Project Gutenberg and the Distant Reader can be used hand-in-hand. As described in a previous posting, the Distant Reader can take five different types of input. [5] One of those inputs is a file where each line in the file is a URL. My locally implemented mirror of Project Gutenberg enables the reader to search & browse in a manner similar to the canonical version of Project Gutenberg, but with two exceptions. First & foremost, once a search has been gone against my mirror, one of the resulting links is “only local URLs”. For example, below is an illustration of the query “love AND honor AND truth AND justice AND beauty”, and the “only local URLs” link is highlighted: Search result By selecting the “only local URLs”, a list of… URLs is returned, like this: URLs This list of URLs can then be saved as file, and any number of things can be done with the file. For example, there are Google Chrome extensions for the purposes of mass downloading. The file of URLs can be fed to command-line utilities (ie. curl or wget) also for the purposes of mass downloading. In fact, assuming the file of URLs is named love.txt, the following command will download the files in parallel and really fast: cat love.txt | parallel wget This same file of URLs can be used as input against the Distant Reader, and the result will be a “study carrel” where the whole corpus could be analyzed — read. For example, the Reader will extract all the nouns, verbs, and adjectives from the corpus. Thus you will be able to answer what and how questions. It will pull out named entities and enable you to answer who and where questions. The Reader will extract keywords and themes from the corpus, thus outlining the aboutness of your corpus. From the results of the Reader you will be set up for concordancing and machine learning (such as topic modeling or classification) thus enabling you to search for more narrow topics or “find more like this one”. The search for love, etc returned more than 8000 items. Just less than 500 of them were returned in the search result, and the Reader empowers you to read all 500 of them at one go. Summary Project Gutenberg is very useful resource because the content is: 1) free, and 2) transcribed. Mirroring Project Gutenberg is not difficult, and by doing so an interface to it can be enhanced. Project Gutenberg items are perfect items for reading & analysis by the Distant Reader. Search Project Gutenberg, save the results as a file, feed the file to the Reader and… read the results at scale. Notes and links † All puns are intended. [1] Michael Hart in Roanoke (Indiana) – video: https://youtu.be/eeoBbSN9Esg; blog posting: http://infomotions.com/blog/2010/03/michael-hart-in-roanoke-indiana/ [2] The various Project Gutenberg feeds, including the RDF is located at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds [3] The suite of software to cache and index Project Gutenberg is available on GitHub at https://github.com/ericleasemorgan/gutenberg-index [4] My full text index to the English language texts in Project Gutenberg is available at http://dh.crc.nd.edu/sandbox/gutenberg/cgi-bin/search.cgi [5] The Distant Reader and its five different types of input – http://sites.nd.edu/emorgan/2019/10/dr-inputs/ by Eric Lease Morgan at November 06, 2019 01:56 AM October 26, 2019 Life of a Librarian OJS Toolbox Given a Open Journal System (OJS) root URL and an authorization token, cache all JSON files associated with the given OJS title, and optionally output rudimentary bibliographics in the form of a tab-separated value (TSV) stream. [0] Wall Paper by Eric OJS is a journal publishing system. [1] Is supports a REST-ful API allowing the developer to read & write to the System’s underlying database. [2] This hack — the OJS Toolbox — merely caches & reads the metadata associated with the published issues of a given journal title. The Toolbox is written in Bash. To cache the metadata, you will need to have additional software as part of your file system: curl and jq. [3, 4] Curl is used to interact with the API. Jq is used to read & parse the resulting JSON streams. When & if you want to transform the cached JSON files into rudimentary bibliographics, then you will also need to install GNU Parallel, a tool which makes parallel processing trivial. [5] Besides the software, you will need three pieces of information. The first is the root URL of the OJS system/title you wish to use. This value will probably look something like this –> https://example.com/index.php/foo Ask the OJS systems administrator regarding the details. The second piece of information is an authorization token. If an “api secret” has been created by the local OJS systems administrator, then each person with an OJS account ought to have been granted a token. Again, ask the OJS systems administrator for details. The third piece of information is the name of a directory where your metadata will be cached. For the sake of an example, assume the necessary values are: root URL – https://example.com/index.php/foo token – xyzzy directory – bar Once you have gotten this far, you can cache the totality of the issue metadata: $ ./bin/harvest.sh https://example.com/index.php/foo xyzzy bar More specifically, `harvest.sh` will create a directory called bar. It will then determine how many issues exist in the title foo. It will then harvest sets of issue data, parse each set into individual issue files, and save the result as JSON files in the bar directory. You now have a “database” containing all the bibliographic information of a given title For my purposes, I need a TSV file with four columns: 1) author, 2) title, 3) date, and 4) url. Such is the purpose of `issues2tsv.sh` and `issue2tsv.sh`. The first script, `issues2tsv.sh`, takes a directory as input. It then outputs a simple header, finds all the JSON files in the given directory, and passes them along (in parallel) to `issue2tsv.sh` which does the actual work. Thus, to create my TSV file, I submit a command like this: $ ./bin/issues2tsv.sh bar > ./bar.tsv The resulting file (bar.tsv) looks something like this: author title date url Kilgour The Catalog 1972-09-01 https://example.com/index.php/foo/article/download/5738/5119 McGee Two Designs 1972-09-01 https://example.com/index.php/foo/article/download/5739/5120 Saracevic Book Reviews 1972-09-01 https://example.com/index.php/foo/article/download/5740/5121 Give such a file, I can easily download the content of a given article, extract any of its plain text, perform various natural language processing tasks against it, text mine the whole, full text index the whole, apply various bits of machine learning against the whole, and in general, “read” the totality of the journal. See The Distant Reader for details. [6] Links [0] OJS Toolbox – https://github.com/ericleasemorgan/ojs-toolbox [1] OJS – https://pkp.sfu.ca/ojs/ [2] OJS API – https://docs.pkp.sfu.ca/dev/api/ojs/3.1 [3] curl – https://curl.haxx.se [4] jq – https://stedolan.github.io/jq/ [5] GNU Parallel – https://www.gnu.org/software/parallel/ [6] Distant Reader – https://distantreader.org by Eric Lease Morgan at October 26, 2019 08:48 PM October 19, 2019 Life of a Librarian The Distant Reader and its five different types of input The Distant Reader can take five different types of input, and this blog posting describes what they are. Wall Paper by Eric The Distant Reader is a tool for reading. It takes an arbitrary amount of unstructured data (text) as input, and it outputs sets of structured data for analysis — reading. Given a corpus of any size, the Distant Reader will analyze the corpus, and it will output a myriad of reports enabling you to use & understand the corpus. The Distant Reader is intended to designed the traditional reading process. At the present time, the Reader can accept five different types of input, and they include: a file a URL a list of URLs a zip file a zip file with a companion CSV file Each of these different types of input are elaborated upon below. A file The simplest form of input is a single file from your computer. This can be just about file available to you, but to make sense, the file needs to contain textual data. Thus, the file can be a Word document, a PDF file, an Excel spreadsheet, an HTML file, a plain text file, etc. A file in the form of an image will not work because it contains zero text. Also, not all PDF files are created equal. Some PDF files are only facsimiles of their originals. Such PDF files are merely sets of images concatenated together. In order for PDF files to be used as input, the PDF files need to have been “born digitally” or they need to have had optical character recognition previously applied against them. Most PDF files are born digitally nor do they suffer from being facsimiles. A good set of use-cases for single file input is the whole of a book, a long report, or maybe a journal article. Submitting a single file to the Distant Reader is quick & easy, but the Reader is designed for analyzing larger rather than small corpora. Thus, supplying a single journal article to the Reader doesn’t make much sense; the use of the traditional reading process probably makes more sense for a single journal article. A URL The Distant Reader can take a single URL as input. Given a URL, the Reader will turn into a rudimentary Internet spider and build a corpus. More specifically, given a URL, the Reader will: retrieve & cache the content found at the other end of the URL extract any URLs it finds in the content retrieve & cache the content from these additional URLs stop building the corpus but continue with its analysis In short, given a URL, the Reader will cache the URL’s content, crawl the URL one level deep, cache the result, and stop caching. Like the single file approach, submitting a URL to the Distant Reader is quick & easy, but there are a number of caveats. First of all, the Reader does not come with very many permissions, and just because you are authorized to read the content at the other end of a URL does not mean the Reader has the same authorization. A lot of content on the Web resides behind paywalls and firewalls. The Reader can only cache 100% freely accessible content. “Landing pages” and “splash pages” represent additional caveats. Many of the URLs passed around the ‘Net do not point to the content itself, but instead they point to ill-structured pages describing the content — metadata pages. Such pages may include things like authors, titles, and dates, but these things are not presented in a consistent nor computer-readable fashion; they are laid out with aesthetics or graphic design in mind. These pages do contain pointers to the content you want to read, but the content may be two or three more clicks away. Be wary of URLs pointing to landing pages or splash pages. Another caveat to this approach is the existence of extraneous input due to navigation. Many Web pages include links for navigating around the site. They also include links to things like “contact us” and “about this site”. Again, the Reader is sort of stupid. If found, the Reader will crawl such links and include their content in the resulting corpus. Despite these drawbacks there are number of excellent use-cases for single URL input. One of the best is Wikipedia articles. Feed the Reader a URL pointing to a Wikipedia article. The Reader will cache the article itself, and then extract all the URLs the article uses as citations. The Reader will then cache the content of the citations, and then stop caching. Similarly, a URL pointing to an open access journal article will function just like the Wikipedia article, and this will be even more fruitful if the citations are in the form of freely accessible URLs. Better yet, consider pointing the Reader to the root of an open access journal issue. If the site is not overly full of navigation links, and if the URLs to the content itself are not buried, then the whole of the issue will be harvested and analyzed. Another good use-case is the home page of some sort of institution or organization. Want to know about Apple Computer, the White House, a conference, or a particular department of a university? Feed the root URL of any of these things to the Reader, and you will learn something. At the very least, you will learn how the organization prioritizes its public face. If things are more transparent than not, then you might be able to glean the names and addresses of the people in the organization, the public policies of the organization, or the breadth & depth of the organization. Yet another excellent use-case includes blogs. Blogs often contain content at their root. Navigations links abound, but more often than not the navigation links point to more content. If the blog is well-designed, then the Reader may be able to create a corpus from the whole thing, and you can “read” it in one go. A list of URLs The third type of input is a list of URLs. The list is expected to be manifested as a plain text file, and each line in the file is a URL. Use whatever application you desire to build the list, but save the result as a .txt file, and you will probably have a plain text file.‡ Caveats? Like the single URL approach, the list of URLs must point to freely available content, and pointing to landing pages or splash pages is probably to be avoided. Unlike the single URL approach, the URLs in the list will not be used as starting points for Web crawling. Thus, if the list contains ten items, then ten items will be cached for analysis. Another caveat is the actual process of creating the list; I have learned that is actually quite difficult to create lists of URLs. Copying & pasting gets old quickly. Navigating a site and right-clicking on URLs is tedious. While search engines & indexes often provide some sort of output in list format, the lists are poorly structured and not readily amenable to URL extraction. On the other hand, there are more than a few URL extraction tools. I use a Google Chrome extension called Link Grabber. [1] Install Link Grabber. Use Chrome to visit a site. Click the Link Grabber button, and all the links in the document will be revealed. Copy the links and paste them into a document. Repeat until you get tired. Sort and peruse the list of links. Remove the ones you don’t want. Save the result as a plain text file.‡ Feed the result to the Reader. Despite these caveats, the list of URLs approach is enormously scalable; the list of URLs approach is the most scalable input option. Given a list of five or six items, the Reader will do quite well, but the Reader will operate just as well if the list contains dozens, hundreds, or even thousands of URLs. Imagine reading the complete works of your favorite author or the complete run of an electronic journal. Such is more than possible with the Distant Reader.‡ A zip file The Distant Reader can take a zip file as input. Create a folder/directory on your computer. Copy just about any file into the folder/directory. Compress the file into a .zip file. Submit the result to the Reader. Like the other approaches, there are a few caveats. First of all, the Reader is not able to accept .zip files whose size is greater than 64 megabytes. While we do it all the time, the World Wide Web was not really designed to push around files of any great size, and 64 megabytes is/was considered plenty. Besides, you will be surprised how many files can fit in a 64 megabyte file. Second, the computer gods never intended file names to contain things other than simple Romanesque letters and a few rudimentary characters. Now-a-days our file names contain spaces, quote marks, apostrophes, question marks, back slashes, forward slashes, colons, commas, etc. Moreover, file names might be 64 characters long or longer! While every effort as been made to accomodate file names with such characters, your milage may vary. Instead, consider using file names which are shorter, simpler, and have some sort of structure. An example might be first word of author’s last name, first meaningful word of title, year (optional), and extension. Herman Melville’s Moby Dick might thus be named melville-moby.txt. In the end the Reader will be less confused, and you will be more able to find things on your computer. There are a few advantages to the zip file approach. First, you can circumvent authorization restrictions; you can put licensed content into your zip files and it will be analyzed just like any other content. Second, the zip file approach affords you the opportunity to pre-process your data. For example, suppose you have downloaded a set of PDF files, and each page includes some sort of header or footer. You could transform each of these PDF files into plain text, use some sort of find/replace function to remove the headers & footers. Save the result, zip it up, and submit it to the Reader. The resulting analysis will be more accurate. There are many use-cases for the zip file approach. Masters and Ph.D students are expected to read large amounts of material. Save all those things into a folder, zip them up, and feed them to the Reader. You have been given a set of slide decks from a conference. Zip them up and feed them to the Reader. A student is expected to read many different things for History 101. Download them all, put them in a folder, zip them up, and submit them to the Distant Reader. You have written many things but they are not on the Web. Copy them to a folder, zip them up, and “read” them with the… Reader. A zip file with a companion CSV file The final form of input is a zip file with a companion comma-separated value (CSV) file — a metadata file. As the size of your corpus increases, so does the need for context. This context can often be manifested as metadata (authors, titles, dates, subject, genre, formats, etc.). For example, you might want to compare & contrast who wrote what. You will probably want to observe themes over space & time. You might want to see how things differ between different types of documents. To do this sort of analysis you will need to know metadata regarding your corpus. As outlined above, the Distant Reader first creates a cache of content — a corpus. This is the raw data. In order to do any analysis against the corpus, the corpus must be transformed into plain text. A program called Tika is used to do this work. [2] Not only does Tika transform just about any file into plain text, but it also does its best to extract metadata. Depending on many factors, this metadata may include names of authors, titles of documents, dates of creation, number of pages, MIME-type, language, etc. Unfortunately, more often than not, this metadata extraction process fails and the metadata is inaccurate, incomplete, or simply non-existent. This is where the CSV file comes in; by including a CSV file named “metadata.csv” in the .zip file, the Distant Reader will be able to provide meaningful context. In turn, you will be able to make more informed observations, and thus your analysis will be more thorough. Here’s how: assemble a set of files for analysis use your favorite spreadsheet or database application to create a list of the file names assign a header to the list (column) and call it “file” create one or more columns whose headers are “author” and/or “title” and/or “date” to the best of your ability, update the list with author, title, or date values for each file save the result as a CSV file named “metadata.csv” and put it in the folder/directory to be zipped compress the folder/directory to create the zip file submit the result to the Distant Reader for analysis The zip file with a companion CSV file has all the strengths & weakness of the plain o’ zip file, but it adds some more. On the weakness side, creating a CSV file can be both tedious and daunting. On the other hand, many search engines & index export lists with author, title, and data metadata. One can use these lists as the starting point for the CSV file.♱ On the strength side, the addition of the CSV metadata file makes the Distant Reader’s output immeasurably more useful, and it leads the way to additional compare & contrast opportunities. Summary To date, the Distant Reader takes five different types of input. Each type has its own set of strengths & weaknesses: a file – good for a single large file; quick & easy; not scalable a URL – good for getting an overview of a single Web page and its immediate children; can include a lot of noise; has authorization limitations a list of URLs – can accomodate thousands of items; has authorization limitations; somewhat difficult to create list a zip file – easy to create; file names may get in the way; no authorization necessary; limited to 64 megabytes in size a zip file with CSV file – same as above; difficult to create metadata; results in much more meaningful reports & opportunities Happy reading! Notes & links ‡ Distant Reader Bounty #1: To date, I have only tested plain text files using line-feed characters as delimiters, such are the format of plain text files in the Linux and Macintosh worlds. I will pay $10 to the first person who creates a plain text file of URLs delimited by carriage-return/line-feed characters (the format of Windows-based text files) and who demonstrates that such files break the Reader. “On you mark. Get set. Go!” ‡ Distant Reader Bounty #2: I will pay $20 to the first person who creates a list of 2,000 URLs and feeds it to the Reader. ♱ Distant Reader Bounty #3: I will pay $30 to the first person who writes a cross-platform application/script which successfully transforms a Zotero bibliography into a Distant Reader CSV metadata file. [1] Link Grabber – http://bit.ly/2mgTKsp [2] Tika – http://tika.apache.org by Eric Lease Morgan at October 19, 2019 12:29 AM Date created: 2000-05-19 Date updated: 2011-05-03 URL: http://infomotions.com/ publishingperspectives-com-1404 ---- AAP and CCC End Georgia State 'E-Reserves' Litigation Navigation Home Features News Magazines Rights Submit Rights Deal About Us Contact Advertise Subscribe Search Home Features News Magazines Rights Submit Rights Deal About Us Contact Advertise Subscribe Search AAP and CCC End Georgia State ‘E-Reserves’ Copyright Litigation In News by Porter AndersonNovember 12, 20201 Comment Citing appellate court rulings that make the plaintiffs’ point, the Association of American Publishers and Copyright Clearance Center decline to pursue further appeals in a 12-year-old case. Image – IStockphoto: Ablokhin By Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief | @Porter_Anderson ‘A Severe Threat of Market Harm’ Ending a dozen years of legal contention, the Association of American Publishers (AAP) and Copyright Clearance Center (CCC) have announced that they’ve elected to end litigation about digital copying and distribution in the higher-education space. In a statement provided to Publishing Perspectives, we read, “On behalf of its board of directors and membership, and together with Copyright Clearance Center, Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, and SAGE Publishing, the Association of American Publishers announced today (November 11) that the publishers declined to file another appeal in Cambridge University Press v. Becker, thus bringing the long-running copyright infringement case to an end.” The initial court filings in 2008 in the Northern Georgia District Court alleged that Georgia State University in Atlanta was practicing “systematic, widespread, and unauthorized copying and distribution of a vast amount of copyrighted works” through a system called “e-reserves.” An e-reserves program is intended to provide controlled access to digital course content only for students registered to a given syllabus. A 2012 finding supported the university, seeing most of the uses in question to be permissible under fair use. Two years later, in 2014, the 11th Circuit Court made reversals to the first decision, remanding the case to the lower court, which then found four of 49 instances to be infringements. In both lower-court assessments, the university was deemed the prevailing party. “We made this difficult decision,” AAP and CCC now say in their new statement, “after carefully considering well-established copyright precedent, including two authoritative decisions in this litigation from the court of appeals for the 11th circuit, which reversed and vacated two prior decisions from the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia.” In a joint statement from AAP president and CEO Maria A. Pallante and CCC president and CEO Tracey Armstrong, they point out that over the years, the litigation has framed two points they feel are of key value: Maria A. Pallante, left, and Tracey Armstrong “After careful consideration, the plaintiffs, AAP and CCC, have decided to conclude, rather than appeal, the Georgia State University ‘e-reserves’ case, following 12 years of litigation regarding both the exclusive rights accorded to copyright owners under US copyright law, and, relatedly, the appropriate limits of fair use in instances where licenses are available. “We are pleased and satisfied that the court of appeals has issued two forceful rulings in the case, making clear that the kind of ‘nontransformative copying’ undertaken by Georgia State University poses a ‘severe threat of market harm’ to publishers, and that such harm should be given ‘more significant weight in [the] overall fair use analysis’ and ‘strongly disfavors’ fair use where publishers have offered digital licenses for the material. “The fact that such copying occurs in an educational setting does not ameliorate the ‘threat of market substitution,’ the Court of Appeals held.” ‘Institutions Cannot Ignore Copyright Law’ As the statement from the association and Copyright Clearance Center puts it, “The overarching objective of this litigation” has been achieved, “to establish that institutions of higher learning cannot ignore copyright law by digitally copying and distributing significant excerpts from copyrighted course readings without a license, no matter how convenient. “The court of appeals has issued two forceful rulings in the case, making clear that the ‘nontransformative copying’ undertaken by Georgia State University poses a ‘severe threat of market harm’ to publishers.”Maria A. Pallante, Tracey Armstrong “Despite the lower court’s latest decision, which is at odds with the court of appeals’ instructions, publishers are confident that the guidance from the court of appeals is clear and authoritative as to future actors.” That guidance, the statement says, is adequate to ensure “that universities will maintain copyright policies and practices that are consistent with its rulings and well-established copyright jurisprudence.” “As we conclude this case,” the association and Copyright Clearance Center write, “we note that these are extraordinary times marked by unprecedented challenges and opportunities, including for universities, and we are therefore more committed than ever to helping students, scholars, libraries, and the reading public to achieve learning and research success.” The Wider Challenge: What’s Right, and What’s Digital Publishing Perspectives readers will have quickly spotted parallels here with the years-long saga of the Canadian Copyright Modernization Act dispute in Canada. Since the implementation of the 2012 act in 2013, universities in the English-language Canadian market have worked along the lines of a “10 percent” approach, which other educational institutions, including K-12 schools, have then adopted. In some university settings, instructors have copied up to 10 percent of a book, or a full chapter, and then distributed this copied material to students without a publisher’s permission and without paying a licensing fee, sometimes called a tariff. This meant that no authors and no publishers were paid for this use of the material in question. “The fact that such copying occurs in an educational setting does not ameliorate the ‘threat of market substitution,’ the Court of Appeals held.”Maria A. Pallante, Tracey Armstrong In that ongoing dispute, the Association of Canadian Publishers and Access Copyright—not unlike CCC, a collective management organization for the English-language Canadian market—achieved a ringing federal court victory in 2017 in Access Copyright v. York University from the federal court of Justice Michael L. Phelan, who wrote in his decision that the Modernization Act’s guidelines as interpreted by York University were unfair and that tariffs (those licensing fees) certified by the country’s copyright board are enforceable. The educational sector, however, has continued to resist, refusing to pay the annual per-student licensing fees certified by the copyright board and making appeals until, in April of this year, a new decision from an appellate court said that the educational community had acted wrongly but that schools and universities are not required to pay the licensing fees. The publishers report that the Copyright Modernization Act of 2012 has opened the door to  illegal and systematic copying by the K-12 and post-secondary education sector, which has now accrued cumulative liabilities of more than $150 million (US$105.2 million). The latest wrinkle in that case is that the Supreme Court of Canada has agreed to hear Access Copyright’s and York University’s appeals at a date not yet announced. And the Canadian dispute has grown far wider than the issue addressed by AAP and CCC. At one point whole provincial educational systems in Canada have sued Access Copyright in alliance with the positions of York University. But the broadest overview of these cases has to do with how the digital dynamic has blurred some of the once-bright lines around copyright’s protections in the minds of those who are inclined to see—or claim they see—digital content as less firmly guarded by copyright laws and limitations. The irony escapes few of us that these battles are being fought in educational settings, in which it’s assumed that creativity and the protection of intellectual property would be sacrosanct. Instead, we find educators and scholars working to leverage their own colleagues’ creative property without regard to the legal boundaries meant to protect it–and their own work. In a final line from the Association of American Publishers and Copyright Clearance Center, the two parties commit to taking a high road, even as more challenges like those alleged at Georgia State and in Canada will surely arise in the future. “Consistent with the fundamental mission of publishing,” the new statement reads, “we will continue to make high-quality works of authorship and research widely available, and further serve our customers and the long-term public interest by investing in affordable and sustainable business models.” More from Publishing Perspectives on copyright is here, more on the Association of American Publishers is here, more on Copyright Clearance Center is here, more on the Canadian Copyright Modernization Act is here. More from us on the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on international book publishing is here. About the Author Porter Anderson Facebook Twitter Google+Porter Anderson has been named International Trade Press Journalist of the Year in London Book Fair's 2019 International Excellence Awards. He is Editor-in-Chief of Publishing Perspectives. He co-founded The Hot Sheet, a newsletter for trade and indie authors, which now is owned and operated by Jane Friedman. He formerly was Associate Editor for The FutureBook at London's The Bookseller. Anderson also has worked as a senior producer, editor, and anchor with CNN.com, CNN International, and CNN USA, and as an arts critic (National Critics Institute) with The Village Voice and Dallas Times Herald. Tags: Access Copyright, Association of American Publishers, Association of Canadian Publishers, Cambridge University Press, Canada, copyright, Copyright Clearance Center, Copyright Modernization Act, education, educational publishing, Oxford University Press, SAGE Publishing, USA Comments November 12, 2020 Reply Sandy Thatcher I read this announcement with a mixture of nostalgia and relief. As a member of the AAP Copyright Committee (1974-2019) and the CCC board of directors (1992-2017) I remember this suit all too well, Who knew when it began in 2008 that it would last so long? I wrote about the case myself in an article for Against the Grain in March 2010m never expecting that the case would drag on for another dozen years, in large part because of the obstinacy of the district court judge who made up her mind early and did everything possible to change her rulings in minimally responsive ways to the appeals court’s directions. https://scholarsphere.psu.edu/concern/generic_works/9880vr67x. But Maria and Tracey are right: the principles have been firmly established by the appeals court, and the judge’s foot-dragging tactics would undoubtedly continue indefinitely into the future and cost a lot more money in legal fees. It’s time to bury the GSU case and move on. Leave a Comment Cancel reply Comment Name * Email * Website SUBSCRIBE Sign up to get our FREE email edition, Monday to Friday! 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Digital Preservation (DigiPres) is the NDSA’s annual conference – open to members and non-members alike – focused on stewardship, curation, and preservation of digital information and cultural heritage. The 2021 meeting will take place on November 10-11th 2021 in St. Louis, Missouri, just after the DLF Forum.  NDSA is an affiliate of the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) and the Digital Library Federation (DLF), and the DigiPres conference is held in concert with the annual DLF Forum. CLIR continues to monitor the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, and after successfully pivoting to a virtual format for 2020, will be making a call on this for 2021 by early spring 2021.  Planning Committee responsibilities include: Defining a vision for the conference Crafting and distributing a Call for Proposals Reviewing and selecting proposals Identifying a keynote speaker Determining the conference schedule Moderating sessions Supporting membership through recruitment and mentorship efforts Collaborating with the DLF Forum planning committee on community events, equity and inclusion, and sponsorship opportunities We expect to have monthly group calls from January-November, and this year’s committee will have an exciting opportunity to creatively sustain some of the conveniences and benefits of our virtual platform as we negotiate meeting in person again.  Join us by completing this form by Friday, January 15th, and please share widely. We look forward to working with you! Tricia Patterson, 2021 Chair Jes Neal, 2021 Vice Chair/2022 Chair The post Calls for Volunteers for 2021 Digital Preservation Conference appeared first on DLF. Digital Library Federation: DLF Forum Community Journalist Reflection: Betsy Yoon This post was written by Betsy Yoon (@betsyoon), who was selected to be one of this year’s virtual DLF Forum Community Journalists. Betsy Yoon (she/they) is an Adjunct Assistant Professor and OER/Reference Librarian at the College of Staten Island, CUNY and earned her MLIS in 2019. She also has a Master of International Affairs. She lives in occupied Lenapehoking and is a longtime member of Nodutdol, a grassroots organization of diasporic Koreans and comrades working to advance peace, decolonization, and self-determination on the Korean Peninsula and Turtle Island (North America). Interests include critical approaches to OER and openness, the free/libre software movement, understanding and addressing root causes over symptom management, and the role that libraries and archives can play in our collective liberation. One advantage of attending a virtual Forum is the fact that you no longer have to decide between two interesting panels that are happening at the same time. Before I realized that the sessions would be pre-recorded and available for viewing any time, I pored over the schedule trying to decide which of the two sessions to participate in per time block. What complicated my decision-making process was the fact that I was attending with two different angles. As a librarian, I do reference and work related to Open Educational Resources on my campus. But I am also part of Nodutdol(1), a community organization with a 20-year history in need of archiving and preservation. While not totally distinct (outreach is relevant for both roles, for instance), my two roles occasionally had divergent needs. For example, the Monday 5:00 pm session had both “Where It’s At: Using GIS Tools for Engagement and Outreach at an HBCU Library,” which seemed a good fit for my position in the academic library, and “Linked While Apart: Overcoming Division with Linked Data,” which seemed more applicable to my work with Nodutdol. So you can imagine my delight when I learned that not only would the sessions be available for asynchronous viewing, but that it would also be possible to engage in discussions about the panel on Slack. The panel that ended up being the most informative for my specific needs was “Finding a Good Fit: Scaling Best Practices for Born-Digital Material to Fit the Needs of Diverse Communities.” The presenters walked us through the process of setting up a small-scale digitization project and emphasized the iterative nature of the process. As a grassroots organization, we do not have the luxury of hiring digitization experts to guide us through the process, and it has been difficult to know how and where to get started. Margo Padilla’s saying that “good enough” digital preservation practices (as opposed to best practices) stood out to me as particularly relevant to my organization’s needs. The description of their organization’s custom modular setup and the numerous resources that the slides linked out to were also very helpful in offering some solid starting points to embark on a “good enough” digital preservation process. [image: Cover of Nodutdol’s October 2020 born-digital zine, 제국의 제재, or Sanctions of Empire]I also found the Learn@DLF sessions to be valuable in their specificity–in particular, I found the tools introduced in “Wax and Jekyll to build minimal digital projects” and “Oral History as data: Lightweight, static tool for publishing and analyzing transcripts” to be accessible in that they did not necessarily require investing time in a comprehensive platform or software and instead had relatively low barriers to entry. Wax, for example, describes itself as a “minimal computing project for producing digital exhibitions focused on longevity, low costs, and flexibility.” While not exactly the same, the spirit behind minimal computing reminded me of SPLOTs (what the acronym stands for is not yet fixed — one interpretation is Smallest Portable Open Learning Technology), which are intended to have low barriers to entry and “support more accessible, sustainable, and user-friendly ways to get publicly-engaged learning happening on the open web.” The question of platforms and sustainability is a topic that is directly relevant to my work in Open Educational Resources and with Nodutdol, and I always love to learn about technologies that provide access to knowledge creation mechanisms without locking you in to a specific system. Though the fact that this year’s DLF Forum was digital was due to the constraints of the pandemic, the thoughtful way in which the experience was designed was due to the efforts of the organizers. The asynchronous viewing options, the Slack interface, the provision of presentation slides and transcripts all made it possible for organizations such as mine to benefit from the expertise of the DLF community. While an in-person DLF Forum will no doubt have different considerations, I hope that some of the innovations of this year will be retained for future forums to ensure wide accessibility and participation from a wide variety of organizations and individuals. As a first-time DLF Forum participant, I am grateful to have been able to participate in this year’s virtual forum and look forward to continuing to learn from the DLF community! (1) Nodutdol is a grassroots organization of diasporic Koreans and comrades based in Lenapehoking/New York City seeking to advance peace, decolonization, and self-determination on the Korean Peninsula and on Turtle Island/North America. We advance our mission through political education, collective action, and principled solidarity. The post DLF Forum Community Journalist Reflection: Betsy Yoon appeared first on DLF. Hugh Rundle: For what we will A couple of months ago there was a ridiculous article on the ABC ostensibly about a four-day working week. It turns out that by "four day week" they mean "four ten hour days a week as long as the boss gets to decide what you're allowed to do on the other day". I work a real four-day week and it's certainly not that. "The last time we actually made a serious change to the working week was done by Henry Ford" claims the boss. Um no. He didn't even do that for Americans. Ford's offer in 1914 of an eight hour day only stood for "worthy" workers of the Ford Motor Company. This was a full fifty eight years after Melbourne's stonemasons had already successfully won an eight hour day for the same wages as the former ten hour working day. They did it by going on strike until their demands were met. In 1903 (eleven years before "Henry Ford gave us the eight hour day") Socialist Tom Mann unveiled the Eight Hours Monument near Victoria's Parliament House, celebrating the events of 1856 and the status quo fact of an eight hour working day for most workers in Victoria. Liam Hogan has already succinctly noted the core problem of "romance day", but it bears repeating. Bosses aren't doing you a favour when they "give" you some "time off". A job is labour time in exchange for money. Never mistake it for something else. There are certainly ways of organising human societies where you do have obligations to others when you're not working for them. Serfdom. Feudalism. Gift economies. Communalism. Mutual Aid. But we live under Capitalism. You don't owe your boss anything when you're not on the clock. Essential work Even with the "second wave" in Melbourne, Australia has been quite lucky with COVID-19 and avoided the sort of overwhelming chaos we see in Europe and the Americas. We're able to talk about "COVID recovery" already, and what it might look like. So far, it appears — perhaps unsurprisingly — our elites in politics and the media have learned nothing at all from the experience here or elsewhere. All talk is of "job creation" and that political staple, the "shovel ready project". Even Adam Bandt has gotten into the action, parroting the latest trends from the United States left and calling for a "Green New Deal" and "green jobs". Earlier this year there was some speculation about genetic factors being behind the much higher COVID-19 death rate for Black and South Asian Britons. But more recently it's become apparent that Africa — which Western health experts expected to be decimated by COVID — has on the contrary largely contained the virus much more effectively than other continents. So clearly African genes are playing a marginal role here, if any. The more recent evidence from Britain suggest that, unsurprisingly, the problem is simply that those from minority ethnicities are more likely to live in crappy houses with bad air quality, or work in the most dangerous, often low paid jobs. The UK government's own report notes: Disparities in the risk and outcomes of COVID-19 - released June, updated August People who live in deprived areas have higher diagnosis rates and death rates than those living in less deprived areas. The mortality rates from COVID-19 in the most deprived areas were more than double the least deprived areas, for both males and females. ...High diagnosis rates may be due to geographic proximity to infections or a high proportion of workers in occupations that are more likely to be exposed. The pattern of second-wave infections in Melbourne was likewise all too obvious: the suburbs with the most frequent and large case clusters were those housing the most tenuously employed in the lowest paid jobs. It's marginalisation, not genes, that makes people more likely to get COVID. Staying at home and avoiding contact with potential infections is much easier when everyone is guaranteed to have a home, and doesn't have to worry about paying rent or a mortgage. Staying away from a crowded or dangerous workplace is easy for someone like me, in an office-based professional job. It's impossible for someone staring at eviction and hunger if they don't turn up, as is the case for abattoir and warehouse workers, or those without the right government paperwork. Work sucks And that's a problem, according to Martin Betts. The fact that I have some kind of job security, I mean. He thinks it would be much more "exciting" for us if all university staff were Uberised short-contract or sham contract workers, instead of the only 68% of us who already are. You will be shocked to learn Martin describes himself as a "strategic consultant" and "thought leader". It's the reliance on cash income and a market economy for every facet of life that has caused so much trouble in this pandemic and of course well before it. What, exactly, is so great about a "job"? Work sucks. Capitalists only ever got people to work for wages by violently cutting off access to systems of community sustenance, whether in the British Isles, North America, El Salvador, Australia or elsewhere. It's not "jobs" or "work" that people need. It's sustenance, meaning, and connection. Or as authors in Uneven Earth noted: The Coronavirus pandemic has clearly revealed the rather limited list of jobs and sectors that are essential for meeting society’s basic needs. A "sector" that has recently gained a lot of attention for all the wrong reasons is what is euphemistically called the "Care industry". When "economic growth" is prized above all other things due to a fantasy that it "improves living standards", we should expect to see something exactly like this. Socialised to follow individual lives in a system structured to make the alternative difficult, saddled with huge debts or outrageous rents in order to live in poorly constructed housing, and working unpredictable or inflexible schedules, we warehouse the old, the unwell, and disabled. In exchange for the work of providing for their needs on our behalf, other desperate workers are paid ever so slightly above minimum wage, with no prospect of promotion or progression. David Speers recently proposed that the solution to this depressing state of affairs is to double down. Steering unemployed young people into caring careers might just pay off he suggests. The only people who have "careers" that "pay off" in the "Care sector" are the executives in Head Office and the corporate Board members. Everybody else just has a shit job — often literally. A truly civilised society would see that care is essential, and Care is an abomination. That providing good housing for all is an obligation, and Real Estate is violence. That the health of the populace is largely determined by the health of the society they live in. It would work together rather than having jobs alone. It sure as hell wouldn't make you work ten hour days making shitty ads and call it romance. Open Library: Importing your Goodreads & Accessing them with Open Library’s APIs by Mek Today Joe Alcorn, founder of readng, published an article (https://joealcorn.co.uk/blog/2020/goodreads-retiring-API) sharing news with readers that Amazon’s Goodreads service is in the process of retiring their developer APIs, with an effective start date of last Tuesday, December 8th, 2020. A screenshot taken from Joe Alcorn’s post The topic stirred discussion among developers and book lovers alike, making the front-page of the popular Hacker News website. Hacker News at 2020-12-13 1:30pm Pacific. The Importance of APIs For those who are new to the term, an API is a method of accessing data in a way which is designed for computers to consume rather than people. APIs often allow computers to subscribe to (i.e. listen for) events and then take actions. For example, let’s say you wanted to tweet every time your favorite author published a new book. One could sit on Goodreads and refresh the website every fifteen minutes. Or, one might write a twitter bot which automatically connects to Goodreads and checks real-time data using its API. In fact, the reason why Twitter bots work, is that they use Twitter’s API, a mechanism which lets specially designed computer programs submit tweets to the platform.As one of the more popular book services online today, tens of thousands of readers and organizations rely on Amazon’s Goodreads APIs to lookup information about books and to power their book-related applications across the web. Some authors rely on the data to showcase their works on their personal homepages, online book stores to promote their inventory, innovative new services like thestorygraph are using this data to help readers discover new insights, and even librarians and scholastic websites rely on book data APIs to make sure their catalog information is as up to date and accurate as possible for their patrons. For years, the Open Library team has been enthusiastic to share the book space with friends like Goodreads who have historically shown great commitment by enabling patrons to control (download and export) their own data and enabling developers to create flourishing ecosystems which promote books and readership through their APIs. When it comes to serving an audience of book lovers, there is no “one size fits all” and we’re glad so many different platforms and APIs exist to provide experiences which meet the needs of different communities. And we’d like to do our part to keep the landscape flourishing. “The sad thing is it [retiring their APIs] really only hurts the hobbyist projects and Goodreads users themselves.” — Joe Alcorn Picture of Aaron Swartz by Noah Berger/Landov from thedailybeast At Open Library, our top priority is pursuing Aaron Swartz‘s original mission: to serve as an open book catalog for the public (one page for every book ever published) and ensure our community always has free, open data to unlock a world of possibilities. A world which believes in the power of reading to preserve our cultural heritage and empower education and understanding. We sincerely hope that Amazon will decide it’s in Goodreads’ best interests to re-instate their APIs. But either way, Open Library is committed to helping readers, developers, and all book lovers have autonomy over their data and direct access to the data they rely on. One reason patrons appreciate Open Library is that it aligns with their values Imports & Exports In August 2020, one of our Google Summer of Code contributors Tabish Shaikh helped us implement an export option for Open Library Reading Logs to help everyone retain full control of their book data. We also created a Goodreads import feature to help patrons who may want an easy way to check which Goodreads titles may be available to borrow from the Internet Archive’s Controlled Digital Lending program via openlibrary.org and to help patrons organize all their books in one place. We didn’t make a fuss about this feature at the time, because we knew patrons have a lot of options. But things can change quickly and we want patrons to be able to make that decision for themselves. For those who may not have known, Amazon’s Goodreads website provides an option for downloading/exporting a list of books from one’s bookshelves. You may find instructions on this Goodreads export process here. Open Library’s Goodreads importer enables patrons to take this exported dump of their Goodreads bookshelves and automatically add matching titles to their Open Library Reading Logs. The Goodreads import feature from https://openlibrary.org/account/import Known issues. Currently, Open Library’s Goodreads Importer only works for (a) titles that are in the Open Library catalog and (b) which are new enough to have ISBNs. Our staff and community are committed to continuing to improve our catalog to include more titles (we added more than 1M titles this year) and we plan to improve our importer to support other ID types like OCLC and LOC. APIs & Data Developers and book overs who have been relying on Amazon’s Goodreads APIs are not out of luck. There are several wonderful services, many of them open-source, including Open Library, which offer free APIs: Wikidata.org (by the same group who brought us Wikipedia) is a treasure trove of metadata on Authors and Books. Open Library gratefully leverages this powerful resource to enrich our pages.Inventaire.io is a wonderful service which uses Wikidata and Openlibrary data (API: api.inventaire.io)Bookbrainz.org (by the group who runs Musicbrainz) is a up-and-coming catalog of booksWorldCat by OCLC offers various metadata APIs Did we miss any? Please let us know! We’d love to work together, build stronger integrations with, and support other book-loving services. Open Library’s APIs. And of course, Open Library has a free, open, Book API which spans nearly 30 million books. Bulk Data. If you need access to all our data, Open Library releases a free monthly bulk data dump of Authors, Books, and more. Spoiler: Everything on Open Library is an API! One of my favorite parts of Open Library is that practically every page is an API. All that is required is adding “.json” to the end. Here are some examples: Searchhttps://openlibrary.org/search?q=lord+of+the+rings is our search page for humans…https://openlibrary.org/search.json?q=lord+of+the+rings is our Search API!Bookshttps://openlibrary.org/books/OL25929351M/Harry_Potter_and_the_Methods_of_Rationality is the human page for Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality…https://openlibrary.org/books/OL25929351M.json is its API!Authorshttps://openlibrary.org/authors/OL2965893A/Rik_Roots is a human readable author page…https://openlibrary.org/authors/OL2965893A.json and here is the API! Did We Mention: Full-text Search over 4M Books? Major hat tip to the Internet Archive’s Giovanni Damiola for this one: Folks may also appreciate the ability to full-text search across 4M of the Internet Archive’s books (https://blog.openlibrary.org/2018/07/14/search-full-text-within-4m-books) on Open Library: You can try it directly here:http://openlibrary.org/search/inside?q=thanks%20for%20all%20the%20fish As per usual, nearly all Open Library urls are themselves APIs, e.g.:http://openlibrary.org/search/inside.json?q=thanks%20for%20all%20the%20fish Get Involved Questions? Open Library is an free, open-source, nonprofit project run by the Internet Archive. We do our development transparently in public (here’s our code) and our community spanning more than 40 volunteers meets every week, Tuesday @ 11:30am Pacific. Please contact us to join our call and participate in the process. Bugs? If something isn’t working as expected, please let us know by opening an issue or joining our weekly community calls. Want to share thanks? Please follow up on twitter: https://twitter.com/openlibrary and let us know how you’re using our APIs! Thank you A special thank you to our lead developers Drini Cami, Chris Clauss, and one of our lead volunteer engineers, Aaron, for spending their weekend helping fix a Python 3 bug which was temporarily preventing Goodreads imports from succeeding. A Decentralized Future The Internet Archive has a history cultivating and supporting the decentralized web. We operate a decentralized version of archive.org and host regular meetups and summits to galvanize the distributed web community. In the future, we can imagine a world where no single website controls all of your data, but rather patrons can participate in a decentralized, distributed network. You may be interested to try Bookwyrm, an open-source decentralized project by Mouse, former engineer on the Internet Archive’s Archive-It team. Andromeda Yelton: Though these be matrices, yet there is method in them. When I first trained a neural net on 43,331 theses to make HAMLET, one of the things I most wanted to do is be able to visualize them. If word2vec places documents ‘near’ each other in some kind of inferred conceptual space, we should be able to see some kind of map of them, yes? Even if I don’t actually know what I’m doing? Turns out: yes. And it’s even better than I’d imagined. 43,331 graduate theses, arranged by their conceptual similarity. Let me take you on a tour! Region 1 is biochemistry. The red dots are biology; the orange ones, chemistry. Theses here include Positional cloning and characterization of the mouse pudgy locus and Biosynthetic engineering for the assembly of better drugs. If you look closely, you will see a handful of dots in different colors, like a buttery yellow. This color is electrical engineering & computer science, and its dots in this region include Computational regulatory genomics : motifs, networks, and dynamics — that is to say, a computational biology thesis that happens to have been housed in computation rather than biology. The green south of Region 2 is physics. But you will note a bit of orange here. Yes, that’s chemistry again; for example, Dynamic nuclear polarization of amorphous and crystalline small molecules. If (like me), you almost majored in chemistry and realized only your senior year that the only chemistry classes that interested you were the ones that were secretly physics…this is your happy place. In fact, most of the theses here concern nuclear magnetic resonance applications. Region 3 has a striking vertical green stripe which turns out to be the nuclear engineering department. But you’ll see some orange streaks curling around it like fingers, almost suggesting three-dimensional depth. I point this out as a reminder that the original neural net embeds these 43,331 documents in a 52-dimensional space; I have projected that down to 2 dimensions because I don’t know about you but I find 52 dimensions somewhat challenging to visualize. However — just as objects may overlap in a 2-dimensional photo even when they are quite distant in 3-dimensional space — dots that are close together in this projection may be quite far apart in reality. Trust the overall structure more than each individual element. The map is not the territory. That little yellow thumb by Region 4 is mathematics, now a tiny appendage off of the giant discipline it spawned — our old friend buttery yellow, aka electrical engineering & computer science. If you zoom in enough you find EECS absolutely everywhere, applied to all manner of disciplines (as above with biology), but the bulk of it — including the quintessential parts, like compilers — is right here. Dramatically red Region 5, clustered together tightly and at the far end, is architecture. This is a renowned department (it graduated I.M. Pei!), but definitely a different sort of creature than most of MIT, so it makes sense that it’s at one extreme of the map. That said, the other two programs in its school — Urban Studies & Planning and Media Arts & Sciences — are just to its north. Region 6 — tiny, yellow, and pale; you may have missed it at first glance — is linguistics island, housing theses such as Topics in the stress and syntax of words. You see how there are also a handful of red dots on this island? They are Brain & Cognitive Science theses — and in particular, ones that are secretly linguistics, like Intonational phrasing in language production and comprehension. Similarly — although at MIT it is not the department of linguistics, but the department of linguistics & philosophy — the philosophy papers are elsewhere. (A few of the very most abstract ones are hanging out near math.) And what about Region 7, the stingray swimming vigorously away from everything else? I spent a long time looking at this and not seeing a pattern. You can tell there’s a lot of colors (departments) there, randomly assorted; even looking at individual titles I couldn’t see anything. Only when I looked at the original documents did I realize that this is the island of terrible OCR. Almost everything here is an older thesis, with low-quality printing or even typewriting, often in a regrettable font, maybe with the reverse side of the page showing through. (A randomly chosen example; pdf download.) A good reminder of the importance of high-quality digitization labor. A heartbreaking example of the things we throw away when we make paper the archival format for born-digital items. And also a technical inspiration — look how much vector space we’ve had to carve out to make room for these! the poor neural net, trying desperately to find signal in the noise, needing all this space to do it. I’m tempted to throw out the entire leftmost quarter of this graph, rerun the 2d projection, and see what I get — would we be better able to see the structures in the high-quality data if they had room to breathe? And were I to rerun the entire neural net training process again, I’d want to include some sort of threshhold score for OCR quality. It would be a shame to throw things away — especially since they will be a nonrandom sample, mostly older theses — but I have already had to throw away things I could not OCR at all in an earlier pass, and, again, I suspect the neural net would do a better job organizing the high-quality documents if it could use the whole vector space to spread them out, rather than needing some of it to encode the information “this is terrible OCR and must be kept away from its fellows”. Clearly I need to share the technical details of how I did this, but this post is already too long, so maybe next week. tl;dr I reached out to Matt Miller after reading his cool post on vectorizing the DPLA and he tipped me off to UMAP and here we are — thanks, Matt! And just as clearly you want to play with this too, right? Well, it’s super not ready to be integrated into HAMLET due to any number of usability issues but if you promise to forgive me those — have fun. You see how when you hover over a dot you get a label with the format 1721.1-X.txt? It corresponds to a URL of the format https://hamlet.andromedayelton.com/similar_to/X. Go play :). Digital Library Federation: DLF Forum Community Journalist Reflection: Carolina Hernandez This post was written by Carolina Hernandez (@carolina_hrndz), who was selected to be one of this year’s virtual DLF Forum Community Journalists. Carolina Hernandez is currently an Instruction Librarian at the University of Houston where she collaborates on creating inclusive learning environments for students. Previously, she was the Journalism Librarian at the University of Oregon, where she co-managed the Oregon Digital Newspaper Program. Her MLIS is from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her current research interests are in critical information literacy, inclusive pedagogy, and most recently, the intersection of digital collections and pedagogy.  I have been interested in attending the DLF Forum for a few years now, but the timing was never quite right until this year. With the conference being both online and free, it was a no brainer for me to finally attend. Considering I am an Instruction Librarian, though, it may seem like an odd choice for me. However, in part because of my previous experience with curating the Oregon Digital Newspaper Project at the University of Oregon, I’ve been interested in exploring the many ways digital library technologies and digital collections themselves can be incorporated into information literacy instruction. With COVID-19 entirely moving our instruction to the online realm, this interest has become an imperative. This conference has confirmed for me that there are many ways these areas intersect and could inform my instructional approach. While many of the sessions I watched did not directly address pedagogy, there was still so much I was able to glean from the presentations that I could take back to my realm. The main thing that popped out at me was the way so many presenters addressed accessibility in one way or another. Of course, this stood out the most with the “Creating Accessible and Inclusive Content” combo session, which began with Rebecca Bayeck’s clarification of the difference between accessibility and inclusivity, two terms that are often used interchangeably. While accessibility is more about making sure that the final product is “usable by people with all abilities,” Bayeck made the important distinction that inclusivity goes a step beyond that to also make sure individuals “feel comfortable/safe when using [it].” This is something I try to keep in mind when lesson planning, how it’s important to not only make sure that students are able to access the learning materials in whatever way works best for them, but that they also find the relevance of information literacy to their own lives. In another presentation from this session, Daniella Levy-Pinto and Mark Weiler noted some of these issues, such as “unlabeled buttons or links,” which can be hard to identify properly for those using screen readers. In fact, several presenters and attendees emphasized the importance of testing platforms and content with screen readers. Carli Spina also spoke about the importance of including audio descriptions and transcripts for audio-video content and also mentioned specific tools, such as CADET, that can help create these necessary points of access. CADET, or Caption and Description Editing Tool, is free and allows you to create captions and timed scripts, but it can also be used to more easily add audio descriptions.  Screenshot of the CADET interface. Image credit: Carli Spina It was helpful to see some of these accessibility best practices in action via the conference itself. Because presentations were recorded in advance, they were able to include both closed captioning and transcripts for each one. Conference coordinators encouraged attendees to make their postings in Slack accessible as well by including image descriptions whenever a picture was included. This emphasized for me how it’s not only important to create accessible learning materials, but to foster a community that encourages others to follow suit. It is a helpful model for my instruction team as we move forward with helping our liaison colleagues with their own instruction. As I’ve been considering how to build lesson plans and activities around digital collections, the other session that stood out to me was the panel “US Latino DH: Recovering the Past, Creating the Future.” The presenters Gabriela Baeza Ventura, Carolina Villarroel, Linda Garcia Merchant, and Lorena Gauthereau spoke about the US Latino Digital Humanities Program based at the University of Houston, my current institution. This made their work immediately relevant to mine, as they are already working with part of the same community I teach. What stood out to me most, though, was their use of “Omeka as Pedagogy.” Baeza Ventura talked about her specific experience with teaching an undergraduate class wherein students used Omeka to curate an exhibit, thus allowing them to “contribute to knowledge production.” This Freirean approach to teaching is very much in line with our instruction team’s programmatic information literacy outcomes, which focus on encouraging students to see themselves as information creators. With a lot about the coming year still up in the air, my team and I plan to continue our efforts to strengthen both the synchronous and asynchronous online learning content we offer as it seems likely the demand for online teaching will certainly not go away. I am looking forward to bringing a lot of these ideas from the DLF community back to my department and finding ways to incorporate them into our pedagogy. The post DLF Forum Community Journalist Reflection: Carolina Hernandez appeared first on DLF. Lucidworks: How IoT & Industry 4.0 Relate — and Why Manufacturers Should Care Here’s the skinny on Industry 4.0 and the Internet of Things and what smart manufacturers are doing to leverage the data they both produce. The post How IoT & Industry 4.0 Relate — and Why Manufacturers Should Care appeared first on Lucidworks. Digital Library Federation: DLF Forum Community Journalist Reflection: Rebecca Bayeck This post was written by Rebecca Bayeck (@rybayeck), who was selected to be one of this year’s virtual DLF Forum Community Journalists. Rebecca Y. Bayeck is a dual-PhD holder in Learning Design & Technology and Comparative & International Education from the Pennsylvania State University. Currently a CLIR postdoctoral fellow at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture where she engages in digital research, data curation, and inclusive design. Her interdisciplinary research is at the interface of several fields including the learning sciences, literacy studies, and game studies. At this intersection, she explores literacies and learning in games, particularly board games, the interaction of culture, space, and context on design, learning, research, literacies.  The year 2020 is, without a doubt, complex, filled with multiple challenges as well as opportunities. From remote working/online learning environments to conferencing in a virtual space, everyone has tried and is still trying to adjust to the “new normal” or maybe “new abnormal”. Among those adjusting to the world of social distancing is the Digital Library Federation (DLF) Forum. The 2020 DLF Forum was my first introduction to and participation in the work completed by this community of librarians and library enthusiasts.   The 2020 DLF Forum was in a virtual format. Though I would have loved to visit Baltimore, interact in-person with my CLIR cohort, and experience the food culture of Baltimore restaurants, the virtual space still provided a space for encounters and meaningful interactions. The conference organizers used two platforms: Aviary for pre-recorded presentation viewing and Slack for questions and dialogue with attendees. Both platforms created a unique and complimentary online experience. For instance, each video had captions and a downloadable transcript, making the content more accessible. Slack discussions created a sense of community, and gave me a sense of belonging through the interaction among participants. It was a common practice for participants through emojis to like, applaud, or reply to a post/comment (Figure 1). Figure 1. Slack Newcomers Channel DLF 2020 Forms of Interaction Slack’s direct message option further personalized my experience of the online conference. I directly exchanged with some attendees, and established personal rapport. However, my major takeaway from the 2020 DLF Forum was inclusion, shown in the accessibility efforts deployed by the organizers, and in the diversity of topics covered by presenters. The conference brought to the forefront research/topics that have received less attention in the past, and should be discussed today across disciplines and fields.  Stacy Reardon and Michael Lange from UC Berkeley presentation on Can We Digitize This? Should We? Navigating Ethics, Law, and Policy in Bringing Collections to Digital Life was so inspiring. In my view, it captured the essence of digitization and how it should be done. It is important for individuals engaged in digitization efforts to always ask whether “the value to cultural communities, researchers, or the public outweighs the potential for harm or exploitation of the people, resources, or knowledge.”  It is about not harming or causing harm to the various stakeholders who will see or engage with our final product. This balancing principle can be applied to any research, design, development, or digitization endeavors. Paraphrasing Stacey Patton, 2020 DLF Forum plenary keynote speaker, “how the knowledge came about, [who it will harm, and who will claim ownership of it] is as important as the knowledge itself.” Juliet Hardesty from Indiana University’s presentation on Mitigating Bias Through Controlled Vocabularies gave a powerful insight into why it is important to incorporate community vocabulary to broaden access to knowledge/data, and fight biases.  Being a panelist in the session Creating accessible and inclusive content and presenting on Addressing Issues of Accessibility: Urgency in a World of Social Distancing, added to my experience. My interest in issues of accessibility for blind/low vision, deaf/hard of hearing individuals in this era of social distancing facilitated conversation with other session presenters on the accessibility of this conference for screen reader users. From our conversation, it became obvious that the organizers needed to be commended for providing scripts and captions for the recorded videos. Dee, who is blind and uses a screen reader to access contents, and Micky, who is sighted, but did use a screen reader said about their experiences:  Dee: I do appreciate knowing that there is a caption and there is like, the scripts and everything. It does make you feel more welcome and it does make you realize yes, they’re making an effort. Applause should be given for, you know, for the effort and definitely you know even the fact there is like, an accessibility session or stream, that’s important. Micky: But if I could say one thing is, I think, I know people were making efforts into making it accessible. I think applause is very much deserved. and I think keep, we got to keep trying and we gotta keep finding innovative ways of working together and collaborating. So I would want people to feel encouraged that there’s more work to be done. But let’s pursue it as a team and then pursue it together because it’s worth it. Nevertheless, Dee and Micky did have some suggestions for creating accessible conference experiences:  Dee: The first thing I may say would be to include in the planning committee. Kind of representation from all the groups that you would like to have at the conference, because they will help think about, in this case, about screen readers and which tool and will it be interactive and you know if we want to make it interactive, is there an option or how can we? You know, it’s necessary for someone to think about those things…ensure to have broad representation in the planning committee, or if not in the planning committee, make a point to reach out and consult. So, engage with people with lived experience of whatever the conference you know is trying to accomplish.  Micky:  If I could make a suggestion that might just be to have a panel with like, just in this particular case, disabled leaders in the GLAM field. you know there’s, I’m sure, a ton out there that would love to have a platform to share from the perspectives of making libraries you know, gallery’s archives, museums, accessible. Maybe, it’s inviting the leaders to come and present to the whole Forum. These suggestions for future conferences are so important because Dee and Micky had difficulties using their screen readers with Slack and Aviary. For instance, Dee, on the day of the panel, felt she cheated by relying on Micky and “by accessing the videos directly from the Google Drive not in Aviary because then I had to figure out where the play button was and like the website was a bit clunky with JAWS”. Having Slack and Aviary added: more things you need to interact with and like, I think we know that Slack is accessible, like it works with screen readers, because we could make it work, but really the extra time that you need to put into learning how to use it and use it effectively (Dee).  Regarding Slack, Micky said:  practice beforehand, which I think is helpful. If it was simpler that you could reduce that amount of time it takes to, that’s required to familiarize oneself…And then when it’s active, there’s another layer of complexity of  information overload too. Because of all that activity, I think it just took me a long time. I wonder how long it would take someone who didn’t have, you know, that was pursuing this independently. Attending the DLF Forum was inspiring not only in terms of the topics addressed, but also in the opportunity it created for me to gain insights into the conference experience of screen reader users. It is critical in the era of online conferences to take into consideration the experiences of these attendees in the choice of conference platforms. Much more can be said, and I believe it is important to not only design/plan for, but also design/plan with individuals with lived experiences (e.g., screen reader users, blind/low vision, deaf/hard of hearing, or individuals with cognitive abilities). The post DLF Forum Community Journalist Reflection: Rebecca Bayeck appeared first on DLF. Digital Library Federation: DLF Forum Community Journalist Reflection: Ana Hilda Figueroa de Jesús This post was written by Ana Hilda Figueroa de Jesús, who was selected to be one of this year’s virtual DLF Forum Community Journalists. Ana Hilda Figueroa de Jesús will be graduating next spring from the Universidad de Puerto Rico in Río Piedras with a BA in History of Art. Her research interest focuses on education, accessibility and publicity of minority, revolutionary Puerto Rican art including topics such as race, gender and transnationalism. She has interned at Visión Doble: Journal of Criticism and History of Art, and volunteered at MECA International Art Fair 2019 and Instituto Nueva Escuela. Ana works as assistant for the curator and director of the Museum of History, Anthropology and Art at UPR. She is currently a Katzenberger Art History Intern at Smithsonian Libraries. Community, a repeated concept during the 2020 Virtual DLF Forum, transitioned from a word to a mantra. From my home in Puerto Rico, I listened and learned from peers who shared their professional and academic experiences. It was my first time attending this Forum. Lots of questions popped into my mind, particularly: Why would staff insist on creating a virtual “community,” of four days duration, with an audience currently experiencing and being exposed to social injustice within their surroundings and media? What does “building a community” mean?  I would like to thank the DLF staff’s commitment. When I received notice that I was selected as a Community Journalist, my first observation was my last name. The correct spelling and grammar of my name are much more than my cover letter, it represents and brings value to where I come from and those who came before me. I noticed the correct inclusion of the accent mark on “de Jesús.” In that moment I knew my voice would be respected in the discourse. The physical distance between attendees was no obstacle. The Forum implemented digital platforms such as Slack and Aviary. Presentations included transcripts and, since they were previously recorded, I could pause and rewind the video when a new term was introduced. If anyone had a tech problem or just wasn’t familiar with the apps, staff was available to help immediately. Each speaker mentioned their preferred pronouns and acknowledged the indigenous homelands from where they spoke. Being inclusive both in theory and practice was a priority. As a Puerto Rican woman of color with low resources, a first-generation college student and an undergraduate scholar, I saw benefit in this opportunity.   The Forum sessions reminded me of particular aspects of archives as spaces of data justice, cultural and social responsibility, knowledge production, and alternate historical narratives. In Mitigating Bias Through Controlled Vocabularies, Juliet Hardesty explained the importance of being conscious of racial categories, first nation groups, non-binary people, and others when including metadata such as subjects, genres, and languages. As an example, she discussed linked data across institutions and the distinction between “exactMatch” and “closeMatch.” Through this conference, I sought to learn and carry out new interdisciplinary perspectives in my roles as a Katzenberger Art History Intern at Smithsonian Institution Libraries and as an Assistant to the Curator and Director at the History, Anthropology and Art Museum of the University of Puerto Rico. One of the most relevant presentations for me was Curationist: Designing a Metadata Standard and Taxonomy for an Open Cultural Ecosystem by Sharon Mizota. She explained the anti-colonialist, anti-racist, feminist, queer, accessible, and multilingual lens of data. Also, she examined taxonomy guidelines that included sensitive subject areas. To illustrate this, she reflected on adopting the terms “Latinx” instead of “Latino” or “Hispanic,” and “homeless people” instead of “homelessness” or “tramp.”  I also attended discussions of human rights movements such as BLM, Community Activism and Digital Archiving in the Era of George Floyd. Other social matters were considered in the lightning talk titled Pandemic Pivot: How to Take Your Event Online, Reach New Audiences, and Build Even Stronger Communities, and the panel Creating a Virtual Community for Virtual Reality: Challenges and Solutions for Program Building During a Pandemic. Another engaging talk was US Latino Digital Humanities: Recovering the Past, Creating the Future. I would like to mention a crucial keynote by Dr. Linda Garcia Merchant when discussing Chicana feminist scholar Maria Cotera, [The importance of understanding] “the archive as a living active experience of “encuentro” between the present and the past, with the potential to enact new strategies of allegiance and a new praxis”. I believe that this idea of encounter is linked with the DLF Forum’s “building a community” proposal. We must review our reactions and interactions with each other, including those within academia. Our involvement with the writing of histories makes us judges of how and what is told. Something I learned from this experience is that beyond our professional responsibilities, we have a social contract and accountability. Information must be accessible to traditionally marginalized public. Stories, agents and terms that once were excluded from the official narrative must be taken into consideration. The 2020 Virtual DLF Forum included more than spaces for education. It was about feedback, mutual aid, being open to new perspectives, and building a community.     The post DLF Forum Community Journalist Reflection: Ana Hilda Figueroa de Jesús appeared first on DLF. Lucidworks: Solr Streaming Expressions Enables Advanced Search and Filtering in Fitch Connect Learn how Fitch Solutions used streaming expressions to search complex datasets. The post Solr Streaming Expressions Enables Advanced Search and Filtering in Fitch Connect appeared first on Lucidworks. David Rosenthal: RISC vs. CISC The architectural debate between Complex Instruction Set Computers (CISC) and Reduced Instruction Set Conputers (RISC) really took off in the 1980s:In particular, two projects at Stanford University and the University of California, Berkeley are most associated with the popularization of this concept. Stanford's MIPS would go on to be commercialized as the successful MIPS architecture, while Berkeley's RISC gave its name to the entire concept and was commercialized as the SPARC. For the last decade or more the debate has seemed frozen, with the CISC x86 architecture dominating the server and desktop markets, while the RISC ARM architecture dominated the mobile market. But two recent developments are shaking things up. Below the fold, some discussion.SourceLast month, Apple announced three products, Mac Mini, Mac Air, and 13" Macbook Pro based on their ARM-based M1 chip to ecstatic reviews:the Mac mini (and its new MacBook Air and 13-inch MacBook Pro siblings) has Apple’s M1 system-on-a-chip, which includes an 8-core GPU, a CPU with four performance and four efficiency cores, a 16-core neural processing unit (NPU) called the Neural Engine, and a whole bunch of other stuff.Built on the ARM Instruction Set Architecture (ARM ISA), the M1 features 16 billion transistors and was manufactured in a 5nm process. According to Apple, each performance core in the M1 qualifies as the world’s fastest CPU core to date, while the efficiency cores match the performance of some recent Intel Macs. All three replace products using Intel x86 chips, and the head-to-head comparisons showed the RISC completely outclassing the CISC in a market segment it had dominated for decades. Clearly this is a big deal.Now, the are some obvious reasons why Intel is at a disadvantage in these comparisons. Apple's M1 is brand new, where the Intel chips are a couple of years old. And the M1 uses a 5nm process, where Intel has been struggling to upgrade its fabs:Intel's press release also says that yields for its 7nm process are now twelve months behind the company's internal targets, meaning the company isn't currently on track to produce its 7nm process in an economically viable way. The company now says its 7nm CPUs will not debut on the market until late 2022 or early 2023. But the M1 also compares well to AMD's 7nm x86 CPUs so this isn't the whole explanation. Erik Engheim's Why is Apple’s M1 Chip So Fast? provides an excellent explanation for the lay audience. He starts from the basics (What is a Microprocessor (CPU)?) and goes on to explain that whereas Intel and AMD make CPUs that others build into systems such as PCs and servers, Apple makes systems that are implemented as a single chip, a System-on-Chip (SoC). Apple can do this where Intel and AMD can't because the SoC isn't their product, their product is a Mac that includes a SoC as a component.One thing we understood when we started Nvidia more than a quarter of a century ago was that custom silicon to perform critical functions, such as 3D graphics, was an essential component of a PC. But the custom silicon had to be a separate chip. We used a state-of-the-art 500nm process. At 5nm Apple can put 10,000 times as many gates in the same chip area. So Apple can include the precise set of additional custom processors that match the needs to the product. In this case, not just 8 GPU cores, 16 Neural Engine cores, but also two different implementations of the ARM architecture, 4 optimized for speed and 4 optimized for efficiency to extend battery life.Engheim explains the two main ways of making CPUs faster using the same process and the same clock rate, multiple cores and out-of-order execution, and their limitations. In the server space, having lots of cores makes a lot of sense; the demand is for many simultaneous tasks from many simultaneous users, and the alternative to adding cores to a CPU is to add CPUs to a server, which is more expensive.But in the PC space there is only one user, and although the demand will be for several simultaneous threads, once that demand is satisfied extra cores provide no benefit. The M1's 8 cores are probably more than enough, which is indicated by Apple envisaging that, most of the time, the 4 low-power "efficiency" cores will do all the work. Note that, in adding cores, the only advantage RISC provides is that the simpler instruction set should make each core a bit smaller. Not a big deal.But for compute-intensive tasks such as games, the other 4 cores need to be fast. Which is where out-of-order execution comes in, and RISC turns out to have a big advantage. Out-of-order execution means that instructions are fetched from memory, then decoded into "micro-operations", which can be thought of as instructions for the individual components of the core. The micro-operations are stored in a Re-Order Buffer (ROB), together with information about what data they need, and whether it is available. Instead of executing the micro-operations for each instruction, then executing the micro-operations for the next instruction, the core looks through the ROB finding micro-operations that have all the data they need and executing them. It does instructions as soon as it can, not waiting until the instruction before is complete.Engheim explains the importance of the difference between the x86 ROB and the M1's:It is because the ability to run fast depends on how quickly you can fill up the ROB with micro-ops and with how many. The more quickly you fill it up and the larger it is the more opportunities you are given to pick instructions you can execute in parallel and thus improve performance.Machine code instructions are chopped into micro-ops by what we call an instruction decoder. If we have more decoders we can chop up more instructions in parallel and thus fill up the ROB faster.And this is where we see the huge differences. The biggest, baddest Intel and AMD microprocessor cores have four decoders, which means they can decode four instructions in parallel spitting out micro-ops.But Apple has a crazy eight decoders. Not only that but the ROB is something like three times larger. You can basically hold three times as many instructions. No other mainstream chipmaker has that many decoders in their CPUs. RISC is the reason the M1 can have more decoders than x86. Engheim explains:You see, for x86 an instruction can be anywhere from 1–15 bytes long. On a RISC chip instructions are fixed size. Why is that relevant in this case?Because splitting up a stream of bytes into instructions to feed into eight different decoders in parallel becomes trivial if every instruction has the same length.However, on an x86 CPU, the decoders have no clue where the next instruction starts. It has to actually analyze each instruction in order to see how long it is.The brute force way Intel and AMD deal with this is by simply attempting to decode instructions at every possible starting point. That means we have to deal with lots of wrong guesses and mistakes which has to be discarded. This creates such a convoluted and complicated decoder stage that it is really hard to add more decoders. But for Apple, it is trivial in comparison to keep adding more.In fact, adding more causes so many other problems that four decoders according to AMD itself is basically an upper limit for how far they can go. The result is that the M1's fast cores are effectively processing instructions twice as fast as Intel's and AMD's at the same clock frequency. And their efficiency cores are processing about as many using much less power.Using much less power for the same workload is one of the main reasons ARM dominates the mobile market, where battery life is crucial. That brings us to the second interesting recent RISC development. ARM isn't the only RISC architecture, it is just by a long way the most successful. Among the others with multiple practical implementations, RISC-V is I believe unique; it is the only fully open-source RISC architecture.SourceIn New RISC-V CPU claims recordbreaking performance per watt Jim Salter reports on a new implementation of RISC-V that claims extraordinarily low power for quite respectable performance. Micro Magic's:new prototype CPU, which appears to be the fastest RISC-V CPU in the world. Micro Magic adviser Andy Huang claimed the CPU could produce 13,000 CoreMarks (more on that later) at 5GHz and 1.1V while also putting out 11,000 CoreMarks at 4.25GHz—the latter all while consuming only 200mW. Huang demonstrated the CPU—running on an Odroid board—to EE Times at 4.327GHz/0.8V and 5.19GHz/1.1V.Later the same week, Micro Magic announced the same CPU could produce over 8,000 CoreMarks at 3GHz while consuming only 69mW of power. Some caveats are necessary:The chip is a single-core prototype.The Micro Magic benchmarks are claimed, not independently verified.The Coremark benchmark is an industry standard for embedded systems, it isn't an appropriate benchmark for PC-type systems such as use the CPUs Salter is comparing it to.The power efficiency is impressive, but the raw single-core performance is merely interesting. At 5GHz it is about 1/3 the performance of one of the M1's four fast cores.It is worth noting that the RISC-V architecture has multiple instruction lengths, just much less baroque ones than x86. So the ROB advantage may be less. Nevertheless, if Micro Magic's customers can deliver multi-core SoC products they should provide much more compute for the same power as current embedded chips. Salter is cautiously optimistic:All of this sounds very exciting—Micro Magic's new prototype is delivering solid smartphone-grade performance at a fraction of the power budget, using an instruction set that Linux already runs natively on....Micro Magic intends to offer its new RISC-V design to customers using an IP licensing model. The simplicity of the design—RISC-V requires roughly one-tenth the opcodes that modern ARM architecture does—further simplifies manufacturing concerns, since RISC-V CPU designs can be built in shuttle runs, sharing space on a wafer with other designs....Still, this is an exciting development. Not only does the new design appear to perform well while massively breaking efficiency records, it's doing so with a far more ideologically open design than its competitors. The RISC-V ISA—unlike x86, ARM, and even MIPS—is open and provided under royalty-free licenses. P.S: more evidence of M1's impressive performance in Liam Tung's AWS engineer puts Windows 10 on Arm on Apple Mac M1 – and it thrashes Surface Pro X. The Surface Pro X uses an ARM chip co-developed by Qualcomm and Microsoft. Digital Library Federation: DLF Forum Community Journalist Reflection: Arabeth Balasko This post was written by Arabeth Balasko, who was selected to be one of this year’s virtual DLF Forum Community Journalists. Arabeth Balasko (she/her) is an archivist and historian dedicated to public service and proactive stewardship. As a professional archivist, her overarching goals are to curate collections that follow a shared standardization practice, are user-centric, and are searchable and accessible to all via physical and digital platforms. She believes that an archive should be a welcoming place for all people and should be an inclusive environment which advocates to collect, preserve, and make accessible the stories and histories of diverse voices. By getting individuals involved in telling THEIR story and making THEIR history part of the ever-growing story of humanity, we all win! The Dawn of the Great Archival Shift Over centuries, archives and archivists have been heralded as the keepers, the stewards of records, stories, and collective memory. However, at times this stewardship has come from a place of exclusion, centered heavily around white, English-speaking experiences. Countless stories, memories, and events have been omitted from the larger historical narrative or have been rewritten from a skewed perspective. Now (and unfortunately for centuries) racism and police brutality has permeated our country’s history. Lack of racial equity has led to whitewashed and white supremacy-based collection policies that are geared towards uplifting and showcasing one-sided narratives, while often overlooking, overwriting, and suppressing contributions and accolades of Black, Indigenous, and People of Color. So many times, it is easier for folks in the GLAM sectors to claim neutrality, to leave it to the next generation, to look the other way, and focus only on the past and occasionally, the present. From being overworked, under-supported, and oftentimes misunderstood, archivists have grown tired, and with tiredness comes apathy. Other times it is simply not knowing what to do and/or not having the “authority” to make actual changes in an organization. This too leads to burnout, turnover, and once again, apathy. The humanities profession’s lack of diversity and equity has engrained a culture of dysfunction in several of the GLAM organizations across the country. During the 2020 DLF Forum, it was apparent that I was not the only person who felt this way. Several of the sessions focused on how to become a more proactive, mindful, and accountable steward, while also taking care of your own mental health and well-being. From practicing mindfulness and relaxation techniques, to reflecting upon language choices in metadata and/or finding aids, to reviewing your institution’s digitally available content for equity and inclusiveness; this conference truly spoke to my soul in many different ways. However, during the conference, one overarching question that I continued asking myself was – “How can I, as an archivist, ensure that all folks feel represented in an archive? Is this possible?” Upon a week’s reflection and allowing myself some time to digest the rich information and ideas posed during these diverse sessions, I came to reframe my question as, “What can we as archivists do to support the fight for archival equity?” In my opinion, one big step archival repositories and the archivists in those repositories can take is to not promote the idea of neutrality. Oftentimes, archives can shy away from hard histories, hard conversations – they can minimize hurts, and maximize virtues, but I feel that is a misstep. History is ugly, sad, beautiful, heartwarming, heartbreaking, and real. It happened. You cannot change that. BUT you can work to showcase how it happened, why it happened, and help reshape it for today’s generation through modernized lenses. By uplifting the stories and voices of BIPOC folks, which have traditionally been omitted from the collected narrative for centuries, and reinterpreting and reclaiming the stories of those lost, overwritten, and marginalized throughout history, archival repositories can truly become beacons of change throughout the GLAM sectors. Many folks, especially those who identify as BIPOC, feel they are not represented in an archive – or if they are, their stories and experiences have been retold without their voice, their input, or their permission. As an archivist it is so important to work to build relationships and connections with communities and foster and tend to those relationships over the years. So many times, archival organizations take on collections, sign deeds of gift, and then the relationship ends. I think this is a huge misstep for any archival repository. By investing in communities – communities will invest in you. With each new generation comes new opportunities to promote equity and accountability throughout archival repositories. Each generation of archivists should be reflecting and reevaluating how stories are (and traditionally have been) collected, maintained, presented, and made (or not made) accessible. I cannot tell you how many times I have worked with patrons, students, and volunteers, who have expressed to me that they feel that they are not represented, they are not “seen” amongst the archival collections they are exploring. It truly breaks my heart, and it means that we, as archival professionals are falling short, and we need to do better and be better for ALL users. I feel that inclusivity is key to create a well-rounded narrative, where users/patrons/researchers/etc. can “see themselves” reflected in the archives and collections. It has been my experience that when someone feels invested in and has input to how they are being represented, there is a higher propensity for folks to champion for the survival and continuation of an archive. By getting community members and groups invested in telling their story, identifying themselves in their own way and own language/words, and by not leaving it up to the archivist to make assumptions, collections that are taken in become more authentic and personal. During this conference, I also reflected a lot on the right to be remembered and the right to be forgotten. Nobody owes anyone their story. It is so important for archivists (including myself) to remember that. Some stories are too painful for folks to share, some are not ready (and may never be), and some are willing to share it all! No user/donor/patron is alike, and as an archivist, it is important that you do not assign a “predetermined scenario” to each interaction. By creating meaningful relationships, where you are invested in more than just acquiring the “stuff” from the donor, you really can create life-long partnerships, camaraderie, and friendships with users of your repository! Archives are not neutral – and they never should be. There is a lot of repair work that needs to be done, and it can be done, it just takes folks who are dedicated to making fundamental changes. I was honestly inspired to find like-minded souls at this conference, and for that, I am hopeful that a great archival shift is on the horizon. It is truly great to see archivists and other humanities professionals in action advocating for change and demanding equity checks and re-evaluation of how things “have always been.” I reflected on the fact that there really are some great opportunities to make proactive changes and create an archive that is more equitable and accessible for all users – an archive of the future. For me, it is all connected – by investing in equity you invest in accessibility – when you invest in communities you have the chance to grow your repository’s stories and collection scope! The archives truly are for EVERYONE! And, as the great Tupac Shakur says, “You see the old way wasn’t working, so it’s on us to do what we gotta do, to survive.” My hope is that archivists work to make any and all fundamental changes needed, to ensure that an equitable, inclusive, and diverse narrative survives for the future generations to come. The post DLF Forum Community Journalist Reflection: Arabeth Balasko appeared first on DLF. Ed Summers: 25 for 2020 An obvious follow on from my last post is to see what my top 25 albums of the year are. In the past I’ve tried to mentally travel over the releases of the past year to try to cook up a list. But this year I thought it would be fun to use the LastFM API to look at my music listening history for 2020, and let the data do the talking as it were. The first problem that while LastFM is a good source of my listening history its metadata for albums seems quite sparse. The LastFM album.getInfo API call doesn’t seem to return the year the album was published. The LastFM docs indicate that a releasedate property is available, but I couldn’t seem to find it either in the XML or JSON responses. Maybe it was there once and now is gone? Maybe there’s some trick I was overlooking with the API? Who knows. So to get around this I used LastFM to get my listening history, but then the Discogs API to fetch metadata for a specific album using their search endpoint. LastFM includes MusicBrainz identifiers for tracks and most artists and albums. So I could have used those to look up the album using the MusicBrainz API. But I wasn’t sure if I would find good release dates there either as their focus seems to be on recognizing tracks, and linking them to albums and artists. Discogs is a superb human curated database, like a Wikipedia for music aficionados. Their API returns a good amount of information for each album, for example: { "country": "US", "year": "1983", "format": [ "Vinyl", "LP", "Album" ], "label": [ "I.R.S. Records", "I.R.S. Records", "I.R.S. Records", "A&M Records, Inc.", "A&M Records, Inc.", "I.R.S., Inc.", "I.R.S., Inc.", "Electrosound Group Midwest, Inc.", "Night Garden Music", "Unichappell Music, Inc.", "Reflection Sound Studios", "Sterling Sound" ], "type": "master", "genre": [ "Rock" ], "style": [ "Indie Rock" ], "id": 14515, "barcode": [ "SP-070604-A", "SP-070604-B", "SP0 70604 A ES1 EMW", "SP0 70604-B-ES1 EMW", "SP0 70604-B-ES2 EMW", "STERLING", "(B)", "BMI" ], "user_data": { "in_wantlist": false, "in_collection": false }, "master_id": 14515, "master_url": "https://api.discogs.com/masters/14515", "uri": "/REM-Murmur/master/14515", "catno": "SP 70604", "title": "R.E.M. - Murmur", "thumb": "https://discogs-images.imgix.net/R-414122-1459975774-1411.jpeg?auto=compress&blur=0&fit=max&fm=jpg&h=150&q=40&w=150&s=52b867c541b102b5c8bcf5accae025e0", "cover_image": "https://discogs-images.imgix.net/R-414122-1459975774-1411.jpeg?auto=compress&blur=0&fit=max&fm=jpg&h=600&q=90&w=600&s=0e227f30b3981fd2b0fb20fb4362df92", "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/masters/14515", "community": { "want": 17287, "have": 26133 } } So I created a small function that looks up an artist/album combination using the Discogs search API. I applied the function to the Pandas DataFrame of my listening history, which was grouped by artist and album. When I ran this across the 1,312 distinct albums I listened to in 2020 I actually ran into a handful of albums (86) that didn’t turn up at Discogs. I had actually listened to some of these albums quite often, and wanted to see if they were from 2020. I figured that these probably were obscure things I picked up on Bandcamp. Knowing the provenance of data is important. Bandcamp is another wonderful site for music lovers. It has an API too, but you have to write to them to request a key because it’s mostly designed for publishers that need to integrate their music catalogs with Bandcamp. I figured this little experiment wouldn’t qualify so I wrote a quick little scraping function that does a search, finds a match, and extracts the release date from the album’s page on the Bandcamp website. This left just four things that I listened just a handful of times,which have since disappeared from Bandcamp (I think). What I thought would be an easy little exercise with the LastFM API actually turned out to require me to talk to the Discogs API, and then scraping the Bandcamp website. So it goes with data analysis I suppose. If you want to see the details they are in this Jupyter notebook. And so, without further ado, here are my to 25 albums of 2020. 25 Perfume Genius / Set My Heart On Fire Immediately 24 Roger Eno / Mixing Colours 23 Blochemy / nebe 22 Idra / Lone Voyagers, Lovers and Lands 21 Rutger Zuydervelt and Bill Seaman / Rutger Zuydervelt and Bill Seaman - Movements of Dust 20 Purl / Renovatio 19 mute forest / Riderstorm 18 Michael Grigoni & Stephen Vitiello / Slow Machines 17 Seabuckthorn / Other Other 16 Windy & Carl / Unreleased Home Recordings 1992-1995 15 Mathieu Karsenti / Bygones 14 Rafael Anton Irisarri / Peripeteia 13 Mikael Lind / Give Shape to Space 12 Taylor Swift / folklore (deluxe version) 11 koji itoyama / I Know 10 Andrew Weathers / Dreams and Visions from the Llano Estacado 9 Jim Guthrie / Below OST - Volume III 8 Norken & Nyquist / Synchronized Minds 7 Jim Guthrie / Below OST - Volume II 6 Halftribe / Archipelago 5 Hazel English / Wake Up! 4 R Beny / natural fiction 3 Warmth / Life 2 David Newlyn / Apparitions I and II 1 Seabuckthorn / Through A Vulnerable Occur Samvera: Save the Date for Samvera Virtual Connect 2021 Mark your calendar for Samvera Virtual Connect 2021!Tuesday, April 21 – Wednesday, April 22, 2021 11:00 AM – 2:00 PM EDT / 8:00 AM – 11:00 AM PDT / 16:00-19:00 BST / 15:00-18:00 UTC Watch for more information coming in early 2021 including a call for Program Committee participation and a call for proposals. The post Save the Date for Samvera Virtual Connect 2021 appeared first on Samvera. Digital Library Federation: DLF Forum Community Journalist Reflection: Jocelyn Hurtado This post was written by Jocelyn Hurtado, who was selected to be one of this year’s virtual DLF Forum Community Journalists. Jocelyn Hurtado is a native Miamian who worked as an archivist at a community repository for four year. She is experienced in working with manuscript, art and artifact collections pertaining to a community of color whose history has often been overlooked. Ms. Hurtado, understands the responsibility and the significance of the work done by community archivists and has seen firsthand that this work not only affects the present-day community but that it will continue to have a deep-rooted impact on generations to come. Ms. Hurtado also has experience promoting collections through exhibits, presentations, instructional sessions, and other outreach activities which includes the development and execution of an informative historical web-series video podcast.  Ms. Hurtado earned her Associate Degree in Anthropology from Miami-Dade College and a Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology from the University of Florida. She also completed the Georgia Archives Institute Program.  This year has been full of new experiences and we all have faced the challenges of adapting to the new professional realities of relying on technology to complete our work, promoting the goals of our organization all while staying connected with communities we serve virtually. Our phones and laptops are now on the top of the list of tools we cannot function without and it’s arguably just as valuable as a pencil or finding aid to an archivist, at least from my own personal experience. As a first-time attendee and a community journalist, I was excited and unsure of how the 2020 DLF Forum would operate on a virtual platform. Like millions around the world I’ve been working remotely for months and learned to adapt but I was still hesitant on how attendees would be able to truly connect to the panelist, fellow attendees and with the subject of each talk remotely. It is no secret that librarians, archivists, historians or anyone in a related field have a tendency to be introverted and from my own personal experience starting a conversation, connecting with others and networking can be stressful. However, I was quickly positively surprised on how easy it was to start a conversation at the conference. I enjoyed the Slack application in which attendees were able to share thoughts, ideas and pose questions about each session. I certainly viewed more opinions, concepts and panels virtually than I probably would have in person. I liked the fact that I could have access to the sessions anytime which is great for anyone who has a busy schedule as well as any problems accessing the videos due to the digital divide caused by finances or other factors such as remoteness or environmental factors such as hurricanes or storms. In the opening plenary I was delighted to hear the acknowledgement of the indigenous people and their lands in regards to the location of the original conference and area that was being discussed. The keynote speaker, Dr. Stacy Patton, was simply incredible and asked us to grapple with a very important question: Do Black Lives Matter in galleries, libraries, archives and museums? I believe we all know and can say historically the answer is no, black lives have systematically been erased and unwelcome in these spaces. 2020 has become the year of reckoning for some institutions and for many in this field that have been part of this problem. Thus, the question becomes what now? How can meaningful and genuine change come about? There is no one size fits all plan and up to in the field to do the work and realize there will never be a timeline or an exact moment where it will be marked as done. I had the opportunity to ask Dr. Patton a question and was also able to see other questions posed by fellow attendees. It created a hub for sharing experiences and problems encountered in our own institutions which was able to foster a connected moment and experience. Dr. Patton hit the nail on the head when reciting the Claude McKay poem, “If We Must Die.” It was a couple of days before Election Day and oh how the words aptly describe the current era and the rawness of it all. During her speech I reflected on the work of Schomberg and many other black intellectuals whose worked and made centers were black lives do matter and their stories were properly preserved. I also reflected on my experience working at a black community repository, in a space made for black lives to matter. I also recognize another important question: Which Black Lives Matter in these spaces? Women, individuals overlooked due to their sexual orientation, and those from a lower socioeconomic status or position have had their stories overlooked. There is so much work to be done and this has encouraged and highlighted the importance of pushing the boundaries and the sharing of ideas. The Recording Restorative Justice and Accountability: The Burnham-Nobles Digital Archive presented by Gina Nortonsmith, Raymond Wilkes, Amanda Rust and Drew Facklam was inspiring. The work done by the team of telling the stories of victims and giving a voice is imperative. Prior to this session I did not know of The Civil Rights and the Restorative Justice Project and was glad to learn about the research being conducted along with support policy initiatives on racial hate crimes during the Jim Crow Era and that justice is still being pursued for the victims and their families. The statement “I like to think of the investigator as the foundation for an archive, while the archivist is the architect and engineer, providing structure and organization in order to complete the building, i.e. the archive” by Raymond Wilkes beautifully explained the importance of the collaborative efforts and the relationship member of the team had to the task. I am looking forward to next year’s DLF Forum and hope/expect it to continue the focus on the community. The post DLF Forum Community Journalist Reflection: Jocelyn Hurtado appeared first on DLF. ZBW German National Library of Economics: Building the SWIB20 participants map   Here we describe the process of building the interactive SWIB20 participants map, created by a query to Wikidata. The map was intended to support participants of SWIB20 to make contacts in the virtual conference space. However, in compliance with GDPR we want to avoid publishing personal details. So we choose to publish a map of institutions, to which the participants are affiliated. (Obvious downside: the 9 un-affiliated participants could not be represented on the map). We suppose that the method can be applied to other conferences and other use cases - e.g., the downloaders of scientific software or the institutions subscribed to an academic journal. Therefore, we describe the process in some detail. We started with a list of institution names (with country code and city, but without person ids), extracted and transformed from our ConfTool registration system, saved it in CSV format. Country names were normalized, cities were not (and only used for context information). We created an OpenRefine project, and reconciled the institution name column with Wikidata items of type Q43229 (organization, and all its subtypes). We included the country column (-> P17, country) as relevant other detail, and let OpenRefine “Auto-match candidates with high confidence”. Of our original set of 335 country/institution entries, 193 were automaticaly matched via the Wikidata reconciliation service. At the end of the conference, 400 institutions were identified and put on the map (data set). We went through all un-matched entries and either a) selected one of the suggested items, or b) looked up and tweaked the name string in Wikidata, or in Google, until we found an according Wikipedia page, openend the linked Wikidata object from there, and inserted the QID in OpenRefine, or c) created a new Wikidata item (if the institution seemed notable), or d) attached “not yet determined” (Q59496158) where no Wikidata item (yet) exists, or e) attached “undefined value” (Q7883029) where no institution had been given The results were exported from OpenRefine into a .tsv file (settings) Again via a script, we loaded ConfTool participants data, built a lookup table from all available OpenRefine results (country/name string -> WD item QID), aggregated participant counts per QID, and loaded that data into a custom SPARQL endpoint, which is accessible from the Wikidata Query Service. As in step 1, for all (new) institution name strings, which were not yet mapped to Wikidata, a .csv file was produced. (An additional remark: If no approved custom SPARQL endpoint is available, it is feasible to generate a static query with all data in it’s “values” clause.) During the preparation of the conference, more and more participants registered, which required multiple loops: Use the csv file of step 5 and re-iterate, starting at step 2. (Since I found no straightforward way to update an existing OpenRefine project with extended data, I created a new project with new input and output files for every iteration.) Finally, to display the map we could run a federated query on WDQS. It fetches the institution items from the custom endpoint and enriches them from Wikidata with name, logo and image of the institution (if present), as well as with geographic coordinates, obtained directly or indirectly as follows: a) item has “coodinate location” (P625) itself, or b) item has “headquarters location” item with coordinates (P159/P625), or c) item has “located in administrative entity” item with coordinates (P131/P625), or c) item has “country” item (P17/P625) Applying this method, only one institution item could not be located on the map. Data improvements The way to improve the map was to improve the data about the items in Wikidata - which also helps all future Wikidata users. New items For a few institutions, new items were created: Burundi Association of Librarians, Archivists and Documentalists FAO representation in Kenya Aurora Information Technology Istituto di Informatica Giuridica e Sistemi Giudiziari For another 14 institutions, mostly private companies, no items were created due to notability concerns. Everything else already had an item in Wikidata! Improvement of existing items In order to improve the display on the map, we enhanced selected items in Wikidata in various ways: Add English label Add type (instance of) Add headquarter location Add image and/or logo And we hope, that participants of the conference also took the opportunity to make their institution “look better”, by adding for example an image of it to the Wikidata knowledge base. Putting Wikidata into use for a completely custom purpose thus created incentives for improving “the sum of all human knowledge” step by tiny step.       Wikidata for Authorities Linked data   Deutsch Ed Summers: Diss Music I recently defended my dissertation, and am planning to write a short post here with a synopsis of what I studied. But before that I wanted to do a bit of navel gazing and examine the music of my dissertation. To be clear, my dissertation has no music. It’s one part discourse analysis, two parts ethnographic field study, and is comprised entirely of text and images bundled into a PDF. But over the last 5 years as I took classes, wrote papers, conducted research and did the final write up my research results I was almost always listening to music. I spent a lot of time on weekends in the tranquil workspaces of the Silver Spring Public Library. After the Coronavirus hit earlier this year I spent more time surrounded by piles of books in my impromptu office in the basement of my house. But wherever I found myself working music was almost always on. I leaned heavily on Bandcamp over this time period, listening and then purchasing music I enjoyed. Bandcamp is a truly remarkable platform for learning about new music from people whose tastes align with yours. My listening habits definitely trended over this time towards instrumental, experimental, found sound and ambient, partly because lyrics can distract me if I’m writing or reading. I’m also a long time LastFM user. So all the music I listened to over this period was logged (or “scrobbled”). LastFM have an API so I thought it would be fun to create a little report of the top albums I listened to each month of my dissertation. So this is the music of my dissertation–or the hidden soundtrack of my research, between August 2015 and November 2020. You can see how I obtained the information from the API in this Jupyter notebook. But the results are here below. 2015-08 White Rainbow / Thru.u 2015-09 Deradoorian / The Expanding Flower Planet 2015-10 James Elkington and Nathan Salsburg / Ambsace 2015-11 Moderat / II 2015-12 Deerhunter / Fading Frontier 2016-01 David Bowie / Blackstar 2016-02 Library Tapes / Escapism 2016-03 Twincities / …plays the brown mountain lights 2016-04 Moderat / III 2016-05 Radiohead / A Moon Shaped Pool 2016-06 Tigue / Peaks 2016-07 A Winged Victory for the Sullen / A Winged Victory for the Sullen 2016-08 Oneohtrix Point Never / Garden of Delete 2016-09 Oneohtrix Point Never / Drawn and Quartered 2016-10 Chihei Hatakeyama / Saunter 2016-11 Biosphere / Departed Glories 2016-12 Sarah Davachi / The Untuning of the Sky 2017-01 OFFTHESKY / The Beautiful Nowhere 2017-02 Clark / The Last Panthers 2017-03 Tim Hecker / Harmony In Ultraviolet 2017-04 Goldmund / Sometimes 2017-05 Deerhunter / Halcyon Digest 2017-06 Radiohead / OK Computer OKNOTOK 1997 2017 2017-07 Arcade Fire / Everything Now 2017-08 oh sees / Orc 2017-09 Lusine / Sensorimotor 2017-10 Four Tet / New Energy 2017-11 James Murray / Eyes to the Height 2017-12 Jlin / Black Origami 2018-01 Colleen / Captain of None (Bonus Track Version) 2018-02 Gersey / What You Kill 2018-03 Rhucle / Yellow Beach 2018-04 Christina Vantzou / No. 3 2018-05 Hotel Neon / Context 2018-06 Brendon Anderegg / June 2018-07 A Winged Victory for the Sullen / Atomos 2018-08 Ezekiel Honig / A Passage of Concrete 2018-09 Paperbark / Last Night 2018-10 Flying Lotus / You’re Dead! (Deluxe Edition) 2018-11 Porya Hatami / Kaziwa 2018-12 Sven Laux / You’ll Be Fine. 2019-01 Max Richter / Mary Queen Of Scots (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) 2019-02 Ian Nyquist / Cuan 2019-03 Jens Pauly / Vihne 2019-04 Ciro Berenguer / El Mar De Junio 2019-05 Rival Consoles / Persona 2019-06 Caught In The Wake Forever / Waypoints 2019-07 Spheruleus / Light Through Open Blinds 2019-08 Valotihkuu / By The River 2019-09 Moss Covered Technology / Slow Walking 2019-10 Tsone / pagan oceans I, II, III 2019-11 Big Thief / Two Hands 2019-12 A Winged Victory for the Sullen / The Undivided Five 2020-01 Hirotaka Shirotsubaki / fragment 2011-2017 2020-02 Luis Miehlich / Timecuts 2020-03 Federico Durand / Jardín de invierno 2020-04 R.E.M. / Document - 25th Anniversary Edition 2020-05 Chicano Batman / Invisible People 2020-06 Hazel English / Wake Up! 2020-07 Josh Alexander / Hiraeth 2020-08 The Beatles / The Beatles (Remastered) 2020-09 Radiohead / OK Computer OKNOTOK 1997 2017 2020-10 Mathieu Karsenti / Bygones 2020-11 R.E.M. / Murmur - Deluxe Edition Andromeda Yelton: Of such stuff are (deep)dreams made: convolutional networks and neural style transfer Skipped FridAI blogging last week because of Thanksgiving, but let’s get back on it! Top-of-mind today are the firing of AI queen Timnit Gebru (letter of support here) and a couple of grant applications that I’m actually eligible for (this is rare for me! I typically need things for which I can apply in my individual capacity, so it’s always heartening when they exist — wish me luck). But for blogging today, I’m gonna talk about neural style transfer, because it’s cool as hell. I started my ML-learning journey on Coursera’s intro ML class and have been continuing with their deeplearning.ai sequence; I’m on course 4 of 5 there, so I’ve just gotten to neural style transfer. This is the thing where a neural net outputs the content of one picture in the style of another: Via https://medium.com/@build_it_for_fun/neural-style-transfer-with-swift-for-tensorflow-b8544105b854. OK, so! Let me explain while it’s still fresh. If you have a neural net trained on images, it turns out that each layer is responsible for recognizing different, and progressively more complicated, things. The specifics vary by neural net and data set, but you might find that the first layer gets excited about straight lines and colors; the second about curves and simple textures (like stripes) that can be readily composed from straight lines; the third about complex textures and simple objects (e.g. wheels, which are honestly just fancy circles); and so on, until the final layers recognize complex whole objects. You can interrogate this by feeding different images into the neural net and seeing which ones trigger the highest activation in different neurons. Below, each 3×3 grid represents the most exciting images for a particular neuron. You can see that in this network, there are Layer 1 neurons excited about colors (green, orange), and about lines of particular angles that form boundaries between dark and colored space. In Layer 2, these get built together like tiny image legos; now we have neurons excited about simple textures such as vertical stripes, concentric circles, and right angles. Via https://adeshpande3.github.io/The-9-Deep-Learning-Papers-You-Need-To-Know-About.html, originally from Zeller & Fergus, Visualizing and Understanding Convolutional Networks So how do we get from here to neural style transfer? We need to extract information about the content of one image, and the style of another, in order to make a third image that approximates both of them. As you already expect if you have done a little machine learning, that means that we need to write cost functions that mean “how close is this image to the desired content?” and “how close is this image to the desired style?” And then there’s a wrinkle that I haven’t fully understood, which is that we don’t actually evaluate these cost functions (necessarily) against the outputs of the neural net; we actually compare the activations of the neurons, as they react to different images — and not necessarily from the final layer! In fact, choice of layer is a hyperparameter we can vary (I super look forward to playing with this on the Coursera assignment and thereby getting some intuition). So how do we write those cost functions? The content one is straightforward: if two images have the same content, they should yield the same activations. The greater the differences, the greater the cost (specifically via a squared error function that, again, you may have guessed if you’ve done some machine learning). The style one is beautifully sneaky; it’s a measure of the difference in correlation between activations across channels. What does that mean in English? Well, let’s look at the van Gogh painting, above. If an edge detector is firing (a boundary between colors), then a swirliness detector is probably also firing, because all the lines are curves — that’s characteristic of van Gogh’s style in this painting. On the other hand, if a yellowness detector is firing, a blueness detector may or may not be (sometimes we have tight parallel yellow and blue lines, but sometimes yellow is in the middle of a large yellow region). Style transfer posits that artistic style lies in the correlations between different features. See? Sneaky. And elegant. Finally, for the style-transferred output, you need to generate an image that does as well as possible on both cost functions simultaneously — getting as close to the content as it can without unduly sacrificing the style, and vice versa. As a side note, I think I now understand why DeepDream is fixated on a really rather alarming number of eyes. Since the layer choice is a hyperparameter, I hypothesize that choosing too deep a layer — one that’s started to find complex features rather than mere textures and shapes — will communicate to the system, yes, what I truly want is for you to paint this image as if those complex features are matters of genuine stylistic significance. And, of course, eyes are simple enough shapes to be recognized relatively early (not very different from concentric circles), yet ubiquitous in image data sets. So…this is what you wanted, right? the eager robot helpfully offers. https://www.ucreative.com/inspiration/google-deep-dream-is-the-trippiest-thing-in-the-internet/ I’m going to have fun figuring out what the right layer hyperparameter is for the Coursera assignment, but I’m going to have so much more fun figuring out the wrong ones. Mita Williams: Weeknote 49 (2020) §1 I don’t have much to report in regards to the work I’ve been doing this week. I tried to get our ORCiD-OJS plugin to work but there is some small strange bug that needs to be squished. Luckily, next week I will have the benefit of assistance from the good people of CRKN and ORCiD-CA. What else? I uploaded a bunch of files into our IR. I set up a site for an online-only conference being planned for next year. And I finally got around to trying to update a manuscript for potential publication. But this writing has been very difficult as my attention has been sent elsewhere many times this week. §2 Unfortunately I wasn’t able to catch the live Teach-In #AgainstSurveillance on Tuesday but luckily the talks have been captured and made available at http://againstsurveillance.net/ So many of our platforms are designed to extract user data. But not all of them are. Our institutions of higher education could choose to invest in free range ed-tech instead. §3 Bonus links! Making a hash out of knitting with datashannon_mattern’s Library | ZoteroMystery File! Lucidworks: Enhance Personalization Efforts with New Features in Fusion Latest Fusion release enhances digital experiences with out-of-the-box merchandising templates and AI recommenders. The post Enhance Personalization Efforts with New Features in Fusion appeared first on Lucidworks. HangingTogether: The way forward to a more open future … together On 5 November 2020, Astrid Verheusen (Executive Director of LIBER), and OCLC Research program officers Rebecca Bryant and Titia van der Werf presented a webinar to summarize the OCLC-LIBER Open Science Discussion Series. This multi-part discussion series, which took place through the month of October, was based upon the LIBER Open Science Roadmap to guide participants in envisioning an ideal future for Open Science (OS) and to discuss the roles of research libraries at local, national, and global levels in achieving a more open future. The whole is greater than the sum of its parts Photo by Ross Sneddon on Unsplash In total, 53 participants from 18 countries contributed to the seven-part series of small group discussions. Sessions had no more than 14 attendees – just the right number for conducting engaged and stimulating conversations. Discussants liked the free format and the interactive, participatory, and supportive nature of the conversations. They also appreciated that groups had representation from different points of view from both Europe and North America. A summary of each discussions has been shared via posts on HangingTogether.org (the blog of OCLC Research) and the LIBER website: Scholarly PublishingFAIR PrinciplesResearch Infrastructures and the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC)Metrics and RewardsSkillsResearch IntegrityCitizen Science On reflection, we realized that the discussions reinforced each other in many ways and taken together, they offered a unified conceptualization of an open science future and a shared idea of how to overcome the obstacles on the way to this more open future. Conceptualization of an open science future The participants’ ideal future state closely matched LIBER’s vision for the research landscape in 2022 – as set out in its Strategy 2018-2022 -, echoing its depiction of a future world where: Open Access is the predominant form of publishingResearch Data is Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable (FAIR)Digital Skills underpin a more open and transparent research life cycleResearch Infrastructure is participatory, tailored and scaled to the needs of the diverse disciplines Participants added tone, texture and shade to these four basic lines, mostly in terms of what open science wouldn’t be and by describing it as the opposite of what it is now. So, for example, they described the expectation that “. . . in the future, more staff [will] be involved in supporting open science and their time [will] be spent on assisting researchers with actual data management instead of having to defend it or justify it” or “Collaboration will be the motor that drives open science, instead of competition”, or “In this new open science environment, the researcher is central, not the outputs”. The discussions also yielded a long list of requirements for open science to thrive: “We need to be empathetic”, “We need someone (a peer) to translate the open principles for each discipline”, “We need to measure the way open impacts society”. Wikimedia Commons If one would wave a magic wand to resolve the obstacles and satisfy the preconditions, the resulting vision would lead to a rosy picture: one where open is the default and access is frictionless; where collaboration cuts across institutional and disciplinary boundaries, organizational silos and policy areas; where citizens, governments, companies, researchers and students work hand in hand to make research and society better; where diversity and inclusion make open science a truly global endeavor and lead to greater understanding and learning. In this ideal state, librarians have all necessary skills – both soft and hard – and they cooperate with everyone in the research lifecycle. They walk in the shoes of researchers and in those of citizens, with empathy. With all these skills in place, The Library is the best place to go to. The need for culture change The discussions yielded a long list of problems to a more open future. There was much overlap across the seven discussion sessions. The following five broad categories encompass the obstacles that received most votes during the polling exercise: Culture change is necessary Culture change is necessary because of ingrained attitudes that inhibit the adoption of open science, such as the tendency towards risk-avoidance by librarians and the lack of responsiveness by senior researchers and administrators on campus. Culture change was most often mentioned in relation to the lack of collaboration, engagement, and common ground between librarians and researchers, the silos on campus and the different perspectives of different stakeholders on “Open”. It was also seen as necessary for change in a larger sense: the need to internalize the principles of openness as second nature in life and society. Although mentioned as an obstacle alongside the other 4 categories, culture change really encompasses them all and is the precondition for the success of changes in the other categories. Inadequate rewards and incentives Recurring themes in this category were: the evaluation of researchers and institutions, the funding of research, the metrics and rewards system, the competitive nature of the rewards system (in which competition trumps ethics) and the lack of recognition, incentives or rewards for “doing Open”. The latter was deplored in particular and listed as a problem in the session on Metrics & Rewards: “Many open science activities don’t directly result in articles (e.g., open methods, open infrastructure, open data) – other stuff also matters but is not measured/supported and based on unpaid and unrecognized”. Lack of researcher awareness and involvement Lack of researcher buy-in and ownership of open science principles is problematic. Obstacles range from lack of awareness to lack of involvement, including lack of knowledge (mentioned in relation to research integrity and ethical issues). Lack of involvement may be borne not just from reluctance, but may be due to exclusion in the design stage (this was mentioned specifically during the EOSC session). Finally, researchers perceive open science practices as a burden – ‘this is yet another thing we need to do’ – referring to the administrative overload of having to register their profiles, outputs and projects in multiple, non-interoperable systems. Participants described the tension between ideals and practices as “the Big Divide between open science advocacy and the day-to-day research work”. Lack of skills relating to open science The lack of skills was raised as a general problem, not only in librarianship but also in academia. While the need for specific technical skills was mentioned, the discussions primarily focused on the importance of soft skills in librarianship. Librarians are currently not all equally skilled to connect to researchers or other stakeholders and this was felt as an important skills gap. In addition, the necessary skills are not integrated in academic curricula, let alone in those of library schools. No agreement on standards & interoperability Lack of interoperability across existing information systems and emerging OS infrastructures is a significant pain point for all stakeholders. Participants deplored the lack of agreed standards, the proliferation of fragmented, non-interoperable solutions, and the overdue implementation of basic standards, such as persistent identifiers (PIDs) for researchers and institutions, in existing systems. They also mentioned the need to unlock metadata, citations, and abstracts which are essential ingredients for the assessment and discoverability of open science. The library cannot do this alone Hanabusa Itchō, Blind monks examining an elephant When we discussed how libraries can overcome these obstacles and make culture change happen, we heard repeatedly about the need to work outside the library: “The library cannot do this alone” and “open science must be a collective effort, not just libraries”. Discussions revolved around the theme of collaboration, the need to work with others, including the multiple other open science stakeholders. It was much more difficult to strategize and ideate around collaboration than it had been to identify and analyze the obstacles. We heard anecdotal evidence of successful collaboration with units on campus (e.g., the Research Office), with Open Science communities (e.g. GO-FAIR) and in the context of national policy initiatives (e.g., Dutch Program for Digital Competence Centers). There is a multiplicity of stakeholders that libraries must effectively engage with in order to advance open science goals, and we believe it is helpful to categorize them in two groups operating at different levels: Above the institution stakeholders operate at consortial, national, regional, and global levels. EU-policy initiatives and accompanying funding are strong incentives for collaborative action and for catalyzing structural change that can percolate down at the country level. Research funding agencies are very influential stakeholders with the ability to enact policies and assessment activities that can accelerate change. Open science and scholarly communication coalitions were also mentioned as networks for collaborating on innovation. Other stakeholders were mentioned, such as publishers, PID providers, public libraries, and citizens.Below the institution stakeholders operate at the institutional or campus level. All have a stake in supporting research, but not all are equally aware or supportive of open science. Many different campus units were mentioned as relevant to work with, to influence culture change and develop local infrastructures to support open science. The examples given reinforced the findings from the OCLC Research Report on Social Interoperability in Research Support: Cross-Campus Partnerships and the University Research Enterprise. This report introduces the term “social interoperability” as a key concept to promote collaboration, communication, and mutual understanding. An important take-away from this report is that other stakeholders on campus see an important role for the library to play as a central campus unit with expertise in many relevant areas. The report discusses several strategies and tactics for successful intra-campus social interoperability, of which we heard echoes in our OCLC-LIBER discussions – such as, for example: “speak their language”, “leverage shared staff”, “be confident in your value”. The discussions contributed strategies and tactics specific for each category of obstacles identified earlier, but ultimately there was a strong realization that collaboration with stakeholders needs to become more ingrained – as one discussant put it: “We need to be more deliberate about those conversations and [cross-campus] collaborations (…) have them be a little more organic to the organization”. We found the outcomes of the OCLC-LIBER Open Science Discussion Series very inspiring, and it has been a fruitful collaboration between OCLC and LIBER—so much so that we are discussing possible follow-up opportunities. Thank you all for your contributions and stay tuned! The post The way forward to a more open future … together appeared first on Hanging Together. Digital Library Federation: DLF Forum Community Journalist Reflection: Melde Rutledge This post was written by Melde Rutledge (@MeldeRutledge), who was selected to be one of this year’s virtual DLF Forum Community Journalists. Melde Rutledge is the Digital Collections Librarian at Wake Forest University’s Z. Smith Reynolds Library. He is responsible for leading the library’s digitization services—primarily in support of ZSR’s Special Collections and Archives, as well as providing support for university departments.  He earned his MLIS from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, and has served in librarianship for approximately 12 years. His background also includes 8 years of newspaper journalism, where he wrote news, sports, and feature articles for several locally published newspapers in North Carolina.  He currently lives in Winston-Salem, NC, with his wife and three sons. Since 2016, I’ve appreciated the opportunity to attend and participate in the annual DLF Forum. I look forward to the great takeaways to share with my colleagues back home. Let’s also not forget the wonderful venues where the Forum takes place (Las Vegas, Tampa, etc.). Needless to say, a global pandemic emerged this year, resulting in the 2020 DLF Forum to occur virtually.  As I reflect on this year’s installment of the DLF Forum, it’s difficult not to compare the Forum’s first virtual event with the previous in-person gatherings—particularly in regards to size. The fact that the 2020 event had more than 2,000 registered participants is a testament to the popularity and value of DLF. Being that it also surpassed the overall in-person attendance record (just over 800 people) of the 2017 DLF Forum in Pittsburgh is also noteworthy. The segment that I look forward to the most from the DLF Forums are the opening plenaries, because of its great keynote speakers. Stacey Patton provided an excellent talk highlighting the significance of preserving the black experience in galleries, libraries, archives, and museums (GLAMs)—covering several cohesive themes during her one-hour-plus speech—including the COVID-19 pandemic, hiring diverse staff in GLAMs, America’s ongoing issue with racism, and the social and racial parallels of then and now.  One of my key takeaways of her talk is spotlighting the need for institutions to be “ready and equipped” during the pandemic to educate students. This was suggested to be accomplished by providing research materials remotely, but also asking, “What difference does this make that we’re digitizing things? How is this power to be used to protect documents when we may not know their importance? What about the digital divide and access to these materials?” These indeed are very important thoughts to me, as a key role of my work is providing digital access to materials tucked away within our special collections and archives. And it was great that presenters addressed Patton’s questions throughout the DLF sessions. “‘Can We Digitize This? Should We?’” Navigating Ethics, Law, and Policy in Bringing Collections to Digital Life” is a great example. This was presented by Stacy Reardon and Michael Lange from UC Berkeley Library. I was impressed with their Digital Lifecycle Program, and the ethical considerations embedded within their workflow. I have interest in seeing how institutions confront the issue regarding the digitization of materials of underprivileged groups, as well as how they approach the handling of culturally sensitive materials, accessibility, and appropriate metadata creation. As Julie Hardesty pointed out in her presentation entitled, “Mitigating Bias Through Controlled Vocabularies,” when working with metadata, you can become familiar with several widely used controlled vocabularies. However, working with large common vocabularies can “paint broad strokes that cover up more than they should, that generalize or simplify too much, and show the biases of dominant groups such as the white male viewpoint. Additionally, the process to change and update terms can be slow to keep up.” When I listen to presentations on this theme, speakers routinely note the value of incorporating community engagement. A nice example of this was shared during the presentation, “Curationist: Designing a Metadata Standard and Taxonomy for an Open Cultural Ecosystem.” Curationist.org is a site that finds and collects important cultural and historical resources that are within the public domain. As explained by presenter Sharon Mizota, community users will be able to include their own metadata to records on this site.  Overall, I salute all the organizers and presenters for producing an impressive 2020 DLF program. And kudos to the partnership between CLIR/DLF and the HBCU Library Alliance. As an HBCU graduate, I appreciate programming that covers how HBCUs approach digitization, and the stories behind the unique materials that are digitally preserved, especially amid the COVID-19 pandemic. COVID-19 is indeed a big factor in how many of us in this profession are conducting decision making. The wealth of relevant content in this year’s DLF was very timely in this regard. The post DLF Forum Community Journalist Reflection: Melde Rutledge appeared first on DLF. John Mark Ockerbloom: From our subjects to yours (and vice versa) (TL;DR: I’m starting to implement services and publish data to support searching across library collections that use customized subject headings, such as the increasingly-adopted substitutes for LCSH terms like “Illegal aliens”. Read on for what I’m doing, why, and where I would value advice and discussion on how to proceed.) I’ve run the Forward to Libraries service for a few years now. As I’ve noted in earlier posts here, it’s currently used on The Online Books Page and in some Wikipedia articles to search for resources in your local library (or any other library you’re interested in) on a subject you’re exploring. One of the key pieces of infrastructure that makes it work is the Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) system, which many research libraries use to describe their holdings. Using the headings in the system, along with mappings between it and other systems for describing subjects (such as the English Wikipedia article titles that Forward to Libraries knows how to relate to LCSH) allows researchers to find materials on the same subjects across multiple collections, using common terminology. There are limitations to relying on LCSH for cross-collection subject searches, though. First of all, many libraries, particularly those outside the US, do not use LCSH. Some use other subject vocabularies. If a mapping has been defined between LCSH and another subject vocabulary (as has been done, for example, with MeSH) one can use that mapping to determine search terms to use in libraries that use that subject vocabulary. We don’t yet have that capability in Forward to Libraries, but I’m hoping to add it eventually. Changing the subjects I’m now also seeing more libraries that use LCSH, but that also use different terms for certain subjects that they find more appropriate for their users. While there is a process for updating LCSH terms (and its terms get updated on a monthly basis) the process can be slow, hard for non-specialists to participate in, and contentious, particularly for larger-scale subject heading changes. It can also be subject to pressure by non-librarians. The Library of Congress ultimately answers to Congress (as its name suggests), and members of Congress have used funding bills to block changes in subject headings that the librarian-run process had approved. They did that in 2016 for the subject heading “Illegal aliens”, where librarians had recommended using other terms to cover subjects related to unauthorized immigration. The documentary film “Change the Subject” (linked with context in this article) has a detailed report on this controversy. Four years after the immigration subject changes were blocked, some libraries have decided not to wait for LCSH to change, and are introducing their own subject terms. The University of Colorado Boulder, for example, announced in 2018 that they would use the term “Undocumented immigrants” where the Library of Congress had “Illegal aliens”. Other libraries have recently announced similar changes. Some library consortia have organized systematic programs to supersede outdated and offensive terms in LCSH in their catalogs. Some groups now maintain specialized subject vocabularies that can both supplement and supersede LCSH terms, such as Homosaurus for LGBT+-related subjects. And there’s also been increasing interest in using subject terms and classifications adapted to local communities. For instance, the Brian Deer Classification System is intended to be both used and shaped by local indigenous communities, and therefore libraries in different locations that use it may well use different terms for some subjects, depending on local usage and interests. Supporting cross-collection search in a community of localized catalogs We can still search across collections that use local terms, as long as we know what those terms are and how to translate between them. Forward to Libraries already uses a data file indicating Wikipedia article titles that correspond closely to LCSH subjects, and vice versa. By extension, we can also create a data file indicating terms to use at a given library that correspond to terms in LCSH and other vocabularies, so we can see what resources are available at different places on a given topics. You can see how that works in practice at The Online Books Page. As I write this, we’re still using the unaltered LCSH subjects (updated to October 2020), so we have a subject page showing free online books on “Illegal aliens”. You can follow links from there to see what other libraries have. If you select the “elsewhere” link in the upper left column and choose the Library of Congress as the library to search, you’ll see what they hold under that subject heading. But if you instead choose the University of Colorado Boulder, you’ll see what they have under “Undocumented immigrants”, the subject term they’ve adopted there. Similar routing happens from Wikipedia. The closest related Wikipedia article at present is “Illegal immigration”, and if you go down to the Further Reading section and select links in the Library Resources box, selecting “Online books” or most libraries will currently take you to their “Illegal aliens” subject search. But selecting University of Colorado Boulder (from “Resources in other libraries” if you don’t already have it specified as your preferred library in Wikipedia) will take you to their “Undocumented immigrants” search. This routing applies two mappings, one from Wikipedia terms to LCSH terms, and another from LCSH terms to local library terms. A common data resource These sorts of transformations are fundamentally data-driven. My Forward to Libraries Github repository now includes a data file listing local subject terms that different libraries use, and how they relate to LCSH subject terms. (The library codes used in the file are the same ones that are used in my libraries data file, and are based on OCLC and/or ISIL identifiers.) The local subject terms file is very short for now– as I write this, it only has enough data for the examples I’ve described above, but I’ll be adding more data shortly for other libraries that have announced and implemented subject headings changes. (And I’ll be glad to hear about more so I can add them.) As with other data in this repository, the data in this file is CC0, so it can be used by anyone for any purpose. In particular, it could be be used by services other than my Forward to Libraries tool, such as by aggregated catalogs that incorporate data from multiple libraries, some of which might use localized subject terms that have LCSH analogues. Where to go next What I’ve shown so far is not far removed from a proof-of-concept demo, but I hope it suggests ways that services can be developed to support searches among and across library collections with diverse subject headings. As I mentioned, I’ll be adding more data on localized subject headings as I hear about it, as well as adding more functionality to the Forward to Libraries service (such as the ability to link from a collection with localized subject headings, so I can support them in The Online Books Page, or in other libraries that have such headings and want to use to the service). There are some extensions that could be done to the basic data model to support scaling up these sorts of localizations, such as customizations used by all the libraries in a given consortium, or ones that adopt wholesale an alternative set of subjects, whether that be MeSH, Homosaurus, or the subject thesaurus of a national library outside the US. Even with data declarations supporting those sorts of “bulk” subject mappings, a universal subject mapping knowledge base could get large over time. I’ve created my own mapping file for my services, and for now I’m happy to grow it as needed and share the data freely. But if there is another suitable mapping hub already available or in the works, I’m happy to consider using that instead. It’s important to support exploration across a community of diverse libraries with a diverse array of subject terms and descriptions. I hope the tools and data I’ve described here will help advance us towards that goal, and that I can help grow them from their current nascent state to make them more broadly useful. Digital Library Federation: DLF Forum Community Journalist Reflection: Amanda Guzman This post was written by Amanda Guzman, who was selected to be one of this year’s virtual DLF Forum Community Journalists. Amanda Guzman is an anthropological archaeologist with a PhD in Anthropology (Archaeology) from the University of California, Berkeley. She specializes in the field of museum anthropology with a research focus on the history of collecting and exhibiting Puerto Rico at the intersection of issues of intercultural representation and national identity formation. She applies her collections experience as well as her commitment to working with and for multiple publics to her object-based inquiry teaching practice that privileges a more equitable, co-production of knowledge in the classroom through accessible engagement in cultural work. Amanda is currently the Ann Plato Post-Doctoral Fellow in Anthropology and American Studies at Trinity College in Hartford, CT.  On Belonging: There is that decisive moment for me at every academic conference that I’ve ever attended – whether it is one that I frequent regularly (even annually) or one that I’m trying out for the first time like the DLF Forum this year – where I’m sketching out my trajectory of movement and negotiating what my belonging might look like in the space. This moment exists in the scanning of the conference program and translating of different panel abstracts. This moment exists in those standstill seconds in the threshold of a panel room as you decide whether to enter or not, perhaps as you notice a familiar or friendly face.  Our current pandemic moment has transformed how we collectively gather in profound ways and brought into sharp relief the pre-existing structural social inequities of access. And yet, the decisive moment of my new belonging in the space of the DLF Forum was from a distance, and yet was not solitary beginning with a wave of introductions among first-time attendees and offers by long-time Forum-goers of support on Slack and extending to the generosity of time, experience, and transparency offered to me by my DLF mentor, Maggie McCready in our Zoom conversations. The decisive moment ultimately resolved, as I left the metaphorical door threshold to take a seat, during Dr. Stacy Patton’s keynote as she seamlessly moved between commentary on national news, archival text, pedagogical practice and her own powerful personal narrative of coming to belong in spaces not made for her experience and of coming to build new spaces of belonging.  Activating the Archive by Reframing History as Practice: One of the most compelling interventions that Dr. Patton articulated in her keynote speech was a call for the DLF community to reframe their implicit understanding of history not only as a physical archive of a material past but also as an active departure point for our contemporary reorientation and empowerment. Interweaving meaning and purpose across institutional case-studies, she referred to the concept of “historical touchstones” that present us with “context, guidance, and perspective” that have the analytical potential to ground our experience in the positionalities as a “keeper of knowledge” with a “traditional role of being…guide” to students.     Keepers of Knowledge: This proposal of mobilizing history towards how we critically approach our present-day practice in the field echoed throughout the subsequent forum presentations and was especially materialized for me in the citational acts of emphasizing a theoretical focus on an ethics of care. In the “Combo Session: Implementing responsible workflows and practices,” ethics of care was centered in an appreciation for “relationships with uneven power relations,” a methodological re-framing of both those actors who study and those communities who are studied as equal “independent rational subjects” and a researcher responsibility to identify the multi-faceted capacity of archival work to inflict harm. This work was discussed, for example, with the case-study of the archival process at the University of California, Berkeley for selecting indigenous cultural material for digitization and if to be digitized, under what terms of public access. In other words, professional ways of working were recast beyond the technicalities of how archival material may be best processed and digitally preserved to include and more importantly, to privilege a recognition of academic histories of community extraction and an opportunity for academic futures of more collaborative, equitable workflows.   Student Guides: Building on this important reflection on institutional practices, the US Latino DH panel entitled, “Recovering the Past, Creating the Future” brought the historically based practice conversation into the context of the undergraduate classroom. During their presentation, I was reminded of Dr. Patton’s earlier caution that digital work could not be the “end all be all” (even among undergraduates who are often thought to be “digital natives”) given how it is “alien to flow of time…nuances” and “abbreviates how we understand things”.  Presenters Carolina Villarroel, Gabriela Baeza Ventura, Lorena Gauthereau and Linda Garcia Merchant accepted the challenge and outlined a pedagogical design that built a student theoretical consciousness of the silences inherent in archival representations of the human experience and equipped students methodologically through programs like Omeka to emerge as digital storytellers of new stories. Moreover, the presenters destabilized the curatorial authority of collection-holding institutions by decolonizing where and how we locate archives with models such as post-custodial archives (describing archival management in which the community maintains physical custody of material records) and migrant archives. Both panels therefore expanded the boundaries of what constitutes archival practice – in terms of how we keep existing knowledge and how we teach knowledge production – by expanding what we care for to who we care with. At the Close:             Aliya Reich, Program Manager for Conferences and Events at the Digital Library Federation, remarked at the start of the forum that the goal of our gathering was “building community while apart”.  Joy Banks, Program Officer at the Council on Library and Information Resources, responded on Slack to a participant struggling with the digital conference platform that “there is no behind this year”.  Together, their words bring me – in concert with Dr. Patton’s keynote assertion of our roles as “guardians of the past and present” and “architects of the future” – that we the practitioners – our bodies, communities, experiences, professional practices and all – are directly implicated in the work that we do every day to record and to preserve. That work does not and cannot exist in isolation from the privilege and marginalization of our lived realities whether in terms of arts funding austerity to ongoing national social justice movements. The archive is a product in large part of human decision-making. We as a community can be reflective in practice with data justice over data ethics models that recognize the source of power and aim to dismantle structural power differentials. We as a community can choose to accept complexity of human behavior and spectrum thinking over binary dichotomies. We as a community can participate in mission-driven archiving in the present that supports restorative justice of the past – by upholding archival protocols that prioritize dignity and respect towards underrepresented, vulnerable communities who have and continue to endure systematic trauma. In building a community while apart we can ask who is and where is the community; the answer is in but also and perhaps in some cases more importantly, beyond our conference panel rooms.  The post DLF Forum Community Journalist Reflection: Amanda Guzman appeared first on DLF. Lucidworks: New Study: Why Brands that Connect Experiences Win A recent Forrester study found that companies are struggling to implement omnichannel personalization. Brands that are able to connect EX with CX report greater revenue, operational efficiency, and customer satisfaction. The post New Study: Why Brands that Connect Experiences Win appeared first on Lucidworks. Tara Robertson: Names: respect, inclusion and belonging Diversity, equity and inclusion is not about just revising HR policies and processes to be more inclusive and equitable, it’s a lens that you need to view everything through. For product organizations it’s a key lens to look at the product and customer experience.  I’ve been thinking about personal names and how those are a point of inclusion and belonging, or not. Names are personal, and for many of us, an important part of our identity. How do you say your name?  My name is Tara. In North America people often mispronounce it, less so in other parts of the world. My name is pronounced Tah-rah, not Terra. For the first 20 years of my life it was easier for me to not speak up when people mispronounced it. When I was in my early 20s I met a woman of colour at a conference who also had a name that was much less common than mine. She said that it was a basic sign of respect to say people’s names properly and that changed how I operate. These days I usually correct people, but I still do the mental arithmetic to calculate if the energy it takes to interject and then to manage people’s apologies is worth it. Our names tell a story and for many of us they’re an important part of who we are.  The microaggressions I experience are tiny compared to BIPOC people with non-English names. I love this story from actor Uzo Aduba when she told her mom that she wanted to be called Zoe. Her mother replied “If they can learn to say Tchaikovsky and Michelangelo and Dostoyevsky, they can learn to say Uzoamaka.” "If they can learn to say Tchaikovsky and Michelangelo and Dostoyevsky, they can learn to say Uzoamaka." – @UzoAduba Take action for girls and women: https://t.co/OcQi9uwGI4 pic.twitter.com/k9yf4QbTfs — Global Citizen (@GlblCtzn) February 18, 2018 I recently learned that from 1940-80s the Canadian government “assigned Inuit numbered identification tags that they had to wear around their necks, mainly because white administrators couldn’t pronounce their names.”  Our names are important and saying them correctly is a basic level of respect.  Joe Biden’s name sign I’ve been following some of the conversations in Black Deaf communities about President Elect Joe Biden’s name sign. In Deaf culture people have name signs that represent them and people with close ties to the Deaf community or well known figures also given name signs by the Deaf individuals or community. Here’s what Nakia Smith has to say: I signed what I signed pic.twitter.com/MBYR9l14u5 — It’s Charmay To You (@realcaunsia) November 9, 2020 She’s quoted in this LA Times article saying that this name sign looks like “a “C” sign used by members of the Crips gang in some American cities and could be dangerous for signers of color and embarrassing to the incoming administration.” Names are important and have layers of meaning from our families, histories, cultures and communities.  Names in databases When I worked at Mozilla I documented the various places someone transitioning their gender at work would need to update their name and gender marker. There were so many systems: the HR Information System, LDAP logins, payroll system, benefits providers, the company we used to book travel’s system, Bugzilla, Github, and the internal staff directory and likely others that I’m forgetting.  Doing this work I learned there were more than a few people who didn’t fit neatly in these systems, including:  People who only have a first name People with non-English characters in their names People with non-English names who also have English names People who get married and change their last name to their spouse’s last name People who get married and change their last name to a hyphenated name with their spouse’s last name People who get divorced and change their name back People who change their first name to something that fits them better People with very short names People with very long names Patrick McKenzie’s Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names is the most comprehensive list of assumptions about names that I’ve read. If you’re designing anything that will include people’s names, this is required reading. Emma Humphries’ Adventures in Renaming is also a useful resource. This study by R. Ruiz-Pérez, E. Delgado López-Cózar, E. Jiménez-Contreras in the Journal of Medical Library Association looked at how “Spanish names are handled by national and international databases and to identify mistakes that can undermine the usefulness of these databases for locating and retrieving works by Spanish authors”. This study listed 17 name format variations with these two being the most common:  First name first surname second surname First name middle name first surname second surname I can imagine how this would impact search, retrieval and therefore how often the work is cited, which could in turn impact prestige through tenure, promotion and grants.  original article in Business Insider article in Gale Academic Onefile In Gale Academic Onefile, Vernā Myers, the VP of Inclusion Strategy at Netflix, name is spelled incorrectly. I’m assuming that the data ingest from Business Insider choked on the macron over the “a” at the end of her first name. Changing Verna to Vern makes it seem like the VP is male. Also, if I was searching for articles that mention Vernā Myers, this one wouldn’t come up.  Just like with in person interactions, how we design databases to include (or exclude) people’s names is about respect and impacts the feeling of belonging (or not) and who can be found (or not).  Names in products The way names show up in products and services can be a point of inclusion and belonging. This summer Mastercard launched True Name: For many in the LGBTQIA+ community, the name on their credit, debit or prepaid card does not reflect their true identity. That’s why we’re working with partners to bring products to market that will allow for chosen names to appear on the front of cards, helping ease a major pain point for the transgender and nonbinary communities. It’s a big deal having a credit card or debit card that matches your gender presentation and who you are. This video tells some of those stories: This goes beyond corporate platitudes during pride month. This is something concrete that Mastercard did to make their products more inclusive of trans and non-binary people and make it a little easier for trans and non-binary people to buy things.  This summer LinkedIn added a feature that allows you to record your name. In October Greenhouse added the Say My Name feature, where candidates can “pre-record the correct pronunciation of their names when recruiters request their interview schedule availability through Greenhouse”. I’d love to learn about other product examples where the people building the product put specific care and attention on getting people’s names right.  Thank you Thank you to Cara Hall and Carolyn Arthur for feedback and editing help. Jodi Schneider: Paid graduate hourly research position at UIUC for Spring 2021 Jodi Schneider’s Information Quality Lab (http://infoqualitylab.org) seeks a graduate hourly student for a research project on bias in citation networks. Biased citation benefits authors in the short-term by bolstering grants and papers, making them more easily accepted. However, it can have severe negative consequences for scientific inquiry. Our goal is to find quantitative measures of network structure that can indicate the existence of citation bias. This job starts January 4, 2021. Pay depending on experience (Master’s students start at $18/hour). Optionally, the student can also take a graduate independent study course (generally 1-2 credits IS 589 or INFO 597). Apply on Handshake Responsibilities will include: Assist in the development of algorithms to simulate an unbiased networkCarry out statistical significance tests for candidate network structure measuresAttend weekly meetingsAssist with manuscript and grant preparation Required Skills Proficiency in Python or RDemonstrated ability to systematically approach a simulation or modeling problemStatistical knowledge, such as developed in a course on mathematical statistics and probability (e.g. STAT400 Statistics and Probability I https://courses.illinois.edu/schedule/2021/spring/STAT/400 ) Preferred Skills Knowledge of stochastic processesExperience with simulationKnowledge of random variate generation and selection of input probability distributionKnowledge of network analysisMay have taken classes such as STAT433 Stochastic Processes (https://courses.illinois.edu/schedule/2021/spring/STAT/433) or IE410 Advanced Topics in Stochastic Processes & Applications (https://courses.illinois.edu/schedule/2020/fall/IE/410) MORE INFORMATION:https://ischool.illinois.edu/people/jodi-schneiderhttp://infoqualitylab.org APPLICATION DEADLINE: Monday December 14th. Apply on Handshake with the following APPLICATION MATERIALS: ResumeTranscript – Such as free University of Illinois academic history from Banner self-service (https://apps.uillinois.edu, click “Registration & Records”, “Student Records and Transcripts”, “View Academic History”, choose “Web Academic History”)Cover letter: Just provide short answers to the following two questions:1) Why are you interested in this particular project?2) What past experience do you have that is related to this project?  Lucidworks: Don’t Fear the Cloud (or Kubernetes): Your Google Security Questions Answered Mike Chesnut from Lucidworks and Tiffany Lewis from Google talk us through why data encryption in this new cloud-native world is more secure than ever. The post Don’t Fear the Cloud (or Kubernetes): Your Google Security Questions Answered appeared first on Lucidworks. Ed Summers: 25 Years of robots.txt After just over 25 years of use the Robots Exclusion Standard, otherwise known as robots.txt is being standardized at the IETF. This isn’t really news, as the group at Google that is working on it announced the work over a year ago. The effort continues apace, with the latest draft having been submitted back in the middle of pandemic summer. But it is notable I think because of the length of gestation time this particular standard took. It made me briefly think about what it would be like if standards always worked this way–by documenting established practices, desire lines if you will, rather than being quiet ways to shape markets (Russell, 2014). But then again maybe that hands off approach is fraught in other ways. Standardization processes offer the opportunity for consensus, and a framework for gathering input from multiple parties. It seems like a good time to write down some tricks of the robots.txt trade (e.g the stop reading after 500kb rule, which I didn’t know about). What would Google look like today if it wasn’t for some of the early conventions that developed around web crawling? Would early search engines have existed at all if a convention for telling them what to crawl and what not to crawl didn’t come into existence? Even though it has been in use for 25 years it will be important to watch the diffs with the existing de-facto standard, to see what new functionality gets added and what (if anything) is removed. I also wonder if this might be an opportunity for the digital preservation community to grapple with documenting some of its own practices around robots.txt. Much web archiving crawling software has options for observing robots.txt, or explicitly ignoring it. There are clearly legitimate reasons for a crawler to ignore robots.txt, as in cases where CSS files or images are accidentally blocked by a robots.txt and which prevent the rendering of an otherwise unblocked page. I think ethical arguments can also be made for ignoring an exclusion. But ethics are best decided by people not machines– even though some think the behavior of crawling bots can be measured and evaluated (Giles, Sun, & Councill, 2010 ; Thelwall & Stuart, 2006). Web archives use robots.txt in another significant way too. Ever since the Oakland Archive Policy the web archiving community has used the robots.txt in playback of archived data. Software like the Wayback Machine has basicaly become the reading room of the archived web. The Oakland Archive Policy made it possible for website owners to tell web archives about content on their site that they would like the web archive not to “play back”, even if they had the content. Here is what they said back then: Archivists should provide a ‘self-service’ approach site owners can use to remove their materials based on the use of the robots.txt standard. Requesters may be asked to substantiate their claim of ownership by changing or adding a robots.txt file on their site. This allows archivists to ensure that material will no longer be gathered or made available. These requests will not be made public; however, archivists should retain copies of all removal requests. This convention allows web publishers to use their robots.txt to tell the Internet Archive (and potentially other web archives) not to provide access to archived content from their website. It also is not really news at all. The Internet Archive’s Mark Graham wrote in 2017 about how robots.txt haven’t really been working out for them lately, and how they now ignore them for playback of .gov and .mil domains. There was a popular article about this use of robots.txt written by David Bixenspan at Gizmodo, When the Internet Archive Forgets, and a follow up from David Rosenthal Selective Amnesia. Perhaps the collective wisdom now is that the use of robots.txt to control playback in web archives is fundamentally flawed and shouldn’t be written down in a standard. But lacking a better way to request that something be removed from the Internet Archive I’m not sure if that is feasible. Some, like Rosenthal, suggest that it’s too easy for these take down notices to be issued. Consent on the web is difficult once you are operating at the scale that the Internet Archive does in its crawls. But if there were a time to write it down in a standard I guess that time would be now. References Giles, C. L., Sun, Y., & Councill, I. G. (2010). Measuring the web crawler ethics. In WWW 2010. Retrieved from https://clgiles.ist.psu.edu/pubs/WWW2010-web-crawler-ethics.pdf Russell, A. L. (2014). Open standards and the digital age. Cambridge University Press. Thelwall, M., & Stuart, D. (2006). Web crawling ethics revisited: Cost, privacy, and denial of service. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.20388 Digital Library Federation: DLF Forum Community Journalist Reflection: Shelly Black This post was written by Shelly Black (@ShellyYBlack), who was selected to be one of this year’s virtual DLF Forum Community Journalists. Shelly Black is the Cyma Rubin Library Fellow at North Carolina State University Libraries where she supports digital preservation in the Special Collections Research Center. She also works on a strategic project involving immersive technology spaces and digital scholarship workflows. Previously she was a marketing specialist at the University of Arizona Libraries and promoted library services and programs through social media, news stories, and newsletters. Shelly was recently selected as a 2020 Emerging Leader by the American Library Association and is a provisional member of the Academy of Certified Archivists. She received a MLIS and a Certificate in Archival Studies from the University of Arizona where she was a Knowledge River scholar. She also holds a BFA in photography and minor in Japanese from the UA. The weekend protests began in response to George Floyd’s murder, I was driving across the country for my first post-MLIS job. I listened to the radio, scrolled through the news and felt the country in pain. Reflecting on how volatile 2020 has been, I’m grateful that the DLF Forum was freely open to all and held online. As a graduate student, my exposure to digital curation and preservation focused on theory more than practice. So I was eager to learn about current strategies and tools. Considering the anti-racist commitments made recently by numerous organizations, I also looked forward to hearing about projects to improve discoverability of marginalized people in the historical record. Many sessions covered computational methods used by librarians, archivists, and researchers to improve our understanding of, and increase access to, digitized materials. Juan Manuel García Fernández and Nickoal Eichmann-Kalwara presented on “Digital El Diario and Archival Justice in the Digital Humanities Graduate Classroom.” Their work involved creating a corpus from a digitized 1970s Chicanx newspaper and showing students how to use text analysis tools, such as MALLET and Voyant, for the purpose of historical recovery. In “Images as Data with Computer Vision,” Carol Chiodo shared that Harvard University Library is using a Python package to analyze and provide descriptive metadata at scale for photographic collections. This includes protest photography, so the project will also result in the creation of ethical guidelines for applying automation to sensitive materials. Throughout the Forum, a theme that resonated with me was the ethics of care. I learned how multiple presenters have adopted this feminist approach that emphasizes relationships and considers power imbalances. During “Can We Digitize This? Should We? Navigating Ethics, Law, and Policy in Bringing Collections to Digital Life,” Stacy Reardon explained that she adopts an ethics of care when deciding whether to make materials available online. She noted how this framework urges us to consider the potential for harm not just to individuals but also communities. Lorena Gauthereau, one of the panel members of “US Latino DH: Recovering the Past, Creating the Future,” imparted that community outreach should be approached with an ethics of care. She said we have a responsibility to make the people represented in archives feel valued, which can be achieved through post-custodial methods, consent, decolonial spaces, and trusting relationships. As a Mexican Japanese American, increasing representation and reclaiming the humanity of historically oppressed people has personal significance. I wholeheartedly agree with Gauthereau who expressed:  “By recovering the past, we can project toward our future. While working with recovered archives, we make space for healing by making visible not only painful histories, but also resistance, survival and joy, to acknowledge where we come from and where we are going.”  These presentations reminded me to think critically about the interplay between people, archival collections, and technology. While I see promise in the application of computational methods for understanding and expanding access to stories beyond the dominant narrative, I’m also wary of the challenges. Algorithms used for facial recognition, screening job applicants, and identifying high-risk patients continue to oppress communities of color. Mixed race people like myself don’t fall neatly into metadata categories and likely aren’t seen by algorithms applied to textual or visual corpora. Meanwhile, libraries have started using machine learning for appraisal, description, and other laborious tasks. Many collections await being described—or re-described using anti-oppressive language—and made available online. Algorithms offer efficiency, but when people create them with training data which centers whiteness, they further harm communities.  Another challenge is the layering of biases when working with digitized collections. We lose more than visual details and aesthetic qualities through reproductive technologies and migration of formats. There are racial consequences. We scan photographs made from color film stocks originally calibrated for light skin. Art historian Lyneise Williams has also called attention to the erasure of Black people through the high contrast process of microfilming. So what happens when we use biased machine learning models to process images that inherit white normativity?  Growing digitized collections make the adoption of machine learning compelling. At the same time, an ethics of care and diverse voices are needed when new tools are being designed. Knowledge produced from analyzing collections at scale will only be as inclusive as the human beings who designed the algorithms and the digitized material’s source medium. As Stacey Patton reminded us in her keynote, digitization isn’t a be-all and end-all, particularly when there is still the digital divide. The DLF Forum inspired me to think about the opportunities and issues ahead. I hope to attend future Forums where discussions on using technology in ways which uplift communities of color continue. The post DLF Forum Community Journalist Reflection: Shelly Black appeared first on DLF. In the Library, With the Lead Pipe: Culturally Responsive Community Engagement Programming and the University Library: Lessons Learned from Half a Decade of VTDITC By Craig E. Arthur, Dr. Freddy Paige, La’ Portia Perkins, Jasmine Weiss, and Dr. Michael Williams (Good Homie Signs’ “Hip Hop @ VT” mural 7/18) In Brief VTDITC: Hip Hop Studies at Virginia Tech is an award-winning series of experiential learning-focused, culturally responsive community engagement programs. It is deeply rooted in hip hop culture and is cosponsored by numerous organizations both on campus and in the community; the heart of the program is undoubtedly the Virginia Tech University Libraries. We have hosted more than 350 programs over the past five academic years. Notably, our Community Engagement Fellows, a team of undergraduate and graduate students, helped design and co-teach approximately forty-five media literacy workshops in the community beyond campus in the ‘19-’20 academic year. Our guiding mission is to remove barriers to entry, to recognize art as scholarship, to learn by doing, and, importantly, to create an expressive and collaborative environment which allows for creative freedom.  Introduction VTDITC: Hip Hop Studies at Virginia Tech, or, more commonly, Virginia Tech Digging in the Crates, is a practitioner-focused, student-driven, culturally responsive community engagement program that prioritizes experiential learning. The multifaceted and ever-evolving program is based in Southwest Virginia on the campus of Virginia Tech (a public, land grant university with a student body of approximately 30,000). VTDITC was co-created by a diverse transdisciplinary team and is now in our fifth consecutive academic year of programming. The program has iteratively developed since the Fall 2016 semester; we have successfully hosted more than 350 events.  Importantly, VTDITC builds on a 22 year history of hip hop based curricula and approximately 35 years of hip hop based co-curricular programming at the University. VTDITC’s ability to connect and engage such a large group of people is a special attribute of the program. Many universities have similar clubs or groups that bring together dancers with dancers or rappers with rappers, for instance, but VTDITC is a unique community engagement program in that it prioritizes unity over stratification. The hip hop community at VT can be relatively small if people were counted solely by an arbitrary declaration like ‘hip hop scholar.’ However, when we invite our community to engage in hip hop as a culture, our participation numbers dwarf many other programs that could be considered our peers. VTDITC’s success is at least partially due to the fact that a dynamic group of hip hop practitioners who embody the culture beyond our connection to the University co-create and care for it. We shift the university setting and resources to support hip hop culture, not the other way around. This article does not aim to chronicle the important role hip hop culture plays in education and college campuses (see Rawls & Robinson, 2019, as well as Petchauer, 2009 and 2012, Gosa & Fields, 2012, and Nielson, 2013) nor does it seek to record hip hop culture’s history at Virginia Tech (see Fralin, et al., 2018). We also are not seeking to describe a hip hop ethos (see Harrison and Arthur, 2019). Rather, we look forward to sharing this case study as an exemplar of culturally responsive programming supported by a university library. In this article we explain how as engaged scholars we commit to understanding the role of culture in education as flexible, local, and global.  Hit the Crates & Create The VTDITC community chose our name as a way to recognize one of the many research processes inherent to traditional hip hop arts communities as well as a nod to specific cultural stalwarts. The term ‘digging in the crates’ refers to the traditional information seeking/archival research process that hip hop DJs and sample-based producers use to find their source material. Digging, understandably, is the physical and intellectual labor of the discovery process in this context – or the work required to locate, sort, and analyze vinyl records. The crates are the acid free archival box equivalent for the vinyl DJ. A DJ or producer who spends time in the crates has a larger musical vocabulary as a result – just as time spent in library archives benefits a research writer (Craig, 2013 & Rice, 2003). Beyond our name, the VTDITC program utilizes effective engagement practices from the broader hip hop community to increase the reach of the Virginia Tech University Libraries’ programming. Providing opportunities for community members to engage with hip hop culture’s productions old and new, local and global, is an objective of many of our efforts.  Our Guiding Principles and Mission Statement Early in the development of the program, our Leadership Board co-created our guiding principles: to remove barriers to entry, to recognize art as scholarship, to learn by doing, and, arguably most importantly, to establish an expressive and collaborative environment which allows for creative freedom. Nearly half a decade later, applying these principles still guides the program in the direction of success.  Our mission statement was created shortly after founding the program. Although it has been remixed and edited slightly over the years, the essence has remained the same. The latest iteration of our mission statement is as follows:  Hip Hop Studies at Virginia Tech, or VTDITC, exists to foster community-based learning among hip hop artists, fans, practitioners, and scholars digitally and globally. We aim to model that students, faculty, and staff’s personal interests are worthy of academic study and publication as well as further institutionalize Hip Hop Studies’ presence on Virginia Tech’s campus. Another motivator that guides our programming is the need to challenge the white heteronormativity of higher education and, especially, library spaces (Rosa & Henke, 2017). We build upon the work of scholars such as Ladson-Billings (1995, 2014), Gay (2000), and Rawls and Robinson (2019) in an effort to nurture both the shared and divergent cultural backgrounds and sensibilities of our community members. Removing misconceptions that specific groups are not to be included in the socially constructed identity of a hip hop scholar or practitioner requires intentional effort toward increasing representation of excluded identities. Recognizing that hip hop culture was birthed and nurtured in Black and brown working class communities, our Leadership Board prioritizes creating opportunities for hip hop arts practitioners and scholars of color. Beyond considering race and ethnicity, we are deliberate about requiring gender parity among compensated guest artists and scholars. These are two examples of how the VTDITC community acts as agents of change to redress historical and contemporary oppression in educational spaces (NYSED, N.D.).  The Origins of VTDITC The first meeting of what would eventually become our Leadership Board, the program’s decision making body, took place on December 9, 2016 in Newman Library. Newman is Virginia Tech’s main campus library. It is also home to a modest recording studio (now known as Media Design Studio B). The focus of this initial meeting was to create a monthly hip hop-focused seminar series that would take place in the largest venue in Newman, the Multipurpose Room or MPR. Volume 1: Intro to DJing and Fair Use occurred a couple of months later in February 2017.  Along with the University Libraries, representatives from a variety of both student organizations and campus units served as co-sponsors and worked hard to make the event a success. To start the event, students Dylan Holiday and Alayna Carey (Alayna is a member of our Leadership Board at present) taught a workshop with librarian Craig Arthur. The workshop addressed the intersections and divergences of DJing and fair use principles. Afterwards, the sixty or so attendees had the opportunity to each try their hand at DJing with a variety of equipment set up for their use. The vast majority of the equipment belonged to members of the Leadership Board. Virginia Tech’s own Breaking (also known as breakdancing) Club ended the event with an informal cypher. The event’s sponsoring organizations included the Africana Studies Program, the Black Cultural Center, the Flowmigos (another name for the VT Breaking Club), the Intercultural Engagement Center, the Gloria D. Smith Professorship in Black Studies, Students of Hip Hop Legacy (a club related to hip hop fandom), VT Expressions (a club focused on hosting open mic events), the VT Women’s Center, and WUVT 90.7FM (the University’s student-run radio station). This workshop is now considered a foundational component of our  seminar series. It kicks off every year as a welcome event to our community members both old and new. The second iteration of this workshop received front-page coverage in the local newspaper; the article highlighted how hip hop culture was connecting students, faculty, staff, and community members in the Newman Library (Korth, 2018). (For an approximation of the vibes at this recurring workshop, see VTDITC, 2018A.) The Six Elements of VTDITC: Hip Hop Studies at Virginia Tech VTDITC is comprised of six main components: 1) the seminar series, 2) media literacy workshops, 3) weekly studio hours, 4) the community engagement fellows program, 5) credit-bearing curriculum, and 6) practitioners for hire. Each of these elements serves a unique subset of our community; for instance, the audience of our media literacy workshops are typically K-12 students while our practitioners for hire element connects local artists with campus units for opportunities for the artists to be compensated for their talents. While the program originated with the seminar series, the majority of our labor is spent on the other components. 1) The Seminar Series: VT’s Longest Running Monthly Event Since that first seminar in February 2017, we have hosted 22 additional iterations of the seminar. Approximately two dozen artists and scholars from beyond the campus have been compensated to share their expertise with the community we foster. The series, which takes place (originally in-person, now virtually [due to COVID-19], and, in due time hopefully, both virtually and in-person) on the second or third Thursday evenings of September, October, November, February, March, and April. Our seminars specifically occur during these months because that is when the regular school semesters take place. December and May are skipped due to the harried nature of the exam season. The seminars have addressed a wide range of topics including but not limited to gender, artistic ethics, heteronormativity, entrepreneurship, race, and police brutality. A recent example of how we addressed a topic using a hip hop lens was at our seminar VTDITC Volume 22: Hip Hop & Police Brutality. We hosted several scholars to discuss how hip hop music has long documented police violence. We selected hip hop songs that featured lyrics chronicling artists’ personal interactions with police over the course of three decades. Throughout this seminar, we conducted a group temporal analysis of how artists use their music to express the climate of police brutality across time periods and geographic differences. Ideally each year the planning committee develops seminars that directly discuss music creation as well as seminars that engage other hip hop practitioners in topics such as dance, the visual arts, journalism, and entrepreneurship.  While including academic voices is important, intentionally prioritizing the perspectives of hip hop arts practitioners is essential to our program. Our seminar series does not regularly follow the typical academic panel format. Even the events that do resemble a more traditional academic seminar feature a single artistic performance at a minimum. The information discussed in our seminars applies and appeals to a wide range of individuals. As a result, attendees include Virginia Tech students, faculty, staff, that of nearby institutions, and community members from the broader New River Valley and Roanoke Valley. As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, guests must now virtually attend our seminars. Over the past few months, we have had individuals from across the United States check out our events. Previously (before COVID-19), guests would need to physically come to Virginia Tech’s Newman Library to attend these events.  When attendees arrive at our seminars, they are greeted by a live DJ mix of hip hop music curated by our own DJ C. Sharp. After the welcome mix, the event’s Creative Director and MC (roles currently occupied by Jasmine and La’ Portia) bring the community together for announcements. We begin by expressing gratitude to our community partners as well as acknowledging the Tutelo/Monacan Nations as well as the enslaved African people (Virginia Tech’s Blacksburg campus was formerly the site of the Smithfield Plantation) who occupied this land before us. Following our announcements and land acknowledgements, we introduce our artists, scholars, and/or practitioners and they begin their presentations. Throughout the seminar there are often exercises where the community interacts with the practitioners. When meeting in person, food was provided midway through the seminar for the community to share. This feature of our seminar series symbolizes a hip hop tradition of breaking bread, but also serves as an opportunity to (albeit marginally) help reduce food scarcity on campus (US GAO, 2019). At the conclusion of our seminar, we make sure to allow time for an open question and answer session so that the community can have another opportunity to engage with the practitioners and as well as each other. We have also hosted numerous more participatory, performance-based events such as beat and MC battles. (See VTDITC, 2018B for highlights of our second annual beat battle as an example of how we are reimagining the seminar format.)  (Some members of the VTDITC Leadership Board 9/17; L-R: Eric Luu (‘18-’19 Creative Director, VT ‘19), Craig Arthur (University Libraries), Juel Downing (Black Cultural Center Student Assistant ‘17-’18, VT ‘18), Yamin Semali (Atlanta-based MC, Producer, DJ, & Recording Engineer), Mallory Foutch (former Program Coordinator, VT Women’s Center), and Dr. A. Kwame Harrison (Professor, Department of Sociology & the Africana Studies Program); image courtesy of Richard Randolph [VT ‘20]) 2) Do Things for the Kids: Media Literacy Workshops for the Broader Community This important component predates the program and is arguably our community’s favorite element of the VTDITC program. Craig has offered free DJ classes throughout the New River Valley for close to a decade. He had already integrated his twenty-year DJ practice into his librarian praxis prior to joining Virginia Tech. Recognizing that Virginia Tech University Libraries was in the process of creating its Digital Literacy Initiative shortly after his arrival, he realized that these workshops would dovetail well with many of the learning outcomes therein and could support the Initiative’s efforts. Since that time, we have offered more than 100 creation-focused workshops for the larger community.  Throughout the years, some of our more regular community partners have included – but are by no means limited to – the Boys and Girls Clubs of Southwest Virginia, numerous iterations of the local alumnae chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated’s annual STEAM Camp, Roanoke Public Libraries, Higher Achievement, Incorporated, Vinton Public Library, and the West End Center for Youth. Each of these organizations excels in providing programming to populations that Virginia Tech has traditionally underserved.  Although the pandemic has put a temporary stop to our in-person media literacy workshops, we are currently re-developing our lesson plans to work in an online synchronous learning environment. We have hosted three such virtual workshops this semester. Our workshops previously prioritized providing both access to music production equipment and utilizing an experiential learning approach to connect hip hop’s creative practices to STEAM education. Science, Technology, Engineering, the Arts and Mathematics (STEAM) education is enhanced by hip hop practices which encourage students to engage in inquiry, dialogue, and critical thinking. Unlike STEM, the addition of the arts component adds opportunities for students to thrive and connect with abstract concepts (Liao, 2016). While it is difficult to replicate the hands-on experience – such as time with turntables, records, DJ mixers, samplers, drum machines, and microphones – the online environment is well equipped for other creative practices like writing raps, critiques, and reflections. Online students are also able to engage activities which allow them to explore the relationship of beats per minute in a song and other numerical factors. Engineering is an emerging area of interest in the VTDITC media literacy workshops. We hope to explore the connection between the built environment and community impacts. Hip hop artists regularly communicate their experiences within their environmental context. Billboard charting hip hop artists have published songs that reflect the impacts that natural disasters, environmental injustice, and unsafe infrastructure systems have had on Black communities. Through a lyrical analysis of songs to introduce engineering issues, students are encouraged to consider engineering as a career path to serve their communities.  3) Cooking Up: Studio Hours Studio Hours are a weekly (every Friday afternoon) three hour open studio session for any member of our VTDITC community to record, refine the mixes of their existing recordings, write new material, and seek guidance from their fellow artists. Importantly, Studio Hours serves as a fellowship-focused space and a markedly strong community of practice is evident. This component of the program began in the Spring semester of 2018 and has persisted since. It takes place in the location of our initial planning meeting back in December 2016: Media Design Studio B in Newman Library. MDS B offers a recording booth, several audio interfaces, condenser microphones, and two computer workstations – one for audio recording and mixing and another for audio-visual production and/or audio pre-production work. The studio can comfortably accommodate approximately a dozen people. We prioritize the artists’ comfort  and have long been intentional about not overpacking MDS B. The VTDITC community has not only hosted the longest continuous program in MDS B with Studio Hours, we have also provided valuable user feedback to the team that runs the space. Our programming has helped transition the space and equipment therein from a faculty-focused curriculum development lab to a more outwardly-focused recording studio marketed to the broader community. Numerous songs have been recorded in MDS B by VTDITC community members during Studio Hours. Students retain ownership of their work and are guided through the process of publishing their music in both digital and analog formats. The Black Cultural Center Mixtape is an example of a community project that came into being largely as a result of Studio Hours. The BCC Mixtape can be found on Virginia Tech’s Black Cultural Center’s Soundcloud page; it was a long term, intensive project that was the brainchild of former BCC Director Kimberly Williams. The project’s production, which took place over the course of two semesters, was largely orchestrated by the VTDITC community.  VTDITC students have also performed live on WUVT90.7fm, the University’s student-run radio station, and as opening acts for several major artists when they have performed on campus. We are particularly proud that multiple VTDITC alumni have gained employment in creative arts-focused organizations. Many have continued their connection to VTDITC by collaborating with the current community. We have also hosted regionally and internationally renowned artists and recording engineers as a component of our Studio Hours program. They include Stimulator Jones, Tim Donovan, Omar Offendum, Sum, Ian Levy, and Emcee Lioness. As a result of these particular studio sessions, several collaborative songs have been released; they feature students, faculty members, and community members.  Each semester, a VTDITC community member – often the Lead Technical Director – serves as the resident recording engineer and Studio Hours community manager. We also attempt – with varying degrees of success – to ensure that we have an aspiring engineer in the wings to sustain the program’s momentum. There are relatively many Virginia Tech students who create their own music, but there are a limited number of students wanting to learn the engineering process necessary to record music. As a result, we intentionally promote the engineer mentor/mentee experience in hopes that we find interested individuals. Our current Creative Director, Jasmine, has expressed interest in music engineering and our Leadership Board is working to ensure that our current Lead Technical Director shares all of their knowledge. These student leaders have been essential to the success of our constantly evolving and co-constructed studio etiquette guidelines as well. The guidelines ultimately reflect the values of the program and, in turn, ensure that the media co-created during Studio Hours is indicative of what we are trying to accomplish as a community. Since the guidelines are prominently on display and reiterated at each of our sessions, they rarely need to be actively enforced. (VTDITC Studio Etiquette guidelines – Fall 2019) 4) Learning by Doing: The VTDITC Community Engagement Fellows The faculty members on the Leadership Board created the VTDITC Community Engagement Fellows program as a way to intentionally transfer skills. Students apply to partner with faculty members and dedicate time specifically to cultivating their expertise. This requires a relational process of shared responsibility with students and faculty. Inasmuch, the VTDITC Community Engagement Fellows program helped us achieve an aspirational goal – to increase the agency of students within the community. The fellows – a team of approximately half a dozen undergraduate and graduate students – are essential to the success of our seminar series, our media literacy workshops, and Studio Hours. Fellows comprise an interdisciplinary team that represent a wide swath of campus life and student organizations. Oftentimes, the seemingly sole unifying feature of this team is that nearly all of the fellows are hip hop arts practitioners – be it DJs, MCs, beat makers, visual artists, or dancers.  Each fellow is classified as either a technical director or a creative director depending on their interests and skill sets. The technical directors, led by a Lead Technical Director, are responsible for the more mechanical aspects such as setting up and striking equipment as well as DJing and running audiovisual equipment (and, lately, monitoring chat and moderating attendees) during our programs. The creative directors, led by a Lead Creative Director, handle the more visionary aspects of the program. They help determine the upcoming topics for our seminar series and identify artists and scholars with whom we should engage. They also shape the visual and virtual identity of the program via graphic design and actively maintaining our social media presence. Despite the differentiation of duties, both technical and creative directors play an active role in co-designing and co-leading our media literacy workshops. Inasmuch, the VTDITC program allows for unrivaled and, importantly, compensated experiential learning opportunities on campus and in the community. Numerous alums are now working in hip hop arts-based or adjacent professions – as recording engineers in commercial studies or as a community manager for an international breaking school, for example – due in part to this experience. 5) Not So Formal Learning: The Curricular Components VTDITC is, without question, a largely co-curricular program. However, along with founding Leadership Board member Dr. A. Kwame Harrison, Craig has co-taught two iterations of a credit bearing course that was directly tied to the VTDITC program: Africana Studies 4354/Sociology 4124: Foundations of Hip Hop. This course was offered in Fall 2017 (63 students) and Spring 2019 (39 students). In keeping with the emphasis on experiential learning evident in the rest of the VTDITC program, students were afforded the opportunity to create media projects rather than traditional academic essays in both iterations of this course. Many students made use of the resources – equipment loans and the Media Design Studio B, for instance – provided to them by the University Libraries to do so. We have partnered with the Department of Sociology and the Africana Studies program, largely thanks to Dr. Harrison, to co-teach several independent study courses as well. Foci of these courses have included MCing, coordinating events on campus, and internships in commercial recording studios.  6) You Can’t Pay Your Bills with Exposure: Practitioners For Hire As previously mentioned, the VTDITC program intentionally prioritizes hip hop arts practitioners in all that we do. We do our best to leverage our campus relationships to connect these practitioners with compensated work. There are typically many opportunities – and unfortunately the majority pay with only exposure – for visual artists, DJs, photographers, videographers, and dancers to share their work on a college campus. Over the years, we have successfully connected members of our community with rare paid opportunities provided by the University. One example of our practitioners for hire component is the relationship we have fostered with North Carolina based muralist Good Homie Signs and the University. Good Homie has created six of the seven murals (the remaining mural was created by MEME of the CBS and Few & Far crews) VTDITC has coordinated since the beginning of the program. “Narrative Art”, commissioned in April 2019 for a co-sponsored program on the rhetorics of graffiti with the Department of English and Dr. Jonathan Gross (Purdue University), has been on display in a popular meeting room in Shanks Hall, the home of the English Department, since June of last year. This component of the VTDITC program is an innovation to the best of our knowledge; we hope to continue to connect hip hop arts practitioners with similar paid opportunities on our campus in the coming years. (Good Homie Signs’ “Narrative Art” mural completed 4/19 and permanently installed in the Department of English’s conference room – 6/19) (Good Homie Signs’ Ut Prosim [or “that I may serve” – the University’s motto] mural completed 9/20 and installed permanently in Newman Library 10/20; note: third image courtesy of Cat Piper [VT ‘21]) (Good Homie Signs’ Bobcat Studios mural completed 11/20 and located in the Bobcat Studios recording studio at Radford High School [Radford, VA]) The Voice of the Community To help assess the program, community members are asked to share their feedback. The following quotes are excerpts from testimonials, post-event interviews, and event planning meetings. Quotes were selected to describe how members of our community speak to the connection that the VTDITC programming supports.  “Even outside of breaking, VTDITC always brings a really cool vibe to whatever they have going on, whether it’s a rap sesh or Craig spinning records or even just chilling and talking about current issues. It’s like a hip hop family, which is nice to see anywhere, especially in a place like Blacksburg.”– Virgil Thornton Love is an important ingredient in our events to balance the work required to discuss the tough issues our community faces. Academia is dominated with debates and lectures, and while both of those formats are present in VTDITC programming, many of the discussions at our events are modeled to mimic a family dinner conversation. Food is present and our crowd separates into small focus groups. “My favorite memories were the beat battles–more specifically, seeing professors and students compete, champion, and show a bombastic love for each other.” – Kimberly Williams  Breaking down hierarchy is extremely important to empower voices. The VTDITC community creates opportunities for faculty, staff, students, and non-University affiliated community members to compete on a level playing field. Healthy competition allows for supportive energy to be transferred from the community into individuals and their creations. Many of the artistic works shared in our competitions are works in progress that are improved through community input.  “VTDITC is more than a library program; it is a community program, yet I continue to discuss its connection to the library and my librarianship. This is because working with VTDITC showed me the value of leaving the library to listen to the people the library serves, and this is a lesson I am extremely grateful for as it makes me a better librarian.”– Kodi Saylor “I learned to listen better, respect better, and uplift better by being in that environment, which is something that came about naturally because that positive energy was already present.”– Jon Kabongo Listening to others and valuing what they have to say is a non-negotiable community requirement of VTDITC. The success of the VTDITC program is greatly due to our ability to listen to what community members want and need. Our community members feel listened to and reciprocate our efforts by listening to others at our events. Virginia Tech has aspirational community guidelines which unfortunately are not always upheld. Our community is not without flaw, but it is apparent that we are committed to superseding the expectations and standards of the broader university environment. We are not building a utopia but an incredible amount of trust is being developed within our community where open mics and vulnerable identities co-exist.  Plans for the Future We feel confident that we have the program more or less dialed in both in practice and in theory, however we would like to increase the number of people that participate in the program. To date, the VTDITC community has been funded largely by the University Libraries (approximately $10,000-$15,000 per year) via departmental support for outreach programming as well as by financial support from campus units and internal grants. The vast majority of these funds have gone directly to student wages, artist and scholar honorariums, and purchasing the equipment necessary to support the program. We have received several internal grants (ranging from $500 to $10,000) in additional funding. To increase our impact in the broader community, we plan to aggressively seek external funding and sponsorships beyond campus.  Additionally, we also hope to further refine our programmatic assessment. Qualitative data have been collected from events and engagements which has helped VTDITC grow. A student collected several testimonials at our events as a part of a journalism project which was continued by our event staff in hopes of finding opportunities for improvement. Participant testimonials have helped tune the amount of time allotted for discussion at events as well as the importance of communicating to students opportunities to become the hosts of our events. Testimonial data also helped the VTDITC event team create  “no-photos please” lanyards to protect student privacy, especially when engaging in politicized topics. Planning meetings for VTDITC events are open to anyone, and insights provided by visiting community members have improved our events – especially as new topics are explored in conjunction with new partners. In particular, visiting community members have helped us take an iterative approach to how we promote our events and spread the reach of our programming. VTDITC hosts the most attended and longest running series in the Newman Library, and while the participation rates are impressive, we strive to develop richer quantitative measures of success to explore and assess the program’s success. With the program growing in scale, quantitative measures are beginning to become more applicable for measuring program success through standard statistical procedures. For our online programming, which has connected over 160 participants in the same virtual meeting, a survey is being designed to accompany our registration process which will collect likert scale data to record participant perceptions of engagement and knowledge gains. This likert scale data will be recorded and used to help the Leadership and Advisory Boards make decisions about the program’s trajectory. We also plan to leverage this data as evidence of the program’s impact for external grant funding.  Conclusion Community practices are established over long periods of time. Although the program is almost half a decade old, VTDITC is just getting started. Constructing, deconstructing, and re-envisioning the program has been a repetitive process. Working in the university environment, VTDITC was designed to be dynamic and capable of growing even with a large number of individuals whose tenures are relatively brief. Many challenges are present when engaging with communities as volatile as those in higher education, especially with respect to continuity, trust, and funding. Our guiding principles and engagement practices help to mitigate several common failures. Post graduation VTDITC students have open lines of  communication with the program and provide guidance to the generations that follow. VTDITC only engages in community partnerships that are designed to meet community needs, and prioritize community empowerment, not the further establishment of the academic institution. Financial constraints are considered opportunities to develop alternate paths towards success, while maintaining a high standard for the quality of our outputs. While the VTDITC community cannot be duplicated at other institutions, by presenting our process, we hope to provide others with the ability to sample our program to create their own sound engagement practices with their community.   Acknowledgements This article would not have been possible without the scores of students, artists, community members, as well as Virginia Tech faculty and staff who have played varying – but all vital – roles in the VTDITC crew over the last half decade.  Arthur J. Boston, Ian Beilin, and Ryan Randall’s formal peer-reviews were also invaluable as we wrote, remixed, and reworked this articles’ numerous drafts. 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The camp happened on the campus of Radford University which was both Dr. Davis’ and Craig’s employer at the time. Although Craig had been DJing for 18 years and had taught numerous individuals the craft by this point, this workshop was the first time he had the opportunity to teach a group of middle school students from a media literacy perspective.6/4/2016: Craig was invited back to teach a DJ-based media literacy workshop for Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc.’s Tau Mu Omega Chapter’s second annual STEAM Camp. This collaboration continues annually to the present. 9/10/2016: Craig began working at his alma mater in the role of Teaching & Learning Engagement Librarian.12/9/2016: The first meeting of what would become the VTDITC Leadership Board took place in what is now the Media Design Studio B in Newman Library.2/14/2017: VTDITC collaborated with Roanoke Public Libraries for the For The Love of Hip Hop program at their main branch. RPL and VTDITC have partnered roughly a dozen times over the interceding years and our relationship with RPL is one unquestionably one of our strongest community partnerships.2/16/2017: VTDITC vol 1: Intro to DJing & Fair Use. This event – along with every other in-person seminar series event – took place in Newman Library’s Multipurpose Room. VT students Dylan Holliday and Alayna Carey served as workshop co-teachers alongside Craig. Alayna (VT Class of ‘20) is still a member of the VTDITC Leadership Board.3/16/2017-3/18/2017: First VT Hip Hop Appreciation Weekend – a three day collaboration between Students of Hip Hop Legacy, the Flowmigos/VT Breaking Club, and VTDITC – occurred.3/16/2017: VTDITC vol 2: Hip Hop Entrepreneurship featured DJ Zomanno (Los Angeles based DJ and VT alum), Justin Kim (Los Angeles based musican and model), and VT student Nathan Zed. Dr. A. Kwame Harrison (VT Department of Sociology and Africana Studies Program) moderated the discussion.3/18/2017: Give Me A Break 3 versus 3 B-Boy/B-Girl Jam (sponsored by the Flowmigos/VT Breaking Club with assistance from VTDITC) took place in the Newman Library Multipurpose Room.4/20/2017: VTDITC vol 3: Gender & Hip Hop featured legendary poet and VT faculty Nikki Giovanni. VT PhD student Corey Miles and the Black Cultural Center’s Director Kimberly Williams moderated the discussion.9/14/2017: VTDITC vol 4: Beat Battle & Music Production Workshop featured Yamin Semali (Atlanta based producer, DJ, MC, and recording engineer). Local music producer Electrobro won first place.10/12/2017: VTDITC vol 5: MC Battle & Workshop featured DayTripper (Atlanta based producer, DJ, and MC) and Emcee Lioness (Maryland based MC and VT alum). Trigganamatree (aka James Maples who passed tragically the following year) won the battle.11/2/2017: VTDITC vol 6: Hip Hop & Digital Literacy featured Dr. AD Carson (UVA Department of Music), Sum (Los Angeles based MC), VT student Nathan Zed, and Stimulator Jones (Roanoke based musician). Dr. A. Kwame Harrsion moderated the discussion.Spring semester 2018: We began hosting VTDITC Studio Hours in what is now the Media Design Studio B in Newman Library. The sessions occurred from 11am to 2pm every Friday that semester as well as during the summer.2/11/2018-2/17/2018: VTDITC Artist/Entrepreneur-in-Residence. Los Angeles based artist Sum served as the University Libraries first (and only thus far) artist/entrepreneur in residence. Sum met with over 30 members of the campus community during his residency. Afterwards he presented a document with numerous recommendations and debriefed interested members of the University Libraries with his findings via a virtual meeting.2/15/2018: VTDITC vol 7: The Hour Challenge – a collaborative music creation competition – took place. Three teams of approximately half a dozen randomly chosen local hip hop artists were given an hour to create a full song. The crowd picked their favorite at the conclusion of the event. Logistically it was a nightmare but it all worked out somehow. Recap video2/28/2018: The Roanoke Times publishes a front page story on the VTDITC program.3/15/2018-3/17/2018: 2nd Annual VT Hip Hop Appreciation Weekend transpired. SOHHL, the Flowmigos, and VTDITC served as co-sponsors.3/15/2018: VTDITC vol 8: Hip Hop & Liberation featured Dr. Brandy Faulkner (VT Department of Political Science), Omar Offendum (Los Angeles based MC), Dumi Right (VT alum and Virginia based MC), and Saba Taj (Durham based visual artist). Recap video3/17/2018: VTDITC Park Jam featured muralists Icue (Atlanta) and Good Homie Signs (North Carolina) as well as Atlanta based DJ and MC Daytripper.4/19/2018: VTDITC vol 9: Gender & Hip Hop II featured Blair Ebony Smith (University) and Kyesha Jennings (NC State). Recap videoFall semester 2018: VTDITC Studio Hours continued in MDS B. We altered hours to Fridays from 2 to 5 to better serve our community’s needs.8/23/2018: The Hip Hop @ VT Exhibit opened in Newman Library. This exhibit – which was created in collaboration with the University Libraries’ Course Exhibits Program – was on display on the main floor of Newman Library through nearly the entirety of the fall semester. Mural timelapse video9/20/2018: VTDITC vol 10: Intro to DJing & Fair Use – the Return consisted of a workshop by Craig and numerous VT DJs/students who also served as small group coaches. Recap video10/11/2018: VTDITC vol 11: Beat Battle & Music Production Workshop featured BeatsByJBlack (Northern Virginia based music producer) and was hosted by VT student Eric Luu. VT student SamWMTA won first place. Mike Abstrakt, a Roanoke-based high school student and music producer, took home second place. Recap video11/12/2018: VTDITC vol 12: Hip Hop & Mental Health featured Dr. Ian Levy (Manhattan College), Dr. Freddy Paige (Virginia Tech Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering), Dr. Brandy Faulkner, and Emcee Lioness. 2/7/2019: VTDITC vol 13: Hip Hop & Interrogating Civility. This event, in collaboration with the Office of Student Conduct, took a critical view of the imperative of civility on our campus. Dr. Andrea Baldwin (VT Department of Sociology), Yolanda Avent (VT Community and Cultural Centers), VT student Juan Pachecho, and Dr. AD Carson (UVA) served as panelists. 2/28/2019-3/2/2019: 3rd Annual VT Hip Hop Appreciation Weekend took place. SOHHL, the Flowmigos, and VTDITC again served as co-sponsors.2/28/2019: VTDITC vol 14: Gender & Hip Hop III – the Return of the B-Girl. Graffiti artist Meme, dancer BGirl Macca, and Emcee Lioness served as panelists for this iteration of our seminar series. 3/2/2019: 2nd Annual VTDITC Park Jam featured muralists Good Homie Signs and Meme. Recap video4/7/2019: Black Cultural Center (BCC) Mixtape released. This collaborative project – the culmination of a semester and a half of work largely done during VTDITC Studio Hours – was formally released at a celebration at the BCC.4/18/2019: Words of the Prophets: Graffiti as Political Protest in Greece, Italy, and Poland. This collaborative program with the VT Department of English featured Dr. Jonathan Gross (Professor of English at Purdue University). He shared his research regarding the rhetorics of graffiti art. Good Homie Signs created a 4’ by 16’ mural prior to this event. It is now on display in the Department of English’s conference room (Shanks Hall 380).4/18/2019: VTDITC vol 15: Show & Prove. This event was an all elements open battle for local hip hop arts practitioners. Members of the Flowmigos won first place.8/2019: The VTDITC Leadership Board established our inaugural Advisory Board. The first Advisory Board consisted of Juel Downing (VT Class of ‘18 and original Leadership Board member), Dr. J. Rawls (DJ/producer and educator), Sum (MC), Emcee Lioness (VT Class of ‘07 and MC), Dumi Right (VT Class of ‘95 and MC), and Dr. Joycelyn Wilson (Assistant Professor of Black Media Studies, Georgia Tech).‘19-’20 Academic Year: Notably, the VTDITC Community Engagement Fellows co-designed and co-taught 45 media literacy workshops for the broader community. Roughly a dozen partner organizations helped facilitate these workshops.9/19/2019: VTDITC vol 16: Hip Hop & Race – What Hasn’t Been Said. This event consisted of small group discussions led by a team of moderators. 10/17/2019: VTDITC vol 17: Soul Sessions – Rebel Voices. This iteration of our seminar series was a collaboration with Roanoke-based open mic series Soul Sessions and celebrated of LGBTQ+ History Month.11/14/2019: VTDITC vol 18: 3rd Annual Beat Battle & Music Production Workshop. This recurrence of one of our most anticipated events was judged and hosted by Stimulator Jones (Roanoke based musician, DJ, and producer). VT student and music producer Prince Predator (VT Class of ‘21) won the battle. February 2020: Bobcat Studios Project. VTDITC was awarded a $3000 internal grant by VT’s Institute for Creativity, Arts, and Technology to create a recording studio and the culturally-relevant curriculum necessary to support it at Radford High School (Radford, Virginia). 2/20/2020: VTDITC vol 19: Intro to DJing and Fair Use III. This workshop was taught by UCLA Department of Africana Studies’ Lynnée Denise and focused on their research regarding the DJ as scholar.2/28/2020: VTDITC held a master class with legendary recording engineer Tim Donovan in Media Design Studio B. Mid March 2020: VTDITC Studio Hours transitioned to a virtual-only format.3/19/2020: VTDITC vol 20: Gender & Hip Hop IV’s original date. We rescheduled this event to 10/15/2020 and transitioned to a virtual format due to the COVID-19 pandemic3/21/2020: 3rd Annual VDITC Park Jam’s original date. We rescheduled this event to 9/19/2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.6/4/2020: VTDITC vol 21: Black Communities & the Police. This was our first virtual-only seminar series event and it transpired shortly after George Floyd was murdered by the Minneapolis Police Department. Community stalwart Dr. Brandy Faulkner kindly shared her expertise with us yet again.Mid August 2020: VTDITC Studio Hours reinstated in-person programming in MDS B.9/17/2020: VTDITC vol 22: Hip Hop and Police Brutality. Our second virtual only seminar series event featured Dr. Brandy Faulkner, Dr. Ellington Graves (VT Office for Inclusion and Diversity and Department of Sociology/Africana Studies Program), Roanoke-based recording artist Macklyn, and Radford University Department of Social Work’s Dr. Deneen Evans. Panelists analyzed both current and classic hip hop songs as foundational texts describing instances of police violence. 9/19/2020: 3rd Annual VTDITC Park Jam – the Do-Over. North Carolina based artist and regular VTDITC collaborator Good Homie Signs created a 4’ by 16’ mural of the Virginia Tech motto Ut Prosim (or “That I May Serve”) outside of Newman Library. The mural was installed in Newman Library the following month. 10/15/2020: VTDITC vol 20 – the Do-Over: Gender & Hip Hop IV featured Dr. Shante Paradigm Smalls (St. John’s University). This event was our third virtual-only seminar series event. Dr. Smalls presentation focused on their research regarding queer hip hop historiographies.11/12/2020: VTDITC vol 23: Hip Hop Entrepreneurship II featured Stacy Epps (Atlanta-based artist and attorney). At our fourth virtual-only seminar series event, Stacy’s workshop focused on the steps necessary for aspiring artists to professionalize their creative practices.11/13-11/15/2020: Good Homie Signs created the Bobcat Studios mural (12’ by 24’) at Radford High School.  IMAGES: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1RmesxfMPCqJjRDJmRPcYqDeBJxwsjVSs?usp=sharing  TESTIMONIALS:https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ND0B8qqrZRVpw1toJhWLmOG1yRAZQv89ypeKcoymvWo/edit?usp=sharing Ed Summers: Curation Communities As I indicated in the last post I’ve been teaching digital curation this semester at UMD. I ended up structuring the class around the idea of abstraction where we started at a fairly low level looking at file systems and slowly zoomed out to file formats and standards, types of metadata, platforms and finally community. It was a zooming out process, like changing the magnification on a microscope, or maybe more like the zooming out that happens as you pop between levels in the pages of Istvan Banyai’s beautiful little children’s book Zoom (pun intended). I’m curious to hear how well this worked from my student’s perspective, but it definitely helped me organize my own thoughts about a topic that can branch off in many directions. This is especially the case because I wanted the class to include discussion of digital curation concepts while also providing an opportunity to get some hands on experience using digital curation techniques and tools in the context of Jupyter notebooks. In addition to zooming out, it was a dialectical approach, flipping between reading and writing prose and reading and writing code, with the goal of reaching a kind of synthesis of understanding that digital curation practice is about both concepts and computation. Hopefully it didn’t just make everyone super dizzy :) This final module concerned community. In our reading and discussion we looked at the FAIR Principles and talked about what types of practices they encourage, and to evaluate some data sources in terms of findability, accessibility, interoperability and reusability. For the notebook exercise I decided to have students experiment with the Lumen Database (formerly Chilling Effects) which is a clearinghouse for cease-and-desist notices received by web platforms like Google, Twitter and Wikipedia. The database was created by Wendy Seltzer and a team of legal researchers that wanted to be able to study how copyright law and other legal instruments shaped what was, and was not, on the web. Examining Lumen helped us explore digital curation communities for two reasons. The first is that it provides an unprecedented look at how web platforms curate their content in partnership with their users. There really is nothing else like it unless you consider individual efforts like GitHub’s DMCA Repository which is an interesting approach too. The second reason is that Lumen itself is an example of community digital curation practice and principles like FAIR. FAIR began in the scientific community, and certainly has that air about it. But Lumen embodies principles around findability and accessibility: this is information that would be difficult if not impossible to access otherwise. Lumen also shows how some data cannot be readily available: there is redacted content, some notices lack information like infringing URLs. Working with Lumen helps students see that not all data can be open, and that the FAIR principles are a starting place for ethical conversations and designs, and not a rulebook to be followed. The Lumen API requires that you get a key for doing any meaningful work (the folks at Berkman-Klein were kind enough to supply me a temporary one for the semester). At any rate, if you are interested in taking a look the notebook (without the Lumen key) is available on GitHub. I’ve noticed that sometimes the GitHub JavaScript viewer for notebooks can timeout, so if you want you can also take a look at it over in Colab, which is the environment we’ve been using over the semester. The notebook explores the basics of interacting with the API using the Python requests library, while explaining the core data model that is behind the API, which relates together the principal, the sender, the recpipient and the submitter of a claim. It provides just a taste of the highly expressive search options that allow searching, ordering and filtering of results along many dimensions. It also provides an opportunity to show students the value of build functional abstractions to help reduce copy and paste, and develop reusable and testable curation functions. The goal was to do a module about infrastructure after talking about community. But unfortunately we ran out of time due to the pace of classes during the pandemic. I felt that a lot was being asked of students in the all online environment and I’ve really tried over the semester to keep things simple. This last module on community was actually completely optional, but I was surprised when half the class continued to do the work when it was not officially part of their final grade. The final goal of using Lumen this week was to introduce them to a resource that they could write about (essay) or use in a notebook or application that will be their final project. I’ve spent the semester stressing the need to be able to write both prose and code about digital curation practices and the final project is an opportunity for them to choose to inflect one of those modes more than the other. David Rosenthal: 737 MAX Ungrounding My post 737 MAX: The Case Against Boeing is a year old and has accumulated 58 updates in comments. Now the aircraft is returning to service, it is time for a new post. Below the fold, Bjorn Fehrm has two interesting posts about the ungrounding.In the first, Boeing 737 MAX changes beyond MCAS, Fehrm lays out the cascade of warnings that resulted from a single angle-of-attack sensor failure:As FAA and Boeing played through what happened in the MAX crashes in Boeing’s engineering simulators, the cascading alerts triggered by a faulty single Angle of Attack (AoA) sensor stood out: Stick shaker went on on the affected side from rotation and stayed on all the time, despite the aircraft flying with the correct speed and not being close to stall. IAS (airspeed) UNRELIABLE alert triggered ALT (altitude) UNRELIABLE alert triggered AOA (Angle of Attack) UNRELIABLE should have shown but didn’t because of a bug in MAX’s software that tied it to the optional display of AoA on the Pilot’s Primary Flight Display (PFD, the Pilot’s electronic horizon display). The speed tapes on the Pilot’s Primary Flight Display behaved strangely, showing too low speed and high speed concurrently in the ET302 case. Several trim related failures in such an environment relied on the Pilots identifying the trim misbehavior within four seconds. When flight crews from different airlines were flying these scenarios, it became clear such assumptions were unrealistic.This is an example of the hand-off problem that is inherent in sophisticated automation (see First We Change How People Behave and the numerous comments). Clearly, giving even expert pilots only 4 seconds to comprehend and react to this confusing rush of warnings would have been unrealistic, even if the pilots had been informed about and trained on the MCAS system that was causing them, which they weren't. In the second, Fehrm points out an interesting difference between the FAA's and the EASA's requirements for re-certifying the 737 MAX in 737 MAX ungrounding, ANAC’s and EASA’s decisions:The other condition has its root in the disconnection of Speed Trim, MCAS, Autopilot, and Flight Directors should the two Angle of Attack systems disagree. EASA will temporarily revoke the 737 MAX certification for Required Navigation Performance – Authorization Required (RNP AR) approaches....Should the AoA monitor trip, Speed Trim, MCAS, and more importantly, Autopilot and Flight Directors disconnect, it puts a crew in a very tight spot as the difficulty of such approaches are high (they require special crew training and certification). You need all the tools you have in such approaches and don’t want a sudden disconnect of the Autopilot and Flight Directors combined with Speed Trim warning, followed by AOA, IAS and ALT DISAGREE.The revoke of the RPN AR approach certification is temporary. One can guess it will be allowed again once a synthetic third AoA sensor is introduced to the MAX. It creates a voting “two versus one” situation when one of the sensors presents suspicious values. It would then result in an AOA DISAGREE warning, but the Autopilot and Flight directors would stay on and IAS and ALT would still get the required AoA corrections. The AOA DISAGREE is then an indication for required maintenance rather than a major system hiccup. Duplicating systems is never a good approach to fault tolerance, they must be triplicated. In the 70s BA used Tridents on the Edinburgh to London shuttle. Their autoland systems were triplcated, and certified for zero-visibility landing. I experienced my first go-round when, on my way from Edinburgh to Miami for a conference, the approach to LHR in heavy cloud was interrupted by the engines spooling up and an abrupt climb. The captain calmly announced that one of the autopilots disagreed with the other two and, as a precaution, we were going around for another try. On the second approach there was no disagreement. We eventually landed in fog so thick I couldn't see the wingtips. Only the Tridents were landing, nothing was taking off. My Miami flight was delayed and after about 10 hours I was re-routed via LGA. Digital Library Federation: DLF Forum Community Journalist Reflection: Hsiu-Ann Tom This post was written by Hsiu-Ann Tom, who was selected to be one of this year’s virtual DLF Forum Community Journalists. Hsiu-Ann is the Digital Archivist at The Amistad Research Center in New Orleans, LA where her work focuses on born digital collection development. She received her Masters in Library and Information Science with a concentration in Archives Management from Simmons University in Boston in 2019. She is a graduate of Columbia University (BA, Sociology) and Harvard University (MA, Religion and Politics), and is a member of the Academy of Certified Archivists. Prior to working in the archival field, Hsiu-Ann served in the United States Army intelligence field as a cryptolinguistic analyst, attending the Defense Language Institute in Monterey, California. Before coming to Amistad, Hsiu-Ann worked on the archives staff of Boston University’s Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center working with the Military Historical Society of Massachusetts Collection. She recently obtained the Society of American Archivist Digital Archivist Specialist certification and enjoys supporting students and new professionals in their educational development through her work as a member of SAA’s Graduate Archival Education Committee.   I am thankful for the opportunity to have helped cover this year’s conference as one of 12 Community Journalists. Given all of the challenges of 2020, I was looking forward to hearing how my colleagues were finding ways to navigate unfamiliar situations and overcome obstacles. As a new graduate in my first full-time position out of library school, it was both inspiring and encouraging to listen to so many in the field describe their innovations over the course of the conference. I am thankful to the conference organizers and attendees for assembling such a rich program for everybody to enjoy. As I gathered my thoughts about what to write, I was overwhelmed by the achievements and innovations of the DLF community. Each session was packed with more information than I could absorb and it was a joy to hear such dedicated professionals talk about their work. Yet, when I thought about the conference experience, what stuck out to me the most was the conference design itself and its alignment with DLF’s mission and values. I considered the introductory comments of Charles Henry and the DLF mission: DLF: advancing research, learning, social justice, & the public good through the creative design & wise application of digital library technology The conference felt like a model for how to implement these community values. It was exciting to see ideas in action and to feel like I was included in that as a newcomer to this group. From before the start of the conference, I appreciated the efforts of conference staff to make conference content accessible to attendees of all abilities. In light of the pandemic and the turn to online communication platforms, transcription and closed captioning services for the hearing impaired are sometimes overlooked by conference organizers. As a US Army veteran with hearing impairment who does not read lips, this was something I struggled with on my own until this year when online meetings meant I had to start asking for more accommodations. This is not always a comfortable or easy thing for anyone to do despite how accepting society says we are to helping those who need accommodations. DLF conference staff began reaching out by email prior to the conference to address these concerns and confirm the availability of captioning and transcription services for all sessions – something that has not been my experience at other conferences. On the first day of the conference when I could not understand how to make the captioning features work, DLF had staff on hand via Zoom link to jump on a screen share to show me how things worked on the Aviary platform in real time. They emailed me links to sessions I missed, coached me through the features as I tested the captioning, showed me how transcriptions worked and even where I could have emailed transcripts of the conference sessions and slide notes to access at a later time. Normally I would have to stop videos and play them back multiple times to get content for note taking. Personally, these tools meant participating in the conference with fewer distractions and less stress. As the conference progressed, I thought more about the importance of these tools for our user community and how we can employ them to improve their experiences. Dr. Stacey Patton’s words during her opening address stayed with me throughout the conference as I considered the topic of accessibility in my daily work. She asked attendees to consider our role as archivists. As a new archivist trying to develop policies, procedures and workflows that encourage access and use for those coming to my archive, how can I perform my work more inclusively? Are there communities being overlooked? What needs are going unmet and how do I address them? Current discussions and work around accessibility are critical to ensuring that all patrons have access to the work we perform. The DLF Forum was a great experience for me in that I was able to learn about new tools to help with accessibility like Otter.ai and how to use it. I also learned about adjusting on the fly, accepting that sometimes technology will malfunction even with the best laid plans, having a backup plan to back up your plan is a great plan and finally, asking your community of peers for help may be your best plan. I am fortunate to have been able to attend DLF this year and to see the hard work of so many colleagues on display, learn new skills and connect with a community of professionals working in my field. There are many ways organizations demonstrate to their community of users “You are welcome here. We want you here and you are part of this community.” These simple steps taken by the DLF conference team through the accessibility tools helped me to feel part of the community this year. Thank you to staff who provided assistance with transcription and captioning services, and to those who helped with platform support. The post DLF Forum Community Journalist Reflection: Hsiu-Ann Tom appeared first on DLF. Journal of Web Librarianship: Evolutional Librarianship: From Supermarket to Smorgasbord . Casey Bisson: Every journalist Ryu Spaeth on the dirty job of journalism: [E]very journalist […] at some point will have to face the morally indefensible way we go about our business: namely, using other people to tell a story about the world. Not everyone dupes their subjects into trusting them, but absolutely everyone robs other people of their stories to tell their own. Every journalist knows this flushed feeling, a mix of triumph and guilt, of securing the story that will redound glory unto them, not the subject. Ed Summers: Mystery File! We started the semester in my Digital Curation class by engaging in a little exercise I called Mystery File. The exercise was ungraded and was designed to simply get the students thinking about some of the issues we would be exploring over the semester such as files, file formats, metadata, description, communities of practice and infrastructure. The exercise also gave me an opportunity to introduce them to some of the tools and skills we would be using such as developing and documenting our work in Jupyter notebooks. The students had a lot of fun with it, and it was really helpful for me to see the variety of knowledge and skills they brought to the problem. The mystery file turned out to be bundle of genetic data and metadata from the public National Center for Biotechnology Information a few minutes drive from UMD at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda. If the students were able to notice that this file was a tar file, they could expand it and explore the directories and subdirectories. They could notice that some files were compressed, and examine some of them to notice that they contained metadata and a genetic sequence. Once they had submitted their answers I shared a video with them (the class is asynchronous except for in person office hours) where I answered these questions myself in a Jupyter notebook running in Google Colab. I shared the completed notebook with them for them to try on their own. It was a good opportunity to reacquaint students with notebooks since they were introduced to them in an Introduction to Programming class that is a pre-requisite. But I wanted to show how notebooks were useful for documenting their work, and especially useful in digital curation activities which are often ad-hoc, but include some repeatable steps. The bundle of data includes a manifest with hashes for fixity checking to ensure a bit hasn’t flipped, which anticipated our discussion of technical metadata later in the semester. I thought it was a good example of how a particular community is making data available, and how the NCBI and its services form a piece of critical infrastructure for the medical community. I also wanted to highlight how the data came from a Chinese team, despite the efforts of the Chinese government to suppress the information. This was science, the scientific community, and information infrastructures working despite (or in spite of) various types of social and political breakdowns. But I actually didn’t start this post wanting to write about all that, but rather to comment on a recent story I read about the origins of this data. It gave me so much hope and reason to celebrate data curation practices to read Zeynep Tufekci’s The Pandemic Heroes Who Gave us the Gift of Time and Gift of Information this afternoon. She describes how brave Yong-Zhen Zhang and his team in China were in doing their science, and releasing the information in a timely way to the world. If you look closely you can see Zhang’s name highlighted in the pictured metadata record above. It is simply astonishing to read how Zhang set the scientific machinery in motion which created a vaccine all the way back in January, just days after the virus was discovered and sequenced. Sending my students this piece from Zeynep here at the end of the semester gives me such pleasure, and is the perfect way to round out the semester as we talk about communities and infrastructure. (P.S. I’m planning on bundling up the discussion and notebook exercises once the semester is finished in case it is useful for others to adapt.) Islandora: Islandora 8 Open Meeting: December 15th, 2020 Islandora 8 Open Meeting: December 15th, 2020 manez Mon, 11/30/2020 - 18:32 Body Our first general open meeting for Islandora 8, held on November 17th, went great! We didn't have a moment of down time in four hours, and we ended up covering everything from basic introductory demos to detailed looks under the hood of Islandora 8 sites in production. We will be holding another open drop-in session on December 15th, from 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM Eastern. Full details, and the Zoom link to join, are in this Google doc. The meeting is free form, with experienced Islandora 8 users on hand to answer questions or give demos on request. Please drop in at any time during the four-hour window. Registration is not required. If you would like a calendar invite as a reminder, please let us know at community@islandora.ca. Digital Library Federation: Announcing a Portuguese Translation of the 2019 Levels of Digital Preservation Matrix Portuguese Translations of the 2019 Levels of Digital Preservation Matrix  The NDSA is pleased to announce that Version 2 (2019) of the Levels Matrix has been translated into Portuguese by Laura Vilela R. Rezende. This document enriches the scientific studies on Digital Preservation and Research Data Curation developed by the Brazilian research group of which the researcher is part: The Research Network – DRIADE: Digital Preservation Studies and Practices   Links to these documents are found below as well as on the 2019 Levels of Digital Preservation OSF project page: https://osf.io/qgz98/ V2.0 (2019)  If you would be interested in translating the Levels of Digital Preservation V2.0 into another language please contact us at ndsa.digipres@gmail.com.    Tradução para o Português da Matriz dos Níveis de Preservação Digital de 2019  A NDSA tem o prazer de anunciar que a versão 2.0 (2019) da Matriz dos Níveis de Preservação Digital foi traduzida para o Português por Laura Vilela R. Rezende. Este documento enriquece os estudos científicos sobre Preservação Digital e Curadoria de Dados de Pesquisa desenvolvidos pelo grupo de pesquisa brasileiro do qual a pesquisadora faz parte:  Rede de Pesquisa DRIADE – Estudos e práticas de Preservação Digital  A seguir os links para acesso a este documentos. É possível acessar também pela página do projeto OSF: https://osf.io/qgz98/ V2.0 (2019)   Caso tenha interesse em traduzir os Níveis de Preservação Digital V 2.0 em outro idioma, por favor entre em contato conosco pelo e-mail: ndsa.digipres@gmail.com   The post Announcing a Portuguese Translation of the 2019 Levels of Digital Preservation Matrix  appeared first on DLF. Terry Reese: MarcEdit 7.5 Update Status I’m planning to start making testing versions of the new MarcEdit instance available around the first of the year broadly, to a handful of testers in mid-Dec.  The translation from .NET 4.7.2 to .NET 5 was more significant than I would have thought – and includes a number of swapped default values – so hunting down behavior changes.  Currently, the follow updates have been completed. Framework used: .NET 5.0 RDA Helper: 100$e process modified. Added criteria to $e generation. Previously, if a $e is already present, an new $e wasn’t added. Now, if a $e or $4 is present, a $e won’t be generated. RDA Helper: Changes related to RDA updates Added new elements to the new window programs for pinning XML Editor: Delete Block element added XML Editor: XQuery processing option If a set of records include bibliographic and authority records, the RDA helper will skip the authority records Updated Installation Wizard (allows migration of 6.x and 7.x content into the tool) Updating OCLC Integration to use new Metadata API Search Delimited Text Translator — added ability to use custom mnemonic replacements Delimited Text Translator — no longer a stand alone program App part of main marcedit app Command line options folded into marcedit app [in process] linked data rules file version 2 Enhancements to the rules file schema -tr Journal of Web Librarianship: What Metadata Matters?: Correlation of Metadata Elements with Click-Through Rates for E-Books and Streaming Video in the Academic Library Catalog . Max Planck Digital Library: MPG/SFX server maintenance, Tuesday 01 December, 5-6 pm The database of the MPG/SFX server will undergo scheduled maintenance. The downtime will start at 5 pm. Services are expected to be back after 30 minutes. We apologize for any inconvenience. Casey Bisson: The three tribes of the internet Authors Primavera De Filippi, Juan Ortiz Freuler, and Joshua Tan outline three competing narratives that have shaped the internet: libertarian, corporate, and nationalist. This matters because our physical lives are now deeply intertwined with and codependent on our internet activities. The latest information about Covid regulations in many communities is first released on Twitter, for example. A declaration is a political act, which describes what should be done. A narrative is a political tool, which elaborates on why it should be done. Mark Matienzo: Perfecting a favorite: oatmeal chocolate chip cookies I have a horrible sweet tooth, and I absolutely love oatmeal chocolate chip cookies. I tend to bake as a means to cope with stress, and of course, more often then that means making these cookies. After making many iterations, I’ve settled upon this recipe as the ultimate version to which all compare. Mark Matienzo: Perfecting a favorite: oatmeal chocolate chip cookies I have a horrible sweet tooth, and I absolutely love oatmeal chocolate chip cookies. I tend to bake as a means to cope with stress, and of course, more often then that means making these cookies. After making many iterations, I’ve settled upon this recipe as the ultimate version to which all compare. Casey Bisson: Happy D.B. Cooper Day D.B. Cooper day is celebrated on this day, the Saturday following Thanksgiving, every year. Peter Murray: User Behavior Access Controls at a Library Proxy Server are Okay Earlier this month, my Twitter timeline lit up with mentions of a half-day webinar called Cybersecurity Landscape - Protecting the Scholarly Infrastructure. What had riled up the people I follow on Twitter was the first presentation: “Security Collaboration for Library Resource Access” by Cory Roach, the chief information security officer at the University of Utah. Many of the tweets and articles linked in tweets were about a proposal for a new round of privacy-invading technology coming from content providers as a condition of libraries subscribing to publisher content. One of the voices that I trust was urging caution: I highly recommend you listen to the talk, which was given by a university CIO, and judge if this is a correct representation. FWIW, I attended the event and it is not what I took away.— Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe (@lisalibrarian) November 14, 2020 As near as I can tell, much of the debate traces back to this article: Scientific publishers propose installing spyware in university libraries to protect copyrights - Coda Story https://t.co/rtCokIukBf— Open Access Tracking Project (@oatp) November 14, 2020 The article describes Cory’s presentation this way: One speaker proposed a novel tactic publishers could take to protect their intellectual property rights against data theft: introducing spyware into the proxy servers academic libraries use to allow access to their online services, such as publishers’ databases. The “spyware” moniker is quite scary. It is what made me want to seek out the recording from the webinar and hear the context around that proposal. My understanding (after watching the presentation) is that the proposal is not nearly as concerning. Although there is one problematic area—the correlation of patron identity with requested URLs—overall, what is described is a sound and common practice for securing web applications. To the extent that it is necessary to determine a user’s identity before allowing access to licensed content (an unfortunate necessity because of the state of scholarly publishing), this is an acceptable proposal. (Through the university communications office, Corey published a statement about the reaction to his talk.) In case you didn’t know, a web proxy server ensures the patron is part of the community of licensed users, and the publisher trusts requests that come through the web proxy server. The point of Cory’s presentation is that the username/password checking at the web proxy server is a weak form of access control that is subject to four problems: phishing (sending email to tricking a user into giving up their username/password) social engineering (non-email ways of tricking a user into giving up their username/password) credential reuse (systems that are vulnerable because the user used the same password in more than one place) hactivism (users that intentionally give out their username/password so others can access resources) Right after listing these four problems, Cory says: “But anyway we look at it, we can safely say that this is primarily a people problem and the technology alone is not going to solve that problem. Technology can help us take reasonable precautions… So long as the business model involves allowing access to the data that we’re providing and also trying to protect that same data, we’re unlikely to stop theft entirely.” His proposal is to place “reasonable precautions” in the web proxy server as it relates to the campus identity management system. This is a slide from his presentation: Slide from presentation by Cory Roach I find this layout (and lack of labels) somewhat confusing, so I re-imagined the diagram as this: Revised 'Modern Library Design' The core of Cory’s presentation is to add predictive analytics and per-user blocking automation to the analysis of the log files from the web proxy server and the identity management server. By doing so, the university can react quicker to compromised usernames and passwords. In fact, it could probably do so more quicker than the publisher could do with its own log analysis and reporting back to the university. Where Cory runs into trouble is this slide: Slide from presentation by Cory Roach In this part of the presentation, Cory describes the kinds of patron-identifying data that the university could-or-would collect and analyze to further the security effort. In search engine optimization, these sorts of data points are called “signals” and are used to improve the relevance of search results; perhaps there is an equivalent term in access control technology. But for now, I’ll just call them “signals”. There are some problems in gathering these signals—most notably the correlation between user identity and “URLs Requested”. In the presentation, he says: “You can also move over to behavioral stuff. So it could be, you know, why is a pharmacy major suddenly looking up a lot of material on astrophysics or why is a medical professional and a hospital suddenly interested in internal combustion. Things that just don’t line up and we can identify fishy behavior.” It is core to the library ethos that we make our best effort to not track what a user is interested in—to not build a profile of a user’s research unless they have explicitly opted into such data collection. As librarians, we need to gracefully describe this professional ethos and work that into the design of the systems used on campus (and at the publishers). Still, there is much to be said for using some of the other signals to analyze whether a particular request is from an authorized community member. For instance, Cory says: “We commonly see this user coming in from the US and today it’s coming in from Botswana. You know, has there been enough time that they could have traveled from the US to Botswana and actually be there? Have they ever access resources from that country before is there residents on record in that country?” The best part of what Cory is proposing is that the signals’ storage and processing is at the university and not at the publisher. I’m not sure if Cory knew this, but a recent version of EZProxy added a UsageLimit directive that builds in some of these capabilities. It can set per-user limits based on the number of page requests or the amount of downloaded information over a specified interval. One wonders if somewhere in OCLC’s development queue is the ability to detect IP addresses from multiple networks (geographic detection) and browser differences across a specified interval. Still, pushing this up to the university’s identity provider allows for a campus-wide view of the signals…not just the ones coming through the library. Also, in designing the system, there needs to be clarity about how the signals are analyzed and used. I think Cory knew this as well: “we do have to be careful about not building bias into the algorithms.” Yeah, the need for this technology sucks. Although it was the tweet to the Coda Story about the presentation that blew up, the thread of the story goes through TechDirt to a tangential paragraph from Netzpolitik in an article about Germany’s licensing struggle with Elsevier. With this heritage, any review of the webinar’s ideas are automatically tainted by the distain the library community in general has towards Elsevier. It is reality—an unfortunate reality, in my opinion—that the traditional scholarly journal model has publishers exerting strong copyright protection on research and ideas behind paywalls. (Wouldn’t it be better if we poured the anti-piracy effort into improving scholarly communication tools in an Open Access world? Yes, but that isn’t the world we live in.) Almost every library deals with this friction by employing a web proxy server as an agent between the patron and the publisher’s content. The Netzpolitik article says: …but relies on spyware in the fight against „cybercrime“ Of Course, Sci-Hub and other shadow libraries are a thorn in Elsevier’s side. Since they have existed, libraries at universities and research institutions have been much less susceptible to blackmail. Their staff can continue their research even without a contract with Elsevier. Instead of offering transparent open access contracts with fair conditions, however, Elsevier has adopted a different strategy in the fight against shadow libraries. These are to be fought as „cybercrime“, if necessary also with technological means. Within the framework of the „Scholarly Networks Security Initiative (SNSI)“, which was founded together with other large publishers, Elsevier is campaigning for libraries to be upgraded with security technology. In a SNSI webinar entitled „Cybersecurity Landscape – Protecting the Scholarly Infrastructure“*, hosted by two high-ranking Elsevier managers, one speaker recommended that publishers develop their own proxy or a proxy plug-in for libraries to access more (usage) data („develop or subsidize a low cost proxy or a plug-in to existing proxies“). With the help of an „analysis engine“, not only could the location of access be better narrowed down, but biometric data (e.g. typing speed) or conspicuous usage patterns (e.g. a pharmacy student suddenly interested in astrophysics) could also be recorded. Any doubts that this software could also be used—if not primarily—against shadow libraries were dispelled by the next speaker. An ex-FBI analyst and IT security consultant spoke about the security risks associated with the use of Sci-Hub. The other commentary that I saw was along similar lines: [Is the SNSI the new PRISM? bjoern.brembs.blog](http://bjoern.brembs.net/2020/10/is-the-snsi-the-new-prism/) [Academics band together with publishers because access to research is a cybercrime chorasimilarity](https://chorasimilarity.wordpress.com/2020/11/14/academics-band-together-with-publishers-because-access-to-research-is-a-cybercrime/) [WHOIS behind SNSI & GetFTR? Motley Marginalia](https://csulb.edu/~ggardner/2020/11/16/snsi-getftr/) Let’s face it: any friction beyond follow-link-to-see-PDF is more friction than a researcher deserves. I doubt we would design a scholarly communication system this way were we to start from scratch. But the system is built on centuries of evolving practice, organizations, and companies. It really would be a better world if we didn’t have to spend time and money on scholarly publisher paywalls. And I’m grateful for the Open Access efforts that are pivoting scholarly communications into an open-to-all paradigm. That doesn’t negate the need to provide better options for content that must exist behind a paywall. So what is this SNSI thing? The webinar where Cory presented was the first mention I’d seen of a new group called the Scholarly Networks Security Initiative (SNSI). SNSI is the latest in a series of publisher-driven initiatives to reduce the paywall’s friction for paying users or library patrons coming from licensing institutions. GetFTR (my thoughts) and Seamless Access (my thoughts). (Disclosure: I’m serving on two working groups for Seamless Access that are focused on making it possible for libraries to sensibly and sanely integrate the goals of Seamless Access into campus technology and licensing contracts.) Interestingly, while the Seamless Access initiative is driven by a desire to eliminate web proxy servers, this SNSI presentation upgrades a library’s web proxy server and makes it a more central tool between the patron and the content. One might argue that all access on campus should come through the proxy server to benefit from this kind of access control approach. It kinda makes one wonder about the coordination of these efforts. Still, SNSI is on my radar now, and I think it will be interesting to see what the next events and publications are from this group. Coral Sheldon-Hess: The Online Unconference of Niche Interests If you’re looking for a fun and educational thing to do this weekend, you might consider attending the second quarterly(??) Online Unconference of Niche Interests (“OUNI” for short), scheduled to run from 2pm until a bit after 5pm Eastern Standard Time, this Sunday, November 29. We have a set of volunteer presenters who will each talk for up to 15 minutes about a niche topic they’re into. Sign up here if you’re interested in this or future OUNIs, and we’ll send you a link to the Zoom session, the talk schedule, and the Discord chat space.* You are welcome to drop in and out of the Zoom, if there are only a few talks that interest you; of course, you’re also invited/encouraged to stay the whole time! Our list of topics for this Sunday: Knitting but ScaryMaking Herbal SalvesFanfiction: the Sometimes Sensational World of Transformative FictionMagnificent Moose: Animal, Culture and RepresentationAll the Fair DiceGlass Sponges: Delicate AliensPost Office Trivia You Will Enjoy, and a plug for writing letters and postcards The schedule, with full session descriptions, is here. I know, I didn’t ever actually blog about the First Online Unconference of Niche Interests, sorry. The recordings we have permission to share are on this playlist, though. (Yes, the one about owls was me. :)) Topics not in the playlist included adaptive clothing, birdwatching, capture the flag (security games), octagon houses, and approval voting. I mention the previous list of topics in the hopes that they give you ideas. :) We do already have 2-3 talks pre-proposed for the next OUNI, which is very exciting! The form for talk submissions is open now, and we’ll schedule the third OUNI around the availability of presenters. If we get more talks than will fit in a nice 3-4 hour block (with breaks!), we’ll do community voting to decide which ones run. Or we’ll schedule multiple weekends in a row? Whatever, this whole thing is designed to be flexible and fun, and if we’re going to err, I’d really prefer to err on the side of including more people, not fewer. * We promise not to share your email address or to use it for anything except OUNI announcements. (“We” is my spouse and me. I don’t foresee other volunteers needing email address access, but if this thing grows, I promise we’ll continue to be cautious and opt-in with everything.) Note: the featured image on this post appears to have made its first appearance online at dudecraft.com (which is currently throwing a security error, so I won’t link it); it appears unattributed in many other places, though. Mita Williams: Weeknote 48 (2020) §1 First off is this recommended read from the November 17th issue of The New Yorker, The rise and fall of getting things done by Cal ‘Deep Work’ Newport. As Newport himself describes his work, It’s not, however, really about David Allen’s productivity system, which longtime readers (and listeners) know I really admire. It’s instead about a deeper question that I hadn’t heard discussed much before: Why do we leave office workers to figure out on their own how to get things done?With the notable exception of agile software development teams, companies in this sector largely leave decisions about how work is assigned, reviewed, and organized up to individuals. We promulgate clear objectives and construct motivating corporate cultures, but when it comes to actually executing these tasks, we just hook everyone up to an email address or Slack channel and tell them to rock and roll. This has led to a culture of overload and fragmented attention that makes everyone involved miserable. I don’t want to spoil the conclusions of this article, but I will tip you off that I’m filling this article away in my notebook about visualizing workflow. §2 I discovered this work from CARL’s e-alert newsletter, Thinking Politically About Scholarly Infrastructure (A.J. Boston, LPC Blog – Fellows Journal, November 12). Parts of it hit a little too close to home for my liking… I’m sure I’m being unfair in my stance. To capture a diverse constituency, a big-tent approach can be effective. Compromise can cause cynicism about our politics, but sometimes a little progress can be better than a lot of regression. That’s the story I’ve told myself, at least, while making my daily compromise as a ScholComm librarian who manages our Elsevier-owned institutional repository service, Digital Commons. My school contracted with bepress (then an independent company) shortly before hiring me to manage it, and my values felt fully aligned as I made the pitch across campus to deposit green OA manuscripts there. But that feeling changed with the announcement of Elsevier acquiring bepress in August 2017 (MacKenzie, 2017).Since 2017, the Digital Commons service hasn’t worsened, but the premise that many customers initially bought into, of supporting an independent platform in the scholarly communication ecosystem, has eroded. And what do people do when they face a deterioration of goods and services? For A.O. Hirschman (1970), there are three choices (which later scholars have revised upon): exit, voice, and loyalty. In my case, exit seems out of the question: a diverse constituency of groups on my campus have now integrated the software, and a swap would be overly-costly and damage relationships in the process. I don’t know whether I’d categorize what I am doing now as voice or loyalty, but what I do know is that there is a strong glimmer of recognition when Sen. Harris walks her fracking-issue tightrope, or when grant-funding institutions rock the boat just lightly enough that it doesn’t risk a capsize. §3 Also from aforementioned e-alert, AAP and CCC End Georgia State ‘E-Reserves’ Copyright Litigation (P. Anderson, Publishing Perspectives, November 12)After a 12-year fight, the Association of American Publishers and Copyright Clearance Center have declined to pursue any further appeals in their lawsuit against Georgia State University regarding their reliance on fair use in making materials available via e-reserves. Read more @pubperspectives  I used to refer to the Georgia State E-Reserves case as an example of selective enforcement of copyright by publishers in which educational use of works behind an authentication system was vigorously challenged in court, while rampant open distribution of works under copyright via Academia.edu and ResearchGate was ignored for years. §4 I only read the headline and the abstract of this article but I am sharing it anyway because I liked the conclusion that Tyler Cowan [ht] drew from it: Open access improves the quality of citations. §5 Earlier this week Hugh Rundle published a blog post called Empathy Daleks that gave me life: Her studies indicate that diversifying the authors, perspectives, representations and examples in standard textbooks is not simply “more inclusive” or “just” in an abstract way (though that would be good anyway). Students who feel they belong — who feel validated as members or potential members of a profession or academic discipline — are more likely to succeed and complete their degrees. That is, Lambert suggests that diversifying the authors and even the examples or hypothetical actors in university textbooks by itself has a positive effect on completion rates, engagement, and student satisfaction with courses. Amy Nusbaum shows in a recent article that OER is an effective way to accelerate this, because with licenses allowing “remixing” of content the examples used within open textbooks can be updated to suit local needs without having to rewrite the entire text….But it was Lambert uttering the magic words about diverse texts improving “student success” that suddenly felt quite subversive. To understand why, we need to interrogate what universities usually mean when they talk about “student success”, and particularly the infrastructures universities have been building around it.Hugh Rundle, Empathy Daleks, November 23, 2020 And on that note… I liked this tweet about university rankings some days ago. "None of these ‘flagship’ rankings considered #openaccess, equality, diversity, sustainability or other society-focused agendas." https://t.co/am0cTePUOM— Peter Suber (@petersuber) November 24, 2020 Speaking of society-focused agendas, while I was doing some of the more rote collection development tasks this week (reviewing lists of duplicate titles, finding missing titles that were of need of replacing), I listened to a number of episodes of Terry Greene’s Getting Air: The Open Pedagogy podcast and I enjoyed them very much. I’ve had the pleasure of knowing and spending time with some of the guests on his show and it is such a treat to hear them speak about the careful thought and thoughtful care they put into their work of teaching. Ed Summers: Kettle kettle boiling kitchen table two windows daylight reaching leaves kettle boiling   again ranti-10centuries-org-4743 ---- ranti.10centuries.org ranti.10centuries.org Eternally Yours on 10Centuries Keeping the Dream Alive - Freiheit I did not recall when the first time I heard it, but I remembered it was introduced by my cousin. This song from Münchener Freiheit became one of the songs I listen a lot. The lyrics (see below) resonate stronger nowadays. Keeping the Dream Alive (Single Version) Cover by David Groeneveld: Cover by Kim Wilde: Lyrics:Freiheit - Keeping The Dream Alive Tonight the rain is fallingFull of memories of people and placesAnd while the past is callingIn my fantasy I remember their faces The hopes we had were much too highWay out of reach but we had to tryThe game will never be overBecause we're keeping the dream alive I hear myself recallingThings you said to meThe night it all startedAnd still the rain is fallingMakes me feel the wayI felt when we parted The hopes we had were much too highWay out of reach but we have to tryNo need to hide no need to run'Cause all the answers come one by oneThe game will never be overBecause we're keeping the dream alive I need youI love you The game will never be overBecause we're keeping the dream alive The hopes we had were much too highWay out of reach but we had to tryNo need to hide no need to run'Cause all the answers come one by one The hopes we had were much too highWay out of reach but we had to tryNo need to hide no need to run'Cause all the answers come one by one The game will never be overBecause we're keeping the dream aliveThe game will never be overBecause we're keeping the dream alive The game will never be over… Lou Reed's Walk on the Wild Side If my memory serves me right, I heard about this Walk on the Wild Side song (wikipedia) sometime during my college year in the 90s. Of course, the bass and guitar reef were the one that captured my attention right away. At that time, being an international student here in the US, I was totally oblivious with the lyrics and the references on it. When I finally understood what the lyrics are about, listening to the song makes more sense. Here's the 1973 footage of the Walk on the Wild Side song (youtube) But what prompted me to write this was started by the version that Amanda Palmer sang for Neil Gaiman. I was listening to her CD "Several attempts to cover songs by the Velvet Underground & Lou Reed for Neil Gaiman as his birthday approaches" and one of the songs was Walk on the Wild Side. I like her rendition of the songs, which prompted me to find it on YouTube. Welp, that platform does not disappoint; it's a quite a nice piano rendition. Of course, like any other platform that wants you to stay there, YouTube also listed various Walk on the Wild Side cover songs. One of them is from Alice Phoebe Lou a singer-songwriter. Her rendition using a guitar is also quite enjoyable (youtube) and now I have a new singer-songwriter to keep an eye on. Among other videos that were listed on YouTube is the one that kinda blew my mind, Walk On The Wild Side - The story behind the classic bass intro featuring Herbie Flowers which explained that those are two basses layered on top of each other. Man, what a nice thing to learn something new about this song. :-) Tao Read it from the Lazy Yogi on climate change Read the whole poem TV News Archive from the Internet Archive I just learned about the existence of the TV News Archive (covering news from 2009 until the day before today's date) containing news shows from US TV such as PBS, CBS, ABC, FOXNews, CNN, etc. You can search by the captions. They also have several curated collections like news clips regarding NSA or snippets or TV around the world I think some of you might find this useful. Quite a nice collection, IMO. Public Domain Day (January 1, 2017): what could have entered it in 2017 and what did get released Copyright law is messy, yo. We won't see a lot of notable and important works entering public domain here in the US until 2019. Other countries, however, got to enjoy many of them first. Public Domain Reviews put a list of creators whose work are entering the public domain for Canada, European Union (EU), and many other countries (https://publicdomainreview.org/collections/class-of-2017/.) For those in EU, nice to see H.G. Wells name there (if UK do withdraw, this might end up not applicable to them. But, my knowledge about UK copyright law is zero, so, who knows.) As usual, Center of Study for the Public Domain from Duke University put a list of some quite well-known works that are still under the extended copyright restriction: http://web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicdomainday/2017/pre-1976. Those works would have been entered the public domain if we use the law that was applicable when they were published. I'm still baffled how current copyright hinders research done and published in 1960 to be made available freely. Greedy publishers… So, thanks to that, USA doesn't get to enjoy many published works yet. "Yet" is the operative word here because we don't know what the incoming administration would do on this topic. Considering the next POTUS is a businessman, I fear the worst. I know: gloomy first of the year thought, but it is what it is. On a cheerful side, check the list from John Mark Ockerbloom on his Online Books Project. It's quite an amazing project he's been working on. Of course, there are also writings made available from HathiTrust and Gutenberg Project, among other things. Here's to the next 365 days. xoxo for 2017 read the full poem light "Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it."― Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man dot-dot-dot More about Bertolt Brecht poem assistive technology Many people would probably think assistive technology (AT) are computer software, applications, or tools that are designed to help blind or deaf people. Typically, the first thing that one might have in mind was screen readers, braille display, screen magnifier app for desktop reading, or physical objects like hearing aid, wheel chair, or crutches, A lot of people probably won't think glasses as an AT. Perhaps because glasses can be highly personalized to fit one's fashion style. woodchuck There's a question how much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood. Obviously, a woodchuck would chuck wood as much wood as a woodchuck could. shrugs droplets The Story of the Chinese Farmer "You'll never know what would be the consequences of misfortune. Or, you'll never know what would be the consequences of good fortune." — Alan Watts Persistent bat is persistent For the last couple weeks or so, there's a bat that somehow managed to sneak in and hid somewhere in the house and then flew frantically in the living room every evening around this time of the day, causing the cats to run and jump around trying to catch it. We caught this bat every time and delivered it outside, hoping it would never return again. But it kept coming back. Now I am sort of giving up trying to catch it. Even the cats are no longer paying attention to the bat and just give this "meh" face when they spotted it. old window #garage ranti-10centuries-org-4785 ---- ranti.10centuries.org ranti.10centuries.org Eternally Yours on 10Centuries Home Articles Hello! Archives Contact Keeping the Dream Alive - Freiheit Written By ranti 2020-10-29T00:34:00Z I did not recall when the first time I heard it, but I remembered it was introduced by my cousin. This song from Münchener Freiheit became one of the songs I listen a lot. The lyrics (see below) resonate stronger nowadays. Keeping the Dream Alive (Single Version) Cover by David Groeneveld: Cover by Kim Wilde: Lyrics: Freiheit - Keeping The Dream Alive Tonight the rain is falling Full of memories of people and places And while the past is calling In my fantasy I remember their faces The hopes we had were much too high Way out of reach but we had to try The game will never be over Because we're keeping the dream alive I hear myself recalling Things you said to me The night it all started And still the rain is falling Makes me feel the way I felt when we parted The hopes we had were much too high Way out of reach but we have to try No need to hide no need to run 'Cause all the answers come one by one The game will never be over Because we're keeping the dream alive I need you I love you The game will never be over Because we're keeping the dream alive The hopes we had were much too high Way out of reach but we had to try No need to hide no need to run 'Cause all the answers come one by one The hopes we had were much too high Way out of reach but we had to try No need to hide no need to run 'Cause all the answers come one by one The game will never be over Because we're keeping the dream alive The game will never be over Because we're keeping the dream alive The game will never be over… Tags: (None) Edit Lou Reed's Walk on the Wild Side Written By ranti 2018-04-15T15:50:00Z If my memory serves me right, I heard about this Walk on the Wild Side song (wikipedia) sometime during my college year in the 90s. Of course, the bass and guitar reef were the one that captured my attention right away. At that time, being an international student here in the US, I was totally oblivious with the lyrics and the references on it. When I finally understood what the lyrics are about, listening to the song makes more sense. Here's the 1973 footage of the Walk on the Wild Side song (youtube) But what prompted me to write this was started by the version that Amanda Palmer sang for Neil Gaiman. I was listening to her CD "Several attempts to cover songs by the Velvet Underground & Lou Reed for Neil Gaiman as his birthday approaches" and one of the songs was Walk on the Wild Side. I like her rendition of the songs, which prompted me to find it on YouTube. Welp, that platform does not disappoint; it's a quite a nice piano rendition. Of course, like any other platform that wants you to stay there, YouTube also listed various Walk on the Wild Side cover songs. One of them is from Alice Phoebe Lou a singer-songwriter. Her rendition using a guitar is also quite enjoyable (youtube) and now I have a new singer-songwriter to keep an eye on. Among other videos that were listed on YouTube is the one that kinda blew my mind, Walk On The Wild Side - The story behind the classic bass intro featuring Herbie Flowers which explained that those are two basses layered on top of each other. Man, what a nice thing to learn something new about this song. :-) Tags: (None) Edit Tao Written By ranti 2018-01-01T20:54:00Z Read it from the Lazy Yogi Tags: (None) Edit on climate change Written By ranti 2017-01-25T02:23:00Z Read the whole poem Tags: (None) Edit TV News Archive from the Internet Archive Written By ranti 2017-01-13T18:12:00Z I just learned about the existence of the TV News Archive (covering news from 2009 until the day before today's date) containing news shows from US TV such as PBS, CBS, ABC, FOXNews, CNN, etc. You can search by the captions. They also have several curated collections like news clips regarding NSA or snippets or TV around the world I think some of you might find this useful. Quite a nice collection, IMO. Tags: (None) Edit Public Domain Day (January 1, 2017): what could have entered it in 2017 and what did get released Written By ranti 2017-01-01T17:33:00Z Copyright law is messy, yo. We won't see a lot of notable and important works entering public domain here in the US until 2019. Other countries, however, got to enjoy many of them first. Public Domain Reviews put a list of creators whose work are entering the public domain for Canada, European Union (EU), and many other countries (https://publicdomainreview.org/collections/class-of-2017/.) For those in EU, nice to see H.G. Wells name there (if UK do withdraw, this might end up not applicable to them. But, my knowledge about UK copyright law is zero, so, who knows.) As usual, Center of Study for the Public Domain from Duke University put a list of some quite well-known works that are still under the extended copyright restriction: http://web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicdomainday/2017/pre-1976. Those works would have been entered the public domain if we use the law that was applicable when they were published. I'm still baffled how current copyright hinders research done and published in 1960 to be made available freely. Greedy publishers… So, thanks to that, USA doesn't get to enjoy many published works yet. "Yet" is the operative word here because we don't know what the incoming administration would do on this topic. Considering the next POTUS is a businessman, I fear the worst. I know: gloomy first of the year thought, but it is what it is. On a cheerful side, check the list from John Mark Ockerbloom on his Online Books Project. It's quite an amazing project he's been working on. Of course, there are also writings made available from HathiTrust and Gutenberg Project, among other things. Here's to the next 365 days. xoxo Tags: (None) Edit for 2017 Written By ranti 2017-01-01T04:21:00Z read the full poem Tags: (None) Edit light Written By ranti 2016-12-11T03:22:00Z “Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.” ― Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man Tags: (None) Edit dot-dot-dot Written By ranti 2016-11-27T01:49:00Z More about Bertolt Brecht poem Tags: (None) Edit assistive technology Written By ranti 2016-09-12T16:35:00Z Many people would probably think assistive technology (AT) are computer software, applications, or tools that are designed to help blind or deaf people. Typically, the first thing that one might have in mind was screen readers, braille display, screen magnifier app for desktop reading, or physical objects like hearing aid, wheel chair, or crutches, A lot of people probably won't think glasses as an AT. Perhaps because glasses can be highly personalized to fit one's fashion style. 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At York University, he oversees the libraries’ preservation initiatives, along with creating and implementing systems that support the capture, description, delivery, and preservation of digital objects having significant content of enduring value. He was previously active in the Islandora and Fedora communities, serving as Project Director for the Islandora CLAW project, member of the Islandora Foundation’s Roadmap Committee and Board of Directors, and contributed code to the project. He has also served as the Release Manager for Islandora and Fedora, the moderator for the OCUL Digital Curation Community, the President of the Ontario Library and Technology Association, and President of McMaster University Academic Librarians’ Association. Interests Web archives Data analytics Distributed systems Information retrieval Digital preservation Education MLIS, 2007 Wayne State University Bachelor of Arts Political Science, Minor in History, 2004 University of Michigan-Dearborn Recent Publications More Publications Building community at distance: a datathon during COVID-19 Samantha Fritz, Ian Milligan, Nick Ruest, Jimmy Lin PDF Project Content-Based Exploration of Archival Images Using Neural Networks Tobi Adewoye, Xiao Han, Nick Ruest, Ian Milligan, Samantha Fritz, Jimmy Lin PDF Project Video The Archives Unleashed Project: Technology, Process, and Community to Improve Scholarly Access to Web Archives Nick Ruest, Jimmy Lin, Ian Milligan, Samantha Fritz PDF Project Video We Could, but Should We? Ethical Considerations for Providing Access to GeoCities and Other Historical Digital Collections Jimmy Lin, Ian Milligan, Douglas W. 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Feb 27, 2019 Workshop on Quantitative Analysis and the Digital Turn in Historical Studies Slides Make it WALK! May 10, 2018 Archives Association of Ontario 2018 Slides Hot Tips To Boost Your Interdisciplinary Web Archive Collaboration! Apr 17, 2018 Lewis & Ruth Sherman Centre for Digital Scholarship Speak Series Slides The World is a Beautiful and Terrible Place Mar 22, 2018 National Forum on Ethics and Archiving the Web Slides Video Boosting Your Interdisciplinary Web Archive Collaboration Feb 16, 2018 BC Research Libraries Group Lecture Series Slides Twitter and Web Archive Analysis at Scale Feb 14, 2018 Data Love-In 2018: A day of data management planning and conversations Slides Recent Posts More Posts Enhancing Archives Unleashed Toolkit Usability with Spark-Submit Originally posted here. Over the last month, we have put out several Toolkit releases. 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Cite × Copy Download planet-code4lib-org-6483 ---- Planet Code4Lib http://planet.code4lib.org Planet Code4Lib - http://planet.code4lib.org Digital Library Federation: Calls for Volunteers for 2021 Digital Preservation Conference https://www.diglib.org/calls-for-volunteers-for-2021-digital-preservation-conference/

    The NDSA calls for volunteers to join our Planning Committee for the 2021 Digital Preservation conference.

    Digital Preservation (DigiPres) is the NDSA’s annual conference – open to members and non-members alike – focused on stewardship, curation, and preservation of digital information and cultural heritage. The 2021 meeting will take place on November 10-11th 2021 in St. Louis, Missouri, just after the DLF Forum. 

    NDSA is an affiliate of the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) and the Digital Library Federation (DLF), and the DigiPres conference is held in concert with the annual DLF Forum. CLIR continues to monitor the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, and after successfully pivoting to a virtual format for 2020, will be making a call on this for 2021 by early spring 2021. 

    Planning Committee responsibilities include:

    • Defining a vision for the conference
    • Crafting and distributing a Call for Proposals
    • Reviewing and selecting proposals
    • Identifying a keynote speaker
    • Determining the conference schedule
    • Moderating sessions
    • Supporting membership through recruitment and mentorship efforts
    • Collaborating with the DLF Forum planning committee on community events, equity and inclusion, and sponsorship opportunities

    We expect to have monthly group calls from January-November, and this year’s committee will have an exciting opportunity to creatively sustain some of the conveniences and benefits of our virtual platform as we negotiate meeting in person again. 

    Join us by completing this form by Friday, January 15th, and please share widely.

    We look forward to working with you!

    Tricia Patterson, 2021 Chair

    Jes Neal, 2021 Vice Chair/2022 Chair

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    2020-12-14T15:06:09+00:00 kussmann Digital Library Federation: DLF Forum Community Journalist Reflection: Betsy Yoon https://www.diglib.org/dlf-forum-community-journalist-reflection-betsy-yoon/

    Betsy YoonThis post was written by Betsy Yoon (@betsyoon), who was selected to be one of this year’s virtual DLF Forum Community Journalists.

    Betsy Yoon (she/they) is an Adjunct Assistant Professor and OER/Reference Librarian at the College of Staten Island, CUNY and earned her MLIS in 2019. She also has a Master of International Affairs. She lives in occupied Lenapehoking and is a longtime member of Nodutdol, a grassroots organization of diasporic Koreans and comrades working to advance peace, decolonization, and self-determination on the Korean Peninsula and Turtle Island (North America). Interests include critical approaches to OER and openness, the free/libre software movement, understanding and addressing root causes over symptom management, and the role that libraries and archives can play in our collective liberation.


    One advantage of attending a virtual Forum is the fact that you no longer have to decide between two interesting panels that are happening at the same time. Before I realized that the sessions would be pre-recorded and available for viewing any time, I pored over the schedule trying to decide which of the two sessions to participate in per time block. What complicated my decision-making process was the fact that I was attending with two different angles. As a librarian, I do reference and work related to Open Educational Resources on my campus. But I am also part of Nodutdol(1), a community organization with a 20-year history in need of archiving and preservation. While not totally distinct (outreach is relevant for both roles, for instance), my two roles occasionally had divergent needs. For example, the Monday 5:00 pm session had both “Where It’s At: Using GIS Tools for Engagement and Outreach at an HBCU Library,” which seemed a good fit for my position in the academic library, and “Linked While Apart: Overcoming Division with Linked Data,” which seemed more applicable to my work with Nodutdol. So you can imagine my delight when I learned that not only would the sessions be available for asynchronous viewing, but that it would also be possible to engage in discussions about the panel on Slack.

    The panel that ended up being the most informative for my specific needs was “Finding a Good Fit: Scaling Best Practices for Born-Digital Material to Fit the Needs of Diverse Communities.” The presenters walked us through the process of setting up a small-scale digitization project and emphasized the iterative nature of the process. As a grassroots organization, we do not have the luxury of hiring digitization experts to guide us through the process, and it has been difficult to know how and where to get started. Margo Padilla’s saying that “good enough” digital preservation practices (as opposed to best practices) stood out to me as particularly relevant to my organization’s needs. The description of their organization’s custom modular setup and the numerous resources that the slides linked out to were also very helpful in offering some solid starting points to embark on a “good enough” digital preservation process.

    Cover of Nodutdol’s October 2020 born-digital zine, 제국의 제재, or Sanctions of Empire[image: Cover of Nodutdol’s October 2020 born-digital zine, 제국의 제재, or Sanctions of Empire]
    I also found the Learn@DLF sessions to be valuable in their specificity–in particular, I found the tools introduced in “Wax and Jekyll to build minimal digital projects” and “Oral History as data: Lightweight, static tool for publishing and analyzing transcripts” to be accessible in that they did not necessarily require investing time in a comprehensive platform or software and instead had relatively low barriers to entry. Wax, for example, describes itself as a “minimal computing project for producing digital exhibitions focused on longevity, low costs, and flexibility.” While not exactly the same, the spirit behind minimal computing reminded me of SPLOTs (what the acronym stands for is not yet fixed — one interpretation is Smallest Portable Open Learning Technology), which are intended to have low barriers to entry and “support more accessible, sustainable, and user-friendly ways to get publicly-engaged learning happening on the open web.” The question of platforms and sustainability is a topic that is directly relevant to my work in Open Educational Resources and with Nodutdol, and I always love to learn about technologies that provide access to knowledge creation mechanisms without locking you in to a specific system.

    Though the fact that this year’s DLF Forum was digital was due to the constraints of the pandemic, the thoughtful way in which the experience was designed was due to the efforts of the organizers. The asynchronous viewing options, the Slack interface, the provision of presentation slides and transcripts all made it possible for organizations such as mine to benefit from the expertise of the DLF community. While an in-person DLF Forum will no doubt have different considerations, I hope that some of the innovations of this year will be retained for future forums to ensure wide accessibility and participation from a wide variety of organizations and individuals. As a first-time DLF Forum participant, I am grateful to have been able to participate in this year’s virtual forum and look forward to continuing to learn from the DLF community!


    (1) Nodutdol is a grassroots organization of diasporic Koreans and comrades based in Lenapehoking/New York City seeking to advance peace, decolonization, and self-determination on the Korean Peninsula and on Turtle Island/North America. We advance our mission through political education, collective action, and principled solidarity.

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    2020-12-14T14:00:44+00:00 Gayle Hugh Rundle: For what we will https://www.hughrundle.net/for-what-we-will/

    A couple of months ago there was a ridiculous article on the ABC ostensibly about a four-day working week. It turns out that by "four day week" they mean "four ten hour days a week as long as the boss gets to decide what you're allowed to do on the other day". I work a real four-day week and it's certainly not that.

    "The last time we actually made a serious change to the working week was done by Henry Ford" claims the boss. Um no. He didn't even do that for Americans. Ford's offer in 1914 of an eight hour day only stood for "worthy" workers of the Ford Motor Company. This was a full fifty eight years after Melbourne's stonemasons had already successfully won an eight hour day for the same wages as the former ten hour working day. They did it by going on strike until their demands were met. In 1903 (eleven years before "Henry Ford gave us the eight hour day") Socialist Tom Mann unveiled the Eight Hours Monument near Victoria's Parliament House, celebrating the events of 1856 and the status quo fact of an eight hour working day for most workers in Victoria.

    Liam Hogan has already succinctly noted the core problem of "romance day", but it bears repeating. Bosses aren't doing you a favour when they "give" you some "time off". A job is labour time in exchange for money. Never mistake it for something else. There are certainly ways of organising human societies where you do have obligations to others when you're not working for them. Serfdom. Feudalism. Gift economies. Communalism. Mutual Aid. But we live under Capitalism. You don't owe your boss anything when you're not on the clock.

    Essential work

    Even with the "second wave" in Melbourne, Australia has been quite lucky with COVID-19 and avoided the sort of overwhelming chaos we see in Europe and the Americas. We're able to talk about "COVID recovery" already, and what it might look like. So far, it appears — perhaps unsurprisingly — our elites in politics and the media have learned nothing at all from the experience here or elsewhere. All talk is of "job creation" and that political staple, the "shovel ready project". Even Adam Bandt has gotten into the action, parroting the latest trends from the United States left and calling for a "Green New Deal" and "green jobs".

    Earlier this year there was some speculation about genetic factors being behind the much higher COVID-19 death rate for Black and South Asian Britons. But more recently it's become apparent that Africa — which Western health experts expected to be decimated by COVID — has on the contrary largely contained the virus much more effectively than other continents. So clearly African genes are playing a marginal role here, if any. The more recent evidence from Britain suggest that, unsurprisingly, the problem is simply that those from minority ethnicities are more likely to live in crappy houses with bad air quality, or work in the most dangerous, often low paid jobs. The UK government's own report notes:

    People who live in deprived areas have higher diagnosis rates and death rates than those living in less deprived areas. The mortality rates from COVID-19 in the most deprived areas were more than double the least deprived areas, for both males and females.
    ...High diagnosis rates may be due to geographic proximity to infections or a high proportion of workers in occupations that are more likely to be exposed.

    The pattern of second-wave infections in Melbourne was likewise all too obvious: the suburbs with the most frequent and large case clusters were those housing the most tenuously employed in the lowest paid jobs. It's marginalisation, not genes, that makes people more likely to get COVID.

    Staying at home and avoiding contact with potential infections is much easier when everyone is guaranteed to have a home, and doesn't have to worry about paying rent or a mortgage. Staying away from a crowded or dangerous workplace is easy for someone like me, in an office-based professional job. It's impossible for someone staring at eviction and hunger if they don't turn up, as is the case for abattoir and warehouse workers, or those without the right government paperwork.

    Work sucks

    And that's a problem, according to Martin Betts. The fact that I have some kind of job security, I mean. He thinks it would be much more "exciting" for us if all university staff were Uberised short-contract or sham contract workers, instead of the only 68% of us who already are. You will be shocked to learn Martin describes himself as a "strategic consultant" and "thought leader".

    It's the reliance on cash income and a market economy for every facet of life that has caused so much trouble in this pandemic and of course well before it. What, exactly, is so great about a "job"? Work sucks. Capitalists only ever got people to work for wages by violently cutting off access to systems of community sustenance, whether in the British Isles, North America, El Salvador, Australia or elsewhere. It's not "jobs" or "work" that people need. It's sustenance, meaning, and connection. Or as authors in Uneven Earth noted:

    The Coronavirus pandemic has clearly revealed the rather limited list of jobs and sectors that are essential for meeting society’s basic needs.

    A "sector" that has recently gained a lot of attention for all the wrong reasons is what is euphemistically called the "Care industry". When "economic growth" is prized above all other things due to a fantasy that it "improves living standards", we should expect to see something exactly like this. Socialised to follow individual lives in a system structured to make the alternative difficult, saddled with huge debts or outrageous rents in order to live in poorly constructed housing, and working unpredictable or inflexible schedules, we warehouse the old, the unwell, and disabled. In exchange for the work of providing for their needs on our behalf, other desperate workers are paid ever so slightly above minimum wage, with no prospect of promotion or progression. David Speers recently proposed that the solution to this depressing state of affairs is to double down. Steering unemployed young people into caring careers might just pay off he suggests. The only people who have "careers" that "pay off" in the "Care sector" are the executives in Head Office and the corporate Board members. Everybody else just has a shit job — often literally.

    A truly civilised society would see that care is essential, and Care is an abomination. That providing good housing for all is an obligation, and Real Estate is violence. That the health of the populace is largely determined by the health of the society they live in. It would work together rather than having jobs alone. It sure as hell wouldn't make you work ten hour days making shitty ads and call it romance.


    2020-12-13T23:53:39+00:00 Hugh Rundle Open Library: Importing your Goodreads & Accessing them with Open Library’s APIs https://blog.openlibrary.org/2020/12/13/importing-your-goodreads-accessing-them-with-open-librarys-apis/

    by Mek

    Today Joe Alcorn, founder of readng, published an article (https://joealcorn.co.uk/blog/2020/goodreads-retiring-API) sharing news with readers that Amazon’s Goodreads service is in the process of retiring their developer APIs, with an effective start date of last Tuesday, December 8th, 2020.

    Deprecation notice on Goodreads API documentationA screenshot taken from Joe Alcorn’s post

    The topic stirred discussion among developers and book lovers alike, making the front-page of the popular Hacker News website.

    Hacker News at 2020-12-13 1:30pm Pacific.

    The Importance of APIs

    For those who are new to the term, an API is a method of accessing data in a way which is designed for computers to consume rather than people. APIs often allow computers to subscribe to (i.e. listen for) events and then take actions. For example, let’s say you wanted to tweet every time your favorite author published a new book. One could sit on Goodreads and refresh the website every fifteen minutes. Or, one might write a twitter bot which automatically connects to Goodreads and checks real-time data using its API. In fact, the reason why Twitter bots work, is that they use Twitter’s API, a mechanism which lets specially designed computer programs submit tweets to the platform.

    As one of the more popular book services online today, tens of thousands of readers and organizations rely on Amazon’s Goodreads APIs to lookup information about books and to power their book-related applications across the web. Some authors rely on the data to showcase their works on their personal homepages, online book stores to promote their inventory, innovative new services like thestorygraph are using this data to help readers discover new insights, and even librarians and scholastic websites rely on book data APIs to make sure their catalog information is as up to date and accurate as possible for their patrons.

    For years, the Open Library team has been enthusiastic to share the book space with friends like Goodreads who have historically shown great commitment by enabling patrons to control (download and export) their own data and enabling developers to create flourishing ecosystems which promote books and readership through their APIs. When it comes to serving an audience of book lovers, there is no “one size fits all” and we’re glad so many different platforms and APIs exist to provide experiences which meet the needs of different communities. And we’d like to do our part to keep the landscape flourishing.

    “The sad thing is it [retiring their APIs] really only hurts the hobbyist projects and Goodreads users themselves.” — Joe Alcorn

    Picture of Aaron Swartz by Noah Berger/Landov from thedailybeast

    At Open Library, our top priority is pursuing Aaron Swartz‘s original mission: to serve as an open book catalog for the public (one page for every book ever published) and ensure our community always has free, open data to unlock a world of possibilities. A world which believes in the power of reading to preserve our cultural heritage and empower education and understanding. We sincerely hope that Amazon will decide it’s in Goodreads’ best interests to re-instate their APIs. But either way, Open Library is committed to helping readers, developers, and all book lovers have autonomy over their data and direct access to the data they rely on.

    One reason patrons appreciate Open Library is that it aligns with their values

    Imports & Exports

    In August 2020, one of our Google Summer of Code contributors Tabish Shaikh helped us implement an export option for Open Library Reading Logs to help everyone retain full control of their book data. We also created a Goodreads import feature to help patrons who may want an easy way to check which Goodreads titles may be available to borrow from the Internet Archive’s Controlled Digital Lending program via openlibrary.org and to help patrons organize all their books in one place. We didn’t make a fuss about this feature at the time, because we knew patrons have a lot of options. But things can change quickly and we want patrons to be able to make that decision for themselves.

    For those who may not have known, Amazon’s Goodreads website provides an option for downloading/exporting a list of books from one’s bookshelves. You may find instructions on this Goodreads export process here. Open Library’s Goodreads importer enables patrons to take this exported dump of their Goodreads bookshelves and automatically add matching titles to their Open Library Reading Logs.

    The Goodreads import feature from https://openlibrary.org/account/import

    Known issues. Currently, Open Library’s Goodreads Importer only works for (a) titles that are in the Open Library catalog and (b) which are new enough to have ISBNs. Our staff and community are committed to continuing to improve our catalog to include more titles (we added more than 1M titles this year) and we plan to improve our importer to support other ID types like OCLC and LOC.

    APIs & Data

    Developers and book overs who have been relying on Amazon’s Goodreads APIs are not out of luck. There are several wonderful services, many of them open-source, including Open Library, which offer free APIs:

    1. Wikidata.org (by the same group who brought us Wikipedia) is a treasure trove of metadata on Authors and Books. Open Library gratefully leverages this powerful resource to enrich our pages.
    2. Inventaire.io is a wonderful service which uses Wikidata and Openlibrary data (API: api.inventaire.io)
    3. Bookbrainz.org (by the group who runs Musicbrainz) is a up-and-coming catalog of books
    4. WorldCat by OCLC offers various metadata APIs

    Did we miss any? Please let us know! We’d love to work together, build stronger integrations with, and support other book-loving services.

    Open Library’s APIs. And of course, Open Library has a free, open, Book API which spans nearly 30 million books.

    Bulk Data. If you need access to all our data, Open Library releases a free monthly bulk data dump of Authors, Books, and more.

    Spoiler: Everything on Open Library is an API!

    One of my favorite parts of Open Library is that practically every page is an API. All that is required is adding “.json” to the end. Here are some examples:

    Search
    https://openlibrary.org/search?q=lord+of+the+rings is our search page for humans…
    https://openlibrary.org/search.json?q=lord+of+the+rings is our Search API!

    Books
    https://openlibrary.org/books/OL25929351M/Harry_Potter_and_the_Methods_of_Rationality is the human page for Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality…
    https://openlibrary.org/books/OL25929351M.json is its API!

    Authors
    https://openlibrary.org/authors/OL2965893A/Rik_Roots is a human readable author page…
    https://openlibrary.org/authors/OL2965893A.json and here is the API!

    Did We Mention: Full-text Search over 4M Books?

    Major hat tip to the Internet Archive’s Giovanni Damiola for this one: Folks may also appreciate the ability to full-text search across 4M of the Internet Archive’s books (https://blog.openlibrary.org/2018/07/14/search-full-text-within-4m-books) on Open Library:

    You can try it directly here:
    http://openlibrary.org/search/inside?q=thanks%20for%20all%20the%20fish

    As per usual, nearly all Open Library urls are themselves APIs, e.g.:
    http://openlibrary.org/search/inside.json?q=thanks%20for%20all%20the%20fish

    Get Involved

    Questions? Open Library is an free, open-source, nonprofit project run by the Internet Archive. We do our development transparently in public (here’s our code) and our community spanning more than 40 volunteers meets every week, Tuesday @ 11:30am Pacific. Please contact us to join our call and participate in the process.

    Bugs? If something isn’t working as expected, please let us know by opening an issue or joining our weekly community calls.

    Want to share thanks? Please follow up on twitter: https://twitter.com/openlibrary and let us know how you’re using our APIs!

    Thank you

    A special thank you to our lead developers Drini Cami, Chris Clauss, and one of our lead volunteer engineers, Aaron, for spending their weekend helping fix a Python 3 bug which was temporarily preventing Goodreads imports from succeeding.

    A Decentralized Future

    The Internet Archive has a history cultivating and supporting the decentralized web. We operate a decentralized version of archive.org and host regular meetups and summits to galvanize the distributed web community.

    In the future, we can imagine a world where no single website controls all of your data, but rather patrons can participate in a decentralized, distributed network. You may be interested to try Bookwyrm, an open-source decentralized project by Mouse, former engineer on the Internet Archive’s Archive-It team.

    2020-12-13T22:44:57+00:00 mek Andromeda Yelton: Though these be matrices, yet there is method in them. https://andromedayelton.com/2020/12/11/though-these-be-matrices-yet-there-is-method-in-them/

    When I first trained a neural net on 43,331 theses to make HAMLET, one of the things I most wanted to do is be able to visualize them. If word2vec places documents ‘near’ each other in some kind of inferred conceptual space, we should be able to see some kind of map of them, yes? Even if I don’t actually know what I’m doing?

    Turns out: yes. And it’s even better than I’d imagined.

    43,331 graduate theses, arranged by their conceptual similarity.

    Let me take you on a tour!

    Region 1 is biochemistry. The red dots are biology; the orange ones, chemistry. Theses here include Positional cloning and characterization of the mouse pudgy locus and Biosynthetic engineering for the assembly of better drugs. If you look closely, you will see a handful of dots in different colors, like a buttery yellow. This color is electrical engineering & computer science, and its dots in this region include Computational regulatory genomics : motifs, networks, and dynamics — that is to say, a computational biology thesis that happens to have been housed in computation rather than biology.

    The green south of Region 2 is physics. But you will note a bit of orange here. Yes, that’s chemistry again; for example, Dynamic nuclear polarization of amorphous and crystalline small molecules. If (like me), you almost majored in chemistry and realized only your senior year that the only chemistry classes that interested you were the ones that were secretly physics…this is your happy place. In fact, most of the theses here concern nuclear magnetic resonance applications.

    Region 3 has a striking vertical green stripe which turns out to be the nuclear engineering department. But you’ll see some orange streaks curling around it like fingers, almost suggesting three-dimensional depth. I point this out as a reminder that the original neural net embeds these 43,331 documents in a 52-dimensional space; I have projected that down to 2 dimensions because I don’t know about you but I find 52 dimensions somewhat challenging to visualize. However — just as objects may overlap in a 2-dimensional photo even when they are quite distant in 3-dimensional space — dots that are close together in this projection may be quite far apart in reality. Trust the overall structure more than each individual element. The map is not the territory.

    That little yellow thumb by Region 4 is mathematics, now a tiny appendage off of the giant discipline it spawned — our old friend buttery yellow, aka electrical engineering & computer science. If you zoom in enough you find EECS absolutely everywhere, applied to all manner of disciplines (as above with biology), but the bulk of it — including the quintessential parts, like compilers — is right here.

    Dramatically red Region 5, clustered together tightly and at the far end, is architecture. This is a renowned department (it graduated I.M. Pei!), but definitely a different sort of creature than most of MIT, so it makes sense that it’s at one extreme of the map. That said, the other two programs in its school — Urban Studies & Planning and Media Arts & Sciences — are just to its north.

    Region 6 — tiny, yellow, and pale; you may have missed it at first glance — is linguistics island, housing theses such as Topics in the stress and syntax of words. You see how there are also a handful of red dots on this island? They are Brain & Cognitive Science theses — and in particular, ones that are secretly linguistics, like Intonational phrasing in language production and comprehension. Similarly — although at MIT it is not the department of linguistics, but the department of linguistics & philosophy — the philosophy papers are elsewhere. (A few of the very most abstract ones are hanging out near math.)

    And what about Region 7, the stingray swimming vigorously away from everything else? I spent a long time looking at this and not seeing a pattern. You can tell there’s a lot of colors (departments) there, randomly assorted; even looking at individual titles I couldn’t see anything. Only when I looked at the original documents did I realize that this is the island of terrible OCR. Almost everything here is an older thesis, with low-quality printing or even typewriting, often in a regrettable font, maybe with the reverse side of the page showing through. (A randomly chosen example; pdf download.)

    A good reminder of the importance of high-quality digitization labor. A heartbreaking example of the things we throw away when we make paper the archival format for born-digital items. And also a technical inspiration — look how much vector space we’ve had to carve out to make room for these! the poor neural net, trying desperately to find signal in the noise, needing all this space to do it. I’m tempted to throw out the entire leftmost quarter of this graph, rerun the 2d projection, and see what I get — would we be better able to see the structures in the high-quality data if they had room to breathe? And were I to rerun the entire neural net training process again, I’d want to include some sort of threshhold score for OCR quality. It would be a shame to throw things away — especially since they will be a nonrandom sample, mostly older theses — but I have already had to throw away things I could not OCR at all in an earlier pass, and, again, I suspect the neural net would do a better job organizing the high-quality documents if it could use the whole vector space to spread them out, rather than needing some of it to encode the information “this is terrible OCR and must be kept away from its fellows”.


    Clearly I need to share the technical details of how I did this, but this post is already too long, so maybe next week. tl;dr I reached out to Matt Miller after reading his cool post on vectorizing the DPLA and he tipped me off to UMAP and here we are — thanks, Matt!

    And just as clearly you want to play with this too, right? Well, it’s super not ready to be integrated into HAMLET due to any number of usability issues but if you promise to forgive me those — have fun. You see how when you hover over a dot you get a label with the format 1721.1-X.txt? It corresponds to a URL of the format https://hamlet.andromedayelton.com/similar_to/X. Go play :).

    2020-12-11T21:08:19+00:00 Andromeda Digital Library Federation: DLF Forum Community Journalist Reflection: Carolina Hernandez https://www.diglib.org/dlf-forum-community-journalist-reflection-carolina-hernandez/

    Carolina HernandezThis post was written by Carolina Hernandez (@carolina_hrndz), who was selected to be one of this year’s virtual DLF Forum Community Journalists.

    Carolina Hernandez is currently an Instruction Librarian at the University of Houston where she collaborates on creating inclusive learning environments for students. Previously, she was the Journalism Librarian at the University of Oregon, where she co-managed the Oregon Digital Newspaper Program. Her MLIS is from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her current research interests are in critical information literacy, inclusive pedagogy, and most recently, the intersection of digital collections and pedagogy. 


    I have been interested in attending the DLF Forum for a few years now, but the timing was never quite right until this year. With the conference being both online and free, it was a no brainer for me to finally attend. Considering I am an Instruction Librarian, though, it may seem like an odd choice for me. However, in part because of my previous experience with curating the Oregon Digital Newspaper Project at the University of Oregon, I’ve been interested in exploring the many ways digital library technologies and digital collections themselves can be incorporated into information literacy instruction. With COVID-19 entirely moving our instruction to the online realm, this interest has become an imperative. This conference has confirmed for me that there are many ways these areas intersect and could inform my instructional approach.

    While many of the sessions I watched did not directly address pedagogy, there was still so much I was able to glean from the presentations that I could take back to my realm. The main thing that popped out at me was the way so many presenters addressed accessibility in one way or another. Of course, this stood out the most with the “Creating Accessible and Inclusive Content” combo session, which began with Rebecca Bayeck’s clarification of the difference between accessibility and inclusivity, two terms that are often used interchangeably. While accessibility is more about making sure that the final product is “usable by people with all abilities,” Bayeck made the important distinction that inclusivity goes a step beyond that to also make sure individuals “feel comfortable/safe when using [it].” This is something I try to keep in mind when lesson planning, how it’s important to not only make sure that students are able to access the learning materials in whatever way works best for them, but that they also find the relevance of information literacy to their own lives.

    In another presentation from this session, Daniella Levy-Pinto and Mark Weiler noted some of these issues, such as “unlabeled buttons or links,” which can be hard to identify properly for those using screen readers. In fact, several presenters and attendees emphasized the importance of testing platforms and content with screen readers. Carli Spina also spoke about the importance of including audio descriptions and transcripts for audio-video content and also mentioned specific tools, such as CADET, that can help create these necessary points of access. CADET, or Caption and Description Editing Tool, is free and allows you to create captions and timed scripts, but it can also be used to more easily add audio descriptions. 

    screenshot of the CADET interfaceScreenshot of the CADET interface. Image credit: Carli Spina

    It was helpful to see some of these accessibility best practices in action via the conference itself. Because presentations were recorded in advance, they were able to include both closed captioning and transcripts for each one. Conference coordinators encouraged attendees to make their postings in Slack accessible as well by including image descriptions whenever a picture was included. This emphasized for me how it’s not only important to create accessible learning materials, but to foster a community that encourages others to follow suit. It is a helpful model for my instruction team as we move forward with helping our liaison colleagues with their own instruction.

    As I’ve been considering how to build lesson plans and activities around digital collections, the other session that stood out to me was the panel “US Latino DH: Recovering the Past, Creating the Future.” The presenters Gabriela Baeza Ventura, Carolina Villarroel, Linda Garcia Merchant, and Lorena Gauthereau spoke about the US Latino Digital Humanities Program based at the University of Houston, my current institution. This made their work immediately relevant to mine, as they are already working with part of the same community I teach. What stood out to me most, though, was their use of “Omeka as Pedagogy.” Baeza Ventura talked about her specific experience with teaching an undergraduate class wherein students used Omeka to curate an exhibit, thus allowing them to “contribute to knowledge production.” This Freirean approach to teaching is very much in line with our instruction team’s programmatic information literacy outcomes, which focus on encouraging students to see themselves as information creators.

    With a lot about the coming year still up in the air, my team and I plan to continue our efforts to strengthen both the synchronous and asynchronous online learning content we offer as it seems likely the demand for online teaching will certainly not go away. I am looking forward to bringing a lot of these ideas from the DLF community back to my department and finding ways to incorporate them into our pedagogy.

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    2020-12-11T14:00:52+00:00 Gayle Lucidworks: How IoT & Industry 4.0 Relate — and Why Manufacturers Should Care https://lucidworks.com/post/how-are-iot-and-industry-4-related/

    Here’s the skinny on Industry 4.0 and the Internet of Things and what smart manufacturers are doing to leverage the data they both produce.

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    2020-12-10T15:00:00+00:00 Andrew C. Oliver Digital Library Federation: DLF Forum Community Journalist Reflection: Rebecca Bayeck https://www.diglib.org/dlf-forum-community-journalist-reflection-rebecca-bayeck/

    Rebecca BayeckThis post was written by Rebecca Bayeck (@rybayeck), who was selected to be one of this year’s virtual DLF Forum Community Journalists.

    Rebecca Y. Bayeck is a dual-PhD holder in Learning Design & Technology and Comparative & International Education from the Pennsylvania State University. Currently a CLIR postdoctoral fellow at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture where she engages in digital research, data curation, and inclusive design. Her interdisciplinary research is at the interface of several fields including the learning sciences, literacy studies, and game studies. At this intersection, she explores literacies and learning in games, particularly board games, the interaction of culture, space, and context on design, learning, research, literacies. 


    The year 2020 is, without a doubt, complex, filled with multiple challenges as well as opportunities. From remote working/online learning environments to conferencing in a virtual space, everyone has tried and is still trying to adjust to the “new normal” or maybe “new abnormal”. Among those adjusting to the world of social distancing is the Digital Library Federation (DLF) Forum. The 2020 DLF Forum was my first introduction to and participation in the work completed by this community of librarians and library enthusiasts.  

    The 2020 DLF Forum was in a virtual format. Though I would have loved to visit Baltimore, interact in-person with my CLIR cohort, and experience the food culture of Baltimore restaurants, the virtual space still provided a space for encounters and meaningful interactions. The conference organizers used two platforms: Aviary for pre-recorded presentation viewing and Slack for questions and dialogue with attendees. Both platforms created a unique and complimentary online experience. For instance, each video had captions and a downloadable transcript, making the content more accessible. Slack discussions created a sense of community, and gave me a sense of belonging through the interaction among participants. It was a common practice for participants through emojis to like, applaud, or reply to a post/comment (Figure 1).

    screenshot from #newcomers Slack channelFigure 1. Slack Newcomers Channel DLF 2020 Forms of Interaction

    Slack’s direct message option further personalized my experience of the online conference. I directly exchanged with some attendees, and established personal rapport. However, my major takeaway from the 2020 DLF Forum was inclusion, shown in the accessibility efforts deployed by the organizers, and in the diversity of topics covered by presenters. The conference brought to the forefront research/topics that have received less attention in the past, and should be discussed today across disciplines and fields. 

    Stacy Reardon and Michael Lange from UC Berkeley presentation on Can We Digitize This? Should We? Navigating Ethics, Law, and Policy in Bringing Collections to Digital Life was so inspiring. In my view, it captured the essence of digitization and how it should be done. It is important for individuals engaged in digitization efforts to always ask whether “the value to cultural communities, researchers, or the public outweighs the potential for harm or exploitation of the people, resources, or knowledge.”  It is about not harming or causing harm to the various stakeholders who will see or engage with our final product. This balancing principle can be applied to any research, design, development, or digitization endeavors. Paraphrasing Stacey Patton, 2020 DLF Forum plenary keynote speaker, “how the knowledge came about, [who it will harm, and who will claim ownership of it] is as important as the knowledge itself.” Juliet Hardesty from Indiana University’s presentation on Mitigating Bias Through Controlled Vocabularies gave a powerful insight into why it is important to incorporate community vocabulary to broaden access to knowledge/data, and fight biases. 

    Being a panelist in the session Creating accessible and inclusive content and presenting on Addressing Issues of Accessibility: Urgency in a World of Social Distancing, added to my experience. My interest in issues of accessibility for blind/low vision, deaf/hard of hearing individuals in this era of social distancing facilitated conversation with other session presenters on the accessibility of this conference for screen reader users. From our conversation, it became obvious that the organizers needed to be commended for providing scripts and captions for the recorded videos. Dee, who is blind and uses a screen reader to access contents, and Micky, who is sighted, but did use a screen reader said about their experiences: 

    Dee: I do appreciate knowing that there is a caption and there is like, the scripts and everything. It does make you feel more welcome and it does make you realize yes, they’re making an effort. Applause should be given for, you know, for the effort and definitely you know even the fact there is like, an accessibility session or stream, that’s important.

    Micky: But if I could say one thing is, I think, I know people were making efforts into making it accessible. I think applause is very much deserved. and I think keep, we got to keep trying and we gotta keep finding innovative ways of working together and collaborating. So I would want people to feel encouraged that there’s more work to be done. But let’s pursue it as a team and then pursue it together because it’s worth it.

    Nevertheless, Dee and Micky did have some suggestions for creating accessible conference experiences: 

    Dee: The first thing I may say would be to include in the planning committee. Kind of representation from all the groups that you would like to have at the conference, because they will help think about, in this case, about screen readers and which tool and will it be interactive and you know if we want to make it interactive, is there an option or how can we? You know, it’s necessary for someone to think about those things…ensure to have broad representation in the planning committee, or if not in the planning committee, make a point to reach out and consult. So, engage with people with lived experience of whatever the conference you know is trying to accomplish. 

    Micky:  If I could make a suggestion that might just be to have a panel with like, just in this particular case, disabled leaders in the GLAM field. you know there’s, I’m sure, a ton out there that would love to have a platform to share from the perspectives of making libraries you know, gallery’s archives, museums, accessible. Maybe, it’s inviting the leaders to come and present to the whole Forum.

    These suggestions for future conferences are so important because Dee and Micky had difficulties using their screen readers with Slack and Aviary. For instance, Dee, on the day of the panel, felt she cheated by relying on Micky and “by accessing the videos directly from the Google Drive not in Aviary because then I had to figure out where the play button was and like the website was a bit clunky with JAWS”. Having Slack and Aviary added:

    more things you need to interact with and like, I think we know that Slack is accessible, like it works with screen readers, because we could make it work, but really the extra time that you need to put into learning how to use it and use it effectively (Dee). 

    Regarding Slack, Micky said: 

    practice beforehand, which I think is helpful. If it was simpler that you could reduce that amount of time it takes to, that’s required to familiarize oneself…And then when it’s active, there’s another layer of complexity of  information overload too. Because of all that activity, I think it just took me a long time. I wonder how long it would take someone who didn’t have, you know, that was pursuing this independently.

    Attending the DLF Forum was inspiring not only in terms of the topics addressed, but also in the opportunity it created for me to gain insights into the conference experience of screen reader users. It is critical in the era of online conferences to take into consideration the experiences of these attendees in the choice of conference platforms. Much more can be said, and I believe it is important to not only design/plan for, but also design/plan with individuals with lived experiences (e.g., screen reader users, blind/low vision, deaf/hard of hearing, or individuals with cognitive abilities).

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    2020-12-10T14:00:02+00:00 Gayle Digital Library Federation: DLF Forum Community Journalist Reflection: Ana Hilda Figueroa de Jesús https://www.diglib.org/dlf-forum-community-journalist-reflection-ana-hilda-figueroa-de-jesus/

    Ana Hilda Figueroa de JesúsThis post was written by Ana Hilda Figueroa de Jesús, who was selected to be one of this year’s virtual DLF Forum Community Journalists.

    Ana Hilda Figueroa de Jesús will be graduating next spring from the Universidad de Puerto Rico in Río Piedras with a BA in History of Art. Her research interest focuses on education, accessibility and publicity of minority, revolutionary Puerto Rican art including topics such as race, gender and transnationalism. She has interned at Visión Doble: Journal of Criticism and History of Art, and volunteered at MECA International Art Fair 2019 and Instituto Nueva Escuela. Ana works as assistant for the curator and director of the Museum of History, Anthropology and Art at UPR. She is currently a Katzenberger Art History Intern at Smithsonian Libraries.


    Community, a repeated concept during the 2020 Virtual DLF Forum, transitioned from a word to a mantra. From my home in Puerto Rico, I listened and learned from peers who shared their professional and academic experiences. It was my first time attending this Forum. Lots of questions popped into my mind, particularly: Why would staff insist on creating a virtual “community,” of four days duration, with an audience currently experiencing and being exposed to social injustice within their surroundings and media? What does “building a community” mean? 

    Ana holding a coffee cup and smiling for a Forum photo booth imageI would like to thank the DLF staff’s commitment. When I received notice that I was selected as a Community Journalist, my first observation was my last name. The correct spelling and grammar of my name are much more than my cover letter, it represents and brings value to where I come from and those who came before me. I noticed the correct inclusion of the accent mark on “de Jesús.” In that moment I knew my voice would be respected in the discourse. The physical distance between attendees was no obstacle. The Forum implemented digital platforms such as Slack and Aviary. Presentations included transcripts and, since they were previously recorded, I could pause and rewind the video when a new term was introduced. If anyone had a tech problem or just wasn’t familiar with the apps, staff was available to help immediately. Each speaker mentioned their preferred pronouns and acknowledged the indigenous homelands from where they spoke. Being inclusive both in theory and practice was a priority. As a Puerto Rican woman of color with low resources, a first-generation college student and an undergraduate scholar, I saw benefit in this opportunity.  

    The Forum sessions reminded me of particular aspects of archives as spaces of data justice, cultural and social responsibility, knowledge production, and alternate historical narratives. In Mitigating Bias Through Controlled Vocabularies, Juliet Hardesty explained the importance of being conscious of racial categories, first nation groups, non-binary people, and others when including metadata such as subjects, genres, and languages. As an example, she discussed linked data across institutions and the distinction between “exactMatch” and “closeMatch.” Through this conference, I sought to learn and carry out new interdisciplinary perspectives in my roles as a Katzenberger Art History Intern at Smithsonian Institution Libraries and as an Assistant to the Curator and Director at the History, Anthropology and Art Museum of the University of Puerto Rico. One of the most relevant presentations for me was Curationist: Designing a Metadata Standard and Taxonomy for an Open Cultural Ecosystem by Sharon Mizota. She explained the anti-colonialist, anti-racist, feminist, queer, accessible, and multilingual lens of data. Also, she examined taxonomy guidelines that included sensitive subject areas. To illustrate this, she reflected on adopting the terms “Latinx” instead of “Latino” or “Hispanic,” and “homeless people” instead of “homelessness” or “tramp.” 

    I also attended discussions of human rights movements such as BLM, Community Activism and Digital Archiving in the Era of George Floyd. Other social matters were considered in the lightning talk titled Pandemic Pivot: How to Take Your Event Online, Reach New Audiences, and Build Even Stronger Communities, and the panel Creating a Virtual Community for Virtual Reality: Challenges and Solutions for Program Building During a Pandemic. Another engaging talk was US Latino Digital Humanities: Recovering the Past, Creating the Future. I would like to mention a crucial keynote by Dr. Linda Garcia Merchant when discussing Chicana feminist scholar Maria Cotera, [The importance of understanding] “the archive as a living active experience of “encuentro” between the present and the past, with the potential to enact new strategies of allegiance and a new praxis”. I believe that this idea of encounter is linked with the DLF Forum’s “building a community” proposal. screenshot of US Latino DH panel on AviaryWe must review our reactions and interactions with each other, including those within academia. Our involvement with the writing of histories makes us judges of how and what is told. Something I learned from this experience is that beyond our professional responsibilities, we have a social contract and accountability. Information must be accessible to traditionally marginalized public. Stories, agents and terms that once were excluded from the official narrative must be taken into consideration. The 2020 Virtual DLF Forum included more than spaces for education. It was about feedback, mutual aid, being open to new perspectives, and building a community.

     

     

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    2020-12-09T14:00:16+00:00 Gayle Lucidworks: Solr Streaming Expressions Enables Advanced Search and Filtering in Fitch Connect https://lucidworks.com/post/solr-streaming-expressions/

    Learn how Fitch Solutions used streaming expressions to search complex datasets.

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    2020-12-08T22:32:28+00:00 Sommer Antrim David Rosenthal: RISC vs. CISC https://blog.dshr.org/2020/12/risc-vs-cisc.html The architectural debate between Complex Instruction Set Computers (CISC) and Reduced Instruction Set Conputers (RISC) really took off in the 1980s:
    In particular, two projects at Stanford University and the University of California, Berkeley are most associated with the popularization of this concept. Stanford's MIPS would go on to be commercialized as the successful MIPS architecture, while Berkeley's RISC gave its name to the entire concept and was commercialized as the SPARC.
    For the last decade or more the debate has seemed frozen, with the CISC x86 architecture dominating the server and desktop markets, while the RISC ARM architecture dominated the mobile market. But two recent developments are shaking things up. Below the fold, some discussion.
    Source

    Last month, Apple announced three products, Mac Mini, Mac Air, and 13" Macbook Pro based on their ARM-based M1 chip to ecstatic reviews:
    the Mac mini (and its new MacBook Air and 13-inch MacBook Pro siblings) has Apple’s M1 system-on-a-chip, which includes an 8-core GPU, a CPU with four performance and four efficiency cores, a 16-core neural processing unit (NPU) called the Neural Engine, and a whole bunch of other stuff.

    Built on the ARM Instruction Set Architecture (ARM ISA), the M1 features 16 billion transistors and was manufactured in a 5nm process. According to Apple, each performance core in the M1 qualifies as the world’s fastest CPU core to date, while the efficiency cores match the performance of some recent Intel Macs.
    All three replace products using Intel x86 chips, and the head-to-head comparisons showed the RISC completely outclassing the CISC in a market segment it had dominated for decades. Clearly this is a big deal.

    Now, the are some obvious reasons why Intel is at a disadvantage in these comparisons. Apple's M1 is brand new, where the Intel chips are a couple of years old. And the M1 uses a 5nm process, where Intel has been struggling to upgrade its fabs:
    Intel's press release also says that yields for its 7nm process are now twelve months behind the company's internal targets, meaning the company isn't currently on track to produce its 7nm process in an economically viable way. The company now says its 7nm CPUs will not debut on the market until late 2022 or early 2023.
    But the M1 also compares well to AMD's 7nm x86 CPUs so this isn't the whole explanation. Erik Engheim's Why is Apple’s M1 Chip So Fast? provides an excellent explanation for the lay audience. He starts from the basics (What is a Microprocessor (CPU)?) and goes on to explain that whereas Intel and AMD make CPUs that others build into systems such as PCs and servers, Apple makes systems that are implemented as a single chip, a System-on-Chip (SoC). Apple can do this where Intel and AMD can't because the SoC isn't their product, their product is a Mac that includes a SoC as a component.

    One thing we understood when we started Nvidia more than a quarter of a century ago was that custom silicon to perform critical functions, such as 3D graphics, was an essential component of a PC. But the custom silicon had to be a separate chip. We used a state-of-the-art 500nm process. At 5nm Apple can put 10,000 times as many gates in the same chip area. So Apple can include the precise set of additional custom processors that match the needs to the product. In this case, not just 8 GPU cores, 16 Neural Engine cores, but also two different implementations of the ARM architecture, 4 optimized for speed and 4 optimized for efficiency to extend battery life.

    Engheim explains the two main ways of making CPUs faster using the same process and the same clock rate, multiple cores and out-of-order execution, and their limitations. In the server space, having lots of cores makes a lot of sense; the demand is for many simultaneous tasks from many simultaneous users, and the alternative to adding cores to a CPU is to add CPUs to a server, which is more expensive.

    But in the PC space there is only one user, and although the demand will be for several simultaneous threads, once that demand is satisfied extra cores provide no benefit. The M1's 8 cores are probably more than enough, which is indicated by Apple envisaging that, most of the time, the 4 low-power "efficiency" cores will do all the work. Note that, in adding cores, the only advantage RISC provides is that the simpler instruction set should make each core a bit smaller. Not a big deal.

    But for compute-intensive tasks such as games, the other 4 cores need to be fast. Which is where out-of-order execution comes in, and RISC turns out to have a big advantage. Out-of-order execution means that instructions are fetched from memory, then decoded into "micro-operations", which can be thought of as instructions for the individual components of the core. The micro-operations are stored in a Re-Order Buffer (ROB), together with information about what data they need, and whether it is available. Instead of executing the micro-operations for each instruction, then executing the micro-operations for the next instruction, the core looks through the ROB finding micro-operations that have all the data they need and executing them. It does instructions as soon as it can, not waiting until the instruction before is complete.

    Engheim explains the importance of the difference between the x86 ROB and the M1's:
    It is because the ability to run fast depends on how quickly you can fill up the ROB with micro-ops and with how many. The more quickly you fill it up and the larger it is the more opportunities you are given to pick instructions you can execute in parallel and thus improve performance.

    Machine code instructions are chopped into micro-ops by what we call an instruction decoder. If we have more decoders we can chop up more instructions in parallel and thus fill up the ROB faster.

    And this is where we see the huge differences. The biggest, baddest Intel and AMD microprocessor cores have four decoders, which means they can decode four instructions in parallel spitting out micro-ops.

    But Apple has a crazy eight decoders. Not only that but the ROB is something like three times larger. You can basically hold three times as many instructions. No other mainstream chipmaker has that many decoders in their CPUs.
    RISC is the reason the M1 can have more decoders than x86. Engheim explains:
    You see, for x86 an instruction can be anywhere from 1–15 bytes long. On a RISC chip instructions are fixed size. Why is that relevant in this case?

    Because splitting up a stream of bytes into instructions to feed into eight different decoders in parallel becomes trivial if every instruction has the same length.

    However, on an x86 CPU, the decoders have no clue where the next instruction starts. It has to actually analyze each instruction in order to see how long it is.

    The brute force way Intel and AMD deal with this is by simply attempting to decode instructions at every possible starting point. That means we have to deal with lots of wrong guesses and mistakes which has to be discarded. This creates such a convoluted and complicated decoder stage that it is really hard to add more decoders. But for Apple, it is trivial in comparison to keep adding more.

    In fact, adding more causes so many other problems that four decoders according to AMD itself is basically an upper limit for how far they can go.
    The result is that the M1's fast cores are effectively processing instructions twice as fast as Intel's and AMD's at the same clock frequency. And their efficiency cores are processing about as many using much less power.

    Using much less power for the same workload is one of the main reasons ARM dominates the mobile market, where battery life is crucial. That brings us to the second interesting recent RISC development. ARM isn't the only RISC architecture, it is just by a long way the most successful. Among the others with multiple practical implementations, RISC-V is I believe unique; it is the only fully open-source RISC architecture.

    Source
    In New RISC-V CPU claims recordbreaking performance per watt Jim Salter reports on a new implementation of RISC-V that claims extraordinarily low power for quite respectable performance. Micro Magic's:
    new prototype CPU, which appears to be the fastest RISC-V CPU in the world. Micro Magic adviser Andy Huang claimed the CPU could produce 13,000 CoreMarks (more on that later) at 5GHz and 1.1V while also putting out 11,000 CoreMarks at 4.25GHz—the latter all while consuming only 200mW. Huang demonstrated the CPU—running on an Odroid board—to EE Times at 4.327GHz/0.8V and 5.19GHz/1.1V.

    Later the same week, Micro Magic announced the same CPU could produce over 8,000 CoreMarks at 3GHz while consuming only 69mW of power.
    Some caveats are necessary:
    • The chip is a single-core prototype.
    • The Micro Magic benchmarks are claimed, not independently verified.
    • The Coremark benchmark is an industry standard for embedded systems, it isn't an appropriate benchmark for PC-type systems such as use the CPUs Salter is comparing it to.
    • The power efficiency is impressive, but the raw single-core performance is merely interesting. At 5GHz it is about 1/3 the performance of one of the M1's four fast cores.
    It is worth noting that the RISC-V architecture has multiple instruction lengths, just much less baroque ones than x86. So the ROB advantage may be less. Nevertheless, if Micro Magic's customers can deliver multi-core SoC products they should provide much more compute for the same power as current embedded chips. Salter is cautiously optimistic:
    All of this sounds very exciting—Micro Magic's new prototype is delivering solid smartphone-grade performance at a fraction of the power budget, using an instruction set that Linux already runs natively on.
    ...
    Micro Magic intends to offer its new RISC-V design to customers using an IP licensing model. The simplicity of the design—RISC-V requires roughly one-tenth the opcodes that modern ARM architecture does—further simplifies manufacturing concerns, since RISC-V CPU designs can be built in shuttle runs, sharing space on a wafer with other designs.
    ...
    Still, this is an exciting development. Not only does the new design appear to perform well while massively breaking efficiency records, it's doing so with a far more ideologically open design than its competitors. The RISC-V ISA—unlike x86, ARM, and even MIPS—is open and provided under royalty-free licenses.
    P.S: more evidence of M1's impressive performance in Liam Tung's AWS engineer puts Windows 10 on Arm on Apple Mac M1 – and it thrashes Surface Pro X. The Surface Pro X uses an ARM chip co-developed by Qualcomm and Microsoft.

    2020-12-08T16:07:19+00:00 David. (noreply@blogger.com) Digital Library Federation: DLF Forum Community Journalist Reflection: Arabeth Balasko https://www.diglib.org/dlf-forum-community-journalist-reflection-arabeth-balasko/

    Arabeth BalaskoThis post was written by Arabeth Balasko, who was selected to be one of this year’s virtual DLF Forum Community Journalists.

    Arabeth Balasko (she/her) is an archivist and historian dedicated to public service and proactive stewardship. As a professional archivist, her overarching goals are to curate collections that follow a shared standardization practice, are user-centric, and are searchable and accessible to all via physical and digital platforms.

    She believes that an archive should be a welcoming place for all people and should be an inclusive environment which advocates to collect, preserve, and make accessible the stories and histories of diverse voices. By getting individuals involved in telling THEIR story and making THEIR history part of the ever-growing story of humanity, we all win!


    The Dawn of the Great Archival Shift

    Over centuries, archives and archivists have been heralded as the keepers, the stewards of records, stories, and collective memory. However, at times this stewardship has come from a place of exclusion, centered heavily around white, English-speaking experiences. Countless stories, memories, and events have been omitted from the larger historical narrative or have been rewritten from a skewed perspective.

    Now (and unfortunately for centuries) racism and police brutality has permeated our country’s history. Lack of racial equity has led to whitewashed and white supremacy-based collection policies that are geared towards uplifting and showcasing one-sided narratives, while often overlooking, overwriting, and suppressing contributions and accolades of Black, Indigenous, and People of Color.

    So many times, it is easier for folks in the GLAM sectors to claim neutrality, to leave it to the next generation, to look the other way, and focus only on the past and occasionally, the present. From being overworked, under-supported, and oftentimes misunderstood, archivists have grown tired, and with tiredness comes apathy. Other times it is simply not knowing what to do and/or not having the “authority” to make actual changes in an organization. This too leads to burnout, turnover, and once again, apathy. The humanities profession’s lack of diversity and equity has engrained a culture of dysfunction in several of the GLAM organizations across the country.

    During the 2020 DLF Forum, it was apparent that I was not the only person who felt this way. Several of the sessions focused on how to become a more proactive, mindful, and accountable steward, while also taking care of your own mental health and well-being. From practicing mindfulness and relaxation techniques, to reflecting upon language choices in metadata and/or finding aids, to reviewing your institution’s digitally available content for equity and inclusiveness; this conference truly spoke to my soul in many different ways. However, during the conference, one overarching question that I continued asking myself was – “How can I, as an archivist, ensure that all folks feel represented in an archive? Is this possible?” Upon a week’s reflection and allowing myself some time to digest the rich information and ideas posed during these diverse sessions, I came to reframe my question as, “What can we as archivists do to support the fight for archival equity?”

    In my opinion, one big step archival repositories and the archivists in those repositories can take is to not promote the idea of neutrality. Oftentimes, archives can shy away from hard histories, hard conversations – they can minimize hurts, and maximize virtues, but I feel that is a misstep. History is ugly, sad, beautiful, heartwarming, heartbreaking, and real. It happened. You cannot change that. BUT you can work to showcase how it happened, why it happened, and help reshape it for today’s generation through modernized lenses. By uplifting the stories and voices of BIPOC folks, which have traditionally been omitted from the collected narrative for centuries, and reinterpreting and reclaiming the stories of those lost, overwritten, and marginalized throughout history, archival repositories can truly become beacons of change throughout the GLAM sectors.

    Many folks, especially those who identify as BIPOC, feel they are not represented in an archive – or if they are, their stories and experiences have been retold without their voice, their input, or their permission. As an archivist it is so important to work to build relationships and connections with communities and foster and tend to those relationships over the years. So many times, archival organizations take on collections, sign deeds of gift, and then the relationship ends. I think this is a huge misstep for any archival repository. By investing in communities – communities will invest in you. With each new generation comes new opportunities to promote equity and accountability throughout archival repositories. Each generation of archivists should be reflecting and reevaluating how stories are (and traditionally have been) collected, maintained, presented, and made (or not made) accessible.

    I cannot tell you how many times I have worked with patrons, students, and volunteers, who have expressed to me that they feel that they are not represented, they are not “seen” amongst the archival collections they are exploring. It truly breaks my heart, and it means that we, as archival professionals are falling short, and we need to do better and be better for ALL users. I feel that inclusivity is key to create a well-rounded narrative, where users/patrons/researchers/etc. can “see themselves” reflected in the archives and collections.

    It has been my experience that when someone feels invested in and has input to how they are being represented, there is a higher propensity for folks to champion for the survival and continuation of an archive. By getting community members and groups invested in telling their story, identifying themselves in their own way and own language/words, and by not leaving it up to the archivist to make assumptions, collections that are taken in become more authentic and personal.

    During this conference, I also reflected a lot on the right to be remembered and the right to be forgotten. Nobody owes anyone their story. It is so important for archivists (including myself) to remember that. Some stories are too painful for folks to share, some are not ready (and may never be), and some are willing to share it all! No user/donor/patron is alike, and as an archivist, it is important that you do not assign a “predetermined scenario” to each interaction. By creating meaningful relationships, where you are invested in more than just acquiring the “stuff” from the donor, you really can create life-long partnerships, camaraderie, and friendships with users of your repository!

    Archives are not neutral – and they never should be. There is a lot of repair work that needs to be done, and it can be done, it just takes folks who are dedicated to making fundamental changes. I was honestly inspired to find like-minded souls at this conference, and for that, I am hopeful that a great archival shift is on the horizon. It is truly great to see archivists and other humanities professionals in action advocating for change and demanding equity checks and re-evaluation of how things “have always been.”

    I reflected on the fact that there really are some great opportunities to make proactive changes and create an archive that is more equitable and accessible for all users – an archive of the future. For me, it is all connected – by investing in equity you invest in accessibility – when you invest in communities you have the chance to grow your repository’s stories and collection scope!

    The archives truly are for EVERYONE! And, as the great Tupac Shakur says, “You see the old way wasn’t working, so it’s on us to do what we gotta do, to survive.” My hope is that archivists work to make any and all fundamental changes needed, to ensure that an equitable, inclusive, and diverse narrative survives for the future generations to come.

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    2020-12-08T14:00:19+00:00 Gayle Ed Summers: 25 for 2020 https://inkdroid.org/2020/12/07/top-25/

    An obvious follow on from my last post is to see what my top 25 albums of the year are. In the past I’ve tried to mentally travel over the releases of the past year to try to cook up a list. But this year I thought it would be fun to use the LastFM API to look at my music listening history for 2020, and let the data do the talking as it were.

    The first problem that while LastFM is a good source of my listening history its metadata for albums seems quite sparse. The LastFM album.getInfo API call doesn’t seem to return the year the album was published. The LastFM docs indicate that a releasedate property is available, but I couldn’t seem to find it either in the XML or JSON responses. Maybe it was there once and now is gone? Maybe there’s some trick I was overlooking with the API? Who knows.

    So to get around this I used LastFM to get my listening history, but then the Discogs API to fetch metadata for a specific album using their search endpoint. LastFM includes MusicBrainz identifiers for tracks and most artists and albums. So I could have used those to look up the album using the MusicBrainz API. But I wasn’t sure if I would find good release dates there either as their focus seems to be on recognizing tracks, and linking them to albums and artists. Discogs is a superb human curated database, like a Wikipedia for music aficionados. Their API returns a good amount of information for each album, for example:

    So I created a small function that looks up an artist/album combination using the Discogs search API. I applied the function to the Pandas DataFrame of my listening history, which was grouped by artist and album. When I ran this across the 1,312 distinct albums I listened to in 2020 I actually ran into a handful of albums (86) that didn’t turn up at Discogs. I had actually listened to some of these albums quite often, and wanted to see if they were from 2020. I figured that these probably were obscure things I picked up on Bandcamp. Knowing the provenance of data is important.

    Bandcamp is another wonderful site for music lovers. It has an API too, but you have to write to them to request a key because it’s mostly designed for publishers that need to integrate their music catalogs with Bandcamp. I figured this little experiment wouldn’t qualify so I wrote a quick little scraping function that does a search, finds a match, and extracts the release date from the album’s page on the Bandcamp website. This left just four things that I listened just a handful of times,which have since disappeared from Bandcamp (I think).

    What I thought would be an easy little exercise with the LastFM API actually turned out to require me to talk to the Discogs API, and then scraping the Bandcamp website. So it goes with data analysis I suppose. If you want to see the details they are in this Jupyter notebook. And so, without further ado, here are my to 25 albums of 2020.

    2020-12-08T01:58:23+00:00 Samvera: Save the Date for Samvera Virtual Connect 2021 https://samvera.org/2020/12/07/save-the-date-april-20-21-2021-for-samvera-virtual-connect/

    Mark your calendar for Samvera Virtual Connect 2021!
    Tuesday, April 21 – Wednesday, April 22, 2021 
    11:00 AM – 2:00 PM EDT / 8:00 AM – 11:00 AM PDT / 16:00-19:00 BST / 15:00-18:00 UTC

    Watch for more information coming in early 2021 including a call for Program Committee participation and a call for proposals.

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    2020-12-07T21:33:52+00:00 Heather Greer Klein Digital Library Federation: DLF Forum Community Journalist Reflection: Jocelyn Hurtado https://www.diglib.org/dlf-forum-community-journalist-reflection-jocelyn-hurtado/

    Jocelyn HurtadoThis post was written by Jocelyn Hurtado, who was selected to be one of this year’s virtual DLF Forum Community Journalists.

    Jocelyn Hurtado is a native Miamian who worked as an archivist at a community repository for four year. She is experienced in working with manuscript, art and artifact collections pertaining to a community of color whose history has often been overlooked. Ms. Hurtado, understands the responsibility and the significance of the work done by community archivists and has seen firsthand that this work not only affects the present-day community but that it will continue to have a deep-rooted impact on generations to come.

    Ms. Hurtado also has experience promoting collections through exhibits, presentations, instructional sessions, and other outreach activities which includes the development and execution of an informative historical web-series video podcast. 

    Ms. Hurtado earned her Associate Degree in Anthropology from Miami-Dade College and a Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology from the University of Florida. She also completed the Georgia Archives Institute Program. 


    This year has been full of new experiences and we all have faced the challenges of adapting to the new professional realities of relying on technology to complete our work, promoting the goals of our organization all while staying connected with communities we serve virtually. Our phones and laptops are now on the top of the list of tools we cannot function without and it’s arguably just as valuable as a pencil or finding aid to an archivist, at least from my own personal experience. As a first-time attendee and a community journalist, I was excited and unsure of how the 2020 DLF Forum would operate on a virtual platform. Like millions around the world I’ve been working remotely for months and learned to adapt but I was still hesitant on how attendees would be able to truly connect to the panelist, fellow attendees and with the subject of each talk remotely. It is no secret that librarians, archivists, historians or anyone in a related field have a tendency to be introverted and from my own personal experience starting a conversation, connecting with others and networking can be stressful. However, I was quickly positively surprised on how easy it was to start a conversation at the conference. I enjoyed the Slack application in which attendees were able to share thoughts, ideas and pose questions about each session. I certainly viewed more opinions, concepts and panels virtually than I probably would have in person. I liked the fact that I could have access to the sessions anytime which is great for anyone who has a busy schedule as well as any problems accessing the videos due to the digital divide caused by finances or other factors such as remoteness or environmental factors such as hurricanes or storms.

    In the opening plenary I was delighted to hear the acknowledgement of the indigenous people and their lands in regards to the location of the original conference and area that was being discussed. The keynote speaker, Dr. Stacy Patton, was simply incredible and asked us to grapple with a very important question: Do Black Lives Matter in galleries, libraries, archives and museums? I believe we all know and can say historically the answer is no, black lives have systematically been erased and unwelcome in these spaces. 2020 has become the year of reckoning for some institutions and for many in this field that have been part of this problem. Thus, the question becomes what now? How can meaningful and genuine change come about? There is no one size fits all plan and up to in the field to do the work and realize there will never be a timeline or an exact moment where it will be marked as done. I had the opportunity to ask Dr. Patton a question and was also able to see other questions posed by fellow attendees. It created a hub for sharing experiences and problems encountered in our own institutions which was able to foster a connected moment and experience.

    Dr. Patton hit the nail on the head when reciting the Claude McKay poem, “If We Must Die.” It was a couple of days before Election Day and oh how the words aptly describe the current era and the rawness of it all. During her speech I reflected on the work of Schomberg and many other black intellectuals whose worked and made centers were black lives do matter and their stories were properly preserved. I also reflected on my experience working at a black community repository, in a space made for black lives to matter. I also recognize another important question: Which Black Lives Matter in these spaces? Women, individuals overlooked due to their sexual orientation, and those from a lower socioeconomic status or position have had their stories overlooked. There is so much work to be done and this has encouraged and highlighted the importance of pushing the boundaries and the sharing of ideas.

    The Recording Restorative Justice and Accountability: The Burnham-Nobles Digital Archive presented by Gina Nortonsmith, Raymond Wilkes, Amanda Rust and Drew Facklam was inspiring. The work done by the team of telling the stories of victims and giving a voice is imperative. Prior to this session I did not know of The Civil Rights and the Restorative Justice Project and was glad to learn about the research being conducted along with support policy initiatives on racial hate crimes during the Jim Crow Era and that justice is still being pursued for the victims and their families. The statement “I like to think of the investigator as the foundation for an archive, while the archivist is the architect and engineer, providing structure and organization in order to complete the building, i.e. the archive” by Raymond Wilkes beautifully explained the importance of the collaborative efforts and the relationship member of the team had to the task.

    I am looking forward to next year’s DLF Forum and hope/expect it to continue the focus on the community.

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    2020-12-07T14:00:52+00:00 Gayle ZBW German National Library of Economics: Building the SWIB20 participants map http://zbw.eu/labs/en/blog/building-the-swib20-participants-map

     SWIB20 participant map

    Here we describe the process of building the interactive SWIB20 participants map, created by a query to Wikidata. The map was intended to support participants of SWIB20 to make contacts in the virtual conference space. However, in compliance with GDPR we want to avoid publishing personal details. So we choose to publish a map of institutions, to which the participants are affiliated. (Obvious downside: the 9 un-affiliated participants could not be represented on the map).

    We suppose that the method can be applied to other conferences and other use cases - e.g., the downloaders of scientific software or the institutions subscribed to an academic journal. Therefore, we describe the process in some detail.

    1. We started with a list of institution names (with country code and city, but without person ids), extracted and transformed from our ConfTool registration system, saved it in CSV format. Country names were normalized, cities were not (and only used for context information).

    2. We created an OpenRefine project, and reconciled the institution name column with Wikidata items of type Q43229 (organization, and all its subtypes). We included the country column (-> P17, country) as relevant other detail, and let OpenRefine “Auto-match candidates with high confidence”. Of our original set of 335 country/institution entries, 193 were automaticaly matched via the Wikidata reconciliation service. At the end of the conference, 400 institutions were identified and put on the map (data set).

    3. We went through all un-matched entries and either
      a) selected one of the suggested items, or
      b) looked up and tweaked the name string in Wikidata, or in Google, until we found an according Wikipedia page, openend the linked Wikidata object from there, and inserted the QID in OpenRefine, or
      c) created a new Wikidata item (if the institution seemed notable), or
      d) attached “not yet determined” (Q59496158) where no Wikidata item (yet) exists, or
      e) attached “undefined value” (Q7883029) where no institution had been given

    4. The results were exported from OpenRefine into a .tsv file (settings)

    1. Again via a script, we loaded ConfTool participants data, built a lookup table from all available OpenRefine results (country/name string -> WD item QID), aggregated participant counts per QID, and loaded that data into a custom SPARQL endpoint, which is accessible from the Wikidata Query Service. As in step 1, for all (new) institution name strings, which were not yet mapped to Wikidata, a .csv file was produced. (An additional remark: If no approved custom SPARQL endpoint is available, it is feasible to generate a static query with all data in it’s “values” clause.)

      SWIB20 map data flow
    2. During the preparation of the conference, more and more participants registered, which required multiple loops: Use the csv file of step 5 and re-iterate, starting at step 2. (Since I found no straightforward way to update an existing OpenRefine project with extended data, I created a new project with new input and output files for every iteration.)

    3. Finally, to display the map we could run a federated query on WDQS. It fetches the institution items from the custom endpoint and enriches them from Wikidata with name, logo and image of the institution (if present), as well as with geographic coordinates, obtained directly or indirectly as follows:
      a) item has “coodinate location” (P625) itself, or
      b) item has “headquarters location” item with coordinates (P159/P625), or
      c) item has “located in administrative entity” item with coordinates (P131/P625), or
      c) item has “country” item (P17/P625)
      Applying this method, only one institution item could not be located on the map.

    SWIB20 participant map - detail

    Data improvements

    The way to improve the map was to improve the data about the items in Wikidata - which also helps all future Wikidata users.

    New items

    For a few institutions, new items were created:

    For another 14 institutions, mostly private companies, no items were created due to notability concerns. Everything else already had an item in Wikidata!

    Improvement of existing items

    In order to improve the display on the map, we enhanced selected items in Wikidata in various ways:

    • Add English label
    • Add type (instance of)
    • Add headquarter location
    • Add image and/or logo

    And we hope, that participants of the conference also took the opportunity to make their institution “look better”, by adding for example an image of it to the Wikidata knowledge base.

    Putting Wikidata into use for a completely custom purpose thus created incentives for improving “the sum of all human knowledge” step by tiny step.

     

     

     

    2020-12-07T12:22:55+00:00 Joachim Neubert Ed Summers: Diss Music https://inkdroid.org/2020/12/05/diss-music/

    I recently defended my dissertation, and am planning to write a short post here with a synopsis of what I studied. But before that I wanted to do a bit of navel gazing and examine the music of my dissertation.

    To be clear, my dissertation has no music. It’s one part discourse analysis, two parts ethnographic field study, and is comprised entirely of text and images bundled into a PDF.

    But over the last 5 years as I took classes, wrote papers, conducted research and did the final write up my research results I was almost always listening to music.

    I spent a lot of time on weekends in the tranquil workspaces of the Silver Spring Public Library. After the Coronavirus hit earlier this year I spent more time surrounded by piles of books in my impromptu office in the basement of my house. But wherever I found myself working music was almost always on.

    I leaned heavily on Bandcamp over this time period, listening and then purchasing music I enjoyed. Bandcamp is a truly remarkable platform for learning about new music from people whose tastes align with yours. My listening habits definitely trended over this time towards instrumental, experimental, found sound and ambient, partly because lyrics can distract me if I’m writing or reading.

    I’m also a long time LastFM user. So all the music I listened to over this period was logged (or “scrobbled”). LastFM have an API so I thought it would be fun to create a little report of the top albums I listened to each month of my dissertation.

    So this is the music of my dissertation–or the hidden soundtrack of my research, between August 2015 and November 2020. You can see how I obtained the information from the API in this Jupyter notebook. But the results are here below.

    2015-08
    White Rainbow / Thru.u

    2015-11
    Moderat / II

    2016-04
    Moderat / III

    2016-06
    Tigue / Peaks

    2017-04
    Goldmund / Sometimes

    2017-08
    oh sees / Orc

    2017-09
    Lusine / Sensorimotor

    2017-10
    Four Tet / New Energy

    2017-12
    Jlin / Black Origami

    2018-02
    Gersey / What You Kill

    2018-03
    Rhucle / Yellow Beach

    2018-05
    Hotel Neon / Context

    2018-09
    Paperbark / Last Night

    2018-11
    Porya Hatami / Kaziwa

    2019-02
    Ian Nyquist / Cuan

    2019-03
    Jens Pauly / Vihne

    2019-11
    Big Thief / Two Hands

    2020-12-05T16:53:00+00:00 Andromeda Yelton: Of such stuff are (deep)dreams made: convolutional networks and neural style transfer https://andromedayelton.com/2020/12/04/of-such-stuff-are-deepdreams-made-convolutional-networks-and-neural-style-transfer/

    Skipped FridAI blogging last week because of Thanksgiving, but let’s get back on it! Top-of-mind today are the firing of AI queen Timnit Gebru (letter of support here) and a couple of grant applications that I’m actually eligible for (this is rare for me! I typically need things for which I can apply in my individual capacity, so it’s always heartening when they exist — wish me luck).

    But for blogging today, I’m gonna talk about neural style transfer, because it’s cool as hell. I started my ML-learning journey on Coursera’s intro ML class and have been continuing with their deeplearning.ai sequence; I’m on course 4 of 5 there, so I’ve just gotten to neural style transfer. This is the thing where a neural net outputs the content of one picture in the style of another:

    Via https://medium.com/@build_it_for_fun/neural-style-transfer-with-swift-for-tensorflow-b8544105b854.

    OK, so! Let me explain while it’s still fresh.

    If you have a neural net trained on images, it turns out that each layer is responsible for recognizing different, and progressively more complicated, things. The specifics vary by neural net and data set, but you might find that the first layer gets excited about straight lines and colors; the second about curves and simple textures (like stripes) that can be readily composed from straight lines; the third about complex textures and simple objects (e.g. wheels, which are honestly just fancy circles); and so on, until the final layers recognize complex whole objects. You can interrogate this by feeding different images into the neural net and seeing which ones trigger the highest activation in different neurons. Below, each 3×3 grid represents the most exciting images for a particular neuron. You can see that in this network, there are Layer 1 neurons excited about colors (green, orange), and about lines of particular angles that form boundaries between dark and colored space. In Layer 2, these get built together like tiny image legos; now we have neurons excited about simple textures such as vertical stripes, concentric circles, and right angles.

    Via https://adeshpande3.github.io/The-9-Deep-Learning-Papers-You-Need-To-Know-About.html, originally from Zeller & Fergus, Visualizing and Understanding Convolutional Networks

    So how do we get from here to neural style transfer? We need to extract information about the content of one image, and the style of another, in order to make a third image that approximates both of them. As you already expect if you have done a little machine learning, that means that we need to write cost functions that mean “how close is this image to the desired content?” and “how close is this image to the desired style?” And then there’s a wrinkle that I haven’t fully understood, which is that we don’t actually evaluate these cost functions (necessarily) against the outputs of the neural net; we actually compare the activations of the neurons, as they react to different images — and not necessarily from the final layer! In fact, choice of layer is a hyperparameter we can vary (I super look forward to playing with this on the Coursera assignment and thereby getting some intuition).

    So how do we write those cost functions? The content one is straightforward: if two images have the same content, they should yield the same activations. The greater the differences, the greater the cost (specifically via a squared error function that, again, you may have guessed if you’ve done some machine learning).

    The style one is beautifully sneaky; it’s a measure of the difference in correlation between activations across channels. What does that mean in English? Well, let’s look at the van Gogh painting, above. If an edge detector is firing (a boundary between colors), then a swirliness detector is probably also firing, because all the lines are curves — that’s characteristic of van Gogh’s style in this painting. On the other hand, if a yellowness detector is firing, a blueness detector may or may not be (sometimes we have tight parallel yellow and blue lines, but sometimes yellow is in the middle of a large yellow region). Style transfer posits that artistic style lies in the correlations between different features. See? Sneaky. And elegant.

    Finally, for the style-transferred output, you need to generate an image that does as well as possible on both cost functions simultaneously — getting as close to the content as it can without unduly sacrificing the style, and vice versa.

    As a side note, I think I now understand why DeepDream is fixated on a really rather alarming number of eyes. Since the layer choice is a hyperparameter, I hypothesize that choosing too deep a layer — one that’s started to find complex features rather than mere textures and shapes — will communicate to the system, yes, what I truly want is for you to paint this image as if those complex features are matters of genuine stylistic significance. And, of course, eyes are simple enough shapes to be recognized relatively early (not very different from concentric circles), yet ubiquitous in image data sets. So…this is what you wanted, right? the eager robot helpfully offers.

    https://www.ucreative.com/inspiration/google-deep-dream-is-the-trippiest-thing-in-the-internet/

    I’m going to have fun figuring out what the right layer hyperparameter is for the Coursera assignment, but I’m going to have so much more fun figuring out the wrong ones.

    2020-12-04T21:49:33+00:00 Andromeda Mita Williams: Weeknote 49 (2020) https://librarian.aedileworks.com/2020/12/04/weeknote-49-2020/

    §1

    I don’t have much to report in regards to the work I’ve been doing this week.

    I tried to get our ORCiD-OJS plugin to work but there is some small strange bug that needs to be squished. Luckily, next week I will have the benefit of assistance from the good people of CRKN and ORCiD-CA.

    What else? I uploaded a bunch of files into our IR. I set up a site for an online-only conference being planned for next year. And I finally got around to trying to update a manuscript for potential publication. But this writing has been very difficult as my attention has been sent elsewhere many times this week.

    §2

    Unfortunately I wasn’t able to catch the live Teach-In #AgainstSurveillance on Tuesday but luckily the talks have been captured and made available at http://againstsurveillance.net/

    So many of our platforms are designed to extract user data. But not all of them are. Our institutions of higher education could choose to invest in free range ed-tech instead.

    §3

    Bonus links!

    2020-12-04T20:49:27+00:00 Mita Williams Lucidworks: Enhance Personalization Efforts with New Features in Fusion https://lucidworks.com/post/enhance-personalization-efforts-with-new-features-in-fusion/

    Latest Fusion release enhances digital experiences with out-of-the-box merchandising templates and AI recommenders.

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    2020-12-04T18:35:03+00:00 Paolo Padua HangingTogether: The way forward to a more open future … together http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Hangingtogetherorg/~3/jKWek4KOHK4/

    On 5 November 2020, Astrid Verheusen (Executive Director of LIBER), and OCLC Research program officers Rebecca Bryant and Titia van der Werf presented webinar to summarize the OCLC-LIBER Open Science Discussion Series. This multi-part discussion series, which took place through the month of October, was based upon the LIBER Open Science Roadmap to guide participants in envisioning an ideal future for Open Science (OS) and to discuss the roles of research libraries at local, national, and global levels in achieving a more open future.

    The whole is greater than the sum of its parts

    Photo by Ross Sneddon on Unsplash

    In total, 53 participants from 18 countries contributed to the seven-part series of small group discussions. Sessions had no more than 14 attendees – just the right number for conducting engaged and stimulating conversations. Discussants liked the free format and the interactive, participatory, and supportive nature of the conversations. They also appreciated that groups had representation from different points of view from both Europe and North America. A summary of each discussions has been shared via posts on HangingTogether.org (the blog of OCLC Research) and the LIBER website:

    1. Scholarly Publishing
    2. FAIR Principles
    3. Research Infrastructures and the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC)
    4. Metrics and Rewards
    5. Skills
    6. Research Integrity
    7. Citizen Science

    On reflection, we realized that the discussions reinforced each other in many ways and taken together, they offered a unified conceptualization of an open science future and a shared idea of how to overcome the obstacles on the way to this more open future.

    Conceptualization of an open science future

    The participants’ ideal future state closely matched LIBER’s vision for the research landscape in 2022 – as set out in its Strategy 2018-2022 -, echoing its depiction of a future world where:

    1. Open Access is the predominant form of publishing
    2. Research Data is Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable (FAIR)
    3. Digital Skills underpin a more open and transparent research life cycle
    4. Research Infrastructure is participatory, tailored and scaled to the needs of the diverse disciplines

    Participants added tone, texture and shade to these four basic lines, mostly in terms of what open science wouldn’t be and by describing it as the opposite of what it is now. So, for example, they described the expectation that “. . . in the future, more staff [will] be involved in supporting open science and their time [will] be spent on assisting researchers with actual data management instead of having to defend it or justify it” or “Collaboration will be the motor that drives open science, instead of competition”, or “In this new open science environment, the researcher is central, not the outputs”. The discussions also yielded a long list of requirements for open science to thrive: “We need to be empathetic”, “We need someone (a peer) to translate the open principles for each discipline”, “We need to measure the way open impacts society”.

    If one would wave a magic wand to resolve the obstacles and satisfy the preconditions, the resulting vision would lead to a rosy picture: one where open is the default and access is frictionless; where collaboration cuts across institutional and disciplinary boundaries, organizational silos and policy areas; where citizens, governments, companies, researchers and students work hand in hand to make research and society better; where diversity and inclusion make open science a truly global endeavor and lead to greater understanding and learning. In this ideal state, librarians have all necessary skills – both soft and hard – and they cooperate with everyone in the research lifecycle. They walk in the shoes of researchers and in those of citizens, with empathy. With all these skills in place, The Library is the best place to go to.

    The need for culture change

    The discussions yielded a long list of problems to a more open future. There was much overlap across the seven discussion sessions. The following five broad categories encompass the obstacles that received most votes during the polling exercise:

    1. Culture change is necessary

    Culture change is necessary because of ingrained attitudes that inhibit the adoption of open science, such as the tendency towards risk-avoidance by librarians and the lack of responsiveness by senior researchers and administrators on campus. Culture change was most often mentioned in relation to the lack of collaboration, engagement, and common ground between librarians and researchers, the silos on campus and the different perspectives of different stakeholders on “Open”. It was also seen as necessary for change in a larger sense: the need to internalize the principles of openness as second nature in life and society.

    Although mentioned as an obstacle alongside the other 4 categories, culture change really encompasses them all and is the precondition for the success of changes in the other categories.

    1. Inadequate rewards and incentives

    Recurring themes in this category were: the evaluation of researchers and institutions, the funding of research, the metrics and rewards system, the competitive nature of the rewards system (in which competition trumps ethics) and the lack of recognition, incentives or rewards for “doing Open”. The latter was deplored in particular and listed as a problem in the session on Metrics & Rewards: “Many open science activities don’t directly result in articles (e.g., open methods, open infrastructure, open data) – other stuff also matters but is not measured/supported and based on unpaid and unrecognized”.

    1. Lack of researcher awareness and involvement

    Lack of researcher buy-in and ownership of open science principles is problematic. Obstacles range from lack of awareness to lack of involvement, including lack of knowledge (mentioned in relation to research integrity and ethical issues). Lack of involvement may be borne not just from reluctance, but may be due to exclusion in the design stage (this was mentioned specifically during the EOSC session). Finally, researchers perceive open science practices as a burden – ‘this is yet another thing we need to do’ – referring to the administrative overload of having to register their profiles, outputs and projects in multiple, non-interoperable systems. Participants described the tension between ideals and practices as “the Big Divide between open science advocacy and the day-to-day research work”.

    1. Lack of skills relating to open science

    The lack of skills was raised as a general problem, not only in librarianship but also in academia. While the need for specific technical skills was mentioned, the discussions primarily focused on the importance of soft skills in librarianship. Librarians are currently not all equally skilled to connect to researchers or other stakeholders and this was felt as an important skills gap. In addition, the necessary skills are not integrated in academic curricula, let alone in those of library schools.

    1. No agreement on standards & interoperability

    Lack of interoperability across existing information systems and emerging OS infrastructures is a significant pain point for all stakeholders. Participants deplored the lack of agreed standards, the proliferation of fragmented, non-interoperable solutions, and the overdue implementation of basic standards, such as persistent identifiers (PIDs) for researchers and institutions, in existing systems. They also mentioned the need to unlock metadata, citations, and abstracts which are essential ingredients for the assessment and discoverability of open science.

    The library cannot do this alone

    When we discussed how libraries can overcome these obstacles and make culture change happen, we heard repeatedly about the need to work outside the library: “The library cannot do this alone” and “open science must be a collective effort, not just libraries”.

    Discussions revolved around the theme of collaboration, the need to work with others, including the multiple other open science stakeholders.

    It was much more difficult to strategize and ideate around collaboration than it had been to identify and analyze the obstacles. We heard anecdotal evidence of successful collaboration with units on campus (e.g., the Research Office), with Open Science communities (e.g. GO-FAIR) and in the context of national policy initiatives (e.g., Dutch Program for Digital Competence Centers).

    There is a multiplicity of stakeholders that libraries must effectively engage with in order to advance open science goals, and we believe it is helpful to categorize them in two groups operating at different levels:

    1. Above the institution stakeholders operate at consortial, national, regional, and global levels. EU-policy initiatives and accompanying funding are strong incentives for collaborative action and for catalyzing structural change that can percolate down at the country level. Research funding agencies are very influential stakeholders with the ability to enact policies and assessment activities that can accelerate change. Open science and scholarly communication coalitions were also mentioned as networks for collaborating on innovation. Other stakeholders were mentioned, such as publishers, PID providers, public libraries, and citizens.
    2. Below the institution stakeholders operate at the institutional or campus level. All have a stake in supporting research, but not all are equally aware or supportive of open science. Many different campus units were mentioned as relevant to work with, to influence culture change and develop local infrastructures to support open science.

    The examples given reinforced the findings from the OCLC Research Report on Social Interoperability in Research Support: Cross-Campus Partnerships and the University Research Enterprise. This report introduces the term “social interoperability” as a key concept to promote collaboration, communication, and mutual understanding. An important take-away from this report is that other stakeholders on campus see an important role for the library to play as a central campus unit with expertise in many relevant areas. The report discusses several strategies and tactics for successful intra-campus social interoperability, of which we heard echoes in our OCLC-LIBER discussions – such as, for example: “speak their language”, “leverage shared staff”, “be confident in your value”. The discussions contributed strategies and tactics specific for each category of obstacles identified earlier, but ultimately there was a strong realization that collaboration with stakeholders needs to become more ingrained – as one discussant put it: “We need to be more deliberate about those conversations and [cross-campus] collaborations (…) have them be a little more organic to the organization”.

    We found the outcomes of the OCLC-LIBER Open Science Discussion Series very inspiring, and it has been a fruitful collaboration between OCLC and LIBER—so much so that we are discussing possible follow-up opportunities. Thank you all for your contributions and stay tuned!

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    2020-12-04T18:34:02+00:00 Titia van der Werf Digital Library Federation: DLF Forum Community Journalist Reflection: Melde Rutledge https://www.diglib.org/dlf-forum-community-journalist-reflection-melde-rutledge/

    Melde RutledgeThis post was written by Melde Rutledge (@MeldeRutledge), who was selected to be one of this year’s virtual DLF Forum Community Journalists.

    Melde Rutledge is the Digital Collections Librarian at Wake Forest University’s Z. Smith Reynolds Library. He is responsible for leading the library’s digitization services—primarily in support of ZSR’s Special Collections and Archives, as well as providing support for university departments. 

    He earned his MLIS from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, and has served in librarianship for approximately 12 years. His background also includes 8 years of newspaper journalism, where he wrote news, sports, and feature articles for several locally published newspapers in North Carolina. 

    He currently lives in Winston-Salem, NC, with his wife and three sons.


    Since 2016, I’ve appreciated the opportunity to attend and participate in the annual DLF Forum. I look forward to the great takeaways to share with my colleagues back home. Let’s also not forget the wonderful venues where the Forum takes place (Las Vegas, Tampa, etc.). Needless to say, a global pandemic emerged this year, resulting in the 2020 DLF Forum to occur virtually. 

    As I reflect on this year’s installment of the DLF Forum, it’s difficult not to compare the Forum’s first virtual event with the previous in-person gatherings—particularly in regards to size. The fact that the 2020 event had more than 2,000 registered participants is a testament to the popularity and value of DLF. Being that it also surpassed the overall in-person attendance record (just over 800 people) of the 2017 DLF Forum in Pittsburgh is also noteworthy.

    The segment that I look forward to the most from the DLF Forums are the opening plenaries, because of its great keynote speakers. Stacey Patton provided an excellent talk highlighting the significance of preserving the black experience in galleries, libraries, archives, and museums (GLAMs)—covering several cohesive themes during her one-hour-plus speech—including the COVID-19 pandemic, hiring diverse staff in GLAMs, America’s ongoing issue with racism, and the social and racial parallels of then and now. 

    One of my key takeaways of her talk is spotlighting the need for institutions to be “ready and equipped” during the pandemic to educate students. This was suggested to be accomplished by providing research materials remotely, but also asking, “What difference does this make that we’re digitizing things? How is this power to be used to protect documents when we may not know their importance? What about the digital divide and access to these materials?”

    These indeed are very important thoughts to me, as a key role of my work is providing digital access to materials tucked away within our special collections and archives. And it was great that presenters addressed Patton’s questions throughout the DLF sessions.

    “‘Can We Digitize This? Should We?’” Navigating Ethics, Law, and Policy in Bringing Collections to Digital Life” is a great example. This was presented by Stacy Reardon and Michael Lange from UC Berkeley Library. I was impressed with their Digital Lifecycle Program, and the ethical considerations embedded within their workflow. I have interest in seeing how institutions confront the issue regarding the digitization of materials of underprivileged groups, as well as how they approach the handling of culturally sensitive materials, accessibility, and appropriate metadata creation.

    As Julie Hardesty pointed out in her presentation entitled, “Mitigating Bias Through Controlled Vocabularies,” when working with metadata, you can become familiar with several widely used controlled vocabularies. However, working with large common vocabularies can “paint broad strokes that cover up more than they should, that generalize or simplify too much, and show the biases of dominant groups such as the white male viewpoint. Additionally, the process to change and update terms can be slow to keep up.”

    When I listen to presentations on this theme, speakers routinely note the value of incorporating community engagement. A nice example of this was shared during the presentation, “Curationist: Designing a Metadata Standard and Taxonomy for an Open Cultural Ecosystem.” Curationist.org is a site that finds and collects important cultural and historical resources that are within the public domain. As explained by presenter Sharon Mizota, community users will be able to include their own metadata to records on this site. 

    Overall, I salute all the organizers and presenters for producing an impressive 2020 DLF program. And kudos to the partnership between CLIR/DLF and the HBCU Library Alliance. As an HBCU graduate, I appreciate programming that covers how HBCUs approach digitization, and the stories behind the unique materials that are digitally preserved, especially amid the COVID-19 pandemic. COVID-19 is indeed a big factor in how many of us in this profession are conducting decision making. The wealth of relevant content in this year’s DLF was very timely in this regard.

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    2020-12-04T14:00:55+00:00 Gayle John Mark Ockerbloom: From our subjects to yours (and vice versa) https://everybodyslibraries.com/2020/12/03/from-our-subjects-to-yours-and-vice-versa/

    (TL;DR: I’m starting to implement services and publish data to support searching across library collections that use customized subject headings, such as the increasingly-adopted substitutes for LCSH terms like “Illegal aliens”. Read on for what I’m doing, why, and where I would value advice and discussion on how to proceed.)

    I’ve run the Forward to Libraries service for a few years now. As I’ve noted in earlier posts here, it’s currently used on The Online Books Page and in some Wikipedia articles to search for resources in your local library (or any other library you’re interested in) on a subject you’re exploring. One of the key pieces of infrastructure that makes it work is the Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) system, which many research libraries use to describe their holdings. Using the headings in the system, along with mappings between it and other systems for describing subjects (such as the English Wikipedia article titles that Forward to Libraries knows how to relate to LCSH) allows researchers to find materials on the same subjects across multiple collections, using common terminology.

    There are limitations to relying on LCSH for cross-collection subject searches, though. First of all, many libraries, particularly those outside the US, do not use LCSH. Some use other subject vocabularies. If a mapping has been defined between LCSH and another subject vocabulary (as has been done, for example, with MeSH) one can use that mapping to determine search terms to use in libraries that use that subject vocabulary. We don’t yet have that capability in Forward to Libraries, but I’m hoping to add it eventually.

    Changing the subjects

    I’m now also seeing more libraries that use LCSH, but that also use different terms for certain subjects that they find more appropriate for their users. While there is a process for updating LCSH terms (and its terms get updated on a monthly basis) the process can be slow, hard for non-specialists to participate in, and contentious, particularly for larger-scale subject heading changes. It can also be subject to pressure by non-librarians. The Library of Congress ultimately answers to Congress (as its name suggests), and members of Congress have used funding bills to block changes in subject headings that the librarian-run process had approved. They did that in 2016 for the subject heading “Illegal aliens”, where librarians had recommended using other terms to cover subjects related to unauthorized immigration. The documentary film “Change the Subject” (linked with context in this article) has a detailed report on this controversy.

    Four years after the immigration subject changes were blocked, some libraries have decided not to wait for LCSH to change, and are introducing their own subject terms. The University of Colorado Boulder, for example, announced in 2018 that they would use the term “Undocumented immigrants” where the Library of Congress had “Illegal aliens”. Other libraries have recently announced similar changes. Some library consortia have organized systematic programs to supersede outdated and offensive terms in LCSH in their catalogs. Some groups now maintain specialized subject vocabularies that can both supplement and supersede LCSH terms, such as Homosaurus for LGBT+-related subjects. And there’s also been increasing interest in using subject terms and classifications adapted to local communities. For instance, the Brian Deer Classification System is intended to be both used and shaped by local indigenous communities, and therefore libraries in different locations that use it may well use different terms for some subjects, depending on local usage and interests.

    Supporting cross-collection search in a community of localized catalogs

    We can still search across collections that use local terms, as long as we know what those terms are and how to translate between them. Forward to Libraries already uses a data file indicating Wikipedia article titles that correspond closely to LCSH subjects, and vice versa. By extension, we can also create a data file indicating terms to use at a given library that correspond to terms in LCSH and other vocabularies, so we can see what resources are available at different places on a given topics.

    You can see how that works in practice at The Online Books Page. As I write this, we’re still using the unaltered LCSH subjects (updated to October 2020), so we have a subject page showing free online books on “Illegal aliens”. You can follow links from there to see what other libraries have. If you select the “elsewhere” link in the upper left column and choose the Library of Congress as the library to search, you’ll see what they hold under that subject heading. But if you instead choose the University of Colorado Boulder, you’ll see what they have under “Undocumented immigrants”, the subject term they’ve adopted there.

    Similar routing happens from Wikipedia. The closest related Wikipedia article at present is “Illegal immigration”, and if you go down to the Further Reading section and select links in the Library Resources box, selecting “Online books” or most libraries will currently take you to their “Illegal aliens” subject search. But selecting University of Colorado Boulder (from “Resources in other libraries” if you don’t already have it specified as your preferred library in Wikipedia) will take you to their “Undocumented immigrants” search. This routing applies two mappings, one from Wikipedia terms to LCSH terms, and another from LCSH terms to local library terms.

    A common data resource

    These sorts of transformations are fundamentally data-driven. My Forward to Libraries Github repository now includes a data file listing local subject terms that different libraries use, and how they relate to LCSH subject terms. (The library codes used in the file are the same ones that are used in my libraries data file, and are based on OCLC and/or ISIL identifiers.) The local subject terms file is very short for now– as I write this, it only has enough data for the examples I’ve described above, but I’ll be adding more data shortly for other libraries that have announced and implemented subject headings changes. (And I’ll be glad to hear about more so I can add them.)

    As with other data in this repository, the data in this file is CC0, so it can be used by anyone for any purpose. In particular, it could be be used by services other than my Forward to Libraries tool, such as by aggregated catalogs that incorporate data from multiple libraries, some of which might use localized subject terms that have LCSH analogues.

    Where to go next

    What I’ve shown so far is not far removed from a proof-of-concept demo, but I hope it suggests ways that services can be developed to support searches among and across library collections with diverse subject headings. As I mentioned, I’ll be adding more data on localized subject headings as I hear about it, as well as adding more functionality to the Forward to Libraries service (such as the ability to link from a collection with localized subject headings, so I can support them in The Online Books Page, or in other libraries that have such headings and want to use to the service). There are some extensions that could be done to the basic data model to support scaling up these sorts of localizations, such as customizations used by all the libraries in a given consortium, or ones that adopt wholesale an alternative set of subjects, whether that be MeSH, Homosaurus, or the subject thesaurus of a national library outside the US.

    Even with data declarations supporting those sorts of “bulk” subject mappings, a universal subject mapping knowledge base could get large over time. I’ve created my own mapping file for my services, and for now I’m happy to grow it as needed and share the data freely. But if there is another suitable mapping hub already available or in the works, I’m happy to consider using that instead.

    It’s important to support exploration across a community of diverse libraries with a diverse array of subject terms and descriptions. I hope the tools and data I’ve described here will help advance us towards that goal, and that I can help grow them from their current nascent state to make them more broadly useful.

    2020-12-03T23:36:33+00:00 John Mark Ockerbloom Digital Library Federation: DLF Forum Community Journalist Reflection: Amanda Guzman https://www.diglib.org/dlf-forum-community-journalist-reflection-amanda-guzman/

    Amanda GuzmanThis post was written by Amanda Guzman, who was selected to be one of this year’s virtual DLF Forum Community Journalists.

    Amanda Guzman is an anthropological archaeologist with a PhD in Anthropology (Archaeology) from the University of California, Berkeley. She specializes in the field of museum anthropology with a research focus on the history of collecting and exhibiting Puerto Rico at the intersection of issues of intercultural representation and national identity formation. She applies her collections experience as well as her commitment to working with and for multiple publics to her object-based inquiry teaching practice that privileges a more equitable, co-production of knowledge in the classroom through accessible engagement in cultural work. Amanda is currently the Ann Plato Post-Doctoral Fellow in Anthropology and American Studies at Trinity College in Hartford, CT. 


    On Belonging:

    There is that decisive moment for me at every academic conference that I’ve ever attended – whether it is one that I frequent regularly (even annually) or one that I’m trying out for the first time like the DLF Forum this year – where I’m sketching out my trajectory of movement and negotiating what my belonging might look like in the space. This moment exists in the scanning of the conference program and translating of different panel abstracts. This moment exists in those standstill seconds in the threshold of a panel room as you decide whether to enter or not, perhaps as you notice a familiar or friendly face. 

    Our current pandemic moment has transformed how we collectively gather in profound ways and brought into sharp relief the pre-existing structural social inequities of access. And yet, the decisive moment of my new belonging in the space of the DLF Forum was from a distance, and yet was not solitary beginning with a wave of introductions among first-time attendees and offers by long-time Forum-goers of support on Slack and extending to the generosity of time, experience, and transparency offered to me by my DLF mentor, Maggie McCready in our Zoom conversations. The decisive moment ultimately resolved, as I left the metaphorical door threshold to take a seat, during Dr. Stacy Patton’s keynote as she seamlessly moved between commentary on national news, archival text, pedagogical practice and her own powerful personal narrative of coming to belong in spaces not made for her experience and of coming to build new spaces of belonging. 

    Activating the Archive by Reframing History as Practice:

    One of the most compelling interventions that Dr. Patton articulated in her keynote speech was a call for the DLF community to reframe their implicit understanding of history not only as a physical archive of a material past but also as an active departure point for our contemporary reorientation and empowerment. Interweaving meaning and purpose across institutional case-studies, she referred to the concept of “historical touchstones” that present us with “context, guidance, and perspective” that have the analytical potential to ground our experience in the positionalities as a “keeper of knowledge” with a “traditional role of being…guide” to students.    

    Pair of Screenshots showcasing Forum Panel Citational Acts to center Ethics of Care
    Pair of Screenshots showcasing Forum Panel Citational Acts to center Ethics of Care

    Keepers of Knowledge:

    This proposal of mobilizing history towards how we critically approach our present-day practice in the field echoed throughout the subsequent forum presentations and was especially materialized for me in the citational acts of emphasizing a theoretical focus on an ethics of care. In the “Combo Session: Implementing responsible workflows and practices,” ethics of care was centered in an appreciation for “relationships with uneven power relations,” a methodological re-framing of both those actors who study and those communities who are studied as equal “independent rational subjects” and a researcher responsibility to identify the multi-faceted capacity of archival work to inflict harm. This work was discussed, for example, with the case-study of the archival process at the University of California, Berkeley for selecting indigenous cultural material for digitization and if to be digitized, under what terms of public access. In other words, professional ways of working were recast beyond the technicalities of how archival material may be best processed and digitally preserved to include and more importantly, to privilege a recognition of academic histories of community extraction and an opportunity for academic futures of more collaborative, equitable workflows.  

    Student Guides:

    Building on this important reflection on institutional practices, the US Latino DH panel entitled, “Recovering the Past, Creating the Future” brought the historically based practice conversation into the context of the undergraduate classroom. During their presentation, I was reminded of Dr. Patton’s earlier caution that digital work could not be the “end all be all” (even among undergraduates who are often thought to be “digital natives”) given how it is “alien to flow of time…nuances” and “abbreviates how we understand things”.  Presenters Carolina Villarroel, Gabriela Baeza Ventura, Lorena Gauthereau and Linda Garcia Merchant accepted the challenge and outlined a pedagogical design that built a student theoretical consciousness of the silences inherent in archival representations of the human experience and equipped students methodologically through programs like Omeka to emerge as digital storytellers of new stories. Moreover, the presenters destabilized the curatorial authority of collection-holding institutions by decolonizing where and how we locate archives with models such as post-custodial archives (describing archival management in which the community maintains physical custody of material records) and migrant archives. Both panels therefore expanded the boundaries of what constitutes archival practice – in terms of how we keep existing knowledge and how we teach knowledge production – by expanding what we care for to who we care with.

    Pair of Screenshots from Panel Powerpoint Presentation and Slack Conversation showcasing the Pedagogical Design of the Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage ProjectPair of Screenshots from Panel Powerpoint Presentation and Slack Conversation showcasing the Pedagogical Design of the Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage Project

    At the Close:            

    Aliya Reich, Program Manager for Conferences and Events at the Digital Library Federation, remarked at the start of the forum that the goal of our gathering was “building community while apart”.  Joy Banks, Program Officer at the Council on Library and Information Resources, responded on Slack to a participant struggling with the digital conference platform that “there is no behind this year”.  Together, their words bring me – in concert with Dr. Patton’s keynote assertion of our roles as “guardians of the past and present” and “architects of the future” – that we the practitioners – our bodies, communities, experiences, professional practices and all – are directly implicated in the work that we do every day to record and to preserve. That work does not and cannot exist in isolation from the privilege and marginalization of our lived realities whether in terms of arts funding austerity to ongoing national social justice movements.

    The archive is a product in large part of human decision-making. We as a community can be reflective in practice with data justice over data ethics models that recognize the source of power and aim to dismantle structural power differentials. We as a community can choose to accept complexity of human behavior and spectrum thinking over binary dichotomies. We as a community can participate in mission-driven archiving in the present that supports restorative justice of the past – by upholding archival protocols that prioritize dignity and respect towards underrepresented, vulnerable communities who have and continue to endure systematic trauma. In building a community while apart we can ask who is and where is the community; the answer is in but also and perhaps in some cases more importantly, beyond our conference panel rooms. 

    Set of Three Screenshots from Forum Presentations of Examples of Forward-thinking Community PracticesSet of Three Screenshots from Forum Presentations of Examples of Forward-thinking Community PracticesSet of Three Screenshots from Forum Presentations of Examples of Forward-thinking Community Practices

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    2020-12-03T14:00:30+00:00 Gayle Lucidworks: New Study: Why Brands that Connect Experiences Win https://lucidworks.com/post/new-study-why-brands-that-connect-experiences-win/

    A recent Forrester study found that companies are struggling to implement omnichannel personalization. Brands that are able to connect EX with CX report greater revenue, operational efficiency, and customer satisfaction.

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    2020-12-03T13:57:36+00:00 Justin Sears Tara Robertson: Names: respect, inclusion and belonging http://tararobertson.ca/2020/names-respect-inclusion-belonging/

    "Hello, my name Is" sticker and pen on table

    Diversity, equity and inclusion is not about just revising HR policies and processes to be more inclusive and equitable, it’s a lens that you need to view everything through. For product organizations it’s a key lens to look at the product and customer experience. 

    I’ve been thinking about personal names and how those are a point of inclusion and belonging, or not. Names are personal, and for many of us, an important part of our identity.

    How do you say your name? 

    My name is Tara. In North America people often mispronounce it, less so in other parts of the world. My name is pronounced Tah-rah, not Terra. For the first 20 years of my life it was easier for me to not speak up when people mispronounced it. When I was in my early 20s I met a woman of colour at a conference who also had a name that was much less common than mine. She said that it was a basic sign of respect to say people’s names properly and that changed how I operate. These days I usually correct people, but I still do the mental arithmetic to calculate if the energy it takes to interject and then to manage people’s apologies is worth it. Our names tell a story and for many of us they’re an important part of who we are. 

    The microaggressions I experience are tiny compared to BIPOC people with non-English names. I love this story from actor Uzo Aduba when she told her mom that she wanted to be called Zoe. Her mother replied “If they can learn to say Tchaikovsky and Michelangelo and Dostoyevsky, they can learn to say Uzoamaka.”

    I recently learned that from 1940-80s the Canadian government “assigned Inuit numbered identification tags that they had to wear around their necks, mainly because white administrators couldn’t pronounce their names.” 

    Our names are important and saying them correctly is a basic level of respect. 

    Joe Biden’s name sign

    I’ve been following some of the conversations in Black Deaf communities about President Elect Joe Biden’s name sign. In Deaf culture people have name signs that represent them and people with close ties to the Deaf community or well known figures also given name signs by the Deaf individuals or community.

    Here’s what Nakia Smith has to say:

    She’s quoted in this LA Times article saying that this name sign looks like “a “C” sign used by members of the Crips gang in some American cities and could be dangerous for signers of color and embarrassing to the incoming administration.”

    Names are important and have layers of meaning from our families, histories, cultures and communities. 

    Names in databases

    When I worked at Mozilla I documented the various places someone transitioning their gender at work would need to update their name and gender marker. There were so many systems: the HR Information System, LDAP logins, payroll system, benefits providers, the company we used to book travel’s system, Bugzilla, Github, and the internal staff directory and likely others that I’m forgetting. 

    Doing this work I learned there were more than a few people who didn’t fit neatly in these systems, including: 

    • People who only have a first name
    • People with non-English characters in their names
    • People with non-English names who also have English names
    • People who get married and change their last name to their spouse’s last name
    • People who get married and change their last name to a hyphenated name with their spouse’s last name
    • People who get divorced and change their name back
    • People who change their first name to something that fits them better
    • People with very short names
    • People with very long names

    Patrick McKenzie’s Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names is the most comprehensive list of assumptions about names that I’ve read. If you’re designing anything that will include people’s names, this is required reading. Emma Humphries’ Adventures in Renaming is also a useful resource.

    This study by R. Ruiz-Pérez, E. Delgado López-Cózar, E. Jiménez-Contreras in the Journal of Medical Library Association looked at how “Spanish names are handled by national and international databases and to identify mistakes that can undermine the usefulness of these databases for locating and retrieving works by Spanish authors”. This study listed 17 name format variations with these two being the most common: 

    • First name first surname second surname
    • First name middle name first surname second surname

    I can imagine how this would impact search, retrieval and therefore how often the work is cited, which could in turn impact prestige through tenure, promotion and grants. 

    screenshot of the original article in Business Insider with Vernā's name spelled correctlyoriginal article in Business Insider
    screenshot from Gale Academic Onefile about "Vern Myers"article in Gale Academic Onefile

    In Gale Academic Onefile, Vernā Myers, the VP of Inclusion Strategy at Netflix, name is spelled incorrectly. I’m assuming that the data ingest from Business Insider choked on the macron over the “a” at the end of her first name. Changing Verna to Vern makes it seem like the VP is male. Also, if I was searching for articles that mention Vernā Myers, this one wouldn’t come up. 

    Just like with in person interactions, how we design databases to include (or exclude) people’s names is about respect and impacts the feeling of belonging (or not) and who can be found (or not). 

    Names in products

    The way names show up in products and services can be a point of inclusion and belonging. This summer Mastercard launched True Name:

    For many in the LGBTQIA+ community, the name on their credit, debit or prepaid card does not reflect their true identity.

    That’s why we’re working with partners to bring products to market that will allow for chosen names to appear on the front of cards, helping ease a major pain point for the transgender and nonbinary communities.

    It’s a big deal having a credit card or debit card that matches your gender presentation and who you are. This video tells some of those stories:

    This goes beyond corporate platitudes during pride month. This is something concrete that Mastercard did to make their products more inclusive of trans and non-binary people and make it a little easier for trans and non-binary people to buy things. 

    This summer LinkedIn added a feature that allows you to record your name. In October Greenhouse added the Say My Name feature, where candidates can “pre-record the correct pronunciation of their names when recruiters request their interview schedule availability through Greenhouse”.

    I’d love to learn about other product examples where the people building the product put specific care and attention on getting people’s names right. 

    Thank you

    Thank you to Cara Hall and Carolyn Arthur for feedback and editing help.

    2020-12-03T03:49:31+00:00 Tara Robertson Jodi Schneider: Paid graduate hourly research position at UIUC for Spring 2021 http://jodischneider.com/blog/2020/12/03/paid-graduate-hourly-research-position-at-uiuc-for-spring-2021/

    Jodi Schneider’s Information Quality Lab (http://infoqualitylab.org) seeks a graduate hourly student for a research project on bias in citation networks. Biased citation benefits authors in the short-term by bolstering grants and papers, making them more easily accepted. However, it can have severe negative consequences for scientific inquiry. Our goal is to find quantitative measures of network structure that can indicate the existence of citation bias. 

    This job starts January 4, 2021. Pay depending on experience (Master’s students start at $18/hour). Optionally, the student can also take a graduate independent study course (generally 1-2 credits IS 589 or INFO 597). Apply on Handshake

    Responsibilities will include:

    • Assist in the development of algorithms to simulate an unbiased network
    • Carry out statistical significance tests for candidate network structure measures
    • Attend weekly meetings
    • Assist with manuscript and grant preparation

    Required Skills

    • Proficiency in Python or R
    • Demonstrated ability to systematically approach a simulation or modeling problem
    • Statistical knowledge, such as developed in a course on mathematical statistics and probability (e.g. STAT400 Statistics and Probability I https://courses.illinois.edu/schedule/2021/spring/STAT/400 )

    Preferred Skills

    MORE INFORMATION:
    https://ischool.illinois.edu/people/jodi-schneider
    http://infoqualitylab.org

    APPLICATION DEADLINE: Monday December 14th.

    Apply on Handshake with the following APPLICATION MATERIALS:

    • Resume
    • Transcript – Such as free University of Illinois academic history from Banner self-service (https://apps.uillinois.edu, click “Registration & Records”, “Student Records and Transcripts”, “View Academic History”, choose “Web Academic History”)
    • Cover letter: Just provide short answers to the following two questions:
      1) Why are you interested in this particular project?
      2) What past experience do you have that is related to this project? 
    2020-12-03T01:22:23+00:00 jodi Lucidworks: Don’t Fear the Cloud (or Kubernetes): Your Google Security Questions Answered https://lucidworks.com/post/google-security-questions-answered/

    Mike Chesnut from Lucidworks and Tiffany Lewis from Google talk us through why data encryption in this new cloud-native world is more secure than ever.

    The post Don’t Fear the Cloud (or Kubernetes): Your Google Security Questions Answered appeared first on Lucidworks.

    2020-12-02T21:54:51+00:00 Jenny Gomez Ed Summers: 25 Years of robots.txt https://inkdroid.org/2020/12/02/robots/

    After just over 25 years of use the Robots Exclusion Standard, otherwise known as robots.txt is being standardized at the IETF. This isn’t really news, as the group at Google that is working on it announced the work over a year ago. The effort continues apace, with the latest draft having been submitted back in the middle of pandemic summer.

    But it is notable I think because of the length of gestation time this particular standard took. It made me briefly think about what it would be like if standards always worked this way–by documenting established practices, desire lines if you will, rather than being quiet ways to shape markets (Russell, 2014). But then again maybe that hands off approach is fraught in other ways. Standardization processes offer the opportunity for consensus, and a framework for gathering input from multiple parties.

    It seems like a good time to write down some tricks of the robots.txt trade (e.g the stop reading after 500kb rule, which I didn’t know about). What would Google look like today if it wasn’t for some of the early conventions that developed around web crawling? Would early search engines have existed at all if a convention for telling them what to crawl and what not to crawl didn’t come into existence? Even though it has been in use for 25 years it will be important to watch the diffs with the existing de-facto standard, to see what new functionality gets added and what (if anything) is removed.

    I also wonder if this might be an opportunity for the digital preservation community to grapple with documenting some of its own practices around robots.txt. Much web archiving crawling software has options for observing robots.txt, or explicitly ignoring it. There are clearly legitimate reasons for a crawler to ignore robots.txt, as in cases where CSS files or images are accidentally blocked by a robots.txt and which prevent the rendering of an otherwise unblocked page. I think ethical arguments can also be made for ignoring an exclusion. But ethics are best decided by people not machines– even though some think the behavior of crawling bots can be measured and evaluated (Giles, Sun, & Councill, 2010 ; Thelwall & Stuart, 2006).

    Web archives use robots.txt in another significant way too. Ever since the Oakland Archive Policy the web archiving community has used the robots.txt in playback of archived data. Software like the Wayback Machine has basicaly become the reading room of the archived web. The Oakland Archive Policy made it possible for website owners to tell web archives about content on their site that they would like the web archive not to “play back”, even if they had the content. Here is what they said back then:

    1. Archivists should provide a ‘self-service’ approach site owners can use to remove their materials based on the use of the robots.txt standard.
    2. Requesters may be asked to substantiate their claim of ownership by changing or adding a robots.txt file on their site.
    3. This allows archivists to ensure that material will no longer be gathered or made available.
    4. These requests will not be made public; however, archivists should retain copies of all removal requests.

    This convention allows web publishers to use their robots.txt to tell the Internet Archive (and potentially other web archives) not to provide access to archived content from their website. It also is not really news at all. The Internet Archive’s Mark Graham wrote in 2017 about how robots.txt haven’t really been working out for them lately, and how they now ignore them for playback of .gov and .mil domains. There was a popular article about this use of robots.txt written by David Bixenspan at Gizmodo, When the Internet Archive Forgets, and a follow up from David Rosenthal Selective Amnesia.

    Perhaps the collective wisdom now is that the use of robots.txt to control playback in web archives is fundamentally flawed and shouldn’t be written down in a standard. But lacking a better way to request that something be removed from the Internet Archive I’m not sure if that is feasible. Some, like Rosenthal, suggest that it’s too easy for these take down notices to be issued. Consent on the web is difficult once you are operating at the scale that the Internet Archive does in its crawls. But if there were a time to write it down in a standard I guess that time would be now.

    References

    Giles, C. L., Sun, Y., & Councill, I. G. (2010). Measuring the web crawler ethics. In WWW 2010. Retrieved from https://clgiles.ist.psu.edu/pubs/WWW2010-web-crawler-ethics.pdf

    Russell, A. L. (2014). Open standards and the digital age. Cambridge University Press.

    Thelwall, M., & Stuart, D. (2006). Web crawling ethics revisited: Cost, privacy, and denial of service. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.20388

    2020-12-02T20:01:00+00:00 Digital Library Federation: DLF Forum Community Journalist Reflection: Shelly Black https://www.diglib.org/dlf-forum-community-journalist-reflection-shelly-black/

    Shelly BlackThis post was written by Shelly Black (@ShellyYBlack), who was selected to be one of this year’s virtual DLF Forum Community Journalists.

    Shelly Black is the Cyma Rubin Library Fellow at North Carolina State University Libraries where she supports digital preservation in the Special Collections Research Center. She also works on a strategic project involving immersive technology spaces and digital scholarship workflows. Previously she was a marketing specialist at the University of Arizona Libraries and promoted library services and programs through social media, news stories, and newsletters.

    Shelly was recently selected as a 2020 Emerging Leader by the American Library Association and is a provisional member of the Academy of Certified Archivists. She received a MLIS and a Certificate in Archival Studies from the University of Arizona where she was a Knowledge River scholar. She also holds a BFA in photography and minor in Japanese from the UA.


    The weekend protests began in response to George Floyd’s murder, I was driving across the country for my first post-MLIS job. I listened to the radio, scrolled through the news and felt the country in pain. Reflecting on how volatile 2020 has been, I’m grateful that the DLF Forum was freely open to all and held online. As a graduate student, my exposure to digital curation and preservation focused on theory more than practice. So I was eager to learn about current strategies and tools. Considering the anti-racist commitments made recently by numerous organizations, I also looked forward to hearing about projects to improve discoverability of marginalized people in the historical record.

    Many sessions covered computational methods used by librarians, archivists, and researchers to improve our understanding of, and increase access to, digitized materials. Juan Manuel García Fernández and Nickoal Eichmann-Kalwara presented on “Digital El Diario and Archival Justice in the Digital Humanities Graduate Classroom.” Their work involved creating a corpus from a digitized 1970s Chicanx newspaper and showing students how to use text analysis tools, such as MALLET and Voyant, for the purpose of historical recovery. In “Images as Data with Computer Vision,” Carol Chiodo shared that Harvard University Library is using a Python package to analyze and provide descriptive metadata at scale for photographic collections. This includes protest photography, so the project will also result in the creation of ethical guidelines for applying automation to sensitive materials.

    Throughout the Forum, a theme that resonated with me was the ethics of care. I learned how multiple presenters have adopted this feminist approach that emphasizes relationships and considers power imbalances. During “Can We Digitize This? Should We? Navigating Ethics, Law, and Policy in Bringing Collections to Digital Life,” Stacy Reardon explained that she adopts an ethics of care when deciding whether to make materials available online. She noted how this framework urges us to consider the potential for harm not just to individuals but also communities. Lorena Gauthereau, one of the panel members of “US Latino DH: Recovering the Past, Creating the Future,” imparted that community outreach should be approached with an ethics of care. She said we have a responsibility to make the people represented in archives feel valued, which can be achieved through post-custodial methods, consent, decolonial spaces, and trusting relationships.

    As a Mexican Japanese American, increasing representation and reclaiming the humanity of historically oppressed people has personal significance. I wholeheartedly agree with Gauthereau who expressed: 

    “By recovering the past, we can project toward our future. While working with recovered archives, we make space for healing by making visible not only painful histories, but also resistance, survival and joy, to acknowledge where we come from and where we are going.” 

    These presentations reminded me to think critically about the interplay between people, archival collections, and technology. While I see promise in the application of computational methods for understanding and expanding access to stories beyond the dominant narrative, I’m also wary of the challenges. Algorithms used for facial recognition, screening job applicants, and identifying high-risk patients continue to oppress communities of color. Mixed race people like myself don’t fall neatly into metadata categories and likely aren’t seen by algorithms applied to textual or visual corpora.

    Meanwhile, libraries have started using machine learning for appraisal, description, and other laborious tasks. Many collections await being described—or re-described using anti-oppressive language—and made available online. Algorithms offer efficiency, but when people create them with training data which centers whiteness, they further harm communities. 

    Another challenge is the layering of biases when working with digitized collections. We lose more than visual details and aesthetic qualities through reproductive technologies and migration of formats. There are racial consequences. We scan photographs made from color film stocks originally calibrated for light skin. Art historian Lyneise Williams has also called attention to the erasure of Black people through the high contrast process of microfilming. So what happens when we use biased machine learning models to process images that inherit white normativity? 

    Growing digitized collections make the adoption of machine learning compelling. At the same time, an ethics of care and diverse voices are needed when new tools are being designed. Knowledge produced from analyzing collections at scale will only be as inclusive as the human beings who designed the algorithms and the digitized material’s source medium. As Stacey Patton reminded us in her keynote, digitization isn’t a be-all and end-all, particularly when there is still the digital divide. The DLF Forum inspired me to think about the opportunities and issues ahead. I hope to attend future Forums where discussions on using technology in ways which uplift communities of color continue.

    The post DLF Forum Community Journalist Reflection: Shelly Black appeared first on DLF.

    2020-12-02T18:22:57+00:00 Gayle In the Library, With the Lead Pipe: Culturally Responsive Community Engagement Programming and the University Library: Lessons Learned from Half a Decade of VTDITC http://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2020/vtditc/

    By Craig E. Arthur, Dr. Freddy Paige, La’ Portia Perkins, Jasmine Weiss, and Dr. Michael Williams

    (Good Homie Signs’ “Hip Hop @ VT” mural 7/18)

    In Brief

    VTDITC: Hip Hop Studies at Virginia Tech is an award-winning series of experiential learning-focused, culturally responsive community engagement programs. It is deeply rooted in hip hop culture and is cosponsored by numerous organizations both on campus and in the community; the heart of the program is undoubtedly the Virginia Tech University Libraries. We have hosted more than 350 programs over the past five academic years. Notably, our Community Engagement Fellows, a team of undergraduate and graduate students, helped design and co-teach approximately forty-five media literacy workshops in the community beyond campus in the ‘19-’20 academic year. Our guiding mission is to remove barriers to entry, to recognize art as scholarship, to learn by doing, and, importantly, to create an expressive and collaborative environment which allows for creative freedom. 

    Introduction

    VTDITC: Hip Hop Studies at Virginia Tech, or, more commonly, Virginia Tech Digging in the Crates, is a practitioner-focused, student-driven, culturally responsive community engagement program that prioritizes experiential learning. The multifaceted and ever-evolving program is based in Southwest Virginia on the campus of Virginia Tech (a public, land grant university with a student body of approximately 30,000). VTDITC was co-created by a diverse transdisciplinary team and is now in our fifth consecutive academic year of programming. The program has iteratively developed since the Fall 2016 semester; we have successfully hosted more than 350 events. 

    Importantly, VTDITC builds on a 22 year history of hip hop based curricula and approximately 35 years of hip hop based co-curricular programming at the University. VTDITC’s ability to connect and engage such a large group of people is a special attribute of the program. Many universities have similar clubs or groups that bring together dancers with dancers or rappers with rappers, for instance, but VTDITC is a unique community engagement program in that it prioritizes unity over stratification. The hip hop community at VT can be relatively small if people were counted solely by an arbitrary declaration like ‘hip hop scholar.’ However, when we invite our community to engage in hip hop as a culture, our participation numbers dwarf many other programs that could be considered our peers. VTDITC’s success is at least partially due to the fact that a dynamic group of hip hop practitioners who embody the culture beyond our connection to the University co-create and care for it. We shift the university setting and resources to support hip hop culture, not the other way around.

    This article does not aim to chronicle the important role hip hop culture plays in education and college campuses (see Rawls & Robinson, 2019, as well as Petchauer, 2009 and 2012, Gosa & Fields, 2012, and Nielson, 2013) nor does it seek to record hip hop culture’s history at Virginia Tech (see Fralin, et al., 2018). We also are not seeking to describe a hip hop ethos (see Harrison and Arthur, 2019). Rather, we look forward to sharing this case study as an exemplar of culturally responsive programming supported by a university library. In this article we explain how as engaged scholars we commit to understanding the role of culture in education as flexible, local, and global. 

    Hit the Crates & Create

    The VTDITC community chose our name as a way to recognize one of the many research processes inherent to traditional hip hop arts communities as well as a nod to specific cultural stalwarts. The term ‘digging in the crates’ refers to the traditional information seeking/archival research process that hip hop DJs and sample-based producers use to find their source material. Digging, understandably, is the physical and intellectual labor of the discovery process in this context – or the work required to locate, sort, and analyze vinyl records. The crates are the acid free archival box equivalent for the vinyl DJ. A DJ or producer who spends time in the crates has a larger musical vocabulary as a result – just as time spent in library archives benefits a research writer (Craig, 2013 & Rice, 2003). Beyond our name, the VTDITC program utilizes effective engagement practices from the broader hip hop community to increase the reach of the Virginia Tech University Libraries’ programming. Providing opportunities for community members to engage with hip hop culture’s productions old and new, local and global, is an objective of many of our efforts. 

    Our Guiding Principles and Mission Statement

    Early in the development of the program, our Leadership Board co-created our guiding principles: to remove barriers to entry, to recognize art as scholarship, to learn by doing, and, arguably most importantly, to establish an expressive and collaborative environment which allows for creative freedom. Nearly half a decade later, applying these principles still guides the program in the direction of success. 

    Our mission statement was created shortly after founding the program. Although it has been remixed and edited slightly over the years, the essence has remained the same. The latest iteration of our mission statement is as follows: 

    Hip Hop Studies at Virginia Tech, or VTDITC, exists to foster community-based learning among hip hop artists, fans, practitioners, and scholars digitally and globally. We aim to model that students, faculty, and staff’s personal interests are worthy of academic study and publication as well as further institutionalize Hip Hop Studies’ presence on Virginia Tech’s campus.


    Another motivator that guides our programming is the need to challenge the white heteronormativity of higher education and, especially, library spaces (Rosa & Henke, 2017). We build upon the work of scholars such as Ladson-Billings (1995, 2014), Gay (2000), and Rawls and Robinson (2019) in an effort to nurture both the shared and divergent cultural backgrounds and sensibilities of our community members. Removing misconceptions that specific groups are not to be included in the socially constructed identity of a hip hop scholar or practitioner requires intentional effort toward increasing representation of excluded identities. Recognizing that hip hop culture was birthed and nurtured in Black and brown working class communities, our Leadership Board prioritizes creating opportunities for hip hop arts practitioners and scholars of color. Beyond considering race and ethnicity, we are deliberate about requiring gender parity among compensated guest artists and scholars. These are two examples of how the VTDITC community acts as agents of change to redress historical and contemporary oppression in educational spaces (NYSED, N.D.). 

    The Origins of VTDITC

    The first meeting of what would eventually become our Leadership Board, the program’s decision making body, took place on December 9, 2016 in Newman Library. Newman is Virginia Tech’s main campus library. It is also home to a modest recording studio (now known as Media Design Studio B). The focus of this initial meeting was to create a monthly hip hop-focused seminar series that would take place in the largest venue in Newman, the Multipurpose Room or MPR. Volume 1: Intro to DJing and Fair Use occurred a couple of months later in February 2017. 

    Along with the University Libraries, representatives from a variety of both student organizations and campus units served as co-sponsors and worked hard to make the event a success. To start the event, students Dylan Holiday and Alayna Carey (Alayna is a member of our Leadership Board at present) taught a workshop with librarian Craig Arthur. The workshop addressed the intersections and divergences of DJing and fair use principles. Afterwards, the sixty or so attendees had the opportunity to each try their hand at DJing with a variety of equipment set up for their use. The vast majority of the equipment belonged to members of the Leadership Board. Virginia Tech’s own Breaking (also known as breakdancing) Club ended the event with an informal cypher. The event’s sponsoring organizations included the Africana Studies Program, the Black Cultural Center, the Flowmigos (another name for the VT Breaking Club), the Intercultural Engagement Center, the Gloria D. Smith Professorship in Black Studies, Students of Hip Hop Legacy (a club related to hip hop fandom), VT Expressions (a club focused on hosting open mic events), the VT Women’s Center, and WUVT 90.7FM (the University’s student-run radio station). This workshop is now considered a foundational component of our  seminar series. It kicks off every year as a welcome event to our community members both old and new. The second iteration of this workshop received front-page coverage in the local newspaper; the article highlighted how hip hop culture was connecting students, faculty, staff, and community members in the Newman Library (Korth, 2018). (For an approximation of the vibes at this recurring workshop, see VTDITC, 2018A.)

    The Six Elements of VTDITC: Hip Hop Studies at Virginia Tech

    VTDITC is comprised of six main components: 1) the seminar series, 2) media literacy workshops, 3) weekly studio hours, 4) the community engagement fellows program, 5) credit-bearing curriculum, and 6) practitioners for hire. Each of these elements serves a unique subset of our community; for instance, the audience of our media literacy workshops are typically K-12 students while our practitioners for hire element connects local artists with campus units for opportunities for the artists to be compensated for their talents. While the program originated with the seminar series, the majority of our labor is spent on the other components.

    1) The Seminar Series: VT’s Longest Running Monthly Event

    Since that first seminar in February 2017, we have hosted 22 additional iterations of the seminar. Approximately two dozen artists and scholars from beyond the campus have been compensated to share their expertise with the community we foster. The series, which takes place (originally in-person, now virtually [due to COVID-19], and, in due time hopefully, both virtually and in-person) on the second or third Thursday evenings of September, October, November, February, March, and April. Our seminars specifically occur during these months because that is when the regular school semesters take place. December and May are skipped due to the harried nature of the exam season.

    The seminars have addressed a wide range of topics including but not limited to gender, artistic ethics, heteronormativity, entrepreneurship, race, and police brutality. A recent example of how we addressed a topic using a hip hop lens was at our seminar VTDITC Volume 22: Hip Hop & Police Brutality. We hosted several scholars to discuss how hip hop music has long documented police violence. We selected hip hop songs that featured lyrics chronicling artists’ personal interactions with police over the course of three decades. Throughout this seminar, we conducted a group temporal analysis of how artists use their music to express the climate of police brutality across time periods and geographic differences. Ideally each year the planning committee develops seminars that directly discuss music creation as well as seminars that engage other hip hop practitioners in topics such as dance, the visual arts, journalism, and entrepreneurship. 

    While including academic voices is important, intentionally prioritizing the perspectives of hip hop arts practitioners is essential to our program. Our seminar series does not regularly follow the typical academic panel format. Even the events that do resemble a more traditional academic seminar feature a single artistic performance at a minimum. The information discussed in our seminars applies and appeals to a wide range of individuals. As a result, attendees include Virginia Tech students, faculty, staff, that of nearby institutions, and community members from the broader New River Valley and Roanoke Valley. As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, guests must now virtually attend our seminars. Over the past few months, we have had individuals from across the United States check out our events. Previously (before COVID-19), guests would need to physically come to Virginia Tech’s Newman Library to attend these events. 

    When attendees arrive at our seminars, they are greeted by a live DJ mix of hip hop music curated by our own DJ C. Sharp. After the welcome mix, the event’s Creative Director and MC (roles currently occupied by Jasmine and La’ Portia) bring the community together for announcements. We begin by expressing gratitude to our community partners as well as acknowledging the Tutelo/Monacan Nations as well as the enslaved African people (Virginia Tech’s Blacksburg campus was formerly the site of the Smithfield Plantation) who occupied this land before us. Following our announcements and land acknowledgements, we introduce our artists, scholars, and/or practitioners and they begin their presentations. Throughout the seminar there are often exercises where the community interacts with the practitioners. When meeting in person, food was provided midway through the seminar for the community to share. This feature of our seminar series symbolizes a hip hop tradition of breaking bread, but also serves as an opportunity to (albeit marginally) help reduce food scarcity on campus (US GAO, 2019). At the conclusion of our seminar, we make sure to allow time for an open question and answer session so that the community can have another opportunity to engage with the practitioners and as well as each other. We have also hosted numerous more participatory, performance-based events such as beat and MC battles. (See VTDITC, 2018B for highlights of our second annual beat battle as an example of how we are reimagining the seminar format.) 

    (Some members of the VTDITC Leadership Board 9/17; L-R: Eric Luu (‘18-’19 Creative Director, VT ‘19), Craig Arthur (University Libraries), Juel Downing (Black Cultural Center Student Assistant ‘17-’18, VT ‘18), Yamin Semali (Atlanta-based MC, Producer, DJ, & Recording Engineer), Mallory Foutch (former Program Coordinator, VT Women’s Center), and Dr. A. Kwame Harrison (Professor, Department of Sociology & the Africana Studies Program); image courtesy of Richard Randolph [VT ‘20])

    2) Do Things for the Kids: Media Literacy Workshops for the Broader Community

    This important component predates the program and is arguably our community’s favorite element of the VTDITC program. Craig has offered free DJ classes throughout the New River Valley for close to a decade. He had already integrated his twenty-year DJ practice into his librarian praxis prior to joining Virginia Tech. Recognizing that Virginia Tech University Libraries was in the process of creating its Digital Literacy Initiative shortly after his arrival, he realized that these workshops would dovetail well with many of the learning outcomes therein and could support the Initiative’s efforts. Since that time, we have offered more than 100 creation-focused workshops for the larger community. 

    Throughout the years, some of our more regular community partners have included – but are by no means limited to – the Boys and Girls Clubs of Southwest Virginia, numerous iterations of the local alumnae chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated’s annual STEAM Camp, Roanoke Public Libraries, Higher Achievement, Incorporated, Vinton Public Library, and the West End Center for Youth. Each of these organizations excels in providing programming to populations that Virginia Tech has traditionally underserved. 

    Although the pandemic has put a temporary stop to our in-person media literacy workshops, we are currently re-developing our lesson plans to work in an online synchronous learning environment. We have hosted three such virtual workshops this semester. Our workshops previously prioritized providing both access to music production equipment and utilizing an experiential learning approach to connect hip hop’s creative practices to STEAM education. Science, Technology, Engineering, the Arts and Mathematics (STEAM) education is enhanced by hip hop practices which encourage students to engage in inquiry, dialogue, and critical thinking. Unlike STEM, the addition of the arts component adds opportunities for students to thrive and connect with abstract concepts (Liao, 2016). While it is difficult to replicate the hands-on experience – such as time with turntables, records, DJ mixers, samplers, drum machines, and microphones – the online environment is well equipped for other creative practices like writing raps, critiques, and reflections. Online students are also able to engage activities which allow them to explore the relationship of beats per minute in a song and other numerical factors. Engineering is an emerging area of interest in the VTDITC media literacy workshops. We hope to explore the connection between the built environment and community impacts. Hip hop artists regularly communicate their experiences within their environmental context. Billboard charting hip hop artists have published songs that reflect the impacts that natural disasters, environmental injustice, and unsafe infrastructure systems have had on Black communities. Through a lyrical analysis of songs to introduce engineering issues, students are encouraged to consider engineering as a career path to serve their communities. 

    3) Cooking Up: Studio Hours

    Studio Hours are a weekly (every Friday afternoon) three hour open studio session for any member of our VTDITC community to record, refine the mixes of their existing recordings, write new material, and seek guidance from their fellow artists. Importantly, Studio Hours serves as a fellowship-focused space and a markedly strong community of practice is evident. This component of the program began in the Spring semester of 2018 and has persisted since. It takes place in the location of our initial planning meeting back in December 2016: Media Design Studio B in Newman Library. MDS B offers a recording booth, several audio interfaces, condenser microphones, and two computer workstations – one for audio recording and mixing and another for audio-visual production and/or audio pre-production work. The studio can comfortably accommodate approximately a dozen people. We prioritize the artists’ comfort  and have long been intentional about not overpacking MDS B. The VTDITC community has not only hosted the longest continuous program in MDS B with Studio Hours, we have also provided valuable user feedback to the team that runs the space. Our programming has helped transition the space and equipment therein from a faculty-focused curriculum development lab to a more outwardly-focused recording studio marketed to the broader community.

    Numerous songs have been recorded in MDS B by VTDITC community members during Studio Hours. Students retain ownership of their work and are guided through the process of publishing their music in both digital and analog formats. The Black Cultural Center Mixtape is an example of a community project that came into being largely as a result of Studio Hours. The BCC Mixtape can be found on Virginia Tech’s Black Cultural Center’s Soundcloud page; it was a long term, intensive project that was the brainchild of former BCC Director Kimberly Williams. The project’s production, which took place over the course of two semesters, was largely orchestrated by the VTDITC community. 

    VTDITC students have also performed live on WUVT90.7fm, the University’s student-run radio station, and as opening acts for several major artists when they have performed on campus. We are particularly proud that multiple VTDITC alumni have gained employment in creative arts-focused organizations. Many have continued their connection to VTDITC by collaborating with the current community. We have also hosted regionally and internationally renowned artists and recording engineers as a component of our Studio Hours program. They include Stimulator Jones, Tim Donovan, Omar Offendum, Sum, Ian Levy, and Emcee Lioness. As a result of these particular studio sessions, several collaborative songs have been released; they feature students, faculty members, and community members. 

    Each semester, a VTDITC community member – often the Lead Technical Director – serves as the resident recording engineer and Studio Hours community manager. We also attempt – with varying degrees of success – to ensure that we have an aspiring engineer in the wings to sustain the program’s momentum. There are relatively many Virginia Tech students who create their own music, but there are a limited number of students wanting to learn the engineering process necessary to record music. As a result, we intentionally promote the engineer mentor/mentee experience in hopes that we find interested individuals. Our current Creative Director, Jasmine, has expressed interest in music engineering and our Leadership Board is working to ensure that our current Lead Technical Director shares all of their knowledge. These student leaders have been essential to the success of our constantly evolving and co-constructed studio etiquette guidelines as well. The guidelines ultimately reflect the values of the program and, in turn, ensure that the media co-created during Studio Hours is indicative of what we are trying to accomplish as a community. Since the guidelines are prominently on display and reiterated at each of our sessions, they rarely need to be actively enforced.

    (VTDITC Studio Etiquette guidelines – Fall 2019)

    4) Learning by Doing: The VTDITC Community Engagement Fellows

    The faculty members on the Leadership Board created the VTDITC Community Engagement Fellows program as a way to intentionally transfer skills. Students apply to partner with faculty members and dedicate time specifically to cultivating their expertise. This requires a relational process of shared responsibility with students and faculty. Inasmuch, the VTDITC Community Engagement Fellows program helped us achieve an aspirational goal – to increase the agency of students within the community. The fellows – a team of approximately half a dozen undergraduate and graduate students – are essential to the success of our seminar series, our media literacy workshops, and Studio Hours. Fellows comprise an interdisciplinary team that represent a wide swath of campus life and student organizations. Oftentimes, the seemingly sole unifying feature of this team is that nearly all of the fellows are hip hop arts practitioners – be it DJs, MCs, beat makers, visual artists, or dancers. 

    Each fellow is classified as either a technical director or a creative director depending on their interests and skill sets. The technical directors, led by a Lead Technical Director, are responsible for the more mechanical aspects such as setting up and striking equipment as well as DJing and running audiovisual equipment (and, lately, monitoring chat and moderating attendees) during our programs. The creative directors, led by a Lead Creative Director, handle the more visionary aspects of the program. They help determine the upcoming topics for our seminar series and identify artists and scholars with whom we should engage. They also shape the visual and virtual identity of the program via graphic design and actively maintaining our social media presence. Despite the differentiation of duties, both technical and creative directors play an active role in co-designing and co-leading our media literacy workshops. Inasmuch, the VTDITC program allows for unrivaled and, importantly, compensated experiential learning opportunities on campus and in the community. Numerous alums are now working in hip hop arts-based or adjacent professions – as recording engineers in commercial studies or as a community manager for an international breaking school, for example – due in part to this experience.

    5) Not So Formal Learning: The Curricular Components

    VTDITC is, without question, a largely co-curricular program. However, along with founding Leadership Board member Dr. A. Kwame Harrison, Craig has co-taught two iterations of a credit bearing course that was directly tied to the VTDITC program: Africana Studies 4354/Sociology 4124: Foundations of Hip Hop. This course was offered in Fall 2017 (63 students) and Spring 2019 (39 students). In keeping with the emphasis on experiential learning evident in the rest of the VTDITC program, students were afforded the opportunity to create media projects rather than traditional academic essays in both iterations of this course. Many students made use of the resources – equipment loans and the Media Design Studio B, for instance – provided to them by the University Libraries to do so.

    We have partnered with the Department of Sociology and the Africana Studies program, largely thanks to Dr. Harrison, to co-teach several independent study courses as well. Foci of these courses have included MCing, coordinating events on campus, and internships in commercial recording studios. 

    6) You Can’t Pay Your Bills with Exposure: Practitioners For Hire

    As previously mentioned, the VTDITC program intentionally prioritizes hip hop arts practitioners in all that we do. We do our best to leverage our campus relationships to connect these practitioners with compensated work. There are typically many opportunities – and unfortunately the majority pay with only exposure – for visual artists, DJs, photographers, videographers, and dancers to share their work on a college campus. Over the years, we have successfully connected members of our community with rare paid opportunities provided by the University.

    One example of our practitioners for hire component is the relationship we have fostered with North Carolina based muralist Good Homie Signs and the University. Good Homie has created six of the seven murals (the remaining mural was created by MEME of the CBS and Few & Far crews) VTDITC has coordinated since the beginning of the program. “Narrative Art”, commissioned in April 2019 for a co-sponsored program on the rhetorics of graffiti with the Department of English and Dr. Jonathan Gross (Purdue University), has been on display in a popular meeting room in Shanks Hall, the home of the English Department, since June of last year. This component of the VTDITC program is an innovation to the best of our knowledge; we hope to continue to connect hip hop arts practitioners with similar paid opportunities on our campus in the coming years.

    (Good Homie Signs’ “Narrative Art” mural completed 4/19 and permanently installed in the Department of English’s conference room – 6/19)

    (Good Homie Signs’ Ut Prosim [or “that I may serve” – the University’s motto] mural completed 9/20 and installed permanently in Newman Library 10/20; note: third image courtesy of Cat Piper [VT ‘21])

    (Good Homie Signs’ Bobcat Studios mural completed 11/20 and located in the Bobcat Studios recording studio at Radford High School [Radford, VA])

    The Voice of the Community

    To help assess the program, community members are asked to share their feedback. The following quotes are excerpts from testimonials, post-event interviews, and event planning meetings. Quotes were selected to describe how members of our community speak to the connection that the VTDITC programming supports.

     “Even outside of breaking, VTDITC always brings a really cool vibe to whatever they have going on, whether it’s a rap sesh or Craig spinning records or even just chilling and talking about current issues. It’s like a hip hop family, which is nice to see anywhere, especially in a place like Blacksburg.”
    Virgil Thornton

    Love is an important ingredient in our events to balance the work required to discuss the tough issues our community faces. Academia is dominated with debates and lectures, and while both of those formats are present in VTDITC programming, many of the discussions at our events are modeled to mimic a family dinner conversation. Food is present and our crowd separates into small focus groups. 

    “My favorite memories were the beat battles–more specifically, seeing professors and students compete, champion, and show a bombastic love for each other.” 

    Kimberly Williams 

    Breaking down hierarchy is extremely important to empower voices. The VTDITC community creates opportunities for faculty, staff, students, and non-University affiliated community members to compete on a level playing field. Healthy competition allows for supportive energy to be transferred from the community into individuals and their creations. Many of the artistic works shared in our competitions are works in progress that are improved through community input. 

    “VTDITC is more than a library program; it is a community program, yet I continue to discuss its connection to the library and my librarianship. This is because working with VTDITC showed me the value of leaving the library to listen to the people the library serves, and this is a lesson I am extremely grateful for as it makes me a better librarian.”

    Kodi Saylor

    “I learned to listen better, respect better, and uplift better by being in that environment, which is something that came about naturally because that positive energy was already present.”
    Jon Kabongo

    Listening to others and valuing what they have to say is a non-negotiable community requirement of VTDITC. The success of the VTDITC program is greatly due to our ability to listen to what community members want and need. Our community members feel listened to and reciprocate our efforts by listening to others at our events. Virginia Tech has aspirational community guidelines which unfortunately are not always upheld. Our community is not without flaw, but it is apparent that we are committed to superseding the expectations and standards of the broader university environment. We are not building a utopia but an incredible amount of trust is being developed within our community where open mics and vulnerable identities co-exist. 

    Plans for the Future

    We feel confident that we have the program more or less dialed in both in practice and in theory, however we would like to increase the number of people that participate in the program. To date, the VTDITC community has been funded largely by the University Libraries (approximately $10,000-$15,000 per year) via departmental support for outreach programming as well as by financial support from campus units and internal grants. The vast majority of these funds have gone directly to student wages, artist and scholar honorariums, and purchasing the equipment necessary to support the program. We have received several internal grants (ranging from $500 to $10,000) in additional funding. To increase our impact in the broader community, we plan to aggressively seek external funding and sponsorships beyond campus. 

    Additionally, we also hope to further refine our programmatic assessment. Qualitative data have been collected from events and engagements which has helped VTDITC grow. A student collected several testimonials at our events as a part of a journalism project which was continued by our event staff in hopes of finding opportunities for improvement. Participant testimonials have helped tune the amount of time allotted for discussion at events as well as the importance of communicating to students opportunities to become the hosts of our events. Testimonial data also helped the VTDITC event team create  “no-photos please” lanyards to protect student privacy, especially when engaging in politicized topics. Planning meetings for VTDITC events are open to anyone, and insights provided by visiting community members have improved our events – especially as new topics are explored in conjunction with new partners. In particular, visiting community members have helped us take an iterative approach to how we promote our events and spread the reach of our programming.

    VTDITC hosts the most attended and longest running series in the Newman Library, and while the participation rates are impressive, we strive to develop richer quantitative measures of success to explore and assess the program’s success. With the program growing in scale, quantitative measures are beginning to become more applicable for measuring program success through standard statistical procedures. For our online programming, which has connected over 160 participants in the same virtual meeting, a survey is being designed to accompany our registration process which will collect likert scale data to record participant perceptions of engagement and knowledge gains. This likert scale data will be recorded and used to help the Leadership and Advisory Boards make decisions about the program’s trajectory. We also plan to leverage this data as evidence of the program’s impact for external grant funding. 

    Conclusion

    Community practices are established over long periods of time. Although the program is almost half a decade old, VTDITC is just getting started. Constructing, deconstructing, and re-envisioning the program has been a repetitive process. Working in the university environment, VTDITC was designed to be dynamic and capable of growing even with a large number of individuals whose tenures are relatively brief. Many challenges are present when engaging with communities as volatile as those in higher education, especially with respect to continuity, trust, and funding. Our guiding principles and engagement practices help to mitigate several common failures. Post graduation VTDITC students have open lines of  communication with the program and provide guidance to the generations that follow. VTDITC only engages in community partnerships that are designed to meet community needs, and prioritize community empowerment, not the further establishment of the academic institution. Financial constraints are considered opportunities to develop alternate paths towards success, while maintaining a high standard for the quality of our outputs. While the VTDITC community cannot be duplicated at other institutions, by presenting our process, we hope to provide others with the ability to sample our program to create their own sound engagement practices with their community.  

    Acknowledgements

    This article would not have been possible without the scores of students, artists, community members, as well as Virginia Tech faculty and staff who have played varying – but all vital – roles in the VTDITC crew over the last half decade. 

    Arthur J. Boston, Ian Beilin, and Ryan Randall’s formal peer-reviews were also invaluable as we wrote, remixed, and reworked this articles’ numerous drafts. Thank you for your patience, kindness, and support.

    The VTDITC community dedicates our work to the memory of:
    James “Trigganamatree” Maples (5/23/93-10/8/18) – the reigning VTDITC MC Battle ChampionChris “DJ G-Wiz” Gwaltney (3/12/87-11/21/20) – early supporter of the program and co-teacher of numerous VTDITC media literacy workshops

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    Appendix

    VTDITC: A Rough and Incomplete Timeline

    • 5/29/2016: Craig was invited by Dr. Karen Davis to teach a DJ-based media literacy workshop for Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated’s Tau Mu Omega Chapter’s first STEAM Camp. The camp happened on the campus of Radford University which was both Dr. Davis’ and Craig’s employer at the time. Although Craig had been DJing for 18 years and had taught numerous individuals the craft by this point, this workshop was the first time he had the opportunity to teach a group of middle school students from a media literacy perspective.
    • 6/4/2016: Craig was invited back to teach a DJ-based media literacy workshop for Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc.’s Tau Mu Omega Chapter’s second annual STEAM Camp. This collaboration continues annually to the present. 
    • 9/10/2016: Craig began working at his alma mater in the role of Teaching & Learning Engagement Librarian.
    • 12/9/2016: The first meeting of what would become the VTDITC Leadership Board took place in what is now the Media Design Studio B in Newman Library.
    • 2/14/2017: VTDITC collaborated with Roanoke Public Libraries for the For The Love of Hip Hop program at their main branch. RPL and VTDITC have partnered roughly a dozen times over the interceding years and our relationship with RPL is one unquestionably one of our strongest community partnerships.
    • 2/16/2017: VTDITC vol 1: Intro to DJing & Fair Use. This event – along with every other in-person seminar series event – took place in Newman Library’s Multipurpose Room. VT students Dylan Holliday and Alayna Carey served as workshop co-teachers alongside Craig. Alayna (VT Class of ‘20) is still a member of the VTDITC Leadership Board.
    • 3/16/2017-3/18/2017: First VT Hip Hop Appreciation Weekend – a three day collaboration between Students of Hip Hop Legacy, the Flowmigos/VT Breaking Club, and VTDITC – occurred.
    • 3/16/2017: VTDITC vol 2: Hip Hop Entrepreneurship featured DJ Zomanno (Los Angeles based DJ and VT alum), Justin Kim (Los Angeles based musican and model), and VT student Nathan Zed. Dr. A. Kwame Harrison (VT Department of Sociology and Africana Studies Program) moderated the discussion.
    • 3/18/2017: Give Me A Break 3 versus 3 B-Boy/B-Girl Jam (sponsored by the Flowmigos/VT Breaking Club with assistance from VTDITC) took place in the Newman Library Multipurpose Room.
    • 4/20/2017: VTDITC vol 3: Gender & Hip Hop featured legendary poet and VT faculty Nikki Giovanni. VT PhD student Corey Miles and the Black Cultural Center’s Director Kimberly Williams moderated the discussion.
    • 9/14/2017: VTDITC vol 4: Beat Battle & Music Production Workshop featured Yamin Semali (Atlanta based producer, DJ, MC, and recording engineer). Local music producer Electrobro won first place.
    • 10/12/2017: VTDITC vol 5: MC Battle & Workshop featured DayTripper (Atlanta based producer, DJ, and MC) and Emcee Lioness (Maryland based MC and VT alum). Trigganamatree (aka James Maples who passed tragically the following year) won the battle.
    • 11/2/2017: VTDITC vol 6: Hip Hop & Digital Literacy featured Dr. AD Carson (UVA Department of Music), Sum (Los Angeles based MC), VT student Nathan Zed, and Stimulator Jones (Roanoke based musician). Dr. A. Kwame Harrsion moderated the discussion.
    • Spring semester 2018: We began hosting VTDITC Studio Hours in what is now the Media Design Studio B in Newman Library. The sessions occurred from 11am to 2pm every Friday that semester as well as during the summer.
    • 2/11/2018-2/17/2018: VTDITC Artist/Entrepreneur-in-Residence. Los Angeles based artist Sum served as the University Libraries first (and only thus far) artist/entrepreneur in residence. Sum met with over 30 members of the campus community during his residency. Afterwards he presented a document with numerous recommendations and debriefed interested members of the University Libraries with his findings via a virtual meeting.
    • 2/15/2018: VTDITC vol 7: The Hour Challenge – a collaborative music creation competition – took place. Three teams of approximately half a dozen randomly chosen local hip hop artists were given an hour to create a full song. The crowd picked their favorite at the conclusion of the event. Logistically it was a nightmare but it all worked out somehow. Recap video
    • 2/28/2018: The Roanoke Times publishes a front page story on the VTDITC program.
    • 3/15/2018-3/17/2018: 2nd Annual VT Hip Hop Appreciation Weekend transpired. SOHHL, the Flowmigos, and VTDITC served as co-sponsors.
    • 3/15/2018: VTDITC vol 8: Hip Hop & Liberation featured Dr. Brandy Faulkner (VT Department of Political Science), Omar Offendum (Los Angeles based MC), Dumi Right (VT alum and Virginia based MC), and Saba Taj (Durham based visual artist). Recap video
    • 3/17/2018: VTDITC Park Jam featured muralists Icue (Atlanta) and Good Homie Signs (North Carolina) as well as Atlanta based DJ and MC Daytripper.
    • 4/19/2018: VTDITC vol 9: Gender & Hip Hop II featured Blair Ebony Smith (University) and Kyesha Jennings (NC State). Recap video
    • Fall semester 2018: VTDITC Studio Hours continued in MDS B. We altered hours to Fridays from 2 to 5 to better serve our community’s needs.
    • 8/23/2018: The Hip Hop @ VT Exhibit opened in Newman Library. This exhibit – which was created in collaboration with the University Libraries’ Course Exhibits Program – was on display on the main floor of Newman Library through nearly the entirety of the fall semester. Mural timelapse video
    • 9/20/2018: VTDITC vol 10: Intro to DJing & Fair Use – the Return consisted of a workshop by Craig and numerous VT DJs/students who also served as small group coaches. Recap video
    • 10/11/2018: VTDITC vol 11: Beat Battle & Music Production Workshop featured BeatsByJBlack (Northern Virginia based music producer) and was hosted by VT student Eric Luu. VT student SamWMTA won first place. Mike Abstrakt, a Roanoke-based high school student and music producer, took home second place. Recap video
    • 11/12/2018: VTDITC vol 12: Hip Hop & Mental Health featured Dr. Ian Levy (Manhattan College), Dr. Freddy Paige (Virginia Tech Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering), Dr. Brandy Faulkner, and Emcee Lioness. 
    • 2/7/2019: VTDITC vol 13: Hip Hop & Interrogating Civility. This event, in collaboration with the Office of Student Conduct, took a critical view of the imperative of civility on our campus. Dr. Andrea Baldwin (VT Department of Sociology), Yolanda Avent (VT Community and Cultural Centers), VT student Juan Pachecho, and Dr. AD Carson (UVA) served as panelists. 
    • 2/28/2019-3/2/2019: 3rd Annual VT Hip Hop Appreciation Weekend took place. SOHHL, the Flowmigos, and VTDITC again served as co-sponsors.
    • 2/28/2019: VTDITC vol 14: Gender & Hip Hop III – the Return of the B-Girl. Graffiti artist Meme, dancer BGirl Macca, and Emcee Lioness served as panelists for this iteration of our seminar series. 
    • 3/2/2019: 2nd Annual VTDITC Park Jam featured muralists Good Homie Signs and Meme. Recap video
    • 4/7/2019: Black Cultural Center (BCC) Mixtape released. This collaborative project – the culmination of a semester and a half of work largely done during VTDITC Studio Hours – was formally released at a celebration at the BCC.
    • 4/18/2019: Words of the Prophets: Graffiti as Political Protest in Greece, Italy, and Poland. This collaborative program with the VT Department of English featured Dr. Jonathan Gross (Professor of English at Purdue University). He shared his research regarding the rhetorics of graffiti art. Good Homie Signs created a 4’ by 16’ mural prior to this event. It is now on display in the Department of English’s conference room (Shanks Hall 380).
    • 4/18/2019: VTDITC vol 15: Show & Prove. This event was an all elements open battle for local hip hop arts practitioners. Members of the Flowmigos won first place.
    • 8/2019: The VTDITC Leadership Board established our inaugural Advisory Board. The first Advisory Board consisted of Juel Downing (VT Class of ‘18 and original Leadership Board member), Dr. J. Rawls (DJ/producer and educator), Sum (MC), Emcee Lioness (VT Class of ‘07 and MC), Dumi Right (VT Class of ‘95 and MC), and Dr. Joycelyn Wilson (Assistant Professor of Black Media Studies, Georgia Tech).
    • ‘19-’20 Academic Year: Notably, the VTDITC Community Engagement Fellows co-designed and co-taught 45 media literacy workshops for the broader community. Roughly a dozen partner organizations helped facilitate these workshops.
    • 9/19/2019: VTDITC vol 16: Hip Hop & Race – What Hasn’t Been Said. This event consisted of small group discussions led by a team of moderators. 
    • 10/17/2019: VTDITC vol 17: Soul Sessions – Rebel Voices. This iteration of our seminar series was a collaboration with Roanoke-based open mic series Soul Sessions and celebrated of LGBTQ+ History Month.
    • 11/14/2019: VTDITC vol 18: 3rd Annual Beat Battle & Music Production Workshop. This recurrence of one of our most anticipated events was judged and hosted by Stimulator Jones (Roanoke based musician, DJ, and producer). VT student and music producer Prince Predator (VT Class of ‘21) won the battle. 
    • February 2020: Bobcat Studios Project. VTDITC was awarded a $3000 internal grant by VT’s Institute for Creativity, Arts, and Technology to create a recording studio and the culturally-relevant curriculum necessary to support it at Radford High School (Radford, Virginia). 
    • 2/20/2020: VTDITC vol 19: Intro to DJing and Fair Use III. This workshop was taught by UCLA Department of Africana Studies’ Lynnée Denise and focused on their research regarding the DJ as scholar.
    • 2/28/2020: VTDITC held a master class with legendary recording engineer Tim Donovan in Media Design Studio B. 
    • Mid March 2020: VTDITC Studio Hours transitioned to a virtual-only format.
    • 3/19/2020: VTDITC vol 20: Gender & Hip Hop IV’s original date. We rescheduled this event to 10/15/2020 and transitioned to a virtual format due to the COVID-19 pandemic
    • 3/21/2020: 3rd Annual VDITC Park Jam’s original date. We rescheduled this event to 9/19/2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
    • 6/4/2020: VTDITC vol 21: Black Communities & the Police. This was our first virtual-only seminar series event and it transpired shortly after George Floyd was murdered by the Minneapolis Police Department. Community stalwart Dr. Brandy Faulkner kindly shared her expertise with us yet again.
    • Mid August 2020: VTDITC Studio Hours reinstated in-person programming in MDS B.
    • 9/17/2020: VTDITC vol 22: Hip Hop and Police Brutality. Our second virtual only seminar series event featured Dr. Brandy Faulkner, Dr. Ellington Graves (VT Office for Inclusion and Diversity and Department of Sociology/Africana Studies Program), Roanoke-based recording artist Macklyn, and Radford University Department of Social Work’s Dr. Deneen Evans. Panelists analyzed both current and classic hip hop songs as foundational texts describing instances of police violence. 
    • 9/19/2020: 3rd Annual VTDITC Park Jam – the Do-Over. North Carolina based artist and regular VTDITC collaborator Good Homie Signs created a 4’ by 16’ mural of the Virginia Tech motto Ut Prosim (or “That I May Serve”) outside of Newman Library. The mural was installed in Newman Library the following month. 
    • 10/15/2020: VTDITC vol 20 – the Do-Over: Gender & Hip Hop IV featured Dr. Shante Paradigm Smalls (St. John’s University). This event was our third virtual-only seminar series event. Dr. Smalls presentation focused on their research regarding queer hip hop historiographies.
    • 11/12/2020: VTDITC vol 23: Hip Hop Entrepreneurship II featured Stacy Epps (Atlanta-based artist and attorney). At our fourth virtual-only seminar series event, Stacy’s workshop focused on the steps necessary for aspiring artists to professionalize their creative practices.
    • 11/13-11/15/2020: Good Homie Signs created the Bobcat Studios mural (12’ by 24’) at Radford High School. 

    IMAGES: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1RmesxfMPCqJjRDJmRPcYqDeBJxwsjVSs?usp=sharing 

    TESTIMONIALS:
    https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ND0B8qqrZRVpw1toJhWLmOG1yRAZQv89ypeKcoymvWo/edit?usp=sharing

    2020-12-02T16:00:46+00:00 Craig Arthur Ed Summers: Curation Communities https://inkdroid.org/2020/12/01/curation-communities/

    As I indicated in the last post I’ve been teaching digital curation this semester at UMD. I ended up structuring the class around the idea of abstraction where we started at a fairly low level looking at file systems and slowly zoomed out to file formats and standards, types of metadata, platforms and finally community. It was a zooming out process, like changing the magnification on a microscope, or maybe more like the zooming out that happens as you pop between levels in the pages of Istvan Banyai’s beautiful little children’s book Zoom (pun intended).

    I’m curious to hear how well this worked from my student’s perspective, but it definitely helped me organize my own thoughts about a topic that can branch off in many directions. This is especially the case because I wanted the class to include discussion of digital curation concepts while also providing an opportunity to get some hands on experience using digital curation techniques and tools in the context of Jupyter notebooks. In addition to zooming out, it was a dialectical approach, flipping between reading and writing prose and reading and writing code, with the goal of reaching a kind of synthesis of understanding that digital curation practice is about both concepts and computation. Hopefully it didn’t just make everyone super dizzy :)

    This final module concerned community. In our reading and discussion we looked at the FAIR Principles and talked about what types of practices they encourage, and to evaluate some data sources in terms of findability, accessibility, interoperability and reusability.

    For the notebook exercise I decided to have students experiment with the Lumen Database (formerly Chilling Effects) which is a clearinghouse for cease-and-desist notices received by web platforms like Google, Twitter and Wikipedia. The database was created by Wendy Seltzer and a team of legal researchers that wanted to be able to study how copyright law and other legal instruments shaped what was, and was not, on the web.

    Examining Lumen helped us explore digital curation communities for two reasons. The first is that it provides an unprecedented look at how web platforms curate their content in partnership with their users. There really is nothing else like it unless you consider individual efforts like GitHub’s DMCA Repository which is an interesting approach too. The second reason is that Lumen itself is an example of community digital curation practice and principles like FAIR. FAIR began in the scientific community, and certainly has that air about it. But Lumen embodies principles around findability and accessibility: this is information that would be difficult if not impossible to access otherwise.

    Lumen also shows how some data cannot be readily available: there is redacted content, some notices lack information like infringing URLs. Working with Lumen helps students see that not all data can be open, and that the FAIR principles are a starting place for ethical conversations and designs, and not a rulebook to be followed. The Lumen API requires that you get a key for doing any meaningful work (the folks at Berkman-Klein were kind enough to supply me a temporary one for the semester).

    At any rate, if you are interested in taking a look the notebook (without the Lumen key) is available on GitHub. I’ve noticed that sometimes the GitHub JavaScript viewer for notebooks can timeout, so if you want you can also take a look at it over in Colab, which is the environment we’ve been using over the semester.

    The notebook explores the basics of interacting with the API using the Python requests library, while explaining the core data model that is behind the API, which relates together the principal, the sender, the recpipient and the submitter of a claim. It provides just a taste of the highly expressive search options that allow searching, ordering and filtering of results along many dimensions. It also provides an opportunity to show students the value of build functional abstractions to help reduce copy and paste, and develop reusable and testable curation functions.

    The goal was to do a module about infrastructure after talking about community. But unfortunately we ran out of time due to the pace of classes during the pandemic. I felt that a lot was being asked of students in the all online environment and I’ve really tried over the semester to keep things simple. This last module on community was actually completely optional, but I was surprised when half the class continued to do the work when it was not officially part of their final grade.

    The final goal of using Lumen this week was to introduce them to a resource that they could write about (essay) or use in a notebook or application that will be their final project. I’ve spent the semester stressing the need to be able to write both prose and code about digital curation practices and the final project is an opportunity for them to choose to inflect one of those modes more than the other.

    2020-12-01T19:29:00+00:00 David Rosenthal: 737 MAX Ungrounding https://blog.dshr.org/2020/12/737-max-ungrounding.html My post 737 MAX: The Case Against Boeing is a year old and has accumulated 58 updates in comments. Now the aircraft is returning to service, it is time for a new post. Below the fold, Bjorn Fehrm has two interesting posts about the ungrounding.

    In the first, Boeing 737 MAX changes beyond MCAS, Fehrm lays out the cascade of warnings that resulted from a single angle-of-attack sensor failure:
    As FAA and Boeing played through what happened in the MAX crashes in Boeing’s engineering simulators, the cascading alerts triggered by a faulty single Angle of Attack (AoA) sensor stood out:
    • Stick shaker went on on the affected side from rotation and stayed on all the time, despite the aircraft flying with the correct speed and not being close to stall.
    • IAS (airspeed) UNRELIABLE alert triggered
    • ALT (altitude) UNRELIABLE alert triggered
    • AOA (Angle of Attack) UNRELIABLE should have shown but didn’t because of a bug in MAX’s software that tied it to the optional display of AoA on the Pilot’s Primary Flight Display (PFD, the Pilot’s electronic horizon display).
    • The speed tapes on the Pilot’s Primary Flight Display behaved strangely, showing too low speed and high speed concurrently in the ET302 case.
    Several trim related failures in such an environment relied on the Pilots identifying the trim misbehavior within four seconds. When flight crews from different airlines were flying these scenarios, it became clear such assumptions were unrealistic.
    This is an example of the hand-off problem that is inherent in sophisticated automation (see First We Change How People Behave and the numerous comments). Clearly, giving even expert pilots only 4 seconds to comprehend and react to this confusing rush of warnings would have been unrealistic, even if the pilots had been informed about and trained on the MCAS system that was causing them, which they weren't.

    In the second, Fehrm points out an interesting difference between the FAA's and the EASA's requirements for re-certifying the 737 MAX in 737 MAX ungrounding, ANAC’s and EASA’s decisions:
    The other condition has its root in the disconnection of Speed Trim, MCAS, Autopilot, and Flight Directors should the two Angle of Attack systems disagree. EASA will temporarily revoke the 737 MAX certification for Required Navigation Performance – Authorization Required (RNP AR) approaches.
    ...
    Should the AoA monitor trip, Speed Trim, MCAS, and more importantly, Autopilot and Flight Directors disconnect, it puts a crew in a very tight spot as the difficulty of such approaches are high (they require special crew training and certification). You need all the tools you have in such approaches and don’t want a sudden disconnect of the Autopilot and Flight Directors combined with Speed Trim warning, followed by AOA, IAS and ALT DISAGREE.

    The revoke of the RPN AR approach certification is temporary. One can guess it will be allowed again once a synthetic third AoA sensor is introduced to the MAX. It creates a voting “two versus one” situation when one of the sensors presents suspicious values. It would then result in an AOA DISAGREE warning, but the Autopilot and Flight directors would stay on and IAS and ALT would still get the required AoA corrections. The AOA DISAGREE is then an indication for required maintenance rather than a major system hiccup.
    Duplicating systems is never a good approach to fault tolerance, they must be triplicated. In the 70s BA used Tridents on the Edinburgh to London shuttle. Their autoland systems were triplcated, and certified for zero-visibility landing. I experienced my first go-round when, on my way from Edinburgh to Miami for a conference, the approach to LHR in heavy cloud was interrupted by the engines spooling up and an abrupt climb. The captain calmly announced that one of the autopilots disagreed with the other two and, as a precaution, we were going around for another try. On the second approach there was no disagreement. We eventually landed in fog so thick I couldn't see the wingtips. Only the Tridents were landing, nothing was taking off. My Miami flight was delayed and after about 10 hours I was re-routed via LGA.
    2020-12-01T16:01:56+00:00 David. (noreply@blogger.com) Digital Library Federation: DLF Forum Community Journalist Reflection: Hsiu-Ann Tom https://www.diglib.org/dlf-forum-community-journalist-reflection-hsiu-ann-tom/

    Hsiu-Ann TomThis post was written by Hsiu-Ann Tom, who was selected to be one of this year’s virtual DLF Forum Community Journalists.

    Hsiu-Ann is the Digital Archivist at The Amistad Research Center in New Orleans, LA where her work focuses on born digital collection development. She received her Masters in Library and Information Science with a concentration in Archives Management from Simmons University in Boston in 2019. She is a graduate of Columbia University (BA, Sociology) and Harvard University (MA, Religion and Politics), and is a member of the Academy of Certified Archivists. Prior to working in the archival field, Hsiu-Ann served in the United States Army intelligence field as a cryptolinguistic analyst, attending the Defense Language Institute in Monterey, California. Before coming to Amistad, Hsiu-Ann worked on the archives staff of Boston University’s Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center working with the Military Historical Society of Massachusetts Collection. She recently obtained the Society of American Archivist Digital Archivist Specialist certification and enjoys supporting students and new professionals in their educational development through her work as a member of SAA’s Graduate Archival Education Committee.  


    I am thankful for the opportunity to have helped cover this year’s conference as one of 12 Community Journalists. Given all of the challenges of 2020, I was looking forward to hearing how my colleagues were finding ways to navigate unfamiliar situations and overcome obstacles. As a new graduate in my first full-time position out of library school, it was both inspiring and encouraging to listen to so many in the field describe their innovations over the course of the conference. I am thankful to the conference organizers and attendees for assembling such a rich program for everybody to enjoy.

    As I gathered my thoughts about what to write, I was overwhelmed by the achievements and innovations of the DLF community. Each session was packed with more information than I could absorb and it was a joy to hear such dedicated professionals talk about their work. Yet, when I thought about the conference experience, what stuck out to me the most was the conference design itself and its alignment with DLF’s mission and values. I considered the introductory comments of Charles Henry and the DLF mission:

    DLF: advancing research, learning, social justice, & the public good through the creative design & wise application of digital library technology
    Screenshot of 2020 DLF Forum opening plenary featuring Charles Henry

    The conference felt like a model for how to implement these community values. It was exciting to see ideas in action and to feel like I was included in that as a newcomer to this group.

    From before the start of the conference, I appreciated the efforts of conference staff to make conference content accessible to attendees of all abilities. In light of the pandemic and the turn to online communication platforms, transcription and closed captioning services for the hearing impaired are sometimes overlooked by conference organizers. As a US Army veteran with hearing impairment who does not read lips, this was something I struggled with on my own until this year when online meetings meant I had to start asking for more accommodations. This is not always a comfortable or easy thing for anyone to do despite how accepting society says we are to helping those who need accommodations. DLF conference staff began reaching out by email prior to the conference to address these concerns and confirm the availability of captioning and transcription services for all sessions – something that has not been my experience at other conferences.

    On the first day of the conference when I could not understand how to make the captioning features work, DLF had staff on hand via Zoom link to jump on a screen share to show me how things worked on the Aviary platform in real time. They emailed me links to sessions I missed, coached me through the features as I tested the captioning, showed me how transcriptions worked and even where I could have emailed transcripts of the conference sessions and slide notes to access at a later time. Normally I would have to stop videos and play them back multiple times to get content for note taking. Personally, these tools meant participating in the conference with fewer distractions and less stress. As the conference progressed, I thought more about the importance of these tools for our user community and how we can employ them to improve their experiences.

    Dr. Stacey Patton’s words during her opening address stayed with me throughout the conference as I considered the topic of accessibility in my daily work. She asked attendees to consider our role as archivists. As a new archivist trying to develop policies, procedures and workflows that encourage access and use for those coming to my archive, how can I perform my work more inclusively? Are there communities being overlooked? What needs are going unmet and how do I address them? Current discussions and work around accessibility are critical to ensuring that all patrons have access to the work we perform. The DLF Forum was a great experience for me in that I was able to learn about new tools to help with accessibility like Otter.ai and how to use it. I also learned about adjusting on the fly, accepting that sometimes technology will malfunction even with the best laid plans, having a backup plan to back up your plan is a great plan and finally, asking your community of peers for help may be your best plan.

    I am fortunate to have been able to attend DLF this year and to see the hard work of so many colleagues on display, learn new skills and connect with a community of professionals working in my field. There are many ways organizations demonstrate to their community of users “You are welcome here. We want you here and you are part of this community.” These simple steps taken by the DLF conference team through the accessibility tools helped me to feel part of the community this year.

    Thank you to staff who provided assistance with transcription and captioning services, and to those who helped with platform support.

    The post DLF Forum Community Journalist Reflection: Hsiu-Ann Tom appeared first on DLF.

    2020-12-01T15:00:57+00:00 Gayle Journal of Web Librarianship: Evolutional Librarianship: From Supermarket to Smorgasbord https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19322909.2020.1823299?ai=1dl&mi=co84bk&af=R .
    2020-12-01T09:49:07+00:00 Maree Ackehurst Casey Bisson: Every journalist https://maisonbisson.com/post/every-journalist/ Ryu Spaeth on the dirty job of journalism: [E]very journalist […] at some point will have to face the morally indefensible way we go about our business: namely, using other people to tell a story about the world. Not everyone dupes their subjects into trusting them, but absolutely everyone robs other people of their stories to tell their own. Every journalist knows this flushed feeling, a mix of triumph and guilt, of securing the story that will redound glory unto them, not the subject. 2020-12-01T08:02:55+00:00 Ed Summers: Mystery File! https://inkdroid.org/2020/11/30/mystery-file/

    We started the semester in my Digital Curation class by engaging in a little exercise I called Mystery File. The exercise was ungraded and was designed to simply get the students thinking about some of the issues we would be exploring over the semester such as files, file formats, metadata, description, communities of practice and infrastructure.

    The exercise also gave me an opportunity to introduce them to some of the tools and skills we would be using such as developing and documenting our work in Jupyter notebooks. The students had a lot of fun with it, and it was really helpful for me to see the variety of knowledge and skills they brought to the problem.

    The mystery file turned out to be bundle of genetic data and metadata from the public National Center for Biotechnology Information a few minutes drive from UMD at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda. If the students were able to notice that this file was a tar file, they could expand it and explore the directories and subdirectories. They could notice that some files were compressed, and examine some of them to notice that they contained metadata and a genetic sequence.

    Once they had submitted their answers I shared a video with them (the class is asynchronous except for in person office hours) where I answered these questions myself in a Jupyter notebook running in Google Colab. I shared the completed notebook with them for them to try on their own. It was a good opportunity to reacquaint students with notebooks since they were introduced to them in an Introduction to Programming class that is a pre-requisite. But I wanted to show how notebooks were useful for documenting their work, and especially useful in digital curation activities which are often ad-hoc, but include some repeatable steps.

    The bundle of data includes a manifest with hashes for fixity checking to ensure a bit hasn’t flipped, which anticipated our discussion of technical metadata later in the semester. I thought it was a good example of how a particular community is making data available, and how the NCBI and its services form a piece of critical infrastructure for the medical community. I also wanted to highlight how the data came from a Chinese team, despite the efforts of the Chinese government to suppress the information. This was science, the scientific community, and information infrastructures working despite (or in spite of) various types of social and political breakdowns.

    But I actually didn’t start this post wanting to write about all that, but rather to comment on a recent story I read about the origins of this data. It gave me so much hope and reason to celebrate data curation practices to read Zeynep Tufekci’s The Pandemic Heroes Who Gave us the Gift of Time and Gift of Information this afternoon. She describes how brave Yong-Zhen Zhang and his team in China were in doing their science, and releasing the information in a timely way to the world. If you look closely you can see Zhang’s name highlighted in the pictured metadata record above. It is simply astonishing to read how Zhang set the scientific machinery in motion which created a vaccine all the way back in January, just days after the virus was discovered and sequenced. Sending my students this piece from Zeynep here at the end of the semester gives me such pleasure, and is the perfect way to round out the semester as we talk about communities and infrastructure.

    (P.S. I’m planning on bundling up the discussion and notebook exercises once the semester is finished in case it is useful for others to adapt.)

    2020-11-30T21:31:02+00:00 Islandora: Islandora 8 Open Meeting: December 15th, 2020 https://islandora.ca/content/islandora-8-open-meeting-december-15th-2020 Islandora 8 Open Meeting: December 15th, 2020 manez Mon, 11/30/2020 - 18:32
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    Our first general open meeting for Islandora 8, held on November 17th, went great! We didn't have a moment of down time in four hours, and we ended up covering everything from basic introductory demos to detailed looks under the hood of Islandora 8 sites in production.

    We will be holding another open drop-in session on December 15th, from 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM Eastern. Full details, and the Zoom link to join, are in this Google doc. The meeting is free form, with experienced Islandora 8 users on hand to answer questions or give demos on request. Please drop in at any time during the four-hour window.

    Registration is not required. If you would like a calendar invite as a reminder, please let us know at community@islandora.ca.

    2020-11-30T17:32:20+00:00 manez Digital Library Federation: Announcing a Portuguese Translation of the 2019 Levels of Digital Preservation Matrix https://www.diglib.org/announcing-a-portuguese-translation-of-the-2019-levels-of-digital-preservation-matrix/

    Portuguese Translations of the 2019 Levels of Digital Preservation Matrix 

    The NDSA is pleased to announce that Version 2 (2019) of the Levels Matrix has been translated into Portuguese by Laura Vilela R. Rezende.

    This document enriches the scientific studies on Digital Preservation and Research Data Curation developed by the Brazilian research group of which the researcher is part:

    The Research Network – DRIADE: Digital Preservation Studies and Practices  

    Links to these documents are found below as well as on the 2019 Levels of Digital Preservation OSF project page: https://osf.io/qgz98/

    If you would be interested in translating the Levels of Digital Preservation V2.0 into another language please contact us at ndsa.digipres@gmail.com. 

     

    Tradução para o Português da Matriz dos Níveis de Preservação Digital de 2019 

    A NDSA tem o prazer de anunciar que a versão 2.0 (2019) da Matriz dos Níveis de Preservação Digital foi traduzida para o Português por Laura Vilela R. Rezende.

    Este documento enriquece os estudos científicos sobre Preservação Digital e Curadoria de Dados de Pesquisa desenvolvidos pelo grupo de pesquisa brasileiro do qual a pesquisadora faz parte: 

    Rede de Pesquisa DRIADE – Estudos e práticas de Preservação Digital

     A seguir os links para acesso a este documentos. É possível acessar também pela página do projeto OSF: https://osf.io/qgz98/

    Caso tenha interesse em traduzir os Níveis de Preservação Digital V 2.0 em outro idioma, por favor entre em contato conosco pelo e-mail: ndsa.digipres@gmail.com  

    The post Announcing a Portuguese Translation of the 2019 Levels of Digital Preservation Matrix  appeared first on DLF.

    2020-11-30T15:33:43+00:00 kussmann Terry Reese: MarcEdit 7.5 Update Status https://blog.reeset.net/archives/2925

    I’m planning to start making testing versions of the new MarcEdit instance available around the first of the year broadly, to a handful of testers in mid-Dec.  The translation from .NET 4.7.2 to .NET 5 was more significant than I would have thought – and includes a number of swapped default values – so hunting down behavior changes.  Currently, the follow updates have been completed.

      • Framework used: .NET 5.0
      • RDA Helper: 100$e process modified. Added criteria to $e generation. Previously, if a $e is already present, an new $e wasn’t added. Now, if a $e or $4 is present, a $e won’t be generated.
      • RDA Helper: Changes related to RDA updates
      • Added new elements to the new window programs for pinning
      • XML Editor: Delete Block element added
      • XML Editor: XQuery processing option
      • If a set of records include bibliographic and authority records, the RDA helper will skip the authority records
      • Updated Installation Wizard (allows migration of 6.x and 7.x content into the tool)
      • Updating OCLC Integration to use new Metadata API Search
      • Delimited Text Translator — added ability to use custom mnemonic replacements
      • Delimited Text Translator — no longer a stand alone program
        • App part of main marcedit app
        • Command line options folded into marcedit app
      • [in process] linked data rules file version 2
        • Enhancements to the rules file schema
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    2020-11-30T14:56:32+00:00 reeset Journal of Web Librarianship: What Metadata Matters?: Correlation of Metadata Elements with Click-Through Rates for E-Books and Streaming Video in the Academic Library Catalog https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19322909.2020.1850390?ai=1dl&mi=co84bk&af=R .
    2020-11-30T09:40:00+00:00 Nicole Trujillo Max Planck Digital Library: MPG/SFX server maintenance, Tuesday 01 December, 5-6 pm https://blog.vlib.mpg.de/mpg-sfx-server-maintenance-tuesday-01-december-5-6-pm/

    The database of the MPG/SFX server will undergo scheduled maintenance. The downtime will start at 5 pm. Services are expected to be back after 30 minutes.

    We apologize for any inconvenience.

    2020-11-30T09:14:19+00:00 eia Casey Bisson: The three tribes of the internet https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-three-tribes-of-the-internet/ Authors Primavera De Filippi, Juan Ortiz Freuler, and Joshua Tan outline three competing narratives that have shaped the internet: libertarian, corporate, and nationalist. This matters because our physical lives are now deeply intertwined with and codependent on our internet activities. The latest information about Covid regulations in many communities is first released on Twitter, for example. A declaration is a political act, which describes what should be done. A narrative is a political tool, which elaborates on why it should be done. 2020-11-30T08:09:41+00:00 Mark Matienzo: Perfecting a favorite: oatmeal chocolate chip cookies https://matienzo.org/2020/perfecting-a-favorite-oatmeal-chocolate-chip-cookies/

    I have a horrible sweet tooth, and I absolutely love oatmeal chocolate chip cookies. I tend to bake as a means to cope with stress, and of course, more often then that means making these cookies. After making many iterations, I’ve settled upon this recipe as the ultimate version to which all compare.

    2020-11-30T04:49:53+00:00 Mark Matienzo: Perfecting a favorite: oatmeal chocolate chip cookies https://matienzo.org/2020/perfecting-a-favorite/

    I have a horrible sweet tooth, and I absolutely love oatmeal chocolate chip cookies. I tend to bake as a means to cope with stress, and of course, more often then that means making these cookies. After making many iterations, I’ve settled upon this recipe as the ultimate version to which all compare.

    2020-11-30T04:49:53+00:00 Casey Bisson: Happy D.B. Cooper Day https://maisonbisson.com/post/happy-db-cooper-day-fa0a30c/ D.B. Cooper day is celebrated on this day, the Saturday following Thanksgiving, every year. 2020-11-29T04:00:00+00:00 Peter Murray: User Behavior Access Controls at a Library Proxy Server are Okay https://dltj.org/article/snsi-webinar-thoughts/

    Earlier this month, my Twitter timeline lit up with mentions of a half-day webinar called Cybersecurity Landscape - Protecting the Scholarly Infrastructure. What had riled up the people I follow on Twitter was the first presentation: “Security Collaboration for Library Resource Access” by Cory Roach, the chief information security officer at the University of Utah. Many of the tweets and articles linked in tweets were about a proposal for a new round of privacy-invading technology coming from content providers as a condition of libraries subscribing to publisher content. One of the voices that I trust was urging caution:

    As near as I can tell, much of the debate traces back to this article:

    The article describes Cory’s presentation this way:

    One speaker proposed a novel tactic publishers could take to protect their intellectual property rights against data theft: introducing spyware into the proxy servers academic libraries use to allow access to their online services, such as publishers’ databases.

    The “spyware” moniker is quite scary. It is what made me want to seek out the recording from the webinar and hear the context around that proposal. My understanding (after watching the presentation) is that the proposal is not nearly as concerning. Although there is one problematic area—the correlation of patron identity with requested URLs—overall, what is described is a sound and common practice for securing web applications. To the extent that it is necessary to determine a user’s identity before allowing access to licensed content (an unfortunate necessity because of the state of scholarly publishing), this is an acceptable proposal. (Through the university communications office, Corey published a statement about the reaction to his talk.)

    In case you didn’t know, a web proxy server ensures the patron is part of the community of licensed users, and the publisher trusts requests that come through the web proxy server. The point of Cory’s presentation is that the username/password checking at the web proxy server is a weak form of access control that is subject to four problems:

    1. phishing (sending email to tricking a user into giving up their username/password)
    2. social engineering (non-email ways of tricking a user into giving up their username/password)
    3. credential reuse (systems that are vulnerable because the user used the same password in more than one place)
    4. hactivism (users that intentionally give out their username/password so others can access resources)

    Right after listing these four problems, Cory says: “But anyway we look at it, we can safely say that this is primarily a people problem and the technology alone is not going to solve that problem. Technology can help us take reasonable precautions… So long as the business model involves allowing access to the data that we’re providing and also trying to protect that same data, we’re unlikely to stop theft entirely.”

    His proposal is to place “reasonable precautions” in the web proxy server as it relates to the campus identity management system. This is a slide from his presentation:

    Diagram of the components that are in place to facilitate a user's access to publisher content, including the web proxy server at the center. Slide from presentation by Cory Roach

    I find this layout (and lack of labels) somewhat confusing, so I re-imagined the diagram as this:

    Diagram that is a derivative of Mr. Roach's diagram that emphasizes the portions that are under university control and portions under publisher control. Revised 'Modern Library Design'

    The core of Cory’s presentation is to add predictive analytics and per-user blocking automation to the analysis of the log files from the web proxy server and the identity management server. By doing so, the university can react quicker to compromised usernames and passwords. In fact, it could probably do so more quicker than the publisher could do with its own log analysis and reporting back to the university.

    Where Cory runs into trouble is this slide:

    Slide describing benefits of a Modern Library Design. Heading: Library Logs/Info. Bullet points: Timestamps, Extensive Browser Info, Username, Account Information, Customer IP, URLs Requested, 2-Factor Device Info, Geographic Location, User Behavior, Biometric Data, Threat Correlation / Info Sharing. Heading: Publisher Logs. Bullet points: Timestamps, Proxy IP, URLs Request Slide from presentation by Cory Roach

    In this part of the presentation, Cory describes the kinds of patron-identifying data that the university could-or-would collect and analyze to further the security effort. In search engine optimization, these sorts of data points are called “signals” and are used to improve the relevance of search results; perhaps there is an equivalent term in access control technology. But for now, I’ll just call them “signals”.

    There are some problems in gathering these signals—most notably the correlation between user identity and “URLs Requested”. In the presentation, he says: “You can also move over to behavioral stuff. So it could be, you know, why is a pharmacy major suddenly looking up a lot of material on astrophysics or why is a medical professional and a hospital suddenly interested in internal combustion. Things that just don’t line up and we can identify fishy behavior.” It is core to the library ethos that we make our best effort to not track what a user is interested in—to not build a profile of a user’s research unless they have explicitly opted into such data collection. As librarians, we need to gracefully describe this professional ethos and work that into the design of the systems used on campus (and at the publishers).

    Still, there is much to be said for using some of the other signals to analyze whether a particular request is from an authorized community member. For instance, Cory says: “We commonly see this user coming in from the US and today it’s coming in from Botswana. You know, has there been enough time that they could have traveled from the US to Botswana and actually be there? Have they ever access resources from that country before is there residents on record in that country?”

    The best part of what Cory is proposing is that the signals’ storage and processing is at the university and not at the publisher. I’m not sure if Cory knew this, but a recent version of EZProxy added a UsageLimit directive that builds in some of these capabilities. It can set per-user limits based on the number of page requests or the amount of downloaded information over a specified interval. One wonders if somewhere in OCLC’s development queue is the ability to detect IP addresses from multiple networks (geographic detection) and browser differences across a specified interval. Still, pushing this up to the university’s identity provider allows for a campus-wide view of the signals…not just the ones coming through the library.

    Also, in designing the system, there needs to be clarity about how the signals are analyzed and used. I think Cory knew this as well: “we do have to be careful about not building bias into the algorithms.”

    Yeah, the need for this technology sucks.

    Although it was the tweet to the Coda Story about the presentation that blew up, the thread of the story goes through TechDirt to a tangential paragraph from Netzpolitik in an article about Germany’s licensing struggle with Elsevier.

    With this heritage, any review of the webinar’s ideas are automatically tainted by the distain the library community in general has towards Elsevier. It is reality—an unfortunate reality, in my opinion—that the traditional scholarly journal model has publishers exerting strong copyright protection on research and ideas behind paywalls. (Wouldn’t it be better if we poured the anti-piracy effort into improving scholarly communication tools in an Open Access world? Yes, but that isn’t the world we live in.) Almost every library deals with this friction by employing a web proxy server as an agent between the patron and the publisher’s content.

    The Netzpolitik article says:

    …but relies on spyware in the fight against „cybercrime“

    Of Course, Sci-Hub and other shadow libraries are a thorn in Elsevier’s side. Since they have existed, libraries at universities and research institutions have been much less susceptible to blackmail. Their staff can continue their research even without a contract with Elsevier.

    Instead of offering transparent open access contracts with fair conditions, however, Elsevier has adopted a different strategy in the fight against shadow libraries. These are to be fought as „cybercrime“, if necessary also with technological means. Within the framework of the „Scholarly Networks Security Initiative (SNSI)“, which was founded together with other large publishers, Elsevier is campaigning for libraries to be upgraded with security technology. In a SNSI webinar entitled „Cybersecurity Landscape – Protecting the Scholarly Infrastructure“*, hosted by two high-ranking Elsevier managers, one speaker recommended that publishers develop their own proxy or a proxy plug-in for libraries to access more (usage) data („develop or subsidize a low cost proxy or a plug-in to existing proxies“).

    With the help of an „analysis engine“, not only could the location of access be better narrowed down, but biometric data (e.g. typing speed) or conspicuous usage patterns (e.g. a pharmacy student suddenly interested in astrophysics) could also be recorded. Any doubts that this software could also be used—if not primarily—against shadow libraries were dispelled by the next speaker. An ex-FBI analyst and IT security consultant spoke about the security risks associated with the use of Sci-Hub.

    The other commentary that I saw was along similar lines:

    • [Is the SNSI the new PRISM? bjoern.brembs.blog](http://bjoern.brembs.net/2020/10/is-the-snsi-the-new-prism/)
    • [Academics band together with publishers because access to research is a cybercrime chorasimilarity](https://chorasimilarity.wordpress.com/2020/11/14/academics-band-together-with-publishers-because-access-to-research-is-a-cybercrime/)
    • [WHOIS behind SNSI & GetFTR? Motley Marginalia](https://csulb.edu/~ggardner/2020/11/16/snsi-getftr/)

    Let’s face it: any friction beyond follow-link-to-see-PDF is more friction than a researcher deserves. I doubt we would design a scholarly communication system this way were we to start from scratch. But the system is built on centuries of evolving practice, organizations, and companies. It really would be a better world if we didn’t have to spend time and money on scholarly publisher paywalls. And I’m grateful for the Open Access efforts that are pivoting scholarly communications into an open-to-all paradigm. That doesn’t negate the need to provide better options for content that must exist behind a paywall.

    So what is this SNSI thing?

    The webinar where Cory presented was the first mention I’d seen of a new group called the Scholarly Networks Security Initiative (SNSI). SNSI is the latest in a series of publisher-driven initiatives to reduce the paywall’s friction for paying users or library patrons coming from licensing institutions. GetFTR (my thoughts) and Seamless Access (my thoughts). (Disclosure: I’m serving on two working groups for Seamless Access that are focused on making it possible for libraries to sensibly and sanely integrate the goals of Seamless Access into campus technology and licensing contracts.)

    Interestingly, while the Seamless Access initiative is driven by a desire to eliminate web proxy servers, this SNSI presentation upgrades a library’s web proxy server and makes it a more central tool between the patron and the content. One might argue that all access on campus should come through the proxy server to benefit from this kind of access control approach. It kinda makes one wonder about the coordination of these efforts. Still, SNSI is on my radar now, and I think it will be interesting to see what the next events and publications are from this group.

    2020-11-28T04:21:42+00:00 Peter Murray (jester@dltj.org) Coral Sheldon-Hess: The Online Unconference of Niche Interests http://www.sheldon-hess.org/coral/2020/11/the-online-unconference-of-niche-interests/

    If you’re looking for a fun and educational thing to do this weekend, you might consider attending the second quarterly(??) Online Unconference of Niche Interests (“OUNI” for short), scheduled to run from 2pm until a bit after 5pm Eastern Standard Time, this Sunday, November 29. We have a set of volunteer presenters who will each talk for up to 15 minutes about a niche topic they’re into. Sign up here if you’re interested in this or future OUNIs, and we’ll send you a link to the Zoom session, the talk schedule, and the Discord chat space.* You are welcome to drop in and out of the Zoom, if there are only a few talks that interest you; of course, you’re also invited/encouraged to stay the whole time!

    Our list of topics for this Sunday:

    • Knitting but Scary
    • Making Herbal Salves
    • Fanfiction: the Sometimes Sensational World of Transformative Fiction
    • Magnificent Moose: Animal, Culture and Representation
    • All the Fair Dice
    • Glass Sponges: Delicate Aliens
    • Post Office Trivia You Will Enjoy, and a plug for writing letters and postcards

    The schedule, with full session descriptions, is here.

    I know, I didn’t ever actually blog about the First Online Unconference of Niche Interests, sorry. The recordings we have permission to share are on this playlist, though. (Yes, the one about owls was me. :)) Topics not in the playlist included adaptive clothing, birdwatching, capture the flag (security games), octagon houses, and approval voting.

    I mention the previous list of topics in the hopes that they give you ideas. :) We do already have 2-3 talks pre-proposed for the next OUNI, which is very exciting! The form for talk submissions is open now, and we’ll schedule the third OUNI around the availability of presenters. If we get more talks than will fit in a nice 3-4 hour block (with breaks!), we’ll do community voting to decide which ones run. Or we’ll schedule multiple weekends in a row? Whatever, this whole thing is designed to be flexible and fun, and if we’re going to err, I’d really prefer to err on the side of including more people, not fewer.

    * We promise not to share your email address or to use it for anything except OUNI announcements. (“We” is my spouse and me. I don’t foresee other volunteers needing email address access, but if this thing grows, I promise we’ll continue to be cautious and opt-in with everything.)

    Note: the featured image on this post appears to have made its first appearance online at dudecraft.com (which is currently throwing a security error, so I won’t link it); it appears unattributed in many other places, though. 2020-11-27T22:40:24+00:00 Coral Sheldon-Hess Mita Williams: Weeknote 48 (2020) https://librarian.aedileworks.com/2020/11/27/weeknote-48-2020/

    §1

    First off is this recommended read from the November 17th issue of The New Yorker, The rise and fall of getting things done by Cal ‘Deep Work’ Newport. As Newport himself describes his work,

    It’s not, however, really about David Allen’s productivity system, which longtime readers (and listeners) know I really admire. It’s instead about a deeper question that I hadn’t heard discussed much before: Why do we leave office workers to figure out on their own how to get things done?

    With the notable exception of agile software development teams, companies in this sector largely leave decisions about how work is assigned, reviewed, and organized up to individuals. We promulgate clear objectives and construct motivating corporate cultures, but when it comes to actually executing these tasks, we just hook everyone up to an email address or Slack channel and tell them to rock and roll. This has led to a culture of overload and fragmented attention that makes everyone involved miserable.

    I don’t want to spoil the conclusions of this article, but I will tip you off that I’m filling this article away in my notebook about visualizing workflow.

    §2

    I discovered this work from CARL’s e-alert newsletter, Thinking Politically About Scholarly Infrastructure (A.J. Boston, LPC Blog – Fellows Journal, November 12). Parts of it hit a little too close to home for my liking…

    I’m sure I’m being unfair in my stance. To capture a diverse constituency, a big-tent approach can be effective. Compromise can cause cynicism about our politics, but sometimes a little progress can be better than a lot of regression. That’s the story I’ve told myself, at least, while making my daily compromise as a ScholComm librarian who manages our Elsevier-owned institutional repository service, Digital Commons. My school contracted with bepress (then an independent company) shortly before hiring me to manage it, and my values felt fully aligned as I made the pitch across campus to deposit green OA manuscripts there. But that feeling changed with the announcement of Elsevier acquiring bepress in August 2017 (MacKenzie, 2017).

    Since 2017, the Digital Commons service hasn’t worsened, but the premise that many customers initially bought into, of supporting an independent platform in the scholarly communication ecosystem, has eroded. And what do people do when they face a deterioration of goods and services? For A.O. Hirschman (1970), there are three choices (which later scholars have revised upon): exit, voice, and loyalty. In my case, exit seems out of the question: a diverse constituency of groups on my campus have now integrated the software, and a swap would be overly-costly and damage relationships in the process. I don’t know whether I’d categorize what I am doing now as voice or loyalty, but what I do know is that there is a strong glimmer of recognition when Sen. Harris walks her fracking-issue tightrope, or when grant-funding institutions rock the boat just lightly enough that it doesn’t risk a capsize.

    §3

    Also from aforementioned e-alert,

    AAP and CCC End Georgia State ‘E-Reserves’ Copyright Litigation (P. Anderson, Publishing Perspectives, November 12)

    After a 12-year fight, the Association of American Publishers and Copyright Clearance Center have declined to pursue any further appeals in their lawsuit against Georgia State University regarding their reliance on fair use in making materials available via e-reserves. Read more @pubperspectives 

    I used to refer to the Georgia State E-Reserves case as an example of selective enforcement of copyright by publishers in which educational use of works behind an authentication system was vigorously challenged in court, while rampant open distribution of works under copyright via Academia.edu and ResearchGate was ignored for years.

    §4

    I only read the headline and the abstract of this article but I am sharing it anyway because I liked the conclusion that Tyler Cowan [ht] drew from it: Open access improves the quality of citations.

    §5

    Earlier this week Hugh Rundle published a blog post called Empathy Daleks that gave me life:

    Her studies indicate that diversifying the authors, perspectives, representations and examples in standard textbooks is not simply “more inclusive” or “just” in an abstract way (though that would be good anyway). Students who feel they belong — who feel validated as members or potential members of a profession or academic discipline — are more likely to succeed and complete their degrees. That is, Lambert suggests that diversifying the authors and even the examples or hypothetical actors in university textbooks by itself has a positive effect on completion rates, engagement, and student satisfaction with courses. Amy Nusbaum shows in a recent article that OER is an effective way to accelerate this, because with licenses allowing “remixing” of content the examples used within open textbooks can be updated to suit local needs without having to rewrite the entire text….

    But it was Lambert uttering the magic words about diverse texts improving “student success” that suddenly felt quite subversive. To understand why, we need to interrogate what universities usually mean when they talk about “student success”, and particularly the infrastructures universities have been building around it.

    Hugh Rundle, Empathy Daleks, November 23, 2020

    And on that note… I liked this tweet about university rankings some days ago.

    Speaking of society-focused agendas, while I was doing some of the more rote collection development tasks this week (reviewing lists of duplicate titles, finding missing titles that were of need of replacing), I listened to a number of episodes of Terry Greene’s Getting Air: The Open Pedagogy podcast and I enjoyed them very much. I’ve had the pleasure of knowing and spending time with some of the guests on his show and it is such a treat to hear them speak about the careful thought and thoughtful care they put into their work of teaching.

    2020-11-27T21:39:05+00:00 Mita Williams Ed Summers: Kettle https://inkdroid.org/2020/11/27/kettle/

    kettle boiling
    kitchen table
    two windows
    daylight
    reaching leaves
    kettle boiling
      again




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Hyku is the result of a collaboration to extend the existing Samvera project codebase to build, bundle, and promote a feature-rich, robust, flexible digital repository that is easy to install, configure, and maintain.  Hyku is a solution bundle that can be installed locally or run in the cloud.  It is based on Hyrax, a Community-developed Ruby gem that allows users to design and build their own, customized installation of our software. 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Media monetization vs. internet advertising Structural problems The internet is structured in favor of ad networks. Ad spend grows approximately at the rate of inflation, but the inventory of pages on which those ads can appear grows with each new Instagram post (about 100MM per day). Internet advertising is far more automated than print, but the benefit goes to intermediaries and buyers. On average, publishers receive only about half of what advertisers pay for the advertising that appears in their publications. The argument against likes: aim for deeper, more genuine interactions It’s worth revisiting the infamous 2005 definition of social software as software that facilitates social encounters: “Social software” is about making it easy for people to do other things that make them happy: meeting, communicating, and hooking up. […] The trick you want to accomplish is that when one person is using your software, it suddenly provides value to that person and their entire circle of friends, without the friends having had to do anything at all. Paid reactions: virtual awards and tipping Likes and reactions can stimulate more signal, leading to more user-activity on a site, but reactions that members pay to give to creators and other members on the site can be a revenue source. Reddit introduced Reddit Gold in 2010 in an announcement that was surprisingly candid about their need to raise money. The original Reddit Gold was a combination of both premium, ad-free subscription and a type of reaction that allowed premium members to “gild” a post. Reactions Reactions in Twitter DMs. Likes are a most perfect binary, but the meaning of a like can vary. Consider the following interpretations of likes on Instagram: This photo is incredibly inspiring to me and I want it hanging on my wall I like it when you like my photos and comments, so I will like your work as part of the social contract we have settled into I appreciate your comment on my photo and I want to recognize your participation It’s difficult, however, to “like” something with painful or negative emotions. “Likes” vs. “Faves” Wikipedia credits Vimeo for introducing the first like button as a more casual alternative to favorites. Facebook introduced the feature in early 2009, but Twitter’s story is an interesting investigation into the differences a word or an icon can make. Twitter switched from Faves to Likes on 3 November 2015. “You might like a lot of things, but not everything can be your favorite” explained Twitter’s announcement. They continued: [W]e know that at times the [Fave] star could be confusing, especially to newcomers. 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size, large size Photo page, original size, large size Photo page, original size, large size Photo page, original size, large size Photo page, original size, large size Photo page, original size, large size Honey cocktails: eau de lavender Liquor.com’s recipe for eau de lavender, from a larger collection of cocktails with honey. They all look and sound delightful, but I can vouch for the eau de lavender. Ingredients 1 1/2 oz Tequila 3/4 oz Fresh lemon juice 3/4 oz Honey syrup1 1 Egg white 1 dash Scrappy’s lavender bitters Garnish: Lavender sprig Steps Add all ingredients into a shaker and dry-shake (without ice). Add ice and shake again to emulsify thoroughly. Satellite tracking If you’re not reading Skyriddles blog, then you’re not tracking the sky above. And you might have missed the re-discovery of a satellite launched in 1967 and lost for nearly 50 years. As it turns out, there’s a lot of stuff that’s been forgotten up there, and quite a bit that some are trying to hide. The blog is an entertaining view into the world satellites, including communication, spy, weather, research, and the occasional probe going further afield. I'm missing restaurants now @nakedlunchsf was notable for having both a strong contender for the best burger in the city, and the best veggie sando. They kept the menu short and focused, and changed it up every few days based on what was in season and interesting. It was great food, but not fancy. The food, warm atmosphere, and a welcoming front of house team made the place a favorite for me and many others. When unzip fails on macOS with UTF8 unzip can fail on macOS when UTF-8 chars are in the archive. The solution is to use ditto. Via a Github issue: ditto -V -x -k --sequesterRsrc --rsrc FILENAME.ZIP DESTINATIONDIRECTORY TikTok vs. Instagram Connie Chan: Rather than asking users to tap into a video thumbnail or click into a channel, the app’s AI algorithms decide which videos to show users. The full-screen design of TikTok allows every video to unveil both positive and negative signals from users (positive = a like, follow, or watching until the end; negative = swipe away, press down). Even the speed at which users swipe a video away is a relevant signal. Swipegram template Benjamin Lee’s instructions and downloadable template to make panoramic carousel Instagrams (AKA #swipegram), as illustrated via his animation above. “It is clear that the books owned the shop... “It is clear that the books owned the shop rather than the other way about. Everywhere they had run wild and taken possession of their habitat, breeding and multiplying, and clearly lacking any strong hand to keep them down.” Words by Agatha Christie In photo: 1️⃣ MacLeod’s Books, Vancouver, British Columbia #penderstreet #downtownvancouver #mustbevancouver 2️⃣ Carlson & Turner Antiquarian Books, Portland, Maine #portlandmaine #lovemaine At Instagram. “Life is like riding a bicycle... “Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.” —wisdom by Albert Einstein The Bosch Autoparts shop behind these commuters is now converted to an organic restaurant that anchors the northeast corner of Copenhagen’s fashionable meatpacking district. At Instagram. Notes about Spotify creator features Spotify often gets bashed by top creators. The service pays just $0.00397 per stream, but with 108 million users listening to an average of 25 hours per month, those streams can add up for creators who can get the listener’s attention. Spotify verifies artists who then get additional benefits on the platform. Some artists find success the traditional route, some optimize their work for the system, others work the system…and some really work it. ExifTool examples I use for encoding analog camera details I’m a stickler for detail and love to add exif metadata for my film cameras to my scanned images. These are my notes to self about the data I use most often. I only wish exif had fields to record the film details too. Random notes on Instagram Delete your photos Deleting your old photos is recurring advice to photograpehers. JP Danko suggests deleting photos just for simplicity of management. Similarly, Eric Kim recommends it for decluttering as well. From another side, Mike Dixon deletes photos as part of his reflection and self-improvement efforts. And Caleb Kerr argues emotional attachment to old photos is bad for your portfolio and can be a barrier to creating better work. Rebrand A number recommend starting from scratch. Every media has its tastemakers and influencers Every media, network, or platform has would-be influencers or promoters who can help connect consumers with creators. Don’t mistake the value of these tastemakers, and be sure to find a place for them to create new value for your platform. Storehouse: the most wonderful story sharing flop ever Storehouse shuttered in summer 2016, just a couple years after they launched, but the app and website introduced or made beautiful a few features that remain interesting now. “He had ridden his horse into the saloon on a dare... “He had ridden his horse into the saloon on a dare—his practice was always to accept dares; it spiced life up a little.” Words: Larry McMurtry  At Instagram. Editorial efforts at scale Anywhere you can find content—even user-generated content—you’ll find a content strategy and editors ensuring that content aligns to strategy (and to community standards). Somewhere, something incredible is waiting... “Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known” Words commonly misattributed to Carl Sagan, but most likely written by reporter Sharon Begley The eight-dish Submillimeter Array on Mauna Kea in Hawaii was one of a global federation of radio telescopes used to produce the world’s first images of a black hole earlier this year. From Wikipedia: “The radio frequencies accessible to this telescope range from 180–418 gigahertz (1. Don’t make it dull... Don’t make it dull If thou can’t make it colorful Words by Arrow At Instagram. About that table of “hidden rules among classes” The following table has been circulating recently. I sourced it to Framework for Understanding Poverty: A Cognitive Approach by Ruby Payne, PhD, who sells educational materials and consulting services through her company, aha! Process. POOR MIDDLE CLASS WEALTHY POSSESSIONS People. Things. One-of-a-kind objects, legacies, pedigrees. MONEY To be used, spent. To be managed. To be conserved invested. PERSONALITY Is for entertainment. the couple in the booth next door... the couple in the booth next door, just been up all night smoking cigarettes and talking about life as the waitress hovers with nothing else to do but daydream about the cop she wants to screw Words by David E Oprava  Silver Crest Donut Shop, San Francisco #americansquares At Instagram. Maybe life is all about twirling under one of those midnight skies... Maybe life is all about twirling under one of those midnight skies, cutting a swathe through the breeze and gently closing your eyes. words by Sanober Khan At Instagram. Design exercises for product leadership In a way, my career in tech started with graphic design. And as a not very good graphic designer, I eagerly looked for ways to improve my work. Nothing beats inspiration and skillful effort, but sometimes finding inspiration is a matter of changing how you look at the subject. There are some exercises that can help with that and sometimes offer a shortcut to inspiration when all else fails. Consider an illustration project in which you need to represent a subject. Sai Morgan You say Rolls I say Royce You say God give me a choice You say Lord I say Christ I don’t believe in Peter Pan Frankenstein or Superman Sai rode by on his bike and I invited him over for a photo. I’ve tried to send him the photos to the email address he gave me (s415morgan@[redacted]), but I haven’t heard back. Before I built a wall I’d... Before I built a wall I’d ask to know What I was walling in or walling out, And to whom I was like to give offense. Words by Bob Frost At Instagram. Normcore, mysticore, streetwear, and other words for “fashion” Normcore Normcore, at its most basic level, is fashionable people choosing to dress unfashionably, which is hardly a new idea. A case could be made that normcore has existed since the popularization of ready-to-wear clothing in the early 1920s. Any clothing that is not made by hand or commissioned specifically for a person is ready-to-wear. Almost immediately after the creation of ready-to-wear fashion, it became a trend to wear what everyone else was wearing, especially if you were a wealthy person not used to sharing clothes with the commoners. How big is S3? tl;dr: somewhere between 12-40 exabytes. Up in the air I go flying again/Up in the air and down! How do you like to go up in a swing, Up in the air so blue? Up in the air I go flying again, Up in the air and down! Words by Robert Louis Stevenson Music CC-by-nc-sa: “Cocek” by The Underscore Orkestra The swing is an installation at the #bombaybeachbiennale titled “The Water Ain’t That Bad, It’s Just Salty” by @damonjamesduke and @ssippi with the Bombay Bunny Club Glitter, glitter, everywhere Near the entrance, metal shelves taller than a man were laden with over one thousand jumbo jars of glitter samples arranged by formulation, color, and size: emerald hearts, pewter diamonds, and what appeared to be samples of the night sky collected from over the Atlantic Ocean. There were neon sparkles so pink you have only seen them in dreams, and rainbow hues that were simultaneously lilac and mint and all the colors of a fire. It's 2019, and we need to fight for the future of the internet There are obviously conflicting opinions about how to piece together new and complex regulation, legislation, or tech innovation. But this has been true throughout history whenever a new idea begins to be broadly adapted. Before the internet, we had to figure out how to manage cars and electricity and steam power and even the use of the written word (which many, including Socrates, actually argued against). The internet is no different. The Myth of the RV The myth of an RV is that you can go anywhere and bed down wherever you end up. The reality is that you can’t go just anywhere, and bedding down is not much more comfortable or convenient than tenting. Astrophotography in San Francisco From the Space Tourism Guide: Can You See the Milky Way in the Bay Area? Unfortunately, it is very difficult to see the Milky Way in San Francisco. Between the foggy weather and the light pollution from 7 million people, you can imagine that the faint light of our galaxy is lost to view. But C. Roy Yokingco argues: Some people say the Milky Way cannot be photographed within 50 miles of a major metropolitan area. Well, this photo of the Milky Way was captured 12 linear miles south of downtown San Francisco, California. Vijay Selvaraj @iamvijayselvaraj looking like he’s modeling the new EOS R for @canonusa while we were playing with strobes. At Instagram. On building the plane while flying it “Building a plane while flying it” or some variation has been used to describe situations in education (2011), education (2016). education (2017), health care, medicine, ride-hailing startups, business strategy, even fluffier business stories, and…this. And long before earning broad criticism for its use in tech, the phrase was vividly illustrated in an ad for Electronic Data Systems (EDS) that has since been appropriated for all the circumstances named above, as well as building churches: Ed Zak, photographer I found that hanging at Red’s Java House and wanted to learn more about Ed Zak. I mean, with ad copy like this, how can you not want to know more? Find out why you should fly our to San Francisco to shoot with a photographer who will make you eat at Red’s Java House and drive you around in this car. A photo shoot with Ed Zak is a photo shoot like no other. Competing approaches to deadlines and excellence Some people see deadlines as guidelines to aim for, not absolute dates by which a deliverable is expected by This view of deadlines as flexible guidelines can be seen throughout western culture, as exemplified by the ongoing, oft delayed Brexit negotiations. However, deadlines also compete against other factors in any project. Consider the three constraints in the project management triangle: A mathematical theory and evidence for hipster conformity in four parts Academic publishes mathematical theory for conformance among hipsters: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1410.8001.pdf MIT Tech Review covers it, with a fancy photo illustration using a stock photo of a hipster-looking male: https://www.technologyreview.com/s/613034/the-hipster-effect-why-anti-conformists-always-end-up-looking-the-same/ A hipster-looking male contacts MIT Tech Review to loudly complain about their using a picture of him without asking: https://twitter.com/glichfield/status/1103040764794363904 It turns out the hipster-looking male in the photo isn’t the same as the one who complained: https://twitter.com/glichfield/status/1103044630134882305 The problem with content management systems in three tweet storms Exhibit A: a 2019 series of tweets by Gideon Lichfield, editor of MIT Technology Review and formerly of Quarz, who asked: The legal case for emoji Emoji are showing up as evidence in court more frequently with each passing year. Between 2004 and 2019, there was an exponential rise in emoji and emoticon references in US court opinions, with over 30 percent of all cases appearing in 2018, according to Santa Clara University law professor Eric Goldman, who has been tracking all of the references to “emoji” and “emoticon” that show up in US court opinions. Inter-AZ cloud network performance Archana Kesavan of ThousandEyes speaking at NANOG75 reports that network traffic between AZs within a single region is generally “reliable and consistent,” and that tested cloud providers offer a “robust regional backbone for [suitable for] redundant, multi-AZ architectures.” ThousandEyes ran tests at ten minute intervals over 30 days, testing bidirectional loss, latency, and jitter. Kesavan reported the average inter-AZ latency for each tested cloud: AWS Azure GCP . Default fonts that could have been I learned about serif and sans serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great. It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can’t capture, and I found it fascinating. From Steve Jobs in Stanford Graduation Address, explaining how he fell in love with typography during his time at Reed College. He studied calligraphy like a monk, but…. Spectre is here to stay As a result of our work on Spectre, we now know that information leaks may affect all processors that perform speculation…. Since the initial disclosure of three classes of speculative vulnerabilities, all major [CPU] vendors have reported affected products…. This class of flaws are deeper and more widely distributed than perhaps any security flaw in history, affecting billions of CPUs in production across all device classes. From Ross Mcilroy, Jaroslav Sevcik, Tobias Tebbi, Ben L. Titzer, and Toon Verwaest (all of Google) in Spectre is here to stay; An analysis of side-channels and speculative execution. They continue: Bare metal clouds are hard The problem, explains Eclypsium, is that a miscreant could rent a bare-metal server instance from a provider, then exploit a firmware-level vulnerability, such as one in UEFI or BMC code, to gain persistence on the machine, and the ability to covertly monitor every subsequent use of that server. In other words, injecting spyware into the server’s motherboard software, which runs below and out of sight of the host operating system and antivirus, so that future renters of the box will be secretly snooped on. Indeed, the researchers found they could acquire, in the Softlayer cloud, a bare-metal server, modify the underlying BMC firmware, release the box for someone else to use, and then, by tracking the hardware serial number, wait to re-provision server to see if their firmware change was still intact. And it was. BMC is the Baseband Management Controller, the remote-controllable janitor of a server that has full access to the system. Taking Net Promoter Scores too far Pick somebody in your life and send them a message asking them how their day is going on a scale of one to 10. That’s from author and game designer Jane McGonigal, quoted in Reader’s Digest. Helvetica vs. Univers Univers was intrinsically superior to Helvetica. It had a much larger family at the outset, with 21 members compared to four in 1960. More importantly, its family was logically designed with consistent weights and widths, something that Helvetica never achieved until its redesign as Neue Helvetica in 1982. Univers’ characters, stripped of “unnecessary” elements such as the beard on ‘G’ or the curve on the tail of ‘y,’ were also more rationally designed. Spielberg on the theater experience There’s nothing like going to a big dark theater with people you’ve never met before, and having the experience wash over you. Steven Spielberg, quoted in Chaim Gartenberg’s coverage of his speech at the Cinema Audio Society’s CAS Awards. Amusingly, according to Gartenberg, Spielberg has nothing against the streaming industry, he just really loves the theater experience and worries about what might happen to it. Still, it’s hard not to imagine the filmmaker being a little bit swayed by the talk of Hollywood irrelevance in the face of Netflix. How Pixar dominated the last three decades of special effects Pixar’s Renderman is the visual effects software Hollywood didn’t think they needed (seriously, George Lucas sold off the Lucasfilm Computer Division in 1986). Years later, after producing landmark visual effects for films such as Terminator 2 and Jurassic Park and many more, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences honored Pixar and the creators of Renderman with an Award of Merit in 2001 “For their significant advancements to the field of motion picture rendering as exemplified in Pixar’s ‘Renderman. There are no architects at Facebook We get there through iteration. We don’t try to build an architecture that is failproof. Building an architecture and worrying about it for months and months at a time before you actually go deploy it tends to not get us the result we want because by the time we’ve actually deployed something the problem has moved or there are more technologies available to solve different problems. We take it seriously enough to say “there are no architects on the team. The problem with economies of scale Economies of scale quickly become economies of hassle From Jessamyn, amplifying the exasperation people feel when daily activities are made more complex by poor application of technology. In the example given, the phone app reduces costs for the provider, but doesn’t improve the experience for the customer. People may not expect parking to be delightful, but that’s not an excuse for making it frustrating. Wither hardware startups? [I]t’s getting harder to find independent hardware startups that can scale up to something big without getting bought. From Dieter Bohn on the collective disappointment so many people feel about the Eero acquisition. The rise of product ecosystems is increasing the costs and risks for independent hardware startups in every category. (Perhaps that’s why reMarkable positions itself as the intentionally unconnected alternative to our phones.) Turning off exposure preview on my Fuji X-E3 Nanda Kusumadi has quite a number of tips for configuring a Fuji X-E3. Those tips include using RAW photo recording and turning on 4K video capture (they’re off by default), and one I hadn’t considered: enabling Adobe RGB color space with its wider than sRGB gamut. I prefer not to use some of other the suggestions, such as enabling electronic shutter (it reduces dynamic range). One setting not mentioned in Nanda’s tips is turning off exposure preview. Something from nothing: a dog park, a parade, and... On a lark, Jaime Kornick created Patrick’s Park. Then she created a dog parade, then…. iHeart mentioned the Dog Parade on the radio, local publications wrote about it, and the RSVPs started rolling in. In total, more than 350 people said they were coming. That’s when I realized I needed to get a permit. Then she got a call: I told them the panel would consist of thought leaders within the canine community, bull shitting. Market risks and opportunities for Linux distro vendors IBM’s acquisition of Red Hat got me thinking about how the market for commercially supported Linux distros is changing. IBM is trying to find a foothold in a maturing market dominated by AWS while the market for enterprise data centers is shrinking. So, where is Linux being used (or will be used), and what’s changing in those spaces? To be clear: this is about commercial Linux distros, not upstack offerings like OpenStack, OpenShift, Kubernetes, etc. Kubesprawl This leads to the emerging pattern of “many clusters” rather than “one big shared” cluster. Its not uncommon to see customers of Google’s GKE Service have dozens of Kubernetes clusters deployed for multiple teams. Often each developer gets their own cluster. This kind of behavior leads to a shocking amount of Kubesprawl. From Paul Czarkowski discussing the reasons and potential solutions for the growing number of Kubernetes clusters. Hard solutions to container security The vulnerability allows a malicious container to (with minimal user interaction) overwrite the host runc binary and thus gain root-level code execution on the host. From Aleksa Sarai explaining the latest Linux container vulnerability. To me, the underlying message here is: Containers are Linux. From Scott McCarty washing his hands of it. Kata Containers is an open source project and community working to build a standard implementation of lightweight Virtual Machines (VMs) that feel and perform like containers, but provide the workload isolation and security advantages of VMs. On asking the right questions Long before digital cameras killed film, Kodak and Fuji were locked in a desperate battle for market share. Film camera and 35mm film sales climbed steadily through most of the 20th century, and In 1990, Kodak dominated with 90% share of the film market, but then things started changing: Kodak was said to have done a survey to determine whether its color films were what pro and amateur photographers really wanted. Explore for inspiration, then test and focus Cultivate exploration: As a leader, you want to encourage people to entertain “unreasonable ideas” and give them time to formulate their hypotheses. Demanding data to confirm or kill a hypothesis too quickly can squash the intellectual play that is necessary for creativity. Then ruthlessly prioritize for focus: [Force] teams to focus narrowly on the most critical technical uncertainties and [rapidly experiment for] faster feedback. The philosophy is to learn what you have gotten wrong early and then move quickly in more-promising directions. Government drinking game The department of agriculture [had] an annual budget of $164bn and was charged with so many missions critical to the society that the people who worked there played a drinking game called Does the Department of Agriculture Do It? Someone would name a function of government, say, making sure that geese don’t gather at US airports, and fly into jet engines. Someone else would have to guess whether the agriculture department did it. It just looks better that way In Old English the past tense of “can” did not have an “l” in it, but “should” and “would” (as past tenses of “shall” and “will") did. The “l” was stuck into “could” in the 15th century on analogy with the other two. From Arika Okrent, in a MentalFloss piece about the weird history of some spellings. The piece has other examples of spelling changes to conform words to some aesthetic or another, even when those changes were inconsistent with the history and etymology of the word. On building a culture of candid debate A good blueprint for [building a culture of candid debate] can be found in General Dwight D. Eisenhower’s battle-plan briefing to top officers of the Allied forces three weeks before the invasion of Normandy. As recounted in Eisenhower, a biography by Geoffrey Perret, the general started the meeting by saying, “I consider it the duty of anyone who sees a flaw in this plan not to hesitate to say so. Subtitling videos There are plenty of people and companies offering human or automated speech-to-text services for video captioning, but embedding those captions in a video was a curiosity to me. Bitfield AB’s iSubtitle is a straightforward choice that does exactly what you expect and adds no complications. However, Google Drive doesn’t import captions embedded in videos, and instead you have to upload them separately. Shuffle sharding in Dropbox's storage infrastructure First, some terms and context: [We aggregate blocks] into 1GB logical storage containers called buckets. [Buckets] are aggregated together and erasure coded for storage efficiency. We use the term volume to refer to one or more buckets replicated onto a set of physical storage nodes. OSDs [are] storage boxes full of disks that can store over a petabyte of data in a single machine, or over 8 PB per rack. Parts of a network you should know about If you’re running infrastructure and applications on AWS then you will encounter all of these things. They’re not the only parts of a network setup but they are, in my experience, the most important ones. The start of Graham Lyons’ introduction to networking on AWS, which (though the terms may change) is a pretty good primer for networking in any cloud environment. Though cloud infrastructure providers have to deal with things at a different later, Graham’s post covers the basics—VPCs, subnets, availability zones, routing tables, gateways, and security groups—that customers need to manage when assembling their applications. We're gonna need a bigger PRNG cycle length... The general lesson here is that, even for a high quality PRNG, you can’t assume a random distribution unless the generator’s cycle length is much larger than the number of random values you’re generating. A good general heuristic is — If you need to use n random values you need a PRNG with a cycle length of at least n². From a 2015 post by Mike Malone on PRNGs vs. On Uber Eats nobody knows your restaurant is a popup For independent or family-owned restaurants with less traffic, Douglass points to the pop-up restaurant. Not to be confused with popup restaurants, which are dining concepts open for a limited time. Popups are cooking stations within the main kitchen of a restaurant dedicated to fulfilling delivery-only orders. Eater recently profiled a Dallas, TX-based chain called SushiYaa, which owns five physical locations but houses a couple dozen brands within them. The virtual brands are only available through Uber Eats. Interconnected, machine readable data, at scale The NGA provides a free database with no regulations on its use. MaxMind takes some coordinates from that database and slaps IP addresses on them. Then IP mapping sites, as well as phone carriers offering “find my phone” services, display those coordinates on maps as distinct and exact locations, ignoring the “accuracy radius” that is supposed to accompany them. “We assume the correctness of data, and often these people who are supposed to be competent make mistakes and those mistakes then are very detrimental to people’s daily lives,” said Olivier. Interfaces, surface area, durability A DOS program can be made to run unmodified on pretty much any computer made since the 80s. A JavaScript app might break with tomorrow’s Chrome update — Joe Groff (@jckarter) July 11, 2018 A DOS program can be made to run unmodified on pretty much any computer made since the 80s. A JavaScript app might break with tomorrow’s Chrome update From Joe Groff, who wonders if developers will choose old platforms running in emulators over more complex and volatile modern platforms. In praise of refactoring Under the right conditions refactoring provides a sort of express lane to becoming a master developer. […] Through refactoring, a developer can develop insights, skills, and techniques more quickly by addressing a well understood problem from a more experienced perspective. Practice make perfect. If not the code, maybe the coder. From Patrick Goddi, who argues refactoring is about more than code quality. The day-to-day drudgery of state sponsored hacking After a review of bids and testing the capabilities of some of the exploits offered, the team decided to build its own malware. “This is the only inexpensive way to get to the iPhone, except for the [Israeli] solution for 7 million and that’s only for WhatsApp,” explained one team member in a message. “We still need Viber, Skype, Gmail, and so on.” The same was true of the Android and Windows malware and the back-end tools used to manage the campaign. Who controls the menu? When people are given a menu of choices, they rarely ask: “what’s not on the menu?” “why am I being given these options and not others?” “do I know the menu provider’s goals?” “is this menu empowering for my original need, or are the choices actually a distraction?” (e.g. an overwhelmingly array of toothpastes) From Tristan Harris, co-founder of the Center for Humane Technology. It’s the first of ten magic tricks he pointed to that technology companies use to hijack users’ minds and emotions. Apple CloudKit uses FoundationDB Record Layer Together, the Record Layer and FoundationDB form the backbone of Apple’s CloudKit. We wrote a paper describing how we built the Record Layer to run at massive scale and how CloudKit uses it. Today, you can read the preprint to learn more. From an anonymous FoundationDB blog post introducing relational database capabilities built atop FoundationDB’s key-value store. The paper about CloudKit (PDF) is also worth a read. CloudKit is Apple’s free at any legitimate scale back-end as a service for all iOS and MacOS apps. You can identify a dog on the internet, but will you bother to? You can construct any [effing] narrative by scouring the internet for people claiming something. It doesn’t make it relevant. It doesn’t make it true. From Agri Ismaïl’s media criticism (start here). This isn’t an issue of not knowing the dogs on the internet, it’s a matter of not caring who’s a dog in the interest of either clicks or political interest. Technology choices, belonging, and contempt I was taught to be contemptuous of the non-blessed narratives, and I was taught to pay for my continued access to the technical communities through perpetuating that contempt. I was taught to have an elevated sense of self-worth, driven by the elitism baked into the hacker ethos as I learned to program. By adopting the same patterns that other, more knowledgable people expressed I could feel more credible, more like a real part of the community, more like I belonged. Rollback buttons and time machines Adding a rollback button is not a neutral design choice. It affects the code that gets pushed. If developers incorrectly believe that their mistakes can be quickly reversed, they will tend to take more foolish risks. […] Mounting a rollback button within easy reach […] means that it’s more likely to be pressed carelessly in an emergency. Panic buttons are for when you’re panicking. From Dan McKinley, speaking about the complications and near impossibility of rolling back a deployment. Don't let requests linger In practice, we have fixed whole classes of reliability problems by forcing engineers to define deadlines in their service definitions. From Ruslan Nigmatullin and Alexey Ivanov on Dropbox’s migration to gRPC. Also consider request replication. Polarization vs. judgement In a polarized climate, opponents would jeer even eloquence from an unwelcome source; partisans would chant lovingly for public incontinence if delivered on behalf of the home team. From Politico editor-in-chief John F. Harris, talking about Trump, but the point seems to apply far more broadly. Shooting down Star Wars as a vehicle for exploring human relationships with future technologies Into the ongoing fight between those who dismiss Star Wars as a shallow space opera vs. those who who would elevate the movies to a position of broader significance (so-called hard science fiction) strolls Jeremy Hsu, who points out: Regardless of writer-director Rian Johnson’s intentions for “The Last Jedi,” his story transformed the adorable robotic sidekick into a murder droid with a will of its own. That would normally have huge implications in a science fiction story that wants to seriously explore a coherent and logical futuristic world setting. Incident postmortems: customer communication Incidents happen. The question is whether or not we’re learning from them. There are a bunch of postmortem resources collected here to help teams maximize the learning and service reliability improvements they can gain from an incident. However, there’s a separate question about how to communicate about incidents with customers. This definitely involves communications during the incident, but I’m especially interested in customer-facing communications after an incident. These seem to be the key questions customers need answers to: PID controllers are way cooler than the Wikipedia article lets on The Wikipedia entry on PID controllers is perfectly accurate, but it seems to bury the elegance of the technology and theory. Meanwhile, the article on gyroscopic autopilot (both maritime and aeronautical) makes no mention of PID controllers, despite that being the field in which the theory of PID controllers was developed. PID controllers are all around us. They make elevators accelerate and decelerate without knocking passengers to the floor or pinning them to the ceiling, they stabilize video for pros and consumers alike, they make anti-lock brakes work, and nearly every other automated task in the software and physical world where the control needs to be adjusted based on observed conditions. Wikipedia quotes: mathematical models of vagueness and ignorance [F]uzzy logic uses degrees of truth as a mathematical model of vagueness, while probability is a mathematical model of ignorance. From Wikipedia on fuzzy logic. iPads as primary computers: never say never This Twitter thread has some points worth considering for those interested in how our expectations and relationship with “business tools” changes over time: And, in case that tweet disappears, here’s the key text and the referenced GUI review: I’m fascinated by the technical “class” obsession w/ iPads replacing laptops. This review of GUI and mouse is what I think some of the review of the iPad will look like in 20 years. Common root causes of intra data center network incidents at Facebook from 2011 to 2018 From A Large Scale Study of Data Center Network Reliability by Justin Meza, Tianyin Xu, Kaushik Veeraraghavan, and Onur Mutlu, the categorized root causes of intra data center incidents at Fabook from 2011 to 2018: Category Fraction Description Maintenance 17% Routine maintenance (for example, upgrading the software and firmware of network devices). Hardware 13% Failing devices (for example, faulty memory modules, processors, and ports). The entirely rational, yet surprising relationship between timecode broadcasts and Sputnik Many US folks just changed their clocks for daylight saving time, and here in California we’re voting on a proposition that might lead to changes in California’s time standards, so quite a number of people have time on their minds. Meanwhile, on a national level, Trump intends to defund one of the mechanisms we use to to synchronize time across the country. The National Institute for Standards and Technology operates timecode radio stations. Republics, power, and populism: their rise and fall Mike Duncan, writing in the Washington Post on the fall of the Roman Republic: Some in the Roman leadership could see clearly by the 130s and 120s B.C. that this socioeconomic dislocation was becoming an acute problem. They could see that, out in the countryside, families were losing their land, and in the cities, grain shortages were leading to panic and starvation. These poor families were certainly not sharing the benefits of Rome’s imperial wealth and power. Pour one out for the Sears Catalog, the original market disrupter Whet Moser pointed out this enlightening Twitter thread that explains an aspect of Sears I hadn’t considered before: by disrupting retail stores with mail-order, it was empowering a demographic that was often underserved in their communities: The Sears catalog succeeded because it got the goods to people who couldn’t get to stores. One of those demographics? African-Americans. In a lengthy Twitter thread, Cornell historian Louis Hyman writes that it freed up black Southerners from going to general stores, which was often (at best) a humiliating experience. Donut tours everywhere I’m a big enough fan of donuts that I’ve planned tours to explore and celebrate them: 2004: The Lowell Donut Tour 2010: Donut Tour 2: this time it’s personal Those tours focused on Massachusetts, but it turns out that isn’t the only state with a strong donut heritage. The Butler County Visitors Bureau promotes a Donut Trail, including map, passport, and FAQ. Those who complete the passport can receive an exclusive Donut Trail t-shirt. How to date your foodstuffs Whet Moser, suddenly making sell-by dates on food products relevant to me: About a quarter of US methane emissions comes from food rotting in landfills. The dates on our packaged food products look so authoritative, but the way Moser tells it, they were invented by marketing folks to increase sales at the cost of disposing of otherwise good products that have an expired sell-by date. Fuji Instax back for Hasselblad Isaac Blankensmith writing in PetaPixel about building an Instax instant film back for a Hasselblad 500: Instant photos are magical. They develop before your eyes. You can share them, gift them, spill water on them, draw on them. The only problem is that most instant cameras are pretty cheap — that’s why I’ve always wanted to hack my medium format camera to take instant photos with shallow depth of field and sharpness. Can we train ourselves out of color blindness? Which one of the boxes has an irregular color? A screenshot of the iGame color vision test. I’m very color blind by traditional tests, but my score in this one has improved over time. Am I learning the test, or…? PSA reminder about takt time From Wikipedia a common misconception is that takt time is related to the time it takes to actually make the product. In fact, takt time simply reflects the rate of production needed to match the demand. Said again: it’s the required rate, not the actual rate. Notes on observing the milky way Notes from Kevin Palmer at Dark Site Finder and Matt Quinn at PetaPixel. What is it? CC-by-nc-nd by Bryce Bradford Kevin Palmer: Every star you can see with the unaided eye is located within the milky way. […] But when most people talk about “seeing the milky way”, they are talking about the core of the galaxy. Located in the constellation Sagittarius, this is the brightest part of the milky way. Restaurants, hotels, mustaches, wages Matthew Taub, writing in Atlas Obscura Around the same time, the first modern restaurants were rising around Paris. These establishments, primarily for the wealthy, sought to recreate the experience of dining in an upscale home. The experience was about more than food. Waiters had to retain the appearance of domestic valets, who were forbidden to wear mustaches as a sign of their rank. Diners were “paying to humiliate people in an almost institutional way,” says historian Gil Mihaely, who has published extensively on the subject of French masculinity. A cold day in Coaldale A cold day in the desert. Coaldale, Nevada Music CC-BY-NC-SA: Dan Warren, “The Debate” At Instagram. Bad maps are ruining American broadband Karl Bode in The Verge: In policy conversations, ISP lobbyists lean heavily on the FCC’s flawed data to falsely suggest that American broadband is dirt cheap and ultra competitive, despite real-world evidence to the contrary. ISPs also use this false reality to imply meaningful consumer protections aren’t necessary because the market is healthy (as we saw during the fight over net neutrality). S3 and CloudFront configuration frustration It turns out that the interaction between S3, CloudFront, and Route53 can be bumpy when setting up buckets as CDN origins. It’s apparently expected that a CloudFront URL will read data from the wrong bucket URL and redirect browsers there for the first hour or more. The message from AWS is “just wait,” which makes for a crappy experience. Time synchronization is rough CloudFlare on the frustrations of clock skew: It may surprise you to learn that, in practice, clients’ clocks are heavily skewed. A recent study of Chrome users showed that a significant fraction of reported TLS-certificate errors are caused by client-clock skew. During the period in which error reports were collected, 6.7% of client-reported times were behind by more than 24 hours. (0.05% were ahead by more than 24 hours.) This skew was a causal factor for at least 33. Parents in 1996 vs. 2016 This thread from Breanne Boland, which starts with a screenshot1 of another tweet: Your parents in 1996: Don’t trust ANYONE on the Internet. Your parents in 2016: Freedom Eagle dot Facebook says Hillary invented AIDS. Twin Beech, Beatty, NV Just outside Beatty Nevada you’ll find a weathered sign promising the services of a long-closed brothel, and next to it, an aircraft covered in generations of tags. The plane, a Twin Beach, made an abrupt and final landing in the 1970s as the unexpected end to a marketing stunt—or perhaps a dare—gone wrong. Sit at the bar in town for a while and you’ll get a number of stories. Windows 95 was 30MB. Today we have web pages heavier than that! The title is a quote from Nikita Prokopov, who is wallowing in disenchantment. Claim chowder from 2013: computational photography Way back in 2013 I wrote: I’m sure somebody will eventually develop software to automatically blur the backgrounds of our smartphone photos, but until then, this is basic physics. The new camera system in the iPhone XS seems to have moved computational photography from the world of parlor tricks to the mainstream. Update This blog post from the developer of Halide, a premium camera app for iOS, goes into a lot more detail about all the computation going on in the new cameras. The color of Copenhagen The color of #Copenhagen Is it yellow, brown, mustard? I love all the shades. At Instagram. The real Goldfinger: the London banker who broke the world Goldfinger, the 1964 Bond film, is based on a premise that is incredibly foreign to today’s audiences: moving gold between countries was illegal. Oliver Bullough in The Guardian asks us all to think about that a bit more: The US government tried to defend the dollar/gold price, but every restriction it put on dollar movements just made it more profitable to keep your dollars in London, leading more money to leak offshore, and thus more pressure to build on the dollar/gold price. git foo A few git commands I find myself having to look up: Resolve Git merge conflicts in favor of their changes during a pull: git pull -Xtheirs git checkout --theirs the/conflicted.file Source Viewing Unpushed Git Commits git log origin/master..HEAD You can also view the diff using the same syntax: git diff origin/master..HEAD Or, “for a little extra awesomeness” git log --stat origin/master..HEAD Updated since it was first posted: Starting with Git 2. Things that make us dumber: air pollution, full bladders Air pollution is making us dumber, study shows: The team found that both verbal and math scores “decreased with increasing cumulative air pollution exposure,” with the decline in verbal scores being particularly pronounced among older, less educated men. Study links urge to pee with impairment: Snyder and his team ran the study on eight individuals, who each drank 250 milliliters of water every 15 minutes until they reached their “breaking point,” where they could no longer hold their urine. Maintenance and renewal Abby Sewell, with photographs by Jeff Heimsath, in The National Geographic: Every spring, communities gather to take part in a ceremony of renewal. Working together from each side of the river, the villagers run a massive cord of rope, more than a hundred feet long and thick as a person’s thigh, across the old bridge. Soon, the worn structure will be cut loose and tumble into the gorge below. Over three days of work, prayer, and celebration, a new bridge will be woven in its place. Hash rings, sharding, request replication Balancing data and activity between shards Your consistent hash ring leads to inconsistent performance: The basic consistent hashing algorithm presents some challenges. First, the random position assignment of each node on the ring leads to non-uniform data and load distribution. Second, the basic algorithm is oblivious to the heterogeneity in the performance of nodes. From https://www.cs.cornell.edu/projects/ladis2009/papers/lakshman-ladis2009.pdf, which explains that Cassandra addresses that common problem by “analyz[ing] load information on the ring and have lightly loaded nodes move on the ring to alleviate heavily loaded nodes. Steven Dean McClellan, Bombay Beach Steven Dean McClellan, Bombay Beach At Instagram. Improving automated fault injection Automated failure analysis is hard, manual failure analysis requires great expertise. Why this painting of dogs playing poker has endured for over 100 years Jackson Arn in Artsy: The “Dogs Playing Poker” paintings, by Cassius Marcellus Coolidge, belong to that pantheon of artworks—Michelangelo’s David, Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa, Botticelli’s The Birth of Venus, Van Gogh’s Starry Night, Hopper’s Nighthawks— that are immediately recognizable to people of all ages and backgrounds, including those who don’t readily admit to enjoying art. So how, pray tell, did a pack of dogs playing poker outlast so many other “serious” paintings? Willie in Christiana Willie has lived in Christiana since it was founded in 1971 At Instagram. Product managers, project managers, delivery managers, and engineering managers, according to Quora I’m trying to write some job descriptions, so of course I found myself in Quora. What is the difference between program manager and delivery manager? As delivery manager, we ensure the projects are delivered on time and on budget. We are a slightly higher level work that project managers in the sense that we try not to escalate issues as much as resolving them and letting upper management know of relevant issues. Twin Beech, Beatty This beautiful old Twin Beech lies wrecked and abandoned near Beatty, NV. Locals tell stories of how the plane was used to shuttle guests from Las Vegas to the town’s brothel in the 1970s, but things went wrong with a publicity stunt, or perhaps a dare, and the plane made its final landing here. At Instagram. Love locks, Copenhagen Love locks in Copenhagen Toldbodgade bridge over Nyhavn inlet. At Instagram. Campanology, noun The Cambridge dictionary tells us that “campanology” means “​the art or skill of ringing church bells.” It doesn’t give us a collective noun, however, but I’m sure this is it: A group of bell ringers? That’s a “pubfull” With more at Pinterest. Bar Velo, Brooklyn Bar Velo, Brooklyn #MediumFormat #FujiGW690III At Instagram. Transamerica Pyramid, from Columbus Avenue #ispytransamericapyramid from the center of Columbus Avenue at Broadway At Instagram. Tantallon Castle, Scotland Tantallon Castle, Scotland At Instagram. VXLAN routing recommendations from Cumulous Networks VXLAN routing recommendations from Cumulous Networks, which offers switch software (but not client software). https://cumulusnetworks.com/blog/vxlan-designs-part-1/ VXLAN routing is the process in which a VTEP receives a VXLAN packet destined to itself, removes the VXLAN header and then performs a layer 3 route lookup on the inner decapsulated packet. Since the VTEP has to perform two sets of lookups, first on the encapsulated VXLAN traffic then on the decapsulated inner packet, it requires special hardware ASIC to perform both lookups in a single pass all in hardware. Flight of the bumblebee Flight of the bumblebee Music: Jazzy Ashes, CC BY-NC-SA The Underscore Orkestra At Instagram. Steven Dean McClellan, Bombay Beach Steven Dean McClellan, Bombay Beach At Instagram. Birdsong Birdsong, mural by Joshua Coffy At Instagram. Flickr get photo page from image name Let’s say you have an old-style Flickr photo URL like the following: http://www.flickr.com/photos/702783_509c609f44.jpg Now let’s say you want to find the page on Flickr for that photo? Put the photo ID in a URL like this: https://www.flickr.com/photo.gne?id=702783 Poulsen Welding Shop, Susanville, CA Poulsen Welding Shop, Susanville, CA Growing up, I remember welding and fabrication shops being common. Not so much anymore. There are just over 20,000 self-employed welders in the US today, according to the bureau of labor statistics, but getting historical data from them is approximately impossible. Looking for more, I found Assembling Magazine’s retrospective on how welding has changed in the past half century or so: New processes, such as electron beam welding, friction welding, plasma arc welding, friction stir welding, explosion welding and laser beam welding, have increased the range of materials and components that can be welded. Object storage prior art and lit review This list is not exhaustive. Instead, it is a selection of object storage implementations and details that appear interesting. Some themes that it many or all of these comparators struggled with include: New systems to meet scaling needs Facebook, Google, and Yahoo are all very open about having reinvented their object storage solutions to address evolving needs (typically cost and availability) as they scaled. Those players dramatically reinvented their systems without strong regard for backwards compatibility, but evidence suggests S3 has gone through similarly dramatic changes as well, but without breaking API compatibility. Naming things is hard. Naming people is harder. Michael Sherrod and Matthew Rayback scoured American census records searching for atrocious baby names. The results are compiled in an amusing little book called Bad Baby Names: The Worst True Names Parents Saddled Their Kids With—and You Can Too!. Among the names they discovered were “Toilet Queen,” “Leper,” “Cholera,” “Typhus,” “Stud Duck,” “Loser,”224 “Fat Meat,” “Meat Bloodsaw,” “Cash Whoredom,”“Headless,” “Dracula,” “Lust,” “Sloth,” “Freak Skull,” “Sexy Chambers,” “Tiny Hooker,” “Giant Pervis,” “Acne Fountain,” “Legend Belch,” and “Ghoul Nipple. Yongma Land Just a creepy fiberglass clown head at an abandoned amusement park outside Seoul At Instagram. Stereotypical photo of the Brooklyn Bridge Gray skies at the #BrooklynBridge At Instagram. Yarn bombed, San Francisco City Hall Yarn-bombed trees outside San Francisco City Hall At Instagram. Observing an abandoned building and open landscape, Coaldale, Nevada Open floor plan, Coaldale Junction, Nevada music: CC-BY-NC-SA Dan Warren At Instagram. Feature flags gone wrong BTW – if there is an SEC filing about your deployment, something may have gone terribly wrong. From Doug Seven explaining how, in 2014, that’s exactly what happened. Rain, San Francisco Much-needed rain soaks the tables at San Francisco’s Ferry Building. At Instagram. Spencer Wynn: Hello Project Spencer Wynn’s Hello Project is everything I need right now. Johnathan Little I first met Johnathan Little on US Route 95, about 25 miles due north of Pahrump, NV. He’d been walking since he left Oklahoma one day a while back. #vanlife gets a lot of love on Instagram, but Johnathan joined the #walkinglife to regain his self-respect and lose some weight, and he seems on a path to do both. This photo was from the second time I met him, on my way back from Beatty, NV. The KPA soldier guarding the door to North Korea The door behind this KPA soldier exits to North Korea. In addition to needing a stolid face, KPA soldiers must be expert martial artists, according to Wikipedia. At Instagram. No groceries, Mina, Nevada “Grocery, sundries, ice cream” in Mina, Nevada At Instagram. The paradox of tolerance Less well known is the paradox of tolerance: Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them. — In this formulation, I do not imply, for instance, that we should always suppress the utterance of intolerant philosophies; as long as we can counter them by rational argument and keep them in check by public opinion, suppression would certainly be unwise. AWS regions, AZs, and VPCs, NICs, IPs, and performance Jump to section: Availability zones and regions VPCs Elastic IPs and Elastic Network Interfaces Network performance Resources by scope Connectivity by scope Availability zones and regions AWS’ primary cloud is available in 15 regions, each with two to six availability zones, not including separately operated regions (with independent identity) for GovCloud and China. Most AWS services operate independently in each region (though identity is shared across regions in the primary cloud), and each service has its own (often region-specific) endpoint (many libraries and the AWS CLI simply insert the region name in the endpoint URL). Claim chowder: cloud storage Ten years ago Apple was still doing MacWorld Expo keynotes, and that year they introduced Time Capsule. My response was this: forget Time Capsule, I want a space ship: So here’s my real question: Why hasn’t Apple figured out how to offer me a storage solution that puts frequently used items on local disk, and less-frequently used items on a network disk? Seamlessly. Ten years later: cloud storage is definitely the norm. Dalhousie Castle Sunrise to sunset at @dalhousiecastle Music: “The Moments of Our Mornings” CC-BY-NC Kai Engel At Instagram. The Make Us Proud and YLD Offices Just another awesome day at the Make Us Proud and YLD offices (find them on Twitter). @tomholloway2212 is the star of this one, but you’ll see some others on the team working on a project for @joyent. Shot with an @alpinelabs Radian Music is CC-BY-NC-SA Dexter Britain At Instagram. Good enough, satisficing, and meeting market demand Nanda Kusumadi: Companies tend to over-serve customers in their products to the point that the surplus of performance metrics cannot be consumed. This leads to waste in R&D, build and operational resources, basically a waste of human capital. Over-serving products have been optimised well beyond what a user can consume. Atomic Cafe neon The famous neon sign at @atomicliquors, #LasVegas’ oldest bar, where 1950s patrons used to enjoy views of nuclear tests from the roof. I had the joy of meeting the former owner, Joe Sobchik, on a visit in 2005. I stopped by around 7am (yes, I make a habit of visiting bars early in the morning) and found the owner, Joe Sobchik, sipping a coffee at the bar. He was a man full of stories, I could tell, but I was foolishly unprepared. AWS' Andy Troutman on component reusability What we do first is we build very simple foundational building block services … we will build the simplest possible service that you could think of. The next thing we do is we encourage an open marketplace within Amazon so individual teams can use, optimize, and extend these basic services. We use our individual [teams] as a test lab to experiment on better ways to do things, and when we find something that seems to be working, we look for ways to [grow it and use it more] broadly. Drivers and “standards” For both network and block storage, AWS is doing significant work to develop and maintain drivers in a variety of guest OSs. Some of this work improves performance for guest OSs running in any modern hardware virtualized environment, but not everything is directly portable. This discussion about adding ENA support for Netmap is one example. OTOH, Amazon seems to be sponsoring driver development (see FreeBSD) when they’re not doing it themselves (see Linux). Hardware virtualization has moved to hardware One of my takeaways from AWS’ bare metal announcements at re:Invent this week is that the compute, storage, and network aspects of hardware virtualization are now optimized and accelerated in hardware. AWS has moved beyond the limitations that constrained VM performance, and the work they’ve done applies both to their bare metal hardware and their latest VM instance types. Notes from "life of a code change to a tier 1 service (Dev206)" at AWS re:Invent 2017 Andy Troutman’s talk is useful in explaining complex deployment workflows to management types. Camera advice: a film camera for a novice A friend of mine sent me a question about a good film camera to get started with: My partner has been thinking for some time about her first camera and she likes the idea of film photography. Her birthday is coming up and I’m thinking of buying a camera as a surprise gift to bring on an upcoming backpacking trip. It’s just a thought. We don’t buy each other a lot of stuff because we’re big on experiences, and we save our money so we can travel to see each other. Dave Wascha's 20 years of product management advice in 25 minutes Dave Wascha (LI) speaking at Mind the Product in San Francisco on advice he wished he had as a younger product manager: Link to video. You should watch the video, but here’s the short version: Listen to your customers: Focus on deeply understanding your customers’ problems. Don’t listen to your customers: It’s up to product managers to figure out solutions to those problems, not customers. My addition: they’d ask for faster horses. VCRs that rewind faster A story, possibly apocryphal (i.e. I can no longer find the source), tells of electronics manufacturers asking customers what features they wanted in their home video equipment. “VCRs that rewind faster,” they cried. Instead they got DVDs that didn’t need rewinding. I was remembering that story and went looking to source it and all I could find was my blog post from a decade ago. Of course once we got DVDs, we then needed to solve the frustrations of the video rental store. Continuous disruption Trains were once seen as icons of freedom. They freed riders from the dust and bumps of horse or stagecoach travel, and dramatically shortened travel times. But that view of trains as agents of freedom changed with the development of the automobile—and the way it shifted control of routes and schedules from the railroad to the driver. This isn’t about transportation policy1, it’s about how previously novel solutions become subject to disruption once they become the baseline against which alternatives are compared. Mortmar, California Carniceria, liquor, grocery This was once North Shore, California, but many maps now label it Mortmar. At Instagram. Gender stereotypes, toys, and the Sears Catalog Elizabeth Sweet, writing in the New York Times, way back in 2012 on her research into the role of gender stereotypes in the marketing of toys: During my research into the role of gender in Sears catalog toy advertisements over the 20th century, I found that in 1975, very few toys were explicitly marketed according to gender, and nearly 70 percent showed no markings of gender whatsoever. In the 1970s, toy ads often defied gender stereotypes by showing girls building and playing airplane captain, and boys cooking in the kitchen. Lawrence Lessig: Republic, Lost Lawrence Lessig in a talk at Google in 2011 speaking on the topic of his book, Republic, Lost. His talk concludes: This nation faces critical problems requiring serious attention, but we don’t have institutions capable of giving them this attention. They are distracted, unable to focus. And who is to blame for that? Who is responsible? I think it’s too easy to point to the Blagojeviches and hold them responsible, to point to the Looking up at Muir Woods End of summer at #muirwoods with a @lomography #Spinner360 At Instagram. Extraterrestrial Highway, Nevada The Extraterrestrial Highway, just north of Area 51 At Instagram. Ranch hand at auction A ranch hand stands ready to call a bidder in the cowboy auction at the @californiamidstatefair. Though they’re traditionally agricultural events, fairs were typically founded by local businesses leaders seeking to grow commerce. Basically, they were the tech events of their time. At Instagram. Street jazz New Orleans-style jazz on the Embarcadero near Fisherman’s Wharf, shot on #Kodak #Ektar100 with a #hasselblad #hasselblad500elm At Instagram. Mendocino sunset Sunset on the Mendocino Coast outside at @heritagehouseresort At Instagram. No more border walls, please America’s greatest legacy is found in the freedoms we uphold for all, not the prohibitions we levy on others. Fences, walls, and travel bans are contrary to that legacy. #USMexicoBorder #BorderFence, #Calexico At Instagram. Hearst Castle tour Hearst Castle in 8mm Music: CC-BY-NC Charmed Life by Adam Selzer At Instagram. Contrails above Sutro Tower #Parallel #contrails above #SutroTower, from #TwinPeaks, #SanFrancisco At Instagram. User stories are documentation While writing up the draft docs for Joyent’s Container Name Service I leaned heavily on the user stories and use-cases for the feature. It has me realizing that we should consider user stories to be the first draft of the user documentation. Indeed, consider that well-written docs and user stories have similar qualities: a user, goal, and benefit, in clear language that’s accessible in small, focused chunks. The CNS docs are now in our core documentation library, and I’m happy that we’ve updated the content management system to support deep linking to individual headings, like this one about adding CNS service tags when creating an instance with the triton CLI. Everybody smiles while rolling down the hill... Everybody smiles while rolling down the hill at the Bring Your Own Big Wheel event! At Instagram. Ancient Aztec chemistry A 50-50 blend of morning glory juice and latex created rubber with maximum bounciness, while a 75-25 mix of latex and morning glory made the most durable material. It seems they were making bouncy balls for fun and sport. But, to be clear about the ingredients: Morning glory plants tend to grow near rubber trees, and both plants were considered sacred in several Mesoamerican cultures. Morning glory, for example, was also used in religious ceremonies for its hallucinogenic properties. No gas at Mina, Nevada Mina, Nevada At Instagram. Echoes of product management advice in declarative vs. imperative programming The following line in a post about the difference between declarative vs. imperative programming caught my attention for the way it echoes product management best practices: [I]t’s often good not to think of how you want to accomplish a result, but instead what the component should look like in it’s new state. Of course it does matter how you get to where you’re going, but it’s a whole lot easier if you first focus on aligning everybody on goals and where you’re going. The Hotel Huntington and SF skyline The Hotel Huntington (now @thescarlet_sf) atop #CaliforniaStreet, #SanFrancisco Music: “Faster Does It” by Kevin MacLeod (CC-BY) At Instagram. McWay Falls #McWayFalls in #BigSur Music: “Tomie’s Bubbles” by Candlegravity (CC-BY-NC-SA) At Instagram. Sutro Tower #SutroTower, #SanFrancisco Music: “Feeling Dark (Behind The Mask)” by 7OOP3D (CC-BY-NC) At Instagram. Tree, Paso Robles #Lonely #tree in a #field in #PasoRobles #California Music: “Silence Await” by idk (CC-BY) At Instagram. At the Little A’Le’Inn, Rachel... At the Little A’Le’Inn, Rachel Nevada. Film, light leaks, bikers, and aliens. At Instagram. Following a winding road #Summer on a #windingRoad in #Cambria #California Music: Shady Grove by Shake That Little Foot (CC-BY-NC-SA) At Instagram. The Top of the Mark #sunset at #TopOfTheMark, #SF Video: https://www.instagram.com/p/BGrSnL6heJS/ At Instagram. Hotel Huntington sign at sunset The Hotel Huntington (now @thescarlet_sf) atop #CaliforniaStreet, #SanFrancisco At Instagram. Winding Road, Cambria #Summer on a #windingRoad in #CambriaCalifornia At Instagram. Will Luo Will Luo at @tempestbarsf At Instagram. get list of functions in bash script…look for those in argv # Get function list as array funcs=($(declare -F -p | cut -d " " -f 3)) # parse out functions and non-functions i=1 declare -a cmdargs declare -a otherargs for var in "$@"; do if [[ " ${funcs[@]} " =~ " ${var} " ]]; then cmdargs[i]=${var} else otherargs[i]=${var} fi ((i++)) done echo ${cmdarg[*]} echo ${otherargs[*]} On disfluencies Your Speech Is Packed With Misunderstood, Unconscious Messages, by Julie Sedivy: Since disfluencies show that a speaker is thinking carefully about what she is about to say, they provide useful information to listeners, cueing them to focus attention on upcoming content that’s likely to be meaty. […]  Experiments with ums or uhs spliced in or out of speech show that when words are preceded by disfluencies, listeners recognize them faster and remember them more accurately. San Francisco’s Mark Hopkins Hotel San Francisco’s #MarkHopkins #Hotel at the top of #CaliforniaStreet, on #35mm #KodakFilm. #SanFrancisco #SanFranciscoCA #sfca #sf #OlympusStylus #KodakGold #KodakUltra #KodakUltraGold #analog #film At Instagram. Compact camera recommendations A friend asked the internet: Can anyone recommend a mirrorless camera? I have some travel coming up and I’m hesitant to lug my DSLR around. Of course I had an opinion: I go back and forth on this question myself. My current travel camera is a Sony RX100 mark 3 (the mark 4 was recently released). Some of my photos with that camera are on Flickr. If I decide to get a replacement for my for my bigger cameras, I’ll probably go with a full frame Sony A7 of some sort. Bring Your Own Big Wheel Brings Smiles Only a fool would try covering the #BringYourOwnBigWheel action on #film. I’m that fool. #SF #SanFrancisco #BigWheel #byobw #Hasselblad #Ektar #KodakFilm #film At Instagram. Zach Houston’s Poem Store #ZachHouston used to be a #Mission regular, peddling his #poetry from a #PoemStore made up of an old #mechanical #typewriter and carefully selected scrap papers. #SF #SanFrancisco #TheMission #ValenciaStreet At Instagram. Rewrite git repo URLs A question in a mail list I’m on introduced me to a git feature that was very new to me: it’s possible to have git rewrite the repository URLs to always use HTTPS or git+ssh, etc. This one-liner seems to force https: git config --global url.https://github.com/.insteadOf git://github.com/ Or you can add these to your .gitconfig: # Use https instead of git and git+ssh [url "https://github.com/"] insteadOf = git://github.com/ [url "https://github.com/"] insteadOf = git@github. The tools on the Jeremiah O’Brien... The tools on the Jeremiah O’Brien are built to work on steam cylinders larger than oil drums. They’re mounted to the wall like trophies. On Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/maisonbisson/14098333435/ #bw #tools #JeremiahOBrien #LibertyShip #SF #SanFrancisco At Instagram. Docker stories from New Relic From New Relic’s August 2014 blog post: [W]e didn’t try to create a full PaaS framework all at once. Though this may be our eventual goal, it wouldn’t have solved the immediate deployment problem. We did not begin Dockerizing our applications by starting with those that have the highest data volume. Rather, we started with our simplest internal Web apps, particularly stateless things that could scale horizontally. Our early testing showed that high throughput apps are not a good choice for your first Docker deployment, due to the Docker network stack. Sinistrality vs. dextrality in design Photo CC-BY-SA Gerry Dincher This post on why people focus on the right-hand side of a design is an old one, but still valuable today: These days there is a lot of talk about emotional design and how to properly create a connection between users and our products. Focusing on the right-hand side of our designs can create these connections. We have the ability to influence and change a user’s belief in what is right and honest with our designs. Hasselblad Dating Hasselblad Historical and Blue Moon Camera both offer this table to translate Hasselblad serial numbers to year of manufacture: V = 1 H = 2 P = 3 I = 4 C = 5 T = 6 U = 7 R = 8 E = 9 S = 0 That should work for both the body and film magazines, though there are some exceptions noted in the comments at Blue Moon Camera: How Jackie Chan wins Tony Zhou’ video is genius, as are the nine principles of action comedy he’s identified: Start with a DISADVANTAGE Use the ENVIRONMENT Be CLEAR in your shots Action & Reaction in the SAME frame Do as many TAKES as necessary Let the audience feel the RHYTHM In editing, TWO good hits = ONE great hit PAIN is humanizing Earn your FINISH Read the full video description for more, and consider donating to support his work. Photo hipster: playing with 110 cameras After playing with Fuji Instax and Polaroid (with The Impossible Project film) cameras, I realized I had to do something with Kodak. My grandfather worked for Kodak for years, and I have many memories of the stories he shared of that work. He retired in the late 70s, just as the final seeds of Kodak’s coming downfall were being sown, but well before anybody could see them for what they were. Backbone.js and WordPress The three are from 2013, so details may have changed, but they seemed useful enough that I’ve had them open in my browser for a while: http://kadamwhite.github.io/talks/2013/backbone-wordpress http://code.tutsplus.com/tutorials/using-backbone-within-the-wordpress-admin-the-back-end–wp-30056 http://code.tutsplus.com/articles/using-backbone-within-the-wordpress-admin-the-front-end–wp-30121 Parable of the Polygons is the future of journalism Okay, so I’m probably both taking that too far and ignoring the fact that interactive media have been a reality for a long time. So let me say what I really mean: media organizations that aren’t planning out how to tell stories with games and simulators will miss out. Here’s my example: Vi Hart and Nicky Case’s Parable of the Polygons shows us how bias, even small bias, can affect diversity. Unit test WordPress plugins like a ninja (in progress) cc-by Zach Dischner Unit testing a plugin can be easy, but if the plugin needs dashboard configuration or has dependencies on other plugins, it can quickly go off the tracks. And if you haven’t setup Travis integration, you’re missing out. Activate Travis CI To start with, go sign in to Travis now and activate your repos for testing. If you’re not already using Github to host the plugin, please start there. Unit testing WordPress plugins We’ve been unit testing some of our plugins using the old WordPress-tests framework and tips from this 2012 blog post. The good news is that the framework has since been incorporated into core WP, the bad news is that it was changed along the way, and it wasn’t exactly easy to get the test environment setup correctly for the old WordPress-tests. I’ve had a feeling there must be a better way, and today I discovered there is. Deliverables, iteration, and constraints When asked to give a timeline for project delivery, my first questions, of course, are about the details of the project. Then, I take a guess about the timeline and double it, and fight like hell to eliminate blockers and distractions for the team, work with them on implementation theories, ask leading questions that help balance the “optimum” solution against the timeline, and put up whatever obstacles I can to any changes to the plan. Ruins of Roebling’s Works From Flux Machine: a tumbler of Kevin Weir’s creepy gifs. The original is from the Library of Congress. If the name “Roebling” sounds familiar, it’s because this is the company, founded by John A. Roebling, that built the Brooklyn Bridge and setup a good business making cables, or wire rope. The Roebling brothers suspected the fire was German sabotage. Given the activities of the German ambassador at the time, the claim has a whiff of plausibility. Google’s link policies raise hell for simple bloggers I get a bunch of emails like this: We have recently received a notification from Google stating that our website has unnatural links pointing towards it. This has affected our rankings on Google and as a result, we’re trying to clear things up. Our website URL is www.builddirect.com. We noticed the following links are pointing to our website from your site: http://becomingdonnareed.com/ http://becomingdonnareed.com/blog/922/season-1-episode-23-style-note/ http://becomingdonnareed.com/blog/author/sandee/ http://becomingdonnareed.com/blog/category/style/ http://becomingdonnareed.com/blog/tag/crate-and-barrel/ http://becomingdonnareed.com/blog/tag/ikea/ http://becomingdonnareed.com/blog/tag/lumens/ http://becomingdonnareed. A/B Split Testing Calculators Mixpanel’s A/B testing calculator is a competent performer and valuable tool: Thumbtack’s split testing calculator, however, is a surprise standout: That their code is in Github is especially delightful. Algolia Search The multi-category autocomplete and autocomplete on filtering operators demos are interesting: Mastery Sarah Lewis on mastery: Mastery is in the reaching, not the arriving. It’s in constantly wanting to close that gap between where you are and where you want to be Rebuild iPhoto library Yeah, iPhoto is just about dead, and I’m probably a little crazy to still be using it at all, but I do and now I need to rebuild the library. The knowledgebase article can be summed to this: Hold down the Command and Option keys while opening iPhoto. You can’t just click the icon in the dock, you’ve got to double-click the icon in a real Finder window (or some other context that doesn’t trap the keys like the dock does). X-ray scanners vs. film I’ve been enjoying my Fuji Instax 210, but I’m preparing for an upcoming trip and just remembered the challenge of flying with real film. CC-BY-NC-SA Vegard Hagen. The Flickr Fuji Instax Room has a couple discussions on the topic, but the answers are inconclusive and unsupported by references. Some people shared personal experiences suggesting there was nothing to worry about: Studioesper: “never had any problems. I use to work by airports and go thru carry on xray just about everyday with a instax wide. Porn consumption by geography and type This is shamefully old news, but Pornhub released stats that correlate viewing preferences by geography and pulled out a quote too juicy to ignore: Dixie loves dicks so much that the percentage of gay viewers for every single state in the South is higher than the average of the legal gay marriage states. I’m concerned that some of the numbers are contradicted in three different places in the same article, but it suits my worldview, so why bother questioning it? Followup: Triggertrap latency and Fuji Instax tips Short answer: Triggertrap app audio triggering latency is too long to capture a fast moving event. The app, the dongle, my trusty EOS Rebel XTi, Lensbaby (manual focus, soft edge details), and Neewer flash worked, but too slowly. The phone was just inches from where I was throwing the dice, but the flash and camera were triggered after most of the action happened. Most of the time the die flew off the table before the picture was captured. Air-gap flashes for fun, and more fun This 2011 blog post by Maurice Ribble explains the problem with xenon flash tubes such as those typically used in photography: [X]enon flash tubes have a minimum duration of 1/40,000th of a second. That’s fast enough for most things, but not for a shooting bullet [that] travels around 1000 feet/second. In 1/40,000th of a second that bullet can travel about 1/3rd of an inch leading to blurry photographs of bullets. What’s the minimum latency when using Triggertrap audio triggering? CC-BY-NC-ND by airguy1988 The core point of Triggertrap is to release the camera shutter faster and more reliably than can be done by hand, so this is a bit concerning: The explosion was so fast, that the Triggertrap and camera just weren’t fast enough to capture it. So…what is the minimum latency between trigger noise and shutter signal when using the various Triggertrap devices? It turns out they’ve gotten a lot of questions, and perhaps no small number of complaints about this issue with their mobile app. Fuji Instax 210 Tips and Tricks CC-BY-NC-SA by Mychkine. On focusing and using the closeup attachment lens: If you want to take portraits, use [the included closeup adapter]. With the camera focus set to infinity, the point of sharp focus becomes 1 meter. With the same [closeup] attachment the .9-3m focus setting gives pin sharp results at 45cm. (Selfie range) The depth of field is quite shallow so it is easy to end up with blurred pictures if you mis judge the distance. Yeah, he’s probably right Apparently Nate Silver’s book on people being wrong is filled with errors: The text and chart are contradictory, and other errors in the comments. NCAR’s computers are water cooled, not fanned with oxygen. Meet the new media On the future of media, at The Awl: Of course a website’s fortunes can change overnight. That these fortunes are tied to the whims of a very small group of very large companies, whose interests are only somewhat aligned with those of publishers, however, is sort of new. The publishing opportunity may be bigger today than it’s ever been but the publisher’s role is less glamorous: When did the best sites on the internet, giant and small alike, become anonymous subcontractors to tech companies that operate on entirely different scales? The cameras I’ve enjoyed Big Huge Labs reminded me that my Flickr birthday is in just a few days. My first photo upload was on May 12, 2004. Flickr itself turned 10 in February, but it was the Big Huge Labs stat and the photo walks today that really got me thinking about how long it’s been. For whatever reason, that has me thinking about the cameras I’ve used over those years. Ten years is long enough that I had to go looking to remember some, and long enough that I found some I’d forgotten. Disclaimer in spam message You are receiving this e-mail because we just received a mass e-mail and the sender forgot to blind cc your addresses. We will only be sending this one e-mail so as to not pester you, so please contact us if you would like more information. People pay for photos like this First there was the bad engagement photos tumblr, but now it’s been one-upped by this crazy Russian wedding photos LiveJournal. Strobist David Hobby on HDR I’ve been re-reading David Hobby‘s Lighting 101 tutorial while at the same time exploring HDR (Wikipedia’s HDR article is a good read for those unfamiliar with it). The question that eventually came to mind was how the guy that wrote the following feels about HDR? How often have you heard this, usually with a tone of superiority: “I am a purist, I only shoot available light.” (Translation: I am scared shitless of flash. What makes us special? In Daily Kos this weekend: A Common Thread Among Young-Earth Creationists, Gun Enthusiasts, Marriage Exclusivists, and the 1%. The key point is that groups identify by what makes them “feel special.” Distilled, here are the four groups: Creationists: being created by god makes humans special Gun enthusiasts: their role in protecting liberty makes them special Marriage exclusivists: making marriage exclusive to straight people makes them special One percenters: their accumulated wealth makes them special I was interested in seeing the author’s evaluation of what may be a motivation for (some) members of the identified groups. On “do what you love” A friend forwarded Miya Tokumitsu’s essay “In the Name of Love” pointing out the Steve Jobs quote and summarizing that it “challenges the notion of work at what you love.” I read it with some frustration, then decided I had to ask my friend what he saw in it. I was already into my reply when I tried to look up other works by the author and discovered the piece has been positively covered by a lot of sites I respect. Magic Lantern for EOS M The EOS M is named as a “beta” supported camera, but you won’t find a download for it in the normal place. Instead, you’ll have to use a “Tragic Lantern” build at tl.bot-fly.com. This forum thread is about the development, while this forum thread includes more how-to and documentation. Canon EOS M running Magic Lantern. From magiclantern.fm Rumors Subcomandante Marcos, by Jose Villa, from Wikipedia It started at the coffee shop. Somebody pointed and made the claim, then everybody was laughing. “He looks just like him!” one said. “How would you know, he wore a mask!” exclaimed another. I looked him up. I could be accused of being a less interesting figure. How to identify context inside the WordPress dashboard On wp-hackers, Haluk Karamete asked: on admin pages, how can I detect that the current admin is dealing with a cpt? Andrew Nacin answered: get_current_screen()->post_type. [But] this will also specify a post type when it’s a taxonomy being edited. To filter that out, ensure that get_current_screen()->base == 'post', which is [true] for edit.php, post-new.php, and post.php (for all post types). Haluk didn’t elaborate on the cause of the question, but the answer is very good advice for those seeking to conditionally enqueue JS and styles only for specific post types. MySQL performance tips from around the web Gospel: use InnoDB, never MyISAM It seems everybody on StackExchange is singing from the same gospel: “[How can I] prevent queries from waiting for table level lock?” Answer: use InnoDB. The major advantages of InnoDB over MyISAM. “Even in a read-intesive system, just one DELETE or UPDATE statement will quickly nullify whatever benefits MyISAM has.” The main differences between InnoDB and MyISAM, including cache sizing recommendations. “How do you tune MySQL for a heavy InnoDB workload? Transcend WiFi SD card hacking links http://www.fernjager.net/post-8/sdcard: As a 400 MHz Linux system with 32 MB of RAM, using only ~100 mA @ 3.3 V, the possibilities are endless! http://haxit.blogspot.com/2013/08/hacking-transcend-wifi-sd-cards.html: This post is written with the intention of exposing not only the exploits which will allow you to root (or jailbreak) the device, but also the process of discovering and exploiting bugs, some of which are a dead end, while others lead to the holy root B-) ADS-B: the internet of things in the sky ADS-B is a civil aircraft tracking and telemetry standard that the FAA has ruled will replace transponders by 2020. Like a transponder, it’s used to identify air traffic, but with far more more information, such as altitude, heading, speed, and GPS location. The protocol also supports delivery of weather, terrain, and notices to aircraft. The ADS-B signals from aircraft in the sky are intended for receipt by both air traffic controllers on the ground and by other aircraft in the vicinity. Need two-way encryption without mcrypt? In a typical LAMP environment, but don’t have or can’t trust that mcrypt is available in PHP? Try MySQL’s AES_ENCRYPT and AES_DECRYPT. Go read the docs. Where to buy a submarine No need to explain why, I understand: you need a submarine. And you don’t need a bathtub toy (really?), you need something that will truly wow them at the yacht club. There are a few Soviet diesel subs built in the 1940s through 1950s that might be just the thing. Photo: public domain, from Wikipedia. Source. The Soviets built over 200 Whiskey-class subs, and quite a few of them are on the market now. Manhattan Project tours The Manhattan Project was among the US government’s’ first big secrets. It’s easy to forget that plutonium, the incredibly radioactive element at the core of the first atomic detonation, was only identified in 1941. Two years later Army Corps of Engineers started construction of Reactor B to produce it in industrial quantities. Today, Reactor B is a National Historic Landmark, and one of only a few locations of the sprawling Manhattan Project that the public can tour. Where on earth can I get an weotype list? It’s not like these aren’t documented, but I keep forgetting where. WOEID place types: $woetype = array( '7' => 'town', '8' => 'state-province', '9' => 'county-parish', '10' => 'district-ward', '11' => 'postcode', '12' => 'country', '19' => 'region', '22' => 'neighborhood-suburb', '24' => 'colloquial', '29' => 'continent', '31' => 'timezone', ); They can be queried via YQL: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> &lt;placeTypes xmlns="http://where.yahooapis.com/v1/schema.rng" xmlns:yahoo="http://www.yahooapis.com/v1/base.rng" yahoo:start="0" yahoo:count="1" yahoo:total="1"> &lt;placeType yahoo:uri="http://where.yahooapis.com/v1/placetype/35" xml:lang="en-us"> &lt;placeTypeName code="35">Historical Town&lt;/placeTypeName> &lt;placeTypeDescription>A historical populated settlement that is no longer known by its original name&lt;/placeTypeDescription> &lt;/placeType> &lt;/placeTypes> When not to use esc_js() From the codex for esc_js: If you’re not working with inline JS in HTML event handler attributes, a more suitable function to use is json_encode, which is built-in to PHP. Dynamic range vs. price and brand Dynamic range is what keeps skies blue while also capturing detail in the foreground. Without enough dynamic range, we’re forced to choose between a blue sky and dark foreground, or properly exposed foreground and white sky. I’ve been using multiple exposure HDR techniques to increase the dynamic range I can capture, but multiple exposures don’t work well with moving subjects. A camera that can capture good dynamic range in one shot would be better than one that requires multiple shots to do the same. Happy D. B. Cooper Day! The FBI’s wanted poster for D.B. Cooper. D. B. Cooper, the guy who hijacked a plane in 1971 and then — mid-flight — jumped into the darkness with a bundle of cash and disappeared, is celebrated on this day, the Saturday following Thanksgiving. Granted, this is mostly just a thing in Ariel Washington, where it’s said to have started in 1974, but the participants are pretty passionate about it. A smaller microcontroller for smaller jobs I’ve been thinking a bit about how overkill a full Arduino is for Shutterfingers, and feeling a bit sheepish about how lazy I am about learning to use some other microcontroller. Then I found this guide talking about the ATtiny85: If you’re just blinking a few LEDs, and reading a single sensor, you can get the job done smaller and cheaper using a simple IC, like the ATtiny85. Using it requires a programmer socket and actually mounting the IC to a PCB, but it seems to have enough going on to be useful: If I did it over again, I’d make Shutterfingers smaller Shutterfingers is my simple servo controller that presses the shutter on cameras that don’t support remote control. My first attempt was in a sweet looking, but big aluminum case and incorporates a 6600 mAh battery to power the Arduino, servo, and external power for the camera. Well, it all works, but I’m not sure why I approached it that way. Having extra power for the camera is essential for some applications, but I’m not sure why I was so anxious to marry the two projects into one. Just catching on: MySQL supports tables in plain CSV The storage engine docs are quite clear — “the CSV storage engine stores data in text files using comma-separated values format” — and yet I never realized MySQL supported it. Sure, the tables don’t support indexes and repairing them seems riskier than with other tables, but it still seems to offer a lot of convenience for some things. A comment in the docs suggests how easy CSV exports can be: On gamification Stowe Boyd, remarking on the Pew Internet Project report on Gamification in which he was quoted: The need for a renewed push in the enterprise to reengage every person with their personal work, to find meaning and purpose, has never been greater. But adding badges to users’ profiles on whatever work management tool the company is on, showing that Bette is a super expert customer support staffer, or whatever, is the shallowest sort of employee recognition, like giving out coffee mugs to the folks with the lowest number of sick days. Shutterfingers works! I mentioned my plans to make a servo controller to mechanically press the shutter button on a camera when signaled from a motion control timelapse robot. The parts have arrived and it’s running on a breadboard. I’ve had to make a few changes to the code, including fixing a variable reference, but the biggest change was to implement the internal pull up resisters on the Arduino and reverse the logic. That simplifies the wiring. I guess I missed the Hand Car Regatta I followed the Raygun Gothic Rocketship from its former site near the Ferry Building in SF to its new location in Calgary, to the website of the artist collective that made it, to another of their projects: The Lumbering Contraption, to the Internet Archive cache of the website for the event at which the Contraption appeared, the abandoned Facebook page for the event and the April 2012 notice that, after four years, the event was well and truly over. PCB prototyping services ExpressPCB promises For a fixed price of $75, you will receive 3 identical 2 layer, 3.8″ x 2.5″ PCBs with solder mask and silkscreen layers. That seems like a good plan, but I’m also very new to this market. Are there other, better options? And, as long as I’m asking, what software is available for Macs to sketch out the schematics and layout PCBs? This spammy article names some free choices and led me to a Mac port of Kicad. Simple cameras John Gruber links to Mike Johnston’s post asking: I mean, with hundreds of cameras on the market, wouldn’t you think they could make one that was super-simple, just for that segment of the population that wants it? To this I offer the Panasonic Lumix LX3. I’ve been pretty in love with it lately, and I think it’s the perfect answer to that question. That’s the camera that defied the megapixel race of the late 2000s. Installing and using MEncoder for timelapsing I have a new computer, which has me looking up my old documentation on how I encode still photos from a timelapse series into a video file. As I often do, I’m blogging about it now to make it easier to find next time I need to remember what to install and what settings I’ve found work well. I’ve seen a number of different solutions, but I mostly use MEncoder, a command-line tool. Of course I want an Enfojer Enfojer is an enlarger that uses your smartphone as both light source and negative. It’s on Indigogo now. From the FAQ: What lens are we using in the Enfojer? It is a wide angle polycarbonate toy camera style meniscus lens. It blurs the image just right so you don’t see the pixels on your print. Yeah, we tried sharper and better ones, but the results were too sterile. Fujifilm X and Sony NEX lenses If I get a new camera system I’ll need new lenses. I’m looking carefully at the Sony NEX E-Mount and Fujifilm X-mount because they offer fairly compact cameras with large, APS-C sized sensors. On top of that, however, I usually like to shoot a very wide-angle lens. On a Sony NEX, my best choice might be Sony’s 10-18mm SEL-1018. That’s 15mm after the 1.5x crop factor, and that’s just fine. On the downside, it’s an $850 lens, and only has an F4 maximum aperture. What camera systems are worth it? Given that my feelings for Canon’s lackluster approach to mirrorless cameras, I’m now obligated to look for a new camera system, and that has me looking at cameras I’d previously ignored. Fujifilm’s X system is a recent entrant into the interchangeable lens mirrorless camera fray (note that not all the cameras in the X line sport interchangeable lenses, or similar sensor sizes or body types). The X-E1 received a gold rating from DPreview, and the new X-M1 is looking like another good camera as well. The EOS M system might as well be dead Amazon is now selling EOS M cameras for $329 with free shipping. At that price you have to think about buying it as a joke, but that’s exactly what it is. The camera is hobbled by Canon to avoid cannibalizing sales of their other products. Consider this: Fujifilm’s X series, Sony’s mirrorless NEX 6 and 7 cameras, Panasonic and Olympus‘ Micro Four Thirds mirrorless cameras, and others offer good manual controls despite their small size. Shutterfingers I started work on my first Arduino project today, though I have yet to get the hardware. The plan is to build a servo controller that can trigger the shutter on my Panasonic LX3 camera that lacks any sort of remote shutter release. I started looking into this before and found Cris Benton struggled with the problem as well. I’m planning to go down a path he blazed some years ago: put a servo on it. Building GEOS on CentOS It should be simple, but I ran into a number of errors. First I got stuck on libtool: line 990: g++: command not found. It turns out I needed to install g++ using: yum install gcc-c++ Then I got stuck on this one: platform.h:110:2: error: #error "Can not compile without isnan function or macro [...] "Coordinate.inl:38: error: ‘ISNAN’ was not declared in this scope The author of this page faced the problem, but the real insight came from this bug report on an unrelated project: About those battery life ratings I added battery life as a factor in my recent review of cameras, but what does the reported battery life of a camera mean? Assuming the 2003 translated PDF is correct, CIPA standards for camera battery life amount to something like this: Take pictures continuously until the camera shuts down due to power loss. Fire the flash at full power for every other photo, if the camera has a flash. Lumix LX3 sample photos A friend was asking about the Lumix LX7 I named in my camera roundup the other day and earlier this year. I keep the LX7 in the list because of my experience with it’s predecessor a couple generations earlier: the Lumix LX3. He asked how it performs, but I struggled at first to find photos demonstrating it. I began to wonder if my memory of the LX3 was a little more glowing than the reality. Why in-camera GPS matters I concluded my review of current camera options with the claim that I’d switch lens systems for a compact interchangeable lens camera that had built-in GPS. Why do I want GPS? Because the competition for all the cameras I listed there is my iPhone, and one of the reasons I prefer my phone is because every photo I take with it is a little breadcrumb helping me track my travels with very accurate date, time, and location information. Summer 2013 Camera Options I reviewed a lineup of cameras I’d consider to replace my aging Canon Rebel XTi and Panasonic Lumix LX3 back in February, but I’m on a roll after collecting some film camera party packs so I decided to update this list as well. Since I gathered my original list I’ve started using motion control robots and my photo habits have changed. Given that, the priority of some of the options has changed a bit as well. Back to the vault: old vacation pics shot on film My love letter to film cameras as a solution to smartphone addiction at parties had me looking for some old film photos. Do we enjoy the idea of film more than the reality? I found a set of photos from a vacation to Las Vegas in April 2001. It’s clear that whatever photographic technique I’d developed years before had gone fallow. At the time I was shooting with an Olympus Stylus Epic, probably on Kodak 400 or 800 speed print film. Film Camera Party-Packs In the old days, or the 1990s at least, party hosts distributed disposable cameras. Then digital cameras and smartphones after that became common. The number of photos has been growing, and in some cases so has the quality. But as the number of cameras has exploded so has the presence of cameras themselves in the photos, and as groups of people line up to be photographed, they’re often now outnumbered by photographers on the other side. Detect MySQL’s “too many connections” error WordPress appears to continue with execution even when MySQL refuses connections/queries after init. Here’s a comment in the MySQL docs suggesting how to detect the condition in raw PHP: $link = mysql_connect("localhost", "mysql_user", "mysql_password"); if (mysql_errno() == 1203) { // 1203 == ER_TOO_MANY_USER_CONNECTIONS (mysqld_error.h) header("Location: http://your.site.com/alternate_page.php"); exit; } Just a note to myself, but I wonder if there’s opportunity here. SF gentrification debate I wade into this topic wearily, but I do love my new city, even in the moments where it drifts from critically self-aware to navel gazing. Ian S. Port’s July 17 review of the media coverage of the gentrification debate included this nugget discussing Ilan Greenberg’s angle on the topic: [W]hat’s happening here isn’t gentrification at all, but merely middle-class residents using the word to conceal discomfort over richer people coming in and ruining their good time. Data sources for geographic boundaries world.geo.json To mock something fast and loose with geo-json data for the world, this is your fix. Legal status of this dataset: dubious? For a good time, drag them to http://bl.ocks.org/1431429 and paint the globe! world-atlas [A] convenient mechanism for generating TopoJSON files from Natural Earth. Natural Earth Natural Earth is a public domain map dataset available at 1:10m, 1:50m, and 1:110 million scales. Featuring tightly integrated vector and raster data, with Natural Earth you can make a variety of visually pleasing, well-crafted maps with cartography or GIS software. Built For A Purpose: Geographical Affordances and Crime In Cabinet spring 2013, Geoff Manaugh investigates the relationship between geography and the crimes that geography affords. In the 1990s, Los Angeles held the dubious title of “bank robbery capital of the world.” At its height, the city’s bank crime rate hit the incredible frequency of one bank robbed every forty-five minutes of every working day. [An FBI Special Agent once joked] the agency even developed its own typology of banks in the region, most notably the “stop and rob”: a bank, located at the bottom of both an exit ramp and an on-ramp of one of Southern California’s many freeways, that could be robbed as quickly and as casually as you might pull off the highway for gas. Peeking into other people’s photo rigs This all started because I went looking for a way to remote trigger a Panasonic Lumix LX 3. The internet is pretty certain that the only way to do it is mount a servo to mechanically press the shutter button. Sad. But that led me into Cris Benton‘s world of photography from poles. Yes, he mounts his camera at the end of a carp fishing pole (a noun so unknown to me I almost put it in quotes) to loft it up to 30′ in the air. Speeding up MySQL joins on tables with TEXT columns, maybe The thing about WordPress’ DB schema is that TEXT and VARCHAR content is mixed in the posts table (to say nothing of the frustrations of DATETIME columns). That’s not such a problem for a blog with a few hundred posts, but it’s a different matter when you have a few hundred thousand posts. And it wouldn’t even be a problem then, except for this quirk in MySQL: Instances of BLOB or TEXT columns in the result of a query that is processed using a temporary table causes the server to use a table on disk rather than in memory because the MEMORY storage engine does not support those data types (see Section 8. What is the difference utf8_unicode_ci and utf8_general_ci? From the MySQL manual: For any Unicode character set, operations performed using the xxx_general_ci collation are faster than those for the xxx_unicode_ci collation. For example, comparisons for the utf8_general_ci collation are faster, but slightly less correct, than comparisons for utf8_unicode_ci. They have a amusing “examples of the effect of collation” set on “sorting German umlauts,” but it unhelpfully uses latin1_* collations. And another table that helpfully explains: A difference between the collations is that this is true for utf8_general_ci: Canon + iOS tethering solutions There’s magic that happens inside the camera. Yes, magic. Most cameras expose the controls to that magic via some knobs and buttons and a small LCD screen. The knobs and other physical controls we like, but the screen pales in comparison to those on our iPhones. And that’s the thing, the hundreds of apps on our iPhones leaves us wondering why our DSLRs aren’t an open platform, ready to be reshaped by one app after another. Testing apply_filters() times Testing how long it takes to assign a variable versus assigning through WordPress’ <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/apply_filters">apply_filters()</a>. Filters are core to WordPress, but I haven’t yet looked at the total number of apply_filters() calls used throughout the code. The answer to this question is that calling a non-existing filter before assignment is about 21 times more costly than simply assigning it. That’s nothing compared to the cost of actually doing some filtering, however. Clarity from a distance The sky looks big from earth, but it’s rather different the other way around. I’m not saying it’s not quite an experience, but inspecting the metadata on this photo of New York and surroundings taken on Christmas day, 2000, during the first International Space Station mission surprised me. To wit: it’s only a 180mm lens. Granted, that’s on an old Kodak DCS460 digital camera (a Nikon body with Kodak imaging unit attached) with a 1. 3rd party JS libraries cause downtime Facebook Connect went down hard tonight. HuffPo reports that their site was redirecting to a Facebook error page, even when people weren’t attempting to log in. Yep. Busted third-party JavaScript brings portions of the Internet to its knees: huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/07/fac… — Kent Brewster (@kentbrew) February 8, 2013 It makes me more comfortable with our decision to strip so many 3rd party javascripts from GigaOM during our last redesign. Camera frustrations and other first world problems I’m not a camera pro. I have some photos on Flickr, but it’s just for fun, so I don’t really need a new camera. But I do want one. Thing is, there a lot of cameras out there, but none of them has the Goldilocks factor. None has the right mix of features, size, and price that makes me happy. I now have an old Canon Rebel XTi, Panasonic Lumix LX3, and GoPro HD Hero 2 in my camera bag, but I began to feel an itch when I realized my 50mm F1. Testing file include times for a file that may or may not exist Question: Should you check for a file before attempting to include it, or just suppress errors? Calling file_exists requires stating it twice if the file does exist, so that could take longer. Answer: the file_exists pattern is more than five times faster than the @include pattern for a file that doesn’t exist, and not substantially slower when the file does exist. The test: &lt;?php $start_time = $end_time = $i = 0; $start_time = microtime( TRUE ); for( $i = 0; $i &lt;= 100000; $i++) { include __DIR__ . An American iPhone in Europe By way of update on my earlier post after researching options for AT&T iPhone users in Europe (with an unlocked phone), I ended up not bothering with local SIM cards in either The Netherlands or France. A savvy user should be able to find a local pay as you go SIM plan that’s less expensive than AT&T’s data roaming packages, but I’m that user and know very little about the local operators (not even all their names). SVN or git? @film_firl poked @WordPressVIP to ask @wordpressvip @mjangda @viper007bond MOOOOVE TO GIT!!! she half-kids. No really, please? — Christina Warren (@film_girl) January 18, 2013 @nacin piled on with @viper007bond @film_girl @mjangda VIP aside, it’s fairly crazy that WordPress.com hasn’t migrated. SVN != tenable dev environment. — Andrew Nacin (@nacin) January 18, 2013 @Viper007Bond tried to defend the team, and added @film_girl @wordpressvip @mjangda That said transitioning is not always worth it. Where did all the votes go? What happens to voting data after the election is over? What happens to all those certified results by polling place? How is it that there’s so much coverage leading up to and on the night of the election, but this guy seems to be one of the few sources of historical voting data? Amusingly, I found it linked on the Library of Congress’ website! There’s some very old sources from E. On wp_enqueue_scripts and admin_enqueue_scripts An argument has erupted over the WordPress actions wp_enqueue_scripts and admin_enqueue_scripts vs. init. One of the points was about specificity, and how wp_enqueue_scripts and admin_enqueue_scripts can reduce ambiguity. I didn’t realize I had strong opinions on it until the issue was pressed, but it turns out I think wp_enqueue_scripts and admin_enqueue_scripts are unnecessary and unfortunate additions to the actions API. Here’s what I wrote in that discussion thread: Is Spatula City the store that’s most specifically targeted to the sale of fine spatulas? Confirming that object references in arrays are preserved while cloning the arrays A short test to confirm references are preserved in cloned arrays. // create a stdClass object (using my lazy way of coercing arrays to objects) $object = (object) array( 'thing' => 'original' ); // add that object to an array element $array = array( 'object_one' => $object ); // clone the array by assignment to a new variable $array_two = $array; // add a new copy of the original object to a new element in the new array $array_two['object_two'] = $object; // show what we have so far var_dump( $object , $array , $array_two ); The result is: Ignoring noise in svn diffs svn diff -x "-bw --ignore-eol-style" is your friend when somebody decides to change the end of line style and strip all trailing whitespace from the files in your repo. Is Perl the best solution to write code that needs setuid? A bunch of searching the web for things related to setuid and shell scripts lead me to this answer in Stack Exchange: Perl explicitly supports setuid scripts in a secure way. In fact, your script can run setuid even if your OS ignored the setuid bit on scripts. This is because perl ships with a setuid root helper that performs the necessary checks and reinvokes the interpreter on the desired scripts with the desired privileges. There’s no ‘git cp filename’? Here’s a sequence of unbelievable things: Yes, despite a lifetime in Subversion, I’m really this new to git! I’m going to link to Livejournal in this post! Git really doesn’t have an equivalent to svn cp filename! I spent a surprisingly long time reviewing the man pages and surfing the internet to confirm this, but git really assumes you’ll never want to copy a file with history. Here’s that Livejournal link I promised, where markpasc has similar complaints — from 2008, no less. Aww, I got thanked! I recently backed the Syrp Genie, one of a handful of recent motion control timelapse projects on Kickstarter. It’s well past its expected ship date, but they done a good job of keeping backers updated on progress and just today they shared photos of the box that will soon be on it’s way to me. They’ve thanked backers with a card in every one of them. If you look closely, you’ll see my name straddling the “thanks” in the center. Greetings Library Scientist The California Library Association is pretty much like every other regional library association I’ve seen, not least because their most visible presence is their annual conference. It may be the season, but the CLA is more politically active than others I’ve known. At their core, most such associations exist to promote efficient transfer of operational knowledge from one library to another, from one generation to another. Libraries today Unfortunately, in less than a generation’s time, the very foundations of libraries has been rocked by technological, legal, and economic changes unlike any these organizations have seen before. Our Arbitrary Alphabet We have been gaslighted by the alphabet and now believe the arbitrary string of letters is actually organized according to some plan. Hegemonic Language and Arbitrary Order The signs used in writing originate in arbitrary decisions, but the connection with arbitrariness is lost when convention takes over. The convention of long usage kills even the memory of the initial arbitrariness of the signs and gives them an objective and seemingly inevitable presence. Strange things running on my Mac My iMac screen is dark and isn’t lighting up like I expect it to when I tap the keyboard. I can, however, SSH into it and see what it’s doing when not responding to me. I found GoogleSoftwareUpdateAgent running, this FAQ item vaguely tells me it’s part of Chrome, and that if I try to uninstall it without also uninstalling Chrome it will simply “be reinstalled after a few hours.” Action Camera Market Not Yet Saturated, According To Sony I wondered if the GoPro-style action camera market had already become saturated back in January, now I’ve learned that Sony apparently doesn’t think so. At least one imagines that’s the conclusion they came to before deciding to join the competition with a camera of their own. They call it the Action Cam, and it clearly takes its design cues from Contour. What does Sony offer to stand apart from the established players? USB Camera Control Problem The Canon EOS M doesn’t include a remote shutter release cable port, and the on-camera controls don’t expose features such as bulb-mode exposures. Further, simple remote shutter release doesn’t support the sophisticated camera control necessary to do timelapses with complex exposures. What kind of complex exposures? Imagine a timelapse going from day to night. During daylight the exposure might be f8, 1/1000 second at ISO 100, but the night exposure might require f4 1/15 second at ISO 400. Geography vs. Stereotypes Alphadesigner is trying to put a finger on it with his Mapping Stereotypes series. Others, including how Americans see Europe and the world according to America, are not nearly as well designed. We’d be fools, however, to think we invented the idea of mapping our prejudices. This Flickr set of maps from 1870 through 1915 is good evidence of that. Chance Vs. Lasers Via tweet: claw arcade games are not skill games, rather, the claw strength is randomized and is often only strong enough to successfully grab the prize in one attempt out of 18, or 800. Operator manuals linked in the Quora answer explain the different modes and odds. String cutting games, however, can be defeated with lasers! apiGrove: API Management Software apiGrove is an API management tool by Alcatel-Lucent. It proxies APIs (presumably those you built and host, though the example is for Twitter) , supports authenticated access, throttles to help manage demand, usage logging and reporting. More info @apiGrove, hat tip. Be Careful What You Measure Seth Godin on what to obsess over: What are you tracking? If you track concepts, your concepts are going to get better. If you track open rates or clickthrough, then your subject lines are going to get better. Up to you. It’s long something I’ve believed: if you measure it, you will attempt to maximize it, even if the metric is something you’d rather minimize, like CO2 emissions. Preparing My iPhone For Europe There’s uncertain talk of a European trip coming up, so I’m making nonspecific preparations for it. One of the questions I have is how to avoid hefty roaming charges from AT&T. In previous trips abroad I’d purchased overseas voice and data add-ons so I could use my iPhone. That works, up to a point. On my return home from a trip to Taiwan a few years ago I got a call from AT&T informing me that I’d gone over my data limit and was facing a $1500 charge for the usage. Higgs-Bugson A Higgs-bugson is a hypothetical error whose existence is suggested by log events and vague reports from the users that cannot be reproduced in development conditions. QA and user support teams point to the Higgs-bugson as an explanation for the results they see in the field. Software engineers, however, often deny the existence of the Higgs-Bugson and offer alternative theories that often blame the user. Engineers, after all, don’t write bugs. GoPro HD Hero 2 Lens Correction GoPro’s HD Hero 2 action camera is everywhere, so perhaps we’ll all be used to the fisheye’d images it produces soon. On the other hand, there are software solutions to rectify the image to rectilinear. Vimeo user Peter iNova has a few videos demonstrating his Photoshop action sets to straighten out an HD Hero’s output. A person could probably significantly improve performance by giving up on Photoshop and building a video filter based on the Panotools image manipulation library. Making Sense Of AT&T’s Shared Data Plans Kevin’s coverage at GigaOM helped, but what I really needed was a chart that compared the different options. I couldn’t find one, so I made my own: <td valign="top"> <strong>2 iPhones</strong> </td> <td valign="top"> <strong>3 iPhones</strong> </td> <td valign="top"> <strong>4 iPhones</strong> </td> Shared data, unlimited minutes 1GB <td valign="top"> $130 </td> <td valign="top"> $175 </td> <td valign="top"> $220 </td> 4GB <td valign="top"> $150 </td> <td valign="top"> $190 </td> <td valign="top"> $230 </td> 6GB <td valign="top"> $160 </td> <td valign="top"> $195 </td> <td valign="top"> $230 </td> 10GB <td valign="top"> $180 </td> <td valign="top"> $210 </td> <td valign="top"> $240 </td> 15GB <td valign="top"> $220 </td> <td valign="top"> $250 </td> <td valign="top"> $280 </td> 20GB <td valign="top"> $260 </td> <td valign="top"> $290 </td> <td valign="top"> $320 </td> <td valign="top"> </td> <td valign="top"> </td> <td valign="top"> </td> Individual data, 700 shared minutes  300MB <td valign="top"> 109. Motion Control Timelapse Projects On Kickstarter Some time ago I backed the Syrp Genie (estimated delivery July 2012), but today I learned of the Radian and Astro. Unlike the Radian and Astro, the Genie supports linear motion, but it’s also much more expensive, bigger, and appears to have more complex controls. Here are the videos for all three projects: [http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/syrp/genie-motion-control-time-lapse-device/widget/video.html] [http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/207087339/radian-a-motion-time-lapse-device-for-everyone/widget/video.html] [http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1530895202/astro-time-lapse-motion-control/widget/video.html] Eduard Khil, Mr. Trololo, Dead At 77 Eduard Khil is dead. The man, whose work and career had earned high praise, including the Order of the Red Banner of Labour (1971), Lenin Komsomol Prize (1976), Order of Friendship of Peoples (1981), Meritorious Artist of the RSFSR (1968), People’s Artist of the RSFSR (1974), Order of Merit for the Fatherland (2009), and international fame with his performance of Trololo. The 1976 performance that made him famous: A 1984 stage performance: Composited Timelapse and Real-Time Skateboarding Video http://www.vimeo.com/41406753 Russel Houghten‘s Open Horizon is part skate film, part time lapse, and mostly awesome. Then somebody pointed to this Jimmy Plmer/Z-Flex video that shares a number of features with Houghten’s work, but is less ambitious in scope. At least they did a behind the scenes video that shows the sweet Red camera and rails. Find Neighbors On The Same IP What other sites share the same infrastructure with your site, or any other? Bing‘s IP search can answer. Do a search by IP number: ip:72.233.127.217 ip:158.136.1.105 ip:72.51.52.15 Site Load Performance Benchmarks The Loop’s Jim Dalrymple compiled the following numbers for the time it takes various tech sites to load in a browser in late 2011: The Loop: 38 requests; 38.66KB; 1.89 secs Daring Fireball: 23 requests; 49.82KB; 566 milliseconds Macworld: 130 requests; 338.32KB; 8.54 secs Ars Technica: 120 requests; 185.99KB; 2.08 secs Apple: 46 requests; 419KB; 1.39 secs CNN: 196 requests; 269.41KB; 4 secs BGR: 368 requests; 2.74MB; 35.33 secs AppleInsider: 141 requests; 649. Is This The Best IMDB API? IMDBAPI.com CSS Speech Bubbles Twitter front-end guy Nicolas Gallagher likes both CSS and speech bubbles enough to want them unadulterated by images and non-semantic markup. The lesson from his many examples is that it all comes down to an :after pseudo element that puts the little triangle in there: .speechbubble:after { content:""; position:absolute; bottom:-15px; /* value = - border-top-width - border-bottom-width */ left:50px; /* controls horizontal position */ border-width:15px 15px 0; /* vary these values to change the angle of the vertex */ border-style:solid; border-color:#f3961c transparent; /* reduce the damage in FF3. Semantic News Markup And SEO Schema.org NewsArticle hNews rNews (and the war between rNews and hNews) Google News Technical Requirements On the likelihood of unicorns Research by Robert E. Hall and Susan E. Woodward shows that 87% of venture-backed firms exit for less than $10 million (67% exit for less than $1 million). In a world where Instagram can exit for $1 billion with no revenue or monetization plan, anything less than $10 million is an implosion. Marathon Spoiler Guides Marathon and Marathon 2: Durandal are available as iOS apps. The classic Marathon Spoiler Guides might be good companions. AirParrot Turns AppleTV Into A Secondary Display From the FAQ on the AirParrot site: What does AirParrot do? AirParrot lets you AirPlay your Mac’s screen to a second or third generation AppleTV. What you see on your Mac’s screen will appear on the AppleTV, wirelessly! How do I use AirParrot? Once you’ve opened AirParrot, click on the icon in your menu bar. Select the AirPlay device (such as your AppleTV) and then select which screen you want to mirror. SF Police, Fire, EMS, and Airport Radio Monitoring Listen in with RadioReference.com’s index of live police, fire, EMS, and airport radio feeds in San Francisco. Is This The Best Way To Copy Voicemails From An iPhone? Instructables tells us to get the files from the iPhone backup in ~/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup/, but “iTunes renames all your files xxxxxxx.mddata. So all you need to do is figure out the original file name extension and you will be able to view the file.” Ugh, isn’t there a better way? HTML5 Form Elements Mark Pilgrim’s overview of HTML 5 form elements includes the following: Placeholder Text Autofocus Fields Email Addresses Web Addresses Numbers as Spinboxes Numbers as Sliders Date Pickers Search Boxes Color Pickers Form Validation Required Fields Further Reading Configuring Amazon Linux For Web Services (Spring 2012) I’ve tested this cookbook against Amazon Linux, but it will probably work just as well with the current version of CentOS. Basic Installation First, get root and update the OS: sudo -s yum update With that done, let’s get the basic packages and services installed: yum install mysql mysql-server mysql-devel httpd httpd-devel mod_ssl php php-devel php-mysql php-gd php-dom php-pear php-json memcached svn gcc pcre-devel make That gets us Apache HTTPD with SSL, PHP with a number of modules, Memcached, and a few system tools. PHP vs. Frameworks Six years ago this month the Zend framework preview was released and Rasmus Lerdorf published a blog post titled “The no-framework PHP MVC framework” (italics added). R. Rajesh Jeba Anbiah noted irony. Scanwiches Scanwiches: scans of sandwiches for education and delight. Above is Parisi Bakery’s ham, swiss, tomato, lettuce, mustard, mayo, on a hero. Prints were said to have been available — I’d like the dagwood, thank you — but the store seems in a sad state. Pew Internet Project: “19% of adults own a tablet computer” We’ve heard stories about how significant the growth of Apple’s iPad is, but Pew Internet and American Life Project Director Lee Rainie speaking at the National Federation of Advanced Information Services (NFAIS) conference on Mobile Devices and the Delivery of Information shared a stat that made me pause: 19% of adults own a tablet computer – iPad To clarify, that 19% does not include ebook readers (they’re tracked separately). Rob Reid’s Copyright Math Rob Reid’s Copyright Math at TED2012: the claimed effect of entertainment piracy to US economy is larger than value of most of our agricultural output. Pantone Yummies By Emilie Griottes: Open Access and Open Data Finally Getting Public Attention Complaints over the cost of academic journals have long been a trope that repeats at library conferences with no denouement, but there are new signs that might be changing. The issue is that a large portion of the research done in the US is performed by faculty paid by academic institutions and supported by public money, often grants from the NIH. A significant condition of promotion in academic careers is publication of original research in trusted journals, which is entirely reasonable to most everybody involved, except for the librarians who have to pay for the journals. The Microsoft Store Experience There’s a Microsoft Store right across from the Apple Store in the Valley Fair Mall. Cliff and I realized this after exiting the Apple Store there with a new keyboard and headphones. We’d never been in an MS Store before, so we ambled over with our clean white Apple-branded accessories in hand. The Windows Phone 7 display was in the back corner, attended by a nice woman who offered to fetch a Nokia Lumia 800 phone from the back for us to inspect. Marta Becket’s Final Performance Tonight Legend has it that Marta Becket rolled in to Death Valley Junction in 1967 and has been performing at the Amargosa Opera House since, but tonight is her last performance. I visited in 2004 and took in the show then. It’s a certain kind of show and performer that can run 45 years non-stop (it was in its 37th year when I saw it). Action Cameras You know about Countour and GoPro, but you may not have seen Drift and Swann. Is this a market that is getting saturated, or is it about to explode? Contour marketing video: GoPro marketing video: Drift marketing video: http://www.vimeo.com/26828058 Swann marketing video: Three of the cameras compared: Happy New Scriblio! The most recently released, stable version of Scriblio is marked 2.9-r1 and was last updated in June 2010. You can be forgiven for thinking development had ceased in the interim. Today, however, I’m proud to introduce a completely new Scriblio, re-written from the ground up to take advantage of the latest features of WordPress and eliminate the mistakes made in previous versions. This update allows users to search and explore WordPress sites using facets that represent the tags, categories and other aspects of the collection. How WordPress Taxonomy Query URLs Could Be More Awesomer (Updated, see below) WordPress 3.1 introduced some awesome new taxonomy query features, and the URL parsing allows some rudimentary syntax to query multiple terms and choose if the query is OR’d or AND’d. The URL syntax is as follows: A comma (,) between terms will return posts containing either term (logical OR), like this http://maisonbisson.com/post/tag/wordpress,mysql/ . A plus sign (+) between terms will return posts containing all terms (logical AND), like this http://maisonbisson. GE Public Relations Gets Smart To The Cool Video Thing The video from General Electric is cool, and shot at least in part with cameras mounted on RC helicopters, but strangely missing is any mention their manufacture of nuclear generation equipment such as the Fukushima plants that melted down earlier this year. “Hot Sweet Wings” and other wonders composed with the help of Songify Cliff introduced me to the wonder of the Songify app. Here are some tips to making the best of it: Longer text makes for better songs. Repetition makes for better songs, don’t be ashamed of repeating yourself. Speak in a monotone voice, let the app handle the tune. Speak nonsense. No sense in trying to make sense, it doesn’t make for a better song. If you insist on trying to make sense, then just pick a single sentence and repeat it several times with slight variations. Wikileaks Embassy Cables First Wikileaks published the collateral murder video, then a massive-but-redacted dump of diplomatic cables, then people figured out how to get the unredacted content. Though this information was already public, the ACLU pursued a FOIA request on these very cables, the result was a heavily redacted record of the cables, and a clear picture of the government’s ongoing touchiness about torture, rendition, Guantánamo, and targeted killings by drones. An On The Media segment (MP3 download) explains further. parallel-flickr Backs Up Your Flickr Library parallel-flickr: a tool for backing up your Flickr photos and generating a database backed website that honours the viewing permissions you’ve chosen on Flickr. More details from the website: It downloads and stores your original photos and their “640x” versions. Currently photos are stored locally but there’s a plan to add support for S3. For each photo it downloads and stores the contents of the flickr.photos.getInfo API method as a JSON file. Predator Drones Used In Domestic Police Action The LA Times on December 10 reported that Predator drones such as those now being used by the Air Force and CIA were used to support police in their investigation of cattle rustling. Theft of livestock has long been a serious matter, but regulations and procedures typically make it difficult to sell stolen cattle. According to Fred Frederikson of the North Dakota Stockmen’s Association, “all horses, mules and cattle leaving [North Dakota] must be brand inspected. The War On Cameras WNYC’s On The Media did a nice piece on it back in September (MP3 download): judging from the arrests and harassment, photographers are part of a terrorist plot. Or something. The CopBlock (tagline: “badges don’t grant extra rights”) map of actions taken against photographers is littered with activity. AlterEgo: Democratizing Two-Factor Security AlterEgo promises two-factor authentication security without the silly key-fob. Neat. Electric Chariot Sure, this electric chariot combines all the inconvenience of a scooter with some of the frustrations of an actual car, but it looks cool. Sort of. Though it’s made by a medical equipment manufacturer, at least it conforms to the rule of auto shows and objectifies the women demoing it as much as the vehicle itself. Correction: Steadicam Smoothee for GoPro HD Hero In my earlier post on Steadicams for GoPro HD Hero cameras I incorrectly stated that the Steadicam Smoothee is exclusively for iPhones and iPod Touches. They seem to have mounts for GoPro Hero and Flip Mino cameras as well, it’s just impossible to find that info on their website and most retailers don’t carry the other mounts. If you don’t mind the color, you can pick up a third-party mount for under $20 from Shapeways. Web Strategy Discussion Starter What follows is the text of a document I prepared to start and shape discussion about the future of the university website at my former place of work. The PDF version is what I actually presented, though in both instances I’ve redacted three types of information: the name of the institution (many already know, but that’s no reason to allow it to appear in search results), pay rates for proposed employees, and identification of proposed service providers. Which Steady Cam Is Best For A GoPro HD Hero2? I have a new GoPro HD Hero2, one of the best new video cameras available (if what you like in a video camera is a compact, wide-angle, and waterproof), and I’m looking for a way to steady it for handheld shots. The Steadicam Smoothee is built for iPhones. Their demo video and this comparison of the iPhone 4S with and without the Smoothee suggest it can work wonders, but it appears to be iPhone-only [correction: it’s officially compatible with the GoPro]. AOC 16″ USB-Connected Flat Panel AOC’s new 16″ USB-connected monitor looks like an interesting toy. It draws its power and signal from the USB. Mixed information suggests that four or eight can be connected to a single computer. At about $130, this could be a cheap way to build a large display wall. What Content Should a University Website Include? I no longer have a dog in this race, but in cleaning up my hard drive of old files I’ve run across a few items of note. For example, the above illustration I once used to describe the different content, audiences, and uses of a university website. Current students, prospective students, their family, faculty, employees, and their family all use and expect to get answers from the website. Websites for large organizations fail their users when they only share the details that they once exposed in view books and catalogs. What went wrong If I’m lucky, the only reason I get a phone call before 7am is because somebody on the east coast forgot about the timezones between them and me. The alternative is almost always bad news. Today I wasn’t lucky, and neither were a huge number of readers and users at GigaOM who received multiple copies of our daily newsletter. For a news and research organization that values — loves — its users as much as we do at GigaOM, this was all hell breaking loose. Comcast’s Folly [Harry Shearer]2, the bassist for Spinal Tap, voice talent for many characters in The Simpsons, and host of Le Show has no difficulty criticizing the unnecessary complexities of modern media technology, but not until his August 14 episode (subscribe to the podcast) has he admitted to the frustrations of modern cable. “It’s now easier to watch TV on your computer than on your TV,” says Shearer. Perhaps that’s why Comcast, the leading cable operator in the US, lost 238,000 TV subscribers last quarter, and the company has been seeing its subscriber base shrink for a while (though they’re showing growth in internet subscribers). The End Of Paper Domtar, “the largest integrated manufacturer and marketer of uncoated freesheet paper in North America and the second largest in the world,” launched a campaign to promote paper consumption. This much is old news, as the campaign is about a year old already. Among the messaging goals, according to the agency that designed it: It’s easier to learn on paper, because reading on paper is up to 30 percent faster than reading online. Search The Sears And Roebuck Catalog You’d think the Sears Archives would offer an online search of their historical catalogs, but the best you’ll find is a list of libraries holding the microfilms. Ancestry.com offers an online search, but only to paying members. I’m looking into this because I was looking for historical trends in consumer products and thought the catalog would be a good source. It might be, if only I was ambitious enough to go to my downtown library. Ed Rondthaler’s spelling reform flip chart http://www.vimeo.com/17561068 Ed makes a good argument for spelling reform, but he demonstrates an outstanding flair for presentation, even at the age of 102. Sara Cannon On Responsive Web Design At WCSF Sara Cannon‘s talk on responsive web design (resizing the page to suit different client devices) was spot on. Her slides are below, but she also recommends this A List Apart article on the matter, as well as Less Framework and 1140 CSS Grid (especially as alternatives to 960.gs). Responsive Web Design – WordCamp San Francisco View more presentations from Sara Cannon Estelle Weyl on CSS3 At WCSF I’ve long been a fan of CSS3, but Estelle Weyl‘s WordCamp SF talk on it charged me up again. Her slides are not to be missed. An Interesting Insight Into Mobile Safari On iOS A post in a Y Combinator discussion thread: Mobile Safari parses websites as a big canvas and then pretends the screen is a window through which you’re looking at the canvas. What you think of as scrolling, the browser thinks of as moving the canvas around (or the window depending on point of view). Because of that, no scroll events ever get fired. Even :fixed doesn’t behave as expected. AppleScript: Get Every Movie In iTunes AppleScript can be frustrating, but it’s an easy way to get info out of iTunes. The following is a fragment of a script I’m working on, this part simply gets a record list of every video in the current iTunes window that is a “movie” (the alternatives include music videos and TV shows, among others). Credit goes to some examples I found in Doug’s AppleScripts for iTunes. Boo, however, to a few scripts that are saved as “run only” and can’t be inspected, even for security. Civic Comparators It’s from early 2007, but Cameron Marlow’s comparison of SF to NYC neighborhoods and Jason Kottke’s comparison of the physical geography are amusing to me as a new San Franciscan. On the other hand, is it a sign of civic insecurity to make such comparisons? DoubleHappy Game Creator DoubleHappy, by Instinct, the same folks who make the GetShopped ecommerce plugin for WordPress, is an interesting game creation tool. All the game elements are stored in WordPress using custom post types and other advanced features, but it was their demo of the HTML5 editor that most amazed me. The games still play in Adobe Flash, but surely they’re working on rendering that to HTML5 as well. Using Keynote As a Motion Graphics Tool Bill Keaggy just posted on the XPLANE blog about using Apple’s Keynote presentation software to make motion graphics and movies. We’ve found that in some cases, a Keynote-authored video is what you might call the “good enough” solution. […] Keynote lets you create and edit presentations, make things move, is ridiculously easy to learn and exports to Quicktime. He offers his tips on how to make the best of it, as well as these videos made using Keynote: Notes To Self: Twitter’s Website Rocks On Mobile Devices Twitter’s mobile site rocks on my iPhone. Especially worth noting: they’ve figured out how to pin their header to the top while scrolling the content in the middle. They’re also using pushState() and other cool tricks to make the experience feel very native, but the scroll behavior is rare among web apps on iOS. Kent Brewster makes a point about how difficult it is in his Mistakes I Made Building Netflix for the iPhone talk from SXSW. WordPress nocache_headers() vs. Nginx Typically, you can call WordPress’ nocache_headers() function when you don’t want content to be cached. Typically, but when you’re serving from behind Nginx as a reverse proxy, consideration must be paid. It’s a year old now, so I shouldn’t have been surprised by it, but this thread on the Nginx forums explains that Cache-Control: private headers are meaningless when Nginx is being used as a reverse proxy: nginx completely ignores the ‘private’ keyword and will cache your document regardless. PHPQuery I have Matthew Batchelder to thank for introducing me to PHPQuery. I haven’t used it yet, but someday I’ll have need to select text elements from HTML using the PHP5 PEAR module. From the description “server-side, chainable, CSS3 selector driven Document Object Model (DOM) API based on jQuery JavaScript Library.” I Get Email: Food Tech Society’s Food Ingredient and Food Additive Forum The July 28 Food Ingredient and Functional Additive Forum looks to have a great lineup of talks, including Nano Food, Interesting Ingredients in Milk and Dairy Products, Ingredients in Functional Food and Drink, Sea food & Frozen Industry, and 45 minutes (the longest of any of the talks) set aside just for soy sauce. Incoming Support Request You haven’t fixed the BING search page on Cafe World. It comes up when I click on an oven, when I click on a mission and then everything is ruined. FRONTERVILLE: I haven’t been able to play Fronterville for FOUR days. I can send gifts, but don’t know if anyone receives them but they must because I get gifts. But I have a spouse and it is stuck. It won’t custom or random or play or anything and it freezes the whole page so I can’t do a thing and there is a white avatar that says spouse? Smiley’s Bar, Bolinas, CA Captain, ship, crew, twelve points, and a shot of whisky at Smiley's I heard a story that the “Bolinas Border Patrol” removes all the signs pointing to town, so Cliffy and I had to go check it out. Border patrol or not, there are no signs, but Smiley’s bar is my kind of place. Given the story about the signs, I worried they’d be leery of outsiders, but it turned out to be the sort of place that welcomed you in and offered you a glass. Social Compass It looks gorgeous, but the points and bearings Brian Solis lays out in his Social Compass seem so obvious to me that I almost dismissed it as meaningless. Then I remembered there really are people who don’t know the message they’re trying to send will be filtered through people and technologies they can’t control and depend on adoption and repetition by agents working in their own interests. Anyway, there are more posters in his store. Radiation Is All Around Us The Environmental Protection Agency on radiation and cigarette smoke: Studies show filters on ordinary commercial cigarette remove only a modest amount of radioactivity from the smoke inhaled into the lungs of smokers. Link. Photo by lanier67. The Story Of Nukey Poo The video of Nuclear Boy and his stinky poo that’s supposed to explain Japan’s nuclear crisis isn’t the first time anybody has mixed poo and nuclear reactors. A reactor at Antarctica’s McMurdo Station that operated through the 1960s was nicknamed “nukey poo” because of its poor performance and reliability (though some reports simply point to “frequent radioactive leaks”). First, here’s the Japanese video: The original Nukey Poo was oficially named PM-A3. Nostalgic Joy: Apple 2 Emulators You can emulate an Apple ][ or Apple IIgs in your browser with a plugin and 32,000 disk images, including Oregon Trail. Don’t want to run an Apple //e in your browser? Download [Virtual ] for the job (you’ll need disk images and a ROM file). Sweet 16 can answer your Apple ][gs emulation fix, and there’s a surprisingly large collection of sort-of-recent software available, including Castle Wolfenstein 3D, an HTML editor, and AIM client. What Time Is It? The claim that changing the clocks saves energy is unsupportable by facts. Some say it’s more likely to spur consumption and benefit commercial interests, but I’m curious why the teabaggersparty people haven’t risen up against this alarming government intrusion into our private lives. Wijax Widget Lazy Loader Idea: A simple way to improve load-time performance by lazy loading some of the content on the page. Answer: Wijax. The more content in the initial download of the page, the longer readers have to wait to see it. Some content is critical to each page load, but why make people wait for every last piece of the page before they can start reading the post they came to see? Wijax allows you to defer loading widgets on the page so that they arrive after the main content. Net Render Your IE Compatibility Tests MaisonBisson in IE7 Geotek‘s NetRenderer makes it possible for me to see how badly old versions of IE are mangling my web pages without actually having to run the malware on a box of my own. Unfortunately, the IE8 rendered returns errors and hasn’t worked in a while. MaisonBisson in IE6 eBook User’s Bill of Rights It’s easy to see the eBook User’s Bill of Rights as a sign of the growing rift between libraries and content producers. Easy if you’re me, anyway. It connects very conveniently with Richard Stallman’s open letter to the Boston Public Library decrying what he summarizes as their complicity with DRM and abdication of their responsibilities as public institutions. All those things are easy, what’s hard is recognizing that the depth of change the publishing industry is facing. Van Ness Station Escalator Ambient Video Flickr Video More mesmerizing than a fireplace video? Saving Backup Space With Time Machine and iPhoto Three things that, when mixed, can consume a surprising amount of disk space: Backup automatically with Time Machine Use iPhoto and take a lot of photos Sync photos to one or more iOS devices like iPhones and iPads I do all three, and on top of that I have three current computers backing up to a 1GB Time Capsule. All of this combined was forcing Time Machine to expire old backups faster than I wanted as it churned through the disk space. WordPress comments_template() and wp_list_comments() Performance This thread on memory usage while executing WordPress’s comments_template() raised my awareness of performance issues related to displaying comments on posts in WordPress. The first thing to know is that all the comments on a given post are loaded into memory, even if the comments are paged and only a subset will be displayed. Then comments_template() calls update_comment_cache(), which has the effect of doubling that memory usage. Finally, wp_list_comments() and the Walker_Comment class can take a surprisingly long time to iterate through a long list of comments. GigaOM Mobile Site Launched This week we launched a new mobile theme at GigaOM.com. It was out for just a day or two before Dennis Bournique surprised us with a review on WAPReview.com. I have no way of knowing if I would have linked to the review if it wasn’t positive, but I would likely have found a way to link to this advice to other developers regarding URL consistency: A URL should lead to essentially the same content (reformatted in necessary) regardless of which browser is used. Helvetic Neue On The Web CSS Tricks tips “better helvetica.” Guillermo Esteves explains that specifying font names in CSS is really about specifying font families: If you want to use a specific font face, you have to use font-family along with the font-weight property, calling both the PostScript and screen names of that face for backwards compatibility Which, for a person trying to use Helvetica Neue Light means the following: font-family: "HelveticaNeue-Light", "Helvetica Neue Light", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-weight: 300; Steve Cochrane, meanwhile, explores the use of Helvetica Neue Light and Ultra Light. Call it Rolling Shutter or Focal Plane Shutter, It Looks Weird…Cool I’ve been both frustrated by and in love with focal plane shutter distortion (Wikipedia calls it rolling shutter) for a while, now I’ve discovered there’s a group for it. One of the photos I pointed to in my earlier post was of a low-flying helicopter (bottom), a couple other photographers have captured the effect the distortion has on propellers: About Those Unencumbered Video Formats The Free Software Foundation tells us the H.264 AVCHD video encoding standard violates the very tenets of freedom, they claim competitors such as VP8/WebM and Ogg Theora are both unencumbered and technically equal to H.264. What they really mean is that software patents are evil. Now the MPEG LA, the body that administers the H.264 patents and a number of others has announced it’s forming a patent pool that covers VP8, proving that saying something is free doesn’t make it so. iPhone Camera Details I have to look this stuff up every time I play with Hugin, the open source panorama stitcher. Thankfully I can find it at Falk Lumo.com: Pixel pitch: 1.75 µm Sensor size: 4.54 x 3.39 mm^2, 5.67 mm diagonal Aspect ratio: 4.02:3 Focal length and aperture: 3.85 mm f/2.8 lens 35mm equivalent crop factor: 7.64 Equivalent 35mm focal length and aperture: 30 mm f/22 The comments there are top notch, but what’s not mentioned is how the video mode substantially narrows the field of view. WordPress MU/MS Empty Header and Broken Image Bug Fixed I just switched to a new server and found myself struggling with empty HTTP headers and broken or partial images. The problem is the memcache extension for PHP and WordPress MU/WordPress multisite’s need to reinstantiate the wp-cache after determining the correct blog for a given request. Versions of the memcache extension prior to 3.0 go wrong somehow and it shows up when you try to do an HTTP HEAD request on a page (the result is empty) or enable X-SendFile support for WP MU/MS’ file handling (all the files and images in the media library will break). Configuring Amazon Linux For Web Services UPDATED: an updated installation cookbook is available. Amazon has introduced their own distribution of linux with tweaks to optimize it for their Elastic Compute Cloud platform. Like CentOS, it appears to be based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, though unlike the current versions of RHEL and CentOS, the packaged applications are up to date with current expectations. That’s refreshing news for those comfortable with RHEL, but uncomfortable its ancient packages. MySQL 5. World’s Largest Canned Food Structure Some records in the Guinness Book reflect outstanding accomplishments in hotly contested fields. Others reflect the imagination it now takes to create a new class of records. Food Industry Thailand‘s 150,000 food cans fall into the second category. Don’t get me wrong, though, I’m not suggesting anybody’s imagining new fields, just that they’re imagining themselves pursuing crazy records. Examples of things I think we should have records for, but I’m too lazy to look up: Happy Holidays From MaisonBisson! Another Cheesy Holiday Card From MaisonBisson And, for those who like cheese as much as us, from left to right: Cotswold Double Gloucester With Onion & Chive Mannoni Pecorino Barbagio Point Reyes Toma We picked them mostly for color and texture, but they all tasted plenty good. I especially liked the Cotswold. A holiday gift, thanks to some genius and hardworking DJs, is in The Nest. Facebook iPhone App Is Happy To Suck In Your Contacts I discovered a Sync button in the Facebook app for iPhone today: Then I read the privacy notice: Clearing The Browser Cache On iPad Apple’s knowledge base article on it could be as simple as the following screenshot: Instead, the docs say something like: go to Settings, click the Safari tab, click the big clear cache button, duh. So Now You Know: World’s Heaviest Snow Plow This probably looks like a snow blower, but the railroads call it a snow plow. A rotary snow plow, yes, but still a snow plow. A 184 ton, 52 foot long snow plow. Caveman 92223 explains: The Union Pacific Railroad designed and built this monster in the Omaha Shop. This rotary snowplow is the heaviest snowplow ever built. This baby boasts a GM/EMD 16-cylinder, 3,000 horsepower, turbocharged diesel engine that drives an electric generator which provides the power to turn those massive 12-foot rotary blades at 150 RPM. Where Are San Francisco’s Love Padlocks? I discovered it in the Flickr Blog and followed it up with considerable Googling, but I can’t find any love padlocks in SF, much less a popular location for them. The Wikipedia article lists two dozen notable locations in Europe and Asia, but not one in the Americas. I searched Flickr’s San Francisco map and found two almost promising photos: an unrelated collection in the mission that was removed by municipal workers in 2005, and this one in my backyard that I plan to confirm shortly. Failed Hard Drive Noises There’s nothing amusing about this list of failed hard drive noises if you’re looking through it for a sound matching what drive on your desk is making (which I am), but I’m sure there’s some good material for the click-hop crowd. Photos by Jon Ross and James Harvey, used under CC license. Better XML/JSON Display In Safari I’m one of the few people who loves Safari, but I was happy to admit that it didn’t display XML or JSON very well. Marc Liyanage’s XML View Plugin fixes that. Improving Will Norris’ Open Graph Plugin Will Norris put together a nice WordPress plugin to place Open Graph metadata on the page. Today I patched it to address a few bugs I and others have found. The patch switches functions that depended on globalizing $post to use $wp_query->queried_object and similar. opengraph_default_url() is changed to try get_permalink() only when is_singlular() is true. Otherwise it uses the blog’s base URL. This isn’t perfect, but it’s better than having the front page and all tag/category/archive pages report their og:url as being the permalink for the first post on the page. Things Learned About The Gap Inc. Corporate Archives If a customer saw it, or if it was shared with employees, I want some version of it in our archive. –Rochelle McCune, Gap corporate archivist Rochelle took a few of us on a tour of the Gap Inc archives, a rather different archive than I’m familiar with. Things Learned About Natural Language Processing at THATcamp Bay Area The first session I joined at THATcamp was Aditi Muralidharan‘s text mining boot camp, and the topic seemed to set my agenda for the rest of the event (though I wish Aditi had also hosted her proposed data visualization session). Aditi’s blog: mininghumanities.com. If I understood correctly, much of Aditi’s presentation and experience is based on the Stanford Parser. Unfortunately, the project seems wrapped in some licensing difficulty: It’s GPL, but they claim a license is required for commercial use. Becoming Donna Reed Sandee has just launched her new site, Becoming Donna Reed: Armed with a notepad and pen, my trusty MacBook, and the desire to be the best domestic goddess I can be, I will watch the show from the beginning and find the lesson in each episode. Consider this your Cliff’s Notes on household harmony. She’ll still be updating The Feathered Nest with food recipes and insights on home decor while she divines the lessons of Donna Reed. What The Critics Are Missing About The Apple TV It’s not just the critics, nobody seems to get the story on Apple’s new TV-connected device right. Darrell Etherington at The Apple Blog says it’s a non starter for him, and Ars Technica’s John Siracusa describes it as just the most recent entry in a product line that has been “a persistent loser” for the company. Even John Gruber is damning it with faint praise. They’re all wrong. Of course the problem didn’t start there. Dancing Dog I’ve got a dozen top priorities this morning, but this dancing merengue dog just delayed them all. Twitter Is Like A Conversation In A Bar Mathew Ingram on Twitter, Esquire Magazine, and bars: It’s called social media because it’s social. In other words, it’s a conversation; and yes, sometimes it’s like a conversation in a bar. Speed WordPress MultiSite With X-Sendfile For Apache Like WordPress MU before, MultiSite implementations of WordPress 3.0 use a script to handle image and other attachment downloads. That script checks permissions and maps the request path to the files path on disk, then reads the file out to the web server, which sends it to the browser. That approach has some inefficiencies, and for me it introduces some problems. The process would often give up before completing the file transfer, resulting in broken images and truncated MP3s among other problems. Post Loop By Category Alex Bluesummers asked on a WordPress list: How do I order posts in the loop by whether or not it is in a category, then by date? Suppose I have 10 posts, of which 5 are in the category “Sports” and 5 are in the category “Blog News”. Both “Sports” and “Blog News” posts are mixed together chronologically. “Sports” and “Blog News” posts share other categories and tags. I want both types of posts to be present in the loop regardless of whether it’s the front page or category archive view, but ordered by “Sports” and “blog news” and then by date. Migrating From WordPress MU To WordPress 3.0 Multi Site I’ve been running a few instances of WordPress MU for a while now, so I was more than a little anxious about the merge of the MU functionality into the core of WordPress. It’s a good thing, but sometimes such dramatic changes pose rocky challenges. Not so in this case. Pete Mall blogged about it in May, and I’m happy to say that I followed those instructions (summary: upgrade, it will work) to upgrade both this site and Scriblio. Donut Tour 2010: The Video Please enable Javascript and Flash to view this Viddler video. We planned the donut tour. We did the donut tour. We ate donuts. We made five stops on the tour, but this video only covers four of them. We were too stuffed to say anything about Japonais, even though the donuts there were delicious. Here’s the full lineup: Donna’s Donuts (Yelp!) Ziggy’s Donuts (Yelp!) Kane’s Donuts (Yelp!) Sun Guang Bakery (Yelp! How To: Plan a Donut Tour Since 1938, the first Friday of June has been hailed throughout the US as National Donut Day. It was founded in recognition of the great comfort donuts provide to those who eat them, and to honor those who serve them. Museum of Family Camping Closed Memorial Day weekend is universally recognized as the start of summer. Tradition allows that we can start wearing white, gather family and friends for barbecue, and, for those so inclined, go camping. For the past many years it’s also been the start of the Museum of Family Camping’s season. The interior displays at the Museum of Family Camping celebrated many generations of camping history. My docent made much of the dingle stick (the vertical stick that holds the cooking tin); good manners demanded they be left at the camp site for the next camper. Sandee’s Homemade Wrapping Paper Sandee’s been getting into disposable art. First it was her holiday dames on the chalkboard in our kitchen, and more recently she’s been crafting one of a kind wrapping paper. It gets torn up and discarded in just a fraction of the time it takes her to sketch and shade it, but act of creation is what she enjoys. I guess that’s why her favorite artistic endeavor is baking. Step By Step: Turn On The iPhone/iPad’s Web Debugging Console You can’t view a web page’s source, and you can’t Command+F to search for text on the page, but you sure can get a debugging console to see the errors on the page. Here’s how: Find and open the Settings app [<img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4010/4644761694_259781990f_m.jpg" alt="Start in the Settings app" width="144" height="155" />][1] Select Safari [<img src="farm5-static-flickr-com-4644742964_97b6af8b67_m.jpg" alt="Safari in the Settings app" width="160" height="240" />][2] Scroll down to find the Developer option at the bottom [<img src="farm5-static-flickr-com-4644743974_60686fb614. iPad + Velcro = <3 http://www.vimeo.com/11886557 Huffington Post Introduces Badges and Social Rewards How do you make news fun? Or, how do you make moderating often fractious comments on news stories fun? You follow FourSquare’s example and introduce badges: The Moderator badge allows you to more actively participate in this process. If you are a Level 1 Moderator (earned by flagging at least 20 comments that we deleted, with a high ratio of good flags to mistaken ones), your flags now carry five times the weight of a standard flag. Mick Jagger On The Music Business Mick Jagger to BBC: [P]eople only made money out of records for a very, very small time […] if you look at the history of recorded music from 1900 to now, there was a 25 year period where artists did very well, but the rest of the time they didn’t. Via. Remixed: My Photo In TruthOut.Org I was happy to see one of my photos used as source material for this illustration in TruthOut.Org’s seven year reality check on the Iraq war. Will Mobile Flash Be Relevant When It Finally Works? John Gruber linked to the sizzle in Jeff Croft’s post: In the [FlashCamp Seattle] opening keynote, Ryan Stewart, a Flash Platform evangelist at Adobe, demoed Flash Player 10.1 running on his Nexus One phone. […] Here’s what happened: On his Mac, Ryan pulled up a site called Eco Zoo. It is, seemingly, a pretty intense example of Flash development — full of 3D rendering, rich interactions, and cute little characters. Listening Is Just The Start Jeff Howe writes: idea jams “allow people to discover the fringe question (or idea, or solution), then tweak it, discuss it and bring the community’s attention to it.” “Idea management is really a three-part process,” says Bob Pearson, who as Dell’s former chief of communities and conversation rode heard on IdeaStorm. “The first is listening. That’s obvious.” The second part, Pearson says, was integration, “actually disseminating the best ideas throughout our organization. Pearls Of Wisdom In Mail List Threads David Cloutman on Code4Lib: Don’t forget to look at trends outside of “Libraryland”. A lot of professional library discussion takes place in an echo chamber, and bad ideas often get repeated and gain credibility as a result. Librarians usually overstate the uniqueness of their organizations and professions. When the question, “What are other libraries doing?” arises in addressing a technical problem, don’t be afraid to generalize the question to other types of organizations. Respond To Your Next Subpoena Like A Pro Thanks to Kathleen Seidel, a fellow New Hampshire resident and blogger at <neurodiversity.com>, I now have what appears to be a good example of a motion to quash a subpoena (even cooler, she filed it pro se). I’ve also learned that NH is among the states that allows lawyers to issue subpoena in civil cases without prior approval of a judge. Take a look and prepare yourself for some law talking. Steve Jobs On Apple vs. Adobe and iPhone vs. Flash Steve Jobs’ Thoughts on Flash minces no words in its conclusion: Besides the fact that Flash is closed and proprietary, has major technical drawbacks, and doesn’t support touch based devices, there is an even more important reason we do not allow Flash on iPhones, iPods and iPads. We have discussed the downsides of using Flash to play video and interactive content from websites, but Adobe also wants developers to adopt Flash to create apps that run on our mobile devices. Blogging In Academia A comment in the University of Lincoln’s Audio Production course blog demonstrates the value of public blogging in academia: I am looking forward to beginning this course in September and have been finding these blogs very useful in providing a guide as to what sort of things to expect during my first year. Keep up the good work! Thanks to Joss Winn for the tip. SSD MySQL Performance The above graph and this MySQL performance blog story are from last year, but I believe are still relevant and instructive now. Sure, the FusionIO is faster, but how the hell can you beat a single SSD in terms of price/performance? RAID 10: 4.8 transactions per minute per dollar SSD: 27 transactions per minute per dollar FusionIO: 3.6 transactions per minute per dollar Improving P2 — Order Posts By Last Comment Date I’m a big fan of the P2 theme for WordPress. It makes it dead easy anybody familiar with WordPress to host a discussion site and improve collaboration across time and distance. That said, one feature I’d like to see is the ability to order the posts by the last comment date, rather than post date. When we started using P2 to power a workgroup discussion last year, I wrote a bit of code to sort the posts that way, here’s how: Irony: NH Liquor Commissioner Suspected Of DUI In 2007 it was the deputy chief of liquor enforcement. Last summer it was the Wolfboro police commissioner who was arrested importing 900 pounds of marijuana from Canada. This week it’s a liquor commissioner who was stopped on suspicion of DUI. I’m a carnie huckster, you know it and I know it, but that’s OK The title is a quote from Seth Stevenson Slate.com piece on pitchman Vince Offer, where he explains that Vince’s “smooth-talking condescension” is the most appropriate sales tactic in today’s cynical world. “Jaded consumers expect to get snowed and almost distrust the very pretense of trustworthiness.” The Rap Chop remix of Vince’s Slap Chop actually ran on TV. Three Sweet Globe Images [][3] Hey, it’s [Earth Day][4]! [3]: http://www.flickr.com/photos/kumasawa/3027658256/ ““Wind Andamento” by Karen Ami (Cool Globes) by kumasawa, on Flickr” [4]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_Day Auctions and Negotiations: Starting Price Matters Via Mind Hacks: auctions with a low starting price may result in higher final sale prices than those with a high starting price. but negotiations with a high starting price often result in higher final sale prices. Cleaning Up Category Relationships In A WordPress Scriblio Site A few lines of SQL I used to clean up a Scriblio site. It’s probably useless to anybody but me. I’m not suggesting anybody else use this code, as it will result in changed or deleted data. Update the post author for catalog records (identified because they have a specific post meta entry): UPDATE wp_8_postmeta JOIN wp_8_posts ON wp_8_posts.ID = wp_8_postmeta.post_id SET post_author = 15 WHERE meta_key = 'scrib_meditor_content' Get the categories attached to every catalog record (except the “catalog” category): Loading: Global Warming Sure I’m a fan of Marilyn Monroe, but Stéphane Massa-Bidal’s activist illustration is even hotter. He’s online at Rétrofuturs.com. LA Times on iPad vs Kindle The Kindle feels like an e-reading device, whereas an iPad feels like reading. From latimes.com via Joseph Monninger. A Few Lines of SQL: Cloning Blogs In MU The following SQL is what I used to clone the content from one blog in MU to another for testing. It’s probably useless to anybody but me. Anybody who can’t figure out from the code that wp_8_posts is the source table and wp_13_posts is the destination probably shouldn’t try to use the code, as data will be lost. Clone the content from one MU blog into another: TRUNCATE TABLE wp_13_posts; INSERT INTO wp_13_posts SELECT * FROM wp_8_posts; TRUNCATE TABLE wp_13_postmeta; INSERT INTO wp_13_postmeta SELECT * FROM wp_8_postmeta; TRUNCATE TABLE wp_13_terms; INSERT INTO wp_13_terms SELECT * FROM wp_8_terms; TRUNCATE TABLE wp_13_term_taxonomy; INSERT INTO wp_13_term_taxonomy SELECT * FROM wp_8_term_taxonomy; TRUNCATE TABLE wp_13_term_relationships; INSERT INTO wp_13_term_relationships SELECT * FROM wp_8_term_relationships; TRUNCATE TABLE wp_13_bsuite4_search; INSERT INTO wp_13_bsuite4_search SELECT * FROM wp_8_bsuite4_search; TRUNCATE TABLE wp_8_scrib_harvest; Clone a few options: Solving Problems In Secret Matt Blaze computer and information science at University of Pennsylvania and blogs about security at Exhaustive Search. His recent post on mistakes in spying techniques, protocols, and hardware caught my interest: Indeed, the recent history of electronic surveillance is a veritable catalog of cautionary tales of technological errors, risks and unintended consequences. Sometime mishaps lead to well-publicized violations of the privacy of innocent people. There was, for example, the NSA’s disclosure earlier this year that it had been accidently “over-collecting” the communications of innocent Americans. The Reward For Re-Discovering Archive Collections Documentarians spend most of their time digging up materials that few people know exist. They frequent basements and dark storage rooms, endure conversations with crazy collectors, and typically develop vitamin-d deficiency and light sensitivity in search of what they need. Their reward for finding the material? A bill from the original creators (the ones who lost and forgot about the work in the first place) for the privilege of using it. iPhone Use Heavy at 7am, Bumps At Lunch, Peaks At 9pm Via Localytics: iPhone users generate 7% more traffic on the weekend than the average weekday. Saturday traffic ramps quickly from a morning low at 6:00 am to over 90% of peak usage by 11:00 am—and stays near the peak for the rest of the afternoon and evening. By comparison, weekday app usage is more concentrated in the evening with a slow ramp during the working day and a peak at 9:00 pm EST, when East Coast users are at home and West Coast users are commuting home. Is The Filesystem Finally Dead? From Rob Foster/Nimble Design: By releasing the iPhone OS, Apple is putting a bullet in the head of a long standing convention that most folks could do without. He’s talking about the filesystem. User-accessible filesystems, anyway. This isn’t news, I don’t think the Newton even had a hidden filesystem, but it hasn’t gotten old yet. My question: when will I finally get a system that cleverly mixes cloud and local storage to give me seamless access to all my photos, videos, music, and email…ever? Why PHP’s RegEx Is Slow, And What You Can Do About It (if you happen to be a committer on the PHP project) Regular Expression Matching Can Be Simple And Fast, by Russ Cox: Perl [and PHP and others] could not now remove backreference support, of course, but they could employ much faster algorithms when presented with regular expressions that don’t have backreferences. How much faster? About a million times (no, I do not exaggerate). I use a lot of regular expressions, and relatively few of them use backreferences. It’d be worth optimizing. Edison Phonograph EULA Think end user license agreements (EULAs) are recent inventions? Thomas Edison used them on his phonograph cylinder at the start of the 1900s. The EULA didn’t protect Edison from innovations elsewhere; discs quickly beat out cylinders once the patents expired. Photo from fouro. College Students Use, Love, Are Aware Of The Limitations Of Wikipedia How often do college students use Wikipedia? How Today’s College Students Use Wikipedia For Course-Related Research: Overall, college students use Wikipedia. But, they do so knowing its limitation. They use Wikipedia just as most of us do — because it is a quick way to get started and it has some, but not deep, credibility. 52% of respondents use Wikipedia frequently or always, typically at near the beginning at the start of research (70%). DRM Evils: Now Comic Fodder Brad Colbow does some good looking design and an occasional comic. He isn’t the first to address DRM woes in comic form, but his comic is one more public cry for rationality. And continuing that cry is this from an unnamed source, originally published at geekologie.com. Scott Smitelli On Hacking YouTube’s Content ID DRM System Scott Smitelli uploaded a total of 82 test videos and received 35 Content ID emails in the name of science: testing YouTube’s Content ID system. He reversed the audio, shifted the pitch, altered the time (without changing pitch), resampled (pitch and time), added noise, messed with the volume, chunked it up into pieces, and fiddled with the stereo fields. In the end, he found both amusing and frustrating results. He did his tests about a year ago. Connect-a-Desk Looks Ridiculous (though I may secretly want one) I was about to tell Sandee how foolish these people look with their laptops stuck to their torsos, but she hit me with “that looks like something you’d use.” Ouch. Worse, I’m not sure she’s wrong. Double ouch. Maybe the company could send me one. Then I could have these conflicted feelings for real. Social Media Usage Stats Retrevo claims to help electronics shoppers decide what to buy, when to buy, and where to buy it,” so their recent survey on social media addition is probably more significant as link bait than as serious research. Despite my concerns about confirmation bias, I’m as amused as anybody by the numbers. 8% of adult respondents say they check or update Twitter or Facebook before getting out of bed in the morning, a number that rises to 28% for iPhone users of all ages. Addressing Hateful And Libelous Internet Speech In The Post Juicy Campus Era Juicy Campus is gone, but other sites have taken its place as a hub for anonymous slander around college campuses. Intentional or not, the conversation at these sites tends toward abusive, with successive commenters attempting to one-up each other with each insult. Students targeted by the abuse and defamation have little easy recourse. Some sites allow users to mark comments as offensive, but require membership to do so, and the anonymous nature of the posts limits the real world social group’s opportunity to moderate itself and its members. html5media – Project Hosting on Google Code I was wondering when somebody was going to do what html5media does: HTML5 video tags make embedding videos into documents as easy as embedding an image. All it takes is a single tag. Unfortunately, not all browsers natively support HTML5 video tags. html5media is a JavaScript library that enables tags for clunky browsers. URL Path Bug In WordPress.com Video Server You’ve got to both respect Automattic for releasing their internal code as open source while also giving them a break for not assuring that it works for anybody else. One of their projects, the WordPress.com Video Server is a sophisticated WordPress plugin that handles video transcoding and offers a bit of a YouTube in a box solution for WordPress. The bug I found is that the code assumes WPMU is running in subdomain mode, rather than subdirectory mode. Rock Out With A Cardboard Record Player http://www.vimeo.com/10271288 The physical, analog nature of vinyl has long appealed to the DIY crowd. This cardboard record player capitalizes on that to create a direct mail marketing campaign that people appear to actually enjoy receiving. From the description at Agency News: Grey Vancouver created a portable record player from corrugated cardboard that folds into an envelope. The record can be spun with a pencil and the vibrations go through the needle and produce a recording of a children’s story called “A town that found its sound. The Cost Of IE’s Non-Compliance Google this month dropped Internet Explorer 6 support in Google Apps and YouTube, and others are lining up at idroppedie6.com. Still, even newer versions of IE suffer from poor standards support, and there are doubts about the just announced IE9. To put this in perspective, BillforBill.com is adding up the costs of all the workarounds that web developers have to go through to make it buggy browser work. After just a few days and only 233 submissions the total is over $9 million. WP Memcache Object Cache Breaks HTTP HEAD Requests I just posted about the following confounding problem to the WP-Hackers list: When running WordPress MU (tested in 2.8x and 2.9x) with the memcached object cache active, it refuses to respond to HTTP HEAD requests. The result of this is that head requests to check the mimetype of a linked file (as for setting the enclosure) or size (as the video framework plugin does) fail. curl -I http://url.path returns either an empty result, or (if fronted with varnish) a 503 error. WordPress Bug In setup_postdata() WordPress is built around the Loop, and all the cool kids are using multiple loops on the same page to show the main post and feature other posts. The problem is: WordPress doesn’t properly reset the $pages global for each post. If the post in main loop (or default query) is paged, then all the other posts will show the same paged content as in the main post. I started a ticket and submitted a patch, but in the meantime you might have to unset( $GLOBALS['pages'] ) in your custom loops just before calling the_post(). Web vs. Native Apps One lesson here is that a simple but well-done web app […] can be vastly superior to a full-fledged but terrible iPhone application. Usability Nightmare: The My.SXSW iPhone App. Consumer Society and Citizen Networks Logo Consumer Society and Citizen Networks “aims at promoting access of citizens to information on product safety, consumer rights protection, and to results of independent testing, as well as promoting wide public discussion of challenges facing the consumer society in Ukraine.” Their logo, however, is pure genius: Some sketches from logolog showing how it came together: Christian Madrasas From the March 2002 Newsletter of The North Texas Skeptics: In the madrasa, the religious school, I watched and listened as the instructor related his view of the world to the students and the others present. Politics, personal relationships, nations, and the physical world were interpreted in the light of the speaker’s religious teachings. Hinduism and Buddhism were lumped together with that quaintly American religion called New Age. Pagan symbols invoke demons to do dirty work for cultists, and evolution is the root of much of this evil, the students were told. Auto-Tune Put To Better Use: News Auto-Tune has been prettying up vocal tracks for more than a decade now, but applying it to news is simply brilliant. The Gregory Brothers‘ autotunethenews.com is worth a look. NH’s Proud Political System A NH House Judiciary Committee hearing recently made New Hampshire famous in BoingBoing and The Huffington Post. Watch the hearing where the speaker describes sex acts, and take special note of the amazing poker face of the others during the talk. I’ll Stop The World and Melt With You Flickr Video Watching Valentine’s Rose Fade The Georgia O’Keefe view, above, or the still life view, below: This isn’t so much about Valentine’s Day as it is about finally getting setup to do time lapse video like this. More to come at maisonbisson.com/timelapse. Valentine’s Rose (O’Keefe View) Flickr Video Valentine’s Rose Flickr Video What The Critics Are Missing About Apple’s iPad It’s doubtful that anybody reading this blog missed the news that Apple finally took the wraps off their much rumored tablet: the iPad. Trouble is, a bunch of folks seem to be upset about the features and specs, or something that made the buzz machine go meh. It’s just a bigger iPhone, complain the privileged tech pundits. They apparently missed the recent Pew Internet Project report on internet usage by demographic. Blogging By Email WordPress has some simple built-in support for posting by email, but that didn’t stop a couple people from developing plugins that might do better. Postie and PostMaster both claim to support attached photos (though neither appears to use WP’s built-in media management). But if your goal is to post photos, you might consider posting through Flickr. Organizational Vanity, Google Alerts, and Social Engineering As more and more organizations become aware of the need to track their online reputation, more people in those organizations are following Google alerts for their organization’s name. That creates a perfect opportunity for scammers to play on that organizational vanity to infect computers used by officers of the organization with malware that can reveal the inner workings of that organization. I’m not exactly sure what clicking the button above does. Apple’s 1997 Netbook A post on thomas fitzgerald.net serves to remind us that Apple released their first netbook in 1997: the Apple eMate 300: …next time you see people ranting about an Apple netbook, remember that Apple had something similar long before anyone even uttered the phrase “netbook.” The device ran Netwon OS 2 with a 20-30 hour battery life (yes, 20-30 hours). I’ve written more than a few posts eulogizing the eMate’s tablet-shaped sibling: Newton Message Pad 2000. Coda Feature Wishlist I’d long been a user of BareBones’ BBEdit, a product that’s served me well for a number of years. But upgrading from version 8.5 to 9 is a paid deal, and after spending 15 days with the demo of BBEdit 9, I decided I wanted to look around a little bit. My friend Matt switched from BBEdit to Panic’s Coda some time ago, and I liked the demo of that well enough that I bought a license. Put An SSD In Your ExpressCard Slot? I spied the Wintec FileMate 48GB Ultra ExpressCard and began to wonder how it works as a boot drive for Mac OS X in a late 2008 MacBook Pro (the model just before Apple replaced the ExpressCard slot with an SD slot). But I didn’t have to wonder too much, as a post to this MacObserver forum thread offers enough details to make a geek salivate: The computer now boots primarily from the SSD Card and will start up the computer in less than 1/2 the time of the internal HD […] I have all the applications and system files on the SSD Card, the user files/record on the internal HD. Do e-Books Have A Future? David Weinberger kicked off the latest installment in the ongoing debate about the future of electronic books versus paper books in his Will books survive? A scorecard… post. He’s got some good points, but like many of the smart folks I admire, he approaches this question assuming that books, in any form, are important. Ursula K. Le Guin’s excellent essay on “the alleged decline of reading” is especially informative on this point: books don’t matter to most Americans, and they haven’t for some time. Even If They Don’t Click Ethan Zuckerman’s recent post, What if they stop clicking? points out the difficulty of building a business on ad revenue. He points to statistics that show fewer readers are clicking banner and arguments from the web advertising industry about how un-clicked ads still build brand awareness. It’s not really central to Zuckerman’s point, but I didn’t sense that he was aware that Google has picked up the same argument. I commented on the post that Google has started reporting the numbers of people who are presented (but don’t click) ads, then later visit the advertisers that are paying for, um, clicks. My WordCamp NYC Talks Authentication Hacks My first talk was on User Authentication with MU in Existing Ecosystems, all about integrating WP with LDAP/AD/CAS and other directory authentication schemes, as well as the hacks I did to make that integration bi-directional and deliver new user features. My slides are online (.MOV / .PDF), and you can read earlier blog post summing up the project. Plugins Mentioned wpCAS (long description) Alternate Contact Info WordPress Ticket Framework wpSMS (long description) Scriblio I was most excited, however, to talk about Scriblio, a plugin that turns WordPress into a library catalog with faceted searching and browsing. Spell Checking Matt demanded accent-aware spell checking for the WordPress spell checking plugin his company acquired earlier this year. And just a little more than a month later, After the Deadline delivered. Now Beyoncé, café, coöperate, and even my resumé look prettier. Separately, Wordnik offers a new take on online dictionaries, and they just launched an API. Backblaze Storage Pod Backblaze is a cloud backup service that needs cheap storage. Lots of it. They say a petabyte worth of raw drives runs under $100,000, but buying that much storage in products from major vendors easily costs over $1,000,000. So they built their own. The result is a 4U rack-mounted Linux-based server that contains 67 terabytes at a material cost of $7,867, the bulk of which goes to purchase the drives themselves. Drobo: Sweet Storage, One Big Flaw I’ve been a fan of Drobo since I got mine over a year ago. The little(-ish, and sweet looking, for stack of disks) device packs as many as four drives and automatically manages them to ensure the reliability of your data and easy expandability of the storage. However, Thomas Tomchak just pointed out one major flaw: if you overflow your Drobo with data, the entire device may give up and you’ll lose everything. The Bugs That Haunt Me A few years ago I found an article pointing out how spammers had figured out how to abuse some code I wrote back in 2001 or so. I’d put it on the list to fix and even started a blog post so that I could take my lumps publicly. Now I’ve rediscovered that draft post…and that I never fixed the bad code it had fingered. Worse, I’m no longer in a position to change the code. SSH Tunneling Examples Most of my work is available publicly, but some development is hosted on a private SVN that’s hidden behind a firewall. Unfortunately, my primary development server is on the wrong side of that particular firewall, so I use the following command to bridge the gap: ssh -R 1980:svn_host:80 username@dev_server.com That creates a reverse tunnel through my laptop to the SVN server and allows me to checkout code using the following: Yelp: A Poster Child For Semantic Markup Search Engine Land.com: Yelp…is…essentially a poster-child for semantic markup. This spring, Google’s introduction of rich snippets has allowed Yelp’s listings in the SERPs to stand out more, attracting consumers to click more due to the “bling” decorating the listings in the form of the star ratings. There are now some very good reasons why sites with ratings and reviews should be adopting microformats, and it’s not that hard to do! iPhone’s Anti-Customer Config File In March of this year Apple applied for a patent on technology that enables or disables features of a phone via a config file. The tech is already in use: it’s the carrier profiles we’ve been downloading recently. On the one hand this is just an extension of the parental controls that Apple has included in Mac OS X since the early days, but it also implies some rather anti-consumer thinking at the company. Evil Evil klaomta.com A quick Google search of klaomta.com reveals more than a few people wondering why it’s iframed on their websites. The answer is that the site has been compromised. Unfortunately for the fellow who asked me the question at WordCamp, solving the problem can be a bit of a chore. Keeping your WordPress installation up to date is important, as there are some known security flaws in older versions, but most of the attacks that crackers use are targeted elsewhere. The WordPress Way Plugin Development Will Norris‘ talk at WordCamp PDX introduces WordPress coding standards, common functions, and constants to would be plugin developers (and smacks those who’ve already done it wrong). Also notable: functions, classes, variables, and constants in the WordPress trunk. Custom Installations Just as WordPress has a number of hooks and filters that plugins can use to modify and extend behavior, it also has a cool way to customize the installation process. Hacking WordPress Login and Password Reset Processes For My University Environment Any university worth the title is likely to have a very mixed identity environment. At Plymouth State University we’ve been pursuing a strategy of unifying identity and offering single sign-on to web services, but an inventory last year still revealed a great number of systems not integrated with either our single sign-on (AuthN) or authorization systems (AuthZ, see difference). And in addition to the many application/system specific stores of identity information (even for those systems integrated into our single sign-on environment), we also use both LDAP and AD (which we try to synchronize at the application level). Worst of all, the entire environment is provisioned solely from our MIS database, which is good if you want to make sure that students and faculty get user accounts, but bad if you want to provision an account for somebody who doesn’t fit into one of those roles. The one way relationship between our user accounts and the MIS database also makes it difficult to engage with new users online. If you can’t get an account until you become a student, how do you allow potential students to apply online if all your systems are integrated with single sign-on? And if you can’t authenticate the online identity of your users, how do you set initial passwords into your system? Or allow them to reset a forgotten password online? Internet companies never struggled with this issue, as their customers could only approach them online, but most universities built systems around paper applications and have fond (and relatively recent) memories of offering their students their first internet experience. It’s still not unusual for universities to offer their students their campus computing account with a default password based on supposedly secret data shared between the user and the school. But your SSN, birth date, and mother’s name are no longer secret. A proposed change in FERPA policy (see the the top of page 15586 in the NPRM) would have barred the use of “a common form user name (e.g., last name and first name initial) with date of birth or SSN, or a portion of the SSN, as an initial password to be changed upon first use of the system” in systems that store academic data. The final rule excluded that provision, much to the relief of those schools with more lobbying clout than brains. Pigeon Beats ADSL: Slow Networks Or Massive Storage Capacity? It was a tech story so apparently humorous that the popular media felt compelled to cover it: carrier pigeons delivered 4GBs of data faster than an ADSL line. The BBC story’s subtitle read “broadband promised to unite the world with super-fast data delivery – but in South Africa it seems the web is still no faster than a humble pigeon,” and that’s how most stories played it. Unfortunately, they all got it wrong. Moving data by homing pigeon requires some planning, and pigeons. Source. The race was run by The Unlimited Group, but the clearest telling of it comes from Wikipedia: Inspired by RFC 2549{.external.mw-magiclink-rfc}, on 9 September 2009 the marketing team of The Unlimited, a regional company in South Africa, decided to host a tongue-in-cheek “Pigeon Race” between their pet pigeon “Winston” and local telecom company Telkom SA. The race is to send 4 gigabytes of data from Howick to Hillcrest, approximately 60 km apart. The pigeon carrying a microSD{.mw-redirect} card (an avian variant of a sneakernet), versus a Telkom ADSL{.mw-redirect} line. Winston beat the data transfer over Telkom’s ADSL line, with a total time of two hours, six minutes and 57 seconds from uploading data on the microSD card to completion of download from card. At the time of Winston’s victory, the 4GB ADSL transfer was just under 4% complete. JSNES: JavaScript Nintendo Emulator Ben Fisherman’s JSNES runs entirely in the browser using nothing more intrusive than JavaScript. It apparently manages real-time performance within Chrome, but it works (if not playably) on an iPhone. I wish the screen was resizable and that it supported iPhone compatible controls, but both of those assume that browser performance will improve enough to make it playable. Interestingly, though not surprisingly, the Safari JS engine is limited to consuming a single CPU (which it quickly does while playing JSNES). iTunes 9: Closer To An API? Will Norris has discovered that iTunes 9’s interactions with the Store are more web-happy. I’ve been asking where the iTunes Store API was for some time, now I think I’ve got what I need to build one. WordPress Hacks: Nested Paths For WPMU Blogs Situation: you’ve got WordPress Multi-User setup to host one or more domains in sub-directory mode (as in site.org/blogname), but you want a deeper directory structure than WPMU allows…something like the following examples, perhaps: site.org/blogname1 site.org/departments/blogname2 site.org/departments/blogname3 site.org/services/blogname3 The association between blog IDs and sub-directory paths is determined in wpmu-settings.php, but the code there knows nothing about nested paths. So a person planning to use WordPress MU as a CMS must either flatten his/her information architecture, or do some hacking. Am I Supposed To Feel Bad For AT&T Now? With AT&T facing lawsuits for not delivering MMS features at the iPhone 3GS launch, they kind of had to do something. I’m not sure if I’d be satisfied by this video if I were among the plaintiffs, but I think it does a good enough job. The stat about 300% annual increases in mobile data use is pretty powerful. I’d heard it a dozen times before*, but because I wasn’t in Austin for SXSW iPhone meltdown, I don’t have quite the same appreciation as some do. AT&T added capacity then, and they seem to have been scrambling elsewhere too. iPhone users are said to be six times as likely as anybody else to watch video on their phones, and if WiFi aggregator JiWire’s report says anything about cell data, the iPhone has certainly changed the game. JiWire’s Mobile Audience Insights Report shows that over 97% of the devices on their network are either iPhones (about 56% of the total) or iPod Touches! And all the way back in 2007 in Britain, iPhone users were 33 times as likely as other phone users to send or receive more than 25MB a month. It will be interesting to see what happens to other carriers as they get devices that encourage use as the iPhone has. *Actually, I hadn’t heard the 300% stat specifically, just inspecific reports of increased usage. Now I Want To Watch (or re-watch) All These Okay, I don’t want to watch all the movies depicted in this 100 year overview of film special effects, but I did just add a few to my Netflix queue. WordPress Hacks: Serving Multiple Domains Situation: using WordPress MU (possibly including BuddyPress) on multiple domains or sub-domains of a large organization with lots of users. WordPress MU is a solid CMS to support a large organization. Each individual blog has its own place in the organization’s URL scheme (www.site.org/blogname), and each blog can have its own administrators and other users. Groups of blogs in WPMU make up a “Site” and one or more Sites can be hosted with a single implementation. (I’m capitalizing Site for the same reason WordPress docs capitalize Page) Each Site has a defined set of administrators and options controlling various features. You might, for instance, lock down the plugins on your blogs.site.org, while keeping it open on your www.site.org. Or maybe you’d like to let your helpdesk staff create new blogs at blogs.site.org, but not at www.site.org. That’s what WPMU’s notion of Site can help you control. Online Advertising Metrics I don’t know if it’s just the Mother’s day effect, but the top 10 online retailers for May 2009 were dominated by flower shops. The top shop is converting almost 40% of their visitors to buyers, though the average is just over 5%. Tim, meanwhile, claims he’s lowered his bounce rate to just 10%. Not My Chair, Not My Problem Liam Lynch explains the origin of the video, but what was Dan Deacon thinking as he [recorded the audio][3]? Of all the [free MP3 downloads][4] he offers, [Two Friends][5] from the Acorn Master album may be the most, um, listenable. Thanks to [daily songsmith Corey B (Corey Blanchette)][6] for the tip. [3]: www-dandeacon-com-08 Drinking Out of Cups.mp3 [4]: http://www.dandeacon.com/mp3/ [5]: www-dandeacon-com-01_Two_Friends.mp3 [6]: http://coreyb603.com/ Who Gets To Control The Future Of Libraries? The following was my email response to a thread on the web4lib mail list: Okay, it must be said: you’re all wrong1. I can understand that news of a librarian being fired/furloughed will raise our defenses, but that’s no excuse for giving up the considered and critical thinking that this occasion demands. Consider this: the principle’s blog reveals a reasonable person actively trying to improve academic performance despite crushing economic conditions. Martin Belam’s Advice To Hackers At The Guardian’s July 2009 Hack Day An amusing hacks-conference lightning talk-turned-blog post on web development: “Graceful Hacks” – UX, IA and interaction design tips for hack days. Martin Belam‘s talk at The Guardian’s July 2009 Hack Day must have been both funny and useful: Funny: “However, I am given to understand that this is now deprecated and has gone out of fashion.” Useful: “the Yahoo! Design Pattern Library is your friend.” hNews Might Not Be So Bad The AP’s diagram of their Protect, Point, Pay “news DRM” scheme looked like a joke, then I saw the parody. Despite all the smoke and hype, Ed Felton explains that it’s underwhelming, at most. Still, hNews might be an interesting format for some blogs to adopt. Most of what the AP is rattling their saber about is in the rights (containing ccREL declarations). Felton thinks the dependence on ccREL may extend derivative usage rights, rather than limit them. Get Your Beer Pong Skills On Do Facebook Ads Work? All Facebook is happy to share the ten laws of Facebook advertising, but will those rules lead to better results than the .02% CTR Bob Gilbreath got a year ago? Newspaper Business: News Was A Loss Leader Howard Weaver wants newspapers to play offense against Google and others, but Chris Tolles, CEO of news aggregator Topix.com says he’s been trying Weaver’s plan for a while, and there’s no bucket of gold to be found in it. The problem, it would appear, is that newspapers don’t sell news. They sell advertising space and pair it with news as a loss leader to keep the eyeballs. And while that worked in print, it doesn’t work on the web. Google Recommends Microformats and RDFa Google’s own webmasters help site recommends microformats and RDFa structured data to improve indexing and usefulness of the data. Review metadata appears to have full support, while people, product, and business data are in beta. Do Air Taxis Actually Work? I just thought to follow up on this 2007 story about DayJet, a high-flying air taxi service that planned to operate tiny, three-passenger Eclipse 500 jets. The story doesn’t deviate from economic trends: DayJet ceased operations in September 2008, and the aircraft manufacturer entered Chapter 7 in February 2009. The Air Taxi Association says their operators save big money over scheduled airline service, but finding the price of that service can be hard. Mozilla Labs’ Ubiquity http://www.vimeo.com/1561578 Mozilla Labs’ Ubiquity has a lot of promise: Ubiquity is an experiment into connecting the Web with language in an attempt to find new user interfaces that make it possible for everyone to do common Web tasks more quickly and easily. It’s a Firefox extension, so it works on Macs, Windows, and Linux. With only a couple keystrokes, it lets you use language to instruct your browser. You can translate to and from most languages, add maps to your email, edit any page, twitter, check your calendar, search, email your friends, and much more. Tomas Mankovsky’s Sorry I’m Late http://www.vimeo.com/4862670 I’m simply in love with this video. Watch through the credits to see a bit of how it’s made. Go Blog, Small Orgs (Or Large) Philip Greenspun suggests small organizations use a blog for their website (ironically, not blogged): The Small Business Web circa 1994 In 1994, a small organization that wanted a Web site would hire a “Web designer” skilled in the exotic art of “HTML programming” to produce a static Web site, i.e., a cluster of linked pages with a distinctive design and color scheme, giving information about the company or non-profit org. Get The Zimbra iSync Connector It can be difficult to get the Zimbra iSync connector, as the company doesn’t offer a simple download from their site. Fortunately, the license allows us to freely redistribute their software. Download the Zimbra iSync Connector here. What is David McNicol’s URL Cache Plugin? The description to David McNicol’s URL Cache Plugin raises more questions than it answers: Given a URL, the url_cache() function will attempt to download the file it represents and return a URL pointing to this locally cached version. Where did he plan to use it? Does he envision the cache as an archive, or for performance? Why hasn’t it been updated since 2005? It caught my interest because I’ve long been interested in a solution to link rot in my blog. Book Search Results Vs. Users Bret Victor offers the above design suggestions (from 2006) to Amazon in the book search results display (he’s comparing to this). I didn’t discover them at the time, but many of them are still relevant now. Bret notes that Amazon’s display doesn’t do a good job of answering the questions a person has when searching for books: “What is the book about?” and “is it any good?” Unfortunately, these questions are completely unaddressed by the information provided. Too Bad The Hanzo Archives WordPress Plugin Is Caput The Hanzo Archives WordPress plugin is something I’d be very excited to use. Ironically, it’s disappeared from the web (though the blog post hasn’t): We’ve released a WordPress Plugin which automatically archives anything you link to in your blog posts; it also adds a ‘perma-permalink’ for the archived version adjacent to each original link. An Amazon Web Services case study put me on to Hanzo a while ago, and in May 2008 I actually spoke with Mark Middleton (the markm who posted the entry above). Customizable Post Listings Lorelle is a big fan of Scott Reilly’s Customizable Post Listings: Display Recent Posts, Recently Commented Posts, Recently Modified Posts, Random Posts, and other post, page, or draft listings using the post information of your choosing in an easily customizable manner. You can narrow post searches by specifying categories and/or authors, among other things. Using VLC As A Live Video Stream Transcoder For Axis Camera and FLV [I]n theory, I should be able to issue one command to VLC and have it receive the MPEG4-ES stream from the camera, transcode it to h.264, and stream it to the Wowza, which would handle the rest. via John Beales. Leaked Video Of Bumblebee’s Breakdance Moves http://www.vimeo.com/3784930 Well, not ‘leaked,’ but just in time for the new Transformers movie, Patrick Boivin has posted this video of Bumblebee breakdancing. Video or Audio Comments in WordPress with Riffly In line with yesterday’s discovery of the Viddler WP plugin, Riffly Webcam Video Comments also supports video or audio comments within WordPress: Riffly is a free service that easily plugs into your site allowing visitors to create video and audio comments. The service is advertising supported. We cover all the costs for bandwidth, servers, and maintenance. Optionally, we also offer Premium Riffly accounts that provide you with additional benefits, such as advertising removal, control panel access, analytics, and much more. Video Comments With Viddler WordPress Plugin The Viddler WordPress plugin promises to “Enrich your site’s commenting experience by enabling video comments….” Users can record direcly from a web cam or choose a video they’ve previously uploaded to Viddler.com. Viddler evangelist Colin Devroe has it on his site, where I can see it requires would-be commenters have a Viddler account. That last bit is too bad. I like Viddler, but I can’t force my readers to like it and get accounts as a prerequisite to commenting. Wolfram|Alpha’s Missing Feature: Libraries John Timmer brings up my two biggest complaints about Wolfram|Alpha. The first is that it’s even harder to identify the source of information than it is in Wikipedia, the other is what happens when searches fail: A bad Web search typically brings up results that help you refine your search terms; a bad Alpha search returns nothing, and it’s not clear that there’s an easy way to fix that. Systems Wrangling Session At WordCamp Developer Day What is the current status of web servers…Is Apache 2.x “fast enough?” Automattic uses Lightspeed (for PHP), nginx (for static content), and Apache (for media uploads). For WordPress-generated content, all server options are approximately the same speed. What about APC? Automattic uses beta versions of APC, and provides a 3-5x performance increase. It’s tied closely to the PHP version, so Automattic recently switched from PHP 4 to PHP 5. Databases? Andy Peatling on BuddyPress Why BuddyPress? “Build passionate users around a specific niche.” Do you have to become a social network? “No, look at GigaOM Pro,” a recently launched subscription research site based on BuddyPress. But, yo do get “BYOTOS: bring your own terms of service.” That is, you get to control content and interactions. And your service won’t be subject to the whims of a larger network like FaceBook (or vagaries of their service — think Ma. WordPress 2.8 Script Handling jQuery 1.3.2 is in WordPress 2.8, but the most exciting changes are in the automatic concatenation and compression of scripts via the script loader. Andrew Ozz says “This feature can easily be extended to include scripts added by plugins and to use server side caching, however that would require some changes to the server settings (.htaccess on Apache).” I have yet to figure out how to extend that feature to scripts in my plugins, but I’m working on it. Google’s Matt Cutts On Building Better Sites With WordPress 90% of WordPress blogs he sees are spam. But for those who aren’t spammers and want to do better in Google…. “WordPress automatically solves a ton of SEO issues…WordPress takes care of 80-90% of SEO.” Still, he recommends a few extra plugins: Akismet — reduce spam comments Cookies for Comments — reduce spam comments FeedBurner FeedSmith WP Super Cache — improve performance “We crawl roughly in order of PageRank…higher ranked sites get crawled faster and deeper. Understanding, Leveraging Google Image Search Above is [Peter Linsley][1] speaking about Google Image Search at [SMX West][2] in February, 2009. Meanwhile, [Stefan Juhl suggests some JavaScript][3] to break your site out of the image search result pages: Many Google image search users are quickly clicking on to the direct image URL and thereby not seeing the page with the image. Also, it seems that many of the users don’t hesitate to click back to the image SERPs when they don’t see the image “above the fold” – probably because of Google image search framing the page with the picture and thus making it almost too easy to do so. On The One Hand He Wants To Catapult Chicken Droppings, On The Other Hand He Did Catapult His Wife; Repeatedly The homeland security press is just getting wind of Joe Weston-Webb’s attempts to deter vandals with nonlethal weapons, but the story became all the rage in Britain when it broke last year. The stories hit all the timely bits: Joe got burgled, so he announced plans to install a catapult. A what? A catapult. Why? To launch chicken droppings at miscreants. Unfortunately, the local constabulary warned him off, and the catapult wasn’t ready when burglars returned. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance Is Available All Over The Web Robert M. Pirsig‘s Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance at Amazon, a used book store, or your parent’s book shelf. Still, it’s available on the web as PDF, at least two text files — one, two — And even as a podcast (subscribe via iTunes). Lots of people have re-traced the journey described in the book, at least one person has posted a travelogue about it to the web. Henry Gurr has posted Pirsig’s own photos, and Christoph Bartneck pointed out many locations in Google Maps: Is MySQL 5.1 Ready? MySQL 5.1 hasn’t gotten a lot of love, but it does introduce support for pluggable storage engines. And that’s required to use SphinxSE. Sphinx is a fast full text search engine. It doesn’t need to run as a MySQL storage engine to work, but doing that allows joining against other MySQL tables. So while I’m watching the future of MySQL alternatives, I’m also watching 5.1 bug fixes and playing with the CoolStack-packaged 5. Extreme Sheep Herding iPhone 3G Camera Hacks And Deets Those unwilling to open of their iPhone to adjust the camera focus might take a look at Griffin’s Clarifi, a case with a built-in close-up lens that can slide in our out of place as needed. Flickr user Meine Ideenecke, meanwhile, has figured out the iPhone camera specifications. He says it’s about 37MM (35MM equivalent), though this source says it’s 27MM. Will TuneUp Fix My Collection Of PodCast Music Downloads? Now that I’ve discovered it, I’m tempted to try TuneUp on my collection of MP3s downloaded as podcasts (and without good ID3 tags) from places like the KCRW’s Today’s Top Tune. The story is that the iTunes plugin automatically identifies your tracks, can fix the tags, and add album art. Google Street View Camera Sightings What happens when one of Google’s street view camera vehicles encounters a low bridge or a muddy Australian road? Comparing Panorama Stitching Tools The above are the result of PanoLab, Hugin, Calico, and a single shot with a very wide angle lens (Canon’s 10-22mm, effectively 16mm on my Rebel XTi). The first three originated on my iPhone and the PanoLab shot was stitched and originally uploaded to Flickr on my iPhone (though I have since done some color enhancement and reuploaded the photo from my MacBook Pro). Hugin is GPL, the other solutions are less free (in both senses). The Difference Between MySQL’s utf8_unicode_ci and. utf8_general_ci Collations MySQL answer: utf8_unicode_ci vs. utf8_general_ci. Collation controls sorting behavior. Unicode rationalizes the character set, but doesn’t, on it’s own, rationalize sorting behavior for all the various languages it supports. utf8_general_ci (ci = case insensitive) is apparently a bit faster, but sloppier, and only appropriate for English language data sets. The Many Uses Of A PocketTorch Doesn’t everybody need a PocketTorch? It’s a “safe, practical tool,” they say. More amusingly, the list of suggested uses includes: melting your cache of gold, scaring grandma, lighting illegal fireworks, dental/lab work, and making friends jealous. Fun Threads For Librarians Who doesn’t want to be an anarchist librarian? Or a bibliophian? Photoshop Retouching Magic vs. Disasters Compare the retouching portfolio here against the regular posts at Photoshop Disasters. Lessons Learned: Why It’s Better Not To Use Parentheses When They’re Optional There it is in the PHP manual for return(): Note: since return() is a language construct and not a function, the parentheses surrounding its arguments are not required. It is common to leave them out, and you actually should do so as PHP has less work to do in this case. I knew the parentheses were optional, but I’ve been merrily using them all along. And I probably would have continued doing so until I saw the second note attached to the docs: MySQL Correlated Subqueries Correlated Subqueries are said to be “inefficient and likely to be slow,” but that doesn’t mean I’m not glad to have learned of them. What Is An Archive In The Digital Age? Jessamyn pointed out the dust up over the dissapearing of PaperOfRecord.com, a historical newspaper archive. Most Annoying Song Ever? Is this the most annoying song ever? Independent + catchy and pop gone wrong. How Much Do You Want That Job? One of the many odd questions this prank job application asks is: What Are You Willing To Wear At Work? (Check All That Apply) Paper Hat Tie Hairnet Spandex Singing Omelet Costume Sweet VW Bus Scooter Sidecar I spied this drool-worthy scooter and sidecar combo on Scooter Sidecars. WordPress Action Ticketing API This plugin is the next step after my proposal for a common invite API. Here’s how I described it when requesting hosting at the plugin directory: A common framework for registering tickets that will be acted upon later. Use it to manage challenge/response interactions to confirm email addresses, phone numbers, IM screen names, Twitter accounts, etc. Build an invite system around it, or use it as the foundation of a short URL system. You Think You’re Paying Too Much For Mobile Data? A caller to Clark Howard’s CNN show complains of being billed $62,000 by his cell phone provider for data usage. And Oklahoman Billie Parks has filed suit over a $5,000 bill. Saving Objects In WordPress’ User Meta There’s a hole in the wall at about head level next to my desk. I’ve spent most of the day trying to track down a bug with some code I’ve been working on to add fields to a user’s profile in WordPress. The problem is that upon trying to save the profile I’d get an error like the following: Catchable fatal error: Object of class stdClass could not be converted to string in /wp-includes/wp-db. ExpanDrive FTP/SFTP/Amazon S3 Client ExpanDrive makes FTP, SFTP, and Amazon S3 connectivity dead easy. ExpanDrive acts just like a USB drive plugged into your Mac. Open, edit, and save files to remote computers from within your favorite programs—even when they are on a server half a world away. ExpanDrive enhances every single application on your computer by transparently connecting it to remote data. PHP Magic Constants: __LINE__, __FILE__, __DIR__, __FUNCTION__, __CLASS__, __METHOD__, and __NAMESPACE__ I’ve been using __FILE__ for years, but I never thought to look for its siblings. echo ' line:'. __LINE__ .' file:'. __FILE__ .' directory:'. __DIR__ .' function:'. __FUNCTION__ .' class:'. __CLASS__ .' method:'. __METHOD__ .' namespace:'. __NAMESPACE__; I feel as though I should have noticed these earlier; they’re clearly referenced in the docs for debug_backtrace(), after all. Down The Drain: Flowers In The In-Sink-Erator Flickr Video I can’t explain my fascination with putting flowers into the In-Sink-Erator, but the sink does smell like flowers afterwards. Music is Evil by Beads. Trash Fiction Book Covers A while ago I discovered a great collection of scanned book covers from 1950s-ish pulp fiction in Flickr. I had gone looking for things to post on our clipboard wall, but these are too fun to walk away from — especially now that Sandee’s put cats up. Marc Acito On Strunk and White’s Elements of Style When it comes to “shall” and “will,” Strunk and White gives the following example: “A swimmer in distress cries, ‘I shall drown; no one will save me!’ ” But a suicide says, “I will drown; no one shall save me!” And I say, “You two (pedantic) know-it-alls deserve to drown.” I mean, what about “Help!” via Who Needs A Manual To Write Real Good?. Yahoo! Bids Adieu To 1997 Yahoo! has divested itself of Blo.gs and is shuttering GeoCities. Would this have happened in a good economy? No. Did it need to happen anyway? Yes. Yes. Yes. And for the love of god, yes. Tips To Publishers From Google News It turns out that there are a lot of differences between Google’s regular web crawler and the Google News crawler. And though very few of us will find our content included in Google News, it still seems like a good idea to make our content conform to their technical requirements. Here are a few of them: In order for our crawler to correctly gather your content, each article needs to link to a page dedicated solely to that article. Correction: I Do Still Need The Wufoo Forms WordPress Embed Shortcode A few weeks ago I said I no longer needed the Wufoo embedding code that I’d put into bSuite. I was wrong. So I’ve taken another look, fixed the code from my old post, and coded it up into a stand-alone plugin. I’ve added installation and usage instructions to the bottom of the original post. What’s The Best Panorama Stitching App For iPhone? I spent some time looking for panorama-related apps for the iPhone and came up with the following: Panorama by Airshed Panoramas by Helix Interactive TripStitch by Byteslice Software Pano by Debacle Software Panoramascope by Phil Endicott PanoLab and PanoLab Pro by Originate Lab I’ve actually played with PanoLab a bit (landscape, portrait) after seeing p0ps Harlow using it. Fixing Batcache to Send The Correct Content-Type Header I’m a fan of Batcache, the Memcached-based WordPress full-page cache solution, but I’ve discovered that it ignores the content-type header set when the page is initially generated and re-sends all content with content-type: text/html. I posted a note about this at the WordPress support forums, but then I realized what the problem was: apache_response_headers() doesn’t return the content type, but headers_list() does. The solution is to replace apache_response_headers() with headers_list() in the code, though headers_list() is PHP 5+ only, so it might be a while before we see a change like this committed. Facebook’s Favorite Metadata [Facebook’s guide to sharing][1] details some meta tags to make that sharing work better: In order to make sure that the preview is always correctly populated, you should add the tags shown below to your html. An example news story could have the following: > > As shown, title contains the preview title, description contains the preview summary and image_src contains the preview image. Please make sure that none of the content fields contain any html markup because it will be stripped out. Google Labs: Similar Images and News Timeline New releases from Google Labs: Similar Images and News Timeline. I count it as a failure for Google that the news timeline doesn’t show future events. Three Or More Ways To Record Or Intercept VoIP Calls VoIP Now offers a few tips, Hackszine discusses VoIPong, and Mac VoIP mentions Cain & Abel and describes ARP poisoning to make a man-in-the-middle intercept. Jeeves Is Back! Does Your Organization Need Its Own Avatar/Personality? If you remember Ask.com, you probably remember Jeeves. Now he’s back on the UK site. It turns out that people liked the old chap, and in this age of social media, it’s probably prudent to have a corporate avatar (it looks a lot better on Facebook, anyway). There’s more about the resurrection at Search Engine Land. Flight Level 110, PVD Kent Wien‘s photo of Providence, Rhode Island is better than average for the camera out the window genre. William Shatner’s Rocketman Still Makes Me Laugh Elton John and Bernie Taupin wrote it, but William Shatner did it best. Watch the video now and download the MP3 for future enjoyment. Thanks to Vasken for pointing out the video. Do We Need A WordPress Common Invite or Challenge-Response API? The BuddyPress forums have a number of threads about handling invitations (two worth looking at: one, two), but no real solution has emerged. At the same time, there’s also a need for some means of confirming other actions such as password resets, email changes (both of those are already handled by WPMU, I know), cell phone numbers to receive SMS messages, and other actions that need to be confirmed later. Fixing User Meta To Accept Repeating Fields — Just In Time For The WordPress Has-Patch Marathon There’s a WordPress has-patch marathon going on now and I’m hoping one of my recent patches gets some attention. I’m hoping to fix the user meta functions to allow them to accept multiple values per key, per user. It’s listed there among the other has-patch tickets in Trac, and there’s been some discussion in WP-Hackers. Why not take a look? WiFi Is Critical To Academia, The WiFi Alliance Says A study sponsored by the WiFi alliance reveals the following: WiFi and college choice 90% of college students say Wi-Fi access is as essential to education as classrooms and computers 57% say they wouldn’t go to a college that doesn’t have free Wi-Fi 79% say that without Wi-Fi access, college would be a lot harder 60% agree that widely available Wi-Fi on campus is an indication that a school cares about its students WiFi and where they use it 55% have connected from coffee shops and restaurants 47% from parks 24% from in their cars WiFi in the classroom 55% have checked Facebook™ or MySpace™ and sent or received e-mail while using their laptop in class 47% have sent instant messages to a friend during class 44% used Wi-Fi to get a head start on an assignment before a class was finished WiFi and linkbaiting statistics If forced to choose, 48% would give up beer before giving up Wi-Fi Survey methodology: “In conjunction with the Wi-Fi Alliance, Wakefield Research surveyed 501 U. GlobeSurfer X-1 Wireless Broadband Router Option GlobeSurfer X•1 router: “a new product that transforms any USB wireless modem into an instant Internet-connected WiFi network capable of supporting multiple users.” Too bad I can’t figure out where to buy it. Also too bad that I can’t simply do this with a jail-broked iPhone. I mean, doesn’t an iPhone have everything it needs built-in: a cell-phone modem, WiFi hardware, and enough unixy goodness to support NAT and routing? BumpTop: Taking The Desktop Metaphor Deeper BumpTop: a fun, intuitive 3D desktop that keeps you organized and makes you more productive. Like a real desk, but better. Your desktop doesn’t have to be a boring graveyard for lost and forgotten files anymore! Transform it with BumpTop. Create the desktop that suits your needs and style. Recently reviewed in ArsTechnica. Extracting/Decompressing .RAR files on Mac OS X Mac OS X doesn’t ship with unrar, the common Linux utility, but you can easily get it bundled in UnRarX, a convenient Mac OS X utility. Dig around and you’ll find it in UnRarX.app/Contents/Resources. Not Sure That rev=“canonical” Is Really The Solution Anything that can help stop this kind of madness is worth a good long look (yes, I don’t like the DiggBar any more than John Gruber, despite Digg’s assurances it’s safe), so I’ve had rev=“canonical” on my mind (yes, that’s rev, not rel). Chris Shiflett thinks it will save the internet, but Matt Cutts suggests what I’ve always thought: why not resolve short URLs to their long form and store/display them that way? CAS Is A Standard Protocol, Not A Standard Application I’m not really part of the Jasig CAS Community (learn more), but I do maintain the wpCAS WordPress CAS client and I’ve started development of a CAS server component for WordPress. That project is on hold because one of the products that I’d expected to integrate with it doesn’t use standard CAS and the vendor of that app has chosen to modify the JASIG CAS server to support their apps. Weird Screw Drive Russian Truck Can We Stop Complaining About Taxes Already? Andrew Tobias asks if we can finally put the tax argument to bed: Is the reason you’re not investing in stocks these days (a) the prospect of having to pay 15% capital gains tax? Or (b) the fear of further losses? (Well, or – c – that you don’t have any money?) Is the reason you don’t start a new business that (a) if it made you a lot of money you’d have to pay a lot of taxes? Sniff Sniff — Network Sniffing in Mac OS X Adam had to remind me of this: sudo tcpdump -i en0 -s 0 port 80 Of course tcpdump can only tell us what other machines the computer is talking to, not what the conversation is. That requires a sniffer like Wireshark. iPhone Earbud + Business Card Hacks: Speakers and Cord Winder Two interesting submissions to the Core77 Business Card Hacks Challenge: earbud speakers and a cord winder. You’re Nobody Unless You’re Fake — On Twitter Here’s a simple way to tell whether the star you’re following is the real thing. Are the alleged celebrity’s tweets funny and entertaining, with a palpable sense of self-awareness and wit? Full on fake then, and by default, well worth following. Oh, and Twitter, if you’re still confused, the fake celebs are the ones who cannot afford a publicist to announce that the @fakeAccount everyone’s following isn’t really them. Damn Firewalls…But Which Firewall? For some reason two CDNs, BitGravity and Castfire, are being blocked on campus. You might think firewall, but the problem even seems to appear outside the firewall. International Pillow Fight Day World Pillow Fight Day in Boston last Saturday was not only a lot of spring fever fun, it also resulted in a marriage proposal. Banditos Misteriosos estimates there were over 1,100 pillow fighters, apparently making it one of the largest fights that day. View the above panorama large to see the crowd. Detroit police shut down the fight there, confiscating pillows and demanding permits, though the Calgary fight went without incident, despite concerns about permits. Adventure Cameras: Olympus vs. Panasonic I’ve been keeping my eye on the Olympus Stylus Tough-8000. It’s reportedly durable and waterproof to 33 feet. But I’ve just discovered the Panasonic Lumix DMC-TS1, also supposedly tough and waterproof (though only to 10 feet). The Panasonic, however, can shoot HD video and has a higher maximum ISO. The Panasonic also does some funky facial recognition (which favors recognized faces when focusing), but the Olympus can stitch multiple-shot panoramas in the camera and has “tap control” that allows, well, it appears to allow you to control the camera’s settings by tapping the sides rather than fiddling with buttons. Things Learned From The Durex Sexual Wellbeing Survey Yes, they did a survey, and the results show the French have plenty of sex, but are among the least satisfied for all that activity. Russians (80%), Brazilians (82%), and Greeks (86%) appear to be the most likely to get it at least once a week, while in Japan it appears both infrequent and unsatisfying. New Zealand distinguished itself for being the only country where women averaged more partners than men. We Were Warned About This…15 Years Ago FORTUNE Magazine, March 7, 1994: Like alligators in a swamp, financial derivatives lurk in the global economy. Deriving their value from the worth of some underlying asset, like currencies or equities, these potentially lucrative contracts are measured in trillions of dollars. But they also lie in convoluted layers in a tightly wound market of global interconnections. And that gives them the capacity to bring on a worldwide financial quake. New Plymouth State University Mascot Matt worked this up for our university portal today. Plymouth has long been the Panthers, but a little change does the University good. Panthers may have paws, but platypi have venom. Crime vs. Highways. Or, Internet Security Is A Social (Not Technical) Problem Stefan Savage, speaking in a segment on March 13’s On The Media, asked: The question I like to ask people is, what are you going to do to the highway system to reduce crime. And when you put it that way, it sounds absolutely ridiculous, because while criminals do use the highway, no rational person is suggesting that if only we could change the transportation architecture that crime would go away. 50mm f/0.95 The Canon 50mm f0.95 is the stuff of legend. Sure it wasn’t particularly sharp, and depth of field was so short that you’re unlikely to get an entire face in focus, but the notion of a lens that bright is more than a little attractive (even if you’re unlikely to have enough light to focus at all if you’re in a situation where you need the f0.95 maximum aperture). PHP iCalendar PHP iCalendar can parse and render iCal formatted files. Apple’s developer docs, amusingly enough, offer a few more hints along those lines. Wufoo Forms WordPress Embed Shortcode I tossed this together a while ago, and it even made it in to bSuite for a time, but I don’t have a need for it anymore, and I’m cleaning house. function shortcode_wufoo( $arg ){ // [wufoo id=z7x4m0 domain=place.wufoo.com] $arg = shortcode_atts( array( 'id' => FALSE, 'domain' => FALSE, 'height' => 500, ), $arg ); if( !$arg['id'] || !$arg['domain'] ) return( FALSE ); return( str_replace( array( '%%id%%','%%domain%%','%%height%%' ), array( $arg['id'], $arg['domain'], $arg['height'] ), '<iframe height="%%height%%" allowTransparency="true" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" style="width:100%; border:none" src="https://%%domain%%/embed/%%id%%/"><a href="http://%%domain%%/forms/%%id%%/">Fill out my Wufoo form! Jellyfish At The Monterey Bay Aquarium Flickr Video The 38 Year War A 2004 commentary by Doug Bandow of The Future of Freedom Foundation points out how much we love war, well at least politicians love war: War has become a centerpiece of American politics. The war on terrorism is the focus of U.S. foreign policy. A real war is being fought in Iraq. Jimmy Carter proclaimed the “moral equivalent of war” over energy. Some analysts are advocating a war on obesity. The Economist on Open Source From The Economist in 2006: Open-source business: Open, but not as usual. Happy St. Patrick’s Day The entire kitchen is Sandee’s playground, and that includes the chalkboard. I’m not sure what holiday she’ll decide to honor next. She’s been busy elsewhere at home too. MySQL Slow Query Log Analysis Peter at MySQL Performance Blog pointed out this sweet perl script to analyze MySQL’s slow query logs. (This is supposedly a PHP port.) The script does a good job of aggregating similar queries (those that only differ in their query values) and displaying overall stats for them. The following two queries are showing up a lot in my WPMU installation because I also have it set to log queries that don’t use indexes. Slideshare WordPress Embed Shortcode I’m cleaning house in [bSuite][1], and I’ve decided that this shortcode function for embedding Slideshare items in WordPress needs to go. Rather than totally toss it away, however, I’m posting it here in case somebody else finds it useful. ``` function shortcode_slideshare( $arg ){ // [slideshare id=211578&doc=misty-holland-1198496990903941-2&w=425] $arg = shortcode_atts( array( 'id' => FALSE, ), $arg ); if( ! $arg['id'] ) return( FALSE ); return( str_replace( '%%id%%', $arg['id'], ' ' )); } add_shortcode('slideshare', array(&amp;$this, 'shortcode_slideshare')); I Missed The Nightclub and Bar Show The international nightclub and bar show ran in Las Vegas last week, bringing a bunch of nightclub, bar, tavern, pub, restaurant, and hotel professionals to the city, including my friends at Biba. Dave must be faking his shock at the free shots, music, and dancing girls filling the hall “all at noon on a Tuesday!” I’m not at all involved in the business, but I think I need to go next year. Volkswagen Ad Claimed Too Violent For British TV First it was 100, then over 500 complaints about the Matrix-style (that means fake looking) kung foo action in Volkswagen’s new ad. Dual-WAN or Multi-WAN Load Balancing Routers Bonding and 802.3ad/802.1AX link aggregation it’s not, but dual- or mutil-WAN load balancing seems like a good way to improve overall bandwidth and reliability. The Cisco/Linksys RV016 (just under $400) can group up to seven different WAN connections, but the customer reviews are only so-so. For a little more I can get a Peplink Balance 30 that can handle three WAN connections and seems built for speed. There are other products, I know, but not a lot of information about any of them. Yeah, I’m That Guy I’m flying Virgin America from BOS to SFO, and apparently all their planes on that route offer in-flight internet via Gogo. $12.95 buys 3Mbps down and 300Kbps up (at least early on when nobody else seemed to be using it). I can get my iPhone online for only 8 bucks, but as far as I can tell, I’d have to buy two plans if I wanted to use both on this flight. Fly Safe, Fly Without ID This is an old one, but because I’m in the air again today it’s worth digging up this up. Defense Tech long ago pointed out The Identity Project‘s position on showing ID for air travel: If a 19 year-old college student can get a fake ID to drink, why couldn’t a bad person get one, too? And no matter how sophisticated the security embedded into the ID, wouldn’t a well-financed terrorist be able to falsify that, too? Mmm… Bacon Who doesn’t like bacon, or little piglets? Or kittens? Juice Your OPAC Richard Wallace’s Juice project (Javascript User Interface Componentised Extensions) is a “simple componentised framework constructed in Javascript to enable the sharing of Ajax Stye extensions to a web interface.” WordPress or Scriblio users might do well to think about it as a way to put widgets on systems that don’t support widgets, though as Richard points out, “the framework is applicable to any environment which, via identifiers contained within a html page, needs to link to or embed external resources. Way Cooler Than A Catalog I got a little excited when Shirley Lincicum wrote to the NGC4Lib mail list: [O]ne of the most frustrating things for me about Next Generation Catalog systems as they currently exist is that they seem wholly focused on the user interface and can, in fact, actually hold libraries back from designing or implementing improved “back end” systems because of the dependencies introduced by the new “discovery layer” applications. I was excited because almost two years ago I wrote something like this: Usability vs. Open Source This article comparing the usability of Joomla vs. WordPress has already been linked by everybody’s uncle, but it’s still worth a look. I find it amusing, however, that none of the comments so far on that blog post mention the commitment that the core WordPress team appears to have on making blogging fun. If you start with the goal of making something fun, then add sophistication to make it flexible without being complex, you’ll get a very different result than you would if you started with different goals. Tattoo: Pantone 475 seanbonner‘s photo of Esther’s new tattoo makes me want one. TGFKAE’s new tattoo by seanbonner on Flickr Scriblio Theater Flickr Video Flickr Video I should have done screencasts like the above long ago. It’s not that they’re great, but they are a wonderful excuse to use the canned lounge music I’ve got. Those videos are now on the front page of the official Scriblio site, and I did five more to demo the installation and configuration. Big thanks go to Collingswood NJ Public Library Director Brett Bonfield who let me use his library like this. Pedal Powered Hovercraft I love the engineering of the lift fan on this pedal powered hovercraft. It needs a little more lift to make really work, but wow. Scriblio 2.7 Released My slides for my presentation yesterday at code4lib are available both as a 2.7MB QuickTime and a 7.8 MB PDF, while the gist of talk went something like this: Scriblio is an open source WordPress plugin that adds the ability to search, browse, and create structured data to the the popular blog/content management platform. And WordPress adds great ease of use, permalinks, comments/trackbacks/pingbacks, and other social and web-centric features to that structured data. Is Internet Linking Legal? You’d think the top search results on the matter would be newer than 1999, but that’s where you’ll find this NYT article and PubLaw item story, both from precambrian times. Worse, both of those articles suggest that my links to them may not be entirely kosher. The problem is probably that US courts have not spoken clearly on such a case. A Danish court in 2006 did, but I think that no case in the US has gone far enough to actually set a precedent. Don’t Be Stupid, Magenta Is A Color Anybody who claims magenta isn’t a color is stupid, lying, or link-baiting. Take it from a color-blind person: all colors are a matter of perception, and claiming Magenta isn’t a color because it doesn’t fit neatly in the linear spectrum of visible electromagnetic radiation is like saying this isn’t music because the vibrations that tickle our ear aren’t the result of a monotone sinusoidal wave. We have no equivalent of polyphony for light, but just as it took a whole orchestra to make Jaws scary, the colors we perceive are most commonly a mixture of different frequencies of light. Make Yours A ModBook I really don’t know what I’d do with a tablet, but it’s still plenty interesting to see this ModBook come together. On the other hand, if there’s anything to the earlier rumors of an Apple tablet, I hope it leads to some sort of large-screen iPhone-like device. Pedal Powered Big Wheel Fun This big wheel was purported to be the work of Cyclecide, a SF-based bike art collective. The Big Wheel is cool no matter who built it, and Cyclecide’s pedal powered contraptions look awesome: The pedal powered roller coaster looks tame by comparison. Turning A Podcast Track Into A Music Track in iTunes I subscribe to a few song of the day podcasts, which makes it easy to get the tracks, but difficult to enjoy them as music in iTunes. But podcast tracks can’t be simply moved over to the music section of your library, it takes a little finagling. There’s a lot of advice out there suggesting you use one of the menu commands to convert the track to MP3 or AAC, but I prefer not to re-encode my music, and that’s a big hammer for a small problem. 5,848 (max), 656 (avg) MySQL Queries Per Second The above graph is far from typical, but I love that the box (the top one in this picture) can do the job when it needs to. This activity is a result of bulk record imports, web activity results in relatively little database traffic due to my use of Memcached and Batcache. The World’s Greenest Roller Coaster This pedal-powered roller coaster is Washuzan Highland Park‘s Skycycle in Okayama prefecture, Japan It appears that the only CO2 emissions are the huffing and puffing of riders peddling to the top. The park does have three traditionally powered steel coasters (the Ultra, Star Jet, and Chupy). How To Ruin Valentine’s Day, And A Basketball Game Valentine’s day will never be the same for this dude. Aparently, however, marriage proposal rejections at basketball games are common, though this LOL cats proposal worked out well. Matching Multi-line Regex in BBEdit I love BBEdit on my Mac, but I was left scratching my head again today when I was trying to remember how to make its regex engine match a pattern across multiple lines. My hope was to extract a list of initial articles from a page that had HTML like this: WordCamp Higher Ed, Northeast It’s not WordCamp Paris (running on 7 February), but WordCamp Edu Northeast is today. I’m there to meet up with fellow WordPressies and talk about extending WordPress with Holladay Penick and Dave Lester. Squeezing the three of us into a single time slot requires quite a bit of cutting, especially if we hope to have time to answer questions, so I’ll be focusing on Scriblio. That means I won’t be talking about how we’re going to use BuddyPress or replace significant portions of our university portal with it. Why Are These People So Happy? The soothing ambient sounds and smiling faces might be enough to have you keep this site open all winter long, but then you’d have to explain it. The World Record Headspin Master Is 124 Times Cooler Than Me Darien’s new materials handling is cool, but not world record headspin cool. Actually, that’s probably a false comparison, enjoy them both. Woot! WordPress MU 2.7 Out Sure, Matt says it’s Thank a Plugin Developer Day, but let’s hear it for the developers who just tagged WordPress MU 2.7! Not long ago there were still 300 files to merge, now it’s done and ready for the next version. New Hampshire: Live Free Or Die By Firing Squad NH State Representative Delmar Burridge recently introduced HB 0037 proscribing death by firing squad: When the penalty of death is imposed, the punishment for a defendant convicted under RSA 630:1, I(g) shall be execution by firing squad. Burridge would likely describe himself as “principled,” like when he reported one of his constituents to the cops because of his advocacy for marijuana decriminalization. The photo above is a still from a Ridley Report interview with him. Not Happy It’s called Gigapan, a robotic panorama-maker. David Bergman used one to take the picture above (though his view was much larger) (you can buy your own for about $300 if you get in on the beta). The point, however, is that if you zoom in real close, you can see W’s pursed lipped scowl. Sitting In Sin Thomas Von Staffeldt’s remix of Arne Jacobsen‘s “chair no. 7”. Above are gluttony, pride, and lust. They’re all on auction, but does that suggest avarice? Through The Viewfinder original_ann‘s hacked-together rig for shooting though the viewfinder of her Kodak Starflex has me wanting one. She has a beautiful set and points to the Through The Viewfinder group for more. The Real Intronetz Argument “What happens when a group that commands respect meets an audience that doesn’t give it readily?” Pete Cashmore on The Vatican Launching YouTube Channel. Oh Noes! My Table Is Gone! # mysqlcheck -p -A --auto-repair --optimize wp_1_options info : Found block with too small length at 17732; Skipped info : Wrong block with wrong total length starting at 17776 info : Found block with too small length at 28776; Skipped warning : Number of rows changed from 444 to 441 status : OK Cleaning up the mess after a hardware failure can suck. This mysqlcheck output is from the wp_options table for this blog. A Cocktail I Can Believe In Sandee’s toasting tomorrow’s inauguration with a special “fresh start cocktail.” I’m not usually one for overwrought imagery, but the delicate fruit flavor is quite refreshing change from the dark and stormy winter we’ve been suffering. And no, I really don’t know if I’m talking about the 18 feet of snow that’s fallen these past couple months of those eight years we’ve suffered. Everybody’s Underwear I was using the dirty laundry metaphor in a previous post and wanted to extend it a bit by saying something like: For the generation of children who’s parents have already posted their silliest and most embarrassing baby pictures to Facebook and elsewhere, being caught in your underwear is both expected and forgivable. Being evil, on the other hand… Except I couldn’t find a link to support my claim. Gaming Help: Bond 007: Quantum of Solace Walkthrough shadowzack knows his games a lot better than I do. Even though he says it’s “crap”, I’m enjoying playing Bond 007: Quantum of Solace on my Wii. I only play about one game a year, so I’m not ashamed to go looking for a bit of help in shadowzack’s walkthroughs: Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Chapter 9 Chapter 10 Hardmuth’s DIY Ring Flash Is Quite A Hack This light-piped ring flash should do the trick. It’s gotta be cheaper than Canon’s offering (though cheap ring lights can be had for under $100), and it seems to work more than well enough. No Such Thing As Bad Publicity Finding a 2007 blog post about a condom and a cheeseburger made a friend ask if student blogs should be moved off-domain. My flippant answer was “There’s no such thing as bad publicity.” His retort was simple and quick: “Tell that to the catholic church.” It stung. He had me, I was sure. It’s hard for many Americans not to think of sex abuse when Catholic Church comes to mind, but there are probably two lessons from that: Gaming: Pac-Txt Richard Moore’s Pac-Txt is even more brilliant than his Paper Pong (which, ironically, you can play online). Here’s a transcript of my best Pac-Txt game to date: Pac-Txt! -------- You awaken in a large complex, slightly disoriented. Glowing dots hover mouth level near you in every direction. Off in the distance you hear the faint howling of what you can only imagine must be some sort of ghost or several ghosts. Patrick McGoohan Dead At 80 Patrick McGoohan, creator of The Prisoner, has died. Looking Back At Mac Hardware Performance I recently replaced the Mac Mini I use to host my web development with a PowerMac G4. (Story: the Mini was mine, a personal purchase I made to support my work on Scriblio and other WordPress-related projects, but recent changes in our network and firewall policy made the machine inaccessible from off-campus without using the VPN. Having a personal machine sit at my desk at work isn’t as useful if I can’t use it conveniently and for para-work activities, so I wanted to take the Mini home. Firefox Improved RDF Browsing lbjay uses both the Tabulator and Semantic Radar Firefox plugins to do magic with RDF in his browser. Play FLV in QuickTime Player Using Perian Perian: “The swiss-army knife of QuickTime components” File formats: AVI, DIVX, FLV, MKV, GVI, VP6, and VFW Video types: MS-MPEG4 v1 & v2, DivX, 3ivx, H.264, Sorenson H.263, FLV/Sorenson Spark, FSV1, VP6, H263i, VP3, HuffYUV, FFVHuff, MPEG1 & MPEG2 Video, Fraps, Snow, NuppelVideo, Techsmith Screen Capture, DosBox Capture The LGPL–licensed QuickTime plugin installs easily on Mac OS X 10.5 and does what it promises. FLV videos (such as those you’d sneakily download from YouTube) open just like any other QuickTime vid, and you can easily export them to other types. Corey Blanchette’s 365 Song Project The 365 photos meme was quite popular last year (despite the 366 day leap year). I might have joined, but it’s unlikely I would have finished. Instead, I’ve been pushing my my brother-in-law Corey Blanchette, nicknamed CoreyB or CoreyB603, to do 365 songs in 2009. He launched on January first and since then has done songs about elves, the serotonin in Saratoga, Albert Ayler, and a bunch of others. If I Ever Find Myself In Prague… Ilya Schurov thinks this is the time capsule from from Isaak Asimov‘s The End Of Eternity. It’s really the elevator and stair (or ramp)-way in Prague‘s Old Town Hall. A clock and great views of the square are at the top. Thinking of interesting elevators to be found in Europe: The Paternoster. DIY Fisheye Lens For Aiptek GO-HD Camera The Aiptek GO-HD isn’t such a bad camera for the money. It does 720p video and 8 megapixel photos, but the lens doesn’t go very wide. But a post in the Flickr blog pointed to a solution: use a door peephole as a fisheye lens. It works, but holding the peephole in front of the camera can get tiresome. Here’s how I solved it: A rubber stopper easily holds the peephole, while a 1. Some Predictions Come True Way back in 2002 Dave Winer made a bet: In a Google search of five keywords or phrases representing the top five news stories of 2007, weblogs will rank higher than the New York Times’ Web site. It’s important to remember that in 2002 people still wrote “weblogs” in quotes, as though they weren’t sure how to use the word. Winer won his bet in 2007. Anybody want to make a bet about 2014? Safe Livestock Transportation Recommendations You might not have cared to know the recommended trucking practices for pigs or other livestock, but Colorado State University professor Temple Grandin is happy to explain all of that and more. She’s got videos too. Perhaps you know somebody who made a new year’s resolution to improve the way they truck their livestock? You Didn’t Know They Were Fighting: The Karen National Liberation Army in Myanmar This news story from 2006 alerted me to a war I didn’t know anybody was fighting: the liberation of Karen State from Myanmar. The KNLA (Karen National Liberation Army) and KNU (Karen National Union) have been fighting for independence since the British left Burma (Myanmar) in 1948. What do you get a 51-year old rebel movement for its birthday? Here are their demands: For us, surrender is out of the question. Super Cheap Aiptek GO-HD Video Camera A while ago now I bought a Aiptek GO-HD 720p from Amazon for cheap. The FotoRamp review was helpful; links to actual raw video convinced me; but this video review was absolutely no help at all. You can’t track the brand on Flickr; but a search reveals a few photos (one, two), a video, and even some photo panoramas (one, two) assembled from the video. You can see my own test videos here (note the link to the raw video in the description of each). New Year’s Hangover Remedies I find a few sausage, egg, and cheese breakfast sandwiches and chocolate milk do the trick, but I’d eat those every day if I could. I’m always dubious of claims to national consensus, but this is especially ridiculous. Is our national hangover cure really tomato juice and eggs? I thought it was hair of the dog, or beer and eggs. Friends of mine have been so concerned by the challenge that they’ve developed Biba, an electrolyte rich mixer that’s supposed to reduce the risk of hangover from the start (join their Facebook group to learn more). Will Time Warner Cable Customers Be Able To Watch Nickelodeon In The Morning (or Visit Nick.com)? This dispute is going on now, tonight. There are obviously at least two sides to this story (Viacom &Time Warner Cable). You’d think a media giant like Viacom would know how to handle this one, but it seems that all they’ve got is that splash screen in front of a bunch of their websites and this uninspiring ad. Time Warner Cable, which you might think is just a bunch of network plumbers, seems a little more connected. Wired But Disconnected duckett‘s Wired But Disconnected on ccMixter is actually ironic: the whole song is the result of an online collaboration. Listen Lensbaby Baby I have an old Lensbaby 2.0 (looks like this) that does a great job of making casual snapshots look like real portraits. But I also find it really difficult to get focus on my subject. Blame my bad eyes, my insistence on using it wide open with it’s shallowest depth of field, and simply sloppiness, but I can’t do it. This new Lensbaby Composer with a sort of normal focus ring (rather than flexible bellows), might work a little better. Tankmen Tankmen is funny, no doubt, but I wonder what it means when we’re deeply embroiled in two of the longest running armed conflicts of US history that we find it so easy to make comedy about war. Happy Holidays! Jappy Jaladays begets a number of other punny greetings: Merry Mojitos! Merry Margaritas! Tijuana celebrate? Hope you do. Party tortilla tired! Don’t let the season tequila. Salsa nice having you in our lives. Let’s go singing Christmas Cuervos! YouTomb Tracks Takedowns On YouTube YouTomb continually monitors the most popular videos on YouTube for copyright-related takedowns. Any information available in the metadata is retained, including who issued the complaint and how long the video was up before takedown. The goal of the project is to identify how YouTube recognizes potential copyright violations as well as to aggregate mistakes made by the algorithm. Hacking Cellphones For Public Health Using only an LED, plastic light filter and some wires, scientists at UCLA have modded a cellphone into a portable blood tester capable of detecting HIV, malaria and other illnesses. via Wired. LCSH Linked Data lcsh.info is gone, but there’s a lot to learn from this paper. I wish I’d seen that earlier. Everybody’s Spoon Is Too Big Best of Craigslist: Manly Bike For Sale From the best-of-Craigslist: Manly Bike for Sale: What kind of bike? I don’t know, I’m not a bike scientist. What I am though is a manly guy looking to sell his bike. This bike is made out of metal and kick ass spokes. The back reflector was taken off, but if you think that deters me from riding at night, you’re way wrong. I practiced ninja training in Japan’s mount Fuji for 5 years and the first rule they teach about ninja biking is that back reflectors let the enemy know where you are. Plugin Options Pages in WordPress 2.7 WordPress 2.7 requires that plugins explicitly white list their options using a couple new functions. WordPress MU has required this security measure for a while, and it’s nice to see an evolved form of it brought to the core code. [Migrating Plugins and Themes to 2.7][1] article in the codex offers some guidance, but here’s how it works: First, register each option for your plugin during the admin_init action: ``` function myplugin_admin_init(){ register_setting( 'my-options-group', 'my-option-name-1', 'absint' ); register_setting( 'my-options-group', 'my-option-name-2', 'wp_filter_nohtml_kses' ); } add_action( 'admin_init', 'myplugin_admin_init' ); ``` In the example above, the value for my-option-name-1 will be filtered by absint before being saved to the options table. Quizzes Are Good Link Bait Via Information Nation: How Long Could You Survive Chained to a Bunk Bed with a Velociraptor? and How Many Five Year Olds Could You Take in a Fight?. The Social Beaver: 1960s Campus Life At MIT Really, it’s titled “The Social Beaver,” though I can’t imagine campus life ever looking like that. Aside: MIT’s TechTV is powered by Viddler’s white-label solutions. Woodman Institute, Dover, NH The Woodman Institute Museum in Dover NH is famous for having a four-legged chicken, but that’s only a small example of the weirdness you’ll find inside. A big collection of snakes and bugs and bears in top hats along with other examples of taxidermy fills the first two floors. The top floor is dedicated to war and includes the obligatory rusty cannon ball that killed and maimed. What Could Have Been: Lee Mercer’s 2008 Presidential Campaign Former 2008 Presidential Candidate Lee Mercer shares your concern for circumstances and issues. He wants to crack down on treason and recognizes Democratic concerns about expansion of executive power. MySQL 5.1 Released, Community Takes Stock MySQL 5.1 is out as a GA release, but with crashing bugs that should give likely users pause. Perhaps worse, the problems are blamed on essential breakdowns in the project management: “We have changed the release model so that instead of focusing on quality and features our release is now defined by timeliness and features. Quality is not regarded to be that important.” Still, people are finding inspiration in OurDelta and Drizzle. SIMILE Timeline For, Um, Timelines Timeline is a SIMILE project that uses Exhibit JSON (which you can create with Babel). Longwell RDF Browser Longwell mixes the flexibility of the RDF data model with the effectiveness of the faceted browsing UI paradigm and enables you to visualize and browse any arbitrarely complex RDF dataset, allowing you to build a user-friendly web site out of your data within minutes and without requiring any code at all. Demos Another Approach To Web Forms Just saw a cool demo of XForms and Orbeon Forms. WordPress For Zach’s Web Programming Class Zach is apparently too lazy to prep his own lectures for the last few days of his intro to web programming class. After bringing his students from zero to database-backed web-apps, he asked Matt do JavaScript and me to introduce WordPress as an application platform. The WordPress API makes it easy to write plugins that modify WordPress’ behavior with filters and action hooks. Additionally, shortcodes allow you to put small bbcode-like tokens in your WordPress posts and pages that are replaced with by functionality defined in your plugins. Real Data Architecture: Stockholm Data Cave Need a retro-looking bomb shelter for your server, or are you a big fan of the Cheyenne Mountain scenes in WarGames? The Bahnhof Pionen White Mountains hosting facility is a cave below Stockholm. You’d expect the sysadmin blogs to call it fit for a James Bond villain, but even the architecture blogs are a gaga. Trendhunter compares it to the RFM FM Radio headquarters (Poland) and John Lautner‘s Chemosphere house (Los Angeles). Lens Lust Digital Photography Review’s look of Sigma’s 50mm f/1.4 has me drooling. I have an el cheapo 50mm f/1.8 and am looking to upgrade. At $1500, Canon’s 50mm f/1.2 is just way too expensive, but their 50mm f/1.4 just didn’t seem to be enough of a upgrade to be worth the price. Sigma’s new lens, seems to do it. I stumbled into that lens, however, as I was looking up Canon’s EF 100mm f/2. Derailed Eu-Jin Ooi‘s picture of rail trucks piled up after a derailment isn’t nearly as scary as this derailment found at Dee’s Inbox: Can anybody name that incident? (The top one is BNSF, Barstow CA, April 2008. What’s the bottom one?) Piano Man Light-Paint Piano Player from Ryan Cashman on Vimeo. Mobile Safari Advanced Features If you’re already building web apps, you might wonder why you should bother to build an iPhone native app. The short answer is that you might not need to, but you should still optimize the app for iPhones. Native-looking chrome Set these in the head: ``` // set a custom icon for when a user bookmarks the app to the home screen // hide the browser chrome //set the phone status bar style; can be grey, black, or black translucent </td> </tr> </table> </div> Caveats: * Only works for web pages that have been saved to the home screen and opened from there. iPhone Dev Camp NYC I’m at Apple’s iPhone Tech Talk in New York today. Info is flowing like water through a firehose, so I’m not going to attempt live blogging, but here are their suggested ingredients for a successful iPhone app: Delightful Innovative Designed Integrated Optimized Connected Localized The picture is of the main theater for the event. It’s by far the most beautiful space I’ve ever been in for a tech conference. Peephole DIY Fisheye Lens Flickr blog I discovered the Peephole fish eye group. The idea is simple: us a $5 door peephole to give your camera a fisheye lens. Here are the instructions: Hold peephole against rim of camera lens. Set camera to “macro”. (the image is actually displayed on the inside face of the convex lens of the peephole. The camera must focus on the foreground image rather than the background image.) Zoom in to the point that the viewable “circle” is framed almost evenly. I Am Talking To You After stuffing yourself with too much Thanksgiving dinner and the tryptothan kicks in, there’s some time when all conversations seem to work like this one from Martin Wilson. A DC Story One sunny day in January, 2009 an old man approached the White House from across Pennsylvania Avenue, where he’d been sitting on a park bench. He spoke to the U.S. Marine standing guard and said, “I would like to go in and meet with President Bush.” The Marine looked at the man and said, “Sir, Mr. Bush is no longer president and no longer resides here.” The old man said “Okay”, and walked away. After The Thanksgiving Feast: Answer Who Owns The Fish You can only eat so much, and though we’ll likely stretch those limits tomorrow, at some point we all have to take a break. The good folks at Coudal Partners have the perfect solution: a simple test (available as a convenient PDF) that Einstein says only a handful of people can actually figure out. The premise is simple: somebody in the neighborhood keeps a fish, but who? Read the clues, work it out, and send your answer to the Coudal folks. If you’re right they might have a prize for you. You can leave your answer in the comments here too, but all I’ll have for you is left over turkey. Amazon’s Content Delivery Network Launches In Beta Amazon calls it CloudFront, and it costs $0.17 – $0.22 per GB at the lowest usage tiers. It seems that you simply put your files in an S3 container, make an API call to share them, then let your users enjoy the lower-latency, higher performance service. Their domestic locations include sites in Virginia, Texas, California, Florida, New Jersey, Washington, and Missouri. Internationally, they’ve got Amsterdam, Dublin, Frankfurt, London, Hong Kong, and Tokyo covered. Web Search Re-Imagined: Searchme iPhone App Re-imagined a bit, anyway. Why browse a vertical list of results when you can flip through them like pages in a book (or album covers in iTunes). Searchme on the iPhone and iPod touch does just that. As you type your search term, icons representing rough categories appear, allowing you to target your search and helping people who’re searching for information about pythons the snake avoid results about the programming language. Video DRM Hammering Legal Consumers Nobody but the studios seem happy about Apple’s implementation of HDCP on its recent laptops. The situation leaves people who legally purchased movies unable to play them on external displays (yeah, that means you can’t watch movies on the video projector you borrowed from the office). A related story may reveal the extent of the problem. The MPAA is petitioning the FCC to allow it to use “selective output control” to block playback of video content in a manner similar to HDCP. SCO vs. Novell Lawsuit Over, Linux Safe According to Groklaw, the long running battle between SCO and Novell may finally be over. The Judge ruled that SCO, the company that claimed Linux infringed on it’s IP and sued everybody in sight, never did own any rights to Unix in the first place, and has ordered the company to pay millions. Novell and others are unlikely to ever see much of that, though, as SCO is in bankruptcy. Toshiba Takes Bullet Time Up A Notch Supposedly this is more real than it looks. See how it was made. The USS Albacore, Portsmouth NH The Albacore is a post World War II experimental submarine now on display in Portsmouth NH. Seeing the sub on land, some height above sea level, is a bit surprising, and it’s clear that moving it there was no small task. Five dollars will get you inside the sub’s tight and awkward quarters, where you’ll see the Frankensteinian bathroom (and that’s for officers) and details such as lithium hydroxide canisters and signal ejector instructions that stand as reminders of the dangers of submarining. Nest: The Softer Side of MaisonBisson Sandee’s not such a fan of the new theme here at MaisonBisson. Without really telling me that I should have discussed the new decor with her before making any big decisions, she does say she feels it doesn’t suit her style. There are lots of ways to resolve the, um, difference of opinion, but we decided that just as Sandee gets most of the authority regarding the kitchen and I get the office, we can find a way to share the website. Lincoln Obama Paste Up Mashup enrguerrero‘s photo of a Lincoln/Obama paste up mashup on the corner of Larkin and Myrtle streets in San Francisco. Fiddling With Open Source Software for Libraries Theme I generally liked CommentPress, but when the Institute for the Future of the Book website went down recently, it started throwing errors in the dashboard. So I decided to re-do the Open Source Software For Libraries website using Derek Powazek’s DePo Masthead. I think it’s a beautifully readable theme, and I only had to make a few modifications. I’ve ostensibly lost CommentPress’ paragraph-level commenting features, but I discovered those may have been broken all along (that was what started me thinking about replacing the theme). Obama’s Use of Complete Sentences Stirs Controversy From the Borowitz Report: In the first two weeks since the election, President-elect Barack Obama has broken with a tradition established over the past eight years through his controversial use of complete sentences, political observers say. “Every time Obama opens his mouth, his subjects and verbs are in agreement,” says Mr. Logsdon. “If he keeps it up, he is running the risk of sounding like an elitist.” More… McGill University Powered by WordPress Well, not the entire university, I guess, but a number of online publications use it. The newspaper is featured above, their CIO has a blog, and they’ve started a pilot with WPMU to offer blogging to everybody in the University. Abandoned Cars, Yes, But Abandoned Jumbo Jets? Residents of Mumbai (Bombay) were wondering who was responsible for removing an abandoned 737 in their Chembur neighborhood. Then, as quickly and mysteriously as it appeared, it vanished. The Times of India says the plane arrived by truck, but the driver took a wrong turn and couldn’t maneuver the 75 foot long hulk out. Wingless planes and beached whales aren’t so dissimilar. The Oregon Highway Department knows how to take care of the latter (though, it turns out that whales are known to spontaneously self destruct). Tricky Uses of bSuite After writing the project page for wpSMS I didn’t have much more to say in a blog post announcing it. The cool thing about writing Pages in WordPress is that I can create a taxonomy like /projects/wpsms/ to place them in. The downside is that new pages never appear in the RSS feed. So I need both the page and a blog post to announce it. I could have simply copied the content from the wpSMS page into a blog post, but that creates confusion and splits the audience between the two pages. WordPress Uses: Oobject Oobject‘s galleries of abandoned pools, subway architecture, and revolting gold gadgets, among others, are all built in WordPress. Using WordPress With External SMTP Server I really don’t like having sendmail running on a webserver, but some features of WordPress just don’t work if it can’t send email (user registration, for example). Still, WordPress offers support to send email through external SMTP servers instead if a local mailer. In <a href="http://trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/2.6.3/wp-includes/pluggable.php">/wp-includes/pluggable.php</a> around line 377, change ``` $phpmailer-isMail(); ``` to ``` $phpmailer-isSMTP(); ``` Then, in <a title="/tags/2. A Day In The Life… DGENERATE NATION – Skate With Me from DGENETICS on Vimeo. Whisky and Gin Dispenser Gaellery‘s Hotel room whisky and gin dispenser. Push in the drawer, pull out, and find a tiny bottle of booze. Just like those movies you claim you didn’t watch, it’s automatically charged to your bill. Uploading .docx Files In WordPress It may be a sign that none of the core WordPress developers much likes or uses Microsoft Office, but the core code hasn’t been updated to recognize the Office 2007 file extensions like .docx, .pptx, or .xlsx. It’s no criticism, wouldn’t have discovered it if a user hadn’t complained, and I stewed a bit before deciding it was a bug. It’s now ticket #8194 in the WordPress.org Trac. It only affects my MU users now, though, and the same patch works there. World Usability Day Today The Usability Professionals’ Association says “a cell phone should be as easy to access as a doorknob.” And since 2005 they’ve been organizing World Usability Day to help make that happen. Locally the UPA Boston chapter is holding events at the Boston Museum of Science (in Cambridge, actually) that explore the clues we use to understand how to operate doors and the frustrations of setting an alarm clock. This year’s theme is transportation, and they have an online transportation survey that helps us see our “transportation footprint and learn how small travel changes can make a big impact on all our lives. Google Brings Video To GTalk, But Why No iChat/Skype Interoperability? Google yesterday introduced video chat to the web-based version of it’s Google Talk app (think GMail), but doesn’t appear to interoperate with any of the many existing video chat apps, iChat and Skype tops among them. Getting a Teflon Fix Teflon might be just what I need to get my walking desk treadmill back in working order. But where to get it? Turns out that Dupont sells in both teflon spray and squeeze bottle. Found via. The Animated Llama You Didn’t Know You Needed click for more. i dare you. WordPress Education Mail List wp-edu, the WordPress for education mail list has launched. Join up, catch up on the archives, and set it up at your school. New Plugin: wpSMS Supports Sending SMS Messages [include post_id=”12897″ field=”post_content”] Poke A Muffin click for more. i dare you. A Bullet Dodged We all knew the sordid details of Palin’s candidacy would emerge, but who figured they pour out so soon or on Fox News? Via Borkweb.com Declaration of Metadata Independance Declaration of Metadata Independance: We hold these truths to be self-evident, that Metadata is essential to all Users, and that the Creation of Metadata endows certain inalienable Rights, that among these are the right to collect, the right to share and the pursuit of Happiness through the reuse of the Metadata… (read more) Via. SVN Repository Hooks Rock I stumbled on them by accident, but once I discovered Subversion supports action hooks that can fire before or after a transaction, I knew exactly what to do with them. Presidents Change…Presidential Limousines Change Presidential Limos are armored, yes, but Gregg Merksamer reveals that George W. Bush’s limos sport five-inch thick glass, more than twice as thick as in Clinton’s limo. Merksamer should know, he wrote the book on so-called “professional cars”. He says half an inch is enough to stop a .44 magnum at point blank range, and BMW’s X5 “Security” model features only a little more than that. So what’s it mean when a person needs ten times that amount? McCain Staffers: More Whisky. Stat! John McCain’s election team apparently told staff at The Phoenix Biltmore to have extra whisky on hand for their election party tonight. They’re not just planning to drown their sorrows: Republicans and Republican-leaning independents drink more whisky than the national average. Sweet photo by Bearfaced, though I almost used this picture of barrels (or this one). Techno Viking Rocks More Than Other Vikings (And Vikings Generally Rock) The TechnoViking will have you scratching your head for the first 90 seconds, then ROFLing for a while. Not enough yet? Watch him dance to “It’s a Piece Of Cake To Bake A Pretty Cake.” This one claims to be the original, and though the sound is bad the video quality is much better than the others. Thing is, now that you’ve watched it a couple times, did he stop a pickpocket or admonish a groper at the beginning? Wikipedia API? I’ve wanted a Wikipedia API for a while. Now I might’ve stumbled into one: commons.wikimedia.org/w/api.php. It doesn’t do exactly what I want, but it might yet be useful. Engrave Your Tech The image on this moleskine notebook was custom laser engraved by EngraveYourBook.com, a part of EngraveYourTech.com, where they recently announced they were suspending moleskine engraving due to atmospheric health concerns. You can’t get a notebook, but you can ogle the fancy, laser engraved MacBooks Creative Commons Licenses Not Compatible With GPL? GPL and CC are incompatible? FSF says so, and the Debian Free Software Guidelines agree. I’m as opposed to ruinous compromises as the next guy, and I feel the GPL fever, but I just want to use Mark James‘ excellent Silk Icons in my GPL’d WordPress plugin. CSSHttpRequest: cross domain JavaScript solution Who’d a thunk it: CSSHttpRequest is a way of doing cross-domain AJAX by using CSS’ @import method to fetch the data. Super Mario Quilt Keith Lewis bakes, paints, makes robots with machine guns, and has stitched not one but two Mario quilts (closeup, from back). They apparently make good gifts, who wouldn’t want one? Diagramed: Things Said During Sex View it large, for all the details. Via anonymous. Asian Robot Olympics News of BrickCon the web and the Flickr earlier this month, but MSE2006’s photos of robot competition have my attention now. But what am I looking at? What was the competition? Steve Souders Website Performance O’Reilly Webcast I’ve linked to Steve Sauders‘ webcasts on website performance optimization before. Here’s another. Turns out that he’s co-chairing the O’Reilly Velocity conference in June. Apache Virtual Hosting Black Magic I’ve configured Apache for virtual hosting on more sites than I can count, but I’ve always just kind of stumbled through until now. What’s changed? The Apache 2.2 documentation is worlds better than the old 1.3 docs (even though the old docs rank highest in Google). So here they are: name-based virtual hosts, plus virtual host configuration examples (including an example mixed name and IP virtual hosting, which is what I needed), and some tips on dynamically configured mass virtual hosting. Sarah Palin Is A Vampire I think this election has designers more involved than most. (Via DottieboBottie.) Determining Paths and URLs In WordPress 2.6+ WP 2.6 allows sites to move the wp-content directory around, so plugin developers like me can’t depend on them being in a predictable location. We can look to the WP_CONTENT_DIR and WP_PLUGIN_DIR constants for answers, but a better solution is likely to use the X_url() functions. The most useful of those is likely to be plugins_url(). Even better, you can give these functions a relative path and they’ll return a fully qualified URL to the item. xFruits: “Compose Your Information System” Is xFruits a worthy replacement for Yahoo! Pipes? WordPress Bug: Duplicate post_meta Entries I just submitted a trac ticket about this: The update_post_meta() and delete_post_meta() functions don’t know how to deal with post revision IDs. add_post_meta() does, it uses the following block of code to make sure the passed $post_id is a real post, not a revision: ``` if ( $the_post = wp_is_post_revision($post_id) ) $post_id = $the_post; ``` This is important because the global $post_id when a post is being saved is for the revision, not the real post. Are You Ready For The Digital TV Conversion? This PSA should help you understand the upcoming switch to digital television. (via) Comfort, Thy Name Is Sumo I sink into a strange, giant blue marshmallow and sigh contentedly. I balked at this new furniture. I balk at anything that I don’t actually pick out. I didn’t pick this out, Casey acquired it on his own. Our home is small and I am very picky about what goes into it. This was a beanbag. A beanbag? I can’t think of a more immature piece of furniture. Libraries vs. IT Departments The Chronicle‘s Tech Therapy podcast last week featured Libraries vs. IT Departments. (Via.) xkcd Against DRM I think Richard M. Stallman would agree with xkcd: DRM is evil. It’s bad for both customers and content creators — even Hilary Rosen and Steve Jobs have their doubts about it. Got Wood? You can get a carved wood replica Macintosh 128 or faux-wood vinyl wrap for your Mac Mini, but ASUS is demoing a series of bamboo-covered computers and Fujitsu is showing their Cedar concept. And then Miniot has a series of wooden cases for your iPhone and iPod touch. Olde Skool iPod Cases Contexture Design‘s iPod classic and nano cases made of reclaimed 45 RPM vinyl or audio cassettes are just fine. Too bad they’re all sold out. Edward Tufte On The iPhone’s UI Design Edward “to clarify add detail” Tufte, who criticizes the PowerPointing of America, earlier this year posted a video on the iPhone’s UI design. He loves the photo viewer (except the grid-lines between images are too big), he loves the web browser (except the navigation bar takes up too much space), he calls the weather app an elegant way to demo your iPhone to friends (but says it’s devoid of information), and calls the stock market app cartoonish. How Wikipedia Works When Phoebe Ayers isn’t hanging out at ROFLcon she’s probably doing something related to Wikipedia, so I’m looking forward to reading How Wikipedia Works: And How You Can Be a Part of It. Extra points: Phoebe and her co-authors somehow convinced their publisher to release the entire work under the GFDL, the same license Wikipedia uses. You could read the entire thing online for free, but that’s the easy part. Beat It: Instant Rimshot Scott Carver has his hand in a number of projects — The Penny Jam is especially outstanding — but his Instant Rimshot is one of those silly infectious sites that’s you can’t help but share. Another Reason I’m Glad I Left Verizon I received the following message from Clickatell, the SMS gateway provider I use to programmatically send text messages to cell phones: Please be advised that US carrier Verizon Wireless has announced that they will be charging an additional 3c per SMS for all application originated mobile terminated messaging beginning November 1, 2008. This increase will apply to standard rate and premium programs only through the Verizon Wireless network. Transaction fees will not apply to Free-2-End-User, Mobile Giving or Non-Profit organizational programs, according to Verizon. WordPress Event Calendaring Plugins I actually use Event Calendar, which has been abandoned for some time. Looking at the alternatives listed in the Plugin Directory, Calendar, Events Calendar, and Gigs Calendar add full calendar management features to WordPress. While ICS Calendar, iCal Events, and Upcoming Events, simply offer the ability to display calendar data from elsewhere. What I liked about the old Event Calendar plugin is how events were posts. Creating an event started with creating a new post. Converting MySQL Character Sets This Gentoo Wiki page suggests dumping the table and using iconv to convert the characters, then insert the dump into a new table with the new charset. Alex King solved a different problem: his apps were talking UTF8, but his tables were Latin1. His solution was to dump the tables, change the charset info in the dump file, then re-insert the contents. Tracking Aircraft Movements From Justin: real-time flight tracking. You can even overlay it on Google Earth. None of them as pretty as Aaron Koblin’s Flightplan, though. Acronym Overload: IIS + ISAPI + CAS I’m working to integrate an application on a remote-hosted IIS server into our CAS environment. CASisapi (svn trunk or svn tags/production) may do the trick, though Phil Sladen struggled with it (in 2005). There’s reason to doubt it. Not only is the sparse information all old, I first learned about it from a page full of broken links and the apparent author recommends against it. There’s a little more information here for those who can read Danish. Sarah Palin’s Debate Strategy Flowchart Via Jon Link: Sarah Palin’s debate strategy flowchart. Eh. At least she had a strategy. What’s McCain’s plan going to be for tonight? Autoerotica, Detailed Photos Of The silver SUV apparently backed out into the street so fast that it struck and flipped the blue car, then mounted it. Nobody appears to have been seriously hurt, so we all have a guilt-free pass to mock the, um, compromising situation. Found in Paula Wirth‘s photo stream. Demetri Martin Flips His Chart You’ll find more than a few of Demetri Martin‘s (his site) videos on the web (one, two, quotes). Though I think he’s particularly good at powerpoint comedy and this flipchart thing, you’d think he doesn’t like to do interviews. Solaris’ CacheFS Could Be The Space Ship I’ve Been Looking For Joerg Moellenkamp‘s post explaining CacheFS has me excited: Long ago, admins didn’t want to manage dozens of operating system installations. Instead of this they wanted to store all this data on a central fileserver (you know, the network is the computer). Thus netbooting Solaris and SunOS was invented. But there was a problem: All the users started to work at 9 o’clock. They switched on their workstations and the load on the fileserver and the network got higher and higher. This Stone Laid By L.G. Bogus Physically located in Katoomba; found in Seb Chan‘s photo stream. Do WordPress Pages Better With bSuite WordPress‘ Pages feature makes the popular blogging platform a sophisticated CMS. bSuite adds a few features to make it even better. Write excerpts, tag, and categorize your pages WordPress excerpts are an underused but powerful feature that allow you to explain to your readers why they should read the page you wrote. Tagging and categorization of pages help improve the findability of those pages, especially in search engines. What Is Social Media? Social Media in Plain English and RSS In Plain English, among others from Common Craft among the best explanations you’ll find. Knowledge, Distilled And Sketched On Index Cards Maslow without the pyramid, found at Jessica Hagy’s “Indexed”. She posts new explanations of the world daily. More available in her book. Website Performance vs. Crawl Rate Simple fact of The Google Economy: people can’t find stuff if it’s not indexed in major search engines. A slow site might not seem as bad as blocking the crawlers that search engines use to index your content, but it does seriously affect the depth and frequency of crawling they do. The above is Google’s report of their crawling activity on a site I’ve been trying to optimize server performance on. Beginner’s Guide to DataPortability, The Video DataPortability – Connect, Control, Share, Remix from Smashcut on Vimeo. From DataPortability.org: The DataPortability Project is a group created to promote the idea that individuals have control over their data by determing how they can use it and who can use it. This includes access to data that is under the control of another entity. You should be able to decide what you do with that data and how it gets used by others Open Source solutions are preferred to closed source proprietary solutions Bottom-up distributed solutions are preferred to top down centralized solutions My DevCamp Lightning Talk Hi, I’m Casey. I developed Scriblio, which is really just a faceted search and browse plugin for WordPress that allows you to use it as a library catalog or digital library system (or both). I’m not the only one to misuse WordPress that way. Viddler is a cool YouTube competitor built atop WordPress that allows you to tag and comment inside the timeline. StayPress is a property management and booking system also built atop WordPress. Scaling PHP This two year old post about Rasmus Lerdorf’s PHP scaling tips (slides) is interesting in the context of what we’ve learned since then. APC now seems common, and it’s supposedly built-in to PHP6. Still, I’d be interested in seeing an update. Are MySQL prepared statements still slow? And that’s where Rasmus’ latest presentation comes in. We don’t learn anything about MySQL prepared statements, but we do learn how to find choke points in our applications using callgrind and other tools. Scared Of The Dark? Who knew an ad that targeted our fear of the dark could work so well or playfully? Then again, what would this ad feature if it played here in the US? Do You Still Use Your Walking Desk? Michael Pratt asked me recently: Do you still use your treadmill desk? Do you continue to find it beneficial? I love the idea of these things, but worry a little that I might tire of it in practice, or that it might be difficult to work at it for long periods. It may seem a perfect opportunity to revisit my old walking desk blog post, but that just raises the guilt level I feel every time I see the thing unused. Sweet Business Cards This handful of business cards is good for a little design inspiration. And here’s 70 more if you need an extra shot. Thanks to Frank for the tip. Amazon To Offer Content Delivery Services Via an email from the Amazon Web Services group today: …we are excited to share some early details with you about a new offering we have under development here at AWS — a content delivery service. This new service will provide you a high performance method of distributing content to end users, giving your customers low latency and high data transfer rates when they access your objects. The initial release will help developers and businesses who need to deliver popular, publicly readable content over HTTP connections. The URL Is The Citation From Jessamyn: “don’t toss up a bunch of bibliographic citations when a decent URL will do. You’re online, act like you’re online.” Yet Another Encryption Crack Those kwazy kids will quack anything now. Stream ciphers may never have been expected to be that secure, but Adi Shamir’s cube attack breaks them like so many, um, bits of data. Michael Pick Screencast Master Professional screencast producer Michael Pick has joined Automattic and shuttered Smashcut, his production company. It’s not all bad, though. He’s been busy making instructional videos for WordPress.com (many of which are useful for WordPress.org users), explaining things like how to manage tags or use the Press This! feature, and answering the question “What should I do first?” What does this suggest about the pro screencasting marketplace? Pick says “this is a huge underdeveloped niche, [with fewer] screencasters with chops than there are jobs. Google Minus Google From The Register: Inspired by a recent New York Times piece that questioned whether the Mountain View search monopoly is morphing into a media company — which it is — Finnish blogger Timo Paloheimo promptly unveiled Google minus Google. Key in the word “YouTube,” and the first result is Wikipedia. Open Source Citation Extractors For Non-Structured Data hmm-citation-extractor, ParsCit and FreeCite (not to be confused with FreeCite, the F/OSS EndNote-like app). FreeCite is available as a service and a download. Still, wouldn’t a simple URL be easier than all these unstructured citation formats? Installing PHP APC On RHEL/CentOS Yum up some packages: ``` yum install php-pear php-devel httpd-devel </td> </tr> </table> </div> 2. Install APC using pear (the pear installer is smarter than the pecl installer): When the installer asks about APXS, say ‘no’. </p> <div class="wp_syntax"> <table> <tr> <td class="code"> ``` pear install pecl/apc </td> </tr> </table> </div> Tell PHP to load APC: ``` echo extension=apc. Some Might Suggest Banning Sticky Notes From The Office EepyBird’s Sticky Note experiment from Eepybird on Vimeo. I have some experience with Post-It Notes in the office, and though that achieved international recognition, it doesn’t quite compare to what we see in this video. Our 5,300 Post-It Notes just don’t compare the 280,951 we see slinking across the screen now. Web Form Validation With jQuery Josh Bush’s Masked Input Plugin and Paulo P. Marinas’ AlphaNumeric are both jQuery plugins to prevent input of invalid data in web forms. GreenSQL | Open Source Database Security GreenSQL promises to protect SQL databases against SQL injections. GreenSQL works as a reverse proxy and has built in support for MySQL. The logic is based on evaluation of SQL commands using a risk scoring matrix as well as blocking known db administrative commands (DROP, CREATE, etc). CSS Transformations in Safari/WebKit (and Chrome too?) The cool browsers support radius corners, but Safari supports CSS transformations that allow developers to scale, skew, and rotate objects on the page like we’re used to doing in PostScript. And better than that, we can animate those transformations over time — all without any JavaScript. Fire up Safari or Chrome and mouse over the examples here. The screencast at the top is from the menu on that page. There are, obviously, better uses for these transforms, but it’s easy to see it at work there. Browser-Based JSON Editors JSONLint, a JSON validator, was the tool I needed a while ago to be able to play with JSON as format for exchanging data in some APIs I was working on a while ago. And now I like JSON well enough that I’m thinking of using it as an internal data format in one of my applications, especially because it’s relatively easy to work with in JavaScript. Or, at least that’s the promise. NFL Powered By WordPress WordPress.com VIP hosts some high-traffic sites, including Gizmodo’s live coverage of the iPhone 3g introduction. Now that the NFL has selected the service for their blogging we’ll get a chance to see how they handle the Superbowl rush. Michael Stephens Teaching on WordPress MU Michael Stephens is now using WordPress MU to host his classes online, and that opening page is really sweet. It’s hardly the first time somebody’s used a blog to host course content, but I like where he’s going with it. We’re significantly expanding our use of WordPress at Plymouth, and using it to replace WebCT/Blackboard is definitely an option. The biggest difference may be that course content in blogs is public, by default, but content in Blackboard is shared only with the members of the course. Google’s Own Satellite It’s not truly “Google’s own,” but the internet giant will get exclusive use of the images for mapping purposes, according to Reuters: GeoEye Inc said it successfully launched into space on Saturday its new GeoEye-1 satellite, which will provide the U.S. government, Google Earth users and others the highest-resolution commercial color satellite imagery on the market. Of course, Google doesn’t need a satellite to watch us all very closely. Thesis and f8 — Two Sweet Commercial WordPress Themes Good work deserves compensation, but commercial themes are still unusual in the world of WordPress. The new themes directory has well over 200 free themes listed, and the old directory had thousands of them. Still, I like Thesis and f8. Actually, I like a bunch of themes from Graph Paper Press (get them all for $99!). And, as we see WordPress adding so many options that require theme support, the promise of free lifetime upgrades for Thesis is also appealing. Installing memcached On CentOS/RHEL Using info from CentOS forums, Sunny Walia and Ryan Boren, here’s how I got memcached running on my Dotster VPS: Install libevent: ``` wget http://www.monkey.org/~provos/libevent-1.3e.tar.gz tar zxvf libevent-1.3e.tar.gz cd libevent-1.3e ./configure make make install ``` Install memcached ``` wget http://danga.com:80/memcached/dist/memcached-1.2.5.tar.gz tar zxvf memcached-1.2.5.tar.gz cd memcached-1.2.5 ./configure make make install ``` We will start the server to use 30 megs of ram (-m 30), listen on ip 127. Want: Canon’s EOS 50D News of Canon’s new EOS 50D with ISO sensitivity as high as 12,800 has my mouth watering. I used to push my black and white film so much that development times were as long as 45 minutes (I bought super cheap ASA125 and pushed it to 1000) just so I could get decent natural light. I leave my Canon Digital Rebel set for 1600 and usually only remember to knock it back when I go outside and find I can’t shoot wide open. Axiotron modbook: Cool, but bad timing? The Axiotron modbook is cool, I gotta admit, but with so many rumors of a MacBook Touch due this fall, I suspect that potential buyers might be holding their breath. But, on the other hand, those people have been waiting for a Mac tablet since Jobs killed the Newton, and rumors of a tablet are hardly unusual — see 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008. Still, the whispers of an over-grown iPhone device are getting a lot of echos lately. Jon Stewart vs. GOP/Sarah Palin Media Machine Dragonflyer X6 UAV Remote Control Helicopter Is Sneaky, Awesome I so want one of these sweet Draganflyer X6 helicopters. The two pound powerhouse can carry up to one pound of camera equipment, carrying it smooth enough to get decent video and stills. More videos are at the Dragonfly website, including one which supposedly demonstrates that it’s quiet enough for wildlife photo work (scroll down and look for “hawk”). Who knows how much it costs, but I requested a quote. Automated Website Screen Captures on OS X I’m not sure exactly what I’ll do with it, but thanks to this tip about webkit2png, I now know how to get screen captures of websites. Maybe useful for archiving. Who knows. WordPress CAS Integration Plugin CAS — Central Authentication Service — has no logo, but it’s still cool. Heterogeneous environments like mine offer hundreds of different online services or applications that each need to authenticate the user. Instead of throwing our passwords around like confetti, CAS allows those applications to identify their users based on session information managed by the CAS service. It also obviates the need for users to offer their credentials to potentially untrusted systems — think externally hosted systems. Bush Trying To Figure Out How To Invite Volleyball Team To White House Sure, volleyball is the new gymnastics, so much so that the White House posted a picture of Bush with Olympians Misty May-Treanor and Kerri Walsh in their “News & Policy” section. Chalk it up to August being a slow news month. Still, I can just imagine the old man telling Laura “I think you should invite those volleyball girls to the house sometime.” And Laura, I hope, responds: “You can watch them shake it on TV if you need another look. Joshua Longo’s Longoland Is Full Of Fuzzy, But Not Cuddly Animals Brooklynite Joshua Longo‘s crazy animals are showing at the Shelburne Museum in Vermont through October 26th. Sweet for me: I’ll be in town this weekend. I’m hoping to check it out. Are Rock Operas Too Weird For Remixing? I love remixes, mashups, and covers. I love it when bad songs get good covers, I love it more when it’s a bad cover. I’m a fan of Coverville and I get excited every time I find yet another version of Smells Like Teen Spirit (hey, this is just a sampling: lullaby version, Patti Smith, The Bad Plus, another jazz version, and another jazz version, a string version, no, two string versions, a tango, a damn chant version, some lounge thing, and one for the opium lounge). But I think I have yet to hear a decent cover or remix of a track from a rock opera. Take One Night In Bangkok: sexing it up doesn’t help. You just can’t out rock a rock opera. (Really, look for yourself.) It might help that Chess featured a character loosely based on eccentric chess master Bobby Fischer, but rock operas just might be too weird for remixing. Though…I’d like to be surprised. Perhaps a folk version? Can Design Save Democracy? From the New York Times: How Design Can Save Democracy …recently, the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law issued a report outlining the importance of well-designed, easy to understand ballots. Duh. And, I guess we’re giving up on electronic voting. 2.6 Million Self-Hosted WordPress Sites And Counting The huge problem with open source software is that there are no sales numbers to show how many people are using it. We know that WordPress.com hosts over three million blogs. We know EduBlogs powers nearly 200,000. But how many sites are hosted using the original, downloadable, self-installed and managed version of WordPress? Now, the automatic update notification system in WordPress gives answers to that question and others. Most hugely: over 2. Sweet Drobo Home RAID I’m not sure who Robin Harris is, but he’s mighty sure home RAID won’t fly. He’s just so certain that consumers are stupider than him and that vendors’ imaginations are as limited as his. And if Harris was right, we’d probably still be using 8088 microprocessors and getting by on less than a megabyte of RAM, because “nobody needs more than 640K.” Too bad then that Data Robotics‘s Drobo seems to do everything Harris says home RAID can’t. OLPC Origins: US and Taiwan’s Hardware Lovechild OLPC Origins: US and Taiwan’s Hardware Lovechild A deeper than expected history of the OLPC’s development. Part two of a three part series. SSD For My BacBook Pro? Sure, we can get a MacBook Air with 64GB solid state disk (SSD), but what about upgrading a MacBook Pro? Ryan Block put one in his MBP and got a 20 second startup. Ridata released a 128GB 2.5“ SATA SSD in January that looks compatible with my MacBook Pro. Newegg has it for under $500. For comparison, however, a 250GB 2.5” spinning platter SATA drive can be had for under $100. More Web Performance Tips From Steve Souders Hearing Steve Souders at WordCamp last week got me thinking about website performance, so I went looking for more. The slides from his WordCamp talk are online, but he gave a similar talk at Google I/O which got videotaped and posted richer detail than his slides alone will ever reveal. Also on his blog: Use the Google AJAX Libraries API when you don’t have a CDN, and a post that asks why make users wait to download all your javascript before they see the page if you’re only going to use 25% of it at first? CommentPress Comments The rights to my Library Technology Report on Open-Source Software for Libraries have reverted back to me, so I’m posting the text online under a CC-BY-SA license. More importantly, I’m using it as an opportunity to play with how longer-than-blog texts can be represented online. The Institute for the Future of the Book has spent some time thinking about that very question, and their answer is CommentPress, a theme for WordPress that enables commenting on each paragraph of a text and organizes posts into a book-like table of contents with the first (and oldest) posts on top. MySQL Performance Monitoring Tips From The MySQL Newsletter Google turned this up, but i have no idea how old it is: How to Monitor MySQL’s performance. The War On Photography Amanda Mooney posted a note about being told she needed corporate permission to take a picture in a store. Mooney’s interest was in telling others how much she likes the products and the brand — exactly the sort of word of mouth advertising most brands are anxious for, but imagine some more pedestrian uses: what about the customer who wants a friend’s opinion about a new skirt? Can that customer snap a cell phone pic to send? Global Voices On WordPress I hadn’t heard of Global Voices Online, a community generated global group news blog, until Jeremy Clarke spoke of it at WordCamp. And I didn’t think the site, with it’s do-good premise, worked until I actually explored it for a while. But, well, it’s a bit fascinating. Global Voices grew out of a one-day conference in December 2004 at Harvard Law School which brought together bloggers from around the world to discuss ways in which the new medium could foment global dialogue at the grassroots level. Quercus PHP To Java Compiler vs. WordPress Emil Ong is the Chief Evangelist and a lead developer for Caucho Technology, the developers of the Quercus PHP to Java compiler. The idea, I guess, is to write in PHP, deploy in Java, which some people say is better supported by the “enterprise.” Ong claims 26% performance improvement over Apache + mod_php + APC. That sounds great, I suppose, but it’s less than what Chris Lea suggests is possible if you simply replace Apache with Nginx. Chris Lea On Nginx And WordPress “Apache is like Microsoft Word, it has a million options but you only need six. Nginx does those six things, and it does five of them 50 times faster than Apache.” —Chris Lea. Why? No forking. No loading of unnecessary components. Fast CGI. And to prove it’s not as complex as you might think, he’s installing it live. The session has eight minutes left, can he do it? Yes, he did. Mark Jaquith On WordPress Security For Plugin Developers I’ve been pretty aware of the risks of SQL injection and am militant about keeping my database interactions clean. Mark Jaquith today reminded me about the need to make sure my browser output is filtered through clean_url(), sanitize_url(), and attribute_escape(). Furthermore, we all need to remember current_user_can(), check_admin_referer(), and nonces. Steve Souders On Website Performance Steve Souders: 10% of the problem is server performance, 90% of problem is browser activity after the main html is downloaded. He wrote the book and developed YSlow, so he should know. JavaScripts are downloaded serially and block other activity. Most JavaScript functions aren’t used at OnLoad. We could split the JS and only load essential functions up front, and load all the rest later. How much might that help? He says 25% to 50%. Will Norris on OAuth and DiSo Will Norris talking about things OAuth, OpenID, and Diso at WordCamp. Demonstrates/fakes an OAuth authentication and authorization process with WordPress for iPhone app. Does this matter? OAuth support is slated for WP 2.7, and people are finally getting smart about linking all this stuff without throwing passwords around “like confetti.” Aaron Brazell On Blog Search And Findability Aaron Brazell at WordCamp is talking about search and finability “not SEO.” Riffing on Ambient Findability, he asks: Can people find your blog? Can people find their way around your blog? Can people find your content and services despite your blog? Remember: Your blog serves as a nexus for information about you. You serve as the nexus for trust and relevance. Going Further? Make your social content outside your blog searchable, findable via your blog. Johnny Cash’ Hurt Not every song Johnny Cash has covered turned to gold (see Personal jesus), but Hurt is magic. Copying MySQL Usernames and Database Priveleges Now that I’m the nominal MySQL DBA for PSU, it became my job to jimmy up the MySQL user privileges so that the new web server could connect. I’m not sure if this is the fastest, most efficient way to do it, but it worked quickly enough: ``` CREATE TABLE mysql.user_copy SELECT * FROM mysql.user; DELETE FROM mysql.user_copy WHERE Host NOT LIKE 'OLD_HOST_NAME'; UPDATE mysql.user_copy SET Host = 'NEW_HOST_NAME'; INSERT INTO mysql. WordPress Performance Tips Elliott C. Back points to his use of object caching, WP-Cache, and MySQL query caching among the reasons why his site “is so much faster that yours.” The iPhone Apps I’ve Kept Catherine asked me what iPhone apps I recommend, so I went looking. Exposure, WordPress, and Google Mobile App are on the first page of my home screen. Mocha VNC and Band are buried a little deeper, but deserve mention. I’m surprised to say that Loopt and Whrrl disappointed me. iPint was good for one laugh, but it appears to be gone from the store already. Morocco, a decent copy of Othello/Reversi is the only the game that’s still on my phone. Lyceum Vs. WordPress MU The news about BuddyPress has fully shifted my attention from single-blog WordPress installs to multi-user, multi-blog installs. WordPress mu is my platform of choice, but I was quite fond of Lyceum when I first learned of it a while ago. The big perceived advantage of Lyceum is that it uses a unified table structure for all blogs, rather than creating a new set of tables for each blog as WPmu does. Most Expensive iPhone App Yet? Armin Heinrich‘s $999 I Am Rich iPhone app is no longer available on Apple’s app store. Perhaps they felt too ridiculed by The Register to keep it listed? Heinrich says seven people bought it, two by mistake. So, now what’s the most expensive app? OAuth and WordPress I just realized OAuth support is slated for inclusion in WordPress 2.7. It’s not in trunk yet, but that’s no reason not to get up to speed. Scott Gilbertson says OAuth and OpenID are foundations to the open social web, giving apps like WordPress a “secure, centralized means of identifying yourself and a way to control who knows what about you.” Chris Messina, who says we currently treat user credentials “like confetti,” is more than a little excited and is building a series of WordPress Plugins to take advantage of these formats. Is My PHP Script Running Out Of Memory? I’ve got a PHP script that sometimes just dies with no errors to the browser and no messages in the error log. I’ve seen this in the past with scripts that consumed too much memory (yeah, it should have issued an error, but it didn’t, and increasing the memory limit fixed it), but now the memory limit is set pretty high and I’m not sure I want to increase it further. Macintosh Antivirus Software Setting aside questions about the usefulness of antivirus software for Macs, it appears VirusBarrier (commercial) and ClamXav (open source) are the best options. There are others, of course. Added: Avast offers a free version for MacOS X as well. Drill And Burn Republicans John McCain thinks fuel efficiency is for sissies. I guess he figures our oil supply is infinite, or that fossile fuel consumption has no effect on climate change. He probably also thinks the Holocaust was a hoax — somebody should ask him. For now let’s call him a “drill and burn Republican.” Low-Tech HDR: Black Card Mask I’ve been following Ásmundur’s use of multi-exposure HDR for a while, but today I discovered Max Chu’s use of an older, more crafty technique: black card mask. The photo below show’s Ásmundur’s multiple photo technique, but that above is Chu’s. How he do it? Apparently it’s about the same as dodging a photo in the dark room: simply block the light with a card or your hand. Extra: Paul Butzi’s thoughts on dodging and burning in the digital age. DIY Fig Rig Mike Figgis‘ Fig Rig works equally well for guys in sneakers and guys in suits, but they’re not free, which is why you have to love Keith Lewis’ DIY version. PVC is sexy! Displays: Go Long, Go Wide If you want more monitors than you’ve got DVI or VGA ports, your options include adding a video card, using a USB-based display, or this Matrox hack: a small box plugs into your computer’s monitor port, and two or three monitors plug into the box, no software drivers or additional hardware required. If you want to send a video signal further than your monitor’s cable, your options include getting a longer cable (works up to about 50′) or get a different cable. Everybody’s Smarter In Glasses Eyeglasses certainly add something. At least that’s the suggestion of these ads. And, thinking of comparisons: Hitler vs. Chaplin. Found via mirage.studio.7, where they think Le Corbusier‘s glasses are where it’s at. I’m Voting Republican No, I’m not likely to vote for any republican candidates, but this is funny. From the producers: I’m Voting Republican is a satirical look at the likely outcome of another four years of Republican government. The not-so-subtle message behind the film is the importance of a united bloc of citizens willing to take the time and effort to vote Democrat in order to improve America’s domestic and foreign policy. PodCamp Boston Is This Weekend Hey, PodCamp Boston is this weekend. I can’t go, but Sean M. Brown will be and he’s looking for librarians to join him. Web Application Design Book Recommendation I’ve learned to ignore contests on the web. Banner ads that promise prizes if I click the right pixel are the least offensive, but the contests that have me creating content (and then force me to give up my copyright to it) for another person’s gain infuriate me. So when I saw author and experience architect Robert Hoekman Jr‘s post offering a deal, I quickly skipped to the next entry in my reader. WordPress 2.6 Notes WordPress 2.6 is out. It’s cool. Take a look: I’m most excited about automatic tracking of changes to posts and pages, but I’ll also probably come to like the “Press This” feature: if you click “Press This” from a Youtube page it’ll magically extract the video embed code, and if you do it from a Flickr page it’ll make it easy for you to put the image in your post. Web Development Languages David Cloutman pointed to Craiglist’s job ads as an indicator of programming language popularity. Here’s the hit counts for “web design jobs” and “internet engineering jobs” in the Bay Area: <td> PHP </td> <td> Java </td> <td> Ruby </td> <td> Python </td> <td> PERL </td> internet engineering jobs <td> 167 </td> <td> 246 </td> <td> 85 </td> <td> 98 </td> <td> 109 </td> web design jobs <td> 110 </td> <td> 71 </td> <td> 22 </td> <td> 19 </td> <td> 31 </td> <td> </td> Cloutman has a few ideas for what the numbers mean, but I’m just entertained by the data. WordPress 2.6 Plugin and wp-config.php Path Changes Ozh’s tutorial explains the details, but the short story is that we’ll soon get WP_CONTENT_URL and WP_CONTENT_DIR constants. And this is more than just convenience, 2.6 allows site admins to put those directories anywhere they want, so the constants will be the only reliable way of finding that info. Truth Have you ever argued with a member of the Flat Earth Society? It’s futile, because fundamentally they don’t car if something is true or false. To them, the measure of truth is how important it makes them feel. If telling the truth makes them feel important, then it’s true. If telling the truth makes them feel ashamed and small, then it’s false. –from Louis Theroux‘s The Call of the Weird Site Back Online, Further Downtime Expected This site and a number of other projects are hosted on a Mac Mini that normally sits on my desk. Thing is…my desk moved. And, unfortunately, I didn’t confirm the firewall rules for the network in my new office before bringing the machine over. Thankfully Chris was happy to put the Mini on a different VLAN, and that solved everything (my other machines remain on the new “secure” network…ugh). In the no too distant future, however, I’ll be moving the site again. Video Game Controller Family Tree Sock Master did some outstanding work tracing the lineage of video game controllers from 1977 to now without missing any of the weirdness in between. Search Trends vs Community Standards Via MotherJones: Pensacola residents Clinton Raymond McCowen and Kevin Patrick Stevens, producers of a very NSFW website last week faced a judge in an obscenity and racketeering trial for their work. The interesting thing? The defense planned to use Google search trends to demonstrate community standards. “Time and time again you’ll have jurors sitting on a jury panel who will condemn material that they routinely consume in private,” said the defense. Censorship, Unpublishing, and New Media The actual reasons may never be discovered, but Boing Boing, the perennially top ten ranked blog, has “unpublished (NSFW)” stories by, about, or mentioning author and sex columnist Violet Blue (NSFW). Much has already been said about the Orwellianism of “unpublishing” and how it conflicts with the ethics of the web, as well as the incongruence between these actions and Boing Boing’s position on web censorship, media manipulation, and revisionism. New Theme For the past year or so I’ve been wanting to design a non-bloggy theme for this site — a beautiful theme with a magazine-like front page showing the most recent post in a handful of categories. But I’m further from it now than last year, so it’s time to move on. Which isn’t to say that I settled for my new theme. It’s based on Neo-Sapien by Small Potato. I made it a bit wider, the header a bit shorter, and the image is random-ish (random, but cached). WordPress Survey Tools Lorelle and Samir both point to a number of plugins to do surveys within WordPress, but neither of them say any of them are that good. And Samir is pretty disapointed: “at the end of it all, I never did find my ideal online survey tool.” Survey Fly is the best recommendation from both of Lorelle and Samir, but it isn’t WP2.5 compatible and was las updated in summer 2006. It’s also limited to tracking only one survey at a time. Optimizing Inserts/Updates On MySQL Tables When doing a bulk insert/update/change to a MySQL table you can temporarily disable index updates like this: ``` ALTER TABLE $tbl_name DISABLE KEYS ``` …do stuff… ``` ALTER TABLE $tbl_name ENABLE KEYS ``` From the docs: ALTER TABLE ... DISABLE KEYS tells MySQL to stop updating non-unique indexes. ALTER TABLE ... ENABLE KEYS then should be used to re-create missing indexes. Truemors Powered By WordPress In the “They Did This With WordPress” category (though from about a year ago, sorry) comes Truemors, a Digg, del.icio.us, Reddit clone from Guy Kawasaki. Calling it a clone might be a backhanded non-compliment, but the truth is that it does a credible job in this increasingly crowded space*. And it’s built on WordPress. The relevant plugins are WP-PostRatings and Share This. Electric Pulp did the design, and the whole thing apparently went live quickly on a tiny budget. Kitty Porn Newton isn’t really a kitten, but he is cute. Anyway, I got a new video camera and all I’ve done with it so far is shoot closeups of a cat. Is that why I got it? At least it’s not as bad as this. Music is Jungle Struttin’, by The Lions. 1975 Programming vs. Today’s Computer Architecture Poul-Henning Kamp, the guy behind the Varnish reverse proxy, talks about 1975 programming: It used to be that you had the primary store, and it was anything from acoustic delaylines filled with mercury via small magnetic dougnuts via transistor flip-flops to dynamic RAM. And then there were the secondary store, paper tape, magnetic tape, disk drives the size of houses, then the size of washing machines and these days so small that girls get disappointed if think they got hold of something else than the MP3 player you had in your pocket. MySQL Bug? After an upgrade to MySQL 5.0.51b on RHEL 5 I started seeing curious results in a fairly common query. Here’s a simplified version: ``` SELECT ID, post_date_gmt FROM wp_posts GROUP BY ID ORDER BY post_date_gmt DESC LIMIT 5 ``` What I expected was to get a handful of post ID numbers sorted in descending order by the post_date_gmt. Instead, I got a list of post IDs sorted in ascending order by the ID number. Huh. I wonder what he thinks about the iPhone 3g? David Lynch doesn’t like the iPhone. At all. At least not for watching movies. Maybe the guy doesn’t take the subway much. Abandoned Malls What is it about abandonment that’s so compelling? From Chernobyl and Pripyat to mental hospitals to lost theme parks from Korea to California, we can’t help but stare at darkly vacant buildings. Now add malls to the list. And put South China Mall, in Dongguan at the top of it. Unlike most every other expanse of empty hallways we can name, this one’ been empty since it opened in 2005. .SHP to MySQL GIS data seems to come in .shp (shape?) files, but it’s not like MySQL knows what to do with those. this MySQL forum post points to a PHP tool and Windows executable that promise to convert the .shp data into something more useful to MySQL. Superfluo explains a little more, and there’s lots of .shp data to be had here. Dear Steve I’m really glad to see the news about the iPhone 3g. I’m interested in how the new mobile me service takes a small step toward cloud-based storage services that I’ve wanted for a while. And the news that Max OS X 10.6 “Snow Leopard” will focus on speed and stability, rather than features is good, especially considering the following. You see, I’m a fan of Apple products. Not because I like the brand, but because the products work for me. Could BuddyPress Go The Distance? Facebook and MySpace are trying to turn themselves into application platforms (how else will they monetize their audience?). Google is pushing OpenSocial to compete with it. But no matter what features they offer their users, they user still orbits the site. Scot Hacker talks of BuddyPress changing the game, turning “social networks” from destination websites, to features you’ll find on every website. And the “social network” is the internet, with all those sites sharing information meaningfully. Detecting Broken Images in JavaScript We’ve become accustomed to link rot and broken images in nearly all corners of the web, but is there a way to keep things a bit cleaner? K.T. Lam of Hong Kong University of Science and Technology came up with this sweet trick using jQuery and readyState to find and replace broken images: ``` jQuery('span#gbs_'+info.bib_key).parents('ul').find('img.bookjacket[@readyState*="uninitialized"]').replaceWith('<img src="'+info.thumbnail_url+'" alt="'+strTitle+'" height="140" width="88" /'); ``` And it works really well, but only in IE. Find Stuff By Minimum Bounding Rectangle MySQL offers ENVELOPE() to find the minimum bounding rectangle of a geometric object. The result is a polygon with four segments, defined by five points. It took me a while to make sense of it, partially because the only documentation that I’ve run across so far for POLYGON() syntax is in the ENVELOPE() function mentioned above. I also had to draw a picture to think it through. They write this: POLYGON(( MINX MINY, MAXX MINY, MAXX MAXY, MINX MAXY, MINX MINY )), I think this (in pseudocode-ish form): POLYGON(( $point_a, $point_b, $point_c, $point_d, $point_a )), with the $point_s corresponding to the diagram. Working With Spatial Data in MySQL It’s MySQL spatial data week here, though I am spreading out the posts to, um, ease the pain (or boredom). Anyway, here are some commands/functions I don’t want to forget about later: Start with an existing table called geometry, add a spatial column and index it: ``` ALTER TABLE geometry ADD coord POINT NOT NULL; CREATE SPATIAL INDEX coord ON geometry (coord); ``` Insert some data; think in terms of POINT(X Y) or POINT(lat lon): bSuite 4 beta 2 I announced the bSuite 4 public beta not long ago, now I’ve just posted a new version to SVN that addresses some of the bugs and fleshes out some of the features. I have yet to update the bSuite page, but here’s a preview of what’s new or changed: Additional stats reports WP2.5-style tag input tools on the Page edit screen* WP2.5-style category selector on the Page edit screen* WP2. Calculating Distance Between Points In MySQL MySQL has some powerful, and perhaps underused spatial extensions, but the most interesting functions are still unimplemented: “Note: Currently, MySQL does not implement these functions…” Among those as-yet unimplemented functions is DISTANCE(). Alternatives can be found here and here, though neither is clean or simple. I wonder if a simple MBRContains() is good enough, though… Anticipating Steve Jobs’ WWDC Keynote Will it be a thinner or fatter iPhone? Will it record live video? Will it have a metal cutting laser? To heck with the iPhone rumors. We know the story, all we’re waiting on are the details. I’m more interested in what we don’t know. What aren’t we expecting? Will there be “one more thing”? (thanks to roblef for the sweet photo.) MySQL Documentation Found in the MySQL 5.0 Reference Manual: Related(g1,g2,pattern_matrix) Returns 1 or 0 to indicate whether the spatial relationship specified by pattern_matrix exists between g1 and g2. Returns –1 if the arguments are NULL. The pattern matrix is a string. Its specification will be noted here if this function is implemented. (emphasis mine.) Converting a WP.org Site To WPMU I have a lot of WordPress sites I manage and I’ve been thinking about converting them to WordPress MU sites to consolidate management. Today I attempted the first one, about.Scriblio.net. There’s no proper way of doing it that I found, but here’s what I did: Create a new site in MU Create the users in the correct order (user ID numbers must match) Replace the posts, postmeta, comments, terms, term_taxonomy, and term_relationship tables with those from the original blog Copy the contents of wp-content/uploads to wp-content/files Update the posts table with the new path (both for regular content and attachments, see below) Hope it all worked Somebody is likely to say “just export the content in WordPress XML format and import it in the new blog,” but that person doesn’t use permalinks based on post_id. bSuite 4 Public Beta I’ve had a lot of features on the table for bSuite for a while, but this recently discovered comment from John Pratt (whose Smorgasboard.net is a lot of fun), kicked me into gear to actually get working on it again. The result is bSuite 4, which is probably what bSuite 3 should have been all along. The big news is that I’ve finally revamped stats tracking to work with caching mechanisms like WP Cache, WP Super Cache, Varnish, or whatever else. JSON on RHEL & PHP 5.1.6 Stuck with PHP 5.1.6 on RHEL or even CentOS (and a sysadmin who insists on using packages)? Need JSON? I did. The solution is easy: yum install php-devel<br /> pecl install json The pecl install failed when it hit an 8MB memory limit, and I was clueless about how to fix it until I learned that the pecl installer ignores the php.ini. Turns out the best solution is to use the pear installer (which does follow php. Happy Birthday WordPress WordPress was released to the world five years ago today. Celebrate in SFO, Sydney, or with me at whatever bar I find myself at in New Hampshire tonight. DM me with any ideas. Another Gun Control Analogy “Gun control is like trying to reduce drunk driving by making it tougher for sober people to own cars.” via Many Eyes, Bugs Being Shallow, All That WordPress 2.5.1 added a really powerful feature to register_taxonomy(): automatic registration of permalinks and query vars to match the taxonomy. Well, theoretically it added that feature. It wasn’t working in practice. After some searching yesterday and today, I finally found the bug and worked up a fix. I made a diff and set off to open a ticket in Trac. On the one hand I’m glad I searched first, because it turns out that a ticket on the very same issue was opened on May 16th and it already has a fix. Where Do They Find The Time? Clay Shirky recently posted (wayback) a transcript of his Web 2.0 Expo keynote. …If you take Wikipedia as a kind of unit, all of Wikipedia, the whole project — every page, every edit, every talk page, every line of code, in every language that Wikipedia exists in — that represents something like the cumulation of 100 million hours of human thought. Then Shirky asks us to compare that to television. ROFLcon Turns Me On To Ustream.TV I was amused to learn Nathan was officially at ROFLcon on behalf of his library. I wasn’t representing my work and wasn’t on the lookout for work-related tools, but I found some anyway. Universities have been anxious to get into live video casting for a while. Our first effort eventually became PBS (NET, ETS and PBS histories). Later, we invested huge amounts of money in interactive television (ITV), but enormous costs and complexities limit the use of such facilities. Anglia Ruskin University Faces Criticism 2.0 Anglia Ruskin University is in Cambridge, but it’s not Cambridge University. It’s likely that none of us would even know of Anglia Ruskin‘s existence if it wasn’t for Naomi Sugai, but she’s not interested in promoting the school. She’s got complaints, she’s fed up, and she’s taking her case to YouTube. Well, she took her case to YouTube, and then she got suspended. The video that’s up now doesn’t seem suspension-worthy, but the Telegraph story suggests there’s a different version that may slander an ARU administrator, and that’s the reason ARU gives for suspending her. 2002 Honda Civic iPod/iPhone Install Last weekend, while I was putting an iPod interface into my Scion I did the same thing for my 2002 Honda Civic. Using Ben Johnson’s story as a guide, I bought a PIE HON98-AUX interface and dove in. Aside from tools (screwdrivers and 8 and 10mm sockets), you’ll need: The interface adapter Audio wiring — I used a 6′ RCA to 1/8th inch cable from Radio Shack Power — I used a Belkin car charger plugged into this 12v extension cord I picked up from Radio Shack I also recommend a sufficient quantity of good beer or other beverage. Snakes On A Plane It was only after I’d taken my seat and David Weinberger began his ROFLcon keynote that I realized there was a box of t-shirts at the side of the room with a sign over them that said something along the lines of “FREE: t-shirts from worn out memes.” Thinking that the internet might be old enough now that the old memes might be resurrected in some ironic way, I almost jumped over Jessamyn to rifle through the box and claim a prize. Retro Atari 2600 Video Game Cover Art Sure you played Asteroids and Defender, but did you play these? 2004 Scion xB iPod/iPhone Install Based on this story about an iPod interface install I purchased a PIE TOY03-AUX aux input adapter so I could finally listen to my iPhone without using the lousy FM transmitter. Sure, I coulda bought a new car, as the manufacturers seem to have finally come to their senses and started including such inputs, but I refuse to buy another car until I can have one that gets well over 40MPG. Barbed Wire, The Deeper History Of It turns out that, like most everything else, barbed wire shows up at auctions. Not just shiny new stuff, you’ll find used stuff too. Expect it to be at least a little rusty, and look out for clumps of hair or other things stuck to it. Whether that adds value or not is unclear. Where could we look to find out? The Antique Barbed Wire Society‘s Barbed Wire Collector Magazine might be your best source. My Flickr Complaint Some whine about movies on Flickr, others about the switch to Yahoo IDs, I simply want better rendering of transparent PNGs as JPGs. Cats Want To Eat Your Brains NYT: parasites in your brain are driving you to raise cats in hopes that they eat you. Hat tip to Cliff. Flickr Adds Video I asked for it in 2004, before YouTube, Vimeo, Viddler, or Revver appeared on the scene, and before MySpace and Facebook added video sharing as a feature. Four years later they finally added it. Neil Rickards should get credit for creating the theme of “long photos” (Neil called them “moving photos”). And anybody who was around then isn’t the least surprised at how angry some are now about the new feature (see sarcastic response to that). The Internet, According To mememolly Identity Management Going Commodity? Atlassian’s Crowd SSO and IdM solution has the kind of online pricing you’d expect for word processing software. I don’t know if it’s any good, but it’s a sign that identity management getting boring. Why Can’t I Re-Check Spam With Akismet & WordPress 2.5? (Workaround) I recently installed WordPress 2.5 and among the changes I noticed was a loss of Akismet‘s “Recheck Spam” button (or something like that. It didn’t seem like such a problem at the time, but then I got swamped with so much trackback and comment spam that the flood DOS‘d my server. I had to disable comments and trackbacks for a time, which brought my server back, but my moderation queue still had over 500 comments waiting for me. Christian Nymphos Not that you’d mistake our sites, but Christian Nymphos uses the same theme I use here at MaisonBisson. Well, I modified the theme quite a bit for my use, but…. Well, regarding the title of the site: Pastor Bob Snowdon probably approves of any and all efforts to reclaim “nympho” from its pejorative purgatory. Cargo Aircraft Safety Who knew FedEx and UPS planes crashed so often? (Blame the intronetz for making this too easy to discover.) UPS plane catches on fire, lands in Philadelphia (2006). Apparently the source of the fire remains a mystery, as with a few other UPS fires. FedEx planes have crashed and burned in Tallahassee (2002) and Memphis (2006). In 1994 a fired FedEx pilot attempted to murder flight crew with hammer and hijack the plane. SWIFT: Another Ham Handed Attempt At Social Networking All yesterday and this morning I’ve been seeing tweets about SWIFT, so I finally googled it to see what it was about. The service promises to help organize conferences in some new 2.0 way, but it looks to be about as preposterous a social network as WalMart’s aborted 2006 attempt at copying MySpace. There are some real lessons here, however, about how to court the early adopters that are essential to making an application that depends on user activity successful: WordPress 2.5 Out, MaisonBisson Upgraded WordPress 2.5 is out (and the WordPress site got a facelift), and I’ve already upgraded MaisonBisson using SVN. The changes are exciting, and seem to reflect a tradition that’s developing in WordPress of delivering some really revolutionary features in the x.5 release. The loss of file-based object caching was a bit of a problem, as my VPS‘s load average jumped to over 30 pretty quickly after the upgrade. I tried Mark Jaquith‘s apc-object-cache enabler and saw load average drop back to 2 or so, but I also saw tag and category names disappear and discovered other weirdness. Make Your Own Sign I had fun with the signs in Taiwan (jet powered baby stroller and men’s bathroom signs, for example), but why travel around the world for these things when you can make them at home? Create warning signs, protest signs, church signs, library catalog cards, or whatever. Tibet Open Letter and other innovative uses of WordPress All Things Digital is interesting. Parents would say My Baby Our Baby.com is a little more important. But Tibet Open Letter is as real as the violence. Two things to note: all of them are based on WordPress, and those who discuss Tibet probably risk being listed by the Chinese government as a trouble maker. Evil Google Aaron Swartz‘s Bubble City, Chapter 8: He sent the report to his superior and wandered off for a bit to dwell on the power he had as a faceless person deep inside an office park in Mountain View to know every detail of another person’s life. He wondered what it would be like if he came across that person on the street, he would know every detail of his life, his household budget, the secrets he confided over IM, even what he looked like naked. Interesting WordPress Plugins WP Contact Manager turns WordPress into a contact manager. It’s a combination of theme and plugins (including Custom Write Panel) that allows you to enter and manage contacts as blog posts (familiar, eh?). Use Members Only to secure access. TDO Mini Forms “allows you to add highly customisable forms to your website that allows non-registered users and/or subscribers (also configurable) to submit posts. The posts are kept in ”draft“ until an admin can publish them (also configurable). Best Restaurant In Taipei I ate here. It’s every bit as good as the review suggests. Seb’s description and photos tell more, I’ll post my own photos soon. Update: posted. Short story: there’s a restaurant in Australia with a three month waiting list, but a Sydney Morning Herald reporter says the restaurant I ate at is its equal or better, but without the waiting list and at US$33 per meal. Google PageRank Is/Is Not/Is All Machine Generated Google’s always been in the awkward position of claiming that PageRank is algorithmic, not editorial, while also explaining that they’re constantly adjusting their algorithms to ensure that PageRank reflects editorial judgments of quality. Here’s a peek inside the machine. Zach Houston’s Poem Store Walking north on Valencia I heard the characteristic snap snap snap of an old manual typewriter’s hammers striking paper on the platen. I was more than a bit curious about who might still use such a classic machine even before its operator called out to ask if I wanted to buy a poem. Still, it’d been a full day exploring The Mission with a fabulous host and the time for my flight home was nearing. No Mo W Stolen from Jessamyn‘s photostream. Where The Previews Are I announced yesterday Scriblio‘s integration of Google’s new book viewability API that links to full text, previews, or additional book information (depending on copyright status and publisher foresight). Now that it’s live with Plymouth’s full catalog, I spent a moment browsing the collection and taking note of what books had what. I get no preview for A Baby Sister For Frances, but another of Russell Hoban‘s books, A Bargain For Frances. Scriblio Integrates Google Book Search Links (crossposted at Scriblio.net) Using the newly released book viewability API in Google Book Search, Plymouth State University’s Lamson Library and Learning Commons is one of the first libraries to move beyond simply listing their books online and open them up to reading and searching via the web. Take a look at how this works with books by Plymouth authors Bruce Heald and Joseph Monninger. The “Browse on Google” link in the New Features section leads to extended previews of their works where you can browse excerpts of the books and search the full text. Great Name, But Is It Any Good? “Spork” is a great name for a restaurant, but is it any good? Yelp says it is, but most of the reviews mention the burger, putting me in the position of having to review the reviewers and wonder if a hamburger person can recommend a restaurant to a vegetarian. Not that I am a vegetarian or not a hamburger person, but please tell me there’s more to the retrofabulous-looking place than a cool name and a hamburger. Geographic Tweeting twittervision and twittermap show new tweets wherever they appear on the map, TwitterWhere let’s you follow tweets at a specific location, and Ask500People has nothing to do with Twitter but does show you global opinion. Live. While you watch (so they say, anyway). Warming If this doesn’t warm your heart, check to see that it’s not made of stone. Netflix for Audio Books Netflix for audio books: Simply Audiobooks. Though it makes me wonder why we don’t say “like a library for audiobooks where they send you the stuff you want.” WordPress 2.5 Offers Built-In Gravatar Support Nobody doubted that full Gravatar support would make it into WordPress eventually. Weblog Tools Collection shows what they look like, how they’re managed, and how theme designers can implement them. Quaint vs. Libraries This Slashdot post asks the same question a lot of people do: “can libraries be saved from the internet?” Slate has an interesting photo essay exploring the question of how to build a public library in the age of Google, Wikipedia, and Kindle. The grand old reading rooms and stacks of past civic monuments are giving way to a new library-as-urban-hangout concept, as evidenced by Seattle’s Starbucks-meets-mega-bookstore central library and Salt Lake City’s shop-lined education mall. BuddyPress: The WordPress Of Social Networks? Andy Peatling, who developed a WordPress MU-based social network and then released the code as BuddyPress has just joined Automattic, where they seem to have big plans for it. I’d been predicting something like this since Automattic acquired Gravatar: It’s clear that the future is social. Connections are key. WordPress MU is a platform which has shown itself to be able to operate at Internet-scale and with BuddyPress we can make it friendlier. Parse HTML And Traverse DOM In PHP? I spoke of this the other day, but now I’ve learned of PHP’s DOM functions, including loadHTML(). Use it in combination with simplexml_import_dom like this: ``` $dom = new domDocument; $dom->loadHTML(' one two three sublist item ' ); if($dom){ $xml = simplexml_import_dom($dom); print_r($xml); } Parse HTML And Traverse DOM In PHP? I love how easily I can traverse an HTML document with jQuery, and I’d love to be able to do it in PHP. There are a few classes, but the PHP binding for Tidy seems to be where it’s at. The Zend dev pages make it look that way, anyway. Movable Type To WordPress Scot Hacker (yes, that’s really his name) posted a story about migrating China Digital Times (published by Berkeley School of Journalism) from Movable Type to WordPress: We’ve launched with a lovely new design, reduced story publishing times from by orders of magnitude, been able to re-enable a bunch of features we’d previously had to disable for load reasons, and added new features that were never possible before. The team of authors and editors is in heaven, and I’m considering bringing the site back onto the main J-School server. Scriblio Feature: Text This To Me Take note of the “New Feature: Text this to your cellphone” line above. Adam Brin of Tricollege Libraries explained that the “text this to me” feature he built to send location information about items in the library catalog as text messages to a user’s cell phone is being used as many as 60 times a day. That was the news I needed to decide to offer the feature in PSU’s Scriblio implementation. Web Design Frameworks? I’m a fan of the Sandbox WordPress theme because it does so much to separate application logic from design, and a few small changes to the CSS can make huge changes to the look of the site. I think that’s the idea behind Yahoo! Developer Network’s Grids CSS library. That is, well structured HTML allows very sophisticated styling. All you have to do is plug in your content. To wit: Give Up Your Civil Rights (and your laptop and hard drives) At The Border Can the Feds take your laptop? Yep. Be prepared to give up your civil rights and your laptop at the border, says a recent article in the Washington Post. This came to the attention of music fans earlier, when MTV news reported that a hard drive seized at the border contained studio recordings for Chris Walla’s (guitarist for Death Cab For Cutie) latest album. There was some suggestion that it was all a publicity stunt, but the Post story suggests that it’s a real and not uncommon problem. Apache Reverse Proxy Apache mod_proxy does most of the work, Nick Kew’s howto on running a reverse proxy with Apache explains it. Now, can I tack on some authentication and make it replace III’s WAM or EZproxy? Moscow Subway’s Underground Palaces Photographer farflungphotos describes: All the stations in Moscow’s metro are completely different from one another. Some of them are so opulent, with grand marble halls and chandeliers, all hidden away underground. People seemed to be using them as places just to hang out and meet up with friends. The trains were really frequent too, practically on each others tails. You never have to wait more than a few minutes for one to come along. Western North Carolina Library Network’s Classification Outline Western North Carolina Library Network‘s LC outline is full of detail. LC outline, classification, Western North Carolina Library Network, libraries Changes To WordPress Object Caching In 2.5 Jacob Santos‘ FuncDoc notes: The WordPress Object Cache changed in WordPress 2.5 and removed a lot of file support from the code. This means that the Object Cache in WordPress 2.5 is completely dependent on memory and will not be saved to disk for retrieval later. The constant WP_CACHE also changed its meaning. I’ve just started using the object cache and I’m happy with how it works now, so these changes are somewhat concerning. iPhone Strobe Light Strobe Light is clearly the perfect app for your new 16GB iPhone. MySQL On Multi-Core Machines The DevShed technical tour explains that MySQL can spawn new threads, each of which can execute on a different processor/core. What it doesn’t say is that a single thread can only execute on a single core, and if that thread locks a table, then no other threads that need that table can execute until the locking thread/query is complete. Short answer: MySQL works well on multi-core machines until you lock a table. Looking ahead from 2008: top tech trends I’m excited and honored to be joining Meredith Farkas and David J. Fiander in a roundtable discussion of Top Tech Trends, an OLITA program at Superconference. We’ve made a pact not to share our trends with each other in advance (no peeking), so it’ll be interesting to see how much overlap we have and how differently we approach the issues where we do have overlap. Sophistication The search box with its flashing cursor is a powerful tool, but it’s positively pre-cambrian when compared to our hyper A/V culture. OLA Superconference Presentation: Scriblio I’m honored to be invited to the Ontario Library Association Superconference to present my work on Scriblio today (session #1329). A PDF of my slides is online. Scriblio has had about a year of use in production at each of three sites, and the lessons suggest that Web 2.0 technologies really do work for libraries. And the best news: we can do it without breaking the budget: I’ll be demonstrating how to install Scriblio and reinvent a library in about ten minutes. Microsoft Threatens To Buy Yahoo! I like Yahoo!. I really hope the shareholders decline Microsoft’s offer. Blech, MS has wanted a piece of Yahoo! for a while. Never Forget, 1-31-07 Paranoia If it’s not an American Flag, it’s probably a bomb. What Do Coots Eat? Turns out that coots are omnivorous, but prefer plant matter. Why. Forget Time Capsule, I want a Space Ship Apple’s Time Capsule is great. Seriously. When has backup been easier? But I need more. The MacBook Air’s small storage highlights a problem I’ve been suffering for some time: there’s never enough storage. The slower processor and limited RAM expansion are sufferable, but storage isn’t. The 120GB drive in my MacBook Pro now is stuffed with 8GB of music (and that’s after spending hours paring it down a few weeks ago), and almost 50GB of pictures. Camera Found In Cab Starts Digital Goose Chase What would you do if you found a camera in a cab? LCSH News: “Mountain Biking” Replaces “All Terrain Cycling” Even though mountain bike sales and participation are down (as a percentage of market share, biking has been declining for ten years), the Library of Congress has just issued a directive to change the subject heading from “All Terrain Cycling” to “Mountain Biking.” The term was apparently first coined by Charlie Kelly and Gary Fisher in 1979. Stephen King Doesn’t Hate Kindle Stephen King writes at Entertainment Weekly.com that he doesn’t hate the Kindle: Will Kindles replace books? No. And not just because books furnish a room, either. There’s a permanence to books that underlines the importance of the ideas and the stories we find inside them; books solidify an otherwise fragile medium. But can a Kindle enrich any reader’s life? My own experience — so far limited to 1.5 books, I’ll admit — suggests that it can. McQualifications Bruce Pechman earned his credentials, but you could get yours at McDonald’s. Yes, the fast food chain is apparently offering diplomas in Britain now. Dangerous Grains Call For Drastic Measures “The Office of Emergency Management, the New York City Fire Department, Department of Buildings, NYPD, Health Department, and Department of Agriculture” all apparently showed up to evict 200 tenants from a building called the “kibbutz” in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn. Why? “Dangerous grains,” and a matzoh bakery. It’s been labeled Matzo-Gate, and speculation is rampant that the eviction was spurred by developers eyeing the now fashionable neighborhood. Gothamist has a picture. Apache, MySQL, and PHP on MacOS X p0ps Harlow tweeted something about trying to get an AMP environment running on his Mac. Conversation followed, and eventually I sent along an email that look sorta like this: If you’re running 10.4 (I doubt it, but it’s worth mentioning because I’m most familiar with it), here’s how I’ve setup dozens of machines for web development and WordPress: Install MySQL http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/mysql/5.0.html#macosx-dmg Install Marc Liyanage’s PHP 5 package Usability experts are from Mars, graphic designers are from Venus This an old one, but it just caught my atention. In A List Apart tells us Usability experts are from Mars, graphic designers are from Venus. Is this still true? Haven’t the last several years been about the triumph of good design in both the usability and graphic senses? Or are rounded corners not actually useful? Dancing With The Nerds Richard Stallman‘s Soulja Boy dance, MIT style (via). WordPress to_ping Query Optimization The WordPress team has taken up the issue of performance optimization pretty seriously, and I look forward to the fruits of their efforts, but I’m also casting a critical eye on my own code. Thanks to caching and a hugely optimized query architecture, Scriblio is now performing better than ever, and I’m now looking at the next tier of problems. First among them is a WordPress query that runs to find which posts have pingbacks or trackbacks waiting to be processed. This Would _So_ Cramp My Style The New Hampshire House is considering a ban on texting while Driving. Please, no. Even Cheetah Moms Have To Argue With Kids About Dinner Mother cheetah wants kids to learn to hunt gazelle, but cubs want to nuzzle it. Signs Of User-Centric Shift At CES? Doc Searls in Linux Journal compares previous CES expos to 2008 and finds a shift from talk of “broadcasters and rights-holders extending their franchise” to a Web 2.0 enlightened user-centricity. At every CES up to this one, I always felt that both open source and user-in-charge were swimming upstream against a tide of proprietary “solutions” and user lock-in strategies. This year I can feel the tide shift. Lots of small things point toward increased user autonomy, originality, invention and engagement. Introducing Phonepedia, a Voice-Activated Wikipedia Mashup The Phonepedia concept is simple: take Wikipedia’s rich content and add voice recognition. It’s as easy as calling a number and asking your question, the answer will be returned via SMS and email. Go ahead and try it for yourself. Phonepedia. The voice recognition is powered by Jott, and thanks are due to Heidi for writing so glowingly about it (Cluetrain moment: I’d heard about Jott before, but hadn’t been stirred to look at it until I saw Heidi’s post speaking in the voice of a real person). Like Mr. Ranganathong said… Like Mr. Ranganathong said: “The intellect cannot be tied down with a decimal thong.” (via) I Can Haz Ice Cream And Booze? This thread says you can get booze and ice cream in the same joint! Places to know in NYC: Otto, The Chocolate Room (beer & wine only?), ChikaLicious, Clinton Street Baking Company, BLT Burger, Homer’s, and Liquor & Ice Cream. Staring Contest Shirow Masamune himself couldn’t draw Manga Eyes like hers. Google Pumps OpenID Too Following news that Yahoo! is joining the OpenID fray, it appears Google is dipping a toe in too. While those two giants work out their implementations, others are raising the temperature of the debate on IDM solutions. Stefan Brands is among the OpenID naysayers (<a href="http://daveman692.livejournal.com/310578.html” title="David Recordon’s Blog - Stefan Chooses to Take the “Fox News” Approach to OpenID Blogging">David Recordon’s response), while Scott Gillbertson sees a bright future. Let’s watch the OpenID Directory to see how fast it grows now (count on January 19 2008: 446). Harvard Film Archive’s Wild Movies of 1930s Pre-Code films were apparently something of a spectacle. Harvard Film Archive this weekend is exploring their depths in a series titled Vice vs. Virtue. just in case anybody else wond… just in case anybody else wonders why a WordPress 404 initiates extra MySQL activity http://tinyurl.com/2nkplo Balloon Organ, Yes, A Balloon Organ In a piece that will have some people eagerly looking for some Afro Celt Sound System, others singing Where Do They Make Balloons, and some people just shaking their heads, this fellow, apparently standing in his bathroom, introduces us to another guy and his balloon organ. Really. Check this for more homemade organ fun. Eccentric Chess Champ Bobby Fischer Dead Eccentric, perhaps persecuted, Bobby Fischer is dead. News story. WordPress + Invalid URLs = Extra Database Queries After reporting weirdness last week I finally sat down with a completely clean and virgin install of WordPress 2.3.2 and traced what happens when you make a permalink request for a non-existent URL. Here are two sets of URLs to use as examples and context: These are valid URLs: http://site.org/archives/101 http://site.org/page-name These are _not_ valid URLs: http://site.org/archivezorz/101 http://site.org/favicon.ico Valid URLs get parsed, the expected MySQL queries get executed, and the results are processed and returned to the browser. Yahoo! Pumps OpenID Ars notes that Yahoo! supports OpenID. Yeah, that OpenID. Southwest’s In-Flight Magazine Doesn’t Suck, They Say Derek Powazek likes it, but is it worth flying SouthWest for? @jblyberg: I had to look it up… @jblyberg: I had to look it up a while ago too http://tinyurl.com/z87sg sifting results of error_log( … sifting results of ``` error_log( $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] ."\n". $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'] ."\n". print_r( debug_backtrace(), TRUE ) ); ``` trying to figure out why WP hi… trying to figure out why WP hits DB for all posts query _after_ it determines the URL is a 404 Is Facebook Really The Point? A post to Web4lib alerted me to this U Mich survey about libraries in social networks (blog post) that finds 77% of students don’t care for or want libraries in Facebook or MySpace. the biggest reason being that they feel the current methods (in-person, email, IM) are more than sufficient. 14% said no because they felt it was inappropriate or that Facebook/MySpace is a social tool, not a research tool. @tinfoilraccoon: take the pled… @tinfoilraccoon: take the pledge: http://tinyurl.com/2x8qye @tinfoilraccoon: is it really … @tinfoilraccoon: is it really so complex that it requires training? PLS tell them Amazon and iTunes don’t require training, ask why OD does. Fancy Up Your Website With Web Clip Icons Aaron Schmidt alerted me to this how to sweetening up your site with fancy iPhone web clip icons. Impeach Cheney Now You’ll feel better after signing the petition. Bits Of MySQL Query Syntax I’ve Learned This Week Watching the WordPress hacker list this week, a couple messages related to selecting information about users schooled me on MySQL syntax. I obviously knew the following would work, but I’d previously used the UNION syntax in similar situations and somehow hadn’t thought of writing it this way: ``` SELECT (SELECT meta_value FROM wp_usermeta WHERE meta_key = 'first_name' AND user_id = 2) AS FIRST, (SELECT meta_value FROM wp_usermeta WHERE meta_key = 'last_name' AND user_id = 2) AS LAST, wp_users. user posts antisemitic content… user posts antisemitic content to wikipedia, then crosses out my comment in the requests for deletion page!?!? http://tinyurl.com/ytt5zh @edventures: their hardware an… @edventures: their hardware and operating system operations are getting squeezed. They’ve gotta look elsewhere. I like MySQL. I like Sun. This… I like MySQL. I like Sun. This could work well: http://tinyurl.com/yr43rl tried sleep, failed. Surfing w… tried sleep, failed. Surfing web oniohone in bed while Sandee sleeps soundly. just a tiny example of a commu… just a tiny example of a community trying to figure out its boundaries http://tinyurl.com/ytt5zh drove home clicking iphone map… drove home clicking iphone maps locate button like walt mossberg on meth. works great in cities, crap in woods New iPhone maps locate circle … New iPhone maps locate circle has yet to locate me MacBook Air is sealed like iPo… MacBook Air is sealed like iPod. Can’t replace battery, no RAM upgrades. iPhone update finally download… iPhone update finally downloading. Not leaving office until I get a locator button on my maps. iPhone update server overloade… iPhone update server overloaded NH Primary Fraud? Two very important things: I have every confidence that the NH Primary results were correct and accurate, and, most importantly, unmolested. And, I’m also quite happy with them. But that doesn’t mean I’m not anxiously awaiting the results of the hand recount that Congressman Kucinich has requested. Conspiracy theories abound, and Diebold is a despicable company worthy of general derision, but at least our AccuVote OS machines have paper ballots. @awd: wasn’t sure if there was… @awd: wasn’t sure if there was a specific meeting your sarcasm was directed toward, though I’ve been following the drama all along @mstephens7: bring cigars and … @mstephens7: bring cigars and ask if prez has has scotch in the office? Getting Ready For The Stevenote I can’t go to the parties Laughing Squid names, and World of Apple’s live video coverage seems about as likely as a Kucinich becoming president, but The Unofficial Apple Weblog‘s keynote predictions are out, Ars’ keynote bingo is set, and half the blogaverse will likely offer some updates about the action, some of them live. The Stevenote is coming, and at the end of the day, or at least later that day, it’s likely that Apple will broadcast the recorded event in QuickTime (judging from this URL, you might find it here). Dead Men Don’t Cash Checks Virgilio Cintron was the happiest corpse in the city… Chris “Long Tail” Anderson On Open Source Open source and the Long Tail: An interview with Chris Anderson The shift of software from the desktop to the Web will really be the making of open-source software. The Long Tail side of software will almost certainly be Web-based because the Web lowers the barriers to adoption of software. There will always be some software best delivered as packaged bits. But the big problem with packaged software–or one big problem–is the risk associated with installation. How Do I Create A Semantic Web Site? A member of the Web4lib mail list asked: How do I create a semantic web site? I know I have to use either RDF or OWL but do I use either of these to create a mark up language which I then use to create the web site or, with the semantic web do we move away from mark up languages altogether? Am I right in thinking that OWL and RDF do not contain any information on how the document is to be displayed or presented? Live In Mehran Karimi Nasseri, Sanjay Shah and Alex Ervasti all made their names living in airports. Now, comedian Mark Malkoff is hoping his one week stay at the Paramus, NJ Ikea store will do the same. The State Of Democracy What does it mean about the state of democracy when viral video darling Obama Girl Amber Lee Ettinger shows up in NH? And Chuck Norris too? (Chuck Norris political facts.) It probably surprises no one that Kucinich’s press secretary’s 18 year old daughter is more articulate than Amber and Chuck combined. Ugh. WordPress Admin Redesign Progress Happy Cog‘s Liz Danzico introduced it at WordCamp 2007 (her slides are online), but it’s been only recently that the fruits of the admin control panel re-thinking have started to appear in code. Though there’s much work yet to be done and it’s not uncontroversial, I think I like it. MaisonBisson Chocolate Martini The holidays are past, but we still have a sweet tooth here. chocolate shavings for rimming 1 part crème de cacao 2 parts vodka dark chocolate garnish Warm a martini glass over a small flame, then roll the rim in chocolate shavings. Put a square of dark chocolate in the glass, then prepare the liquor. Shake vodka and crème de cacao with ice and strain into glass. For additional flavor, sprinkle the top with cocoa powder or chocolate shavings. Wiimote (Wii Remote) + Projector + Computer = Homebrew Multitouch Display You’ve got the hardware, you’ve got the skills, go build a multi-touch electronic whiteboard with your Wiimote and a data projector. Building In A (Big) Bubble dcdead‘s photo of the Central Station of Strasbourg, France reminds me of something I’d long wanted to do in (or around) my old house: put it in a dome. Apparently, this dome doesn’t fully cover the building, just enlarges it without obscuring the facade. Still, 6000 square meters of glass looks pretty good, eh? Back to my old house, however. Here’s the plan: forget the lack of insulation and the drafty windows (and the dying roof, before I replaced it), solve all of that by putting a greenhouse up around it. WordPress 2.4 Performance, Timeline The good news is that performance is a big goal for WP 2.4, the bad news is that it’s been delayed to the end of January at the earliest. Gmail IMAP vs. Previous POP3 Users Google Mail now supports IMAP, but what if you’ve been using POP3 all along and have a gajillion messages on the server, all marked unread and waiting in your inbox? How can I tell Apple Mail not to download the [Gmail]/All Mail IMAP folder without an ugly hack? [Update, the hack just causes Mail to crash a lot.] Free Report On Accessible Web Design From Jakob Nielsen Free from Nielsen Norman Group: Beyond ALT Text, Making the Web Easy to Use for Users With Disabilities, a report on web design for users with disabilities. “Seventy-five best practices for design of websites and intranets, based on usability studies with people who use assistive technology” According to the blog post, usability is three times better for non-disabled users. bSuite Machine Tags There can be no arguments about it, machine tags are cool and they solve problems. And now they work in WordPress with bSuite too (svn only, for the moment). It’s not just because flickr popularized them that I like them, though it helps and you should definitely look at that stuff: The announcement Excitement from O’Reilly Radar, ProgrammableWeb, and Dan Catt (who championed the concept at flickr, I think). Inside Your Head Video found via a photo in Soffia Gisladóttir‘s photostream. The suggestion that things go rotten inside a person’s head is very sad, but I’ve also suggested it to Zach for Moldy Snack.com CSS Transparency Settings for All Browsers ``` .transparent_class { opacity: 0.5; /* the standards compliant attribute that all browsers should recognize, but... */ filter:alpha(opacity=50); /* for IE */ -khtml-opacity: 0.5; /* for old Safari (1.x) */ -moz-opacity:0.5; /* for old skool Netscape Navigator */ } ``` (via) A Boy And His Cabbage of Significant Size From the La Crosse Tribune, A boy and his cabbage of significant size: Wisconsin ten-year-old Douglas Mezera grew a 31-pound cabbage for a competition sponsored by Bonnie Plant. The Alabama plant company’s program aims to promote gardening as fun and rewarding. What do you do with so much cabbage? “We made it into homemade sauerkraut,” Douglas’ mom said. “It’s good.” (VIA) Language Translation Icon We all need a recognized icon to represent “translate this.” We’ve got one for feeds and social bookmarking, but where’s our translate icon? A lot of folks simply use flags, but that’s a bad idea because they’re “nationalistic, and represent ideals, boundaries, and political beliefs, but do not represent a language.” Joe Lee has developed a few icons for use in the OLPC project, and they look good. The only problem I have with them is in trying to make them work at 16×16 pixels. In Flight WiFi Back In The Air? I thought the matter was dead after Boeing shut down their much hyped in-flight WiFi plans (yep), but Engadget got a seat on JetBlue’s private introductory flight for their WiFi service. The good news is that it’s free, the not surprising news is that Yahoo! is partnering in it (and it requires a Yahoo! account), the bad news is that all you get is Yahoo! IM and email. No web browsing, or anything else useful. Scriblio 2.3 v4 Released Scriblio 2.3 v4 is out. See it. Download it. Install it. Join the mail list. What’s new? Lots of small bug fixes. Implemented wp_cache support. Revamped SQL query logic for better memory efficiency. New widget options. Search suggest/autocomplete support (implemented in the new theme). New theme. New Theme! By Jon Link. Home Libraries, Amateur Libraries The Library Problem: In March of 2006 my wife Mary and I owned about 3,500 books. We both have eclectic interests, voracious appetites for knowledge, and a great love of used bookstores. The problem was that we had no idea what books we had or where any of them were. We lost books all the time, cursed late into the night digging through piles for that one book we knew must be there, and even bought books only to find that we already owned them. USB-Connected Monitors? DisplayLink is licensing technology that promises to make adding a second (or sixth) monitor as easy as plugging into a spare USB port. Samsung’s 940UX 19“ LCD (Under $350, review) is among the first to employ it, though IOGEAR’s USB to VGA adapter is also available (about $65, review). This isn’t without problems, though. Image quality is said to be sharp until it moves, then it stutters and chops, more from CNet Labs. Seven Person Bicycle: The Conference Bike I saw this bike here, here, and here on Flickr, but nobody said what it was or where I could learn more. Some googling revealed it was Eric Staller’s ConferenceBike, first sold by Hemmacher Schlemmer. One person steers while all seven riders peddle, and it looks like a lot of fun if you’ve got a spare $13,000. The eight foot long bike is six feet wide and weighs about 400 pounds. Compress CSS & JavaScript Using PHP Minify It was part of a long thread among WordPress hackers over the summer and fall, but this post at VulgarisOverIP just reminded of it: minify promises to be an easy way to compress external CSS and JavaScript without adding extra steps to your develop/deploy process. No, really, look at the usage instructions. (To be clear, the Vulgaris and Google Code versions are different, one derived from the other and backported to PHP4 compatible. Old Romans Knew How To Make Glue We’ve known about the birch bark glue Romans used on their clay pots and jars for a while, but now researchers in Germany are calling it “Caesar’s Superglue.” Researchers at the Rhine State Museum in Bonn apparently found it used to bond silver plate to an iron helmet in a 2000 year old repair job. The superglue part: the bond was still good. People Make Scriblio Better It’s way cool to see Lichen‘s Scriblio installation instructions translated to Hungarian. Even cooler to have Sarah the tagging librarian take hard look at it and give us some criticism (and praise!). But I’m positively ecstatic to see Robin Hastings’ post on installing Scriblio (it’s not easy on Windows, apparently). Part of it is pride in seeing something that I’ve been working on for so long finally get out into the world, but Scriblio really does get better with every comment or criticism. Roadside Attractions Fading Away? Roadside Attractions Fading from Landscape: A staple of the American road trip could be slowly disappearing from the nation’s interstates and byways. Owners of some roadside attractions are deciding that interest is waning bSuite 3 Released [innerindex]I started bStat in 2005 when I ported my blog from pMachine to WordPress and needed to bring over the tools I’d built to identify popular stories and recent comments. I renamed it bSuite when I added tagging and other features to it. Now it’s bSuite 3. Get it here. Get installation details here, and users of previous versions should check the upgrade instructions here. Features Tracking of page loads for each post and page. My iPhone Commercial (or, The Night We Almost Died On A Mountain) It was cold. The air carried no scent, ice squeaked under our boots, and every little leaf and twig crinkled and snapped as we walked over it. But this was louder than that. Much louder. Neither Jon nor I saw it actually happen, but when I found Will he was mostly upside down between a boulder and tree. The trail at that point was elevated by some rocks and bordered by pines that grew from the forrest floor some distance below. Tabbed Chatting In iChat Among the missing features I hear the most complaints about regarding iChat is the lack of tabbed chatting. Today I discovered it’s part of Leopard. Simply go to the iChat prefs, click on the messages pane, and selected “Collect chats into a single window” and you’re set. A Nation Marketing Itself Japan‘s The Ministry of Foreign Affairs English-language Web Japan is a bottomless trove of in-flight magazine-quality stories like ANTIBACTERIAL EPIDEMIC and J-culture-hyping love-fests like Honoring The World’s Manga Artists. If American propaganda efforts are this bad, why do foreign governments even bother blocking them? Is This Really Worth Protesting? It can only be taken as evidence of our wealth and privilege that two years after Macy’s bought Marshall Field’s people are planning a Black Friday rally and holiday boycott to protest the name change. WP Rewrite Instructable Dan’s instructable for custom rewrite rules in WordPress is better than the docs in the codex. How Expensive Does Commercial Software Need To Get Before We Consider Open Source? Open source software of the free as in free beer and free as in free speech variety has matured to the point that there are now strong contenders in nearly every category, though that doesn’t make them easy choices. It’s often revealing when people criticize OSS as being free as in free kittens, which is true in the sense that F/OSS does require continued care and feeding to make it work, and false in that it suggests commercial solutions don’t. Themes I Like Matt has updated his site with a less blog-like front page and I just discovered Unsleepable, which is very bloggy, but seems like a good start for what I want to do next. Remix Remix Remix: The Tracey Fragments I guess the criticism is that it’s one thing for somebody to open up their music for remixing, but an entirely different thing to do the same with a movie. Or is it? Is it (click re-fragmented)? [Insert Word Here] Is Hurting Your Network Corporate networks are defenseless against the growing threat from instant messaging, and the government warns WiFi is insecure and easily sniffed. Experts suggest we take precautions against the growing risk of p2p software that’s exposing sensitive documents and threatening national security. Businesses blame security problems on their employees, their mobile devices, and other consumer technologies. And now we have MySpace. Tidens Hotteste IT-Trends My presentation for today’s hottest IT trends is nearly completely new, though it draws a number of pieces from my building web 2.0-native library services and remixability presentations. What it adds is an (even more) intense focus on the people that make up the web. Denmark is among the most wired countries of Europe, and it’s especially interesting that more than half of Danes over 55 use the web at least once a week. Remember The Good Old Days? The first article database I remember using was Dialog, sometime in the late 80s or early 90s. Today I found myself amused that we used to call such things “interactive.” That is, you poked the command line interface with questions and it usually beeped a syntax error, all while they charge $4 per minute, plus the connection fees. (The image above is from a later CD-ROM version.) A 1993 article in Phrack reminded me of some of the details and fun of such systems: European Internet Usage Statistics Eurostat 2006: Internet usage in the EU25: “Nearly half of individuals in the EU25 used the internet at least once a week in 2006 and a third of households and three-quarters of enterprises had broadband internet access.” Statistics Denmark 2007: Access to the Internet: 78% of population has home internet access. Going Global With My iPhone I can use my iPhone pretty much anywhere, but ATT is going to charge me $1.30 a minute for calls, $.50 per text, and $.02 per KB for data while in Denmark. ATT requires international activation but they do offer some tips for international roamers. I bought an international iPhone data plan (20MB for $25), but I also learned that visual voice mail counts against that (regular voice mail counts against minutes, at the $1. WordPress vs. Drupal I’m a WordPress Partisan, so I agree with Mark Ghosh’s criticism of this WordPress vs Drupal Report. Still, it reminds me that I should point out XXLmag, SLAM Online, and Ford among the very non-bloggy sites built on WordPress. Fish Tacos Oh decadence! Veterans Day provided not only a chance for reflection but also a rare day free from the classroom. So what to do with this open period of time? The answer was easy, dinner party. I have wanted to have my colleagues Roxanna and John over, but time is always an issue. I phoned them up and they accepted. Now the fun began — menu planning. While vacationing with my parents in Vegas last summer we went out to marvelous food chain, The Cheesecake Factory. Design Anxiety All I know about Denmark is what gets imported: Legos, of course, but also a tradition of exquisitely clean and functional design. That’s why, as I prepare for my talk in Copenhagen later this week, I’m incredibly conscious of my own design and a bit jealous of Jessamyn’s outstanding use of orange. Anyway, that’s where I’ll be all week. Any tips? Anybody up for a drink? Gender Gaps Connect the dots: Boys vs. girls in US colleges and too many men in East Germany. Object-Based vs. Ego Based Social Networks vs. WoW and Second Life There are so many cool things in Fred Stutzman’s recent post, but this point rang the bell for me just as I was considering the differences between World of Warcraft and Second Life. More on those games in a moment, first let’s get Stutzman’s description of ego vs. object networks: An ego-centric social network places the individual as the core of the network experience (Orkut, Facebook, LinkedIn, Friendster) while the object-centric network places a non-ego element at the center of the network. Internet Safety NPR : Back to School: Reading, Writing and Internet Safety As students return to school in Virginia, there’s something new in their curriculum. Virginia is the first state to require public schools to teach Internet safety. Freaking MySQL Character Set Encodings Derek Sivers‘ plan, with all it’s bin2hex and regexp and back and forth between MySQL and PHP almost looks good compared to what I’m about to do. Really, why is it so difficult to go from latin1 (tables created back in MySQL 3) to utf8? Not only do you have to set the charset on the table, but also the connection, in PHP, and flipping everywhere. And then you’ve gotta deal with all this old data that’s in the wrong character set. Pick Up Lines How to pick up girls in the library. Indeed, it’s Picking Up Girls Made Easy. Internet Librarian 2007 Presentation: Building Web 2.0 Native Library Services The conference program says I’m speaking about designing an OPAC for Web 2.0, and I guess I am, but the approach this time is what have we learned so far? And though it’s the sort of thing only a fool would do, I’m also planning to demonstrate how to install Scriblio, a web 2.0 platform for libraries (foolish because I plan to do it live and in real time). Is The Answers.com API Public? Answers.com is throwing a bone to WordPress users with their new AnswerLinks plugin written by Alex King. But wait, there’s an Answers.com API? A few pokes at the Google machine reveal nothing relevant, and Asnwers.com’s site is mum too. Taking apart the code, I get the following (modded enough to make it run-able if you drop it in the base of your WordPress install): ``` require_once('wp-config.php'); require_once(ABSPATH.WPINC.'/class-snoopy.php'); $snoop = new Snoopy; $snoop-read_timeout = 5; $snoop-submit( 'http://alink. MaisonBisson And unAPI Thanks to Mike Giarlo‘s unAPI Server for WordPress. Now if only there were a library catalog built on WordPress, I could probably just drop it in. Panorama Stitchers: Calico vs. DoubleTake I’ve been using DoubleTake to stitch panoramas for a while, but when I discovered p0ps Harlow’s photos and learned he was using Calico Panorama, I figured it was worth taking a look. DoubleTake has done a great job for a number of my photos (Mt. Moriah, San Francisco Motorcycles, Mt. Mondadnock), and when the automatic stitch failed, I could manually reposition (or re-order) the photos. I could also adjust the individual images to make them better match each other. Mac OS X 10.5 Comes With Apache 2 and PHP 5 Yep. Leopard comes with new stuff. Lazeez says it works fine, but commenters here are having trouble. Memory, Intimacy, And The Web I’ve been thinking about it since Troy mentioned to me that he thought Google was ruining his memory. And I thought I found confirmation of it when I read Gladwell’s description of Daniel Wegner, et al’s Transactive Memory in Close Relationships: When we talk about memory, we aren’t just talking about ideas and impressions and facts stored inside our heads. An awful lot of what we remember is actually stored outside our brains. Library 2.0 Subject Guides Ellyssa Kroski‘s Librarian’s Guide to Creating 2.0 Subject Guides is good introduction for Librarians who think know “there has to be a better way.” But why no mention of blogs and blogging tools? (I’m still really happy that when you search our catalog for something, a subject guide for that term appears (if we have one that’s relevant)). Book Autopsies Via Ryan: Brian Dettmer: Book Autopsies at Centripetal Notion. Site Crashed…Recovered…Sort Of My hosting provider lost a server, and their most recent backup of my database was from Wednesday. That was newer than what I had, so that’s what I’ve got. Any comments submitted between then and mid afternoon today have been lost. I was luckier with my posts: I write most of them in ecto and had them backed up on my lappy. At least the Sox won. The War On Zombies From Kim to Zach to me to you: Bush Vs. Zombies. Now we know: the guy doesn’t understand the difference between fact and fiction. Most people thought Shaun of the Dead was horror/comedy, not documentary. Poor W probably read The Zombie Survival Guide as an instruction manual (don’t show him How To Survive a Robot Uprising, please). Gah. The guy hired a cannibal, fears animal-human hybrids, and flip-flops on evolution. Gravatar Acquired, More Features & Better Reliability Ahead Matt pointed out that Automattic has purchased Gravatar, the globally recognizable avatar service. Om speaks of the economics and Matt’s cagy, but it’s hard not to see the possibility of creating a larger identity solution around this. WordPress’ market penetration is huge, a service that connects those nearly two million blogs could offer real value, especially in connection with Automattic’s Akismet. Aside: now that Gravitar’s reliability is up, I’ll probably get Sexy Comments running here soon. Stupid Trademark Law Story: Timbuk2 develops a new line of messenger bags that features fabric made of <a href=;http://www.treehugger.com/files/2007/06/dont_shoot_the.php">recycled material (engineered by RootPhi). Some of the fabric contains a symbol that Target lawyers say is their logo. Target lawyers cease and desist Timbuk2. Thing is, the trademarked Target logo is a roundel, commonly used around the world (easily recognized in British aircraft of WWII). The particular design Target has chosen appears to be a copy of Peru’s official insignia. Screencasting On Mac I’m as annoyed as the next guy about how hard it is to find a decent screencast app for Mac. The forthcoming Mac OS 10.5’s new iChat Theater (and the built-in screen sharing/control features) should create some new opportunities for developers, but right now it’s hard to know what works or is worth trying. Further, I narrowed the field with the following requirement: I need an app that records to QuickTime-compatible files, not Flash. Not Just Hip When a writer goes looking for young Turks (my words, not Scott’s), you should expect the story to include some brash quotes (writers are supposed to have a chip of ice in their hearts, after all). On the other hand, we’re librarians, so how brash can we be? Scott Carlson’s Young Librarians, Talkin’ ‘Bout Their Generation in The Chronicle this week did it better than most articles: rather than showing how hip or geeky we are, it asks us about the future. Friends, Photos, Favors, Feeling Ill I practically begged Will and Karen to get on a carnival ride with me so I could get portraits with the lights streaking behind them. Will warned me that he doesn’t do well on rides; I argued that no ride with so many kids under four feet tall could be too dangerous for us. We boarded, it started. From the ground it looked gentle, much like the teacups. That was misleading. Corrosion Test Facility Not As Rusty As Expected Corey, Will, and Jon were all as excited as I was to see the fabled Point Judith Corrosion Test Site, just south of Narragansett, but we were all surprised at how un-rusty the goods were. Don’t laugh, corrosion is a big deal. According to the National Materials Advisory Board: Corrosion of metallic structures has a significant impact on the U.S. economy. In a congressional study, the total economic impact of corrosion and corrosion control applications was estimated to be $276 billion annually, or 3. Fools On The Beach [[slideshow|height=375px|farm3-static-flickr-com-1507480544_6070e748c5.jpg farm3-static-flickr-com-1506619571_f36bd9da1b.jpg farm3-static-flickr-com-1507473874_9ea5fede30.jpg farm3-static-flickr-com-1507470768_fb2c7354b7.jpg farm1-static-flickr-com-1506610039_dbaee19d93.jpg]] We were there because of the Point Judith Corrosion Test Facility — the Rust Museum — but who can resist chasing seagulls? And who can resist posting the sequence? Assuming you’ve got a recent browser with JavaScript enabled, you should see a bit of a slideshow above. Photos on Flickr, slideshow powered by jQuery and bSuite. Cocktail Manifesto We’re huge fans of The New Joy of Cooking by Marion Rombauer Becker, Irma S. Rombauer, and Ethan Becker. Hardly a meal goes through our kitchen that isn’t shaped in some part by the recipes and general information in its pages. A recent discovery was Joy’s description and defense of cocktail parties. So, when a book as serious and valuable as The New Joy of Cooking raises alarms about the declining future of cocktail parties, we listen. Who Owns The Network? Note: this cross-posted item is my contribution to our Banned Books Week recognition. We’ve been pitting books against each other, hoping to illustrate that there are always (at least) two sides to every story. Most of the other books were more social or political, but I liked this pair. Wikinomics authors Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams tell stories of how the the internet’s unprecedented collaboration opportunities are changing the rules of economics. Banned Books Week Dilemma Our intention is to feature “a series of books that challenge our beliefs and test our commitment to free speech,” but on this post about Holocaust denial I found myself unwilling (and unable) to link to the free, online PDF full text of David Irving‘s Hitler’s War. And when we discovered it wasn’t in our collection (though it may have been lost/stolen, not replaced, and the record deleted), we decided not to purchase it. Business 2.0 Too Tired? Magazines fail all the time, but it’s hard not to look at them as signs of something larger. MacWEEK‘s fizzle was claimed to represent the demise of the Mac, Computer Shopper has lost more weight than a Slim Fast spokesmodel (800 pages to 80 in ten years!). And now Business 2.0 Magazine is shutting down and sending cancellation notices to readers. Perhaps the lesson here is that there’s nothing too 2. Restaurant Review: Cotton First Impressions How much is too much for an entree at a place that plays the kind of anonymous Muzak that Kenny G calls jazz and is decorated like Applebee’s? Trust me, I like renovated mill buildings, but why confuse it with faux grecian columns and too many pictures of dead celebrities? I mean, the interior was clean and pleasant, but lacked attention to detail. If you’re so afraid your customers are going to walk off with the poorly framed prints of old Hollywood darlings that you nail them to the wall through the frame, how much can you expect them to pay for dinner? Smashitup Smashitup Smashitup! After all my agitating for small, cheap, fuel efficient cars (and automotive metaphors), I figured I had to post this picture (and a few others) from the demolition derby at the Hopkinton Fair a couple weeks ago. My video of the four-cylinder event is at YouTube. Extra: I don’t know where it fits in your stereotype of the demolition derby audience, but I was happy to find somebody wearing a css_descramble. “to ascertain if the applicant is still living” Whose Library Is It Anyway?: A Visit to the Lenox [tags]library, libraries, humor, lennox library[/tags] Don’t Mistake Me (Please) Over at KLE’s Web 2.0 Challenge I was surprised to learn: Both Bisson and Stephens are so excited about this concept of Web 2.0 they have not taken a good look at what they can’t do for our libraries. …with all this new technology we can not forget that what is the most important in our libraries is the personal touch. We are one of the few institutions left that still offers individual attention. Checkouts Vs. GPA? Cindy Harper, Systems Librarian at Colgate University, posted to the IUG list with this notion today: I’m clearing out a large group of expired student records, and wonder if anyone else has had the same idea that has occurred to me. [Our ILS] keeps track in the patron record of TOTCHKOUTs (total checkouts). At the expiration of the students’ record at the end of their four or so years, this represents a measure that is not perfect, but could distinguish heavy library users from non-users. Copyleft: Defending Intellectual Property Anybody who thinks Free Software is anti-copyright or disrespectful of intellectual property should take a look at Mark Jaquith’s post, What a GPL’d Movable Type means. Let’s be clear, Anil Dash takes issue with Jaquith’s interpretation, but the point is Jaquith’s offense at what appears to be Six Apart’s grabbiness for any code somebody might contribute. Freedom 0 was one thing, the willingness of a person to pour his or her sweat into something, then watch somebody else (or even risk watching somebody else) profit from it is another. Mullenweg on WordPress and Open Source I wish I’d seen this from WordPress maven Matt Mullenweg before I finished My LTR on open source software for libraries. Mullenweg is brushing off some of the mystique and praise the media has been giving him, and giving an honest sense of what makes open source software work: the real story is more exciting than the cookie-cutter founder myth the media tries frame everything in. It’s not just one or two guys hacking on something alone, it’s dozens of people from across the world coming together because of a shared passion. It’s Standard Playtesting, Everybody Does It In another sign that my generation’s culture is gaining dominance, NPR gave video games a bit of coverage this morning. Unfortunately, the story that makes it sound like the company invented playtesting doesn’t suggest that Microsoft’s behemoth investment in the Halo franchise makes that testing (and, perhaps, blandness) necessary. (Meanwhile, MSNBC last year ran an off-message story about how playtesters declared the Wii the top console.) Reality: Playtesting is one of those dream jobs that people scour Craigslist for or start questionable-looking services around. Developing and Testing Mobile Content Read: A List Apart: Articles: Put Your Content in My Pocket and Part II. Test/simulate: Opera Mini, Lynx, a variety of mobile phones, Internet Explorer (because even with Parallels, who really wants to infect their machine with windows?), and iPhone. A Message From The Establishment To The Establishment We must stop thinking of ourselves as a good-idea factory whose every thought has greater merit than those of our customers. Procter & Gamble doesn’t even do that. — paraphrased NH’s Virtual Learning Academy The CEO of NH’s first online-only, distance education high school expects about 700 students to enroll in its first semester, to start in January. So says a report at NHPR. Four Years Of Music Industry Lawsuits & Madness Marketplace reminds us the storm of RIAA lawsuits began in September 2003. In that time they’ve sued a thousands of people, and most lawyers apparently advise those caught in the madness to simply roll over and take it. But Tanya Andersen, a 41 year old disabled single mother didn’t. After years of litigation (and mounting legal bills), it finally came out the RIAA’s lawyers had misidentified her and dropped the case, casually saying “Sometimes when you go fishing with a driftnet, you catch a few dolphins. Obligatory Talk Like A Pirate Day Post Perhaps Talk Like A Pirate Day has been too successful when NPR hosts are doing it, but anything that’s so important to our children’s future success is important enough for me. And if you need a brush up on your skills, don’t miss this instructional video. NYT: The Link Is The Currency Of The Web The New York Times has struggled with TimesSelect, now they’re killing it. But the news here isn’t that a media giant is giving up on a much hyped online venture. The news is that a media giant is endorsing what we now call web 2.0: Since we launched TimesSelect in 2005, the online landscape has altered significantly. Readers increasingly find news through search, as well as through social networks, blogs and other online sources. Closed Formats Are Bad For Libraries, Stop OOXML Now Microsoft just won’t quit. Now they’re trying to make OOXML an ISO standard. Please help stop this. Here’s how I explained it in Open Source Software for Libraries: The state of Massachusetts in 2005 announced new IT standards that required its 80,000 employees and 173 agencies to adopt open file formats. The decision didn’t specify the applications to be used, just the format of the electronic documents they created, stored and exchanged #. Nebraska State Senator Ernie Chambers Sues God The following, quoted from Daily Kos: Accodring to Chambers, God has caused fearsome floods, egregious earthquakes, horrendous hurricanes, terrifying tornadoes, pestilential plagues, ferocious famines, devastating droughts, genocidal wars, birth defects, calamitous catastrophes resulting in the wide-spread death, destruction and terrorization of millions upon millions of the Earth’s inhabitants including innocent babes, infants, children, the aged and infirm without mercy or distinction. So, you think “yeah, he’s got a point. Building Libraries With Free Software Sarah Houghton-Jan‘s review of my LTR on open source software for libraries reminded me I wanted to blog this related piece I’d written for American Libraries. Tim Spalding cocks his head a bit as he says it to emphasize the point: “LibraryThing.com is social software.” However we categorize it, Spalding’s baby has become a darling to librarians, and as we sat chatting over lunch in spring 2006, the web application that had begun life just to months earlier was to catalog its 3-millionth book. The “Show of Force” Brand A Pentagon commissioned $400,000 RAND study, Enlisting Madison Avenue: The Marketing Approach to Earning Popular Support in Theaters of Operation, concludes “the ‘force’ brand, which the United States peddled for the first few years of the occupation, was doomed from the start and lost ground to enemies’ competing brands.” Small Is Beautiful Will found this on the side of the road, and after he told me about it I begged him to show me. It’s tiny, rusty, and a little older than I expected. Like a very, very small VW Bus, it has a rear-mounted engine. I think it’s a Subaru Sambar, but that’s mostly based on the details I gleaned from the Subaru 360 article, which reveals that engine was probably air cooled, displacing 330 CCs, and producing under 40 HP. A Shadow Lifted, Berlin’s Smokestacks Felled Corey and I went to Berlin to watch the stacks fall today, but bad weather, confusion, and some dud explosives conspired to leave me with no usable pictures of the event. We arrived early and lined up a perfect view of two out of three towers that were to be felled, but as the explosions started it became clear that I was mistaken about which smokestacks were being destroyed, and instead we had a really good view the one stack that was supposed to be left standing at the end of the day. Mildly Funny Scenes I’ve Come Across Recently Not LMAO, certainly not ROFLcopter-ingly funny, but funny enough to want to snap a picture, and good enough for casual Friday here. The boat in the parking lot, UPS vs. FedEx, and Hoe For Hire are all easy enough to understand (though they leave me open to easy criticism). The fourth photo is of some books on an anonymous shelf: look closely at “Library Trends, 1985” and others. Lessons In Change From Ford Motor Company I probably spend too much time considering competition and change management, but just as I figured I was done with it for the week, a comment from Kathryn Greenhill regarding Model Ts got me going again. Just like railroads, those “any color as long as it’s black” Model Ts looked like freedom, until General Motors showed the world they could get their cars in color and with curves. Every car came with four wheels and an engine, and they’d drive you down the block and around town, but the moldy Model T suddenly looked pretty old next to a sleek green Chevrolet. OneWebDay Have You Thanked the Internet Lately? OneWebDay, our opportunity to celebrate “one web, one world, one wish” is just about a week away (though it falls on Yom Kippur). This video explains a bit and Tim Berners-Lee is planning his own video (worth mentioning: his net neutrality post). If things work out, I’ll be posting a video too, even though I’ll likely be offline most of that day (not observing Yom Kippur, at a friend’s wedding). First They Ignore You, Then They Ridicule You, Then They Fight You It’s an aside to Kathryn Greenhill’s larger point, that all this 2.0 stuff is about a shifting power to the user, but she places L2 somewhere on Ghandi’s continuum of change between ridicule and fight. The photo above (original by Monster) is in support of Greenhill’s larger point: control is shifting. Trains were once seen as icons of freedom, but that view changed with the development of the automobile — and the way it shifted control of routes and schedules from the railroad to the driver. Playing With Food Like all well bred women, my mother always told me not to play with my food. However, as we get older we realize that sometimes ignoring the rules is just as important as, generally, following them. Food is fun. It has wonderful tastes, smells, colors, and textures. Something with so many wonderful attributes is just begging to be played with. For me, breakfast is not just the most important meal of the day, its also the most wonderfully yummy for one specific reason — maple syrup. Jumping From Airplanes A guy walked into the student newspaper office and asked “does anybody want to jump out of an airplane?” Without a moment’s hesitation, I said “I’m your man.” It was only afterwards that I confirmed a parachute would be involved. Well, that was ten years ago (can’t you tell, I look young — young!), but the video is still laying around and I just uploaded it to YouTube. Actually, this video has been through the wringer. Hawkish Is Bush really so hawkish that he refuses to formally declare an end to the Korean War? Launch! A little more than two years after I realized how (really) bad the problem was and about 18 months after I <a href=;http://maisonbisson.com/post/11133/wpopac-an-opac-20-testbed">prototyped my solution, our new library website, catalog, and knowledgebase launched last week — just in time for the fall semester opening. It’s all built on Scriblio, includes a very simple new books list that you can narrow by subject and get via RSS. And if you search for subject areas like anthropology, economics, english writing, or any of a few dozen other topics, you’ll find our librarians’ subject guides listed at or near the top to help you out. Cliffy’s Office Prankd Office pranks are a bit of a thing here. Well, at least in IT. Last year Matt took charge and put together a quartet of pranks that got the attention of the London Daily Mirror. This video is from a May 2002 prank that put a golf cart with fuzzy dice and bobble headed Jesus in Cliffy‘s office along with a Vote Bush sign and other things. He was mad, to be sure. Add Tags To Flickr Photos While Uploading Via Email The short story is that you simply put “tags:” in the subject or body and anything that follows becomes a tag. It’s worth remembering that the Subject of the email becomes the title and the body becomes the description. The longer story is at Flickr. Make It Official Before He Forgets In a development that even FOXNews couldn’t ignore, US attorney general Alberto Gonzales has resigned, he thinks. Would Princess Diana Have Been A Blogger? In an interview on NPR, The Diana Chronicles author Tina Brown says “Diana had represented feeling, and the end of the stiff upper lip,” but the Princess comes off sounding a bit like a harbinger of the Cluetrain. Yes it’s all about the Royals, the glamor, and her dramatic death ten years ago, but take note of this exchange: Renee Montagne: “The Royal Family is probably stronger than it was when she died. Vicar’s Delight Hot weather demands cool drinks. Lemonade is fine for the kids, but adults need a pitcher of something more entertaining. 2 parts Vodka 1 part Orange Juice 2 parts Lemonade dash Lime Juice Prepare in a pitcher with ice and share. Adjust quantities to taste. Enjoy safely. iPhone Unlocked If the news is to be believed, separate teams have found hardware and software-based solutions to unlock an iPhone. It’s worth noting that all this is legal because of an exemption, <a href="http://www.onthemedia.org/transcripts/2007/03/02/04” title="On The Media: Transcript of “Mobile Malcontent” (March 2, 2007)“>much needed and hard fought. Scratch-n-Sniff Hey, I’m a fan of that old book smell too, can I get some scratch-n-sniff stickers? MeeboMe + Pidgin = a match made in heaven MeeboMe + Pidgin (formerly GAIM) = a match made in heaven. (Via.) Color Blind Safe Web Design Check Etre‘s Colour Check. A good day to land the shuttle? A hurricane, high crosswinds at the landing site, a nitrogen leak, and two damaged tiles. Watch the shuttle land live on NASA TV. Allagash Wilderness, Maine Will, Jon, Joe, Ted, and I arrived at Telos Landing with plans to run the Allagash Wilderness Waterway. As we prepared to embark, the park ranger appeared with a tape measure and told us our kayaks weren’t canoes. Section 2.3 of the Allagash rules and regulations is quite clear: “A canoe is defined as a form of small watercraft long and narrow…. The width at the widest point shall not exceed 20% of the craft’s overall length. 73,764 structurally deficient bridges About 597,000 vehicular bridges nationwide, and 73,764 are “structurally deficient.” Sources: 2006 National Bridge Inventory compiled by the U.S. Department of Transportation, American Society of Civil Engineers‘ Infrastructure Report Card, and Gannett. p0ps’ Panoramas Shot With iPhone I’m coming to learn that p0ps has a number of interesting things going on, but it was his panoramas stitched from pictures taken by iPhone that caught my attention first. Above is the J Train somewhere between Fulton and City Hall. I’d thought the iPhone’s camera was pretty decent, p0ps’ work shows it off. Bad Joke Friday [innerindex] Beginning of a bad day… I rear-ended a car this morning. I knew it was going to be a really bad day! The driver got out of the other car and I looked down and realized he was a dwarf!!! He looked up at me and said “I’M NOT HAPPY!” So I said, “Well then, which one are you?” And that’s how the fight started. Our diets, our health A doctor was addressing a large audience in Tampa. Mac + Cell Phone + Bluetooth + SMS Old instructions that connect the Mac OS X Address Book app to a phone via Bluetooth from O’Reilly and SillyDog. Once paired, the Address Book can initiate dialing, notify the user of incoming calls, and send SMS texts. Bluetooth Texter SMS Widget, message2net, and BluePhoneElite all offer further tools to interact with your Bluetooth-connected mobile phone. The list of compatible phones (BPE & m2n) offers some leads for those trying to make the connection. Fuel Economy: Is Diesel An Option? In response to my previous kvetching about the scarcity of cheap fuel efficient cars, JWK commented that his 2001 Golf TDI gets 48 MPG (it’s rated for 44). Meanwhile, TreeHugger pointed out that Volkswagen’s Polo BlueMotion gets 62 MPG (Volkswagen UK claims the current Polo hatchback gets up to 72 MPG in diesel (I assume that’s about 60 MPG in US measures), and TreeHugger points out the 157 mpg Loremo AG). iPhone + Newton + eMate Pr0n {#set_thumb_link_815008614.image_link}{#set_thumb_link_814958046.image_link}{#set_thumb_link_813781733.image_link}{#set_thumb_link_813757895.image_link}{#set_thumb_link_814609120.image_link} {#set_thumb_link_773797123.image_link}{#set_thumb_link_773748277.image_link}{#set_thumb_link_773765455.image_link}{#set_thumb_link_774571582.image_link}{#set_thumb_link_774567276.image_link} It’s likely Phil Carrizzi could make a broken tire iron look good, but his series of the iPhone with the Newton Message Pad and eMate is geek-sweet eye candy. I Want A Cheap Fuel Efficient Car I’m looking for a new car, but I’m finding that the market for cheap and fuel efficient cars is no better now than it was in 2005. I drive about 140 miles round trip to work (all highway), so I’m looking for the best available highway fuel economy. I can drive a standard, but Sandee can’t, so we’ll need automatic. I like small cars, but no so much that I want to pay a lot for one. Moving a Subversion Repository I foolishly just moved a Subversion repository by importing the contents of a current checkout into a new repository. Wrong. A friend pointed out these instructions that make it easy and preserve the revision history. Here’s the trick: svnadmin dump /path/to/repository > repository-name.dmp and svnadmin load repository-name < repository-name.dmp [tags]svn, subversion, move, repository[/tags] Castro Sued For Wrongful Death of CIA Operative, Guantanamo Bay Prisoners Taking Notes The Bangor Daily News is reporting a Maine woman has sued Fidel Castro for her father’s death. Sherry Sullivan of Stockton Springs accuses Fidel Castro, his brother Raul, the Cuban army, and the Republic of Cuba for the wrongful death of her father, who has been missing and assumed dead since he was last seen at a Mexican airstrip in 1963. According to the lawsuit, from 1960 until their disappearance, Sullivan and Rorke participated in numerous covert anti-Castro operations in Central America and Cuba. Chocolate White Chocolate Chip Cookie and Vanilla Bean Ice Cream Sandwiches So once again, my husband called on my assistance with a Friday Food Fiesta challenge. This week’s theme was cookies and biscuits. I scoured my pantry, but alas, like Old Mother Hubbard, my cupboards were practically bare. The one interesting thing I did have was a bag of Hershey’s white chocolate chips. So, between my meager rations and a quick trip to our town’s tiny market for butter, I cobbled together the ingredients needed to make the chocolate, white chocolate chip cookies on the Hershey wrapper. Is It That They Don’t Care? Or Just Don’t Want It From Us? &tJessamyn asks “do library users care about our new initiatives?” It comes from a survey done by the Wisconsin Public Library ConsortiumOn one hand, if you interpret the results literally you could make a decision to reject technology and focus on building a collection around personal enjoyment for Wisconsin residents. On the other hand, these same results may suggest that initiatives and library services need to be marketed in such a way that resonates with current conceptions of a public library. The FBI And IRS Are A Series Of Accountants Alaska Senator Ted—The Internet Is A Series Of Tubes—Stevens (mockingly so, listen) returned to find the FBI and IRS searching his Alaska home. iPhone Complaints Cliff and Vasken wrote up some link bait complaining about how the iPhone doesn’t meet their expectations or is a lesser competitor to a crackberry. But I challenge them to find a device that offers what they say is missing or even matches what the iPhone has. Still, I’ve been using mine for a month now, and I can say there are few things it’s missing or could do better. Ingmar Bergman Dead at 89 Swedish film director Ingmar Bergman is dead at 89. The Local calls his work immortal, as did many of his colleagues. Until now I’ve been misremembering the title of one of his movies as Three Smiles of a Summer Night, a 1955 romantic comedy. I’d say that most of his works I’d seen were depressing and that Smiles was one of the few that wasn’t. But I couldn’t even remember the title properly, so perhaps I should keep that to myself. Sour Cream Berry Bread My wonderful neighbor, Wendy, went berry picking and dropped me off a large container with luscious, fresh blueberries and raspberries. I decided to try a bit of an experiment and use the batter for one my favorite cakes with the berries. The result was this heavenly sour cream berry bread. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease and flour an 8-cup loaf pan. Melt 5 tablespoons of salted butter, pour into a large bowl, let cool. What Is That Thing Kent Wien posted this photo of the tail of a Boeing 757 showing what looks like the exhaust end of a turbine. I had to ask what it was all about, and Kent explained: Ahh, very good question! There actually IS an engine back there. It’s the APU (auxiliary power unit) and it’s what keeps the airplane cool on the ground without being plugged into the gate. It also provides electrical power and high pressure air that starts the engines after we push back from the gate. Poet-Bot Doug Savage‘s take on Frost. iPhones Around The World A long time ago somebody started the Newtons Around The World gallery, and it came to symbolize the love we Newton users had for the little device as well as our geeky pride. The trend seemed to continue with iPods Around The World, and now iLounge wants to start a gallery for the iPhone. I was about to submit when I noticed the legal fine print: By submitting, you agree that all photographs, and private information you submit are entirely yours at the time of submission, become the property of iLounge upon submission, and that you have not submitted and will not submit such images to any other contests. iPhone Troubled, Replaced On Thursday I had trouble answering a call. By Friday night it was clear my iPhone was seriously porked. A visit to the nearby Apple store got me a swift replacement, and a promise that once I synchronized the new device it’d have all the info the old one did. Hrm. Well, the Mac Genius did ask if I had any photos I hadn’t offloaded, as those would be lost in the swap. Liz Danzico on WordPress Usability Liz Danzico of Happy Cog Studios spoke today about her consulting with Automattic on the design of the WordPress admin interface. As with so many of the presentation today, I’m really hoping the slides will be published soon, as there are some great ideas coming out. Liz spent a lot of time watching WordPress users at blog. At work, in cafes, and in their homes with coffee and cigarettes, Liz saw real users of all types doing everything they do with WordPress. Scriblio Goes To WordCamp Scriblio is based on WordPress, an open source content management system, and the community that uses, supports, and builds it is what makes it great. WordCamp started last year, when the community was about 750,000, and it’s even more important now that it’s grown to nearly two million. The first day of the schedule focuses on how to better use the software, and included a great session by Lorelle VanFossen. Tomorrow is more technical, with discussions about performance, usability, and development. Designing the Obvious Robert Hoekman, Jr is speaking now on Designing the Obvious, his book and philosophy: These principles include building only what’s necessary, getting users up to speed quickly, preventing and handling errors, and designing for the activity. I just added the book to my must read list, but what I’m hearing here sounds like instructions to a sculptor: chip away all that is not David. Calliope Gazetas Design Calliope Gazetas works for The FontShop and freelances under the name 99 Monsters. One of her projects includes skinning the Burning Man environmental blog. Jason Brightman Design Portfolio Jason Brightman’s work includes XXLmag. WordCamp WordCamp WordCamp I’m at WordCamp again. This time I dragged Matt and Zach with me. Dan Kuykendall, author of PodPress, is first on the schedule, and I’m just now learning how he’s built in support for a variety of media types (more than MP3) and for premium content. Those who showed up early got to pick over last year’s t-shirts. This year’s shirts are way different, having given up the somewhat cleaner and simpler design of that has characterized WordPress so far. Peanut Butter Burger Now matter how depressed I got in New Orleans, I still had to eat. A tip from the ladies at Molly’s on Toulouse led me to Yo Moma’s with instructions to try their peanut butter burger. Yes. Peanut butter. On a burger. I was also told that if I don’t like mayo, I should tell them to hold it because they’ll put it on thick if I don’t. Yes. Peanut butter, on a burger with mayo. When you can’t say it in English… When you can’t say it in English, say it in German. The Reconstruction of New Orleans It wasn’t until after my presentation that I had a chance to see the city. And I have to admit it was so depressing that I’ve been having trouble writing about it. I have a sick interest in abandoned theme parks and the like, but seeing the neighborhoods of all classes so destroyed, the symbols marking search and rescue attempts, and the general vacancy of the city left me confused and uncomfortable. Presentation: Bringing The Library To The User I’m at AALL in New Orleans as part of a program organized by June Liptay and Alan Keely, speaking with U of R’s David Lindahl and NCSU’s Emily Lynema. From the description (see page 5 in the program): Traditional library online catalogs are being marginalized in an increasingly complex information landscape. …Better methods are needed for mining the wealth of information in library systems and presenting it clearly and concisely. Yes it’s laughable, but… I get as frustrated with airport security as the next guy (and I’m plenty doubtful of its effectiveness), but really, if you don’t yet know liquids aren’t allowed, and you hold up the one security line at a small airport at an ungodly early hour, it’d be nicer if you didn’t laugh like a kid at a theme park about it. Yes it’s farcical, but not funny. Usage Instructions <img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/200/514808113_ce17f81316.jpg” width="500” height="442” alt="“tear open packet and use”” /> What’s really angering about instructions […] is that they imply there’s only one way […] their way. And that presumption wipes out all the creativity. Actually there are hundreds of ways […] and when they make you follow just one way without showing you the overall problem the instructions become hard to follow in such a way as not to make mistakes. The Rarin in Librarian I’m going to violate my rule against linking to NYT (because) and give a shout out to this article. Not just because it quotes my friend Jessamyn, but for what it says: libraries are full of smart, hip people. [tags]library 2.0, Jessamyn West, New York Times, libraries, hip, smart[/tags] Essential iPhone Apps Rush In [innerindex] Games Tilt, described in programmer Joe Hewitt‘s blog: …Christopher introduced me to a very talented video game designer, Nicole Lazzaro, who had an endless stream of ideas for games that would use the iPhone’s accelerometer. Nicole’s ideas quickly ran into the limitations of the phone, as we discovered that the browser doesn’t rotate when you hold it vertically upside down, nor is it possible to distinguish the two horizontal orientations. Whose Technology Is It Anyway? I wasn’t planning on posting much about Keen’s Cult of the Amateur, but I did. And now I find myself posting about it again. Thing is, I’m a sucker for historical analogy, and Clay Shirky yesterday posted a good one that compared the disruptive effects of mechanized cloth production to today’s internet. Yes, that’s actually the birth of the Luddite movement, or at least where it got its name. And, though I was aware of the story, Shirky’s study offered details I’d not know previously. ironic moments in law enforcement New Hampshire’s deputy chief of liquor enforcement caught drunk driving. Keen Says I’m Killing Culture, Byte By Byte Andrew Keen‘s The Cult of the Amateur__; How Today’s Internet Is Killing Our Culture is getting a lot of attention from usually quiet corners of the web, and I’ve had to quell the urge to write a story under the headline “Andrew Keen Tells YouTubers to Eat Spinach.” Keen’s argument rests on the belief that “culture” is the sole provence of established media, and falls flat as soon as you get past the bombast of the subtitle. Why Is PDF Inferior To HTML? HTML and PostScript are both page description languages, but one is designed to convey the look of the page, while the other to convey the meaning of its content. pinch me I’ve been away from my computer for a couple days, but very much online with my iPhone. Today, as I looked at something on my laptop in Google Maps I found myself trying to pinch and flick my monitor to manipulate the position and scale. felonious dancing naked == lewd lascivious conduct == felony crime. (Better, however, than riding a gondola naked.) Celebrate Independence Day With A Drink Ok, the truth is that at MaisonBisson we celebrate all holidays with a drink. Since we take cocktails quite seriously, I wanted something very pretty for the little Fourth of July soiree we were having. I have found that the secret to a perfect strawberry daiquiri is using frozen strawberries. I also use lots of crushed ice and a ripe banana — it adds a nice creaminess. I garnished with whipped cream, blueberries, and star fruit. Cold Cucumber Soup My beloved husband went off on a Boy’s Adventure Weekend. This left me with the entire house and kitchen to myself. When this happens, I become a bit like a mad scientist left alone in my laboratory. So, it was just me, the cats, and that most dangerous invention, Food Network. After some house work, chick flicks, and visiting with my parents, I spent an hour putting away laundry and watching Emeril. Sweet bike Sweet bike Originally uploaded by misterbisson. Sent from my iPhone iPhone accident Big accident on highway leaving mall…was somebody unboxing their iPhone while driving? so much sweetness in so small a package zero hour +50 minutes: the iPhone rocks. 15 minutes to go 15 minutes to go. Guy from store: “being in line doesn’t guarantee you’ll get one.” Two hours, 85 people. Two hours to go, 85 people in line. blackout They just put up black vinyl over the windows and gate. The line has grown to about 50. Still no word of quantity, but somebody shared a story that they asked “what happens if there are 300 people in line?” The answer was supposedly: “Even if they buy two we’ll have enough.” Retail Status Check Does your Apple Store have iPhones? about 30 The rumors are that the AT&T store here has about 30 phones. Nobody is talking about how many our Apple Store has. 26 people in line 26 people in line. At least one is hoping to auction his, three are being paid, and nobody wants the cheap one. Fake iPhone Pic At First Believed, Then Quickly Called Out By The True Believes In Line This pic elicited gasps, then indignation. we’re loved, we share the love Suited security guy with square jaw and angry expression grunts at us as he confirms plans with store manager. He’s from management, and though we couldn’t overhear much, we did realize he was headed off to the AT&T store next. All of us remained silent as we watched him stomp off in the wrong direction. waiting for iPhone Arrived at 8am to find four parties ahead of me. The first arrived at 7am, after repeatedly being chased out of the mall parking lot last night. June 28: Tony Day It’s Tony Day, not just because Joe’s book has garnered some good reviews—“the only excuse for the continued existence of boxing is that its battles have occasioned some of the best writing any sport has ever inspired”—or because he likes telling the story. It’s Tony Day because “Galento [is] a champion of everyone who’s ever gotten in over his head, shrugged, and said ‘What the hell? I’ll give it a shot. Apple iPhone vs. Internet Tablets Sure, the iPhone is a sweet phone (even at $600), but how does it compare to the less definable internet tablet category? I’ve actually used a Pepper Pad and held an OLPC in my hands (yes, they exist), but what I know about the Nokia n800 (the successor to the n770) is limited to what I’ve been told. All four devices have feature-complete browsers and can take advantage of the rich web 2. Presentation: Faceted Searching and Browsing in Scriblio I was honored to be a panelist at the LITA/ALCTS CCS Authority Control in the Online Environment Interest Group presentation of “Authority Control Meets Faceted Browse.” What is faceting? Why is it (re)emerging in use? Where can I see it in action? This program is intended to introduce the audience to facet theory, showcase implementations that use faceted approaches for online catalogs, and facilitate discussion on the relationship between structured authority data and this type of navigation. The iPhone Cometh; Haters Swarm Some are calling it the Jesus phone, but Jason Chen calls it a moral quandry, Gartner Group is <a href="http://www.techworld.com/mobility/news/index.cfm?newsID=9252&pagtype=samechan” title=;Techworld.com - Gartner warns IT to avoid Apple’s iPhone">telling IT to avoid it (really, because iTunes is scary to enterprise), Business 2.0’s Joshua Quittner is reminding the peeps it’s just a regular phone, and Wayne Smallman is whining that it doesn’t have a flash or telephoto lens. (Humor alert: one of those is supposed to be funny, and another is supposed to be hilarious. Presentation: Transforming Your Library With Technology [innerindex]Part of the Transformation Track, Transforming Your Library, and Your Library’s Future, with Technology, program coordinators Alan Gray and John Blyberg (both of Darien Public Library) described it like this: Technology can transform your library and its services, as it is transforming the lives of your patrons. From do-it-now technology improvements to next-generation implementations, from software to SOPACs, from in-your-face competition to over-the-horizon transformations, three accomplished experts will instruct, enlighten and challenge you to use technology to make your library more relevant to your patrons — today and tomorrow. iPhone Service Plans and Coverage? AT&T’s current (reasonable) voice and smartphone data plans offer 900 minutes for $60 and unlimited data for an additional $20, but previous reports about the iPhone suggested that consumers should expect to pay $60/month for service, so we’re left to wonder what’s up. Meanwhile, I’ve been asking AT&T users about their signal coverage. I’m on Verizon now and enjoyed pretty solid coverage throughout DC, even underground. Folks on AT&T, however, had spottier coverage, even above ground. “as dead as Elvis” “The librarian as information priest is as dead as Elvis,” Needham said. The whole “gestalt” of the academic library has been set up like a church, he said, with various parts of a reading room acting like “the stations of the cross,” all leading up to the “alter of the reference desk,” where “you make supplication and if you are found worthy, you will be helped.” Via. down the up escalator Running down the up escalator = fun. Landing upright = difficult. escalator, running, up, down An Almost-Manifesto Masquerading as a Presentation… Context: Below is the text of my virtual presentation to the LITA BIGWIG (it stands for blogs, wikis, interest group, and stuff) Social Software Showcase. The presentation is virtual, but the round table discussion is going on today, June 23rd, from 1:30-2:30 p.m. in the Renaissance Mayflower Cabinet Room. I won’t be there, though. My bad scheduling got me double-booked and I’m presenting in the Transforming Your Library With Technology track. cider drinks Black Adder = cider + Guinness Snakebite = cider + Harp 20th Century Information Architecture One hundred years ago the country was in the middle of a riot of library construction. Andrew Carnegie’s name is nearly synonymous with the period, largely due to his funding for over 1,500 libraries between 1883 and 1929, but architectural historian Abigail Van Slyck notes that the late 19th century was marked by widespread interest in community development, with broad recognition of libraries as a means of promoting individual development. trains vs. seat belts I’m not saying I want seat belts, but it always takes me a moment to get used to them not being there on a train. The Sky Is Falling MySpace, Second Life, and Twitter Are Doomed. The Rules, 2007 [innerindex]Web 2.0 has matured to the point where even those who endorse the moniker are beginning to cringe at its use. Still, it gave me pause the other day when Cliff (a sysop) began a sentence with “Web 2.0 standards require….” Web 2.0 is now coherent enough to have standards? We used to joke about rounded corners and gradient blends being the rule, but something more has indeed emerged. O’Reilly defined Web 2. Google Gears Google Gears: create web apps that work offline Two Books On A Shelf… Two books that just happened to be sitting next to eachother in the LC files: 001 47029455 003 DLC 005 20050826211147.0 008 761229s1946 xx 000 0 dut 010 _a 47029455 020 _a940.544 035 _a(OCoLC)2652163 040 _aDLC _cPBm _dDLC 042 _apremarc 050 00 _aD763.N42 _bR64 100 1 _aToonder, Jan Gerhard, _d1914- 245 14 _aHet puin aan de Rotte, _cdoor J. Gerhard Toonder. 260 _aAmsterdam, _bA. J. G. Strengholt _c[c1946] 300 _a95 p. Cake Robed In Chocolate And Strawberries Like so many women, there are days when my desire for chocolate is nearly overwhelming. However, perhaps because I am a tad high maintenance, my cravings are not satisfied by a mere candy bar. When I crave chocolate I want something rich, decadent, and freshly baked, I want chocolate cake. When one of these cravings coincided with finding the first of the year’s native strawberries I decided to combine the two, the result was the cake you see above. Arm Wrestling, Dung Throwing, Lawnmower Racing, and Seed Spitting I don’t know whether to thank the Pheonix or the fair organizers for this great ad copy, but I hope the Washington County Fair is as good in 2007 as it sounded in 2006: An agricultural fair featuring tractor pulls, stage shows, crafts, and livestock, plus games and children’s contests. Adult events include arm-wrestling contests, dung throwing, lawnmower racing, and seed spitting. Live country concerts every night. Open Wed through Sat from 10 am to 10 pm, and on Sun until 9 pm. go together? Just spotted: do hippie skirts and bluetooth headsets go together? Star Wars stamps found at post office Star Wars stamps found at post office. Will the merchandizing ever end? Flag Day The US flag with all its stripes and a few of its stars was adopted by a resolution of the Second Continental Congress in 1777. But today, overpriced textbooks and underpaid schoolteachers have sanitized most of our history and hidden the early controversies while fluffing half-truths, leaving us unclear about what that flag really stands for. Fortunately, this is America and we’ve got movies to tell us what our teachers didn’t. a three year high Report: civilian and military death toll in Iraq is up strongly after US “surge.” Roy Pearson sues Custom Cleaners Roy Pearson sues Custom Cleaners for $67 million over lost pants. Millions! Pants! New Hampshire ranks Local pride: New Hampshire ranks near the top of the list for quality of healthcare services, according to new report. climate change vs. budget planning Just as climate change makes hurricanes more frequent and dangerous, NOAA says its best tracking satellite is failing and there’s no plan to replace it until 2012. DeSoto report leaked. DeSoto report leaked. The highest ranking UN official in Israel has warned that American pressure has “pummelled into submission” the UN’s role as an impartial Middle East negotiator in a damning confidential report. Echos abound. The neocons were right, so far… The neocons were right so far: civil war is erupting throughout the middle east and Iran is feeding the flames. Is this really what we (or anybody) wanted? Paralyzed Paralyzed: they can blow our helicopters out of the sky, and now they’re [destroying the roads and bridges][2]. Are we prepared for [another surge in Iraq][3]? [2]: http://www.plenglish.com/article.asp?ID=%7BB12C79AD-2CBF-41AB-9B5E-5B80936A00D2%7D)&language=EN [3]: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2007/01/07/no-2-us-commander-in-ira_n_38040.html Installing MySQL with YUM how to install and configure MySQL database server WordPress Blogging By Email The built-in tools don’t support secure POP3, but Gmail requires SSL POP3. The fix? Postie. carbon neutral living APM Marketplace: news of a British model home. Highly insulated, carbon neutral, just 40% more$. Not just a demo, it’s going to be the law: all new UK buildings to must be carbon neutral by 2016. Economies of scale are said to reduce or eliminate the added cost by then. down for fifteen years straight, up like a rocket now After being down for fifteen years straight, milk consumption is up. Up big, and prices are rising to meet it. stand alone AppleTV? New 160GB AppleTV. How far away are we from a standalone unit that can download from iTunes store directly, sync iPods, and write to USB-attached burners? iPhone apps = web apps; web apps = iPhone apps WWDC: Safari for windows!?!? Leopard looks sweet, but delayed ’till October. iPhone apps = web apps. The New Plazes Plazes, a kinda-cool, formerly networked-based geolocation tool has just been revamped. They’ve been promoting this change for over a month (I got a cool invite to the launch party, but couldn’t make the flight to Germany), and they’re continuing the push now that it’s live. I’ve used the new service for a few days, the company has sent me an email soliciting feedback, I’m offering it. I submitted the following via the site’s Contact form, but the message seems to have disappeared, and I prefer public discussion, so I’m reprinting it here: Presidential candidates chasing rural votes? Presidential candidates chasing rural votes? Worth remembering that 60% of US libraries serve towns of 10,000 or fewer people. -Fed R-Fed defeated, K-Fed mourns. missed the paper airplane contest… I missed the paper airplane contest in Concord NH today!?!? Ultimate Frozen Mud Slide Recipe Who wouldn’t enjoy a frozen mud slide on a hot summer day? Typical recipes call for crushed ice and cream or ice cream. For some reason, we decided to try making them from ice cream, from scratch. The MaisonBisson Frozen Mud Slide This recipe requires an ice cream maker, we used the Deni Scoop Factory. 1.5 cups heavy cream 1 cup milk 1 cup sugar .5 cups Bailey’s dash vanilla Mix ingredients in bowl, then pour into ice cream maker’s freezer container. wheelchair ride 50MPH wheelchair ride in Michigan People Invent Funny Words: Schaedenfatte Okay, now that we all know what a muffin top is, let’s learn about schaedenfatte: Schaedenfatte: shaw-den-FAH-tuh, etym. from the German, schaedenfraude. (n.) 1. the feeling of pleasure upon seeing someone for whom one once held unrequited romantic and/or lustful feelings who has now become fat. 2. the taking of such pleasure. With summer being the season of weddings (and, along with reunions, weddings being the place where people people who haven’t seen eachother for years cross paths…), I suppose you might also call it the season of schaedenfatte. students want libraries iblee points out that students want libraries. asdasd asdasd They vaccinate ducks… They vaccinate ducks against H5N1 bird flu, but not enough. It’s active again in Vietnam, where the first human case since 2005 has now appeared. regime change… Why isn’t the US supporting regime change and democracy in Packistan? We’ve given General Perv US$10B in aid since 2001! queasy stomach Bush gets queasy stomach when facing other world leaders at G8. The poor fellow is being shamed by his peers. Open Source Software and Libraries; LTR 43.3, Finally The most selfish thing about submitting a manuscript late is asking “When is it going to be out?” So I’ve been waiting quietly, rather than trouble Judi Lauber, who did an excellent job editing and managing the publication. Ryan and Jessamyn each contributed a chapter, and I owe additional thank yous to the full chorus of voices that answered so many of my questions, participated in interviews, and generally made the book/journal/thing what it is. What’s up with police? “Prosecuting a woman for ‘staring’ at a police dog is absurd,” said her lawyer. “People are allowed to make faces at police dogs and officers to express their disapproval. It’s constitutional expression,” said public defender Kelly Green, who represented Jayna Hutchinson. More: What’s up with police? This Is The Liberal Media? What Liberal Media author Eric Alterman arrested, mocked at GOP debates. Poke Your Tech Staff With Sticks, And Other Ideas What a difference a year makes? Jessamyn was among those sharing her stories of how technology and tech staff were often mistreated in libraries, but there’s a lot of technology in this year’s ALA program (including three competing programs on Saturday: The Ultimate Debate: Do Libraries Innovate, Social Software Showcase, and Transforming Your Library With Technology. And still, not all is well. Ryan Deschamps seems to have hit the button with a post from April of this year. 30 months Libby to scoot in for 30 months. Is it enough? good for? “What is an atomic bomb good for?” Easy MySQL Performance Tips Yes, I’m still trying to squeeze more performance out of MySQL. And since small changes to a query can make a big difference in performance… Here are two really easy things to be aware of: Never do a COUNT(*) (or anything *, says Zach). Instead, replace the * with the name of the column you’re searching against (and is hopefully indexed). That way some queries can execute entirely in the keycache (while * forces MySQL to read every matching row from the table). what’s so bad? Congressman Sensenbrenner: “what’s so bad about shorter winters and global warming?” Ironic: Lightning Strikes Church Steeple Lightning struck the steeple of the Saint John the Baptist Church in Allenstown NH Saturday. Men At Work… Men At Work lead singer has new album: “are you lookin’ at me?” Biofuel: Good Idea, Bad Practice Yes, gas prices are high, and gas doesn’t grow on trees (well, in geologic time it does), but that doesn’t mean that it’s a good idea to run on cars on corn, even if it does grow on, um, trees (yes, alright, cornstalks). I mean, people talk about photovoltaics being inefficient, but wow, think of how much energy it takes to turn a seed into corn, then turn that corn into ethanol and truck it to a gas station. The Lawnmowers in Ohio From Associated Press and WAVY TV: Police said a drunk man drove a lawnmower to a store about a mile from his house. They arrested him on his way home. Dondi Bowles, 50, of Vermilion was arrested Friday night as he drove the mower on a sidewalk. Police said a breath test showed that Bowles’ blood alcohol level was 0.144 percent, nearly twice the legal limit of 0.08 percent. industrialized transportation vs. individual choice Thought: industrialized transportation first aggregated passengers onto railroads, the broke up into cars…technology empowered the individual, and they embraced it. Wish Alanis A Happy Birthday I’m wishing Alanis Morissette a happy birthday not just because we share a birth month and year, but because it’s a good reason to look back at her cover of My Humps and get another smile. But, as long as we’re talking about events in June, we might as well remember that we’re now just 20 Days away from Paris Hilton’s retirement. YouNiversity “YouNiversity” big issue… Huh, the NASA Administrator doesn’t think global warming is big issue. What’s his stance on evolution? Speedy PHP: Intermediate Code Caching I’ve been working on MySQL optimization for a while, and though there’s still more to done on that front, I’ve gotten to the point where the the cumulative query times make up less than half of the page generation time. So I’m optimizing code when the solution is obvious (and I hope to rope Zach into giving the code a performance audit soon), but I’m also looking at optimizing how PHP works. Bragging About My New Office It’s taken a while (we moved in two months ago), but my new home office is finally usable. The big hurdle was my desk. I prefer to stand (or walk) while working, but there aren’t many desks for that, and those that are available are very pricey. So I put together the above from a recycled base, a matching pair of table tops from Ikea, and some decorative wall-boxes that elevate the upper surface. Books I Now Want To Read… The problem with working on Scriblio is that I end up running into so many interesting looking books. Just this morning I discovered a number of recent acquisitions in the 19th Century and 20th Century subject feeds in my development instance (also available via RSS). All of this is under active development, so those links may or may not work, and the site is definitely changing URLs soon. Street-Level Photos in Google Maps! Thanks to Ryan Eby for tipping me to this. Go try it out. Whatever you think of them, they do keep delivering. I wonder if people will ask for stack-level photos of our libraries? Burninator: Kinetic Sculpture Never Looked So Hot This is what I get for not following Gizmodo faithfully: flaming industrial art. They introduced it saying “Do you enjoy fire? Do you also enjoy very intricate Rube Goldberg machines? Of course you do.” Though a reader there exclaims: It didn’t do anything. For it to be a true Rube Goldberg doesn’t it have to accomplish some task, like cracking an egg or pouring a glass of milk or something? Kids Need Bowling Coaches, Desperately There is little doubt that the great diversity of styles and techniques of bowlers from countries enjoying test match status has helped to shape the history of [the sport]. With the recent world-wide implementation of professional coaching schemes, which generally teach only one, or perhaps two optimal ways…, bowling could be in danger of losing its technical diversity. Are we therefore on the verge of a new era in which the art of bowling is irretrievably lost? Harry Potter finale out soon, does Book Embargo have details? Student Gets Restraining Order Over Facebook Photo The Associated Press reports a composite nude posted to facebook has earned a UNH student a restraining order: A University of New Hampshire student got a temporary restraining order against another student who combined an image of her face with an explicit photo of another woman’s body, then posted the composite on his Facebook page. A judge ordered Owen Sanborn, of Laconia, to stay at least 100 feet away from the woman and barred him from posting her “likeness or name on any Internet site,” pending a final hearing. A Fair(y) Use Tale From The Chronicle: Copyright law, a constant thorn in the sides of scholars and researchers, is generating a lot of public discussion this week, thanks in part to a new 10-minute video that parodies the law. “A Fair(y) Use Tale” has been downloaded from YouTube about 145,000 times since it was posted online Friday. The video uses 400 cuts from 27 different Disney films to mock copyright law as overly protective of the interests of copyright owners — Disney among them. Google To Psyc Profile Users!?! There it is in The Guardian: Internet giant Google has drawn up plans to compile psychological profiles of millions of web users by covertly monitoring the way they play online games. Yep, “do no evil” Google has filed a patent on the process of building psychological profiles of its users for sale to advertisers. Details such as whether a person is more likely to be aggressive, hostile or dishonest could be obtained and stored for future use, it says… Players who spend a lot of time exploring “may be interested in vacations, so the system may show ads for vacations”. RedHat 5 SELinux Gets In My Way Ack, my WordPress suffers connectile dysfunction on a fresh install of RedHat 5! Not only did I get the above message, but dmesg was filling up with errors like this: audit(1179258445.529:38): avc: denied { name_connect } for pid=3332 comm=“httpd” dest=3306 scontext=user_u:system_r:httpd_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:object_r:mysqld_port_t:s0 tclass=tcp_socket It turns out that I was getting stung by SELinux, which is enabled by default in RedHat 5. All the extra security is probably a good idea, if I knew how to configure it, but for the moment it was breaking a live site. Surf ‘n Turf Salad My computer geek husband, who I do adore, joined a Flickr photo group called Friday Food Fiesta. A new theme is announced every Friday, and everyone contributes a single photo that illustrates that theme. The first themes he contributed to were burgers and pizza, but when salads came up, he needed help. Luckily for him, I love making salads. So Casey, my husband, asked me to be his partner in crime and create a salad for him to photograph and submit. Bringing Up The Cute Quotient Of This Blog If you ever tire of the kittens on Flickr, it turns out there’s no shortage of bunnies on YouTube. Are You A Certified Asshole? Sure it’s a promo for his new book, but Bob Sutton is offering us all a chance to see if we’re assholes with the Asshole Rating Self-Exam (ARSE). After 24 questions like “You secretly enjoy watching other people suffer and squirm” (hey, what’s wrong with a little schaedenfreud?) you’ll find yourself placed somewhere on the scale from possible liar to full-blown certified asshole. You don’t sound like a certified asshole, unless you are fooling yourself. Customer Relations Done Right Rebekka Guðleifsdóttir is one of my favorite photographers on Flickr. Her photos are amazing, and it’s clear a lot of people agree. That’s the easy part. Then two problems arose: First Rebekka discovered that somebody was selling her photos for profit, and she posted about it. The community was shocked, and angry. And then, and this is the second thing, Flickr removed her post about it. And then the storm got worse. Increased Fuel Economy, Easy Here’s an irony: I used to live in the country, a small town with fewer than 900 residents, and I used to speed. Now I live in the city, well, as much of a city as New Hampshire can manage, and I’m driving slower. Driving slower not just because Manchester‘s traffic lights are on timers they leave me listening to crickets chirping at empty intersections while they blindly tick tick tick through the cycles before finally giving me the green (usually just as somebody arrives at the newly reddened light on the other street). WordPress 2.2 Out WordPress 2.2 is out and available for download now! I’m excited because this version includes widgets (by default), some XML-RPC hooks to edit pages (so you don’t need my hacks), a switch to jQuery from Scriptaculous (Matty got me excited about this), full Atom support (enough of the different versions of RSS!), and the ability to set your MySQL character encoding (go UTF-8!). If that isn’t enough, 2.3 is planned for release in September. PlasticLogic’s Flexible E-Paper Display Plastic Logic is a developer of plastic electronics – a new technology for manufacturing (or printing) electronics. The Plastic Logic approach solves the critical issues in manufacturing high resolution transistor arrays on flexible plastic substrates by using a low temperature process without mask alignment that is scaleable for large area, high volume and low cost. This enables radical new product concepts in a wide range of applications including flexible displays and sensors. People Ask Me Questions: Web Design Software (or is it Website Management Software?) The question: What’s a good user-friendly Macintosh web development program? A friend called. She’s thinking of buying Dreamweaver, but is afraid it will be overkill. She found Frontpage to be easy and needs something similar. My answer: If the intent is to design individual pages on an unknown number of sites, then I don’t have a recommendation. If the intent is to build a site (or any number of sites), then I’d suggest looking at WordPress. WordPress Strips Classnames, And How To Fix It WordPress 2.0 introduced some sophisticated HTML inspecting and de-linting courtesy of kses. kses is an HTML/XHTML filter written in PHP. It removes all unwanted HTML elements and attributes, and it also does several checks on attribute values. kses can be used to avoid Cross-Site Scripting (XSS), Buffer Overflows and Denial of Service attacks. It’s a good addition, but it was also removing the class names from some of the elements of my posts. It’s Not About Technology, Stupid Inside Higher Ed asks Are College Students Techno Idiots? Slashdot summarized it this way: Are college students techno idiots? Despite the inflammatory headline, Inside Higher Ed asks an interesting question. The article refers to a recent study by ETS, which analyzed results from 6,300 students who took its ICT Literacy Assessment. The findings show that students don’t know how to judge the authoritativeness or objectivity of web sites, can’t narrow down an overly broad search, and can’t tailor a message to a particular audience. L.A. Burdick’s Cafe and Chocolate My favorite place to eat in all of New Hampshire is LA Burdick’s in Walpole. It’s a chocolate shop and cafe and I’ve never had anything there that isn’t sinfully delicious. We took my mother-in-law there for Mother’s Day this year. We started the meal with their delightful cheese plate. This featured four cheeses in a range of intensities, a delightful fruit chutney, olives, seasoned nuts, and crackers. The cheeses were all wonderful and could be purchased at the market next door, many are by local artisans. Sausage: The Other Ground Hog The photo is from Jessamyn, who declared it Groan-worthy. I’m still grinning about it. Reminds me of the time Homer said “Yeah, right Lisa. A wonderful, magical animal.” Sweet Meatcake First it was meat hats, then SuperModelMeat. Now it’s meat cakes. Yes. Three layers of meat, with ketchup and potato frosting. It all happened when the groom announced that a man’s cake should be made of meat, ’cause “wedding cackes are all girly.” Apparently a red velvet armadillo groom’s cake isn’t manly enough. Funny thing, now there’s a growing gallery of meatcakes. (Via.) Wikipedia The Wonder Middlebury College banned it, but 46% of college students and 50% of college grads use it. Twelve year olds point out errors in its competition, while those over 50 are among its smallest demographic — just 29% (Just! 29%!) say they’ve used it. It’s Wikipedia, of course, and the numbers come from a recent Pew Internet Project memo reporting that Wikipedia is used by 36% of the online population and is one of the top ten destinations on the web. Is Automated Metadata Production Really The Answer? (It’s old, but I just stumbled into it again…) Karen Calhoun’s report, The Changing Nature of the Catalog and its Integration with Other Discovery Tools, included a lot of things I agree with, but it also touched something I’m a bit skeptical about: automated metadata production. Some interviewees noted that today’s catalogs are put together mainly by humans and that this approach doesn’t scale. Several urged building or expanding the scope of catalogs by using automated methods. CentOS 5 Released At work I use Red Hat Enterprise Linux, but my personal stuff is served from machines running CentOS. Both distros were just bumped to version 5, bringing with them support for current components of the LAMP stack. I care because I want Apache 2.2.4, and while it’s pretty easy to get MySQL & PHP 5 on a CentOS/Plesk box, Apache 2.2 is a bit more of a struggle. Gary Sims at Linux. Leopard Beta To Be Released At WWDC Those of us hoping for an early release of Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard might be disappointed to learn that Apple will just be getting around to giving out a “feature complete” beta at WWDC in mid-June. If you really must have it, conference badges are $1,295. The Leopard beta. Available first at WWDC. At the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference, we’re planning to show you a feature-complete version of Mac OS X Leopard, and you can take home a beta copy. World’s Hottest Peppers Tabasco thinks their peppers and eponymous sauce are hot. Anybody who’s just ate a habanero thinks that’s a hot pepper. But earlier this year, Paul Bosland of New Mexico State University said “Damn, I’ve got a hot pepper.” And the Guiness World Records folks agreed. World’s hottest pepper? Bosland had identified the Naga Jolokia pepper and measured it at over one million Scoville Heat Units, quite a bit more than three times the burn of a hot hot habanero. DeWitt Clinton On The Birth of OpenSearch OpenSearch is a common way of querying a database for content and returning the results. The idea is that it brings sanity to the proliferation of search APIs, but a realistic view would have to admit that we’ve been trying to do that since before the development of z39.50 in libraries decades ago, and the hundreds of APIs that have followed have all well intentioned and purposeful. So what makes makes OpenSearch something more than an also ran in a crowded herd? Awkward Moments In Social Software We all know social networking may be a feature, not an application, but one person’s feature can become another’s bane. So when Netflix offers a handy Friends feature that makes it easy to share your viewing history and recommendations, it opens itself up not only to the value of social interaction, but also the awkwardness it can sometimes be rife with. Titration’s story is instructive: So I have this friend who has invited me to become her “netflix friend” twice now. David Halberstam On Competition Speaking at UC Berkeley’s School of Journalism last month, David Halberstam struck the chord of competition journalists must struggle with. As a newspaper man who started at the smallest newspaper in Mississippi and worked his way up to the New York Times, where he won a Pulitzer for his reporting on the Vietnam War, he learned that television’s constant stream of images offered “drama and excitement,” but perhaps incomplete reporting. Not that he was criticizing TV, no, he praised it for bringing images and awareness into our living rooms nightly, raising questions among the viewing audience that “we [in newspapers] had the chance to answer if we used our skills properly. MySQL Error 28: Temp Tables And Running Out of Disk Space Bam: MySQL error 28, and suddenly my queries came to a stop. Error 28 is about disk space, usually the disk space for temp tables. The first thing to do is figure out what filesystem(s) the tables are on. SHOW VARIABLES LIKE “%dir%” will return a number of results, but the ones that matter are tmpdir and datadir. `SHOW VARIABLES LIKE “%dir%”; basedir / character_sets_dir /usr/share/mysql/charsets/ datadir /var/lib/mysql/ innodb_data_home_dir innodb_log_arch_dir Miles Hilton-Barber Flies Blind From Britain To Oz I learned of it last night on The CBC’s As It Happens: Miles Hilton-Barber, blind since age 30, has flown from Biggen Hill, south of London, to Gosford, outside Sydney, by ultralight in a journey that took almost two months. Aviation regulations required he take a sighted co-pilot, but in the As It Happens story he explained how his instruments were geared up to give him audio and voice feedback such that he could do most of it on his own. PHP Libraries for Collaborative Filtering and Recommendations Daniel Lemire and Sean McGrath note that “User personalization and profiling is key to many succesful Web sites. Consider that there is considerable free content on the Web, but comparatively few tools to help us organize or mine such content for specific purposes.” And they’ve written a paper and released prototype code on collaborative filtering. Vogoo claims to be a “a powerful collaborative filtering engine that allows Webmasters to easily add personalization features to their Web Sites. Remixability vs. Business Self Interest vs. Libraries and the Public Good I’ve been talking a lot about remixability lately, but Nat Torkington just pointed out that the web services and APIs from commercial organizations aren’t as infrastructural as we might think. Offering the example of Amazon suing Alexaholic (for remixing Alexa’s data), he tells us that APIs are not “a commons of goodies to be built on top of for fun and profit, like open source software.” Here are his “six basic truths of free APIs:” Boris Yeltsin: The Most Colorful, Drunk Politician Since Churchill Sure, Clinton played his sax on TV, Bush groped Angela Merkel, but Boris Yeltsin gave speeches drunk, tossed women into the water, danced on stage, and generally did all manner of laughable things. But he also turned back a hardline coup by jumping atop a tank and dragged Russia kicking and screaming toward democracy. Not since cigar chomping, Scotch drinking Winston Churchill led Britain through World War II has the world had a more colorful leader. Atomic Test Photos From Los Angeles This renewed talk of building nuclear weapons here in the US reminded me of an old report of photos of the sky glow from nuclear tests done in Nevada seen over Los Angeles. This one includes the following description: Atomic explosion, the largest yet set off on the Nevada test range, was clearly visible in Los Angeles. Staff photographer Perry Folwer was ready with his camera on a tripod on the roof of the Herald-Express building when the blast occurred at 5:49 a. Nukerator, We’re Nukrawavable Will, Cliff (both above), and I recorded this song in one take in late 1999. Though, calling it a “take” is overstating it. We were beyond silly drunk and lacked any talent for the task, but we had a mic in front of us, a guitar, and a willingness to open our mouths and let something — anything — fly out. It wasn’t until Will said “This song is called Nukerator” that we knew what we were supposed to be singing about. CSI Jumped The Shark I’m a newcomer CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, I started watching it with season six while suffering a flu that immobilized me for what seemed like a week or more. Dumb with illness, I went searching for a diversion at the iTunes store and stumbled into the series. I had the entire season downloaded quickly; it took me two marathon days to watch them all. I got hooked. Now I’m following season seven, again via iTunes. How To: Zip Files on Mac OS X It couldn’t be much easier. I’d previously posted command line instructions, but it turns out that there’s a huge number of people who don’t know the easy way: just CTRL-click on the file and select “Create Archive…” You’ll also find the option in the File menu. Either way, you’ll end up with both the original and a zipped copy. Decompressing that zip — or any other — is as simple as double-clicking it. NCAA Set To Ban Text Messaging Between Recruiters And High School Students College sports are big business, so recruiting student athletes is big business. The NCAA limits the times coaches and recruiters can call or visit athletes, but text messages are all fair game. For now. The Chronicle of Higher Education explained in an October 2006 story: Before Chandler Parsons committed to play basketball for the University of Florida, his cellphone buzzed more than 100 times a day with text messages from college coaches. Are We There Yet? Still Waiting For Decent iPod Car Integration Even Bob Borchers, Apple’s senior director of iPod worldwide product marketing, calls most iPod car setups an “inelegant mess of cassette adaptors and wires.” Indeed, while Apple aparently doesn’t want to get into the car audio business, they do want to improve the in-car iPod experience: What Apple really wants you to buy is a car that’s designed from the ground up to interface with the iPod,” the Web site said. Please, Not Another Wiki Ironic secret: I don’t really like most wikis, though that’s probably putting it too strongly. Ironic because I love both Wikipedia (and, especially, collabularies), but I grit my teeth pretty much every time I hear somebody suggest we need another wiki. Putting it tersely: if wikis are so great, why do we need more than one of them? I think my concern is that wikis appear to depend on either very large or very, very active communities. Claims of Prior Art In Verizon/Vonage Patent Infringement Case Vonage has been saying Verizon’s patent claims are overly broad for some time, but now people have dug up some prior art. One of the patents Verizon is complaining about is #6,104,711, what they call an “enhanced internet domain name server.” In short, it’s all about linking phone numbers to IP numbers, and Jeff Pulver says he was doing that in 1995 with Free World Dialup, an early, noncommercial VoIP service. The High Cost Of Innovation: Vonage’s Patent Woes Vonage will be in court again tomorrow defending itself against Verizon’s claims of patent infringement. The innovative VoIP company had lost the trial and was ordered to pay $58 Million in damages in early March, when a jury found them to have violated thee of seven related patents held by Verizon. Vonage appealed of course, but it’s uncertain if the company, which has yet to turn a profit, has the stamina for a drawn out battle. Eco-Friendly Web Design For Earth Day Mark Ontkush at ecoIron did some math starting with the Department of Energy data that showed CRT monitors consume less power displaying dark colors than light and determined that redesigning Google’s site in black would save 750 megawatt-hours per year (assuming that 25% of computer users still haven’t upgraded to LCDs and are using power-hungry CRTs). The results were so dramatic he redesigned his own site and developed a low wattage palette that uses only about three or four watts more than a completely black screen (white is to be used only as a text or accent color). “I Want My Money” My nephew checked his email while he was here this morning and this was the first thing in his inbox. Maybe it’s because he’s 17 and my humor is at about the same level, but both of us were cracking up over it. Miserable attempt at recovering my dignity with serious criticism: Will Farrell and landlord prove there is no meaning (or humor) without context. Would it be as funny without Will Farrell (with full afro! Reminder: Paris Hilton To Retire In 60 Days Amid all the “ZOMG Paris Hilton is pregnant!” rumors, it’s worth remembering that the girl famous for doing nothing (except repeatedly having her racy photos and video leaked) is retiring in two months. Yep, on June 20th 2007, Paris is give up on public life. At least that’s what she said in Newsweek: She’s certainly managed to turn herself into an icon and a conglomerate for essentially being a party girl—that is, for doing nothing. DeLoreans Are Back In This Future If the DeLorean looks at all like a Lotus Esprit, it should. Both of them were designed by Giorgetto Giugiaro, and much of the engineering work was done by Lotus founder Colin—to add speed, add lightness—Chapman. Amusingly, John De Lorean also owned a company that manufactured snowcats under the DMC name. Owners and wannabes can join the fun at the DeLorean Motor Company open house, being held June 8 — 10 in Humble, Texas. MoveOn: We Can’t Afford Bad Song Parodies In yet another lesson about how a bad joke in front of one audience can trouble a larger public, MoveOn wants McCain to know bombing Iran is no laughing matter. Music and bombing, it could be said, really only go well together when joined in criticism. WordPress, Permalinks, Mod_Rewrite, and Avoiding 404s I made a mistake in changing my WordPress permalinks, but by the time I’d discovered it my blog had already been indexed. Fixing the permalinks meant breaking those indexed URLs, leading to a bad user experience, but leaving them as is wasn’t really an option. Last night, after getting 404’d while using Google to search my own blog, I realized I had to do something. First I looked at Apache mod_rewrite and the URL rewriting guide (as well as this cheat sheet from ilovejackdaniels), Then, frustrated, I found some items in the WordPress Codex, including this one about conflicts between . Some Needs, Some Of The Time I don’t know why I love this quote from a post in panlibus: serve some needs of some parts of the population, some of the time …though my love for the quote may have something to do with my embrace of what OpenSearch creator DeWitt Clinton describes as the “80% case,” the solution that would work for the great majority of applications most of the time. It’s one of those things that’s easy to see in retrospect, but difficult to aim for: building a tool that is specific enough to be useful, but not too specific. Joost Brings Television To The Internet Age (Finally) On demand internet TV has been just around the corner since the dawn of the popular internet, but like flying cars, it’s still not here. The problem is how TV streams clog the internet’s tubes. Bandwidth may be cheap, but there’s still never enough of it. Well, that’s true if your metaphor for the internet is a hub and spoke system. Not so if you think of it as a mesh. Usability, Findability, and Remixability, Especially Remixability It’s been more than a year since I first demonstrated Scriblio (was WPopac) at ALA Midwinter in San Antonio. More than a year since NCSU debuted their Endeca-based OPAC. And by now most every major library vendor has announced a product that promises to finally deliver some real improvements to our systems. My over-simplified list said that our systems failed us in the categories of usability, findability, and remixability, and now people are asking me what I think about what I’ve seen from the vendors so far. My Boston Library Consortium Presentation Speaking Thursday at the Boston Library Consortium‘s annual meeting in the beautiful Boston Public Library, my focus was on the status of our library systems and the importance of remixability. My blog post on remixability probably covers the material best, but I define it as: Remixability is the quality of a system or data set to be used for purposes the original designers or owners didn’t predict or intend. bsuite Bug Fixes (release b2v7) [innerindex]Work on bsuite3 is progressing well, thanks to help from Zach and Matt, who are collaborating with me on completely rearchitecting how stats are collected and reported. This, however, is not bs3. It’s a transitional release intended to fix some bugs in b2 and make upgrading easier. This upgrade is recommended for all current bsuite users and new users. bsuite Features Tracks page loads (hits) Tracks search terms used by visitors ariving at your site via search engines Reports top-performing stories via a function that can be included in the sidebar Reports recent comments via a function that can be included in the sidebar Reports top search terms via a function that can be included in the sidebar Outputs a pulse graph of activity on your site or specific stories Lists related posts at the bottom of the current post’s content Suggests posts that closely match the search criteria for visitors who arrive via search engines Integrates bsuite_speedcache Does some stuff with tags Fixed/Changed/Added As mentioned above, a huge-but-invisible feature here is that this version includes some pieces that will make it easy to transition to the new plugin. MySQL errors while creating the tables should now be fixed. It’s my shame that these have persisted so long. The plugin now “rebuilds the tags table” as soon as you activate it. This is a good thing, but if you’ve got a huge number of posts (or a really short max execution time) it might cause a problem (please leave a comment if it does). The related posts feature now works even if you aren’t tagging your posts. If there are no tags, the post’s title is used as a search string. This list is probably incomplete and in some other way inaccurate. It’s not intentional, I’m just sloppy. Please leave comments with bug reports or corrections, I’ll do what I can to fix them. Finally, I’m now hosting the download on a new server, so it won’t be subject to .Mac’s bandwidth consumption limits. Is The Moller Skycar A Fraud? Will I Ever Get My Flying Car? A recent comment here reminded me to check in on our options for flying cars, now at least seven years overdue. It turns out that Moller International, the folks developing the M400 Skycar aerodyne, are accepting deposits: As a result of the recent successful hovering flights of the M400 Skycar, Moller International is accepting deposits to secure delivery positions for our M400 Skycar until after the Skycar has flown from hover to full aerodynamic flight and returned (transitioning flight). Yep, Skulls Are Office Products, Brains Not Included I don’t know what’s funnier, that Amazon sells skulls (just $132, get one now!), or that they’re classified as “office products.” Extra: more office weirdness in this video. I’m A Fonero, Are You A Fonero Too? Now that I’ve moved I’ve finally set up my Fonera. I had hoped to offer a story about the process, but it was so simple I can’t really say much more than “I plugged it in, I registered it, it worked.” The Fonera is a tiny little router/WiFi access point that looks worlds better than the average Linksys/Netgear/Belkin job, but the real sweetness is in what it does that they don’t do. Google MyMaps and GeoRSS O’Reilly’s Where 2.0 Conference isn’t until the end of May, but Google just released two sweet new map-related features: GeoRSS support and MyMaps. The GeoRSS support means that any application that can output it’s geocoding — as simple as <georss:point>45.256 -71.92</georss:point> — can now be linked to a live map with no more effort than it takes to paste the feed URL into Google Maps’ search box. Google holds this up as the exemplar, but I’m a fan of the cheese photo map here. Twitter Twitter Anti-Twitter My own feelings about Twitter have gone back and forth across indecision street for a while, and despite a moment of excitement it’s still not part of my life-kit. So I was amused to see Blyberg pointing out Kathy Sierra’s poo-poo-ing of Twitter. Ironically, services like Twitter are simultaneously leaving some people with a feeling of not being connected, by feeding the fear of not being in the loop. By elevating the importance of being “constantly updated,” it amplifies the feeling of missing something if you’re not checking Twitter (or Twittering) with enough frequency. Dawn Of The Citizen Professor? It should be no surprise that journalists are talking about citizen journalism, but what of the disintermediation of other industries? Man-on-the-street Mark Georgiev told Marketplace: I didn’t want a certificate, I didn’t want any kind of accreditation, I really just wanted the knowledge. And I also wanted to work at my own pace. Georgiev, the story explains, has a masters from Yale but wanted to learn programming. That’s when he found Foundations of Software Engineering in MIT’s OpenCourseware. Pranks International Matt tells us the office pranks he masterminded a couple weeks ago got reported in Saturday’s Daily Mirror (scan above): JOKER Matt Batchelder had the last laugh after he was left out of an office conference trip. Alone at his desk for a week, the snubbed computer geek dreamed up a series of pranks to greet his boss and three colleagues as they returned… on April Fool’s Day. Cut And Paste Is A Skill Too [Update: Keith pointed out that my small disclaimer at the end isn’t clear enough. This post is copied, stolen, cut and pasted in its entirety from Keith’s blog, ISTP Dad. I was glad to learn of the story, and this was meant to be ironic and funny.] An editorial in the Washington Post is explicit about a topic close to my heart: students think plagiarism is fine, and teachers (high school? Moving and Shaking and Shimmy-ing It’s sort of late by now, and others have been offering their congratulations to me for a while (thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you), but I only just got the paper copy myself and this morning had a chance to browse the list. Mover & Shaker alumnus John Blyberg asked me if I preferred moving or shaking better, but now that I’ve seen the names and read the profiles, I can say I’m just proud to be among such a distinguished group. [Good|Bad] Covers: My Humps, Interpreted By Alanis Morissette I’m one of those guys who almost never actually hears the lyrics to the music that’s playing constantly. Then somebody covers the song in a beautiful-but-ridiculous way, and I finally clue to them. Example: Tori Amos’ cover of Smells Like Teen Spirit. Now I hear Alanis’ interpretation of The Black Eyed Peas My Humps, and I realize that, while not meaningless, it’s on par with Lene Alexandra’s current single. Does it make me old to say that bad grammar in lyrics hinders my understanding of them? Economics Of Open Source Two fairly old papers on the economics of open source. The news recently has been that open source allows companies to bring in better, more innovative talent and saves marketing costs, but these papers are interesting nonetheless. The Simple Economics of Open Source: The nexus of open source development appears to have shifted to Europe over the last ten years. This paper explains why this trend undermines cultural arguments about “hacker ethics” and “post-scarcity” gift economies. “Smart Networks” Are A Stupid-Bad Idea This story in MIT Technology Review scares me. Instead of letting all computers within the network communicate freely, Ethane is designed so that communication privileges within the network have to be explicitly set; that way, only those activities deemed safe are permitted. “With hindsight, it’s a very obvious thing to do,” McKeown says. No matter how obvious it seems, it’s still a really bad idea. It’s hard to imagine a world without the internet now, which makes it especially easy to dismiss the critical features that made it possible. Sweet Vespa Scooter With Sidecar on eBay Greenstemstudios is selling a sweet-looking 1980 Vespa with sidecar. In gleaming Cinder Red and House of Kolar Black, riding on white wall Continentals, “the scooter gets 60 to 70 miles to the gallon and can easily maintain 60 mph even with the sidecar attached.” The starting price is $3,750. I’m plenty happy with my scooter, but this is very tempting. EMI and Apple/iTunes To Offer DRM-Free Music Downloads Following Steve Jobs’ ant-DRM post, people began to wonder if Apple was just pointing fingers or really willing to distribute DRM-free music via their online store. Yesterday we learned the answer. Apple and EMI announced yesterday they would offer DRM-free 256bit AAC premium downloads, priced at $1.29 each. Bisson Tower Siezed With plenty of moving help from Zack, Matt, Cliff, Justin, Jon, Will, and Karen, Bisson Tower went from empty to full quickly enough that we all had plenty of time to sit around and enjoy the lunch Sandee cooked up, then retire to the roof with cocktails. The cats were traumatized by it all, but I’m happy to be done with construction and finally be able to enjoy the new place, with all its quirks. Web Based Genealogy Software Interesting, a LAMP solution that promises “the next generation of genealogy sitebuilding.” it does pretty charts and pages, and as any web app should, makes it easy to edit or add information. But it also makes me wonder if there’s an XFN attribute to indicate parent/child relationships. Could our work on network identity and social software solve this? For April Fools… Those looking for this year’s April Fools gags should look at the office pranking from last week (pictured above). This blog will henceforth be very serious. Not. Dance Around The World Among the pop-culture viral videos I apparently missed is Matt Harding‘s dancing. I had to turn to Wikipedia for an explanation: Harding was known for a particular dance, and while videotaping each other in Vietnam, his traveling companion suggested he add the dance. The videos were uploaded to his website for friends and family to enjoy. Later, Harding edited together 15 dance scenes, all with him center frame, with the background music “Sweet Lullaby. Whoosh Boom Splat Bill Gurstelle thought the exploding balloons were as funny as I did, and now I understand why: the contributing editor of Make magazine knows his way around improvised munitions. He also knows YouTube videos of oppressed geeks getting back at The Man with potato guns is a good marketing ploy for his audience. Whoosh Boom Splat appears to be his latest book. Amazon doesn’t let me look inside, but how can you go wrong with projects like these? Who Will Be First To Put A MetroNaps Pod In Their Library? MetroNaps started business in 2004 with a boutique in NYC’s Empire State Building, selling 20 minute naps for $14 bucks. The company has slowly been opening franchises around the world, but MetroNaps co-founder Arshad Chowdhury says overwhelming interest from office folks who wanted to install the pods on-site as an employee perk. So the company redesigned the pods to fit through the smaller doors common to office environments (trust me, retail doors are big), and has started selling direct. APIs Are Big Business ProgrammableWeb pointed out an InformationWeek story that claimed 28% of Amazon’s sales in early 2005 were attributable to Amazon affiliates. And C|net claims Amazon now has 180,000 AWS developers (up from the 140,000 Amazon was claiming about a year ago). (Note: not every Amazon affiliate/associate is an Amazon Web Services (AWS) developer, but Amazon hasn’t shared more specific numbers.) These slides, from Amazon’s AWS developer relations team explain a lot about what AWS is. Office Prankd! When Ken, Zach, Dan, and Dee all went off to a conference without Matt, Al, Cliff, Tim, Laurianne, and me (but especially Matt), they had to assume something would happen in their absence. Something. And it did. To each one of them in turn. 1,100 square feet of tinfoil covered everything in Ken’s office. 5,300 Post-It notes were tiled over everything in Zach’s. 575 cups (many had water in them) covered Dan’s floor and desk. IdM, OpenID, and Attribute Exchange The conversation on Code4Lib about OpenID reminded me to finish a draft I’d started at Identity Future on the topic. The short of it is that Marc Canter says that single sign-on is good, but “we need the attribute exchange to make this thing really take off.” Then all the skeptics will realize that the authentication layer HAD to come first – but was just a first step. Along the way we’ll figure out standards for user intrerface and usage flow. Japanese Lessons From William Rowe: zetcho = the apex of the mountain tonsei = to shave one’s head and forsake the world I learned the literal meaning of “karaoke” early last year. Heavy Skies Newley Purnell pointed me at this astronomy picture of the day by Antti Kemppainen: Sometimes the sky itself is the best show in town. On January 26, people from Perth, Australia gathered on a local beach to watch a sky light up with delights near and far. Nearby, fireworks exploded as part of Australia Day celebrations. On the far right, lightning from a thunderstorm flashed in the distance. Near the image center, though, seen through clouds, was the most unusual sight of all: Comet McNaught. World’s Smallest Horse Thumbelina is smaller than a decent dog. So small, in fact, that the Guinness folks — no, not those Guinness folks — recognize her as the smallest. From Boing Boing: Thumbelina is the world’s smallest horse. She weighs 60lb and is five years old. She was born on a ranch that specializes in breeding miniature horses. She is thought to have dwarfism, which makes her even tinier. But she’s not alone. Spring! Spring Flowers! Uploaded from before the days when Flickr would keep the original size photos, this is one of my favorite, most spring-y shots. And with weather like we’re having here now — 57° in northern New Hampshire! — it’s very appropriate. My Personal Crisis of Digital Preservation For a long time I was a big fan of Dantz Retrospect Backup. For while I was so committed that I would do an incremental backup of my laptop and most every other computer in my house every day, but I’ve been using it one way or another since 1999 or 2000 or so. All those backups have added up, and they’ve even saved me a couple times. I wish, of course, that I’d been using it previously, when my laptop was stolen in 1995, or when my hard drive failed catastrophically in 1997. UC Berkeley Proud Of PowerPoint Bob Gaskins, a former Berkeley Ph.D. student, conceived PowerPoint originally as an easy-to-use presentation program. He hired a software developer, Dennis Austin, in 1984 to build a prototype program that they called “Presenter,” later changing the name to PowerPoint for trademark reasons. PowerPoint 1.0 was released in 1987 for the Apple Macintosh platform; later that year Gaskins’s company Forethought and the program were purchased by Microsoft for $14 million. The first Windows and DOS versions of PowerPoint followed in 1988. NYT Struggles To Find Young Audience, Online Audience, Audience The New York Times last week announced that it’s giving away TimesSelect to students and faculty that hold a .edu email address. TimesSelect, of course, is the paid access site that debuted in January 2006 to a confused and critical web. Editor and Publisher repeated the Times’ claim that they’re doing this for the good of democracy: “It’s part of our journalistic mission to get people talking on campuses,” says Vivian Schiller, senior vice president and general manager at NYTimes. Snow Spider Karen found this spider in the snow yesterday when she wasn’t running for the camera. Will spied several more, all moving laboriously over the crystalline landscape. None of us had ever seen spiders on snow before, but it’s likely we’d never looked. Charlie The Unicorn Meg was never shy about asking me what rock I was found under when I stunned her with my complete ignorance of major pop culture touchstones, so I put my mind to it and after significant remedial work I thought I’d caught up. But, no. I’d not seen this video and only discovered it when Blyberg pointed at it as an icon of network-enabled pop culture. The Candy Mountain video has been circulating for almost a year now and it’s a prime example of how network effects are allowing society to disseminate, in this case, popular culture, and ultimately the bulk of information deemed “important” by our fellow citizens Snow Thrower In my favorite action photo since Will cut a woody, Karen hit the snow with fury. I Missed Lebowski Fest!?!? As usual, beatnikside had to tell me what I missed: Lebowski Fest. It looks like everybody was there. The Dude Jeffrey Lebowski, Theodore Donald ‘Donny’ Kerabatsos, Walter Sobchak, Maude Lebowski, Bunny Lebowski, the rich Jeffrey Lebowski with no legs, and his lacky Brandt. And don’t forget Jesus Quintana or Treehorn’s Thugs. And certainly don’t forget Nihilists Uli Kunkel, Karl Hungus, Kieffer, and Franz. Twittter Twittter Twittter Ryan tried to tell me about it a month ago, Jessamyn gets the idea but uses Facebook instead, DeWitt fell for it, Ross said it tipped the tuna, and now I’m finally checking Twitter out. I signed up yesterday and immediately went looking for ways to connect Twitter, Plazes, and iChat. Tweet is an AppleScript that works with Quicksilver (a launcher) and Twitterrific (a desktop Twitter client) to make updating even easier. OSS Saves Marketing Costs, Protects Business VA Linux founder Larry Augustin on OSS In Augustin’s view open source development became a necessity in the 1990s when the cost of marketing a program came to exceed the cost of creating it. “My favorite is Salesforce.com. In 1995 they spent under $10 million in R&D and over $100 million in sales and marketing. That doesn’t work.” “Open source enables people to reach all those customers. It’s a distribution model. Beyonce and Swimsuits Not Appropriate For Librarians My ALA email newsletter arrived today with this story: Sports Illustrated decides libraries don’t need swimsuit issue Librarians on Publib and other discussion lists discovered in the first week of March that none of them had received the February 14 “swimsuit issue” of Sports Illustrated. Inquiries to publisher Time Warner eventually resulted in a statement from spokesman Rick McCabe that the company had withheld shipment of that issue to some 21,000 libraries and schools because for years the magazine had received complaints it was too risqué. Linux Leads On World’s Top Supercomputers The real map of the world’s top 100 supercomputers isn’t nearly as US-centric as my screenshot suggests, but the operating system stats are seriously tilted toward Linux. Over 400 of the top 500 supercomputers in the November 2006 report run some form of the free operating system. Generic “Linux” leads the pack, but Redhat and SuSE are the two most named distributions. Non-free operating systems include IBM’s AIX, HP-UX, and MacOS X. Spam Getting More Personal? The Viagra and Cialis knock-offs being pushed in so much of the spam I get may be directed at things the recipients feel very personally about, but the message itself has never been personal. Well, it had never seemed personal to me, anyway, until now. Clay Shirky pointed out what I’ve started to see, and wonder about, myself: many of the subject lines in the spam I’ve received recently sound familiar, and plausible as a real message. The Future Of Library Technology Is Free, Cheap, And Social delicious = Endoeavor’s course content integrator OpenSearch = metasearch Flickr = digital collections management Damn Daylight Saving Doesn’t Save NPR covered it like an eclipse or astronomic curiosity, and did little to question the claimed energy saving benefits. But, as Michael Downing asks in Spring Forward, how can something understood by so few be done by so many? And why go through this twice annual madness? Supposedly, we subject ourselves to the rule of time to conserve oil, but even the most wildly optimistic predictions suggest only a 1% drop in consumption. Firecrackers For Troops Via NPR this morning: A Michigan man strapped more than 13,000 firecrackers onto himself, and lit the fuse. John Fletcher publicized it as an effort to support U.S. troops. It was an event to collect cell phones for soldiers. The Daily Press and Argus, in Livingston County, Mich., shows Fletcher standing calmly as the firecrackers explode. Afterward he did say he needed some Tylenol. LivingstonDaily.com has has video as well as photos of the fiery 47 seconds of firecracker fury, which worked out a whole lot better than this other soldier-related firecracker stunt. 300: A Torrent Of Awesomeness or Just Too Much? So, is 300 really the “torrent of blood and awesomeness” that Matt says it is (and the preview supports), or does it run out of steam as NPR’s film critic, Kenneth Turan, suggests? Unless you love violence as much as a spartan, Quentin Tarantino, or a video game playing teenage boy, you will not be endlessly fascinated. The problem is that the visual panache that made Snyder an acclaimed director of commercials works better for 30 second spots than two hour features. And He-Man Screams From The Top Of His Lungs “What’s Goin’ On” The What’s Up? cover would be funny enough on its own, with the He-Man video it’s golden. Now, you know you want to sing along with the chorus. Go for it, here are the lyrics: And so I wake in the morning and I step outside And I take a deep breath and I get real high And I scream from the top of my lungs “What’s going on? Charges Put Internet Radio On Pause In early 2002 the Copyright Arbitration Royalty Panel (CARP) set royalty rates for webcasters that were twice as high as for regular radio broadcasts. The Library of Congress reset those rates in late summer (yes, the LoC oversees those things). Now it’s 2007, and the RIAA is at it again. Techdirt reports the Copyright Royalty Board is adopting royalty rates the RIAA has been asking for, “and making them effective retroactively to the beginning of 2006 — meaning that many small independent webcasters are now facing a tremendous royalty bill they’re unlikely to be able to afford. The True Spirit Of Copyright I wrote to C|Net, owner of TechRepublic and Builder.com, asking if I could quote their Ten Commandments of Egoless Programming in an issue of Library Technology Reports journal on open source software for libraries and got the following canned response: Thank you for your interest in including CNET content on your website. […] There would be licensing fee of $400.00 associated with use of the CNET logo or text excerpt on your website, or $1000. Ingenious And Almost Unusably Different Lars Wirzenius’ Linux Anecdotes: In January, Linus bought a PC. He’d been using a Sinclair QL before that, which, like much British computer stuff, was ingenious and almost unusably different from everything else. Dell Tells Linux Users Where To Put It Holy smokes. As Dell’s sales slump and stock remains flat, the famously unimaginative company is trying to tap into the Mob for ideas about what new shade of grey to deliver its hardware in next. And what did the Dell IdeaStorm mob say? “Give us Linux!” “Give Us OpenOffice.” And how did Dell respond? “No. No. And, No.” John Naughton reports on the story for The Guardian, explaining: Waiting For Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard With rumors of a March release of Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, swirling, Zach asked what was promised that he should be excited about, so I went looking to jog my memory. The announced features include Time Machine automatic backup of all your stuff (with integration to make finding and restoring stuff in applications easy and sweet, watch the video already), as well as a big leap ahead for iChat. Internet Awesomeness Diagram By Matthew Batchelder Above, Matthew Batchelder’s diagram showing the correct relationship of the internet, awesomeness, ninjas, pirates, dinosaurs, zombies, robots, and Gummi Bears (though, where are the superheros you might ask). This Guy Can Draw Circles Around You (And Me) Found at Baekdal.com, where the author expresses some amount of whiteboard-skills envy. The video shows Alex Overwijk, head of Glebe Collegiate high school‘s math department (more trivia: Alanis Morrisette went there) drawing what appears to be a perfect circle. This is something I do in my spare time. I draw freehand circles and then I found out there was a world championship…It’s like winning the Masters. Once you win, you automatically get invited back every year. Google Apps and Roadshow I was supposed to go to the what I think is a Google Apps roadshow this morning, but I was also supposed to be at code4lib this weeks and be doing a dozen other things that didn’t happen. So, in lieu of that I’m reading up on the company’s first new business strategy since Adsense. Phil Wainewright is skeptical, even mocking at the likely prospects for the premium package that Google is offering for about $50 per person, per year. Links from Ryan Eby Encyclopodia – the encyclopedia on your iPod GeoCool! – Rasmus’ Toys Page IE7 and OpenSearch Autodiscovery Information Management Now: Social Tagging For The Enterprise Let Me Show You My Credentials “I’m Bruce Pechman, the muscleman of technology, let me show you my credentials.” This is the instructional video that comes with the DynaFlex Powerball Gyro. The fan videos on YouTube have got nothing on this. Just click play and prepare to laugh. Will and I have been asking to see people credentials since he shared this with me a week ago. Middlebury College vs. Wikipedia Middlebury College is proud to have taken a stand against Wikipedia this year: Members of the Vermont institution’s history department voted unanimously in January to adopt the statement, which bans students from citing the open-source encyclopedia in essays and examinations. Without entirely dismissing Wikipedia — “whereas Wikipedia is extraordinarily convenient and, for some general purposes, extremely useful…” — the decision paints it with a broad brush — “as educators, we are in the business of reducing the dissemination of misinformation. WWAN Update Brings Higher Speed-Mobile Connectivity Apple’s WWAN Support Update 1.0 brings support for the following new cell carrier-based based networking cards (WWAN = wireless wide-area networking): Available on the Cingular network Novatel Merlin XU870 ExpressCard (HSDPA) Available on the Sprint network Novatel Wireless Merlin EX720 Express Card (EVDO Rev. A) Novatel Wireless Ovation U720 USB Modem (USB Adapter, EVDO Rev. A) Available on the Verizon network Novatel XV620 ExpressCard (EVDO Rev. Top Ten Times Two For Students Back in August Educated Nation offered the following top ten list of web tools for college students: Writely Soundslides Bluedot.Us eFax PDF Online Google Calendar Google Spreadsheets Bloglines Technorati mynoteIT Not to be outdone, an anonymous-but-first-person story at Nextstudent identifies their top ten: Book Finder MynoteIT Ottobib Google Docs Tada List Meebo Wikipedia Zoho Show Google Reader Del.icio.us Quiet Comfort That’s me on JetBlue Flight 481 to Long Beach, wearing my noise canceling headphones. Sandee saw me wanting them, so she was especially happy to make them a Christmas present to me. And, with all the flying I’ve been doing lately, I was especially happy to have them. I wanted the QuietComfort 2s not just because I like big, old skool, over-the-ear headphones (I don’t, actually), but because I really wanted the extra noise reduction that design offers. Let It Snow! With over a foot on the ground already, and more falling now the through the night, we’re crossing our fingers for another snow day tomorrow. Foods I Want To Try… Despite the mystery, porklets are quite yummy, at least according to Sandee‘s recipe. What I want to try next is bacon cheesecake or chili powder on french toast or maraschino cherries mixed with jalapeños. All of those sound delightful to me. Extra: sausage man, don’t eat that, don’t try this at home. Just Pretend It’s All Okay Ryan IM’d this to me, and it was pretty easy to find that Northern Sun sells them for $4 a pop. This is serious stuff, but it’s hard not to laugh at the support our pants magnet or some of the stickers here. This Blog Is For Academic And Research Purposes Only This sign on a computer in the Paul A. Elsner Library at Mesa Community College caught Beth‘s eye and garnered a number of comments, including one from theangelremiel that seems to mark one of the most elusive aspects of Library 2.0. they know that none of their classes require gaming Excerpting the above as a simple declarative may not be fair, but it gets to the point. Let’s say they “know” (that is, let’s say they think they know) that none of the courses requires gaming. Treo Firmware, DUN, Frustration John commented to say he’s been using his 650 for DUN over bluetooth for a long time now, and that all it takes is the latest firmware. So I go looking and find Treo 650 Updater 1.04 from October 2005 and I have to wonder “what firmware does my phone have?” Here’s how to check: Open the Phone application, press ‘menu’, navigate to ‘Options’, then ‘Phone Info’ Of course nothing is simple, and a TreoAddicts story notes trouble with the update, and the installation instructions are daunting (really, look at ’em). A Visual Explanation of Web 2.0 Kansas State University‘s Digital Ethnography group — “a working group of Kansas State University students and faculty dedicated to exploring and extending the possibilities of digital ethnography” — posted this visual explanation of Web 2.0. It’s by Michael Wesh, assistant professor of cultural anthropology, and it rocks. Text is unilinear…when written on paper. Digital text is different. Hypertext can link. With form seperated from content, users did not need to know complicated code to upload content to the web. Steve Jobs’ Thoughts On Music, Music Stores, and DRM Steve Jobs’ Thoughts On Music is surprisingly open and frank, almost blog-like, for the man and the company especially know for keeping secrets. Jobs is addressing complaints about Apple’s “proprietary” DRM used in the iTunes Music Store. There is no theory of protecting content other than keeping secrets. In other words, even if one uses the most sophisticated cryptographic locks to protect the actual music, one must still “hide” the keys which unlock the music on the user’s computer or portable music player. No one has ever implemented a DRM system that does not depend on such secrets for its operation. And after offering his view of the situation, he offers three possible futures. The first alternative is to continue on the current course, with each manufacturer competing freely with their own “top to bottom” proprietary systems for selling, playing and protecting music. And the case for doing more of the same is pretty clear. Apple’s iPod and iTunes Music Store are successful, and though there are competitors, they’ll have to convince would be buyers to give up their iPods. The second alternative is for Apple to license its FairPlay DRM technology to current and future competitors with the goal of achieving interoperability between different company’s players and music stores. And that’s exactly what people have been asking for. It’s hard to know who wants to use a player that’s not an iPod, but there are some things that don’t play on iPods. But… Apple has concluded that if it licenses FairPlay to others, it can no longer guarantee to protect the music it licenses from the big four music companies. Perhaps this same conclusion contributed to Microsoft’s recent decision to switch their emphasis from an “open” model of licensing their DRM to others to a “closed” model of offering a proprietary music store, proprietary jukebox software and proprietary players. And finally… The third alternative is to abolish DRMs entirely. And how does that work? In 2006, under 2 billion DRM-protected songs were sold worldwide by online stores, while over 20 billion songs were sold completely DRM-free and unprotected on CDs by the music companies themselves. The music companies sell the vast majority of their music DRM-free, and show no signs of changing this behavior, since the overwhelming majority of their revenues depend on selling CDs which must play in CD players that support no DRM system. So if the music companies are selling over 90 percent of their music DRM-free, what benefits do they get from selling the remaining small percentage of their music encumbered with a DRM system? There appear to be none. If anything, the technical expertise and overhead required to create, operate and update a DRM system has limited the number of participants selling DRM protected music. If such requirements were removed, the music industry might experience an influx of new companies willing to invest in innovative new stores and players. This can only be seen as a positive by the music companies. Connectile Dysfunction No sooner do I lay down a rant about how bad Sprint WiFi is than do they run an ad telling us how great their service is. Well, not only that, but they promise to save us from “Connectile Dysfunction.” Angela Natividad described it best: It’s hard to position broadband ads. You can be like Earthlink, which kind of laughs at the whole idea of marketing in general, and you can be like Comcast, which takes the easy way out with off-colour humour. 1984 Wasn’t Like 1984 For those who watch the ads as intently as the game, it’s hard not to think of Apple’s 1984 commercial. And from that thin thread, I’m reminded of the Ministry of Re-shelving and, now, the Ministry of Love. I discovered the last from a comment here, and after looking them up, I decided to contribute a few copies to the cause. The notes I sent along requested the following: Sprint WiFi Sucks I’m back in Oakland Airport, but this time I’m bringing my own network and I don’t have to deal with Sprint’s WIFI mess. See, the problem isn’t just that it costs too much. The problem is that once you pay, you’re plopped at the login page where the login I just created doesn’t work. And worse, the error offers absolutely no clue about why the username I just just created (and paid for! Social Internet Sharing It all started as a simple idea. Why should you pay for Internet access on the go when you have already paid for it at home? Exactly, you shouldn’t. So we decided to help create a community of people who get more out of their connection through sharing. The deal is that you get a special Wifi router and use it to securely open your connection to the world. Ecto vs. WordPress Ecto is finally available in Intel optimized form, but WP 2.1‘s XMLRPC breaks it. Cliffy, of all people, tells us how to fix it. Now, when is Ecto 3 coming out? Aside: this blog post explains how to hack up the XMLRPC to extract the tags Ecto is sending. This was interesting to me a long time ago, but bsuite handles tags entirely in the post content. Open Source Shifts Costs Does open source free your budget up for the best talent? I asked her if the choice to go with open source is helping her to keep costs in check, here’s what [Dabble CEO Mary Hodder] said: What happens with open source is you actually spend the same amount of money, but you don’t have lock-in and you pay for really good people to run it. And so you still end up paying. Neg’s Urban Sprinting I might watch more TV if I didn’t live in the US. Well, I used to like watching World’s Wildest Police Chases on Spike while knocking back a few at the bar after work, but they re-arranged the schedule a while back and it’s just not the same. So clearly I have to sit around waiting for people to forward me goodies like this. Yeah, it’s Neg’s Urban Sprinting, which apparently aired on a show named “Balls of Steel,” and it’s just one in a brilliant series. Sealand For Sale Principality of Sealand, a WWII-era gunnery platform called Roughs Tower, in the North Sea outside Britain’s pre-1968 three nautical mile claim of sovereign waters, is for sale. Yep, the “land” declared by some as the world’s smallest micronation will go to the highest bidder. Ravage by fire (2006), beset by marauders (1978), and generally ignored by the world’s governments (all time), it’s, well, it is what it is. And now The Pirate Bay hopes to buy Sealand. Communities Are As Communities Do Right there are the beginning of Esther Dyson‘s ten-year-old book, Release 2.1, she alerts us to the Web 2.0 challenge we’re we’re now beginning to understand: The challenge for us all is to build a critical mass of healthy communities on the Net and to design good basic rules for its public spaces so that larger systems do self-organize and work effectively. Rule-making is not the job of legislatures and governments alone. Presentation: Collaboration, Not Competition ALA Midwinter 2007, ALCTS Future of Cataloging presentation: Collaboration, Not Competition. (slides: QuickTime & PDF.) Stir my writings on The Google Economy and Arrival of the Stupendous post with frame four of the ALCTS And The Future Of Bibliographic Control: Challenges, Actions, And Values document: In the realm of advanced digital applications, we are interested in collaboration, not competition. We take as axiomatic the idea that library catalogs and bibliographic databases on the one hand, and Web search engines on the other, have complementary strengths. Presentation: Faceted Searching And Our Cataloging Norms ALA Midwinter 2007, ALCTS Cataloging Norms Discussion Group presentation: Metadata and faceted searching: an implementation report based on WPopac. (slides: QuickTime & PDF.) Faceted searching such as that made possible by WPopac (look for the new name soon) improves the usability of our systems and findability of our materials, but also puts new demands on how we catalog them. My favorite search example is sociology of education, both because it’s a common search in our logs, but also because it demonstrates how our systems can help bridge the gap between what our users know and what our catalogs know. Casual Friday: The ALA Midwinter + Music Video Edition The above circulated a while ago, but I post it today to recognize this special ALA Midwinter edition of Casual Fridays. And while I’m not suggesting libraries will or should become 21st century dance halls, Lichen’s title, “1.0 -> 2.0, the video” has some resonance here. And on the theme of music videos that tell stories comes Miranda’s Yo Te Dire, which I like both because it’s funny and because I’m instantly attracted to foreign pop culture. Let The Silence Roar Okay, before anybody inquires if I’ve gone into boat sales or brings up the BisonBoom story again, I need to ask for your understanding. It’s not that I’ve been spending my days trying to pick out just the right shade of red for my new Corvette (really I’m not, it’s the Lotus I like), or that I’ve been moving to sunny California to take up my new job at Google (a year ago I would have been twitching with excitement, now I’m more likely to agree with this). Sweet jQuery Matty discovered jQuery at The Ajax Experience, and his enthusiasm has rubbed off on me. jQuery makes coding JavaScript fun again. Well, at least it makes it possible to write code and content separately. And that means that sweet AJAXy pages can be made more easily, and it sort of forces designers to make them accessible from the start. Resources: jQuery: JavaScript Library Getting Started with jQuery Visual jQuery 1. PES Films I’ve been loving the PES films I found via this Design Observer post, and despite featuring his films for Christmas day and new year’s eve, there’s still a lot to see. Animated peanut butter is about as cool as it gets, even if I can sympathize with the peanut here in Drowning Nut. Casual Friday extras that tickle my inner 12-year-old: Roof Sex, Beasty Boy, Pee-Nut, and Prank Call. Apache 2.2.x on Mac OS X I’m lazy, that’s all I can say to explain why I hadn’t put any serious thought into upgrading from the 1.3.x version of Apache that ships with Mac OS X to the much more feature rich 2.0.x or 2.2.x. But today I found reason enough to switch my development to 2.2.3, and I went looking to the community for information about the switch. A post in Marc Liyanage’s forums made it clear how easy config/compile was. Rusty Nail: The Maison Bisson Winter Drink The holidays are long since past, here’s a drink to carry you through ’till Spring. Rusty Nail 3 parts Scotch 1 part Drambuie Serve over ice in an old fashioned glass. Please enjoy it responsibly. Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics Thanks to MetaFilter for pointing this out, and Matty, for putting it to good use. Yes, you really can use this to make authoritative looking reports on anything. New Year’s Fireworks PES offers these fireworks for any occasion, but when better to celebrate than the new year? And thinking of that, if all these clocks are correct, the new year has already started in GMT, which means I’m probably a few drinks behind and need to catch up. Holiday Violence By the end of it, all the wrapping paper and other material affects of the holidays really do take on air of violence. Well, at least they do in PES‘s Kaboom. And if you’re amused by that, you might want to see how it was made. Happy Holidays One Goat Down, One Goat To Go Cliffy got excited about the Gävle Goat when his pal Derek emailed him about it all. Derek was in town, or something like that, and got caught up in the frenzy first hand: “Last year some other guy was a bit smarter, hitting it with a flaming arrow from a bow, and he wasn’t caught. It went up in flames!” The goat, of course, is a 40 year holiday tradition. Great White Solstice While northern-hemisphere inhabitants are enjoying their first day of winter, our cousins in the southern hemisphere are just beginning summer. And in South Africa’s Shark Bay, near Gansbaai, the great whites are departing for other waters. The great whites make their way to Shark Bay annually between September and January, though they are not hunting, and, as Rob Mousley reports, they “ignore bait slicks (and bathers), swimming through them without any reaction–in contrast to their behaviour at other locations such as Dyer Island” [link added]. Competition, Market Position, and Statistics Watch this video a few times. It’s funny. It’s catchy. It’s kitsch. Now watch it a few times more. The ad, for a Lada VAZ 2109, appeared sometime in the 90s. It reflects the influence of MTV and other cultural imports from the West, but the details betray it’s command economy provenance. The snow appears trodden and dirty, the trees barren, the background architecture bleak. The car has headlights that flash in time to the music, but their dim yellow glow fails to dazzle. Welcome To Your World In pointing this out to me, Lichen noted “if this isn’t evidence that Web2.0 is an undeniable force, I don’t know what is.” “This,” of course, is Time Magazine‘s announcement of the 2006 Person of the Year. And the answer is you. Yes, you. Michael Stephens was right on top of it, pulling this quote: …But look at 2006 through a different lens and you’ll see another story, one that isn’t about conflict or great men. Helsinki Complaints Choir Though some people prefer the Birmingham choir to Helsinki’s, there’s certainly something to be said about complaining in song, and something more when it’s in a language I can’t begin to understand. One blogger remarked of the video: To think of what might of been. What if I’d moved in with a bunch of angst ridden Finns,instead of pseudo-happy baptists, and been forced to sing their rants along with them. Wish I Could Be There… Harry Shearer and Judith Owen are performing their holiday sing-a-long at the concert hall at the Society for Ethical Culture in NYC with guests TMBG and others. It’s a go on Friday, but why can’t these things happen closer to me? Actually, maybe they should all come to Warren afterwards. Memcached and WordPress Ryan Boren wrote about using memcached with WordPress almost a year ago: Memcached is a distributed memory object caching system. WordPress 2.0 can make use of memcached by dropping in a special backend for the WP object cache. The memcached backend replaces the default backend and directs all cache requests to one or more memcached daemons. You must have a memcached daemon running somewhere for this to work. Unless you’re managing the server on which your blog is running, you probably can’t run a memcached daemon, making this backend useless to you. WordPress 2.1 + WPopac I’ve been following WP2.1 development, but Aaron Brazell’s post in the development blog wrapped up a lot of questions all at once. The short story is that 2.1 is going to bring some really good changes that will allow more flexibility and better optimization of WPopac. Of the four changes Brazell names, the last two, the addition of the post_type column and a change in usage of the post_status column, are where the money is. Woot! Woot! The press release: Making Libraries Relevant in an Internet-Based Society PSU’s Casey Bisson wins Mellon Award for innovative search software for libraries PLYMOUTH, N.H. — You can’t trip over what’s not there. Every day millions of Internet users search online for information about millions of topics. And none of their search results include resources from the countless libraries around the world—until now. Casey Bisson, information architect for Plymouth State University’s Lamson Library, has received the prestigious Mellon Award for Technology Collaboration for his ground-breaking software application known as WPopac. Flightplan Perhaps it’s just because I’m in the air again today, but I’m fascinated by Aaron Koblin‘s animation of aircraft activity, illustrating the pulsing, throbbing movements of aircraft over North America. Nah, this is hot. You’ll love it too. Also worth checking out: Koblin’s other works. Flickr Interstingness Patent…Application It’s old news (Boing Boing and Slashdot covered it a month ago), but Flickr’s patent application is a bit troublesome. It’s not that they’re trying to patent tagging (they’re not), it’s that they’re trying to patent the things library folks have been wanting to do (and in some cases actually doing) for some time. Media objects, such as images or soundtracks, may be ranked according to a new class of metrics known as ”interestingness. Lemurs Movin’ It Thank Jon for pointing out the above. Actually, you should go read his post on the matter because, well, it gave me a chuckle and it’s certainly better than going shopping today. And Then The Feds Blocked Me Via a friend who coordinated a program I presented at not long ago I received this message about difficulty accessing my blog post with notes from the presentation: Do you have the notes electronically that you could send? Believe it or not our federal government internet filter is blocking access to the blog site below…..big brother is truly at work these days….. Jessamyn has been dealing with this for a while now, but this is the first I’d learned that I’d been blocked. Will It Blend? Go now to willitblend.com and offer your suggestion for something new. Want to see a bacon cheeseburger with pickles and grilled onions? Go for it. Parsing MARC Directory Info I expected a record that looked like this: LEADER 00000nas 2200000Ia 4500 001 18971047 008 890105c19079999mau u p 0uuua0eng 010 07023955 /rev 040 DLC|cAUG 049 PSMM 050 F41.5|b.A64 090 F41.5|b.A64 110 2 Appalachian Mountain Club 245 14 The A.M.C. White Mountain guide :|ba guide to trails in the mountains of New Hampshire and adjacent parts of Maine 246 13 AMC White Mountain guide 246 13 White Mountain guide 246 13 A. Second School? Rebecca Nesson, speaking via Skype and appearing before us as her avatar in Second Life, offered her experiences as a co-instructor of Harvard Law School‘s CyberOne, a course being held jointly in a meatspace classroom and in Second Life, and open to students via Harvard Law, the Harvard Extension School, and to the public that shows up in Second Life. Nesson has an interesting blog post about how it all works, but she also answered questions from the audience about why it works: Social Learning On The Cluetrain? They don’t want to engage in chat with their professors in the classroom space, they want to chat with other students in their own space. — from Eric Gordon’s presentation this morning. Hey, isn’t that the lesson that smart folks have been offering for a while now: “Nobody cares about you or your site. Really.” How could learning environments not be subject to the same cluetrain forces affecting the rest of the world? Social Software In Learning Environments It’s really titled Social Software for Teaching & Learning, and I’m here with John Martin, who’s deeply involved with our learning management system and portfolio efforts (especially as both of these are subject to change real soon now). Aside: CMS = content management system, LMS = learning management system. Let’s please never call an LMS a CMS…please? On the schedule is… Social Software in the Classroom: Happy Marriage or Clash of Cultures? Displaying Google Calendars in PHP iCal PHP iCalendar solves a couple problems I’m working on, but I needed a solution to fix the duration display for Gcal-managed ICS calendars. As it turns out, a fix can be found in the forums, and the trick is to insert the following code in functions/ical_parser.php. case 'DURATION': if (($first_duration == TRUE) && (!stristr($field, '=DURATION'))) { ereg ('^P([0-9]{1,2}[W])?([0-9]{1,2}[D])?([T]{0,1})?([0-9]{1,2}[H])?([0-9]{1,2}[M])?([0-9]{1,}[S])?', $data, $duration); $weeks = str_replace('W', '', $duration[1]); $days = str_replace('D', '', $duration[2]); $hours = str_replace('H', '', $duration[4]); $minutes = str_replace('M', '', $duration[5]); $seconds = str_replace('S', '', $duration[6]); // Convert seconds to hours, minutes, and seconds if ($seconds > 60) { $rem_seconds = $seconds % 60; $minutes = $minutes + (($seconds - $rem_seconds) / 60); $seconds = $rem_seconds; } if ($minutes > 60) { $rem_minutes = $minutes % 60; $hours = $hours + (($minutes - $rem_minutes) / 60); $minutes = $rem_minutes; } $the_duration = ($weeks * 60 * 60 * 24 * 7) + ($days * 60 * 60 * 24) + ($hours * 60 * 60) + ($minutes * 60) + ($seconds); $first_duration = FALSE; } break; Hopefully this gets worked into the baseline with the next release. Rock Paper Scissors This weekend’s Fifth Annual Rock Paper Scissors World Championships have ended, and Brit Bob Cooper has come out a winner. The Toronto event drew a reported 500 competitors and 250 spectators from 26 U.S. States, four Canadian provinces, Norway, New Zealand, Australia, Wales, the UK and Ireland and paid a top prize of CAN$7000. “I went through extensive training, read ‘The Official Rock Paper Scissors Strategy Guide’, and studied the 27 possible RPS gambits before competing,” said Cooper. Mushaboom Remix Props to Tim for offering linking me to a remix of Feist’s Mushaboom. I like the original better, but, well, I’m also a fan of remixes. I Feel Great Transcipt: What? Oh, yeah. I feel great. Larry, I’m quittin’ the company and startin’ my own. And by the way, I feel great. Steve, you’re a great guy with great skills, you’re gonna do great. *pounds fist* What the hell, I’m comin’ with ya. Ooohhhhfff. Hey, you’re hot and I feel great. Let’s get married. Alright, but I want lots of kids. Me too. Five hundred of them. *slams file drawer* Ooohhhhfff. And Fell The Wall It’s worth taking a moment to remember that the Berlin Wall fell this day in 1989. Though orders had been been given, they were botched by East German propaganda minister Günter Schabowski, who mistakenly announced in a press conference that restrictions on border crossings would be lifted immediately. In fact, restrictions were to be lifted the next day. Tens of thousands of East Berliners heard Schabowski’s statement live on East German television and flooded the checkpoints in the Wall demanding entry into West Berlin. Art vs. The Google Economy In an anomaly that we would eventually recognize as commonplace on the internet, Touching the Void, a book that had gone out of print, remaindered before it hit paperback, was all but forgotten, started selling again in 1998. Chris Anderson wondered why, and found that user reviews in Amazon’s listing of publishing sensation Into Thin Air had people recommending Touching the Void as a better read. Today, Touching the Void outsells Into Thin Air 2 to 1. Ministry of Truth = George Bush’s Whitehouse The Huffington Post pointed out how the White House is doctoring video of Bush’s “Mission Accomplished” speech from May 2003. Visitors to whitehouse.gov now get a video that crops out the mission accomplished sign. How Orwellian will this president get? “The future of evil is in manipulating information.” I Hope You’re All Voting Today Okay, even if this Diesel Sweeties cartoon is a little disheartening, please vote. The fact is, vote suppression is probably more likely than vote fraud. A tip of the hat to Lichen for alerting me to this, and for making the point that our users’ notions of “authority” are among the fastest changing features of our post-Google world. Arlington East The above photo and some others were forwarded to me by a friend. The body of the email included: A few friends of mine participated in this event on Saturday. There wasn’t a lot of media coverage, but NPR and the CCT. The photos show 2700 markers representing American dead in the Iraq war, and 200 markers representing just a small percentage of the approximately 600,000 Iraqi dead from a memorial held on Cape Cod on October 14th, 2006. The Political Parties In Vermont Cliff took a picture of his absentee ballot because the new parties were just too good: Dennis Morriseau is the Impeach Bush Now candidate for Congress and Peter Moss is the Anti-Bushist Candidate for Senate. Midterms Mentioned earlier, but worth mentioning again: TrueMajorityACTION’s Take It Back campaign. Among the videos and political graffiti of the moment, don’t miss Freedom, Beat Box Bush, and <a href="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2601232339745819805” title="9/11, Shock & Awe: clip from “Hijacking Catastrophe” - Google Video">Hijacking Catastrophe. And as funny as the Brazillion Joke is, we need a government that doesn’t lie, a government that’s smart, a government that cares for its people, its soldiers and foreign civilians and our elections. Network-Enabled Snooping In The Physical World We’ve got OCR. We’ve got cameraphones. We’ve got web-based license plate lookup services. Amazon Japan has a fancy cameraphone-based product search feature. What’s more naive, imagining that somewhere somebody has a SMS/MMS-based license plate snooping and facial recognition services and fingerprint scanners, or imagining that they don’t? Political Graffiti found by lorelei in Copenhagen. discovered by Kieran’sPhoto’s’ in Cork. Freedom (Video) Karen forwarded mgarthoff‘s Freedom, tagged: bush war election midterm iraq katrina on YouTube. Presentation: Designing an OPAC for Web 2.0 MAIUG 2006 Philadelphia: Designing an OPAC for Web 2.0 (interactive QuickTime with links or static PDF) Web 2.0 and other “2.0” monikers have become loaded terms. But as we look back at the world wide web of 1996, there can be little doubt that today’s web is better and more useful. Indeed, that seems to be the conclusion millions of Americans are making, as current estimates show over 200 million users in the US, including 87% of youth 12-17. advice you didn’t ask for On writing: First figure out your story, then tell it. Anything else is masturbatory. The Solution Is In Your Hands currugated_film‘s photo of graffitti in Oaxaca. The caption at Flickr notes that the text to the right says “the solution is in your hands, the rocks are on the ground.” Two Ton: One Night, One Fight Tony Day is June 28th, but today is the day I received my copy of Joe Monninger’s latest work, Two Ton: One Night, One Fight — Tony Galento v. Joe Louis. I learned a lot about the characters and times during the two years of research Joe invested in the book, but other than sneaking peaks at the manuscript, I’ve not had a chance to learn the whole story of how Tony Galento ended up in the ring against Joe Louis — and knocked him down. All About Atlatls…or…Humans Need To Throw Things In classic Wikipedia-voice, an atlatl is… An atlatl (from Nahuatl ahtlatl [?ah.t?at?]; in English pronounced [???t?l??t??]1 or [??t?l??t??]2) or spear-thrower is a tool that uses leverage to achieve greater velocity in spear-throwing, and includes a bearing surface which allows the user to temporarily store energy during the throw. […] A well-made atlatl can readily achieve ranges of greater than 100 meters. Atlatl Bob describes it more passionately: damn that’s big The Switzerland‘s Verzasca Dam is now added to the list of places I’d like to visit. Linkability Fertilizes Online Communities Redux I certainly don’t mean this to be as snarky as it’s about to come out, but I love the fact that Isaak questions my claim that linkability is essential to online discussions (and thus, communities) with a link: Linkability Fertilizes Online Communities I really don’t know how linkability will build communities. But we really need to work on building support platforms for the public to interact with the library and promote social discussions, whether offline or online. GoogleSmacked At a time when people are still wowing over the Google-YouTube deal (and wondering why their 2.0 company didn’t get bought for $1.6 billion), it’s good to know that Marc Cantor is dead down on it. Not because of the copyright issues or “limited” advertising potential of YouTube that others cite, but apparently because he just doesn’t like Google anymore. To wit, he names Orkut as a failed social network; knocks Blogger as an also-ran; disregards Google Base as pointless; labels AdSense a $5 billion cash machine for Sergey, Larry and Eric; tosses aside Gmaps, Gmail, Gcalendar, Gscholar, Gbooks, and Gtalk as “unrelated, random output of the labs, thrown up to justify their R&D expenditures;” and closes with an ominous warning: Cheap and Broken Above, one of Sandge‘s contributions to the The Toy Cameras Pool reminds us that good photography is something that often happens despite the equipment, not because of it. Of course, no sweeping generalization can go without argument, and in this case I think the toy camera enthusiasts would be joined by the glitch art aficionados, like RoninVision, who apparently made a mistake while scanning to give us this: Flipbook Animation I love this flipbook animation on YouTube (jump ahead to about 3:05 for it), even if the live-action preface is somewhat tiresome. And even with that, it still doesn’t rate as bad as some viewers think it is. This is the “making of” / behind-the-scenes sneak peak at my upcoming movie “Annihilation”. I had hoped to finish Annihilation in time to turn it in for my Cinema class, but I didn’t… so I had to make a movie about my failure to complete the movie, and turn that in instead. Cataloging Errors A bibliographic instruction quiz we used to use asked students how many of Dan Brown’s books could be found in our catalog. The idea was that attentive students would dutifully search by author for “brown, dan,” get redirected to “Brown, Dan 1964-,” and find three books. Indeed, the expected answer was “three.” As it turns out, my library has all four of Dan Brown’s published books, including the missing Digital Fortress. What Do You Call A Group Of Ninjas? From AskMeFi: “You know, like gaggle of geese, murder of crows, school of fish, all that. Does a group of ninjas have some sort of descriptor? We’re talking many people in halloween costumes, how to address them together. The { blank }.” Aside from the inevitable brush to Ask a Ninja, answers included: sir, sir, sir, and sir one ninja, many ninjim. And the collective is a flipout of ninjim a hedge of ninjas. The Candy Bar Metaphor Eleta explained it this way, and credited it to R. David Lankes: Your data: Your _meta_data: Butane Handwarmer Mt. Moriah, this time better than last time. Eat-Rite Diner, St. Louis MO Some time ago in St Louis, I stumbled upon Eat-Rite Diner. Aparently I wasn’t the first to be taken in by its charms. Yelp notes: This is a MUST in St. Louis. However don’t go here for the friendly staff, good food, or fun atmosphere. This place is a joke! They will need to buzz you in the door to come in and try the delightful SLINGER. Eat right or don’t eat at all! Teddy Bear Kills 2,500 Fish From Associate Press: CONCORD, N.H. — A teddy bear dropped into a pool at a hatchery in Milford, N.H., killed all 2,500 rainbow trout living in the pool. Fish and Game Department hatcheries supervisor Robert Fawcett said the teddy — dressed in a yellow raincoat and hat — clogged a drain earlier this month, blocking oxygen flow to the pool and suffocating the fish. In a statement, Fawcett noted: “RELEASE OF ANY TEDDY BEARS into fish hatchery water IS NOT PERMITTED. What’s So Great About Adium? Brian Mann calls Adium “one of the best multi-network [IM] clients ever.” Tim Bray says it has a “wonderful user interface,” while also naming IM generally “an essential business tool.” Eric Meyer, meanwhile, exclaims “Adium is my new chat buddy.” What’s so great about Adium? Gaim is the engine behind the scenes, but the face of the application is XHTML and CSS. Wit Meyer: The entirety of an Adium chat window is an XHTML document that’s being dynamically updated via DOM scripting—all of it pumped through WebKit, of course. ISBN1013 API Followup A couple questions about my API to convert 10 digit ISBNs to 13 digits pointed out somethings I failed to mention earlier. First, the API actually works both ways. That is, it identifies and validates both 10 and 13 digit ISBNs on input, and returns both versions in the output. Example: 0811822842 and 978081182284-8. And, as yet, I have no user agreement or usage policy. Except for the disclaimer — don’t blame me if it’s broke — I’m leaving this open (though I’ll probably have to figure something out for future APIs). Inclusion Is Addictive Lichen, who’s had a great string of posts lately, pointed out Amy Campbell‘s website, which opens with the following: So I guess this myspace thing is going to catch on. I resisted for a long time. These things make me nervous – myspace, messenger, emoticons… I can’t help but see it as some sinister forerunner of the complete degredation of language and of human interaction. I’m worried about a generation of people who’s definition of “friendship” consists first and foremost of an anonymous exchange of links. My Own Garlitz Bob Garlitz dropped by with a couple canvases yesterday — untitled and teng. It’s an honor I’d appreciate even if I wasn’t looking for something to cover my bare office walls. Converting Between ISBN-10 and ISBN-13 David Kane asked the web4libbers: Can anyone tell me what the conversion between ISBN-10 and ISBN-13 is, please. I need to write a little conversion program. Anything in PHP, for example. Answers: “There is already an online converter: http://www.isbn.org/converterpub.asp;” some pointing at Wikipedia on ISBNs, Bookland, and EANs; John Blyberg’s PHP port of the PERL ISBN-10/13 tool; some explanation that you have to watch the check digit, and discussion about why you’d need to do all this conversion. I Am Not A Terrorist I Am Not A Terrorist. I AM NOT A TERRORIST. I am not a terrorist. Democracy Now! Burning Patriotism! Beat Box Bush and DJ Cheney Bush speech mashups rock. From Google Video: So, you wanna learn how to beatbox? GWB is back with another amazing performance. Surprisingly he is actually very good. Previously: State of the Union? Not good. Also, note the tags on that video, and the way somebody snuck “????? ??? ? ???” past the filters. Teddy Bear Cries Red Tears southtyrolean, who seems to take an interest in found graffiti posted this one (from Graz)to his Flickr stream, describing it: in the Sackstraße, near Kastner&Öhler (entrance to the car park for bikes) :: in der Sackstraße, neben Kastner&Öhler (Eingang zum Fahrrad-Abstellplatz) I especially like this one. “This Would Make A Really Great Blog Post…” Another great comic from XKCD: “I feel like I’m wasting my life on the internet. Let’s walk around the world.” “Sounds good.” [panels showing the world’s great beauty, a truly grand adventure] “And yet all I can think of is ‘this will make for a great Livejournal entry.’” Rocking Wirelessly: Verizon’s V640 EVDO Card After vacillating for a while (and waiting for it to become available), I finally purchased one of the Verizon / Novatel V640 Express Card EVDO adapters that everybody’s talking about for my MacBook Pro. GearLog promised it would be easy — simply install drivers, plug in card — but they were wrong. Truth was that I didn’t even have to install the drivers. Mac OS X asked me if I wanted to “activate” the card when I plugged it in, then automatically went about configuring everything. Whitcher Sawmill Burned I described it to Jessamyn in an IM last night: lights flickering here, sirened vehicles passing frequently, smell of smoke hangs in air outside The Globe reported it this way: WARREN, N.H. — A sawmill went up in flames during the night in Warren (New Hampshire). Fire officials say they may never know what started the flames at the K.E. Whitcher mill around ten o’clock last night. Should Universities Host Faculty or Student Blogs? (part 1: examples and fear) Our CIO is asking whether or not Plymouth should get involved with blogs. Not to be overly academic, but I think we should define our terms. Despite all the talk, “blogs” are a content agnostic technology being used to support all manner of online activities. What you’re really asking is instead: what kind of content do we want to put online, and who do we want to let do it? Library Camp East 2006 LCE2006 was a success. Let me quickly join with the other participants to offer my appreciation to John Blyberg and Alan Grey for all their work planning the event, as well as Darien Public Library director Louise Berry and the rest of the library for hosting the event. Side note: Darien is a beautiful town, but we all have to learn to pronounce the name like a local. Michael Golrick and John Blyberg each have a number of photos on Flickr, and I’m jealous of those like Lichen Rancourt who can live-blog events like this. Scotchtober Fest New Hampshire’s Highland Games are back where they belong in Lincoln NH. Fittingly for the Highlands theme, the weather Saturday was cold and misty, with fogs rolling over the hills. I half expected Lorna Doone herself to appear. The games, of course, are “Scottish Heavy Athletics” involving the throwing (though sometimes carrying) of just about anything that can be found. Rocks… hammers… sheep… trees, they all count. Well, the “sheep toss” is actually the “sheaf toss” and is intended to measure an athlete’s ability to toss hay to the top of the pile. With All Voices Now… Preaching to the choir, or encouraging them to sing louder? TrueMajorityACTION‘s Take It Back campaign amuses, but will it motivate the middle? Will you join? Kid Koala’s Fender Bender While looking up Bonobo — who is soon to have a new album out — I discovered not only some videos of his tunes, but also a path leading to videos from other Nijna Tune artists, including this goodie from Kid Koala. namiacs mr. pro-life and his wife, kirsten faith pro-life why not? does anybody know a way make a reverse-ordered — think countdown — ordered list without resorting to non-semantic (though ingenious) css tricks? wp ssl one wonders why ssl support isn’t built-in to wp. until then, this noctis.de post offers some tips. It Be Talk Like A Pirate Day, Matey Hop to it, dogs. Peer an eye at thar video and argue not w’the cap’n: Tuesday September 19th 2006 is Talk Like a Pirate Day! Talk Like a Pirate Day only comes once a year (on September 19th), this year it falls on a Tuesday. If you’re not ready yet, you can learn more about this international holiday on the About TLAPD page or practice some phrases from the PiratePhrases page. Our Responsibility: Teach Our Children How To Talk Like A Pirate Early For Future Success There’s no question that the video mentioned this morning is valuable resource for all of us, but our responsibility to our nation’s future demands more. The good folks at Cook Memorial Library in Tamworth NH are an example to us all with their series of instructional sessions in preparation for Talk Like A Pirate Day. Microsoft Vs. Bloggers In Accusations of MSN Spaces Censorship I’ve been citing pieces of branding consultant james Torio‘s master’s thesis for some time now. But because the thesis is long, and I want to cite a few small pieces, and those pieces aren’t directly URL addressable, I’m quoting them here. Clickable URLs are added, but everything else should be exactly as Torio wrote it. (Also related: Why There’s No Escaping The Blog and MSN Spaces Isn’t The Blogging Service For Me.) info on geo tags in the wp codex does this mean that geo stuff is built-in to wp? PHP Array To XML I needed a quick, perhaps even sloppy way to output an array as XML. Some Googling turned up a few tools, including Simon Willison’s XmlWriter, Johnny Brochard’s Array 2 XML, Roger Veciana Associative array to XML, and Gijs van Tulder’s Array to XML. Finally, Gijs also pointed me to the XML_Serializer PEAR Package. In an example of how even the smallest barriers can turn people away, I completely ignored the two possible solutions at PHP Classes, because navigating and using the site sucks. MySQL Fulltext Tips Peter Gulutzan, author of SQL Performance Tuning, writes in The Full-Text Stuff That We Didn’t Put In The Manual about the particulars of word boundaries, index structure, boolean searching, exact phrase searching, and stopwords, as well as offering a few articles for further reading (Ian Gilfillan’s “Using Fulltext Index in MySQL”, Sergei Golubchik’s “MySQL Fulltext Search”, Joe Stump’s “MySQL FULLTEXT Searching”). It’s one of a number of articles in the MySQL Tech Resources collection. Sysop Humor I got tipped to this geeky-funny comic that deserves reposting here for casual friday: Always San Fran From the West Coast comes this tale– A friend of mine is part of Maxine Hong Kingston’s Veterans Writing group. They are publishing a collection of their work this October “veterans of War, Veterans of Peace,”, and he was invited to a reading in San Francisco. They are a program up there called “Drinks with Writers” that moves from restuant to restuant once a month. People come, have drinks, writers read, they talk. Sweet Sumolounge Omni A Sumolounge beanbag chair is a beanbag like a Maserati is a car. But even that doesn’t properly characterize the difference. For starters, it’s big — over five feet on one side. Not big enough for the whole wrestling team, but big enough for cuddling. A bit bigger and I’d go looking for sheets and call it a bed, as it’s also comfortable. The website calls it a “crash mat, lounge chair, loveseat or floor pillow,” but whatever you call it, you’ll settle into it like an addictive personality to a bad habit. Making Plans For Library Camp East In the list of things I should have done a month ago is an item about making my hotel reservations for Library Camp East 2006. Fortunately, John Blyberg notes that Alan Gray has arranged for a special rate Doubletree Hotel in Norwalk, not far from the site of the event. Apple’s iTV — From 1995! The original Apple press release is gone (and gone from the Wayback Machine too), but back in 1995 Apple announced a different set-top box, also called the iTV, for a six-state trial of interactive television services. Apple’s ITV system incorporates key technologies including a subset of the MacOS, QuickDraw and QuickTime. In addition, it includes an MPEG1 decoder and supports PAL and NTSC video formats as well as E1 and T1 telephone protocols. The Church Of September 11th David Moats did some hard thinking on Oliver Stone‘s World Trade Center. “[I]t occurred to me that the problem with the movie is that five years later we remain stuck in the moment. We haven’t really moved on.” We’ve not been able to move on from 9/11 because we’re still mired in the mistakes that followed from 9/11. Many people responded with bravery, including the service men and women who found themselves caught up in one struggle or another. Top Gun: A Requiem For Goose TeamTigerAwesome‘s Top Gun: A Requiem For Goose is more than funny, it’s the sort of thing a person should mine for insults and one-liners to use later. Of course, the recent Tom Cruise flap doesn’t dampen it any. From the title cards: On March 3, 1919 President Harding established the swingenest, scientologist, dew drop of a flight school in all 38. Now, you boys may think that you are the high-hattenest group of flyboys ever to shoot down a Mrs. Laura Veirs Hey folks! Good news. The Young Rapture Choir CD is now available from Raven Marching Band Records. This album is an amazing collection of songs written by Laura Veirs, and performed by a choir of school children in Cognac, France. It was recorded live in April 2006 by Tucker Martine. The packaging is all handmade and it’s a wonderful recording. This is a lovely, limited edition cd — we only made 3,000 — so get one quick at http://www. NewerTech FireWire 2 Go PCMCIA/CardBus Card Target Disk Mode? All my searching seems to confirm my hazy memory that my olf NewerTech FireWire 2 Go card does indeed support target disk mode, but the old “hold T while booting” trick doesn’t seem to be working. Another shady part of my memory is that the key command was different, but what is it? Either Google is failing me, or it really isn’t online anywhere. Help? Mac OS X VNC, Built-In Sure it’s old news, but I am pretty happy that Mac OS X 10.4 has a built-in VNC server. You’ll still need a client, like Chicken of the VNC, but it couldn’t be much simpler to make work. Though, you could run a separate server app (even several instances of it) and work up a hack like this to allow you to have several people all logged in to the same machine (and getting different screens) simultaneously. Crocodile Hunter Steve Irwin Dead TV star and crocodile hunter Steve Irwin is dead after being <a href="http://www.injurywatch.co.uk/news-and-groups/news/marine-incidents/australia-s-crocodile-hunter-steve-irwin-killed-by-a-stingray-496621” title="Australia’s “Crocodile Hunter” Steve Irwin killed by a stingray — injurywatch">stung by a stingray on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef. Blue Marlin Spears Fisherman From the Royal Gazette: An angler was almost killed when a giant bill fish leapt from the sea, speared his chest and knocked him off his boat in a freak accident at the weekend. Ian Card, from Somerset, was impaled by the blue marlin and forced overboard during an international sports fishing tournament on Saturday morning. His father Alan, skipper of the commercial fishing vessel Challenger, watched as the struggling creature — estimated to weigh about 800lb and measuring 14ft in length — flew through the air and struck the 32-year-old, who was acting as mate, just below his collarbone with its sword-like bill. Remember, He’s Really Big In Germany Blame Bentley for this. And, as noted in a comment there, “it’s so amazing how [David] Hasselhoff has this entire other career that doesn’t exist in the US, except for mocking purposes.” Lyrics: Beware the pretty faces that you find. A pretty face can hide an evil mind. Oh be careful what you say, Or you’ll give yourself away, Odds are you won’t live to see tomorrow. The Competitive Advantage Of Easing Upgrades ZDnet’s David Berlind complains that upgrades are painful: Upgrading to new systems is one of the most painful things you can possibly do. If you’re a vendor of desktop/notebook systems, it also represents that point where you can keep or lose a customer. Today, most system vendors have pretty much nothing from a technology point of view that “encourages” loyalty. Upgrading from an old Dell to a new Dell is no easier than upgrading to a system from a competing vendor. Things I Need To Incorporate Into Various Projects memcached, a “highly effective caching daemon, …designed to decrease database load in dynamic web applications,” and the related PHP functions pspell PHP functions related to aspell and this pspell overview from Zend http_build_query, duh? current connected mysql threads * unix load average = system busy; reduce operations when $system_busy > $x Missiles Are The New IED I’m not going to make this point well, but let me try. Now that we’ve recognized the long tail of violence and the “open source insurgency” and seen the Hezbollah missile threat, it’s hard not to imagine a growing threat from enemy or terrorist missiles. In short, as technology becomes cheaper, the weapons people can use against us become more complex. Iran and North Korea have been developing and testing missiles for some time, but the 800 pound gorilla here is Russia. Flickr To Get All Geotaggylicious? When Dan Cat gets cagey, and people are talking about mysterious map buttons in Flickr a guy has to wonder…is this why the lines between Dan’s hobby and day job are so blurry? update: Ryan Eby points out that the map is live! Lurk, cut, paste and It is cutting and pasting but what other names are there now for it?? For looking at other websites, following the site and lifting off passages and putting them onto your own site– for one reason or another?? I found bookish.dk while looking up info on Denmark about a year ago. Finally this May, lifelong wish, I finally got to Copenhagen for two days. Karen B is a Scotswoman who has Seeger’s Springsteen Made the mistake of complaining about Bruce’s new album. I knew I was risking the age thing, and sure enough– I downloaded finally, with too much anticipation, Bruce’s new Seeger Sessions. I haven’t heard B much lately but his voice sounds like its shot?? Seeger did his work with such a rich voice, deep and subtly modulated. This album is beautifully produced, the backup band is greatvoice and nearly too much. Stranger than crazy Every so often you want to know more about real gypsies. This film is where to start when that time comes round again. Romanian gypsies portray themselves in Gajo Dilo. The crazy stranger in question is not a gypsy but a visiting young Frenchman, played by the wonderful Romain Duris. We Just Have To Go Do The Work Nicholas Lemann, in a story on blogging and citizen journalism in the August 7 issue of The New Yorker: [N]ew media in their fresh youth [produce] a distinctive, hot-tempered rhetorical style. …transformative in their capabilities…a mass medium with a short lead time — cheap…and easily accessible to people of all classes and political inclinations. And quoting author Mark Knights: …a medium that facilitated slander, polemic, and satire. It delighted in mocking or even abusive criticism, in part because of the conventions of anonymity. Swimming In Spam, But Customer Support Comes Through I awoke this morning to a bit of a mess. After enjoying months of spam-free bliss thanks to Akismet, I found over a hundred spam comments for pills and free pictures to suit most any need or desire. Spam has snuck through before, but never in this volume, and Akismet has always been quick to learn from my manual corrections and stop further leaks. Not this time. So I began to panic. Reality Television Infects Print Media Now that we’ve forgotten how deep the collected sludge on the bottom of our cultural barrel is since Fox appears to have given up dredging it for entertainment like Who Wants to Marry a Millionaire? and <a href="http://imdb.com/title/tt0416385/” title="“The Littlest Groom” (2004) (mini)“>The Littlest Groom, Jane Magazine (subscribe) has stepped up to explore what remains. The Huffington Post’s Eat The Press blog recently reported a story titled “Girl, You’ll Be A Woman Soon: The Quest To Deflower Jane‘s 29-Year Old Virgin” Eaten Alive Books Eaten Alive Books It’s A Piece Of Cake To Bake A Pretty Cake Don’t hate me for this, it was MattyB who showed it to me and then setup the domain itsapieceofcaketobakeaprettycake.com. The clip comes from LazyTown (<a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0396991/” title="“LazyTown” (2004)“>IMDB), which airs in the US on Nick Jr. An excerpt of the lyrics: I’ts a piece of cake to bake a pretty cake if the way is ha-zy you gotta do the cooking by the book Darwin, Schmarwin Are we ahead of Turkey? Yes. Sign Up Now: Library Camp East 2006 Library Camp East 2006 is set for September 25 at Darien Public Library in Darien CT. It’s an unconference, so the content is determined by the participants, and judging from the names on the signup page (John Blyberg and Jessamyn sound excited), there will be a lot of good discussion. Catching Bugs Before They Catch You I got itchy about magic quotes the other day because it’s the cause (through a fairly long cascade of errors) of some performance problems and runaways I’ve been seeing lately (pictured above). But I deserve most of the blame for allowing a query like this to run at all: ` SELECT type, data, count(*) AS hits FROM wpopac_WPopac_bibs_atsk <strong>WHERE data LIKE '%'</strong> AND type IN ('subjkey','author', 'title') GROUP BY data ORDER BY hits DESC LIMIT 7 ` As executed, it’s trying to select all 1. false I had no words for it Now wri- ting I am temp ted to say that I fe lt the wor ld had been giv en as a gi ft uni que ly to me and al so eq ual ly to ea ch per son a lone verse style of Robert Lax sentence by Rory Stewart Treo 650 As Dial Up Network Adapter Sometime ago I started work on figuring out how to get dial up networking (DUN) access via my Treo 650. Now I’m getting serious about mobile internet access and looking at this again. The plan is that you should be able to make a Bluetooth connection between your laptop and the phone and then get piped onto the internet from the phone. Trevor Harmon wrote it up and has been following the issue as it relates to Mac OS X and Sprint Wireless service. Dang addslashes() And GPC Magic Quotes Somewhere in the WordPress code extra slashes are being added to my query terms. I’ve turned GPC magic quotes off via a php_value magic_quotes_gpc 0 directive in the .htaccess file (we have far too much legacy code that nobody wants to touch to turn it off site-wide). And I know my code is doing one run of addslashes(), but where are the other two sets of slashes coming from? Knockbox = WiFi + Real Estate Info In another sign of the arrival of the stupendous, i.e. that the internet is changing our world, Engadget some time ago reported on the SellSmart Knockbox real estate selling dohicky. What is a KNOCKBOX? A KNOCKBOX is a sleek, self-contained appliance that is placed unobtrusively inside your home for sale. It contains a photographic tour, custom buyer presentation, and other important details about your home, which potential buyers can access without ever having to enter your home. Are You With Me? This weeks free i-tunes down load is the song ” Are You With Me?” released by the band Vaux. I like the song, it’s a little hardcore for my tastes but I can see my self mosh pitting to this. It’s not my favorite music but being a fairly open minded person I can find a place for it in my musical library. I give this song an 6.8 on pies listening pleasure scale. WPopac Reloaded I’ve re-thought the contents of the record and summary displays in WPopac. After some experimentation and a lot of listening, it became clear that people needed specific information when looking at a search result or a catalog record. So now, when searching for Cantonese slang, for instance, the summary displays show the title, year, format, attribution, and subject keys of each result. And when viewing the record for A Dictionary Of Cantonese Slang you’ll get all of that and more. longest book title ever Geography Made Easy : Being An Abridgement Of The American Universal Geography, Containing Astronomical Geography, Discovery And General Description Of America, General View Of The United States, Particular Accounts Of The United States Of America, And Of All The Kingdoms, States And Republics In The Known World, In Regard To Their Boundaries, Extent, Rivers, Lakes, Mountains, Productions, Population, Character, Government, Trade, Manufactures, Curiosities, History, &c. : To Which Is Added, An Improved Chronological Table Of Remarkable Events, From The Creation To The Present Time, Illustrated With Maps Of The Countries Described : Calculated Particularly For The Use And Improvement Of Schools And Academies In The United States Of America Snakes on Boards Snakes on skateboards would not wear helmets nor would they swing hatchets, but snakes on snowboards might if they had just visited Love Land’s Phallus Garden Verizon EVDO Service And The Mobile Office? The much anticipated Novatel V640 Express Card EVDO adapter is out. Verizon is pimping them for $180 with 2 year contract and GearLog says it’s “almost too easy” to use these goodies with the MacBook Pros. Then GearLog reader Brad commented: “If you had to install a driver, I wouldn’t say it was the true Mac experience. I have Sprint EVDO with a Merlin S620 card. With OS X 10. Sweet Bluetooth Graphire Tablet, Bad Portraits My Graphire Bluetooth tablet arrived last week as a bundled treat with some Adobe software I needed. Why do I need a tablet, especially as my days as a graphic designer are a distant memory? I don’t…at least not now. But somewhere on the long tail my um, unique, style of portraiture (above) will come into vogue and I’ll score it big. Yup, there’s an unrecognized niche of people just waiting to be drawn with big cheeks, bulging eyes, and open mouths. Carry-On Restrictions To Carry On? The Mercury News’ QA on carry-on restrictions answered a big question I had: Q Can I still carry my laptop, cell phone and iPod on board? A Those items are still OK as long as you’re not traveling to or through the United Kingdom. But a Reuters story posted at C|Net suggests the restriction on liquids won’t be going away any time soon. Draconian restrictions on carry-on baggage may stay in place for months, even years… All About Non-Profits I’ve been looking up information on non-profits, specifically 501c3 corporations. There’s this sales-pitch filled FAQ; The Company Corporation makes it sound easy, but this how to guide from the National Mental Health Association (of all places) seems to offer the…um…most honest info I’ve seen yet. Well, most honest sounding. Dancing Against The Current You might argue with Kevin Lim‘s suggestion that terrorism depends on our emotional and psychological insecurity, but can you really argue with the notion that more happy people is a bad thing? I can’t. And I can’t criticize him for finding deep meaning in catchy pop songs and funny movies. He and Brandtson might be right… “nobody dances anymore. Everyone’s still playing safe and nobody takes chances anymore.” SXSW 2007 Program Proposals There’s 173 programs proposed for SXSW Interactive, March 9-13 2007. Go vote for the ones you most want to see at Lindsey Simon’s super cool picker. Round one voting is going now. (Also note the really good use of semantic markup in the HTML download version (which I’m embarrassed to have sullied a bit in this representation).) Podcasting – What’s it going to Take to Mainstream the Technology? business / funding / entrepreneurial · web audio / web video Over the past twelve months, podcasting has exploded among tech savvy individuals and organizations However, what’s it going to take for podcasting to evolve from its current state as a delivery system for specialized, longtail content to a widely-adopted media distribution system for mainstream users? Hard Math I found this at joe-ks.com. The title there is “Mennonite longhand math,” but can anybody identify the source or context? Can anybody work out the equation on the board? I’ve convinced my friend Will, who teaches math and physics, to pose for a shot like this, but that means we’ll have find and fill a huge chalkboard…and he’ll have to grow his beard back. Lawn Mower Speed Record It’s late summer and the heat wave killed the grass on your lawn, so what better to do than challenge Bob Cleveland’s record for the fastest lawn mower yet? Not sure your mower has what it’ll take to race down the salt flats at over 80 MPH? Wimp. Utah’s KSL TV quotes Bob saying “we don’t need a whole lot of horsepower to go fast.” And when you look at the tiny wheels on that thing, well, you’ve gotta imagine you can do better. Shakespeare, Motivation, War, What Are We Doing Here? I’m a sap. I can’t help but get choked up when I read or hear Shakespeare’s St. Crispin’s Day speech in Henry The V. eHow tells me that “Saint Crispin’s Day is a good day to honor lives well lived, beliefs held dear and shoes well made.” But Steve Denning calls the speech a “magical, linguistic sleight of hand,” and warns us: …it may work for a battle, or even several battles. Flight, Hotel, Spa “Take a deep breath.” I did, and with it Lisa Souza, my massage practitioner at San Francisco’s International Orange, pressed into a knot just below my shoulder blade, deep in the latissimus dorsi. She worked along the length of it, not as a baker kneads bread, but rather as person wringing water from a damp cloth. Each press was deliberate, powerful. I’d asked for the deep tissue treatment. Eight hours in planes from Boston (six hours to LGB, almost another two to SFO) had taken their toll, and this, I hoped, might spell relief. Workflow Goes Social I was amused this week to see two examples of workflow getting sexy. That’s not how the developers describe their efforts, but the departure from old groupware notions is clear. In daring defiance of Zawinski’s proclamation, Jeffrey McManus, with Approver.com, and Karen Greenwood Henke, with Nimble Net (as reported yesterday), are tackling workflow and approval processes. Combine the increasing numbers of people who are self employed or working in very small businesses that can’t afford those old enterprise groupware “solutions” (but who nonetheless have to get a job done) with the combination of luck, pluck and smarts these two seem to have applied to the challenge, and there’s a chance these new products — groupware 2. Sweet Coffee Shop Logo How can a person not like Ritual Coffee Roasters [logo][2]? The [Laughing Squid][3] folks [apparently like the place][4]. [2]: ritualroasters-com-huge cup.jpg [3]: http://laughingsquid.com/ “Laughing Squid” [4]: http://laughingsquid.com/2006/08/01/wordcamp-is-this-saturday/ Dr. Frankenstein’s Stress-o-Meter The Scientologists regularly have a table on Powell St., somewhere near Union Square. The game here, if it’s not obvious, is to invite people to take a free stress test, then sit them down and twiddle those unlabeled dials until the needle starts twitching. The blood red table cloth is sure to help. A Technology For Every Niche Way too many people are processing grant applications on paper. They spend a lot of time moving paper around and they don’t know much about who’s applying until after the deadline. That’s why we built Nimble Net. Karen Greenwood Henke’s been working the world of grants and grantwriting for years. Her site grantwrangler.com, and the new Grant Wrangler Blog represent her efforts to connect grantors with grantees, but Nimble Net delivers the tools necessary to manage the process from announcement to award, and all the application and review processes in between. WordCamp Kickoff Woot! WordCamp kickoff party at Taylor’s Automatic Refresher (no doubt selected in part because homophone to Automattic), at the ferry Building. But does it make up for missing Wikimania, the LibraryThing Bar-b-Que-Thing, and Napoleon Dynamite night at The Twig? Go Air Scooter, Go While we’re still waiting for flying cars (or even just fuel efficient cars) I’m keeping track of tiny helicopters like the GEN H-4 and this one, the AirScooter II, pictured above. The company, AirScooter Corporation of Henderson NV, introduces the new craft with a tip of the hat to Igor Sikorsky‘s earliest designs featuring counter-rotating blades. Company founder Woody Norris (who won an award for acoustics) explains: “what we’ve done is package the coaxial design in a modern light-weight craft that allows for intuitive control and incredible maneuverability. The Onion Greets Wikimania Wikimania is about to start, but here, the ever-topical Onion folk are poking fun at Wikipedia. What is there to say when “America’s finest news source” casts aspersions on the world’s newest encyclopedia with the headline Wikipedia Celebrates 750 Years Of American Independence? Extra: watch out for Meredith Farkas‘ panel presentation on wikis and enabling library knowledgebases. I should have thought of this in the context of Ryan Eby’s question about librarians going to non-library conferences. Joe’s Favorite Novels Will pressed Joe, asking him to name his top ten favorite books. Joe pressed back, saying such lists were ridiculous, but still, sometime later he emailed with the following: Okay, here are the books that got to me at certain points in my life. Not sure I would view them all the same now, but this is a list of sorts. I found this an interesting challenge, and of course impossible…I have more lists but I stuck to novels… OpenSearch Progress I really need to keep better tabs on Michael Fagan, as his June 11 OpenSearch Update is full of goodies. The Perils Of Flickr’s “May Offend” Button Quite a while ago now, stepinrazor asked people to do some self-censorhip in a post in the Flickr Ideas forum. FlyButtafly quickly joined the discussion, noting that she’d encountered some material she found offensive in pictures from other Flickr members: “as I’m going through the pictures, one shows up of a protestor holding a sign with a vulgar statement on it.” Though she refused to identify what she saw that was offensive, she did note in a later post that she “would never take my child to a pro-abortion rally. And Now This Is Happening? When a gossip site has a picture of Mel Gibson that looks more like Ted Kaczynski, and a story about drunken, anti-semitic ravings, I think “eh.” But somehow I get more interested agitated when I learn the cops might have sanitized the police report of the whole affair. update: ooh, what about his endorsements? Dooce and BlogHer Bob, the occasional cultural affairs correspondent here, took me to task: how could you not? no link to Dooce.com?? nor to BlogHer.org??? What can I say? My immediate reaction was that he’d found proof of Danah Boyd‘s point that male bloggers only link to male bloggers. Anyway. The BlogHer conference just wrapped up, but as Ryan notes, I don’t know of any library folk who attended. Still, Marianne Richmond is on-blog, raising our awareness of DOPA just like a lot of librarians are trying to do. Wal-Mart Trying To Ape MySpace, Seriously I just got a heads up on an Advertising Age story that Wal-Mart is trying to be MySpace (and, yeah, I aped their headline, too). Here’s the lead: It’s a quasi-social-networking site for teens designed to allow them to “express their individuality,” yet it screens all content, tells parents their kids have joined and forbids users to e-mail one another. Oh, and it calls users “hubsters” — a twist on hipsters that proves just how painfully uncool it is to try to be cool. Stage Two Truth Arthur Schopenhauer is suggested to have said: Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first it is ridiculed, in the second it is violently opposed, in the third is regarded as self-evident. If the reaction to Karen Calhoun‘s report to the Library of Congress on The Changing Nature of the Catalog and its Integration with Other Discovery Tools is any guide, libraries are stuck firmly in the second stage. Richard Cheese’s Lounge Against The Machine Richard Cheese‘s lounge-core renditions of pop favorites (and some not-so-favorites) have been cracking me up every time they chime into the mix on random, but I didn’t know what the guy looked like until I spied Beatnikside‘s photo of the man in among his Vegas people set. “Cheese,” of course, is a pseudonym for LA comedian Mark Jonathan Davis, who’s been performing with a band of cheese-named musicians since 2000. Two Events, Two Coasts Matt Mullenweg announced WordCamp in San Francisco, then ten days later Abby announced the LibraryThing cookout in Portland (Maine). Both are set for August 5. The LibraryThing event promises free burgers and potato salad, while WordCamp attendees will enjoy both free BBQ and free t-shirts. I’d like to go to both, but rather than have to make some decision about which one I’d most like to go to, I’m leaning on the fact that I’d already bought my flight to SFO when the LT event was announced. Be Romantic And Smoke His Brains Out This photo from Tsunaminotes appeared in Ende’s photo stream and reminded me instantly of all the cool things I’d never done because I was born too late and cool stuff is what I saw in black and white photos from years past. Of course, Flickr says the photo was taken July 5th, and the photographers of the past would have burned the bright spot on his cheek during printing, but it still has a classic quality to it. Pretty Little Thing Fink‘s Pretty Little Thing is this week’s free download at iTunes, and I have to say I like it. Pretty Little Thing is not usually what I would listen to but i found the song to be new and interesting, very “fresh”! Fink‘s Pretty Little Thing gets a 7.5 on pies listening pleasure scale. . Tags, Folksonomies, And Whose Library Is It Anyway? I was honored to join the conversation yesterday for the latest Talis Library 2.0 Gang podcast, this one on folksonomies and tags. The MP3 is already posted and, as usual, it makes me wonder if I really sound like that. Still, listen to the other participants, they had some great things to say and made it a smart discussion. I approached the conversation with the notion that what we were really talking about was whether libraries should give their patrons the opportunity to organize the resources they value in ways that make sense to them. WordCamp As noted here, I’m going to WordCamp in SFO in early August. Matt describes it as a BarCamp-style event (where “’BarCamp-style’ is a code phrase for ‘last minute’”) with “a full day of both user and developer discussion.” I’m just going for the free t-shirt, of course, but I can imagine a number of folks will get a good value out of the sessions and discussions that will likely run, especially all the developer stuff. …It’s How You Use It Not A Pretty Librarian has kicked things off well with a first post titled “It Is Not A Tool,” covering an argument about which has more value to a teenager: a car or a computer. On one side is the notion that “She can’t drive herself to work with a computer.” While, on the other side is the growing likelihood that she won’t drive to work at all, but instead simply work at whatever computer she has available. bsuite Bug Fixes (release b2v6) [innerindex]Update: bugfix release b2v7 available. It’s been a while since I released a new version of bsuite, my multi-purpose WordPress plugin. I’d been hoping to finish up a series of new features, but those have been delayed and this is mostly just a collection of bugfixes. This update is recommended for all bsuite users. bsuite Features Tracks page loads (hits) Tracks search terms used by visitors ariving at your site via search engines It’s Official WPopac, a project I started on my nights and weekends, is now officially one of my day-job projects too. We’ve been using our WPopac-based catalog as a prototype since February 2006, but the change not only allocates a portion of my work time specifically to the development of the project, but also reflects the library‘s decision to transition to WPopac as a our primary web OPAC. Work to make a general release of the WPopac software available for download and use by any library (or anybody who wants to present structured data with faceted searching on the web) is in progress. 33.3 The music has been on random for weeks now, but 33.3‘s “Joanne Will,” from Plays Music played this afternoon as soundtrack to the summer rains. Brent Sirota may struggle to tell us how bad it is (while also giving it a 4.5 rating), but this “easier to listen to jazzy than to listen to jazz” turned out to be the perfect accompaniment for the ballet of raindrops and splashes just out of reach from my seat on the porch. BeerMapping.com In yet more geolocation news, beermapping.com‘s maps to breweries will make my travel planning easier, and my travels boozier. Hey, it’s casual Friday, take off early and go find a new brewpub for lunch. Plazes Updated Wearing the badge “still beta,” Plazes, the free, network-based geolocation service, now sports a new coat of paint. Among the improvements is the Flash-based badge (above) and a much improved frontpage/dashboard that combines the map of known locations with the map of active users, formerly two separate screens. On the downside, I sort of miss the old tracker. I love the icons on the new one, but there was a simplicity to the old list of recent plazes and favorite plazes that I liked. The Flickr Is A Series Of Tubes It’s hard to be angry with Flickr about unexpected downtime when they post funny things like this. For my part, this is more than just an excuse to link to DJ Ted Stevens’ Internet Song (yeah, “the internet is a series of tubes”), it’s an excuse to point out how Flickr apparently knows how to speak to their customers in language they we understand. I dare a library to do the same next time the opportunity permits. OpenSearch In A Nutshell OpenSearch is a standard way of querying a database for content and returning the results. The official docs note simply: “Any website that has a search feature can make their results available in OpenSearch format,” then adds: “Publishing your search results in OpenSearch™ format will draw more people to your content, by exposing it to a much wider audience through aggregators such as A9.com.” It’s a lot easier to understand OpenSearch once you’ve used it, so take a look at A9. Arctic Monkeys While listening to my favorite radio station 92.1 FNX, I discovered my new favorite band. The Arctic Monkeys is a new band that comes from the UK, and their popularity is rocketing. Their new album Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not, has sold more than 360,000 copies which makes it the fastest selling debut album in UK history. Having heard them months ago I was pleasantly surprised to see the Arctic Monkeys perform there hit single “I bet you look good on the Dance Floor” on MTV. NELINET 2006 IT Conference Proposal I recently submitted my proposal for the 2006 NELINET Information Technology Conference. It’s about WPopac, of course, but the excitement now is that the presentation would be the story of the first library outside PSU to implement it. WPopac is an open source replacement for a library’s online catalog that improves the usability, findability, and remixability of the library’s collection. This presentation will detail the implementation of WPopac in the real world, including discussion of challenges and costs, as well as the improvements to service and increased access to library materials. Less Than A Year Left Before Paris’ Retirement Yup, Tom reminded me recently that there’s less than a year left on the Official Paris Hilton Retirement Countdown. In case you’ve forgotten, the hamburger-eating heiress announced her retirement in a June 20 issue of Newsweek (jump to page two for the relevant bits). Don’t get tripped up on the postdated retirement announcement, Bill Gates announced his intentions to retire in 2008 last month, so one might say it’s all the rage. Technology Scouts At AALL I’m honored to join Katie Bauer, of Yale University Library, in a program coordinated by Mary Jane Kelsey, of Yale Law’s Lillian Goldman Library. The full title of our program is Technology Scouts: how to keep your library and ILS current in the IT world (H-4, 4PM Tuesday, room 274). My portion of the presentation will focus on how we’re fixing up our catalogs, with a big emphasis on how APIs can be used to continuously reinvent the way we look at — and thus understand and use — the information we have. The Social Software Over There Amusing. One one side of the world is Jenny Levine, the original library RSS bigot, pushing libraries to adopt new technologies from the bottom up, and here on the other side of the world is NewsGator offering their products for top-down adoption. Why are law libraries interested in NewsGator? Could it be that social software increases productivity? Might it offer some competitive advantage? Do they just make it easier to communicate (and keep track of our communications) in today’s web-driven world? Inclusion or Exclusion By Language …The time for pedantic purism is past; if we wish to communicate with the larger audience, we must use language they understand. We do not have the luxury of defining our words, their definitions are thrust upon us by usage. I was struck by how much that sounds like something I might have said about libraries — only more compact and pointed — but it’s actually my father describing his position on an argument at the World History Association annual conference a couple weeks ago. Education America Today I discovered (thank you Ryan) Kareem Elnahal’s speech as valedictorian of Mainland Regional High School and I discovered new hope, new faith in our country’s future. When high school students can step up and speak truth to power, as Elnahal did so well, I become a believer in the strength of human spirit. “We study what is, never why, never what should be. …[T]his pattern, grade for the sake of a grade, work for the sake of work, can be found everywhere,” said Elnahal. Rocket Cars Make Better Fireworks I pointed out this Jet Turbine Powered Toyota MR2 a year ago, but now I’ve discovered Ron Patrick’s Jet Powered VW Beatle. The story is well told in a San Francisco Gate article from April (with bonus video), which describes the builder: Patrick is a 48-year-old Stanford-trained (Ph.D.) engineer who owns ECM (Engine Control and Monitoring), a Sunnyvale firm that makes electronic instruments used by auto manufacturers to calibrate their engines for performance, fuel economy and emissions. Antstepology French vexillographers circulate the national library, protesting flag desecration, too many windows, and cardboard sunscreens. Fireworks on the Fourth of July promise. Celebrate Independence Day With A Drink. tags: banana, bananas, blueberries, blueberry, flag, fourth of july, fruit, independence day, july 4, july 4th, patriotic, patriotism, raspberries, raspberry, red white and blue, stars Celebrate Independence Day With Breakfast Let the vexillographers cringe, flag desecration never tasted so good. Sure, it’s barbecue season, but that’s no reason not to enjoy breakfast. And what better way to break fast on the Fourth of July than to dress waffles as sugary, fruity flags? Do that with your hamburgers. Do that with your potato salad. Do that with your hot dogs. (Okay, I can imagine a few ways to do that with all of those, so let’s see the pictures. Today’s terms tags: , concert, music, political cr… Today’s terms tags: , concert, music, political criticism, politics, show, the sun, they might be giants, tmbg echo through pine walls stretch sun along desire’s coast They Might Be Giants They Might Be Giants, playing at Mohegan Sun, drew roars of approval from the crowd when John Flansburgh went off-lyric sheet during The Sun (which they amusingly described as part of their Venue Songs series): …The heat and light of the sun are caused by nuclear reactions between a failed foreign policy, a failed domestic policy, and a failed presidency… I’ve not known TMBG to be at all political, just smart. Saturday, July 1, 2006 2:01 pm Is there a term already for what I am about to do? OK, here goes: bad knockoffs of cheap pop Oops! I Did It Again Richard Thompson strange sense of humor Last.fm, despite the suggestion here stream it from NPR, go buying. ****KCRWmusic Toxi The Chapin Sisters Top Tune Britney Spears episode 175 Coverville. **** Britney in wax at Madame Tussaud’s pretending to do hard math some fan with a Brit photo on his refrigerator Oops! I Covered It Again I don’t know why it is that I love bad knockoffs of cheap pop, but I do. That’s why, when I heard a folksy rendition of Oops! I Did It Again playing between segments on some NPR program a while ago, I had to go looking for it. As it turns out, it was Richard Thompson, whose strange sense of humor apparently pops up in his music regularly. You can find his version indexed in Last. June 28: Tony Day In the two years Joe spent researching and writing Two Ton: One Night, One Fight — Tony Galento v. Joe Louis I’ve heard a lot about this guy. Tony Galento was a most improbable opponent for Louis, who by then had regained the world heavyweight title from Max Schmeling, but Joe’s description tells it best: Beetle-browed, nearly bald, a head that rode his collarbones like a bowling ball returning on rails, his waist size more than half his five-foot-eight height, Two Ton Tony Galento appeared nearly square, his legs two broomsticks jammed into a vertical hay bale. Burning Patriotism My feelings on the Flag Burning Desecration Amendment should have been clear from my Flag Day story. Still, let me offer the t-shirts above as confirmation. Sealand Burning A comment from TroublePup alerted me that the Principality of Sealand burned Friday. The Evening Star explained: Witnesses watched in amazement as a huge plume of smoke started to rise from one of the legs of Sealand — and boats raced to the scene. Seafront worker Bruce Harrison said: “It was quite spectacular. The amount of smoke was huge and people kept saying there must have been an explosion. American Diplomacy I don’t collect stamps, but this set caught my eye. First there’s the irony that the USPS is celebrating American diplomacy at a time when, well, there’s not much to celebrate. Then I get a further chuckle when I notice the postal service can only scrounge up six examples to celebrate, but found 40 “superlatives” to get excited about in their Wonders of America collection. Of course, the superlatives are relative — The Bison is only the largest land mammal in the US, for example — but I don’t know enough to judge the six diplomats. The Twig’s Grand Opening Wendy sent out this invite last week: Last month the Monningers quite suddenly became restauranteurs. Six weeks later, Wendy, Joe and Pie are excited to announce the Grand Opening of “the Twig”– an ever-so-cute restaurant in their hometown of Warren, NH. On Saturday, June 24th from 11-2 come to the Twig for free pizza and cake. Win gift certificates and enjoy the newly-opened “Brook-Side at the Twig,” a beautiful outdoor beer garden along the bank of Black Brook. Context, Language, Systems “Bagged products” is little better than “cookery.” I’m gonna bet that no customer has ever asked the sales people for “bagged products,” that nobody’s ever checked the yellow pages for “bagged products,” and without context, nobody would come close to answering a question on what the heck “bagged products” are all about. But we do have context. And within that context, those two words are probably meaningful enough to the potential customers driving by. Free Markets, Bad Products, Slow Change Rates Point A: John Blyberg’s ILS Customer Bill-of-Rights. Point B: Dan Chudnov’s The problem with the “ILS Bill of Rights” Response: John Blyberg’s OPACs in the frying pan, Vendors in the fire While there’s some disagreement between John and Dan, I can’t help but see a strong concordance between their posts: Both are an attempt to educate potential customers. Blyberg wants customers to know what to ask/look for in evaluating products, Dchud wants those customers to know how free markets work. Scooter By Sunset The light Sunday evening was golden, so I stopped to take way too many photos of the meadow in the sunset. Just before filling my memory card with all that, I got back to my scooter to find this scene with a haze settling on the field and the sun just ducking behind enough of a cloud to make the exposure work. Well, okay, it was still a double exposure to get the light right across everything, but still… Spark Fun’s GPS Data Logger Engadget alerted me to this GPS data logger from Spark Fun Electronics. The device records up to 440 hours of data to a 256MB SD card in either a simple text file or KML-compatible format that you can display in Google Earth. I like it, I want one (actually, I want three, and I’ll eventually post about why), but the ad copy tweaked me a bit: Pull the SD card, insert it into a card reader, […] and wammo–you can see what Casey did over lunch with a satellite image overlay. The Pope vs. The Da Vinci Code The above image and following text are circulating the web, tickling funny bones. This man (on the left wearing a fabulous vintage chiffon-lined Dior gold lamé gown over a silk Vera Wang empire waist tulle cocktail dress, accessorized with a three-foot beaded peaked House of Whoville hat, and the ruby slippers Judy Garland wore in the Wizard of Oz) is worried that The Da Vinci Code might make the Roman Catholic Church look foolish. From The Memepool Memepool has more than earned its place in my aggregator. Where else would I learn of The Monkey Chow Diaries (and blog), or the plot structure of Fight Club in Legos, or this flying dude? Happy Bloomsday Thanks to an aside in a sad/angering story at Copyfight, I’m now up on Bloomsday. Here it is, as explained by Wikipedia: Bloomsday is observed annually on June 16 to celebrate the life of Irish writer James Joyce and commemorate the events in his novel Ulysses, all of which took place on the same day in Dublin in 1904. The day is also a secular holiday in Ireland. The name derives from Leopold Bloom, the protagonist in Ulysses, and June 16 was the date of Joyce’s first outing with his wife-to-be, Nora Barnacle, when they walked to the Dublin village of Ringsend. Google Geo News This post started with Ryan sending me this link demonstrating a KML overlay of county borders of his bifurcated state in Google Maps. Then I found this Roundup of Google’s Geo Developer Day (btw, I so wanted to be at Where 2.0) with tales of the new geocoding feature of the Google Maps API, more details about KML-in-Google-Maps, geotagging in Picasa, and the new Google Earth 4.0 beta. And somewhere along the line, I ran across a link to SketchUp, Google’s 3-D modeler that seems built especially to put dimensional structures in Google Earth. Donald Norman — Everyday Things I was especially young and impressionable when I discovered Don Norman‘s The Design of Everyday Things, but I still claim it’s required reading for anybody who’s read more than one post here at MaisonBisson. That’s self selection at work, but let me put it this way: unless you’re the only consumer of the things you create, then you need to read this. Now. I feel foolish to have only recently discovered Norman’s website and essays. The ALA/NO Events I’d Like To See I’m not going to ALA/NO so I’m hoping those who are will blog it. Two events I’m especially interested in: On Sunday, June 25: Catalog Transformed: From Traditional to Emerging Models of Use This program, co-sponsored by the MARS User Access to Services Committee and RUSA’s Reference Services Section (RSS, formerly MOUSS), deals with changes in library catalogs in response to the increasing Googlization of electronic resources. Speakers include: Cindy Levine (Reference Librarian for the Humanities, North Carolina State University), Jill Newby (English Language Literature and Writing Librarian, University of Arizona), Andrew K. The Biblioblogger vs. the Branch Library Steve Lawson‘s A biblioblogger visits the local branch library is worth a look and quite a hoot. Squashing Criticism vs. Improving Products I wrote yesterday of Nicole Engard’s comment that the ILS was about as open and flexible as a brick wall. Today I learned that the vendor of that ILS had tried to squash her public criticism. Not cool. It’s pure speculation on my part, but what comes next? Surely no vendor would send Vinny over to bust an uppity biblioblogger’s knee-caps, but might they offer a customer a better deal if they could just help quiet down a critic within the customer’s organization? seven deadly sins Seven Deadly Sins, The some people think seven is too many, others think it’s not enough DOPA, Social Software, and Libraries I’m more than a month late to this bandwagon, but whatever. Jessamyn alerted me to DOPA, the proposed Deleting Online Predators Act. What’s the point? When conservatives pit FUD against free speech, reasonable people would do well to pay attention. And what’s social software? Take a look at what Meredith Farkas has to say about it. The ILS Brick Wall <img src="static-flickr-com-103031816_f396e4b726.jpg” width="500” height="375” alt="The great wall of “standards”” /> Nicole Engard last month posted about The State of our ILS, describing the systems as: I’d say it’s a like the crazy cousin you have to deal with because he’s family! It doesn’t fit, we are a very open IT environment, we have applications all over that need to talk to each other nicely and the [ILS] is a brick wall preventing us from getting the information we need and sending the information we’d like. Darn DNS So, you should expect problems when you move your server to a new IP and don’t bother to update the InterNIC registration for your nameservers. It’s an area where I don’t have much experience, so I had to go looking for the solution. Paul Woutrs gave some tips to get started in his short document on the subject. But the real lesson there was that I had to go back to the registrar where I’d originally registered the nameserver objects to change the registration. did adam and eve have navels? Did Adam And Eve Have Navels? : Discourses On Reflexology, Numerology, Urine Therapy, And Other Dubious Subjects filed under “science — miscellanea“ Ugh. “Save NPR and PBS (again)” My dad just forwarded the following message to me: Hi, Everyone expected House Republicans to give up efforts to kill NPR and PBS after a massive public outcry stopped them last year. But they’ve just voted to eliminate funding for NPR and PBS—unbelievably, starting with programs like “Sesame Street.” Public broadcasting would lose nearly a quarter of its federal funding this year. Even worse, all funding would be eliminated in two years–threatening one of the last remaining sources of watchdog journalism. T2000 Unboxed And Online My Sun T2000 is here, and with Cliff‘s help it’s now patched, configured, and online. (Aside: what’s a Sun Happy Meal?) I’ll second Jon‘s assessment that Sun really should put some reasonable cable adapters in the box, as the the bundle of adapters necessary to make a null modem connection to the box is ridiculously out of scale (I’ll get a picture soon). I’m getting the application environment put together, which has turned out easier than expected thanks to the convenient packages from Blastwave. ego soars because sometimes i feel i’m just moving my lips to the sound of babble, it’s a great delight to find a blog post that suggests i said something coherent. Extra: my wife just pointed out this one with photo. Nina Katchadourian’s Sorted Books It seems common among contemporary artists that a web search might turn up a few pictures of their works, but not much about them or their works. In this case it’s Nina Katchadourian and the work I’m interested in is her Sorted Books Project. A video interview from the University of Colorado and ResearchChannel.org does offer some insight into Katchadourian’s art, but why are such glimpses so rare? Anyway, I was happy to find her compact, graphic poetry. thenonist How can I not appreciate thenonist‘s link dumps and other posts when they’re illustrated with works like those above? The men in suits come from May 29. June 4 offers us these funny trading cards and a gallery of horror movie damsels (in distress, of course). June 5 offers a good look at sincerity among other things. And all of this amidst a context of intelligent commentary and smart politics. I Want URL Addressable Spreadsheet Cells (and cell-ranges) When I heard news that Google was to release a spreadsheet companion to their freshly bought Writely web-based word processing app, I got excited about all the things they could do to make it more than just a copy of Numsum. Let’s face it, Google’s the Gorilla in the room here and they’re gonna squash Numsum, but wouldn’t it be cool if… Well, Dmitry Nekrasovski get’s credit for planting the notion of URL-addressable rows, columns, and cells in my mind with this commentary from months ago: Solaris + AMP, ASAP A Solaris sysadmin I’m not. But now that I’ve finally got the Sun T2000 server I begged for a while back, I’ve got to ramp it up right quick. The first task is to get a, um, LAMP environment up and running (SAMP?…oh, Sun wants us to call it AMPS). A bit of Googling turned up this forum thread that suggested Blastwave.org‘s ports of PHP, MySQL, and Apache. edit: I corrected the model number. Circle of Gorillas Thenonist brings the story of Buddy/Gargantua The Great back with better pictures in a post subtitled “Buddy, the gorilla who was scared of lightning” The URLs From My Portland Talk Following Edward Tufte’s advice, I’ve been wanting to offer a presentation without slides for a long time now; I finally got my chance in Portland. The downside is that now I don’t have anything to offer as a takeaway memory aid for my talk. My speaking notes are too abstract to offer for public consumption, but below are the URLs from them along with a tiny bit of context. Foundation Prime As it turns out, +2,147,483,647 is not just the largest 32 bit signed integer you’ll find most anyplace, it’s also a prime number. Asian Scooter Gangs The members of this Taiwanese scooter gang might really be cooler than me. Well, they would be cooler if the scooter gangs weren’t also known to be violent: A scooter gang viciously attacked and injured 12 teenagers — three critically — while on a violent joyride in Taipei County’s Tucheng City… The gang of more than 20 scooter-riding thugs, who brandished large knives and baseball bats, went after most of their hapless victims as they were barbecuing for the Mid-Autumn Festival. Car Lust I told Vincent that I didn’t really care much for cars. It was my sister, I explained, that wanted to look. Vincent agreed quickly and said it was rock climbing that excited him most. Cars, it turned out, were just a family thing he had to play along with. Still, he told me about the Lotus‘ under 2000 pound dead weight, noted the tiny engine that gets nearly 30 miles a gallon yet delivers 0 to 60 in better than five seconds, then opened the door and suggested I shoehorn myself inside. Will Google Eat Itself? Once upon a time Microsoft was the gorilla to beat. Once upon a time we thought Google could do it. Perhaps not any more. Amazon has dropped Google’s search results from their A9 search aggregator in favor of Microsoft’s Live search, and while Yahoo!’s on again, off again partnership talks with Microsoft appear dead after Y!’s announcement Thursday of a partnership with eBay, Microsoft still hasn’t given up on the notion. Sweet Portland Central Library in Portland wasn’t open when I returned the next morning to get some snapshots, but you’ll have to take my word that they did a great job renovating it ten years ago. The outside preserves the original appearance of this historic building, and the early hour of the shot hides the hive of activity that I found the previous afternoon. I have to thank Caleb and Caroline for showing around town, and offer my apologies to Heidi and Alice, who had offered me tips and suggestions that I (again) didn’t have time to follow up on. Denver Sights There’s plenty of public art in Denver, including a blue bear and this horse in a red chair (here and here, respectively). Tourists can also sneak a peak inside the Unsinkable Molly Brown’s house on Pennsylvania St. What I didn’t get to explore, however, includes Tesla’s time in Colorado Springs, the Forney Transportation Museum, NORAD, the remains of the Jewish Consumptives’ Relief Society (apparently still findable behind a mall somewhere), and Gary Sweeney’s “America: Why I Love Her” map at the airport. Denver Nights El Chapultepec is a little jazz club on Market St in LoDo. The Walnut Room just north of everything offers live music and a sweet mile high club pizza made “kitchen sink style.” Those seeking quieter times can smoke a cigar at the Churchill Bar at The Brown Palace on Tremont Pl. And, outstanding sunset views can be had from the Peaks Lounge at the Hyatt on California St. Presentation: Designing an OPAC for Web 2.0 IUG 2006 presentation: Designing an OPAC for Web 2.0 (also available as a PDF with space for notes) Web 2.0 and other “2.0” monikers have become loaded terms recently. But as we look back at the world wide web of 1996, there can be little doubt that today’s web is better and more useful. Indeed, that seems to be the conclusion millions of Americans are making, as current estimates show over 200 million users in the US, including 87% of youth 12-17. And We’re Discarding This? I read enough of this to get a good laugh, but not enough to understand if it was serious or not. Some of it reads like satire, but other parts as are dry as, well, they’re dry (who really needs a simile anyway, they’re just dry, okay?). Scooter My new scooter. It’s not much of a picture, but we’ve had two weeks of rain and this is what I could get. Whiskey Blanket I just bought Whiskey Blanket‘s It’s Warmer Down Here (2004) on the basis of a few tracks they offered on MySpace. It’s hip hop, socially critical hip hop (crit hop?), set atop a well constructed downtempo trip hop music bed (yeah, I’ll cut it with the hops already). It immediately brought to mind MC 900 Ft. Jesus‘s The City Sleeps and other tracks, but with better, sharper raps and without the MC’s somewhat whiny voice. Flickr Goes Gamma Just when we started wondering how much longer flickr would be beta, they announced gamma. The new design had me scratching my head for a bit, but I’m coming to like the changes. The menu/toolbar in the header has direct links to a lot more stuff, while the stuff in the footer has many fewer links. I can’t really tell if there are any links missing there, or if they’re just organized better, as I really only used one or two of them anyway. Better Business Bureau Pulls One Out I gave up on Hostgator a while ago, and I thought I’d cancelled my account until I noticed they were still charging me monthly (yeah, I should pay more attention to what’s on my CC bill). When I contacted them about it they claimed I never fully cancelled. Here’s a copy of the form I submitted: HGSales #GSW-[[private]] October 3, 2005 8:10:40 PM EDT Subject: CANCELLATION Department: Hostgator Sales Request Details: Your Email: : [[private]] Domain name: : MaisonBisson. Linkability Fertilizes Online Communities It’s hard to know how Fuzzyfruit found the WPopac catalog page for A Baby Sister for Frances (though it is ranked fifth in a Google search for the title), but what matters is that she did find it, and she was able to link to it by simply copying the URL from her browser’s location bar. The link appears among her comments in the discussion about her post on an early letter she’d written to her mom. Stonehill Industrial History Center (aka the shovel museum) Most travel guides simply call it the “shovel museum,” but it’s really the Stonehill Industrial History Center. Much more than shovels, curator Greg Galer tells us the collection reveals interesting facts about what we were building and how we built it over the past 200 years. Located on the campus of Stonehill College in Easton Massachusetts, the collection does boast 755 shovels from the Ames manufacturing companies. From the FAQ: Blogging From Basements My buddy Cliff emailed me excited about the following quote he found on the Yahoo Finance message boards: Sun vs Dell All you need to know about Dell & Sun was predicted 8 months ago by some blogger in his parent’s basement. The draft ads are cool: http://spiralbound.net/2005/09/15/sun-talks-some-smack/ How come the big brokerage house analysts can’t figure this stuff out? Cliff doesn’t really blog from his parent’s basement, but well, he was happy for the link love. Pretty Soon Everybody Will Have It This isn’t as funny as it used to be. Every time I read about or hear of somebody talking about autism, I recognize some many of the behaviors as my own. First it was this rather amusing comparison between “eccentric” and autistic behaviors, then it was an interview on Fresh Air, and just this weekend I heard Kamran Nazeer talking about his new book that profiles himself and four other autistic adults. Amazon’s Simple Storage Service Ryan Eby got me excited about S3 a while ago when he pointed out this post on the Amazon web services blog and started talking up the notion of building library-style digital repositories. I’m interested in the notion that storage is being offered as a commodity service, where it used to be closely connected to servers and bought (and wasted) in chunks. With S3, you can build a simple application that runs anywhere, store your big data in S3, pay for what you use, and expand (or contract) as you need to. Reputation Management At Applied Dreams 2.2 Ryan gave me the drop on this presentation by Dave Chiu and Didier Hilhorst where they do an amusingly effective job of explaining the concept of reputation management. It all went down at the conclusion of the Applied Dreams 2.2 project at Interaction Design Institute Ivrea in Milano. The project brief begins: Our identities are changing due to our constant exposure to enabling technologies. Our old physical identities, fixed to a house, an address, a tax number, private, detached, individual, introvert, seem increasingly at odds with our new electronic identities, mobile, self-published, publicly exposed, extrovert, shared, accessible, communal. betty bowers First I found her Harry Potter review, then I found the God Told Me To Hate You buttons and other stuff. Who Makes These Decisions Anyway? Brian’s comment at RemainingRelevant should resonate with many of us: Something to consider about why libraries end up with bad interfaces (at least as far as catalogs go) is that it might be that the people who use the interface (and help the public use it) are not the people who decide which interface to use. When it comes to demanding better from vendors […] consortiums like mine seem to place more emphasis on “cheap and reliable” than in “useful to the patrons. George Bush And Cognitive Dissonance: “Evolution Is A Lie” And “Bird Flu Will Evolve To Threaten Humans” Alpha Liberal reminds me that Bush somehow gets his head around the following: “the jury is still out on evolution” and “the bird flu virus could evolve to a form that can be spread easily from human to human” eh, I’ll take any excuse to point to Michelle Leeds’ photo and bash Bush’s stupidity. Used Brains And Black Plague, On eBay He he. Chuckle, chuckle. Thanks to Kris and Brett for these pics. They ads are still there now when I search Google for used brain or black plague. My question is: does eBay just submit bulk lists of terms they want to buy, or do they have a deal with Google to just link ’em up like this? Authority and Base Jumping Authority has varied meanings in every context. This piece on iFilm has Iiro Seppanen explaining his view of the matter as it relates to jumping off the Stratosphere in Las Vegas. View above, or click through to Base Concepts: Authority. I don't need an excuse to drink tequila, but I'll eagerly take one Ian Chadwick’s In Search of the Blue Agave begins: “Tequila is Mexico,” said Carmelita Roman, widow of the late tequila producer Jesus Lopez Roman in an interview after her husband’s murder. “It’s the only product that identifies us as a culture.” No other drink is surrounded by as many stories, myths, legends and lore as tequila and its companion, mezcal. They transcend simple definition by reaching into the heart of Mexico, past and present. Q: Why Do Some Things Suck? A: Because we compare them to the wrong things. I’m in training today for a piece of software used in libraries. It’s the second of three days of training and things aren’t going well. Some stuff doesn’t work, some things don’t work the first (second, third…ninth) time, and other things just don’t make sense. At lunch, one of the other participants mentioned to the trainer that some of the activities in the software seemed to have too many steps, too many places to go wrong, too many turns between beginning and end. WPopac Gets Googled A discussion on Web4Lib last month raised the issue of Google indexing our library catalogs. My answer spoke of the huge number of searches being done in search engines every day and the way that people increasingly expect that anything worth finding can be found in Google. There were doubts about the effectiveness of such plans, and concerns about how frustrating it might be for a searcher in California to find books (that he or she can’t access) in New Hampshire. Higher Ed Blog Con (and other things I should have posted about last month) I meant to post about this weeks ago, but HigherEd BlogCon has now come and gone. It had sections on teaching, libraries, CRM, and web development. (Aside: why must we call it “admissions, alumni relations, and communications & marketing” instead of the easier to swallow “CRM”?) The “events” are over, but everything is online, and most of it is free. Ryan did a good job of covering the first few days, and what would a blog conference be without a common tag? Linkrot? We Don’t Have Any Steenking Linkrot! Allen asked, via the web4lib list: I’m interested in how others handle linkrot in library blogs. Do you fix broken links? Remove them if they can’t be fixed? Do nothing? Michael answered: I deal with link rot on blogs as I would with any other publication, print or otherwise: do nothing. The post is dated and users should be aware that links from two years ago may no longer work. Frank Rich on Bush’s Last 1000 Days Frank Rich’s New York Times op-ed column today was full of the kind of easy one-liners that repressives conservatives usually like to use against honest people progressives. I got it from my friend Joe, but because The New York Times thinks their content is golden, they won’t let me link you to the full-text. Eh, I looked it up in LexisNexis (also a paid service, but better (marginally)) and posted the good parts here: Kobb Labs Joe forwarded me a link to Kobb Labs the other day, and I’ve got to admit that the guy has a much better introduction than anything I could have written for my site: Despite what you may have been told, I am not a mad scientist. (No, no, no, that’s all slander and lies from jealous colleagues.) As you can probably tell from my website, I’m just a man curious about the universe and the order of things. MoBA Revisited I had a good opportunity to revisit the Museum of Bad Art in Dedham Mass earlier this week. Above is my buddy Corey, but I was amused to find that visitors appear to be leaving their own works for the collection. Cupcakes? “I’ve never seen the inside of a rabbit’s brain before. What’s in there anyway?” “Nobody knows yet. Johnson and I are hoping it’s cupcakes.” “Me too. Except vegan cupcakes. Because I’m a vegan. Vegans don’t eat animals or animal prod–” “I know what vegan means, Thomas. You’ve told us.” “Well, I was just saying, because–” “I know what vegan means” Thank you, Tristan. Twenty Years And A Day Mark Nelson’s Pripyat series on flickr is full of the pictures of desolation that people seem to be looking for as we solemnly honor the twentieth anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster. Google added high-resolution satellite photos of the area yesterday, and Pripyat.com offers both stories and photo galleries to help us remember. It is there that I learned that Rimma Kiselica, the woman who has guided so many of those who’ve reported from the dead-zone, died on March 19. Chernobyl and Pripyat Satellite Photos Today, on the twentieth anniversary of the disaster, Google has added high-resolution satellite photos of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant and the abandoned town of Pripyat. Above is the plant; the damaged reactor is on the left. In Pripyat, the ghostly ferris wheel was easy to find, but where’s the vehicle graveyard? Update: here it is. Hat tip to “di” and “pero69” for their comments. Twenty Years Ago Today Twenty years ago today at 1:23:44, the Chernobyl NPP reactor number four exploded. Five thousand tons of lead, sand, and other materials were dropped on the resulting fire in an attempt to stop the spread of the radioactive cloud. The world learned of the accident when Western European nuclear facilities identified radiation anomalies and traced them to the Chernobyl plant, forcing the USSR to make its first public announcement on the matter. Boolean Searching in WPopac WPopac takes advantage of MySQL’s indexing and relevance-ranked searching (go ahead, try it), including boolean searching (on MySQL versions > 4.x). Here are some details and examples taken wholesale from the MySQL manual: + A leading plus sign indicates that this word must be present in each result returned. – A leading minus sign indicates that this word must not be present in any of the resuls that are returned. Shifting Borders My first reaction to the notion of librarians running reading groups in Second Life was a question of whether this was akin to putting a reference desk in a bar. My second reaction was a question of how our systems will support these extra-library interactions. Can people quickly and easily trade URLs to access the library materials they’re talking about? Will library systems ever be as easy to use as the game/social environments we’re trying to use them in? Living The Life Embarrassing, Stupid Online Without contradicting the moral weight of social software post from last week, let’s take a moment to look at three stories from Arstechnica about MySpace and others: online video leads to teen arrests, shooting rampage avoided due to MySpace posting, and Google + Facebook + alcohol = trouble. These are the stories we’ve come to expect: teen does or post the results of something [stupid|illegal|dangerous] in [MySpace|Facebook|some other online place] and gets caught. That Crazy Gnarls Barkley Other than the notion that I heard it on a KCRW music show, I couldn’t put my finger on the tune weaving through my head. So I listened, and listened carefully, waiting to hear it again. Eventually I learned the earworm was Gnarls Barkley‘s Crazy (thanks to Molly for the mp3 download link). The group, a collaboration between DJ Danger Mouse (of The Grey Album infamy) and Cee-Lo, released the single on MySpace and created a new instant sensation in late March. Movie: Airport Iain Anderson‘s animated film, Aiport, shows even the most pedestrian of designs come to life with a bit of creativity. Elsewhere, a post at Copyfight, suggests that the availability of those symbols — their freedom from copyright and trademark restrictions — was a key factor in spurring their broad adoption, creating both the culture and the free imagery for artists like Anderson to use in their cultural commentary. Bush: “I Invented The iPod” President Bush, speaking in Alabama at the American Competitiveness Initiative, made a claim that would make Al Gore blush: he claimed to have invented the iPod. After taking credit for the development of ultra-small hard drives, audio compression, and chemistry(?), he laid it out: “it turned out that those were the key ingredients for the development of the iPod.” Tip o’ the hat to Engadget. bibliochaise What book lover doesn’t look twice at this bibliochaise from nobody&co? The Wealth of Networks Wendy Seltzer gave a shout-out for Yochai Nenkler‘s The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom, describing it as… …an economic history of information production. We’re moving from the age of industrial information production to one of social information production. Ever-faster computers on our desks let us individually produce what would have taken a firm to organize just a decade ago. Ever-further networks let us share that with the world as cheaply as storing it for ourselves. Danah Boyd On The Moral Weight Of Social Software Danah Boyd posted recently at Many-to-Many about the future of social software. I’ve been more than a little bit gung ho on web 2.0 for a while, but I do like her caution: If MySpace falters in the next 1-2 years, it will be because of this moral panic. Before all of you competitors get motivated to exacerbate the moral panic, think again. If the moral panic succeeds: Youth will lose (even more) freedom of speech. WordPress Baseline Changes To Support WPopac I’ve whittled things down to the point where the only baseline change from WordPress 2.0.2 is in the next_posts_link function of the wp-includes/template-functions-links.php file. The change is necessary because WPopac rewrites the SQL search queries in a way that’s incompatible with a piece of this function, but necessary for performance reasons. Where’d All My Rewrite Rules Go? Between WordPress 1.x and 2.x there was a big change to the way rewrite rules are handled. In the old days, everything got written out to a <a href="http://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/mod/mod_rewrite.html#RewriteRule">.htaccess</a> file. Every condition, every form of permalink could be found there, and I had some comfort knowing I could see and mess with it all. I was a bit surprised to find that with 2.0.2, WP writes out a sparse file that has only one significant rule. Bloody Tax Day April 15 has been tax day in the US for as long as anybody can remember, but with the weekend and all, most of us have ’til Monday to file and some of us in the Northeast have ’til Tuesday. The thing I don’t like about tax time is that it brings out the worst in me. Most any other time of the year I’m a pinko liberal, but the anticipation of taxes makes me look decidedly conservative and ornery. The Crucible Who wouldn’t like to play with The Crucible‘s “fire truck”? What’s “The Crucible”? [it’s] an arts education center that fosters a collaboration of arts, industry and community. Through training in the fine and industrial arts, The Crucible promotes creative expression, reuse of materials and innovative design while serving as an accessible arts venue for the public. You can see the truck at the Make Magazine Maker Faire later this month, and in July at the Crubible’s Fire Arts Festival. movie combos This is strange enough on its own, but I dare you to use it as a soundtrack to this one. Printer Fingerprinting News came out a while ago that many of our laser printers were embedding “fingerprints” that allowed folks who knew how (like, say, the feds) to trace a printed page back to the day and time it was printed, and the serial number of the printer. Or, at least that was the theory, until the EFF got all CSI on it. The image above is magnified 10x and illuminated with blue light to increase the contrast of the yellow dot pattern used by Xerox DocuColor printers. PHP5’s SimpleXML Now Passes CDATA Content I didn’t hear big announcement of it, but [deep in the docs][1] (? PHP 5.1.0) you’ll find a note about [additional Libxml parameters][2]. In there you’ll learn about “LIBXML_NOCDATA,” and it works like this: simplexml_load_string($xmlraw, ‘SimpleXMLElement’, LIBXML_NOCDATA); Without that option (and with all previous versions of PHP/SimpleXML), SimpleXML just ignores any < ![CDATA[...]]> ‘escaped’ content, such as you’ll find in most every blog feed. [1]: http://us3.php.net/manual/en/function.simplexml-load-string.php [2]: http://us3. Reboot Your ‘Pod Colin has a nifty guide to your iPod’s hidden commands, like those for rebooting or getting into the diagnostics. He’s got more iPod tips if you look. good headline Don’t these Mainich Daily News editors think they’re the shit when they get to combine “bondage” and “rope” in the same headline. i will trademark your every word Yes, as it turns out, “freedom of expression®” is a trademarked term. And, yes, as it turns out, somebody’s been cease and desisted for using it. Email Is For Old People I happened to stumble back onto the Pew Internet Report on teens and technology from July 2005 that report that told us “87% of [US children] between the ages of 12 and 17 are online.” But the part I’d missed before regarded how these teens were using communication technology: Email, once the cutting edge “killer app,” is losing its privileged place among many teens as they express preferences for instant messaging (IM) and text messaging [SMS] as ways to connect with their friends. i m 12 Super heros gotta go too, ya know? We Regret The Error Not all errors in news reporting are as trivial as this one: THE COST of beer kegs has risen by about 30% since the end of 2003. In addition, Neil Witte is the draught beer quality-control specialist of Boulevard Brewing Co., and Steven Pauwels is the brewer’s brewmaster. A March 14 page-one article on beer-keg theft incorrectly said that the cost of kegs has tripled in recent years and incorrectly said that Mr. and he did it in a tie Steve Jobs Demos NeXTSTEP Macs vs. PCs Vista delayed The delay is the latest problem for the software giant’s flagship operating system. Microsoft had originally slated the software for release in late 2005, but pushed back its target date to summer 2006 and dropped several planned features to try to guarantee delivery. The company attributed the delay to the extra time needed to insure quality and fix remaining security issues. Macsimum News | Apple & Macintosh Related News Reviews & Opinions Bad Quality I should be all down on this sneaky way of advertising Nokia’s N90, but…eh, they’re funny. Bad Quality Officechairs is the latest, Bad Quality Hydraulics (somebody tell them it’s “pneumatics”) and Bad Quality Superglue bring up the rear. If that isn’t enough, they’ve got the Bad Quality Blog which pulls back the curtain a bit. If you look around a bit, however, you might stumble across Nokia’s Lifeblog (“feed it, watch it grow”): Zhang Huan’s “My Boston” Most people may recognize Zhang Huan from his “My New York” work that had him dressed in a beefy muscle suit. Above is “My Boston,” but I have a feeling it might get repurposed elsewhere during finals this spring to represent the agony of study. Ups to Ryan for the pointer. drive thru crucifixion titles and typefaces Ryan pointed out that the titles for Thank You For Smoking are pretty interesting, then he followed up with a pointer to some font spotting at Typographica. DNS Problems Things went whacky with Dotster‘s hosted DNS services last night. Though the problem now appears to be fixed on their end (and I’ve actually move elsewhere in my attempts to get back online), it could be a while before the bad data is flushed from caches around the world. In the meantime, let me mention that Ryan shared with me a useful tool I’d not seen before: DNSReport. interesting, scary Ilya Khrzhanovsky’s 4. more. Identity Management In Social Spaces (note: the following is cross-posted at Identity Future.) Being that good software — the social software that’s nearly synonymous with Web 2.0 — is stuff that gets you laid, where does that leave IdM? Danah Boyd might not have been thinking about it in exactly those terms, but her approach is uniquely social-centered. She proposes “SecureId” What is SecureId? SecureId is a program that helps you protect and control your digital identity by allowing you to determine who can access your private information. Big Iron Won’t Win Wars Anymore Technology changes things, sure. The question is, how do you recognize the early signs of change before they become catastrophic? I spend most of my days working on that question in academia, but what about our armed forces? Noah Shachtman regularly covers that issue in DefenseTech: Like a lot of other sage observers, Naval Postgraduate School professor John Arquilla isn’t nuts about the idea of spending a ton on Cold War-style weapons systems when we’re supposed to be fighting terrorists and insurgents. Sparkline PHP Sparklines are “intense, simple, wordlike graphics? so named by Edward Tufte. In lieu of a more detailed introduction, Professor Tufte’s site has an early release of a chapter on sparklines. Cool. Here’s a PHP library and accompanying documentation wiki. More bsuite Hacking Update: bugfix release b2v6 available. Some conversations with Chow Kah Soon, who’s site is full of diversions from work , finally convinced encouraged me to solve some small problems that were giving him big trouble. Chow Kah Soon is in the lucky, but rare, position of having over 20,000 unique daily visitors to his site, so he’s sort of my designated stress-tester. After looking at the logs he shared with me, the table structure, and the queries in bsuite, it was pretty clear that I needed to make some changes to the indexes. Winter’s Last Breath Snow and rain mixed throughout the day Tuesday, but we awoke to glistening white fields and trees. Above is the view due west in Wentworth this morning, before the warm spring sun melted it all away. Don’t Think You Use Web 2.0? Think Again It can be hard for library folk to imagine that the web development world might be as divided about the meaning and value of “Web 2.0” as the library world is about “Library 2.0,” but we/they are. Take Jeffrey Zeldman’s anti-Web 2.0, anti-AJAX post, for instance. Zeldman’s a smart guy, and he’s not entirely off-base, but let’s not confuse his argument. What you don’t see him suggesting is that we abandon the web. “I Hate DRM” And Other Projects To Preserve The Digital Artistic Commons People hate DRM. It prevents law abiding folks from enjoying the music and movies they’ve purchased, and it does little to prevent crackers from making illegal copies. In response, somebody’s created I Hate DRM, “a site dedicated to reclaiming consumer digital rights.” I created this site because, as a consumer, I am fed up. I feel like all of the entertainment that I love is slowly being eroded away by overly greedy companies. Number Sequences Think about it, at the moment this post went live, it was one hour, two minutes, and three seconds past midnight Greenwich Mean Time. Why’s that matter? It doesn’t, but it looks cool: 01:02:03 04-05-06 Of course, Brits and most others don’t represent dates that way, so the point is really only valid in US local time. C’mon, let’s wait up. Richard Sambrook Talks Citizen Journalism I’m not sure what to think of Richard Sambrook appearing to struggle to find a place for traditional journalism in the age of the internet, but the story’s worth a read. David Weinberger […] talked about the crisis in US journalism with failing trust in the big news organisations. He pointed out that Google now provided a news service with just an algorithm where there used to be a newsroom of dozens of people — and suggested algorithms were probably more reliable than journalists anyway! Getting Things Done, And Feeling Okay About It How’s a guy supposed to feel when his manager gives him a copy of David Allen’s Getting Things Done? Go Get Yer Podcast On Gizmodo pointed out these USB and FireWire podcasting kits from Alesis. The package gets you a (hopefully not sucky) microphone with desktop stand, headphones, a carrying case, podcast production software, Cubase LE recording and editing software, and a digital mixer that plugs directly into the computer via USB or FireWire (duh). The US$400 USB version does two channels of 16bit/44.1 KHz audio while the US$600 FireWire model cranks eight channels of 24bit/48KHz sound. Information Behavior It was more than a year ago that Lorcan Dempsey pointed out this bit from The Chronicle: Librarians should not assume that college students welcome their help in doing research online. The typical freshman assumes that she is already an expert user of the Internet, and her daily experience leads her to believe that she can get what she wants online without having to undergo a training program. Indeed, if she were to use her library’s Web site, with its dozens of user interfaces, search protocols, and limitations, she might with some justification conclude that it is the library, not her, that needs help understanding the nature of electronic information retrieval. Atlanta Art Scene, Spring 2006 Atlanta was a bit of a lark. I hadn’t seen my friends for a while, and they were telling me that the weather was beautiful. So why not go? Anyway, Chuck Close is on display at the High Museum. And the thing about Close’s work is that it frustrates my rule of “don’t do twice what you can automate once.” Many of his portraits are the result of carefully mapped and measured graph lines that allow him to create pixelated works. Water Feature We were excited in New Hampshire to have the first week of weather warm enough to go out without our coats at midday, but Atlanta was warm enough to hop in the pool and hot tub after midnight. Abductions I don’t know how I feel about shilling for the california dairy industry, but this cow abduction site is pretty funny. Be sure to watch the movie. Want more, go look at mailorderchickens.org. The Aural Times Thanks again to a good tip from Ryan, I’ve get something new to laugh at: The Aural Times. Did I Really Just Put This Together? Huh. Noah Shachtman tells us that even with the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan raging, our military forces are spending $70 Billion to arm up for a new enemy. But whom? China. Then over here we’re reminded that China is the US’s largest creditor. facts of life A person will do certain things for money. IdM Takes Lessons From the Microformats Crowd A tip from [Ryan][1] sent me [looking][2] at [MicroID][3]: a new Identity layer to the web and [Microformats][4] that allows anyone to simply claim verifiable ownership over their own pages and content hosted anywhere. The idea is to hash a user’s email address (or other identifier) with the name of the site it will be published on, giving a string that can be inserted — in true Microformats style — as an element of the html on the site. …And A Mechanical Turk To Rule Them All Paul Bausch has concerns about Amazon’s Mechanical Turk: I can imagine a world where my computer can organize my time in front of the screen better than I can. In fact, I bet [Amazon’s Mechanical Turk] will eventually gather data about how many [Human Intelligence Tasks] someone can perform at peak accuracy in a 10 hour period. Once my HIT-level is known, the computer could divide all of my work into a series of decisions. Involvement, Inclusion, Collaboration Peter Caputa dropped a comment on Jeff Nolan‘s post about Zvents. The discussion was about how online event/calendar aggregators did business in a world where everything is rather thinly distributed. Part of the problem is answering how do you get people to contribute content — post their events — to a site that has little traffic, and how do you build traffic without content? The suggestion is that you have editorial staff scouring for content to build the database until reader contributions can catch up, and that’s where Peter comes in, suggesting that content and traffic aren’t where the value and excitement are: Twenty Years After Chernobyl Nearly 20 years after the initial events of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster of April 26 1986, the story is still unfolding. This month’s National Geographic Magazine tells of the “long shadow of Chernobyl” — grown children of the disaster now fear having their own children while some elderly residents return to their old homes inside the 1,000 square mile, still contaminated “exclusion zone.” The print article seemed to offer hope, noting that even the pines of the “red forest” — so called because they received so much radiation that it bleached the chlorophyl from them, and some say the trees actually glowed — are beginning to grow back now. Germaine I found Germaine across from the Prudential Center Friday. His sound was good and I especially liked his snare drum. Door of Mystery I found myself wandering about Boston Public Library for longer than I expected Friday. Part of it was the map exhibit and part of it was the architecture (and simply a place to relax for a bit). Amusingly, stairs and stairways seem filled with drama at BPL, and if the guard hadn’t just warned me about taking flash photos, I might have tried to sneak a peak behind that door. Questions Are All Around Us These pictures are mostly foolish, but here’s a small point: none of us had ever seen a cop pull over a cab — certainly not a cab with passengers — before this, so we were all rather curious about why. In front of us stood a question, an example of the many questions we all encounter every day, and it’s the kind of question that few of us would ever suggest going to the library to answer. The Things They Do To Students At Rice I won’t say why I went looking for pictures of people getting poked with sticks (but you’ll figure it out in a later post). I will say I was happy to find these from the Poke-A-Spontaneous-Combustion-Member-With-A-Stick-Day at Rice University. Look, they even have a price list that includes: $1 poke with a stick song/poem on demand two minute massage lick a SC member $2 picture with [unreadable] kissing whack with a stick $3 marker tattoo $4 attempt hedge jumping $5 human piñata shave a leg we wrestle each other $15 jump into hedges Nowhere on the site does it note how much the fundraiser netted for “Rice’s best (only) improvisational comedy troupe. Business Marketing Babble Makes Me Laugh Found on Jeff Nolan’s blog: Competitive Intelligence: “a large fuzzy animal may be a bear.” Marketing: “SAP can help you understand your fuzzy animals. With over 30 years in the fuzzy animal industry, we know if you are looking at a bear, a guy in a coat, or a large dog.” Communications: “In today’s world of increasing challenges, It’s obvious fuzzy animals are what our customers care about.” Sales: “Who cares what it is. Tomorrow In Human Computer Interaction My Dutch skills are weak to non-existant, and without a Google translator for MacArena.be, I’m pretty much stuck with staring at the above video and contemplating the short description provided: A movie about the technology which Apple has recently patented. It is not a movie made by Apple but by some researchers. Fortunately, this is an area where video is much more illustrative than words. I sometimes get accused of blue sky thinking when I speak of the role of technology in our lives, but while I go on about how access to huge volumes of instantly searchable information is changing us, this video shows a rather near future where we can manipulate it ways that seemed like science fiction just the other day. Facial Recognitition Spytech Goes Social Troy expressed both great amusement and trepidation in his message alerting me to Riya, a new photo sharing site: I don’t know whether to say cool, or zool. The tour explains that you upload photos, Riya identifies faces in your photos, then asks you to name them (or correct its guesses!). Then you get all your friends to join up and we can all search for everybody by people, location, and time. Speaking My Language I loved this quote from Dave Young when I first found it, and I love it more now: Talk to the customer in the language of the customer about what matters to the customer. Bad advertising is about you, your company, your product or your service. Good advertising is about the customer, and how your product or service will change their world. Read that again, but replace the relevant bits with “user” or “patron” and “your library” or “your databases. Wyoming Libraries Marketing Campaign I have mixed feelings about the value of advertising — it’s worth pointing out that according to John Battelle, Google never ran an ad anywhere prior to going public — but I still enjoy seeing things like this Wyoming Libraries campaign. Jill Stover quotes Wyoming Libraries’ Tina Lackey with the news that “Wyoming’s libraries are as expansive as the state, and as close as down the street.” I’m just hoping that A, the horse is real; and B, they auction it off. Gates Harshes Poor, Tells Them To Buy Windows What’s sadder than people in Burundi earning an average of only $90 a year? It might be Bill Gates‘ criticism of MIT’s efforts to bring affordable, networked computers to the poorest countries of the world in hopes of improving education (and communication and healthcare and more). The challenge is enormous: the technology needs to be durable, require low-power (and be easily rechargeable), as easy to use as an egg timer, have networking in a land without infrastructure, and be cheap, cheap, cheap. Can Actors Sell Their Digital Clones? Alan Wexelblat in Copyfight poses a question from a reader about the future of entertainment: what rights do you purchase/license/contract for in creating such a reproduction of a real person? Rights to the “likeness?” Performance rights? Do either of these cover things the actor never physically did or said? Is there an exclusivity clause? There are clearly some issues around the ownership of a character, if that character has appeared before (e. Pravda March 18 Headline: US To Collapse on Feb 5 I regularly check the English language online edition of Pravda for laughs and sometimes for their take on US domestic affairs. But today’s headline left me scratching my head. What calendar are these people using, anyway? The headlined story is offered without any context or explanation. As it turns out, author Ian Magnussen really did mean February 5th 2006, not 2007 or later. Had it appeared two months ago it might have been called speculative fiction, though more likely seen as a crazy conspiracy theory. Flight of the Conchords Ryan sent along a link to Flight of the Concords‘ Business Time last week and I’m still laughing over it. With some exploring at a fansite, What the Folk!, I dug up a trove of other amusements, including She’s So Hot Boom. For more info, I turned (as usual) to the Wikipedia article. And if I had HBO, I could have caught a repeat of them on One Night Stand this past Wednesday. MaisonBisson Cultural Reporter at SXSW, Can’t Get Tickets, Brushes With Owen Wilson Instead SXSW passes have apparently been sold out for weeks now. So what’s Bob Garlitz, the MaisonBisson cultural affairs reporter, to do? Hunt for celebrities around Austin, of course. Here’s how he describes his first hit: I look at him intently, he’s about six inches in front of me. A long pause as I study his face and especially note the nose. He waits, expecting, knowing, what’s next. He’s shorter than me, in a white cap, white t-shirt and maybe white jeans. Everybody’s Irish With A Quart O’ Whiskey In ‘Em Modern Drunkard Magazine suggests we chase the snakes out of our minds, for as Yeats reminds us: The problem with some people is that when they’re not drunk, they’re sober. (Ryan points out that you can have that quote, along with three others from quipsters Dylan Thomas, W.C. Fields, and Oscar Wilde on shot glasses.) But Modern Drunkard and Yeats (despite his fine heritage) have it wrong. Saint Patty’s Day isn’t about getting drunk or being drunk, it’s about getting silly enough to think you can dance a jig or sing a song. Native To Web & The Future Of Web Apps Yahoo’s Tom Coats was of seven star speakers at Carson Workshops‘ Future of Web Apps Summit last month. As usual, Ryan Eby was pretty quick to point out his slides to me, mostly by way of pointing out Jeremy Zawodny’s translation of them. If it’s not clear yet: I wasn’t there, though I very much wanted to be, especially given some of what can be found in the post-summit blog posts. Office Cocktails I like pretty much everything Paula Wirth puts up on Flickr, but this afternoon I could do well with a dive like Scolari’s Office in San Diego. But, that’s probably because it mixes “office” and “cocktails” in the sort of way that has anonymous tipsters slipping photocopies of the alcohol policy from our HR handbook under my office door. Eh, here’s to happy hour. Homeland Security: Now Policing Porn? The Washington Post reports two men in uniforms bearing “Homeland Security” insignia walked into a Bethesda library in early February, announced that viewing of internet pornography was forbidden, and began questioning patrons. The men asked one library user to step outside just before a librarian intervened. Then… the two men [and the librarian] went into the library’s work area to discuss the matter. A police officer arrived. In the end, no one had to step outside except the uniformed men. The code4lib Journal(s) I Should’ve Kept code4lib was less than a month ago, but already I’ve forgotten some details. That’s why I’m glad to have notes from Ed Summers (day one, two, and three), Art Rhyno, Tom Hickey, Karen Coombs, and Ryan Eby. There was a lot going on, and if I missed your blog it’s because Google and Technorati didn’t know about it (or I was being particularly lazy with my searching). Our Connected Students Just when you thought I was done talking about how the internet really does touch everything, Lichen posts some details from the most recent University of New Hampshire Res Life student survey and it gets me going again. In order, the top three activities are: socializing (15.8 hours/week) studying, excluding in-class time (12.5 hours/week) instant messaging, (9.3 hours/week) Lichen also points out that IM activity was reported separately from “personal internet use,” which got an additional 8. This Is What Social Software Can Do The FlickrBlog reports this message from Gale: People have been submitting good humpback whale fluke shots to a group called Humpback whale flukes. I volunteer at Allied Whale which holds the North Atlantic Humpback Whale Catalog and I was able to make a very exciting match with one of the whales that was posted on the group by GeorgeK. George saw this whale in Newfoundland in the summer of 2005. Willie Mae Rock Camp For Girls The Willie Mae Rock Camp For Girls: just another example of why New York is cooler than New Hampshire. Photo by Rocco Kasby, performance by the Pink Slips. Yet again, a tip of the hat to Ryan Eby for the pointer. bsuite Feature: User Contributed Tags Ross Singer gets the prize for submitting the first reader contributed tag, the latest feature in bsuite. There are arguments about whether user-contributed tags are useful or even valid, or whether they should be stored in my site or aggregated at places like del.ici.ous. But who’s to worry about such questions? Who’s to worry when you can put together the work already done to support author’s tags with WordPress’s pretty good comment system and get user contributed tag support with just a few extra lines of code? User Experience Map I was this close to posting soldierant‘s Gobbledy Gook map, but, well… I guess I wanted to make a point with his user experience map, done in collaboration with the smart folks at Experience Dynamics. Take a careful look at the role of your competitors and a user’s expectations and goals. Yeah, we’ve all got some work to do. Too bad the free seminar schedule hasn’t been updated for 2006. Whisky Essential To Writing God bless William Faulkner for pointing it out: My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky. Nash Edgerton’s Lucky Scott Smith’s Imperfect Ten too slow for you? Take a look at Nash Edgerton‘s Lucky over at Blue Tongue Films. What would you do in 4 minutes 25 seconds? How would you escape? Zorb: Another Reason New Zealanders Are Cooler Than You Who of us didn’t want to try it when we saw Jackie Chan bounce down a mountainside in one in Operation Condor (well, who of us who saw Operation Condor didn’t want to try it)? But until Cool Hunter gave me a pointer, I had no idea what the these strange inflatable balls (yeah, go Google that) might be called or where to look for more information. As it turns out, they’re called “Zorbs,” and the company even has a promo video to show them off. Nuns Vs. Librarians In Spelling Bee From Yahoo! News and Ryan Eby, there’s a funny spelling bee planned in Erlanger Kentucky: ERLANGER, Ky. – After a five-year hiatus, the Sisters of St. Walburg Monastery in Villa Hills are ready to show whether they are superior spellers. The sisters were champions of the annual Corporate Spelling Bee for Literacy in northern Kentucky for years before giving others a chance to win. But now the nuns are back, even if they’re a little timid about challenging the reigning champions — a group of Boone County librarians. Scott Smith’s Imperfect Ten The nice folks at Coudal Partners are hosting Scott Smith’s Imperfect Ten, “wherein one man breaks all ten commandments before breakfast.” It’s Friday (March 10th, even), go watch. Crisp Green Shirt Between the MIT show and Microsoft’s vaporware, origami is back in a big way. Here’s drumsnwhistles answer: a very crisp green shirt. All About OpenSearch and Autodiscovery from Davey P I’ve been meaning to point out (and steal from) Dave Pattern’s post on tipping off IE7 (and other browsers soon too, hopefully) to available OpenSearch targets for some time now. I haven’t had time to do the stealing, so I’ll have to settle for pointing it out while it’s still news. What’s the trick? As Dave explains, you put a link in the <head> section of your pages like this: Visual Complexity I found the above image of a yFiles-generated site map at visualcomplexity.com. We’ve seen a lot of internet diagrams, including this one from 1977, but what about mapping food? Or disaster situations? Or air routes? It’s like data porn, and there’s more in the visualcomplexity gallery. The Ignorant Perfection of Ordinary People Bob Garlitz, who’s trying to decide between blogging at Typepad and Blogspot, wrote to offer a somewhat older phrase for the success of social software as described in The Wisdom of Crowds and in the definition of collabulary: “the ignorant perfection of ordinary people.” Bob is at a loss to identify the source (and it pre-dates the book of the same title by a long shot), but maybe this crowd will know? MIT Origami Competition Ryan Eby and MAKE magazine alerted me to MIT’s student origami exhibit, in which Jason Ku’s ringwraith won the Best Original Model prize, and Brian Chan’s beaver — the MIT mascot — got special attention from the MIT News Office. Collabulary I found this a few days ago and realized that it embodied the difference between how I understand tag folksonomies and how others (with whom I’ve argued) may see them. That is, I see the role of the social group — the wisdom of the crowd — as essential to the success of our folksonomic efforts. As it turns out, somebody’s come up with a word that emphasizes that (uncoordinated) collaboration: collabulary. Talking ‘Bout Library 2.0 Users want a rich pool from which to search, simplicity, and satisfaction. One does not have to take a 50-minute instruction session to order from Amazon. Why should libraries continue to be so difficult for our users to master? — from page 8 of the The University of California Libraries Bibliographic Services Task Force Final Report. I find a new gem every time I look at it. Robins at Bath I heard birds chirping yesterday morning for the first time in a while, and from my office window I could see robins returned from the south. Spring, it seems, has arrived in New Hampshire, but nobody’s captured it better than Breezin with the photo above — obviously taken from a somewhat warmer place than this in late January. Tags Done Right Flickr does tags better than any other, so far as I can tell. We love tag folksonomies for way they allow us all to organize our world, for the way they allow patterns to emerge from chaos, and for their easy flexibility. But that flexibility, if poorly implemented in our software, can interrupt the very patterns we hope to find in our tag networks. Take “road trip” as an example. What one tagger thinks is two words might be just “roadtrip” to another. MacBook Pro Reviewed Jacqui Cheng likes her new MacBook Pro and loves the performance, but gives the MagSafe power adapter mixed reviews. Why? She says it disconnects when it shouldn’t, and seems to stay connected when it should disconnect. Well, I think I still want one. Troy Bennett at “Ben Show” Ben Apfelbaum died before having the chance to see it all come together, but his quirky idea seems to be a hit. Here’s how Jerry Cullum described it for the Atlanta Journal Constitution: “The Ben Show” was the brainchild of beloved Spruill Gallery director Ben Apfelbaum, who asked one day, “What’s in a name?” and proceeded to track down a host of artists named “Ben.” Well, actually, he asked, “Is the use of a given name as a thematic device as useful as any other thematic device to create an art exhibition of interest? PodBop Rocks Your Calendar Ryan Eby pointed out PodBop, a site that podcasts sample tracks from bands coming to your area (or any other area you select), and we both wished we’d thought of it ourselves. There’s nothing coming to Warren (of course). But they’ve got coverage for Denver, where I’ll be in May, so it immediately found a place in my podcast aggregator. Laura Fries might have covered the smart and cool factors best: Oddest Title of the Year Winner …And Also Rans The Bookseller magazine Friday announced the winner of the 28th annual Diagram Prize for Oddest Title. Bookseller deputy editor Joel Rickett appeared on Weekend Edition Saturday with the news, saying, as he did in a Telegraph story on the matter: “It has been a pretty good year for strange titles.” The winner is People Who Don’t Know They’re Dead: How They Attach Themselves to Unsuspecting Bystanders and What to Do About It by Gary Leon Hill, but the list of nominees and near nominees included Rock Paper Scissors Posted on the wall in Tom’s Peacock Bar in Corvallis was a mystery: a notice of a rock paper scissors tournament. A visit to the USA Rock Paper Scissors League‘s website proved more confusing. Take the first news release as an example: Rocky Balboa is stepping back into the ring for his final comeback, as production has begun on “Rocky VI: Rocky Paper Scissors.” After a 16-year hiatus, Sylvester Stallone wrote the film himself, knocking out boxing from the script and replacing it with a hand sport that is more intense, more courageous and that looks even better in those dramatic slow-motion shots: Rock Paper Scissors. “Peanutty” ≠ Peanut Butter Treehugger pointed out these P.B. Slices as an example of excessive packaging. What they didn’t mention was the ingredients or processing used to make a non-sticky, peanut flavored “food product.” Peanutty, but not quite peanut butter It’s worth mentioning here that I have a rule about things I find in the supermarket: if it says “food” on the label, you probably shouldn’t eat it. Think about it, start first with the cat food, dog food, and fish food, then take a look at the pasteurized processed cheese food product and some of the goodies in the canned meats aisle. Fun With (Explosive) Balloons Okay, so this is certainly in the “don’t try this at home, kids” category, but we can all laugh and point at other’s stupidity. Denver‘s ABC channel 7 reported last month on a foolish fellow who inflated balloons with acetalyne, the highly flamable and explosive gas used in welding, and drove off to a superbowl party. The balloons ignited, possible because of static electricity, and the explosion blew out all the windows, bent the car’s roof and doors out, and left the driver and with burst eardrums, burns, pain, and a felony explosives charges. Can Anybody Explain This? ???????????????? Morbidly Curiouser Zach saw my story about plane crashes and forwarded me a link to this video of an early parachutist he found on Damn Interesting. The connection to yesterday’s story is that the video ends with cops measuring the depth of the crater the jumper left after falling almost 1000 feet from the top of the Eiffel Tower. It’s the sort of thing that gets you nominated for a Darwin Award. Morbidly Curious A friend pointed me to PlaneCrashInfo.com and I can’t help but explore. I was told to start with the pictures (which end in late 2001, and so don’t include recent incidents like the flaming nose-wheel at LAX or the overshot runway in Chicago), but it was the collection of “last words” transcripts from the cockpit voice recorder (audio is available for many of them) that really trapped me. We might get a furtive chuckle over such last lines as “Hey, what’s happening here” or “Uh. The Oregon Attractions I Didn’t See I’ve been back from Oregon for about a week and a day now, and it’s really time to clear out my files. So here now are the attractions I had put on the list, but never got to see. I’m not complaining, afterall, I did get to see sprayfoam art, the US’s only municipal elevator, the world’s tallest barber pole, the Spruce Goose, Mt. Tabor, and the Velveteria. Clearly, Oregon has a lot to offer wacky travelers. Is Sun’s T2000 Up To It? Jonathan Schwartz made the kind of news that makes Slash Dotters happy: he announced Sun is (sort of) giving away free servers. It’s a promotion, a media play, of course, but one that might make a few lucky people very happy. Here’s the deal: Sun is really proud of their new T2000 eight core server. Each core runs at 1.2GHz, but they’re apparently applying some distributive power of multiplication and calling it an 9. LEGO Architecture The Millyard Museum was hosting the New England Lego Users’ Group Saturday, building LEGO replica’s of Manchester NH‘s old victorian-era houses. It turns out they’re building a scale model of the entire millyard. Love Letters From Your ISP A friend got his own cease and desist letter the other day. His ISP forwarded the notice from a copyright enforcement agency along with five pages of content intended both to stop those that know they’re sharing and help out parents (or others) who may not be aware of what all is going on with the computers attached to their cable modem. Of course you’re a valued customer, and of course it wasn’t your fault, just stop it is the message. Worse Things A friend forwarded this, from Fleur Adcock: Things There are worse things than having behaved foolishly in public. There are worse things than these miniature betrayals, committed or endured or suspected; there are worse things than not being able to sleep for thinking about them. It is 5 a.m. All the worse things come stalking in and stand icily about the bed looking worse and worse and worse. As The Useful Becomes Useless, It Becomes Art The story here isn’t about why I’m on the Kate Spade mailing list. The story is about their new line of “paper.” It’s stationary, of course. The kind of formal paper people use to send out wedding invites and thank yous and whatever other little missives that email or AIM seem too uncouth for. I made this point before, in a discussion of how painting evolved from trade-craft to art after the development of the camera, but I love seeing a new example. Standards Cage Match I prefaced my point about how the standards we choose in libraries isolate us from the larger stream of progress driving development outside libraries with the note that I was sure to get hanged for it. It’s true. I commented that there were over 140,00 registered Amazon API developers and 365 public OpenSearch targets (hey look, there’s another one already), but that SRW/SRU would always play to a smaller audience. Evergreen Aviation Museum Howard Hughes‘ Spruce Goose now rests in McMinnville, at the Evergreen Aviation Museum. The Goose is as long as a 747 with a wingspan a third again as broad, and for a short few seconds in 1947, it flew. The docent was incredibly pleased to tell us that the tail almost broke off during those few seconds in the air. He claimed Hughes hushed up the story and maintained the aircraft in flight-ready condition to protect himself from further attacks from government accountants. DIY Hoverboard My friend Troy sent along a pointer to The Gadget Show‘s feature on DIY hoverboards. They claim it all goes together with basic tools, a leaf blower, plywood, a bit of pipe, and other various parts totaling about £150. Oh yeah, they also recommend “an insurance policy with good fringe benefits,” and being as British as they are, apparently “craft knives” and “scalpels” are pretty interchangeable. It all goes together in eight easy steps explained on four pages, so what’s keeping you? About My code4lib Presentation As with all my other presentations, the my slides tell less than half the story, but I’ve posted them anyway. I’m told the audio was recorded, and there’s a chance that will help explain all this, but until then you’ll have to piece this all together from my previous writings, what little I’m about to offer here, and the slides (which, again, without the spoken component, probably do more to misdirect interested readers than answer questions). Brick I just popped in The Constant Gardener (trailer) and discovered the preview for Brick. And even though I want to see almost every movie previewed for me, I really want to see this movie. The Constant Gardener, by the way, is good too. Velveteria I wasn’t just surprised to find a gallery of velvet paintings, I was further surprised to learn they were hosting a show of Valentines velvet works by local artist Juanita and had cards advertising a show of LA artist Arnold Pander’s oil on velvet works at the local Vault Martini Lounge. But the fact is, Carl Baldwin and Caren Anderson’s Velveteria is the place, if ever there was such a place, where such forces will collide. World’s Tallest Barber Pole Forest Grove, Oregon claims to have the world’s tallest barber pole, apparently presented by the Portland Area Barbershoppers in recognition “Ballad Town USA’s” role in promoting and encouraging barbershop quartet singing. It stands in Lincoln Park (visible from sat photos!) just north of Pacific University. Barbershop poles and quartets they may have, but the barber I visited there did a lousy job trimming my beard. Such is life, I suppose. Librarians of Springfield That’s my contribution to the Springfield Public Library meme that Michael Casey and Laura Savastinuk started over the weekend. Oregon City Municipal Elevator Oregon City apparently boasts one of only four municipal elevators worldwide. One hundred thirty feet tall, with an observation deck at the top, it seemed to be worth stopping for. Jason wrote in to Roadside America explaining: It began as a water-powered elevator in 1915, but was upgraded to an electric-powered elevator in 1954. It is an example of Googie architecture, which is reminiscent of the space-age housing structures in the Jetson’s cartoon show. PDX’s Free WiFi Rocks Here’s a lesson the rest of the world’s airports could take from PDX: free WiFi. Most other aiports charge dearly for WiFi, but PDX offers it free. Knowing this, I arrived at the airport a couple hours early and got my dinner and caught up on my email here instead of elsewhere. The Port of Portland didn’t get my $7.95 an hour, but they did get an extra customer in their restaurants and shops. Mt. Hood from Mt. Tabor Above: tonight’s sunset view of Mt. Hood from atop Mt. Tabor, an ancient volcano. Roadside America claims: this is the only volcano located within a city limit in any US city. You can view the cinder cone and a few feet away from the parking lot is a kids play area. Sprayfoam Art In Millersburg What you can’t tell about the photo above is that the eagle is huge, and made of spray foam. It stands at Sprayfoam Inc., just off the I5 at Millersburg. Don’t miss the cornucopia-like sign, or the completely enfoamed Sprayfoam-mobile. The Chuck Norris Meme I first caught up with all this at Matt‘s blog, but on the radio out here in Oregon today they kept inserting Chuck Norris legends between songs. Here’s a bunch from Chuck Norris Facts: When the Boogeyman goes to sleep every night, he checks his closet for Chuck Norris. Chuck Norris doesn’t read books. He stares them down until he gets the information he wants. There is no theory of evolution. Lessons From The Microformat World I can’t help but like microformats, and part of that comes from the dogmatic principles that drive them. Among those is the notion that none of us should attempt to create a format out of whole cloth. Here’s how they explain it: Under the title of “Propose a Microformat” they tell us: “Actually, DON’T!!!” ask yourself: “are there any well established, interoperably implemented standards we can look at which address this problem? Things I Learned At Lunch Today Karaoke means “empty orchestra” in about the same way that karate means “empty hand.” The “oke” piece is actually a shortened form of “orchestra,” borrowed from western languages. Ethiopians supposedly discovered coffee when they noticed goats eating the beans. No word on weather the coffee beans in their droppings are any good. You Mean Other Businesses Handle Acquisitions Too? Art Rhyno confused my by calling it ERP, but he just rocked his code4lib presentation and I realized he’s talking about the same thing that’s been itching me: libraries are not unique, but our software and standards are unnecessarily so. In my introduction of WPopac I made the point that I didn’t want to replace the ILS — certainly not the acquisitions management functions or other business processes. Art today explained that he wouldn’t want to have to develop or support those features either, but that we don’t need to. Pig-n-Ford Races!?! So here I am looking up things to do in Oregon and I come across the Tillamook Chamber of Commerce‘s guide to local attractions and its note about the Pig-n-Ford races: Vintage vehicles, daring drivers and squealing porkers. Mixed together, the outcome can only be described as frenzied farm-style fun. Most people would agree that individuals who race Model-T Fords must be strange to begin with. When competitors insist on carrying pigs as passengers, however, it’s a sure sign of a rare breed of driver. On Flying If I didn’t like flying, or at least if I couldn’t tolerate it, I wouldn’t making my third distant trip in as many months. And though I know many others spend a whole lot more time in planes than I do, I still think Vasken has a bit of a point in the following: I couldnt help thinking about the horrid dichotomy that is airline travel… on one hand, my flight from Philly to Manchester takes 50 minutes, or 6+ hours less than the trip takes in a car–on the other hand, it took me 5 hours to get from my house to the place I was staying in PA, a savings of a mere 2 hours. Instant Messenger Or Virtual Reference? I noted Aaron Schmidt‘s points on IM in libraries previously, but what I didn’t say then was how certain I was that popular instant messaging clients like AOL Instant Messenger or Yahoo!’s or Google’s are far superior to the so-called virtual reference products. Why? They’re free, our patrons are comfortable with them, and they work (three things that can’t be said about VR products). Ah, heck, just take a look at what Michael Stephens was saying about them last week (as quoted by Teresa Koltzenburg at ALA TechSource): Choose Your Disaster The good people at Keep the Faye gave me a chuckle with their series of choose you daily disaster magnets, like the hillbillies and volcano series pictures above. Then they followed it up with the amusing, but somewhat less funny choose your favorite fantasy series. MySQL’s Slow Query Log Zach suggested it last week, but it’s only now that I’ve gotten around to setting up MySQL’s slow query log. It’s easy enough, you’ve just got to put a couple lines like this in your my.cnf (which is in /etc on my server): log-slow-queries = /var/log/mysql/mysql-slow.log<br /> long_query_time = 10 This should get most people running, but this story in Database Journal offers a few more details. Potentially more useful is this guide to query and index optimization (though it’s probably a little out of date). NMC’s 2006 Horizon Report I’d never heard of the New Media Consortium before, but they claim a mission to “advocate and stimulate the use of new learning and creative technologies in higher education.” Anyway, their 2006 Horizon Report identifies the following trends among those shaping the role of technology in education: Dynamic knowledge creation and social computing tools and processes are becoming more widespread and accepted. Mobile and personal technology is increasingly being viewed as a delivery platform for services of all kinds. Roadside Attractions Perhaps it’s just because I’m now scouring Roadside America for tips on what to do in the 35 hours after the end of code4lib and my flight home, but I got a hoot out of this AP story about “Roadside Giants”: A Pittsburgh-area couple find “Roadside Giants” historic, attractive, a boon to local economies… and silly. Associated Press PITTSBURGH – How can you find the Cadet Restaurant in Kittanning? High-Speed Photography The gallery at Pulse Photonics has more than a few images that seem to pause time in impossible moments. They’ve got images of balloons pierced by arrows and darts, oranges exploding from [a gunshot][7], bullets [shattering glass][8] and [slicing through jelly][9], and all of this [falling water][10] and [oil][11] in [so many][12] [little droplets][13]. You really oughtta go see the [whole gallery][14]. And after that, go visit the [Photron gallery][15] of slow motion videos that [caught my eye][16] a while ago. Bicycle Snowplow To go along with summer’s bicycle riding mower is this “Vancouver Snowplow” from Joe-ks.com (yes, I feel appropriately stupid for linking to a site with an animated gif splash page). Oddly, this isn’t the only such snowplow. On Being Busy I should be thankful to have friends who get worried about me when I don’t blog for a couple days (or at least make up stories), but let me take this moment to make it clear that I haven’t gone into boat sales. This has happened before, and it just means I’ve got a larger than usual pile of deadlines (and interesting projects like WPopac) on my plate. WPopac: An OPAC 2.0 Testbed First things first, this thing probably needs a better name, but I’m not up to the task. Got ideas? Post in the comments. For the rest of this, let’s just pretend it’s an interview. What is WPopac? It’s an OPAC — a library catalog, for my readers outside libraries — inside the framework of WordPress, the hugely popular blog management application. Why misuse WordPress that way? WordPress has a a few things we care about built-in: permalinks, comments, and trackbacks (and a good comment spam filter), just to start. Performance Optimization A couple notes from the past few days of tweaks and fixes: Hyper-threading has a huge effect on LAMP performance. From now on, I’ll have bad dreams about running MySQL without Query Caching in the way that I used to have nightmares about going to school wearing only my underwear. The difference is that big. WordPress rocks, but it has some queries that will kill large databases. I’m playing with baseline when I fix ’em, but it’s worth it. The Web Is Not A One-Way Medium Anybody who questioned the Pew Internet and American Life report about how teens use the internet and how they expect conversations and interactivity from the online services they use might do well to take a look at this comment on my Chernobyl Tour story: Student Looking for Info that your not give us February 3rd, 2006 10:11 you people suck. We have to do a school report and you are not giving us any info on what happened to the people, and the environmetn, we need a story from someone and about someone who lived through this inccident. FAQs About Those Three Wishes I ran across David Owen’s Three Wishes FAQ in a month-old New Yorker on my friend’s coffee table last night. I tore out the page thinking I’d not find it online, but lo, the New Yorker posted it on their site on Jan ninth! You have been granted three wishes — congratulations. If you wish wisely, your wishes may bring you great happiness. Before wishing, please take a moment to read the following frequently asked questions. Libraries vs. DRM Within minutes of each other, two friends from separate corners of the world sent me a tip about the following: Slashdot pointed to this BBC News that talks about the ill effects of DRM on libraries. What’s DRM? It’s that “digital rights management” component of some software and media that supposedly protects against illegal copying, but more often prevents legitimate users from enjoying the stuff they’ve bought legally. Now think about how this works (or doesn’t) in libraries… Exxpose Exxon ExxonMobil’s 2005 profits of $36.13 billion are apparently the largest ever recorded by any corporation in America. To celebrate, the folks at SaveOurEnvironment.org put together this funny short: ExxposeExxon. The movie makes some good points, but let’s face it, high oil prices encourage conservation and research on alternative energy technologies. Is J. K. Rowling Carolyn Keene’s Sister? I said previously that I drop my journalistic standards on Fridays. Today is no exception. Background, from Mysterynet: Carolyn Keene is a writer pen name that was used by many different people — both men and women — over the years. The company that was the creator of the Nancy Drew series, the Stratemeyer Syndicate, hired a variety of writers. For Nancy Drew, the writers used the pseudonym Carolyn Keene to assure anonymity of the creator. As If Retro Fashion Didn’t Already Go Far Enough I guess I can see why people might be willing to throw down $4000 or more for these fancy Northstar refrigerators, I mean, they remind rich young people of their grandma’s house, with fresh-baked cookies and a big glass of milk to dunk them in. I’ve gotta admit, I almost got suckered too. But why is it that our rosy nostalgia for the 50s ignores both the racial segregation (a bad thing) and the income equity (a good thing)? Onion Story Predicted Five-Blade Razors In 2004 Gillette’s Fusion five-blade razor is hitting the shelves now, but The Onion predicted it in February 2004. AIM And Changing Modes Of Communication There’s a bit of discussion of AIM‘s role in personal communications over at Remaining Relevant. I mention it here because I’ve been thinking about this lately. We’re seeing some great shifts in our modes of communication. Take a look at how “webinar” technologies have changed sales forces. The promise is lower costs and faster response time, but it also challenges our expectations and the skills of the salesperson. Now imagine the generation of kids who are growing up with AIM entering the workforce. The Future Of Privacy and Libraries Ryan Eby speaks with tongue firmly in cheek in this blog post, but his point is well taken. Privacy is serious to us, but we nonetheless make decisions that trade bits of our patrons’ privacy as an operational cost. While we argue about the appropriate time keep backups of our circulation records, we largely accept them — and the way they connect our patrons with the books they read — without question. Zach’s Couch Camouflage Here’s Zach hidden in plain sight on a couch at a friend’s house the other day. That’s skill. Where’d my 151 go? Nobody remembers how, but the 151 bottle is empty again. We’re beginning to blame it on bandits. Warren (and Dog Sledding) On TV Tonight The folks at WMUR‘s Chronicle are featuring my friends Joe and Wendy and their dog sledding tonight. The photos above are of Justin in a race a few years ago (video of the finish also online). Warren hasn’t been so proud since we put the rocket up. Large Format Scanners For Document Imaging The market for large-format flatbed scanners is shrinking, so products turn over slowly and development is far behind my expectations. That said, the Epson GT-1500 doesn’t look like a bad choice for tight budgets. It has a relatively low maximum resolution of only 600DPI, but has the highest claimed scan speed of 30 seconds at 300DPI. Following that is the Microtek ScanMaker 9800XL, which has a much higher maximum resolution, but much slower scan speed (even at the same resolution as the Epson). What Does Facebook Matter To Libraries? Lichen pointed me to this Librarian’s Guide to Etiquette post about new technologies: Keep up to date with new technologies that you can co-opt for library use. So what if no one will ever listen to the pod casts of your bibliographic instruction lectures, subscribe to the RSS feeds from your library’s blog, send your reference librarian instant messages, or view your library’s profile on facebook.com? At least you did your part to make all these cool technologies a little bit lamer. Walking Desk I used to have a stand-up desk at work. Then that got replaced by a pair of standup workstations above a more normal desk. Then I moved offices and switched roles from sysadmin to programmer and got the most normal desk ever. Then, in January 2005, I heard an NPR story about Dr. Jim Levine’s study that put a high value on constant movement throughout the day, and I got concerned about sitting for so long. Not Invented Here I couldn’t say it, but Alexander Johannesen could: libraries are the last bastions of the “not invented here syndrome” (scroll down just a bit, you’ll find it). Between Alex’s post and mine, I don’t think there’s much to say except this: there may be five programmers in the world who know how to work with Z39.50, but several thousand who can build an Amazon API-based application in 15 minutes. What technology do you want to bet on? Reviews You Can Trust Cameron Moll (via Ryan Eby) wants “weight” customer ratings to reflect how two products of the same rating might have wildly different numbers of reviews. At first glance I agree with him, but after a moment of thought, I begin to wonder if I want the ratings weighted by the number of reviews, or the number of reviews I “trust.” Amazon keeps huge amounts of data about all its customers. So how hard could it be to correlate my purchasing behavior with the purchasing behaviors of the reviewers along with the details of which reviews I’ve previously checked as “helpful. Indian Frankie The plan was to meet Jessamyn and Greg at the India Queen last night, so discovering this note yesterday on Slashfood about “frankies” had the added excitement of both discovering a new food I wanted to eat, and being in a position to get it that day — the sort of instant satisfaction one doesn’t expect in these parts. Here’s the description: The frankie is an Indian street-type food made of a thin bread similar to a tortilla that is coated with egg and fried. Conceding Defeat I wasn’t really in the game, but when samb posted the above picture of David Brown’s typical meal, I couldn’t help but take it as a challenge. I never did get around to snapping a picture to match samb’s, and now I’ve got accept that there are others with more skill and determination than me. Slashfood explains that anybody can walk in to In-n-Out Burger and order a sandwich of any size. To Blog Or Not To Blog A friend revealed his reticence to blogging recently by explaining that he didn’t want to create a trail of work and opinions that could limit his future career choices. Fair point, perhaps. We’ve all heard stories of bloggers who’ve lost jobs as a result of the content of their posts. And if you believe the Forbes story, the blogosphere is filled with teaming hordes intent on ruining established companies and destroying the economy (okay, I exaggerate). To Blog Or Not To Blog A friend decided the old pornstar name formula was good enough to use to name her blog, as she explains in her launch story. So, should this be the Nick Hastings blog? Elsewhere, another friend is struggling with the decision to blog. When You Need To Talk To Customer Support It’s good to know Hard to Find 800 Numbers.com is there when you need it. Here are the top five: <td width="85"> HTF# </td> <td width="86"> Who </td> <td width="136"> Notes </td> Amazon.com <td> 800-201-7575<br /> <br /> 877-251-0696<br /> <br /> 866-348-2492<br /> 206-266-2992 </td> <td> Cust. service<br /> <br /> Seller support<br /> <br /> Rebate status Local or int’l </td> <td> 24/7<br /> <br /> "<br /> " ( Press 0 to bypass menu) <br /> " </td> Ebay. Dawg It’s Friday, a day when I drop my journalistic standards and usually publish whatever video or joke somebody forwarded me during the week. This one came from my dad: A guy is driving around and he sees a sign in front of a house: “Talking Dog For Sale.” He rings the bell and the owner tells him the dog is in the backyard. The guy goes into the backyard and sees a Labrador retriever sitting there. Plesk Bites I picked Plesk over CPanel as my server control panel because it was cheaper, looked better, and seemed to have all the features I wanted. What I didn’t know was that it came with PHP4 and MySQL3 at times when each was a major version ahead of that. When the good folks at my hosting provider tried to upgrade this, it conflicted with Plesk and they have to back off. Quickly Noted: MooFlex CMS New AJAX-happy CMS: MooFlex, more info at Ajaxian (and in their podcast). About SHERPA And Their Advice To Digital Libraries… I mentioned SHERPA a while ago: SHERPA is a large consortial UK project that’s attempting to build an academic archive/repository for 20 institutions, including the British Library and Cambridge University. [link added] I bring this up again now because they’ve got some advice for people on the subject of digital archives. They recommend EPrints, an open source project developed and maintained by the University of Southampton. Second to that, or for those interested in archiving a broader variety of object types, they suggest MIT’s DSpace. Users vs. Network Printers in WinXP It’s been a problem we’ve struggled with here for much longer than we should have, and it took a hotshot new guy in desktop support to show us the answer. But if you know the right magic, you can add a printer to Windows XP and make it available to all users. See, if you add the printer using the “add printer” wizard, it’s available only to that user. But if you use the command line, then you can throw a switch to make it available to any user who logs in to that machine. Jenny Levine’s Online Library User Manifesto Drawing from John Blyberg‘s ILS Customer’s Bill of Rights and The Social Customer Manifesto, Jenny Levine offers this Online Library User Manifesto: I want to have a say, so you need to provide mechanisms for this to happen online. I want to know when something is wrong, and what you’re going to do to fix it. I want to help shape services that I’ll find useful. I want to connect with others that share my interests. CIO’s Message To Faculty: The Internet Is Here As part of a larger message to faculty returning from winter break, our CIO offered this summary of how he sees advancing internet use affecting higher education: Are you familiar with blogs and podcasts? Google them, or look them up in Wikipedia. Some of you may already be using these new tools. Others may think these terms are the latest in a sea of techno-jargon. Regardless, your millennial students — the NetGens — are using these new technologies — along with the ubiquitous cell phone — more and more. The Arrival of the Stupendous We can be forgiven for not noticing, but the world changed not long ago. Sometime after the academics gave up complaining about the apparent commercialization of the internet, and while Wall Street was licking it’s wounds after the first internet boom went bust, the world changed. Around the time we realized that over 200 million Americans have internet access, that 94 million Americans use the internet ?on an average day, and that 80% of them believe the internet is a reliable source of information, we looked around and found that along with doing their banking, their taxes, and booking tickets for travel and movies, those users were making about five billion web searches each month. Goodbye San Antonio You won’t get your salad dressing on the side in San Antonio. I don’t know what it says about a place, but in New England it’s so common I never learned to ask for it on the side, it just happens. Not so in San Antonio. You’ll also have trouble finding a place to eat dinner away from the riverwalk, as all the neighborhood places I found are open only for breakfast and lunch. Data Visualization and the OPAC A chat with Ryan Eby, also an Edward Tufte fan, elicited this line about another reason we continue to struggle with the design of our catalogs: data isn’t usable by itself if it was then the OPAC would just be marc displays And yesterday I was speaking with Corey Seeman about how to measure and use “popularity” information about catalog items. It got me thinking about Flickr’s interestingness metric, which seems to combine the number of times a photo has been “favorited,” viewed, and commented. Presentation: Designing an OPAC for Web 2.0 ALA Midwinter IUG SIG Presentation: Designing an OPAC for Web 2.0 update: PDF version with space for notes Web 2.0 and other “2.0” monikers have become loaded terms recently. But as we look back at the world wide web of 1996, there can be little doubt that today’s web is better and more useful. Indeed, that seems to be the conclusion millions of Americans are making, as current estimates show over 200 million users in the US, including 87% of youth 12-17. Fully Wired and Mobile in San Antonio I’m in San Antonio for ALA Midwinter and enjoying the benefits of wide-area mobile internet access via my Treo and and the power of local search. This is sort of a test for me and my Treo, as I passed on all the usual trip prep I do and entirely I’m depending on what I’ll find in situ or in my mobile web browser. I wandered around a bit this afternoon to get a feel for the place, but as I got hungrier, I found myself stuck in the Riverwalk Mall, and without any local clues about where to look for better food (Steers & Beers, in the mall, might have been an option if it had more activity or if those few who were sitting at tables didn’t look so miserable). Educause on Future of Libraries Take a look at this editorial by Jerry D. Campbell, CIO and Dean of University Libraries at the University of Southern California: Academic libraries today are complex institutions with multiple roles and a host of related operations and services developed over the years. Yet their fundamental purpose has remained the same: to provide access to trustworthy, authoritative knowledge. Consequently, academic libraries — along with their private and governmental counterparts — have long stood unchallenged throughout the world as the primary providers of recorded knowledge and historical records. Goodbye x.0 In recognition of the divisive and increasingly meaningless nature of x.0 monikers — think library 2.0 and the web 2.0 that inspired it — I’m doing away with them. When Jeffrey Zeldman speaks with disdain about the AJAX happy nouveaux web application designers and the second internet bubble (and he’s not entirely off-base) and starts claiming he’s moving to Web 3.0, then it’s a pretty clear sign that we should give up on trying to version all this. Learning: MySQL Optimization I have over 1000 posts here at MaisonBisson, but even so, the table with all those posts is under 3MB. Now I’ve got a project with 150,000 posts — yes, 150,000 posts! — and the table is about 500MB. An associated table, structured sort of like WP’s postsmeta, has over 1.5 million records and weighs in at over 100MB (not including the 150MB of indexes). Up to now I’ve been a “throw more hardware at it” sort of guy — and in a server with only 1GB of RAM, that’s probably the best solution — but I also think it’s time I learned some MySQL optimization tricks. Radical, Militant Librarian The ALA’s Intellectual Freedom folks came up with this Radical, Militant Librarian button (which I found in Library Mistress’ photostream): In recognition of the efforts of librarians to help raise awareness of the overreaching aspects of the USA PATRIOT Act, the American Library Association (ALA) Office for Intellectual Freedom (OIF) is offering librarians an opportunity to proudly proclaim their “radical” and “militant” support for intellectual freedom, privacy, and civil liberties. WordPress Plugin: Add To del.icio.us I’m not running it here (only because I’m too lazy), but I was happy to find Arne Brachold’s Del.icio.us – Bookmark this! WordPress Plugin. It puts a sweet Bookmark on del.icio.us link whereever you call this function: <?php dbt_getLinkTag(“Bookmark on del.icio.us”); ?> Arne also wrote the Google sitemap plugin I use (though it turns out I’m a few versions behind). US Census on Internet Access and Computing Rebecca Lieb reports for ClickZ Stats that, based on US Census data (report), most Americans have PCs and web access: Sixty-two million U.S. households, or 55 percent of American homes, had a Web-connected computer in 2003, according to just-released U.S. Census data. That’s up from 50 percent in 2001, and more than triple 1997’s 18 percent figure. Home Web use continues to skew toward more affluent, younger and educated demographics. How I Broke My Clie It’s an unseasonably warm and rainy January here in Warren, where warm actually means daytime highs of about 30 degrees and ‘seasonable weather’ would be closer to zero. The point is that it’s the worst possible winter weather: the rain ruins the regular winter activities, and it’s still too cold to take up summer activities. Perhaps that’s why I take such comfort in this video of Ashton, even if it is the video that killed my Clie. Field of Trains fishfin50 has an interesting collection of photos from the American plains. That old train car caught my eye and fishfin50 replied to my comment with more detail: this old train car sits about 200 yards from the Soo Line Railroad in north eastern Montana, it’s in Comertown, an old abandoned town were they used to run whiskey from Canada to the US in the early 1900’s. [link added] fishfin50’s old train. Highways Think now of the US interstate highway system. Like the internet that followed, the highway system was the subject of much hype and conjecture. Most notably, Norman Bel Geddes’ -designed General Motors Futurama exhibit at the 1939 New York Word’s Fair. In it we saw magical highways connecting our cities, and whisking motorists from New York to LA in 24 hours. He predicted cities would expand their commuting radius by 600% by 1960. The Library vs. Search Engine Debate, Redux A while ago I reported on the Pew Internet Project‘s November 2005 report on increased use of search engines. Here’s what I had to say at the time: On an average day, about 94 million American adults use the internet; 77% will use email, 63% will use a search engine. Among all the online activities tracked, including chatting and IMing, reading blogs or news, banking, and buying, not one of them includes searching a library OPAC. More Trends In Online Behavior From Pew Internet It turns out that the Pew Internet and American Life Project sort of keeps a blog. Here are some points from a November 2004 post by project director Lee Rainie regarding “surprising, strange, and wonderful data:” The vast majority of most Internet users (80%) and many non-users (about 40%) expect that they will be able to find reliable information online when it comes to news, health care information, e-commerce, and government. Winter’s Day Winter in Warren can be rather picturesque. Poets, Justice, Scotch Unattributable: “Poetic justice is a lie. It’s no more real than military inteligence. The entire motivation for poetry is the unjust pain of life.” Separately, what’s the appropriate LC classification for Scotch? My first thought was around PR600, but what do I know. Should it go elsewhere? What about other spirits? Joel Friesen’s Misuse of PowerPoint Joel Friesen‘s PowerPoint-esque presentation on why his girlfriend should continue to date him didn’t win her back, but it entertained folks. Yes, the diagram above shows Joel’s position at the intersection of those who are graphic designers, awesome people, and people who’ve played a zombie in a low-budget horror flick, yes the other slides are as entertaining. Go look: Why you should continue to date me; a series of charts and graphs. Presentation Advice From An Apple Insider Mike Evangelist’s look behind the magic curtain of Apple Keynotes during his time with the company. code4lib Program Proposal I’d be excited just to be a fly on the wall at code4lib, but I’m on a bit of a mission to change the architecture of our library software — to make it more hackable, and make those hacks more sharable — so I had to propose a talk. Title: What Blog Applications Can Teach Us About Library Software Architecture Description: The number of programmers in the library world is growing and our individual efforts have shown great promise, but they exist largely as a spectacle that few libraries can enjoy. Looking At Controversy Through The Eyes Of Britannica and Wikipedia The argument about Wikipedia versus Britannica continues to rage in libraryland. The questions are about authority and the likelihood of outright deception, of course, and a recent round brought up the limitations of peer review as exemplified in the 1989 cold fusion controversy, where two scientists claimed to have achieved a nuclear fusion reaction at room temperature. Randy Souther, from the University of San Francisco, asked us to look more carefully: Boat Full Of Toilets My inner 13-year-old is cracking up over the notion of a shipwrecked load of toilets in the Mediterranean. Magnetic Fields, Earworms, Fido I can’t get Fido, Your Leash Is Too Long, from The Magnetic Fields‘ 69 Love Songs, out of my head. This entry is an attempt to kill this earworm by posting the lyrics. If this doesn’t work I’m checking out Maim That Tune. Fido, your leash is too long You go where you don’t belong You’ve been digging in the rubble Gettin’ bitches in trouble Tag Clouds… “The tag cloud is the mullet of the internet.” Found at phpFlickr. Look closely. Gallery to Flickr Migration Tool For those people still using Gallery, here’s the last straw: Rasmus Lerdorf got to playing with the Flickr API and quickly wrote up a script to migrate his photos from Gallery to Flickr. He’s didn’t post a script or anything, he’s just saying it’s easy to do. A lot of things are easy to do, of course, but that doesn’t mean they get done. So it’s probably a great relief to somebody that Paul Baron got on the job. DDOS’d My hosting provider sent along the following message: We have experienced a DDOS attack today January 4th, which resulted in latency across the entire network. During this time your domain, email, ftp and other services may have appeared to be offline, or intermittent. Our techs have been working as quickly as possible to block the attack and get the network back up to speed. I was relieved to know that the unexpected downtime was the result of something I’d done. Political Blogging Protected By FEC Way back near the end of 2005, Lot 49 reported that the Federal Election Commission had basically ruled that bloggers are journalists: The Federal Election Commission today issued an advisory opinion that finds the Fired Up network of blogs qualifies for the “press exemption” to federal campaign finance laws. The press exemption, as defined by Congress, is meant to assure “the unfettered right of the newspapers, TV networks, and other media to cover and comment on political campaigns. Social Software Works For Organizations Too Ignore the politics for a moment. MoveOn‘s CTO, Patrick Michael Kane, remarked that the organization’s membership to Flickr, the photo sharing site, has paid off: “Flickr has got to be the best $24.95 we’ve ever spent.” Why? Micah Sifry explains in a story at AlterNet that MoveOn had been soliciting photos of events from members for some time, but their ability to move those photos through the process and make them available to the public was limited. WordPress 2.0 & bsuite Update: bugfix release b2v6 available. WordPress 2.0 is out and available for download now. I don’t know how the development team did it — I mean with the holidays and all — but here it is. And now I have to admit that I haven’t even played with the betas, so I’ve got no clue how bsuite works with the big 2.0. For all I know it works just fine, or it drops all your tables and sends your browser history to your mother, so please take caution. Avenue Q Steve Wynn could probably have had any show he wanted, but he chose Avenue Q, the Sesame Street and Muppets-inspired show that has to include a disclaimer denying its roots in the program and advertising. What the show’s creators don’t have to disclaim are the three Tony Awards the show won in 2004 for best score, best book, and best musical. Sandee bought the cast recording (also at Amazon) because they’re the sort of tunes that get into your head…the sort of tunes you’ll find yourself humming days later. The Eating, Drinking, and Dancing in Vegas Vegas knows liquor. Vegas knows drinks. They go well with cards and dice and slot machines and such. And even though the cards and dice and slot machines and such aren’t my reasons for going to town, I do enjoy a drink. Above, center you see the West Wing Bar’s Sidecar with cognac, triple sec and lemon juice. At the left is a pinapple mojito from the Wynn’s Terrace Pointe Cafe. Nevada Considers Atomic Testing License Plate, Again The first license plate to remember Nevada’s history as the host of the US’s nuclear testing grounds drew criticism for featuring a mushroom cloud (see the plate on the right, above). Now it appears folks are at it again, this time with a plate that depicts the site’s area and includes the classic illustration of an atom’s electron cloud. All of this generated enough interest to bring the local media out to the Atomic Testing Museum to gawk at the proposed plate, including an actual-sized rendition being shown off on a Lincoln Navigator. Nevada Desert We didn’t get to go to Barstow as planned, but I couldn’t leave Las Vegas without a peak at the desert. Fortunately, Red Rock Canyon isn’t far from town, and the Blue Diamond Highway does a nice loop there and back. Along the way I found that the town of Blue Diamond has a new welcome sign, but the old text remains: “elevation: high, population: low, burros: ?” I stumbled across an upended car standing like a tombstone exclaiming “dirt man rocks. Font Friends You’ve got to love a friend who emails you when she finds fonts like Orange Whip and Comic Strip Exclaim and say they remind her of you. On Censorship Regarding nudity in photographs posted to Flickr, dancharvey says: Honestly, I’m more concerned about all the cats and flowers. Cliche is more damaging than breasts. Your opinion may vary. Barstow California What didn’t work out because of our problems with the hotel was our drive to Barstow to see Sandee’s friend Joanne. I don’t know much about the town, but Wikipedia told me to look out for the original Del Taco, Rainbow Basin Natural Area (site not loading now, try this instead), Calico Ghost Town, and the old Solar One solar energy generating experiment. Along the road, however, is the the World’s Tallest Thermometer, in Baker, California. Atomic Liquors I convinced Sandee to join me at Atomic Liquors on Fremont Street, just beyond the Western Hotel Casino in what the Las Vegas Sun calls the “gritty underbelly of Las Vegas.” Owner Joe Sobchick and his wife Stella started business in 1945 with a cafe called Virginia’s. They converted it into a bar in 1953, and changed the name to recognize their proximity to the nuclear tests just 60 miles away. Welcome To Fabulous Las Vegas…with your host, Casey The wind along Las Vegas Boulevard was blowing hard, so it hides the fact that I’m currently sporting one of the worst haircuts of all time. I’ve been meaning to take a picture of this damn sign for years — and more so after seeing beatnickside‘s collection of Vegas photos. What You Lose In The Whirligig… Nobody’s saying what caused it, but things didn’t go as planned at the MGM Grand Sunday night. We were told our room wasn’t ready when we tried to check in a little before midnight, so we ambled over to the cafe for a midnight breakfast on the house. Then at 3 AM, when our rooms still weren’t ready, we were sent to the Bellagio with a voucher for a free room and cab fare. The Real King Kong Here’s another story from my friend Joe Monninger. This time it’s a piece he cut from a book he’s working on, but I’m happy to take his tailings. The text that follows is his: With the mega-release of King Kong swarming the country this week, it might be interesting to hear a true big ape story. I came across this story while doing research for a project, and I pass it along as it came to me. Happy Holidays from Las Vegas! The Bellagio is all done up for the holidays, Vegas-style (which means it’ll give you a headache). Happy Holidays From Warren Snow, thick and heavy because of the thaw these past few days, covers Warren. Our rocket stands tall for all seasons. Shuffling iPods I couldn’t help but want one when they were released. I still wanted one after reading the reviews. And I couldn’t help but think about buying one when I finally got to play with it in the store. My wife, loving me and knowing me as she does, got me one. Yes, I got a video iPod for Christmas. Thing is, presents like this create a crisis. How do I extract the gigabytes of music I’ve accumulated on the old iPod? Last Minute Gift Idea My friend Joe loved his chickens, though a fox did them in this last fall. He’d planned to leave the coop empty for the winter and start fresh in the spring, but his surfing lead him to mail order chickens (adoption card pictured above). So…what better a gift for a friend than a chicken by mail? And what better a gift to the world than trade justice? Santa vs. Cops I always get a laugh out of Cops, and an even bigger laugh out parodies of the show. So I have to thank Cliff for finding this animated video of Santa getting pulled over. The War On Christmas I like Christmas as much as anybody (well, anybody who likes Christmas), but I’m a “happy holidays” guy. Why? because Christmas and the holidays aren’t about me, they’re about the way we spread happiness and joy to others, no matter how they celebrate. So while I quietly hope for my own merry Christmas, I resist the urge to wish everybody else a happy Festivus and opt for “happy holidays.” Blogging the Office Party (mostly because they suggested it) I don’t work for central IT anymore, but they still invite me to their holiday party. And no office holiday party would be complete without a yankee swap. I brought a sort of crappy battery operated screwdriver that seemed to be popular (but keep in mind that we have really low standards for these things), but I was pretty happy to unwrap a martini set with four glasses and pitcher for myself. Serena Collage Customer Sites Zach got a call from the Serena Collage rep who rattled off this list of customers in New England: Boston College Northeastern Bristol Community College UMass Lowell The Sungard/SCT Luminis Content Management Suite Demo We got the demo yesterday of Sungard/SCT‘s Luminis Content Management Suite (sales video). I mentioned previously that the sales rep thinks Pima Community College and Edison College show it off well. Here’s what we learned in the demo: It started with the explanation that data is stored as XML, processed by JSP, and rendered to the browser as XHTML according to templates, layouts, and “web views.” It was later explained that the product was “web server agnostic” and could run under Apache, IIS, SunOne, or others. Electric Aerobic Color me amused to learn that somebody (don’t worry, Amazon will never tell me who) bought Carmen Electra’s Aerobic Striptease after following one of my Amazon affiliate links. Book Flower Institutional and Academic Repositories MIT has DSpace, their solution to save, share, and search the collected work of their faculty and students (in use by 115 public sites). Now Royce just shared with me this presentation by Bill Hubbard, the SHERPA project manager at University of Nottingham. What’s SHERPA? The name is an acronym for Securing a Hybrid Environment for Research Preservation and Access, but it’s a project intended to archive the pre and post publication papers and other research products. Kim’s CMS Shortlist With 1,800 CMS vendors in the marketplace, we’re mining what we know or know-of as a way to shorten the list. Kim named the following four: Joomla, a derivative of Mambo Collage appears to have good content reuse features OmniUpdate has a good list of higher ed clients Drupal: open source and turning heads Ryan Eby’s Pursuit of Live-Search Ryan Eby gets excited over LiveSearch. And who can blame him? I mention the preceding because it explains the following: two links leading to some good examples of livesearch in the wild. Inquisitor is a livesearch plugin for OS X’s Safari web browser. It gives the top few hits, spelling suggestions where appropriate, and links to jump to other search engines. Garrett Murray’s ManiacalRage is an interesting blog on its own, but he’s also doing some good AJAX on his search interfaces. Simon Mahler Audioproduktion Simon Mahler did the audio for Benjamin Stephan and Lutz Vogel‘s Trusted Computing movie. The movie is good, but I realized I was letting it play in the background just to hear the soundtrack, so I finally looked up Mahler’s fotone.net and found the three free song downloads. It’s good stuff, but I’m wondering where the album is… Cop Tasers Cop Two cops: he wanted a soda, she didn’t. She had the wheel, he had a Taser. Details from this Associated Press story: HAMTRAMCK, Mich. — A police officer has been charged with using a Taser on his partner during an argument over whether they should stop for a soft drink. Ronald Dupuis, 32, was charged Wednesday with assault and could face up to three months in jail if convicted. The six-year veteran was fired after the Nov. They Might Be Giants Podcast Thanks go to Jenny for the link to the They Might Be Giants podcast! And all that brings up something I was too lazy to figure out before. Interestingly, it became an issue now only because I was also too lazy to look for the TMBG podcast in the iTunes podcast directory. It turned out to be easy enough to subscribe directly, but here are the directions from Apple: If you can’t find a podcast on the iTunes Music Store, never fear. Free Palm/Treo AIM Client My Treo rocks. Part of my love for the new gadget is how I can now AIM on the run without SMS. Sure, I risk frostbitten fingers as I walk across campus and I’d probably be a lot better off if I just called the person, but…but… Anyway, Everything Treo was near the top of my Google query with a roundup of three commercial IM apps for Palm. But none of the reviewed apps seemed all that great, and I sort of expected to find a free client. Two Things To Know About Library 2.0 You don’t like the “2.0” moniker? So what. John Blyberg reminds us that “if we’re arguing over semantics, we’ve been derailed.” And Stephen Abram is said to have cautioned us: “when librarians study something to death, we forget that death was not the original goal.” bsuite Bug Fixes (release b2v3) [innerindex]I’ve fixed another bug in bsuite b2, my multi-purpose plugin. This update is recommended for all bsuite users. Fixed Previous versions would throw errors at the bottom of the page when the http referrer info included search words from a recognized search engine. Installation Follow the directions for the bsuite b2 release. The download link there will always fetch the current version. Upgrades from earlier versions of bsuite are easy, just replace the old bsuite. Improving WordPress search results SimpleSearch – a Full-Text solution | Beau Collins Nature Concludes Wikipedia Not Bad Fresh from Nature: a peer reveiw comparison of Wikipedia’s science coverage against Encyclopaedia Britannica: One of the extraordinary stories of the Internet age is that of Wikipedia, a free online encyclopaedia that anyone can edit. This radical and rapidly growing publication, which includes close to 4 million entries, is now a much-used resource. But it is also controversial: if anyone can edit entries, how do users know if Wikipedia is as accurate as established sources such as Encyclopaedia Britannica? Yahoo! Rocks The Web No, I don’t mean that they’re disrupting it, I mean they’re getting it. And in saying that, I don’t mean they’re figured it our first, but they they’re making some damn good acquisitions to get it right. Mostly, I’m speaking of they’re purchase of Flickr last year and their acquisition of del.icio.us Friday. But in a somewhat lesser way I’m also speaking of their announcement Monday that they’ll be offering blogs as well. Yahoo! Buys Del.icio.us Nial Kennedy threw down some of the first coverage of Yahoo!’s acquisition of del.icio.us last week. Del.icio.us will most likely be integrated with existing Yahoo! Search property My Web. My Web allows Yahoo! members to tag search results for discovery through a defined social network (Y!360) or all Yahoo! users. Yahoo! will use del.icio.us bookmarks to better inform personalized search results throughout its services. Its ability to combine signals of relevance from search result click-throughs to a listing of sites bookmarked and classified will lead to increased use of Yahoo! OpenSearch Spec Updated I just received this email from the A9 OpenSearch team: We have just released OpenSearch 1.1 Draft 2. We hope to declare it the final version shortly, and it is already supported by A9.com. Uprading from a previous version should only take a few minutes… OpenSearch 1.1 allows you to specify search results in HTML, Atom, or any other format (or multiple formats) in addition to just RSS. In addition, OpenSearch 1. A Patron’s Perspective On Library 2.0 My friend Joe Monninger is perhaps a library’s favorite patron. He’s an avid reader who depends on his public library for books and audiobooks and DVDs, and as a writer and professor he depends on the services of the university library. But he doesn’t work in libraries, and though he listens patiently to my work stories, he doesn’t really care about the politics or internal struggles we face. That said, I’m reprinting here the full text of his recent column for the Valley News, a paper serving Hanover New Hampshire and other upper Connecticut River valley communities. Bush Joke I wish I could admit the provenance of the following, but I’ve been sworn to secrecy. Here goes: Donald Rumsfeld is briefing president Bush: “Yesterday, 3 Brazilian soldiers were killed.” “Oh no!” exclaims the president, “that’s terrible!” His staff is stunned at this unprecedented display of emotion, watching as Bush sits, head in hands. Finally, he looks up and asks, “How many is a brazillion?” Identity Management Podcast Josh Porter and Alex Barnett got Dick Hardt and Kim Cameron on the line to talk about Identity Management. The result is available as a podcast. I should add that Josh and Alex are big on the attention economy and social software, so they’re asking questions about how IdM works in those contexts. Most people thinking about IdM today seem to be thinking about its uses in the enterprise or in education, but when I say identity management is the next big thing, I mean it in the social context that Josh and Alex are rooted in. Sungard/SCT Luminis Content Management Suite We’re looking at the Sungard/SCT Luminis Content Management Suite (sales video). The real demo comes later, but the sales rep thinks Pima Community College and Edison College show it off well. Hmm. Four Million Dominos, A Sparrow, An Exterminator People like to topple dominos, and some people like to topple great long snaking lines of them. So TV crews get involved, people spend a month or more lining the damn things up, and Domino Day becomes an annual event. Enter sparrow. Sparrow menaces dominos, topples 23,000 of them. Enter exterminator. Exterminator shoots sparrow. Enter news media. Enter public outcry. Enter death threats. Result: a record 4 million dominos, the sparrow incident is being investigated by a reported seven agencies, and the martyr sparrow has been preserved for display in 2006. Free Fonts Zone Erogene has ten fonts available for free download, including Migraine Serif and the faux-cyrillic Perestroika. Tip for Mac OS X users: rename the font to remove the “.txt” extension that will get added to the filename, then double-click it. The Dial Up ISP Wasteland Yes, there are some parts of the continental US not yet served by DSL or cable modems. That’s why I’m looking for a dial up ISP. Nationally we’ve got AOL and Earthlink, followed by budget operators NetZero, PeoplePC, and Netscape Online. But here’s the thing, and forgive my ignorance, why do all these services suggest you need to download and install software just to dial in? I mean, hasn’t dial up networking been a standard feature of various releases of Mac OS and Windows since 1995 or so? Treo 650 For Me I’ve been talking up the Pepper Pad and Nokia 770 a lot, and I’ve mentioned a moment of lust for the LifeDrive (despite my complaints against PDAs), but today I bought a Treo 650 (even though I had doubts). My decision surprised me, but the following factors all weighed in its favor: My cell phone contract expired. Verizon was dangling their standard $100 discount (on top of other discounts) on a new phone if I renewed. The Bathroom Reader Somebody at Gizmodo found this Agence France-Presse story about the intersection of American surfing and bathroom habits in The Hindustan Times. It’s based on a report by the USC Annenberg School‘s Center for the Digital Future. For five years running now, the center has tracked internet use (and non-use) in a 2,000 household representative sample of America (choosing a new sample each year). This year, researchers found: “Over half of those who used Wi-fi had used it in the bathroom. GAO Report Confirms Election Fraud This should be no surprise — especially to those who’ve been appropriately concerned about electronic voting machines: Lyn Davis Lear is reporting on a GAO report that concluded the 2004 election was fraudulent and a Diebold insider is blowing the whistle (via Engadget). What does the report confirm? Bob Fitrakis & Harvey Wasserman summarize: Some electronic voting machines “did not encrypt cast ballots or system audit logs, and it was possible to alter both without being detected. Supamonks Video Al sent this video along via email, and it seems perfect for Friday afternoon. It’s all about super-monks (supramoine in French?), a kind of European Shaolin, maybe. Warning Label Humor Amadana‘s new headphones come with an amusing warning label: Can’t climb wall. Can’t listen to the voice in your heart. Can’t open the coffer (safe). Sure, the above looks fake, but Lichen pointed out this other Engrishism: “Fits well and stable…with movable ear hangers.” Want more? Go visit galleries of oddness. Astro Dog Press Jon Link is among the smartest and coolest people I know, so when he decides to start up a press, and then decides to fund his startup with t-shirt sales, I get in line. Nokia 770 In The Wild Gizmodo‘s reporting the Nokia 770 is in customer’s hands and getting some buttons pushed. Now we’ve got Nokia and Pepper exploring this space. Where to next? FrontRow For Everybody Via an IM from Ryan Eby: a pointer to Andrew Escobar‘s directions on how to install Apple’s Front Row. Digitize Vinyl Easy Engadget and Gizmodo both have the skinny on a USB turntable. Microformats Oliver Brown introduced me to microformats a while ago, the Ryan Eby got excited about them, then COinS-PMH showed how useful they could be for libraries, but I still haven’t done anything with them myself (other than beg Peter Binkley to release his COinS-PMH WordPress Plugin). What are microformats? Garrett Dimon explains the theory: When writing markup against deadlines and priorities, it’s easy to forget that somebody else will eventually have to maintain it. MacOS X 10.4 = Built-in VNC Server macminicolo.net explains how to use it. Queen Mashups Are All The Rage Michael Sauers pointed out Q-Unit, a mashup of Queen and 50 Cent. They’re sure to have Disney (the rights owner for Queen’s catalog) on their back soon. At least, it didn’t take Disney long to shut down The Kleptones, whose “A Night At The Hip-Hopera” has a spot on my iPod. And that’s where the story comes around, are we at the point where we can say Queen’s music has taken on the status of a modern fairy tale? OCLC Report: Libraries vs. Search Engines So, the report was released Monday, and it’s actually titled Perceptions of Libraries and Information Resources (2005), but the part I’m highlighting here is the results of the question that asked users to compare their experiences with search engines against their experiences with libraries. Here’s the quesiton: Satisfaction with the Librarian and the Search Engine — by Total Respondents Based on the most recent search you conducted through [search engine used most recently],how satisfied were you in each of the following areas? All Conversations In Warren Revolve Around Heat A friend of mine jokes that every conversation in Warren revolves around heat. But, it wouldn’t be funny if it wasn’t at least a little bit true. As it turns out, most of the rest of the country is talking about heat too. Pellet stoves have been all the rage this fall. I feel lucky to have gotten one before the rush, but I’m also a little dismayed about the selection. Jabber As Inter-Process Communication Standard? open-ils blog » Blog Archive » OpenSRF Jabber: A Technical Review OSS In Lib Ryan Eby tells me that the current issue of Library Hi Tech includes some discussion of open source software’s uses in libraries. My Cultural Go-To Guy Most of my reading is non-fiction, so I depend on Bob Garlitz to keep me current with the rest of the literary world and a bit of the art world. Raging Arguments About The Future Of The ILS I feel a little misrepresented by a post from Talis’ Richard Wallis claiming you don’t need technology for Library 2.0 – but it helps, but the company blog doesn’t allow embedded URLs, so I’m posting my comment here: Richard, please don’t misunderstand me. Technology is the essential infrastructure for Library 2.0. My point was that technology alone doesn’t make a library. It would be better to read my post in the context of Meredith Farkas‘ and Jenny Levine‘s recent posts crying out for more programmers in libraries. Who’s Afraid Of Wikipedia? Arguments about Wikipedia‘s value and authority will rage for quite a while, but it’s interesting to see where the lines are being drawn. On the one had we’ve got a 12 year-old pointing out errors in Encyclopaedia Britannica (via Many2Many) and now on the other side we’ve got John Seigenthaler, a former editorial page editor at USA Today, piping mad about some libelous content in his Wikipedia biography page. Now, I have to agree with Seigenthaler in as much as I would never want anybody to make such claims against me, and I’d probably consider my legal options in such a matter, but I’m sure I’m not the only one who gets a chuckle over the matter. Understanding Airport Codes Dave English explains why airport codes can be so darn confusing (even while some of them are stupid obvious). Criticism of Modern Movies We’ve all heard it before, but we just can’t get it out of our heads. Today’s movies make us feel dumb. Paulina Borsook joins the chorus and condemns contemporary cinema by praising movies of the 60s and 70s: They were movies made for adults, even if they had been mainstream movies and/or nominally rated PG. They made presumptions about the intelligence of their audience, didn’t need things to be boldly spelled out, and they were predicated on the assumption that their audience was capable of making inferences. $100 Laptop Details I’ve been doing a lot of talking about the coming information age and how it depends on access technology that is as cheap and easy to use as our cell phones (and applications of it that are as appealing as people find their cell phones). But I’ve been slow to mention the MIT Media Lab‘s One Laptop Per Child $100 laptop plan. The truth is that I just don’t know that much about it. Humanoid Robots Are Eerie My friend Troy pointed out a while ago that the more “realistic” our 3-d models of humans get, the scarier they look. Apparently it applies to robots to, at least judging by the “actroid” above. Maybe I better put How To Survive a Robot Uprising closer to the top of my reading list. More at Akihabara News, found via Gizmodo. Understanding WP_Rewrite And Related Hooks The docs are in the codex, this tag plugin offers quite a few examples, as does Jerome’s Keywords plugin. WP Geo Mashup Plugin I don’t know how I missed cyberhobo‘s geo-mashup-plugin (also at wp-plugins.org) until now. It’s Been AHAH All This Time? I might be reading this wrong, but it looks like I’ve been using AHAH when I’ve thought I was using AJAX. Hmm… bsuite Bug Fixes (release b2b) [innerindex]I’ve fixed a couple bugs in bsuite b2, released last week. Fixes A bug with search word highlighting that caused it to litter the display in some cases. A silly mistake of mine that cause a mysql error for some users. Installation Follow the directions for the bsuite b2 release. The download link there will always fetch the current version. Upgrades from bsuite b2 are easy, just replace the old bsuite. SAFE: Design Takes On Risk I’ve been sitting on this story since October, hoping I’d be able to get to the show, but It’s increasingly clear that I’m not getting to NYC for a while. So, anyway… MoMA is showing SAFE: Design Takes On Risk Wired Magazine described it: Just in time for the wave of catastrophes plaguing our fragile planet, some top designers unveil a series of aesthetically pleasing objects that could be handy in dangerous situations, from the banal to the apocalyptic. Library 2.0? Rochelle worries that all this Library 2.0 talk is lost on her library. Ross tells us why he hates the Library 2.0 meme and Dan reminds us it’s not about buzzwords. But Michael is getting closest to a point that’s been troubling me for a while: Library 2.0 isn’t about software, it’s about libraries. It’s about the evolution of all of our services to meet the needs of our users. Bar Hosts 81 Burglaries In 12 Years Yahoo! News tells me that Brigitte Hoffmann’s Tages-Bar in Berlin gets robbed a lot. Edward Gorey’s “Elephant” House Edward Gorey is known for having created the Gashlycrumb Tinies, an alphabet of ways young children can meet an early end. That, and the bumper animations for public television’s Mystery! (here, have some games). Gorey is dead now, but his house in Yarmouth is open to the public. Admission is $5 for adults (http://edwardgoreyhouse.org/, phone 781-768-8367). I found out about the house at Odd New England. 1,800 CMS Vendors! CMS Market Watch tells us that there are 1,800 CMS vendors, and some of them are getting a little feisty. A Library For All Peoples In a Washington Post column last week, Librarian of Congress James H. Billington proposed A Library for The New World: [T]he time may be right for our country’s delegation to consider introducing to the [UNESCO] a proposal for the cooperative building of a World Digital Library. This would offer the promise of bringing people closer together by celebrating the depth and uniqueness of different cultures in a single global undertaking. bsuite Features: The Photo Spread bsuite highlights the search words used to find blog posts in Google and other search engines, and uses those search terms to recommend other related posts at your WordPress site. — – — bsuite uses the tags of one post to recommend related posts in your WordPress blog. — – — bsuite includes an easy to use statistics engine that tracks the daily hits to every post and page. Opportunity Knocks Message from Jenny Levine: opportunity knocks. Some people hear it, others claim it’s just squirrels on the roof. OPAC Web Services Should Be Like Amazon Web Services No, I’m not talking about the interface our users see in the web browser — there’s enough argument about that — I’m talking about web services, the technologies that form much of the infrastructure for Web 2.0. Once upon a time, the technology that displayed a set of data, let’s say catalog records, was inextricably linked to the technology that stored that set of data. As we started to fill our data repositories, we found it usefull to import (and export) the data so that we could benefit from the work others had done and share our contributions with others. Talk Big If I lived in Seattle, I’d look to Beatnickside’s photos for clues about where the fun is. Here’s his photo of the “Iron Composer” competition at The Crocodile Cafe. Dance Dance Revolution, NYC I caught the following story on NPR’s All Things Considered (RealAudio stream) last night: New York is known for its vibrant nightlife, yet in many bars and restaurants it’s illegal to dance. Now, a law professor is challenging the “Cabaret Laws,” claiming they violate a dancer’s right of free expression. The city says dancing by patrons is not a protected right — and can prove it. (link added) This was a big surprise to me, and a bigger surprise to learn that it’s not just some blue law. bsuite WordPress Plugin (b2 release) [innerindex]The first thing we all have to agree on is that bsuite is the replacement for bstat. The name change reflects that fact that the plugin is doing a lot more than simply track page loads. The most exciting new feature is a module I can’t help but call bsuggestive. It uses the tags of the current post to suggest related posts to your readers. And when readers arrive at your site via a search engine, it not only highlights the search words they used, but offers a list of other posts matching their search criteria. CMS Pitfalls Everybody wants a content management system, but there’s little agreement about what a CMS is or what it should do. Even knowledgeable people often find themselves struggling for an answer before giving up and defining a CMS by example. The problem is that we know we want better websites, and we know technology should help, but how. Jeffery Veen offers some sage advice to those who would ignore the non-technical facets of the problem: Theories of Information Behavior Via Librarian Way I found the LiS Radio webcast of a conversation between Sandra Erdelez and Karen Fischer, two of three editors of Theories of Information Behavior from ASIS&T and Information Today. Unfortunately, the interview focuses on how the book came to be more than the content, but the description reads: overviews of more than 70 conceptual frameworks for understanding how people seek, manage, share, and use information in different contexts. bsuggestive and bsuite Tag Support bsuite, the follow-up to bstat, now includes a module called “bsuggestive” that recommends related posts based on the current post’s tags or alternate posts based on your search words when you arrive from a recognized search engine. That is, bsuggestive does two neat things: First, visitors will see a section in each post with links to other posts on your site that have similar content. The “similarity” is judged by comparing the current posts tags against the content and titles of all other posts in the database. bsuite Is Coming I’m about to release a public beta of my WordPress plugin over at MaisonBisson. Information about my favorite new feature, bsuggestive, online now. bsuite started out as bstat, and continues to offer rich stats tracking features. update: bsuite b2 is out! Wayfaring.com Wayfaring: With Wayfaring.com you can explore maps created by others, or create your own personalized map. Share them with friends or the whole world. Now imagine it with Earthcomber integration. Wouldn’t that be neat. Raging Arguments About The Future Of The ILS I hadn’t seen Ryan Eby’s post at LibDev that connected ILSs with WordPress before I posted that library catalogs should be like WordPress here. It connects with a my comment on a post at Meredith Farkas’ Information Wants To Be Free. My comment there goes in two directions, but I’d like to focus on the technology side now. Our vendors will inevitably bend to our demands and add small features here and there, but even after that, we’ll still be stuck paying enormous amounts of money for systems that remain fundamentally flawed. Rollyo Metasearch Rollyo: Roll your own search engine. Create personal search engines using only the sources you trust. Relevant. Reliable. Rollyo. They call them “searchrolls” Library Catalogs Should Be Like WordPress Library catalogs should be be like WordPress. That is, every entry should support comments, trackbacks, and pingbacks. Every record should have a permalink. Content should be tag-able. The look should be easily customizable with themes. Everything should be available via RSS or Atom. It should be extendable with a rich plugin API. And when that fails, it would be nice if it were all written in a convenient language like PHP so we can hack it ourselves. Infrared Photos Among the infrared photos at PBase.com is this plantation infrared collection by Joseph Levy. Above: part of the collection by Richard Higgs. Blog Value The sale of Weblogs Inc. to AOL last month for $25+ million got a lot of bloggers excited. Tristan Louis did the math and put the sale value into perspective against the number of incoming links the the Weblogs Inc. properties. It’s an interesting assertion of the value of the Google Economy, no? The various properties have a total of almost 50,000 incoming links, which work out to being worth between about $500 and $900 each, depending on the actual sale price, which everybody’s mum about. Karen Kills in Karts Karen has the smart-sexy-funny thing going on, but that doesn’t stop her from eating donut after donut or beating Will and me in every white-knuckled kart race we ran last weekend. Drivers sit only an inch or two off the ground in karts that are said to go 40 miles an hour. Eight minute races may seem short, but at between 20 and 30 seconds per lap (my best time was 23-some-odd seconds, Karen’s was at least a second faster), you’ll get plenty of chances to skid out at every turn. Thanksgiving There is, supposedly, some historical meaning to our Thanksgiving holiday, but all I can figure out is that I wasn’t there and it probably didn’t go as I’ve been told. Thing is, Thanksgiving isn’t so much about what we were, but who we are. Thanksgiving celebrates the two most important things in life: food and family. Almost unique among US holidays, retailers haven’t yet found a way to commercialize it. International readers may wonder how a US holiday can exist without commercial involvement, but they should know that we make up for it in the way we eat. My Wife The Technology Dependent Anti-Geek My wife Sandee cringes at the suggestion that she’s a geek. She writes poetry and teaches English, she cooks fabulous meals and dances all night long. Surely you’re mistaken she’ll say. But she does have a laptop, a digital camera, and an iPod. And she immediately saw the value of having a computer in the living room when MP3s replaced CDs many years ago. So you’ll point to all of this and ask for a clarification and she’ll explain that her use of technology does not make her a technophile any more than her use of a car makes her a NASCAR fan. Pew Internet Report: Search Engines Gain Ground According to the recently released Pew Internet report on online activities: On an average day, about 94 million American adults use the internet; 77% will use email, 63% will use a search engine. Among all the online activities tracked, including chatting and IMing, reading blogs or news, banking, and buying, not one of them includes searching a library OPAC. November Snow We’ve had snow on the mountains for a while now, but this is the first accumulation in my yard. When You Hit Bottom And Need Design Help stock.xchng has nothing on Flickr for searching, finding, sharing photos, except that they’re uploaded with the express intention of offering them for re-use. Some are available free, others free for non-commercial use, others with their own license terms. But stock photos aren’t really the bottom of the barrel. No, for that you have to look at pixellogo. It’s there that you’ll see the sorts of things you can do to put some pop in a limp design. Using XML In PHP5 Everybody likes documentation. The Zend folks posted this overview and SimpleXML introduction The O’Reilly folks at ONLamp offered this guide to using SimpleXML. Of course, there’s always the SimpleXML docs at PHP.net. Two problems: I haven’t encountered CDATA in my XML yet, but I do hope to develop a better solution than offered here when I do. The other is that SimpleXML chokes on illegal characters, a unfortunately common occurrence in documents coming from III’s XML Server. Akismet Spam Catcher I’ve been getting spam, a lot of spam; 3400 spam comments and trackbacks in the last two months or so. So it was a relief to find Akismet, a networked spam blocking plugin for WordPress. They claim to have blocked 318,825 spams since its release, and I’ve been pretty happy with it. Instant Messaging in Libraries: Ten Points from Aaron Schmidt Aaron Schmidt’s 10 points about IM in libraries include: Instant Messaging is free (minus staff time) Millions of our patrons use IM every day. For some, not being available via IM is like not having a telephone number. There are three major IM networks (AIM, Y!M, MSN) Y!M and MSN will be interoperable at some point. Trillian is a multi-network IM client, meebo is a web-based multi-network client. Use them. Retro Gaming For The Holidays It’s amusing how retailers will try to capture a trend. So retro gaming fans have been building their own arcade cabinets for years now, but I just saw that Target is offering a Midway Arcade Machine for the holidays. The 96-pound machine is described as “full-size” and offers Joust, Defender I and II, Robotron, Rampage, Splat, Satan’s Hollow, Root Beer Tapper, Bubbles, Wizard of War, Timber and Sinistar. Thermometer Museum Dick Porter, of Onset MA, has been building his collection of over 5000 thermometers since the mid-80s, though the collection has nearly doubled since 1998 when it was just over 3000. He calls it the world’s largest and only thermometer museum. He’s certainly passionate about them, and he’s been an invited speaker at more than a few thermometer and weather related events, like the christening of the world’s largest thermometer in Baker California. Harmon’s Lunch I learned of Harmon’s Lunch from a mention on The Splendid Table a few weeks ago. I wrote down the following quote from the show from memory, so it may not be entirely accurate: They have two things on the menu, and nobody ever orders the other one. They serve hamburgers, and the only option is with or without onions. As it turns out, the menu is a little richer than suggested. Collective Intelligence: Wisdom Of The Crowds I’m here at NEASIS&T’s “Social Software, Libraries, and the Communities that (could) Sustain Them” event, presented by Steven Cohen. He’s suggesting we read James Surowiecki’s The Wisdom of Crowds. Surowiecki first developed his ideas for Wisdom of Crowds in his “Financial Page” column of The New Yorker. Many critics found his premise to be an interesting twist on the long held notion that Americans generally question the masses and eschew groupthink. More NEASIS&T Buy Hack or Build Followup First, Josh Porter, the first speaker of the day has a blog where he’s posted his presentation notes and some key points. Josh spoke about Web 2.0, and ended with the conclusion that successful online technologies are those that best model user behavior. “I think Web 2.0 is about modeling something that already exists in our offline worlds, mostly in the spoken words and minds of humankind.” Interestingly, in findability terms, it was Josh’s post that clued me in that the event podcast was online because he linked to my blog in his post. NELINET Bibliographic Services Conference I’m here at the NELINET Bibliographic Services Conference at the College of the Holy Cross today. The conference is titled “Google vs. the OPAC: the challenge is on!” and there’s quite a lineup of speakers. My presentation is on “the social life of metadata.” My slides are online, and below is some background. **The Library Catalog… ** The catalog is among a library’s most important assets. An unread book offers little value, but the catalog offers the promise that the library’s resources will be found and used, and a well constructed catalog makes the finding easier by offering rich details and easy navigation. NEASIS&T Buy, Hack or Build Followup I was tempted to speak without slides yesterday, and I must offer my apologies to anybody trying to read them now, as I’m not sure how the slides make sense without the context of my speech. On that point, it’s worth knowing that Lichen did an outstanding job liveblogging the event, despite struggling with a blown tire earlier that morning. It’s probably well understood by anybody reading this that most library services are at the web 1. NEASIS&T Buy, Hack or Build I’m here at the NEASIS&T Buy, Hack or Build event today at MIT’s Media Lab. On the list are Joshua Porter, Director of Web Development for User Interface Engineering, Pete Bell [corrected], co-founder of Endeca Solutions, and me. I’m posting my slides here now, but I’m told we’ll see a podcast of the proceedings soon after the conclusion. Be aware that the slides are full of links. I won’t be able to explore them all during the presentation, but they might add value later. Zimbra Rocks Zach made me take another look at Zimbra, the web-based, web 2.0-smart, very social and AJAXed up collaboration, email, and calendar suite (plus some other goodies). Go ahead, watch the Flash-based demo or kick the tires with their hosted demo. I think you’ll agree that it looks better than anything else we’ve seen yet. Part of the success of the project is that the developers appear to understand the problem. Here’s the list of [how broken email is][5] from the white paper: Ars on Video iPod It’s old news now, but ArsTechnica did a really thorough review of the video iPod. I especially appreciated reviewer Clint Ecker’s opinion of the video playback capabilities. Now I’m curious about what this does to enable more video podcasts. Virtual Economies I’m not much of a gamer, but Matt got me following video game law with curious interest. And now, via ArsTechnica, I’ve learned of crazy things going on in role playing game economies. To some, the only surprise in Jon Jacobs’s US$100,000 purchase of in-game real estate is that nobody thought of it sooner. The first thing to know is that unlike most other MMORPGs, Project Entropia mixes its virtual economy with the real world. Second Annual West Texas Beautiful Burro and Mule Contest Held Today The text of what appears to be the press release (online at Alpine Avalanche): The Fort Davis Merchants Association and the Jeff Davis County 4-H Club encourage everyone to come join the fun as they host the Second Annual West Texas Beautiful Burro and Mule Contest Saturday, Nov. 12. The contest will be held on the west side of the Jeff Davis County Courthouse, and begins at 11 a. Slot Car Camera I got a slot car set for Christmas when I was about eight years old. I ran the cars until the contact pads wore out, then I pretty much gave up on them. But Simon Jansen is just getting into the action, and he’s doing it at a time when compact and cheap electronics afford (potentially) more interactivity. See, Jansen taped his cellie on one of his cars and started recording the action with the built-in camera. Wolfram’s Tones WolframTones mixes hard science with social software in the form of a ringtone generator. Each click on any of the 15 style buttons yields a “unique [note: not random] composition.” Why not random? The FAQs note: Once Wolfram_Tones_ has picked a Rule to use, all the notes it will generate are in principle determined. But that doesn’t mean there’s an easy way to predict them; in fact, Wolfram’s phenomenon of computational irreducibility shows that in general there can’t be. Tech Tuesdays: Spam Management John Martin was kind enough to lead a session on spam management Tuesday (November 8th). Here was the description: Spam is annoying and often offensive, but it’s a fact of life for all of us. John Martin will lead a discussion about how we can limit the amount of spam we see using tools running on our campus mail server and in Outlook. He’ll also discuss what we can do to keep our email addresses out of spam lists in the first place and spam related issues such as phishing. Six Weapons of Influence Ken forwarded me this podcast of Robert Cialdini speaking on his Six Weapons of Influence, which he lists as Reciprocation Commitment and consistency Social proof Authority Liking Scarcity Cialdini’s book is in its fourth edition, and has apparently been adopted as a text for more than a few classes and the concepts have worked their way into everybody’s marketing seminars. Motivation speaker and marketing yakyak Patricia Fripp summarizes those six weapons like this: Library Integration Stuff I’d meant to point out these two articles from Library Journal ages ago, but now that I’m putting together my presentations for next week (NEASIS&T & NELINET), I realized I hadn’t. Roy Tennant writes in Doing Data Differently that “our rich collections of metadata are underused.” While Roland Dietz & Carl Grant, in the same issue, bemoan the dis-integrated world of library systems. How To Survive a Robot Uprising So there I am trying to read things I can’t possible read and I stumble across a link to Daniel H. Wilson’s How To Survive a Robot Uprising: Tips on Defending Yourself Against the Coming Rebellion. From th Amazon book description: How do you spot a robot mimicking a human? How do you recognize and then deactivate a rebel servant robot? How do you escape a murderous “smart” house, or evade a swarm of marauding robotic flies? Digital Library Systems Group Shows Wares I was in Cambridge today attending the Digital Library Systems Group presentation on their fancy scanners and imaging workflow software. We have no digital collections program going yet, but we’re part of a university system plan to acquire either Ex Libris’s Digitool or ENCompass for Digital Collections (sample sites). But getting the collection management software just creates another problem: we don’t have any imaging resources to use to fill the new digital archive. IKEA Comes To New England Hey, doesn’t the IKEA near Boston open today? Sure does. The company has 226 stores worldwide. According to a story in the Pheonix: Oddly enough, IKEA flopped when it opened its first US store in 1986. But by making concessions to American expectations (softer couches, American bed sizes, good thread counts) it gradually won over low-budget consumers attracted to its upmarket design, with its subtle implications of class mobility. That they were willing to bruise their toes lifting those deceptively heavy boxes speaks to the brand’s participatory appeal […]. Internet, Interactivity, & Youth Jenny Levine alerted me to the Pew Internet & American Life Project report on teens as both content creators and consumers. It turns out that teens, and teen girls especially, are highly active online IMing, sharing photos, blogging, reading and commenting on other’s blogs, and gaming. An especially strong trend in this group is the use of web technologies for collaboration. Interactivity, increasingly, is being defined by the teen’s ability to ask questions, comment, or contribute. Reva “ElectriCity Car” How crazy is it that we can get neither flying cars nor (affordable) fuel efficient cars today? Anyway, the Reva (shown above) is a tiny little electric that seats two adults, can go 50 miles on a charge, and fully charges in five hours (two hours gets an 80% charge). It’s an Indian company, but they export to Europe and the website has some mention of test-marketing the cars in the US. Pen-Based Computing Loses The Tablet Via Engadget I found mention of the LeapFrog FLY, a pen with embedded computer that reads your handwriting. Need a calculator? Just write out “2 + 2 = ” and hear a response from the pen computer’s synthesized voice. Need to schedule something? Write out the date. It’s targeted at kids, and the company has released it with a variety of tutoring applications and games (you guessed it: FLYware) appropriate for kids in 3rd to 8th grade. This Car Climbed Hubbert Peak This Car Climbed Hubbert Peak bumper stickers from HubbertPeak.net. Devil’s Horn On NPR’s Weekend Edition today: an interview with Michael Segel, author of The Devil’s Horn, subtitled “The Story of the Saxophone, from Noisy Novelty to King of Cool.” Adolph Sax’s instrument seems to have been controversial from the start. Other manufacturers tried to assassinate him, the Pope declared the church’s opposition to the instrument, Ladies Home Journal explained that it “rendered listeners unable to distinguish right and wrong.” I Get Love Letters (about Bill Bennett’s racist remarks) “John B,” from Omaha, NE writes regarding my post about conservatives, Freakonomics, and Bill Bennett’s racism: [I]f you had actually listened when Bill Bennett made the comment you quote, you would see it was NOT intentionally racist. You’ve taken the quote completely out of context. I’m willing to bet that you know you’ve taken the quote out of context, but really don’t care. You’ll do anything to make anyone conservative or republican look bad. The Codex Series This, from Chris Anderson: The Codex is a 20 episode series of machinimas made on Xboxes running Halo 2. The result caught the attention of his six- and eight-year-old children, and then him. Machinimas are computer animated in real-time, using video games to create the environment, and human “puppeteers” to drive the action. The action is capture, edited, and voice-overs added. Because they remove many of the economic and technical barriers to film production, they hold the promise of emphasizing story and plot, and exposing talent among those who create them. Gnarly Trees Gnarly Trees: “this group is for trees with oddly-formed limbs, strange bulges or growths, braided roots, or otherwise abnormal looking parts.” This Car Climbed Hubbert Peak This is probably the perfect bumper sticker for your neighbor’s SUV, at least until your neighbor comes over with the perfect chainsaw for your front door (yeah, try to run from that in Birkenstocks). But seriously, shouldn’t somebody tell these people that the world is running out of oil? Venkman JavaScript Debugger How did I miss this before? The Venkman JavaScript Debugger; available here, with user’s guide and FAQ. Ostankino Tower & World Federation of Great Towers I don’t remember exactly why I found myself looking up Moscow‘s Ostankino Tower, a 1772 ft (540 m) tall radio-television tower. Compared to the world’s tallest buildings, it’s taller than all the greats: the Taipei 101, the Sears Tower, Empire State Building, though some people keep towers — even those with observation platforms — in a category separate from skyscrapers. So what’s a tower enthusiast to do? Go take a look at the World Federation of Great Towers (also at Wikipedia). Decision Death Spiral Scott Berkun, the author of The Art of Project Management just blogged about the data death spiral: Whenever data is misused as the only means for making decisions, a death spiral begins. The lust for data overwhelms all sensibilities. Cowardly decision makers howl in glee at reams of unnecessary data, while bright people sit handcuffed to ugly slidedecks and mediocre ideas. Decision makers forget their brains and wait for numbers, fueling an organizational addiction to unnecessary and distracting data. The Livermore Centennial Bulb Treehugger alerted me to the rather surprising story of this light bulb, burning continuously since 1901. Yeah, at least that’s the story here, at the Centennial Light Bulb Committee’s website (a partnership of the Livermore-Pleasanton Fire Department, Livermore Heritage Guild, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories, and Sandia National Laboratories). The bulb is said to have been made by the Shelby Electric Company of Shelby, Ohio, and given to the fire department by Dennis Bernal, owner the Livermore Power and Light Co. Russian Navy Likes It Big (And Heavy) Maybe the meaning is simply lost in translation, but take a look at the captions for this photo essay of the Russian Navy titled “BALTOPS military exercise: Russia is showing its muscles.” Here, have two big ships, some big anti-aircraft ships, a big landing ship, a big anti-submarine ship, even a big atomic missile cruiser, and add this heavy atomic cruiser. Now how would you feel about captaining the one small landing ship? What’s In A Web Search? Sometimes the answer isn’t as interesting as the question. Consider this note from Yahoo Buzz: On Sunday, the day before the nomination became official, [searches for] Alito sprang up a sudden 320%. Did searches for Alito spike on tips White House staffers, or were White House Staffers vetting their nominee via the search engines? Seattle911 Via the ProgrammableWeb: Seattle911.com. It’s another mashup with Google Maps, but who knew anybody could get 911 data in real time? Sure, it’s only for Seattle, and only their fire/EMS servers (no police), but technology wise, it’s cool. Kudos to Seattle, I guess. What’s my reticence? I don’t know if I should have this data…and putting it together like this hits my privacy funny bone a bit. But then, this data exists…it’s a matter of public record. UC Irvine’s HIPerWall Putting together 50 30″ Apple Cinema HD Displays with 25 Power Mac G5s gets you 200 million pixels of screen real estate spread over 23 x 9 feet. Call it UC Irvine’s HIPerWall. Paper House A visit to The Paper House will run $1.50 and takes you out to a beautiful corner of the Massachusetts coast, 52 Pigeon Hill Street Rockport, MA 01966, just up the hill from Pigeon Cove. Call (978) 546-2629 if you’ve got questions. More info at Odd New England. Pictures tell quite a story, so take a look at the photoset showing details of the fireplace, curtains, and exterior walls. Missiles Explode In South Korea One or more trucks carrying disassembled Nike-Hercules missiles exploded in a tunnel near the cities of Taegu and Masan in South Korea today. Reuters reports no deaths, The Korea Times criticizes lack of safety. The New iMacs… I live quite a distance from any Apple Stores, so it’s only now that I’ve been able to see the new stuff. The Photo Booth application bundled with the new iMacs is actually more fun than I expected. That’s me above with the “comic book” effect applied. But Front Row is every bit as sweet as it looks in the demos. Yes, I want it on my current machine. And, yes, I would pay $49, or maybe $79, I might even be convinced to pay $99 for the remote and software. I Will Crush You Or, er, my server will be crushed. I guess I should admit that my stuff could do with some optimization, maybe. Perhaps what I really need is something faster than Celeron with 512MB RAM. Maybe. Is Search Rank Group-think? Way back in April 1997, Jakob Nielsen tried to educate us on Zipf Distributions and the power law, and their relationship to the web. This is where discussions of the Chris Anderson’s Long Tail start, but the emphasis is on the whole picture, not just the many economic opportunities at the end of the tail. Here’s how it works with hits to websites: a few sites become popular and form the “big head” at the left a few more sites form the slope a huge number of websites score very low and form the “long tail” Nielsen adds these examples: 50+ Ways Good HTML Can Go Bad Via Brad Neuberg: RSnake’s XSS (Cross Site Scripting) Cheatsheet: Esp: for filter evasion. Limitations on cross site scripting (XSS hereafter) have been troubling me as I try to write enhancements to our library catalog, but the reasons for the prohibition are sound. Without them I could snort your browser cookies (RSnake lists: “cookie/credential stealing/replay/session riding” among the threats, but a well-planned attack could also fetch resources from internal webservers and deliver them to external data thieves). iPod Linux Tutorial How to Install iPod Linux on 1 & 2G mini, 4G, Photo Attack Of The Blogs (Yeah)! Online reaction to the Forbes cover story Attack of the Blogs has been quick and strong, and given the doom and gloom language, it’s not surprising: Blogs started a few years ago as a simple way for people to keep online diaries. Suddenly they are the ultimate vehicle for brand-bashing, personal attacks, political extremism and smear campaigns. It’s not easy to fight back: Often a bashing victim can’t even figure out who his attacker is. SwarmSketch Via Information Nation, I found SwarmSketch. Here’s the description: SwarmSketch: Collective sketching of the collective consciousness. SwarmSketch is an ongoing online canvas that explores the possibilities of distributed design by the masses. Each week it randomly chooses a popular search term which becomes the sketch subject for the week. In this way, the collective is sketching what the collective thought was important each week. (Due to increased traffic sketches are currently being updated after about 1000 lines) Learn Japanese Online tutoring in Japanese at udanstraight.com. Here, have some trial lessons. New social web apps Ross Mayfield’s new social software list discusses Ning, Flock, Wink, Memeorandum, Sphere, and Rollyo. The Fight Over Massport WiFi I do a lot of flying in and out of Boston’s Logan Airport, so I’ve been following the controversy about WiFi there with some interest. The story is that Massport, the government agency that runs the airport, is trying to tell tennents — like the airlines — that they can’t operate their own WiFi networks. But the FCC previously ruled that landowners had no authority can control use of the WiFi spectrum on their premises. Public broadcasting SMS to construction sign (at Engadget and Textually), and SMS to megaphone — for the armchair protester (at Textually and Engadget). GEN H-4 Personal Helicopter It’s nearing the end of 2005 and we still don’t have any flying cars like we were promised, but the GEN H-4 personal helicopter looks promising (and dangerous). Here it is in the air, and I might be crazy, but it looks to be controlled by weight-shift (even more photos). OhGizmo says it sells for about $31,000. Gizmodo claims it drives its counter-rotating rotors with an eight-horsepower, 125cc engine. And Odd things from Japan wonders if “this is the nearest thing on Earth to ‘Takekoputa. Goats Show I can’t really pass as an undergrad anymore, but they still let me in to Friday Night Rock to see The Mountain Goats. MP3s: This Year Commandante Going to Bridlington Homer Simpson Nuclear Safety Simulator Here: have at it with a Swedish nuclear power plant simulator. Raise and lower the control rods, turn pumps on and off, open and close valves, just make sure you don’t blowup anything. Go look at the Chernobyl tour to see what happens when you mess up. The original page includes this context: The control-room operators of the Kärnobyl nuclear power plant are telecommuting and are running the plant through the Web. 11 Minutes of Attention I won’t link to The New York Times anymore, but when Ross Mayfield quotes them, I don’t have to. The story is that life is full of interruptions. The typical office environment today apparently allows workers “only 11 minutes on any given project before being interrupted and whisked off to do something else.” Worse, “each 11-minute project was itself fragmented into even shorter three-minute tasks, like answering e-mail messages, reading a Web page or working on a spreadsheet. UbiComp Goes Spray-On Via Gizmodo, we make money not art, and The Engineer: spray-on computers. The idea is to develop computers about the size of a grain of sand (though they say a cubic millimeter here), give them sensors and networking capabilities, and completely change our notion of “computer.” From The Engineer: Each Speck will be autonomous, with its own captive, renewable energy source. Thousands of Specks, scattered or sprayed on a person or surfaces, will collaborate in programmable computational networks called Specknets. Dick Hardt ‘s Identity 2.0 Presentation I said “identity management is the next big thing” back in September. That was before I’d seen Sxip founder Dick Hardt’s presentation on Identity 2.0. Zach peeped me the link and told me I wouldn’t regret watching the presentation. He was right. Everybody, especially the people who don’t yet care about identity management, should take a look. The Language Of Your Website Lynne Puckett on the Web4Lib list pointed me to Web Pages That Suck and highlighted this quote from the site: Nobody cares about you or your site. Really. What visitors care about is getting their problems solved. Most people visit a web site to solve one or more of the following three problems. They want/need information They want/need to make a purchase / donation. They want/need to be entertained. What are blogs? Tech Tuesdays: Blogs and Blogging Tech Tuesdays: Blogs and Blogging Note: these are my presentation notes for a brown bag discussion with library faculty and university IT staff today. This may become a series…[[pageindex]] More: my presentation slides and the Daily Show video. Introduction Public awareness of blogs seems to begin during the years of campaigning leading up to the 2004 election, but many people credit bloggers for swaying news coverage of Senator Trent Lott‘s comments at Senator Strom Thurmond‘s 100th birthday celebration in December 2002. Mike Walter’s Mellotron Before gadgeteers could get affordable (or any) electronics for polyphonic sound synthesis or sample playback, they dallied with tape playback devices that would link each key to its own tape mechanism that played a pre-recorded tape loop at the keyed pitch. They called it a Mellotron, and yes, an 88-key piano would require 88 tape mechanisms. Mike Walters’ home-made Melloman uses walkman-style cassette players wired to a two-octave keyboard in that snazzy-cool case. Flock Out The Flock preview is out and I love it. The good folks at WordPress.com are saying “it’s like Firefox with goodies.” I’m saying it’s a browser built for Web 2.0. Somebody Somewhere Is Starting The Gamer’s Rights Movement Annalee Newitz tells me that video game developers are looking for cheaters by installing spyware with their games. Blizzard, developer of World of Warcraft, Starcraft, and Diablo is among the biggest names doing this. Greg Hoglund, quoted at Copyfight, notes: I watched the [software] warden sniff down the email addresses of people I was communicating with on MSN, the URL of several websites that I had open at the time, and the names of all my running programs, including those that were minimized or in the toolbar. Engadget Caption Contest Caption Contest: what large honkers you have! Genuine Fractals Resolution on Demand onOne Software‘s Genuine Fractals Putting Your Video On A New iPod [How-To: Automatically download and convert TV for your iPod – hackaday.com ]1 Understanding Web 2.0 Ross Mayfield says Web 2.0 is “made of people.” Tim O’Reilly tells us it’s about participation. And to Marc Canter, it’s the connectivity. More to come… Mmm. Spelunking in Sewers International Urban Glow – Europe Underground Mt. Moriah: Summit Denied Will and I didn’t summit Mt. Moriah yesterday. We’d started late and the weather was turning against us, but I did get this shot of Mt. Washington and the Presidential Range. Email 2.0 From Ross Mayfield in Many2Many: this email is: [ ] bloggable [x] ask first [ ] private Whale Watching On Lake Michigan? Whale Watching On Lake Michigan? False: Whale Watching On Lake Michigan Way back in 2003, ClassroomHelp.com published a story on whale watching in Lake Michigan. As it turns out, the info was based on content on a Geocities.com member page that suggests they book trips to see and swim with marine fauna in the Great Lakes. Unfortunately, ClassroomHelp.com later posted a retraction saying “we thought it was true …it looked so real. It looked like a legitimate Web site.” Jim Wenzloff notes Web Pages That Suck “Web Pages That Suck: learn usability and good Web design by looking at bad Web design.” Where Are The MIT Weblog Survey Results? Where are the MIT Weblog Survey Results? They were supposed to be out September first, but they’re still missing… All I can find is this older page from Fernanda Viegas. Bad Covers: Oops! I Did It Again Memepool.com points out that the folks at Supermasterpiece are claiming priority over Britney Spears’ Oops ! I Did It Again. Their story is: “Oops ! I Did It Again” was recorded in April, 1932 in a Chicago studio, most likely Nearlie’s or West and Fourth. Cut for the Decca label by Louis Armstrong and elemends of Zilner Randolph’s touring group, “Oops!” failed to make the chart impact of “All of Me,” another side recorded in the same session, and soon fell out of print. Now Search Lamson Library at A9.com A9, the search engine from Amazon.com, does some pretty interesting things that libraries should be aware of. First, any library considering a metasearch product should look at what can be done for free, and second, libraries should take a look at the OpenSearch technology that drives it. So now, when searching for Harry Potter, you’ll also find relevant results from Plymouth State University‘s Lamson Library. We’re not the first library — I think Seattle Public was — and my work mostly follows the cookbook written up by Ryan Eby, of Michigan State University Libraries. Camera Tossing Memepool introduced me to camera tossing at Flickr, where there’s even a group for those who are willing to risk their camera for a chance at a shot of streaky lights. But not everybody tosses in the dark, it’s turned out to be a a new fad in self-portraiture. Click through for credits and more info on the photos above. PHP5 + XML = LOVE The Zend overview of the new XML features in PHP 5 has re-energized me for building XML Server Applications at my library. Hello WordPress.com! Cliff invited me to WordPress.com earlier this week and I’ve just gotten a chance to get things up and running over there. I’m planning (though plans are never certain) to move my link blogging (think “blinks”) over there and (perhaps) re-publish them here in some aggregated form. We’ll see how that works out over time. Dan Grossman’s List of Top Ten Ajax Apps Top 10 Ajax Applications at A Venture Forth. Fuel Efficient Vehicles People looking for oversized pickups, ridiculously large Russian Army trucks, even jet powered speedsters have it easy. But what about people who have some understanding of the Hubbert peak and don’t want SUVs? 50+ MPG cars have been available in Japan for 30 years now, and can be bought used in Canada for under$5000. But US law forbids importing them to the US! Heck, the Smart, the super-efficient line from DaimlerChrysler, has been available in Europe (and now Canada) for about ten years now, but it too can only be imported with a lot of restrictions. Affordable Fuel Efficient Vehicles (Not In The US) I’m a fan of the Smart, the fuel efficient European roadster that’s smaller than a Mini (see above). It’s coming to America, but indirectly and not without some complexity. Oddly, considering the current energy crisis and that buyers appear to be looking for more efficient vehicles now, there’s a lot of red tape involved with bringing efficient vehicles new or old to the US. Take these Japanese K-Cars that get around 50 miles per gallon and can be imported and bought used for under $5000, but only in Canada. Manhattan User’s Guide Manhattan User’s Guide caught my attention when I followed a link to their Hump Day list of funnies. Social Geography: Common Census CommonCensus Map Project: The CommonCensus Map Project is redrawing the map of the United States based on your voting, to show how the country is organized culturally, as opposed to traditional political boundaries. It shows how the country is divided into ‘spheres of influence’ between different cities at the national, regional, and local levels. Movie Night: Save The Green Planet I’m at a loss for words of my own to describe Save The Green Planet (IMDb page), so I’ll have to crib from others. Amazon’s description: A sensitive, blue collar sad sack hopped up on conspiracy theories and sci-fi is convinced that aliens have infiltrated human society and are planning to destroy the planet at the next lunar eclipse. He sets out to kidnap his boss to torture him until he confesses to his alien identity and stops the invasion. The Conservatives vs. Freakonomics Conservatives hate Freakonomics, that book by economist Steven D. Levitt and journalist Stephen J. Dubner that takes on more than a few sticky issues that most people don’t normally consider to be within the purview of economics. (See also the Freakonomics blog). Publisher’s Weekly notes: There isn’t really a grand theory of everything here, except perhaps the suggestion that self-styled experts have a vested interest in promoting conventional wisdom even when it’s wrong. Weird Travel It started with The Plastics Museum and Museum of Bad Art, progressed with a visit to the International Bowling Museum and Hall of Fame and continued with a tour of Donut shops in Lowell, MA. Now I can report that the MaisonBisson Weird Travel Archives include the Thermometer Museum, the Edward Gorey House, and the Paper House. Click the links to see Photosets at Flickr, and watch MaisonBisson for full reports later. CubeSat Kickstarts New Space Race CubeSat is Cal Poly’s plan to make space accessible to the rest of us. That is, they want to make it easy and cheap enough to launch satellites that even high schools can get a chance at it. Engadget says they call it “the Apple II of space exploration” (link added). Here, read this: The CubeSat Project is a international collaboration of over 40 universities, high schools, and private firms developing picosatellites containing scientific, private, and government payloads. Group Portrait at Pigeon Cove An unconventional panorama in Rockport‘s Pigeon Cove. From left to right stand Will and Corey. Of course, it looks better bigger. Note: this was just a sideshow on our Weird Travel Tour. The Jumping In Rockport It was raining today in Rockport, but that didn’t stop Corey (top) or Will (bottom) from doing a little jumping on the seawall. Note: this was just a sideshow on our Weird Travel Tour. Getting A Passport My old passport is expired and my wife has never had a passport, so I had to look this up. Fortunately, the US State Department has a pretty good website for it. There are rules of course, especially for first-timers or expired passport holders. You’ll have to fill out a DS11 application form and bring to one of the 7000 facilities — mostly post offices — around the country. A [photographer’s guide][5] is worth looking at for those considering taking their own photos, as the State Department cares greatly for the [lighting][6], [composition][7], and [quality][8] of those photos. Balloon Museum I was browsing the NPR archives the other day and found this report on the International Balloon Museum in Albuquerque, N.M.. Of course I want to go there. Pepper Pad As Multipurpose VoIP Device I’m quite taken with my new Bluetooth headset, despite the little hiccup I encountered. So, naturally, I’m thinking about how it would work with the VoIP softphone that’s promised for the Pepper Pad soon. I’ve become a super-fan of Gizmo Project on my PowerBook, but that loaner Pepper Pad was a capable enough and more than portable enough machine that it has me wondering if I’d rather have a desktop Mac and a Pepper Pad when upgrade times comes. Monkey Business If that proverbial room full of monkeys at typewriters ever really did randomly pound out the complete works of Shakespeare, would they be as good? What if they randomly pounded out something better? James Torio’s Blogging Thesis James Torio has been working on his masters in marketing and took a strong look at blogs for his thesis. I looked at how Blogs have impacted business and communication, how some Blogs create revenue, how some companies are using Blogs, how Blogs greatly boost the spread of information, how Blogs add richness to the media landscape, how Blogs work in the Long Tail, how some companies are tracking the Blogosphere and what the future of Blogging may be. Pravda and McCarthyism Don’t worry. I’m right on top of whatever happens in Pravda, the leading newspaper of the Russian Federation. Or, at least, I’m right on top of whatever they report in their English language version. The thing that had me choking on my onion and boursin cheese bagel this morning was the story headlined FBI arrests another spy in the White House, ‘prevents’ Philippine revolution. The whole Philippine thing is entertaining and laughable on its own, but further down in the story the reader will find so many layers of irony and amusement as to spray their breakfast cereal about the room. Findability, The Google Economy, and Libraries Peter Morville, author of Ambient Findability, stirred up the web4lib email list with a message about Authority and Findability. His message is about how services like Wikipedia and Google are changing our global information architecture and the meaning of “authority.” The reaction was quick, and largely critical, but good argument tests our thinking and weeds the gardens of our mind. Argument is good. Here’s my side. It’s important that we understand how modern search engines work. What Bloggers Need To Know About Cahill v. Doe Wendy Seltzer alerts us to the Delaware Supreme Court’s ruling last week in Cahill v. Doe, a case that tested our rights to anonymity online, as well as the standard for judging defamation. As it turns out, the court decided against the plaintiff, a city councilman, and protected the identity of “Proud Citizen,” who the councilman accused of posting defamatory remarks in an online forum. Further, it also decided that the context of the remarks “a chatroom filled with invective and personal opinion” are “not a source of facts or data upon which a reasonable person would rely. Bluetooth Headset Problems I’m still excited about that Bluetooth headset I got last week, but I did encounter a little problem with it. Rather, I encountered a problem with Mac OS X and the Bluetooth headset. I don’t remember all the precipitating details, but the obvious threshold event was when Gizmo Project complained that it couldn’t find the headset. I tried deleting the configuration and re-pairing, but aside from some momentary linkages, it was all for nada. Fried Ravioli Of course I like my new camera. If you don’t think these fried ravioli have enough detail, take a look at the full-size version (3264 x 2448). Priorities So long as I’m talking about change I want to bring attention to some commentaries by Chris Farrell in Marketplace Money. On September 16th he noted that hurricane Katrina (Rita hadn’t hit yet) “ripped the veil off poverty in America” and wondered aloud weather the voting public would continue to support the Republican obsession with tax breaks in the face of this new empathy for those struggling to hold on to the bottom rung of that same economic ladder. ChangeThis Worth looking at: ChangeThis, started by Seth Godin and “a sharp team of change agents.” The quote comes from Ben McConnell at Church of the Customer, who also reminds us of the ways that conservatives in every field favor traditional views and values and oppose change: Stay the course Don’t fix what isn’t broken Ignore all critics We don’t have time Keep out anything foreign to us (actual or metaphorical) Destroy anyone who opposes us or our way of thinking Who cares that Godin and McConnell are marketers. …And The Floods Moved North The rains this weekend swelled the rivers to flood stage in south-western New Hampshire. As much as half of Keene is said to be under water. Further north, the small and historic downtown of Alstead has been washed away. This picture comes from the Portsmouth Herald, and reports in the Washington Post from Keene and Alstead add detail. The current death count is five, according to NHPR news, and NH Governor John Lynch has declared a state of emergency and activated the National Guard. Switched Servers I switched to Lunarpages last week after the fiasco with my old hosting provider. Now, because of bandwidth and CPU usage, I’m moving to a new server at Lunarpages. I wasn’t surprised about what they said when I got a message from the sysadmins about excessive CPU usage on my shared hosting account, but I was surprised with their proactive and customer friendly approach. Anyway, I’ll be figuring out my new server and control panel (it’s Plesk, and I’d been using CPanel for a while). Bluetooth Headset As I was contemplating making angry calls to my hosting provider last week when they shut down MaisonBisson for a couple days, it occurred to me that I would rather make those calls via SkypeOut or some similar service that didn’t reveal my home phone number. After all, I wouldn’t want an angry sysop to take revenge by having a spare modem call me up every 27 minutes between the hours of midnight and seven AM. Ear Shrapnel Noise Grenade Engadget calls it “skull-shattering fun” and Gizmodo labeled it “ear shrapnel.” It’s available at Paladone.com and Boy’s Stuff, though nobody seems to have yet found a domestic supplier. From the catalog page: The Sonic Grenade features three different levels of the most noxious sound since the last Westlife album. To launch, pull the pin and throw it towards your target. After 20 seconds, the sonic explosion occurs, giving even the deepest sleeper a wake-up call like they’ve never had before. Library Feel-Good A Flash animation about why libraries matter. Rules For Writing Bad Poetry Tips from a friend: Center justify the text and write things like “kill me daddy, the robins chirped.” Compact, Modular, And Lego-Like Housing Compact, modular, and Lego-like housing is nothing new. Buckminster Fuller‘s Dymaxion House (now at the Henry Ford Museum), designed in the 1940s, was probably the first. But the Lustron House was actually sold commercially in the years after World War Two. Though it didn’t turn out to be a commercial success, the house did show the promise of pre-fabrication and mass-manufacture for house. They even have have an enduring fan base, with websites like the Lustron Connection and Lustron Luxury, and a documentary. Cladonia Exchanger XML Editor Interesting: Cladonia Exchanger XML Editor, a Java-based app that makes reading raw XML easy. Much easier than in a regular text editor, even with syntax highlighting. Stone Face Fables Note: The following comes without attribution from an acquaintance of my father’s. Once upon a time there were people who lived in a valley near a mountain. On the mountain there appeared a large rock formation which resembled a face. You could almost see the nose and eyes and mouth. Some people claimed that it was the face of a God and they claimed that if you looked closely you would see that for yourself and once you did you would be able to live a happy and comfortable life. Bye Bye Pepper Pad My week with the Pepper Pad is over, and the UPS van just drove off with it, but I’ve still got a lot to report. My testing ran into problems when it turned out that the WiFi network in the library was on the fritz. I did some netstumbling today and found that only two APs were broadcasting at anything close to full-power and all the others were whispering like they were gonna get shushed by an old-time librarian. Who Knew Transit Maps Were Copyrighted? The MTA, the folks who run New York’s subways and busses and such, weren’t the only ones to smack a cease and desist down on iPod Subway Maps last week, but they’re the first to tell they can pay $500 for the privilege of distributing those maps in an iPod-readable format — but only for non-commercial distribution. Cluetrain moment: doesn’t the MTA understand that services like this serve potential tourists like me? Five Days Left To Apply To Be Chivas Life Editor Chivas, the folks who bring us Chivas Regal scotch whisky and virtual tours of the Playboy Mansion, is looking for a pair of ambassador editors for ThisIsTheLife.com. The deal pays $100,000 to the lucky pair to tour the world making good press and pictures for the brand. You’ve got six more days to put together the three-minute application video, so get on it. Thanks to Gadling for the link. Library-Related Geekery Ryan beat me to reporting on the interesting new services at the Ockham Network (noted in this Web4lib post). The easiest one to grok is this spelling service, but there are others that are cooler. He also alerted me to a Perl script to proxy Z39.50 to RSS. Though for those more into PHP (like me), I’d like to point out the YAZ extension from the folks at Index Data. Distracted By My Shiny New Camera The Olympus C8080, one of the best digital cameras ever, can be had for under $500, refurbished, from some sellers on Amazon. That’s about where the price/features ratio against the C7000 I was excited about last week tips strongly in favor of the C8080. I might get into why I’m not excited about dSLRs in a later post, but I won’t deny that price is part of it. Still, I think even the most die-hard dSLR aficionado will agree the C8080 has a lot to love. Open Content Alliance The news is that Yahoo! announced they’ve formed the Open Content Alliance. Though that certainly fits the Google versus Yahoo! story that newsmen want to report on now, it’s somewhat disingenuous to the Internet Archive, which has been beating the Open Content drum for a while. But Brewster Kahle, the founder of the Internet Archive doesn’t seem to care. He was talking about it on the Yahoo! Search Blog yesterday: Mac Wireless Card Compatibility In case you’re looking: Metaphyzx’s Mac OS Wireless Adapter Compatibility List. Introducing bsuite_speedcache I wrote bsuite_speedcache to reduce the number of database queries I was executing per page load. By implementing it on some of the content in my sidebar, I dropped 35 queries for each cache hit. That might not seem like much, but it should average about 525 queries per minute that that my host server won’t need to process. Now that I’m looking seriously at optimizing my queries, I’ve also cut the monthly archives links from the sidebar. Meltdown Sometime around 10 PM Friday the MySQL server at my hosting provider took a walk. The hosting sysop blamed it on my site and disabled the database that serves it by making the directory the MySQL files are in unreadable. MySQL didn’t seem to handle that condition well, and since MaisonBisson was still piling up queries looking for the content in the DB, things continued to go downhill. My involvement started around 11 PM Friday night (yes, I’m that dorky). Pepper Links Pepper Computer Buying a Pepper Pad at Amazon Pepper Hacks Victor Rehorst has been blogging about his Pepper since he got it (a few days ago) Pepper Pad stories at TeleRead Other Pepper Pad stories here at MaisonBisson Open Test Sites I guess not everybody in Nevada loves the Test Site as much as this postcard might suggest, but hey, what do tourists know? The image comes from _roberta‘s Flickr photostream, and she doesn’t seem too critical. About 850 miles southeast today, the Trinity Site — where the world’s first atomic weapon was detonated in a test on July 16, 1945 at 5:29:45 a.m. — is open to the public. Pepper Pad — First Impressions The Pepper Pad (available at Amazon) has a very clean out of box experience. There’s nothing to assemble and no questions about what order to do things in. Just open, unwrap, plug in, startup. I attempted running through the configuration in my office, but the WiFi propagation is very weak there and Pepper Pad couldn’t catch a signal. The requirements listed on the box say only two things: “broadband” and “WiFi,” so it’s no surprise that the configuration application requires WiFi — or perhaps a BlueTooth phone it can connect through? Those Crazy K-Fee Ads It turns out that K-Fee, the company that pushes its energy drink with the scary TV ads, has a English-language website. It also turns out they’ve got the scary car ad and eight others online. Here they are: Angler Car Buddha Golf Beach Meadow Yoga Soothing Waves Ocean Path Pepper Pad — Arrival The Pepper Pad‘s technical details — a lightweight Linux powered device with an 8.4-inch SVGA touchscreen, Wi-Fi auto-configuration, Bluetooth device support, multi-gigabyte disk, full QWERTY thumb-keypad, stereo speakers, and more — are already well reported. But I’ve been arguing that attention to such details runs counter to the purpose and intended use of the device. Many computer users can name (and point to) the CPU in their computer, but who of those can tell me what CPU or chipset drives their cellphone? Must Read: Ambient Findability Peter Morville‘s Ambient Findability sold out at Amazon today on the first day of release. There’s a reason: it’s good. Morville’s work is the most appropriate follow-on to the usability concepts so well promoted by Steven Krug in his Don’t Make Me Think and Jakob Nielsen in Designing Web Usability. Findability, Morville argues, is a necessary component in the success and propagation of an idea or detail or fact. Business and non-profits alike will benefit from understanding the value of findability. Mt. Moosilauke Will and I climbed Moosilauke in early August, but it was only now that I got around to stitching the panorama. The view is considerably wider than 360 degrees, composited from 33 photos. The “full-size” version on Flickr contains 8 gigapixels of data. The real full-size version is a over 34 gigapixels. bsuite_innerindex WordPress Plugin [[pageindex]] About “Blogging” typically connotes short-form writing that needs little internal structure, but that’s no reason to cramp your style. As people start to explore WordPress‘s Pages feature, it seems likely that we’ll need a way to structure content within posts or pages sooner or later. That’s why I’m working on bsuite_innerindex. It’s a WordPress Plugin that puts named anchors on all of the <h1>, <h2>, <h*>-tagged content, and builds a list of links to those anchors that can be inserted anywhere on the page. Game Law Redux Matt says my attempts to analogize online roleplaying games to more familiar contests like chess or automobile racing are “just silly.” But his response appears to reinforce my point rather than refute it. It is the responsibility of the gamers and gaming organizations to create and enforce rules. People violating those rules are subject to sanctions by the gaming organization first, but it’s hard to imagine how any contestant who follows the rules of a (legal) game can be subject to legal sanction. Teachers Get Paid Crap From AlterNet: Teaching In America: The Impossible Dream. Tagline: Many public school teachers today must work two jobs to survive, and can’t afford to buy homes or raise families. Why do we treat our teachers so poorly? Open Source GIS Here’s an interesting GeoPlace.com article on open source GIS tools, including GIS extensions to PosgreSQL and MySQL. Via The Map Room. Distracted By My Shiny New Camera My Olympus C4000 is hard to beat. Steve’s Digicams reviewed it well, and many friends with newer cameras find features or capabilities in it they miss on theirs. So, despite my schoolboy giddiness at the arrival of new gadgets, I’m waiting to be convinced that my new C7000 will replace it. It too was well reviewed, and already I can see that it addresses some of my few complaints about the C4000, but transitions like this take time. bsuite_geocode Plugin For WordPress I’m a big fan of the WP Geo plugin, but I want more. My biggest complaint is that I want to insert coordinates using Google Maps or MultiMap URLs, rather than insert them in the modified story editor. So I wrote a bit of code that reads through the URLs in a post, finds the “maps.google” or “multimap.com” URLs, fishes the latitude and longitude out of them, and adds some geocoding tags to the body of the post. Home Theater Remote Control I have a sort of guilt complex about looking at home theater issues. Nonetheless, I’ve been building one piecemeal ever since I found an incredible deal on a video projector. Now I’m working on assembling a video jukebox of sorts and I need to face the remote control stumbling block. That’s why I like the Logitech Harmony 520{#2084,CONTENTID=10929}, available at Amazon. Credit due: I got the tip from a post at Engadget some time ago. Helpful Pages In The WordPress Codex The following pages from the WordPress Codex were surprisingly helpful recently: Creating a Static Front Page « WordPress Codex Creating Tables with Plugins « WordPress Codex Alphabetizing Posts « WordPress Codex The Potential Of Political Campaigning in Online Games Matt and I have been talking about online role playing games lately. He’s more than interested in the new challenges they pose to our legal system, the new media opportunities they offer, the ways they’re altering culture. We got into a conversation about how companies are taking advantage of them in marketing campaigns, so I asked him, “in what presidential election year will we see the first in-game campaigning?” He seemed to think it might be as late as 2020 before that happened, but immediately embraced the concept. What’s Zimbra? They say “Zimbra is a community for building and maintaining next generation collaboration technology.” What I’d like to know, however, is whether Zmbra is a community driven, social software answer to the problems of groupware — typically driven by management’s needs. A Motivated Team Member Is A Productive Team Member I think this is Dave. Apparently they keep him in a cell at the server farm. DoubleTake Stitches Panoramic Photos Cheap I actually like the look of a broken panorama, where the borders of each photo are clearly visible — even emphasized. But last night I got the notion of doing a seamless pano and found DoubleTake, a $12 shareware app that makes the process pretty darn easy. The sunrise shot above (larger sizes) was my first crack at it, but I was so sure I’d use it again (and again) that I’ve already registered it. Ambient Findability And The Google Economy I’m only just getting into Peter Morville‘s Ambient Findability, but I’m eating it up. In trying to prep the reader to understand his thesis — summed up on the front cover as “what we find changes who we become” — Morville relates his difficulty in finding authoritative, non-marketing information about his daughter’s newly diagnosed peanut allergy: I can tell you from personal experience that Google does not perform well when it comes to health. Editing WordPress “Pages” Via XML-RPC WordPress‘s Pages open the door to using WP as a content management system. Unfortunately, Pages can’t be edited via XML-RPC blogging apps like Ecto. This might be a good thing, but I’m foolhardy enough to try working around it. Here’s how: Find a text editor you like and open up the wp-includes/functions-post.php file. in the wp_get_recent_posts() function, change this: $sql = “SELECT * FROM $wpdb->posts WHERE post_status IN ('publish', 'draft', 'private') ORDER BY post_date DESC $limit”; Recycling Tips From Our Physical Plant Along with the energy saving and water saving tips previously, our physical plant folks have sent out these recycling tips: Recycling of Aluminum Cans — saves 95% of the Energy required to make the same amount of Aluminum from its virgin source. One ton of recycled Aluminum saves 14,000 KWH of Energy, 40 barrels of oil, 238 million BTUs of Energy. One ton of recycled Aluminum saves 10 cubic yards of landfill space. SUV Sales Slump Earnings reports from car makers seemed to suggest SUV sales were down last spring, and with gas prices near $3 per gallon in some parts of the country still, nobody should be surprised that Yahoo! is saying interest in SUVs is down — way down — now: If the Buzz is any indication, then yes. Searches on “hybrids” outrank “SUVs” by a tremendous margin, and it’s the same story with individual models. Satellite Broadband Macsimum News did a story on satellite internet options a few weeks ago, but reader reports focused on fixed base station solutions for domestic use. What about mobile data solutions for international use? That’s where companies like Outfitter Satellite come in. They’ve got Inmarsat solutions that can do 64kbps (or bonded to 128kbps) almost anywhere in the world. And, for customers in the Mid-East or Asia, they’ve got a 144kbps RBGAN solution that seems to offer much better throughput at far lower prices. Plan C: Signed JavaScripts The Mozilla docs on JavaScript security give a hint of hope that signed scripts will work around the cross-domain script exclusions that all good browsers enforce. But an item at DevArticles.com throws water on the idea: Signed scripts are primarily useful in an intranet environment; they’re not so useful on the Web in general. To see why this is, consider that even though you can authenticate the origin of a signed script on the Web, there’s still no reason to trust the creator. PC World Pepper Pad Reviewer Doesn’t Get It David Rothman pointed me to Michael Lasky’s PC World review of the Pepper Pad. Lasky bangs on Pepper, saying he can’t recommend it. Too often, I think, technology reviewers approach a new product without understanding it. Lasky tells us how the Pepper performs when playing music or videos before comparing it to “notebook computers available for the same or a lower price.” We wouldn’t let an automotive reviewer conclude a review of a Prius hybrid to a Chevy truck by saying the truck is the better deal because it has a bigger engine for the same money, so why let technology reviewers off so easy? bstat Japan! It looks like bstat has been localized for Japan! With that in mind, I’d love to hear from international users about what I can do to make localization easier. There will be some big changes in the transition to bsuite, and it might be a good time to make sure I’m properly supporting WP‘s translation tables and localization features. Plan B: Remote Scripting With IFRAMEs I have plans to apply AJAX to our library catalog but I’m running into a problem where I can’t do XMLHttpRequest events to servers other than the one I loaded the main webpage from. Mozilla calls it the “same origin policy,” everyone else calls it a cross-domain script exclusion, or something like that. Some Mozilla folks are working on a standard to address the problem, but it could be quite a while before browser support is common enough to build for it. Water Saving Tips Our physical plant folks sent out this list of water saving tips to followup on the energy savings tips they sent previously. Again, I think they should be blogging them, but what do I know? (It’s a rhetorical question, please don’t answer.) Limit the use of domestic hot water — use cold water whenever it will do. Turn off the water while you are brushing your teeth or washing your face. Atlanta Scene My friend Troy keeps a studio at Saltworks, a combined gallery and studio space in Atlanta where Prema Murthy just opened her deStructures show. I was in Atlanta to see Troy and family, so the opening was added sugar, and quite a pleasure. The image above comes from Troy’s Above and Below series. Next Big Thing: Identity Management I might be overstating it, but Identity Management is the next big thing for the open source community to tackle. That’s why I like Sxip, even though I know so little about it. There are a number of other solutions stewing, but most of those that I’m aware of are targeted at academic and enterprise users. Wouldn’t it be nice to have some federated system of identity management among blogs? Linotype FontExplorer I was never a very good graphic designer, but the part of me that thought I was still pays attention when I see software like Linotype’s free FontExplorer, described somewhere as “the iTunes for fonts.” That’s Excitement… “Oooh… I want a number ten.” — a man stepping into line at the airport McDonalds. The number ten meal, by the way, is a ten piece Chicken McNuggets meal. Absinthe Roderick sent me a link to this Reason article on Absinthe that claims: the U.S. Food and Drug Administration considers true absinthe “adulterated” because of the wormwood. Production, sale, and importation are banned, but mere possession is not, and customs agents typically ignore a bottle or two in your suitcase. It’s a legal situation that seems designed to keep absinthe cool.“ The Wikipedia article on absinthe pretty much confirms that point, so who’s going to test it? Improvised Anti-Telemarketing Device The Telecrapper 2000 is an improvised, homemade system that identifies telemarketing calls and leads the marketer through an artificial conversation that wastes the company’s time and money. The idea is to drive down productivity, and like so many other productivity sapping things, it can be quite funny. Check this Flash-animated recording: My Hip Hurts (mirror) Rather less funny, though interesting nonetheless, is EGBG’s Counterscript. tc2k hint via Engadget. Fixing position: fixed In IE It turns out the Internet Explorer doesn’t properly support CSS’s position: fixed. Google led me to the following: How To Create – Making Internet Explorer use position: fixed; doxdesk.com: software: fixed.js Fixed Positioning for Windows Internet Explorer The DoxDesk solution looks promising and simple, but I think bugs elsewhere in my layout are preventing it from working. It’s time to start again from scratch. PowerPoint. Killer App? Ruth Marcus at the Washington Post wonders if PowerPoint is a killing app. She’s not the first to note that NASA administrators make decisions — sometimes fatal decisions — on the basis of PowerPoint presentations that mask or misrepresent details. I wrote about Edward Tufte’s Cognitive Style of PowerPoint essay in a previous post. Marcus doesn’t add to many new points, but the column is a sign that an anti-PowerPoint movement may be growing. [FWD:] Katrina Eyewitness Report (about the photo) The following report comes from CosmoBaker.com, which includes this preamble: EDIT: The following is an email that was sent to my mother from one of her colleagues. Although I cannot substantiate the contents, after all the horror stories that I’ve heard so far, I though that this one was important to tell. Stand up and be counted. Spread truth. Stay awake. C —–Original Message—– WiFi In Public Spaces A message came acrross the web4lib list a few weeks ago with the following request: I want to hear from libraries who are currently implementing, or who already have implemented, wireless access for staff and/or patrons. I want your ‘stories’–good, bad and ugly. Issues and/or triumphs with IT staff, vendors, library staff, library boards, faculty committees, etc. I’m looking for all aspects of the process-finding hardware, implementation, policy (!), training staff, marketing the service to your patron base, troubleshooting and maintenance issues. Search, Findability, The Google Economy: How It Shapes Us Just when I was beginning to feel a little on my own with my talk about the Google Economy here, I see two related new books are coming out. The first is Peter Morville’s Ambient Findability. The second is John Battelle’s The Search. Findability appears to ask the big question that I’ve been pushing toward. From the description at Amazon: Are we truly at a critical point in our evolution where the quality of our digital networks will dictate how we behave as a species? Trusted Computing: The Movie Benjamin Stephan and Lutz Vogel at Lafkon bring us this wonderfully engaging animated story of Trusted Computing. There’s lots more to the story at AgainstTCPA.com, and I need to thank David Rothman at TeleRead for alerting me to both the video and the site. I haven’t had much to say about TCPA, but I think of it like technology politics…politics where I have no say, no vote, no power. Wide World of Video Games Matt started talking up the weird issues developing around multiplayer online games a few weeks ago. Then soon after he blogged it, a story appeared in On the Media (listen, transcript) Short story: online gaming is huge — one developer claims four million paying customers. More significantly, the interplay between real and virtual worlds might create new challenges for this real world legal system. “Theft” of in-game money and equipment among players in the online world is possible, but it’s lead to the real-world arrest of at least one person and the murder of another when authorities refused to act. Energy Saving Tips Our physical plant folks sent out a message with tips on how to conserve energy. Perhaps they oughtta blog this stuff? Here it is: Computer power management — A typical computer monitor uses 60 to 120 watts of electrical power, depending upon screen size. Do not use screensavers as energy savers as they continue to use the monitor at full power and do not conserve energy. Configure your monitor to turn off after 20 minutes of inactivity, your hard drive to turn off after 30 minutes of inactivity, and your desktop computer or laptop to go into a standby or sleep mode after 90 minutes of inactivity. Osceola Weekend I climbed the Osceolas with Will and Adam this weekend. It was my first overnight in a long, long time, and their first mountaintop sunrise. I used to do sunrises on Mt. Monadnock, but I’d lost the habit. More pictures of the Osceola adventure at Flickr. What Counts Will reminds us: “Flasks are like people, it’s what’s on the inside that counts.” From the top of Mt. Osceola. The Quotable John Scott John Scott reminds the naive: “Don’t believe everything you find in Google.” Be A Leader! Manage Your Staff With Ralph Wiggum Quotes! “I eated the purpleberries” (groaning). “How are they Ralph…. Good?” “They taste like…burning.” More goodness at the Ralph Wiggum Soundboard, via InformationNation. More quotes, like “Oh boy, sleep! That’s where I’m a viking!,” at TheDotDotDot. If I Close My Eyes, Does It Go Away? Can Bush Censor His Shame Away? Reuters: FEMA accused of censorship: “It’s impossible for me to imagine how you report a story whose subject is death without allowing the public to see images of the subject of the story,” said Larry Siems of the PEN American Center, an authors’ group that defends free expression. Brian Williams’ MSNBC Nightly News Blog: While we were attempting to take pictures of the National Guard (a unit from Oklahoma) taking up positions outside a Brooks Brothers on the edge of the Quarter, the sergeant ordered us to the other side of the boulevard. Axe Gang Security Bumbles Again We laugh at the single minded foolishness of the Axe Gang in Kung Fu Hustle Jackie Chan’s The Legend of Drunken Master, but do we laugh when we see it in our own security policies? To intelligence staffers and border guards working under a policy of hammers, all the world is a nail. Here’s an example: In August 2001, US Customs Agents stopped and searched Ahmad El Maati, a Kuwaiti-born Canadian and a truck driver crossing the US-Canadian border at Buffalo, NY. Marketing And Search Engine Optimization I don’t want to admit to being interested in marketing, but I am. Here’s a few links… Blogs: Church of the Customer Seth Godin Aaron Wall’s SEO Book.com Threadwatch.org Randomness: Writing, Briefly Google’s search result quality evaluation guidelines definition of the Google Economy at Wikipedia The Fall of Advertising and the Rise of PR Simple Bookmarklet Demo Bookmarklets are interesting little bits of JavaScript stored as bookmarks. They’ve been around since about 1998 (earlier?), but I’ve never bothered to write one. Here are a few examples: This sort of creates a bookmark Alexa Snapshot Wayback La Femme’s Poison Browsing Flickr the other day I found la_femme‘s poison. Other good photos in her photostream. Energy Crisis Mike Whelan posted the above photo to his Flickr photostream recently. Back in April, when gas prices were still well below the $3-per-gallon mark, it looked like sales of SUVs were starting to slow. Interestingly, we’ve crossed the threshold Keith Bradsher quotes in High and Mighty, his book detailing how the US auto industry became so dependent on SUVs and how common sense has been powerless against them. The threshold was the point at which gas prices would begin having the same effect on current car purchases as the 1970s oil crisis did. Doing Relevance Ranked Full-Text Searches In MySQL I’m going out on a limb to say MySQL’s full-text indexing and searching features are underused. They appeared in MySQL 3.23.23 (most people are using 4.x, and 5 is in development), but it’s been news to most of the people I know. Here’s the deal, the MATCH() function can search a full-text index for a string of text (one or more words) and return relevance-ranked results. It’s at the core of the list of related links at the bottom of every post here. La Tomatina From a Reuters story in ChinaDaily: At noon [Wednesday], municipal trucks dumped about 130 tons of ripe, juicy plum tomatoes at the feet of adrenaline-charged crowds in town’s main square. Within minutes the area was covered in red slime, and clouds of tomato sauce filled the air. It all takes place in Buñol, in Spain’s Valencia region along the Mediterranean coast. Canada.com{#db86d958-934e-4fa3-a9b5-be64ad559819} describes the origins: Local lore says it began in the mid-1940s with a food battle that broke out between youngsters near a vegetable stand on the town square in Buñol, 300 kilometres southeast of Madrid. 37signals Tells Google A Thing Or Two 37signals takes on Google and suggests some improvements. UCLA Takes On Google Scholar Via Jay Bhatt at LISNews: UCLA Libraries‘ discussion of Google Scholar, Search Engines, Databases, and the Research Process. Time-Picayune In Exile Times-Picayune editor Jim Amoss answered questions for On The Media‘s Brooke Gladstone. Amoss and his staff have been covering the catastrophe in New Orleans as only locals can. Some of the best reporting I’ve seen on this has come from the Times-Picayune, and I was quite amazed when I discovered the electronic edition Wednesday. Despite the damage, they appear to have start releasing a print version again and are distributing it in the city and in communities where refugees have fled. Sneaky Is there a sneaky surprise hidden in your hotel room? See if you can recognize anything in these photos (tip: mouse-over them). Back To School Video Kate says: “Life is good. And I’ve got a sleeping bag from the future.” Tim explains, a bit. None of that matters nearly as much as the video Kate is quoting from, and that matters now because back to school time means play dates and sleepovers. Tim guarantees it will kill a few braincells, but nothing ridicules us the way we once were (and often still are) better than Saturday Night Live. Things Go To Hell DefenseTech’s Noah Shachtman writes: Organizing thousands and thousands of people, in hellish conditions and in a hurry, is tough work. Let’s take that as a given. But still: We’re now a work week into a natural disaster that had been forecast for years, and New Orleans “is being run by thugs,” the city’s emergency preparedness director tells the Times. “Some people there have not eaten or drunk water for three or four days, which is inexcusable. Rollerblading Via Pya{#16437}. Policing By Cellphone Though we imagine the Dutch to be a rather unexcitable lot, I did anyway, it turns out they have a history of getting rowdy at football games (yes, if this all happened back in the States I be calling it “soccer”). So it can’t be so much of a surprise that fans rioted again in April. What is surprising is that mobile phone companies got involved in the investigation. This AP report tells the story: The Water Down There I don’t watch TV, so I haven’t seen many images of the flooding in New Orleans until I found these. Amazingly, The Times Picayune is publishing PDF editions during disaster. The hurricane and flood damage are truly scary, but the worst news is on page five, which tells of widespread looting: Law enforcement efforts to contain the emergency left by Katrina slipped into chaos in parts of New Orleans Tuesday. The Google Economy Will Beat You With A Stick Call it a law, or dictum, or just a big stick, but it goes like this: The value and influence of an idea or piece of information is limited by the extent that the information provider has embraced the Google Economy; unavailable or unfindable information buried on the second or tenth page of search results might as well be hidden in a cave. The Ultraviolet Sun From the NASA website: EIT (Extreme ultraviolet Imaging Telescope) images the solar atmosphere at several wavelengths, and therefore, shows solar material at different temperatures. In the images taken at 304 Angstroms the bright material is at 60,000 to 80,000 degrees Kelvin. In those taken at 171, at 1 million degrees. 195 Angstrom images correspond to about 1.5 million Kelvin. 284 Angstrom, to 2 million degrees. The hotter the temperature, the higher you look in the solar atmosphere. Enabling .htaccess On Mac OS X I do a lot of web development on my laptop. I’ve got Apache and PHP there, so it’s really convenient, but I usually move projects off to other server before I get around to wanting to mess with mod_rewrite. Not so, recently, but I ran into a big stumbling block when I discovered OS X’s Apache comes pre-configured to ignore .htaccess files. A couple points. First, Apache’s own mod_rewrite docs include the following quote: Coconut Battery coconutBattery: coconutBattery is a tool that reads out the data of your notebook-battery (iBook/Powerbook). It shows the current charge of your battery as well as the current maximum capacity related to its original. Via O’Grady’s PowerPage{#14850} AWStats As much as I like the bstat functionality of bsuite, I never intended it to be a replacement for a full server log-based stats application. That’s why I’m happy my hosting provider offers AWStats. The reports suggested ways to optimize my pages so that I could control my bandwidth consumption — up to 3.7GB/day before optimization, now 1.8GB/day. But today I found an AWStat feature that got me excited enough to email the university sysadmin about it: email stats. The Google Economy — The Wikipedia Entry I’m rather passionate about the Google Economy, so it shouldn’t be too much of a surprise to learn that I just wrote about it in my first ever Wikipedia entry. Here it is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_economy “Google Economy” identifies the concept that the value of a resource can be determined by the way that resource is linked to other resources. It is more complex than search ranking, and broader than interlinked web pages, though it draws meaning from both. bsuite Development bstat has become bsuite. The name change reflects the fact that I want the plugin to do a lot more than track usage stats. One of the first features to enter testing here is the “related” section below. I’m calling it “bsuggestive,” but that may turn out to be too cute a name to tolerate for long. The results are based on the tags for the post, so it doesn’t work with old posts that haven’t been tagged, and it sometimes returns some weird matches, but it’s still alpha, so what can we ask for. Beloit College’s List Of Things That Make Us Look Old To Incoming Students We’ve seen lists like this before. Beloit College in Beloit Wisconsin releases their “Mindeset List” for their incoming class every year around now. The point is to remind us how cultural touchstones change over time. It does that, but it also give us (me, anyway) a good chuckle. It’s worth reading all the way down to number 49, at least, where libraries get a good mention. Video Bulb and Zakka Shop NYC The Video Bulb is a “lipstick-sized tube” that plugs in to your TV’s RCA jack and plays Bitman videos. GadgetMadness explains what Bitman is: Bitman is the creation of Japanese Art Performer “Meiwa Denki” and was an 8-bit electronic stick figure who would dance, pose, etc. The VideoBulb sounds interesting enough, but I think I could get into the reseller as much as the GadgetMadness writer did: I went to Zakka Shop & Space the last time I was in NYC, and literally wanted everything in the store. Changing Modes Of Communication I talk a lot about the Google Economy here, and how that and other ideas are driving changing modes of communication. Today I learned of arXiv. Henry Farrell describes it at CrookedTimber: [I]t’s effectively replaced journal publication as the primary means for physicists to communicate with each other. Journal publication is still important – but as an imprimatur, a proof of quality, rather than a way to disseminate findings to a wider audience. WordPress As CMS A friend and I have been talking about what it would take to turn WordPress into a CMS. We both have our doubts, but today I found this job ad that suggests we’re not alone in at least thinking of the possibility. Needed: Web Designer/Programmer For Our Sites We’re growing very fast, and have outgrown our current CMS and design. We’re looking for a designer and/or programmer to redesign our rapidly growing network and implement a CMS that ties it all together. KingCosmonaut & WP Themes I stumbled across the sometimes funny How To Live Your Life and got curious about the theme. Turns out it’s by Sebastian Schmieg, who keeps things real at kingcosmonaut. The theme is Blix, but the kingcosmonaut site is much cooler. Flock The developers describe Flock as [T]he world’s most innovative social browsing experience. We call it the two-way web. Which is a good enough sales pitch to make me try the free demo, but it’s all still a private beta. Perhaps they’re trying to prove the point that nothing builds buzz better than unavailability. Osakasteve gushes: A browser that is designed around social software like blogs and flickr iTunes Music Store API? I can’t explain why, at least not yet, but I’m looking for a way to search the iTunes Music Store{#XfFSogqWv7s&offerid=78941.10000007&type=3&subid=0} catalog outside of iTunes. Rumors of an iTunes-Google partnership{#1230} have been flying lately, but what I really want is a webservice/API I can use. Yes, Apple offers an affiliate program that supports direct links, but again, they don’t offer an Amazon-style API to search their catalog. All of this has me thinking about reverse-engineering the iTMS to build the webservice I’m looking for. A List Apart Updated A List Apart, has been revamped and they’re proud of it. They should be, it’s beautiful and functional. It’s one of the few early web development resources that’s still with us, and there’s a reason. Copyright and Academic Libraries Back when I was looking things up for my Digital Preservation and Copyright story I found a bunch of info the University of Texas System had gathered on issues related to copyright, libraries, and education. In among the pages on copying copyrighted works, A/V reserves, and electronic reserves I found a document titled: Educational Fair Use Guidelines for Digital Images. It’s some interesting stuff — if you get excited about copyright law. Re-Shelving Orwell’s 1984 Via Jon Gordon‘s Future Tense: Re-shelving George Orwell. Smart people everywhere are taking it upon themselves to re-shelve George Orwell’s 1984 from fiction to more appropriate sections in non-fiction, like “Current Events”, “Politics”, “History”, “True Crime”, or “New Non-Fiction.” Instructions and photos on Flickr. Laura Quilter Defends Google Print With all the talk about Google scanning or not scanning copyrighted books, I was happy to see Laura Quilter talking about Google as a library. The Internet Archive is certainly a library. […] Libraries may be private, semi-private, public; for- or not-for-profit; paper or digital. Why is Google not a library? More interestingly, she casts a critical eye on the Texaco decision that everybody points to as the guiding law on fair use. Wikipedia API? I want Wikipedia to have an API, but it doesn’t. Some web searching turned up Gina Trapani’s WikipedizeText, but that still wasn’t exactly what I wanted. A note in the source code, however, put me back on the trail to the Wikipedia database downloads, and while that’s not what I want, I did learn that they’ve got a table of just the article titles (over 1.2 million of them) in their downloads. Drug Side Effects Drive Patients to Gamble, Eat, Drink, and … …people with Parkinson’s disease temporarily became compulsive gamblers after taking […] drugs designed to control movement problems caused by the illness… That’s the lead in this Forbes story on the matter, and that’s not all. A variety of ‘interesting’ side effects popped up among a relatively small number of study participants: pathological gambling compulsive eating increased alcohol consumption obsession with sex. The drugs in question are “dopamine agonists” and are part of the standard treatment of Parkinson’s disease. Segway Easy Rider Movie Trailer Remember those guys who rode a Segway cross-country last year? Well, they’ve got a movie coming out. Yup, there’s even a trailer. Possibly more interesting: the photo gallery (from which the photo above came). Thanks to Engadget for the link. Steelers Fan Never Misses a Game Day In remembering James Henry Smith, a zealous Pittsburgh Steelers fan who died of prostate cancer in early July, his family asked the Samuel E. Coston Funeral Home to do things “as he would have wanted them to be.” For the viewing, the funeral home arranged a living room ensemble with the TV and recliner just as Smith liked it on game day. An AP article describes it: Smith’s body was on the recliner, his feet crossed and a remote in his hand. Alt Browser Shiira Project, an Apple WebKit-based browser with some interesting features. Sadly, it also brings page transitions to the Mac. Let’s hope these don’t become the new . Chasing Clicks Al asked how low I will go to chase traffic. Truth is, I can’t answer. Maisonbisson has had moments of popularity, but it’s hard to know why. Alexa tells us there are 18 million unique sites on the Web, but… if you take Alexa’s Top 100,000 sites you’ll find that almost 3 out every 4 clicks are spoken for. In other words, almost 75% of all the traffic on the web goes to the sites in the Top 100K list, leaving the remaining 18 million or so sites to fight over the scraps. Neutron Bomb Boing Boing has an exclusive profile of neutron bomb inventor Samuel T. Cohen by Charles Platt. All the reports so far are that it’s a 10,000 word “must read.” The article, Profits of Fear, is available in PDF, plain text, and Palm doc versions at Boing Boing. Thanks to David Rothman for the heads up. Extra: Rothman asks what it all says about mainstream media when respected authors eschew traditional media for blogs. Another Limitation of LC Classification Right up front in the prologue of Ruth Wajnryb’s Expletive Deleted she quotes the following from Richard Dooling on the difficulty in researching “bad language”: The Library of Congress classification system does not provide a selection of books … on swearing or dirty words. A researcher … must travel to the BF of psychoanalysis, the PE of slang, the GT of anthropology, the P of literature and literary theory, the N of art, the RC of medical psychiatry, and back to the B of religion and philosphy. Network Effects on Violence Some time ago I pointed to John Robb’s discussion of the potential for the network to amplify the threat of violence from otherwise un-connected and un-organized individuals. Now Noah Shachtman at DefenseTech is writing about “open source insurgents.” It used to be that a small group of ideological-driven guerilla leaders would spread information, tactics, training, and cash to their followers. No more. Internet-enabled insurgents with only the loosest of real-world connections can now share all of that freely online. Grizzly Man David Edelstein’s review of Werner Herzog’s documentary, Grizzly Man, describes Timothy Treadwell as …a manic but lovable whack-job who doggedly filmed and obsessively idealized the bears that would ultimately eat him… The film is made up largely of the bits of the hundreds of hours of video that Treadwell himself shot during his 14 years with the bears. Later, however, Edelstein — probably restraining laughter — calls Treadwell “histrionic” and a “drama-queen” (isn’t that sort of redundant? PHP Developer Resources Somebody asked for some links to get started with PHP. Of course I lead them to the PHP.net official site, where the documentation is some of the best I’ve seen for any product. I also suggested PHPDeveloper.org and PHPFreaks.com, though the truth is I usually Google any questions I have that the official docs don’t answer. Still, I’ve found some good info at both of those. Finally, the PHP Cheat Sheet at ILoveJackDaniels. DRM = Customer Lock-In Donna Wentworth is now saying what I’ve been saying for over a year now. Digital Rights Management (DRM) isn’t about preventing copyright violations by ne’er-do-wells, it’s about eliminating legal me2me fair use and locking in customers. In Your PC == A Toaster, Wentworth quotes Don Marti saying: Isn’t it time to drop the polite fiction that MSFT and other incumbent IT and CE [CE = consumer electronics — Casey] vendors are only doing DRM because of big, bad Hollywood? Digital Preservation and Copyright We’re struggling with the question of what to do with our collection of vinyl recordings. They’re deteriorating, and we’re finding it increasingly difficult to keep the playback equipment in working order — the record needles seem to disappear. We’re re-purchased much of our collection on CD, but some items — this one might be one of them — are impossible to find on CD. So we’re considering digital preservation, capturing the audio of the records and scanning the dust jackets. The Part Where Speakeasy Cons Me Into Shilling For Them The Speakeasy Speed Test is an okay way to waste some time, but the most amusing thing is how easy they make it to promote them. The Speakeasy badge here looks like any web ad, but they’re not paying for it. All they did was post a link saying Add Speakeasy Speed Test to Your Site. I guess we all ought to take this marketing tip from them: make sure your readers know how to link to you. MaisonBisson Top Seven The most recent version of my WordPress stats tracking plugin makes it very easy to see and track my top stories. I don’t know whether I should be proud or ashamed by them, but here they are: Big Bear Photos That story gets a lot of morbid interest, and I’m sure the movie Grizzly Man will too. K-Fee Energy Drink TV Ad For a while, though, people looking for that story were finding my Zygo energy vodka story instead. Atomic While looking for a picture for my memorial to the bomb, I found a number of related links. This blog is sometimes nothing more than an annotated bookmark list, and this is why…. The Bomb Project describes itself as: a comprehensive on-line compendium of nuclear-related links, imagery and documentation. It is intended specifically as a resource for artists, and encourages those working in all media, from net.art, film and video, eco-intervention and site-specific installation to more traditional forms of agitprop, to use this site to search for raw material. Linking Bias Danah Boyd posted about the biases of links over at Many2Many the other day. She looked for patterns in a random set of 500 blogs tracked by Technorati as well as the 100 top blogs tracked by Technorati. She found patterns in who keeps blogrolls and who is in them, as well as patterns about how bloggers link in context and who they link to. The patterns Boyd points to would certainly effect the Google Economy, our way of creating and identifying value based on linking structures. Annoises Via Gizmodo: a CD of annoying sounds at Gadgets.co.uk. Twenty “ear splitting” sound effects and a pair of earplugs “for your sanity and protection” for £14.99. What 20 sound effects? Drill Party (at least 200 People) Orgasm (Outstanding) Train Drum (Played by a Child) Inhuman Screams Walking (High Heels) Domestic Squabble Doors Banging Bowling Unhappy Dog Practicing a violin Traffic Jam Garbage Truck A screaming newborn baby Phone Ringing Ball Game Pigeons Spring house cleaning Cock-a-Doodle-Do! Grizzly Man Within the last wild lands of North America dwells an animal that inspires respect and fear around the world. It is the grizzly bear, a living legend of the wilderness. Grizzlies can sprint thirty five plus miles an hour, smell carrion at nine or more miles, and drag a thousand-pund animal up steep mountains. The grizzly bear is one of a very few animals remaining on earth that can kill a human in physical combat. Point ‘N Shoot DefenseTech reported on the FireFly, a disposable camera that can be shot from the M203 grenade launchers used by US land forces. The cameras fly 600 meters in eight seconds, wirelessly sending pictures back to the soldier’s PDA. Now they’ll know what’s over that hill or around that corner. Not that soldiers don’t need this sort of thing, but one wonders when Hasbro will release a plastic version in bright colors. Movie Night: Open Water Joe recommended Open Water whole heartedly, but others, like some of these one-star reviewers at Amazon, had equally strong reactions against it. I first learned of the events the movie is based on in Bill Bryson’s In a Sunburned Country, where he described the events of Thomas and Eileen Lonergan’s disappearance during a dive in the Australian Pacific. The similarity between these true events and the movie’s events likely ends there. Jimmy Wales’ Free Culture Manifesto Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia and director of the Wikimedia Foundation, is working on his keynote for the Wikimania conference in Frankfurt. Ross Mayfield at Many2Many posted a preview and gives some background. What should we expect? Wales’ speech touches on ten things necessary for Free Culture: Free the Encyclopedia! Free the Dictionary! Free the Curriculum! Free the Music! Free the Art! Free the File Formats! Free the Maps! 60 Years Later In what was to be the final act of World War II in the Pacific, the United States made the first and only use of nuclear power as a weapon in the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6th and 9th (US dates), 1945. George Weller of the Chicago Daily News snuck in to Nagasaki in early September 1945 and became the first American journalist to see the destruction. His stories were censored, and official sources maintained control of news about the bombings and the aftermath for many years. Reminisce: My First Ebook The first ebook I ever read was Bruce Sterling’s Hacker Crackdown on my Newton Message Pad 2000. It had a big and bright screen — “the best screen for reading eBooks on the (non-)market” says DJ Vollkasko — but it could get a bit little heavy at times. Crackdown is available for free, along with perhaps 16,000 others, at Matthew McClintock’s ManyBooks.net. Downloads are available in 11 different formats, or you can read online. Information Is Sexy It used to be you could identify the librarian by the sensible shoes, but times they are a changing. Witness this ad from Library Bar. Sure their “librarians” are bartenders, but what cultural shift changed to thrust librarians up the sex appeal scale? Yeah, this is old. After all, it was the Spring 2004 of Bust Magazine that asked if librarians might be the new “it” girls, but it’s still amusing. DRM: Bad For Customers, Bad For Publishers The news came out last week that the biggest music consumers — the ones throwing down cash for music — are also the biggest music sharers. Alan Wexblat at Copyfight says simply: “those who share, care” (BBC link via TeleRead). Rather than taking legal action against downloaders, the music industry needs to entice them to use legal alternatives, the report said. Lawsuits against customers go hand in hand with DRM in limiting community buzz for a particular artist or song. Gizmos For Geeks Colin pointed out Spark Fun Electronics as a source for all manner of geeky components, like component level GPSs and accelerometers. Thing is, they also sell the components in kits with custom PC boards, some with USB interfaces. The Coming Information Age That headline might seem a little late among the folks reading this. But we’re all geeks, and if not geeks, then at least regular computer users. Regular computer users, however, are a minority. Worldwide, only around 500 million people have internet access, and fewer than 100 million people in the US have internet access at home. With populations of over 6 billion and 300 million respectively, there’s clearly a lot of growth potential. Faces I stumbled upon captnkurt’s Information Nation where he popped a link over to Eric Myer’s Stereotypes. The gimic — and it’s a fun one — is that you can mix and match bits of faces. I don’t know why I like the combo above so much, but, anyway. The thing about this is that it reminds me of Troy Bennett’s Human-IntoFace, reported here back in 2002 and 2004. Separately, I need to go back and take another look at captnkurt’s story about CouchSurfing. Nokia 770 I’ve been babbling like a stoolie for Pepper here for the past couple weeks, but after some prodding by Roger Sperberg I’ve started to take a serious look at the Nokia 770 linux-based internet tablet. To get me started is Mike Cane’s hands on report from some time spent with it at LinuxWorld Expo. Nokia is pushing Maemo.org to support the developer/hacker community, and there’s already some interesting work being done. More Bluetooth Hacks As if bluejacking wasn’t fun enough, now a few folks have now taken it a little further and figured out how to connect to the growing number of Bluetooth handsfree sets all around us. Gizmodo fed me the link to what they’re calling “The Car Whisperer.” Nothing against these guys, but it’s not like they did anything amazingly complex. Their story explains that they’re simply taking advantage of poor security like default passwords. Movie Night: House Of Flying Daggers I’ve been a fan of Zhang Yimou’s1 films since, well, for a while now. But I’m also a huge kung fu fan — Jackie Chan especially — so House of Flying Daggers was quite a treat. It’s not that I didn’t like Hero, or that Daggers was particularly funny. To the contrary, it’s tale of complex characters who don’t end well. That might be story enough, but every scene is richly photographed and styled — a hallmark of so many of Yimou’s films, but wonderfully so in Daggers. Sweet Cheat Sheets Colin over at Command-Tab alerted me to some great cheat sheets, including this one for JavaScript at ILoveJackDaniels.com.     Apple Releases Multi-Button Mouse Apple this morning released the Mighty Mouse. With a scrollball, left and right click, and side buttons, it’s a big departure from Apple’s old opposition to multi-button mice. Apple didn’t invent the mouse, but they were probably the first to put mice through usability testing. One, two, and three button mice of a great many different shapes and sizes were tested before they settled on a one-button mouse for the original Macintosh in 1984. Hands On The Pepper Pad The most amazing thing about the Pepper Pad is how easy it is to pick up and use, how easy it is to walk around with, and how it’s available when you want it and gone when you don’t. The Pepper Pad‘s portability goes far beyond that of laptops. I mentioned previously that laptops move from desk to desk and Bill Gates tells us how poorly laptops work in elevators. Netflix Expands Queues This is old news, but Netflix{#XfFSogqWv7s&offerid=78684.10000076&type=3&subid=0} now offers multiple queues for each account. Queues, of course, are the movie wish lists each Netflix customer keeps; when you return a movie, they send out the next movie in your queue. In the old days, each subscriber got just one queue, no matter how many members of the household had an interest in the movies. Two people, one queue? Marital drama ensued in my home and others. Movie Night: The Underneath Steven Soderbergh has done a number of good films, but The Underneath isn’t among them. It’s interesting to see the director working out his moves, but more entertaining to see them in a more mature form, as in Out of Site. Eh, I’m ready to give the guy a break. My real complaint has nothing to with this film. Instead, it’s about Kafka, one of his best works. It was released in 1991, and though they’ve still got a few VHS copies in a warehouse somewhere, it deserves a DVD release Space Shuttle Tracking (and other good uses of the Google Maps API) Tom Mangan has put the Google Maps API to interesting use with his space shuttle tracking page. Also worth checking out: his Blackbird Spotting site and TLable, a little extension to make pinning/annotating maps even better. Politics And The Google Economy While I’m anxiously working to better fit libraries into the Google Economy, a few paragraphs of Barry Glassner’s The Culture of Fear, got me thinking about its role in politics. Glassner was telling of how a 1996 article in USA Today quoted the National Assocation of Scholars{#242} saying that Georgetown University had dumbed down its curriculum and dropped Shakespeare{#778} requirements. Of course, nothing could have been farther from the truth, a point confirmed by the Georgetown’s dean. Japanoid K-Cars Gizmodo reported it a while ago, but a Canadian company called Japanoid is importing these and other tiny Japanese cars. How tiny? At or under 1.5 meters (under 5 feet!) wide with engines 660CC or under. They’re called Kei Jidousha, or Keicars, or just K-cars (though not to be confused with Chrysler’s K-Cars). Japanoid has 12 vehicles listed, but my favorites are those four above and this funny looking truck. Movie Night: Entropy Phil Joanou’s Entropy isn’t available in the US on DVD, but I found it at Amazon UK. IMDB has this to say: Stephen Dorff narrates this tale about how his life goes astray as his character attempts to strike a balance between the demands of directing his first film and the pressures of his new romance with a model. U2’s Bono plays a role in this film as both himself and Dorff’s character’s concience. The Problem With PDAs Today When I finally get around to writing up my impressions of the Pepper Pad, I’ll be pointing to Roger Sperberg’s recent posts at TeleRead about non-PDA handhelds and computers for stand up use. At the moment, however, some of his points remind my of a few I’ve got to make about PDAs here. I’ve got a Sony Clie TH-55, the top of the line of the last series they imported to North American shores. Gizmo Project, VoIP, Asterisk Jason O’Grady{#14763} introduced me to the Skype-like Gizmo Project by the folks over at SIPphone. I’ve been a Vonage customer for a couple years now, so I’ve had a chance to get familiar with VoIP, and I’m looking for a good Bluetooth headset so I can try Gizmo and Skype (and others), but I got to wondering what more I could do. Asterisk is an open source PBX application that runs on Linux, MacOS X, and others. Marriage Alternet has a story by Monica Mehta titled The Myth of Marriage with this synopsis: A radical new book debunks the concept of marriage as a time-honored institution, and argues that we need to loosen up about it. The book is Stephanie Coontz’s Marriage, A History. Related previous story: The “Sanctity” Of Marriage. Put A Pepper In Your Library Libraries are known for books. And despite the constant march of technology, despite the fact that we can put a bazillion songs in our pocket, despite the availability of the New York Times and so many other newspapers and thousands of journals online, books are a big part of what libraries are. Books, dead tree books with that rotting paper smell. And though I dare not prognosticate, I expect they’ll be an emblematic feature of libraries for a while now. Elements Of Murder John Emsley, author of Elements Of Murder: a history of poisons appeared in an interview on NPR’s Fresh Air’{#4769877} earlier today. Those who were fascinated by the morbid details of Devil in the White City should give it a listen. I plan on checking out the book too, though it sounds like Emsley offers more chemical formulae than outright suspense. ILS: Inventory or Search and Retrieval System? There’s an interesting discussion going at LibDev about what our ILSs are. It all started with a discussion of what role XML and webservices could/should play with ILS/catalogs, but a comment reminded us that Vendor’s decisions about adding new features to products that have been around for 20 or 30 years sometimes edge towards lock-in. I replied offering Flickr as an example of a vendor that’s been successful in part because of their open APIs. Nuclear Family Vacation Via Defense Tech: Slate did a series last week titled A Nuclear Family Vacation that visited the Nevada Test Site; Los Alamos, Lawrence Livermore, and Sandia National Labs; and Trinity. Extra: a slideshow accompanies the text and the authors interviewed{#4755708} on NPR’s Day to Day{#4755708}. Related: previous nuclear stories at MaisonBisson. Karl Rove’s Leak-and-Covergate Two items from the blogosphere about Rove’s Leak-and-Covergate at Tikun Olam and AlterNet. Life Magazine Covers I get a kick out of these 1948 and 1950 Life magazine covers. Take a look and I think you’ll agree that no magazine puts photos like this on their covers today. Screen Real Estate At 2560 x 1600 pixels, Apple’s Cinema HD display{#XfFSogqWv7s&offerid=77305.10000038&type=2&subid=0} is big enough for three people’s egos. XML/PHP/SWF Charts Flash app dynamically generates charts based on XML formated data or values in a PHP array. XML/SWF Charts is a simple, yet powerful tool to create attractive web charts and graphs from dynamic XML data. Create an XML source to describe a chart, then pass it to this tool’s flash file to generate the chart. The same tool also accepts PHP sources. XML/SWF Charts makes the best of both the XML and SWF worlds. Pepper I’m off visiting the good folks at Pepper today. I’ll update this post with photos as soon as they’re available, then look for a pair of posts about how the hardware/software works and what I’d like to do with it later. Until then, here are some related posts: Ultra Portable Computing, Pepper Pad 2, and Portable Computing. UPDATE: the picture above is blurry because of my poor photography skills. Better pictures can be found at the Pepper site. Tags Tags Tags David Weinberger at Many-to-Many pointed me to Tom Coates’ post about different schools of thought regarding tags. Coates has been thinking about tags as keywords, annotations. Thats how I’ve been using and thinking about tags too, but some people have different ideas. …At the end of the argument I said to Joshua that it was almost like he was treating tags as folders. And he replied, exasperated, that this was exactly what they were. What’s a MIRT? MIRTs turn red lights green, but merely having one will probably get you in a pile of trouble. More info at i-hacked.com{#176}. Peerflix Ross Rubin at Engadget just alerted me to Peerflix …which can be described on a basic level as eBay meets Netflix. Peerflix resembles many online DVD stores, but it neither rents nor sells DVDs. Rather, it depends on a community of users willing to trade DVDs they have for DVDs they want. There are no subscription fees. Peerflix charges a 99-cent transaction fee and senders are responsible for the postage charge of 37 cents for the mailers that the company distributes. John Barlycorn Must Die In a popular antebellum Arkansas story, a backwoodsman bought a 5-gallon barrel of whiskey, only to return a week later for another. “Surely you haven’t drank that whiskey already?” inquired the astonished merchant. “It ain’t so much,” replied the backwoodsman. “There are six of us, counting the kids, and we have no cow.” It’s not quite as detailed as some of the stories in the Foxfire books, but it’s a good treat. The Failures Of Permission Culture Donna Wentworth, over at Copyfight pointed out a JD Lasica piece detailing the responses from seven studios to his requests to use short (10-30 seconds) clips of their films in a non-commercial project he was working on with his child. …four of the studios refused outright, two refused to respond, and the seventh wobbled. This is the quandary millions of us face today: The Hollywood studios demand that we ask for permission to borrow from their works — and then they deny our requests as a matter of course. Google Moon Rocks Google engineers have got the moon on their minds lately. We all got a laugh at their April Fools Day lunar hosting and research center job opening, but they’ve done themselves one better and several points more serious with Google Moon. Sure, it’s in celebration of the first lunar landing 36 years ago today, but if they’re so fixated on the moon, why not sponsor a space competition? Google Maps Gets All The Attention It would reasonably appear that here in the US, there’s only one map site: good ol’ Google. But until Google adds maps for countries other than the US, Canada, and UK, the rest of the world will have to look elsewhere. Enter the UK competitor: Multimap.com has been serving the world outside the bubble since 1996. From their self description: Key features include street-level maps of the United Kingdom, Europe, and the US; road maps of the world; door-to-door travel directions; aerial photographs; and local information. Jenny’s DRM Scourge Jenny Levine, over at The Shifted Librarian, is telling the latest chapter in her long-running struggle with DRM. Now, I’ve installed a lot of Windows software in my day, so I feel pretty confident in my ability to double-click on an installation file. However, when I try to install [Yahoo Music Engine], I get three screens into the installer (oh the joy of accepting the license agreement over and over) before I get an error message that says, “The file c:\downloads\ could not be opened. bstat Beta 4 Release [[pageindex]]UPDATE: shout outs to Zach, Cliff, Justin, and Thomas who’ve submitted bug reports. Their feedback has been rolled in to the B4 July 20 release, available now (look for the link below). This is likely the last release before the code gets bundled into bsuite (more details on that later). Changes This documentation supersedes any previous documentation. More changes to the bstat_pulse() function; bstat_pulse_style() is no longer used. It’s been replaced by a flag in the call. See the usage example to understand. Want to customize the style? Start with that example, look at the XHTML it outputs, work from there. UPDATE thanks to Zach, these parameters are all optional. You can call it with nothing more than “bstat_pulse()”, if that’s your thing. Still, I’d recommend using the full example below. There are a lot of improvements to the management console. The number of lines to display for each category and the date range (past day, week, month, etc.) are now configurable. Quick Start Installation Download and unzip bstat.zip   Place bstat.php in you wp-content/plugins directory   Place spacer.gif in your wp-content directory   Log in to your WordPress admin panel and activate the plugin, then visit the new bstat submenu of the options tab. This will allow bstat to create its database tables.   Add the bstat_hitit function to the footer.php of your theme (or in some other place where it will be called once for each page load). This starts the counting; you can see the results in the bstat submenu of the manage tab of the WordPress admin panel. In order to view the bstat results on your public pages, you’ll need to the bstat display functions to your pages. It’s Funny ‘Cause It’s True First Lady Laura Bush speaking at the White House Correspondents Association gala noted: George’s answer to any problem at the ranch is to cut it down with a chain saw. Which, I think, is why he and Cheney and Rumsfeld get along so well. The quote is all over the net now, but I found it in the August issue of Vanity Fair. Australia’s Rum Jungle Alan Moorhead, in his 1952 Rum Jungle — a sort of casual ethnography or serious travelogue — explains the uses and attitudes towards alcohol in his native Australia: […] I took it for granted that for all social occasions, at any time of the day or night, beer was the drink. You did not take it with your meals, but before or afterwards and in considerable quantities. Beer was the solace of life and the white man’s true vision of bliss. Full-Text Searching Inside Books Search Engine Watch did a story about how to use Google and Amazon’s tools to search full-text content inside books. The gist? when you can get to the tools and where they’ve got content, it does a lot to make books as accessible and open as electronic content. Sort of related: I’ve spoken of Google Print before and there’s more in the Libraries and Networked Information category. Organizational/Institutional Blogging Done Right Jenny Levine is talking about an example of The Perfect Library Blog over at The Shifted Librarian. The posts are written in the first person and in a conversational tone, with the author’s first name to help stress the people in the library. The staff isn’t afraid to note problems with the new catalog, the web site, or anything else. Full transparency — nice. You can feel the level of trust building online. Hackable Snackable Gumstix The MAKE: podcast pointed me to gumstix — really small computers built for hacking. Cool. Google Hacks From O’Grady’s PowerPage{#14723}: I have no interest in true hacking (i.e. rummaging through people’s private junk) although viewing random unprotected IP cameras around the world in public places and controlling their panning and zoom functions is kind of mind-blowing. There are a ton of fun GHacks out there – like spelling out words in pictures using Google image search, and the Google poetry generator, or the news map generator etc. Skyhook WiFi Geolocation Old news from Gizmodo and Wi-Fi Networking News (quoting WiFi NN): Skyhook has assembled a database of information about 1.5 million access points across 25 major cities in the U.S. by driving every street in every city. Their software records multiple data points per sample for directionality. Fire up their software on a laptop, and it compares the Wi-Fi information it sees with what’s in the Skyhook database, popping out a latitude and longitude within 20 to 40 meters. Coolest Watch Ever, Today Anyway The Nixon Rotolog{#1124&MENU_ID=1}. Ike Dwight Eisenhower’s eight years as president were about a lot more than I Like Ike buttons and interstate highways. From Wikipedia: After his many wartime successes, General Eisenhower returned to the United States a great hero. It would not be long before many supporters were pressuring him to run for public office. Eisenhower was generally considered a political moderate, and it was not immediately clear which party he would choose to join. Jet Turbine Powered Toyota MR2 On eBay Yup, it’s up on eBay now (closing in a day or so) with the following description: Everybody needs one of these, cleaning out the garage, this little car is so much fun, it is thrust powered by 2 GE t-58 turbines, has 4 fuel tanks, power steering, power brakes, fire detection, fire suppression, roll over protection, self starting and quick. I have taken this car to the salt flats twice, the first time it wanted to fly @ 140 mph, but after adding the spoilers and air dam it stayed solid thru 187 mph with a lot more room to go. The Google Economy I’ve been talking about it a lot lately, most recently in a comment at LibDev. In the old world, information companies could create value by limiting access to their content. Most of us have so internalized this scarcity = value theory that we do little more than grumble about the New York Times’ authwall or similar limitations to the free-flow and linking of information. Jenny Levine wrote recently about OCLC/LJ’s short-run (though not yet ended) experiment with authwalls. What’s a “Blink” ? Stealing from Corante/Copyfight: It’s a short, one-sentence blog post + a link, à la Kottke remainders. [It’s] to share links to articles, resources, and websites of interest that do not necessarily require paragraphs of context or analysis. Enjoy! Solar Backpacks & Chargers Solar charging backpacks: Juice Bags (news), Voltaic Solar Backpack (news). And, solar iPod charger: Solio (news, news). Personalizing the Preservation Problem I went looking for an old file the other day. As it turns out, the file was from 12 years ago, but that doesn’t seem so long ago now. Anyway, I was amused to find how most of my images from that time were TIFFs instead of JPEGs. Thankfully, TIFFs are well supported now, but my old PageMaker files are largely useless to me. And while I was looking at these files from so long ago I found my really bad music from the day. Is Blogging Career Suicide? Ken (I wish he had a blog to link to) pointed out Bloggers Need Not Apply in the Chronicle Of Higher Ed over the weekend. The story is to some a highly cautionary tale: A candidate’s blog is more accessible to the search committee than most forms of scholarly output. It can be hard to lay your hands on an obscure journal or book chapter, but the applicant’s blog comes up on any computer. The Big Switch Other than a bit of head scratching after the announcement in June, I’ve been quiet about Apple’s switch to Intel processors. Now, ArsTechnica‘s Jon “Hannibal” Stokes has written some of the most intelligent material I’ve seen since. How’s it work? Hannibal thinks Apple’s relationship with IBM soured to the point where they refused to play the game. And Apple is imagining a world of devices Macs, iPods, and as yet unannounced portable, personal lifestyle devices. Napster’s Hard Road Napster — the legal, reincarnated music download site — essentially invented the concept of incumbent campus download services. They loudly{#1684} touted deals with schools “anxious” to stop the p2p music sharing problem. Trouble is, according to this story at The Reg, it’s not working well. A survey at one client university paints a sad picture: Not a single University of Rochester student admitted to buying a song via Napster during the Fall 2004 semester. The High Cost Of Metasearch For Libraries I’ve been looking seriously at metasearch/federated search products for libraries recently. After a lot of reading and a few demos I’ve got some complaints. I’m surprised how vendors, even now, devote so much time demonstrating patron features that are neither used nor appreciated by any patrons without an MLS. Recent lessons (one, two, three) should have made it clear that libraries need to conform to patron expectations of how online resources should work. bStat Features UPDATE: bstat has been updated. bStat is a hit and search term stats tracking plugin for WordPress. In addition to reporting lists of popular stories and popular search terms, it will report recent comments and a unique “pulse” graph showing the activity for a story or the entire blog over time. The documentation for the current release (b3, as of July 9, 2005) explains the public functions and their use. I believe they reveal themselves in their names, so here’s a list of most of them: Make My xB A Low Rider Team Pneumatik’s FAQ addresses the question “why do I need air suspension” simply: “Because you wanna be cool!” And now, with Pneumatik’s forthcoming kit, Scion xB owners can be cool too. Thing is, based on the photos it just doesn’t have the same effect on an xB as it does on, say, a 1965 Caddy. Braving Home Jake Halpern’s Braving Home (also in softcover) easily took my interest. Here’s how John Moe described it for Amazon.com: As a cub reporter at The New Republic, Jake Halpern earned the unofficial job title of Bad Homes Correspondent. Braving Home tells his stories of places where people really ought not live and the people who live there anyway. Halpern traveled to such inadvisable destinations as a bed and breakfast at the foot of an active Hawaiian volcano, a North Carolina town trying to recover from being completely submerged, an indoor Alaskan city, and an island in the Gulf of Mexico located directly in the cross hairs of numerous hurricanes. bstat Beta 3 Release UPDATE: bstat has been updated. Beta 2 never went public. This is beta 3. Changes This documentation supersedes any previous documentation. The bstat_pulse() function has been improved and now uses your CSS for appearance. Call bstat_pulse_style() to add my default styles inline if you don’t want to modify your CSS. Also, bstat_pulse() now has two switches to control what it displays. Please take a look at the usage guide below for how to call this function now. LibDev Launched LibDev launched today. From the Welcome message there: LibDev is a site for those interested in libraries and networked information. Want to find a way to apply tags or social bookmarking to library content? Interested in how Wikipedia can serve libraries? Want to find a better way to do patron loads or talk about what identity management means to libraries? Looking for single sign-on solutions so patrons can move seamlessly from the campus portal to your OPAC without re-authenticating? Idaho Politics Earlier this year the Idaho legislature passed a bill recognizing the success of Napoleon Dynamite, a film about Idaho life by Idahoan native sons. LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF IDAHO First Regular Session – 2005 HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION NO. 29 STATING LEGISLATIVE FINDINGS AND COMMENDING JARED AND JERUSHA HESS AND THE CITY OF PRESTON FOR THE PRODUCTION OF THE MOVIE “NAPOLEON DYNAMITE.” Be It Resolved by the Legislature of the State of Idaho: The Struggle To Protect Democracy In Florida My dad, who’s called Florida home for quite a while now, emailed me the following about goings on there: The big news here is the struggle to prevent Volusia County adopting the the Diebold touch screen ballot machines. They are bad news, because these Diebold machines do not leave a paper trail and so a manual recount of a disputed election is impossible. The Republican leaders of Florida, who take pride in their deviousness, are trying to require the adoption of these machines under the guise of providing an accessible voting system for the handicapped, especially the visually impaired. Happy Birthday, Popsicle NPR’s food essayist Bonny Wolf reported yesterday on the 100th birthday of the popsicle{#4727935} for Weekend Edition Sunday{#10} (listen in RealAudio). Like so many brilliant inventions, it happened by accident in 1905. And through a century of change, it remains a consistent American icon, stick and all. It all started, apparently, with a forgotten bottle of soda pop with a stick in it and an unusually cold night. When Is Principality of Sealand’s Independence Day? Principality of Sealand is a WWII-era gunnery platform — called Roughs Tower — in the North Sea, outside Britain’s pre-1968 three nautical mile claim of sovereign waters. Founded by Roy and Joan Bates in 1967, over time, Roy wrote a constitution and named himself and Joan as prince and princess. The Wikipedia article on Sealand tells the story of the world’s smallest micronation about as well and evenly as might be possible, but Sean Hastings’ website offers a more gripping tale. Cannon Aerial Tramway It’s hot in New Hampshire, but on top of Cannon Mountain, 4146 feet about sea level, it’s a little cooler. It’s an easy enough hike, but the aerial tram will save you the sweat. The current tram was built in 1980 and replaced the 1938 tram. The 2100 foot climb from the base takes a mile of cable each way, and the two cars make a trip every fifteen minutes. Google Maps Rock, The Google Maps API Rocks More We don’t need to hack Google Maps anymore. Now that Google has released a public maps API, we can make more reliable map-dependent apps (which will now have better browser compatibility, thank you). Within a few minutes of signing up for a maps API key I had put together the following of the Nevada Test Site Tour. Yeah, click the satellite button, scroll, zoom… It’s real. The API is all JavaScript, but I use a bit of PHP to iterate through an array of points and generate the code that puts the lines and pins on the map. Photron Makes My Favorite Video Camera Photron’s APX-RS video camera{#KingOfHighSpeedVideo} can capture 250,000 frames per second at top speed, and it can get megapixel+ resolution at 3,000 frames per second. It’s one of a dozen or so cameras in Photron‘s lineup that can shoot very, very fast video. How fast is a thousand frames a second? How fast is several thousand frames a second? Numbers alone do a bad job of telling that story. That’s why they did up this set of sample vids… Color Picking I needed to pick some colors for a new website recently. I’m color blind, so that complicates things. Thing is, color relationships can be defined mathematically and “good” or “bad” color combos can be selected by a formula, so it possible to pick colors that go together without actually being able to see them. I’ve done this color math manually for years, but I went looking for a piece of software to make it easier. WordPress’ is_X() function An entry at the WordPress support forums{#13505} gave me the list I needed. How do they work? “You can use [these] in a conditional to display certain stuff only on [certain] page[s], or to omit certain stuff on [those] page[s].” Here’s the list: is_404() is_archive() is_author() is_category() is_date() is_day() is_feed() is_home() is_month() is_new_day() is_page() is_search() is_single() is_time() is_year() So there you go. Freight Elevator Quartet JazzMusique (RSS, stream) treated me to Freight Elevator Quartet‘s So Fragile (from their Becoming Transparent album) not long ago and I liked it enough to take a note to look them up later. The band released five albums between 1997 and 2001, but seems to have disappeared since. Their site is still alive, and most entertainingly, has 13 fan remixes of Svengali (also from Becoming Transparent) available for download. My favorite is the version by Absinthe & Shiftless. Alcohol Knowledge Test I just love tests (previously: psychotic, leadership style in movies and famous people in history, and eccentric or autistic), so I was quick to try myself at this one when Al emailed me. It’s about alcohol, and like most tests, it’s not about getting the answer right, but giving the answer that the test writer wants. So it’s flawed, but it’s a bit of fun. Here are my results: Score: Bacardi 151 Sending SMS Messages My friend Will was in meetings all day Friday, and there are few better times to have SMS messaging than in meetings. Thing is, I didn’t want to type on my phone’s numeric keypad when I had my computer in front of me, so I went looking for the details of this old hint that describes how to send SMS messages with iChat (would also work with any AIM client). RegEx Reference Regular expressions are a pain. Jan Goyvaerts’ RegEx Reference helps. In a related tip, the following will eliminate any non-numeric components in a string: ereg_replace(“[^0-9]”, “”, $string) . I guess I’ll have to admit that I’d not used the exclusion operator before (the carrot immediately following a square bracket). Now I know. GeoTagging Gets A New Meaning Who doesn’t love tagging? No, tagging as in annotating, not graffiti. Anyway, Rixome is the latest among a bunch of plans/projects to enable tagging of geographic spaces/real-life environments. The good people at We Make Money Not Art had this in their post: rixome is a network and a tool that turns mobile screens into windows that show the virtual and public dimensions of our point of view. A walker (a rixome user) can see on his/her mobile phone/PDA/laptop screen the virtual interventions that have been added to the location where s/he now stands. Art Deco Hair Daniela Turudich knows vintage fashion. Her books include not only hair, but how to recreate a vintage wedding, vintage recipes and candy making, and Beauty Secrets of History’s Most Notorious Courtesans. Here’s the description from Art Deco Hair: Art deco has long been associated with uncompromising style and sophistication, and this guide to recreating the sassy, controversial styles of the ’20s and ’30s offers a glimpse back at the hairstyles of this era. Oooms Design Ist Sehr Gut Guido Ooms has some pretty neat ideas. Engadget got high on his Anti Gravity Machine (you must watch the video), but there’s a lot more to see. I wish I could link to examples of his furniture, bottle holders, personal transportation devices, or dohickies, but his Flash-based site won’t let me. His Glassbulbs are pictured here, but go visit the Oooms site and click on the “products” link to see more. How To Measure The Tallest Building Zach likes tall buildings. Perhaps it relates to his superhero obsession (leap giant buildings in a single bound and all), but it’s undeniable that he likes them. Here, he gushes about the details of what makes a tall building and how it is measured. Judging can be to the top of the highest occupied floor, top of the roof, architectural top (including spires), and top of mast or antenna. Of course, the building must be freestanding and habitable too. Culture of Entertainment I don’t remember how I found this tip to BaitCar.com‘s collection of police videos of car thefts. They’re good for a few laughs, but things like this — and about half of the programming on Spike{#13535} — make me wonder how far we are from from the worlds depicted in Running Man and so many other stories. Eh, at least we’ve got Bravo. That’s some good TV. Least Wanted I’m entirely captivated by Mark Michaelson‘s collection of mug shots on Flickr. It’s titled “Least Wanted” and he notes with little fanfare that they’re “Nobody famous.” Some of the photos contain little histories, like this set from the 40s and 50s that includes conviction details — “30 days W. H.” for “selling obscene literature.” Another image shows rapid aging over a three year period starting in 1943. It’s part of a small collection of recidivist women of the 1940s. Overheard In The Library “I want all the books that I’m interested in on one shelf.” Making ZIP Files On Mac OS X Everybody else may know this, but MacOS X includes the command-line utility to make Windows-compatible ZIP files. It works a lot like tar, but without needing any switches. > zip {target file} {source files} Big Brother Gets More Eyes Engadget yesterday had a story about the Mobile Plate Hunter 900, a device that mounts on police cars and scans 500 to 800 license plates an hour. More details are in the Wired News story, where LA County police commander Sid Heal notes that the system is hands-off: “It doesn’t require the [officer] to do anything.” The plates are automatically checked against a database of stole cars, and the patrolling officer when the system finds a match. Switching Hosting Providers I’ll be switching hosting providers this week. At some point I’ll have to turn off the comments here so that I can synchronize the database and prevent loss of comments as the DNS changes propagate. **Update: ** The switch seems to have gone well and the DNS changes have propagated to the networks I’m using. Comments are on again. That’s the way it’s supposed to work. bstat Beta 1 Release UPDATE: bstat has been updated. I’ve finally added a clean admin interface to my bstat WordPress stats tracking plugin and cleaned up the code for release as a public beta. Quick Start Installation Download and unzip bstat.zip Place bstat.php in you wp-content/plugins directory Place spacer.gif in your wp-content directory Log in to your WordPress admin panel and activate the plugin, then visit the new bstat submenu of the options tab. What Makes Ohio Red It’s a story that won’t die, and yet it can’t get any attention. Since November 3rd, reasonable people have been wondering what happened. On election night, exit polls predicted a 5 million vote win for Kerry, but the official election results declared Bush the winner by 3 million votes. We’re all suspicious of polls, but an 8 million vote discrepancy is big and exit polls are considered the most accurate of all. North-Country Drive-Ins The Fairlee Drive-In Theatre is open with double features on weekends Details: 1809 Route 5, Fairlee VT 05045 (one mile north of town) 802-333-9192 Notes from Driveinmovie.com: The usual Hotel/Motel concept of in-room movies is cable TV, this is one of only two Drive-ins in America that have a motel on the premises with a view of a drive-in movie. All rooms have a picture window and speaker, allowing motel guests to watch the movies. Squirrel Decanter And Other Dead Animal Art The strange folks over at Custom Creature Taxidermy Arts have come out with a Squirrel Liquor Decanter that’s making the rounds. Jon said simply “words cannot describe.” But the good folks at Gizmodo assure us that “anyone who sees you sucking on the desiccated neck of an ex-squirrel will know you are a man of class and style.” Other items in their novelty selection include flying squirrels and punk rock squirrels. American Reporter’s Nagasaki Story Emerges After 60 Years Of Censorship George Weller won a Pulitzer Prize, a Polk Award, and was named a Neimann Fellow during his fifty-some-odd year career during which he covered much of Europe and Asia for the New York Times and Chicago Daily News. Weller died in 2002 at age 95, leaving behind a body of work that tells much of the 20th century’s events. His 1943 story about an appendectomy performed by navy pharmacist’s mate Wheeler Lipes in a submarine 120 feet below Pacific waters amid the concussive blasts of depth charges is legendary. The Difference Between Progressive and Conservative Bloggers David Rothman points to a Daily KOS story that points to a MyDD story titled “Aristocratic Right Wing Blogosphere Stagnating.” What’s the point? Of the top 40 political blogs, more than half are ‘liberal,’ and more importantly, they support community involvement — including basic features like comments — that the conservative blogs shun. of the five most trafficked conservative blogs (over 200,000 page views per week), only one […] even allows comments… Google Print: Reports From Michigan & Oxford I’m listening and watching along with the EDUCAUSE online presentation from the Universities of Michigan and Oxford and their participation in Google Print. Presenters: John P. Wilkin Associate University Librarian Library Information Technology and Technical and Access Services University of Michigan   Reginald Carr Director of University Library Services and Bodley’s Librarian University of Oxford Google Print is old news by now, but it’s interesting to get their reports on it. Geolocating The News Last week I got excited about the as-yet unreleased geolocation API for BBC Backstage. Now Larry D. Larsen of the Poynter Institute is excited too. In a post titled The Future of News (… Hint: GPS){#31&aid=83597} he talks about putting news in geographic context with geolocation tags. Eventually, clicking an article in a news/Google Map hybrid might zoom in to a 3D model of the area where an automatic pop-up starts playing a slideshow with pictures of the scene or streaming video along with the text news content. Blogger’s Legal Guide Copyfight is pointing to the EFF‘s new Legal Guide for Bloggers. Most of the content is about liability, but it also addresses issues of access and privilege that are generally granted to journalists, election law, and labor law. From the introduction: Whether you’re a newly minted blogger or a relative old-timer, you’ve been seeing more and more stories pop up every day about bloggers getting in trouble for what they post. When You Don’t Have A GPS… Geolocation by GPS my be the most straightforward approach, but we mustn’t forget the other ways to get lat/lon coordinates. All current cell phones support aGPS positioning to comply with federal E-911 mandates, but not all phones make it easy for the user to get that information out of them. Still, some do and GPS-enabled moblogging is becoming common in Asia and Europe, and there’s at least a public proof of concept going in the US. The Mystifying Aroma Of Rot I love libraries, and I love books, but there the needs of our students and limitations of our budgets have no room for misplaced romantic attachments. That’s why I’ve found myself paraphrasing something from Ibiblio’s Paul Jones (via Teleread): That smell of an old book, that smell of old libraries? That’s the smell of the books rotting. We must remember that libraries catalog and share information and knowledge, not books. Pinball Wizard Gets His Due The Laconia Citizen{#/20050608/CITIZEN0104/106080096/-1/CITIZEN} reported today that Ron Mowry’s 31 year quest for recognition as the real pinball wizard of 1974 has finally achieved some success. The Twin Galaxies Official Video Game & Pinball Book of World Records will credit Mowry’s 72 hour 8 minute marathon pinball session as a record. Mowry set his 1974 record at a sandwich shop in Hallandale Beach, Florida, but he was raised in Plymouth, NH, where he now works for the university. bstat Pulse I imported the content of my old referrer tracking database as hits in my new bstat stats datatabase so I could have more data to work with. I mixed this with a fairly simple graphing routine and now we can see the “pulse” of the whole site and each story. Take a look at the bottom of the main page and between the body and comments in the single story pages to see what I mean. bstat Progress I’ve been hard at work on my bstat stats tracking plugin for WordPress and you can see the results in the sidebar and in the story views here. The work has been made especially easy because of the great documentation, including writing a plugin, plugin API, and related pages at the WordPress codex. I’m testing the plugin with a limited group now (thank you Sandee and Cliff). But with a few more tweaks and a little more time to prove itself, I think it will be ready for an open beta. Professionals Don’t Use Ofoto Or Wal Mart Photo Services At least that’s the only thing a person can conclude from the stories at Copyfight earlier this week. This post reports on two stories where the photo services concluded that the photos to be printed were too good to have come from an average customer. Upon trying to order prints of her child, one Ofoto user found the following: Your order has been cancelled because it appears your order contains one of the following… 1. BBC Backstage Is Gonna Rock (Once They Release The APIs) The APIs aren’t yet out, but the BBC has already won me over with their Backstage BBC concept. Of course, I’m a fan of anything with an API, but the real deal here is that it appears they’re planning on releasing a “query by geo-location data” API — and I’m all a gaga about about geolocation. I’ll definitely be looking to see what takes shape across the pond. Damn PNGs in Internet Explorer I don’t know why IE has never displayed my transparent PNGs correctly, but I know now that I’m not the only one with this complaint. Bob Osola (name?) shares my frustration, and better, he sat down and coded a solution, shared the code, and posted a wonderfully informative guide to the problem. Not sure if your browser can display transparent PNGs properly? Follow that link for examples. The Google Economy Vs. Libraries Roger over at Electric Forest is making some arguments about the value of open access to information. Hopefully he’ll forgive me for my edit of his comment (though readers check the original to make sure I preserved the original meaning): …keep the [information] under heavy protection and you will find that people ignore this sheltered content in favor of the sources that embrace the web and make everything accessible… [Open and accessible resources] will become the influential authorities, not because they are more trustworthy, or more authoritative, or better written, but because they are more accessible. What? I’m not sure what to think about Steve J’s WWDC announcement (video stream) of Apple’s switch to x86 processors. Coverage at MacNN, Mac Rumors, Ars Technica, etc. I’m not sure, but it would be easier to take if I wasn’t the only one who saw conspiracy in it. Does this relate to Intel’s recent shoehorning of DRM onto the CPU? It wasn’t long ago that I was praising Apple for making devices that served the remix world that exists in the void between fair use and copyright infringement, but moves since then have concerned me. On The Media Does Copyright Issue I had just sat down to post a note about an interview with J.D. Lasica in On The Media (listen to MP3) this week when I found David Rothman beat me to it. The interview was one of the better treatments of copyright issues that’s I’ve heard/seen in the (relatively-) popular media. Here’s the summary from the OTM site: For every move that media industries have taken to protect their copyrights, there has been an equal and opposite countermove by consumers. Doggy And You: Mark Schutte’s Dog Powered Scooter Engadget has a link to Mark Schutte’s dog powered scooter. This catches my eye because my friend Joe is always looking for ways to exercise his sled dogs in the summer. The developer, of course, is very serious about its befits and usefulness of this contraption. Here’s the sales pitch: Focus your dogs energy and enjoy the new sport of Urban Dog Mushing. Engadget has some complaints, but this looks like the best solution I’ve seen yet for running sled dogs in the summer. Remixing Reality: Good or Bad? We’ve all seen the ads they digitally insert on the field during football games and we’ve heard talk about inserting new product placements as old TV shows play in syndication. Ernie Miller has been thinking about this recently. Last week he noted that folks are creating ipod-able, independent audio tours of museums. “…Hack the gallery experience, […] remix MoMA!” commands ArtMobs, one of the groups producing these unauthorized audio tours. Ohara Fireflies I don’t consider myself a Japonophile, but I do find myself reading Mainichi Daily News each day, and when they put up a picture like this, of fireflies near the Yamada River in Ohara, (Chiba Prefecture) I can’t help but notice. TeleRead Spends Morning On Portable Computing Stories …Well, not entirely, but I couldn’t help but read the posts on the PepperPad and history of the Newton. I’m a fan of computing devices that don’t fit the mold, so I eat up stuff like this. I noted the Pepper Pad previously, and written a few posts about the Newton and ultra-portable computing. Update: Engadget is getting in on the excitement too. They’re pointing to this OSOpinion article that’s at the center of it all. Wikipedia and Libraries Wikipedia seems to get mixed reviews in the academic world, but I don’t fully understand why. There are those that complain that they can’t trust the untamed masses with such an important task as writing and editing an encyclopedia, then there are others that say you can’t trust the experts with it either. For my part, I’ve come to love Wikipedia, despite having access to EB and other, more traditional sources. Disobey Gary Wolf wrote in the June issue of Wired about how smart mobs in New York’s World Trade Center outbrained the “authorities” and enjoyed higher survival rates because of it. Wolf is talking about the NIST report on Occupant Behavior, Egress, and Emergency Communications (warning: PDFs). There’s also this executive summary and this looks like a mind numbing PowerPoint presentation (also PDF). So, what about it? For nearly four years – steadily, seriously, and with the unsentimental rigor for which we love them – civil engineers have been studying the destruction of the World Trade Center towers, sifting the tragedy for its lessons. Japanese Government Employees Extremely Troubled By Summer Casual Dress Code Today is the first day of summer, according to Japan’s Environmental Ministry, and that means it’s time to take off the ties and suit jackets and put on “casual” clothes. The ministry has been leading a charge to reduce energy consumption and ease global warming by asking all government employees to leave their neckties at home so they feel cooler with less air conditioning. But despite endorsements from Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi it might not be going as well as planned. Take A Picture, Get Hassled By The Man Alan Wexelblat at Copyfight pointed out this story that talks about increasing limits on public photography. If you’re standing on public property, you can shoot anything the naked eye can see, explains Ken Kobre, professor of photojournalism at San Francisco State University and author of one of the seminal textbooks on the subject. …But that apparently doesn’t stop security guards, cops, and others from intimidating and sometimes arresting those who try it. Theme change… Theme change not yet complete, but looking good. It’s a widened version of Clemens Orth’s Relaxation_3column, itself a derivitive of John Wrana‘s two columned Relaxation theme. I found it on the WordPress Codex, and though it was among the first group I looked at, I dutifully clicked through to every other three-columned theme listed there. Anyway, expect the banner to change, and I’m working on how I want to handle the width on smaller monitors (where “smaller” actually equals anything narrower than 1280px). Bad Movie, Verboten Subject? I’m embarrassed to be in the middle of Fantasy Mission Force, a kung fu movie that demonstrates a brand of Asian humor that I haven’t yet learned to appreciate. I’m watching it because I’m a sucker for Jackie Chan flicks and Netflix makes it too easy to queue up bad movies. David Chute wrote the Amazon editorial review: Jackie Chan makes a brief guest appearance in this surreally goofy action comedy, a high-spirited shambles from 1982 that hovers awkwardly somewhere between Monty Python and The Three Stooges. Global Threats, As Seen Through Eyes Of Movie Producers and Insurers Jonathan Crowe points out this Risks In Global Filmmaking Map by Aon, the entertainment industry insurance company. Go view the PDF or a full-size PNG{#16725021&size=o} for all the details. Lunch at Burdick’s Treated Mom to lunch at L.A. Burdick’s in Walpole today. The food at Burdick’s is always remarkable, but this time I got a decent photo of it. I’m calling the plate in front a real tuna salad. Yes, those are strips of medium-rare tuna, but it’s the pickled onions that delighted me. In the middle is my rare steak with a dollop of stilton butter. For desert, we enjoyed a frappes and shared a piece of hazelnut-orange cake while thunder and large hailstones menaced the street outside. WordPress Stats Goodness Work on my bstats plugin continues. I’ve added recently commented posts tracking, begun work on a usage graph, as requested by Richard Akerman, and put together an interesting way to track usage of the Google ads. I’m using the Google ads to figure out how to best use them on another project later. I think they look a little too commercial here too. I’ve done nothing yet to created a list of related posts, and I’m still researching how I want to do referrer tracking. Of WordPress Tags, Keywords, XML-RPC, and the MovableType API WordPress’s XML-RPC support looks pretty good. Heck, it supports a half dozen APIs and works well with ecto … except for tag support, which is my only complaint with it so far. The Movable Type API supports a “keywords” field that I’m thinking can be hijacked as a “tags” field instead, but while ecto sends the goods — I can see them in the XML-RPC data that gets sent out, WordPress seems to ignore them upon receipt. bstats Plugin I’m more than surprised that there’s no (decent) stats plugin for WordPress, but that hasn’t stopped me from writing me own. It’s called “bstats,” and I’ll release a beta soon. In the meantime. the “today’s most popular” list comes directly from this new plugin. One Step Forward… I thought I was real smart when I modified the tags plugin to support integration with Technorati. The code was simple, just look in the tags.php plugin file for the foreach statements that run through the tags names and turn them into links on the page and change the $tags[] = statement to look something like this: $tags[] = “tag_name).”\“ target=\”$target\“ rel=\”tag\“ title=\”More “.$row->tag_name.” at {site name}\“ >”.$row->tag_name.“ tag_name.”\“ target=\”$target\“ rel=\”tag\“ title=\”Find “. Nuclear Test Site Tour The above image is my followup to my Nevada Test Site Tour post from last month and comes courtesy of Adam Schneider’s very useful GPS Visualizer (you really need to see it full-sized{#15521015&size=o}, though). I still don’t have a cable to connect the ancient Magellan GPS I used to a computer, so I manually entered the waypoints I marked into the form and selected a few options, and viola. …And Then You Realize You Wasted Your Life I think I’ve been avoiding commenting on this issue for weeks because it hits so close to home. First I read it in BiblioAcid, then Jenny Levine picked it up, then Richard Ackerman picked it up at the Science Library Pad: library catalogs are broken, and there’s no amount of adding pictures or fiddling with colors that will fix them. I nibbled at the edges of this in my IUG conference presentation, but I didn’t say it as well or as clearly as Roy Tennant did in his widely quoted April 15 Library Journal column: Vonage CEO Interview Makes Me Feel Old Engadget’s interview with Jeffrey Citron, chairman and CEO of Vonage gives an interesting peak into the world of the baby bells, through the eyes of an upstart. Citron dishes about the competition, stomping AT&T, working deals with the bells to make 911 services work, and a possible Palm version of their softphone. Most interestingly is his notions about what their customers want and expect. …more and more people are deciding that they don’t even want a land line in the house…? Blog Software Switched I’m almost ready to call the first stage of my WordPress migration done, except it looks like the comment submission forms aren’t working. While I’m working on that, please note the new feed URLs: RSS 0.9x, RSS 2.0, and atom. Update: Found a reference to the comment bug on the WP support site and in their bug tracking system. I didn’t find the answer there, though, so this is still a problem. Switching Blog Software… I think I’ve finally decided to go to WordPress after all. I tried doing it too quickly last time and it almost worked, but I switched back when I realized I might need more than 15 minutes to figure out how to use WordPress in production. Since then I’ve found a set of plugins that do most of what I want, but it looks like I’m going to have to put together a stats tracking plugin of my own. Crime and Privacy on Google Maps Annalee Newitz last week posted a column on people’s fear of privacy loss as a result of Google Maps. Her point: So while all these people are wringing their hands over how simple it is for strangers to discover the color of their roof on Google, we forget that we can already be tracked everywhere we go using cell phones and the RFID chips in Wal-Mart backpacks. I honestly didn’t know people were up in arms about the maps and satellite images (which have been available elsewhere for years), and, like Annalee, I’m much more concerned about the proliferation of real-time tracking systems like cameras, RFID tags in our driver’s licenses and consumer products, and other sensor technologies. Eating My Way Through San Francisco San Francisco is a great city for a conference. It’s also a pretty good place to get lunch. The following is poorly written and incomplete. Well, at least it’s something. Sunday I was a little surprised to find Johnny Rockets on Jefferson St. serving breakfast, but they did a fine sausage, egg, and cheese sandwich all the same. After visiting Alcatraz, I had a delectable rueben at The Buena Vista on the corner of Beech and Hyde, where they’re known for their Irish Coffee. 146 Wasted Minutes I can now say with the authority of experience that Star Wars Episode III sucked. Update: Zach’s right, my opinion of the original trilogy has fallen over time. But I stand by the statement that Episode III is worse than it should be. The real reason for the update, however, is to note a couple pictures of things seen and done while waiting in line: Matt, with an oversized jug of generic cola and this oversized scorpion bowl. UN Food Survey The proceeding was forwarded to me by my dad, who included a note suggesting that jokes may embody the only real truths we can know. A worldwide survey was conducted by the UN. The only question asked was: Would you please give your honest opinion about solutions to the food shortage in the rest of the world? Though translated into appropriate local languages and delivered using local personnel, the survey was a huge failure. Cool Stuff Made Easy (RSS, OpenGL 3D Graphics, Screensaver App) I have an appropriate fondness for Engadget‘s How-To features, like today’s “Make a customized RSS screensaver in Tiger.” MacOS X 10.4 Tiger comes with a pretty decent RSS screensaver (don’t miss the movie), which can be set to display feeds from any source that Safari can read and bookmark. And if that’s all you want out of life, well then you won’t have any reason to leave your couch/chair/bathtub or wherever you use your Mac. Geolocating Everything I’ve been excited about geolocating photos, blog posts, etc for a while. So this past month or so has been quite exciting. Most recently, GPS Photo Linker has been updated with Mac OS X 10.4 specific features: With Spotlight in Mac OS X 10.4, you can instantly search for the city, state and country information automatically saved by GPSPhotoLinker. Additionally, Mac OS X 10.4 does support the GPS metadata tags in photos. About That Bookless UT Austin Library There’s a lot of talk about the New York Times story about UT Austin’s undergrad library throwing out its books. Problem is, I don’t think it’s as exciting as people are making it out to be. First, the undergraduate library is one of 14 libraries on campus and the real issue was space, not books. When priorities change, but you don’t have enough money to break ground on new buildings, you’ve got to re-use the old ones. Flickr API The Flickr API rocks. It helps that the developers are really excited about web services (PDFs converted from their original PPTs). Anyway, there are code libraries available for PHP4, JavaScript and others. Michael Madrid’s Oberkampf is a dead simple PHP library that looks easy enough for non-coders to use. And I found myself quite satisfied with the REST request format and the XML to array parser by Eric Rosebrock. Do I Want A LifeDrive? After months of no news or no good news, and just as I’m about to knock Palm news site 1src off my feeder, palmOne starts leaking details of their LifeDrive “mediacentric handheld.” Then somebody leaked the whole datasheet, and 1src was there with the deets. Engadget was on the story the next day, and summarized as follows: it’s 4.76 x 2.87 x 0.74 inches in size, weighs 6.8 ounces, runs on Palm OS Garnet 5. Markoff, I Wish I Could Trust Thee Trouble: John Markoff has been doing tech stories for the New York Times since the beginning of days, so it’s likely he’s written something you’ve read and enjoyed. But he’s also written a number of wrong or counterfactual stories that he makes little or no apology for. At the core of the claims against him is his coverage of Kevin Mitnick, the accused cyber-criminal who was held for over four years — including eight months in solitary — without a bail or sentencing hearing. Google’s War On Hierarchy, Alert The Librarians Via Ernie Miller I saw a link to John Hiller‘s story about Google’s War on Hierarchy, and the Death of Hierarchical Folders. Googlization is a concept libraries have been strugling with for a while. And while it’s hard to say wether the change is good or bad, I can say that failure to change makes libraries irrelevant among patrons who’ve grown accustomed to Google and other exemplary services. So John’s story caught my eye and had my full attention for a while. Sunrise on Mount Monadnock I’ve loaded some more of my old photography, inlcuding this shot of sunrise on Mount Monadnock (info) from the spring of 1992 or 1993. Josh stands on the outcrop in the foreground. I held the exposure open longer than appropriate for true brightness and color, but I like the effect. Other photos: Another sunrise on Mt. Monadnock, photos from around Harrisville, panoramas of the Nevada desert and London, a rose, and a set of stairs. Library Portal Integration I’ve been back at work less than a week now, and I’m already behind. I’ve finally posted the handout and slides (as a QuickTime movie, PDF here) from our IUG presentation. I’ll submit them to IUG for their archive and add them to the Plymouth State University library portal integration page in an update soon. As usual, presentation slides don’t stand on their own, but they should be helpful reminders of what was said. Kwajalein Atoll Kwajalein Atoll is a part of the Republic of the Marshall Islands, lost in the Pacific Ocean (MapTech makes it easier to find) along with more recognizable locations like Bikini and Enewetak atolls. The military presence is far from gone, however, as Kwajalein is home to Reagan Test Site, where the US Army tests the last remnants of Reagan‘s infamous Star Wars program. Now reincarnated as George W. Bush‘s missile defense, it survives despite its flaws and an unbroken string of failed tests. Hilary Rosen: Sock Puppet We’re all talking about Hilary Rosen‘s apparent about face, apparently pro-customer, anti-DRM essay now (props to David Rothman for taking the high road on this). In an update to his Monday post, however, Ernie Miller notes that the RIAA and Hilary Rosen’s history is that of blanket opposition to MP3 players (and fair use) in general. If the RIAA had its way, there wouldn’t be any portable MP3 players. The only portable players you would be able to buy would play only DRM restricted tunes. Delicious, Refreshing, Old Liquor Bottles So grenadine isn’t officially a liquor, but it gets kept behind the bar and this one has a great label. The collection comes from the estate of a friend’s mother, who appears to have had a taste for old martini culture (not pictured are several bottles of vermouth). There’s more in my Flickr photoblog. Pointless, Crude, Badly Drawn, Unintelligent, Offensive It’s a book review. It goes like this: Pointless, crude, badly drawn, unintelligent, offensive. Life-threateningly funny. Buy this. Another Amazon UK customer wrote: Funnier than the real people with Tourettes The book is Modern Toss, by Jon Link and Mick Bunnage. Cartoons and more info are online. When We Can’t All Just Get Along (The Failure of Logical Centrism) I love the following quote from Copyfight: Frank Field, responding to James Boyle’s much–discussed FT column, Deconstructing Stupidity: “Flat-earthers are harmless — until they start forcing you to write the specifications for your GPS system in accordance with their views. Then, you’re screwed.” And Boyle’s column is pretty good too. Former RIAA Head Hates DRM? Today is sort of an anti-DRM day here, so it was some pleasure that I just saw Ernie Miller’s post at Copyfight regarding Hilary Rosen, the former head of the RIAA. She’s complaining about the DRM Apple uses with its music store and iPod. She says: I spent 17 years in the music business the last several of which were all about pushing and prodding the painful development of legitimate on-line music. Give Orphaned Works A Home David Rothman at TeleRead is alerting us to something we should have done a long time ago, but, hey look, a caterpillar…. Really, the US Copyright Office and Library of Congress are accepting comments to comments on the issue of “orphan works.” But, the deadline is today at 5PM EST today! James Boyle, addressed some of these questions in a column in the Financial Times recently: Thomas Macaulay told us copyright law is a tax on readers for the benefit of writers, a tax that shouldn’t last a day longer than necessary. Broadcast Flag Smackdown The only thing that could have made Friday’s news sweeter would be to have received the DC Circuit Court of Appeals’ deciscion against the broadcast flag from the US Supreme Court instead. Still, it’s enough to get most of the IP-aware blogsphere excited. To wit: here, here, here, and everywhere else. Copyfight‘s synopsis was the best: The American Library Association, Public Knowledge, EFF, et al. just won our joint challenge to the FCC’s ability to regulate consumer electronic devices that receive digital television signals, 3-0 at the D. T-Mobile Does Coverage Maps, Verizon Wireless Baffled I’d like to make more of this, but it’s old news. We’re all sick of the “can you hear me now” ads, but that doesn’t stop Verizon from talking up their network testing efforts. But when it comes to network performance, the CEO starts complaining about customers who expect their phones to work at home. What? Yes. Engadget reports: In an interview with the San Francisco Chronicle he asks, “Why in the world would you think your (cell) phone would work in your house? Time To Change… Time To Rearrange… Time To Restore From Backup… I’ve given up on my poorly timed and completely unplanned try at switching to WordPress. I started out thinking I’d experiment with it, then things got out of hand. Factors contributing to my interest in WordPress: ecto via allforces.com A little compare and contrast with pMachine livesearch Better RSS/Atom output Flickr Gallery A mostly functional pMachine importer A damn easy install A bunch of plugins Factors that made me give it up for the short-term: What Are You Doing To Shape The Future Of Libraries? Jenny Levine recently posted a note about OPACs and XML and Maps wherein she makes two points: first, Mike Copley at North Shore Libraries in New Zealand has been doing some exciting stuff to help patrons find books (go ahead, go there and click a “view map” link), then expands her post to address the struggles that folks like Mike face to do some of these things. See, Mike’s library system is converting to Innovative (III) soon, so the work he’s done is mostly for naught, as it’s very difficult to identify item locations with the detail he’s getting now. XML Server Applications Well, it’s done. The [handout][1] and [slides][2] as presented are posted here, and I’ll add them to our [portal integration][3] page (yeah, they’re sort of connected) when I return to [Plymouth][4]. The slides don’t stand on their own, but for those that were there, they should be helpful reminders of what was said what links we looked at. One of the attendees took me to task for recommending MARC XML as the replacement for III’s proprietary schema, saying that it fails to leverage the full value of XML. III Introduces “Web Works” Where did this come from? Innovative calls it “Web Works,” and describes them as “HTML-based interfaces for light-weight system access.” Here’s the program description: WebWorks are new products that offer focused functionality for staff through a lightweight browser-based client. One Web Works client handles Selection List processing while a cataloging client provides the ability to add and edit records. The session was hugely crowded, and I had to run off before I got to ask my question: “how do these fit in with any web services strategy III may be developing? Citing Library Collections On The Web The example below uses a JavaScript to display bibliographic details about an item in Plymouth State University’s library catalog. Now imagine this link included information on the availability of the item, and a button to request or reserve it…. This post is intended to demonstrate how library catalog data can be used in places far from the catalog, perhaps in Blackboard/WebCT, blogs, or elsewhere. I’m at the Innovative Users Group 2005 Conference, where I’ll use this post in my presentation on XML Server, session L5. IUG2005: LDAP Is Not Single Sign-On At Innovative Users Group 2005 Conference now. The most exciting thing today was Using LDAP Authentication by John Culshaw of University of Colorado at Boulder, and Richard Paladino of Innovative Interfaces. Despite the title, the raison d’etre of the presentation was single sign-on, and the unstated hurdle was identity management. Academic IT departments are struggling with these two huge issues, but libraries often have even more limited IT resources and are getting little help from campus IT departments. Prisoners Of Age at Alcatraz Found Ron Levine’s Prisoners of Age exhibit at Alcatraz today. Sadly, the website doesn’t appear give the prisoner’s stories, and, though the photos are well done, it’s the stories that hold our attention. Leaving Las Vegas Morning’s cold light shines harshly even on the strip, but this Saturday morning on Fremont Street looks especially forlorn. I’ll be on a plane to San Francisco for my conference in a few hours. Golden Gate Hotel and Casino According to the history printed on their diner placemats, the Golden Gate has been standing at the corner of Fremont and Main streets for 100 years. kris247 had some good fun eating unhealthy quantities of 99 cent shrimp cocktail at the Gate. [update:] The stay wasn’t bad, in fact, I enjoyed the best sleep I’ve had all week. Some were out trying to save souls, but I found fried Twinkies. Fatburger and Henderson, NV My trip to Henderson was a bust. I’ll eventually make a story about what I’d planned to do, but the only thing that worked out was a visit to Fatburger in the Sunset Station Casino. Along the way I snapped this bad panorama of the Vegas strip. The point here was to show the sprawl on what some are calling the city’s centennial. The shot goes better with the story I wanted to tell, but it fails even there. Nevada Test Site Tour Toured the Nevada Test Site today. No cameras allowed, but I did take along a GPS and marked points of interest along the way. I’ll have to upload the track and landmarks when I get home, but Google Sightseeing has some interesting Nevada destinations, including one for the test site area. But satellite photos can do little to show the human scale of things like the 1,200 foot wide Sedan Crater. Waiting In Long Beach Long Beach airport is a small affair, seemingly more fitting for Dubuque Iowa than the south Los Angeles sprawl. Gates one through three are in a pre-manufactured temporary structure that’s obviously been in use for some time, but the food from the one vendor is better than in Boston and the Queen Mary Spa offers massages hidden behind a partition in the corner. A five minute of scalp rub runs $7. beatnikside’s Vegas Photo Gallery I can’t help but like beatnickside‘s Las Vegas Flickr photo set. It’s one of the most photographed of cities, but these photos are fresher than that. Sometimes enteraining, sometimes informing, the shots of Vegas’s glitz and glamour show special attention to detail. This week is Vegas week at MaisonBisson, since I’m out here before heading to San Francisco to present at IUG 2005. I have an inexplicable fondness for Vegas. SMART High Efficiency Car Coming To US I got excited a while ago when I learned that Daimler Chrysler was bringing their little SMART car to Canada, and I’m even more excited now that I learn that it’s coming to the US via ZAP, a company originally formed to make and sell electric cars (ZAP stands for zero air pollution). Though powered by a normal internal combustion engine, its small size and low weight allow it up to 60 miles a gallon — much better than the 20. The Long Tail Of Violence It’s been a few days of “long tail” talk here at MaisonBisson. Stories about popularity vs. the long tail and aesthetics of the short head are just below. Here’s one on the violence of the long tail. John Robb at Global Guerrillas wrote about the “dark side” of the long tail in a March 18 post to his blog. It’s a touchy one, so I’d better explain Robb’s point in his own words: National Weather Service Adds XML And RSS Feeds The US National Weather Service just updated the SOAP/XML interface to their National Digital Forecast Database (NDFD) and RSS feeds from their Storm Prediction Center. I feel a little happier about paying my taxes when I see government organizations like the Weather Service posting answers like this: The National Weather Service is striving to serve society’s needs for weather information by evolving its services from a text-based paradigm to one based on making NWS information available quickly, efficiently, and in convenient and understandable forms. Tetris Shelves Gizmodo posted a picture and a little text about BraveSpaceDesign‘s Tetris Shelves. More from BraveSpaceDesign can be seen in this post at Land+Living. They’re all the standard Tetris shapes constructed of walnut and ash. My previous attempts at cabinet making were miserable failures, but considering these shelves cost seven large — yes, $7,000 — it’s more likely that I’ll be making my own than buying them. Question, though, am I violating copyright/trademark/patent law if I built my own for personal use? LibLime/Koha ILS A comment to a post on The Shifted Librarian pointed me to the LibLime collection of open source library applications including the Koha ILS. They’ve got demos for the whole collection, including the OPAC. It’s the first I’d heard of LibLime or Koha ILS, but it’s good stuff and I certainly hope to see more of it. The Dark Side Of Networked Information According to the website, MITRE is: a not-for-profit company that provides systems engineering, research and development, and information technology support to the government. It operates federally funded research and development centers for the Department of Defense, the Federal Aviation Administration and the Internal Revenue Service, with principal locations in Bedford, Massachusetts, and McLean, Virginia. All of this is interesting because BlogsOfWar points out that they’ve been presenting information on a project titled BlogINT: Weblogs as a Source of Intelligence (with slides in PDF format): “Short Head” Vulgarity and Prurience Chris Anderson at the Long Tail Blog quotes a passage from David Foster Wallace’s A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again: TV is not vulgar and prurient and dumb because the people who compose the audience are vulgar and dumb. Television is the way it is simply because people tend to be extremely similar in their vulgar and prurient and dumb interests and wildly different in their refined and aesthetic and noble interests. What Is Networked Information? There’s data, then there’s information. Information is meaningful and self explanatory, data need to be aggregated and analyzed before they become information. Networks — Ethernet and the internet — transmit data, but our web browsers and the back-end applications they connect to turn it into useful information. “Networked information” is what results from building connections between multiple information sources. Displaying an author’s biography inline with the library catalog holdings of books by that author is one example of how the value of information sources grows when they’re networked. Credit Where Credit Is Due Jenny Levine’s mention of my work with Innovative’s XML Server Wednesday drew a lot of attention, but there’s little online public discussion of Innovative to give some of my comments context. Innovative started started development on their XML Server product quite a while ago (five years, yes?), before later standards like MARC XML had any traction. They did it to create another very useful product, their AirPAC, a online catalog for mobile phones and handheld devices, and without any clear demand for XML Server from customers. Stanford Library’s Tech History Collection I just discovered Standford Library’s collection of documents relating to the technology and culture in Silicon Valley and the development of the Mac thanks to a link from Gizmodo. Gizmodo was excited about the <a href="http://library.stanford.edu/mac/primary/images/dayton6.html” title="mice “wine tastings” “>mice “wine tastings” that Apple did in its efforts to develop the first consumer mouse. Elsewhere, however, I found this interesting little tidbit: Reading it twenty years later, the most surprising thing about it is the amount of attention it gives to networking, and the degree to which the first Macintosh was intended to be a kind of network computer. XML Isn’t Enough A lot of this is in my XML Server presentation at the Innovative Users Group conference in a couple weeks… Jenny Levine is an outspoken advocate for the use of RSS in libraries. One example she cites is posting lists of new acquisitions to library websites. She estimates that folks in the 77 libraries of her library system spend 924 hours per year on that one activity, time that could be used elsewhere if automated by RSS. New Catagory: Libraries & Networked Information Thank or blame Jenny Levine of TheShiftedLibrarian for this: I’ve just created a “Libraries and Networked Information” category here. More to come. The Long Tail At MaisonBisson Content here at MaisonBisson isn’t well focused, but a few stories have come out winners in the Google sweepstakes of passing popular fancy. My story about a giant bear in Alaska was one such winner, but I’m happy to see a few others are also getting read. My stories about stainless steel, the heat output of Dell servers, and iTunes vs. Firewalls are obviously filling a need for technical information not readily available elsewhere. Safari 1.3 supports for contentEditable WYSIWYG Melvin Rivera reports on <a href="http://allforces.com/2005/04/19/wysiwyg-comes-to-safari-13/” title="Safari 1.3’s support for contentEditable“>Safari 1.3’s support for _contentEditable_. When Decorum Is Entirely Innapropriate It’s hard to find the words to introduce Eric Berndt‘s open letter to his NYU Law School classmates. The Nation said the following: Justice Antonin Scalia got more than he bargained for when he accepted the NYU Annual Survey of American Law’s invitation to engage students in a Q&A session. Randomly selected to attend the limited-seating and closed-to-the-press event, NYU law school student Eric Berndt asked Scalia to explain his dissent in Lawrence v. Copyright And The Internet David Rothman at TeleRead linked to Franklin Pierce Law Center professor Thomas G. Field’s guide to copyright on the internet. Field gives a clear overview of of the limits to copyright, the ways copyright applies to web sites and email, and the limited law on linking and framing web content. In his section on risks, he notes: Copyright law precludes most uses of others’ works without explicit or implied permission. Satelite Imagery There appear to be two non-government-owned companies providing satelite imagery: Space Imaging and upstart DigitalGlobe (yeah, like they’re not both upstarts). DigitalGlobe is working hard to make friends with the media and regularly offers timely images of events, disasters, and wars to them. For the public, they offer some more scenic shots, like this one of the the boneyard at Davis-Monthan AFB in Tucson, Arizona from August 11, 2002. The boneyard serves as a holding place for out-of-rotation airplanes until their fate is decided; the dry, clear climate of Tucson provides an ideal environment for the storage of aircraft, as they can sit indefinitely without rusting. Focal Plane Shutter Distortion Henri Lartigue’s photo of a race car shows one of the wonderful ways in which the camera records its own reality. Spectators lean left while the speeding car tilts right all because of some facts about how his camera works. Lartigue’s camera had a focal plane shutter, a two-part light curtain that slides to one side to expose the film while the second part follows a moment behind to again block the light. Jeffrey Veen Gives Presentation Advice In Seven Steps to Better Presentations, Jeffrey Veen acknowledges the complaints against PowerPoint, but explains that the real problem is “bad content delivered poorly.” His seven points have a lot more detail that what I’m quoting here: Tell stories. Show pictures. Don’t apologize. Ever. Start strong. End strong too. Stand. Away from the podium. Pause. My own opinion is that Veen and Tufte would agree more than they disagree. Tips To Flag Designers (Vexillographers?) The folks at the North American Vexillological Association get excited about flags. Yeah, I had to look up Vexillology too. Anyway, they’ve got a 16 page how-to about designing a flag, for “your organization, city, tribe, company, family, neighborhood, or even country!” Their advice centers around these five rules of flag design: Keep it simple Use meaningful symbolism Use 2-3 basic colors No lettering or seals Be distinctive or be related Each point is supported by examples illustrating both the “right” and “wrong” way to do it. Cat and Girl Makes Me Laugh I can’t get enough of Cat and Girl and this one just hit my funny bone. Thinking of comics, Comic Life makes it easy to lay out your digital photos and add comic-style speech balloons. Looks interesting, though I’m not sure it’s worth $40 bucks. Geolocating Everything I just added Jonathan Crowe’s The Map Room to my daily read. It was there that I learned that GeoURL is back, and that’s got me thinking about geocoding things again. I spoke of geolocating photos in a previous post, but my interest has broadened. I now want to geolocate my blog posts, I want lat and long recorded with my ATM transactions, I want my emails and phone calls to have location information. URLs I Need To Bookmark on My Clie and Phone Google Local for mobile devices may be the most useful thing yet. But then, I’ve been slow to get even the regular Google Search for mobile devices bookmarked. See, When The President Does It, It’s Different, Somehow It’s a reasonable story: guy gets iPod, buddy puts a few favorite tracks on it, everybody jams happily because they can share their little bits of culture. In a way it’s an extension of the mixed tape so romanticized in High Fidelity, but in another way — the RIAA’s way — it’s probably a copyright violation. This is about the time you’d expect me to announce a new round of charges from the RIAA, more claims of theft and lost profits due to the scourge of technology and hordes of uncaring, music copying punks. Modern Day Opium Craze In a story in the Sacramento News and Review, Peter Thompson writes about his drug use. At 16 he tried making mead, but when that failed he continued to look elsewhere: I began to see the supermarket and drugstore as potential drug dealers. I drank bottles of cough syrup before I knew what dextromethorphan (DXM) was. I ate catnip and didn’t feel anything. I ate nutmeg and felt everything. There was no Internet to guide me and nothing in the library about morning-glory seeds. Apple Finally Unleashes Tiger Apple announced the availability of Mac OS X v10.4 TigerTuesday and is now accepting pre-orders. The product is to be in stores on Friday, April 29 (beginning at 6PM?) and will sell for $129, or $199 for the Mac OS X v10.4 Tiger Family Pack, a five seat household license. Amazon is offering Tiger for $95, after rebate, though the rebate doesn’t appear to apply to the family pack. Apple’s been selling family packs for a while, but it’s added some new family features to the OS that surprised me. Our Underequipped Military Forces A story over at DefenseTech is reporting that four years after the September 11th attacks and during a time when US personnel are involved in armed action on the ground in Arabic speaking states, the military still doesn’t have a plan to train their soldiers in the language. It seems the Pentagon can spend bazilions on failed missile defense systems, but hasn’t the money or interest for language instruction. I’d say get the folks in green some iPods and In Flight Arabic, or the more extensive Pimsleur Quick & Simple Arabic (hey, the Amazon reviews for it are positively glowing), but I’m thinking both lack important vocab for people who have to deal with car bombs regularly. Most CMSs Suck I’ve been slowly struggling with the question of how to replace pMachine, my CMS engine here. I haven’t really liked any of the alternatives that others I know are using (link link link link), though I’ve been hard pressed to identify exactly what my complaints are. Among the points in Making A Better Open Source CMS, Jeffrey Veen names a few of the most frustrating for me: hard-coding of site layout in the CMS, mixing of content with site administration in the interface, and, sometimes, lax security. Who Doesn’t Want a Caboose? Perhaps it’s the lasting effects of watching The Station Agent too many times, but I went looking for a place to buy a caboose. They’re big; as much as 50′ long, 16′ tall, and 11′ feet wide. And they’re heavy, perhaps 30 tons. But they can be moved on roads via big trucks and cranes, but then, they also move brick houses. Caboose disappeared from the railroads in the 1980s, after about 130 years of service. Molecular Visualization in Mac OS X A while ago I went looking for alternatives to MDL Chime on Mac OS X, as MDL is still choosing not to support OS X. Sure, you can run it in Netscape 4.x in Classic mode, but that’s getting increasingly frustrating. What’s great about the Mac, however, is how many great solutions there are from small developers who take on the “big guys” and do it better. Evidence: Piotr Rotkiewicz’s iMol. Declaring Bankruptcy On Old Stories I often use the MaisonBisson blog as a sort of annotated bookmark list, keeping track of the things that catch my interest for one reason or another, things that I’d like to return to or share. But I often get ahead of myself in identifying the things I’d like to look at further and never get around to posting an annotated link here. For those, I’ve been keeping a text file with URLs that I’ve sometimes revisited and sometimes posted stories on, but the list is growing, and it’s becoming clear that I won’t ever get to around to posting stories for most of the URLs there. Does Size Matter? A while ago I asked a friend why short sentences were so pleasing to read and write. He had no answers, but agreed that brevity is its own reward. Some (though I can find no reference to it) suggest that technological developments have changed and simplified sentence structure by allowing writers to write and revise freely, while typewriters and pens required forethought and concentration to avoid scribbling out unwanted, half-formed sentences. Verizon Wireless’ Wardriving Rig (Can You Hear Me Now?) It turns out that Verizon (and all the other carriers, presumably) really do go around asking “can you hear me now?” The actual test conversation sounds different (possible source?) and the testing is automated, but there really are people out in the world doing real coverage testing. I guess I naively assumed that it was all theoretical and computer modeled, or something. Anyway, MobileTracker rode around Tampa, FL, with a Verizon Wireless test guy Levy Rippy back in February: Of Bricks And Progress… This post is about a couple of things. First, it seems Cory Doctorow has issued DMCA takedown notice to the folks at BoringBoring.org for their parody of Doctorow’s BoingBoing. What nobody knew at the time is that Gakker has also been on the scene, Doing Doctorow parodies, and all. Which is where thing 2™ comes in: this post about bricks highlights an ongoing concern of mine. What is the real difference between a long-existing thing with a variety of uses, some of them illegal, and the thing not yet developed with a variety of uses, some of them illegal? The RIAA’s Logic And ‘Declining’ Music Sales Blogger Mark Cuban listened politely to RIAA chief Mitch Bainwol stumble into the logically fallacious argument that: it was obvious that illegal downloads were hurting music sales. It was obvious because the advent of file sharing coincided with a decrease in music sales. Therefore A lead to B. (I’m quoting Cuban, who’s parapharsing from <a href="http://www.ce.org/events/event_info/downloads/Industry_Leaders_React-IP.pdf” title="Bainwol’s CEA blather speech”>Bainwol’s CEA blather speech). But instead of arguing with Bainwol’s logic — it’s too easy, and too many others are doing it — Cuban is using it to prove the contrary. Archiving RealAudio Streams on Mac OS X Standard players for RTSP streams like those for RealAudio don’t cache the files they download, meaning they require a net connection to operate. I found an EZBoard forum message that identified HiDownload, Net Transport, OEP-OEE and StreamDown — Windows-only applications that can download RTSP streams and save them to a playable file. But those trick ponies do nothing to help Mac users. AudioHijack has been around for years now, but it only captures the audio stream as it leaves RealPlayer and heads off to your Mac’s audio output. Gas Prices (Finally) Affecting Car Sales? A Mainichi Daily Times story announced today sales of energy-efficient Japanese cars soar in U.S. Toyota and Nissan both saw 12% sales growth, with Toyota’s Prius sales jumping to 260% their numbers from a year ago. Honda, which usually wears the energy efficiency leader’s hat, saw a nearly 7% increase in sales. Ever prideful, MDN notes: In sharp contrast, the sales of new cars sold by General Motors and other American automakers in March posted decreases from a year earlier. Tator-Tot Pizza So my challenge is to prove that I can be both trite and serious in the same day. Here, Tom chows on tator-tot pizza with ranch dressing and chipotle chile Tabasco sauce. It’s part of the Tator-Tot Pizza set at Flickr. There’s no good reason to make tator-tot pizza, but we had both, plus all the sauce, so what else is there to do. That’s trite, this is serious. Serious Saturday I’ve lost my way a bit and been posting a bunch of trite stories here lately about my kitchen and in my photoblog. I’m sorry. I have made a few attempts at serious discourse. If you look carefully you’ll see stories on Grokster, RFID passports, a library conference, a chilling look at the death penalty in Texas. Looking a little further back, you’ll find new stories in the very serious copyrights & intellectual property and politics & controversy categories. Can You Eat It? Food bets seem harmless, but they look funny. Everybody likes the old “can’t eat four saltines in 60 seconds” bet, and it’s likely that many of these foods would never get eaten except on a bet. Then there’s the story of two guys who took a bet they could eat Ramen noodles — only Ramen noodles — for a month. It’s probably apocryphal, but they story ends with them getting scurvy and giving up. It’s Friday! Over at Caravie: Peace, Nonviolence And Conflict Resolution I found the Lies, lies, lies, lies, lies, lies, lies, lies, lies, lies, lies, lies, lies, lies, lies, lies,lies, lies, lies, lies, lies, lies, lies, lies music video. Also at Caravie I found a link to this ‘zine, with a selection of videos, like this one. It’s a perfectly enjoyable way to waste a Friday afternoon. [update:] This is confusing. New US Passports Will Serve as Terrorist Beacons I cannot say it any better than it was said in today’s issue of EFFector: The US State Department is pushing for what may be the most misguided and dangerous travel “security” plan ever proposed: putting insecure radio-frequency identification (RFID) chips in all new US passports. These chips would broadcast your name, date of birth, nationality, unique passport number, and any other personal information contained in the passport to anyone with a compatible RFID reader. Reporting Late On Grokster These things take time and can often be hard to read, so while we all wanted the high court to look at the entertainment industry lawyers and tell them to take a hike Tuesday, we’ll have to wait until summer to know what actually went down. But there is one interesting thing so far… It was in Nina Totenberg’s wrap-up for NPR that alerted me to this turn in the arguments: Life Of A Kitchen Blueskygirl alerted me to the Life Of A Kitchen group at Flickr in a comment on a photo of my remodeled kitchen. So, of course I joined and had to upload a pile of related pictures from my back-file. There’s some great stuff from a bunch of contributors up there, despite the trash I tossed in. In the photo above, Sandee makes homefries for a brunch with our neighbors back in July 2003. Cheap LCDs For In-Car-Computers A PowerPage story alerted me to a couple of inexpensive touch-screen LCDs: Innovatek and Lilliput. Take this as an update to my story on carputers. That story, of course, connects with mobile carrier networking (with followup), and GPS. Kitchen It was done in quite a rush and there’s some touchup to do yet, but our kitchen is now more complete than it’s been in six years. Late Notes From October Library Conference I just re-discovered my notes from Dartmouth Biomedical Libraries’ October Conference for 2004 and found a number of things I wish I’d remembered earlier. Academic libraries are facing declining use/circulation of traditional materials (books, print periodicals, fiche, etc). It’s not that students and faculty don’t care about libraries or learning, the problem is that libraries aren’t serving their patrons with the forms of information they need at the time and place they need it. Considering The Death Penalty Texas executes a lot of people. During the years 1995 through 2000, Texas executed 152 inmates, making then governor Georg W. Bush the killingest governor in history. A March 1998 Amnesty International report titled The Death Penalty in Texas: Lethal Injustice notes that “public support for the death penalty in Texas remains strong,” and a later news release states “Texas is so proud of killing people that it issues press releases for the executions it carries out. Choppin’ Ice Corey chops ice from my walkway on Sunday afternoon. Dinner went well, despite worries that our new kitchen wouldn’t be completed in time. I guess I’m a huge fan of pictures with particle action. Here’s another, where Will cuts it up with a circular saw. Crunch: Three More Days There are at least two ways to appreciate Easter: To some it’s the most important religious event of the year, while, to others — your hosts here at MaisonBisson, for instance — it’s yet another good reason to gather friends and family ’round a table and celebrate good food, good wine, and all that makes us human. But there’s a problem: We dismantled our kitchen last week in anticipation of our new kitchen…which is taking longer to install than I expected. The Risks Of Googling One’s Self Well, actually it was A9, but the results are just as scary. There’s a fellow named Gerald Dewight Casey on deathrow in Texas and an Asian language site has a picture of the Bisson Battlesuit. WiFi My World I’m in Hooksett today waiting for the my kitchen cabinets to be delivered. Why Hooksett? Because Ikea won’t deliver to Warren and I’ve got in-laws in Hooksett where Ikea will deliver. I’ve just setup my old router and wireless base station here, so at least I don’t have to slum it without network. And that’s sort of what this great Onion infographic is all about. Take note of the point: “facilitates blogging while/about doing laundry. Of Life & Death… I’m not sure I could say it any better than David Rothman did when he went off topic over at TeleRead to make note of some important issues related to the Terri Schiavo matter. Rothman points at the bigger issue, but doesn’t come out and say it: all life concludes with death; indeed, the leading cause of death is birth. I’m not being flippant, I mean this. Life is filled with serious and difficult choices, including some related to the end of life. Dis-Intermediating Pop Culture Via Copyfight via Deep Links: Fiona Apple, that Grammy award winning gal you remember from the Criminal video, apparently put together a third album a couple years back only to have Sony music shelve the thing. Now that it’s gotten out, her fans are “demanding that Sony release the album so they can pay for it.” Which Fred von Lohmann describes as “a substantial noninfringing use of P2P networks if I’ve ever seen one. Sunshine Week I’ve failed to live up to my potential this week. I’ve wasted a lot of time on stories about useless video cameras, home theater, whining about my kitchen remodeling, and lamenting some lost stories when I should have been paying attention to SXSW, ETech, copyright issues, and Sunshine Week. Please accept my Johnny-come-lately mea culpa on all of that. Sunshine Week is intended to bring public attention to concerns about goverment secrecy. Shuffleboard Fridays Joe, Tami, Sandee, and John throwing weights on the shuffleboard table Friday night. Extra: shufflboard rules at MastersGames, suffleboard rules at shuffleboard.co.uk. Shuffleboard tables and tabletop shuffleboard accessories can also be found online. Wish I was There: ETech 2005 Just as I was about to cut the Future Tense blog (from the Public Radio show of the same name) from my list, Jon Gordon steps up with a few good stories. Of course, he had good material to start with. He’d been at the O’Reilly Emerging Technology Conference, and it looks like it was quite a show. Many2Many has a couple notable stories about Etech events, including Wikipedia and the Future of Social Computing and Folksonomy, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Mess. Your EFF Needs You A couple stories in the Electronic Frontier Foundation‘s email newsletter need our attention and support. Well, they all do, but here’s the most important: Grokster: EFF this week kicked off a new campaign to celebrate the technological diversity protected by the Supreme Court’s 1984 “Betamax ruling,” which found that vendors cannot be held liable for contributory copyright infringement if their products are capable of significant noninfringing (legal) uses. EFF will post information about a copying technology with substantial legal uses every weekday leading up to the March 29th Supreme Court hearing in MGM v. MaisonBisson: The Lost Tapes…. I discovered recently that my content database is [missing a bunch of stories][1] from the first weeks of 2005. I tempered my feelings of loss with the knowledge that I couldn’t remember the title of more than one of the 21 missing stories. While looking into a question about my out-of-date RSS feed today, I discovered that it had clues to the content of twelve of my missing stories. They clearly weren’t that important (what is? Small Video Cameras This fiddling with video has me looking for small cheap video cameras. 123 Security Products has some, but Pine Computer has them cheaper. Better yet, they’ve got a 203CA sub-mini video camera with interchangable lenses for $25. The standard 4mm lens has only a 78 degree view angle, but an available (+ $15) 2.5mm lens should result in a much more useful 125 degree view. The cameras all have composite NTSC outputs, but a USB video converter make them “digital. Home Theater There are bigger problems in the world than my home theater, but that’s not what this entry is about. I’ll get back to political ranting in a while, but for now — now that I have <a href=”/post/10477” title="a cheap inexpensive projector”>a cheap inexpensive projector — I’m interested in figuring out how to play videos from my computer. Some people don’t need to ask why, but for those who do, let me offer this: most the video I create is better seen on the small screen, but fair-use DVD rips and content downloaded from the Internet Film Archive. Liability & License It turns out that the Quicken website is full of legal tips and advice. What caught my eye was a description of implied warranties. Implied warranties don’t come from anything a seller says or does. They arise automatically when a product is sold. Under the Uniform Commercial Code, there are two kinds of implied warranties: that the product is fit for its ordinary use, and that the product is fit for any special use the seller knows about. Loss I discovered today that my content database is missing about 20 entries from the first weeks of 2005. The feeling of loss is pretty thick, but I get these feelings pretty easily — hey, don’t pick on me. Of the 21 stories, I can only remember the content of one of them. I think the story was titled “Web Apps Rocked 2004” or something like that and was basically all about the goodness of XMLHTTPRequest. Too Exhausted, Busy To Blog I’ve got to tear down the last cabinet, get all the junk to the dump, clean, spot-sand and clearcoat the floors, and…. I probably won’t get it all done today. Watch yesterday’s video for an idea of what’s going on, otherwise, today is re-run day. The archives are yours to explore. Kitchen Destruction Time-lapse Movie It’s all part of the plan, but this is a bigger mix effort and uncertainty than expected. I’d hoped to have everything cleared from the kitchen by mid-day, but I’ve got another cabinet to remove Sunday. The uncertainty? We don’t yet have the new cabinets in hand. If those are delayed, we could be without a kitchen for quite a while. Worse: we’re hosting Easter and I’ve only got next weekend to install the cabinets and put the kitchen back together. “Shred It!” Engadget‘s got a story about SSI Shredding Systems and their action videos of their equipment doing the job on refrigerators, medical waste, steel drums, couches, concrete, boats…. Engadget reccomends the washing machine video “for its rather endearing inclusion of one of the bystanders’ enthusiastic cries of ‘Shred it!'” Best New Music Trilok Gurtu and Robert Miles on miles_gurtu Listen in at iTunes or Amazon. Bonobo’s Dial M For Monkey Listen in at iTunes or Amazon. Bonobo’s Animal Magic Listen in at iTunes or Amazon. The Bad Plus Give Listen in at iTunes or Amazon. Virtual KVM Solutions Folks are increasingly aware of screen sharing apps like VNC, but what about solutions that allow you to control multiple computers with a single keyboard and mouse? Back in the day, there was an interesting MacOS 7 hack that would send mouse and keyboard input from one computer to another (after some very easy configuration), today, in the days of OS X, I can find two solutions: The PowerPage tipped me off to KMremoteControl a while ago. …And Copyright Law Is Broken Too (Duh!) I was looking for a way to includes these in my story about the brokeness of patent law, but they just wouldn’t fit. So here they are separately. Increasingly, content owners are taking advantage of the vagaries of the “public domain” to make us pay for rights we used to take for granted. For instance, when you buy a chair, you expect to be able to use it however you wish. Cliff Likes The ‘Works A flash and long manual exposure caught Cliff and me setting up the ‘works, then their launch and aerial explosion on a cold night in January. The camera sat on my mitten in the snow while luck worked in my favor to get a couple good shots (and not burn my camera). Just to be clear: neither of us was anywhere near the launch tube when the ‘works went off. Today Is Warren’s Town Meeting Day Meeting has come and gone. The issue in the selectmen’s letter was postponed indefinitely and the meeting adjourned around 3:30 PM. On RSS, Taxonomies and Folksonomies Copyfight went somewhat off topic to point out Joshua Porter’s paper on How Content Aggregators Change Navigation and Control of Content at User Interface Engineering. This quote says exactly what I needed: Every time someone makes a list, be it on a blog […] or a list of groceries, content is aggregated. The act of aggregating content (usually content that is alike in some way) makes it more understandable. Instead of looking at a whole field of information, you choose smaller, more logical subsets of it in the hopes of understanding those. “So computers were worthless ten years ago?” Jenny, The Shifted Librarian, related a story that show’s her son’s innate understanding of Metcalfe’s Law. Here’s a completely truncated quote: “…Before you were born, there wasn’t really an internet or the web or email. There was a very basic form for people in the military and at universities, but there were no web sites to visit and no web games to play.” “So computers were worthless ten years ago? All Conversations In Warren Revolve Around Heat On Jan 30th I noted that I’d burned through half my wood pellets for the season. I’ve burned another 40 bags since, making it three quarters of my pellets for the season. Now I’m hoping it feels a lot Springier by early April, when my last 40 bags will likely run out. What’s Your Nerd Score? There in my referrer tags was planetilug.draiocht.net (though I can’t figure out why), where I found a link to the nerd test. Two posters who’d taken it scored 80 and 96. Just as Gareth Easton said “I thought I’d give it a go… I answered truthfully (I’m ashamed to admit) ;-)” My score? 90th percentile: Supreme Nerd. Apply for a professorship at MIT now!!! Of course, I’m a sucker for even the most ridiculous of personality tests. Cuttin’ It Up Will cuts stuff up like…well, like a guy who cuts stuff. True to form, Cliff points. They were over last Saturday helping with with some remodeling projects. The luan is going to cover the bits of old horsehair plaster that still cling to the lath in the closet of what is becoming our laundry room. More of Will and Cliff can be seen in the Plastics Museum and Museum of Bad Art, all part of the Weird Museum Tour 2004. Vacation In The Luxury of My Own Home I’m taking a spot of vacation here. Expect nothing more from me today, and not much more in the days to come. — – — As before, the Flickr photos have nothing to do with the post. And, no, this is not at all like Martha‘s house arrest thing. Sweet Deal On Home Theater Projector The Sharp PG-B10S projector isn’t the best out there, but it rates pretty well according to ProjectorCentral.com. Their stats show it to be a 1200 lumen, 800×600 projector with a 400:1 contrast ratio and a long lamp life of up to 4000 hours. The ProjectorCentral.com user reviews suggest it has a good picture with great color rendition. MacUser UK concluded: The PG-B10S showed excellent detail from our presentation slides, with accurate colours and well-defined text, and it coped particularly well with solid blocks of colour. Stay Free!: Copyright Activists The are few things as joyus as the excitement of discovery, so it was a great pleasure to learn that Stay Free! Magazine has a new blog: Stay Free! Daily. The blog has a number of stories about intellectual freedom and copyright oppression that resonated with me. Take a look at Silent Disobedience, Christo’s policy of photographing The Gates, and Wizard People screening in NYC. Anybody following discussion of the FCC’s broadcast flag mandate will be amused by an old movie studio and broadcaster PSA arguing against subscription TV services. Beware The Cheap PC; Beware The Company That Advertises Them I’ve been saying for years that there’s no such thing as a cheap PC, but now a class action lawsuit against Dell is claiming the same. According to ArsTechnica: It accuses Dell of bait and switch tactics along with breach of contract, fraud and deceit in sales and advertising, and false advertising. The computer manufacturer is accused of advertising low-priced computers to consumers, but when consumers try to to buy the advertised machines, they find they are not available at the specified price. Food And Kitchen Gadgets Gizmodo just popped two stories about kitchen or food related gadgets that I love: a knife block worth having and a banana wrapper you didn’t know you needed. I might as well link to the sites themselves, as I can’t really think of anything to add: Banana Bunker and Viceversa Knife Block. Picture Phone Threats: They’re Not What You Think In a story that couldn’t have been much better timed, ArsTechnica is reporting on a camera system from that reads license plates and automatically looks up vehicle registration details. With some glibness, the article claims: “You just drive around and point the camera — it’s that easy!” Though, it does note: As previously unconnected networks and systems integrate, this will increasingly be the case, and as Scott McNeally said way back in 1999, when Sun Microsystems had a bright and shiny future, “You have zero privacy anyway, get over it. (Re-)Programming The Sony RM-V60 Multifunction Remote Control In case you find the batteries dead, and the programming lost, Sony’s instructions for configuring the RM-V60 multifunction remote control are online. You’ll have a heck of a time finding them, however, what with all the lousy ePinions and NexTag listings getting in the way. Ignore those. Codes for all the rest of Sony’s remotes are online too. Here are some seeds for Google and the others: Sony remote control codes for programming Sony multifunction remote controls, like the RM-V60 are online at Sony remote control support site. Macs vs. PCs: Tables Turned? Yale Daily News reports on how Windows is increasingly being pushed aside by MacOS X and Linux. According to the article, Yale Information Technology Services’ registration records show that nearly 20 percent of University students and 33 percent of faculty choose Macs over Windows PCs. This is quite a change from the late 90s, when University IT departments made news by trying to eliminate Macs from their campuses. So what’s going on? IUG 2005: Library Portal Integration & XML Server Applications Elaine Allard and I will be presenting on Library Portal Integration at the IUG 2005 in San Francisco, CA. The session is scheduled for the 1:30 to 2:30 time slot on Wednesday. From the program description: Portal Integration: What Works at Plymouth State University Lamson Library began its portal integration in 2002 with the launch of Plymouth State University’s first portal, MyPlymouth. Within this single point of service students can register for classes and check their grades, faculty can review their rosters and post grades, staff can review benefits and vacation time, and, of course, everybody can use the library. Extra Quotes Most of these are a rehash, but I like them…. — – — A ZDNet News article from December 2003 remarks: “Apple buyers tend to have higher incomes and greater technological sophistication than the PC audience as a whole.” — – — Regarding the first time her phone was hacked, a spokesperson for Paris Hilton is said to have claimed: She was pretty upset about it. It’s one thing to have people looking at your sex tapes, but having people reading your personal e-mails is a real invasion of privacy. International Symbols Enterprise Language Solutions has an interesting brief by Yves Lang on how to use symbols and icons in localization. Cultural differences challenge the design and implementation of icons and symbols for international use. What is meaningful and natural for one group may be ambiguous, unintelligible, or arbitrary for another. Fundamentally, communication is subjective, as a person’s perceptions are influenced by their environment. Since their start in the Olympics, the number of icons has grown remarkably. Feature: Privacy in the 21st Century This is the story that gives me an excuse to name Paris Hilton here at MaisonBisson. Here’s a fact of 21st century life: pieces of our life that, taken one by one, are seemingly insignificant are being gathered and indexed by a handful of companies that re-sell that data to phone marketers, the CIA, and many others. Information that we recognize as somewhat more significant and often more private, like our driving records and tax information, gets sold and traded right along with the rest of it. Feeling Very Sleepy Around noon Saturday Sandee asked “why don’t we go to Ikea?” The closest one is in New Haven, Connecticut, and we got there around 4 PM. They close at 9 PM, but after loading our U-Haul, it was almost 11 PM when we got on the road. We got back to the house around 4 AM, and now, after too little sleep, Sandee has me assembling the catch. In short: no meaningful updates today. Today in Sports: Le Parkour Troy pointed wildly and excitedly at a video showing his new favorite sport: Le Parkour. The video appeared on a site normally devoted to the fun of Macromedia’s Flash Communications Server: I recently saw the film film ‘Jump Britain’ on Channel4 and was impressed by what I consider is an art form. It’s like skateboarding without skateboards, brilliant. Le Parkour consists of finding new and often dangerous ways through the city landscape — scaling walls, roof-running and leaping from building to building. Retro Handsets For Mobile Phones Pokia is setting the world on fire with their retro phone handsets. They’re taking apart phones from the 60s 70s and 80s and rewiring the handsets to plug into today’s mobile phones. They’re selling on Ebay, but most of the offerings are knock-offs. Now MobileMag reports that Boost Mobile, the carrier that sells overpriced wood veneered handests is taking the idea mainstream. Their Retro Phone handset has the look of a 1940s, bakelite molded phone, but, I presume, without that funky feel that old bakelite has. Feature: Patent Law Is Broken US patent laws are broken. Adam B. Jaffe and Josh Lerner say so. Their IEEE article is filled with equal measures of anecdotes and facts about why patent law is doing more to limit advancement in the arts and science than to support it. And that isn’t just wrong, it’s unconstitutional. There are a lot of ways to interpret the US Constitution, but Article 1, Section 8 is quite clear: “To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries. Shameless Commerce My Beef T-Shirts aren’t exactly mass market, so it’s a pleasure to see sales to California (2), Florida (1), Illinois (2), Kansas (1), New York (3), Ohio (3), Oklahoma (1), Pennsylvania (1), and Washington (2). I’ve just added a Beef Trucker’s Hat for real retro fashion. It’s also a pleasure to see that the other designs are selling a bit too. Brocolli and Stump are the most popular (behind Beef), but Swine, Cream Filled, and Killer get some attention. Unusual Hotels I recently discovered Unusual Hotels of the World, “the online guide for travelers interestedinstaying somewhere truly different,” and was pleasantly surprised to find a few hotels in North America I’d like to check in to some day. Jules Undersea Lodge. Source. Want to slay a night under water? Jules Undersea Lodge in Key Largo, Florida, is for you. I have secret interest in trains, so I’d like to know more about The Station Restaurant & Sleeping Cars in Ithaca, New York, and The Aurora Express of Fairbanks, Alaska. Google Maps Rock, Hacking Them Rocks More People are going wild{#14204} over Google Maps, but I honestly didn’t get too excited about it until I saw Glen Murphy’s Movin Gmap project. It’s a Python script that reads location data from a connected GPS and pans the Gmap to follow. Upon seeing this hack of Gmaps, I went looking for more. Hack a Day shows us how to get maps for a set of decimal coordinates from both Terraserver and Gmap (Terrabrowser will do some of this for MacOS X). Students Take Academic Technology Into Their Own Hands Jenny Levine, The Shifted Librarian, points out a recent survey that finds 90% of US college students own a cell phone. Nationally, 171.2 million Americans have cell phones. And cell phones aren’t just for talking, as we Americans are sending 2.5 billion text messages a month. Jenny’s point: “you can tell yourself that these trends won’t affect libraries, but you’d just be burying your head in the sand.” Coincidentally, Ken “Caesar” Fisher posted at ArsTechnica about student technology trends as well: All About Stainless Steel I’ve been contemplating the idea of welding/fabricating a stainless steel counter top, but I’ve never attempted any welding before, and most people say stainless steel is difficult to work with. Thanks to this PDF, I know everything there is to know about stainless steel finishes, but nothing about working with the material. Azom, “the premier on-line materials information site, supplier and expert directory” has a guide to stainless steel fabrication with rules for machining, welding, soldering, and brazing the various types of stainless. Inflate & Collapse Two perfectly paired books: Blow-Up by Sean Topham and Collapsible by Per Mollerup. One explores inflatable forms in art, architecture, and science. The other explores the somewhat broader range of things whose size and shape are meant to change as their use changes. They both look absolutely delightfull. . Moving About On One, Two, or Three-Wheels We’ve come to expect certain things. Cars have four wheels, for instance. And we expect two-wheeled vehicles look like bikes or motorcycles or scooters. Then came the Segway a few years ago and shifted the two-wheeled concept around. Now, a number of stories regarding vehicles of one, two, and three wheels have come out. They’re all interesting, some are awkward, some are to die for. One Wheel Wheelsurf. Snow Day! As Cliff likes to say, “cur-tailed, the sweetest two words in the English language.” The snow started falling Wednesday night and didn’t stop. Even now, big, puffy flakes like oversized cotton balls are falling. [update:] Photos added. Also, here’s a snowy panorama from early January. Geolocation Tagging Photos There’s a new version of Jeff Early’s GPS Photo Linker, which allows you to combine tracks from your GPS (time and position data) with your photos (time and image data), so you end up with a bunch of photos with embeded GPS coordinates. Jeff notes: Apple has confirmed that MacOS 10.4 will support the GPS metadata tags in photos. This will open up a whole realm of opportunities for users and developers to take advantage of the position data on photos. Conspicuous Consumption: The Plan After some scraping and saving, and our refinancing, we’re remodeling our kitchen. Our first attempt at doing this failed when I realized — too late — that I’m not actually capable of making cabinets. By that time, we’d filled the kitchen with a bunch of poorly made and unfinished junk. Sure, there’s a sink and a fridge and stove top and an oven, but there’s one counter that’s been bare plywood for five years now, And there’s a bunch of other stuff that can never be finished because it was never built according to a plan that would ever actually work. Marmite Today I give props to bunchofpants‘s Flickr photoset on Marmite. I don’t really know what Marmite is, but the Marmite FAQ claims: Marmite is dark brown-colored savory spread made from the yeast that is a by-product of the brewing industry. It has a very strong, slightly salty flavor. It is definitely a love-it-or-hate-it type of food. And, yes, Marmite competes with Vegemite, and both appear to be made of the same stuff. Fast Sofa…iMac G5 Fast There are a lot of folks who will tell you how “wrong” it is that Apple integrates the monitor and computer in so many models, so I guess there’s a bunch of them that will tell you the same thing about how Bluebroc is integrating the a sweet-looking couch and an iMac G5. “You’ll have to replace your couch every time you upgrade your computer! Gosh (said Napoleon-style).” There are probably even people that recommend dis-integrating the iPod from its display. iPod Giggles iPod Giggles **»** Paul Bourke, of the Astronomy department at Swinburne University of Technology, has developed an iPod stereoscope. His system uses a pair of iPods in an old-style stereoscope viewer to display stereo-matched photos. » Somebody at Iaxb has come up with some renderings of a giant iPod shuffle sitting around the house like he or she owns the place. » More enlighteningly, Canadian Broadcasting Corp. has a story on the the evolution of portable audio. Standing Up For Clam Juice Okay, so I’ve been doing at least a post a day since about September 2004 and a few people got concerned when I missed a couple days{#33}, but I am alive. Gosh (said Napoleon style). I’d probably pass on posts again today, but I was looking recent comments on my Flickr photoblog and got a smile when I found evil angela‘s defense of clam juice: You know, it’s kind of like fish sauce. Folksonomy Is My New Love Okay, I’m excited about folksonomies. My introduction to tags was at Flickr, where I’ve been amused at how they help connect people, photos, and concepts. Then Jenny Levine at The Shifted Librarian started talking about them, with David Rothman at TeleRead echoing and expanding many of her points. That was about when I found Many to Many, where I read about Technorati’s tag project (plus documentation). Wanna see it in action? Copyright Terrorism The Dunhuang Grottoes are one of China’s richest archaeological treasures. Built during the 4th through 14th centuries, they are a 1,000-year-old ancient art gallery of cave architecture, sculptures and murals. Rediscovered in 1900, the region has been listed on the UNESCO World Heritage List since 1987. Despite over 100 years of exploration and study, the mysteries of the grottoes are as great as the lessons they teach us. Now, it would seem that The Dunhuang Academy is claiming ownership of all images associated with these 1000 year old treasures. Looking For The Energy Drink TV Ad? Based on the search terms people come to this site with, I know that there’s a bunch of folks looking for the “energy drink ad,” or “K-fee TV commercial,” or “scary German,” or some such. Most people end up finding my story about Zygo energy vodka, and completely miss my story about the (deceptively titled) serene, calming video where I first linked the energy drink TV. Let me eliminate the confusion now. All Conversations In Warren Revolve Around Heat I have burned 1.6 tons of wood pellets so far this winter. The significance of the number isn’t its size, though 1.6 tons is a lot. The significance is that it represents 80 bags of pellets, each 40 pounds. The significance is that it represents about half of the pellets I’d purchased for the heating season. By the almanac, it looks like I should have ordered more pellets, as we’re not yet at midwinter and I’ll probably run out. Big Bear Photos Circulating My dad forwarded me the following pictures and story: These pictures are of a guy who works for the US Forest Service in Alaska and his trophy bear. He was out deer hunting last week when a large grizzly bear charged him from about 50 yards away. The guy unloaded his 7mm Mag Semi-automatic rifle into the bear and it dropped a few feet from him. The big bear was still alive so he reloaded and shot it several times in the head. Language Is Of The People I am always amazed at the lengths we’ll go through to communicate or express or simply transliterate an idea, and further amazed at how we represent the result. Take this for instance: 6th string| ---0---3---3--5--5----7-8-7-8-7-8-7-8---3-3--5-5 Once you figure it out, you’ll likely not be able to get it out of your head. And this: sort of related, and much more ridiculous. Wikipedia vs. Brittannica; Folksonomy vs. Taxonomy A post on Techdirt notes: You may recall that we somehow got involved in a bizarre battle over Wikipedia, when I got into a discussion with a reporter who told me that Wikipedia was “outrageous,” “repugnant” and “dangerous,” mainly because it’s not reviewed by “professionals.” Despite a valiant effort, I was unable to ever convince the reporter, Al Fasoldt, that regular encyclopedias, complete with their experts, make mistakes too — and, in fact, the problem is that those encyclopedias can’t then be updated and fixed. The Tyranny Of Copyright Last week I pointed to Will Shetterly’s “The People Who Owned the Bible” as an example of what might happen if copyright/intellectual property law continues to favor short term commercial interests over long term public interests. It’s worth noting that the original copyright laws, developed in 1600s Britain, allowed for only a seven year monopoly (that’s what copyright is, after all). US law started by doubling that to 14. The current term is 75 or 95 years, but it doesn’t matter because the music and film industries will lobby congress in a few years to make it 120 or so. Cold Weather Operations Force PowerBook PMU Reset Batteries don’t work well in the cold, and with the -20°F nights we’ve had, I think I can say it’s been cold here lately. I woke my PowerBook from sleep in sub-freezing temperatures this morning and got a few minutes of work out of it before it put itself to sleep again. I popped it into my computer bag and ran off to work, where I was troubled to find it refusing to wake from sleep — even when plugged into the AC adapter in a warm room. Using Your Mobile Phone As Modem I’ve been following cell-carrier wireless data options here at MaisonBisson (here and here), but I have to admit that I don’t actually use any such solutions. I live and work (and usually travel) in range of ethernet and WiFi, so I might get a pass on this but the real reason is laziness. Engadget has a nice write-up on the process with CDMA-based phones like the ones you get from Sprint and Verizon. Edward Tufte Gives Presentation Advice Edward Tufte‘s passion is the graphical display of information. But his nemsis the visual lie. So naturally, he has a special dislike for PowerPoint. His poster on The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint gave me this line, which I will likely find myself repeating at a time when it is both most accurate and most politically suicidal to do so: Why are we having this meeting? The rate of information transfer is asymptotically approaching zero. Palm Travel Guides MyPalmLife is running a story about some new travel guides that run on your Palm-powered device. Produced as a collaboration between Rough Guides and Visual IT, they also support PocketPC and Symbion devices. London, Paris, Rome, New York, and San Francisco are available now at an introductory price of $20 each. “Further cities will be released over the coming months.” According to the website, the Rough Guide city maps include: Feds Go Beyond Carnivore; Artists Embrace Carnivore DefenseTech reports that the FBI has given up on Carnivore, the electronic snooping application that it used to force on ISPs serving suspects. It seems that the folks in dark suits are now using commercial software instead. This probably has no effect on artists — yes, artists — who use an open source app inspired by the feds as the center of their networked interactive art. Called CarnivorePE, it’s the back-end of over two dozen art installations, most graphically: Police State. Microsoft: Bad For Browsers; Bad For Air Travel I just discovered This Is Broken and couldn’t help but explore the archives. First I discovered Brill.com‘s weird search results. The problem is that a search for bond funds returns a list of stories that have little to do with financial news. It looks like somebody has entered a bunch of bogus stories in their database. They might have been hacked, but I’d be more suspicious of a disgruntled employee. The saddest part is that the problem was reported on September 22, 2004 and they haven’t fixed it yet. Browse Happy Browse happy, by the The Web Standards Project is urging people to give up on Microsoft’s Internet Explorer. Their solution? Firefox, Mozilla, Opera, and Safari. Mac OS X Performance Questions I was a little bummed to find my CPU busy all morning yesterday. And though I still don’t understand exactly what was causing it, it seems no longer to be a problem. A lot of people don’t know how to see what their Mac is doing, to see what it’s busy with. Here are some hints: Start with Activity Monitor in Applications > Utilities. From there you can see and sort applications and processes that are running on your computer. Problems and Pre-Dated Stories Due to problems with the site all this week, a couple of time-sensitive stories that I wrote but coudn’t post have now been posted with pre-dated timestamps. I’ve been following every news item about the Mac mini with likely more interest than it deserves. What can I say, I like the little computer. As it turns out, the mini is smaller than it looks in the pitures. And thinking of pictures, a few shots of Bill Gates vogueing with circa-1986 computer equipment started circulating early this week. Candy Karen forwarded me a link to Juicy Panic‘s “you drive me oh oh oh” video by torisukoshiro + autophene. More animation and illustration by torisukoshiro is linked from the main site. Then she sent me this link to How Strange, a site full of odd, interesting, and weird images. . . . Palm News & Goodies Gizmodo mentioned the new Garmin iQue 3600a GPS Palm for Pilots this morning. There’s a long write up about it at MyPalmLife, but the Gizmodo story linked to Palm247. Once there, I found a link to instructions on putting the Wikipedia on a Palm. Well, you’ll need a 1GB SD card, but that’s okay, right? It all depends on TomeRaider, an interesting app and fileformat for searchable, hyper-linked e-content. Palm247 is also running a contest to win a free copy of Trip Boss, an all-in-one travel manager. Problems Happen My hosting provider has a US-based datacenter and UK-based staff. It’s an odd mix that may or may not be helpful when things go all to heck, like they did on Saturday and again on Tuesday. The first acknowledgment of the problem Saturday explained that “the server is reporting a Kernel Panic.” then four hours later, it was reported that “there is a major fault with the boot sector and kernel on the server prevent it from loading into the lilo prompt, or booting from a new Kernel due to damage. Mac Mini vs. Cheapo PCs Charles Jade at ArsTechnica has written both a Mac mini preview and a MacWorld Expo show walkthrough. The expo is about a lot more than the Stevenote, and Jade does a fine job walking us about the show floor. Also entertaining is an OSViews story on the Mac mini that concludes the mini is far less expensive than home-built PCs. Not that there aren’t a lot of people arguing with that conclusion in the comments. The Mac Mini is _Small_ I said the Mac mini was the reincarnation of the Cube last week, but Gizmodo has posted a picture of the two, um, together. We all knew the mini was small, but this shows how reall small it is. The Unoffical Apple Weblog has a list of things people are planning to do with their mini as soon as they get their hands on one. Now add to that list a mini-based synthesizer. Where’s My Video Jukebox? Yesterday I posted a story about using a Mac mini in my home entertainment center. I noted that I’d already replaced my CD player with iTunes on an old iMac and I wondered if I could do the same for DVDs. I ignored the facts that some provisions of the DMCA may make this illegal. The music revolution was made possible because courts recognize our right to encode CDs from our collection as MP3s, and CDs (mostly) lack copy protections that prevent us from doing that. Bill G Just Wants To Be Cool Gizmodo has two pictures of a young Bill Gates vogueing on a desk with 5.25-inch floppies and a circa-1986 PC monitor. Oh, wait, is that a Mac on his desk behind him? The pics were reportedly published in Tiger Beat, and Gizmodo is offering a reward for the original issue. update David Heisler wrote to Gizmodo to offer this correction and detail: [Those] are not from Tiger Beat. According to snopes. Mac Mini As Media Player More than a few people are looking at the Mac mini as a new component in their home entertainment center. CDs are unknown in our house, where iTunes and an old iMac entirely replaced our five disc changer some time ago. Correction: CDs are used as an input medium. New CDs are ripped into iTunes on their first play, then left to gather dust on the shelf. Video seems ripe for a similar shift, and to many, the mini looks like the perfect platform for it. Michale Stephen’s Twelve Techie Things Michael Stephens’ Twelve Techie Things for Librarians 2005 deserves a look. User-centered technology planning, RSS, acnd convergence lead his list, but other items speak directly to the role of the library in the internet age. pMachine Discontinued, Where To Next? I learned today that pMachine Pro — the software behind this site — has been discontinued. I’d expected the announcement for some time, seeing it today reminded me that I should be looking for a new blog/CMS solution. Expression Engine has largely replaced pMachine, and I know at least one person running it, so I’ll likely be giving it another look soon. I’ve got a list of things I’d like to solve here, so this news sort of fits. Oil Star This super-cool 70s-styled logo adorns the side of a trailer in the backwoods of New Hampshire. More photos from MaisonBisson Jailed For A Song trying to quote lyrics for his book, Planet Simpson to understand how current copyright law is already limiting legitimate work. Lots more stories of copyright law gone amok in the MaisonBisson Copyrights & Intellectual Property index. The Tyranny Of Copyright If you read nothing else all year, read this. Will Shetterly’s “The People Who Owned the Bible” is a tale of copyright gone amok. It’s the clearest, plainest, and funniest of all such works I’ve seen. Note: My title is based on a New York Times story about copyright from a while back. Am I in trouble? Steve Jobs Introduces iPod shuffle In his MacWorld Expo keynote today, Steve Jobs introduced the iPod shuffle. From MacNN: Apple introduces iPod Shuffle…flash based player. Smaller than most packs of gum. Weighs the same as 4 quarters (less than 1 ounce). Volume/Up dow. Simple LED to provide feedback. No display. Either shuffle or album-based playback. USB 2 transfer connector under connector at the bottom. 12-hour rechargeable battery. Steve Jobs Introduces Mac mini Steve Jobs, in his keynote at MacWorld Expo today reintroduced a redesigned Mac Cube as the Mac mini. From MacNN: Apple introduces Mac mini. New member of Mac family Slot-load Combo optical drive. Play DVDs, burn CDs. Quiet. Tiny. FireWire, ethernet, USB 2.0, both DVI/VGA output. Very tiny. Height is half the size of an iPod mini. BYODKM. Bring Your Own Display, Keyboard, Mouse. Vonage WiFi VoIP Handset Is Real All the world is atwitter about Vonage’s new WiFi VoIP phone today. WiFiNetNews got the hint from Engadget, who appears to have broken the story today, and links to a USA Today story that says: With a Wi-Fi phone, they could make Internet calls from home without the need to run wires to the broadband line. Customers could use the phone number of their existing Vonage service or a new one for no extra fee. Video Fix Today might be [wierd|strange|funny|scary] video day. Or something. These are probably not safe for work, though your mileage may vary. Here’s the list of things found last night: Rainbow The site explains/claims: “Rainbow was a credible children’s TV show from the 70s and 80s. This clip was actually broadcast and watched by millions. …there’s no way these could have been done by accident. Innuendo all the way.” SuperModelMeat Classic and Independent Movie Theaters A story in the December 2004/January 2005 issue of Arthur Frommer’s Budget Travel Magazine alerted me to Ross Melnick and Andreas Fuchs’s Cinema Treasures. It was an annotated list of seven theaters still operating today: Cape Cinema: This 1930 Dennis, Mass., theater was built to look like a church. The Senator Theatre: A 65-year-old art moderne classic, it shows new releases in Baltimore. Oriental Theatre: Head to Milwaukee for this $1. The Future Of Libraries Roderick (also, check out Roderick’s new blog) forwarded me a story about the challenges facing academic libraries from The Chronicle of Higher Education. The author, Dennis Dillon, whose full title is associate director for research services at the libraries of the University of Texas at Austin, begins by relating a conversation: “Couldn’t you move your technology to Mumbai and hire some English-speaking Indian librarians to catalog the books and answer reference questions over the Web? Backfill I should admit to it now before it becomes a scandal. I backfilled some content this weekend. Some of it is stuff that I wrote in the past for work (edited for publication here), but I feel may have some public value. Specifically, two stories about wireless: one about its vulnerabilities and another about (then) current practices in the academic community. I also posted my Wife’s first story for MaisonBisson: a recipe for fish tacos. A Decadent And Debauched Slave Of Foreign Culture I first learned of Wei Hui and her first book Shanghai Baby on NPR a few years ago. According to the story, Wei Hui is among a “group of young, attractive women known as the ‘beautiful writers’ churning out novels that graphically describe the hedonism of modern urban China.” Wei Hui’s book was so controversial that it Chinese authorities banned it, causing a nearly immediate surge in popularity at home and abroad. 2004 Tech Roundup It’s getting a little late for these roundup things, but I’m too tired with post-New Year’s party haze to come up with much of anything better right now. Annalee Newitz subtitles her website with “technology, pop culture, sex.” Her index of stories isn’t actually a roundup per se, but it’s good material if you’re too lazy to leave the couch and find a book to re-read off the shelf (because you’ve read all you new books by now, right? Wrapping Up A Year Of Controversy AlterNet had a good line of stories this weekend to round up the old year and ring in the new. I’m running a little late on such things here at MaisonBisson, so let me just quote from theirs instead. — – — Daniel Kurtzman’s list of The 25 Dumbest Quotes of 2004 includes this doozy at the number 12 spot: “All of a sudden, we see riots, we see protests, we see people clashing. Slacking Is Universal In yet another reminder from Mainichi Daily News that American’s and Japanese aren’t so different, now they’re reporting: coeds say college guys ‘childish, irresponsible, stupid.’ A survey of 300 female students selected from 15 universities located in either Osaka, Kyoto or Kobe reveals: A majority of the 300 women polled said that their main impression of male students is that they are childish, the 52.3 percent given to the most frequent answer followed by the 45 percent who thought guys are kind and 40. iPod Hacks Hack-a-Day has just given me the best reason I’ve seen yet to take a closer look at iPod Linux: audio input without the cheap dohicky accessories and at up to 96KHz x 16bit. The five step instructions couldn’t be much simpler (well, it might be more complex once a person actually tries it, but the comments suggest good success). Hack-a-Day is covering lots of iPod hacks (much to the consternation of some readers, but they’re just jealous ’cause they don’t have one). Terminal Holiday For 30K+ I got to spend the holidays near home this year, and with everything else going on I didn’t really pay much attention to the Comair/Delta problem that stranded over 30,000 passengers last weekend. Now that I’m starting to pay attention to the news again, though, I was interested in ArsTechnica‘s discussion of the software glitch that made everything go wrong: At the core of the problem was an application created by SBS, a subsidiary of Boeing. Let Fly The MacWorld Rumors Everybody is gaga (links: one — two — three — four) over the ThinkSecret story: Apple to drop sub-$500 Mac bomb at Expo. Many people in the Mac community have been agitating for a low-end ‘headless’ Mac to compete on price against cheap PCs. The rumored specs include: 1.25GHz G4 CPU 256MB RAM Combo drive 40 – 80 GB hard drive USB 2. National Geographic Society Not So Environmentally Conscious I know I’m complaining here, but National Geographic seems to have done this wrong. I purchased The Complete National Geographic — 110 Years of National Geographic on CD-ROM a few years ago. The collection of 36 CDs is an archive of every page of every issue published from 1888 through 1998. It was a joy to explore that archive, but let’s face it, I wasn’t spending every night doing it. Today I got the notion to reinstall it to search for something, but discovered that the application is far out of date and no bug fixes are available. Google 101 The Economist has a very concise explanation of how Google works, and how it became today’s dominant search engine. Mr Brin’s and Mr Page’s accomplishment was to devise a way to sort the results by determining which pages were likely to be most relevant. They did so using a mathematical recipe, or algorithm, called PageRank. This algorithm is at the heart of Google’s success, distinguishing it from all previous search engines and accounting for its apparently magical ability to find the most useful web pages. High Speed Wireless Michael Sciannamea at WirelessWeblog noted that: BMW, Audi, Daimler Chrysler, Volkswagen, Renault, and Fiat have all received grants from the German government to develop a car-to-car wireless data network using 802.11a and IPv6 technologies to link vehicles to each other to pass on information about traffic, bad weather, and accidents. They’re calling it “NOW: Network on Wheels,” and there’s more at Wi-FiPlanet.com. My comment: static mesh networks are so 2004. Chernobyl Followup I posted a story about a tour through Chernobyl a few weeks ago. The story still gets a lot of hits, and somebody pointed out a few related Wikipedia links about the accident, the ghost town, and the controversy about Elena Filatova, the author of everybody’s favorite online Chernobyl tour story. Separately, Peace.ca reminds us about the dangers of war, nuclear contamination, and more. Free Palm Apps, Now Easier To Find Jon Aquino‘s holiday gift to us is to make FreewarePalm useful: Why this work was necessary: FreewarePalm contains a goldmine of ratings of Palm freeware. But it does not provide a way to sort the programs by rating. That is why I extracted the ratings and sorted them. With over 6000 listings, there’s a lot to choose from, but, as Jon says, no way to sort those listings. Jon has crawled FreewarePalm with “Cygwin lynx, XEmacs, and a 60-line Ruby script” and done what FreewarePalm couldn’t: made a list of apps sorted by rating. Heart Warming Holiday Tale For Hackers I recently stumbled across Ron Avitzur’s story of the the development of Graphing Calculator, the little application that makes complex math easy to visualize. If there was a collection of essays titled “Chicken Soup For The Silicon Valley Soul,” this would be included. Pacific Tech’s Graphing Calculator has a long history. I began the work in 1985 while in school. That became Milo, and later became part of FrameMaker. Over the last twenty years, many people have contributed to it. Requisite Holiday Email Forward Mark Turski‘s holiday message: Avoid carrot sticks. Anyone who puts carrots on a holiday buffet table knows nothing of the Christmas spirit. In fact, if you see carrots, leave immediately. Go next door, where they’re serving rum balls. Drink as much eggnog as you can. And quickly. Like fine single-malt scotch, it’s rare. In fact, it’s even rarer than single-malt scotch. You can’t find it any other time of year but now. Happy Holidays 2004 The Warren Rocket stands in the the snow on December 4, 2004. Happy Holidays 2004 Photo taken December 5, 2004, just north of Warren on NH Route 25C. The snow is real (and much deeper now), but I added the lights for the holidays. Regular updates to MaisonBisson will return after a short holiday break. Coincidence Is Too General A Term Engadget had a laugh over a story in the Keene Sentinel: So the other day a UPS driver in New Hampshire was on his way to the Cheshire Medical Center in Keene to deliver some much-needed parts for a piece of medical equipment when he got into acrash. He suffered a head injury and was taken by ambulance to the very same hospital he was headed to, but they weren’t able to do any of the tests they needed because the brain scan machine was broken — and the parts needed to fix it were sitting in his wrecked truck on the highway. Apple Fans Mod Macs Joseph DeRuvo Jr.’s i-Tablet is this year’s Mac Mod. Wired’s Leander Kahneyusually covers the story, but DeRuvo published this one himself at MacMod. Kahney covered Jeff Paradiso’s converted iBook tablet as part of his 2002 story on Mac modders. He followed that up in 2003 with a story about a pyramid-shaped PowerMac that glowed blue. The Mac mod thing is international, as Kahney points out in this story about Japan’s Mac mod culture. Cross-country Journeys In Time-Lapse I feel a tinge of jealousy every time I see something like this: Lacquer Sound’s Road Trip. Similar: I covered Matt Frondorf’s Mile Markers project a while back. (Picture from Mile Markers). Gary Webb: A Journalist Who Dared AlterNet ran an interesting story about Gary Webb‘s recent suicide and the events that may have led to it. Webb was the 49-year-old former Pulitzer-winning reporter who in 1996, while working for the San Jose Mercury News, touched off a national debate with a three-part series that linked the CIA-sponsored Nicaraguan Contras to a crack-dealing epidemic in Los Angeles and other American cities. The resulting firestorm swept the country. FCC’s Complaint System Gamed I’ve got a backlog o stories to post here, including this old one about broadcast programming complaints to the FCC. The FCC reports that it received a mere 350 complaints in 2000, but 240,000 in 2003. So what can account for the nearly 700-X increase? The FCC did some homework on the matter: According to a new FCC estimate obtained by Mediaweek, nearly all indecency complaints in 2003 — 99. GPS Happy My brother and his wife surprised me with a Rayming TN-200 GPS this holiday season. What’s so great about it? It’s a tiny USB powered brick that interfaces easily with a laptop. The plan? Wardriving (yes, it’s sooo three years ago), better geolocation while traveling, matching GPS coordinates to photos, and as much mayhem as can be had with a computer-connected GPS. Software Options Rayming is Mac friendly enough to offer a page of links to Mac GPS resources and include the necessary driver on the CD. Seacoast Industry Sometimes a story will popup as a clear reminder that the world is not always as it seems. I will admit both surprise and amusement when I found that Foster’s Daily Democrat reported Saturday on the content of a federal indictment of a Kittery, Maine, health club. Geography lesson: Foster’s covers New Hampshire’s seacoast — all 18 miles of it — and Kittery is a shopping destination squished into the southernmost corner of Maine. The indictment accuses Gary H. Reiner of running “an interstate prostitution ring.” Foster’s reports that the club has operated under various names, most recently the “Danish Health Club,” owned by “Kittery Health Club Inc.” Reiner was apparently both the owner of the club and the former town council chairman and had a role in shaping the local regulations of spas and health clubs. The story clearly had some history, and I’m fortunate the web, and Foster’s archives, can educate me. Displaying Word Docs and PDFs in Safari Royce asked: How can I disable or tweak Download Manager so that files can be read in line with the download and manually launch through the Download Manager? I want to be able to click on a PDF or Word doc and have it open inline without having the Download Manager handle it to the desktop first. Context: Some people say the inline display of PDF and Word documents enables bad habits that are making the web less accessible and harder to use. Fun With License Plates Jameson wrote me today to point out that he can get a New Hampshire Moose license plate with the text “-BRK4M” He found my story about New Hampshire license plates, including the bit about NH’s online plate lookup. Then he pointed out that he could get a Purple Heart plate with the text “FUGW” Political messages on license plates seem to usually go one way: from government to people. This rare one reverses it. iSight Accessories And Beauty Tips MacDevCenter published a guide on How to Look Great on iChat AV back in March. The point? Video is changing telecommunications: No longer can we sit in grubby geek glee, protected by our avatar shields, wearing only uniforms of underwear. Endangered are the days where we can pass digital transmissions and gas simultaneously, picking our noses with one hand, and stuffing pizza down our throats with the other. Slowly but surely video is changing that, and sooner or later you’re going to find yourself beamed up into someone’s iChat AV window. Weird Palm Apps CanalPDA, a Spanish-language PDA info site has released an English version of their story about the weirdest Palm OS programs. You’ll have to follow the link to read about why they thought the apps were so weird, but the titles give some clue: Voodoo Palm Mirror Bistromatic FakeCall Palmasutra fDic Divination Scare The Doggy Bubble Wrap Emulator Darn Comment Spam <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/maisonbisson/sets/15240/” title="Canned Meats at Flickr"“>Now that most email clients have reasonable spam filtering capabilities, spammers are targeting comments systems on blogs, guestbooks (I thought those had disappeared, but I saw one yesterday) and other open submission forms that post to the web. IP banning probably never worked, as spammers have been using open proxys for years. Word blacklists (like ignore comments with “online-casino.com” in them) require regular maintenance and could result in false positives. Beware The Cheap PC The public radio show Future Tense did a story Monday that asks “Will you regret buying a cheapie PC?” Computers are cheaper than ever. But if you’re looking at a new machine this holiday season, Dwight Silverman of the Houston Chronicle says beware of the low, low prices. Why will you regret it? The machines are RAM starved, have lousy video hardware, bad monitors, processors that are slower than their MHz ratings make them look, small hard drives, and often lack even a CD burner. More About Google Print Prediction: we’ll talk about Google Print until they debut the beta, then we’ll talk about it more. Copyfight posted some followup on Google’s announcement earlier this week. Of note was a quote from Michael Madison: A first thought: It’s one more example, and a pretty important one, of the fading of the lines separating copyright law from communications law. Is Google Print an information conduit? A massive, rogue P2P technology? iPod Supplies Tight; Holiday Sales To Exceed Four Million Summary: four million to be sold this holiday season; adoption rate higher than for Sony’s Walkman. From MacNN: An article in the The Wall Street Journal today says that iPods are becoming scarce at retailers around the country. The report says that Amazon.com, Buy.com, and other online retailers are now out of stock and “Apple is contending with what appears to be an immense demand for the gadget,” and it suggests that Apple is dealing with manufacturing and distribution constraints due to the iPod’s ‘near-cult status. Wireless Security: WEP Dead WiFi Net News is saying R.I.P. W.E.P. after news of a new version of Aircrack was released that can break WEP in seconds after passively sniffing only a small number of packets. The result is that it takes only two to five minutes to crack a key. Even keys changed every 10 minutes are thus susceptible to an attack that might allow several minutes of discrete information. Unique keys distributed by 802. USB Headset Microphone I went looking for a USB headset microphone, and the Telex H-841 USB Digital Computer Headset seems to be the cheapest one that doesn’t suck. Amazon’s users comments for the other headsets in that price range (under 50 bucks) spoke of bad sound, uncomfortable fit, and fragile parts. The customer reviews of the Telex H-841, on the other hand, all rate it 5 out of 5 and commend its quality. Serious Question About Funny Picture Sometime ago I saw this picture among a bunch that were circulating in those emails that get forwarded all over the place. The site I first saw it on dissappeared shortly after, and I haven’t seen this shot again until now. It looks like this page is a copy of the one I saw in early 2001, and it includes this picture. My question is, where did it come from. I haven’t seen anybody name the source or context for this photo. I’m Now An Expert On Kabbalah Okay, that’s a lie, and it’s probably a little insensitive. Sorry. What I really mean is that the Monday edition of Fresh Air — that NPR talk show with Terry Gross — was all about Kabbalah. Terry’s guest was Arthur Green: Historian and theologian Arthur Green has long studied Jewish religion and culture. Among the many books he has written is his latest, A Guide to the Zohar. […] In addition to being dean of the rabbinical school of Hebrew College, Arthur Green is also on leave from Brandeis University. Google Stuns Libraries, Again ArsTechnica seemed to sum it up best: Today, it is expected that Google will announce an agreement to scan and create databases of works from five major libraries. According to news reports, Google will digitize all volumes in the University of Michigan and Stanford University library systems along with parts of research libraries at Harvard, the New York Public Library, and Oxford University in England. More information on the scope of projects at the individual institutions can be found at news. Exploring Coudal Last week I noted the SHHH project to hush noisy cell phone users by Draplin and Coudal. Today, I spent some time surfing the Coudal site and found a few things. Jewelboxing is Coudal’s answer to lousy CD jewel boxes and DVD cases that aren’t much better. The Super Jewel Box King was developed in conjunction with Phillips at the same time as the DVD. The Standard was designed and introduced shortly after. New Hampshire’s Teen Drug Use High, Teen Crime Rate Low Katherine Merrow, Senior Research Associate at the New Hampshire Center for Public Policy Studies recently released a study on Teen Drug Use and Juvenile Crime in NH. The following is quoted from the study’s executive summary: Two recent surveys indicate that New Hampshire teens use drugs at rates significantly higher than their national counterparts. One survey placed New Hampshire among the top 10 states in the nation in terms of the proportion of its teen population abusing either alcohol or drugs. Laughing At Your Idol While following the story about bad teachers, found the Mathcaddy blog. The only relation Mathcaddy has to the other story is that Steve, the unfortunate student runs his blog on a subdomain there. The post that got me interested at Mathcaddy was I Walked on Water… I Think I Can Walk to the Door: In one of his forty-eight dozen interviews about The Passion of the Christ, Mel Gibson said there have been more than a hundred films made about the life of Jesus. Holiday Deals On Macs MacNN gave me the heads up that Apple had reshuffled its refurb and discount shelves late last week. Shoppers got as much as 27% off selected items, with previous generation models being unloaded at the best discounts. Thing is, the deals were picked up quick, and the store seems to be empty of the best of them. The 1GHz iBook that was current until this Fall was going for $700, and the 1. Teacher Proves — Once Again — That Schools Are Averse To Free Thought Copyfight‘s Donna Wentworth passed along this “sad and perverse story of a teenager who was given an “F” for writing a paper attempting to distinguish between piracy and stealing.” Copyfight quote’s BoingBoing‘s story: Geluso, an “A” student, recently completed an in-class exit exam for his Language Arts class. The goal of the exit exam was to write a comparative essay on a topic of the student’s choice. Being a student who enjoys a challenge, he wrote an essay contrasting piracy with stealing. Cult of Mac, Cult of Newton, Cult of iPod No Starch Press recently released Leander Kahney’s The Cult of Mac. BookBlog notes: Are there trade shows for toasters? Of course not. So why is there a twice-yearly show devoted to a type of [computer] consumer? Well, a computer isn’t just a computer when it’s a Mac, and Macintosh fans will go to great lengths to celebrate their devotion. The book is a followup to the regular Cult Of Mac reporting in Wired News. Gear And Gadget Reviews Gizmodo popped a link over Dan Washburn’s gadget round up. Dan had been on a four month road trip through China, and has now posted the results of how his gear stood up to the trek. On the trip he took an iPod with a media reader, extended battery, and voice recorder mic; two cameras — Cannon S30 and S80; an iPaq with keyboard and GPRS modem; and a Garmin eTrex. Writer Goes Solar For Electric, Hot water, And Heat O’Reilly author Brian McConnell hasn’t gone off the grid, but he’s reduced his dependance on it and in so doing, lessened his footprint on the environment. Electric generates 70% of his home electric consumption. Solar hot water heats his hot tub, eliminating much of the remaining electric consumption. Forced hot air solar heats his house, eliminating half of his natural gas consumption. Total cost of system was $22,000, rolled into his mortgage. Saab Is Latest Car Maker To Get Excited About iPods MacNN reports that Saab has released an iPod integration kit: Saab has quietly introduced its own iPod/MP3 Player audio integration system. The new system, listed in the most recent Saab Accessories Catalog from October 2004, offers direct input for and control of the iPod on its Saab 9-3, according to one MacNN reader: “I spoke with the parts department at my dealership and they confirmed that it’s available. Evidently it’s wired through to the center console armrest and will be out of site. Smack the SHHH Down on Noisy Cell Users Gizmodo was excited enough about the Draplin and Coudal SHHH cards: Two designers have made these warning cards for obnoxious cell phone users, available in convenient PDF download-and-cut-out form. It’s a good way to make it clear to people they’re talking too loudly, and a good way to eventually get into a good, American fist-fight. Then someone can hand you a card that explains why they found your teeth in their soda to be “more than a little annoying. Missile Week at MaisonBisson It’s missile and space weapons week at MaisonBisson. One item, the increasing pace of missile development in hostile and semi-hostile countries as a reaction to the US missile shield, is real news. The others are softer. I wish I’d planned it. Don’t miss Russia’s space battle station or Warren’s home-town missile. Copyright Lessons From Waffle House To round out my week of quoting stories from lquilter.net, today I’m putting forward this one about intellectual property (originally from Critical Montages): Ever notice the Waffle House menu’s insistence that Double Waffle is for <a href="www-wafflehouse-com-whmenu.pdf” title="“dine-in only, no sharing"“>“dine-in only, no sharing”? A common prohibition at low-end restaurants, it’s also a small-print reminder of what capitalism is all about. From enclosure to enforcement of intellectual property rights, capital’s message is always No Sharing. Mobile Carrier Wireless Networking, Take 2 I took a long look at mobile wireless data service back in September. Now, Engadget says: They’re currently test-marketing a new wireless data plan called Mobile Media that costs fifteen bucks a month (the same as Sprint PCS Vision) and gives you unlimited data usage and access to their new streaming video service […] Assuming everything goes as planned, they’ll be introducing the new service in January. I guess I have to look at Sprint PCS again, because last time I looked, prices were $40 to $80. Reader Report: PIE iPod Input Adapter A reader, Mike, wrote in to reccomend the Precision Interface Electronics aux input adapter to connect the audio from my iPod to my Scion’s factory head unit. I don’t know if you ever found a solution to connecting your iPod to your Scion head unit, but if not, you can use this adapter to add an AUX input to the Scion factory head unit. I asked Mike for followup and details, and he offered this: Pictures of the Warren Rocket Warren is blessed with a rocket. It was once an intermediate range ballistic missile, but it’s basically the same rocket that launched America’s first astronauts Allen B. Shepherd and Gus Grissom into sub-orbital space. It’s enough to be proud of, anyway. RoadsideAmerica.com has a story on our rocket, but it’s based on reader reports and it seems people just don’t know what town they’re in when they see the thing. The Christian Right and the Sanctity of Marriage lquilter.net pointed me to an interesting entry at NewDonkey: The Christian Right and the Sanctity of Marriage As we all know, the Christian Right has now made defense of the institution of marriage, as defined as a union of a man and woman, not only its top political priority, but the very touchstone of Christian moral responsibility. I’ve always found this rather ironic, since the Protestant Reformation, to which most Christian Right leaders continue to swear fealty, made one of its own touchstones the derogation of marriage as a purely religious, as opposed to civic, obligation. Missiles Are The New Fashion DefenseTech reported today that “Russia is leaning more and more on its nuclear weapons, as its conventional military falls into the toilet.” Elsewhere at DefenseTech today was a link to ArmsControlWonk, which leads to news that the US isn’t working with the IAEA. This isn’t good. The AP, via DefenseTech is reporting Speaking at a meeting of the Armed Forces’ leadership, Putin reportedly said that Russia is researching and successfully testing new nuclear missile systems. Russian Battle Station Polyus DefenseTech reported, some time ago, on the old USSR’s Space Battle Station (or, communist Russia’s answer to Reagan’s star wars program). More pictures are in a forum at Militaryphotos.net. Called Polyus, it was ridiculously huge — as with all things Russian. Sadly, (from a purely scientific perspective) DefenseTech reports “it couldn’t get itself into a working orbit, probably because of ‘a faulty inertial guidance sensor,’ according to the Encyclopedia Astronautica.” US Senate On Porn I’ve been reading the archives at lquilter.net, where I stumbled across this amusing yet scary entry: …On the First Amendment side of things, Wired has a great new story explaining how recent Senate Commerce Committee, Science, Technology & Space Subcommittee hearings have shown that Internet porn is the worst scourge this nation has seen since CIA-sponsored heroin. [wired 11/19] “Pornography really does, unlike other addictions, biologically cause direct release of the most perfect addictive substance,” Satinover said. Shock Tanks Gizmodo alerted me to these shocking remote control tanks. For 50 bucks you get two remote control tanks with which you and a pal will do battle. It’s a game of “maneauver and fire, evade,” or something like that, with the additional carrot that if you hit your opponent’s tank, he or she will get an electric shock. The stick is that if your opponent hits your tank, you get the shock. Dog Sled Racing Justin at the start of his four-dog sled race in Meredith, New Hampshire. The video of Justin’s finish is also online. Snow started falling early Friday and continued through Saturday morning. It’s the heavy, wet snow you get when the air is still warm. The frost isn’t deep and there are still-soft patches of ground here and there, so the snow is melting in parts, but it’s snow nonetheless. It’s snow enough that Justin might be able to run the dogs on the sled, rather than on his bike as he does through the Fall. Cool TVs and RC Aerial Photos Gizmodo went gaga for Plus Minus Zero, a little electronics shop in Japan where “they hand-design a selection of products, then contract the production of the units out for a limited run.” The post includes a picture of one of their products, an LCD television that looks like one of those classic tube TVs from the 1960s. Then Gizmodo linked to this radio control aerial photography discussion board with some great pix. Bush On Tape Cliff over at Spiralbound.net posted the video of Bush flipping the bird. It’s not as exciting as I’d hoped, but it’s on video. Then there’s the Dubya Movie. It’s a fantastic mashup of old Don Kotts movies, but that’s already giving too much away. Go watch it, you’ll laugh. A Night At The Hip Hopera I’m not really sure how to describe The Kleptones and their album A Night At The Hip Hopera, but I can tell you how I found it. Disney sent takedown notices to those who were mirroring the work, raising the ire of the Copyfight community. You see, The Kleptones are really quite good, but their album is a mashup of Queen songs, and Disney (who owns the rights to Queen’s music), got itchy. States Rights LQ wrote at lquilter.net about looming challenges to federalism i’ll be interested to see how the conservative, pro-federalism, pro-states’ rights, GOP-run government (and the conservative intelligentsia which carries their theoretical water) handles some of the upcoming challenges to federalism: medical marijuana laws state & regional initiatives on global warming: for isntance, California’s mandatory cap on greenhouse-gas emissions will have to be signed off on by the EPA before it goes into effect I tried to comment, but WordPress kept ignoring me. Instead, I’ll post here and trackback. James Loewen writes, in his book Lies Across America, that “states rights” is the call of whatever party doesn’t control the presidency. The Republicans made a lot of noise about it during the Clinton years, but will likely have to adjust their position now. Some readers will likely point out, however, that the unspoken Republican tenet (at least since the early 1900s) is “might makes right.” Sadly, the Bush administration has already supported challenges to local environmental regulations. I can’t remember the specifics, but a federal court struck down a California law that required clean-burning busses and trucks in the state. Maybe Republicans are more tolerant of cognitive dissonance than liberals. Maybe they don’t care. Flickr Random Selection Email Is For Dinosaurs in South Korea A South Korean newspaper is predicting the death of email. A poll conducted […] on over 2,000 middle, high school and college students in Gyeonggi and Chungcheong provinces in October revealed that more than two-thirds of the respondents said, “I rarely use or don’t use e-mail at all.” It seems email just isn’t fast enough for these wippersnappers. …it’s impossible to tell whether an addressee has received a message right away and replies are not immediately forthcoming. Lycos-Europe’s Spam Plan SmartMobs reports that Lycos is planning to raise the cost of spam with a gentle DDOS attack. Yes, gentle. Lycos-Europe is distributing a free downloadable screensaver called Make Love Not Spam that directs a low-intensity distributed denial of service attack (DDOS) at URLs contained in spam messages. The BBC article quoted at SmartMobs reports: Mr Pollmann said there was no intention to stop the spam websites working by subjecting them with too much data to cope with. WiFi Seeker, Finder, Detector Roundup Handtops.com has published a WiFi Seeker, Finder, Detector Roundup. The five models they reviewed include: Smart ID WiFi Detector – WFS-1 PCTEL WiFi Seeker Kensington WiFi Finder Plus Hawking Technologies WiFi Locator – HWL1 Canary Wireless Digital Hotspotter – HS10 My favorite, and it’s not based on any experience with any of these products, is the Canary Wireless Digital Hotspotter. It’s the smartest of the bunch and shows The War On Fair Use Somebody somewhere, probably a lawyer in the entertainment industry, has a list titled “rabid fair use advocates” and David Rothman is near or at the top. Not that I mean that as a criticism, or that Mr. Rothman would take it as such. It’s just a likely fact. Today, however, I’m playing a game by quoting his post about the war on fair use in full: Doubt there’s a war against fair use? ENCompass for Digital Collections and Resource Access We’re looking at ENCompass for Digital Collections and Resource Access here. It’s an expensive product, but has a lot of interesting and useful features. Some sites we looked at in the demo today included New Zealand National Library, UT Dallas, and Alabama Mosaic. Bloody Saturday in the Soviet Union: Novocherkassk, 1962 I had a long conversation with my brother about communist Russia last night. It’s not really an area I can talk about, execpt that I’d recently read enough to make me look semi-smart. My reading was of Samuel H. Baron’s Bloody Saturday in the Soviet Union: Novocherkassk, 1962. Review From Library Journal: Baron (history emeritus, Univ. of North Carolina; Plekhanov in Russian History and Soviet Historiography) brings to light events of nearly 40 years ago that foreshadowed the demise of the Soviet Union. Robert Berger’s WiFi Will Beat Up Your WiMax From WiFi Networking News: WiMax Hype, 802.11 Reality Wi-Fi will out evolve and deliver connectivity at costs dramatically lower than WiMax. WiMax / 802.16 is just starting on its path to evolution, has a much smaller base of innovators and chipset growth volume. Wi-Fi is already far along on its core learning curve, has an easy order of magnitude larger base of innovators / investors and chipset growth volume. WiMax hype will sputter out to reality of a niche backhaul and rural marketplace, Wi-Fi/802.11 will evolve and grow into many more realms and dominate the Local Area Network (LAN) / Neighborhood Area Network (NAN) / Metro Area Network (MAN). Berger’s conclusion is based on the history and development of earlier, wired networking technologies, where Ethernet is the clear winner. He reminds us that “Token Ring, then 802.12 AnyLAN VG, then ATM” were all once considered leading technologies that would replace lowly Ethernet, but didn’t. Today, 802.11 products are shunned by wireless carriers, but their spread and market dominance will be hard to beat by WiMax and 802.16. iPod Integration Kits Proliferate for Home and Car MacNN reports the Sonance iPort will ship later this month, which must mean next week. Anyway, the iPort is a wall mounted dock that hides all the cables — audio, firewire, dock, others — in the wall. The MacNN story includes nice pictures of the unit, including the beauty shot and a view of the ports and connectors. Sonance makes no end of “architectural-audio” equipment, including those speakers you sometimes find hidden in the wall. falljuahinpictures fallujapictures (soon to be at falljuahinpictures.com) posts pictures too sad or scary to appear in most newspapers or even on this site. Geolocation Stumbling Block: GeoURL Host Down A an old John Udell piece at InfoWorld hints at GeoURLs, but the GoeURL site is down, and has been for a while. The concept sounds interesting: you mark pages with coordinates, then use GIS to map those pages to geographic locations, finding pages and people of interest along the way. To join GeoURL, you add this kind of metadata to your homepage: I got interested in this sort of thing (geolocation) a while back, and I haven’t quite given up. Copyright Czar Cometh? David Rothman at TeleRead echoed the following: “Buried inside the massive $388 billion spending bill Congress approved last weekend is a program that creates a federal copyright enforcement czar.” – Lawmakers OK antipiracy czar, via CNET. Sealing History Democratic Underground published a May 5 2004 story about Bush administration efforts to replace the national archivist. the national archivist is the keeper of the nation’s records – the archives. The National Archives control what information gets released to the public – and what does not. With so much power over how what history we see, the independence of the archivist’s position is paramount, lest one political party usurp that power. People who know these things were afraid when the previous archivist announced his intention to resign early, despite previous signals he intended to complete his full term. These people were doubly surprised when they learned the Bush White House has […] nominated Allen Weinstein for the position, one who is held in dubious esteem at best, who has been criticized for having a penchant for privacy not becoming a National Archivist and, to the surprise of many, was nominated without any consultation with outside experts – the first such time ever since 1984, and in direct contravention with the wishes of Congress as expressed in the House report accompanying the law that made the Archives independent. Had the previous archivist fulfilled his term, he would have presided over the release of George H. W. Bush’s records. The new archivist will be able to lock up those records and along with the “W” files for the next ten years. With a straw man in place, the Bushs can rest comfortably, but can we? Liberty Vampire jokir Flickr’d this, writing: “GREAT work — Alex Ross is one of my favorite artists…Plus – it pretty much nails what’s up in the world, right?” Ross’s website has mostly shows his comic book art and superhero imagery, and it took some time to find a reference to this piece. Apparently it was for an article in The Village Voice and appeared on the cover. Ross writes: WB Says You’ll Pay Here’s the irony: an academic writes a paper that references and quotes relevant prior work, and is commended for the work. But, a journalist working on a book that quotes elements of pop culture risks a copyright infringement lawsuit if he doesn’t pay for his quotes. The fact is, “fair use” is not protected, and it can only be determined in court. Fact is, the risk of lawsuit is enough to make most authors and other content creators license work for uses that most agree should be covered by fair use. U2 Cozies To Apple I’ve been warm and lukewarm on U2 for a while. I can’t deny that they’ve done some great stuff, but I’ve failed to appreciate some of it. Take the band’s previous work, All That You Can’t Leave Behind, for example. It seemed like a sad attempt to capture a younger audience, and was out of line from the band’s other work. Aging is tough on everybody, but neither the band-members, nor their fans are getting any younger. The Kinkos Conspiracy Engadget raised my fears a bit when they announced your laser printer will give you away: It was big news last month when a couple of researchers at Purdue announced a way to trace documents back to their original printer or photocopier, but it turns out that Xerox and most other laser printer and copier makers have been selling devices that encode serial numbers and manufacturing codes on everything they print out for years. Click Fraud ArsTechnica has a story about new Google lawsuits. The company is getting sued by a porn purveyor for copyright infringement and is suing another company for “click fraud” — fraudulent clicks to Google’s Adsense advertising links. Having recently taken on Adsense links here at MaisonBisson, I couldn’t help but pay attention. The Ars story leads to one at C|Net that explains: Click fraud is perpetrated in both automated and human ways. Predicting the Computer of 2004 in 1954 (Fake) Steffan O’Sullivan writes: “This is from a 1954 edition of Modern Mechanics Magazine, predicting what the home computer will look like in 2004. I think I worked on that printer once… How can I get a steering wheel like that on my office computer here?” The caption reads: “Scientists from the RAND Corporation have created this model to illustrate how a ‘home computer’ could look like in the year 2004. Chernobyl Tour update: there’s more pictures, even some video (look for links marked with the QuickTime logo), and a bundle more nuclear and Chernobyl-related stories. I almost fell into a trap that has snared quite a few before me. bookofjoe recently pointed to the story of Elena, a motorcycle riding woman who claimed to brave the radiation to tour the area around Chernobyl, the nucluear reactor that exploded disasterously in 1986. A commentor quickly pointed out that her story has some history and is surrounded by controversy. Google Scholar ArsTechnica and bookofjoe both heralded the beta release of Google Scholar. My questions: “is it accessible via the Google API,” and, “what does this mean for academic libraries?” I’ll be exploring both in time. In the meantime: Library Portal Integration. How Blue Is My Country? My father sent along a link with the following annotation: We all know the expression that “one picture is worth a thousand words.” Well, here are several pictures of the same phenomena that tell the same story but give very different impressions. They illustrate clearly how pictures can be misleading (or should that be ‘leading’ ?). I found them very interesting. Please look at all of them. The link lead to a web page by Michael Gastner, Cosma Shalizi, and Mark Newman of the University of Michigan offering Maps and cartograms of the 2004 US presidential election results. Science of Coercion Roderick sent me a link to a story at Common Dreams: Killing the Political Animal: CIA Psychological Operations and Us, by Heather Wokusch. A CIA instruction manual entitled “Psychological Operations in Guerrilla Warfare” provides some clues. Written in the early 1980s (coincidentally, soon after Bush Sr. headed the Agency) the document was part of the US government’s crusade to bring down Nicaragua’s leftist government, by providing training and weapons to the Contra rebels. Coldplay I didn’t think I’d become a Coldplay fan, but then I heard Don’t Panic in the Garden State soundtrack and I couldn’t help myself. Now I’m liking Clocks. My only problem with all this is that everybody else likes it too. Reviewing FCC Rules on WiFi Use I wasn’t really paying attention in June when WiFi Net News reported on a FCC decision regarding control of WiFi: The FCC says landlords, associations can’t regulate Part 15 use: The FCC’s Office of Engineering and Technology says that the function of regulating and coordinating frequency use is reserved to the FCC itself. It’s a clear refutation of mall owners, airports, and condominium associations to limit use of Wi-Fi and other wireless technologies. Why We Fear The FCC The Engadget headline on Monday appeared at first exaggerated: the FCC says it has power over anything that can receive and play a digital file. But, the short news entry reveals the truth of the headline: In a brief filed in a suit brought against the Broadcast Flag by the Electronic Frontier Foundation and PublicKnowlegde, the FCC argues that not only do they have the right to regulate that all digital TVs, settop boxes, digital video recorders, satellite receivers, DVD recorders, etc. Ken Nordine’s Word Jazz Ken Nordine may have the best voice ever. In the pantheon of deep soothing voices, Ken Nordine’s stands above The Magnetic Fields and MC Honky, and about on par with Barry White. Content Management Below are loosely organized speaking notes for Zach’s Essentials of Web Development class that I guest-lectured/substituted on Monday, November 17th. Either we do the content management, or we get the computer to do it for us What is redundant and repetitive about web management? Placement of branding elements. Placement and updating of navigation elements Placement and tracking of ads Updating of lists, indexes, and other info as a site’s content changes These tasks consume time, but do not require great skill. What’s Up With Lowell And Donuts? See the full What’s Up With Lowell And Donuts Flickr photoset with slideshow. Follow that with the Post-Donut Tour photo set. Story/explanation/narrative to follow. Sometime. Donut Shack Eat-a-Donut Still Hungry DefenseTech Compares Book to Practice in Fallujah The news from Fallujah is grim. Casualties are heavy on all sides, the city is being bombed to ruin, and those few civilians that remain are without water or power while bodies rot in the streets. DefenseTech reported on the Fallujah push last week and included some quotes from the Army’s new Counterinsurgency Operations field manual: Concentrate on elimination of the insurgents, not on terrain objectives… Get counterinsurgency forces out of garrisons, cities, and towns; off the roads and trails into the environment of the insurgents… Avoid establishment of semipermanent patrol bases laden with artillery and supplies that tend to tie down the force. Dangit: FreeFonts A part of me hates 1001freefonts.com. It’s the part that has too often found just the right font, only to discover that the free or cheap knock-off version that I had didn’t have all the characters, like quote-marks and other punctuation. Then I see a font like “Accidental President” and realize what a sucker I am for font shopping. Thanks to bookofjoe for the link. Also, High Tech-Styles (get the pun? Shatner’s Return: Has Been William Shatner has a new album out. Most people receive this news with a smirk, or a chuckle, or a dumbfounded look. Let me assure you, he can’t sing any better than you think, and probably not any better than in his previous albums. But here’s the thing: the first single Common People, really is good. Well, good in one way or another. I laughed the first time I heard it, and the second time, and again and again. Ludicorp Will Be Flooded With Under-qualified Applicants Job ads reveal a lot about a company, what technology they use, what they’re developing, and what sort of culture they have. This one from Ludicorp/Flickr caught my eye: Starting immediately, we’re looking for a great technical operations person. The ideal candidate can grow into a leadership role in technical operations and has broad practical experience on both the systems and networks sides. Requirements: 5 years system administration experience with Linux and Apache (some network administration experience strongly preferred) Experience with both 32 and 64bit systems Experience with both hardware and software approaches for load balancing web serving and database traffic Experience in firewall administration and best practices for security Basic network design and administration Current knowledge of hardware systems (servers and networking gear) Prior experience running mid-sized systems (30 servers) Bonus characteristics: Fish Tacos Oh decadence! Veterans Day provided not only a chance for reflection but also a rare Thursday free from the classroom. So what to do with this open period of time? The answer was easy, dinner party. I have wanted to have my colleagues Roxanna and John over, but time is always an issue. I phoned them up and they accepted. Now the fun began — menu planning. While vacationing with my parents in Vegas last summer we went out to marvelous food chain, The Cheesecake Factory. High Tech-Styles Foof started out by making some interesting iPod sleves. Now they’re offering Foofbags for your iBook and PowerBook. If you are looking for a funky alternative to neoprene, rubber or plastic to protect your Apple technology from scratches, then we think that this site is for you. Our foofproducts are handmade, simple and beautiful. foofproducts were originally created in a Martello Tower (Dublin, Ireland). They are now currently handmade using a 1953 Pinnock sewing machine (Sydney, Australia). Delicious Library & Earthcomber & What? I’ll be saving my pennies, because Delicious Library may be the coolest new app in a while. Ars Technica revied a beta and gave it an 8.5 out of 10 — for a beta of a 1.0 product. People are right when they suspect that something very different is going on over in the Mac corner of the software development universe. Is it something crazy, or something sublime? You be the judge. Money Grubbing You’ll notice there are more ads on the site recently. It’s not because I need to recoup my investment in the site and need the pennies I get for these ads; it’s just because I’m a money grubbing bastard. Anyway, this is the response I got to my application to the Target affiliate program: We regret to inform you that Target.com has chosen not to accept you into their affiliate program at this time. The Campaign For Klem the Killer Klown Jones Soda, the folks who make the extra-flavored pop with the intersting photos on the label have an online gallery where you can submit works to appear on future labels and vote on works already submitted. Roderick’s girlfriend Toni submitted an piece and he’s campaigning for it: Hey there. Toni is trying to get her Klem the Killer Klown banner on a Jones Soda bottom. Help her out by voting for her image! WPA Cracked Yesterday’s story about wired and wireless network security, and policy-based networking (sort of) was really just preparation for WiFi Net News’ WPA Cracking story. Glenn Fleishman’s lead is quite direct, “we warned you: short WPA passphrases could be cracked — and now the software exists.” He explains further: a weakness in shorter and dictionary-word-based passphrases used with Wi-Fi Protected Access render those passphrases capable of being cracked. The WPA Cracker tool is somewhat primitive, requiring that you enter the appropriate data retrieved via a packet sniffer like Ethereal. Better Networks Through Policy Back in the Fall of 2003, PSU was still considering its wireless plans. Things were moving slowly, and the decision makers seemed to be looking for answers in the wrong places. I’d been agitating for better answers, a simpler solution, lower costs, and more progress. My criticism landed me on the hot seat, and I was soon asked to be more constructive. My answers are in this presentation, the accompanying handout, and a handout for a followup meeting. At the time, the networking staff was leaning towards a proprietary 802.1x-based authentication scheme that required specific client software and had limited hardware support. The package was rather pricey, would have required additional client software and hardware purchases, and was restrictive in its support of student computers. At an institution that supports over 7000 users, most of whom purchase and maintain their own equipment, the plan seemed to have a lot of shortcomings. I wanted the school to look at the Wireless ISP model, and consider the options used there. I also wanted the networking folks to explore network security over-all, rather than just wireless security, as most network threats affect wired and wireless networks in similar ways. I no longer work in the IT shop, where I was a sys admin at the time, but this presentation and my arguments may have been successful. The school selected a commercial captive portal authentication system, just like the WISPs. A lot has changed in the wireless market over the intervening year, but I’m offering the presentation here anyway. Getting Schooled on Trademark Law Krispy Kream, the donut folks, are itching to get Krispy Kream Drive In on Route 422 in Belsano to change their name. I’ve no idea where Belsano is, but ower Christina Hoover says “we’re an ice cream fast food stand. It’s a drive in.” It’s been the Hoover’s bread and butter since 1968. What Krispy Kreme is really arguing is dilution of their “famous” brand. Since going IPO a few years ago, Krispy Kremes have popped up everywhere across the county, from SBC Park in SF to the Excaliber in Las Vegas. iPod News Galore iPodLounge has posted a lengthy buyers guide for the iPod and accessories. It’s a whopping PDF — they call it retro because it’s in magazine format. Whatever, it’s packed with details and includes comparison reviews. Mac360 is offering up a chatty review of the iPod Photo. Tera poked around and found an odd “Photo Import” command lurking in the menus. Could this be the feature that allows camera users to import memory card contents directly? Recovery Lawrence Lessig picked out a comment by adamsj that resonated with him: “I’m going to spend time these next few days looking for the America in my heart. It may be a while before I see it anywhere else.” The response was strong and swift. The first few comments were highly critical, even personally critical. John‘s comment seemed to sum up the Republican view: You may also find it in the scores of millions of voters and nonvoters in between Manhattan and San Francisco whom the Democratic Party has repeatedly mocked, ridiculed, called stupid/ignorant/intolerant, and excluded for the past 30 or so years. Stealing From The bookofjoe Once again, I’m echoing a lot of content from bookofjoe. I just can’t help myself. Without the blog, how would I know about products like the Flatulence Deodorizer? The Flatulence Deodorizer — U.S. Patent No. 6,313,371 — is “guaranteed to eliminate embarrassment from odors associated with flatulence – forever – or your money back.” Says the site: “Try it, you’ll like it – and so will the others around you. bookofjoe Says CIA, NSA, Defense, and others Will Make Kerry President “The old guard of the CIA, threatened and beleaguered as they haven’t been since the disclosure of ‘the family jewels’ by the Rockefeller Commission in 1975, is striking back.” When Bush turned to the intelligence agencies to produce “evidence” to support his NeoCon plan to invade Iraq, they ponied up. To them, that’s what you do when you work in the executive branch and the executive gives an order. Of course, much of the Intelligence community’s behaviour was formed in the days when the buck stopped at the desk in the Oval Office. Fear The Takedown, Part II: Homeland Security Copyfight and Teleread both picked up on an AP story about Homeland Security Agents Enforcing Trademark Law. Pufferbelly Toys owner Stephanie Cox “was taken aback by a mysterious phone call from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to her small store in this quiet Columbia River town just north of Portland.” Calls from law enforcement agents get noticed. Calls from organizations charged with securing America from terrorist threats get fretted over. Halloween 2004: The Movie Food, booze, fire: Halloween 2004. Links: Picoserver and iVideo Picoserver: Japanese firm Package Technology is coming out with a 42 x 23.5 x 61 mm box called the PicoServer that’s essentially a web/mail server with an Ethernet port and three sockets for sensors (one out, two in). This could be a packaged implementation of the iButton TINI ICs from Dallas Semiconductor. Then again, it might not be. Either way, it’s interesting and convenient. I just wish they were cheaper than the $375 or so Engadget claims they’ll cost. The October Surprise NPR’s senior news analyst, Daniel Schorr, reported Wednesday that the Bush administration has been busy keeping the bad news it has known about for months out of the press and away from the public scrutiny. Iraqi Explosives The Bush administration knew about the 400 tons of missing explosives a year ago, but still claims no knowledge of how they went missing or who might have taken them. Their knee-jerk reaction, of course, is to say the explosives went missing before US troops invaded, but TV news video that has recently come to light shows US troops inspecting the explosives then being ordered away. What Have You Done For Me Lately, Dubbya? UnionVoice.org asks Are you better off now than you were four years go? In his four years, George W. Bush has taken away overtime pay, presided over the first net loss of jobs since Herbert Hoover and the Great Depression, proposed a 30 percent cut in funds for children’s hospitals, sought tax breaks for companies that export jobs overseas and signed a Medicare prescription drug bill that helps HMOs and drug companies more than seniors. Grandma Had More Sex FleshBot pointed to a story in The Guardian that reports on a study by Prima Magazine that suggests married women of today have less sex than married women of the 1950s. women in the 1950s had sex an average of twice a week. But a survey found two-thirds of today’s women said they were too tired to manage that much. When I mentioned this to Sandee, she echoed what Prima says about it: Warmonger ≠ Support Our Troops On the heels of “<a href=”/post/10260” title="There _were no international terrorists in Iraq until we went in“>There were no international terrorists in Iraq _until we went in_” comes a story from Alternet: “Bush has failed the military on almost every level — marking the difference between being militaristic and pro-military.” Discounting that he sent American troops into Iraq on false pretenses, a real commander would fight for the welfare of his troops. Fictional Story Asks: Is There A Right To Life After Death? The story focuses on the brain as an organ, in this case, an organ donated for medical research after the death of the host. What has prompted the lawsuits, protests and threats just over one year after the procedure is not the facts of the initial donation, but the university’s decision to terminate the experiments, and therefore the care, of the brain. What the [right to life groups] and their supporters claim is that Brian Schultz, the nine-year-old organ donor who legally passed away one year ago, is actually alive and well in the research lab. C&D = Takedown = Chill = Limited Creativity = Limited Speech Ericka Jacobs at Copyfutures found my Fear the Takedown story about Bits of Freedom’s takedown study. She over-stated my effort; all I really did was quote text from Copyfight, which they quoted from Doom9, but that’s how blogs and the web work. More importantly, Erika explained a lot more than I did, including detailing takedown proceedures and safe harbor provisions under US and European copyright law. Finally, she ends by quoting a report by Chilling Effects, a copyright resource center maintained by the “Electronic Frontier Foundation and six law school clinical programs. Prepare To Get Screwed by DRM Copyfight is picking up on something I started talking about a while ago: content owners want to re-sell you the things you already own. Digital isn’t about copying, it’s about not having to re-purchase music just because the record company releases it in a new format (album, cassette, CD, beyond CD). The Real Threat: Me2Me is about just that. HBO, for one, is very straightforward in its FAQ that the goal is to take away your time/space shifting rights in order to sell them back to you. The Sweet Taste of Lead bookofjoe reports on a October 5 Washington Post story titled: Lead Levels in Water Misrepresented Across US. What the headline really means, however, is that lead levels are under-reported accross the US. “The problems we know about are just the tip of the iceberg,” said Erik D. Olson of the nonprofit Natural Resources Defense Council, “because utilities are gaming the system, states have often been willing to ignore long-standing violations and the EPA sits on the sidelines and refuses to crack down. Serene, Calming Video Turn up your speakers to enjoy the serene music and pastoral scenes in this relaxing video of a car ad. [update:] the original link is broken; look for current links to the video in the text and comments of this newer story. Malware, OSX On Old Macs, Brass Knuckles ArsTechnica reports Linux and Mac OS X get some love (?) from malware writers: Some of you may have seen e-mails purporting to be from the Red Hat Security Team. The e-mail contains a link to fedora-redhat.com and prompts users to download and install a patch for fileutils-1.0.6, stating that a vulnerability could “allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code with root privileges.” The “patch” actually contains malicious code that will compromise the system it is run on. “There were no international terrorists in Iraq until we went in” It made some news when former British foreign secretary Robin Cook, who resigned from the Cabinet over the Iraq war, said: “There were no international terrorists in Iraq until we went in. It was we who gave the perfect conditions in which al Qaeda could thrive.” Now, news organizations around the world are quoting the IAEA in saying: Nearly 400 tons of conventional explosives that can be used in the kind of car bomb attacks that have targeted US-led coalition forces in Iraq for months have vanished from a former Iraqi military installation, the UN nuclear agency said Monday. Ribbons A story on NPR’s Morning Edition this morning declares: yellow-ribbon magnets carry complex meaning. The Library of Congress’s American Folklife Center tells the history of the yellow ribbon. Though its conceptual beginnings are mixed, Penne Laingen was the first known American to tie a ribbon ’round an ole oak tree in hopes of the safe return of a loved one from conflict or captivity. It was 1979, and her husband was among the hostages taken that November in Teheran, Iran. Duties and Responsibilities “I really don’t know what he did for us.” — said recently about me by my old manager to a former co-worker. Cliff Points At Stuff So, Cliff points at stuff a lot. It turns out that he’s pointing in every picture in my photoblog that he appears in. Sure, it’s only five out of five photos, but it’s still 100%! More photos from MaisonBisson In Car iPod, Take 2 Engadget echoed a story from AutoBlog (duh, I just noticed that they’re both from Weblogs Inc.) about an iPod integration kit that works with most all 1998-or-newer cars: iPod2car. First, it gives a clean line-in to the stero from the iPod, then it gives next and previous track as well as rewind and fastforward control on the stereo. Sure, you can buy a 2005 BMW and get the same deal as an option, but this is cheaper. Digital Camera Reccomendations A friend asked me what digital camera she should buy. Her criteria were that it be small and inexpensive. My answer: the Pentax Optio S40 with a 256MB or 1GB SD card. Why? It’s less than an inch thick, is hovering at just over $200, and works well. My slightly upscale alternative is the Olympus Stylus 410, but XD memory cards are much more expensive than their SD cousins. Still, Olympus’ new Stylus Verve looks like a winner. Red Sox The Red Sox did an amazing thing last night: they won. There’s a lot of talk about how historic the four wins in a row come from behind victory is, but for most people, it’s enough simply that they won, and they beat the Yankees. Close to home, PSU students, and students all over New Hampshire and Massachusettes, expressed their joy over the Sox’s victory in a way that has mature adults™ shaking their heads everywhere. I’m No Economist, But… It’s an old story, the growing gap between rich and poor, and it’s probably booring as hell to most. Thing is, I fear it’s shaping America in more ways than can be counted. I’ve been at a loss to make a clean argument about this, so all I can do now is give you this: Across the Great Divide: In 1999, CEOs made 458 times as much as production and non-supervisory workers. Fear the Takedown Copyfight points me to Doom9 which reports on Bits of Freedom‘s recent project: Dutch civil rights organization Bits of Freedom has run an interesting experiment: They put up a text by a famous Dutch author, written in 1871 to accounts with 10 different ISPs. Then they made up an imaginary society that is supposed to be the copyright holder of the author in question, and sent copyright infringement takedown notices to those 10 ISP via email (using a Hotmail account). “Try a Florsheim Maneuver” Quotes from the bookofjoe: “The bleeding always stops.” …my favorite of the zillions of wonderful, pithy, often-harsh apothegms I’ve heard in my years in medicine. There’s more: “Try a Florsheim maneuver” [kick him to see if he’s dead or faking] “We won’t know until the autopsy.” [actually spoken on internal medicine rounds by a resident when I was in med school, in response to the question, “What’s he have? TV-B-Gone Wired News ran a two page profile of the inventor and his creation. Just two weeks before the US Presidential election, NPR found time run an interview with the inventor. Gizmodo rants angrilly about it. Clearly, a device that shuts of televisions gets attention. TV-B-Gone is a one button remote control who’s only purpose is to turn off televisions, whereever they may be. From Wired News: The idea for TV-B-Gone was born at a restaurant in the early 1990s, when Altman and his friends kept paying attention to a TV in the corner, not to one another. Monday Politics Sex and politics, voter registration at strip clubs “Ashcroft used to care more about pornography than terrorism,” says Scot Powe, professor of law at the University of Texas. “The guy is a throwback to the early 50s; maybe that’s being too generous.” <p> […] </p> <p> David Wasserman, a first amendment attorney, [says:] “My fear is that a second Bush administration will unleash a slew of prosecutions against adult entertainment web sites, video stores and producers of adult films. Monday Copyfight Disney thieves Peter Pan from copyright-holding childrens’ hospital charity Peter and the Starcatchers by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson and published by Disney’s Hyperion Books is billed as a prequel to the children’s classic, Peter Pan. […] But the hospital charity says [it] is getting nothing from Peter and the Starcatchers — which has been on the New York Times best seller lists, has had an extensive author tour and has its own Web site. Monday Tech Now that WiFi access is common, WiFi-dependant applications are starting to appear. providers are finding out that the key to encouraging usage of hotspots and the key to leveraging hotspots to boost business is by offering applications that customers can use. <p> </li> <li> <a href="http://wifinetnews.com/archives/004343.html" title="Rest Stop WiFi Roundup">Rest Stop WiFi Roundup</a><br /> <blockquote> <p> Texas has signed a contract to install Wi-Fi at 105 locations by Oct. Sunday Links Links: starting with politics, going to copyfight, ending nowhere. On The Mediathis week is reporting on the controversies about Sinclair TV and Bush’s wiring, looks at why there’s a dearth of local real local news, and, most interestingly, compares Bush’s lies to Kerry’s exaggerations.The whole show is available as MP3. RealClearPolitics lists polls in swing states and elsewhere. EarthBrowser (for Mac) gives us a glimpse of the world, showing swirling clouds and other weather, but hiding the politics and tension. Football Injuries Joe was telling his son, Justin, about his college football days. It was mostly a tale of his injuries, including one that required he have fluid drained from his knees daily before practice. He says it hurt. It hurt a lot. It hurt to drain the fluid. It hurt to practice on it. It hurt throughout the day and night. Justin asked why he would do such things to himself. Because he could not imagine doing anything else. Local Cinemas While Yahoo Movies is okay, it doesn’t track all the local theaters. Fortunately, many of them are online: The Nugget, Hanover Lebanon 6 Lincoln Cinemas Smitty’s/Chunky’s Tilton Then there are the drive-ins: Meadows Drive-In Route 135, Woodsville, N.H (603)747-2608 Fairlee Drive-In Theater Fairlee, VT. (802) 333-9192 St. Louis I’m ashamed to say that St. Louis, Missouri, wasn’t on my list of must-see-cities™. It’s not that I thought I wouldn’t like St. Louis, it just never crossed my mind to go there. I’d also forgotten about the Arch. I ended up in St. Louis because it was hosting the Library Information Technology Association annual conference. I did the Arch Friday morning, before the conference. The day was rainy and gray, but the Arch still stood out as an amazing structure. Veicon Thin Client Solutions The theory is that thin clients save money over the long-haul because they require less maintenance and management, have longer useful lives, and can be purchased for about the same or less money than the PC you might have otherwise used. The problem is that it’s very different from the normal practice and not many people can explain exactly how it works. So, in the absence of good information, most people go on like they always have and ignore the possibilities of thin clients. QR Codes QR Codes are starting to appear everywhere. I’m intrigued and I want to know more about them. Here are some links I dug up and hope to return to: Wikipedia on QR codes Schubart’s Wikipedia on QR codes jphonegames on QR codes QR code generator QR codes and PHP A better QR code generator Winging Into Cleveland The wing dips toward the ground while turning for the Cleveland airport. Lake Erie is visible underneath the clouds at the top of the frame. Two more photos from this series are posted in my new Aerial & Scenic set at Flickr. What Liberal Media? Now on CNN.com: Sinclair Broadcast Group, owner of the largest group of television stations in the nation, plans to air a documentary that accuses Sen. John Kerry of betraying American prisoners during the Vietnam War, a newspaper reported Monday. This story is bigger than it looks, and I almost let it slip by without mention because I couldn’t fully address it. But ignoring it won’t make it go away, so…. Libraries Under Fire KOMO TV 4 is reporting Big Brother™ is watching, even in small communities off the beaten path. Deming, Washington, a town of 210 with a library that “isn’t much larger than a family home” is facing a showdown with the FBI. The FBI wants to know who checked out a book from a small library about Osama Bin Laden. But the library isn’t giving out names, saying the government has no business knowing what their patrons read. RedLightGreen Teleread reports: RedLightGreen.com, a creation of RLG, searches through 120 million books based on such criteria as author’s name, title, and subject matter. Not full text search–but still useful. Over at RedLightGreen, they say it “helps you locate the most important books and other research materials in your area of interest, and find out whether what you need is available at your favorite library.” Foggy St. Louis from the Top of the Arch This is my second try at stitching these photos together. I decided to give up the illusion of the single shot, and added the white borders to make clear that this image is a composite. The resolution is way up on this one, and it shows. The baseball stadium is clearly visable on the left, the football dome is on the extreme right. Click the picture for larger (or smaller) views. The Rumble In St. Louis This text has been moved from the Scenes From St. Louis story so that it can be filed, more correctly, in politics & controversy. Unable to get into the “town hall” to take part in the debate personally, I went looking for a place to watch it. Sadly, the Sox game pre-empted the debate at most bars, but the Drunken Fish was showing it, with subtitles only. Regarding the debate, Oliver Willis has a clip titled “watch your President flip out of his gourd” and everybody is asking is this Bush’s Dean Scream™? Bowling Museum and Hall of Fame Things Learned at the International Bowling Museum and Hall of Fame (and easily repeated as quotes from their online history page): Sir Flinders Petrie, discovered in the 1930’s a collection of objects in a child’s grave in Egypt that appeared to him to be used for a crude form of bowling. If he was correct, then bowling traces its ancestry to 3200 BC. […] There is substantial evidence that a form of bowling was in vogue in England in 1366, when King Edward III allegedly outlawed it to keep his troops focused on archery practice. Copyfight Friday Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer did another one of his monkey acts when he went ape about music and DRM. Most people still steal music…We can build the technology but there are still ways for people to steal music. The most common format of music on an iPod is ‘stolen’. It could just be a picture of what happens when Microsoft wakes up and realizes it doesn’t own and can’t control everything, but it also reveals a lot about where the company is going. Ballmer could have said that the shifting of purchased music from one device or format to another is a legally protected form of fair use (at least for now). Instead, he argued something like “Microsoft’s DRM is the only solution to piracy.” Anyway, it’s a crock of shite. Teleread (always an anti-DRM advocate) has picked up on it. — And — Riding Mower Gizmodo has this picture of what they describe simply as a “Homebrew Riding Mower.” I can’t help but like it, and I have a feeling my friend Joe will be trying to make one of his own soon. Stealing From The bookofjoe As long as I’m quoting content from bookofjoe, I might as well post these two other links I got from there this week: Douwe Osinga’s Visited States Dynamic Map Dohicky and AwfulPlasticSurgery.com. Fox News Just Makes Stuff Up Most people know I’m not a huge fan of Fox News, at least in part because Fox News is no great fan of mine. Al Franken and Eric Alterman are rather detailed their explanation of just how conservative Fox is (it’s like the tower of Pizza leaning toward Texas; actually, it’s like the tower layed down in Texas). But you’d have to figure that even conservatives would have trouble keeping a straight face while making up lines like this: “‘Didn’t my nails and cuticles look great? St. Louis WiFi Panera offers free WiFi in about 400 locations. The odd thing is that even though their listings didn’t name a location near my hotel, a proximity search found one in my hotel: Westport Plaza 147 Westport Plaza Maryland Heights, MO 63146 Then there’s also Apple Store West Country: 131 West County Center Des Peres, MO 63131 …Just a quarter mile east of 270 on Manchester. Eccentric or Autistic, You Decide bookofjoe ran a story about Eccentrics by David Weeks. His story is really just a listing of the 15 characteristics of eccentrics as quote from the book, but it makes a good game to calculate how eccentric a person is. Try the list on for size: Nonconforming Creative Strongly motivated by curiosity Idealistic: wants to make the world a better place and the people in it happier Happily obsessed with one or more hobbyhorses (usually five or six) Aware from early childhood that he is different Intelligent Opinionated and outspoken, convinced that he is right and that the rest of the world is out of step Noncompetitive, not in need of reassurance or reinforcement from society Unusual in his eating habits and living arrangements Not particularly interested in the opinions or company of other people, except in order to persuade them to his – the correct – point of view Possessed of a mischievous sense of humor Single Usually the eldest or an only child Bad speller What isn’t so funny or joyful is his later story about autism, accompanied by the iconic diagnoses sheet pictured at right. Feel Safer Now? I guess somebody will sleep better at night knowing our Department of Homeland Security is shaking down music and video pirates. Their new plan: Strategy Targeting Organized Piracy (STOP), a crackdown on the theft of U.S. intellectual property such as pirated compact discs and knockoff auto parts. The effort is consuming the attentions of Attorney General John Ashcroft, Commerce Secretary Don Evans and U.S. Trade Representative Robert Zoellick and senior officials from the Department of Homeland Security. Weird Museum Tour, September 2004 Travelling buddies, Willberry & Cliff I should thank RoadSideAmerica.com for making a rainy day a _fun day_™. Will and I were supposed to go on a hike, but the rain killed that plan and most anything else we could come up with. RoadSideAmerica.com gave us alternatives. RandMcNally gave me directions. Cliffy met me in Warren, we picked up Willberry in Manchester, and headed off to our first stop in Leominster. Tales of Woe I just got IM’d by my friend Karen. Her sister got married this past weekend and they were all in New Hampshire for the event. Here’s the transcript: hi – sooooo sorry we did not call the wedding was insane everything kept going wrong all weekend I didn’t really expect you to call. Not that I didn’t want to see you guys, but weddings are crazy stuff. the rehersal restaraunt closed, the chef for the reception quit, the organist over booked, the salon canceled our 10 reservations, my wedding dress never got finished, it rained during the party at my mom’s house…. Cocktail Manifesto We’re huge fans of The New Joy of Cooking by Marion Rombauer Becker, Irma S. Rombauer, and Ethan Becker. Hardly a meal goes through our kitchen that isn’t shaped in some part by the recipes and general information in its pages. A recent discovery was Joy’s description and defense of cocktail parties. So, when a book as serious and valuable as The New Joy of Cooking raises alarms about the declining future of cocktail parties, we listen. Canned Meats Monday Some time ago, a box with the above pictured contents went to Chuck Robidoux. He wrote back: Nothing starts a Monday off like Kippered Seafood Snacks and Deviled Ham with a side of Spam and Potted Meat Food Product followed by Vienna Sausage, all washed down with some icey cold Clam Juice. Now I am ready to face the day. Yours Meatily, Dr. Meaty McMeat Meatofski Meatovich Hamkowsky-Beafeau Porkson Politics, Terror, & Sexual Identity I hadn’t given it the slightest thought, but then I read TinyNibbles.com’s travel advisory (this site has been referenced previously at MaisonBisson). What do Politics, 9/11, & Sexual Identity have to do with each-other? Read: Traveling when you do not appear as the gender on your identification is much more tricky…. If your driver’s license says “F” and you look like an “M,” you’ll have some explaining to do. With the Patriot Act, when they run your license through at the airport, it automatically links to all other federal databases, and if there are any discrepancies, again you’ll have some explaining to do — and a possible delay. NixiChron & Techno-Retro Lust Decades ago, Nixie Tubes were used as indicating devices in many different types of instrumentation, and ultimately replaced by the cheaper – and unattractive -LED display. Having been obsolete for almost a quarter century, these glowing bottles of ionized gas have attracted another generation who appreciate their beauty and mysterious function. The display tubes may be decades old, but the clock is GPS accurate. Those who’d rather just fiddle with Nixi Tubes than spend a pile on on a clock (though we all agree it would be well spent), can buy bare tubes here. Feeling The Web: Pulse, Buzz, Zeitgeist Flickr Zeitgeist  BlogPulse  Yahoo! Buzz  Google Zeitgeist  Round One: Kerry 1, Bush 0 Thank NPR for putting audio of Thursday’s presidential debate on their site. Spin-masters will be working this one over for a while, but the original is the most important. There were people who expected Bush to come off in his casual, frat-boy manner, but he didn’t. He stumbled, he got red-faced, and he never answered any questions. Republicans like to stay on message, but their message, already short on details or plans, has grown stale. The Mac vs. PC Debate I generally don’t get into this, but a series of columns by Paul Murphy at LinuxInsider (LinuxInsider!) caught my attention. In Macs Are More Expensive, Right?, he compares Apple’s offerings to Dell’s and finds the PCs cost about the same or more than similarly equipped Macs. At the low end…the PC desktops are marginally less expensive than the Macs — if you can do without their connectivity and multimedia capabilities — and considerably more expensive if you can’t. Film Performance Licensing In case the notion strikes me again, I’m putting these links here so I can find them in case the notion strikes me again. The aforementioned notion is one of wanting to do public performances of movies, who know why. This would be easy, except for copyright, so these links are for information about getting performance licenses for films. Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction’s information on performance, with links to disributors. Cultural Revolution-Era Clip Art Book Oldtasty has posted a collection of pictures scanned from the pages of a clip art book of the Cultural Revolution. I’ve always enjoyed look of Communist art, and I’m particularly pleased with this showing. Things You Can Do With ISBNs Jon Udell has been working on LibraryLookup and other mechanisms for finding library content on the web. In the meantime, LibraryTechtonics, Library Stuff, and The Shifted Librarian have picked up on it. Part of it is about OCLC making their records available to search engines. Now both Yahoo! and Google in the game. So what you do is put your ISBN in the properly formatted URL and you’ll be given links to libraries that hold it: via Google and via Yahoo! A Day In The Life Of Joe I’m not sure of the origins of the following text. There’s nothing patently false in it, so I’m posting it here for all to ponder. Joe gets up at 6 a.m. and fills his coffeepot with water to prepare his morning coffee. The water is clean and good because some tree-hugging liberal fought for minimum water-quality standards. With his first swallow of coffee, he takes his daily medication. His medications are safe to take because some stupid commie liberal fought to insure their safety and that they work as advertised. All but $10 of his medications are paid for by his employer’s medical plan because some liberal union workers fought their employers for paid medical insurance – now Joe gets it too. Korean Thanksgiving Jong-Yoon Kim emailed to tell me today is Chusok, the traditional Korean thanksgiving day, when families gather and give thanks to their forebears. According to the lunar calendar, today, sep 28th, is Aug 15th, the Korean thanksgiving day. Tonight, we will have the biggest and the brightest moon of the year. Traditionally, we pray to the moon for our hope and believe that the moon will listen to us. Enjoy the moon and have a great day. Google News Gamed? What happens when machines edit our news? What happens when news sources game Google News to raise their ranking? Online Journalism Review is asking that question, and has some interesting answers to report. It seems conservatives and conservative-biased news or quasi-news organizations use people’s full names, while mainstream sources and those with a liberal bent often use only the last name. The result: Google Newsing for “John Kerry” results in some incredibly negative stories, but “George Bush” is largely positive. Ultra Portable I’ve been interested in ultra-portable computers for some time. My first such computer was a Newton Message Pad 2000, which remains useful despite its age. The Newton was replaced by a Palm m125 that cost less and did less. No more email, web browsing, no writing or word processing. In short, nothing more than addresses, calendar, to-do lists, and a note or two jotted down using the infuriating Graffiti text recognition. Home-Made Arcade I found Retro Gamer magazine on the rack last week and couldn’t hep but pick it up. It’s issue six with a feature story on building both stand-up and cocktail arcade cabinets with PCs running MAME (which isn’t to say you couldn’t use a Mac instead). For now, I want to keep track of these related websites: Check Ultimarc for arcade buttons, sticks, and fancy interfaces to make them work. Throwing Google A Bone For Cliff Cliff worries that his website, Spiralbound.net, doesn’t get indexed by Google often enough. He’s a good guy, so I figure I’ll prime the pump for him. Here, Google Google. Solaris Docs: Migrating Veritas Volume Manager disk groups between servers{#14} Solaris Docs: Solaris Disk Partition Layout{#13} Solaris Docs: Copying A Boot Drive Between Disks With Different Partion Layouts If you’re looking for those, you should also take note of these here at MaisonBisson: Configuring Sun T3 Storage Arrays and Things To Remember While Doing Upgrades on Mission Critical Sun Equipment. Techlinks Dartmouth College in the WiFi limelight, again as they replace their 1500 802.11b APs with A+B+G APs. WiFi Net News wonders how WiMax will change Dartmouth’s plans next time around. Foof makes some snazzy looking iPod and laptop cases. Michelle has set up an example of the worst designed web page ever. It’s a counter-example thing. Brad Templeton brought a VoIP phone to Burning Man. It’s Automotive Week In The Blogs First Gizmodo published a feature on in-car computers. ArsTechnica got into the automotive theme by reporting the International CXT story. Not to be outdone by Gizmodo, Engadget reported on the ultimate car computer install: a Tatra with a Mac in it. For some reason, I went looking at the Tatra car-mod and found Tatra trucks which seemed to connect back to ArsTechnica and Caesar’s gushing about the HEMTT. After all, the largest of the Tatras is called the Kolos (colossal). Roderick’s Sites Roderick has been sending me links and I’ve been lax about posting them. Some of these links are NSFW, and one of them is a present back to Roderick. I’m not going to comment, because I’m lazy because I don’t want to prejudice you. Corporate MoFo A Fundraiser Billionaires for Bush Hello Laziness: Management tips from the executive slow lane Kite Aerial Photography I got sort of excited about kite aerial photography a couple of weeks ago in a post about photoblogging. I was amazed with Scott Haefner‘s work and especially impressed with his VR picture of Slain’s Castle in Scotland. Scott is pretty serious about KAP, and it shows in his description of his rig, but what’s an amateur or naive fool to do? Engadget is doing features on things to do with an old digital camera, and this week they tackled kite aerial photography. Scenes from the Museum of Bad Art The Museum of Bad Art (MoBA) in the Dedham Community Theater. It’s in the basement outside the men’s bathroom, illuminated by a single fluorescent light hanging from the ceiling The MOBA slideshow. More photos from MaisonBisson. Sandee’s Clothing Donations It’s 132 photos, but I think there’s actually only 128 items. No, I’m not sure why I photo’d each one. More photos from MaisonBisson The Plastics Museum The Plastics Museum is in Leominster, MA, and online at plasticsmuseum.org. The National Plastics Center and Museum is a non-profit institution dedicated to preserving the past, addressing the present and promoting the future of plastics through public education and awareness. The educational staff has supported this mission throughout the years by conducting hands-on science programming for schools, organizations and the plastics community. And, if you’re a lucky kid, your school might get a vist by the PlastiVan: The Bellingham Accident I pulled up to the stop sign at the end of North St., looking to turn left onto Route 126 in Bellingham, MA, at about 3:40 PM on Saturday 18 September when I saw a red Dodge Neon coming down the hill towards me with its brakes locked up. It was a busy intersection and with roads still soaked from the heavy rains that had had been falling all that day and the day before but had recently cleared. Funky Time Gizmodo pointed out this fancy clock by Kikkerland. Being the clock-fiend I am, I had trouble not looking for more. Ship The Web seems to have Kikkerland’s entire catalog of clocks, which is more than enough to make me drool. Of course I want this one and this one and this one and this one. “I Wanted a Tatra, So I Got A Tatra” Engadget picked up on the story about the Tatra with a Mac in it. I couldn’t help checking for changes since I first saw the story. There’s a new version of DashMac, the control software, and it seems he can now control his car via SMS messages, but most things seem in-line with where he was going. The thing is, I can’t help but get interested in the car itself. I sort of went gaga for Tatras after seeing the original story and doing some research. 5 Megapixels, Cheap Engadget was quite excited about the Gateway DC-T50 5 megapixel camera, now selling for $150 at various retailers. I know more than one person who wants a cheap digital camera that doesn’t suck, so I went looking for reviews. Steve’s Digicams has some really detailed reviews, so I was excited to see they covered the DC-T50. They say it’s a rebranded Toshiba PDR-5300. Their review is based on a price of $350, so weigh that when considering their so-so conclusions. Mobile Carrier Wireless Networking I put together a list of wide area wireless networking options in semi-rural areas for a friend recently. It’s far from complete and may not be accurate, but it’s a start. The coverage area I was looking for was north of Portland, ME, but we all know coverage maps lie and local conditions vary. I focused on PC-Cards, but most carriers sell phones that can be attached via USB port. These Aren’t Campaign Commercials eBaum’s World added a couple of funny Bush videos recently. What is soveriegnty? Bumble mumble. Two things: if he was a lot smarter, he would have known the meaning of “sovereignty,” but if we was just a little bit smarter, he would have known that the question was about how his government would treat Native Americans and answered that. The claim is that this is a video of George W. Techlinks The Save Betamax campaign has nothing to do with videotape and everything to do with the fair-use rights that allow us to legally convert CDs to MP3s or legally use Tivo to keep up with our favorite shows. These rights are under siege by content producers who want to charge consumers for every use. Copyfighters look here. Rumors are that OQO will release their Ultra Personal Computer soon. Be Better Dork: Command Line Stuff Be geeky and look at the Apache modules: ``` /usr/sbin/httpd -l Compiled in modules: core.c prefork.c http_core.c mod_so.c ``` Set your path: ``` PATH=$PATH:/usr/sbin export PATH ``` Project Censored’s Annual Roundup Project Censored has released their list of the most censored stories of 2003-2004: #1: Wealth Inequality in 21st Century Threatens Economy and Democracy #2: Ashcroft vs. the Human Rights Law that Holds Corporations Accountable #3: Bush Administration Censors Science #4: High Levels of Uranium Found in Troops and Civilians #5: The Wholesale Giveaway of Our Natural Resources #6: The Sale of Electoral Politics #7: Conservative Organization Drives Judicial Appointments #8: Cheney’s Energy Task Force and The Energy Policy #9: Widow Brings RICO Case Against U. High And Mighty I can’t help but steal the title to Keith Bradsher’s excellent book about the titanic rise of SUVs on our highways. Bradsher, in his 2002 book, makes note of efforts at Freightliner and Mercedes to release uber-SUVs based on the companies’ commercial truck bodies but weighing in at just under the limit at which commercial drivers’ licenses would be required to operate them. Both companies eventually decided against it, but now International is going forward with similar plans. The International CXT is the latest entry in the super SUV market. At nine feet tall, over 21 feet long, and cruising at six to ten miles per gallon (diesel), it’s the kind of vehicle any Texan could love. Ars Technica went off-topic to give me the heads up. Along the way, Caesar got all excited about the HEMTT. Sewer in the Woods, Unknown Flower Found the left image in the woods near Warren NH this weekend. Photo is composite of four smaller pictures taken with my Clie TH55, but the scene is entirely real. Seperately, I found the flower on the right a week before, while hiking around the other side of the lake where the sewer scene was found. I’ve no idea what it is, but I’m not against finding out. More photos from MaisonBisson Pepper Pad 2 I can’t help but want one of Pepper Computer’s Pepper Pad 2 hand-held computer thingies. It’s available for pre-order now at only $800. But what is it, you ask? According to Pepper, it’s “either as a user’s only wireless computing device or […] a convenient, easy-to-use accessory to a PC.” It’s a Linux-based palmtop computer with 20GB hard drive, 800 x 600 12.1″ display, 802.11b+g, and a bunch of other stuff. In-Car Computers The age of the in-car computer has come. One vendor calls them “carputers,” and Gizmodo lays it out for those who want an Intel-based CPU in their trunk/under the seat/in the dash. What to do with a computer in the car? Now that computers have moved out of the den to become part of the home entertainment center, users are anxious to use that library of downloaded music in their cars too. Claim: Beverage Choice = Politics I’ve been a little slow to blog these things lately, but this comes from BeverageWorld magazine. They published the results of a poll connects beverage choices to political affiliation. They break the politics down into six choices: Democrat, Republican, independent, independent liberal, independent conservative, and none of these, then they compared booze and soda-pop choices for each. Of booze, Democrats and “none of these” drink the least. The three varieties of independents seem to drink the most. Conservative independents are 42% more likely than the national average to tipple some variety of whisky, while liberal independents are 47% more likely to drink imported beer. Overall, the liberals are more likely to drink than the conservatives, but Republicans are more likely to drink than Democrats. The implication, of course, is that candidates can woo swing drinkers by offering the right drink to the right person. Which, as my wife would say, is just good manners. Claim: Sleep Position = Personality About a year ago, Reuters reported on the results of some sleep research from Professor Chris Idzikowski, director of the Sleep Assessment and Advisory Service and a visiting professor at the University of Surrey in southern England. The story is still online now at Wellspan.org and Netscape News. In summary, your sleep position is a reliable indicator of your personality. Here’s how it goes from Netscape’s version of the story: NH License Plates For a variety of reasons, I was happy to discover that NH allows drivers to check the availability of vanity plates online (though, somewhat nervous find that the state uses Microsoft servers). The search enlightened me to a variety of plates I didn’t know about. We’ve all seen the “veteran” and “Purple Heart” plates, and a few “antique” plates, but I’ve never seen a “street rod” plate. But there are even more plates available. In Car iPod Without wanting to get into the rest of the story, I’m now trying to figure out how to plug an iPod into a Scion xB. The xB comes with a stereo by Pioneer, but I haven’t been able to get details about what inputs it supports. Installer.com and Logjam both offer connection kits that appear to give me RCA aux inputs to the radio head unit, but Pioneer offers a simple IP Bus adapter that might also do the trick. Photoblogging, Etc. I think I’m a fan of Flickr. It makes photoblogging easy and fun. Easier, anyway, than setting up an email to blog solution on my own, and the community features are more fun than I’d expected them to be at the outset. Flickr more or less automatically puts up a blog entry for each photo I upload (though I still have to configure the layout features to my satisfaction). Anyway, in related web surfing, I came across the following: Mini Golf Minigolf is very serious business. Very serious. More photos from MaisonBisson Texas’ Crony Politics and the Presidency I finished Cronies by Robert Bryce recently and I can’t help but tell people about it. I hadn’t really wondered why so many presidents and vice-presidents have been from Texas, but Bryce did. “Two of the last three American presidents — and three of the last eight — have been Texans. Each of them got to the White House by exploiting a network of money and power that no other state can match. Co-Worker It turns out that one of my co-workers is blogging over at Live Journal. RNC Eve NYC’s sex workers expect to be extra busy while the Republicans are in town. There’s been talk of terror alerts. Get some backstory here, then read Ridge Issues Alert For U-BoatAttacks On Northeast Coast (and laugh). Google seems to think MaisonBisson and alandwilliams are similar. There, I found Pleasure Boat Captains for Truth and Cabbies against Bush. It seems the cabbies are offering free rides to Kennedy and Newark airports for GOP delegates who are willing to go to Iraq to fight. Muppin Tongue Muppin wags his tongue, leaves slobbery mess on lens. More photos from MaisonBisson Republican National Convention To Be Windfall For NYC’s Sex Workers The New York Metro reports that the sex industry is expecting a 20 to 50 percent uptick in business while the Republicans are in town for the Republican National Convention this week. Mary, a stripper at Ten’s Cabaret speaks from experience. She worked the 2000 RNC in Philadelphia and expects the strip clubs in NYC to be “really crowded” during the convention, adding, “the girls have been talking about it literally since June. Heat: Dell Server Thermal Load (BTU/hour) It’s a shame that Dell doesn’t list the thermal loads of their products in the datasheets at the online store. It’s a shame that it took several Google searches to get close to a link with the info, then mine the Google cache of a Dell support forum and find/follow a chain of links before I could get that detail. As it turns out, there’s some Dell and the Environment page where they list all their products and their environmental properties/certifications/regulatory compliance. Camera Goes All To Hell, Bits Recovered From Memory Card SanDisk is playing this as the coolest thing that ever happened. Some photographer planted a couple cameras to photo the demolition of a bridge over the Mississippi, the explosion was bigger than he expected, he lost one of the cameras, but the CF card survived in working order. MobileMag has the story. SanDisk has a press release. And every blog in the western world is echoing it. The photographer is Don Frazier, a staff photographer for the Southeast Missourian newspaper. O’Reilly Mac OS X Conference I trust O’Reilly’s books, so when I see they’re running a conference about something I’m interested, i get excited. The third annual O’Reilly Mac OS X conference is like that. With speakers like Andy Ihnatko, David Pogue, and Rael Dornfest and tracks covering digital audio, “insanely great Mac”, programming & scripting, and system administration, this could be the summer MacWorld that no longer is. The effect would be complete if it were one the east coast. Clie Annoyances, Part 1 The Clie TH55 stylus is one of the most annoying parts of the Palm OS-based handheld. It’s small, too small. It telescopes to an almost usable length, but it’s still too narrow to hold comfortably. So I’m a little reticent to buy a replacement for the one I lost. Also, you’d think the Clie could have come with a decent sync cradle, or any sync cradle. And, while I’m whining, why can’t the keyboard also work as a sync cradle? Making a DAT/DDS Tape Drive Work on Red Hat Enterprise Linux We could see messages about the tape drive in dmesg, but it wasn’t giving the device name. We tried working with /dev/st0, but we kept getting errors. Everything seemed right, but it didn’t work. It turns out our SCSI card was the problem. It wasn’t being properly recognized. After a tip, we tried the following: /sbin/modprobe aic7xxx Where “aic7xxx” is appropriate for our Adaptec card. We checked lsmod and found the aic7xxx stuff properly initialized there (shortened output): iTunes vs. Firewalls iTunes on the PC on my desk (notice I feel more possessive of the desk than the PC) hasn’t been able to share music to or from iTunes on my PowerBook. Blame the firewall. A moment of Googline led me to Travis Saling’s guide to enabling iTunes sharing through a firewall. Here’s the ports that need to be open: Port 3689 TCP Port 5353 UDP However, he notes: The Conservatives vs. The Academy AlterNet has a story by Joshua Holland about the Right’s crusade against lefties on campus. As I saw with my experience with the conservative sniper that was trolling here not long ago, the conservative mission is to criticize everything that’s off their message. Holland describes this as “backlash” politics: The backlash came about when traditional big-business conservatives, tired of facing the resentment of ordinary working-class Americans, stumbled onto ‘wedge’ social issues in the 1960s. Configuring Sun T3 Storage Arrays Sun’s T3 documentation is available online: The Sun StorEdge T3 and T3+ Array Configuration Guide explains physical configuration. The Sun StorEdge T3 and T3+ Array Administrator’s Guide explains the software side. The short course: Creating volume ‘v0’ using half the disks: vol add v0 data u1d1-4 raid 5 standby u1d9 vol init v0 data vol mount v0 Creating volume ‘v1’ using the other half of the disks: vol add v1 data u1d5-8 raid 5 standby u1d9 vol init v1 data vol mount v1 Listing volumes: Faith-Based Missile Defense Defense Tech is reporting on the progress and prospects of missile defense (and their title is too good to pass up). Early in his administration, President Bush put a whole lot of stock in “faith-based” initiatives to solve domestic problems. Now, the President seems to be taking the same approach to military matters. Defense Tech quotes Slate’s Fred Kaplan: In the past six years of flight tests, here is what the Pentagon’s missile-defense agency has demonstrated: A missile can hit another missile in mid-air as long as a) the operators know exactly where the target missile has come from and where it’s going; b) the target missile is flying at a slower-than-normal speed; c) it’s transmitting a special beam that exaggerates its radar signature, thus making it easier to track; d) only one target missile has been launched; and e) the “attack” happens in daylight. FBI Investigates A friend sent this along yesterday: I was visited, a couple of weeks ago by an FBI agent investigating whether or not I was involved in terrorist activities. Seems one of my neighbors (I don’t know who) placed an anonymous call saying that “[name deleted], who works for [airline name deleted] and lives [address deleted], resembled a terrorist on a watch list.” So, the guy had to come over here and make sure I was not evil. Galleries of Oddness I ran across Darren Barefoot‘s Hall of Technical Documentation Weirdness, where he catalogues “wacky, bizarre, surreal and otherwise strange examples of technical documentation.” Considering the number of poorly done or just weird technical illustrations we’ve all seen, you’d think the gallery would be larger. When done with that, go to the Snope‘s Urban Legends Reference Pages photo gallery. You’ll laugh at some of the images (and you’ve seen at least a few of them already), but the real entertainment here is in the stories that supposedly explain what’s true and what’s false. Mac Consulting I get a number of requests for help with people’s Macs. They’re are often willing to pay, but the truth is that computer support (on any platform) is one of the things I least like to do. A typical question looks like this: We’d like to upgrade or replace our aging Mac and have questions about how to upgrade or what to buy. We’d also like to network our computers on opposite ends of our house and are wondering about wireless. Extra Links Swim-up, floating blackjack tables for your pool. Yes, the Hard Rock Las Vegas has similar stuff, but their minimum bet is too high for my game. There’s a sock subscription service, and it’s been around for five years. A Chinese DVD player manufacturer has developed a unit that excels at playing China’s famous black market DVDs. I’m not that excited about case-mods, but this Predicta case-mod gets my nod. Flying Car Options In commenting on the Space Race story, Zach pointed out that the Moller Skycar is still under development (which is better than going bankrupt or just disappearing — like so many other good ideas have). If you poke around the site you can find video of flight tests and sales info. Yes, they’re taking deposits for deliveries they hope will start in 2006. Meanwhile, the sky hasn’t fallen on the Trek Aerospace Millennium Jet either. O’Reilly Covers RSS Ben Hammersley’s Content Syndication With RSS has got me back on the RSS wagon. Hammersley covers the history and context of RSS’s development in more detail than many other tech books have given their subject. I’m ashamed that I didn’t know RSS got its start as “Hot Sauce” in Apple’s research labs. You won’t find it on the web now, but Hot Sauce was an interesting technology demonstration in 1996/7. I’m also ashamed I didn’t know of the connections between efforts at creating the “semantic web” and RSS (1. Random/Color-Light/Balloon Lamp Im jealous I didn’t think of these things before Kyouei Ltd. released them as a product. A DVD that fills your TV with solid colors to illuminate the room. A CD with 99 tracks for 99 tones: “When using the ‘random’ function, the CD will automatically select random tones, and make a new melody.” A combination of battery, LED, and balloon that results in a glowing glob of latex. The only thing cooler than these is a little book titled Count Sheep that was filled with pages of identical sheep arranged in rows and columns, ready for counting. RNC Anarchy Writer Paul Schmelzer has a list of (civil disobedience?) actions against the RNC in NYC. Among the actions planned: Bikes Against Bush, radio jacking, backback broadcasts, WiFi on wheels, and accurate crowd counts. Crowd counts? It seems government bodies like to undercount the number of people protesting against them, so a few hactivists will be using technology to gather crowd images from above and use image analysis software to do the counting. We The Media Dan Gillmor’s We The Media caught my attention. From the Publisher’s description: For the first time, bloggers have been awarded press credentials to cover the national political conventions. …Grassroots journalists, including bloggers, […] are dismantling Big Media’s monopoly on the news. Through Internet-fueled, interactive vehicles like weblogs, these readers-turned-reporters are transforming the news from a lecture to a conversation. They’re publishing in real time to a worldwide audience that’s eager to read their independent, unfiltered reports. Look Ma, No Fire Protection Alternet is featuring a story about the Bush administration’s attempts to reduce nuclear power plant safety requirements. This news might have slipped by unnoticed, except Mainichi Daily News is reporting on a steam explosion at a Japanese nuclear plant that killed four and injured seven workers today. Bush’s plan, against this background, seems haphazard. At least this accident didn’t result in a radiation leak, the the 1999 Tokaimura nuclear accident did. Space Race Heats Up It’s been almost 47 years since Sputnik began the space race and 35 years since a few men hobbled about on the moon, but I don’t yet have a flying car and I can’t take an orbiting vacation. Folks, the space race wasn’t won, it was abandoned. And that’s why we have the Ansari X Prize. Burt Rutan’s team seemed to be in the lead earlier this year with the successful launch of SpaceShipOne, the competition has been in the news lately. Strange Days This story is too complex for me to do it justice, but too interesting to ignore: the Mainichi Daily News is reporting chess champion Bobby Fischer has been jailed in Japan. Fischer, a one-time world grand master who represented the US in cold war grudge matches against the USSR, but has since mostly fallen out of public view and, perhaps, gone a little crazy, was arrested in Japan for passport violations. Juliusblog on Coincidence: Bush Ratings vs. Terror Alerts Juliusblog has a chart comparing approval ratings on a timeline with terror alerts. Guess what? Juliusblog makes the following observations: Whenever his ratings dip, there’s a new terror alert. Every terror alert is followed by a slight uptick of Bush approval ratings. Whenever there are many unfavorable headlines, there’s another alert or announcement (distraction effect). As we approach the 2004 elections, the number and frequency of terror alerts keeps growing, to the point that they collapse in the graphic. Now Listed in Blogshares? I moment or two of ego-Googling lead me to Blogshares, where MaisonBisson is trading me as a penny stock. Oh well. Cronies A co-worker just handed me Robert Bryce’s Cronies. From the Publisher’s description: Texans are running the country — maybe the world. Now the author of Pipe Dreams examines who they are, how they got into power, and how they reward themselves and each other, often at the expense of American taxpayers. No other province holds more political and economic power than the Lone Star State. Two of the last three American presidents — and three of the last eight — have been Texans. Fear Aint the Word For It Mix a born again Christian who confuses Christ and God (yup, check Molly Ivins for the quote), clinical and medicated depression, several million believers and call it the Church of Bush! Fear is just the beginning. Village Voice: Church of Bush I started to make noise about this a few weeks ago in my story about Fahrenheit 9/11: I’m growing increasingly uneasy about the cult-of-Bush-worship that Brittany Spears exemplified in her appearance in Fahrenheit. The Greeks expected questions and debate, so did the Romans before the fall of the republic. Egyptian pharaohs, Mayan emperors, and Soviet premiers may have killed or non-personed those who questioned them, but democracy demands otherwise. MySilo Knowing that everybody wants a missile silo, bari1001 has posted his for sale on eBay (thanks to DefenseTech for the pointer). Silo World has the skinny on Titan 1 silo design, NPR did a story on missile silo homes a few years ago, though most of the silos are empty, abandoned, and dangerous. Still, there are one or two realtors that specialize in missile silos. News: Bush Bushed I hadn’t heard of Capitol Hill Blue until a friend forwarded this story about Bush’s paranoid isolation. First, I should say that paranoid isolation isn’t all bad. It worked well enough for ol’ <a href="http://retroplanet.net/3hughes.html” title="Howard – “I’m not a paranoid deranged millionaire; Goddamit, I’m a billionaire” – Hughes">Howard — “I’m not a paranoid deranged millionaire; Goddamit, I’m a billionaire” — Hughes, but then Hughes wasn’t president and didn’t think he was on a mission from God. ‘Pod Happy The new iPod came Monday. Stepping up to it from the second generation iPod I had is amazing. Most noticeable differences so far: I can now charge from the computer and play music (in the 2g iPod, it locks the interface and flashes “do not disconnect” any time it’s plugged in to a computer), the UI is faster or more responsive and is now customizable (a bit), it pauses playback when the external power supply turns off (especially useful in the car). Things You Have To Believe To Be A Republican Today My father forwarded this to me this morning: Saddam was a good guy when Reagan armed him, a bad guy when Bush’s daddy made war on him, a good guy when Cheney did business with him and a bad guy when Bush needed a “we can’t find Bin Laden” diversion. Trade with Cuba is wrong because the country is communist, but trade with China and Vietnam is vital to a spirit of international harmony. Woody Guthrie On Copright Copyfight is reporting on the infringement lawsuit threatening the creators of the 2004 presidential election parody animation that’s getting all the laughs. They’re quoting TechDirt which apparently has a quote from Guthrie himself: This song is Copyrighted in U.S., under Seal of Copyright # 154085, for a period of 28 years, and anybody caught singin’ it without our permission, will be mighty good friends of ourn, cause we don’t give a dern. Apple Fusses Over Fuse Fuse, a music TV network trying to compete with MTV by actually playing music videos done some bilboards in NYC that look a lot like Apple’s silhouette ads, but with people pole dancing and masturbating and stuff. Gizmodo came through and posted images of the ads so low brow people outside NY (like me) could be further corrupted by them (I’m not complaining here). Let’s hear it for Gizmodo. Yeah! These Aren’t Cubes Also at Gizmodo: the Volume Macropod. They’re like cubicles, but cooler. They’re mobile, but useful. Ad agency Chiat-Day made big news about giving up structured offices and such back around 1995 [CNN Story & Supervert.com story]. The point, of course, is to have people working out of cube farms because they’re cheaper, cheaper, cheaper. Problem is, they feel cheap and they make employees feel unvalued. According to the CNN story: “employees who were […] looking forward to having a regular office the way they always thought it was going to be, and then they don’t have that. This Land Greg & Evan Spiridellis oever at Jib Jab have put together a damn funny flash movie about the presidential race. From the lyrics: … Kerry: “You can’t say ‘nuclear,’ that really scares me. Sometimes a brain can come in quite handy” … Bush: “you’re a liberal sissy” Kerry: “you’re a right wing nut job” Bush: “you’re a pinko commie” Kerry: “you’re dumb as a doorknob” Life Goes On… Sandee called me from home Friday to say she was having trouble playing music from our primary music server. Every time she selected a song iTunes complained that it couldn’t find the file. I had a plausible explanation at the time and didn’t think much of it, but Sandee was really reporting something much more serious: the complete loss of all our music. Over the past five years or so, we’d built a collection of about 65 gigabytes of music, just under 20,000 files that could play 24/7 for over two months straight without repeating. Mapparium, Boston Religious landmarks usually don’t interest me, but the Mapparium really is a sight to see. …The Mapparium, located within the Christian Science Publishing Society. A thirty-foot stained-glass globe room in lobby of the Christian Science Publishing Society gives one an ‘inside view’ of the world. Standing on the thirty-foot glass bridge, which traverses the diameter of this large sphere, visitors can virtually be encompassed by the world. From pole to pole, you can journey through and explore the correct proportion and relationship of the earth”s land and water areas. You Can Take It With You: DVDs on Palm/Clie Junglemike has an interesting post on compressing video for Palm playback at the 1src Forums (n the ClieSource Forums): This guide explains in detail how you can prepare video to watch on you Palm handheld. It [is usefull] for converting full-length 1.5-2 hour movies to be stored on even a small 128mb sd-card with uperior quality. Let me not fail, however, to mention that this seemingly harmless and legal use of technology puts users smack in the middle of the biggest land (property) war since Napoleon invaded Russia. Fox and Conservative Pals Out Spreading More Slander and Libel Welcome the flacks. I don’t get many comments on stories here at MaisonBisson, so I was interested when I found a comment to my story about the Outfoxed documentary just an hour after I’d posted it. Here’s my theory, and it’s supported by stories in Eric Alterman’s What Liberal Media and Al Franken’s Lies: conservative groups spend a huge amount of time identifying and attacking every liberal criticism. This mysterious Matt (perhaps from Ohio? OutFOXed OUTFOXED: Rupert Murdoch’s War On Journalism is out on DVD and VHS now. Outfoxed examines how media empires, led by Rupert Murdoch’s Fox News, have been running a “race to the bottom” in television news. This film provides an in-depth look at Fox News and the dangers of ever-enlarging corporations taking control of the public’s right to know. I was hooked before I saw the Outfoxed preview, but I’m definitely buying the DVD now. Another Military Family Against Bush Another Military Family Against Bush bumper stickers and other products available. Another Military Family Against Bush Value T-Shirt Another Military Family Against Bush Long Sleve T-Shirt Another Military Family Against Bush Frisbee Another Military Family Against Bush Mug Another Military Family Against Bush Big Mug Another Military Family Against Bush Messenger Bag Another Military Family Against Bush Bumper Sticker Another Military Family Against Bush: All Products Why? My mother called in tears the other night after watching Fahrenheit 9/11. Cheap Food, Cheap Labor I’ve found myself in a number of conversations about food safety lately. Eric Schlosser’s Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal comes up regularly, but I keep wanting to mention Bushwhacked: Life in George W. Bush’s America. Why? Because Molly Ivins and Lou Dubose did such great job explaining the political context in which the attrocities Schlosser describes take place. “With republican control of the presidency and both houses of congress, you might want to consider becoming a vegetarian. Old News, Big Story Google just lead me to Wage Slave Journal where I found an August 2003 story about American casualties in Iraqi. It turns out Fox News was comparing Iraq to California and claiming the former was safer than the latter. Fox can’t do math, but others can. Should anybody ask, you should know that if Californians were dying at the rate US soldiers in Iraq are, the governator would be facing 385 deaths per day. DRM Snuffs The Constitution TeleRead brought me this story about a copy protected version of the US Constitution that’s now selling on Amazon. Among the restrictions: it can only be printed twice a year. For those who don’t understand the irony already, the US Constitution is in the public domain in so many ways it’s funny, yet a commercial publisher has created a version so locked up that it can’t be used and appreciated by all. Fahrenheit 9/11 We expect Fox News And the Washington Times to hate it, but the reaction from the left seems to prove the old adage that a liberal wouldn’t join his or her own side in an argument. My own arguments against it relate to how little new information it revealed. The audience at the show I saw laughed hysterically at the images of our government primping themselves for the camera and generally looking dim, but the facts of the film have been well reported in previous works. More Japanese Ice Cream I got all excited about some unappealing Japanese ice cream flavors when I found the story in Mainichi Daily News a while ago. I thought the lineup of fish, octopus, squid, ox tongue, sweet potato, fried eggplant, crab, corn, rice, wasabi, shrimp, eel, noodle, chicken wing, miso, and cactus flavored ice cream had everything pretty well covered, but now MDN has done it again. They’ve put up a new gallery of 21 flavors of ice cream you’re unlikely to find in the US: More About Clie TH55 PalmZone has a nice story about the TH55 with a number of links to software, updates and more information. What everybody should appreciate is the link to the Clie Movie Recorder. I thought I was so smart in an earlier story when I linked to the Google query I used to find this file. That worked for about a month until my site landed at the top of the Google index for that search. Beef T-Shirts Rock Beef t-shirts coming back: it was quite a while ago now that my Cafe Press shop was the top Google result for beef t-shirt. Worse, I haven’t linked to the shop from MaisonBisson for a while either. So it was something of a surprise to discover that the products are still selling. Yes, real people are buying these laughable t-shirts and other crap. They’ve been shipped to California, Illinois, Ohio, and Oklahoma (as well as a few to me here in New Hampshire). This Is Copyrighted? Defense Tech is reporting that the Warner/Electric/Atlantic conglomerate of music labels gave up its defense in a copyright case against their artist Wilco. It seems Wilco sampled from Irdial-Disc’s compilation of recordings from mysterious radio stations that everybody expects to be related to espionage (and clearly emanate from government buildings and embassies). Nobody argues that Wilco sampled from a previously recorded work, the argument was weather Irdial’s work was itself copyrightable. Nauset Beach Panoramas More photos from MaisonBisson Taken Monday morning, around 5:30, before getting on the road to return to New Hampshire. Troy and Karen were kind enough to invite me to the Cape for the weekend, where I generally lazed about and did nothing. We did take in a double feature at the Wellfleet Drive-In (don’t miss the picture) and ate lots of ice cream, but the main point was being lazy. The Letter Not Sent (re: LPFM, NPR, NHPR, complaint) I was going through my files and found this unfinished letter to NHPR, my local National Public Radio affiliate, regarding the FCC’s proposed licensing of community-based low-power FM radio stations (LPFM). My point was (or it was going to be) that NPR was afraid to compete against other non-profit stations. NPR paints itself as an alternative to commercial radio (and it does a pretty good job most of the time), but it’s also a business. So NPR joined with commercial broadcasters to kill LPFM before it could get off the ground. The fight included big broadcasting’s techs playing faked interference to scare lawmakers, but then they had to backtrack and call it “simulated” when somebody blew the whistle. Sadly, it really didn’t matter what the played; they brought the money and the pols gave a bullet to LPFM. April 2, 2001 Mr. Sean T. Gillery Director of Development New Hampshire Public Radio 207 North Main Street Concord, NH 03301-5003 Mr. Gillery I recently received a letter from you regarding renewals to our NHPR membership and I wanted to take a moment to express to you my concerns over National Public Radio’s opposition to community-based low power FM radio. As you know, NPR joined with the National Association of Broadcasters to lobby for legislation that has blocked the FCC from licensing LPFM stations. I believe that NPR’s position on LPFM betrays the beliefs and philosophy that had once drawn me to public radio. Can NPR or NHPR be trusted to put its listeners’ needs first and its commercial interests last? Not anymore. I am growing increasingly concerned that the recent and ongoing consolidation of the radio marketplace will further limit and degrade coverage of news, culture, and local events. NPR has covered the consolidation and aired concerns about its negative effects: Morning Edition, “Radio Merger Explosion” December 1, 1997 Weekend All Things Considered, “Black Radio” August 9, 1998 All Things Considered, “Radio Consolidation” January 9, 1999. All Things Considered, “Radio Merger” October 4, 1999. Unfortunately, coverage of the mergers ended when the FCC began considering LPFM in 1999. Since then, NPR has run a handful of LPFM stories. Each one focused on the potential for technical problems the LPFM law might create and the battle in Washington to prevent the licensing of LPFM stations. But none of the coverage discussed the reasons why the FCC was proposing LPFM. None of this coverage put LPFM in the context of the earlier commercial radio consolidations. NPR, of course, had to issue a very carefully crafted press release to explain their position. I can’t imagine what the response, if any, from NHPR would have been had I sent the letter. In the time that’s past, the republican controlled FCC has proposed measures that would lead to further market consolidation. Ironically, an NHPR sponsored station is one of the few LPFM licenses granted by the FCC before the law ended further licensing. The station, which plays classical music in the Concord area, went on the air just this year. Comment Spam First I was amused to see comments, then somewhat angered to discover they were spam, then amused again to find that comment spam etiquette requires that it be gratuitously patronizing. Then I struggled to decide if I could delete the comments without feeling like I was censoring free speech. My solution (and it’s sort of evil) is to delete the comments (and the links they contained, I don’t want my (puny) Google rank associated with them), but reprint them here: Foiled Troy has this image of a tin-foiled cubical on his blog. It comes from Servers Under the Sun and is interesting enough. Now that I’m checking his blog regularly, I’m sort of wishing he’d update more often (not that he doesn’t have a lot of interesting stuff in archive). . Six Months of 2004 Books: The Art of Deception Asmara Bloody Saturday in the Soviet Union The Cockpit Dangerous Waters Face to Face With the Bomb Flight The Iron Triangle Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them The New Roadside America Parting the Desert Reefer Madness Small Things Considered States of Emergency An Underground Education Wireless Hacks Audio Books: Bushwacked In a Sunburned Country Re-Reads: Divided Highways The Race The Real Las Vegas AllConsuming.net AllConsuming.net aggregates book mentions on the web, mostly in blogs. Assuming bloggers can be trusted, the AllConsuming stats can show a lot about what people are reading and talking about. David Sedaris’ new book Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim is ranking with 22 mentions today and 15 the day before (or, that’s what it was when I checked it last night). Dan Brown’s The Davinci Code consistently ranks near the top of each day, and both these books will get bosted a notch when AllConsuming trolls me again today. All Consuming is a website that visits recently updated weblogs every hour, checking them for links to books on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Book Sense, and other book sites. Every book on this site has a list of all the weblogs that have mentioned it, and every weblog that has mentioned books in the past also has a page here listing which books it has mentioned. It’s more than a website, it’s also a set of web services by a guy who seems to know his way around XML, SOAP, RSS and other incredibly useful acronyms. He even authored some chapters in Amazon Hacks from O’Reilly press. Anyway, call me a fan. Faces Richard Coniff writes in the January 2004 Smithsonian magazine about the work of UC San Fran prof Paul Ekman and his study of faces. It carries pictures of a work by artists Bill Viola and his wife Kira Perov. Yeah, sure, the face is capable of 43 movements expressing 10,000 different expressions. Yeah, Bill’s work is interesting, but… I have two complaints. First, there’s all this talk that facial expressions are confusing. Sun’s Little Marketing Problem Sun had to make changes. They’re (or were) getting their butts handed to them in the mid-range and entry level server markets, so those changes had to come fast. There was a time when the top of their low-end server lineup was the V480 with four UltraSparc III CPUs in a 4U rack enclosure. Trouble is, it lists way over $30,000. They can’t cut the price on it without bleeding money, and worse, they can’t scrap their old models because their inventory of pieces and parts is too much to swallow if they did. So what they did do is release a new line of low-end servers at half the price, but with some slightly different specs (and, I’d imagine, cheaper manufacturing processes) while preserving their older, more expensive servers in the line as the “better” machines. Example: the V440 is similar to the V480 but has fewer DIMM slots and sports UltraSparc IIIi CPUs. The USIIIi doesn’t have the brains to do more than four-way multi-processing, but the designers used the chip real estate that freed up to put one MB of on-chip L2 cache. The USIII usually comes in machines with 8 MB of external L2 cache, but it runs far slower than the CPU’s clock rate. Eight MBs of cache is a lot, but arguments seem to favor a much faster one MB internal cache when performance is on the line. Beyond the cache issue, the IIIi sports a faster interconnect bus called JBus which further decreases the value of an off-chip L2 cache. Access to main RAM at almost the same speed as the L2 cache in previous CPUs, and greater over-all throughput combined with the integrated L2 cache, how can Sun argue that the IIIi is slower than the old III? But that’s exactly what Sun is doing. Their old manufacturing processes left them sitting on huge inventories for all manner of machines, and until they can clear those out, they’ll be sending some difficult marketing messages. The basics of it are like this: if you’re a regular Sun customer and can afford it, then continue to buy the really expensive boxes. If you can’t afford it and might otherwise buy servers from our competitors, then take a look at these newer, cheaper models. And if you’ve never bought Sun before, take a look at the speedy performance and low-cost of this V440. How Copyright Law Changed Hip Hop Kembrew McLeod’s story about How Copyright Law Changed Hip Hop in Stay Free! Magazine is an interesting tale of how copyright kills culture. In the mid- to late 1980s, hip-hop artists had a very small window of opportunity to run wild with the newly emerging sampling technologies before the record labels and lawyers started paying attention. No one took advantage of these technologies more effectively than Public Enemy, who put hundreds of sampled aural fragments into It Takes a Nation and stirred them up to create a new, radical sound that changed the way we hear music. JFK and Mr. Rogers Look the Same Well, they sorta’ look the same. Sorta. The Real Florida Gators From an email from my Dad: Florida allows those who win permits to take three alligators. They sell the meat and hides , except the tails, which have the best cuts of alligator meat, and which they normally keep to feed their families. Mal asked how the alligator meat is cooked; the lady said by cutting it into cubes and deep frying it. She said it tastes just like chicken. Leadership Who can complain about being compared favorably to ol’ JFK? (Yes, in a really vain way, I was happy about it.) A co-worker was surprised to be matched with Saddam Hussein, but my boss was happy to be Gandhi. Numbskull, meanwhile, looks like Abe. In another test, I was matched with Indiana Jones and Raiders of the Lost Ark. What Famous Leader Are You? What Classic Movie Are You? Extra Stories A friend of a friend says his life is made up of places he can no longer go (or is no longer invited). Sad, but somewhat true. He’s also a funny bastard. – – – Sandee’s aunt had her 50th birthday not long ago. The aunt makes cakes on the side so it was no big thing when her daughters (who were planning the surprise birthday party for her) asked if she’d make a cake for some unknown group one of them was in. Top Google Lamson Library’s portal integration project tops Google’s search hits for “library portal integration.” I’ve been crowing about it all over campus for a week now, and while you can argue about what real value it has, it’s still exciting. WorldCat Now Available to World (via Google) I’d heard that that OCLC was opening up WorldCat, their huge bibliographic database, to Google. It seems to be online now. If you happen to Google some very complete search terms for Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code (look for the WorldCatLibraries URL), you’ll find a link to the public WorldCat record. Interesting, but I wonder where this will go. In fairness, this news is about six months old. Jenny reported it in December. Cliff’s Piranha He’s named it Officer Angry, and it eats like a monster. It looks like a monster too, so that’s not so bad. Videos of the fishy fellow eating are at Cliff’s website: Officer Angry Chases Chow{#2} and Officer Angry Eats Off a Stick{#6}. The second one is much better than the first. Yes, I shot both, and just as an aside, they were taken with my Clie TH-55 (but edited with iMovie). Re: Gasoline Blackout Day (Wednesday, May 19, 2004) From Jon Link, who can also be seen at thenumbskull.com: I hate expensive gas as much as anyone BUT, this is a problem of our own design. We don’t need to stop buying oil for one day, we need to buy less oil in general. We love capitalism– supply and demand is it’s cornerstone… it can help or hurt us. It is just silly to think that one day without gas will do anything to supply and demand. Jon Link Goes Online With TheNumbskull.com Okay, his self portrait on my white board has nothing to do with his recent website launch, but…well…. TheNumbskull.com More photos from MaisonBisson Japanese Ice Cream…Novelties? Fish, octopus, squid, ox tongue, sweet potato, fried eggplant, crab, corn, rice, wasabi, shrimp, eel, noodle, chicken wing, miso, and cactus. Those may not sound like appetizing ice cream flavors, but it’s what they’ve got. The Secret Poetry of Donald Rumsfeld Pieces of Intelligence : The Existential Poetry of Donald H. Rumsfeld From Amazon’s Description: “Until now, the poetry of Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld has been hidden, ’embedded’ within comments made at press briefings and in interviews. His preferred medium is the spoken word, and his audience has been limited to hard-bitten reporters and hard-core watchers of C-SPAN.” The Unknown As we know, There are known knowns, DMCRA vs. DMCA Get the word out. The fight is on to create sensible limits to the DMCA. Read ArsTechnica’s DMCRA argument. Copyfight, of course, is covering DMCRA, and arguing for it. TeleRead is swinging for DMCRA too. Heck, they’ve even endorsed a congressional candidate based on his stand on fair-use. Read those and act. Tell your congressperson you support fair-use and the DMCRA. Now say it again with the EFF: “I believe in fair-use. The Twig It’s actually called The Garlic Clove, but for a variety of reasons, we just call it The Twig. More photos from MaisonBisson How Do You Sell a Castle? When you call around for realtors to sell your ‘house,’ how do you tell them it’s a castle? I somehow found out about the Martin Castle in Kentucky, but that lead to information about the Dupont Castle and that sites guide to over 200 castles in the US. Dupont reports there was a fire at Martin Castle just yesterday. The Lexington Herald-Leader covered the fire. So, I guess the real question is “who do you call to insure a castle? In the Window Sarah left these as a gift for Wendy in the window of her new toy. Tesla’s History In Colorado Springs, Colorado Nikola Tesla arrived in Colorado Springs on May 17, 1899. He was met at the train by patent lawyer Leonard Curtis, and was taken by horse and carriage to the Alta Vista Hotel, where he would reside while in Colorado. Tesla was greeted at the hotel by a group of reporters, one of whom asked him why he chose Colorado for his operation. Tesla replied, “I might as well tell you the truth, I have come here to carry on a series of exhaustive experiments in regard to wireless telegraphy — I come here for work. Joe’s Chickens and Turkeys Joe’s prized chickens and turkeys. In the brooders now. They’ll be in their coops by May. More photos from MaisonBisson Restaurant Insider A link from WiFi Networking News points to QSR Magazine, the trade mag for the quick service restaurant industry (think McDonalds and Taco Bell). The connection here is that McDonalds plans to offer wireless access in 13,000 locations. With McDonald’s off the market, WiFi hotspot operators are looking to hook the next big fish, and that’s why WiFi Networking News is linking to QSR’s Top 50 Chains list. Some technologists would speak about how we’re moving ever closer to the time when we have ubiquitous hi-speed wireless. Music Biz Sales Up UK markets first reported it, then Australia’s record industry tried to suppress it, now US sales figures suggest the trend has spread here: record sales are up. Yes, despite the RIAA’s whining and lawsuits (and P2P’s continued growth despite those lawsuits), record sales are up in the US. BBC News reports US record sales up 9% after a claimed four year slump. This story deserves more attention, but for now I’ll just have to link to my earlier stories about music industry wackiness: Bringing Digital Video Back to the Living Room You can burn DVDs of your home movies (and you probably ought to, just for backups), but what if you want to make a movie library to match your computer-based music library? Watching video on a computer is no more fun than listening to MP3s on the computer’s tinny internal speaker. The solution may be one of a new generation of products that link the TV in the living room to the computer in the office. Exploring the News NewsMap displays current news in an explorable two dimensional space. Headline sizes appear to be weighted based on the number of related stories. Like PlumbDesign’s Visual Thesaurus, it’s a truly new use of computer in the display of information. Jacque’s Cabaret BostonNoise.org says “Jacques’ Cabaret is Boston’s oldest gay bar. The upstairs features live female impersonator shows five nights per week, including weekends. The downstairs basement is open only on Friday and Saturday, and hosts local bands.” Jacque’s official website shows Norell Gardner & his cast of miss-leading ladies playing every Friday and Saturday upstairs. The Raw Bar, “a return to the old style of cabaret where artists entertain each other, for the pure art and enjoyment of it, creating a space for talented people who don’t have the opportunity to perform because their music or performance is more artistic than commercial,” was featured in the Globe and plays downstairs at Jacque’s Underground on the second Friday of every month. VoIP Links Vonage is starting to look like the ma-bell of VoIP. It’s not that there isn’t competition — there is, but they just don’t have the profile that Vonage has. It looks like Vonage has picked up the early adopters, now they have to start converting others. The market seems to have three fields: computer-to-computer only, software client with POTS bridging, and hardware client with POTS bridging. I don’t much care about the computer-to-computer systems, AIM and iChat take care of that well enough. Richard Clarke’s Insider Tell-All Tom Maertens Speaks on Richard Clarke’s insider story in a Star Tribune article dated Sunday 28 March 2004. The troops who could have been used in Afghanistan to capture Osama bin Laden and Al-Qaida were instead held back for the planned invasion of Iraq. In contrast to the 150,000 men sent to Iraq, only about 11,500 troops were sent to Afghanistan, a force smaller than the New York City police. The result is that Bin Laden and his followers escaped across the border into Pakistan. … Clarke’s gutsy insider recounting of events related to 9/11 is an important public service. From my perspective, the Bush administration has practiced the most cynical, opportunistic form of politics I witnessed in my 28 years in government: hijacking legitimate American outrage and patriotism over 9/11 to conduct a pre-ordained war against Saddam Hussein. Copyright War Something doesn’t add up. ARIA, Australia’s version of our RIAA recently announced that sales continued to slide there this past year, while critics pointed out that they really had a record-breaking year with 50 million album sales. Thank ArsTechnica for the link. This matches news from the UK this past summer. So why is the industry lying? Ignore for a moment the ironic story about the music industry using P2P stats to improve their marketing and sell more records. Why Music Biz Loves P2P Jason Shultz over at CopyFight just posted this story about The Mercury News’ story about how record labels use P2P stats to boost sales. <a href="http://www.corante.com/copyfight/archives/002790.html” title="Record Labels Using “Pirate” Data to sell more CDs">Record Labels Using “Pirate” Data to sell more CDs (posted by Jason Schultz) The Merc has a great article on how the RIAA bashes P2P out of one side of their mouth while secretly using data from the networks to boost sales of their CDs. Political Diagramming A graph from Orgnet plots book purchasing patterns by politics.There’s not much middle ground there. “These political books are preaching to the converted. The extreme book titles on both sides reveal a focus on hate, instead of debate. In a year of presidential election, is this the new arms race?” Could it be that our book readers are key opinion leaders in their communities? An opinion leader is someone whose influence spreads much further than their immediate circle of friends & family. What is the Simputer? I just saw a pointer to the Amida Simputer, an Indian designed and manufactured PDA. The review at Engadget sounds sort of down, but it comes from a company on a mission. It seems others are fed up with importing (and paying for) US technology, so they’re developing their own. Take a look-see at the Amida and mix that with a quick browse of the Argosy EB660, a Chinese designed ebook reader. Hmmm… Boats It looks like a tug boat, but the Great Harbour 37 could be a lot of fun. A magazine article talks about bareboat charters in the British Virgin Islands and the pleasures quietly exploring the coves and uninhabited areas on your own. NASA’s X43 Flies NASA’s X43 scramjet test plane flew at speeds exceeding mach 7 and altitudes of 100,000 feet today. I believe that’s a new air-breathing speed record. GlobalSecurity.org has a nice wite-up on it. American Proprietary Eponyms There I was Googling “proprietary” for a story about misuse of the word when I came across this gem from R.Krause: An eponym is a general term used to describe from what or whom something derived its name. Therefore, a proprietary eponym could be considered a brand name (product or service mark) which has fallen into general use. Yes, R. has a bunch of them listed, Xerox, Jell-O, Velcro, and more. Too bad it was last updated in 1997. I wonder when “Google” turned from brand name to verb. What Does Proprietary Mean, Anyway? Googling “proprietary” results in lots of hits, but very few of them use the word in a positive sense. The Webopedia Computer Dictionary offers: Proprietary Privately owned and controlled. In the computer industry, proprietary is the opposite of open. A proprietary design or technique is one that is owned by a company. It also implies that the company has not divulged specifications that would allow other companies to duplicate the product. Thank Chank The font designing folks at Chank have a nice list of free fonts to pick from. Sure, they’re not the fonts you use to design flyers for the church social or nursing home holiday dinner, but that’s sort of the point. Isn’t it? Anyway, they also link to nerfect where you’ll find other cool designey things. Integrating Library Systems in Campus Portals Information about Lamson Library’s portal integration at Plymouth State University. I’ll expand this story later, but I want to put the link here now to get it in Google’s index. Update On Pen Twirling I did a story on the practice of pen twirling in Japan a couple years ago. Since then I have received an email from Pierre Etienne Bastouil who is trying to organize a pen twirling competition in Paris. Despite the popularity of the sport in Japan, he’s having some difficulty finding skilled pen twirlers in Europe. So the call is out, interested pen twirlers should contact me and I will forward you on to Pierre. Schlossberg Quote “The skill of writing is to create a context in which other people can think.” –Edwin Schlossberg Squirm Squirm Little Man Far too often the mainstream press lets politicians get away with revising or misrepresenting their previous positions. Far too often the press is complicit in their lies. Not this time. Hopefully Quoticus will develop into a very useful historical truth machine to prevent revisionism. Hopefully. NY Times on Netflix The New York Times did a Netflix story. The Author, William Grimes, seemed to like it, but… [My wife and I] each judge the other’s selections harshly. I scored a major victory with “Mon Oncle” by Jacques Tati, a director I once dismissed as tedious, annoying and far too French. He is now a god in our house. But I have had my back against the wall after “L’Atalante,” a film I had never seen but knew to be, by expert consensus, a towering masterpiece. Less than 10 minutes after the opening credits rolled, the atmosphere in the living room grew frosty. I lost control of the mouse for a week. At least I had the foresight to sneak off and watch “Russian Ark” on my own. That’s the fun of Netflix. Along with savage recriminations, my home now resonates with high-toned animated discussion of directors, cinematographers and camera angles. Once again I’m the moviegoer I was in college, when Bergman, Fellini and Truffaut were in full stride, and adventure was in the air, and bright-eyed cinéastes could sit through a film like “El Topo” and not demand their money back. It’s not available on Netflix, alas, but the Web site does propose an alternative, a compilation of “Ed Sullivan” shows featuring Topo Gigio. Close enough. Interesting enough, but Netflix — and services yet to appear — are a sign of things to come: a world of entertainment shaped by the consumer, not by marketers. Netflix executives say their edge over the competition is not their library but the way the library is presented to users, who are asked to rate the films they have seen. By sifting through the ratings, about 400 million of them at present, and analyzing buying patterns, a company program called CineMatch generates rental suggestions specific to each user. “Lost in Translation will outperform most $300 million films for us, and that’s because of our ratings and recommendations,” said Ted Sarandos, the chief content officer for Netflix. “Monster will be huge for us, and that’s not because our subscribers are more sophisticated than the general moviegoing public, but because our merchandising system is much more specific.” It will be a world of what you want, and only what you want, as clearly marked by your previous purchases and selections. You’ll never be upset by products that you don’t want, even if you didn’t know you didn’t want them, nor will you have to tolerate contrary opinions or debate. Dr. Seuss Was So Political Who would have figured old Dr. Seuss was so political? Rick Minear at UCSD has collected a number of the good doctor’s works as chief editorial cartoonist for the New York newspaper PM. “Because of the fame of his children’s books (and because we often misunderstand these books) and because his political cartoons have remained largely unknown, we do not think of Dr. Seuss as a political cartoonist,” writes Minear. Turkeys On the Lot! Turkeys aren’t small birds. Along the commute from home to work, they’re as common as pigeons in a city park, but it’s still odd to see a turkey in the parking lot (video link). The source video was taken with a Sony Clie PEG-TH55 and edited — just a bit — in iMovie. Wireless VoIP GPhone is a bust for me, at least for now, but other solutions are available. Ars Technica pointed out an 802.11b wireless VoIP phone from Zyxel. Then there’s the Vocera VoIP communicator badge that everybody at Dartmouth College uses. They were happy to show it off during the Unleashed Wireless Conference they hosted last Fall. [UPDATED]: The VoIP market is heating up. Vonage is set to offer a wireless phone soon to help compete against AT&T’s new entry into the VoIP market. Then there’s VoicePulse and Packet8 also making a play in the full-service residential/small business VoIP market. Gamer’s Delight: Palm Emulates GameBoy, Atari ST and Apple //e I saw a link for a Palm-based GameBoy emulator, then was stunned to read about an Atari ST emulator for Palm. A quick Google search later, and I found an Apple //e emulator too!. It’s the old-timer in me, but I really enjoyed the games on those old systems. More info on the Apple //e emulator for Palm are at Palm Info Center and FreewarePalm. PalmEmu links up a number of emulators for Palm. GPhone Doesn’t Work On Clie TH55 I’ve given up on VLI’s tech support for GPhone, the VoIP software for Palm. The download page said it was compatible with Palm OS 5.x devices, but was only tested on the Palm Tungsten C. I contacted support after trying it on my Clie TH55, but fell into a loop where they kept recommending I try the same simple things and telling me that Clies use non-standard audio hardware. I’d, in turn, tell them the results of those simple tests and explain that the TH55 uses standard Palm audio APIs. Hopefully they’ll find a solution, but I think the hangup with the GPhone software is a network problem. Recording Video on Clie PEG TH55 The ClieSource Forums are an excellent source of info. It turns out that installing the movierecorder.prc (version 1.3) from a UX50 onto the TH55 allows it to record movies. The problem is getting that file…. Isn’t Google great? If that doesn’t work out for you, try searching at the Palm User Message Board, where you might just find it. Here’s the trick: you can’t just install the app via Palm Sync. Scrabble Aside from all the other online dictionaries, Scrabble players may be interested in the following sites: Hasbro’s word lists for tough times (including Q without U, two letter words, X words, and more). Wordplays.com’s tools for word games is a collection of web apps that would be handy to use (if it were legal to do so) during a game. Mark has developed a number of word lists and other scrabble tools. Wireless Links The PublicIP ZoneCD is a bootable CD implementation of NoCat’s NoCatAuth. NoCatAuth configuration help is available from AmsterNet and Blyx. The LEAF Project intends to create Linux-based firewall-in-a-box solution that has uses for wireless. LinSpot is a commercial hotspot-in-a-box software solution. NoCat, LESS Networks, Portland Community Wireless, and Newbury Open.net are active community wireless operations. O’Reilly Wireless DevCenter has loads of news. Murphy’s Junk On the list of places to visit next time I go out west: Murphys Surplus Warehouse: Located at 401 N. Johnson Ave: El Cajon, Ca. 92020 (Near San Diego) 619 444 7717 Fax 444 6750 8,000 sq. ft. of military and industrial electronics, communications, and MIS electronic equipment. Sandee’s Favorite Bad Songs 80s revivals may be played out and we’re not yet ready for 90s nostalgia. Nonetheless, there are a number of songs of the time period that we’re a little ashamed to admit we love. Without knowing why, and in no particular order, here they are: The Humpty Dance Funky Cold Medina Can’t Touch This Ice Ice Baby Do Me and Poison Hotstepper Mama Said Knock You Out Goin Back to Cali Mildly Psychotic? Eysenck’s Test Results Extraversion (68%) moderately high which suggests you are talkative, optimistic, and sociable but possibly not very reflective. Neuroticism (39%) moderately low which suggests you are relaxed, calm, secure, unemotional but possibly too unobservant of your feelings. Psychoticism (53%) medium which suggests you are moderately offensive, uncooperative, and rebellious. Take Eysenck’s EPQ-R based Personality Test. Clie Memory Stick, Playing Videos, and More… The Lexar 256MB Memory Stick arrived. It sucks. It’s not really a 256 MB stick, it’s 2 x 128MB, and you have to flick a little switch to choose which 128MB you want to use at any moment. Let me be more clear: you can only use 128MB at a time, and you have to eject the card and flip a switch to select the other 128MB. I don’t know if it’s returnable, but I think I’ll try. Interesting Site Design Just ran across 24-7media.de. It’s a cool site. Their Flash design is top notch and I really like the metaphor. Does it work? Yes, in the limited context they’re using, it works well. Best of all — or most disturbing, who knows — is the soundtrack. Composed by Yuko Ohigashi, it’s haunting and mysterious. Mac & Palm/Clie GPS, Maybe Just learned of the Rayming TripNav TN-200 GPS receiver. It’s the type that has no display or UI and must connect to a computer (via USB) to be useful. It’s Mac compatible and it appears there’s a slight variation (the TN-204) that works with Sony Clie Palm compatible handhelds. The problem is, the company website is down now and I can’t get detailed information from the other sites. Yes, Google Cache has info, but that’s more frustrating than helpful. Of course, Amazon doesn’t carry it, so I can’t view the reader reviews there. What I really want is a receiver that will work with both. But perhaps I’m just dreaming. Then there’s also the question of what happened to Sony’s Clie GPS cradle? Finally, none of this would be an issue if I hadn’t also just read about TomTom GPS navigation software for Palm. Return of Dirigibles: Delayed or Dead? The 90s saw a resurgence of interest in dirigible airships. People believed their time had come again, but few are flying today. The CargoLifter, a cargo airship designed for loads of 160 metric tons (that’s over 175 US tons), is in receivership, and little has been heard of the Zeppelin NT. Links and more info: Story about the CargoLifter (via Google Translations), and a CargoLifter image gallery as well (also via Google Translations). Going to See the Goats Went with Will to see the Mountain Goats, Will’s favorite band ever. Plans included reliving the beef tatar at the Korea Garden. Read my earlier story about it, but remember that it’s not actually called beef tatar. It’s “Ok Doi Bi Bim Bab” on their menu. Of course I wanted to take pictures of the beef tatar experience, but I also wanted to taste it again. It wasn’t the same as last time. What For Wireless? Planning for wireless deployments differs from wired network planning in many ways. Unlike wired networks, the primary question isn’t bandwidth or reliability, but availability. Wireless networking enables mobility — and mobile connectivity — in ways never before seen in the world of computers. Just as movie theaters and television coexist despite their similarities, wired and wireless networks will coexist. Each has it’s unique benefits and drawbacks. Each is desirable for different purposes. Bush’s Fiscal Felony Matt Miller’s NPR commentary about the Bush budget includes the following details: A deficit of 521 billion means borrowing almost 1 out of 4 dollars in the budget. It includes 300 billion in tax cuts that go mostly to the rich, but ignores the 25 trillion dollar shortfall in social security and medicare that will start to come due in five years. Bush plans to send an addendum to the budget to cover the growing costs of the US military presence in Iraq and Afghanistan after the November elections. Flight Planning Software for Mac I hope someday to have a need for flight planning software, so I’ll keep these URLs around for a while: Mac Flight Planner and Flight Math. Vegas Links 2004 Now that the Nevada Test Site Historical Foundation’s Atomic Testing Museum. is open, you don’t have to wait for the DOE’s occaisional tours of the test site to get your radiation fix. Lawrence Livermore National Lab has a review of the new museum. We caught a show at the Amargosa Opera House (official site) in Death Valley, just a short drive west of Vegas. The Opera House deserves a story of its own and the views and scenery of Death Valley are just beautiful. Shopping in New York, NY We watch Queer Eye for the Straight Guy a lot over here. It seems we can make time for about one hour of TV per week, and Sandee’s decided we’ll spend it with the Fab Five. I’m sure the New York merchants featured in the show are expecting this, but we’ve started to keep a list of places we have to visit when we next go to the city. I’m posting it here for my use as much as anybody else’s. Vegas! I might get around to telling the story later, but for now all I have is a couple movies and a few pictures. There’s a short video of the koi and gardens at the Flamingo, an album of snapshots and nightlife, an album of pictures from the very unique Amargosa Hotel and Opera House, and a short video of our short visit to Crystal, NV. We saw Zoomanity and a show at the Amargosa Opera House. Getting to Vegas I blame Missouri. Kansas City in particular. I’m sure there’s probably another airport like this somewhere, but I don’t know about it. KCI, MO, is setup so that you have to exit and re-enter security areas just to change planes. Then, if you need to use the bathroom or get something to eat, well then you have to go through security again then too. Of all the airports to suffer a three hour delay in, KCI might be the worst. Dreaming of a Sony Clie PEG TH55 I’ve pre-ordered the just-released Sony Clie PEG TH55 and am anxiously awaiting its arrival. Brighthand has a nice review that speaks (mostly) highly of the new Palm OS compatible handheld. High points were the integrated WiFi, excellent battery life (compared to other WiFi handhelds), large screen, integrated camera, and relatively good software bundle. Low points were the email client, the low resolution of the integrated camera (640×480), and lack of Bluetooth (which is included in the European and Japanese versions). Land of the Loops Was listening to Land of the Loops’ Bundle of Joy on the way home from work tonight. It somehow fit the mood and I found myself really enjoying it. Yes, it’s loop/sample-based, but the results are anything bet techno or hip-hop. Originally released in 1997 (I think?), it holds its tune seven years later. . . Things To Remember While Doing Upgrades on Mission Critical Sun Equipment…. 1a: Sending Stop-A with non-Sun keyboards or over a telnet connection With a terminal server, the terminal is hardcoded to a “cli” interface which, in turn, telnets to the console port on the destination host. The point is to get the *telnet* to generate a break, which can be done by: Press ctrl-] (or whatever is the telnet escape sequence) At the telnet prompt, enter “send break” Newbury Open Net Just saw a link to Newbury Open Net, a community wireless project in Boston. Newbury Open Net describes itself: NewburyOpen.net is a network which provides high-speed Internet services, in the form of free wireless and for-pay workstations, to Boston’s residents, workers, and travelers. … We believe that high-speed Internet must become like a public utility: cheap, simple to access, easy to find, and available to everyone, no matter their location or social status. MacDevCenter on Home Automation First, I found this story at MacDevCenter rather interesting: Home Automation with Mac OS X, Part 1 by Alan Graham — Having more control over how your home operates isn’t just a geek fantasy. You can lower energy costs, improve security, and enhance the overall ambiance of your humble abode. Alan Graham shows you how to leverage your Mac OS X computer and get started. Home automation is, of course, something I’ve wanted to play with ever since I heard about it. Sure, iTunes visuals are great, but what about programming all the lights in your house to work like a huge color organ to pulse with the music? But I was also amused by the O’Reilly/MacDevCenter website. Along with the usual print and [email][6] buttons they had a [blog this][7] button. While they clearly wanted visitors to see the website as something more substantial than a weblog, they also wanted to cash in on the blogging public’s ability to create buzz and swing Google rankings. We Like the Moon, Biscuits, and More Flash Animation The folks at RatherGood.com have no end of Flash animations to entertain and delight. May I suggest starting off with Moon Song, and Biscuits? Along those lines, I also found (the far too obviously named) Flash archive with even more great goodies. Yes, you’ve seen some of these before, but there are some new ones there too. And, of course, regular laughs can be had at HomeStarRunner.com, where Strong Bad’s Email (updated each Monday, usually) will likely make you a repeat visitor. Zygo: The Last Energy Drink Cola wars are one thing, but “altbev” sure has come a long way since soft drink makers identified the market segment in the 90s. Coke’s Fruitopia was among the entries from the majors, but, as usual, it’s the independents that have lead the way. Water remains the leading altbev, but energy and “health” drinks are squeezing the market. Just as Coke and Pepsi were developing their bottled water brands to catch up with Poland Spring (owned by Nestle, by the way), Red Bull appeared and turned things upside down. Useful Dohickeys Why can’t I find the Sumajin Smartwrap, a small cable management device that looks perfect for headphones and other small cables, locally? Smartwrap, winner of ID magazine’s Design Distinction award, is a cord manager for headphone cables designed and developed by Sumajin, an industrial design firm in Singapore. You snap the cord into place at one of two places then wrap and snap into place again. Smartwrap comes in seven colors and are produced in limited quantities. /etc/hosts in MacOS X 10.3 I’ve run into a situation things would work better with a static host mapping, but my first thought/fear was that MacOS X’s NetInfo would get in my way. Google turned up some old info on reconfiguring NetInfo, as well as a slightly more current NetInfo tip. But as it turns out, Panther is all setup to read your /etc/hosts entries and use those before going to DNS or NetInfo. So there you go. What is IBIBLIO? If 14-year-olds were old enough to remember Bush Sr., they’d think this Bush monologue was the funniest thing all day. So, in the interest of educating and entertaining those 14-year-olds, let me explain that the current President Bush is the oldest son of a previous president Bush. Bush Sr. was elected in 1988, his term of presidency included huge job losses and recession, and he got us entangled in a War in Iraq and many other places. Deep Thoughts; Timewasters Here’s a graph to get you thinking about politics: job growth per president. Who knows if the numbers are real, but it jives with my memory of the past 20 years. This dark and slightly objectionable cartoon of life features a good soundtrack and really cool styling. Finally, everybody likes Latin translations of old rap songs. Right? “Magnae clunes mihi placent, nec possum de hac re mentiri.” Peer-to-Peer, DMCA, RIAA, Lawsuits After six months of RIAA lawsuits, you’d think this would be old news, but…. It’s been a while since I’ve reported on the music industry’s attempts to control online music distribution, but Ars Technica has been following that and the larger issues all along. The story took a turn in December when a three judge panel ruled that the RIAA’s subpoenas were illegal. That was a win for the ISPs that had brought the appeal against the RIAA and have now ceased cooperation with the music industry. TiVo Getting Close to Home. Too Close. The folks at Ars Technica are asking question that I first started wondering about during the Patriot’s 2002 Superbowl win. After the game, the TiVo folks released an announcement that Britney Spears’ Pepsi commercial was the most-rewatched ad of the game. Their claim was apparently based on stats from the TiVos in people living rooms. We’re all familiar with Nielson TV ratings, but those viewers know their habits are being recorded. MIT Tech Review’s Ten Technologies That Refuse to Die The folks at Ars also pointed out an interesting story by the MIT Tech Review. It’s all about things that were expected to have been passed by, but weren’t. It sort of puts us in our place. Microsoft, in its biggest act of irony ever, issues security education posters Microsoft Corp, the software company responsible for producing some of the most notoriously (and dangerously) insecure software ever has issued a collection of posters aimed at, start your irony engine, computer security education. “Educate your students, faculty, and staff on the simple steps they can take to protect their PCs,” says the Microsoft website offering the posters. Site Updated Um, not many people noticed, but this site was offline for a few months because the hosting company I was using shut down operations. Well, I’m back, mostly. I’ve redesigned things (having stolen the design from another site of mine), but there are still a number of things missing. Theoretically I still have a backup of the comments and members and stuff, but I may not bother looking. The Redstone Brewery info is in here, but the categories list is gone. How To Get Off an RBL It sucks to get on a email blackhole list. Click “more” to find out how we got PSU off ATT.net’s proprietary RBL. Entertainment Value First, take a look at < bushin30seconds.org > . It will do more to make you mad than entertain you, but take a look and channel that anger into something meaningful. Now that that’s over, take a look at < ebaumsworld.com > and waste the rest of the day laughing. There’s no shortage of video, cartoons, and other junk. Enjoy it all. Here are a couple links to get you started: super truck, paranoid, something else funny, and yet another thing. The Unwired World is Growing First, look at some numbers: “‘Last year under 20 percent of the laptops have Wi-Fi built in, this year it’s 40 percent.’ Says Brain Grimm, communications director for the Wi-Fi Alliance” Now consider that the quote appeared in a story in AAAWorld (yes, the American Auto Association). Their demographic is generally older and non-technical, so either their demographic is changing or “non-technical” is being redefined. I’m going to bet that the water is rising and, just as the world now accepts email, it now seems to expect some understanding of networking. Hmmm. [UPDATE] And now the Minneapolis Federal Reserve Bank is reporting on growing WiFi use in the Mid-West! Oh my. Why Superbowl Ads Matter Last Saturday was the 20th anniversary of the Macintosh. Apple announced the Macintosh to about 90 million households in a 60 second ad during the superbowl. The ad, which has been lauded as one of the best ads ever and created “event marketing,” rocks. It was this theory of event marketing that lead advertisers to create ever larger, ever more expensive ad spots. And that’s when the ads during the Superbowl became the the main event for some viewers. Okay, Now I Want One There are two things you need to know about the The International Streamlined Tatra Site: It’s cool, and they’re cool. I happen to love art deco advertising, and it seems Tatra has some of the best. Of course, I wouldn’t know anything about Tatra (it’s a car company, or it was, they now only make trucks) except I stumbled across this story elsewhere. Warren Republicans Vote Democrat Former Vermont governor Howard Dean carried the polls in Warren this primary night. The numbers for the rest of the state are still being counted, but what’s more impressive to me is the number of voters who went to the polls and the number of registered republicans who wrote in Democrats on their ballots. Twenty three out of 77 Republican ballots cast in this very conservative northern New Hampshire town had Democrats written in for President. Czech it Out! Bad headline, yes, but what this guy has done with his car is pretty cool. Antarctica in My Name It’s good to know that there’s an Antarctic outpost in my namesake. Good ol’ Casey Station even has a webcam. [update:] Here’s an interesting sattelite image of the area, found at this Remote Sensing Project website. Ethel’s Holiday Fashion Nothing says holidays like leopard print. More photos from MaisonBisson How to Have Fun Like I Just Did Start with approx 1 cup of bacon grease collected over time just like Jon’s mom said to do. Pour grease into small disposable aluminum loaf pan. Insert pan with grease into burning wood stove. Wait. Watch. Wait. Watch as oil ignites with a whooosh that’s vaguely reminiscent of a chimney fire. No, that woooosh is exactly how you remember that chimney fire. Close stove air intakes and continue to watch fire. More Complaining and Whining The lousy Red Cross can’t get its act together well enough to schedule blood drives in Plymouth (where I work each day) well enough so regular donors can go to all of them. The Red Cross knows that something like 85% of their blood comes from regular donors who make it a point to donate at every opportunity (and how many of us can there be in Plymouth?). Yet, they schedule a blood drive today, fewer than 56 days since their last blood drive. O’Reilly’s Wireless Hacks The question here is between 802.1x authentication and web-based, captive portal authentication. The former has high client requirements, the later seems too simple. Rob Flickenger’s Wireless Hacks has fired me up for captive portals. An excerpt, Dispelling the Myth of Wireless Security, makes clear the need for application layer security, an argument I’d say applies to wired and wireless network alike. Point: wireless is exposing holes that have existed in our network security all along, but patching those holes will secure everything, including wireless without spending loads of money on expensive APs and proprietary clients. Wireless Vulnerabilities Related to my review of wireless security landscape is this review of threats to wireless security. Passive Sniffing “The same information in a Probe Response frame is available in the Beacon frames that every 802.11 network is required to transmit (even closed networks). So, we just listen for these frames in Monitor Mode instead.” Extreme Tech’s guide to exploiting and protecting WiFi networks “AirSnort can determine the WEP key in seconds…” The Wireless Security Landscape The view from the trenches Fall 2002 Below is an email I sent to MacLabManagers mail list in late September 2002. Our discussions of wireless security had just begun at that time. The wireless landscape has changed a lot since then, but the responses have information that remains valid and useful to us today. Howdy, We’re using wireless in many locations here, but somebody just got scared about security. Until now we haven’t been using WEP, nor have we cloaking the network name for wireless base stations that serve mobile classrooms on campus. Wired Mag’s 12 Commandments of Programming Wired Magazine has an interesting article on “Extreme Programming.” Supposedly, the solo programmer pulling all-nighters on excessive caffein is out. In are 40 hour work weeks, group coordination, and two people per computer. But what about productivity cry the managers. According to the article, coders do more, do it faster, and do it with fewer bugs this way. Summary Page for Music Industry Wackiness I’ve posted a number of stories and links related to the music industry and P2P and such. Here’s a short summary of them. First was a story about how music swappers actually buy more music. Then came a story about the decline of the album format, and why it’s a good thing for listeners. I followed that up with something about copying is theft, and other legal myths. And just now I posted a story about the real reasons for the decline in the music biz. Perfect for the Church Social Hey, so what about the local sports team and their player that’s excelling with that thing that he does? Some people like to argue so much they run out of material. Or, maybe it’s like what Rob Gordon says in High Fidelity: “it’s not what you’re like, it’s what you like.” So maybe arguments erupt as we try to establish and defend our identity (evidence: teenagers). If true, and our identity is made up of the pop-culture elements that we consume, then what are the key traits we must evaluate? Street Lights…and other things that don’t work the way they should It’s probably due to my color blindness, but I have the darndest time seeing streetlights (the red/yellow/green things at controlled intersections) at night. I’ve had to explain it a million times, but nobody seems to understand. Finally I’ve discovered a sympathetic friend, sort of. Michael Darnell writes about his complaints with street lights and other things that don’t work well or aren’t designed well. Time Wasters I found myself waiting. A CD quietly burned in the combo-drive, a computer slowly reboot after a system update, and a large file was drifting across the ether[net] between my laptop and sever. Clearly this was the time to surf over to ilovebacon.com and waste some time. I was in luck right away. Ask Snoop isn’t quite as funny as old unix jive, but it’s good for some quick laughs. Music This, Music That Continuing the recent music and copyright theme…. It turns out that I wasn’t the only one who thought the BuyMusic.com ads looked a little familiar. Rob Walker wrote about the New Apple Clones for Slate.com. “…I kept re-watching the BuyMusic ads to try and figure out what I was missing. Is there a hidden critique here? A satire? Not really. They’re just knockoffs. It’s as if, by borrowing the look and feel of Apple’s ads, BuyMusic is explicitly interested in underscoring that its service is a copycat. Website Spotlight I just added ArsTechnica to the list of websites I check daily. I’ve been reading technical articles there for years, but two articles today clinched it: “the social complexities of the f-word” and “your cheating heart’s been clickin’ her buttons. Both are well worth reading for anybody who cares about the social aspects of technology. Well, the first one doesn’t really have anything to do with technology, it’s just funny. Copying is Theft – and other legal myths Music has been an issue for me lately. What with my previous stories about the “decline of the album format” (and why I think it’s a good thing) and how music swappers apparently buy more music, you’d think I’d gotten the matter out of my system. No. Copying is Theft – and other legal myths is an article that everybody who’s ever heard of MP3s should read. No matter what you’ve come to believe (or how much the RIAA pays you), the title is real. USB Hacking So I’d like to get this old USB video capture device working in OS X, but the vendor has quit the business and no OS X drivers are around for it. A little searching on the web netted the following how-to on making one vendor’s USB device drivers work with another vendor’s products. The details relate to USB WiFi adapters, but we can generalize. With the tips in that story in mind, we can face down the next question: are there any drivers that might be made to work with my USB device? Whiney Sell-Outs Charles Haddad writes in Business Week Online about musicians making a stand for the “integrity of the album format.” Fortunately, he gets it right: this isn’t about artists looking after their art, this is about the end of a business strategy where a few good tracks are mingled with a pile of chaff and called an ‘album.’ What’s really important here is that you can buy what you want, rather than just what labels and the bands have decided you should have. No longer do you have take the fat with the meat — and pay $15 or more for a CD that has only three songs you like. …This doesn’t necessarily mean the death of album rock, just bad album rock. A package of great songs that work together will still sell. Just look at the evergreen appeal of the Who’s Tommy or Miles Davis’ Kind of Blue . The labels may be forced to change. If filler no longer sells, will the music industry continue to compel bands to produce it? Maybe, just maybe, bands and labels will start improving the overall quality of pop music. Music Labels Have Heads Up Asses A story on BBC News (File Swappers ‘Buy More Music’) reports on a study that claims those who download music using P2P services (old Napster, Gnutella, etc) actually buy more music. It should make sense to anybody with a hair of marketing experience: try before you buy. Yummy Shit Karen pointed out an article about scary-but-common food ingredients at Fortune.com Stupid OS X Server Hint OS X Server is great, but it doesn’t respond well when you change its IP number. The resulting fiasco will make you think working a fast food job is worth it. Here are some links that won’t make it easier but will at least give you a bootable machine: A little how-to Support discussion More discussion Even more discussion Update August 15, 2003: Apple has finally done something, just a little something, to address this problem. DVRs Are Cool I don’t watch much TV and I don’t own a TiVo, but I love the idea. So I’m glad to read about open source folks building their own DVRs. Apollo Archive The Apollo Archive boasts a wealth of content covering the moon landing. Good stuff. Google-Watch Google has been raved about since it first appeared on the search engine scene four years ago. Now that it’s trounced all the other, however, people are getting concerned about the effects of the monopoly. Google-Watch is leading the charge. Their claim? They say that Google’s PageRank means only that the rich get richer, and they’re concerned about close ties between Google and government snoops. Hmmm. You Are Being Lied To I found a collection of three books by The Disinformation Company on a shelf in City Lights. I’d already picked out my book (Toothpicks & Logos) when I saw Abuse Your Illusions, Everything You Know Is Wrong, and You Are Being Lied To lined up and beckoning to me. I’ll have to take another look at them, but at least the publisher has an interesting story. Good Liberal Rabble Rousing It’s a pleasure to read the many pages of Molotov Cocktail for the Soul. IUG 2003: Library Portal Integration Elaine Allard and I will be presenting on Library Portal Integration at the IUG 2003 in San Jose, CA. Two sessions have been scheduled for Sunday, April 28th: 9am and 4:30pm. Our description, in the program guide: Like many colleges, Plymouth State College is working to consolidate its online resources inside a portal. Within this single point of service students can register for classes and check their grades, faculty can review their rosters and post grades, and staff can review benefits and vacation time. Tinkerer’s Joy While reading up on the SLiMP3 network MP3 player I came across some mention of Dallas Semiconductor and their line of wonderfully hackable TINI ICs. These little things have ethernet interfaces, Java runtime engines, and webservers built-in, and are ideal for making non-networked devices internet ready. As if we don’t now have enough internet connected light switches and soda machines. A nice overview of TINI is available. Ohh, Film Music Pornorchestra: The PornOrchestra is an attempt to radically reinterpret the soundtrack to pornographic film. This complicated genre has taken its share of scorn: from adult film producers who refuse to pay it any mind to legions of consumers who instinctively snap the sound off after pressing Play. Performing live improvised and composed scores to pornographic film, the PornOrchestra invigorates the mysterious experience of the Voyeur-cum-Auditeur. The equivalent of a circus band with its collective eye on the trapeze artist: the PornOrchestra teases out the thrill, amplifying the collective gasp at pornographic triumph — and tragedy — using the most eclectic and creative musical minds working in the Bay Area today. The Promise of Wireless Wired has a story about the effect of wireless on agriculture, theme parks, health care, and conferences. So speaketh O’Reilly’s Rael Dornfest about a recent conference with ubiquitous WiFi access: “people weren’t disappearing back to their rooms to check email between sessions. They’d just sit down in one of the common areas and log on. Because everyone was gathering in the same place, there was a lot more spontaneous discussion. Also, the sessions themselves became more interactive.” Cool Fonts Font Diner offers some darn cool fonts. Go visit their site for freebies too. A Farmer’s Job I don’t know who gets the worse end of this stick, but it’s really sad that chemists can’t tell the difference between banned nerve agents and agricultural pesticides. Conflict Management How to talk down your adversary: “There is no reproach between me and you except the stabbing of kidneys and the chopping of heads.” Damn Cool Site Plumb Design’s Visual Thesaurus may be the coolest thing ever. Psychoanalysis Word of the Day Ego Dystonic Elvis vs. Nixon A friend forwarded a link that reveals the following story (as quoted from the website): On December 21, 1970, Elvis Presley paid a visit to President Richard M. Nixon at the White House in Washington, D.C. The meeting was initiated by Presley, who wrote Nixon a six-page letter requesting a visit with the President and suggesting that he be made a “Federal Agent-at-Large” in the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs. Tom Bihn Bags The story is that Tom Bihn designs and makes bags for laptops and other stuff. Or, at least that’s what Tom says at his site. Tom Bihn has been designing and making bags for well over twenty years. Daypacks he made when he was 13 years old are still in use, and in Santa Cruz, California, where Tom grew up, his laptop cases and book bags are almost legendary. Conferencing in DC I’m in Washington D.C. at the Computers in Libraries conference. It’s a good lineup of presenters and good programs, but I’m sad to know that I’ll be missing a peace rally this Saturday. Where to eat and drink: Old Dominion Brewery is in Virginia not far from DC. It’s in an industrial park and you’ll doubt that you’re in the right place, but the food and local brews are good. Short Quiz For discussion: WORLD HISTORY 101 MID-TERM EXAM This test consists of one (1) multiple-choice question (so you better get it right!) Here’s a list of the countries that the U.S. has bombed since the end of World War II, compiled by historian William Blum: China: 1945-46 Korea: 1950-53 China: 1950-53 Guatemala: 1954 Indonesia: 1958 Cuba: 1959-60 Guatemala: 1960 Congo: 1964 Peru: 1965 Laos: 1964-73 Vietnam: 1961-73 Cambodia: 1969-70 Guatemala: 1967-69 Bi Bam Bab in Cambridge The Korea Garden is on 20 Pearl Street somewhere behind the Middle East in Cambridge, Mass. It’s the sort of place that attracts local Asians and very few white boys (like me). So it’s hard to say what they must have thought when Cliff and I walked in one night this winter. An argument broke out in the kitchen as the waitress presented our order. We joked and smiled among ourselves about it, but my smile fell as my dinner was delivered. Counterscript Telemarketers may be people too, but this script will ease the pain of their next call. Take a look at EGBG’s Counterscript. And if you’re looking for serious anti-telemarketing resources, look at JunkBusters’s resources. Warren Redstone Brochure Available! I found a brochure about the Warren Redstone and present it here for your enjoyment in PDF form. It features the story of how and why it came to Warren, written by Ted Asselin, the man who brought it here. It also has information about the progress of the rocketry in the 1950s. The brochure was originally in tri-fold form, but is presented here as a two page PDF file. Enjoy. Yum! Email received today: Nothing starts a Monday off like Kippered Seafood Snacks, Deviled Ham, with a side of Spam, Potted Meat Food Product, followed by Vienna Sausage, all washed down with some Icey cold Clam Juice. Now I am ready to face the day. Yours Meatily, Dr. Meaty McMeat Meatofski Meatovich Hamkowsky-Beafeau Porkson Justin and the Sled Dogs The season for running sled dogs is almost at its end. Here’s a short video of Justin racing for the finish of one of his last races of 2003. Click the link to watch Justin’s Big Finish. Ashcroft’s Biggest Boob In the way emails thread their way from one person to another I came across the text of a speech about antics in the US Justice Department. It was titled “An Open Letter to John Ashcroft” and came with this preface: The following is a letter read by Claire Braz-Valentine, author at this year’s In Celebration of the Muse, Cabrillo College. It is worth knowing that the author is a woman of 60+ years, conservatively dressed and obviously quite talented. Marketing Artifacts Each of us deals with a lot of stuff unique to our jobs or life context, stuff that outsiders never see. Now and then it’s fun to see that other stuff. Here’s some: Silly marketing materials. More Commercialism! People have asked about this whole t-shirt thing. Click the banner to see how it works. Sign Up! Update: I just found a similar service for video distribution. You might want to check out CustomFlix.com. State of the Union? It’s not real, but it may be more accurate. Watch the State of the Union speech here. Thanks to my sister for pointing me to this. [UPDATE]: The link above may be down, the speech is mirrored here. Where Have All the Updates Gone, Long Time Passing? Since this website is such an important and valued news source for so many people, I’ve received many dire complaints about the scarcity of updates over the past month. Here’s the story: January is a busy, busy month at work. Students are gone, computers must be updated. Work also includes many large changes to the Lamson Library website, and more updates are due shortly. Daytime work is one thing, but I’ve also been pursuing my side business more actively. Common Sense Revisited? This may not be news to somebody who hadn’t swallowed the school approved version of American history whole, but there are a few important things to note: Before 1776, Colonists paid less in taxes than Britons in their homeland did. While the colonies were not represented in Parliament, neither were big British cities such as Liverpool or Manchester. Meanwhile the colonists enjoyed a free press, voted for local representation, ate better, lived in larger houses, and were generally better educated than their British cousins (the literacy rate in Massachusetts was more than twice that in Britain). Bryson on Language Speaking on language patterns around the time of the American Civil War, Bill Bryson states: …no nineteenth century journalist with any self-respect would ever write that a house had burned down, but must instead say that a great conflagration consumed the edifice.’ –Bill Bryson quoting (in part) Kenneth Cmiel’s Democratic Eloquence in, Made In America, an informal history of the English language in the United States. Mitnick off Parole He’ll be on parole of a long time, and he’s facing a number of additional restrictions, but Kevin Mitnick is finally free! Maison Bisson’s Winter Drink The holidays are long since past, here’s a drink to carry you through ’till Spring. Rusty Nail 3 parts Scotch 1 part Drambuie Serve over ice in an old fashioned glass. Please enjoy it responsibly. The Light I’ve found it. It’s here! Newswatch: Foreign Secrets: Bad; Domestic Secrets: Good. The news of the day is government secrecy. NPR’s All Things Considered ran two stories about the matter today. One story about general secrecy, and another story about Admiral Poindexter (formerly of the Iran-Contra scandal). Previously, NPR ran a capsule biography about Henry Kissinger. Of note is the discussion about Kissinger’s disbelief in open government. That story was followed by analysis by Daniel Schorr which may suggest why Kissinger was chosen to head up the independent panel to investigate the attacks of September 11th, then another story about his resignation from that panel. Trickle Down Voodoo It seems clear that Trickle Down Economics is back with new tax breaks for the rich, new spending on the security-industrial complex, and our first dip into deficit spending in years. While some call it it Voodo Economics, faith in Trickle Down Economics seems to be based upon the oft repeated line that anytime you put money into the economy, it benefits everybody. When pressed about rising executive salaries, believers embrace that too as eventually benefitting the economy. I found myself in an argument about these matters recently, and had to take a moment to assemble my thoughts about it. New Books I used to read magazines — I find it difficult to commit to things and magazines let me off easy, but I’ve been feeling unfulfilled by magazines lately (those who know me might also point out that I was somehow able to commit to marriage, and I’m still married over four years now). So I’ve been reading books left and right. Now, after the holidays, I’ve got a pile more. Bowling for Columbine Highlights Meaningless Ideology There’s a small battle being fought in the comments of my previous entry about Bowling for Columbine. It should be no surprise that gun rights are a very serious matter for many people. Nonetheless, guns are involved in a huge number of homicides in the US each year. And so those who would seek to prevent or limit those murders find themselves battling gun owners who would rather ignore them. Road Rage While the state argues with environmentalists about needed environmental abatement in the project to widen I93, we should all take a moment to consider the social implications of the plan. Wider roads will inevitably lead more people to commute greater distances to work each day. Whatever the causes of road rage, we can all acknowledge that time spent in the car is not quality time. Incidents of road rage are at their highest in areas where commuting times are the greatest — think of LA and Washington DC. iPod Links: iPod iPodHacks.com iPods Around The World Newtons Around The World iPoding.com PodNews Wired News’ Cult of Mac Wired iPod hacking story Water World Water is the primary ingredient in every liquid soap, body wash, shampoo, and conditioner product in my bathroom. Some even boast “purified water.” EBN Videos Online EBN, Emergency Broadcast Network, was a band of media jammers from the days of the Gulf War (the one back in 1990). They disappeared from the scene a few years ago, but you can find some of their old videos over at GuerrillaNews.com. And, as long as we’re talking about media jamming, I should throw this book at you: Jamming the Media by Gareth Branwyn. Edit: the links here go nowhere, but a few videos are in YouTube: Movie: Bowling for Columbine A friend of mine recently pointed out what I should have seen for myself: conservatives won’t change. So, while Bowling for Columbine is great entertainment for open-minded folks, it won’t make an impact on the folks who most need to see it. If you’re lucky you may still be able to catch this film in theaters, but everybody should take a moment to view this clip of the cartoon that appears in the film: A Brief History. Turn of century bridge jumpers had wide field of opportunity The opening of a new bridge in the early 20th century attracted a lot of attention. It was at that time that materials and engineering skill finally allowed cities to bridge rivers that had formerly required a ferry to cross. New York, with its many islands and rivers, was exceptional in this regard. New Yorkers eagerly followed news of the design and construction of bridges. Bridge openings where celebrated with days of events and fireworks attended by presidents and luminaries. WNYC’s _On the Media_ does sex show. On the Media’s recent show on November 29th and a piece in All Things Considered explored the relationship between technology and pornography. This is familiar territory for some—Wired magazine reports on it regularly… Click the links above and listen for yourself. Booklist: Nickel and Dimed When I first found Barbara Ehrenreich’s Nickel and Dimed while waiting for someone or something, I picked it up and started reading in the middle. I found myself immediately taken in to her story and her writing, and was more than a little remise to give it up. Not many non-fiction books about social issues are call page-turners. But this is one. Ehrenreich attempts three low-wage jobs in three cities for a month each, trying to find housing and food within the budget allowed by such work. Apple and the Future of Intelectual Property Macintouch pointed me to a blog entry at PlasticBag.org related to the role of computers in the war over digital intellectual property rights. The author believes Apple has already staked out its territory in this matter. After a series of examples, he explains the following: The reasons for all this, of course, are that – for good or ill – at the moment copyrighted material and intellectual property are endangered and cornered beasts anyway. Marching Toward Privatization Republicans and business leaders have been pushing privatization (and deregulation) for decades. Now, the results of this effort are becoming clear. Even as the Bush administration announces plans to privatize nearly a million federal jobs, reports of the costs and failures of such privatization roll in. Mother Jones reports this month on the growth in privatization of municipal water systems. The result in cities like Atlanta has been water boiling alerts do to dangerous bacteria levels, and poor service do to a workforce slashed by cost cutting. Activist Art Art is not, or does not have to be, cheery. It turns out that people become troubled and conflicted when they see pictures of the hungry and the homeless just weeks before Thanksgiving and the start of the holidays. The Nashua Telegraph takes up the story here: A new exhibit in the Town Hall Gallery, designed to raise awareness of and funds for the Open Cupboard Food Pantry, has gathered some complaints from residents and prompted the Board of Selectmen to suggest that it be removed. The exhibit consists of a selection of black- and-white photographs taken by resident Preston Heller of urban street scenes and various people he describes as being at the bottom of the social ladder.’ UPDATE Nov-18-2002: NHPR reported on this story today, and linked to the photographer’s online gallery. In Mother Jones: A Confederacy of Cronies Readers can trust Mother Jones to shine liberal light on conservatives. In A Confederacy of Cronies George Packer tells us how difficult it can be to play America’s CEO, where regular Americans really stand. Great Movie Criticism It’s hard to explain why or how I just stumbled across a 15 year old Roger Ebert movie review, so I won’t. I will try to explain why I found the review so real. I actually saw this movie, and it’s really every bit as bad as the review suggests. Ebert questions how movies stereotype baddies. Ebert doesn’t get too controversial, so this is as much as we’ll get out of him. Mac Geeks Have More Fun Thanks to the folks at MacOS X Hints, I’ve been pointed to the most useless thing ever: a tool that allows you to view any QuickTime file in your terminal window as ASCII text. Yes, it is absolutely useless. Understanding Marijuana Liane Hansen of NPR’s Weekend Edition Sunday interviewed Dr. Mitch Earleywine about his recent book, Understanding Marijuana: A New Look at the Scientific Evidence this weekend. Earleywine has the credentials to look at this seriously and be taken seriously. But he probably won’t be. There’s no shortage of books on this subject, and the Drug War marches on. But as long as we’re slinging books, let me throw Michael Pollan’s Botany of Desire at you. FrameThief Animation Toolbox FrameThief is a toolbox for capturing hand-drawn frames and assembling them as animation. Image sources can include video camera — the old standby, and digital still camera — a new twist that allows animators to work in HDTV resolutions. One component, FrameSplicer, can be used to turn any QuickTime compatible video file into a DV stream that can be used in iMovie. Political-Economic Conspiracy? Marektplace comentator James Galbraith explains in Tuesday’s show how this will be a longer and deeper recession than previously thought and many economic indicators may have been manipulated to hide the recession’s true nature prior to November 5. Galbraith reminds us that things were rather similar 20 years ago, when unemployment rose over 10% and Democrats took control of congress from a far-right conservative president. History did not repeat itself, yet. Mile Markers Matt Frondorf’s American Mile Markers takes us on a tour from New York to San Francisco, one photo per mile. It’s a fine concept — inspiring, really, but the pictures are quite a mishmash. Matt calls his mile marker project statistical photography.’ A lot of photography tends to be anecdotal and heavily edited,’ he says. And it doesn’t present what is really there — every picture from beginning to end.’ Yahoo! Pen twirling! Pen twirling takes great skill that can be achieved only by hard practice and determination. Though promoted by stars as famous as miss Iyo Matsumoto, it can be difficult to find pen twirling masters capable of teaching the sport. Hideaki Kondoh, who’s interest in pen twirling was sparked by a TV appearance by Iyo Matsumoto, struggled to learn: “I couldn’t help admiring her excellent performance, but I didn’t think I would try to spin a pen myself. Hops n’ Things It was a few years ago now that Jon at Hops n’ Things put us on track to brew our first big batch of cider. Knowledge comes from books, but a guy like Jon can give you know-how. Today he introduced us to Distillers’ Active Dry Yeast, or DADY. Our last batch of cider went to 30 proof with Epernay champaign yeast, DADY might get us to 50 proof! More importantly, he was kind enough to help us fix a CO2 leak in our keg system — and he stayed open late to get it done. RedstoneBrewery.com Online! After months of lost time, RedstoneBrewery.com is finally online. There’s not much there, but you wait baby. You just wait and see. Or. Um. Well, we’ll see what happens there next. Raspberry Jelly I usually try to keep this blog above trivial things like this, but not today. I enjoy penut butter and jelly sandwiches, but usually with raspberry preserves — the stuff with fruit chunks a seeds in it. So I was rather surprised when I found I’d accidentally bought Hannaford brand Red Raspberry Jelly. It mostly tastes like raspberry, but it’s been pureed smooth like Jello. I tried it, the product doesn’t spread well and the texture is all wrong. Modern Drunkard Magazine This little ‘zine just scored distribution with Borders book stores. But if you can’t find it there, take a look at Modern Drunkard Magazine online. Take a look at their Wino Wisdom section where you’ll find gems like “The secret of being a good drunk is not to try to hard. To me, it just comes naturally. You might even say it’s effortless.” And “I don’t smoke filtered cigarettes for the same reason I don’t drink whiskey through a bar rag. Megahertz Gap? So the project to crack a 64-bit RC5 encryption key is over. Some computer in Japan figured it out in July, but everybody was too busy to notice until last week. The real news here isn’t that 64-bit RC5 is crackable (everybody knew it could be done, eventually), the real news is that they compiled efficiency statistics on the various computer platforms that did the job. Here’s the quote, straight from their press release: “Our peak rate of 270,147,024 kkeys/sec is equivalent to 32,504 800MHz Apple PowerBook G4 laptops or 45,998 2GHz AMD Athlon XP machines…” Was Capitalism the Only Difference? <a href="http://www.cera.com/commandingheights/” title=”Commanding Heights“>_Commanding Heights_ authors Daniel Yergen and Joseph Stanislaw tell us that workers in communist Russia were not motivated to work simply because the government controlled economy offered no rewards for innovation. This they use as the basis for their argument that communism/government controlled economies were bad and capitalism was good. And what’s truly amazing is that in this obvious comparison between the USA and communist Russia, they find the most significant difference to be economic. MC Hawking Drops Some Science You The opening to this site announces “Yo! This site is your ultimate resource for information about Stephen Hawking the gangsta rapper.” And if that isn’t enough to make you go look there right now, then I suppose you feel bad for the poor guy and don’t like jerks who wish to make fun of him. Anyway. Just now he’s got a link up that points out one more sport I’ve never heard of or imagined: cup stacking. The First Law of Assignation The person [closest to the act/holding the instrument of the act], no matter how qualified or culpable is first to be assigned [credit/blame] for the act. Natalie Jeremijenko and the Interaction Between Humans and Technology It’s not for nothing that the MIT Technology Review named Natalie Jeremijenko “one of the top one hundred young innovators.” Anybody who bothers to read this blog should run out and look over her portfolio now. Weeds and Flowers Weeds and flowers alike seek the sunlight — nobody can fault them for that — but some of them learn do it with beauty and grace. Human-IntoFace: Face=Identity? From the artist’s statement: “Images of faces hold little ability to communicate the totality of a personality. The essence of a personality is not something that is stored in a static two dimentional array of dots, grains, or pixels. Rather, what is stored are subtle cues which signify base personality traits, such as a curl of a lip, squint of an eye, or pursing of the lips. These can work in series or combinations to suggest complexity of description, but ultimately, amount only to a caricature. Hungry-Man XXL! The marketers and designers for this product found their audience, and know how to speak to them. Just look at the pictures. “I know what I like, and I like a lot of it” reads the text next to the over-weight, blue-collared white boy on the back. In bold yellow type at the bottom, it reads “it’s good to be full.” With 1.5 pounds of food, this preprocessed meal delivers 1140 Calories, 70% of your recommended fat intake (84% of saturated fats), and 123% of your recommended sodium. Book List: Flight of Passage I’m all wrapped up by Flight of Passage, Rinker Buck’s tale of his 1966 journey cross country with his brother in an old Piper Cub. As much as it’s a tale of flying, it’s a tale of teenage angst. Both subjects that I identify with (but aren’t we supposed to grow out of teenage angst?). American Tyranny The worst forms of tyranny are those so subtle, so deeply ingrained, so thoroughly controlling as not even to be consciously experienced. So there are Americans who are afraid to entertain contrary notions for fear of jeopardizing their jobs, but who still think they are “free.”  –Michael Parenti’s Democracy for the Few. Corn Flakes, McCarthy, and Flag Wavers This story would be more appropriate for early July — that’s probably when this flag-printed box of Kellogg’s Corn Flakes was put on the shelf — but it was just last weekend when I came across it at our Warren Village Market. Of course, in early July, everything including corn chips and cat litter was available in patriotic red, white, and blue, so it really wouldn’t have stood out then. Dreams. What Do They Mean? Years ago, I used to wake up with a start. I’d be trying to sit up with my hands outstretched in front of me. I’d wake up thinking I’d been falling. Now. I find that I wake up thinking I’d stubbed my toe or hit my head. Somewhat unrelated: I’ve gotten no end of laughs and amusement from Dion Mcgregor Dreams Again, a collection of sleep talking from Dion Mcgregor, an apparently famous “somniloquist. Casey’s Sky Diving Adventure I made my one and only parachute jump back in the Fall of 1997. About a year ago I re-edited the video of that event. Casey’s Skydiving Adventure O’Reilly Offers MacOS X Conference The O’Reilly folks aren’t the only old Unix geeks who’ve been looking at Mac OS X with hungry eyes. Mac OS X is cool enough to get its own section on Slash Dot. And, of course, Apple is pushing it’s ‘switch‘ campaign toward Windows users. But as much as the O’Reilly folks love Mac OS X, they probably wouldn’t be planning a conference about it if it wasn’t clear there were hordes of like-minded geeks willing to shell out the $1000 or so it costs to attend. Vegas Guide, part 1: Introduction Las Vegas may be the most thoroughly American city. No other town has been so shaped by the singular desire to make a buck. Churches and strip clubs coexist in close proximity. Each competes for the hard luck — but not broke — gamblers seeking refuge from their losses. If Capitalism works, it works in Vegas. Vegas is America’s liver. The worst of pop culture eventually finds a home someplace in Las Vegas or the surrounding Clark County. Vegas Guide, part 2: Peyote Most of Nevada’s land is under federal control. The Pentagon, Department of Energy, and Bureau of Land Management claim a total area of about 80% of the state. It’s mostly desert, and the desert dois best left alone, so few people seem to care. Some towns, mostly old silver mining camps, persist amid the desert. Horses graze free on the school ball field in Blue Diamond, Nevada. The town sits on a spring in Red Rock Canyon. Vegas Guide, part 3: Nukes and Moon Hoaxes On a map, Mercury sits a little northwest of Las Vegas. There is nothing to suggest that the town is inaccessible to the average tourist, but it is in fact a part of the Nevada Test Site — a nuclear bomb testing facility. The site was formed in 1950 from land originally granted to the Shoshone Indians. Nearly one thousand nuclear devices have been detonated there between its formation and 1991, when President Bush imposed a moratorium on tests that has been extended by succeeding administrations. Vegas Guide, part 4: Flesh Prostitution in Vegas is illegal, but that’s okay. For a little jiggle, you can check out the innumerable gentlemen’s clubs and strip shows. Even many of the ritzy hotels often have their own “tantalizing topless revues.” Freemont Street, the heart of old Vegas and one of the city’s largest attractions, is home to more than one strip club. But a short drive will get you more than jiggle. Fifty miles west of Las Vegas on Highway 160, just accross the Clark county line in Nye county you’ll find the sleepy town of Pahrump — “heart of the new Old West” according to the welcome sign at the town line. Morse Museum Mummy Unmasked This isn’t current news by any stretch. The story was reported in the Boston Globe when it happened in 1997, and can be found on the web at Maine Antique Digest. It goes like this: the contents of the Morse Museum were auctioned off in the early 90s. Among the spoils were two Egyptian mummies. One of them landed in the hands of a Maine antiques dealer. The Egyptian government learned of the mummy, which was advertised as a ‘princess. Redstone Brewery’s Product Labels Brewing cider takes a long time. …and most of it is just waiting. So while we wait, I draw up new labels. Click for Maison Bisson’s Summer Drink Hot weather demands cool drinks. Lemonade is fine for the kids, but adults need a pitcher of something more entertaining. Give it a try: Vicker’s Delight: 1 part Vodka 2 parts Lemonade dash Lime Juice dash Orange Juice Prepare in a pitcher with ice and share. Adjust quantities to taste. Enjoy safely. The Old Scooter Yes. The scooter was a thing of ridicule for most people, but I loved it. Riding the scooter was like ‘playing bikes’ when I was ten. It was just fun, and I didn’t need an excuse to do it. I named her Trixie, but most people just called her scooter. But the scooter is sold now. It went first to Cliffy, then to Chuck. Did Cliffy appreciate it like I did? Airplane Safety It may be a little bit cliche after being ridiculed in Fight Club (The line was “Look at their faces, as calm as Hindu cows.”), but I’ve always loved airplane safety guides. Click for Warren’s Morse Museum It’s hard to say which is more memorable: Warren’s rocket or our Morse Museum. For larger picture, click Who Are These Dorks? What a motley crew who work for ITS. Click for pictures. Newton: Best PDA Ever Just as I’m about to retire my old Newton, just as I’m exporting the contacts and calendar entries, I rediscovered why the Newton was — and still is — the best PDA ever. The Newton had a rough start back in the early 90s when the first model was released. I’ve never used an older model, but it’s clear that the handwriting recognition was bad enough to be ridiculed in comics and The Simpsons. Now Even the Conservatives Agree: Supporting the Drug War Supports Terrorists This may be old news (it was published on May 20th, 2002) but, David R. Henderson’s essay on how the drug war effects the war against terrorism is a must read for everybody. Conservatives tell truth about drug war. Why do I say the Hoover Institution is a pack of conservatives? Because Eric Alterman says so. Cape Cod Dining: Ay Caramba Cafe Sandee and I stumbled into the Ay Caramba Cafe on Main Street in Harwich at just the right time. We were starving and desperate for something other than fried sea food. Diners can help themselves to chips and three varieties of homemade salsa. Each is rather unique, and far more complex than the mild, medium, and hot descriptions we typically use to describe salsas. Sandee and I both had the pork tomales that were on special — cheese tomales were also offered. Cape Cod Our Friends Troy and Karen were kind enough to invite us to Cape Cod to visit them. We lazed around on the beach, took in a show at the Wellfleet Drive-In, and twice gorged ourselves on fried seafood at Arnold’s Restaurant. Geeks may take interest in Cape Cod’s involvment in the history of trans-Atlantic communications. Nauset Light Beach was a former terminus for many undersea telegraph cables. Friendy links: see Troy here, here, and here. Doonesbury’s Middle Age Slump A feature story by Jesse Walker in Reason Magazine’s July 2002 issue confirms something I’ve been worried about for a while: Doonesbury isn’t what it used to be. Walker gives us examples detailing Trudeau’s mild conservitive shift, and his more unfortunate shift toward irrelevence. I’m too young to know the strip from its beginnings in the early 70s (or earlier), but we can all compare old and new cartoons online in the Doonsebury retrospective. The incident The front the shocks and coil springs slowed the downward thrust of the front suspension as inertia, stable just moments before, pitches the vehicle forward. A small, unconscious rightward twitch of the steering wheel is amplified by tires which, at this moment, have greater than normal mechanical advantage. The turn, though slight, moves the center of gravity even farther forward and now to the left. The rear of the vehicle, lightly weighted under normal conditions, is riding at the full extension of the rear leaf springs. Now Playing at Maison Bisson While mainstream (commercial) pop music producers are anxiously introducing ever younger children to ever more sexualised music, They Might Be Giants are busy making music for kids of all ages. Their new album, No!, might sound fluffy and sacharine compared to the band’s earlier work, but so what. Like so many of their songs, you’ll quickly be singing along. Besides, Sandee says “it’s just good music.” Lustworthy: Honda Silver Wing and Reflex Sure, Italian scooters look great, but where do you get them serviced? Motostrada in Maryland has a great selection of new and vintage European scooters, but that’s the nearest dealership and service center. It’s a great shop, don’t get me wrong, but it’s not really a solution for people in northern New Hampshire. So if I don’t trust Biff at the local cycle shop to work on an European import scooter, what would I trust Biff to work on? Learning Unix MacOS X’s unix underpinnings have had Mac users asking the same question for a while now: “how can I learn Unix?” And for those who really want to learn Unix, I point them to ?leenFrisch’s <a href="http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/esa3/” title="Essential System Administration, 3rd Edition“>Essential System Administration, 3rd Edition. It’s direct and concise, yet thorough. It was the book I turned to for an introduction to Unix, and it’s a book I keep on my shelf as a reference when I need it. Frozen Mud Slides — from scratch Who wouldn’t enjoy a frozen mud slide on a hot summer day? Typical recipes call for crushed ice and cream or ice cream. For some reason, we decided to try making them from ice cream, from scratch. The MaisonBisson Frozen Mud Slide This recipe requires an ice cream maker, we used the Deni Scoop Factory. 1.5 cups heavy cream 1 cup milk 1 cup sugar .5 cups Bailey’s dash vanilla Mix ingredients in bowl, then pour into ice cream maker’s freezer container. The Plan What we need is a van. A black van with red alloy wheels and a diamond bubble window. Yeah. Get on the jazz, sucka. Streamripper saves MP3 radio to disk I must be an idiot not to have found Streamripper sooner. In the days before Walkmans I used to record radio broadcasts on an early portable cassette recorder so I could listen later. This is how I discovered “Angel in a Centerfold” and many other great cultural landmarks from the early 80s. Of course, things have changed since then. My taste hasn’t improved so much as commercial radio has fallen. Internet radio, thankfully, may rescue me. Story Review: Derryl Murphy’s Last Call One: I discovered Fictionwise.com, a source all types of fiction in eBook formats. Two: Here’s the assignment that lead me to look for Fictionwise in the first place. Click for PDF. [UPDATE] It’s funny how things circulate on the web. I’ve Googled myself enough to know how I show up in odd places, so I can understand how Derryl Murphy might have wondered how a review of one of his many stories appeared here. My new favorite pop I found a bottle of IBC Cream Soda at our famous Warren Village Market and it quickly reminded me of why I love cream soda. But now, no other cream soda tastes as good. I’ve tried a few; they just make me sad. Now I need to speak with the folks at the market to get a case of the good stuff. It can also be ordered from PopSoda.com. Pictures of the Warren Rocket Warren is blessed with a rocket. It was once a intermediate range ballistic missile, but it’s basically the same rocket that launched America’s first astronauts Allen B. Shepherd and Gus Grissom into sub-orbital space. It’s enough to be proud of, anyway. RoadsideAmerica.com has a story on our rocket, but it’s based on reader reports and it seems people just don’t know what town they’re in when they see the thing. Redstone Brewery’s First Steps In the fall of 2000 Cliff convinced me that I needed to brew hard cider. In turn, I convinced him that we needed to brew lots of it. We soon bought barrels that had been used for Cherry Coke concentrate and found an orchard that would sell us bulk sweet cider. After siphoning the 120 gallons from two barrels in my truck into two barrels prepared in my basement, adding sugar and other flavors, and pitching the yeast, we waited. Color Theory My overwhelming interest in earth-tones and browns leads me to look for them and define them numerically. A lousy overview of color models, especially the HSV model. Originally written for one of my classes. Click here for PDF. [UPDATE]: I’d like to point out a later story about color blindness and streetlights. Tempo Cameras need regular testing. Don’t they? View Tempo at .mac Theater. Originally put together to demonstrate synchronization of music and images. Look for Daria and her silly monkey, and a short appearance by Travis. Hammernode DynoDNS services Hammernode dynamic DNS services couldn’t be better. Well, what could be better than a free, high quality service? Headshots Our new camera equipment arrived one day in August 2000. Obviously, it needed testing. This is the result.View Headshots at .Mac Theater. That’s me looking like an idiot. And Cliff too. Sorry, this one isn’t “fast start.” You’ll have to wait until it loads all 2MBs. IUG 10: Houston Officially I’m here to attend the Innovative Users’ Group conference, but there’s a lot more to do in Texas and I took a few extra days to do it. My brother lives just north of Austin, and just north of that is Waco. Being so close, I had to go visit. …and while there, I couldn’t help but look for the Branch Davidian compound. Houston is an interesting city, but two landmarks particularly interested me. Looking at Waco **Texas 2002 Stories** I had a chance to visit Waco in April 2002. Here are some links that I gathered from that time. Eventually I’ll post a story to go with them. Dr. Pepper Museum Waco Visitor Bureau Red Men Museum Texas Ranger Museum Branch Davidians Contrasting Houston Texas 2002 Stories The Beer Can House on the northwest side of town was built by John Milkovisch starting in 1968. Over the next 18 years he drank a six-pack per day to furnish and adorn the house with almost 40,000 cans. Meanwhile, on the southeast side of town, Cleveland Turner looked to God to help get him off the sauce. As thanks for his salvation and sobriety, he gathered up all the trash in his neighborhood, painted it, and arranged it to look like flowers. Galveston’s Seawolf Park **Texas 2002 Stories** While in Texas I had an oportunity to see Galveston and visit Seawolf Park. Seawolf Park is home to a WWII sub and an escort cruiser. It pleased me to no end that I was able to climb all over inside and outside both boats. I took more pictures there than anywhere else during my Texas adventure. [](http://homepage.mac.com/misterbisson/SeawolfPark/003_1.JPG) Cavalla’s Diving Controls <td align="center" valign="middle"> [<img src="http://homepage. Visiting the Branch Davidian compound Texas 2002 Stories Work brought me to Texas in April 2002, but morbid curiosity brought me to Waco. I found a story by Dan Tobias about the Branch Davidian compound and its remains. Following his directions, I found my way to the site and later emailed Dan with the changes I found since he last visited. My email to him is included in the body of this story, but I recommend you read Dan’s story about the Branch Davidians first. QuickTime Embed Tags Apple’s docs on embedding QT media in web pages. It’s here mostly as a bookmark for me. Click here for the docs. Search From https://gist.github.com/eddiewebb/735feb48f50f0ddd65ae5606a1cb41ae, which continues: This file exists solely to respond to /search URL with the related search layout template. No content shown here is rendered, all content is based in the template $theme/layouts/page/search.html Setting a very low sitemap priority will tell search engines this is not important content. This implementation uses Fusejs, jquery and mark.js The full details can be found in https://gist.github.com/eddiewebb/735feb48f50f0ddd65ae5606a1cb41ae. You should never see this content! sbdevel-wordpress-com-9729 ---- Software Development at Royal Danish Library | A peekhole into the life of the software development department at the Royal Danish Library Software Development at Royal Danish Library A peekhole into the life of the software development department at the Royal Danish Library Skip to content Home About Net Archive Search ← Older posts Which type bug? Posted on June 10, 2020 by Toke Eskildsen A light tale of bug hunting an Out Of Memory problem with SolrCloud. The setup and the problem At the Royal Danish Library we provide full text search for the Danish Netarchive. The heavy lifting is done in a single collection SolrCloud made up of 107 shards (for a total of 94TB / 32 billion documents). All queries are issued to a Solr instance with an empty shard, with the sole responsibility of aggregating responses from the real shards. One of the frontends is SolrWayback, which is a JavaScript application backed by a middle layer acting as an advanced proxy; issuing searches, rewriting HTML, doing streaming exports and so. The problem this time was that the aggregating Solr node occasionally crashed with an Out Of Memory error, where occasionally means that it sometimes took months to crash, sometimes days. Clues and analysis Access to the Netarchive Search is strictly controlled, so there were no chance of denial of service or fimilar foul play. Log analysis showed modest activity (a maximum of 9 concurrent searches) around the time of the latest crash. The queries themselves were run-of-the-mill, but the crashing queries themselves were not logged, as Solr only logs the query when is has been completed, not when it starts. The Garbage Collection logs showed that everything was a-ok, right up til the time when everything exploded in progressively longer collections, culminating in a 29 second stop-the-World and no heap space left. Heap graph with stop-the-world GC as red triangles, courtesy of gceasy.io Should be simple to pinpoint, right? And (plot twist) for once it was! Of course we chased the usual red herrings, but ultimately “dissect the logs around the problematic time slots” won the day. Pop quiz: What is wrong with the log entries below? (meticulously unearthed from too many nearly-but-not-fully-similar entries and with timestamps adjusted to match graph-timezone). 1) 2020-06-04 19:29:06.285 INFO (qtp1908316405-618188) [c:ns0 s:shard1 r:core_node2 x:ns0_shard1_replica_n1] o.a.s.c.S.Request [ns0_shard1_replica_n1] webapp=/solr path=/select params={q=facebook.com&facet.field=domain&facet.field=content_type_norm&facet.field=type&facet.field=crawl_year&facet.field=status_code&facet.field=public_suffix&hl=on&indent=true&fl=id,score,title,hash,source_file_path,source_file_offset,url,url_norm,wayback_date,domain,content_type,crawl_date,content_type_norm,type&start=100&q.op=AND&fq=record_type:response+OR+record_type:arc&fq=domain:"facebook.com"+AND+crawl_year:"2015"&rows=20&wt=json&facet=true&f.crawl_year.facet.limit=100} hits=53532331 status=0 QTime=2181 2) 2020-06-04 19:33:32.418 INFO (qtp1908316405-619134) [c:ns0 s:shard1 r:core_node2 x:ns0_shard1_replica_n1] o.a.s.c.S.Request [ns0_shard1_replica_n1] webapp=/solr path=/select params={q=facebook.com&facet.field=domain&facet.field=content_type_norm&facet.field=type&facet.field=crawl_year&facet.field=status_code&facet.field=public_suffix&hl=on&indent=true&fl=id,score,title,hash,source_file_path,source_file_offset,url,url_norm,wayback_date,domain,content_type,crawl_date,content_type_norm,type&start=10020&q.op=AND&fq=record_type:response+OR+record_type:arc&fq=domain:"facebook.com"+AND+crawl_year:"2015"&rows=20&wt=json&facet=true&f.crawl_year.facet.limit=100} hits=53527106 status=0 QTime=6958 3) 2020-06-05 20:33:26.204 INFO (qtp1908316405-639768) [c:ns0 s:shard1 r:core_node2 x:ns0_shard1_replica_n1] o.a.s.c.S.Request [ns0_shard1_replica_n1] webapp=/solr path=/select params={q=facebook.com&facet.field=domain&facet.field=content_type_norm&facet.field=type&facet.field=crawl_year&facet.field=status_code&facet.field=public_suffix&hl=on&indent=true&fl=id,score,title,hash,source_file_path,source_file_offset,url,url_norm,wayback_date,domain,content_type,crawl_date,content_type_norm,type&start=10020&q.op=AND&fq=record_type:response+OR+record_type:arc&fq=domain:"facebook.com"+AND+crawl_year:"2017"&rows=20&wt=json&facet=true&f.crawl_year.facet.limit=100} hits=3785666 status=0 QTime=3650 4) 2020-06-05 20:34:36.078 INFO (qtp1908316405-641342) [c:ns0 s:shard1 r:core_node2 x:ns0_shard1_replica_n1] o.a.s.c.S.Request [ns0_shard1_replica_n1] webapp=/solr path=/select params={q=facebook.com&facet.field=domain&facet.field=content_type_norm&facet.field=type&facet.field=crawl_year&facet.field=status_code&facet.field=public_suffix&hl=on&indent=true&fl=id,score,title,hash,source_file_path,source_file_offset,url,url_norm,wayback_date,domain,content_type,crawl_date,content_type_norm,type&start=1002020&q.op=AND&fq=record_type:response+OR+record_type:arc&fq=domain:"facebook.com"+AND+crawl_year:"2017"&rows=20&wt=json&facet=true&f.crawl_year.facet.limit=100} hits=3781705 status=0 QTime=39489 5) 2020-06-05 20:43:25.303 INFO (qtp1908316405-639769) [c:ns0 s:shard1 r:core_node2 x:ns0_shard1_replica_n1] o.a.s.c.S.Request [ns0_shard1_replica_n1] webapp=/solr path=/select params={q=facebook.com&facet.field=domain&facet.field=content_type_norm&facet.field=type&facet.field=crawl_year&facet.field=status_code&facet.field=public_suffix&hl=on&indent=true&fl=id,score,title,hash,source_file_path,source_file_offset,url,url_norm,wayback_date,domain,content_type,crawl_date,content_type_norm,type&start=1002020&q.op=AND&fq=record_type:response+OR+record_type:arc&fq=domain:"facebook.com"+AND+crawl_year:"2018"&rows=20&wt=json&facet=true&f.crawl_year.facet.limit=100} hits=15355247 status=0 QTime=166414 If your answer was “Hey, what’s up with start!?” then you are now officially a Big Search Analyst. Your badge will arrive shortly. For those not catching it (that included me for a long time): A search is issued with a query for facebook material from 2015 with the parameters start=100&rows=20 (corresponding to page 6 in a UI which shows 20 results/page). Response time is 2 seconds. The same query is repeated, this time with start=10020&rows=20. If the intent was to go to page 7 in the UI, we would expect start=120&rows=20. Response time is 7 seconds. The query is changed to facebook material from 2017, still with start=10020&rows=20. Seems like someone’s URL hacking. Response time is 3½ seconds. Same query as in #4, but now with start=1002020&rows=20. Response time jumps to 39 seconds. The query is changed to facebook material from 2018, with the previous start=1002020&rows=20 intact. Response time jumps to 166 seconds. Locating the error Time to inspect the code responsible for the paging: if (this.start + 20 < this.totalHits) { this.start = this.start + 20; } Seems innocent enough and when we tested by pressing “Next” a few times in SolrWayback, it did indeed behave exemplary: start=0, start=20, start=40 and so on. Looking further down we encounter this nugget: /* Method used on creation, reload and route change to get query parameters */ getQueryparams:function(){ this.myQuery = this.$route.query.query; this.start= this.$route.query.start; this.filters = this.$route.query.filter; ... A quick appliance of console.log(typeof this.start) in the right place tells us that when the UI page is reloaded, which happens when the URL is changed by hand, the type of this.start becomes a string! Loosely typed languages is a taste not acquired by your humble author. Back to the code for skipping to the next page: this.start = this.start + 20; If this.start is 100 to begin with and if it is a string, we suddenly have "100" + 20, which JavaScript handles by casting the number 20 to the string 20: "100" + "20" = "10020". That translates to page 502 instead of page 2, which of course is not what the user wants, but how does it become a memory problem? SolrCloud internals and the smoking gun The SolrCloud for Netarchive Search is a distributed one (remember the 107 shards?), so when 20 documents starting at position 10020 are needed, the master must request start=0&rows=10040 document representations from each shard, sort them and deliver documents 10020-10039. For our setup that means holding up to 10040*107 = 1 million document representations in memory. The master node has one job and this it it, so it handles the load. Yes, it bumps heap requirements temporarily with a gigabyte or two, but that’s okay. It still delivers the result in 7 seconds. So what happens when the user presses Next again? Yes, "10020" + 20 = "1002020". That’s a factor 100 right there, as we move 2 decimal places. And master has -Xmx=8g… Fortunately the logged request only matched 15 million documents, so the master Solr got by with a 4GB bump to the heap (the first spike in the graph) at that time. Knowing what to look for (start=xxxx, where xxxx is at least 4 digits), it is simple to find the last relevant log entry before the crash: grep "start=[1-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]" solr.log.1 2020-06-08 08:29:43.898 INFO (qtp1908316405-709360) [c:ns0 s:shard1 r:core_node2 x:ns0_shard1_replica_n1] o.a.s.c.S.Request [ns0_shard1_replica_n1] webapp=/solr path=/select params={q=twitter.com&facet.field=domain&facet.field=content_type_norm&facet.field=type&facet.field=crawl_year&facet.field=status_code&facet.field=public_suffix&hl=on&indent=true&fl=id,score,title,hash,source_file_path,source_file_offset,url,url_norm,wayback_date,domain,content_type,crawl_date,content_type_norm,type&start=4020&q.op=AND&fq=record_type:response+OR+record_type:arc&fq=domain:"twitter.com"+AND+content_type_norm:"html"+AND+crawl_year:"2015"&rows=20&wt=json&facet=true&f.crawl_year.facet.limit=100} hits=53598240 status=0 QTime=3835 Here we have start=4020 and 54 million hits. The aggregating Solr died 10 minutes later. $10 says that the request that crashed the master Solr was for the same query, but with start=402020. As 402020 document representations * 107 shards equals 43 million document representations, the master JVM might have survived with -Xmx=12g. If not for the huge amount of tiny objects overloading the garbage collector. Fixes and take aways Easy fix of course: Cast this.start in the JavaScript layer to integer and enforce an upper limit for start & rows in the middle layer for good measure. For next time we’ve learned to Closely examine slow queries (Captain Obvious says hello) Keep GC-logs a few restarts back (we only had the current and the previous one to start with) Plot the GC pauses to see if there are spikes that did not crash the JVM (trivial to do with gceasy.io), then inspect the request logs around the same time as the spikes Posted in eskildsen, Solr | Tagged bughunting, memory | Leave a comment Touching encouraged (an ongoing story) Posted on October 26, 2019 by Toke Eskildsen A recurring theme at KB Labs is to show a lot of pixels. By chance we got our hands on a 4K touch-sensitive display, capable of showing a non-trivial amount of said pixels on a non-trivial surface area. Our cunning plan is to Adapt some of the labs products to work on the display Put the display somewhere in the public area of the library Watch people swoon when they delve into beautiful cultural heritage data This post is intended to be a diary of sorts, journaling what we learn. Coincidental activation (2019-10-10) We have talked about experimenting with interactive large displays for years. With emphasis on talked. It took someone with youthful initiative to actually do something: Max Odsbjerg Pedersen discovered a usable & unused display and promptly sent us a video showing him using a labs product on the display. 4 days later he brokered a loan agreement and 10 days later we verified that no one questions two people removing a large display, as long as it is transported in a cardboard box. Adding heavy box moving to résumé Fair warning (2019-10-23) The software development department has a – not entirely undeserved – reputation of being loose cannons that tend to muck about in ways that unexpectedly affects other departments. To atone for blunders past and primarily because it really is the most constructive practice, representatives of the Cultural Heritage and the Communications departments were duly informed about the initiated process and invited to participate in discussion hereof. In other words: We met them at lunch as usual and said “Hey, we’ve got this nifty idea …”, to which they answered “Sounds good!”. What have we got? (2019-10-24) The display is a 55″ Samsung Flᴉp. Its internal software seems focused on providing a digital flip-over with some connectivity possibilities? It does not have a build-in web browser, but connecting it to a Windows 10 machine is exceedingly easy. We will just have to duct tape a laptop to its back or something to that effect. It was a pleasant surprise to discover that the excellent tool OpenSeadragon works perfectly out of the box with multi touch on desktop browsers: Tap, double tap, drag, pinch & spread. Well, as long as you are not a lazy developer that still use a pre-2017 version of OpenSeadragon where pinching is wonky *cough*. Adapt, by which we mean “remove stuff” (2019-10-25) Three KB Labs products, which would benefit from a large display, were selected: At the core they are all web pages using OpenSeadragon and as such, adaptation mostly meant removing features and interface elements. A simple navigational area was added to switch between the products and the PoC Mark I alpha was born: Best viewed on a 55″ tablet or larger. Secure, by which we mean “fail” (2019-10-25) Since the whole thing is intended for public display & interaction, we want to make sure the users stay on the designated pages. A developer navigating one of the designated pages Pressing F11 switches to full screen with no navigational bar in Chrome and the end users does not have access to the keyboard, so problem solved? Our boss Bjarne Andersen passed by, stopped and played with the presentations. It took him 2 minutes to somehow activate right-click and presto, the box was cracked. Thanks boss! Well, Chrome has a designated kiosk mode: Simply add -kiosk as an argument and all is taken care off. At least until co-worker Kim Christensen discovers that there is a handy swipe-from-a-vertical-edge gesture that opens the Windows menu and other elements. Cracked again. Thanks Kim! Disabling swipe gestures did not seem possible without admin rights, which we do not have on the current computer. There seems to be a Windows kiosk mode that also requires admin rights. Oh well, maybe Monday? Weekend calls. Broken Windows and tweaks (2019-10-28) Colleague Thomas Egense brought a private windows laptop to work (no worries, we only connect those to the eduroam network). It would not connect to the large display. Reboot. It did connect to the display in 4K, but not to WiFi. Reboot. It did connect to WiFi, but would no longer connect to the display. Reboot. Same. Reboot. Same. Give up. Actively avoid defenestrating the laptop. Drink coffee. At least it went a little better when colleague Gry Vindelev Elstrøm stopped by. She suggested adding some sort of map overlay, so that the users would not get lost in the big collages? And of course OpenSeadragon delivers again: 90 seconds and a reload later the wish were granted: OpenSeadragon with Navigator overlay Gry’s other wish: To have visual-similarity spatial grouping of the maps collection is both valid and entirely possible to fulfill. Buuut it is not a 90 second job and the touch screen project is a side project, so that idea was filed under when We Find The Time. And then they were two (2019-10-29) Heroic display digger Max Odsbjerg Pedersen phoned in and said he had found a twin display lying around. He’ll put it up somewhere at AU Library, Nobel Park, mirroring the display we’re working with at the Reoyal Danish Library, Aarhus. Thank you, Max. You do realize we’re at the early Proof on Concept stage, right? Go ahead is a given (2019-10-30) Gitte Bomholt Christensen deals with the public space at the library. She visited to take a look at the project. Her first question was if we should put the display on a movable stand or if a wall mount were better. We’ll take that as a “Yes, we’ll go forward with this experiment”. Soon they will be five (2019-10-31) Early in the day miniboss Katrine Hofmann Gasser asked for requirements for 3 extra touch displays. Later in the day, miniboss Katrine Hofmann Gasser had ordered 3 extra touch displays. Damn, people! What happened to the concept of testing a minimum viable product followed by iterative improvement? The hunt for 4K (2019-11-05) The afternoon was not free (they never are), but at least it was not bogged down with other stuff. So what about upping the resolution from HD to 4K? How hard can that be? Yeah, 4 trips to Operations and 3 different computers produced the new knowledge that passive DisplayPort → HDMI cables have trouble delivering the goods. Native HDMI 1.4 handles 4k though: Admittedly at 30Hz only, but that works well enough when the interface reflects finger movements directly. The only situation where the 30Hz is noticeable is when the user pans by flinging. Gridified tSNE (2019-11-06) Running image collections through a trained network and positioning them according to their visual similarity is one of those “the future is now”-things. One favourite is Pix-Plot which produces an interactive 3D-visualization. But the touch screen is meant for large images and Pix-Plot is not made to display those. Plotting directly to 2D does not solve the problem: A bit hard to enjoy all the images when they cover each other A marriage between Pix-Plot and the existing zoomable grid-based layout was proposed. Some hacking later with the tools ml4a & RasterFairy and… Yeah, kinda-sorta? As can be seen on the screenshot below, there are definitely areas of similar images, but there are also multiple areas that looks like they should be collapsed into one. Something’s off, but that will have to be solved later. There’s definitely some grouping there. And groups that looks suspiciously similar There are no image duplicates – we checked! Frontpage material (2019-11-14) Thomas Egense wanted something else on the large touch screen, so he extracted all frontpages from the Danish newspaper Berlingske Tidende, available from Mediestream (of course he cheated and took an internal shortcut). It is quite an old newspaper, so “all” means 68,367 pages. Rendering 68K fairly-high-res images is no technical problem, but as our scans are greyscale the result was somewhat bland and extremely cumbersome to navigate with intention. A sea of grey Thankfully newspaper frontpages do possess one singular reliable piece of metadata: The date of the paper. Adding an ugly date picker was easy enough and presto! Intuitive navigation of the primary navigational axis for the material. Proper tSNE (2019-11-25) A breakthrough discovery was made today: If you clumsily swap the x and y axis for the coordinates, but keep the calculated width and height, when you plot gridified data, the result is … less good. Corollary: If you un-swap said axes the result looks much better! As demonstrated by these before and after images: Sorry about doing this on a not-fully-public-yet dataset (the awesome “anskuelsesbilleder” at AU Library, Emdrup): We can only show the scaled-down versions of the properly gridified tSNE layout, but they should convey the gist. Maybe machines can label our stuff? (2019-11-27) Since machine learning was great at positioning images according to visual similarity (or rather a mix of visual similarity and content similarity), maybe use it to automatically label our material? Well, not so much with the collection of anskuelsesbilleder: The network (imagenet) is great for labelling photographies but poor for drawings: “Binder”, “Web site”, “Envelope” and “Jigsaw puzzle” were recurring and absolutely wrong guesses. Again, sorry for not being allowed to show the images. Hopefully later, when the rights has been cleared, ok? Ideas aplenty (2019-11-27) Karen Williams was the nearest innocent bystander to show the latest experiment with the large touch screen and she upped the ante, asking for drive-by crowd-sourcing capabilities and visualization of sound. So much untapped potential in this! Organisations gotta organise (2019-11-28) One does not simply walk down a put a touch screen on the wall. It is hard to have patience with a new toy in hand, but it is understandable that a mix of people from different departments must participate on something that involves display of cultural heritage data in the public areas of the library. Unfortunately it will be nearly 2 weeks before said mix of people are able to meet and determine how to go about the project. Deep breath. Inner peace. Tempus fugit. Pong detour (2019-12-06) Annual christmas party time! And Jesper Lauridsen did not miss the oportunity that a big touch screen presented. He whipped up a multi-ball Pong game where the balls were the faces of the people at the party. Will you be hitting your colleague with a bat or let said colleague fall into oblivion? Great success and nobody spilled beer on the touch table! And no, sorry, not allowed to show it due to the face thing. Privacy and all. Last details finished in the Real Hardware department by leet hacker Jesper Proper public tSNE (2019-12-09) The image classification → tSNE → RasterFairy → juxta chain is our new golden hammer, and the next collection to hits were our Maps & Atlases collection. Given that the network was never trained explicitly for the minute differences in maps, it went surprisingly well. And this time we’re allowed to show the result: Don’t just sit there! Try it yourself Secure, by which we mean “nearly succeed” (2019-12-10) There was a meeting with The Right People and it took all of 3½ minute to decide that yes, the large tablet should definitely be displayed in the public areas. Then it took 10 minutes to hammer out the details: The plan is to mount in on wheels and move it around to see where it works best. Progress! The afternoon was spend trying to make the big screen less easy to hack. It is driven by an Ubuntu 19.10 box using Google Chrome as the browser. As discovered earlier, Chrome has a “kiosk” mode, which disables right click, the address bar and more. Easy! The real problem was Ubuntu itself: It has tablet support, meaning clever swipe gestures that activates program selection, unmaximizes windows, shows an on screen keyboard and other goodies. Goodies meaning baddies, when trying to build a display kiosk! Most of the solution was to use the Disable Gestures extension (and reboot to get the full disablement), but the on screen keyboard (activated by swiping in from the bottom of the screen) is apparently hard baked into the system (Block Caribou did not help us). We might have to uninstall it completely. To be continued Posted in eskildsen, Visualization | Leave a comment DocValues jump tables in Lucene/Solr 8 Posted on March 12, 2019 by Toke Eskildsen Lucene/Solr 8 is about to be released. Among a lot of other things is brings LUCENE-8585, written by your truly with a heap of help from Adrien Grand. LUCENE-8585 introduces jump-tables for DocValues, is all about performance and brings speed-ups ranging from worse than baseline to 1000x, extremely dependent on index and access pattern. This is a follow-up post to Faster DocValues in Lucene/Solr 7+. The previous post contains an in-depth technical explanation of the DocValues mechanisms, while this post focuses on the final implementation. DocValues? Whenever the content of a field is to be used for grouping, faceting, sorting, stats or streaming in Solr (or Elasticsearch or Lucene, where applicable), it is advisable to store it using DocValues. It is also used for document retrieval, depending on setup. DocValues in Lucene 7: Linked lists Lucene 7 shifted the API for DocValues from random access to sequential. This meant smaller storage footprint and cleaner code, but also caused the worst case single value lookup to scale linear with document count: Getting the value for a DocValued field from the last document in a segment required a visit to all other value blocks. The linear access time was not a problem for small indexes or requests for values for a lot of documents, where most blocks needs to be visited anyway. Thus the downside of the change was largely unnoticeable or at least unnoticed. For some setups with larger indexes, it was very noticeable and for some of them it was also noticed. For our netarchive search setup, where each segments has 300M documents, there was a severe performance regression: 5-10x for common interactive use. Text book optimization: Jump-tables The Lucene 7 DocValues structure behaves as a linked list of data-nodes, with the specializations that it is build sequentially and that it is never updated after the build has finished. This makes it possible to collect the node offsets in the underlying index data during build and to store an array of these offsets along with the index data. With the node offsets quickly accessible, worst-case access time for a DocValue entry becomes independent of document count. Of course, there is a lot more to this: See the previously mentioned Faster DocValues in Lucene/Solr 7+ for details. One interesting detail for jump-tables is that they can be build both as a cache on first access (see LUCENE-8374) and baked into the index-data (see LUCENE-8585). I much preferred having both options available in Lucene, to get instant speed up with existing indexes and technically superior implementation for future indexes. Alas, only LUCENE-8585 was deemed acceptable. Best case test case Our netarchive search contains 89 Solr collections, each holding 300M documents in 900GB of index data. Each collection is 1 shard, merged down to 1 segment and never updated. Most fields are DocValues and they are heavily used for faceting, grouping, statistics, streaming exports and document retrieval. The impact of LUCENE-8585 should be significant. In netarchive search, all collections are searched together using an alias. For the tests below only a single collection was used for practical reasons. There are three contenders: Unmodified Solr 7 collection, using Solr 8.0.0 RC1. Codename Solr 7. In this setup, jump-tables are not active as Solr 8.0.0 RC1, which includes LUCENE-8585, only supports index-time jump-tables. This is the same as Solr 7 behaviour. Solr 7 collection upgraded to Solr 8, using Solr 8.0.0 RC1. Codename Solr 8r1. In this setup, jump-tables are active and baked into the index data. This is the expected future behaviour when Solr 8 is released. Solr 7 collection, using Lucene/Solr at git commit point 05d728f57a28b9ab83208eda9e98c3b6a51830fc. Codename Solr 7 L8374. During LUCENE-8374 (search time jump tables) development, the implementation was committed to master. This was later reverted, but the checkout allow us to see what the performance would have been if this path had been chosen. Test hardware is a puny 4-core i5 desktop with 16GB of RAM, a 6TB 7200RPM drive and a 1TB SSD. About 9GB of RAM free for disk cache. Due to time constraints only the streaming export test has been done on the spinning drive, the rest is SSD only. Streaming exports Premise: Solr’s export function is used by us to extract selected fields from the collection, typically to deliver a CSV-file with URLs, MIME types, file sizes etc for a corpus defined by a given filter. It requires DocValues to work. DV-Problem: The current implementation of streaming export in Solr does not retrieve the field values in document order, making the access pattern extremely random. This is absolute worst case for sequential DocValues. Note that SOLR-13013 will hopefully remedy this at some point. The test performs a streaming export of 4 fields for 52,653 documents in the 300M index. The same export is done 4 times, to measure the impact of caching. curl '/export?q=text:hestevogn&sort=id+desc& fl=content_type_ext,content_type_served,crawl_date,content_length' run 1 seconds run 2 seconds run 3 seconds run4 seconds Solr 7 spin 1705 1297 1352 1314 Solr 8r1 spin 834 3 2 1 Solr 7 L8374 spin 935 1 1 1 Solr 7 SSD 1276 1258 1262 1262 Solr 8r1 SSD 16 1 2 1 Solr 7 L8374 SSD 15 1 1 1 Observation: Both Solr 8r1 and Solr 7 L8374 vastly outperforms Solr 7. On a spinning drive there is a multi-minute penalty for run 1 after which the cache has been warmed. This is a well known phenomenon. Faceting Premise: Faceting is used everywhere and it is a hard recommendation to use DocValues for the requested fields. DV-Problem: Filling the counters used when faceting is done in document order, which works well with sequential access as long as the jumps aren’t too long: Small result sets are relatively heavier penalized than large result sets. Simple term-based searches with top-20 faceting on 6 fields of varying type and cardinality: domain, crawl_year, public_suffix, content_type_norm, status_code and host. Reading the graphs: All charts in this blog post follows the same recipe: X-axis is hit count (aka result set size), y-axis is response time (lower is better) Hit counts are bucketed by order of magnitude and for each magnitude, boxes are shown for the three contenders: Blue boxes are Solr 7, pink are Solr 8r1 and green are Solr 7 L8374 The bottom of a box is the 25 percentile, the top is the 75 percentile. The black line in the middle is the median. Minimum response time for the bucket is the bottom spike, while the top spike is 95 percentile Maximum response times are not shown as they tend to jitter severely due to garbage collection Observation: Modest gains from jump-tables with both Solr 8rc1 and Solr 7 L8374. Surprisingly the gains scale with hit count, which should be investigated further. Grouping Premise: Grouping is used in netarchive search to collapse multiple harvests of the same URL. As with faceting, using DocValues for grouping fields are highly recommended. DV-Problem: As with faceting, group values are retrieved in document order and follows the same performance/scale logic. Simple term-based searches with grouping on the high-cardinality (~250M unique values) field url_norm. Observations: Modest gains from jump-tables, similar to faceting. Sorting Premise: Sorting is a basic functionality. DV-Problem: As with faceting and grouping, the values used for sorting are retrieved in document order and follows the same performance/scale logic. This tests performs simple term-based searches with sorting on the high-cardinality field content_length. Observations: Modest gains from jump-tables. Contrary to faceting and grouping, performance for high hit counts are the same for all 3 setups, which fits with the theoretical model. Positively surprising is that the theoretical overhead of the jump-tables does not show for higher hit counts. Document retrieval Premise: Content intended for later retrieval can either be stored explicitly or as docValues. Doing both means extra storage, but also means that everything is retrieved from the same stored (and compressed) blocks, minimizing random access to the data. For the netarchive search at the Royal Danish Library we don’t double-store field data and nearly all of the 70 retrievable fields are docValues. DV-Problem: Getting a search result is a multi-step process. Early on, the top-X documents matching the query are calculated and their IDs are collected. After that the IDs are used for retrieving document representations. If this is done from DocValues, it means random access linear to the number of documents requested. Simple term-based relevance ranked searches for the top-20 matching documents with 9 core fields: id, source_file_s, url_norm, host, domain, content_type_served, content_length, crawl_date and content_language. Observations: Solid performance improvement with jump-tables. Production request Premise: The different functionalities are usually requested in combination. At netarchive search a typical request uses grouping, faceting, cardinality counting and top-20 document retrieval. DV-Problem: Combining functionality often means that separate parts of the index data are accessed. This can cause cache thrashing if there is not enough free memory for disk cache. With sequential DocValues, all intermediate blocks needs to be visited, increasing the need for disk cache. Jump-tables lowers the number of storage requests and are thus less reliant on cache size. Simple term-based relevance ranked searches for the top-20 matching documents, doing grouping, faceting, cardinality and document retrieval as described in the tests above. Observations: Solid performance improvement with jump tables. As with the previous analysis of search-time jump tables, utilizing multiple DocValues-using functionality has a cocktail effect where the combined impact is larger than the sum of the parts. This might be due to disk cache thrashing. Overall observations & conclusions The effect of jump tables, both with Solr 8.0.0 RC1 and LUCENE-8374, is fairly limited; except for export and document retrieval, where the gains are solid. The two different implementations of jump tables performs very similar. Do remember that these tests does not involve index updates at all: As LUCENE-8374 is search-time, it does have a startup penalty when indexes are updated. For a the large segment index tested above, the positive impact of jump tables is clear. Furthermore there is no significant slow down for higher hit counts with faceting/grouping/statistics, where the jump tables has no positive impact. Before running these tests, it was my suspicion that the search-time jump tables in LUCENE-8374 would perform better than the baked-in version. This showed not to be the case. As such, my idea of combining the approaches by creating in-memory copies of some of the on-storage jump tables has been shelved. Missing Performance testing is never complete, it just stops. Some interesting thing to explore could be Spinning drives Concurrent requests Raw search speed with rows=0 Smaller corpus Variations of rows, facet.limit and group.limit Kibana and similar data-visualization tools Posted in eskildsen, Hacking, Low-level, Lucene, Performance, Solr, Uncategorized | 7 Comments Faster DocValues in Lucene/Solr 7+ Posted on October 2, 2018 by Toke Eskildsen This is a fairly technical post explaining LUCENE-8374 and its implications on Lucene, Solr and (qualified guess) Elasticsearch search and retrieval speed. It is primarily relevant for people with indexes of 100M+ documents. Teaser We have a Solr setup for Netarchive Search at the Royal Danish Library. Below are response times grouped by the magnitude of the hitCount with and without the Lucene patch. Grouping on url_norm, cardinality stats on url_norm, faceting on 6 fields and retrieval of all stored & docValued fields for the top-10 documents in our search result. As can be seen, the median response time with the patch is about half that of vanilla Solr. The 95% percentile shows that the outliers has also been markedly reduced. Long explanation follows as to what the patch does and why indexes with less than 100M documents are not likely to see the same performance boost. Lucene/Solr (birds eye) Lucene is a framework for building search engines. Solr is a search engine build using Lucene. Lucene, and thereby Solr, is known as an inverted index, referring to the terms⟶documents structure that ensures fast searches in large amounts of material. As with most things, the truth is a little more complicated. Fast searches are not enough: Quite obviously it also helps to deliver a rich document representation as part of the search. More advanced features are grouping, faceting, statistics, mass exports etc. All of these have in common that they at some point needs to map documents⟶terms. Lucene indexes are logically made up of segments containing documents made up of fields containing terms (or numbers/booleans/raws…). Fields can be indexed for searching, which means terms⟶documents lookup stored for document retrieval docValues for documents⟶terms lookup stored and docValues representations can both be used for building a document representation as part of common search. stored cannot be used for grouping, faceting and similar purposes. The two strengths of stored are Compression, which is most effective for “large” content. Locality, meaning that all the terms for stored fields for a given document are stored together, making is low-cost to retrieve the content for multiple fields. Whenever grouping, faceting etc. needs the documents⟶terms mapping, it can either be resolved from docValues, which are build for this exact purpose, or by un-inverting the indexed terms. Un-inversion costs time & memory, so the strong recommendation is to enable docValues for grouping, faceting etc. DocValues in Lucene/Solr 7+ (technical) So the mission is to provide a documents⟶terms (and numbers/booleans/etc) lookup mechanism. In Lucene/Solr 4, 5 & 6 this mechanism had a random access API, meaning that terms could be requested for documents in no particular order. The implementation presented some challenges and from Lucene/Solr 7 this was changed to an iterator API (see LUCENE-7407), meaning that terms must be resolved in increasing document ID order. If the terms are needed for a document with a lower ID that previously requested, a new iterator must be created and the iteration starts from the beginning. Most of the code for this is available in Lucene70DocValuesProducer and IndexedDISI. Digging into it, the gains from the iterative approach becomes apparent: Besides a very clean implementation with lower risk of errors, the representation is very compact and requires very little heap to access. Indeed, the heap requirement for the search nodes in Netarchive Search at the Royal Danish Library was nearly halved when upgrading from Solr 4 to Solr 7. The compact representation is primarily the work of Adrian Grand in LUCENE-7489 and LUCENE-7589. When reading the wall of text below, it helps to mentally view the structures as linked lists: To get to a certain point in the list, all the entries between the current entry and the destination entry needs to be visited. DocValues sparseness and packing It is often the case that not all documents contains terms for a given field. When this is case, the field is called sparse. A trivial representation for mapping documents⟶terms for a field with 0 or 1 long values per document would be an array of long[#documents_in_segment], but this takes up 8 bytes/document, whether the document has a value defined or not. LUCENE-7489 optimizes sparse values by using indirection: First step is to determine whether a document has a value or not. If it has a value, an index into a value-structure is derived. The second step is to retrieve the value from the value-structure. IndedDISI takes care of the first step: For each DocValues field, documents are grouped in blocks of 65536 documents. Each block starts with meta-data stating the block-ID and the number of documents in the block that has a value for the field. There are 4 types of blocks: EMPTY: 0 documents in the block has a term. SPARSE: 1-4095 documents in the block has a term. DENSE: 4096-65535 documents in the block has a term. ALL: 65536 documents in the block has a term. Step 1.1: Block skipping To determine if a document has a value and what the index of the value is, the following pseudo-code is used: while (blockIndex < docID/65536) {   valueIndex += block.documents_with_values_count block = seekToBlock(block.nextBlockOffset) blockIndex++} if (!block.hasValue(docID%65536)) {  // No value for docID return } valueIndex += block.valueIndex(docID%65536) Unfortunately it does not scale with index size: At the Netarchive at the Royal Danish Library, we use segments with 300M values (not a common use case), which means that 4,500 blocks must be iterated in the worst case. Introducing an indexValue cache solves this and the code becomes valueIndex = valueCache[docID/65536] block = seekToBlock(offsetCache[docID/65536]) if (!block.hasValue(docID%65536) {  // No value for docID return } valueIndex += block.valueIndex(docID%65536) The while-loop has been removed and getting to the needed block is constant-time. Step 1.2: Block internals Determining the value index inside of the block is trivial for EMPTY and ALL blocks. SPARSE is a list of the documentIDs with values that is simply iterated (this could be a binary search). This leaves DENSE, which is the interesting one. DENSE blocks contains a bit for each of its 65536 documents, represented as a bitmap = long[1024]. Getting the value index is a matter of counting the set bits up to the wanted document ID: inBlockID = docID%65536 while (inBlockIndex < inBlockID/64) { valueIndex += total_set_bits(bitmap[inBlockIndex++]) } valueIndex += set_bits_up_to(bitmap[inBlockIndex], inBlockID%64) This is not as bad as it seems as counting bits in a long is a single processor instruction on modern CPUs. Still, doing 1024 of anything to get a value is a bit much and this worst-case is valid for even small indexes. This is solved by introducing another cache: rank = char[256] (a char is 16 bytes): inBlockID = docID%65536 valueIndex = rank[inBlockID/8] inBlockIndex = inBlockID/8*8 while (inBlockIndex < inBlockID/64) { valueIndex += total_set_bits(bitmap[inBlockIndex++]) } valueIndex += set_bits_up_to(bitmap[inBlockIndex], inBlockID%64) Worst-case it reduced to a rank-cache lookup and summing of the bits from 8 longs. Now that step 1: Value existence and value index has been taken care of, the value itself needs to be resolved. Step 2: Whole numbers representation There are different types of values Lucene/Solr: Strings, whole numbers, floating point numbers, booleans and binaries. On top of that a field can be single- or multi-valued. Most of these values are represented in a way that provides direct lookup in Lucene/Solr 7, but whole numbers are special. In Java whole numbers are represented in a fixed amount of bytes, depending on type: 1 byte for byte, 2 bytes for short or char, 4 bytes for integer and 8 bytes for long. This is often wasteful: The sequence [0, 3, 2, 1] could be represented using only 2 bits/value. The sequence [0, 30000000, 20000000, 10000000] could also be represented using only 2 bits/value if it is known that the greatest common divisor is 10⁷. The list of tricks goes on. For whole numbers, Lucene/Solr uses both the smallest amount of bits required by PackedInts for a given sequence as well as greatest common divisor and constant offset. These compression techniques works poorly both for very short sequences and for very long ones; LUCENE-7589 splits whole numbers into sequences of 16384 numbers. Getting the value for a given index is a matter of locating the right block and extracting the value from that block: while (longBlockIndex < valueIndex/16386) { longBlock = seekToLongBlock(longBlock.nextBlockOffset) longBlockIndex++ } value = longBlock.getValue(valueIndex%16386) This uses the same principle as for value existence and the penalty for iteration is also there: In our 300M documents/segment index, we have 2 numeric fields where most values are present. They have 28,000 blocks each, which must be all be visited in the worst case. The optimization is the same as for value existence: Introduce a jump table. longBlock = seekToLongBlock(longJumps[valueIndex/16384)) value = longBlock.getValue(valueIndex%16386) Value retrieval becomes constant time. Theoretical observations With a pure iterative approach, performance goes down when segment size goes up and the amount of data to retrieve goes up slower than index size. The performance slowdown only happens after a certain point! As long as the gap between the docIDs is small enough to be within the current or the subsequent data chunk, pure iteration is fine. Consequently, the requests that involves lots of monotonically increasing docID lookups (faceting, sorting & grouping for large result sets) fits the iterative API well as they needs data from most data blocks. Requests that involves fewer monotonically increasing docID lookups (export & document retrieval for all requests, faceting, sorting & grouping for small result sets) fits poorly as they result in iteration over data blocks that do not provide any other information than a link to the next data block. As all the structures are storage-backed, iterating all data blocks – even when it is just to get a pointer to the next block – means a read request. This is problematic, unless there is plenty of RAM for caching: Besides the direct read-time impact, the docValues structures will hog the disk cache. With this in mind, it makes sense to check the patch itself for performance regressions with requests for a lot of values as well as test with the disk cache fully warmed and containing the structures that are used. Alas, this has to go on the to-do for now. Tests Hardware & index Testing was done against our production Netarchive Search. It consists of 84 collections, accessed as a single collection using Solr’s alias mechanism. Each collection is roughly 300M documents / 900GB of index data optimized to 1 segment, each segment on a separate SSD. Each machine has 384GB of RAM with about 220GB free for disk cache. There are 4 machines, each serving 25 collections (except the last one that only serves 9 at the moment). This means that ~1% of total index size is disk cached. Methodology Queries were constructed by extracting terms of varying use from the index and permutating them for simple 1-4 term queries All tests were against the full production index, issued at times when it was not heavily used Queries were issued single-threaded, with no repeat queries All test setups were executed 3 times, with a new set of queries each time The order of patch vs. sans-patch tests was always patch first, to ensure that any difference in patch favour was not due to better disk caching How to read the charts All charts are plotted with number of hits on the x-axis and time on the y-axis. The x-axis is logarithmic with the number of hits bucketed by magnitude: First bucket holds all measurements with 1-9 hits, second bucket holds those with 10-99 hits, the third holds those with 100-999 hits and so forth. The response times are displayed as box plots where Upper whisker is the 95% percentile Top of the box is 75% percentile Black bar is 50% percentile (the median) Bottom of the box is 25% percentile Lower whisker is minimum measured time Each bucket holds 4 boxes Test run 2, patch enabled Test run 2, vanilla Solr Test run 3, patch enabled Test run 3, vanilla Solr Test run 1 is discarded to avoid jitter from cache warming. Ideally the boxes from run 3 should be the same as for run 2. However, as the queries are always new and unique, an amount of variation is to be expected. Important note 1: The Y-axis max-value changes between some of the charts. Document retrieval There seems to be some disagreement as to whether the docValues mechanism should ever be used to populate documents, as opposed to using stored. This blog post will only note that docValues are indeed used for this purpose at the Royal Danish Library and let it be up to the reader to seek more information on the matter. There are about 70 fields in total in Netarchive Search, with the vast majority being docValued String fields. There are 6 numeric DocValued fields. Retrieval of top-20 documents with all field values Observation: Response times for patched (blue & green) are markedly lower than vanilla (ping & orange). The difference is fairly independent of hit count, which matches well with the premise that the result set size is constant at 20 documents. Grouping Grouping on the String field url_norm field is used in Netarchive Search to avoid seeing too many duplicates. To remove the pronounced difference caused by document retrieval, only the single field url_norm is requested for only 1 group with 1 document. Grouping on url_norm Observation: The medians for patched vs. vanilla are about the same, with a slight edge to patched. The outliers (the top T of the boxes) are higher for vanilla. Faceting Faceting is done for 6 fields of varying cardinality. As with grouping, the effect of document retrieval is sought minimized. Faceting on fields domain, crawl_year, public_suffix, content_type_norm, status_code, host Observation: Patched is an improvement over vanilla up to 10M+ hits. Sorting In this test, sorting is done descending on content_length, to locate the largest documents in the index. As with grouping, the effect of document retrieval is sought minimized. Sorting on content_length Observation: Patched is a slight improvement over vanilla. Cardinality In order to provide an approximate hitCount with grouping, the cardinality of the url_norm field is requested. As with grouping, the effect of document retrieval is sought minimized. HyperLogLog cardinality on url_norm Observation: Too much jitter to say if patch helps here. Numeric statistics Statistics (min, max, average…) on content_length is a common use case in Netarchive Search. As with grouping, the effect of document retrieval is sought minimized. Numeric statistics on content_length Observation: Patched is a slight improvement over vanilla. Cocktail effect, sans document Combining faceting, grouping, stats and sorting while still minimizing the effect of document retrieval. Faceting on 6 fields, grouping on url_norm, stats on content_length and sorting on content_length Observation: Patched is a clear improvement over vanilla. Production request combination The SolrWayback front end for Netarchive Search commonly use document retrieval for top-10 results, grouping, cardinality and faceting. This is the same chart as the teaser at the top, with the addition of test run 2. Grouping on url_norm, cardinality stats on url_norm, faceting on 6 fields and retrieval of all stored & docValued fields for the top-10 documents in our search result. Observation: Patched is a pronounced improvement over vanilla. The combination of multiple docValues using request parameters is interesting as the effect of the patch on the whole seems greater than the sum of the individual parts. This could be explained by cache/IO saturation when using vanilla Solr. Whether the cause, this shows that it is important to try and simulate real-world workflows as close as possible. Overall observations For most of the performance tests, the effect of the LUCENE-8374 patch vs. vanilla is pronounced, but limited in magnitude Besides lowing the median, there seems to be a tendency for the patch to reduce outliers, notably for  grouping For document retrieval, the patch improved performance significantly. Separate experiments shows that export gets a similar speed boost For all the single-feature tests, the active parts of the index data are so small that they are probably cached. Coupled with the limited improvement that the patch gives for these tests, it indicates that the patch will in general have little effect on systems where the full index is is disk cache The performance gains with the “Production request combination” aka the standard requests from our researchers, are very high Future testing Potential regression for large hit counts Max response times (not just percentile 95) Concurrent requests IO-load during tests Smaller corpus Export/streaming Disk cache influence Want to try? There is a patch for Solr trunk at LUCENE-8374 and it needs third party validation from people with large indexes. I’ll port it to any Solr 7.x-version requested and if building Solr is a problem, I can also compile it and put it somewhere. Hopefully it will be part of Solr at some point. Update 20181003: Patch overhead and status Currently the patch is search-time only. Technically is could also be index-time by modifying the codec. For a single index in the Netarchive Search setup, the patch adds 13 seconds to first search-time and 31MB of heap out of 8GB allocated for the whole Solr. The 13 seconds is in the same ballpark (this is hard to measure) as a single unwarmed search with top-1000 document retrieval. The patch is ported to Solr 7.3.0 and used in production at the Royal Danish Library. It is a debug-patch, meaning that the individual optimizations can be enabled selectively for easy performance comparison. See the LUCENE-8374 JIRA-issue for details. Posted in eskildsen, Hacking, Low-level, Lucene, Performance, Solr | 1 Comment Prebuild Big Data Word2Vec dictionaries Posted on July 4, 2018 by thomasegense                    Prebuild and trained Word2Vec dictionaries ready for use Two different prebuild big data Word2Vec dictionaries has been added to LOAR (Library Open Access Repository) for download. These dictionaries are build from the text of 55,000 e-books from Project Gutenberg and 32.000.000 Danish newspaper pages. 35.000 of the Gutenberg e-books are English, but over 50 different languages are present in the dictionaries. Even though they are different languages the Word2Vec algorithm did a good job of separating the different languages so it is almost like 50 different Word2Vec dictionaries. The text from the danish newspapers is not public available so you would not be able to build this dictionary yourself. A total of 300Gb of raw text went into building the dictionary, so it is probably the largest Word2Vec dictionary build on a Danish corpus. Since the danish newspapers suffer from low quality OCR, many of words in the dictionary are misspellings. Using this dictionary it was possible to fix many of the OCR errors due the nature of the Word2Vec algorithm, since a given word appears in similar contexts despite its misspellings and is identified by its context. (see https://sbdevel.wordpress.com/2017/02/02/automated-improvement-of-search-in-low-quality-ocr-using-word2vec/) Download and more information about the Word2Vec dictionaries: Download   Online demo of the two corpora: Word2Vec demo             Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment SolrWayback software bundle has been released Posted on May 4, 2018 by thomasegense The SolrWayback software bundle can be used to search and playback archived webpages in Warc format. It is an out of the box solution with index workflow, Solr and Tomcat webserver and a free text search interface with playback functionality. Just add your Warc to a folder and start the index job. The search interface has additional features besides freetext search. This includes: Image search similar to google images Search by uploading a file. (image/pdf etc.) See if the resource has been harvested and from where. Link graph showing links (ingoing/outgoing) for domains using the D3 javascript framework. Raw download of any harvested resource from the binary Arc/Warc file. Export a search resultset to a Warc-file. Streaming download, no limit of size of resultset. An optional built in SOCKS proxy can be used to view historical webpages without browser leaking resources from the live web. See the GitHub page for screenshots of SolrWayback and scroll down to the install guide try it out. Link: SolrWayback     Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment Visualising Netarchive Harvests Posted on March 7, 2017 by nielskristianhansenskovmand   An overview of website harvest data is important for both research and development operations in the netarchive team at Det Kgl. Bibliotek. In this post we present a recent frontend visualisation widget we have made. From the SolrWayback Machine we can extract an array of dates of all harvests of a given URL. These dates are processed in the browser into a data object containing the years, months, weeks and days to enable us to visualise the data. Futhermore the data is given an activity level from 0-4. The high-level overview seen below is the year-month graph. Each cell is coloured based on the activity level relative to the number of harvests in the most active month. For now we use a linear calculation so gray means no activity, activity level 1 is 0-25% of the most active month, and level 4 is 75-100% of the most active month. As GitHub fans, we have borrowed the activity level colouring from the user commit heat map.   We can visualise a more detailed view of the data as either a week-day view of the whole year, or as a view of all days since the first harvest. Clicking one of these days reveals all the harvests for the given day, with links back to SolrWayback to see a particular harvest.   In the graph above we see the days of all weeks of 2009 as vertical rows. The same visualisation can be made for all harvest data for the URL, as seen below (cut off before 2011, for this blog post).   There are both advantages and disadvantages to using the browser-based data calculation. One of the main advantages is a very portable frontend application. It can be used with any backend application that outputs an array of dates. The initial idea was to make the application usable for several different in-house projects. Drawbacks to this approach is, of course, the scalability. Currently the application processes 25.000 dates in about 3-5 seconds on the computer used to develop the application (a 2016 quad core Intel i5). The application uses the frontend library VueJS and only one other dependency, the date-fns library. It is completely self-contained and it is included in a single script tag, including styles. Ideas for further development. We would like to expand this to also include both: multiple URLs, which would be nice for resources that have changed domain, subdomain or protocol over time, e.g. the URL http://pol.dk, http://www.pol.dk and https://politiken.dk could be used for the danish newspaper Politiken. domain visualisation for all URLs on a domain. A challenge here will of course be the resources needed to process the data in the browser. Perhaps a better calculation method must be used – or a kind of lazy loading. Posted in Blogging, Solr, Web | Tagged Frontend, SolrWayback | Leave a comment SolrWayback Machine Posted on February 9, 2017 by thomasegense Another ‘google innovation week’ at work has produced the SolrWayback Machine. It works similar to the Internet Archive: Wayback Machine (https://archive.org/web/) and can be used to show harvested web content (Warc files).  The Danish Internet Archive has over 20billion harvested web objects and takes 1 Petabyte of storage. The SolrWayback engine require you have indexed the Warc files using the Warc-indexer tool from British Library. (https://github.com/ukwa/webarchive-discovery/tree/master/warc-indexer). It is quite fast and comes with some additional features as well:  Image search similar to google images  Link graphs showing  links (ingoing/outgoing) for domains using the D3 javascript framework.  Raw download of any harvested resource from the binary Arc/Warc file. Unfortunately  the collection is not available for the public so I can not show you the demo. But here is a few pictures from the SolrWayback machine. SolrWayback at GitHub: https://github.com/netarchivesuite/solrwayback/ Posted in Uncategorized | 1 Comment juxta – image collage with metadata Posted on February 7, 2017 by Toke Eskildsen Creating large collages of images to give a bird’s eye view of a collection seems to be gaining traction. Two recent initiatives: The New York Public Library has a very visually pleasing presentation of public domain digitizations, but with a somewhat coarse switch between overview and details. Nick Ruest has created very large collages (1 million+ images) with smooth zoom from full overview to single image, but without metadata for the individual images. Combining those two ideas seemed like a logical next step and juxta was born: A fairly small bash-script for creating million-scale collages of images, with no special server side.  There’s a small (just 1000 images) demo at SBLabs. Presentation principle The goal is to provide a seamless transition from the full collection to individual items, making it possible to compare nearby items with each other and locate interesting ones. Contextual metadata should be provided for general information and provenance. Concretely, the user is presented with all images at once and can zoom in to individual images in full size. Beyond a given threshold, metadata are show for the image currently under the cursor, or finger if a mobile device is used. An image description is displayed just below the focused image, to avoid disturbing the view. A link to the source of the image is provided on top. Overview of historical maps Meta-data for a specific map Technical notes, mostly on scaling On the display side, OpenSeadragon takes care of the nice zooming. When the user moves the focus, a tiny bit of JavaScript spatial math resolves image identity and visual boundaries. OpenSeadragon uses pyramid tiles for display and supports the Deep Zoom protocol can be implemented using only static files. The image to display is made up of tiles of (typically) 256×256 pixels. When the view is fully zoomed, only the tiles within the viewport are requested. When the user zooms out, the tiles from the level above are used. The level above is half the width and half the height and is thus represented by ¼ the amount of tiles. And so forth. Generating tiles is heavy A direct way of creating the tiles is Create one large image of the full collage (ImageMagick’s montage is good for this) Generate tiles for the image Scale the image down to 50%×50% If the image is larger than 1×1 pixel then goto 2 Unfortunately this does not scale particularly well. Depending on size and tools, it can take up terabytes of temporary disk space to create the full collage image. By introducing a size constraint, juxta removes this step: All individual source images are scaled & padded to have the exact same size. The width and height of the images are exact multiples of 256. Then the tiles can be created by For each individual source image, scale, pad and split the image directly into tiles Create the tiles at the level above individually by joining the corresponding 4 tiles below and scale to 50%×50% size If there are more than 1 tile or that tile is larger than 1×1 pixel then goto 2 As the tiles are generated directly from either source images or other tiles, there is no temporary storage overhead. As each source image and each tile are processed individually, it is simple to do parallel processing. Metadata takes up space too Displaying image-specific metadata is simple when there are just a few thousand images: Use an in-memory array of Strings to hold the metadata and fetch it directly from there. But when the number of images goes into the millions, this quickly becomes unwieldy. juxta groups the images spatially in buckets of 50×50 images. The metadata for all the images in a bucket are stored in the same file. When the user moved the focus to a new image, the relevant bucket is fetched from the server and the metadata are extracted. A bucket cache is used to minimize repeat calls. Most file systems don’t like to hold a lot of files in the same folder While the limits differ, common file systems such as ext, hfs & ntfs all experience performance degradation with high numbers of files in the same folder. The Deep Zoom protocol in conjunction with file-based tiles means that the amount of files at the deepest zoom level is linear to the number of source images. If there are 1 million source images, with full-zoom size 512×512 pixels (2×2 tiles), the number of files in a single folder will be 2*2*1M = 4 million. Far beyond the comfort-zone fo the mentioned file systems (see the juxta readme for tests of performance degradation). juxta mitigates this by bucketing tiles in sub-folders. This ensures linear scaling of build time at least up to 5-10 million images. 100 million+ images would likely deteriorate build performance markedly, but at that point we are also entering “is there enough free inodes on the file system?” territory. Unfortunately the bucketing of the tile files is not in the Deep Zoom standard. With OpenSeadragon, it is very easy to change the mapping, but it might be more difficult for other Deep Zoom-expecting tools. Some numbers Using a fairly modern i5 desktop and 3 threads, generating a collage of 280 5MPixel images, scaled down to 1024×768 pixels (4×3 tiles) took 88 seconds or about 3 images/second. Repeating the experiment with a down-scale to 256×256 pixels (smallest possible size) raised the speed to about 7½ image/second. juxta comes with a scale-testing script that generates sample images that are close (but not equal) to the wanted size and repeats them for the collage. With this near-ideal match, processing speed was 5½ images/second for 4×3 tiles and 33 images/second for 1×1 tiles. The scale-test script has been used up to 5 million images, with processing time practically linear to the number of images. At 33 images/second that is 42 hours. Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment Automated improvement of search in low quality OCR using Word2Vec Posted on February 2, 2017 by thomasegense This abstract has been accepted for Digital Humanities in the Nordic Countries 2nd Conference, http://dhn2017.eu/ In the Danish Newspaper Archive[1] you can search and view 26 million newspaper pages. The search engine[2] uses OCR (optical character recognition) from scanned pages but often the software converting the scanned images to text makes reading errors. As a result the search engine will miss matching words due to OCR error. Since many of our newspapers are old and the scans/microfilms is also low quality, the resulting OCR constitutes a substantial problem. In addition, the OCR converter performs poorly with old font types such as fraktur. One way to find OCR errors is by using the unsupervised Word2Vec[3] learning algorithm. This algorithm identifies words that appear in similar contexts. For a corpus with perfect spelling the algorithm will detect similar words synonyms, conjugations, declensions etc. In the case of a corpus with OCR errors the Word2Vec algorithm will find the misspellings of a given word either from bad OCR or in some cases journalists. A given word appears in similar contexts despite its misspellings and is identified by its context. For this to work the Word2Vec algorithm requires a huge corpus and for the newspapers we had 140GB of raw text. Given the words returned by Word2Vec we use a Danish dictionary to remove the same word in different grammatical forms. The remaining words are filtered by a similarity measure using an extended version of Levenshtein distance taking the length of the word and an idempotent normalization taking frequent one and two character OCR errors into account. Example: Let’s say you use the Word2Vec to find words for banana and it returns: hanana, bananas, apple, orange. Remove bananas using the (English) dictionary since this is not an OCR error. For the three remaining words only hanana is close to banana and it is thus the only misspelling of banana found in this example. The Word2Vec algorithm does not know how a words is spelled/misspelled, it only uses the semantic and syntactic context. This method is not an automatic OCR error corrector and cannot output the corrected OCR. But when searching it will appear as if you are searching in an OCR corrected text corpus. Single word searches on the full corpus gives an increase from 3% to 20% in the number of results returned. Preliminary tests on the full corpus shows only relative few false positives among the additional results returned, thus increasing recall substantially without a decline in precision. The advantage of this approach is a quick win with minimum impact on a search engine [2] based on low quality OCR. The algorithm generates a text file with synonyms that can be used by the search engine. Not only single words but also phrase search with highlighting works out of the box. An OCR correction demo[4] using Word2Vec on the Danish newspaper corpus is available on the Labs[5] pages of The State And University Library, Denmark. [1] Mediestream, The Danish digitized newspaper archive. http://www2.statsbiblioteket.dk/mediestream/avis [2] SOLR or Elasticsearch etc. [3] Mikolov et al., Efficient Estimation of Word Representations in Vector Space https://arxiv.org/abs/1301.3781 [4] OCR error detection demo (change word parameter in URL) http://labs.statsbiblioteket.dk/dsc/ocr_fixer.jsp?word=statsminister [5] Labs for State And University Library, Denmark http://www.statsbiblioteket.dk/sblabs/   Posted in Uncategorized | 2 Comments ← Older posts Search for: Archives June 2020 October 2019 March 2019 October 2018 July 2018 May 2018 March 2017 February 2017 November 2016 July 2016 March 2016 January 2016 November 2015 October 2015 September 2015 July 2015 June 2015 May 2015 April 2015 March 2015 February 2015 January 2015 December 2014 November 2014 October 2014 September 2014 August 2014 June 2014 April 2014 March 2014 February 2014 January 2014 December 2013 November 2013 October 2013 September 2013 June 2013 April 2013 March 2013 February 2013 January 2013 September 2011 May 2011 March 2011 February 2011 January 2011 November 2010 October 2010 September 2010 June 2010 April 2010 March 2010 February 2010 January 2010 December 2009 October 2009 September 2009 August 2009 July 2009 June 2009 May 2009 April 2009 March 2009 February 2009 January 2009 December 2008 November 2008 October 2008 September 2008 Meta Register Log in Software Development at Royal Danish Library Create a free website or blog at WordPress.com. 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Menu About Web Librarians Who Do UX: Access presentation October 19, 2020 ~ Shelley ~ Leave a comment This is the text (approximately) of my presentation from the virtual Access conference on Oct.19, 2020, “Web librarians who do UX: We are so sad, we are so very very sad.” Last year, I was doing interviews with library people who do User Experience work and noticed that people who were primarily focused on the web had the most negative comments and fewest positive comments overall. It made me think of the song from Scott Pilgrim—the comic and the movie—“I am so sad, I am so very very sad.” So there’s the title.  And I’m saying “We are so sad” because I am also a web person who does UX work. And a lot of what I heard seemed familiar. I want to say that although the title and the visuals are based around a comic and comic book movie, I’m not trying to be flip. A lot of the people who I talked to were very open about being unhappy. Not everyone was unhappy. But, there was a lot in common among the people who said they were struggling and those who were pretty positive. Here are some quotes from people who were generally pretty positive : “How much can I do that no one will block me from doing?” “Why am I really here then, if I’m just moving things around the page?”  [I keep feedback] “for promotion purposes but also not-being-sad purposes.” And from the not-so-positive : “You have all the people who have their own personal opinions… and you’re like “you’re violating every good norm of website development”… they think their opinion is just as good as anyone else’s opinion. … That can definitely demoralize you.” “I bounce back and forth between, for my own sanity’s sake, needing to be apathetic about it, saying ‘I can’t change this therefore I can’t be stressed about it’, and also on the other hand, caring that we have crappy stuff out there and wanting to improve it.” “It is what it is. There’s lots of other things to be disappointed by.” Heartbreaking, right? So why is this the case? First  a tiny bit of background on the research project. The aim of the project was to look at how UX work is structured and supported in academic libraries and then to examine those supports within the context of the structures. I did hour-long semi-structured interviews with 30 people in academic libraries from 5 countries (Canada, the US, the UK, Sweden, and Norway). These were library workers who do UX, so not necessarily librarians, and not necessarily people in UX positions. The people I’m talking about today focus mostly on the web in their jobs. The frustrations of web folks were particularly  striking because I didn’t ask a question about frustrations; I asked what supports were helpful to them and what would be helpful. Admittedly, asking “what would be helpful” is going to bring up deficiencies, but I didn’t ask what supports were missing or what they found frustrating in their work. And again, the web folks talked more about frustrations and difficulties than participants who didn’t have a web focus. So let’s dig in a bit. Why, specifically, are we so sad? First off, we have a tendency to want to think big! Do more! “That’s what motivates me—the opportunity to really sit down, talk, observe, have a conversation with our users, how they approach the website, how they approach the research process, how they approach finding out about our services and how we in turn can better highlight our resources, how we can better highlight our collections, our services.”  “If I see people struggling with things, I want to make them better.” “I don’t want UX to be just a website thing. I don’t want people to think of it ‘oh, it’s just a web thing.’ I want it to be in everything.” “I just see lots of potential all the time. I see potential everywhere, the whole library. I see things we could do that would enhance things.” That doesn’t sound sad. There’s energy and excitement in those words! But contrast it with: “Why am I really here then, if I’m just moving things around the page? I’m trying to get deeper. I’m trying to get a better understanding. It’s not just a matter of moving things around.” Web people who do UX are, I think, well positioned—and perhaps uniquely positioned—to see big picture problems across the library. One participant told me they found that users were confused about the Circulation section of the website because there were 18 different policies underlying it; they could rewrite the web content but couldn’t do anything about the underlying spaghetti of policies. Another said that users found the floor maps confusing but the maps reflected the language used on the library’s signage; they could put clear language on the website’s floor maps but couldn’t do anything about the signage in the building. So we see these problems and naturally want to solve them. We get excited about the potential to make more things better. And we chafe against having to think smaller and do less. Which brings us to: lack of authority. Lack of authority often comes up around those larger library issues. One participant put it this way: “The UX work is actually informing something else to happen. Whether that’s a space being reorganized or a webpage being redesigned—the UX work is informing this other work. Right? So it would be easier for me to do the UX work if I could actually do the work that it’s informing.” Another person was even having problems at the research stage: [I’d like to] “have the authority and freedom to actively engage with users.” And someone else, in talking specifically about their web work said: “Nobody tries to stop me.” The implication being that people try to stop them when they do other things. But for many participants there was a lack of authority even when dealing with the library website: “The web team doesn’t feel like they can really make changes without consult, consult, consult with everybody even though – even if, and even though – the web team has web expertise.”  “Just because I’m our internal expert on this stuff doesn’t mean I can persuade everybody.” “There’s too much of a sense that these things have to be decided by consensus” “Everyone feels… like they should have the right to declare how databases should work, how links should be configured, things like that.” [Each library unit feels] “they have the right to do whatever they want with their content and their presentation. … I’m not their boss and they realize that.  I’m happy to draw up more guidelines and stuff like that but if I’m not allowed to enforce that… [it’s] hard to keep things together when you just have to go hat in hand to people and say ‘pretty please, stop breaking the guidelines.’” One participant described how having no authority for the one thing they were responsible for made them feel: “Of course that has stymied my initiative, not to mention my disposition. My purpose even.” Another frustration that came through was resistance from colleagues. A few comments have already touched on colleagues ignoring expertise but resistance comes through in other ways One participant described how they always approach a particular department: [I’m] “treading very slowly and carefully and choosing my words very carefully” Another said: “Are they deliberately killing the idea but trying to avoid being disagreeable about it but just letting it die from attrition, or do they really actually mean it when they say they agree with the idea in principle but just don’t want to be bothered to follow through? I don’t know – I can’t tell the difference.” These are things participants were told by their colleagues: A manager said that “staff felt unfairly targeted” by their work In opposing to changes to the website: “We have to keep it this way because we teach it this way” And similarly, “It’s our job to teach people how to use, not our job to make it easier to use.” So, not surprisingly, these kinds of things make us feel isolated. Feelings of isolation come through in a few ways. Some participants felt they were completely on their own when deciding where to focus their attention. This is one participant talking about being new in their position: “I remember asking for, if there were any focuses they wanted to focus on… they said ‘no, there’s nothing. We don’t have any direction for you to go in.” That lack of direction is often coupled with not having colleagues who do the same work: “It’s really me and up to me to figure out where to focus my attention by myself. So sometimes having someone to bounce ideas off of and talk things through with… would be nice.” And when no one else does what you do: “Sometimes that’s a barrier, if I’m the ‘expert’ and other people don’t really know what I’m talking about.” So, isolation, having to think small and do less, resistance from colleagues, and lack of authority. Yeah, no wonder we feel a bit sad. What are my take-aways? We need to find our people. UX folks who worked with groups of colleagues were more positive about their work. However, people who tried to do UX work with non-UX committees were even more negative than people who had no group at all. So we can’t just look for any people, they have to be the right people. I wrote an article about the larger project that was published in Weave earlier this month and in it, one of my recommendations was to try to move beyond the website. But I want to say here that moving beyond the web is not a panacea. I talked to someone who had great success in UX for the website and other digital projects. They wanted to embed UX throughout the library and they had management support to do it. But after continued resistance from colleagues, they realized they couldn’t make it work, and decided to move to a completely different area of the library. Which brings me to my next point. Advocacy is important, absolutely, but when we’re not getting buy-in, we need look at next steps: do we need to change our tactics? Would it be better to have someone else advocate on our behalf? Do we need to wait for a change of leadership? Or, as a few participants said, a few retirements? At a certain point, do we give up, or do we get out? Because advocacy doesn’t always work. And if it’s not working , we shouldn’t keep banging our heads against the post, right? Ultimately , I think we need to be clear about authority. We need to understand how authority works in our own library. Not just who can block us and who can help, but are there organizational structures that confer some authority? Is it better to chair a committee or a working group? For example. Then, we need a clear understanding of what our own authority is within our organization. Maybe we underestimate the authority we have. Maybe not. But we need to be clear before we get to the next part. Which is: we need to clearly understand our own tolerance for doing work that will never be acted on. The report that sits in a drawer. If our tolerance is low, if it’s upsetting to have our work ignored, then we need to stick very closely to our own sphere of authority. We have to dream within that sphere or burn out. “Dream small or burn out” is an exceptionally grim note to end on.  But these frustrations are largely beyond one person’s control. If you’re feeling so very very sad because of some of these things, IT’S NOT JUST YOU. The fact that these issues were common to web folks, regardless of how they seemed to feel about their work, suggests that these positions are prone to these kinds of frustrations. I wish I had some ideas for how to fix it! If you do,  please add them to the chat, tweet at me, email me (see contact info). I’ll gather it all in a blog post so it’s all in one spot. Thanks. The TPL Debacle: Values vs People October 28, 2019 ~ Shelley ~ 1 Comment I can’t stop thinking about the situation at TPL. The short version is that the library has accepted a room rental from an anti-trans speaker, and despite outcry from trans people and their allies, despite a petition and a boycott by writers, despite their own policy on room rentals not allowing events that promote discrimination, they insist on letting the event proceed. Some library associations are supporting them because librarians love being Champions of Intellectual Freedom. Many people have made cogent arguments about why TPL’s stance is wrong (see posts by Fobazi Ettarh, Sam Popowich, Kris Joseph). I agree. But there seemed to be more of a reason why the whole thing made me so sad. I’m writing because I think I’ve figured it out. In its two public statements on the matter, TPL has made sure to say that they “are supporters of the LGBTQ2S+ community.” They “are aware that the upcoming room rental event has caused anger and concern.” But the “community is asking us to censor someone because of the beliefs they hold and to restrict a group’s right to equitably access public space and we cannot do either. Doing so would also weaken our ability to protect others’ rights to the same in the future.” Fine. But they also said “While TPL encourages public debate and discussion about differing ideas, we also encourage those with opposing or conflicting viewpoints to respectfully challenge each other’s ideas and not the library’s democratic mandate to provide space for both.” That doesn’t sound super supportive. And at the board meeting held on October 22 where the matter was discussed, it was clear they were more concerned with a respectful tone than with actually listening and understanding. Reading how the trans women who spoke at that meeting felt about how they were treated was heartbreaking. So @torontolibrary is only letting 8 of us into the room to speak or engage the board. They’ve moved most of our group into an overflow room. They had extra security guards and obviously have a plan for how they want to contain us. — Runaway Supernova (@GwenBenaway) October 22, 2019 I had to leave after I spoke. Being forced to recount all of the transphobic violence that I face in daily life to the TPL board in a room of strangers and watch them stare silently at me as if I was subhuman was one of the worst experiences of my life. — Runaway Supernova (@GwenBenaway) October 22, 2019 I asked @vbowlestpl directly if she would say that trans women were women and she refused. I asked the entire board if they thought that I should use men’s restrooms and if they thought that would be safe. Silence again. — Runaway Supernova (@GwenBenaway) October 22, 2019 No one on the @torontolibrary should serve this community, especially not @vbowlestpl , because regardless of their transphobic beliefs, they couldn’t even acknowledge my humanity in that moment. — Runaway Supernova (@GwenBenaway) October 22, 2019   I want to thank everyone that was there. I had to leave after I spoke, it was a lot to sit in front of people that barely seemed to care I was speaking. Thank you all for your support and love both in the room and out of it. — Niko Stratis (@nikostratis) October 22, 2019 The TPL board and staff showed us their true colours and allegiances tonight. Gwen was the ONLY person to be called at time and that’s because she was asking them to treat her like a human. Tonight was disgusting and dehumanizing. https://t.co/YAuXCBK0eR — Niko Stratis (@nikostratis) October 23, 2019 The TPL board showed us who they are and who they support today. I feel awful, like I have never felt. That was dehumanizing, to throw my trauma out on a table to a sea of uncaring eyesx waiting to move to the next agenda item. I feel honestly sick to my stomach. https://t.co/LIPPMLN6Rc — Niko Stratis (@nikostratis) October 23, 2019 It does not sound like these women were talking to “supporters” of their community. And that is what’s making me extra sad about the whole thing. Not only is TPL choosing to value intellectual freedom more than they value trans people in their community, they are choosing to value intellectual freedom instead of valuing trans people in their community. It is not incompatible with upholding intellectual freedom to also acknowledge that it’s doing harm. TPL could reach out to the community and say “we know this event makes trans people feel unsafe. But we’re convinced that not allowing it to go forward will set a precedent for future decisions to shut down other events, possibly those that actively support trans people, and we cannot let that happen. We understand that this event will cause harm and undermine our relationships with LGBTQ2S+ people and your allies. What can we do to mitigate this harm?” It’s not as good as cancelling the event entirely, but at least it would show that TPL has been listening to its community. It would show that they have thought through the consequences of choosing values over people. It would show that they are not just “aware” of “anger and concern” but they understand the fears, risks, and harm their actions are causing. And of course, the community would have every right to tell them, no, there is nothing you can do to mitigate this harm. But that doesn’t mean TPL shouldn’t try. To not just say “we uphold intellectual freedom,” but to acknowledge exactly what that means in this particular case. I’m reminded of the saying that goes something like “your right to swing your arm ends when your fist meets my face.” TPL is insisting that they have the right to keep swinging. Fine. But they have been told that their fist has already met the face of the trans community. The compassionate thing would be to offer first aid. But TPL is not interested. Which, sadly, speaks volumes. It makes it crystal clear that they do not care about the trans community. It makes it crystal clear that they believe that the trans community and its allies are dispensable to their operations. The consequences of their decision (or, to be fair, their decision not to make a decision) are acceptable collateral damage; they are happy to make no attempt to mitigate any of it. If they really were supporters of the LGBTQ2S+ community, they would be supporting the LGBTQ2S+ community. In a way, it’s not surprising that the trans community is the group that so many librarians are choosing to not care about. Being trans is simultaneously visible and invisible. A trans person may be visibly trans in that they do not present in the way that some might expect, but what makes them trans is inside them, not outside. What makes a person trans is in their heart and their mind. They know who they are *inside* in a way that cannot be seen by people who don’t know them (people who do know them can see how much happier they are when their outside gets closer to matching their inside). But to the outside eye, to the dispassionate eye, there is no evidence. And without evidence, their trans-ness can be seen as just a belief. And if it’s just a belief, well then, we can debate it. And we should debate it because, as librarians, we are Champions of Intellectual Freedom. I so wish that we were champions of people instead. Library Workers and Resilience: More Than Self-Care October 11, 2019 ~ Shelley ~ Leave a comment An article in the Globe and Mail this spring about resilience was a breath of fresh air—no talk about “grit” or bootstraps or changing your own response to a situation. It was written by Michael Ungar, the Canada Research Chair in Child, Family, and Community Resilience at Dalhousie University and leader of the Resilience Research Centre there. The research shows that what’s around us is much more important than what’s inside us when it comes to dealing with stress. The article was adapted from Ungar’s book, the now-published Change Your World: The Science of Resilience and the True Path to Success. I know, the title is a little cringey. And honestly, some of the book veers into self-help-style prose even as it decries the self-help industry. But on the whole, there is quite a lot that it interesting here. I was looking at it for an upcoming project on help-seeking, but it keeps coming to mind during discussions about self-care and burnout among library workers. Ungar writes of the myth of the “rugged individual” who can persevere through their own determination and strength of character. We get fed a lot of stories about rugged individuals, but Ungar has found that when you look closely at them, what you find instead are “resourced individuals”—people who have support from the people and environment around them. “Resilience is not a do-it-yourself endeavor. Striving for personal transformation will not make us better when our families, workplaces, communities, health care providers, and governments provide us with insufficient care and support.” (p.14) Ungar is mostly focused on youth but also writes about workplaces, even though this is not his direct area of research. Two passages in particular caught my eye: “Every serious look at workplace stress has found that when we try and influence workers’ problems in isolation, little change happens. … Most telling, when individual solutions are promoted in workplaces where supervisors do not support their workers… resilience training may actually make matters worse, not better.” (p.109) A now-removed article in School Library Journal explained how one library worker changed herself to deal with her burnout. The reaction to this article was swift and strong. Many of us know that individual stories of triumph over adversity are bullshit, particularly when we have seen those same efforts fail in our own contexts. I have found it validating to find research backs that up. Ungar does allow that there are times when changing oneself can work—either a) when stress is manageable and we already have the resources (if you can afford to take two weeks off to go to a meditation retreat, why not), or b) when there is absolutely nothing else you can do to change your environment or circumstances (your job is terrible but you can’t leave it and you’ve tried to do what you can to improve things, so sure take some time to meditate at your desk to get you through your day). But most of us live somewhere between perfectly-resourced and completely hopeless. So what needs to be fixed is our environment, not ourselves. I have noticed resilience has been coming up as a theme in my own university over the last year or so—workshops on becoming more resilient or fostering resilient employees. Ungar says “To be resilient is to find a place where we can be ourselves and be appreciated for the contributions that we make.” That’s not something individuals can do by themselves. People in leadership positions would do well to better understand the research behind resilience rather than the self-help inspired, grit-obsessed, bootstraps version. Workshops and other initiatives that focus on individuals will not fix anything. At best, they are resources for people who are already doing pretty well. At worst, they add to the burden of people already struggling by making them feel like their struggles are caused by their own insufficiency. Anyway, these are just some thoughts based on a single book; I’m nowhere in the realm of knowledgeable on this subject. But I thought it might be helpful to share that there is research that backs up the lived experience of the many library workers who struggle in their organizations, despite their own best efforts.   Research projects: Call for help June 27, 2019 ~ Shelley ~ Leave a comment I’m on a year-long sabbatical as of July 1 and excited to get started on a few different research projects. For two of the projects, I’m going to need some help from the UXLibs/LibUX community. In one of them, I want to look at love letters that users have written to academic libraries so I need people to send me love letters their users have written. In the other, I want to look at the different ways UX work is structured and supported in academic libraries so I need people who are willing to participate in an interview that will take around 60 minutes. Do you want to know more? Read more about the love letters project. Or, read more about the UX work project. I am happy to answer any and all questions: shelley.gullikson[at]carleton.ca or @shelley_gee on Twitter, or in the comments below. Thank you in advance for considering! And endless appreciation if you decide to help! UXLibsV: Notes June 26, 2019June 26, 2019 ~ Shelley ~ 1 Comment Five years of UXLibs – hurrah! Let’s dive straight in. Barriers to UX Design: Andy Priestner Andy kicked off the conference with his address about why he thinks not many of us are moving beyond research reports when it comes to doing UX work in our libraries: We see research as the finish line. UX is about uncovering actionable insights, not about statistical significance We’re terrible at idea generation. We tend to get set on the first “safe” idea we come up with. We pursue perfection. Instead, we should evolve services with our users. We’re too cautious. After talking with library directors, Andy thinks library staff perceive less agency than we actually have; directors say they want their staff to try new things. We’re not agile enough. Not everyone needs to be consulted before we can take action. Issues around ownership and politics. There is uncertainty about where UX sits and the scope is misunderstood. Ignoring the basics. UX is often perceived as innovation (and institutions love innovation) but UX can also be sorting out the basics. Fear of failure. We overreact to negative comments. Failure is not modeled; we may hear that it’s okay to fail but we don’t tend to see it. Andy then gave some examples of projects where libraries created prototypes out of their UX research, and iterated to improve the design to actually meet user needs. Leadership is Key—My UX Journey: Anneli Friberg Anneli gave a very warm and personal keynote, talking about her experiences growing UX at her library. One of the things that stood out most for me was her explanation of how “the user perspective” is different from “the user’s perspective.” Library workers often feel they have “the user perspective” because they spend so much time serving users. But Anneli said that this “user perspective” is only ever the best guess of library workers, looking from the inside-out. “The user’s perspective” is outside-in; we walk along with our users to learn what they actually do, say, and feel. It’s not a guess. Anneli showed us her version of a UX maturity model (created in Swedish and translated into English). She talked about the importance of recognizing what kind of organization you work in and where you are in the maturity model. She spoke about the frustrations she encountered when her library was in the early stages of maturity and how it helped her to have an external network she could rely on for support. To get through the frustration of the early stages of UX maturity, you have to shape the culture of your library. Anneli recommended leading this culture change by example. Michael West has said “The core of leadership is compassion and kindness” and lays out four aspects of leadership: attending, understanding, empathizing, and helping. He describes “attending” as “listening with fascination,” which I really like as an idea. A few other interesting bits from Anneli’s keynote: Failure is success in progress Do idea generation together with your users Take pictures of how students are using the library so you can easily show needs and gaps (e.g. a student hanging their coat on shelved books points to the need for coat hooks!) Lead by clearing the path (help remove barriers for others) Anneli had some interesting and useful things to say about failure. She believes that having a project fail was an important step in moving her UX vision forward. Her team did some research, found a problem, and wanted to try a solution. Anneli was pretty sure it wouldn’t work, but didn’t discourage them. They launched the solution and, sure enough, it didn’t work as well as they’d hoped. But having the experience of a failure, they were able to move on and try other things. They saw that failure wasn’t the end of the world, that the important thing was to try something, learn, and move on to try something else. Neurodiversity, Universal Design and Secrets of the Library: Penny Andrews Penny started her plenary talk by defining what neurodiversity is and is not. She then talked about how neurodiverse people experience the library. And often it’s not good. Libraries have a lot of unwritten rules and unspoken social norms, and this is very challenging for neurodiverse students. Library staff often don’t want to be the police so we expect users to manage the space themselves. But this usually relies on those unspoken social norms. Clarity of the rules and enforcement of those rules would help neurodiverse students. Silent study spaces can be difficult because they are never actually silent. It’s easier to hear things like people chewing and keyboards clacking in silent areas. But often, silent areas are where individual study spaces are found. Having individual spaces in non-silent areas could be helpful. Penny told us that most neurodiverse students do not ask for individual accommodations, or else wait until their situation is completely unbearable. Autistic students are most likely to drop out within their first year. But if they continue, they tend to have the highest marks. So, what can libraries do? Be upfront with our information (not hide it under “Services for Disabled Students”). Library websites have so much information and no good way into it. Related, be specific with our communications. Don’t just say “we’re here to help!” but make it clear how and why to make a one-on-one appointment. Use universal design and consider various people’s needs from the start, not as an add-on. We can’t do one-size-fits-all because of competing needs, but our designs can account for these competing needs. Don’t depend on Disability Services as a liaison. Not all students declare their disabilities so Disability Services won’t know what those students need. Recruiting can be difficult. Talk to people in the library who look like they’re not having a good time. Go to special interest groups that might draw neurodiverse people (Penny recommended something geek-related). Regular recruiting methods often bring out the outliers who always want to join in and who don’t represent the majority of neurodiverse people. Always go in assuming we know nothing. A little bit of knowledge (knowing one neurodiverse person) is worse than knowing nothing. Neurodiverse people are a diverse group. After Penny’s presentation, someone asked her if there were certain UX research methods that neurodiverse people found difficult. Penny responded that ambiguous prompts—particularly things like “draw your research experience” or “build your ideal library”—tend to be difficult, as is anything with group work. Definitely good things to keep in mind. Tales of the UneXpected: Hannah Fogg and Lorraine Noel Both speakers talked about the experiences of having front-line staff engage in UX work at their libraries. Hannah started off with the experience at Angela Ruskin University (ARU). At ARU, they didn’t want UX to be just for librarians, so they brought in Andy Priestner to do UX training for their frontline staff. As part of the training, the staff did mini UX projects using their newfound knowledge of UX research methods. Having “mini” projects was meant to not overwhelm some staff who might be scared off by a big project, and at the same time not give free rein to others who would be tempted to be too ambitious. One of the projects Hannah highlighted was a mapping exercise that showed users completely avoiding the print journals shelving (they diverged to one side or the other), so a decision was made to move those shelves out of that area of the library entirely. Lorraine was up next to talk about the experience at Huddersfield. They had seen what ARU had done and wanted to replicate it, in hopes of professionalizing their front-line staff and enhancing the user experience. Bryony Ramsden led the workshops for Huddersfield staff. Attendance was mandatory and they also had to work in groups on a “modest UX project.” Those groups had to include staff from at least two different areas of the library (I love that idea!), and each of the 10 groups had a manager as a “guide on the side.” There were a lot of benefits to the Huddersfield experience, but Lorraine also mentioned that there was some initial resentment from staff, likely due to the mandatory nature of the project. Hannah said that at ARU, staff appreciated learning skills in project management that could help with their career progression. Also, ARU lost their UX expert and staff were happy to feel empowered to carry on the UX work on their own. Passionate About Floorplans: Tim Graves (I was excited about this session because floorplans are the bane of my existence. We get a lot of requests to make them fancier or add functionality, but keeping them up to date is a constant struggle. I finally resigned myself to walking through our 5 floors three times a year, making any necessary corrections on printed versions of our maps so I can update the ones on the web. The maps posted in our building get updated by the campus facilities people and at times bear little resemblance to the web versions. ARGH!) Anyway, Tim also wanted to improve the floorplans on the website of the University of Sussex. The library was receiving a lot of questions about how to find things in the library and Tim thought that better floorplans on the website might help people better navigate to what they needed. First, he came up with a version based on printed floorplans, but they were too complex and not responsive on smaller screens. Inspired by the London Tube Map, he created a simplified version, but discovered it was *too* abstracted from reality to be useful. The “just right” solution came after he did a lot of reading in the design literature (especially Alberto Savoia and Jeanne Liedtka & Tim Ogilvie) and started iterating his design with users. Tim mentioned the usefulness of “pretotyping” a solution to see if it’s worth getting to the prototyping stage. A pretotype is essentially a very rough, low-fi prototype. It might be a good thing to keep in mind if you work with people who find it difficult to create quick and dirty prototypes. You could say “we don’t need a prototype yet, let’s just pretotype it!” Even though *you* know a prototype can just be a rough sketch, they can think it’s a whole different (and new!) thing. You can see Tim’s improved floorplans. And he said that he’s happy to share the code that drives them. You can contact Tim at t.c.graves[at]sussex.ac.uk. Appreciative Inquiry Workshop: Kristin Meyer Appreciative inquiry is a method that helps people focus on solutions instead of problems, leads groups to action, and does so in a very positive way. I was really excited about this workshop because anything that Kristin does always seems excellent. I was not disappointed. The workshop started with an introduction to appreciative inquiry and then Kristin led us through a sped-up process of appreciate inquiry as we worked through an issue that’s been raised through UX research at her own library. The steps we took: Connect to purpose: Look at the big picture and why this problem is important. How could exploring this area benefit users? Frame it and flip it: Clearly state the problem so that everyone is on the same page. Then, think about the desired state instead of the problem and come up with a question to help us explore what we desire for our users. Dream of the ideal future: Think about words and phrases that describe an ideal solution. How will success look and feel? Ideate: We skipped this step in the workshop because it takes a lot of time. Kristin mentioned her favourite ideation technique is Brainwriting, described in the book Gamestorming (2010). Prototype internally: Our colleagues may have good ideas and asking them for feedback can help build early buy-in. Generative questions keep things positive: What do you like about this idea? How can we improve this idea? Prototype with users: Again, we skipped this step because we had no users to prototype with. I liked step 2, where we flipped the problem into a desired state. I’m guessing that thinking of “what do we want to happen” instead of “what do we want to stop” could help avoid the “solution” of putting up a sign or trying to curb behaviour with punitive measures. I also really like the idea of connecting to colleagues with generative questions, rather than asking for general feedback. Andy may have said that not everyone needs to be consulted, but sometimes it’s important or useful to consult our colleagues. Using generative questions would be a way to lessen the chances of hearing “that will never work” or “why don’t you do X instead?” Advanced Interview Techniques: Danielle Cooper Since I’m about to embark on a project that involves a lot of interviewing, I thought it made sense to make sure that I took advantage of any opportunity to improve my skills in this area. Danielle has a lot of experience with interviewing users in her job at Ithaka S+R. The short version of this workshop is that the best way to get better at interviewing is to keep doing it, so we spent most of the time in groups of 3 taking turns being interviewer, interviewee, and observer. Danielle gave us some practical tips as well. To probe for more information, from least obtrusive to most: silence non-verbal affirmation echoing the response affirmative neutral comments repeating or clarifying the interview question summarize and synthesize the answer simply saying “tell me more” If participants are not very forthcoming, you can try a variety of these probes. Be willing to cut your losses and end the interview if you’re not getting any useful information. On the other hand, if participants are way too chatty, you can try the following: gentle inattention polite transitions graceful interruptions Working in Difficult Environments: Lessons from the World of Civic Design: Suzanne Chapman Suzanne started her keynote with some examples of behaviour that many of us recognized from our workplaces. She then pointed out that these behaviours were from the Simple Sabotage Field Manual from the OSS (predecessor to the CIA), a document explaining to spies how to sabotage enemy organizations. She gave a quotation from a senior person in one of the organizations she’d worked in: “We are trying to do as much end user testing as possible without actually talking to users.” Suzanne noted that UX maturity models, such as the one Anneli showed in her keynote, are missing the part where humans are difficult and sabotage-y. She also noted that doing UX in libraries is extremely hard. But this work can be made easier if everyone can agree on specific guiding principles. She shared seven that she uses at the Centre for Civic Design: Do the most good for the most people who need it the most (italics mine). This goes beyond the 80/20 rule and looks at need rather than just numbers. Delivery is the strategy. Given the choice between culture change and “getting shit done,” they have chosen to let culture change come second. Work lean, iterate quickly. Sometimes this means doing the least shitty thing, but it always means that you should only make *new* mistakes. We use design to make things better. Design means working your way through the problem in order to reach a solution, not just grabbing a solution. We design with users, not for them. This is similar to Anneli’s message to take the “user’s perspective” rather than the “user perspective.” Also, research is done with a goal of improvement, not just for learning. Hire and empower great people. And there has to be agreement about what it means to be empowered; there should not be responsibility without authority. These principles may not resonate, or even be possible in your library. But going through the process of deciding what your library’s guiding principles are can be your anti-sabotage model. My web committee went through this process, based on guiding principles Suzanne wrote while she was still working in libraries. The process was very helpful in making sure we really were on the same page. It’s also a useful document to show people coming on to the committee for the first time. It would definitely be *more* useful if it went beyond just our committee, but it’s something. If you’re interested, we’ve made our guiding principles public. UXVR: The Potential of Virtual Reality to UX Research: Victor Alfson Victor spoke about a project he did at the Black Mountain Library in Stockholm. He asked users to create a great library for themselves using a VR headset, Tilt Brush (a 3D-painting app), and a 3D model of the existing library. He asked participants to narrate their actions, but also jumped in with questions. It’s a similar task to what you could do with pen and paper, but using VR gave a different angle. To recruit participants, Victor asked the (possibly slighty creepy) question, “Do you want to come down to the basement to try something cool?” 9/10 people that he asked agreed to participate! And once they were there, they stayed—for 40 minutes on average— because the task was novel and engaging. Victor found that participants were very candid in what they said, and he wondered if that was due to people feeling like they were in a private space. With the VR headset on, they were alone in the 3D library space, with Victor’s disembodied voice occasionally asking them questions. So what did users draw and talk about? Well, it was the usual things: food, noise, finding the right kind of space. But the insights were interesting. A few kids drew a McDonalds in the library, and went on to say that they just wanted to be able to eat their snack without a librarian bugging them. One kid drew a vortex in the library that would take them directly to their home. Victor asked further about this and found out that this kid had to take two buses and the metro to get home from the library. I wondered if this kind of thing would have come out in a pen-and-paper exercise, or if it was the technology that made the kid think about an amazing technological solution to their transportation problem. Overall, Victor said that it was very fun research for both him and the participants. And his library will be following up on some of the insights they gained, such as creating a new quiet study room for kids working on their homework. Previously, these kids tried to find quiet nooks and crannies to work in, so both they and their needs were unseen by library staff. Victor’s project brought them out of their quiet corners and gave them a new space of their own. A nice real-world result for this VR project. Internships and Ethnography: Students Researching Students: Claire Browne Claire spoke about using a student intern to carry out a UX project using a cultural probe to get to know the needs of taught postgraduate students at the University of Birmingham. The university’s Careers department was looking for meaningful student placements that showcased careers in higher education and gave students experience with project management and data analysis. It was a great fit with the library’s desire to expand their UX work. Before the intern was hired, the library had to have the project go through ethics review and recruit participants (10 in total). They had ideas for what they wanted in the cultural probe, but the intern, Luke, was able to put his stamp on it, finalizing the tasks and adding notes and jokes to the participant diaries to keep their engagement up throughout the 2 weeks of daily tasks. Some of the tasks were: answering specific questions, writing a letter with advice to a student starting out, card sorting, a photo study showing their typical day, a love letter/break-up letter, and a cognitive map. All participants did every task, which seems to show that Luke did a great job keeping everyone engaged. Participants enjoyed the variety of tasks and provided a lot of rich information in the self-reflective tasks. Luke gave a presentation to senior staff about his findings and they were very engaged with this 17 year old telling them about the problems in their library. I want to know more about this; were they more engaged because he was an “outsider,” because he was a student, because he was young? Related, Claire mentioned that one of the benefits of having a student intern on this project was that he was not influenced by restraints or constraints felt by library staff; he saw only the user side. Another benefit Claire mentioned was that Luke was able to engage with the student participants in a natural and informal way that she didn’t think would be possible for librarians. She thought the librarians would have been too formal or crossed the line into “cringey.” If you want to know more, Luke wrote a report about the project and the techniques that were used in the cultural probe. Love at First Sight: Consolidating First Impressions: Debbie Phillips Debbie also spoke about doing a cultural probe, this time at Royal Holloway and focused on the experience of new students in their first weeks on campus. The focus was not entirely on the library, as the project was a collaboration among the library, Campus Life, and Internal Communications. The Campus Life team were able to help with recruitment and 23 students agreed to participate, though only 13 actually finished all the tasks. Still, since they were hoping for 8 participants, this was a good result. I was struck that, like Claire, Debbie said they were “hoping for a good mix” of participants. Both projects got a reasonable mix but missed out on representation from one or two groups. I think we often do generic recruitment when we want a mix, assuming that we should recruit from a wide group to get a wide range of participants. But if we want, for example, mature students or international students as part of the participant group, we really need to recruit them specifically in order to make sure of it. (I believe Claire did make this point as something they would do differently next time.) Some of the tasks in the cultural probe at Royal Holloway: diary questions (2 questions from each of the 3 teams plus some general ones), photo tasks, postcard to friends/family (participants could ask for it to be posted but no one did), campus map with emoji stickers to indicate how they felt about specific buildings or areas of campus. The library found they were surprised at how many students came to the library during their first visit to campus. They were also surprised at how few students attended their library induction. So, they’re planning to try to find ways to help students learn more about the library during that first campus visit, rather than waiting for induction. Related, they also found that students expressed a preference for learning about campus prior to arrival, so the library will increase their communications ahead of Arrivals Week, rather than waiting until students are actually on campus. Final Thoughts I usually do a full post about my thoughts on the conference, but I don’t have a lot more to say. I had an amazing time, as usual, thanks to the wonderful group of people who come to this conference. In my professional life, UXLibs is my very favourite place. I’m about to head off on sabbatical (maybe you can help with some of my projects!), so I’m not going to immediately apply much of what I learned but I am already excited to do that when my leave is over. I realize that I’ve been emphasizing the research part of UX because research is actually part of my job description and, outside of the website, design and prototyping is not. I felt comfortable doing research beyond the scope of the website, but not finding a way to move that research into action. When I get back to work I hope I can figure out how to, as both keynotes exhorted: get shit done. Website Refresh: First Round of Iterative Testing December 18, 2018December 17, 2018 ~ Shelley ~ Leave a comment As I mentioned in my last post, we’re doing a design refresh of our library website, with a goal to make it “beautiful.” As such, we’re not touching much of the organization. But of course we have to pay attention to not just how the information is categorized but also where it appears on the page. We learned that a few years back when we tried adding a “Spotlight” feature near our Library Hours (tl;dr: people stopped being able to see the Hours when other content shared the space). So we are firm believers that user testing and iterative design is vital in making sure we don’t make parts of our site invisible by moving elements around. After the results of our user research earlier in the fall, we came up with a design drawn from the sites that our users liked most that also worked within our current site structure. The layout was essentially the same, with three major changes: We pulled “Quick Links” out of the menu and put it in a box on the front page Hours moved from a box on the side to a banner under the search box Our Help and Chat button also moved to this banner We wanted to do user testing to make sure that users could: find today’s hours get to the full set of hours figure out how to access help or chat. We also asked them if there was anything they hated about the draft design. Just to flag anything that could cause problems but that we weren’t specifically asking about. Since we were doing this testing early in the process, we didn’t have a live site to show. Our Web Developer, the fabulous Kevin Bowrin, built the mockup in Drupal since he’s more comfortable in Drupal than in PhotoShop, but it wasn’t on a public server. So we used a printed screenshot for this round of testing. The first version of the design had a grey banner and small text and it was clear after talking to a few users that visibility was a problem. We only talked to 4 people, but only 2 saw the Hours and they were really squinting to make it out. Finding when the library is open should be really really easy. We decided to increase the text size and remove the grey background. Version 1 This time, even fewer people saw the hours: 1 out 6. Since people didn’t see today’s hours, we couldn’t even get to the part where we tested whether they knew how to access the full set of hours. We decided to see if adding an “All Hours →” link would help; perhaps by echoing the convention of the “View More →” links in other parts of the page, it would be clearer that this section was part of the content. Nope. Version 3 Again, quite quickly we saw that this section remained invisible. Only 1 person in 5 saw it. One user noticed it later on and said that he’d thought that part of the website was just a heading so he ignored it. Clearly, something was making people’s eyes just skip over this part of the website. We needed another approach. Kevin and I talked about a few options. We decided to try making the section more visible by having Library Hours, Help and Chat, and Quick Links all there. Kevin tweeted at me after I’d left for the day: “Just dropped the latest iteration on your desk. I kinda hate it, but we’ll see what the patrons have to say!” I had a look the next morning. I also hated it. No point in even testing that one! A blurry photo of the hated, not-tested version 4 We decided to put Hours where the Quick Links box was, to see if that would be more visible. We moved chat down, trying to mimic the chat call-out button on the McMaster Library website. Quick Links were removed completely. We have some ideas, but they were never a vital part of the site so we can play with them later. Success! Most of the people we talked to saw the Hours and almost all of them could get from there to the full set of hours. (I did this round of testing without a note-taker, thinking I could keep good enough track. “Good enough?” Yes. Actual numbers? No.) The downside was that most people didn’t notice the Help and Chat link (not pictured here). However, I think we’ll really need to test that when we can show the site on a screen that people can interact with. The “always visible” nature of that button is hard to replicate with a print-out. I feel like we’re in a good enough place that we can start building this as more than just a mock-up. Oh, and no one we talked to hated anything about the design. A low bar perhaps, but I’m happy that we cleared it. Version 5 We did all of this in one week, over 4 afternoons. For version 3, Kevin just added text to the screenshot so we could get it in front of people faster. Quick iterating and testing is such a great process if you can make it work. Next steps: menu interactions and interior pages. User Research: Beautiful Websites? October 24, 2018 ~ Shelley ~ 3 Comments My University Librarian has asked for a refresh of the library website. He is primarily concerned with the visual design; although he thinks the site meets the practical needs of our users, he would like it to be “beautiful” as well. Eep! I’m not a visual designer. I was a little unsure how to even begin. I decided to attack this the way we attack other problems: user research! Web Committee created a set of Guiding Principles a few years back (based on Suzanne Chapman’s document). Number one in that list is “Start with user needs & build in assessment” so even though I was having difficulty wrapping my head around a beautiful website as a user need, it made sense to move forward as if it were. Background How does one assess a beautiful website? I looked at a whole bunch of library websites to see which stood out as particularly beautiful and then discern what it was that made them so. Let me tell you, “beautiful” is not a word that immediately leaps to mind when I look at library websites. But then I came across one site that made me give a little exclamation of disgust (no, I won’t tell you which one). It was busy, the colours clashed garishly, and it made me want to click away instantly—ugh! Well. We might not be able to design a site that people find beautiful but surely we can design something that doesn’t make people feel disgusted. I had an idea then to show users a few different websites and ask them how they felt about the sites. Beauty can mean different things to different people, but it does conjure a positive feeling. Coming up with feeling words can be difficult for people, so I thought it might be easier for me to come up with a list they could choose from (overwhelming, calm, inspiring, boring, etc.). Then I decided that it might be better to have users place the sites on a continuum rather than pick a single word for their feeling: is the page more calming or more stressful? Is it more clear or more confusing? I came up with 11 feelings described on a continuum, plus an overall 🙂 to 🙁. I wasn’t completely confident about this and assumed others had done work in this area, so I did some reading on emotions, aesthetics, and web design. (Emotion and website design from The Encyclopedia of Human-Computer Interaction, 2nd ed.; Aesthetics and preferences of web pages from Behaviour & Information Technology (2000); Assessing dimensions of perceived visual aesthetics of web sites from International Journal of Human-Computer Studies (2004); and Measuring aesthetic emotions: A review of the literature and a new assessment tool from PLOS ONE (2017).) Turns out my method was in line with the research in this area. And although the wording sometimes differed, the 11 feelings I had come up with were all represented. Onward! There had been some talk of the library website perhaps needing to mirror other Carleton University websites a little more closely. However, there is not uniformity of design across Carleton sites, so I wanted to show users a mix of those sites to get a sense of which designs were most pleasing. I also wanted to show a few different library sites to get a sense of which of those designs were most appealing to our users. I worked with Web Committee to come up with a list of 7 library sites and 5 Carleton sites. There was no way I was going to ask someone to give us feedback on 12 different websites; I decided a selection of 3 was plenty for one person to work through. Since I was looking mostly for visceral reactions, I didn’t think we needed a lot of people to see each site. If each site was viewed 5 times (with our own library site as a baseline so we could measure improvement of the new design), we needed 30 participants. That was three times what we often see for a single round of UX research, but still doable. Method I planned a 10-minute process—longer than our usual processes where we test one or two things—and wanted to compensate students for this much of their time. That fell apart at the last minute and all I had was a box of Halloween mini-chocolates so revamped the process to remove a few pre- and post- questions and cut the number of continuums from 12 to 9 (8 feelings plus the overall positive/negative). That cut the time down to about 5 minutes for most people, and I was comfortable with a 5-minutes-for-chocolate deal. So in the end, these are the continuums we asked people to use to label the sites: Welcoming ↔ Off-putting Disorganized ↔ Organized Clear ↔ Confusing Up-to-date ↔ Old-fashioned Calming ↔ Stressful Useful ↔ Useless Inspiring ↔ Discouraging Ugly ↔ Beautiful 🙂 ↔ 🙁 We set up in the lobby of the library and saw 31 people over four time slots (each was 60-90 minutes long). There were 31 participants instead of 30 because the last person came with a friend who also wanted to participate. Happily, the only person to have difficulty understanding what to do was one of these very last people we saw. He had such trouble that if he’d been the first person we’d seen, I likely would have reconsidered the whole exercise. But thankfully everyone else was quick to understand what we wanted. Most people saw one Carleton site, one library site, and then our own Carleton library site. Because we had more library sites than Carleton sites, a few people saw two library sites then the Carleton library site. I had planned out in advance which participant would see which sites, making sure that each site would be seen the same number of times and not always in the same order. Participants looked at one site at a time on a tablet with a landscape orientation, so the sites looked similar to how they would look on a laptop. They filled out the continuum sheet for one site before looking at the next. They could refer back to the site as they completed the sheet. I had a note-taker on hand to keep track of the sites visited and to record any comments participants made about the sites (most people didn’t say much at all). Partway through, I discovered a problem with the “Up-to-date / Old-fashioned” continuum. I was trying to get at whether the design felt old and stale or contemporary and up-to-date. But many people assumed we were referring to the information on the site being up-to-date. I thought that using “old-fashioned” rather than “outdated” would mitigate this, but no. So this was not a useful data point. Usually with these kinds of processes, I have a sense of what we’re learning as we go. But with this one, I had very little idea until I started the analysis. So what did we find? Results I had purposely not used a Likert-type scale with numbers or labels on any of the mid-points. This was not quantitative research and I didn’t want users to try to put a number on their feelings. So, when it came time for analysis, I didn’t want to turn the continuum ratings into numbers either. I colour-coded the responses, with dark green corresponding to one end of the continuum, red to the other and yellow for the middle. I used light green and orange for less strong feelings that were still clearly on one side or the other. In determining what colour to code a mark, I looked at how the person had responded to all three sites. If all their marks were near the extremes, I used light green/orange for any mark tending toward the middle. If all their marks were clustered around the middle, I looked for their outer ranges and coded those as dark green/red (see examples in the image below). In this way, the coding reflected the relative feelings of each person rather than sticking to strict borders. Two marks in the same place on the continuum could be coded differently, depending on how that user had responded overall. The circled mark on the left was coded light green even though it’s quite close to the end. The circled mark on the right was coded red even though it’s not very close to the end. After coding, I looked at the results for the 🙂 ↔ 🙁 continuum to get a sense of the general feeling about each site. I gave them all an overall assessment (bad, ugh, meh, or ok). No site got better than ok because none was rated in the green by everyone who saw it. Then I looked at how often each was coded green, yellow, and red across all the continuums. Unsurprisingly, those results corresponded to my bad/ugh/meh/ok rating; participants’ 🙂 / 🙁 ratings had been reflective of their overall feelings. Our site ended up on the high end of “meh.” However, several participants made sure to say their ratings of our site were likely high because of familiarity, so we are really likely firmly in “meh” territory. Now that I’d looked at the overall, I wanted to look at each of the continuums. What was our current site doing really well with? I was happy to see that our current site felt Useful and Organized to participants. “Organized” is good because it means that I feel confident about keeping the structure of the site while we change the visual design. What did we need to improve? Participants felt the site was Discouraging and Ugly. “Discouraging” is something I definitely feel motivated to fix! And “Ugly?” Well, it helps me feel better about this project to make the site beautiful. More beautiful at least. After this, I looked at which sites did well on the aspects we needed to improve. For both the Carleton sites and the library sites, the ones felt to be most Inspiring and Beautiful were the same ones that were rated highly overall. These same sites were most felt to be Welcoming, Clear, and Calming. So these are the aspects that we’ll concentrate on most as we move through our design refresh. Next Steps Now, Web Committee will take a closer look at the two library sites and two Carleton sites that had the best feeling and see what specific aspects of those sites we’d like to borrow from. There’s no big time squeeze, as we’re aiming for a spring launch. Lots of time for many design-and-test iterations. I’ll report back as we move forward. Access 2018: A UX Perspective October 19, 2018 ~ Shelley ~ Leave a comment I started my Access 2018 conference experience with a meetup of library people interested in UX. There were only five of us, but we had good conversations about Research Ethics Boards and UX research, about being a UX team of one, and about some of the projects we’ll be working on in the coming year. We also chatted about how we would like to communicate more regularly but how difficult it can be to sustain virtual communities. (Canada is BIG. Heck, even Ontario is big.) It was nice to start off the conference with UX friends – old and new – and my focus stayed on the UX side of things throughout the conference so that’s what I want to write about here. On Day 1, the first post-keynote presentation was all about UX. Eka Grguric talked about her experience one year in as UX Librarian at McGill. She gets brought into projects in her library as a UX consultant, and also supports others doing UX and user research in the library. She also offers training on UX research methods for interested library staff. Her work is a combination of operational and project-based. She gave a bit of detail about two projects and her monthly operational tests to give us a flavour of the range of methods and processes she uses. Next up was Ken Fujiuchi and Joseph Riggie from Buffalo State College, who talked about Extended Reality, a combination of virtual reality, augmented reality, and mixed reality technologies. They covered a few different topics (slides here), but what stood out for me was their mention of how user experiences will change as new interfaces become possible and there are new ways for people to interact with materials. They specifically mentioned oral histories moving from audio-only files to users being able to interact with a holographic image of a person who can tell stories but also answer questions. What’s good UX for oral history holograms? A few presentations also focused on what I see as UX for library staff. Juan Denzer spoke about a project being developed by a pair of students he’s supervising that aims to make it easier to manage EXProxy configuration files (which can easily run to thousands of lines). Having tried to troubleshoot stanzas in EXProxy myself, I can definitely see how this could improve the UX for staff. However, as one of my table mates said, adding an application to manage a text file also adds overhead for whoever has to maintain and update that application. Trade-offs! Ruby Warren from University of Manitoba was fantastic in her description of a project that didn’t quite get off the ground in the six months she’d set aside to complete it. Ruby had seen that distance students weren’t learning how to use the library in the same way in-person students were (e.g. no in-class visits from a librarian). She wanted to find a way to teach some basic IL to these students and thought that an interactive fiction game would be a good thing to try. She had some great lessons learned (including “Don’t Do Everything in the Wrong Order” and “Plan for Apathy”). One of my favourite things about Ruby’s presentation was that she was upfront about her failures, including – as a UX person – not planning for user testing during development. It’s gutsy to get up in front of your peers and say that you forgot a basic tenet of your discipline because you were too excited about a project. So human but so hard. Yay Ruby! Another key takeaway was not underestimating appeal when planning this kind of project. As someone who has a bard time seeing the appeal of library games, I appreciated hearing this. (I believe it’s possible, but I think it’s extremely difficult.) Ruby’s slides are here. Back to UX for staff (and users too, to some extent), Calvin Mah from Simon Fraser University spoke about his experience archiving their ILS when his library moved from Millennium to Alma. Some kinds of information were not migrated at all, but even the records that were migrated were not trusted by cataloguers; they wanted to be able to go back to the old records and compare. With these two situations – missing information plus untrusted information – it was decided to build an archival copy of the old system. I find this interesting. On the one hand, I can absolutely understand wanting to help staff feel comfortable with the new system by letting them know they still have the old information if they need it; the transition can be more gradual. But Calvin noted that even though the information is getting stale, staff are still relying on it. So perhaps it’s more of a security blanket, and that’s not good. Also, there was a good library nerd laugh when he said that some staff wanted the archival copy to behave like the old system: “Respect the 2nd indicator non-filing characters skip!” Something I see as having both staff and user UX implications is having contract work in library systems (probably everywhere, but in systems for sure). Bobbi Fox from Harvard has been on many sides of this situation (as a contractor, as a person hiring the contractor, as a team member, as a person cleaning up after a contractor) and detailed many things to consider before, during, and after contract work in library IT. Too often, contract work results in projects that are difficult to maintain after the contractor has gone, if they are even completed at all. I really like that she specifically mentioned thinking about who is providing user support for the thing(s) the contractor is building, as separate from who is going to own/maintain the project going forward. And in talking about documentation, specifying what documentation those user support people need in order to be able to support the users. This will almost always be different documentation that what is required for maintenance. Good docs are vital for maintenance but if people can’t use the thing, there’s not much point in maintaining it! Nearing the end of the first day was a panel: “When the Digital Divides Us: Reconciling Emerging and Emerged Technologies in Libraries” that looked at disconnects that can happen on both the staff side and the user side when libraries favour emerging (“shiny”) technology. I thought there were some great points made. Monica Rettig at Brock University talked about issues when access services staff are expected to help troubleshoot technology problems; for staff used to a transactional approach to service, with a heavy reliance on policy and procedures, there is a big cultural shift in moving to a troubleshooting approach. Rebecca Laroque from North Bay Public Library wondered about providing 3D printers while she still has users asking for classes on how to use email. Monica noted the importance of core services to users even though they’re aren’t shiny or new; she asked who will be the champion for bathrooms or printers in the library? Krista Godfrey from Memorial University asked whether library technology should be evaluate and assessed in the same way that library collections are? Lots of questions here, but definitely an agreement that a focus on core infrastructure and services may not be exciting but it’s absolutely vital. Day 2 was a bit lighter on the UX side. Tim Ribaric gave a great presentation on RA21 and the possible implications of it replacing IP authentication for access to electronic resources in libraries. Tim is skeptical about RA21 and believes it is not good news for libraries (one of his theorems about RA21: “We are effed”). His take was very compelling, and from a UX perspective, he is not convinced there is a clear way forward for walk-in users of academic libraries (i.e. users not affiliated with the university or college) to access our subscription-based electronic resources if we move from IP authentication to RA21. I know some academic libraries explicitly exclude walk-in users, but others are mandated to provide access to the general public so we are used to providing guest access and our users are used to having it. Tim has posted his slides if you’re interested in more on this. Another interesting UX moment was in Autumn Mayes’ lightning talk about working in Digital Scholarship and Digital Humanities. Part of her job had been working in The  Humanities Interdisciplinary Collaboration (THINC) Lab at the University of Guelph. THINC Lab is a members-only space aimed at grad students, postdocs, faculty, etc. who are doing interdisciplinary and digital humanities research. However, they also host events and programs that are open to the larger university population. So Autumn found herself having to tell non-members that they weren’t allowed to use the space, but at the same time was trying to promote events and programs to both members and non-members. She very succinctly described this as “Get out! But come back!” It’s interesting to think about spaces that are alternately exclusionary and open; what is the impact on users when you make a mostly exclusionary space occasionally welcoming? What about when a mostly welcoming space is occasionally exclusionary? Bill Jones and Ben Rawlins from SUNY Geneseo spoke about their tool OASIS (Openly Available Sources Integrated Search), aimed at improving the discovery of Open Educational Resources (OER) for faculty at their campus and beyond. The tool allows searching and browsing of a curated collection of OER (currently over 160,000 records). It seems like a nice way to increase visibility and improve the UX of finding OER such as open textbooks. Again in library staff UX, May Yan and MJ Suhonos from Ryerson University talked about how library-specific technologies can be difficult to use and adapt, so they decided to use WordPress as a web platform for a records management project in their library. One thing I found interesting was that the Ryerson library had a Strategic Systems Requirements Review that explicitly says that unless library-specific technology has a big value-add, the preference should be to go outside library technology for solutions. From a UX point of view, this could mean that staff spend less time fighting with clunky library software, both using it and maintaining it. The last conference presentation of Day 2 reported on the results of UX testing of Open Badges in an institutional repository. Christie Hurrell from the University of Calgary reported that her institution uses quite a number of Open Badges. For this project, the team wondered whether having an Open Badge that demonstrated compliance with an Open Access policy would encourage faculty to deposit their work in the institutional repository. They did a survey, which didn’t show a lot of love for Open Badges in general. Then they did some user testing of their IR (DSpace), to find out whether faculty would add an Open Badge to their work if the option was there. Unfortunately, the option to add an Open Badge was completely lost in the overall process to deposit a work in the IR, which faculty found extremely time-consuming. Since faculty were frustrated with the process in general, it is very unlikely that an Open Badge would provide an incentive to use the IR again. The conference ended with the Dave Binkley Memorial Lecture, given this year by Monique Woroniak. Monique spoke about “Doing the Work: Settle Libraries and Responsibilities in a Time of Occupation” where the Work is what non-Indigenous people and organizations need to do before trying to work with Indigenous people and organizations. She gave some clear guidelines on, essentially, how to act with empathy and these guidelines can apply to many communities. However, I definitely don’t want to “all lives matter” this. Monique was clearly speaking about Indigenous people, and specifically about her experiences with Indigenous people in Winnipeg. When she spoke of the importance of assessing our capacity before undertaking new work, she included the capacity to build respectful relationships with Indigenous people. Although it can definitely be argued that a capacity to build respectful relationships is useful for UX work, her caution to never over-promise and under-deliver when working with Indigenous people is situated in the Canadian context of settlers over-promising and under-delivering time and time and time again. Sure, we’ll respect this treaty. Sure, we’ll take care of your children. Of course we’re ready for reconciliation. Over-promising and under-delivering is never a great move, but in this context it is particularly toxic. A few other things that stood out for me in Monique’s talk: Listen to the breadth of opinions in the community. Take the time. This is head work and heart work, and, especially, long-haul work. Look to shift the centre of power for not just the big decisions, but the small as well. If this interest you, Monique’s talk is available to view in its entirety, as are all of the presentations at the conference (they will be split into individual videos for each talk eventually). Monique finished with a lovely quotation from Katherena Vermette‘s poem “new year’s eve 2013” from her 2018 book river woman: truth is a seed planted deep if you want to get it you have to dig UX from a Technical Services Point of View September 11, 2018 ~ Shelley ~ 1 Comment This the text of a presentation I did last year at the Access Conference in Regina. Emma and I had plans to write this up as a paper, but life intervened and that didn’t happen. I wanted to keep some record beyond the video of the presentation, so here it is. This morning I’m going to talk about a user research project I did with my colleague Emma Cross. We observed the user experience of students doing academic research online and then looked at that UX from the perspective of technical services staff. I’ll start with talking about the research we did with the students, the results from that research that seemed most relevant to Technical Services staff, and then I’ll talk a bit about the reaction that Technical Services staff at Carleton had to those results. I’m sorry that Emma can’t be here. She was the Technical Services brain behind it all; I was the user research monkey. So, why did we want to do this? Mixing Technical Services and User Experience is not done very often. A Technical Services supervisor at Carleton told us she was finding it difficult to prioritize work for her staff, and she wanted some insight into what was likely to have the most impact for our users. Fantastic.   Methodology Emma and I designed the research to be student-led; we didn’t have specific questions but we were interested in where students searched, how they searched, and what kinds of things they looked at in their results. In our sessions, we asked students to search for something they needed for a research assignment, and to try as much as possible to do what they would normally do, not what they thought they “should” do. We emphasized that even though we were from the library, they didn’t have to use library tools or resources if they normally wouldn’t for the kinds of searches they were doing. I moderated the sessions, asking the students to think aloud throughout their searches, prompting them with questions if they were quiet. We let them search until they seemed to finish but let them know when we neared 30 minutes. The sessions lasted anywhere from 10-40 minutes, but most were 20-30 minutes. Emma took notes and we also captured the sessions on video, so we were able to go back and fill in gaps when people worked too quickly for Emma to capture everything. We did the research in March of 2017 and saw 10 undergraduate and 10 graduate students. Emma coded the results and found 4 themes that she thought were most relevant to technical services   Result #1: Overwhelming use of the single search box Summon and/or Google Scholar were used by most of the students, and the catalogue not much at all. 7 people used various specialized databases and there was also regular Google, Wikipedia, Tumblr, but Summon and Google Scholar were really the most used. There was little difference between grad and undergrad use of tools, except for catalogue use. The 2 people who used the catalogue were undergraduates. Kinda weird. But this is a good time to emphasize that this was a qualitative study, not a quantitative one; we’re not going to extrapolate that 20% of undergrads use the catalogue and 0 grad students do. The numbers don’t matter – it’s that when observing how students search and listening to how they approach looking for information, the library catalogue doesn’t often come up. It’s not part of their process.   Result #2: Popularity of the “get it” button   Emma’s second theme is the logical corollary to the overwhelming use of single search: the popularity of the “Get it” button and the link resolver in general. I love the “Get it” link – it makes my life much easier. (Graduate student) “Get it” is really useful (Graduate student) “Get it” is helpful!” (Undergraduate) HEY LOOK Carleton offers to “get this” in Google scholar – HEY THAT IS GREAT! (Undergraduate) Even when students didn’t mention it explicitly, they used it seamlessly. Maybe that seems obvious, but I have seen user research results from other university libraries where students had a hard time understanding their Get It links. Our students got “get it.”   Result #3: Metadata looked at:  title, date, abstract; Metadata searched: keyword, keyword, keyword A pattern we saw repeated over and over in student research was: Scanning search results list Quickly reviewing title for relevant keywords Check the date – majority of student not interested in old material If interested, click on record to read the abstract If title, date, abstract check out then download / print for further reading. Students seem to be so used to this pattern and used to seeing abstracts or snippets of content that when they don’t see an abstract, usually when they are looking at a monograph record, they’re confused and then they move on. And although students look at different metadata fields, they rarely search them. Aside from a couple of author searches and one really heartbreaking subject search, most of the searches we saw were keyword, keyword, keyword.   Result #4: Speed, impatience and ease of access Students quickly skimmed results lists and rarely went beyond the first page of results (or with Summon’s infinite scroll, the first 10 or so). Undergrads tended to look at fewer results than grad students. Many students had no qualms saying they were busy and they didn’t want to waste time. There was a general tendency to skip over materials that were harder to access – things on reserve, in storage, or borrowed, documents that take a long time to download. Even when they did pursue these harder to access items, they weren’t necessarily happy about it. This is probably Emma’s favourite quote: This is useful IF I can find it. It is not online so I will have to search the Library itself. This makes me cry a little. Generally, the students we saw were easily able to find other things that seemed just as good, so skipping over hard-to-access items didn’t seem to create much of a problem.   Reaction from Technical Services staff So these were the findings we thought were most relevant to Technical Services staff. There are no big surprises here, but we wanted to know how our own Technical Services staff would react to what we’d found. What would they take from our results? In July, we gave a presentation for Library technical services staff, followed by a discussion. Here are some of the first comments from staff, to give you a flavor: “On the library website, we now have a Summon search box instead of a catalogue search box, and maybe that’s why catalogue use was low.” “Are users even aware of the catalogue?” “Students don’t seem to be aware of subject headings. They should be taught about the catalogue and how to do subject searches.” “Maybe all first years could be given a booklet about how to search properly.” So that was sort of the tone at the beginning. Then our Head of Cataloguing said something like “I’m not buying into this discussion that keyword searching is a bad search. Remember that keyword searches subject. Indexing is the most important part of this.” Then the Technical Services supervisor whose questions started the project said something like “I found the part about Summon and the link resolver very interesting. This validates where we need to spend time. We can call out vendors where there is a consistent problem. Now I can be pushy to get issues resolved. If that is what students are relying on, then we have to make sure what we have is right.” Yes, having a Head and a Supervisor weigh in like this is bound to change the tone, but things did become much more positive and proactive from here on in, with comments and suggestions like this: “I’m wondering about loading e-book records. Sometimes we have good records but they don’t have subjects. Perhaps now I can load these records as they have summaries so they would get picked up in a keyword search.” “Cataloguers can change the way we work and include table of contents and summaries in monograph records when we find them. Perhaps we could make this an official policy and procedure.” “Perhaps we can take more time to see how Summon pulls information and where that information is pulled from.”   Conclusion So: A move to better understand how our discovery system handles our records A push to enrich print and ebook records to improve keyword searching A renewed focus on making sure the knowledge base is accurate so the link resolver works I know these aren’t necessarily ground-breaking ideas but less than an hour earlier, this same group suggested giving first year students a booklet on how to search! Hearing that students mostly do keyword searches in Summon and Google Scholar was understandably a little threatening to staff who have a very catalogue-centric view of the library (because that’s where they spend most of their time). But very quickly, they moved on and were suggesting new ways of doing things, and new ways of thinking about their work. It was wonderful. Technical Services and User Experience don’t usually cross over, but we saw that it can be a really good fit. Our students do their research online. Technical Services staff make decisions that affect how library resources are found online. So they are perfectly positioned to improve the user experience of our students. I’ll give the last word to one of our staff members, who after seeing our results said what I think we all want: “Now I can attack the right problems with purpose.” Adding Useful Friction to Library UX: Ideas from UXLibs Workshop Participants June 19, 2018 ~ Shelley ~ 1 Comment At this years UXLibs conference, I led a workshop on adding useful friction to the library user experience. I’ve already posted my text of the workshop, but I told the participants that I also wanted to share the ideas that they came up with during the course of the workshop. The ideas were generated around three themes: friction for users, with a goal of helping those same users friction for staff, with a goal of helping users friction to improve inclusion in the library What is below is verbatim, as much as I could decipher, from the post-its. There’s seems to be a combination of examples of bad friction and ideas for good friction. If you were a participant and would like to correct or flesh out what’s here, please get in touch! Here are all of the responses from both workshops, in no order at all: Remove desk or make it a low height only Lower the circulation desk or remove it altogether Users: appointments (promote other options first, Books/resources) Giving the article rather than showing to find the resource Answer questions instead of showing how to do it Wayfinding no.1 enquiry — looking at it with fresh eyes Staff want to put passive aggressive posters everywhere Toilet sign / Not a key — Gender N. Have the students suggest furniture in the library A room with a computer and a loudspeaker where the patron can hear what is on the screen Clickable text where a loudspeaker symbol shows you that you can hear what is said Wayfinding signage / Posters — loads of / passive aggressive Enforced preview when editing web pages Put forms through web group to ensure they’re not excluding When they click around one website When they order on shelf items When they order articles Making them having coffee with other departments and teaching staff Making them walk across campus to use another office Making them use the public spaces one hour a week You haven’t used Library Search for a while – do you need some tips? Get rid of printed self-help so staff have to promote online self-help Friction to help people understand the space they’re in Helping new users find books (when they want it!) Multi-language at entrances and around Remove classification systems!! Inclusivity check before things are published Remove search term suggestions databases Remove phone, e-mail, etc. from the info desk (anything that isn’t talking to students) Giving more options for reference help – all hours of the day, off campus, offline, etc. Change the quiet reading rooms with the group rooms every week Have staff meetings at the group study areas/rooms Put the check-out machines on the top floor Wary of pop ups but what if pop has the answer To slow down scanning of web pages — part scan and leave just prior to achieving answer Pop up box: “Sign in to get: full text, saved search, e-shelf, etc.” A confirm button when adding manual charges to accounts All A4H staff to be fully trained! Had thought of reducing page options/text but could friction be added another way? When they order interlibrary loans We added friction to subj guide BUT — super friction -> no control for subj lib. Therefore like the less friction idea presented by Shelley Pop up on self-issues: Your books will auto-renew for “x” weeks but may be recalled Are you sure? Deleting records from Endnote web EMS Editions: Removing assets Exhibition gallery: interactive screen Event submission Feedback forms Find a book / study space blindfolded? Stop them from using terms and phrases that people don’t understand Test all changes to web page on real users, especially extreme users Plain language checkers for web content Highlighting research consultations over guides + DBs Declarative signage: “You are on the (blank) floor, (blank wing)” Website style guides Push back on academic staff to upload accessible teaching materials to VLE Making ILL request — have you check whether this is in library? (?) Encourage use of learning technologies, but also provide analogue alternatives Provide alternative signage options (multiple alternatives) When entering study zones -> be aware of conditions expected in space Links that take users to Arabic page rather than going back to main page Allowing males to borrow / use the library during female hours Having box to return the books used inside the library Having a shared online spreadsheet if they would like to have someone to cover their desk hours rather than emailing Did you know? pop ups on library websites iPads out intermittently to draw attention Having to meet with a librarian Signage (or something else!) that prompts new students to consider using Library catalogue before trawling the physical shelves Helpdesk would benefit from friction when students make initial enquiries re: Learning Difference Support (e.g. Dyslexia) — In my Univ Lib they are required to ask about this in an “open” queue without any confidentiality! Near shelves potential redirect to lib cat On entry to help students choose appropriate working space On entry think about what student intends to achieve during visit Replying to email enquiry messages force scroll to beginning to force people to read whole history Have you left this in required state? Bog poster for open access disabled loos Creating new challenges in every day tasks to upskill staff, provide better services to users Asking questions (too many!) to get essential services in place / working properly (e.g. hearing loops [or might be learning loops]) Forcing users to rub up against us: “This resources has been brought to you by your library” (for colleagues) Flag for spamming no. of forwards and emails to lists per day Returning books through the book sorter—asking “have you returned all the books you need to” before issuing a receipt Students who don’t have a disability but are anxious to be able to have one-to-one library hours, therefore all need to be asked at induction ILR’s (InterLibrary Requests) asking “is this available locally” Items in store requested through the catalogue—”can this be accessed online” before the final request click—stops unnecessary collections from store that are not collected Vendor outlinks “You are about to leave the library’s website” Time to choose to read something you wouldn’t have thought of yourself Time to reflect on impact of a certain behavior Time to advertise additional services that might be helpful Screens/maps to look at before looking for books → are you going where you want to? Set target times to resolve a query. Solutions should be quick and easy. Library website: design decision Library website: content CMAS editors: removing assets ILL request form when item not available Library clear link when no results on discovery layer Disable possibility to take a breath from chat Stricter policy for adding web pages Slow down book drop Friction in ordering interlibrary loans which should be purchases How do we offer booking of “resource rooms”? Can we make it more difficult to make web pages inaccessible? Forced message to remove USB before the PC shuts down/logs you out Triage questions? IT vs Library Only hosting video tutorial with embedded subtitles — don’t rely on YouTube autotitles = RUBBISH!! What images are you using to show your library? Does it look inclusive on posters / online / in literature? E.g. pic of our staircase Reservation Collection—self-issue—extra touch screen with due date for 48 hr loans Stop them from rushing to the top floor, like signs in the elevator Force staff to actually test the accessibility of web sites Students, faculty, other ← Library VRS → stop before leaving the chat “Are you sure you don’t need further help?” How do we address people / users? Double-check before making a poster to “solve” a problem! Role management: Design does not equal project management Peer-checking of presentations / teaching sessions for accessibility Writing training materials for students with English as a 2nd language Uploading to online system: large files, Microsoft format, video and audio (not stream), copyrighted To support distant or part-time students Starting projects without: clarity about outcomes, testing, resources required Adding resource e.g. reading list not using the system Copying over last years materials to this years module Better obstacle than fee for interlibrary loans or document delivery Remove “scripts” for staff answers on Just Ask (IM) — be more personal? No pictures of PDFs or text on web — screen readers can’t cope with them Pop-ups letting students know access is being provided by the library (to online resources) Library website QR codes?? Symbols instead of English — Puts everyone at the same level of wayfinding regardless of language skills Diverse reading lists Know Your Staff Wiki! Regular process to review existing web content before adding more Entrance vestibule to silent study spaces Promoting self-service portal at library entrance Chatline. FAQs page to scroll through to get to input page Force a catalogue search before submitting an ILL request Policy that all staff deal with a request for help at point of need and see through Logging all enquiries on an EMS Pick-up shelf: Make users check out their reading room loans Database records in Summon—people going straight to Lib search when not everything is listed Sign up form for focus groups so we can pick by course, not first come, first served Academic workbooks arranged by topic on CMS not just straight link to AS server Online support and workshops more prominently promoted than 1:1s as easier to same [some?] large number I need to approve all external comms and surveys Web edits — I have to approve all pages Training on [survey?] software linked to approval from me Me as final editor for newsletter (brand / accessibility) Gender neutral toilets Editing text for screen readers — on all channels Check catalogue for students who have incorrect info on reserve items Complete a short online library quiz as part of first module Activate your student card in the library within the last week of term Put “Please refer to…” messages where rules aren’t clear ILL — request articles/books we already have—way to make them search first? Search box — choose what format first (they will type anything in a search box without thinking and then think we don’t have an article because they are looking in catalog) Ebooks — add to reserves or pop up asking them to look by title Student staff tell students we don’t have an item when we do — need to try other ways — have system prompt? Expand chat hours so people uncomfortable approaching desk can still ask questions CMS — make popup for alt-text but also color contrast, web writing, close-captioning for videos, etc. Content manager for website — approve all changes even Subject Guides Better feedback on item request — many are not picked up Knowing who your liaison is if on a certain page Staff Friction: Using CRM or equivalent to report issues to other teams, i.e. metadata errors: don’t ring team, logon LANDESK (CRM). Has advantages collating themes and work. Inclusion: Feedback form gender User [Gateways portals]: To prompt and remind about compliance maybe – copyright / usage — use of data/info. Authentication does this also. Staff: Printing checklist Actions before resorting to use of staff printer User: To prompt remind/inform resources purchased on behalf of students by institution IT passwords for faculty users Using lockers after library closing hours Computers on every floor (staff) Toilets (improve inclusion) Game area (students) Lounge area (students) Change main structure of website Adding too long text to buttons Adding too many main category pages Put “silence” signs on every door → there have to be noisy places Just grab a book (without having a look to the books around) Policy: force all staff to use structured text documents so that they are accessible Self-return machines (Don’t take think books, so we need to “slow” the users know know this) Inclusion: Programs → languages Open access funding program → read criteria before submitting the application Adding too long texts into modals designed to be glanced Gender in feedback forms Requirement for text and audio on video Request / reservation: This book is on the shelves in this library. Are you sure you want to request it? [checkbox] Yes. Sign on ground floor: The only toilets and drinking water in this building are on this floor. (Most library services are 2 floors up from here) Making gender option in forms more inclusive e.g. more option or textbox Before making an order/reservation that costs money Before making a reservation Before deleting your user account Before deleting any info permanently Get staff out of their offices — send them to find academic who have not been in the library for a long time We have a Lib Reciprocal Programme across unis in S.A. But in our Lib we force users to see an Info Lib before they get a letter to visit another uni library. Catalogue research (first finding is seldom the best) Remove option to add media on webpages for most staff Accessibility checks before publishing a webpage Filling out book request form for somebody Clearing a list in the catalog Printing single vs. double sided Staff designate, monitor, and enforce quiet areas Building entrance vs. exit Reserving lendable technology Requesting items from storage Information in subject guides Giving information to new students about the library’s services Ordering interlibrary loans In the Discovery systems Request print copies of articles Promote new physical and online materials in entrance User (student) testing before buying e-books Build UX into all projects Prayer facilities A note on self service screen to common ?s. Really good idea. Spending more time with the unfamiliar Symbol sign posting Meet and Greeters at front door Pick up cards at library Send librarians out to visit people Stop “library” work at enquiry point Wellbeing attention grabbing display — subject guide to Registration online — pick up library card in person Commuter room with lockers — charging (away from home help) Auto emails for book arrivals triggered by front desk team so that we are certain it is ready on the shelf Friction needed to prevent deletion of content Subject guides Allow use to browse area and discover other books related to study Develop electronic check lists for staff to ensure staff complete all necessary steps in a task on time and in order Finding tools — Before search encourage users to reflect if using the right finding tool Reading lists — Cap amount of items that can be added → “Do you really want to add this item?” Self-issue machines — Add “do you want to borrow” for very short loans / high charge (had at public) Modernise the till and integrate with LMS. Creates a couple of steps that slows staff and avoids mistakes on the till from “autopilot” “Lost” status and “Found” status. Create pop up explaining what to do and if want to continue to avoid incorrect use. Int’l students — Don’t assume that library experience of someone else is the same particularly when they have a different international experience / Encourage staff to think before assuming person is just not as smart as culture they are accustomed to. Filters — Putting a [friction?] to alert people that they can expand their search to include content not available at [library] as well Friction for staff: prompts to ask particular questions / edit or do something people often forget When searching: “This search result is showing everything. Is that what you want?” Or “It looks like you might be searching for a journal title. Would you like to do that?” Different language options — catalogue, website / signage Compulsory reflection on implicit biases before finalising a form / policy / procedure / interview / process / etc…. Sometimes it’s good to get “lost” and find hidden spaces… Have “no wifi” areas to create “switch-off” spaces… Noise control — something that encourages slowing of pace / pause on entry Furniture might cue quiet study vs. collaboration If staff are including a gender (or other protected characteristic) question on a form, make them type their justification! Supporting assistive tech (friction for staff) Stop long forms with every piece of info the librarian needs to order an item Shibbolth sign in from pub page — get to the right path, choose the best relationship for access Group study facilities — varied tech options More tailored handouts for students who have English as 2nd language or 3rd etc. DVD borrowing: “Don’t forget to unlock your case!” pop-up? Multimedia options for dyslexic students — on entry to library Chat box help kiosk for students who feel like “imposters” (afraid to admit what they don’t know) Single sign on — subject / CS team comms. Consistent approach to adding info to app. Autonomy and overall framework. Quizzes on VCEs at end of modules Furniture — soft for de-stresses Commuter students — find out what their priorities are and how this differs from other students To get integrated in the education with the Library competence, so every student gets the same education (information literacy) Find location in the library Gender free web Block them from the staff cataloguing OPAC — only use for 1 hour a day Think of the people you put on the website. Still mostly young, happy users. Teacher making resource lists Users: Interlibrary loans Pop-up help button after 3 kw searches < 1 minute Discover layer: where am I searching Website friction from adding content — specifically start “Headlines” when coming in to the library — To show services offered that are “unknown” Stacks — “Did you find out the exact location of your book?” Making signs — Added friction for personnel Multilingual captioning Sign friction or not? Faculty-librarian meeting for new faculty (in-person? why?) More faculty-librarian friction Leaving web presence, what about credibility? Evaluate results Require AIT text on IMG upload When leaving discovery tool to external site Management friction Default web editor template; to change, require friction Consider for more friction at admin side Mandatory meeting with librarian for an assignment Swipe card to enter the library Baby changing tables Rainbow lanyards Help uniforms / sashes? Program friction — new program proposal Signage Dual monitor search comp. for info desk enquiries Stop users from ordering books on shelf Warning pop up !DANGER! Universal design on website Pause before changing your brand colors etc. to your online library interface. …consider accessibility first. Pause before allowing online systems use your personal data …instead, learn what the provider will do with your data Pause before composing the perfect, new metadata or information model for the new library service …instead, involve users and designers in the process Shh… Quiet beyond this point   Posts navigation Older posts Archives October 2020 October 2019 June 2019 December 2018 October 2018 September 2018 June 2018 June 2017 December 2016 October 2016 June 2016 November 2015 August 2015 June 2015 March 2015 January 2015 December 2014 November 2014 Tags changes conference notes conference presentation information architecture user research user testing ux UXLibs Blog at WordPress.com. Shelley Gullikson Create a free website or blog at WordPress.com. Add your thoughts here... (optional) Post to Cancel Privacy & Cookies: This site uses cookies. By continuing to use this website, you agree to their use. To find out more, including how to control cookies, see here: Cookie Policy shelleygullikson-wordpress-com-9932 ---- Shelley Gullikson Shelley Gullikson Usability and user experience in academic libraries. Mine mostly. Web Librarians Who Do UX: Access presentation This is the text (approximately) of my presentation from the virtual Access conference on Oct.19, 2020, “Web librarians who do UX: We are so sad, we are so very very sad.” Last year, I was doing interviews with library people who do User Experience work and noticed that people who were primarily focused on the … Continue reading Web Librarians Who Do UX: Access presentation The TPL Debacle: Values vs People I can’t stop thinking about the situation at TPL. The short version is that the library has accepted a room rental from an anti-trans speaker, and despite outcry from trans people and their allies, despite a petition and a boycott by writers, despite their own policy on room rentals not allowing events that promote discrimination, … Continue reading The TPL Debacle: Values vs People Library Workers and Resilience: More Than Self-Care An article in the Globe and Mail this spring about resilience was a breath of fresh air—no talk about “grit” or bootstraps or changing your own response to a situation. It was written by Michael Ungar, the Canada Research Chair in Child, Family, and Community Resilience at Dalhousie University and leader of the Resilience Research … Continue reading Library Workers and Resilience: More Than Self-Care Research projects: Call for help I’m on a year-long sabbatical as of July 1 and excited to get started on a few different research projects. For two of the projects, I’m going to need some help from the UXLibs/LibUX community. In one of them, I want to look at love letters that users have written to academic libraries so I … Continue reading Research projects: Call for help UXLibsV: Notes Five years of UXLibs – hurrah! Let’s dive straight in. Barriers to UX Design: Andy Priestner Andy kicked off the conference with his address about why he thinks not many of us are moving beyond research reports when it comes to doing UX work in our libraries: We see research as the finish line. UX … Continue reading UXLibsV: Notes Website Refresh: First Round of Iterative Testing As I mentioned in my last post, we’re doing a design refresh of our library website, with a goal to make it “beautiful.” As such, we’re not touching much of the organization. But of course we have to pay attention to not just how the information is categorized but also where it appears on the … Continue reading Website Refresh: First Round of Iterative Testing User Research: Beautiful Websites? My University Librarian has asked for a refresh of the library website. He is primarily concerned with the visual design; although he thinks the site meets the practical needs of our users, he would like it to be “beautiful” as well. Eep! I’m not a visual designer. I was a little unsure how to even … Continue reading User Research: Beautiful Websites? Access 2018: A UX Perspective I started my Access 2018 conference experience with a meetup of library people interested in UX. There were only five of us, but we had good conversations about Research Ethics Boards and UX research, about being a UX team of one, and about some of the projects we’ll be working on in the coming year. … Continue reading Access 2018: A UX Perspective UX from a Technical Services Point of View This the text of a presentation I did last year at the Access Conference in Regina. Emma and I had plans to write this up as a paper, but life intervened and that didn’t happen. I wanted to keep some record beyond the video of the presentation, so here it is. This morning I’m going … Continue reading UX from a Technical Services Point of View Adding Useful Friction to Library UX: Ideas from UXLibs Workshop Participants At this years UXLibs conference, I led a workshop on adding useful friction to the library user experience. I’ve already posted my text of the workshop, but I told the participants that I also wanted to share the ideas that they came up with during the course of the workshop. 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I need help Popular searches splot-ca-6909 ---- About | About SPLOTS for Your Teaching SPLOTS DS106 [Assignment] Bank Splotpoint The Comparator The Daily Blank The SPLOTbox TRU Collector TRU Sounder TRU Writer Try TRU Collector TRU Writer SPLOTbox SPLOTpoint The Daily Blank Assignment Bank The Comparator Presenting BCcampus Webinar (2020) #PressEdConf (2020) #PressEdConf (2018) Reclaim Hosting Workshop (2018) Domains Conference (2017) OpenEd (2015) Thanks About SPLOTS for Your Teaching SPLOTS DS106 [Assignment] Bank Splotpoint The Comparator The Daily Blank The SPLOTbox TRU Collector TRU Sounder TRU Writer Try TRU Collector TRU Writer SPLOTbox SPLOTpoint The Daily Blank Assignment Bank The Comparator Presenting BCcampus Webinar (2020) #PressEdConf (2020) #PressEdConf (2018) Reclaim Hosting Workshop (2018) Domains Conference (2017) OpenEd (2015) Thanks Menu Close About What mean ye SPLOT? Smallest/Simplest * Possible/Portable * Open/Online * Learning/Living *  Tool/Technology Yeah, we still have some work to do on tightening up that catchy acronym… though the animation on the front of this site is being cooked up as a SPLOT itself. Where did it come from? Wander down the rabbit hole of the origin story. SPLOT comes from the conviction that there is great value in learners and educators sharing their work on the open web. All too often, doing so gets derailed by two problems. First, open web tools are perceived by users as difficult to use, and by organizations as complicated to support. This is why most organizations direct or even restrict activity into a consolidated Learning Management System (LMS).  Second, online identity and privacy concerns (and laws) scare people off. Not every learner is ready to share their work with the world on a medium that “never forgets”. We know that most free online communication tools capture and exploit the data of their users. So the tools on this site are designed with two core principles in mind: make it as easy as possible to post activity to the open web in an appealing and accessible way allow users to do so without creating accounts, or providing any required personal information We are mindful of Norman’s Law of eLearning Tool Convergence, that tools will tend to become more complex and LMS-like as they are more widely used. SPLOT tools are deliberately limited in scope. They try to meet a single need, and to do so as simply as possible. The tools here are built utilizing the WordPress platform, and should be readily sharable to other WP installations. If you would like to use a SPLOT tool in your environment, please let us know. But there is no reason that the problems that SPLOT tools try to address cannot be addressed in other frameworks. If this approach appeals, we hope others will find better ways to support more accessible, sustainable, and user-friendly ways to get publicly-engaged learning happening on the open web. 4 Comments Add yours → Chrissi Nerantzi March 26, 2017 — 8:35 am Hi Alan, lovely idea which I first came across some years ago, stored in my diigo collection, but not used yet. Wondering now if it would be possible to use for a project starting this Monday. We are looking for a space where people could contribute easily and quickly without an account. Thank you in advance for your help with this, if at all possible. Chrissi @chrissinerantzi on behalf of the #101openstories team Reply We Splot March 26, 2017 — 5:10 pm Hi Chrissi, I’m not sure what you are asking. The SPLOTs are WordPress themes with built in functionality intended and meant for people to install on their own self-hosted sites. The ones here are mainly for demo purposes, and are naturally open. So any use is okay, but they are un monitored sites. Reply Ryan April 1, 2020 — 11:39 am The new SplotBox theme is great – it is very helpful for a project idea that I have been playing around with for a months. Can you send me a list of the plugins you have installed on your demo site? More specifically, I am trying to figure out how you get the TMCE editor into the Description area of the Share form (assuming that it comes via a plugin). Thanks. Reply We Splot April 1, 2020 — 12:47 pm Thanks. The front editor and all the functionality is designed into the theme (a child theme of Garfunkel), no plugins needed. All details on installing and setting up are at https://github.com/cogdog/splotbox Let us know if you create something cool with it! 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There is no Wu-Tang Manual for the Diggin’ in the Crates crew. What I know about D.I.T.C. is … not much. I’m not from New York, never been to Harlem. What I do know is the available music. So this piece won’t revolve around obscure Show and A.G. 12”s. But I do hope to provide both a brief primer for folks who are not familiar, and some context and perspective on one of the most significant—and underrated—groups in rap history. If the history of the group is what you are interested in, Elemental has already covered that ground in an extensive multi-part exploration of the crew and its origins. In the early 1990s New York hip-hop was at a creative peak. Sure, NWA had arrived from the west, laying the groundwork for the gangsta blueprint that would set the direction for rap music future, and the Geto Boys had established themselves as notable Southern artists. But New York was still rap music mecca, with talent popping out of every borough, rappers spitting from so many different directions, producers still mastering the SP1200. A major cornerstone of NY's creative rap movement was the Diggin in the Crates crew, known simply as D.I.T.C.. Today, snitching aside, the last thing a hardcore rap crew will cop to is “digging in the crates.” However, this was New York in the early 1990s, and no group captured that time and place better than D.I.T.C.; Wu-Tang was one-of-a-kind, Boot Camp Clik was too dark and grittily underground, too focused in scope. Until the Bad Boy era, the members of D.I.T.C. were exemplars of quality rap music in New York’s early-mid 90s creative explosion. The beats were hard, and the rappers were harder. The crew was a loose conglomeration. There were many albums released by individual members with assists from the rest, yet only one (until last year) released officially by the group as a whole, and it dropped well after most members’ creative prime. Although at one time all underground New York rappers, each artist would end up in very different places; for Showbiz and AG: canonization as respectable early 90s jazz-rap; for Buckwild: obscurity in the wider world but a renowned producer's status in hip-hop. For Fat Joe: superstardom. And for Big L and Big Pun, tragic deaths. Production Lord Finesse, Diamond, Buckwild, Showbiz These four were the key to the crew’s name; their beats defined the period. Finesse was a rapper and producer, and had been a DJ since he went to a Bronx high school. And in some ways seems to exists as the central constellation around which the crew revolved. Finesse had known Diamond and Showbiz from his teenage years; they all began as DJs in the mid-1980s. By 1990, Finesse had released his first LP, Funky Technician, along with his DJ and close friend Mike Smooth. Production credits on the record went to the core of the D.I.T.C. sound: Diamond and Showbiz both contributed, alongside DJ Premier, who was still in the formative stages of establishing his own style. Gang Starr’s rep wouldn’t be solidified until Step in the Arena’s release the following year. (Although not a member of the crew, Premier would produce tracks for D.I.T.C. members throughout his career.) By this time the Diggin’ in the Crates crew began to come together. Buckwild didn’t meet the crew until after Funky Technician’s release; both were New York mixtape DJs—Finesse was supplementing the meager paychecks he received from Wild Pitch with mixtape hustle on the side—and at that point, the foundation for D.I.T.C.’s sound was established. Buckwild would go on to produce some of the best tracks in hip-hop history, from Notorious B.I.G.’s “I Got A Story To Tell” to Black Rob’s “Whoa.” Rappers Big L, AG, Big Pun, Fat Joe, O.C. 1990 was a major year for Lord Finesse in another way; it was the year he met a rapper named Big L, who would arguably become the group’s definitive rapper. Big L was a Harlem kid badgering Finesse for a shot. AG had battled Finesse in the late ��80s, and was an obvious choice for the crew. Big Pun and Fat Joe were later additions; literal heavyweights who the wider world would know as solo artists. O.C., an associate of the duo Organized Konfusion, rounded out the group, although various New York rappers would make appearances on D.I.T.C. recordings, associates like Party Arty and established vets like Brand Nubian’s Sadat X. For an early 90s group named for the rather nerdy habit of crate digging, D.I.T.C. were first and foremost street. And these were New York streets, so a NYC sensibility followed: shock-punchlines, lyrical posse cuts over banging production. In many ways, D.I.T.C.’s rappers defined New York rap in the mid 90s better than anyone; while the group itself is almost a footnote, its members' influence in the world of rap is broad. RELEASES LORD FINESSE Perhaps ground zero for the D.I.T.C. sound, Lord Finesse’s debut featured production from Finesse, Showbiz, DJ Premier and Diamond. Although its James Brown-sampling style was played by ’91, this is easily one of the best LPs to rock that style. Finesse’s rapping style at this point is firmly ’90, that weird cliché-flipping with awkard inverted phraseology that so many turn-of-the-decade MCs rocked (cf. Guru). Still, Funky Technician is one of the best LPs from this period. His second album was more developed, but continued along the same lines. Finesse’s rhymes were still some of the best out of New York, and the beats came from a familiar cast. Perhaps the most well known track from this period, however, was the remix of his album track “Yes You May” alongside a 17-year-old Big L. The “Yes You May (Remix)” is a key track in the D.I.T.C. canon; Finesse’s punchlines would destroy on any track, but it is L’s voice that captures the show. It was not until ’96 that Finesse released his follow-up, Awakening, which is one of my favorite rap albums. At this point, beats sounded entirely current, with the hard-knock tunnel banging style that had become New York’s stock in trade. One year later and the entire city would be dancing to a different beat, but for the moment, New York was still reveling in the noir-ish funk that crate digging wrought. Witness the posse cut “Speak Ya Peace,” where echoing snares compete with murky, thumping drum kicks for the listener’s attention, while instrumental samples float like haunted spirits around horn lines and treble-filtered vocals. Another Finesse album worth investigating is his Lost Tapes-style release From the Crates to the Files. Particularly for the single-only “S.K.I.T.S.” “S.K.I.T.S.” stood for “Shorties Kaught Up In The System.” It is a dark, hypnotic cautionary track about the tragic changes wrought over the neighborhood kids—or, more likely, Finesse’s outlook on the neighborhood kids as he grew up. He grapples with the way a harsh life twists childhood (“and 80 out of a hundred/ all they wanna do is clock dough, scoop bitches and get blunted,”) and the pressures of economic abandonment. “Get a 9 to 5, What?! That shit sucks / And besides I wouldn’t make enough.” O.C. O.C.'s voice was hungry. His defining song in rap history is "Time's Up," one of Buckwild’s biggest tracks at the time, but O.C.’s entire debut album was startlingly affecting - Word...Life showed depth, and an understanding of rap music's potential emotive qualities. The album art is weather- and time-worn browned photographs, which for the listener represented the open path into O.C.'s life. "Born 2 Live," a lump-in-throat description of early childhood, from cartoons and cereal on Saturdays to the tragic encounter with a friend's death at a young age. "Constables" attacked aggressive police, a la "Just a Friendly Game of Baseball" (or less obliquely, "Fuck the Police"). And of course "Time's Up" was O.C.'s hungriest moment; eviscerating fake rappers with lyrical ferocity and gut-wrenching production. Alongside O.C.’s friends in Organized Konfusion, D.I.T.C. handled the album’s beats. His follow-up wasn’t as effective, perhaps, but O.C. has always been a consistent rapper and although he has moved further to rap’s margins over the years, his music is worth checking. With age, O.C. lost his hunger, his youthful enthusiasm to capture so effectively the human condition, lost the righteous anger that infused "Time's Up" and “Constables,” and occasionally degraded into bitterness. His career extended beyond his albums; his verse on "Return of the Crooklyn Dodgers" and Organized Konfusion's classic "Fudge Pudge" and "Let's Organize" tracks, for example. Jewelz, his 1997 sophomore release, was consistent enough, and the opening cut “My World” featured one of DJ Premier’s best tracks. He had the misfortune to release it when hip-hop was shifting into Puffy’s discofied orbit, and even further south, which prematurely shifted his career to the New York sidelines. His next album, Bon Apetite, was relatively forgettable. In 2005, he released two albums. The first, Starchild, is startlingly energetic and reflective; especially the gorgeous jazz bass-riding cut “What Am I Supposed To Do?” which warns against the proverbial snakes in the grass. Smoke & Mirrors, its follow-up released on Heiro Records, echoed many releases from mid-90s New York rap giants a decade down the road; he had not fallen off, and plenty of his songs were pleasant, but the rap world would move on. SHOWBIZ AND A.G. Although established with the "Soul Clap" b/w "Party Groove" single, Showbiz and AG's reputation is based primarily on their 1992 album Runaway Slave. 1992 was something of a revitalizing year for New York hip-hop; with Pete Rock and CL, Gang Starr and fellow D.I.T.C. member Diamond D dropping landmark releases, Runaway Slave was just as good as the more heralded releases from that year. The title track is perhaps the most striking; over a thudding breakbeat that seems to echo dashing footsteps, A.G. spits some of the darkest real talk to come from New York’s creative peak. With horns cresting over the drums, A.G. contemplates life in the inner city, takes a sip of the 40, contemplates giving up—“yeah I’m woozy and my eyes are red / but it’s better than an uzi and a brother man that’s dead,”—but decides he has to maintain—“so when I reach the top I say the ghetto made me do it.” Linking the plight of post-slavery African-Americans to life in the ghetto might not seem like a revelatory conceit, and it’s not; but compared to the lyrics he and Finesse was spitting just two years earlier, A.G. had made a narrative break into detailed and literary style that moved stealthily beyond the punchlines. Like Finesse, Showbiz and A.G.’s follow-up would take a harsher direction, embracing the dark real-world based raps that they began on cuts like “Runaway Slave.” The beats, too, had developed along similar lines. Both records are worth checking. Show and A.G. would disappear for a few years; Show continued to do the occasional production, and the duo resurfaced with the underground producer Soul Supreme in the early 2000s. But for the most part, their careers followed a similar arc to O.C. In the early 1990s, they recorded some of the best LPs of the period, but by 2000 rap had changed direction yet again and these legends were left by the wayside. DIAMOND Rapper/producer Diamond’s most well-known release is the exquisite LP Stunts, Blunts, and Hip-Hop. “Sally Got a One Track Mind,” a lonely track with a moaning bassline, was a track that addressed, albeit in a male-centric way, the character’s tragic promiscuity. The entire LP was a collage of jazz-invested beats and rhythms. Most significantly, it varied widely from the trademark ��banger’ style that D.I.T.C. came to represent, like an alternate-universe Low End Theory. Diamond’s rapping wasn’t the most accomplished in the crew, but for a laid-back, funky sampladelicelebration of a record, this is hard to beat. BIG L, FAT JOE, BIG PUN If Lord Finesse was D.I.T.C.’s center, then these three rappers were at the opposite end of the spectrum, its most public face. Two are legends, and the third is easily the most successful member of the entire crew, the one who managed to adjust and flourish with the changing times. Although Bronx-born Fat Joe’s best records may not be his R Kelly duets (debatable), there is no doubt that on tracks like Ja Rule’s “New York” or Young Jeezy’s “Go Crazy (Remix)” he holds his own in a modern context. Fat Joe has released six solo LPs, and while many of them have moments worth checking, two in particular I come back to. Although his debut Represent may be worth the price just for the baby-faced photos of the rapper on the sleeve art and the original “Shit Is Real” verses, his sophomore album Jealous Ones Envy is his best early-period release. With the hard knock real talk of “Shit Is Real (DJ Premier Remix),” Joe set the stage for an extended career and made it clear that he understood where he came from, and that it wasn’t just lyrical skills but attitude that defined the artist. He was, more than many in the crew (sans of course Big L) able to capture street attitude and outlook. Over whistful Premier-sampled vibes, Fat Joe’s braggadocious doesn’t sound mean, nor does it sound matter-of-fact (as it did over the squealing saxophone samples in the original mix) so much as desperate and tragic. On Jealous Ones Envy, Joe’s blunt, honest rap style gelled compellingly. His 2002 album Loyalty is also worth checking; many of the tracks sound modern, but not forced. Perhaps by avoiding the pressures facing those that the press branded ��lyricists,’ (Nas, for example), Joe was released from the pressure of sounding modern without the fear of selling himself short. Further, the soulful “Born in the Ghetto” proved that Joe hadn’t lost the realness that had been so appealing in his “Shit Is Real”-days. Although not officially a member of the crew, I’ve associated Pun with D.I.T.C. if only for his verse on the group’s classic “Where Ya At.” Even if he wasn’t a member, he sounded like one; his albums are all worth mention and the price of admission, just for his tireless, apocalyptic, larger than life flow and lyrics. Like Big L, Pun was hardcore; he was spitting with the purpose of lyrical disemboweling, shocking and terrorizing his rhetorical victims with the pure force of his lyrics and charisma. “Dream Shatterer,” the best track; I’d probably go with his debut as his best album. His premature death, which is undoubtedly attributable to his big size, has solidified his legendary status. Consider the incomparable internal rhymes of his Snoop & Dre tribute, “Twinz (Deep Cover ’98)” alongside Fat Joe, where his single couplet about the mistaken murder of middle-men in Little Italy who “didn’t do diddly.” His skill seems magnified by the way it dexterously seemed to defy his bulk, a tearing aggression that flipped acrobatically around the beat while Pun kept his feet firmly planted on the earth. Then you have Big L, who was not actually large in stature but was the arguably the definitive persona of the crew. c left behind some of the most impressive tracks ever recorded; precocious doesn’t begin to describe the lyrical genius of his early career. Both of his albums are absolute must-own releases, and both feature other D.I.T.C. members prominently in production roles; his freestyle tapes are worth hearing too, if only for the prodigal talent with which he dispatches his enemies, real and imagined. His words punched through to your chest while his syllables wrapped themselves around the rhythm, filling every available space to break down how exactly he was at the top of the game. His wit was unmatched—he could have tricked Andrea Dworkin into laughing at the most misogynistic imagery (“No Endz, No Skinz”) - and the rhythmic weight of his vocals was uncannily powerful. If you can’t think of 10 Big L lyrics off of the top of your head, you have no business being a hip-hop nerd. D.I.T.C. Though not nearly as difficult to find in the internet age, the All Love EP is still too rare for the performances it contains. Fat Joe’s opening shot on the title track is especially notable. While the beat thumps underneath a tri-tonal beeping melody, Fat Joe reps “New York New York! Big city of dreams, where there’s nothing but foreign cars, bitches and triple beams, I fiend! for cash, fat pieces of ass…,” literally spitting the opening verse of a career. Finesse brags about making hits off of 6-second loops—how hip-hop is that?—and then it’s off to the chorus. Then Big L, who steals the show nearly effortlessly: “so hold on and prepare to get rolled on,” unleashing his immediately recognizable voice, twisting multi-syllabic words around the rhythm. It is as if he has effectively forced the language to fit metrically, bending it to his will with the power of his vocals. He similarly rips “Internationally Known,” a frozen ��80s electro beat. At this point, D.I.T.C.’s production had crept away from actual crate digging, and shifted more into ��New York banger’ territory, a post-sampling lawsuit style that also reflected a growing street edge in rap music nationally. Still, "Style Is Ill" rumbles through the same romantic sample as Cormega's "Love In Love Out," even as it is accompanied by growling D.I.T.C. affiliate Party Arty. The group’s first album, however, is easily one of the most underrated in New York history. Stylistically, it is fairly one-note, a nonstop onslaught of raw street lyrics and tunnel-banging production. “Where Ya At” featuring Big Pun; over a supremely satisfying track, Pun’s abstract and wordy claims to interplanetary supremacy come second only to his vaguely ��sing-song’ hook, as addictive as rap music can sound, hip-hop for cold lampin’. “If I ain’t home with the fam—where I’m at?” “Day One,” the highlight single, is actually a slow, chiming funk. Diamond opens, at this point past his creative prime, yet his familiar husky voice doesn’t seem to mind, dreaming of vacations in the Bahamas. He’s followed by Big L, who steals the show, dropping for one moment the usual metaphorical shields to admit in a moment of brute honesty, honesty made all the more bittersweet by his later tragic passing: “I went from standing on the corner selling cocaine / to rippin’ shows live on stage, hoes yelling my name / to be precise rippin mics is the light of my life….” Despite Finesse’s claims later in the song—“We worldwide, niggas just nice in one borough”—this track sounds so perfectly of its time and place: New York braggadocious translated through metaphors and intricate, stylized lyrical acrobatics. The notable exception to this style is “Tribute,” a song recorded after Big L’s death and features one of O.C.’s most passionate verses for his lost friend. With low pianos, tinkling chimes and a minimal boom-bap thump, O.C. regrets not answering his phone when L called just before his murder: If I had the slighest idea that was gonna be our last convo, I woulda picked up yo Please accept my apology, I know you're listenin It ain't a day that go by without the crew sayin we miss him February 15th, you was judged by the most high I was really mad at God You had big plans, you was about to be the man and I'm Proud to death that you a part of the fam It be a privilege you associated wit us I hope you in a good place where life is love On the whole, New York lyrical hip-hop has never sounded as simultaneously immediate yet confident, vital yet assured in its dominance. Certainly, other records have captured New York's swiftly changing spirit, but no record so thoroughly defined the ideals of this era like Worldwide. D.I.T.C. were on top of the world, but they retained the vital connection to their origins - the goal of countless rap records. We discuss the fall of New York, and reassess the significance of a rap history that ignores Too $hort, but it is vital that we appropriately reassess New York's own history as well. Yes, Public Enemy were significant, one of the most important groups to ever record. And while mainstream music criticism seems to have picked up P.E., then A Tribe Called Quest, finally on to Wu-Tang, the story seems distorted with D.I.T.C.’s minimal inclusion. In my mind, D.I.T.C. were the definitive New York rap crew, and they deserve a central role in its history. Their most significant role, however, is in your speakers. Driving the cross-Bronx expressway some years ago, nothing sounded more like the sights, smells and sounds of New York hip-hop than D.I.T.C.'s "Thick," blasting from my headphones. Immediate, definitive, vital—D.I.T.C. were brilliant. Sources Wheeler, Austin “The Judge”, “Lord Finesse”. 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Follow me on Twitter My Tweets Names: respect, inclusion and belonging Diversity, equity and inclusion is not about just revising HR policies and processes to be more inclusive and equitable, it’s a lens that you need to view everything through. For product organizations it’s a key lens to look at the product and customer experience.  I’ve been thinking about personal names and how those are a point of inclusion and belonging, or not. Names are personal, and for many of us, an important part of our identity. How do you say your name?  My name is Tara. In North America people often mispronounce it, less so in other parts of the world. My name is pronounced Tah-rah, not Terra. For the first 20 years of my life it was easier for me to not speak up when people mispronounced it. When I was in my early 20s I met a woman of colour at a conference who also had a name that was much less common than mine. She said that it was a basic sign of respect to say people’s names properly and that changed how I operate. These days I usually correct people, but I still do the mental arithmetic to calculate if the energy it takes to interject and then to manage people’s apologies is worth it. Our names tell a story and for many of us they’re an important part of who we are.  The microaggressions I experience are tiny compared to BIPOC people with non-English names. I love this story from actor Uzo Aduba when she told her mom that she wanted to be called Zoe. Her mother replied “If they can learn to say Tchaikovsky and Michelangelo and Dostoyevsky, they can learn to say Uzoamaka.” "If they can learn to say Tchaikovsky and Michelangelo and Dostoyevsky, they can learn to say Uzoamaka." – @UzoAduba Take action for girls and women: https://t.co/OcQi9uwGI4 pic.twitter.com/k9yf4QbTfs — Global Citizen (@GlblCtzn) February 18, 2018 I recently learned that from 1940-80s the Canadian government “assigned Inuit numbered identification tags that they had to wear around their necks, mainly because white administrators couldn’t pronounce their names.”  Our names are important and saying them correctly is a basic level of respect.  Joe Biden’s name sign I’ve been following some of the conversations in Black Deaf communities about President Elect Joe Biden’s name sign. In Deaf culture people have name signs that represent them and people with close ties to the Deaf community or well known figures also given name signs by the Deaf individuals or community. Here’s what Nakia Smith has to say: I signed what I signed 💅🏽 pic.twitter.com/MBYR9l14u5 — It’s Charmay To You (@realcaunsia) November 9, 2020 She’s quoted in this LA Times article saying that this name sign looks like “a “C” sign used by members of the Crips gang in some American cities and could be dangerous for signers of color and embarrassing to the incoming administration.” Names are important and have layers of meaning from our families, histories, cultures and communities.  Names in databases When I worked at Mozilla I documented the various places someone transitioning their gender at work would need to update their name and gender marker. There were so many systems: the HR Information System, LDAP logins, payroll system, benefits providers, the company we used to book travel’s system, Bugzilla, Github, and the internal staff directory and likely others that I’m forgetting.  Doing this work I learned there were more than a few people who didn’t fit neatly in these systems, including:  People who only have a first name People with non-English characters in their names People with non-English names who also have English names People who get married and change their last name to their spouse’s last name People who get married and change their last name to a hyphenated name with their spouse’s last name People who get divorced and change their name back People who change their first name to something that fits them better People with very short names People with very long names Patrick McKenzie’s Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names is the most comprehensive list of assumptions about names that I’ve read. If you’re designing anything that will include people’s names, this is required reading. Emma Humphries’ Adventures in Renaming is also a useful resource. This study by R. Ruiz-Pérez, E. Delgado López-Cózar, E. Jiménez-Contreras in the Journal of Medical Library Association looked at how “Spanish names are handled by national and international databases and to identify mistakes that can undermine the usefulness of these databases for locating and retrieving works by Spanish authors”. This study listed 17 name format variations with these two being the most common:  First name first surname second surname First name middle name first surname second surname I can imagine how this would impact search, retrieval and therefore how often the work is cited, which could in turn impact prestige through tenure, promotion and grants.  original article in Business Insider article in Gale Academic Onefile In Gale Academic Onefile, Vernā Myers, the VP of Inclusion Strategy at Netflix, name is spelled incorrectly. I’m assuming that the data ingest from Business Insider choked on the macron over the “a” at the end of her first name. Changing Verna to Vern makes it seem like the VP is male. Also, if I was searching for articles that mention Vernā Myers, this one wouldn’t come up.  Just like with in person interactions, how we design databases to include (or exclude) people’s names is about respect and impacts the feeling of belonging (or not) and who can be found (or not).  Names in products The way names show up in products and services can be a point of inclusion and belonging. This summer Mastercard launched True Name: For many in the LGBTQIA+ community, the name on their credit, debit or prepaid card does not reflect their true identity. That’s why we’re working with partners to bring products to market that will allow for chosen names to appear on the front of cards, helping ease a major pain point for the transgender and nonbinary communities. It’s a big deal having a credit card or debit card that matches your gender presentation and who you are. This video tells some of those stories: This goes beyond corporate platitudes during pride month. This is something concrete that Mastercard did to make their products more inclusive of trans and non-binary people and make it a little easier for trans and non-binary people to buy things.  This summer LinkedIn added a feature that allows you to record your name. In October Greenhouse added the Say My Name feature, where candidates can “pre-record the correct pronunciation of their names when recruiters request their interview schedule availability through Greenhouse”. I’d love to learn about other product examples where the people building the product put specific care and attention on getting people’s names right.  Thank you Thank you to Cara Hall and Carolyn Arthur for feedback and editing help. Share this: Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Related Posted on December 2, 2020December 5, 2020Author Tara Robertson One thought on “Names: respect, inclusion and belonging” Meagan Pollock says: December 4, 2020 at 9:41 am Hi Tara, After reading a similar post I just published, a colleague directed me to yours! I’m going to link to your article on mine: https://engineerinclusion.com/say-their-name-and-say-it-correctly Keep up the great work! Leave a Reply Cancel reply Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked * Comment Name * Email * Website Notify me of follow-up comments by email. Notify me of new posts by email. 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We know that many many people care about DEI in an employer’s brand, so this seems like useful functionality for candidates researching potential companies. … Continue reading Glassdoor’s D&I ratings: What does 4.6 out of 5 even mean? Some diversity and inclusion best practices in hiring After 3 years leading Diversity and Inclusion at Mozilla I’m looking for my next job: Director or Head of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at a tech company that’s hungry to make systemic change. At Mozilla one of my key partnerships was with our Talent Acquisition team to debias our hiring process and improve the candidate … Continue reading Some diversity and inclusion best practices in hiring Looking back, looking forward: end of year reflection and goal setting My winter holiday is coming to an end. I love that I have no idea what day of the week it is, that my new uniform is yoga pants and a hoodie, and I’ve had time to catch up with people I love. 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Continue reading Diversity Equity and Inclusion workshops and courses that I’m excited about Posted on October 21, 2020November 10, 2020Leave a comment on Diversity Equity and Inclusion workshops and courses that I’m excited about Glassdoor’s D&I ratings: What does 4.6 out of 5 even mean? stars by Darko Pevec, licensed under Creative Commons Today I learned that Glassdoor recently added diversity and inclusion metrics to their company rankings. My first reaction was excitement–this could drive accountability and increase transparency on diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI). We know that many many people care about DEI in an employer’s brand, so this seems like useful functionality for candidates researching potential companies. Glassdoor launched these user submitted D&I reviews with 12 companies. Salesforce scored the highest, with 4.6/5. That’s great! But what does it mean? Continue reading Glassdoor’s D&I ratings: What does 4.6 out of 5 even mean? Posted on October 2, 2020November 6, 2020Tags DEI, diversity and inclusion, diversity equity and inclusion, metricsLeave a comment on Glassdoor’s D&I ratings: What does 4.6 out of 5 even mean? Some diversity and inclusion best practices in hiring Image from Women of Color in Tech stock images collection After 3 years leading Diversity and Inclusion at Mozilla I’m looking for my next job: Director or Head of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at a tech company that’s hungry to make systemic change. At Mozilla one of my key partnerships was with our Talent Acquisition team to debias our hiring process and improve the candidate experience. Now I’m on the candidate side looking for jobs. Here’s some of my observations. Continue reading Some diversity and inclusion best practices in hiring Posted on August 21, 2020November 13, 2020Leave a comment on Some diversity and inclusion best practices in hiring Looking back, looking forward: end of year reflection and goal setting My winter holiday is coming to an end. I love that I have no idea what day of the week it is, that my new uniform is yoga pants and a hoodie, and I’ve had time to catch up with people I love. After so much rest (and cheese) I’m getting antsy to get back to my regular routine. For the past 10 years I’ve done some kind of looking back on the last year and setting goals/intentions/directions for the next one. I really enjoy this type of reflection. Here’s some free tools I’ve used to help structure that reflection. Continue reading Looking back, looking forward: end of year reflection and goal setting Posted on December 31, 2019November 6, 2020Leave a comment on Looking back, looking forward: end of year reflection and goal setting visual representation matters Recently I read an article on CBC about a project by Nicole Hill from Six Nations of the Grand River to create modern stock photos of Indigenous people because they couldn’t find representations of people like them to promote development projects. There’s been a bunch of awesome photo projects where people have created their own visual representations of their communities. Continue reading visual representation matters Posted on December 13, 2019November 6, 2020Leave a comment on visual representation matters Ally is a verb, not a noun Jeremy Dutcher‘s music is so beautiful and powerful. The way he talks about hearing his ancestors singing and laughing on archival recordings moves me in a deep way that I have a difficult time explaining with words. His Juno acceptance speech for best Indigenous Music Album was badass: he thanked his family and team, he asked the other nominees to stand up and praised their work for creating space and defying a single genre, then he called out the Canadian Prime Minister for supporting pipelines, for sending in militarized police forces into unceeded territory and for the boil water advisory that exists in many First Nations communities. He was interrupted by the music playing him off. Later the Arkells, who won the Rock Album of the Year, said a quick thank you and stepped back and invited Jeremy Dutcher to finish what he was saying. Before yesterday it was outside my imagination that a rock band would step back and give a two spirit Indigenous opera singer space their time and space on the stage. I think of allyship as a verb, not as a noun, and this was a beautiful example of this. All of this is such an inspiration for me to speak truth to power, to use some of my time to hold up my colleagues’ work on the stage, and to think about where i can step back and literally create time and space for others. Posted on March 18, 2019March 18, 2019Tags ally, diversity and inclusion, indigenous brilliancceLeave a comment on Ally is a verb, not a noun blah, blah, blah: diversity and inclusion, the code4lib edition Being asked to keynote code4lib was a literal dream come true for me. I shared some of the diversity and inclusion work we’re doing at Mozilla, called out whiteness and racism in libraries and shared some personal stuff. This wasn’t the first time I’ve cried while giving a talk, but this was the first time the tears weren’t about trauma. I was overwhelmed with the feeling of what is possible when you are loved and supported by friends and community. I had some of my dearest library friends sitting in the front row holding space for me. In my 20s and 30s my work was often fuelled by anger and I was all about burning systems down. Now that I’m in my 40s I’m exploring what it means to be fuelled by love and interdependence. I’m exploring what it means to have privilege and responsibility, and the type of work it takes to build the systems that are liberatory. It’s a new kind of vulnerability that is terrifying, yet incredibly freeing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWLSbIj4JjA&fbclid=IwAR22KjSBPXIFuhmGV8w5bTdx7-Lu-wrXDZCrDh3JdRN8Bsc3YcNeqBqLpEA#t=5m30s Here’s my original deck. I deviated a bit from the slides a bit in the actual talk. Continue reading blah, blah, blah: diversity and inclusion, the code4lib edition Posted on February 24, 2019November 6, 2020Tags code4lib, diversity and inclusion, libraries, racism, whitenessLeave a comment on blah, blah, blah: diversity and inclusion, the code4lib edition blah blah blah: diversity and inclusion It was such an honour to be invited to speak at National Digital Forum in Wellington. This was the biggest talk I’ve ever done and it’s the first talk I’ve done on the diversity and inclusion. I surprised myself by how emotional I got at the end and it couldn’t have been a safer place to share my ideas and my feelings. Continue reading blah blah blah: diversity and inclusion Posted on November 20, 2018November 29, 2020Tags d&i, diversity, inclusion, ndfnzLeave a comment on blah blah blah: diversity and inclusion Posts navigation Page 1 Page 2 … Page 4 Next page Proudly powered by WordPress t-co-2576 ---- We've detected that JavaScript is disabled in your browser. 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Yes Something went wrong, but don’t fret — let’s give it another shot. ucblibraries-summon-serialssolutions-com-855 ---- Summon 2.0 Summon 2.0 unevenearth-org-7187 ---- Make life, not work: democratizing, decommodifying and remediating existence – Uneven Earth Skip to content Uneven Earth Where the ecological meets the political Search for: Primary Menu About Mailing list Submit a piece Not afraid of the ruins Resources Uneven Earth Press Make life, not work: democratizing, decommodifying and remediating existence Emancipation from labour requires us to democratize and decommodify the economy as a whole October 23, 2020October 23, 2020 Photo by dylan nolte on Unsplash by Stefanie Gerold, Ernest Aigner, Maja Hoffmann and Louison Cahen-Fourot In May this year, a group of well-known academics launched an initiative to reform work in light of the Coronavirus pandemic and the environmental crisis. The manifesto, Work: Democratise, Decommodify, Remediate, has so far been published in newspapers around the world, and signed by more than 6,000 people. Referring to the essential contribution of workers to society and the economy – made ever more apparent during the pandemic – the manifesto argues that employees should be involved in decision-making processes in firms. It further raises the problem of leaving key human needs such as health to market forces, and therefore demands publicly funded job guarantees. In light of the environmental crisis, the manifesto calls for conditioning state bail-outs on certain environmental standards and on the presence of democratic principles within firms. It considers democratically governed firms best suited to achieve a transition towards sustainable business. We hope that this initiative stimulates the much-needed public debate on the role of work in society. We fully share the demands to democratize firms, decommodify work, and remediate the environment in principle. However, certain suggestions point in the wrong direction and fall short of the progressive potential in current debates on work. The authors also draw an uncritically positive picture of work and are surprisingly silent about the many problems associated with work. Democratization. The letter rightly points to the exclusion of workers from most decision-making processes in firms. Extending the principle of democracy into the realm of work is long overdue, and implementing co-determination in firms is therefore important. This does not, however, change the major purpose of privately-owned businesses: generating profit for capital owners. Placing workers’ interests at centre stage requires different business models altogether, such as cooperatives that are owned and self-managed by their workers. Nonetheless, the implied vision of a future where you need a job in order to have a say in economic decision-making is exclusionary and fundamentally undemocratic. It leaves out large parts of the population and continues to marginalize unemployed persons and unpaid (care) activities. A true democratization of work needs to go much further and encompass the democratization of the entire economy, whereby society as a whole decides on what is being produced, how and for whose benefit. Collective deliberation about, for example, the purpose of the financial sector, or the necessity of jobs in the weapons industry, might also question the rising number of ‘bullshit jobs’ that are considered useless, or even destructive, for society. The Coronavirus pandemic has clearly revealed the rather limited list of jobs and sectors that are essential for meeting society’s basic needs. Decommodification. The second claim of the letter demands that work be partly exempted from market mechanisms. We fully agree that essential areas of life should be taken out of the realm of markets. However, “ensuring that all people have access to work” would potentially exacerbate, rather than solve, the problem. The pandemic has clearly shown our dependency on work in order to make a living. Regardless of whether our job is useful to society or grants dignity, we are required to sell our labour in order to earn money to meet our needs. A “right to work” scheme, as proposed by the letter, might indeed tackle the unemployment issue, and it might also help to ensure that basic social needs are met. However, implemented in a society equating work with personal achievement and access to social rights, it would also reinforce people’s material and cultural dependency on work. To be truly emancipatory, a “right to work” scheme needs to be mirrored by a “right to live well” that is granted to all – independent of one’s capacity to work, and independent of economic or health crises setting large parts of the labour force free. A “right to live well” scheme would make access to social welfare institutions independent from work and provide the necessary infrastructure to live a meaningful life independent of work. Such a scheme could take the form of an in-kind universal basic income providing health, education, housing, energy, transportation and food through full socialization of these sectors. Moreover, the idea of grounding “citizenship in firms” because “one’s mind and body, one’s health – one’s very life” is invested in work, seems a rather dystopian vision of the future, whereby the wage relation becomes ever more central to social life. We believe an emancipatory and desirable vision would instead limit the personal and societal relevance of work, so that it is one aspect of life but does not determine life entirely. Environmental remediation. The letter rightly argues that any response to the Coronavirus-induced economic crisis needs to include environmental considerations. It finds that democratically led firms are best able to achieve such a transition. Although this is true in some cases, fractions of organized labour have also repeatedly opposed needed changes. Especially in inherently unsustainable industries, such as coal, steel, or aviation, workers’ rights for participation would most likely not result in the required changes – namely a significant downsizing of these industries and therefore the phasing out of most jobs. It is important to understand that work, whether in industry or services, is always a process that consumes energy and resources, and currently at clearly unsustainable levels. As scientific studies have pointed out, we need to reduce the overall amount of work in order to stay on trajectories compatible with ecological limits. Why should we try to come up with new tasks to keep everyone busy? Instead, we could reduce work hours and redistribute the remaining necessary work more evenly across society, accompanied by a broad, democratic debate about the usefulness and harmfulness of work. Democratizing and decommodifying work, and remediating the environment are essential to sustain life on this planet. However, this cannot be done through limiting ourselves to well-worn social democratic thinking. Nor can it be done through uncritically considering work as inherently positive, or without reflecting on the role of work in contemporary capitalism. Societies, rather than markets or firms, should decide what kind of work is done and considered useful and valuable. Emancipation from labour requires us to democratize and decommodify the economy as a whole, to transform it to become sustainable, and to enable us to live well independent of work. It requires us to democratize, decommodify and remediate our very existence. The Work: Democratise, Decommodify, Remediate manifesto was further developed into a book. The French version of this book was released on October 1, 2020. Note: a French version of this commentary on the manifesto was published on May 23, 2020 in Le Monde online. A German version was published on July 24, 2020 as a blog article in Der Freitag. Stefanie Gerold is a researcher at Technical University of Berlin (TU Berlin), Ernest Aigner, Maja Hoffmann and Louison Cahen-Fourot are researchers at Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU Vienna). 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We must act now to support the well-being of Black students and faculty. There has been ongoing, grotesque violence, threats of violence, and enduring trauma that Black students and Black faculty have had to face as conditions of work and study while on campus at the University of Windsor. The idea that Black students and Black faculty should be expected to cope with the grief and trauma of losing their University community without any accommodation beyond tepid institutional statements of regret is simply untenable. UWindsor RAACES asks faculty members who are in solidarity in the fight against anti-Black racism to stand with us by promoting the following: Black students should have the same accommodations for grief and trauma as is customarily given to students mourning the loss of family members – including assignment extensions and exam cancellations. They should be informed of this proactively via class Blackboard sites and email. Accommodations should be extended back to the beginning of the Fall 2020 semester. Faculty members supporting this action should take a stand with no emails, on the Day of Mourning – 7 December 2020. Again, this information should be spread widely via Blackboard and with an email auto-response message. Days of Mourning must continue on the first Monday each Month until the university has addressed the demands made by Black students and faculty. Black student activism must be actively amplified. Faculty must distribute information about anti-racist panels, teach-ins, and talks, and encourage students to attend while attending themselves. Support initiatives to reclaim spaces for collective resistance, gain secure spaces for organizing, and fund radical collective care measures on campus. Unfortunately, the messages that you stand in solidarity with Black faculty and students have been insufficient to effect real and meaningful change. Saying “Black Lives Matter” has also proven insufficient. We call on you to risk something and to inconvenience yourself to act for positive change. The Violence Black students and faculty are rendered unsafe: • The recent threats made with seeming impunity by members of the University of Windsor Delta Chi fraternity mean that Black students and Black faculty are not safe. • The zoombombing of student meetings with racist epithets including assurances that the hacker knew where students and their family members could be found and hurt means that we are not safe. • The violent threats and racist and sexist slurs employed in the hate emails received by individual students and students groups known for their activism in the Faculty of Law, on November 28 and December 1 specifically, mean that we are not safe. • The stalking and doxxing of Black faculty among us by Storm Front mean we are not safe. • The use of the n-word in the University of Windsor classrooms, with its putative employment of the idea that Black people are inherently inferior, deserving of discrimination and abuse, or are unaffected by hearing this word uttered in public spaces means that we are not safe. • The cavalier use of the n-word and other anti-Black derogatory comments by law students in their first year orientation means that we are not safe. • The institutional targeting of Black student activists means that we are not safe. • The ways in which the happenings at the University of Windsor are being internationally reported, making our community a well-known bastion of racist hatred and collective apathy, means that we are not safe. • The routine ways in which even the most basic dignity is denied to Black faculty and students means that we are not safe. It is the collective apathy that is most stunning. Simply, the willingness of the white majority to shake their heads, mutter something about this being terrible, distance themselves from it, and then look away is what allows this to continue. The Institutional Response The university was able to act very quickly, as it should have, when faced with the emergency of COVID 19. Options were urgently vetted, and decisions thoughtfully made and acted upon. Yet the emergency of anti-Black racism has been a pandemic for a much longer period and there appears to be little real systemic action in sight. The President has begun to take action by establishing a black scholars’ hiring initiative by 2023, and establishing an anti-Black-racism Initiatives Fund; as of Tuesday December 1, he took steps to ensure that the problematic Office of Student Experience is restructured to become safe and equitable for Black students. There is further urgent work that needs to be done in light of the virulent anti-Black racism erupting on campus; earlier this year the President picked “his” Anti-Racism Working Group, Task Force, and Lawyers to deal with anti-Black racism. They have now begun a lengthy process of deliberation and investigation that has no clear accountability. The President’s timeline and deliverables, which he will announce once he decides on them in Fall 2021, a full year from now, take us to where we were in April 2008, twelve years ago per the SACDI workplan. At this point, with luck, a year from now we will have watched Black people do the work again, for a white man to decide what, if anything, should actually happen. It is important to note here that the 2008 plan makes note of racist incidents and apologies stretching back to 1993- before many of the students currently being terrorized were born. We can do better than a “piecemeal,” “one-off” approach to the violence (SACDI workplan 2008, p. 13). We have to demand better. Not just Black faculty or racialized faculty – but all faculty who stand against anti-Black racism. We call for a Day of Mourning for our University, community, and well-being, as we demand a better University of Windsor. We start with the demands of RAACES and other community stakeholders, including the Hour a Day Study Club, the Black Council of Windsor Essex, Parents of Black Children, and Black Law Students Association of Windsor. We call for solidarity in this action as a way to propel our community into a more equitable future. Example Email Message and Blackboard Announcement I will not respond to email or other messages today, Monday, December 7, as I participate in the Day of Mourning over anti-Black racism at the University of Windsor. I stand in solidarity with Black students and faculty who are being victimized by the institutional racism at our University. In situations of injustice, to be neutral is to side with the oppressor. In showing my solidarity, I send this message as my last communication with you until tomorrow. I will also be learning more about what Black faculty and students seek to achieve from this action, and I recommend you do as well. This information is available here: Blog – UWIN RAACES (wordpress.com). In addition, I am encouraging my Black students to let me know they are in mourning, and I will extend to them the same accommodations to which all of my students in bereavement are entitled. Beginning in January, 2021, Days of Mourning will occur on the first Monday of every month. Days of Mourning will continue until institutional equity is the structure in which all my students and colleagues learn and work — equally. In solidarity, RAACES Cc: Robert Gordon, President, University of Windsor University of Windsor Board of Governors Hour a Day Study Club Black Council of Windsor Essex c/o Leslie McCurdy Parents of Black Children BLSA Windsor CBC c/o Sanjay Maru Windsor Star c/o Mary Caton WUFA Share this: Twitter Facebook Like this: Like Loading... Related Posted byuwinraacesDecember 2, 2020December 2, 2020Posted inUncategorizedTags:#anti-Black racism, activism, equity Published by uwinraaces UWINRAACES' site administrator is Richard Douglass-Chin. He is an associate professor of American Literature, Postcolonial Studies, and Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Windsor. 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Tehy also chat about his…https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/17614980/604951326_voiced_radio_dave_cormier.mp3 Karen Cangialosi Karen Cangialosi (@karencang) is a biology prof and faculty developer who also happens to be one of the best open educators out there. Terry and Karen chat about how she uses open pedagogy to enable student ownership and agency in their studies. They…https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/17539019/601178361_voiced_radio_karen_cangialosi.mp3 Ebru Ustundag Ebru Ustundag (@nomadic_ebru) Associate Professor @BrockUGeogTour and @BrockSJES whose interests lie in #feministgeographies and many other areas. Terry and Ebru chat about her studies and how she manages to teach and learn this stuff with a broad…https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/17462018/597186795_voiced_radio_ebru_ustundag.mp3 Steel Wagstaff Steel Wagstaff @steelwagstaff. the Educational Client Manager for @Pressbooks, from Madison, WI. In this epsisode, Terry and Steel chat about his history of working in the open and where he thinks things can go from here. Also revealed is his holy…https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/17403601/594082833_voiced_radio_steel_wagstaff.mp3 Jess Mitchell Noted contrarian Jess Mitchell (@jesshmitchell). Senior Manager, Research + Design at the Inclusive Design Research Centre at OCADu. Next week Jess will offer up the closing keynote for the Digital Pedagogy Lab Toronto (@DigPedLab). Terry and Jess…https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/17331420/590513505_voiced_radio_jess_mitchell.mp3 Amanda Coolidge Amanda Coolidge is the Senior Manager of Open Education at BCcampus. She leads the BC Open Textbook Project as well as the Open Education initiatives. Terry and Amanda chat about all of the wonderful initiatives coming out of BB Campus, her upcoming…https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/17263040/586854660_voiced_radio_amanda_coolidge.mp3 Dr. Ryan Straight Dr. Ryan Straight(@ryanstraight)co-directs the Ed-Tech program as well as teaches Informatics and Cyber Operations at the University of Arizona. He is also a pillar of the Squad Goals Network (@sqdglsntwrk) and has impeccable taste in thrift store…https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/17192666/583102467_voiced_radio_dr_ryan_straight.mp3 Dr. Tannis Morgan Dr. Tannis Morgan (@tanbob) is currently on secondment as a researcher in Open Educational Practices @BCCampus, from her role as director @TELTJIBC. Terry and Tannis chat about the research she is working on in Open Educational Practices and maybe…https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/17088464/578075136_voiced_radio_s2e23.mp3 Chad Flinn Chad Flinn (@chadhflinn). at the forefront of Open Education for the trades in Canada and… maybe the world! Terry and Chad have a chat about how Open Educational Resources and Practices can be built in to trades education as its demographics shift…https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/17042817/575303250_voiced_radio_gettin_air_with_terry_greene_chad_flinn_chadhflinn.mp3 Alexis Clifton This week Terry chats with Alexis Clifton, a.k.a. Open Alexis! Alexis is the Director of Open Teaching and Learning for the scrappy little organization of SUNY OER Services! They chat about all of the wonderful initiatives SUNY is up to, including…https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/16984922/572122911_voiced_radio_alexis_clifton.mp3 Mitch Huguenin Mitch is the Indigenous Pedagogy Designer at Trent University. We chat about how one might go about indigenizing teaching and learning practices through patience, transparency, and respect. Mitch covers some initial strategies to consider for those…https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/16921400/568469316_voiced_radio_mitch_huguenin.mp3 Maha Bali In this episode Terry Green goes way, way outside of Ontario to hear from Maha Bali at the American University in Cairo. Maha shares insights into the origins of Virtually Connecting and where it is headed next. Maha also reflects on the beautiful…https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/16746053/560910675_voiced_radio_maha_bali.mp3 Chuck Pearson This week Terry chats with Dr. Chuck Pearson (@shorterpearson) form Tusculum University in Greenville, Tennessee. A listen to Chuck’s take on teaching science to under-resourced students is basically a pedagogical booster shot for anyone interested.https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/16680714/557006265_voiced_radio_chuck_pearson.mp3 Dr. Ryan Martin This week’s guest is Dr. Ryan Martin from the Department of Physics, Engineering Physics & Astronomy at Queen’s University. Terry and Ryan chat about how he and some of his students went about creating a full-blown, home-grown, open souorce…https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/16628321/ryan_martin_recording.mp3 Regina Gong Regina Gong (@drgong) is the Open Educational Resources (OER) Project Manager & Head of Technical Services & Systems at Lansing CC in Michigan. In this episode, Terry and Regina chat about a few of the 1000 steps an institution can take towards #OER…https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/16588521/regina_1.mp3 Nate Angell In this episode, Nate Angell (@xolotl) from @hypothes_is describes how he came to be among the ed-tech heroes at Hypothes.is and just how in the heck they managed to make web annotating cool. Terry and Nate also chat about exciting new developments…https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/16533043/nate_angell_1.mp3 Billy Meinke Without question, Billy Meinke is Open Education subject zero in the state of Hawai’i. We chat about his process in developing Open Educational Resources, localized for the students of the University of Hawai’i and his recent visit to Ontario for the…https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/16533042/billy_meinke_1.mp3 Catherine Anderson Terry Greene speaks with Catherine Anderson (@candersHamilton), teaching professor in the Department of Linguistics and Languages at McMaster University. They talk about what Catherine did to earn herself a spontaneous round of applause from her…https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/16392299/catherine_anderson.mp3 Martin Weller Martin Weller (@mweller) Open University, professor in @IETatOU, Director of @oer_hub, President of @A_L_T. Martin’s long running blog, The Ed Techie (blog.edtechie.net) is approaching its 1000th post, so in this episode, we quiz him on his own blogging.https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/16348609/martinweller2.mp3 Clint Lalonde In this episode, Terry connects with Clint Lalonde (@edtechfactotum). Known as the Wayne Gretzky of Ed-Tech, Clint is the Manager of Educational Technologies @BCCampus, professor in the @RRUEduStudies, and community steward of @etug. They chat about…https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/16292498/s2e10_clint_1.mp3 Brian Lamb Brian Lamb is the Re-Director of Innovation at Thompson Rivers University. If you’ve ever wanted to learn the history of ed-tech in Canada while at the same time learning more about great tacos and ceviche, this is the interview for you.https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/18806895/brianlamb_1.mp3 Robin DeRosa Among other things, Robin (@actualham) chats about the challenge in preparing and delivering keynotes while continuously being inspired by other open keynoters as she gets ready to deliver one at eCampusOntario’s Technology Enabled Seminar and Showcase.https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/16178112/s2e7_robinderosa.mp3 Jennifer Jahnke This week’s guest is Jennifer Jahnke, Faculty Coordinator of Accessible Media Production at Mohawk College. Jennifer and Terry chat about the Accessible Media Production programs first year and the exciting work in store for next year’s students….https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/15944265/gettin_air_2_5.mp3 Darla Benton-Kearney & Jodie Black Terry connects with Darla Benton-Kearney @DBentonKearney and Jodie Black @blackjodie32. Jodie and Darla are both experts in Universal Design for Learning and both work at an Ontario College. We chat about UDL and how instructors can use these…https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/15944260/gettin_air_with_terry_greene_darla_benton_kearney_jodie_black.mp3 Todd Conaway Terry Greene chats with Todd Conaway (@todd_conaway) from the University of Washington, the grandfather of the 9 X 9 X 25 Reflective Writing Challenge that over 40 Ontario Educators are gearing up to begin in the Ontario Extend blogoshphere!https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/15858774/gettin_air_with_terry_greene_todd_conway.mp3 John Stewart In this episode Terry Greene chats with @JohnStewartPhD, Assistant Director for the Office of Digital Learning at the University of Oklahoma. The main topic of discussion is the wonderfully successful Domain of One’s Own project, OU Create, which has…https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/15858777/gettin_air_with_terry_greene_and_ecampus_ontario_john_stewart.mp3 The eCampusOntario Program Manager Team Terry Greene invites the rest of the eCampusOntario Program Manager team to recap what’s been going on in open and technology-enabled learning over the summer and where the team is heading next. @jennihayman @livingkatstone and @joanne_kehoe.https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/15858810/gettin_air_with_terry_greene_and_ecampusontario_season_2_episode_1.mp3 The eCampusOntario Team: Looking Back and Moving Forward Terry Greene invites the rest of the eCampusOntario Program Manager team to recap what’s been going on in open and technology-enabled learning over the summer and where the team is heading next. @jennihayman @livingkatstone and @joanne_kehoe. drivehttps://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/15716727/gettin_air_with_terry_greene_and_ecampusontario_season_2_episode_1.mp3 Gettin’ Air with Terry Green and eCampusOntario – David Porter Terry Greene chats with David Porter (@dendroglyph) CEO of eCampusOntario. They chat a bit about what it’s like to be a central figure in Open Education in Canada and where eCampusOntario is headed in the near future. We hope you enjoy it and we will…https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/14998815/gettin_air_with_terry_green_and_ecampusontario_david_porter.mp3 Kyle Mackie Kyle Macki is an Educational Consultant and Community Builder who has worked extensively with Ontario colleges and universities to create wonderful online learning experiences for broad audiences. Listen to find out more!https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/14832287/getting_air_with_terry_greene_kyle_mackie.mp3 Denise Withers and Michelle Cheung Terry Greene catches up with Denise Withers (@denisewithers) and Michelle Cheung. Denise and Michelle work with the wonderful students of the eCampusOntario Student Experience Design Lab (@SXDLab). They chat about the amazing projects that are nearing…https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/14705375/440243940_voiced_radio_gettin_air_with_terry_greene_denise_withers_and_michelle_cheung.mp3 Gettin’ Air with Terry Greene- Maureen Glynn This week on Gettin’ Air Terry chats with Maureen Glynn (@MGtheID), Instructional Designer at from The Chang School @RyersonU. They chat about Maureen’s wonderful history of openness in her work, which has lead her to be one of @eCampusOntario’s Open…https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/14677932/gettin_air_with_terry_greene_maureen_glynn.mp3 Laura Killam Nurse Killam is a professor in Nursing at Cambrian College in Sudbury. She is also one of five eCampusOntario Open Fellows. Terry and Laura chat about her foray into open education and how her very popular Nurse Killam Youtube Channel came to be….https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/14615154/ep_25_laura_killam.mp3 Greg Rodrigo Terry Greene (@greeneterry) is joined by Greg Rogrigo to talk about the tech-enabled work being done at Georgian College.https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/14615155/ep25gregr_1_1.mp3 Judith Limkilde Terry catches up with Judith Limkilde, recently retired Vice President Academic of Fleming College. Judith had a long career in various teaching and leadership positions at Seneca College, Nova Scotia Community College as well as Fleming. Terry and…https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/14615153/gettin_air_with_terry_greene_judith_limkilde.mp3 Lauren Anstey Terry (@greeneterry) chats with Lauren Anstey (@ansteypants) eLearning and Curriculum Specialist at Western University about the success of Western’s Open Education Day, the emergence of their Open Working Group and other exciting technology enabled…https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/14615152/ep22_1.mp3 Jennifer Peters (Seneca College) Episode 21 with Jennifer Peters (@jennrpeters), eLearning and Digital Literacies Librarian at Seneca College – We chat about all things Open at Seneca, most notably their involvement in the development of the wonderful resource The Learning Portal…https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/14308380/gettin_air_with_terry_greene_and_ecampusontario_jennifer_peters_seneca_college.mp3 Raviv Jhangiani This week Terry is honoured to have the privilege of chatting with Rajiv Jhangiani (@thatpsychprof), one of the world’s leading advocates of Open Educational Resources and Practices. They chat about all of the wonderful contributions to the Open…https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/14232624/gettin_air_with_terry_greene_and_ecampusontario_raviv_jhangiani_1.mp3 Aaron Tucker and Paul Chafe In this episode, Terry Green welcomes Aaron Tucker(@chessbard) and Paul Chafe from Ryerson University. They discuss the development of the Department of English at Ryerson’s open textbook “Write Here, Right Now” designed for first year composition…https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/14232626/19_2.mp3 Nick Baker In this episode, Terry Greene (@greeneterry) chats with Nick Baker (@nbaker), Director of the Office of Open Learning at The University of Windsor. Nick tells about all the great things they do and how we might go about getting an Open Learning office…https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/14232623/gettin_air_with_terry_greene_nick_baker_university_of_windsor_1.mp3 Christopher Shields Terry (@greeneterry) and Christopher Shields from the School of General Arts and Science at Fleming College chat about Fleming’s recent move to widespread open blogging in their flagship communications courses and the opportunities that has presented.https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/14232628/gettin_air_with_terry_greene_and_ecampusontario_christopher_shields_fleming_college_1.mp3 Jason Lamb Terry Greene (@greeneterrry) chats with Jason Lamb(@jasonlamb), Instructional Assistant in the Faculty of Health Sciences at McMaster University about all of the very cutting edge virtual and augmented reality projects underway at Mac!https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/14232625/gettin_air_with_terry_greene_and_ecampusontario_jason_lamb_1.mp3 Chris Fernlund Terry Greene (@greeneterry) chats with Chris Fernlund (@fernfeed), the Student Lead of Student Supports for @ecampusontario. They chat about and reveal the mysteries of the Student Experience Design Lab (@sxdlab) and the wonderful projects in the…https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/14232629/gettin_air_with_terry_greene_and_ecampusontario_1.mp3 Rick Overeem Rick Overeem (@RickOMobile)from Lambton College speaks with Terry Greene (@greeneterry) origins of Lambton College’s journey to become known as the “mobile college” and where they plan to go with open and technology-enabled learning in the future.https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/14232630/gettin_air_with_terry_greene_from_ecampusontario_rick_overeem_lambton_college_1.mp3 Jessica O’Reilly Terry Greene (@greeneterry) speaks with Jessica O’Reilly from Cambrian College. They chat about her open education plans for the coming term as an Open Education Fellow with eCampusOntario and her new role as an Instructional Developer at Cambrian,…https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/14232635/gettin_air_with_terry_greene_and_ecampusontario_jessica_o_reilly_1.mp3 Helen DeWaard Terry Greene (@greeneterry) speaks with Helen DeWaard. One of Canada’s openest of open educators, they chat about Helen’s plans for her winter courses in Lakehead University’s Faculty of Education, her involvement in Virtually Connecting, and her…https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/14232631/gettin_air_with_terry_greene_and_ecampusontario_helen_dewaard_1.mp3 Denise Neilsen In this episode, Terry Greene (@greeneterry) speaks with Denise Nielsen (@denielsen) from St. Lawrence College. Denise chats about her foray into melding open educational resources with open educational practices by co-creating an open textbook with…https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/14232634/gettin_air_with_terry_greene_and_ecampusontario_denise_neilsen_1.mp3 Emma Gooch and Lena Patterson Terry Greene (@greeneterry) is joined by the engines that drive eCampusOntario – Emma Gooch (@emma_gooch) and Lena Patterson (@lpatter10). Emma and Lena tell the origin story of eCampusOntario and where we are headed next.https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/14232632/gettin_air_with_terry_greene_and_ecampusontario_episode_9_3.mp3 Alan Levine Terry Greene (@greeneterry) speaks with Alan Levine (@cogdog) about the endlessly amazing work Alan has done in the open over the years, including his involvement in the Ontario Extend project and where that work is headed.https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/14232636/gettin_air_with_terry_greene_and_ecampus_ontario_alan_levine_cogdog_3.mp3 Giulia Forsythe Terry Greene (@greeneterry) and Giulia Forsythe (@giuliaforsythe) chat about exciting connected and open education projects stemming from the Centre for Pedagogical Innovation at Brock University and how Giulia does her wonderful sketch-noting.https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/14232640/gettin_air_with_terry_greene_from_ecampusontario_giulia_forsythe_1.mp3 Terry Greene The tables have turned as Joanne Kehoe flips the script on regular host Terry Greene and interviews him about learning in the open with things like ds106 and Ontario Extend.https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/14232639/gettin_air_with_terry_greene_joanne_kehoe_2.mp3 Joanne Kehoe and Peg French Terry Greene’s (@greeneterry)fellow eCampusOntario Program Managers Joanne Kehoe (@JoanneKehoe) and Peg French (@livingkatstone) chat about playing in the Ed-Tech Sandbox and the future Open Educational Resource repository for Ontario post-secondary…https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/14232641/gettin_air_with_terry_greene_episode_5_1.mp3 Ali Versluis and Claire Coulter Ali Versluis (@aliversluis) and Claire Coulter (@ccoulter1)of the University of Guelph. speak with Terry Greene (@GreeneTerry)about the Open Education goings on at U of G, and the Ontario Open Education Rangers lifestyle.https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/14232642/getting_air_episode_four_2.mp3 Sean Kheraj and Tom Peace In this episode, Terry Greene (@greeneterry) chats with Sean Kheraj (@seankheraj)of York University and Tom Peace (@tpcanoe) of Huron College a Canadian History open textbook sprint.https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/14232643/gettin_air_3_recording_1_2017_12_06_t04_09_27pm_greeneterry_1.mp3 Dr. Aaron Langille In this episode Terry Greene (@GreeneTerry) talks with Dr. Aaron Langille (@aaron_lucs)of Laurentian University. about about plans to mix open education and gamification.https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/14232644/getting_air_episode_two_1.mp3 Jenni Hayman In this pilot episode of “Gettin’ Air” with Terry Greene (@greenetery) eCampusOntario Program Manager Jenni Hayman (@jennihayman). Jenni chats about what it is to be an Open Educator, an eCampusOntario Program Manager and an Ontario Open Education Ranger.https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/14232645/getting_air_episode_one_2017_12_09_5_45_am_1.mp3 Our mission is to change the way you talk about education—in Canada and around the world—by opening up a multi-media space for vibrant, provocative conversation about the issues, challenges and opportunities that are coming to define us in the 21st century. Stephen Hurley, Founder and Chief Catalyst Stephen@voicEd.ca Listener Line: 647-812-5894 Privacy Policy Home About Podcasts Off the Shelf Education Workers Speak Support our work Facebook Twitter RSS © 2019 voicEd Radio Canada | voicEd Radio Canada is Incorporated under the Canada Not-for-profit Corporations Act | Accessibility | a distill design vphill-com-2525 ---- mark e. phillips journal mark e. phillips journal Metadata Events System: Accounting for Time In the last post, I mentioned that there four primary things that we have needed in order to move a large portion of our student and staff workers to full remote work during this quarantine. In this post, I wanted to jump ahead a bit and talk a bit about how we are accounting for […] Managing Metadata Editing for Telecommuting. Many of us in the US, and around the world for that matter, are now sitting at home working remotely trying to maintain some semblance of normalcy during quarantine for COVID-19. I’m going to write up a few of the things that we have been working on her at the UNT Libraries to try and […] User Session Analysis: UNT Scholarly Works This is a continuation of a series of posts that I never got around to writing earlier this semester.  I posted the first and second post in the series in February but never got around to writing the rest of them.  This time I am looking at if users use items from multiple collections in […] Introducing Sampling and New Algorithms to the Clustering Dashboard One of the things that we were excited about when we adding the Clustering Dashboard to the UNT Libraries’ Edit system was the ability to experiment with new algorithms for grouping or clustering metadata values.  I gave a rundown of the Cluster Dashboard in a previous blog post  This post is going to walk through […] User Session Analysis: Investigating Sessions In the previous post in this series I laid out the work that we were going to do with session data from the UNT Libraries’ Digital Collections.  In order to get the background that this post builds from take a quick look at that post. In this post we are going to look at the […] User Session Analysis: Connections Between Collections, Type, Institutions I’ve been putting off some analysis that a few of us at the UNT Libraries have wanted to do with the log files of the UNT Libraries Digital Collections.  This post (and probably a short series to follow) is an effort to get back on track. There are three systems that we use to provide […] Metadata Quality Interfaces: Cluster Dashboard (OpenRefine Clustering Baked Right In) This is the last of the updates from our summer’s activities in creating new metadata interfaces for the UNT Libraries Digital Collections.  If you are interested in the others in this series you can view the past few posts on this blog where I talk about our facet, count, search, and item interfaces. This time […] Metadata Interfaces: Search Dashboard This is the next blog post in a series that discusses some of the metadata interfaces that we have been working on improving over the summer for the UNT Libraries Digital Collections.  You can catch up on those posts about our Item Views, Facet Dashboard, and Element Count Dashboard if you are curious. In this […] Metadata Quality Interfaces: Element Count Dashboard Next up in our review of the new metadata quality interfaces we have implemented this summer is our Element Count Dashboard. The basics of this are that whenever we index metadata records in our Solr index we go ahead and count the number of instances of a given element, or a given element with a […] Metadata Quality Interfaces: Facet Dashboard This is the second post in a series that discusses the new metadata interfaces we have been developing for the UNT Libraries’ Digital Collections metadata editing environment. The previous post was related to the item views that we have created. This post discusses our facet dashboard in a bit of depth.  Let’s get started. Facet Dashboard […] vphill-com-2563 ---- mark e. phillips journal mark e. phillips journal Menu Skip to content Home About Metadata Events System: Accounting for Time Leave a reply In the last post, I mentioned that there four primary things that we have needed in order to move a large portion of our student and staff workers to full remote work during this quarantine. In this post, I wanted to jump ahead a bit and talk a bit about how we are accounting for remote workers’ time. This is one of the things that the university wrestled with when thinking about moving students offline, how would we be able to account for time. Well, one of the ways we are trying to track time is by using the activity in the metadata editing system to help managers understand what their workers are working on. Over the past two weeks, the Software Development Unit at the UNT Libraries has been working hard to push out quite a few changes to a system we call Events. This system has been sitting in the background of our metadata editing infrastructure for a number of years collecting what we call “Edit Events”. An Edit Event is logged in the Event system and contains information about the username, which record they edited, the timestamp for when it was edited, and how long the metadata edit window was open while they were doing metadata. This is then aggregated for users in a dashboard that they can view. For a few years now this system has been unusable because of some code that needed to be refactored now that we have almost 2.5 million edit events. That’s what we have been working on for the past few weeks. The first thing to note for users of our Edit system is “how do you get to the Events pages”. Well in the upper left corner of the screen, if you click on the “home” icon you will see an Events option in the dropdown. Getting to Edit Events from Edit Search Dashboard This will take you to the Events landing page, where you are greeted with an overview of what is going on with the events system. All data is divided into Today, This Month, and All Time and gives you statistics for the number of edits, the number of active users, and the number of unique items that have been edited. Clicking on the different buttons will take you to different places. I am going to walk through by clicking on any of the blue buttons for today. Edit Events Overall Stats By clicking on any of the Today buttons, you are presented with statistics for the Edit Events that have happened in the system today. You can get an overview of everything that has happened in the system. You can also navigate to different days by clicking on the Previous Day button. Daily Stats View for March 30, 2020 At the top of the page, you will see an overview of stats for the day. This includes the number of edits, the number of unique records edited, and how much aggregate time has been spent during the day editing. We also show the first and most recent edit, the number of users that have edited during the day, and then we list the user who has the most edits along with their edit count. Events Daily Stats Detail Next up is a view of the Activity By Hour section. I have been amazed to see the time of day when users are editing records. For example, on Saturday the 28th there were 35 users who edited records in 22 of the 24 hours during the day. Events Hourly Stats Detail Below that block is the Activity By User for the day. You can see a listing of all of the users who have edited during the day as well as some statistics related to their activity including the number of edits, number of records, total editing duration and the average time per edit, and the average time per record. Clicking on any of the names will take you to an overview of that user’s activity. Daily Activity by User A user’s page gives information going back a little over a month so that managers can easily verify the time for pay periods that are either every two weeks or one month. In addition to an overview of all of the user’s activity in the Events system, you can see a breakdown of what days they have edited records as well as statistics about what activity they completed during that day. By clicking on the day link you can see information specific to that day for that user. User Daily Activity View The User Hourly Detail View presents statistics for a user on a specific day. It includes similar information as the overview pages mentioned previously. There is also an hourly table that shows when the user was editing records, including how many edits, hours, duration and average time per edit and record for a given hour. User Hourly Detail View Below the hourly breakdown of activity, you see all of the edits performed by the user on that day. You can link directly to the edit event or you can view information about the record that they have edited. Below you will see the detail for a record in the Events system. You see how many total edits have taken place with a record including when, and which user performed the edits. There is a link on the page to view the records summary in the edit system to see more information about the record that was edited. Record Activity View When you click on that link you are taken to the record summary page in the Edit interface. Record in Edit System If you want to dig deeper into what happened with the record, you can click on the View History link and view different versions of the record to see what changes were made. Metadata History Page There are two other views in the Edit Events interface that can be useful. If you had clicked on the orange Users button on the Edit landing page you would see a list of all of the Users who have been active during the current week (starting Sunday). User Activity for this Week If you click on the orange items button on the Events landing page you get to a view that shows a listing of the records that were edited this week. It also includes the number of edits and the duration of editing for that week. Record Activity for This Week We are hoping that the improved Events pages will be useful for managers as they begin to review timesheets for students that they supervise. I know that I have been pleasantly surprised by the data when I can view the number of edits we are getting at all hours of the day. I think it shows the opportunities that we have with our digital library systems for providing engaging, meaningful work to a wide range of users during this quarantine. I skipped forward in my list of components we have needed for this process. Over the next blog posts, I will go back and pick up where I left off describing the infrastructure we have in place to communicate instructions and documentation, and finally how we are identifying work that needs to be done in the system. If you have questions or comments about this post,  please let me know via Twitter. This entry was posted in thinking outloud and tagged covid-19, metadata editing on March 30, 2020 by vphill. Managing Metadata Editing for Telecommuting. Leave a reply Many of us in the US, and around the world for that matter, are now sitting at home working remotely trying to maintain some semblance of normalcy during quarantine for COVID-19. I’m going to write up a few of the things that we have been working on her at the UNT Libraries to try and provide as many of the library employees, including student employees, with activities that they can do remotely. On March 13th it became quite clear that there was going to be a large number of folks from the library needing to work remotely, many of us have activities that we can do remotely, and some of us even prefer to work remotely when we have the opportunity. There are however a large group of people at the library that don’t have jobs that directly transfer to working remotely, or in the situation where there aren’t students on campus to directly serve, the work that they would be doing isn’t available for them. We wanted to provide an option for these individuals to create metadata for the UNT Libraries Digital Collections if they were interested in doing so. Additionally, this would give supervisors some meaningful activity that could be verified in the event that we had to move the workforce remotely because of this pandemic. What we needed There were a few things that we needed to have in place in order to move people online to edit metadata records. Web-based system for editing metadata Clear instructions and guides A way of identifying work to be done A way of coordinating activity A way of verifying/tracking activity for timekeeping Web-based editing system. There were a number of things that we have in place that allow us to move a large number of people into the metadata creation workflow. First, we have been using a web-based metadata editing system for the entire time that we have had our digital collections. Here at UNT Libraries we creatively call this system Edit. This system is built around the metadata format that we have been using locally called UNTL. We can add a user in the system, assign them to a subset of the collection, usually based on collections, and give them permission to begin editing metadata. We have a system in place to register new users in batches and then invite them to join the editing system. In addition to our own work here in the libraries, we have made use of this metadata editing system for a number of metadata classes of library school students to give them real-world experience writing metadata records in a production system. Because of these previous experiences, the task of creating 60-70 new accounts for users in the library wasn’t too daunting. For setting up user accounts we make use of a Django app that we wrote a few years ago called django_invite (https://github.com/unt-libraries/django-invite). Generally, the workflow we follow for new accounts is that we are given one or more new users who need accounts. The information we need is just a name, an email address, and the scope of the collection they need access to. We can enter multiple names at once if they have the same permissions. The permissions for this app are based on the standard Django permission and group concepts. Django Invite Once you submit users, the system sends out an invitation email for the user to complete the registration process by picking a name. We are able to see who has established their account and if needed, resend the invitation email. This process makes it fairly straightforward to get people set up in the system. Editing Records As I said, we have been using a web-based editing system for the UNT Libraries Digital Collections for over a decade now. The editing system (Edit) starts a user with a view of all of the records that they can access based on their permissions. We call this view the “Search Dashboard”. Edit System: Search Dashboard From here a user can search the metadata for a record, sort results, and limit their result sets based on any of the facets on the left-hand side of the screen. For those interested, the facets include. System Collections Partners Resource Type Visibility (hidden or not) Date Validity (valid EDTF dates) My Edits (records you have edited) Record Completeness Location data (with/without placenames, geocodes, or bounding boxes) Recently Edited Records (Last 24h, 48h, 7d, 30d, 90d, 180d, 365d) Edit System: Limiting to Collection From there a user gets back their results where they can be further refined by sorting. Edit System: Limited Collection The current sort options include: Title (default) Date Added (newest/oldest Creation Date (newest/oldest) Date Last Modified (newest/oldest) ARK Identifier (lowest/highest) Completeness (lowest/highest) They are also able to see basic information about the object including a thumbnail, the system, collections, and partner in which the item belongs. They can see the accession date and the last date that the item was edited. Finally, they can see a visibility flag, green for visible to the public and a red check for not visible. They can choose to go to one of two places for a record, the edit view or the summary view. I will start with an overview of the summary view. Edit System: Item Summary The Summary view provides an overview of the record including a compact version of the record itself. We provide an Edit Timeline to get a better sense of when the item has been edited, and when it became available online. Additionally, it has links and other information that are helpful for metadata creators. I will walk through a few of those links now. First up is the View Item screen. Edit System: View Item This view is for the metadata creator to interact with the object itself, they are able to see all of the pages of the item and zoom in to look at the details. For audio and video, they have the ability to view the item in a player as well as download the media files as needed. We also have the ability to see the history of edits that have occurred for a record. This history page presents information about who, when, and a high-level overview of what has happened to the item over time. You might notice a number of edits for this record. One of the things we have noticed in our metadata editing practice is that we tend to take a “column” approach to the editing of records instead of a “row” approach. We will find an issue, maybe an incorrectly formatted name, and fix all of those instances in the system. This results in many edits per record but allows editors to focus on a single task. As you can see, all of the record edits are versioned so it is possible to go back and view what was changed and by whom. Edit System: Item History The final view is the metadata editor itself. I’ve mentioned this in a number of other posts over time so I won’t go into too much detail here. Basically all of the work of editing gets done here. Users can add, subtract, reorder, and edit elements. Most elements have qualifiers to designate the type of element being used such as the Main Title, Added Title, Serial Title, or Series Title for the title element. Some element such as creator, contributor, and publisher have a type ahead that pull from our name authority system (UNT Names) and include information about the type of name (personal/organization), the role (author, photographer, editor) and an info field for other bits of info about the agent. All dropdown values are pulled from a centralized vocabulary management system. Some of the fields have popup modals for controlled vocabularies, picking locations from a map, or assigning bounding box information to an object. From here users can mark an object as hidden or visible, and publish the record in order to save it back into the system. Edit System: Edit Record As I mentioned above there are a number of other components that are proving to be important as we move a large number of works into our metadata system. In the past week, we have created over 70 new accounts for students and staff in the library so that they can begin to incorporate metadata editing into their work. In the next few posts, I will go over how we are attempting to manage who is doing what and how we are providing social and technical infrastructure to help managers keep track of what is going on with the folks they are responsible for. If you have questions or comments about this post,  please let me know via Twitter. This entry was posted in thinking outloud and tagged covid-19, metadata editing on March 26, 2020 by vphill. User Session Analysis: UNT Scholarly Works This is a continuation of a series of posts that I never got around to writing earlier this semester.  I posted the first and second post in the series in February but never got around to writing the rest of them.  This time I am looking at if users use items from multiple collections in the UNT Digital Library. The dataset I am using is a subset of the 10,427,111 user sessions logged in the UNT Libraries Digital Collections in 2017.  This subset is specifically for the UNT Scholarly Works Repository.  There are a total of 253,369 sessions in this dataset and these have been processed in the same way as was mentioned in previous posts. Of these 253,369 sessions, there were 223,168 that were sessions that involved interactions with a single item.  This means 88% of the time when a user made use of an object in the UNT Scholarly Works Repository, it was for just one item.   This leaves us 30,201 of the sessions in 2017 that would be interesting to look at for our further analysis. Items Accessed Sessions Percentages of All Sessions 1 223,168 88.08% 2 17,627 6.96% 3 5,009 1.98% 4 2,267 0.89% 5 1,285 0.51% 6 824 0.33% 7 598 0.24% 8 404 0.16% 9 270 0.11% 10 204 0.08% 11 150 0.06% 12 96 0.04% 13 94 0.04% 14 63 0.02% 15 41 0.02% 16 42 0.02% 17 50 0.02% 18 45 0.02% 19 50 0.02% 20 264 0.10% 30 147 0.06% 40 135 0.05% 50 117 0.05% 60 43 0.02% 70 39 0.02% 80 40 0.02% 90 33 0.01% 100 123 0.05% 200 52 0.02% 300 33 0.01% 400 19 0.01% 500 6 0.00% 600 8 0.00% 700 6 0.00% 800 6 0.00% 900 2 0.00% 1000 9 0.00% Based on what I see in this table I’m choosing 11 item uses as the cutoff point for further analysis.  This means that I will be looking at all of the sessions that have 2 – 11 items per session.  This is 11% of the 253,369 UNT Scholarly Works sessions and 95% of the sessions that have more than one item used. This represents 28,638 user sessions we are analyzing in the rest of this post.. Looking at the Sessions With the dataset layout we have we can easily go through and look at the Partners, Resource Types, and finally the Collections used per session.  Let’s get started. The first category we will look at are the Partners present in the sessions.  In the UNT Scholarly Works collection there is generally a single Partner field for a record.  This Partner is usually the contributing college, department, or center on campus where the author of the resource is contributing from.  The model is flat and doesn’t allow for any nuance for multiple authors from different colleges but seems to work pretty well for many of the items in the repository.  As I said there is generally a one-to-one relationship between an object and a Partner field in the dataset. UNT Scholarly Works: Partners per Session From the Partners Per Session graph we can see that there are many sessions that make use of items from multiple Partners in a single session.  In fact 66.7% of the sessions that accessed 2-11 items made use of items from more than one Partner.  To me that is really telling that there are discoveries being made that span disciplines in this collection.  So a user could pull an article that was contributed by the College of Information and in the same session pull up something that is from the College of Music. That’s pretty cool. The next thing we can look at is the number of different resource types that are used in a given session.  There is generally one resource type per digital object.  These resource types could be an Article, a Book Chapter, a Report, a Poster, or a Presentation.  We are interested in seeing how often a session will include multiple different types of resources. UNT Scholarly Works: Types per Session In looking at the graph above we can see that for sessions that included between 2 and 11 items there were 76% of the sessions where users made use of items that were different types. The final area we will look is at the collections per session.  This is a little bit messier to explain because it is possible (and common) for a single digital object to have multiple collections.  We had to take this into account in the way that we counted the collections per session. UNT Scholarly Works: Collections per Session This graph matches the same kind of pattern that we saw for Partners and Resource types.  For sessions that used between two and eleven items 75% of the sessions used two or more different collection combinations.  This means that when a user looked at two or more different records there was a very high chance that they were going to be pulling up a digital object that was from another collection in the UNT Digital Library. So how does this happen?  I can come up with four different ways that this can happen. A user is using the main search on https://digital.library.unt.edu/ and just pulls up items that are from a number of collections. A user is searching one of the combined search interfaces we have for the library that includes all 2 million metadata records in the UNT Libraries Digital Collections. A user is coming to our content from a google search that lands them in a collection and they navigate more broadly to get to a resource. A user has multiple different browser tabs open and might even have two different search tasks going on but they are getting combined into one session because of the way we are grouping things for this analysis. There are probably other ways that this is happening which might be a good thing to look at in more depth in the future.  I looked briefly at the full list of collections that get used together and some of the combinations aren’t immediately interpretable with a logical story of how these items were viewed together within a session.  The Web gets messy. Cross-Collection Sessions In looking at the number of sessions that spanned more than one collection I was interested in understanding which collections were most used with the UNT Scholarly Works Repository collection. I took all of the collections present in each session and created pairs of collections in the form of (‘UNTSW’, ‘UNTETD’) or (‘UNTSW’, ‘TRAIL’). These were then grouped and then the results placed into a table to show how everything matches up. UNTSW UNTETD OSTI TRAIL OTA TDNP MDID CRSR JNDS UNTGW UNTSW 0 11,147 1,938 1,126 1,121 1,118 952 703 676 302 UNTETD 11,147 0 323 258 895 80 230 175 59 63 OSTI 1,938 323 0 165 9 48 3 91 28 8 TRAIL 1,126 258 165 0 19 44 16 63 11 14 OTA 1,121 895 9 19 0 2 60 15 5 4 TDNP 1,118 80 48 44 2 0 0 17 4 12 MDID 952 230 3 16 60 0 0 3 2 1 CRSR 703 175 91 63 15 17 3 0 8 15 JNDS 676 59 28 11 5 4 2 8 0 0 UNTGW 302 63 8 14 4 12 1 15 0 0 The table needs just one piece of information to keep in mind.  When you start comparing collections that don’t include UNTSW you need to remember that because we limited our dataset to sessions that included UNTSW you should always add that into your interpretation.  For example if you were looking at how often do items from UNTETD (our theses and dissertation collection) get used with TRAIL (Technial Report Archive and Image Library collection) you will get 258 sessions.  But you also have to add into that UNTSW so it is really, how often does UNTETD, TRAIL and UNTSW get used together which is 258. Just looking at the first column of the table will give us the collections that are most often accessed within sessions with the UNT Scholarly Works Repository.  I pulled those out into the chart below. Cross-Collection Sessions By far the most commonly used collection with the UNT Scholarly Works Repository collection is the UNT Theses and Dissertations collection. This occurs 39% of the time when there are two or more collections used in a session.  The other collections drop off very quickly after UNTETD. This analysis is just another quick stab at understanding how the digital collections are being accessed by our users.  I think that there is more that we can do with this data and hopefully I’ll get around to doing a bit more analysis this summer.  There are still a few research questions from our original post that we haven’t answered. If you have questions or comments about this post,  please let me know via Twitter. This entry was posted in thinking outloud on June 4, 2018 by vphill. Introducing Sampling and New Algorithms to the Clustering Dashboard One of the things that we were excited about when we adding the Clustering Dashboard to the UNT Libraries’ Edit system was the ability to experiment with new algorithms for grouping or clustering metadata values.  I gave a rundown of the Cluster Dashboard in a previous blog post  This post is going to walk through some of things that we’ve been doing to try and bring new data views to the metadata we are managing here at the UNT Libraries. The need to sample I’m going to talk a bit about the need to sample values first and then get to the algorithms that make use of it in a bit. When we first developed the Cluster Dashboard we were working with a process that would take all of the values of a selected metadata element, convert those values into a hash value of some sort and then and identify where there were more than one value that produces the same hash.  We were only interested in the instances that contained multiple values that had the same hash.  While there were a large number of clusters for some of the elements, each cluster had a small number of values.  I think the biggest cluster I’ve seen in the system had 14 values.  This is easy to display to the user in the dashboard so that’s what we did. Moving forward we wanted to make use of some algorithms that would result in hundreds, thousands, and even tens of thousands of values per cluster.  An example of this is trying to cluster on the length of a field.  In our dataset there are  41,016 different creator values that are twelve characters in length.  If we tried to display all of that to the user we would quickly blow up the browser for the user which is never any fun. What we have found is that there are some algorithms we want to use that will always return all of the values and not only when there are multiple values that share a common hash.  For these situations we want to be proactive and sample the cluster members so that we don’t overwhelm the users interface. Sampling Options in Cluster Dashboard You can see in the screenshot above that there are a few different ways that you can sample the values of a cluster. Random 100 First 100 Alphabetically Last 100 Alphabetically 100 Most Frequent 100 Least Frequent This sampling allows us to provide some new types of algorithms but still keep the system pretty responsive.  So far we’ve found this works because when you are using these cluster algorithms that return so many value you generally aren’t interested in the clusters that are the giant clusters. You are typically looking for anomalies that show up in smaller clusters, like really long or really short values for a field. Cluster Options in Dashboard showing sampled and non-sampled clustering algorithms. We divided the algorithm selection dropdown into two parts to try and show the user the algorithms that will be sampled and the ones that don’t require sampling.  The option to select a sample method will only show up when it is required by the algorithm selected. New Algorithms As I mentioned briefly above we’ve added a new set of algorithms to the Cluster Dashboard.  These algorithms have been implemented to find anomalies in the data that are a bit hard to find other ways.  First on the list is the Length algorithm.  This algorithm uses the number of characters or length of the value as the clustering key.  Generally the very short and the very long values are the ones that we are interested in. I’ll show some screenshots of what this reveals about our Subject element.  I always feel like I should make some sort of defense of our metadata when I show these screenshots but I have a feeling that anyone actually reading this will know that metadata is messy. Subject Clustered by Length (shortest) Subject Clustered by Length (longest) So quickly we can get to values that we probably want to change. In this case the subject values that are only one character in length or those that are over 1,600 characters in length. A quick story about how this is useful.  We had a metadata creator a few years back accidentally pasted the contents of a personal email into the title field of a photograph because they just got their clipboard mixed up.  They didn’t notice this so it went unnoticed for a few weeks until it was stumbled on by another metadata editor.  This sort of thing happens from time to time and can show up with this kind of view. There are a few variations on the length that we provide.  Instead of the number of characters we have another view that is the count of tokens in the metadata value.  So a value of “University of North Texas” would have a token count of 4.  This gives a similar but different view as the length. Beyond that we provide some algorithms that look at the length of tokens within the values.  So the value of “University of North Texas” would have an Average Token Length of 5.5.  I’ve honestly not found a good use for the Average Token Length, Median Token Length, Token Length Mode, or Token Length Range yet but maybe we will? Finally there is the Pattern Mask algorithm that was implemented primarily for the date field in our metadata records.  This algorithm takes in the selected metadata element values and converts all digits to 0 and all of the letters to an a.  It leaves all punctuation characters alone. So a value of “1943” maps to “0000” or a value of “July 4, 2014” maps to “aaaa 0, 0000”. Pattern Mask on Date Element In the example above you can quickly see the patterns that we will want to address as we continue to clean up our date element. As I mentioned at the beginning of the post, one of the things that we were excited about when we implemented the Cluster Dashboard was the ability to try out different algorithms for looking at our metadata.  This is our first set of “new” algorithms for the system.  We also had to add the ability to sample the clusters because the can quickly get crazy with the number of values.  Hopefully we will be able to add additional clustering algorithms to the system in the future. Are there any ideas that you have for us that you would like us to try out in the interface?  If so please let me know, we would love to experiment a bit. If you have questions or comments about this post,  please let me know via Twitter. This entry was posted in thinking outloud on April 24, 2018 by vphill. User Session Analysis: Investigating Sessions In the previous post in this series I laid out the work that we were going to do with session data from the UNT Libraries’ Digital Collections.  In order to get the background that this post builds from take a quick look at that post. In this post we are going to look at the data for the 10,427,111 user sessions that we generated from the 2017 Apache access logs from the UNT Libraries Digital Collections. Items Per Sessions The first thing that we will take a look at in the dataset is information about how many different digital objects or items are viewed during a session. Items Accessed Sessions Percentage of All Sessions 1 8,979,144 86.11% 2 809,892 7.77% 3 246,089 2.36% 4 114,748 1.10% 5 65,510 0.63% 6 41,693 0.40% 7 29,145 0.28% 8 22,123 0.21% 9 16,574 0.16% 10 15,024 0.14% 11 10,726 0.10% 12 9,087 0.09% 13 7,688 0.07% 14 6,266 0.06% 15 5,569 0.05% 16 4,618 0.04% 17 4,159 0.04% 18 3,540 0.03% 19 3,145 0.03% 20-29 17,917 0.17% 30-39 5,813 0.06% 40-49 2,736 0.03% 50-59 1,302 0.01% 60-69 634 0.01% 70-79 425 0.00% 80-89 380 0.00% 90-99 419 0.00% 100-199 2,026 0.02% 200-299 411 0.00% 300-399 105 0.00% 400-499 63 0.00% 500-599 24 0.00% 600-699 43 0.00% 700-799 28 0.00% 800-899 20 0.00% 900-999 6 0.00% 1000+ 19 0.00% I grouped the item uses per session in order to make the table a little easier to read.  With 86% of sessions being single item accesses that means we have 14% of the sessions that have more than one item access. This is still 1,447,967 sessions that we can look at in the dataset so not bad. You can also see that there are a few sessions that have a very large number of items associated with them. For example there are 19 sessions that have over 1,000 items being used.  I would guess that this is some sort of script or harvester that is masquerading as a browser. Here are some descriptive statistics for the items per session data. N Min Median Max Mean Stdev 10,427,111 1 1 1,828 1.53 4.735 For further analysis we will probably restrict our sessions to those that have under 20 items used in a single session.  While this might remove some legitimate sessions that used a large number of items, it will give us numbers that we can feel a bit more confident about.  That will leave 1,415,596 or 98% of the sessions with more than one item used still in the dataset for further analysis. Duration of Sessions The next thing we will look at is the duration of sessions in the dataset.  We limited a single session to all interactions by an IP address in a thirty minute window so that gives us the possibility of sessions up to 1,800 seconds. Minutes Sessions Percentage of Sessions 0 8,539,553 81.9% 1 417,601 4.0% 2 220,343 2.1% 3 146,100 1.4% 4 107,981 1.0% 5 87,037 0.8% 6 71,666 0.7% 7 60,965 0.6% 8 53,245 0.5% 9 47,090 0.5% 10 42,428 0.4% 11 38,363 0.4% 12 35,622 0.3% 13 33,110 0.3% 14 31,304 0.3% 15 29,564 0.3% 16 27,731 0.3% 17 26,901 0.3% 18 25,756 0.2% 19 24,961 0.2% 20 32,789 0.3% 21 24,904 0.2% 22 24,220 0.2% 23 23,925 0.2% 24 24,088 0.2% 25 24,996 0.2% 26 26,855 0.3% 27 30,177 0.3% 28 39,114 0.4% 29 108,722 1.0% The table above groups a session into buckets for each minute.  The biggest bucket by number of sessions is the bucket of 0 minutes. This bucket has sessions that are up to 59 seconds in length and accounts for 8,539,553 or 82% of the sessions in the dataset. Duration Sessions Percent of Sessions Under 1 Min 0 sec 5,892,556 69% 1-9 sec 1,476,112 17% 10-19 sec 478,262 6% 20-29 sec 257,916 3% 30-39 sec 181,326 2% 40-49 sec 140,492 2% 50-59 sec 112,889 1% You might be wondering about those sessions that lasted only zero seconds.  There are 5,892,556 of them which is 69% of the sessions that were under one minute.  These are almost always sessions that used items as part of an embedded link, a pdf view directly from another site (google, twitter, webpage) or a similar kind of view. Next Steps This post helped us get a better look at the data that we are working with.  There is a bit of strangeness here and there with the data but this is pretty normal for situations where you work with access logs.  The Web is a strange place full of people, spiders, bots,  and scripts. Next up we will actually dig into some of the research questions we had in the first post.  We know how we are going to limit our data a bit to get rid of some of the outliers in the number of items used and we’ve given a bit of information about the large number of very short duration sessions.  So more to come. If you have questions or comments about this post,  please let me know via Twitter. This entry was posted in thinking outloud on February 20, 2018 by vphill. User Session Analysis: Connections Between Collections, Type, Institutions I’ve been putting off some analysis that a few of us at the UNT Libraries have wanted to do with the log files of the UNT Libraries Digital Collections.  This post (and probably a short series to follow) is an effort to get back on track. There are three systems that we use to provide access to content and those include: The Portal to Texas History, the UNT Digital Library, and the Gateway to Oklahoma History. In our digital collections there are a few things that we’ve said over time that we feel very strongly about but which we’ve never really measured.  First off we have said that there is value in co-locating all of our content in the same fairly uniform system instead of building visually and functionally distinct systems for different collections of items.  So instead of each new project or collection going into a new system, we’ve said there is not only cost savings, but real value in putting them all together in a single system.  We’ve said “there is an opportunity for users to not only find content from your collection, but they could find useful connections to other items in the overall digital library”. Another thing we’ve said is that there is value in putting all different types of digital objects together into our digital systems.  We put the newspapers, photographs, maps, audio, video, and datasets together and we think there is value in that.  We’ve said that users will be able to find newspaper issues, photographs, and maps that might meet their need.  If we had a separate newspaper system, separate video or audio system some of this cross-type discovery would never take place. Finally we’ve said that there is great value in locating collections from many institutions together in a system like The Portal to Texas History.  We thought (and still think) that users would be able to do a search and it will pull resources together from across institutions in Texas that have matching resources. Because of the geography of the state, you might be finding things that are physically located 10 or 12 hours away from each other at different institutions. In the Portal, these could be displayed together, something that would be challenging if they weren’t co-located in a system. In our mind these aren’t completely crazy concepts but we do run into other institutions and practitioner that don’t always feel as strongly about this as we do.  The one thing that we’ve never done locally is look at the usage data of the systems and find out: Do users discover and use items from different collections? Do users discover and use items that are different types? Do users discover and use items that are from different contributing partners? This blog post is going to be the first in a short series that takes a  look at the usage data in the UNT Libraries Digital Collections in an attempt to try and answer some of these questions. Hopefully that is enough background, now let’s get started: How to answer the questions. In order to get started we had to think a little bit about how we wanted to pull together data on this.  We have been generating item-based usage for the digital library collections for a while.  These get aggregated into collection and partner statistics that we make available in the different systems.  The problem with this data is that it just shows what items were used and how many times in a day they were used.  It doesn’t show what was used together. We decided that we needed to go back to the log files from the digital collections and re-create user sessions to group item usage together.  After we have information about what items were used together we can sprinkle in some metadata about those items and start answering our questions. With that as a plan we can move to the next step. Preparing the Data We decided to use all of the log files for 2017 from our digital collections servers.  This ends up being 1,379,439,042 lines of Apache access logs (geez, over 1.3 billion, or 3.7 million server requests a day).  The data came from two different servers that collectively host all of the application traffic for the three systems that make up the UNT Libraries’ Digital Collections. We decided that we would define a session as all of the interactions that a single IP address has with the system in a 30 minute window.  If a user uses the system for more than 30 minutes, say 45 minutes, that would count as one thirty minute session and one fifteen minute session. We started by writing a script that would do three things.  First it would ignore lines in the log file that were from robots and crawlers.  We have a pretty decent list of these bots so that was easy to remove.  Next we further reduced the data by only looking at digital object accesses.  Specifically lines that looked something like ‘/ark:/67531/metapth1000000/`. This pattern in our system denotes an item access and these are what we were interested in.  Finally we only were concerned with accesses that returned content so we only looked at lines that returned a 200 status code. We filtered the log files down to three columns of data.  The first column was the timestamp for when the http access was made,  the second column was the has of the hashed IP address used to make the request, and the final column was the digital item path requested.  This resulted in a much smaller dataset to work with, from 1,379,439,042 down to 144,405,009 individual lines of data. Here is what a snipped of data looks like 1500192934 dce4e45d9a90e4a031201b876a70ec0e /ark:/67531/metadc11591/m2/1/high_res_d/Bulletin6869.pdf 1500192940 fa057cf285725981939b622a4fe61f31 /ark:/67531/metadc98866/m1/43/high_res/ 1500192940 fa057cf285725981939b622a4fe61f31 /ark:/67531/metadc98866/m1/41/high_res/ 1500192944 b63927e2b8817600aadb18d3c9ab1557 /ark:/67531/metadc33192/m2/1/high_res_d/dissertation.pdf 1500192945 accb4887d609f8ef307d81679369bfb0 /ark:/67531/metacrs10285/m1/1/high_res_d/RS20643_2006May24.pdf 1500192948 decabc91fc670162bad9b41042814080 /ark:/67531/metadc504184/m1/2/small_res/ 1500192949 f7948b68f7b52fd15c808beee544c131 /ark:/67531/metadc52714/ 1500192951 f7948b68f7b52fd15c808beee544c131 /ark:/67531/metadc52714/m1/1/small_res/ 1500192950 c8a320f38b3477a931fabd208f25c219 /ark:/67531/metadc1729/m1/9/med_res_d/ 1500192952 f7948b68f7b52fd15c808beee544c131 /ark:/67531/metadc52714/m1/1/med_res/ 1500192952 f7948b68f7b52fd15c808beee544c131 /ark:/67531/metadc52714/m1/3/small_res/ 1500192953 f7948b68f7b52fd15c808beee544c131 /ark:/67531/metadc52714/m1/2/small_res/ 1500192952 f7948b68f7b52fd15c808beee544c131 /ark:/67531/metadc52714/m1/4/small_res/ 1500192955 67ef5c0798dd16cb688b94137b175f0b /ark:/67531/metadc848614/m1/2/small_res/ 1500192963 a19ce3e92cd3221e81b6c3084df2d4a6 /ark:/67531/metadc5270/m1/254/med_res/ 1500192961 ea9ba7d064412a6d09ff708c6e95e201 /ark:/67531/metadc85867/m1/4/high_res/ You can see the three columns in the data there. The next step was actually to sort all of this data by the timestamp in the first column.  You might notice that not all of the lines are in chronological order in the sample above.  By sorting on the timestamp, things will fall into order based on time. The next step was to further reduce this data down into sessions.  We created a short script that we could feed the data into and it would keep track of the ip addresses it came across, note the objects that the ip hash used, and after a thirty minute period of time (based on the timestamp) it would start the aggregation again. The result was a short JSON structure that looked like this. { "arks": ["metapth643331", "metapth656112"], "ip_hash": "85ebfe3f0b71c9b41e03ead92906e390", "timestamp_end": 1483254738, "timestamp_start": 1483252967 } This JSON has the ip hash, the starting and ending timestamp for that session, and finally the items that were used.  Each of these JSON structures were placed into a file, a line-oriented set of JSON “files” that would get used in the following steps. This new line-oriented JSON file is 10,427,111 lines long, with one line representing a single user session for the UNT Libraries’ Digital Collections.  I think that’s pretty cool. I think I’m going to wrap up this post but in the next post I will take a look at what these users sessions look like with a little bit of sorting, grouping, plotting, and graphing. If you have questions or comments about this post,  please let me know via Twitter. This entry was posted in thinking outloud on February 16, 2018 by vphill. Metadata Quality Interfaces: Cluster Dashboard (OpenRefine Clustering Baked Right In) This is the last of the updates from our summer’s activities in creating new metadata interfaces for the UNT Libraries Digital Collections.  If you are interested in the others in this series you can view the past few posts on this blog where I talk about our facet, count, search, and item interfaces. This time I am going to talk a bit about our Cluster Dashboard.  This interface took a little bit longer than the others to complete.  Because of this, we are just rolling it out this week, but it is before Autumn so I’m calling it a Summer interface. I warn you that there are going to be a bunch of screenshots here, so if you don’t like those, you probably won’t like this post. Cluster Dashboard For a number of years I have been using OpenRefine for working with spreadsheets of data before we load them into our digital repository.  This tool has a number of great features that help you get an overview of the data you are working with, as well as identifying some problem areas that you should think about cleaning up.  The feature that I have always felt was the most interesting was their data clustering interface.  The idea of this interface is that you choose a facet, (dimension, column) of your data and then group like values together.  There are a number of ways of doing this grouping and for an in-depth discussion of those algorithms I will point you to the wonderful OpenRefine Clustering documentation. OpenRefine is a wonderful tool for working with spreadsheets (and a whole bunch of other types of data) but there are a few challenges that you run into when you are working with data from our digital library collections.  First of all our data generally isn’t rectangular.  It doesn’t easily fit into a spreadsheet.  We have some records with one creator, we have some records with dozens of creators.  There are ways to work with these multiple values but things get complicated. The bigger challenge we generally have is that while many systems can generate a spreadsheet of their data for exporting, very few of them (our system included) have a way of importing those changes back into the system in a spreadsheet format.  This means that while you could pull data from the system, clean it up in OpenRefine, when you were ready to put it back in the system you would run into the problem that there wasn’t a way to get that nice clean data back into the system. A way that you could use OpenRefine was to identify records to change and then have to go back into the system and change records there. But that is far from ideal. So how did we overcome this? We wanted to use the OpenRefine clustering but couldn’t get data easily back into our system.  Our solution?  Bake the OpenRefine clustering right into the system.  That’s what this post is about. The first thing you see when you load up the Cluster Dashboard is a quick bit of information about how many records, collections, and partners you are going to be working on values from.  This is helpful to let you know the scope of what you are cluster, both to understand why it might take a while to generate clusters, but also because it is generally better to run these clustering tools over the largest sets of data that you can because it can pull in variations from many different records.  Other than that you are presented with a pretty standard dashboard interface from the UNT Libraries’ Edit System. You can limit to subsets of records with the facets on the left side and the number of items you cluster over will change accordingly. Cluster Dashboard The next thing that you will see is a little help box below the clustering stats. This is a help interface that helps to explain how to use the clustering dashboard and a little more information about how the different algorithms work.  Metadata folks generally like to know the fine details about how the algorithms work, or at least be able to find that information if they want to know it later. Cluster Dashboard Help The first thing you do is select a field/element/facet that you are interested in clustering. In the example below I’m going to select the Contributor field. Choosing an Element to Cluster Once you make a selection you can further limit it to a qualifier, in this case you could limit it to just the Contributors that are organizations, or Contributors that are Composers.  As I said above, using more data generally works better so we will just run the algorithms over all of the values. You next have the option of choosing an algorithm for your clustering.  We recommend to people that they start with the default Fingerprint algorithm because it is a great starting point.  I will discuss the other algorithms later in this post. Choosing an Algorithm After you select your algorithm, you hit submit and things start working.  You are given a screen that will have a spinner that tells you the clusters are generating. Generating Clusters Depending on your dataset size and the number of unique values of the selected element, you could get your results back on a second or dozens of seconds.  The general flow of data after you hit submit is to query the Solr backend for all of the facet values and their counts.  These values are then processed with the chosen algorithm that creates a “key” for that value.  Another way to think about it is that the values are placed into a bucket that groups similar values together.  There are some calculations that are preformed on the clusters and then they are cached for about ten minutes by the system.  After you wait for the clusters to generate the first time they are much quicker for the next ten minutes. In the screen below you can see the results of this first clustering.  I will go into detail about the values and options you have to work with the clusters. Contributor Clusters with Fingerprint Key Collision Hashing The first thing that you might want to do is sort the clusters in a different way.  By default they are sorted with the value of the cluster key.  Sometimes this makes sense, sometimes it doesn’t make sense as to why something is in a given order.  We thought about displaying the key but found that it was also distracting in the interface. Different ways of sorting clusters One of the ways that I like to sort the clusters is by the number of cluster Members.  The image below shows the clusters with this sort applied. Contributor Field sorted by Members Here is a more detailed view of a few clusters.  You can see that the name of the Russian composer Shostakovich has been grouped into a cluster of 14 members.  This represents 125 different records in the system with a Contributor element for this composer.  Next to each Member Value you will see a number in parenthesis, this is the number of records that uses that variation of the value. Contributor Cluster Detail You can also sort based on the number of records that a cluster contains.  This brings up the most frequently used values.  Generally there are a large number that have a value and then a few records that have a competing value.  Usually pretty easy to fix. Contributor Element sorted by Records Sorting by the Average Length Variation can help find values that are strange duplications of themselves.  Repeated phrases, a double copy and paste, strange things like that come to the surface. Contributor Element sorted by Average Length Variation Finally sorting by Average Length is helpful if you want to work with the longest or shortest values that are similar. Contributor Element sorted by Average Length Different Algorithms I’m going to go through the different algorithms that we currently have in production.  Our hope is that as time moves forward we will introduce new algorithms or slight variations of algorithms to really get at some of the oddities of the data in the system.  First up is the Fingerprint algorithm.  This is a direct clone of the default fingerprint algorithm used by OpenRefine. Contributor Element Clustered using Fingerprint Key Collision A small variation we introduced was instead of replacing punctuation with a whitespace character, the Fingerprint-NS (No Space) just removes the punctuation without adding whitespace.  This would group F.B.I with FBI where the other Fingerprint algorithm wouldn’t group them together.  This small variation surfaces different clusters.  We had to keep reminding ourselves that when we created the algorithms that there wasn’t such a thing as “best”, or “better”, but instead they were just “different”. Contributor Element Clustered using Fingerprint (No Space) Key Collision One thing that is really common for names in bibliographic metadata is that they have many dates.  Birth, death, flourished, and so on.  We have a variation of the Fingerprint algorithm that removes all numbers in addition to punctuation.  We call this one Fingerprint-ND (No Dates).  This is helpful for grouping names that are missing dates with versions of the name that have dates.  In the second cluster below I pointed out an instance of Mozart’s name that wouldn’t have been grouped with the default Fingerprint algorithm.  Remember, different, not better or best. Contributor Element Clustered using Fingerprint (No Dates) Key Collision From there we branch out into a few simpler algorithms.  The Caseless algorithm just lowercases all of the values and you can see clusters that only differ in ways that are related to upper case or lower case values. Contributor Element Clustered using Caseless (lowercase) Key Collision Next up is the ASCII algorithm which tries to group together values that only differ in diacritics.  So for instance the name Jose and José would be grouped together. Contributor Element Clustered using ASCII Key Collision The final algorithm is just a whitespace normalization called Normalize Whitespace, it removes consecutive whitespace characters to group values. Contributor Element Clustered using Normalized Whitespace Key Collision You may have noticed that the number of clusters went down dramatically from the Fingerprint algorithms to the Caseless, ASCII, or Normalize Whitespace, we generally want people to start with the Fingerprint algorithms because they will be useful most of the time. Other Example Elements Here are a few more examples from other fields.  I’ve gone ahead and sorted them by Members (High to Low) because I think that’s the best way to see the value of this interface.  First up is the Creator field. Creator Element clustered with Fingerprint algorithm and sorted by Members Next up is the Subject field.  We have so so many ways of saying “OU Football” Subject Element clustered with Fingerprint algorithm and sorted by Members The real power of this interface is when you start fixing things.  In the example below I’m wanting to focus in on the value “Football (O U )”.  I do this by clicking the link for that Member Value. Subject Element Cluster Detail You are taken directly to a result set that has the records for that selected value.  In this case there are two records with “Football (O U )”. Selected Records All you have to do at this point is open up a record, make the edit and publish that record back. Many of you will say “yeah but wouldn’t some sort of batch editing be faster here?”  And I will answer “absolutely,  we are going to look into how we would do that!” (but it is a non-trivial activity due to how we manage and store metadata, so sadface 🙁 ) Subject Value in the Record There you have it, the Cluster Dashboard and how it works.  The hope is to empower our metadata creators and metadata managers to better understand and if needed, clean up the values in our metadata records.  By doing so we are improving the ability for people to connect different records based on common valuse between the records. As we move forward we will introduce a number of other algorithms that we can use to cluster values.  There are also some other metrics that we will look at for sorting records to try and tease out “which clusters would be the most helpful to our users to correct first”.  That is always something we are keeping in the back of our head,  how can we provide a sorted list of things that are most in need of human fixing.  So if you are interested in that sort of thing stay tuned, I will probably talk about it on this blog. If you have questions or comments about this post,  please let me know via Twitter. This entry was posted in thinking outloud on September 19, 2017 by vphill. Metadata Interfaces: Search Dashboard This is the next blog post in a series that discusses some of the metadata interfaces that we have been working on improving over the summer for the UNT Libraries Digital Collections.  You can catch up on those posts about our Item Views, Facet Dashboard, and Element Count Dashboard if you are curious. In this post I’m going to talk about our Search Dashboard.  This dashboard is really the bread and butter of our whole metadata editing application.  About 99% of the time a user who is doing some metadata work will login and work with this interface to find the records that they need to create or edit. The records that they see and can search are only ones that they have privileges to edit.  In this post you will see what I see when I login to the system, the nearly 1.9 million records that we are currently managing in our systems. Let’s get started. Search Dashboard If you have read the other post you will probably notice quite a bit of similarity between the interfaces.  All of those other interfaces were based off of this search interfaces.  You can divide the dashboard into three primary sections.  On the left side there are facets that allow you to refine your view in a number of ways.  At the top of the right column is an area where you can search for a term or phrase in a record you are interested in.  Finally under the search box there is a result set of items and various ways to interact with those results. By default all the records that you have access to are viewable if you haven’t refined your view with a search or a limiting facet. Edit Interface Search Dashboard The search section of the dashboard lets you find a specific record or set of records that you are interested in working with.  You can choose to search across all of the fields in the metadata record or just a specific metadata field using the dropdown next to where you enter your search term.  You can search single words, phrases, or unique identifiers for records if you have those.  Once you hit the search button you are on your way. Search and View Options for Records Once you have submitted your search you will get back a set of results.  I’ll go over these more in depth in a little bit. Record Detail You can sort your results in a variety of ways.  By default they are returned in Title order but you can sort them by the date they were added to the system, the date the original item was created, the date that the metadata record was last modified, the ARK identifier and finally by a completeness metric.   You also have the option to change your view from the default list view to the grid view. Sort Options Here is a look at the grid view.  It presents a more visually compact view of the records you might be interested in working with. Grid View The image below is a detail of a record view. We tried to pack as much useful information into each row as we  could.  We have the title, a thumbnail, several links to either the edit or summary item view on the left part of the row.  Following that we have the system, collection, and partner that the record belongs to. We have the unique ARK identifier for the object, the date that it was added to the UNT Libraries’ Digital Collections, and the date the metadata was last modified.  Finally we have a green check if the item is visible to the public or a red X if the item is hidden from the public. Record Detail Facet Section There are a number of different facets that a user can use to limit the records they are working with to a smaller subset.  The list is pretty long so I’ll first show you it in a single image and then go over some of the specifics in more detail below. Facet Options The first three facets are the system, collection and partner facets.  We have three systems that we manage records for with this interface, The Portal to Texas History, the UNT Digital Library, and the Gateway to Oklahoma History. Each digital item can belong to multiple collections and generally belongs to a single partner organization.  If you are interested in just working on the records for the KXAS-NBC 5 New Collection you can limit your view of records by selecting that value from the Collections facet area. System, Collections and Partners Facet Options Next are the Resource Type and Visibility facets.  It is often helpful to limit to just a specific resource type, like Maps when you are doing your metadata editing so that you don’t see things that you aren’t interested in working with.  Likewise there are some kinds of metadata editing that you want to focus primarily on items that are already viewable to the public and you don’t want the hidden records to get in the way. You can do this with the Visibility facet. Resource Type and Visibility Facet Options Next we start getting into the new facet types that we added this summer to help identify records that need some metadata uplift.  We have the Date Validity, My Edits, and Location Data facets. Date Validity is a facet that allows you to identify records that have dates in them that are not valid according to the Extended Date Time Format (EDTF).  There are two different fields in a record that are checked, the date field and the coverage field (which can contain dates).  If any of these aren’t valid EDTF strings then we mark the whole record as having Invalid Dates.  You can use this facet to identify these and go in a correct those values. Next up is a facet for just the records that you have edited in the past.  This can be helpful for a number of reasons.  I use it from time to time to see if any of the records that I’ve edited have developed any issues like dates that aren’t valid since I last edited them.  It doesn’t happen often but can be helpful. Finally there is a section of Location Data.  This set of facets is helpful for identifying records which have or don’t have a Place Name, Place Point, or Place Box in the record.  Helpful if you are working through a collection trying to add geographic information to the records. Date Validity, My Edits, and Location Data Facet Options The final set of facets are Recently Edited Records, and Record Completeness.  The first is the Recently Edited Records which is pretty straight forward.  This just a listing of how many records have been edited in the past 24h, 48h, 7d, 30d, 180d, 365d in the system.  One note that causes a bit of confusion here is that these are records that are edited by  anyone in the past period of time.  It is often misunderstood as “your edits” in a given period of time which isn’t true.  Still very helpful but can get you into some strange results if you think about it the other way. The last facet value is for the Record Completeness. We really have two categories, records that have a completeness of 1.0 (Complete Records) or records that are less than 1.0 (Incomplete Records).  This metric is calculated when the item is indexed in the system and based on our notion of a minimally viable record. Recently Edited Records and Record Completeness Facet Options This finishes this post about the Search Dashboard for the UNT Libraries Digital Collections.  We have been working to build out this metadata environment for about the last eight years and have slowly refined it to the metadata creation and editing workflows that seem to work for the widest number of folks here at UNT.  There are always improvements that we can make and we have been steadily chipping away at those over time. There are a few other things that we’ve been working on over the summer that I will post about in the next week or so, so stay tuned for more. If you have questions or comments about this post,  please let me know via Twitter. This entry was posted in thinking outloud on September 5, 2017 by vphill. Metadata Quality Interfaces: Element Count Dashboard Next up in our review of the new metadata quality interfaces we have implemented this summer is our Element Count Dashboard. The basics of this are that whenever we index metadata records in our Solr index we go ahead and count the number of instances of a given element, or a given element with a specific qualifier and store those away in the index.  This results in hundreds of fields that are the counts of element instances in those fields. We built an interface on top of these counts because we had a hunch that we would be able to use this information to help us identify problems in our metadata records.  It feels like I’m showing some things in our metadata that we probably don’t want to really highlight but it is all for helping others understand.  So onward! Element Count Dashboard The dashboard is similar to other dashboards in the Edit system.  You have the ability to limit your view to just the collection, partner or system you are interested in working with. Count Dashboard From there you can select an element you are interested in viewing counts for.  In the example below I am interested in looking at the Description element or field. Select an Element to View Counts Once your selection is made you are presented with the number of instances of the description field in a record.  This is a little more helpful if you know that in our metadata world, a nice clean record will generally have two description fields.  One for a content description and one for a physical description of the item. More than two is usually strange and less than one is usually bad. Counts for Description Elements To get a clearer view you can see the detail below.  This again is for the top level Description element where we like to have two descriptions. Detail of Description Counts You can also limit to a qualifier specifically.  In the example below you see the counts of Description elements with a content qualifier.  The 1,667 records that have two Description elements with a content qualifier are pretty strange.  We should probably fix those. Detail of Description Counts for Content Qualifier Next we limit to just the physical description qualifier. You will see that there are a bunch that don’t have any sort of physical description and then 76 that have two. We should fix both of those record sets. Detail of Description Counts for Physical Qualifier Because of the way that we index things we can also get at the Description elements that don’t have either a content or physical qualifier selected.  These are identified with a value of none for the qualifier.  You can see that there are 1,861,356 records that have zero Description elements with a none qualifier.  That’s awesome.  You can also see 52 that have one element and 261 that have two elements that are missing qualifiers.  That’s not awesome. Detail of Description Counts for None Qualifier I’m hoping you are starting to see how this kind of interface could be useful to drill into records that might look a little strange.  When you identify something strange all you have to do is click on the number and you are taken directly to the records that match what you’ve asked for.  In the example below we are seeing all 76 of the records that have two physical descriptions because this is something we are interested in correcting. Records with Multiple Duplicate Physical Qualifiers If you open up a record to edit you will see that yes, in fact there are two Physical Descriptions in this record. It looks like the first one should actually be a Content Description. Example of two physical descriptions that need to be fixed Once we change that value we can hit the Publish button and be on our way fixing other metadata records.  The counts will update about thirty seconds later to reflect the corrections that you have made. Fixed Physical and Content Descriptions Even more of a good thing. Because I think this is a little different than other interfaces you might be used to, it might be good to see another example. This time we are looking at the Creator element in the Element Count Dashboard. Creator Counts You will see that there are 112 different counts from zero way up into way way too many creators on an item (silly physics articles). I was curious to see what the counts looked like for Creator elements that were missing a role qualifier.  These are identified by selecting the none value from the qualifier dropdown. Creator Counts for Missing Qualifiers You can see that the majority of our records don’t have Creator elements missing the role qualifier but there are a number that do.  We can fix those.  If you wanted to look at those records that have five different Creator elements that don’t have a role you would end up getting to records that loo like the one below. Example of Multiple Missing Types and Roles You will notice that when a record has a problem there are often multiple things wrong with it. In this case not only is it missing role information for each of these Creator elements but there is also name type information that is missing.  Once we fix those we can move along and edit some more. And a final example. I’m hoping you are starting to see how this interface could be useful.  Here is another example if you aren’t convinced yet.  We are completing a retrospective digitization of theses and dissertations here at UNT.  Not only is this a bunch of digitization but it is quite a bit of metadata that we are adding to both the UNT Digital Library as well as our traditional library catalog.   Let’s look at some of those records. You can limit your dashboard view to the collection you are interested in working on.  In this case we choose the UNT Theses and Dissertations collection. Next up we take a look at the number of Creator elements per record. Theses and dissertations are generally authored by just one person.  It would be strange to see counts other than one. Creator Counts for These and Dissertations Collection It looks lie there are 26 records that are missing Creator elements and a single record that for some reason has two Creator elements.  This is strange and we should take a look. Below you will see the view of the 26 records that are missing a Creator element.  Sadly at the time of writing there are seven of these that are visible to the public so that’s something we really need to fix in a hurry. Example Theses that are Missing Creators That’s it for this post about our Element Count Dashboard.  I hope that you find this sort of interface interesting.  I’d be interested to hear if you have interfaces like this for your digital library collections or if you think something like this would be useful in your metadata work. If you have questions or comments about this post,  please let me know via Twitter. This entry was posted in thinking outloud on September 1, 2017 by vphill. Metadata Quality Interfaces: Facet Dashboard This is the second post in a series that discusses the new metadata interfaces we have been developing for the UNT Libraries’ Digital Collections metadata editing environment. The previous post was related to the item views that we have created. This post discusses our facet dashboard in a bit of depth.  Let’s get started. Facet Dashboard A little bit of background is in order so that you can better understand the data that we are working with in our metadata system.  The UNT Libraries uses a locally-extended Dublin Core metadata element set. In addition to locally-extending the elements to include things like collection, partner, degree, citation, note, and meta fields we also qualify many of the fields. A qualifier usually specifics what type of value is represented.  So a subject could be a Keyword, or an LCSH value. A Creator could be an author, or a photographer.  Many of the fields have the ability to have one qualifier for the value. When we index records in our Solr instance we store strings of each of these elements, and each of the elements plus qualifiers, so we have fields we can facet on.  This results in facet fields for creator as well as specifically creator_author, or creator_photographer.  For fields that we expect the use of a qualifier we also capture when there isn’t a qualifier in a field like creator_none.  This results in many hundreds of fields in our Solr index but we do this for good reason,  to be able to get at the data in ways that are helpful for metadata maintainers. The first view we created around this data was our facet dashboard.  The image below shows what you get when you go to this view. Default Facet Dashboard On the left side of the screen you are presented with facets that you can make use of to limit and refine the information you are interested in viewing.  I’m currently looking at all of the records from all partners and all collections.  This is a bit over 1.8 million records. The next step is to decide which field you are interested in seeing the facet values for.  In this case I am choosing the Creator field. Selecting a field to view facet values After you make a selection you are presented with a paginated view of all of the creator values in the dataset (289,440 unique values in this case). These are sorted alphabetically so the first values are the ones that generally start with punctuation. In addition to the string value you are presented the number of records in the system that have that given value. All Creator Values Because there can be many many pages of results sometimes it is helpful to jump directly to a subset of the records.  This can be accomplished with a “Begins With” dropdown in the left menu.  I’m choosing to look at only facets that start with the letter D. Limit to a specific letter After making a selection you are presented with the facets that start with the letter D instead of the whole set.  This makes it a bit easier to target just the values you are looking for. Creator Values Starting with D Sometimes when you are looking at the facet values you are trying to identify values that fall next to each other but that might differ only a little bit. One of the things that can make this a bit easier is having a button that can highlight just the whitespace in the strings themselves. Highlight Whitespace Button Once you click this button you see that the whitespace is now highlighted in green.  This highlighting in combination with using a monospace font makes it easier to see when values only differ with the amount of whitespace. Highlighted Whitespace Once you have identified a value that you want to change the next thing to do is just click on the link for that facet value. Identified Value to Correct You are taken to a new tab in your browser that has just the records that have the selected value.  In this case there was just one record with “D & H Photo” that we wanted to edit. Record with Identified Value We have a convenient highlighting of visited rows on the facet dashboard so you know which values you have clicked on. Highlighted Reminder of Selected Value In addition to just seeing all of the values for the creator field you can also limit your view to a specific qualifier by selecting the qualifier dropdown when it is available. Select an Optional Qualifier You can also look at items that don’t have a given value, for example Creator values that don’t have a name type designated.  This is identified with a qualifier value of none-type. Creator Values Without a Designated Type You get just the 900+ values in the system that don’t have a name type designated. All of this can be performed on any of the elements or any of the qualified elements of the metadata records. While this is a useful first step in getting metadata editors directly to both the values of fields and their counts in the form of facets, it can be improved upon.  This view still requires users to scan a long long list of items to try and identify values that should be collapsed because they are just different ways of expressing the same thing with differences in spacing or punctuation. It is only possible to identify these values if they are located near each other alphabetically.  This can be a problem if you have a field like a name field that can have inverted or non-inverted strings for names.  So there is room for improvement of these interfaces for our users. Our next interface to talk about is our Count Dashboard.  But that will be in another post. If you have questions or comments about this post,  please let me know via Twitter.       This entry was posted in thinking outloud on August 31, 2017 by vphill. Post navigation ← Older posts Search for: Recent Posts Metadata Events System: Accounting for Time Managing Metadata Editing for Telecommuting. 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Key points: Senior university industry figures say the high number of casual employees recorded in Victoria are representative across the country One industry figure said after "eight years or more" of advanced study many university educators found themselves in a "relatively insecure position" Union representatives have labelled the move towards mass casualisation as "rank hypocrisy" Labelled as the industry's "dirty secret" by unions, Victoria is the only state where the law compels academic institutions to report casual employment data. It reveals a record 68.74 per cent of staff are employed as casuals or short-term contracts. The ABC understands as many as 5,000 staff at just two Melbourne institutions have no more work — suggesting sector job losses are being significantly under-reported. And senior university industry figures say the Victorian figure is reflected nationally in information sent to the Federal Department of Education. "[The numbers] are terrible," National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) president Dr Alison Barnes said. "They [the teachers] have no financial security and that means it's difficult to take holidays, get mortgages, plan a family but it's also that chronic insecurity leads to stress and problems of emotional wellbeing," Catch up on the main COVID-19 news from December 15 with our coronavirus blog.The rush towards insecure work has been led by the University of Melbourne, Australia's richest tertiary institution, which listed reserves of $4.43 billion while employing 72.9 per cent of staff on insecure terms. Monash University was a close second on the list, with 72.8 per cent of staff employed casually or on short-term contracts but it had much smaller reserves of just over $1 billion. Students at the University of Melbourne, which has been accused of 'hypocrisy' over its cash reserves.(ABC News: Danielle Bonica)Reserves are defined as unspent revenue or investments used for emergencies. A University of Melbourne spokesman said much of its reserves were "committed" through endowments, capital projects, research, and "employee entitlements". Job losses continue On Wednesday UNSW told staff it was seeking 493 voluntary redundancies by the end of the month, joining a long list of institutions to announce widespread job losses. And according to unions the lax reporting and quiet culling of casuals means the true toll of lost jobs from COVID-19 is likely to be "many thousands" rather than the roughly 1500 forced and voluntary redundancies announced publicly. "Universities are supposed to hold a critical mirror up to society and it is rank hypocrisy if they don't do so by disguising or lacking transparency around those figures of casual employment and job losses amongst casual employees," Dr Barnes said. A report released in May from the Rapid Research Information Forum (RRIF) — and handed to the Federal Government — estimated that 21,000 full-time equivalent jobs in the university sector were at risk by the end of the year, with 7,000 estimated to be research-related academic positions. The University of Melbourne said it was not able to say how many casuals had lost work since COVID-19. Monash University did not respond to inquiries. Fired over zoom call Former Deakin University employee Dash Jayasuriya is one of the workers swiftly let go as the numbers of international students fell. Dash Jayasuriya said she felt abandoned by her employer.(ABC News: Simon Winter)"As we approached the end of April, I started to get really anxious, I was kind of not sleeping, I was feeling really stressed," Ms Jayasuriya said. Ms Jayasuriya had been employed at the university most of her adult life, with the last six-and-a-half years teaching English accreditation to international students as a casual, then on contract. By the end of April her fears were realised when she was told her contract would not be renewed and she was let go in a Zoom call weeks before her contract ended. "I called two of my colleagues on Zoom straight away and I just remember crying and saying I'd lost my job," Ms Jayasuriya said. As well as "sadness" Ms Jayasuriya said she felt "betrayal" and accused the billion-dollar institution of making no attempt to save her livelihood. The rise of insecure work has coincided with a decade of record revenues and the consequences of that trend are only being felt now the sector is facing its first downturn. Universities Australia said the 39 public universities faced a combined revenue loss of between $3 billion and $4.6 billion from the fall in international students on the back of COVID-19 travel restrictions. Ms Jayasuriya said she felt exploited and expendable and was moving to a new industry. "I also don't want to work there anymore," she said. "It has left a really sour taste for me as it has for many of my colleagues." Deakin University estimates it expects to lose at least $250 million in revenue next year and is making 300 permanent staff redundant. Part of long-term trend Professor Frank Larkin from the University of Melbourne is a former senior university manager and chemistry specialist as well as an analyst of his own sector's finances. He said the push to casualisation came after a decade where the Federal Government required universities to look elsewhere for revenue, with universities fearful it would fluctuate. After a decade of near continuous growth billions are now being slashed from budgets. "I guess universities have been a bit conservative [with budgets], because those markets can be a bit fickle," Professor Larkin said. "Its [revenue from overseas students] is a little different to that secure government grant funding. I think that's partly what's driven the flexibility [in the workforce]." Young bear economic brunt of COVID-19 Young Australians are being hit hardest by job losses and rental arrears due to COVID-19, so should older Australians foot more of the bill once the crisis passes? Read more Professor Larkin said it had been damaging for staff morale. "By the time academic staff reach the point of [teaching and research] most of them now would be expected to have a PhD," he said. "So they've done eight years or more of advanced study and find themselves in a relatively insecure position." Professor Larkin believed the Federal Government's latest funding reforms around degree pricing would only worsen that trend. Universities Australia declined to comment on the casualisation of the workforce, instead directing the ABC to the Australian Higher Education Industrial Association which defended not publishing staff data in states other than Victoria. Universities supply information to the Federal Department but there is a 12-month delay in publishing the casual stats. Executive Director Stuart Andrews said it was not clear how many casual staff had lost their jobs. "There would be a significant number, though, given there are thousands of international students who have been unable to commence their university studies," Mr Andrews said Unions who spoke to the ABC said they would like to see more job security and were discussing this as part of working groups set up by the Federal Government. 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AEST = Australian Eastern Standard Time which is 10 hours ahead of GMT (Greenwich Mean Time) Editorial Policies Accessibility Help Contact Us About the ABC Privacy Policy Terms of Use © 2020 ABC www-abc-net-au-5859 ---- Steering unemployed young people into caring careers might just pay off - ABC News Skip to main contentABC News HomepageSearchMore from ABCMore from ABC Close menuABC ABC Home News Radio iview Life More Editorial Policies Read our editorial guiding principles Accessibility Help Contact Us About the ABC Privacy Policy Terms of Use © 2020 ABC Just In Coronavirus Watch Live Politics World Business Analysis Sport Science Health Arts Fact Check Other News Home analysisSteering unemployed young people into caring careers might just pay off By Insiders host David Speers Posted 2ddays agoSatSaturday 12 DecDecember 2020 at 6:00pm Youth unemployment currently sits at more than 15 per cent.(Pixabay) Share Facebook Twitter Article share options Share this on Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Send this by Email Messenger Copy link WhatsApp Print contentPrint with images and other media Print text only PrintCancel Beaches, barbecues, cricket and ... industrial relations. The parliamentary year ended with a heated and unresolved argument over workplace changes that will continue through the summer months for those who are bothered to put down their beer and pay any attention to it. Workplace law isn't often a barbecue-stopping conversation, but Anthony Albanese will be trying to keep as many voters as possible tuned in. The penalty rates of frontline workers, he contends, are in grave danger. The Government says that's utter rubbish, to put it politely. To deal briefly with the facts of the matter: the dispute is over a proposed change that would allow businesses "impacted" by COVID to strike agreements that leave some workers worse off than they otherwise would be on the award. Christian Porter says there's no way an independent umpire would agree to cut penalty rates to keep a business alive.(AAP: Lukas Coch)Workers would still get a vote on any such deal, which the independent umpire would have to consider. The Fair Work Commission would also, importantly, be required to ensure any agreement is not "contrary to the public interest". A non-unionised company could, for example, tell its workforce they must give up their penalty rates for the business to survive. In this scenario, the vulnerable workers fearing unemployment may reluctantly agree for the sake of saving their jobs. And if a Fair Work Commissioner is so inclined, the penalty rates would be sacrificed to keep the business alive. Industrial Relations Minister Christian Porter says such a scenario is implausible; there's no way an independent umpire would agree to such a move. Still, he can see the writing on the wall and isn't about to die in a ditch over this. He'd rather not drop the change altogether but has left room for a compromise on the wording of the legislation to remove any doubt. A summer scare campaign on penalty rates Labor is quietly thrilled Porter didn't cave immediately. They've been gifted a summer scare campaign on penalty rates and can't believe their luck. These IR changes, together with the Budget changes unveiled in October, are all part of what the Government likes to call its "business-led" recovery. The Coalition wants the private sector to do the heavily lifting of job creation, but it's not exactly a free-market, small-government approach just yet. The JobKeeper wage support continues for a few more months and has been joined by subsidies for everything from hiring young workers to training apprentices and even bathroom renovations. The role of the state isn't so much a guiding hand in the market right now as crucial scaffolding. Unnecessary workplace reforms? The Federal Government has embarked on a push to unite employers and unions in major industrial relations reform to help recovery from the pandemic. The only problem is there's little evidence to suggest it's needed. Read more Labor argues for even greater levels of spending and intervention to help put the economy back on track. The debate over the level and nature of government support will dominate much of 2021 and is likely to become only more disagreeable the closer we get to the election. Hopes are fading of any bipartisan consensus on how to use the opportunity of this crisis to fix pre-existing problems and build back smarter. The "Digital Platforms" legislation introduced this week is a possible exception. It's an attempt to fix a growing revenue problem facing the media sector. Forcing Google and Facebook to pay for the journalism on their platforms is something media companies have been after for years. Now, pending a committee process and vote in Parliament, it looks like becoming a reality. Steering young unemployed people into caring There's clearly a potential to steer more young unemployed Australians into caring careers.(ABC News: Nick Haggarty)Two other pre-existing (and undoubtedly more urgent) problems in the economy are high levels of youth unemployment and an increasing shortage of care workers. Youth unemployment currently sits at more than 15 per cent. The demand for trained care workers is forecast to rise by 18 per cent in the coming years as the population ages and more Home Care places are rolled out. These are not easy problems to fix, but there's clearly a potential to steer more young unemployed Australians into caring careers. As it turns out, the strongest supply of young jobseekers just happens to be in the same areas as the greatest demand for care workers. History suggests youth unemployment will surge A generation of workers is facing a lengthy disruption early in their career as economists warn younger people will suffer the most from the coronavirus recession, if past downturns are any indication. Read more YMCA Australia, now known as the "Y", has crunched the numbers and found exactly where the correlation is strongest. In the South Australian seat of Spence, held by Labor's Nick Champion, more than 6,000 young people are out of work, while the demand for care workers is forecast to grow by nearly 3,800. In Stuart Robert's seat of Fadden, youth unemployment sits at nearly 4,800, with demand for care work set to grow by about 3,000. In the marginal seat of Longman, the numbers sit at more than 4,000 young unemployed and a shortage of more than 3,700 care workers forecast. In all, the "Y" has identified 42 priority hot spots where it's proposing a fix. Already one of the largest employers of young people in Australia, the organisation wants to trial a new approach of training young workers in these sites to begin caring careers. It's willing to commit $40 million in wages and is seeking nearly $12 million from the Government for infrastructure along with access to the existing wage and apprentice subsidies. If given the green light, 1,500 young Australians would have a job in January and a pathway to a career in caring. A relatively small-scale proposal like this won't entirely solve either problem of youth unemployment or the shortage of care workers, but this does represent some creative thinking. If broader economic reforms are going to become bogged down in partisan trench warfare, thinking outside the box and supporting some new ideas might be worth a go. David Speers is the host of Insiders, which airs on ABC TV at 9am on Sunday or on iview. 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AEST = Australian Eastern Standard Time which is 10 hours ahead of GMT (Greenwich Mean Time) Editorial Policies Accessibility Help Contact Us About the ABC Privacy Policy Terms of Use © 2020 ABC www-abc-net-au-7668 ---- The daily grind led to a four-day week and a new approach to work-life balance - ABC News Skip to main contentABC News HomepageSearchMore from ABCMore from ABC Close menuABC ABC Home News Radio iview Life More Editorial Policies Read our editorial guiding principles Accessibility Help Contact Us About the ABC Privacy Policy Terms of Use © 2020 ABC Just In Coronavirus Watch Live Politics World Business Analysis Sport Science Health Arts Fact Check Other News Home The daily grind led to a four-day week and a new approach to work-life balance By Caroline Zielinski Posted MonMonday 21 SepSeptember 2020 at 7:00pmMonMonday 21 SepSeptember 2020 at 7:00pm Urban planner Bryn Davies is a proponent of taking a 'romance day'.(Supplied: Bryn Davies) Share Facebook Twitter Article share options Share this on Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Send this by Email Messenger Copy link WhatsApp Print contentPrint with images and other media Print text only PrintCancel It was a magical year in Berlin that made urban planner Bryn Davies realise there was more to life than the daily grind. After finishing a master's degree in the United States in 2016, the 32-year-old decided to trade in the nine-to-five for an "incredibly romantic" sojourn in the German capital. "For that year, I spent time with friends in the park, I went to clubs and I lived a life that was tactile, present and in the moment," he says. "It's also when I got into furniture making and realised just how much I needed some romance in my life." After returning to Melbourne to take up a position as a ministerial advisor in the planning field, Mr Davies found himself in a rut. Bryn Davies spends his extra day off working on passion projects, like building furniture.(Supplied: Bryn Davies)His new job was "stressful and anxiety-inducing from the beginning", and for 10 long months, he "wasn't in the greatest headspace". "After Berlin, Melbourne seemed like it sucked — it was all work and no fun," he says. "But then I realised I wasn't being fair to Melbourne, because the way I was living my life was totally different. "In Berlin, I made time for romance, and in Melbourne my life was entirely functional and productivity-driven." 'We've doubled our revenue' So, Mr Davies decided to do what others only dream of: he asked his employer if he could work four days a week. The fifth day would become what he calls a "romance day" — a conscious day dedicated only to passion projects (in his case, building furniture from recycled wood and even restoring an old sailboat and turning it into a pub), as opposed to home chores or admin. Aussie firm's 'no-work Wednesday' concept goes global An Australian digital advertising agency's shift to a four-day week has boosted revenue, profits and staff satisfaction — and its experiment is drawing the attention of big firms and politicians overseas. Read more While it is an arrangement that may not be suited to every workplace, there are benefits that come from allowing employees time to fulfil their creative passions. Studies have shown that people who are involved in passion projects are less stressed, have more energy on the job and are better equipped to switch off when they stop working. It's something Kath Blackham discovered first-hand, after introducing a four-day working week in her digital creative agency, Versa. By working 10-hour days, four days a week, employees can take a mid-week break — and according to Ms Blackham, it's bolstered productivity and profitability. "Ever since we gave our staff Wednesdays off, we've doubled our revenue, tripled our profits, slashed the amount of sick days taken and really improved every metric we measured," she says. Versa chief executive Kath Blackham introduced a four-day working week in her organisation.(ABC News: Daniel Ziffer)It's not quite as simple as it seems While initially intended to be a short-term experiment to help prevent mental health issues in the workplace, the initiative has proven so successful that Ms Blackham can't imagine her business ever doing away with it. "If you think about it, many people take mental health days anyway, so we've just replaced that with a company-mandated one," Ms Blackham says. More productive in a four-day week? A New Zealand company trialled a four-day working week and found staff did as much in 30 hours as they used to do in 37.5. Read more "That said, not everyone needs or wants to take the full day off, so we've also organised 'crafternoons' and an 'entrepreneur club' on Wednesdays in the office for those who want work on their passion project with others." And it seems to be working. The initiative has helped produce the likes of the social enterprise Code Like a Girl, whose founder Ally Watson is a former Versa (then called Deepend) employee. However, as Monash University's Professor Herman Tse points out, giving people an extra day off isn't quite as simple as it seems. "We need to think more carefully about what having a four-day work week means: do we squeeze 38 hours into four days, or reduce the number of hours worked overall?" he asks. "Most companies still focus on contractual hours to calculate superannuation, long service leave, annual leave etc — our whole system depends on this structure." Staff at Versa can take Wednesdays off, while those who want to attend work can join the company's entrepreneur club.(ABC News: Daniel Ziffer)It may not be for everyone Ms Blackham admits that it would be unsustainable for her business to allow employees to move to a four-day roster if they only worked eight hours a day. She says meaningful structural change needs to be led by governments. "The last time we actually made a serious change to the working week was done by Henry Ford 100 years ago," she says. "Since then, we've had an IT revolution, but we're still wedded to the same way of working. I'm sure if the government said 'it's a four-day week' from now on, people and companies would adjust." Any disruption to the standard five-day workweek, however, must be predicated on a climate of trust and transparency between employers and employees, says Professor Isabel Metz from the Melbourne Business School. The move to a four-day working week must be predicated on a climate of trust and transparency between employers and employees.(Supplied: Pexels)"Managers need to be comfortable that these hours are being used for that particular purpose (of passion) and not to do chores, or to work on your own little start-up [or] business when not explicitly stated," she says. Professor Metz adds that an entire day off may not be necessary for everyone — particularly those who don't want to work longer hours on a daily basis. "Having a break during the day for two hours to go for a walk may be enough for them," she says. "People also work differently: some may feel more creative at night, others in the morning, and some may prefer shorter days." 'Giving some leeway can go a long way' For Mr Davies, having a "romance day" has proven both personally and professionally rewarding. "There is a direct link between what I do as an urban planner, such as transforming an heritage site into something new, and the process of taking old bits of wood, covered in paint and cement, and making them beautiful again," he says. He has also managed to fulfil his dream of transforming an old sailboat into a roving, pop-up bar called ear/or, something he would have struggled to do without his employer's support. Bryn Davies has fulfilled his dream of transforming an old sailboat into a bar.(Supplied: Bryn Davies)"If you're an employer and want talented people, you have to be able to trust them, otherwise they will go somewhere else they can be trusted," Mr Davies says. "Normally, talented people want to do good work — you don't have to chain them to a desk to do it — so giving some leeway can go a long way." Caroline Zielinski is a freelance journalist based in Melbourne. She writes on health, science, social affairs and issues related to women. Posted 21 SepSeptember 2020MonMonday 21 SepSeptember 2020 at 7:00pm Share Facebook Twitter Article share options Share this on Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Send this by Email Messenger Copy link WhatsApp Related Stories We're too scared to say no to work, and it's taking a big toll This Aussie business shuts its doors every Wednesday. 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Designed to crush tasks using the least amount of power, M1 features two types of cores: high performance and high efficiency. So from editing family photos to exporting iMovie videos for the web to managing huge RAW libraries in Lightroom to checking your email, M1 blazes right through it all — without blazing through battery life. 8-core CPUThe highest‑performance CPU we’ve ever built. Up to3.5Xfaster CPU performance1 Four high‑performance cores M1 features four performance cores, each designed to run a single task as efficiently as possible while maximizing performance. Our high‑performance core is the world’s fastest CPU core when it comes to low‑power silicon.3 And because M1 has four of them, multithreaded workloads take a huge leap in performance as well. Four high‑efficiency cores M1 has four efficiency cores to handle lighter workloads. They use a tenth of the power while still delivering outstanding performance. These e‑cores are the most efficient place to run lightweight tasks, allowing the performance cores to be used for your most demanding workflows. CPU performance vs. power Up to2Xfaster CPU performance4 Matches peak PC performance using25%of the power4 2x faster CPU performance M1 delivers significantly higher performance at every power level when compared with the very latest PC laptop chip. At just 10 watts (the thermal envelope of a MacBook Air), M1 delivers up to 2x the CPU performance of the PC chip. And M1 can match the peak performance of the PC chip while using just a quarter of the power. CPU performance per watt 3XCPU performance per watt5 3x higher performance per watt When we look back at the single‑threaded performance of low‑power silicon in the Mac, gains in performance per watt have been very small from one chip to the next. But when we look at M1, we see a massive 3x improvement in performance per watt. The world’s fastest integrated graphics in a personal computer. Typically, PCs have to use a discrete chip to get great graphics performance — which consumes a lot of power. But M1 is different. Its integrated graphics bring the best of both worlds — a huge increase in graphics performance together with low power consumption. The result of years of thorough analysis of Mac applications, the GPU in M1 is the most advanced graphics processor we’ve ever built. With up to eight GPU cores, M1 is capable of executing nearly 25,000 threads at a time. From teraflops to texture bandwidth to fill rate to power efficiency, this GPU is in a class of its own — and brings the world’s fastest integrated graphics in a personal computer.6 Up to8-core GPUThe most advanced graphics processor we’ve ever built. Up to25Kconcurrent threads GPU performance vs. power Up to2Xfaster GPU performance7 Matches peak PC performance using33%of the power7 2x faster graphics performance At every power level, M1 delivers significantly higher graphics performance than the very latest PC laptop chip — for up to 2x the graphics speed. And M1 can match the peak performance of the PC chip while using just a third of the power. The next generation of machine learning. M1 features our latest Neural Engine. Its 16‑core design is capable of executing a massive 11 trillion operations per second. In fact, with a powerful 8‑core GPU, machine learning accelerators, and the Neural Engine, the entire M1 chip is designed to excel at machine learning. Final Cut Pro can intelligently frame a clip in a fraction of the time. Pixelmator Pro can magically increase sharpness and detail at incredible speeds. And every app with ML‑powered features benefits from performance never before seen on Mac. Up to15Xfaster machine learning performance8 Up to11 trillionoperations per second Serious performance. Ridiculous battery life. M1 extends battery life even while bringing a massive increase in performance. But the chip itself is only part of this incredible power efficiency story. macOS Big Sur features advanced power management that intelligently allocates tasks between the M1 performance and efficiency cores — automatically optimizing for lightweight tasks like reading a note or performance‑intensive tasks like playing the latest game. The result is the best battery life ever on a Mac. M1 model MacBook Pro 13″ Up to17 hrsof wireless web browsing9 Up to20 hrsof movie playback9 M1 model MacBook Air Up to15 hrsof wireless web browsing10 Up to18 hrsof movie playback10 An OS made for M1, down to its core. macOS Big Sur is engineered to take full advantage of all the capability and power of the M1 chip — making everything you love about macOS faster, better, and more secure. It’s our most powerful software ever, running on our most advanced hardware yet. See what’s new in macOS Big Sur Blazing‑fast performance Systems with M1 now wake instantly. Everyday tasks like launching apps are nearly instantaneous. Scrolling in Safari is even smoother. System animations are snappier. And the sheer speed of M1, combined with macOS technologies like Metal, delivers a huge boost to even the most demanding apps — so you can do things like render 3D animations or edit RAW video footage with ease. Advanced security M1 and Big Sur offer the most advanced security of any personal computer. With hardware‑verified secure boot. Automatic high‑performance encryption for all your files. And new security protections built deep into the code execution architecture of M1. M1 brings more apps to Mac than ever. macOS Big Sur is packed with technologies that allow you to run a greater range of apps than ever before — the biggest collection ever for Mac. And as developers continue to build new apps for M1, that collection will only grow. Universal apps Every app that comes with Mac, and every app made by Apple, is optimized for M1. Apps like Pages, Keynote, GarageBand, and iMovie show how amazing performance can be with M1. Run up to 3x more instrument and effect plug‑ins with Logic Pro.11 Fly through tasks with Final Cut Pro, like rendering a complex timeline up to 6x faster.12 Incredibly fast and more capable than ever, native apps are the most powerful apps for M1. And the new Universal platform means these apps support both Intel‑based and Apple silicon–based Mac systems. Many developers are already delivering new apps with game‑changing performance and capabilities. Like color‑correcting 6K video — in real time — with Blackmagic DaVinci Resolve. Rosetta 2 With the introduction of Rosetta 2, M1 and macOS Big Sur seamlessly run apps that haven’t yet transitioned to Universal versions. So without updating, you can keep working on Fusion360 projects or reach the next level in your favorite game. And thanks to Metal and M1, some of the most graphically demanding apps perform better under Rosetta 2 than they did running natively on previous Mac systems with integrated graphics. iPhone and iPad apps For the first time, you can run your favorite iPhone and iPad apps directly on Mac. That means more games to play. More content to watch. And more apps for all the things you love to do. They work and behave like true Mac apps — with a menu bar, support for resizable windows, mouse and trackpad control, and more. iPhone and iPad apps you purchased previously that are now available for Mac can simply be downloaded from your purchased list. And, of course, they’re available on the Mac App Store. Shop Mac models with M1. MacBook Air Buy Learn more MacBook Pro 13″ Buy Learn more Mac mini Buy Learn more Compare all Mac models Apple Footer Testing conducted by Apple in October 2020 using preproduction MacBook Air systems with Apple M1 chip and 8-core GPU, as well as production 1.2GHz quad-core Intel Core i7-based MacBook Air systems, all configured with 16GB RAM and 2TB SSD. Tested with prerelease Final Cut Pro 10.5 using a 55-second clip with 4K Apple ProRes RAW media, at 4096x2160 resolution and 59.94 frames per second, transcoded to Apple ProRes 422. Performance tests are conducted using specific computer systems and reflect the approximate performance of MacBook Air. Testing conducted by Apple in October 2020 using preproduction Mac mini systems with Apple M1 chip, and production 3.6GHz quad-core Intel Core i3-based Mac mini systems, all configured with 16GB of RAM and 2TB SSD. Prerelease Adobe Lightroom 4.1 tested using a 28MB image. Performance tests are conducted using specific computer systems and reflect the approximate performance of Mac mini. Testing conducted by Apple in October 2020 using preproduction 13‑inch MacBook Pro systems with Apple M1 chip and 16GB of RAM measuring peak single-thread performance of workloads taken from select industry-standard benchmarks, commercial applications, and open source applications. Comparison made against the highest-performing CPUs for notebooks commercially available at the time of testing. Performance tests are conducted using specific computer systems and reflect the approximate performance of MacBook Pro. Testing conducted by Apple in October 2020 using preproduction 13‑inch MacBook Pro systems with Apple M1 chip and 16GB of RAM. Multithreaded performance measured using select industry‑standard benchmarks. Comparison made against latest‑generation high‑performance notebooks commercially available at the time of testing. Performance tests are conducted using specific computer systems and reflect the approximate performance of MacBook Pro. Testing conducted by Apple in October 2020 using preproduction 13‑inch MacBook Pro systems with Apple M1 chip and 16GB of RAM, as well as previous‑generation Mac notebooks. Performance measured using select industry‑standard benchmarks. Performance tests are conducted using specific computer systems and reflect the approximate performance of MacBook Pro. Testing conducted by Apple in October 2020 using preproduction 13‑inch MacBook Pro systems with Apple M1 chip and 16GB of RAM using select industry-standard benchmarks. Comparison made against the highest-performing integrated GPUs for notebooks and desktops commercially available at the time of testing. Integrated GPU is defined as a GPU located on a monolithic silicon die along with a CPU and memory controller, behind a unified memory subsystem. 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Privacy Policy Terms of Use Sales and Refunds Legal Site Map www-archivalconnections-org-2659 ---- Archival Connections – project site Skip to content Archival Connections project site Menu and widgets Home/Recent Posts About People Groups Members Partners Reserach Research Prospectus Publications A and D in Cloud Bibliography Tools Search for: Recent Posts Platform Monopolies and Archives November 6, 2017 SIA Workshop Links October 20, 2017 Scaling Machine-Assisted Description of Historical Records October 20, 2017 Social Feed Manager Takeaways October 17, 2017 Arrangement and Description in the Cloud: A Preliminary Analysis September 8, 2017 Installing Social Feed Manager Locally June 6, 2017 Preserving Email Report Summary January 11, 2017 Introducing Archival Connections August 15, 2016 Platform Monopolies and Archives I am at the InterPARES Trust North American Team meeting in Vancouver, and the issue of platform monopolies has risen to the top of my mind. Here is a quick list of readings I’ve thrown together while listening to and engaging in the discussion: 107798 DVHHJ346 items 1 default ASC https://www.archivalconnections.org/wp-content/plugins/zotpress/ For now, I don’t have much to say, other than this: As a profession, we need to think deeply about how to be, and how to act in the current media environment, in which monopolies are facilitating and encouraging the political, social, and economic dysfunction that is the defining characteristic of our times. Posted on November 6, 2017November 6, 2017 SIA Workshop Links Just sharing a few links for use during the SIA workshop I’ll be teaching later today: Google Form for Exercises SIA Workshop Slides Posted on October 20, 2017 Scaling Machine-Assisted Description of Historical Records One of the questions I’ve been grappling with as part of the Archival Connections research project is simple: Is there a future for the finding aid?  I’m inclined to think not, at least not in the form we are used to. Looking to the future, I recently had the chance to propose something slightly different, and have proposed a potential project for funding via an Amazon Research Grant. While the jury is still out on the proposal (an answer is coming in mid-December), I’d like to share a copy of the proposal, Scaling Machine-Assisted Description of Historical Materials. The idea I describe there seeks to build on an emergent digital repository and library infrastructure that is being built by the University of Illinois Library.  It seeks to integrate natural language processing and named entity recognition elements to index and provide relational browsing pathways alongside file-system access.  I’ll  have more to say about this at the Society of Indiana Archivists meeting tomorrow. Posted on October 20, 20171 Comment on Scaling Machine-Assisted Description of Historical Records Social Feed Manager Takeaways Later this week, I’ll be introducing the Archival Connections Project at the Society of Indiana Archivists Meeting.  During the first year of this project, one focus of my work was evaluating and developing some recommendations for using Social Feed Manager, a tool developed by George Washington University Libraries. My full report is here, for those interested:  https://gwu-libraries.github.io/sfm-ui/resources/SFMReportProm2017.pdf. Without going into too much detail, here is what I feel like I learned while working on this report, at least as far as it relates to the Archival Connections project: First and foremost: Data models matter. As I indicated in the report, the SFM’s underlying database and data model are both simple and elegant. Since the application focuses on doing one thing and doing it well, the database directly translates into user interface components that make the application a joy to use.  While the project team hired a usability consultant to improve the app, the tweaks made by the team in response to the report simply added polish to an already strong interface.  While I won’t be so impolitic as to compare SFM to other archival tools, the application works well, in part, because the various data object and the tables that underly them represent things that exist in the real world, not abstractions or vague concepts that are hard for staff to understand or programmers to translate into an interface. Second: Archivists should become better API consumers.  One of the things that fascinates me most about SFM is the fact that it connects directly to the Twitter API and slurps up all of the metadata supplied by it.  Thinking broadly, the archival and information professions are doing a lot to build and use our own API’s or data providers, but less to interact with those supplied by the data companies that now order our lives.   For example, do we have an API that line archivists (as opposed to technical staff) can connect to (a) Google Drive, Box.com, Outlook 365, or Facebook,  (b), harvest records from those systems, and (c) prep them for deposit in a digital repository?  Not that I am aware of, but we should. Without them, we can’t capture records and preservation metadata at or near the point that records created (h/t David Bearman). Third: The metadata that APIs supply is a two-edged sword.   Once you dig into their JSON files, you quickly see that Twitter supplies a lot of what the OAIS reference model calls preservation metadata: dates and times tweets were published, times the tool captured it, etc.  As a baseline, such data will help people make future claims about the authenticity of these records or mine them as data.  But given the relative lack of descriptive metadata and the fact that bots and other non-human agents control so many twitter accounts (not to mention the fact that many users’ handles tell you little to nothing about their real identity), this metadata in itself is not sufficient to say something is authentic or not authentic or to wring much value from the dataset.  That requires (wait for it . . . ) a person interpreting the records using all of the intelligence they can muster. Finally: Aggregations matter now more than ever.   I was a bit taken aback a few months ago when the committee charged with revising DACS made no mention of provenance, original order, arranging files or levels of description in their draft principles.  While their work had much to recommend it,  the lack of any mention like an oversight, and an important one.   My work with SFM has convinced me that aggregations and provenance are even more important when working with records harvested from the cloud.  Given the free-floating, intertwined nature of records found in social media or other ‘cloud’ platforms, it seems to me that the act of capturing records by an archivist results in an aggregation.  For instance, SFM generates a set of tweets, but that set is the result of an archivist’s activity to shape the collection.  And this aggregation and the provenance behind it deserve to be described as such, with as much transparency about the archivist’s role as possible.  In short, archivists can and must do a good job of arranging and describing materials at a collection or series level, there is no workaround for this core archival function, even–or perhaps especially–when extracting item based metadata and records from the platforms that now rule many people daily work and social lives. Posted on October 17, 2017October 17, 2017 Arrangement and Description in the Cloud: A Preliminary Analysis I’m posting a preprint of some early work related to the Archival Connections project.  This work will be published as a book chapter/proceedings by the ArchiveSchule in Marburg.  In the meantime, here is the preprint: Archival Arrangement and Description in the Cloud A Preliminary Analysis Posted on September 8, 2017August 10, 2018 Posts navigation Page 1 Page 2 Next page Proudly powered by WordPress www-archivalconnections-org-9116 ---- Archival Connections Archival Connections project site Platform Monopolies and Archives I am at the InterPARES Trust North American Team meeting in Vancouver, and the issue of platform monopolies has risen to the top of my mind. Here is a quick list of readings I’ve thrown together while listening to and engaging in the discussion: For now, I don’t have much to say, other than this: As a … Continue reading Platform Monopolies and Archives SIA Workshop Links Just sharing a few links for use during the SIA workshop I’ll be teaching later today: Google Form for Exercises SIA Workshop Slides Scaling Machine-Assisted Description of Historical Records One of the questions I’ve been grappling with as part of the Archival Connections research project is simple: Is there a future for the finding aid?  I’m inclined to think not, at least not in the form we are used to. Looking to the future, I recently had the chance to propose something slightly different, and … Continue reading Scaling Machine-Assisted Description of Historical Records Social Feed Manager Takeaways Later this week, I’ll be introducing the Archival Connections Project at the Society of Indiana Archivists Meeting.  During the first year of this project, one focus of my work was evaluating and developing some recommendations for using Social Feed Manager, a tool developed by George Washington University Libraries. My full report is here, for those interested:  https://gwu-libraries.github.io/sfm-ui/resources/SFMReportProm2017.pdf. Without … Continue reading Social Feed Manager Takeaways Arrangement and Description in the Cloud: A Preliminary Analysis I’m posting a preprint of some early work related to the Archival Connections project.  This work will be published as a book chapter/proceedings by the ArchiveSchule in Marburg.  In the meantime, here is the preprint: Archival Arrangement and Description in the Cloud A Preliminary Analysis Installing Social Feed Manager Locally The easiest way to get started with Social Feed Manager is to install Docker on a local machine, such as a laptop or (preferably) desktop computer with a persistent internet connection. Running SFM locally for anything other than testing purposes is NOT recommended. It will not be sufficient for a long-term documentation project and would … Continue reading Installing Social Feed Manager Locally Preserving Email Report Summary Earlier today, I provided a summary of Preserving Email, a Technology Watch Report I wrote back in 2011. I'll leave it to others to judge how well that report holds up, but I had the following takeaways when re-reading it: Introducing Archival Connections Welcome! This shares information from a five-year research project that I am coordinating at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.  The project aims to make it easier for people to find and use the materials managed by archival repositories like the University of Illinois Archives, where I work.  You can read more about the project on the … Continue reading Introducing Archival Connections www-blogger-com-1232 ---- Coyle's InFormation Coyle's InFormation Comments on the digital age, which, as we all know, is 42. Women designing 1982 Ceci n'est pas une Bibliothèque Use the Leader, Luke! Pamflets The Work I, too, want answers I'd like to buy a VOWEL FRBR without FR or BR It's "academic" Libraryland, We Have a Problem FRBR as a Data Model Google Books and Mein Kampf On reading Library Journal, September, 1877 The Work Pray for Peace Two FRBRs, Many Relationships If It Ain't Broke Precipitating Forward Miseducation Transparency of judgment All the (good) books All the Books 2 Mysteries Solved! User tasks, Step one www-blogger-com-4417 ---- DSHR's Blog DSHR's Blog I'm David Rosenthal, and this is a place to discuss the work I'm doing in Digital Preservation. RISC vs. CISC 737 MAX Ungrounding I Rest My Case Storage Media Update Even More On The Ad Bubble The Order Flow The Long Now Unbanking The Banked A Note On Blockchains Liability In The Software Supply Chain Moxie Marlinspike On Decentralization Don't Say We Didn't Warn You Amazon Is Profitable? Open Source Saturation Shout-Out To Gutenberg Project Lack Of Anti-Trust Enforcement Optical Media Durability: Update Atlantic Council Report On Software Supply Chains "Good" News For Bitcoin! Contextual vs. Behavioral Advertising After A Decade, HAMR Is Still Nearly Here Twitter Fails Security 101 Again Inefficiency Is Good! Bill Shannon RIP Deanonymizing Ethereum Users www-blogger-com-8239 ---- Scriptio Continua Scriptio Continua Thoughts on software development, Digital Humanities, the ancient world, and whatever else crosses my radar. All original content herein is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license. Reminder Experiencing Technical Difficulties Thank You DH Data Talk Outside the tent Missing DH First Contact You did _what_? Form-based XML editing How to Apologize A spot of mansplaining TEI in other formats; part the second: Theory TEI in other formats; part the first: HTML Humanities Data Curation Interfaces and Models TEI is a text modelling language I Will Never NOT EVER Type an Angle Bracket (or IWNNETAAB for short) DH Tea Leaves That Bug Bit Me #alt-ac Careers: Digital Humanities Developer Addenda et Corrigenda Making a new Numbers Server for papyri.info #APA2010 Converting APIS Object Artefact Script Stomping on Innovation Killers www-blogger-com-8779 ---- Open Source Exile Open Source Exile An open sourcer in exile #ChristchurchMosqueShootings How would we know when it was time to move from TEI/XML to TEI/JSON? Whither TEI? The Next Thirty Years Thoughts on the NDFNZ wikipedia panel Feedback on NLNZ ‘DigitalNZ Concepts API‘ BIBFRAME A wikipedia strategy for the Royal Society of New Zealand Prep notes for NDF2011 demonstration Metadata vocabularies LODLAM NZ cares about Unexpected advice Goodbye 'social-media' world Recreational authority control Thoughts on "Letter about the TEI" from Martin Mueller unit testing framework for XSL transformations? Is there a place for readers' collectives in the bright new world of eBooks? HOWTO: Deep linking into the NZETC site ePubs and quality What LibraryThing metadata can the NZETC reasonable stuff inside it's CC'd epubs? Interlinking of collections: the quest continues eBook readers need OpenURL resolvers Thoughts on koha Data and data modelling and underlying assumptions Learning XSLT 2.0 Part 1; Finding Names Legal Māori Archive Why card-based records aren't good enough www-cbc-ca-5903 ---- UWindsor apologizes to Black student after review shows it mishandled his assault complaint | CBC News Skip to Main Content Menu Search Search Quick Links News Sports Radio Music Listen Live TV Watch COVID-19 Local updates Watch Live COVID-19 tracker Subscribe to newsletter Top Stories Local The National Opinion World Canada Politics Indigenous Business Health Entertainment Tech & Science CBC News Investigates Go Public Shows About CBC News Windsor·ExclusiveUWindsor apologizes to Black student after review shows it mishandled his assault complaint UWindsor's mishandling of Jordan Afolabi's complaint shows 'deeply rooted systemic racism' say faculty and Afolabi. Social Sharing Jordan Afolabi says his case was mishandled because of anti-Black racism CBC News · Posted: Dec 04, 2020 5:00 AM ET | Last Updated: December 4 University of Windsor student Jordan Afolabi says race was a factor in how his complaint following an on-campus fight was handled. (Chris Ensing/CBC)The University of Windsor has privately apologized to a Black student and is reviewing discipline policies after an independent adjudicator found that senior administration mishandled the student's complaint about a fight on campus, a lengthy ordeal that has sparked outrage among students and faculty members on campus. Adjudicator Bruce Elman wrote that investigators with the university made "serious procedural errors" and took an "unacceptable amount of time" handling Jordan Afolabi's complaint. Afolabi was banned from campus by the university during the investigation, while the other student, later deemed to be the aggressor in the fight, was allowed to continue attending classes. The University of Windsor is reviewing their disciplinary procedures after banning a Black student from campus following a fight. (Chris Ensing/CBC) Deciding on whether anti-Black racism factored into Jordan Afolabi's treatment was beyond Elman's expertise, he wrote, but noted Afolabi was treated "in stark contrast" compared to the student he was defending himself against. In his June report, Elman said that "may be attributable to a sincere concern for someone who has been physically injured...or it may be product of sub-conscious racial profiling and stereotyping." Afolabi, currently enrolled in the university's law school, believes that the way senior administration treated him during and after the complaint process was motivated by race and that the experience has left him feeling that "the Black student community is not safe" on campus. This week, associate vice-president of student experience Ryan Flannagan was asked to leave his position at the university - a position that oversaw the department charged with investigating Afolabi's complaint. Some students dissatisfied with UWindsor's anti-Black racism initiatives The University has not tied his departure to any specific incidents on campus.  "Ryan has been asked to leave his role in  order to support the University's efforts to rebuild trust and make the meaningful changes necessary to be safer, more inclusive, and more equitable," wrote a spokesperson for the University.  Flannagan declined to comment on Elman's decision when reached by CBC News while he was still with the university.  Afolabi's case is one of a series of incidents at the University of Windsor that have students and faculty demanding actions to address anti-Black racism on campus, including multiple professors using the N-word during courses, threats of violence against Black students by a fraternity, and a statement following George Floyd's murder that left students disappointed. In Elman's decision, he cited issues with the Office of Student Experience.  One day after University of Windsor president Robert Gordon used the start of a virtual town hall to apologize for his initial response to the death of George Floyd, the school released a four-point action plan for tackling anti-Black racism on campus. (University of Windsor) In a response sent to CBC News Thursday, the university declined to further discuss this case, citing an on-going, third-party investigation. It acknowledged that it needs to do work to "foster safer, more inclusive, welcoming, and anti-racist communities on our campus" and also outlined actions already underway to hire Black faculty members, offer grants for Black students and faculty, and "building a race-based data collection process." The apology A university investigation ultimately found Afolabi acted in self-defence during a fight with another student in February 2019.  University President Robert Gordon apologized for how Afolabi's complaint was handled in a private correspondence sent June 11, the day after Elman's decision was signed. The apology for procedural errors was recommended by Elman. Some students and faculty outraged after UWindsor prof uses N-word during class "Professor Elman's decision points to a number of failings in how your complaint was handled and alerts us all to the serious problem and potential for racial profiling and anti-Black racism in decision making," wrote Gordon in a letter sent to Afolabi. "In this respect I want to go beyond Professor Elman's recommendations and offer my apology for any aspect of your treatment by the University in which these factors may have played a role." Afolabi said he believes anti-Black racism played a role in how his complaint was handled.  "I think it (being Black) had a lot more to do with it than I certainly wanted to believe," said Afolabi. The initial altercation took place in February 2019 at the Odette Building at the University of Windsor. (Chris Ensing/CBC) In a letter sent to University of Windsor president Robert Gordon and which was shared with CBC News, a group of faculty members and staff describe the way Afolabi's case was handled as "indicative of deeply rooted systemic racism that continues to pervade the University of Windsor." The fight On Feb. 14, 2019 Afolabi was running late for a class at the Odette Building on campus. When he opened a door it struck another student. That student pushed Afolabi. Afolabi then threw punches at the other student, which the investigator hired by the University said was likely to protect further injuring his back.  While both students complained about the other for the same fight through the University of Windsor's Student Non-Academic Misconduct policy, the other student was free to use the campus as they liked. Afolabi, however, was banned from campus days after meeting with academic integrity and student conduct officer Danieli Arbex. Arbex has not responded to a request for comment from CBC News.  "The consequences of this were dramatic," wrote Elman in his decision. Watch Afolabi describe the impact a campus wide ban had on him What Afolabi would like to see the university do next CBC News Windsor 11 days agoVideo1:29 Jordan Afolabi believes there are actions the university could take now to help build a more inclusive campus. 1:29 Afolabi couldn't attend classes on campus, wasn't able to continue with on-campus medical appointments.  "I begged the university… just let me see the doctor," a request the university denied, according to Afolabi. "A few days later, my appendix ruptured and I was rushed to the hospital." A decision, a complaint In July, Afolabi and the other student were told through a letter from associate vice-president of student experience Ryan Flannagan that the complaint against Afolabi would be dismissed because the other student "had been the aggressor and that Mr. Afolabi's response was justified in the circumstances of the case," writes Elman in his decision. Afolabi continued to pursue his complaint against the other student and how the university was handling it. University of Windsor denounces fraternity after hateful messages in private chat group revealed "I spoke of human rights violations. I spoke of procedural violations and breaches of confidentiality, major ethical issues that should elicit a serious response from any institution that's ethically grounded." The campus bans lifted, he returned multiple times to the Office of Student Experience and Assumption Hall to get an update on his complaint. During one visit, Afolabi was stopped by a receptionist at the University of Windsor in Assumption Hall, when he tried to get an update on his complaint in person.  Afolabi visited Assumption Hall on campus for an update on his complaint and had police called on him. (Chris Ensing/CBC) The receptionist called police, alleging that "he's ratting out profs and other students" and that "he's already told me to calm down." Afolabi said police were called, and that a trespass order was placed on him, preventing him from visiting Assumption Hall. He continued to pursue his complaint against the other student, and in November was told by Flannagan that the university would not be taking further action. Afolabi appealed the decision, which is when Elman took over as the adjudicator.  Elman is a former Dean of the University of Windsor's law school and also acts as the integrity commissioner for the City of Windsor.  Adjudicator Bruce Elman recommended that the University apologise to Afolabi. (Chris Ensing/CBC) Elman wrote the 227 days it took to issue a decision on the complaint filed by Afolabi "is an unacceptable amount of time," adding that this was a "uni-directional investigation" targeting Afolabi that "is not necessarily adequate when there are adversaries in an assault offering different versions of fact." He also found that procedures were not followed properly because neither student was offered the proper form to fill out to document their complaint by the university.  Those forms would have been presented to the other student, allowing for each student to defend themselves against the others' claims, wrote Elman. "It must be said that Mr. Afolabi sees the actions of the Dr. Arbex, Mr. Flannagan, and the OSE as being based primarily upon racial discrimination and bias against Black students," wrote Elman.  He wrote that it was not his expertise to determine if Afolabi being Black played a factor in his treatment.  "One cannot help but be concerned, however, when one examines, even in a cursory fashion, the Orders of Exclusion against Mr. Afolabi," wrote Elman, referring to the campus ban placed on Afolabi.  "This is in stark contrast to the deep concern expressed for (the other student). This deviation in response may be attributable to a sincere concern for someone who has been physically injured - our empathy naturally flows to them - or it may be product of sub-conscious racial profiling and stereotyping."  Afolabi said Elman's decision created conflicting emotions for him. "It was validating when that came out. It was enraging, too," he said. "I think that says a lot about what the differences are and what the factors are that are playing. And it's hard to not say race." Watch Afolabi explain how he'd like the campus to address anti-Black racism on campus Why Afolabi is continuing his education at the university CBC News Windsor 11 days agoVideo1:09 Jordan Afolabi says he wants to be part of the group that creates change on campus to help end anti-Black racism. 1:09 CBC News requested an interview with Robert Gordon, President of the University of Windsor, through Director of Public Affairs and Communications John Coleman. "The University is unable to discuss this issue as it deals with confidential student matters, as well as associated personnel  issues." "This process was meant to be confidential, and the University is respecting that process." The University of Windsor has committed to a series of initiatives to address anti-Black racism on campus, including a dedicated anti-Black racism task force, that have been criticized by some students and faculty. Dozens of student groups, like the Black Law Students Association Canada, University of Windsor Student Association, Shkawbewisag Student Law Society have all signed public letters of support for Afoliab over the course of the last two years.  A coalition of faculty members at the University of Windsor that goes by Researchers, Academics, Advocates of Colour for Equity in Solidarity (RAACES) signed a letter sent to Gordon calling the University's treatment of Afolabi "a blatant example of what anti-Black racism is: an assumption based on race that blackness equates with danger and is deserving of punishment." "We view the University's treatment of Jordan Afolabi as an incident that has not happened in isolation. Rather, it is part of a pervasive pattern of institutional and deeply embedded systemic racism." Afolabi said he wants to see the collection of racialized data, termination of several of those named in the report, including Arbex, as well as Gordon, and better representation at the senior administration levels. The university said in its Thursday statement that it will: Hire 12 Black faculty members "by the 2023 hiring cycle." Offer more than $150,000 in grants for Black students and faculty. Review its "equity, diversity and inclusion practise, procedures and infrastructure. Build a race-based data collection process, but did not provide a timeline. Afolabi hopes to be part of the change on campus as he continues his studies as a law student.  "I started working to fix this place. I really did. I put my heart and soul into it for the past year," said Afolabi, who remembers the long nights during this process with family and friends by his side. "It seemed to me a cowardly choice to dip to go to another school. It seemed to me, that's running away from our problems. 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Visitez Radio-Canada.ca now www-bohyunkim-net-6038 ---- Library Hat Library Hat http://www.bohyunkim.net/blog/ Skip to Content ↓ Bohyunkim.net About Publications Presentations CV / Resume Blockchain: Merits, Issues, and Suggestions for Compelling Use Cases Jul 24th, 2018 by Bohyun (Library Hat). Comments are off for this post * This post was also published in ACRL TechConnect.*** Blockchain holds a great potential for both innovation and disruption. The adoption of blockchain also poses certain risks, and those risks will need to be addressed and mitigated before blockchain becomes mainstream. A lot of people have heard of blockchain at this point. But many are unfamiliar with how this new technology exactly works and unsure about under which circumstances or on what conditions it may be useful to libraries. In this post, I will provide a brief overview of the merits and the issues of blockchain. I will also make some suggestions for compelling use cases of blockchain at the end of this post. What Blockchain Accomplishes Blockchain is the technology that underpins a well-known decentralized cryptocurrency, Bitcoin. To simply put, blockchain is a kind of distributed digital ledger on a peer-to-peer (P2P) network, in which records are confirmed and encrypted. Blockchain records and keeps data in the original state in a secure and tamper-proof manner[1] by its technical implementation alone, thereby obviating the need for a third-party authority to guarantee the authenticity of the data. Records in blockchain are stored in multiple ledgers in a distributed network instead of one central location. This prevents a single point of failure and secures records by protecting them from potential damage or loss. Blocks in each blockchain ledger are chained to one another by the mechanism called ‘proof of work.’ (For those familiar with a version control system such as Git, a blockchain ledger can be thought of as something similar to a P2P hosted git repository that allows sequential commits only.[2]) This makes records in a block immutable and irreversible, that is, tamper-proof. In areas where the authenticity and security of records is of paramount importance, such as electronic health records, digital identity authentication/authorization, digital rights management, historic materials that may be contested or challenged due to the vested interests of certain groups, and digital provenance to name a few, blockchain can lead to efficiency, convenience, and cost savings. For example, with blockchain implemented in banking, one will be able to transfer funds across different countries without going through banks.[3] This can drastically lower the fees involved, and the transaction will take effect much more quickly, if not immediately. Similarly, adopted in real estate transactions, blockchain can make the process of buying and selling a property more straightforward and efficient, saving time and money.[4] Disruptive Potential of Blockchain The disruptive potential of blockchain lies in its aforementioned ability to render the role of a third-party authority obsolete, which records and validates transactions and guarantees their authenticity, should a dispute arise. In this respect, blockchain can serve as an alternative trust protocol that decentralizes traditional authorities. Since blockchain achieves this by public key cryptography, however, if one loses one’s own personal key to the blockchain ledger holding one’s financial or real estate asset, for example, then that will result in the permanent loss of such asset. With the third-party authority gone, there will be no institution to step in and remedy the situation. Issues This is only some of the issues with blockchain. Other issues include (a) interoperability between different blockchain systems, (b) scalability of blockchain at a global scale with large amount of data, (c) potential security issues such as the 51% attack [5], and (d) huge energy consumption [6] that a blockchain requires to add a block to a ledger. Note that the last issue of energy consumption has both environmental and economic ramifications because it can cancel out the cost savings gained from eliminating a third-party authority and related processes and fees. Challenges for Wider Adoption There are growing interests in blockchain among information professionals, but there are also some obstacles to those interests gaining momentum and moving further towards wider trial and adoption. One obstacle is the lack of general understanding about blockchain in a larger audience of information professionals. Due to its original association with bitcoin, many mistake blockchain for cryptocurrency. Another obstacle is technical. The use of blockchain requires setting up and running a node in a blockchain network, such as Ethereum[7], which may be daunting to those who are not tech-savvy. This makes a barrier to entry high to those who are not familiar with command line scripting and yet still want to try out and test how a blockchain functions. The last and most important obstacle is the lack of compelling use cases for libraries, archives, and museums. To many, blockchain is an interesting new technology. But even many blockchain enthusiasts are skeptical of its practical benefits at this point when all associated costs are considered. Of course, this is not an insurmountable obstacle. The more people get familiar with blockchain, the more ways people will discover to use blockchain in the information profession that are uniquely beneficial for specific purposes. Suggestions for Compelling Use Cases of Blockchain In order to determine what may make a compelling use case of blockchain, the information profession would benefit from considering the following. What kind of data/records (or the series thereof) must be stored and preserved exactly the way they were created. What kind of information is at great risk to be altered and compromised by changing circumstances. What type of interactions may need to take place between such data/records and their users.[8] How much would be a reasonable cost for implementation. These will help connecting the potential benefits of blockchain with real-world use cases and take the information profession one step closer to its wider testing and adoption. To those further interested in blockchain and libraries, I recommend the recordings from the Library 2.018 online mini-conference, “Blockchain Applied: Impact on the Information Profession,” held back in June. The Blockchain National Forum, which is funded by IMLS and is to take place in San Jose, CA on August 6th, will also be livestreamed. Notes [1] For an excellent introduction to blockchain, see “The Great Chain of Being Sure about Things,” The Economist, October 31, 2015, https://www.economist.com/news/briefing/21677228-technology-behind-bitcoin-lets-people-who-do-not-know-or-trust-each-other-build-dependable. [2] Justin Ramos, “Blockchain: Under the Hood,” ThoughtWorks (blog), August 12, 2016, https://www.thoughtworks.com/insights/blog/blockchain-under-hood. [3] The World Food Programme, the food-assistance branch of the United Nations, is using blockchain to increase their humanitarian aid to refugees. Blockchain may possibly be used for not only financial transactions but also the identity verification for refugees. Russ Juskalian, “Inside the Jordan Refugee Camp That Runs on Blockchain,” MIT Technology Review, April 12, 2018, https://www.technologyreview.com/s/610806/inside-the-jordan-refugee-camp-that-runs-on-blockchain/. [4] Joanne Cleaver, “Could Blockchain Technology Transform Homebuying in Cook County — and Beyond?,” Chicago Tribune, July 9, 2018, http://www.chicagotribune.com/classified/realestate/ct-re-0715-blockchain-homebuying-20180628-story.html. [5] “51% Attack,” Investopedia, September 7, 2016, https://www.investopedia.com/terms/1/51-attack.asp. [6] Sherman Lee, “Bitcoin’s Energy Consumption Can Power An Entire Country — But EOS Is Trying To Fix That,” Forbes, April 19, 2018, https://www.forbes.com/sites/shermanlee/2018/04/19/bitcoins-energy-consumption-can-power-an-entire-country-but-eos-is-trying-to-fix-that/#49ff3aa41bc8. [7] Osita Chibuike, “How to Setup an Ethereum Node,” The Practical Dev, May 23, 2018, https://dev.to/legobox/how-to-setup-an-ethereum-node-41a7. [8] The interaction can also be a self-executing program when certain conditions are met in a blockchain ledger. This is called a “smart contract.” See Mike Orcutt, “States That Are Passing Laws to Govern ‘Smart Contracts’ Have No Idea What They’re Doing,” MIT Technology Review, March 29, 2018, https://www.technologyreview.com/s/610718/states-that-are-passing-laws-to-govern-smart-contracts-have-no-idea-what-theyre-doing/. Posted in: Coding, Library, Technology. Tagged: bitcoin · blockchain · distributed ledger technology · DLT Taking Diversity to the Next Level Dec 18th, 2017 by Bohyun (Library Hat). Comments are off for this post ** This post was also published in ACRL TechConnect on Dec. 18, 2017.*** “Building Bridges in a Divisive Climate: Diversity in Libraries, Archives, and Museums,” panel discussion program held at the University of Rhode Island Libraries on Thursday November 30, 2017. Getting Minorities on Board I recently moderated a panel discussion program titled “Building Bridges in a Divisive Climate: Diversity in Libraries, Archives, and Museums.”1 Participating in organizing this program was interesting experience. During the whole time, I experienced my perspective constantly shifting back and forth as (i) someone who is a woman of color in the US who experiences and deals with small and large daily acts of discrimination, (ii) an organizer/moderator trying to get as many people as possible to attend and participate, and (iii) a mid-career librarian who is trying to contribute to the group efforts to find a way to move the diversity agenda forward in a positive and inclusive way in my own institution. In the past, I have participated in multiple diversity-themed programs either as a member of the organizing committee or as an attendee and have been excited to see colleagues organize and run such programs. But when asked to write or speak about diversity myself, I always hesitated and declined. This puzzled me for a long time because I couldn’t quite pinpoint where my own resistance was coming from. I am writing about this now because I think it may shed some light on why it is often difficult to get minorities on board with diversity-related efforts. A common issue that many organizers experience is that often these diversity programs draw many allies who are already interested in working on the issue of diversity, equity, and inclusion but not necessarily a lot of those who the organizers consider to be the target audience, namely, minorities. What may be the reason? Perhaps I can find a clue for the answer to this question from my own resistance regarding speaking or writing about diversity, preferring rather to be in the audience with a certain distance or as an organizer helping with logistics behind the scene. To be honest, I always harbored a level of suspicion about how much of the sudden interests in diversity is real and how much of it is simply about being on the next hot trend. Trends come and go, but issues lived through many lives of those who belong to various systematically disadvantaged and marginalized groups are not trends. Although I have been always enthusiastic about participating in diversity-focused programs as attendees and was happy to see diversity, equity, and inclusion discussed in articles and talks, I wasn’t ready to sell out my lived experience as part of a hot trend, a potential fad. To be clear, I am not saying that any of the diversity-related programs or events were asking speakers or authors to be a sell-out. I am only describing how things felt to me and where my own resistance was originating. I have been and am happy to see diversity discussed even as a one-time fad. Better a fad than no discussion at all. One may argue that that diversity has been actively discussed for quite some time now. A few years, maybe several, or even more. Some of the prominent efforts to increase diversity in librarianship I know, for example, go as far back as 2007 when Oregon State University Libraries sponsored two scholarships to the Code4Lib conference, one for women and the other for minorities, which have continued from then on as the Code4Lib Diversity Scholarship.2 But if one has lived the entire life as a member of a systematically disadvantaged group either as a woman, a person of color, a person of certain sexual orientation, a person of a certain faith, a person with a certain disability, etc., one knows better than expecting some sudden interests in diversity to change the world we live in and most of the people overnight. I admit I have been watching the diversity discussion gaining more and more traction in librarianship with growing excitement and concern at the same time. For I felt that all of what is being achieved through so many people’s efforts may get wiped out at any moment. The more momentum it accrues, I worried, the more serious backlash it may come to face. For example, it was openly stated that seeking racial/ethnic diversity is superficial and for appearance’s sake and that those who appear to belong to “Team Diversity” do not work as hard as those in “Team Mainstream.” People make this type of statements in order to create and strengthen a negative association between multiple dimensions of diversity that are all non-normative (such as race/ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, immigration status, disability) and unfavorable value judgements (such as inferior intellectual capacity or poor work ethic).3 According to this kind of flawed reasoning, a tech company whose entire staff consists of twenty-something white male programmers with a college degree, may well have achieved a high level of diversity because the staff might have potentially (no matter how unlikely) substantial intellectual and personal differences in their thinking, background, and experience, and therefore their clear homogeneity is no real problem. That’s just a matter of trivial “appearance.” The motivation behind this kind of intentional misdirection is to derail current efforts towards expanding diversity, equity, and inclusion by taking people’s attention away from the real issue of systematic marginalization in our society. Of course, the ultimate goal of all diversity efforts should be not the mere inclusion of minorities but enabling them to have agency as equal as the agency those privileged already possess. But note that objections are being raised against mere inclusion. Anti-diversity sentiment is real, and people will try to rationalize it in any way they can. Then of course, the other source of my inner resistance to speaking or writing about diversity has been the simple fact that thinking about diversity, equity, and inclusion does not take me to a happy place. It reminds me of many bad experiences accumulated over time that I would rather not revisit. This is why I admire those who have spoken and written about their lived experience as a member of a systematically discriminated and marginalized group. Their contribution is a remarkably selfless one. I don’t have a clear answer to how this reflection on my own resistance against actively speaking or writing about diversity will help future organizers. But clearly, being asked to join many times had an effect since I finally did accept the invitation to moderate a panel and wrote this article. So, if you are serious about getting more minorities – whether in different religions, genders, disabilities, races, etc. – to speak or write on the issue, then invite them and be ready to do it over and over again even if they decline. Don’t expect that they will trust you at the first invitation. Understand that by accepting such an invitation, minorities do risk far more than non-minorities will ever do. The survey I ran for the registrants of the “Building Bridges in a Divisive Climate: Diversity in Libraries, Archives, and Museums” panel discussion program showed several respondents expressing their concern about the backlash at their workplaces that did or may result from participating in diversity efforts as a serious deterrent.4 If we would like to see more minorities participate in diversity efforts, we must create a safe space for everyone and take steps to deal with potential backlash that may ensue afterwards.5 A Gentle Intro or a Deep Dive? Another issue that many organizers of diversity-focused events, programs, and initiatives struggle with is two conflicting expectations from their audience. On one hand, there are those who are familiar with diversity, equity, and inclusion issues and want to see how institutions and individuals are going to take their initial efforts to the next level. These people often come from organizations that already implemented certain pro-diversity measures such as search advocates for the hiring process.6 and educational programs that familiarize the staff with the topic of diversity, equity, and inclusion.7 On the other hand, there are still many who are not quite sure what diversity, equity, and inclusion exactly mean in a workplace or in their lives. Those people would continue to benefit from a gentle introduction to things such as privilege, microaggression, and unconscious biases. The feedback surveys collected after the “Building Bridges in a Divisive Climate: Diversity in Libraries, Archives, and Museums” panel discussion program showed these two different expectations. Some people responded that they deeply appreciated the personal stories shared by the panelists, noting that they did not realize how often minorities are marginalized even in one day’s time. Others, however, said they would be like to hear more about actionable items and strategies that can be implemented to further advance the values of diversity, equity, and inclusion that go beyond personal stories. Balancing these two different demands is a hard act for organizers. However, this is a testament to our collective achievement that more and more people are aware of the importance of continuing efforts to improve diversity, equity, and inclusion in libraries, archives, and museums. I do think that we need to continue to provide a general introduction to diversity-related issues, exposing people to everyday experience of marginalized groups such as micro-invalidation, impostor syndrome, and basic concepts like white privilege, systematic oppression, colonialism, and intersectionality. One of the comments we received via the feedback survey after our diversity panel discussion program was that the program was most relevant in that it made “having colleagues attend with me to hear what I myself have never told them” possible. General programs and events can be an excellent gateway to more open and less guarded discussion. At the same time, it seems to be high time for us in libraries, museums, and archives to take a deep dive into different realms of diversity, equity, and inclusion as well. Diversity comes in many dimensions such as age, disability, religion, sexual orientation, race/ethnicity, and socioeconomic status. Many of us feel more strongly about one issue than others. We should create opportunities for ourselves to advocate for specific diversity issues that we care most. The only thing I would emphasize is that one specific dimension of diversity should not be used as an excuse to neglect others. Exploring socioeconomic inequality issues without addressing how they work combined with the systematic oppression of marginalized groups such as Native Americans, women, or immigrants at the same time can be an example of such a case. All dimensions of diversity are closely knitted with one another, and they do not exist independently. For this reason, a deep dive into different realms of diversity, equity, and inclusion must be accompanied by the strong awareness of their intersectionality.8 Recommendations and Resources for Future Organizers Organizing a diversity-focused program takes a lot of effort. While planning the “Building Bridges in a Divisive Climate: Diversity in Libraries, Archives, and Museums” panel discussion program at the University of Rhode Island Libraries, I worked closely with my library dean, Karim Boughida, who originally came up with the idea of having a panel discussion program at the University of Rhode Island Libraries, and Renee Neely in the libraries’ diversity initiatives for approximately two months. For panelists, we decided to recruit as many minorities from diverse institutions and backgrounds. We were fortunate to find panelists from a museum, an archive, both a public and an academic library with varying degrees of experience in the field from only a few years to over twenty-five years, ranging from a relatively new archivist to an experienced museum and a library director. Our panel consisted of one-hundred percent people of color. The thoughts and perspectives that those panelists shared were, as a result, remarkably diverse and insightful. For this reason, I recommend spending some time to get the right speakers for your program if your program will have speakers. Discussion at the “Building Bridges in a Divisive Climate: Diversity in Libraries, Archives, and Museums,” at the University of Rhode Island Libraries Another thing I would like to share is the questions that I created for the panel discussion. Even though we had a whole hour, I was able to cover only several of them. But since I discussed all these questions in advance with the panelists and they helped me put a final touch on some of those, I think these questions can be useful to future organizers who may want to run a similar program. They can be utilized for a panel discussion, an unconference, or other types of programs. I hope this is helpful and save time for other organizers. Sample Questions for the Diversity Panel Discussion Why should libraries, archives, museums pay attention to the issues related to diversity, equity, and inclusion? In what ways do you think the lack of diversity in our profession affects the perception of libraries, museums, and archives in the communities we serve? Do you have any personal or work-related stories that you would like to share that relate to diversity, equity, and inclusion issues? How did you get interested in diversity, equity, and inclusion issues? Suppose you discovered that your library’s, archive’s or museum’s collection includes prejudiced information, controversial objects/ documents, or hate-inducing material. What would you do? Suppose a group of your library / archive / museum patrons want to use your space to hold a local gathering that involves hate speech. What would you do? What would you be mostly concerned about, and what would the things that you would consider to make a decision on how you will respond? Do you think libraries, archives, and museums are a neutral place? What do you think neutrality means to a library, an archive, a museum in practice in a divisive climate such as now? What are some of the areas in libraries, museums, and archives where you see privileges and marginalization function as a barrier to achieving our professional values – equal access and critical thinking?  What can we do to remove those barriers? Could you tell us how colonialist thinking and practice are affecting libraries, museums, and archives either consciously or unconsciously?  Since not everyone is familiar with what colonialism is, please begin with first your brief interpretation of what colonialist thinking or practice look like in libraries, museums, and archives first? What do you think libraries, archives, and museums can do more to improve critical thinking in the community that we serve? Although libraries, archives, museums have been making efforts to recruit, hire, and retain diverse personnel in recent years, the success rate has been relatively low. For example, in librarianship, it has been reported that often those hired through these efforts experienced backlash at their own institutions, were subject to unrealistic expectations, and met with unsupportive environment, which led to burnout and a low retention rate of talented people. From your perspective – either as a manager hiring people or a relatively new librarian who looked for jobs – what do you think can be done to improve this type of unfortunate situation? Many in our profession express their hesitation to actively participate in diversity, equity, and inclusion-related discussion and initiatives at their institutions because of the backlash from their own coworkers. What do you think we can do to minimize such backlash? Some people in our profession express strong negative feelings regarding diversity, equity, and inclusion-related initiatives. How much of this type of anti-diversity sentiment do you think exist in your field? Some worry that this is even growing faster in the current divisive and intolerant climate. What do you think we can do to counter such anti-diversity sentiment? There are many who are resistant to the values of diversity, equity, and inclusion. Have you taken any action to promote and advance these values facing such resistance? If so, what was your experience like, and what would be some of the strategies you may recommend to others working with those people? Many people in our profession want to take our diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives to the next level, beyond offering mere lip service or simply playing a numbers game for statistics purpose. What do you think that next level may be? Lastly, I felt strongly about ensuring that the terms and concepts often thrown out in diversity/equity/inclusion-related programs and events – such as intersectionality, white privilege, microaggression, patriarchy, colonialism, and so on – are not used to unintentionally alienate those who are unfamiliar with them. These concepts are useful and convenient shortcuts that allow us to communicate a large set of ideas previously discussed and digested, so that we can move our discussion forward more efficiently. They should not make people feel uncomfortable nor generate any hint of superiority or inferiority. To this end, I create a pre-program survey which all program registrants were encouraged to take. My survey simply asked people how familiar and how comfortable they are with a variety of terms. At the panel discussion program, we also distributed the glossary of these terms, so that people can all become familiar with them.9 Also, videos can quickly bring all attendees up-to-speed with some basic concepts and phenomena in diversity discussion. For example, in the beginning of our panel discussion program, I played two short videos, “Life of Privilege Explained in a $100 Race” and “What If We Treated White Coworkers The Way We Treat Minority Coworkers?”, which were well received by the attendees. I am sharing the survey questions, the video links, and the glossary in the hope that they may be helpful as a useful tool for future organizers. For example, one may decide to provide a glossary like this before the program or run an unconference that aims at unpacking the meanings of these terms and discussing how they relate to people’s daily lives.10 In Closing: Diversity, Libraries, Technology, and Our Own Biases Disagreements on social issues are natural. But the divisiveness that we are currently experiencing seems to be particularly intense. This deeply concerns us, educators and professionals working in libraries, archives, and museums. Libraries, archives, and museums are public institutions dedicated to promoting and advancing civic values. Diversity, equity, and inclusion are part of those core civic values that move our society forward. This task, however, has become increasingly challenging as our society moves in a more and more divisive direction. To make matters even more complicated, libraries, archives, museums in general lack diversity in their staff composition. This homogeneity can impede achieving our own mission. According to the recent report from Ithaka S+R released this August, we do not appear to have gotten very far. Their report “Inclusion, Diversity, and Equity: Members of the Association of Research (ARL) Libraries – Employee Demographics and Director Perspectives,” shows that libraries and library leadership/administration are both markedly white-dominant (71% and 89% white non-Hispanic respectively).11 Also, while librarianship in general are female dominant (61%), the technology field in libraries is starkly male (70%) along with Makerspace (65%), facilities (64%), and security (73%) positions.12 The survey results in the report show that while the majority of library directors say there are barriers to achieving more diversity in their library, they attribute those barriers to external rather than internal factors such as the library’s geographic location and the insufficiently diverse application pool resulting from the library’s location. What is fascinating, however, is that this directly conflicts with the fact that libraries do show little variation in the ratio of white staff based on degree of urbanization. Equally interesting is that the staff in more homogeneous and less diverse (over 71% White Non-Hispanic) libraries think that their libraries are much more equitable than the library community (57% vs 14%) and that library directors (and staff) consider their own library to be more equitable, diverse, and inclusive than the library community with respect to almost every category such as race/ethnicity, gender, LGBTQ, disabilities, veterans, and religion. While these findings in the Ithaka S+R report are based upon the survey results from ARL libraries, similar staff composition and attitudes can be assumed to apply to libraries in general. There is a great need for both the library administration and the staff to understand their own unconscious and implicit biases, workplace norms, and organizational culture that may well be thwarting their own diversity efforts. Diversity, equity, and inclusion have certainly been a topic of active discussion in the recent years. Many libraries have established a committee or a task force dedicated to improving diversity. But how are those efforts paying out? Are they going beyond simply paying a lip service? Is it making a real difference to everyday experience of minority library workers?13 Can we improve, and if so where and how? Where do we go from here? Those would be the questions that we will need to examine in order to take our diversity efforts in libraries, archives, and museums to the next level. Notes The program description is available at https://web.uri.edu/library/2017/12/05/building-bridges-in-a-divisive-climate-diversity-in-libraries-archives-and-museums/ ↩ Carol Bean, Ranti Junus, and Deborah Mouw, “Conference Report: Code4LibCon 2008,” The Code4Lib Journal, no. 2 (March 24, 2008), http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/72. ↩ Note that this kind of biased assertions often masquerades itself as an objective intellectual pursuit in academia when in reality, it is a direct manifestation of an existing prejudice reflecting the limited and shallow experience of the person posting the question him/herself. A good example of this is found in the remark in 2005 made by Larry Summers, the former Harvard President. He suggested that one reason for relatively few women in top positions in science may be “issues of intrinsic aptitude” rather than widespread indisputable everyday discrimination against women. He resigned after the Harvard faculty of arts and sciences cast a vote of no confidence. See Scott Jaschik, “What Larry Summers Said,” Inside Higher Ed, February 18, 2005, https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2005/02/18/summers2_18. ↩ Our pre-program survey questions can be viewed at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScP-nQnkHAqli_43pVdidw-dQzrAfLyCdiKutu5dZjqm3F8rA/viewform. ↩ For this purpose, asking all participants to respect one another’s privacy in advance can be a good policy. In addition to this, we specifically decided not to stream or record our panel discussion program, so that both panelists and attendees can freely share their experience and thoughts. ↩ A good example is the Search Advocate program from Oregon State University. See http://searchadvocate.oregonstate.edu/. ↩ For an example, see the workshops offered by the Office of Community, Equity, and Inclusion of the University of Rhode Island at https://web.uri.edu/diversity/ced-inclusion-courses-overview/. ↩ For the limitations of the mainstream diversity discussion in LIS (library and information science) with the focus on inclusion and cultural competency, see David James Hudson, “On ‘Diversity’ as Anti-Racism in Library and Information Studies: A Critique,” Journal of Critical Library and Information Studies 1, no. 1 (January 31, 2017), https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.24242/jclis.v1i1.6. ↩ You can see our glossary at https://drive.google.com/file/d/1UCI142HUuYTrElgnY-dbNSOXF_IlpM6n/view?usp=sharing; This glossary was put together by Renee Neely. ↩ For the nitty-gritty logistical details for organizing a large event with a group of local and remote volunteers, check the Organizer’s Toolkit created by the 2017 #critlib Unconference organizers at https://critlib2017.wordpress.com/organizers-toolkit/. ↩ Roger Schonfeld and Liam Sweeney, “Inclusion, Diversity, and Equity: Members of the Association of Research Libraries,” Ithaka S+R, August 30, 2017, http://www.sr.ithaka.org/publications/inclusion-diversity-and-equity-arl/. ↩ For the early discussion of diversity-focused recruitment in library technology, see Jim Hahn, “Diversity Recruitment in Library Information Technology,” ACRL TechConnect Blog, August 1, 2012, https://acrl.ala.org/techconnect/post/diversity-recruitment-in-library-information-technology. ↩ See April Hathcock, “White Librarianship in Blackface: Diversity Initiatives in LIS,” In the Library with the Lead Pipe, October 7, 2015, http://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2015/lis-diversity/ and Angela Galvan, “Soliciting Performance, Hiding Bias: Whiteness and Librarianship,” In the Library with the Lead Pipe (blog), June 3, 2015, http://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2015/soliciting-performance-hiding-bias-whiteness-and-librarianship. ↩ Posted in: Diversity. Tagged: equity · inclusion · resources From Need to Want: How to Maximize Social Impact for Libraries, Archives, and Museums Oct 18th, 2017 by Bohyun (Library Hat). Comments are off for this post At the NDP at Three event organized by IMLS yesterday, Sayeed Choudhury on the “Open Scholarly Communications” panel suggested that libraries think about return on impact in addition to return on investment (ROI). He further elaborated on this point by proposing a possible description of such impact. His description was that when an object or resource created through scholarly communication efforts is being used by someone we don’t know and is interpreted correctly without contacting us (=libraries, archives, museums etc.), that is an impact; to push that further, if someone uses the object or the resource in a way we didn’t anticipate, that’s an impact; if it is integrated into someone’s workflow, that’s also an impact. This emphasis on impact as a goal for libraries, archives, and museums (or non-profit organizations in general to apply broadly) resonated with me particularly because I gave a talk just a few days ago to a group of librarians at the IOLUG conference about how libraries can and should maximize their social impact in the context of innovation in the way many social entrepreneurs have been already doing for quite some time. In this post, I would like to revisit one point that I made in that talk. It is a specific interpretation of the idea of maximizing social impact as a conscious goal for libraries, archives, and museums (LAM). Hopefully, this will provide a useful heuristic for LAM institutions in mapping out the future efforts. Considering that ROI is a measure of cost-effectiveness, I believe impact is a much better goal than ROI for LAM institutions. We often think that to collect, organize, provide equitable access to, and preserve information, knowledge, and cultural heritage is the goal of a library, an archive, and a museum. But doing that well doesn’t mean simply doing it cost-effectively. Our efforts no doubt aim at achieving better-collected, better-organized, better-accessed, and better-preserved information, knowledge, and cultural heritage. However, our ultimate end-goal is attained only when such information, knowledge, and cultural heritage is better used by our users. Not simply better accessed, but better used in the sense that the person gets to leverage such information, knowledge, and cultural heritage to succeed in whatever endeavor that s/he was making, whether it be career success, advanced education, personal fulfillment, or private business growth. In my opinion, that’s the true impact that LAM institutions should aim at. If that kind of impact were a destination, cost-effectiveness is simply one mode of transportation, preferred one maybe but not quite comparable to the destination in terms of importance. But what does “better used” exactly mean? “Integrated into people’s workflow” is a hint; “unanticipated use” is another clue. If you are like me and need to create and design that kind of integrated or unanticipated use at your library, archive, or museum, how will you go about that? This is the same question we ask over and over again. How do you plan and implement innovation? Yes, we will go talk to our users, ask what they would like to see, meet with our stakeholders and find out their interests and concerns are, discuss ourselves what we can do to deliver things that our users want, and go from there to another wonderful project we work hard for. Then after all that, we reach a stage where we stop and wonder where that “greater social impact” went in almost all our projects. And we frantically look for numbers. How many people accessed what we created? How many downloads? What does the satisfaction survey say? In those moments, how does the “impact” verbiage help us? How does that help us in charting our actual path to creating and maximizing our social impact more than the old-fashioned “ROI” verbiage? At least ROI is quantifiable and measurable. This, I believe, is why we need a more concrete heuristic to translate the lofty “impact” to everyday “actions” we can take. Maybe not quite as specific as to dictate what exactly those actions are at each project level but a bit more specific to enable us to frame the value we are attempting to create and deliver at our LAM institutions beyond cost-effectiveness. I think the heuristic we need is the conversion of need to demand. What is an untapped need that people are not even aware of in the realm of information, knowledge, and cultural heritage? When we can identify any such need in a specific form and successfully convert that need to a demand, we make an impact. By “demand,” I mean the kind of user experience that people will desire and subsequently fulfill by using that object, resource, tool, service, etc., we create at our library, archive, and museum. (One good example of such desirable UX that comes to my mind is NYPL Photo Booth: https://www.nypl.org/blog/2013/08/12/snapshots-nypl.) When we create a demand out of such an untapped need, when the fulfillment of that kind of demand effectively creates, strengthens, and enriches our society in the direction of information, knowledge, evidence-based decisions, and truth being more valued, promoted, and equitably shared, I think we get to maximize our social impact. In the last “Going Forward” panel where the information discovery was discussed, Loretta Parham pointed out that in the corporate sector, information finds consumers, not the other way. By contrast, we (by which I mean all of us working at LAM institutions) still frame our value in terms of helping and supporting users access and use our material, resources, and physical and digital objects and tools. This is a mistake in my opinion, because it is a self-limiting value proposition for libraries, archives, and museums. What is the point of us LAM institutions, working so hard to get the public to use their resources and services? The end goal is so that we can maximize our social impact through such use. The rhetoric of “helping and supporting people to access and use our resources” does not adequately convey that. Businesses want their clients to use their goods and services, of course. But their real target is the making of profit out of those uses, aka purchases. Similarly, but far more importantly, the real goal of libraries, archives and museums is to move the society forward, closer in the direction of knowledge, evidence-based decisions, and truth being more valued, promoted, and equitably shared. One person at a time, yes, but the ultimate goal reaching far beyond individuals. The end goal is maximizing our impact on this side of the public good.   Posted in: Librarianship, Library, management, Usability, user experience. Tagged: archives · change · d4d · design thinking · digital collection · goal · impact · innovation · libraries · museums · ndpthree · social entrepreneurship · ux How to Price 3D Printing Service Fees May 22nd, 2017 by Bohyun (Library Hat). Comments are off for this post ** This post was originally published in ACRL TechConnect on May. 22, 2017.*** Many libraries today provide 3D printing service. But not all of them can afford to do so for free. While free 3D printing may be ideal, it can jeopardize the sustainability of the service over time. Nevertheless, many libraries tend to worry about charging service fees. In this post, I will outline how I determined the pricing schema for our library’s new 3D Printing service in the hope that more libraries will consider offering 3D printing service if having to charge the fee is a factor stopping them. But let me begin with libraries’ general aversion to fees. A 3D printer in action at the Health Sciences and Human Services Library (HS/HSL), Univ. of Maryland, Baltimore Service Fees Are Not Your Enemy Charging fees for the library’s service is not something librarians should regard as a taboo. We live in the times in which a library is being asked to create and provide more and more new and innovative services to help users successfully navigate the fast-changing information landscape. A makerspace and 3D printing are certainly one of those new and innovative services. But at many libraries, the operating budget is shrinking rather than increasing. So, the most obvious choice in this situation is to aim for cost-recovery. It is to be remembered that even when a library aims for cost-recovery, it will be only partial cost-recovery because there is a lot of staff time and expertise that is spent on planning and operating such new services. Libraries should not be afraid to introduce new services requiring service fees because users will still benefit from those services often much more greatly than a commercial equivalent (if any). Think of service fees as your friend. Without them, you won’t be able to introduce and continue to provide a service that your users need. It is a business cost to be expected, and libraries will not make profit out of it (even if they try). Still bothered? Almost every library charges for regular (paper) printing. Should a library rather not provide printing service because it cannot be offered for free? Library users certainly wouldn’t want that. Determining Your Service Fees What do you need in order to create a pricing scheme for your library’s 3D printing service? (a) First, you need to list all cost-incurring factors. Those include (i) the equipment cost and wear and tear, (ii) electricity, (iii) staff time & expertise for support and maintenance, and (iv) any consumables such as 3d print filament, painter’s tape. Remember that your new 3D printer will not last forever and will need to be replaced by a new one in 3-5 years. Also, some of these cost-incurring factors such as staff time and expertise for support is fixed per 3D print job. On the other hand, another cost-incurring factor, 3D print filament, for example, is a cost factor that increases in proportion to the size/density of a 3d model that is printed. That is, the larger and denser a 3d print model is, the more filament will be used incurring more cost. (b) Second, make sure that your pricing scheme is readily understood by users. Does it quickly give users a rough idea of the cost before their 3D print job begins? An obscure pricing scheme can confuse users and may deter them from trying out a new service. That would be bad user experience. Also in 3D printing, consider if you will also charge for a failed print. Perhaps you do. Perhaps you don’t. Maybe you want to charge a fee that is lower than a successful print. Whichever one you decide on, have that covered since failed prints will certainly happen. (c) Lastly, the pricing scheme should be easily handled by the library staff. The more library staff will be involved in the entire process of a library patron using the 3D printing service from the beginning to the end, the more important this becomes. If the pricing scheme is difficult for the staff to work with when they need charge for and process each 3D print job, the new 3D printing service will increase their workload significantly. Which staff will be responsible for which step of the new service? What would be the exact tasks that the staff will need to do? For example, it may be that several staff at the circulation desk need to learn and handle new tasks involving the 3D printing service, such as labeling and putting away completed 3D models, processing the payment transaction, delivering the model, and marking the job status for the paid 3D print job as ‘completed’ in the 3D Printing Staff Admin Portal if there is such a system in place. Below is the screenshot of the HS/HSL 3D Printing Staff Admin Portal developed in-house by the library IT team. The HS/HSL 3D Printing Staff Admin Portal, University of Maryland, Baltimore Examples – 3D Printing Service Fees It’s always helpful to see how other libraries are doing when you need to determine your own pricing scheme. Here are some examples that shows ten libraries’ 3D printing pricing scheme changed over the recent three years. UNR DeLaMare Library https://guides.library.unr.edu/3dprinting 2014 – $7.20 per cubic inch of modeling material (raised to $8.45 starting July, 2014). 2017 – uPrint – Model Material: $4.95 per cubic inch (=16.38 gm=0.036 lb) 2017 – uPrint – Support Materials: $7.75 per cubic inch NCSU Hunt Library https://www.lib.ncsu.edu/do/3d-printing 2014-  uPrint 3D Printer: $10 per cubic inch of material (ABS), with a $5 minimum 2014 – MakerBot 3D Printer: $0.35 per gram of material (PLA), with a $5 minimum 2017 – uPrint – $10 per cubic inch of material, $5 minimum 2017 – F306 – $0.35 per gram of material, $5 minimum Southern Illinois University Library http://libguides.siue.edu/3D/request 2014 – Originally $2 per hour of printing time; Reduced to $1 as the demand grew. 2017 – Lulzbot Taz 5, Luzbot mini – $2.00 per hour of printing time. BYU Library http://guides.lib.byu.edu/c.php?g=216600&p=1429612 2014 – 2017 – Makerbot Replicator 2/ Ultimaker 2 Extended $0.20 per gram for standard (0.2mm) resolution; $0.30 per gram for high (0.1mm) resolution. University of Michigan Library The Cube 3D printer checkout is no longer offered. 2017 – Cost for professional 3d printing service; Open access 3d printing is free. GVSU Library https://www.gvsu.edu/techshowcase/makerspace-18.htm 2014 – $0.35 per gram with a $6.00 minimum 2017 – Free (Ultimaker 2+, Makerbot Replicator 2, 7, 2x) University of Tennessee, Chattanooga Library http://www.utc.edu/library/services/studio/3d-printing/index.php 2014 – 2017 – Makerbot 1th, 5th – $0.10 per gram Port Washington Public library http://www.pwpl.org/3d-printing/3d-printing-guidelines/ 2017 – Makerbot 5 – $1 per hour of printing time Miami University 2014 – $0.20 per gram of the finished print; 2017 – ? UCLA Library, Dalhousie University Library (2014) Free Types of 3D Printing Service Fees From the examples above, you will notice that many 3d printing service fee schemes are based upon the weight of a 3D-print model. This is because these libraries are trying recover the cost of the 3d filament, and the amount of filament used is most accurately reflected in the weight of the resulting 3D-printed model. However, there are a few problems with the weight-based 3D printing pricing scheme. First, it is not readily calculable by a user before the print job, because to do so, the user will have to weigh a model that s/he won’t have until it is 3D-printed. Also, once 3D-printed, the staff will have to weigh each model and calculate the cost. This is time-consuming and not very efficient. For this reason, my library considered an alternative pricing scheme based on the size of a 3D model. The idea was that we will have roughly three different sizes of an empty box – small, medium, and large –  with three different prices assigned. Whichever box into which a user’s 3d printed object fits will determine how much the user will pay for her/his 3D-printed model. This seemed like a great idea because it is easy to determine how much a model will cost to 3d-print to both users and the library staff in comparison to the weight-based pricing scheme. Unfortunately, this size-based pricing scheme has a few significant flaws. A smaller model may use more filament than a larger model if it is denser (meaning the higher infill ratio). Second, depending on the shape of a model, a model that fits  in a large box may use much less filament than the one that fits in a small box. Think about a large tree model with think branches. Then compare that with a 100% filled compact baseball model that fits into a smaller box than the tree model does. Thirdly, the resolution that determines a layer height may change the amount of filament used even if what is 3D-printed is a same model. Different infill ratios – Image from https://www.packtpub.com/sites/default/files/Article-Images/9888OS_02_22.png Charging Based upon the 3D Printing Time So we couldn’t go with the size-based pricing scheme. But we did not like the problems of the weight-based pricing scheme, either. As an alternative, we decided to go with the time-based pricing scheme because printing time is proportionate to how much filament is used, but it does not require that the staff weigh the model each time. A 3D-printing software gives an estimate of the printing time, and most 3D printers also display actual printing time for each model printed. First, we wanted to confirm the hypothesis that 3D printing time and the weight of the resulting model are proportionate to each other. I tested this by translating the weight-based cost to the time-based cost based upon the estimated printing time and the estimated weight of several cube models. Here is the result I got using the Makerbot Replicator 2X. 9.10 gm/36 min= 0.25 gm per min. 17.48 gm/67 min= 0.26 gm per min. 30.80 gm/117 min= 0.26 gm per min. 50.75 gm/186 min=0.27 gm per min. 87.53 gm/316 min= 0.28 gm per min. 194.18 gm/674 min= 0.29 gm per min. There is some variance, but the hypothesis holds up. Based upon this, now let’s calculate the 3d printing cost by time. 3D plastic filament is $48 for ABS/PLA and $65 for the dissolvable per 0.90 kg  (=2.00 lb) from Makerbot. That means that filament cost is $0.05 per gram for ABS/PLA and $0.07 per gram for the dissolvable. So, 3D filament cost is 6 cents per gram on average. Finalizing the Service Fee for 3D Printing For an hour of 3D printing time, the amount of filament used would be 15.6 gm (=0.26 x 60 min). This gives us the filament cost of 94 cents per hour of 3D printing (=15.6 gm x 6 cents). So, for the cost-recovery of filament only, I get roughly $1 per hour of 3D printing time. Earlier, I mentioned that filament is only one of the cost-incurring factors for the 3D printing service. It’s time to bring in those other factors, such as hardware wear/tear, staff time, electricity, maintenance, etc., plus “no-charge-for-failed-print-policy,” which was adopted at our library. Those other factors will add an additional amount per 3D print job. And at my library, this came out to be about $2. (I will not go into details about how these have been determined because those will differ at each library.) So, the final service fee for our new 3D printing service was set to be $3 up to 1 hour of 3D printing + $1 per additional hour of 3D printing. The $3 is broken down to $1 per hour of 3D printing that accounts for the filament cost and $2 fixed cost for every 3D print job. To help our users to quickly get an idea of how much their 3D print job will cost, we have added a feature to the HS/HSL 3D Print Job Submission Form online. This feature automatically calculates and displays the final cost based upon the printing time estimate that a user enters.   The HS/HSL 3D Print Job Submission form, University of Maryland, Baltimore Don’t Be Afraid of Service Fees I would like to emphasize that libraries should not be afraid to set service fees for new services. As long as they are easy to understand and the staff can explain the reasons behind those service fees, they should not be a deterrent to a library trying to introduce and provide a new innovative service. There is a clear benefit in running through all cost-incurring factors and communicating how the final pricing scheme was determined (including the verification of the hypothesis that 3D printing time and the weight of the resulting model are proportionate to each other) to all library staff who will be involved in the new 3D printing service. If any library user inquire about or challenges the service fee, the staff will be able to provide a reasonable explanation on the spot. I implemented this pricing scheme at the same time as the launch of my library’s makerspace (the HS/HSL Innovation Space at the University of Maryland, Baltimore – http://www.hshsl.umaryland.edu/services/ispace/) back in April 2015. We have been providing 3D printing service and charging for it for more than two years. I am happy to report that during that entire duration, we have not received any complaint about the service fee. No library user expected our new 3D printing service to be free, and all comments that we received regarding the service fee were positive. Many expressed a surprise at how cheap our 3D printing service is and thanked us for it. To summarize, libraries should be willing to explore and offer new innovating services even when they require charging service fees. And if you do so, make sure that the resulting pricing scheme for the new service is (a) sustainable and accountable, (b) readily graspable by users, and (c) easily handled by the library staff who will handle the payment transaction. Good luck and happy 3D printing at your library! An example model with the 3D printing cost and the filament info displayed at the HS/HSL, University of Maryland, Baltimore Posted in: Library, management, Technology, user experience. Tagged: 3d printer · 3d printing · budget · charge · cost · funding · makerspace · service fees · sustainability · user experience · ux Post-Election Statements and Messages that Reaffirm Diversity Nov 15th, 2016 by Bohyun (Library Hat). Comments are off for this post These are statements and messages sent out publicly or internally to re-affirm diversity, equity, and inclusion by libraries or higher ed institutions. I have collected these – some myself and many others through my fellow librarians. Some of them were listed on my blog post, “Finding the Right Words in Post-Election Libraries and Higher Ed.” So there are some duplicates. If you think that your organization is already so much pro-diversity that there is no need to confirm or re-affirm diversity, you can’t be farther from the everyday reality that minorities experience. Sometimes, saying isn’t much. But right now, saying it out loud can mean everything. If you support those who belong to minority groups but don’t say it out loud, how would they know it? Right now, nothing is obvious other than there is a lot of hate and violence towards minorities. Feel free to use these as your resource to craft a similar message. Feel free to add if you have similar messages you have received or created in the comments section. If you haven’t heard from the organization you belong to, please ask for a message reaffirming and committing to diversity, equity, and inclusion. [UPDATE 11/15/2016: Statements from ALA and LITA have been released. I have added them below.] I will continue to add additional statements as I find them. If you see anything missing, please add below in the comment or send it via Twitter @bohyunkim. Thanks! From Librarians But I know that there will be libraries Librarian Zoe Fisher to other librarians Care for One Another Director Chris Bourg to the MIT Libraries staff Finding the Right Words in Post-Election Libraries and Higher Ed (My e-mail sent to the IT team at University of Maryland, Baltimore Health Sciences and Human Services Library) With a A Pin and a Prayer Dean K. G. Schneider to the Sonoma State University Library staff From Library Associations LITA ALA PLA ARL DLF Code4Lib [DRAFT in GitHub] From Libraries James Madison University Libraries Northwestern University Libraries University of Oregon Libraries From Higher Ed Institutions Clarke University CUNY Duke UniversityMIT Loyola University, Maryland Northwestern University Penn State University The Catholic University of America University of California University of Michigan University of Nebraska, Lincoln University of Nevada, Reno University of Oregon University of Rochester and Rochester Institute of Technology University of Florida addressing racially charged flyers on the campus Marshall University President Jerome A. Gilbert’s Statement regarding post-election Tweet Drexel University Moving On as a Community After the Election Dear Members of the Drexel Community, It is heartening to me to see the Drexel community come together over the last day to digest the news of the presidential election — and to do so in the spirit of support and caring that is so much a part of this University. We gathered family-style, meeting in small, informal groups in several places across campus, including the Student Center for Inclusion and Culture, our residence halls, and as colleagues over a cup of coffee. Many student leaders, particularly from our multicultural organizations, joined the conversation. This is not a process that can be completed in just one day, of course. So I hope these conversations will continue as long as students, faculty and professional staff feel they are needed, and I want to assure you that our professional staff in Student Life, Human Resources, Faculty Affairs, as well as our colleagues in the Lindy Center for Civic Engagement, will be there for your support. Without question, many members of our community were deeply concerned by the inflammatory rhetoric and hostility on the campaign trail that too often typified this bitter election season. As I wrote over the summer, the best response to an uncertain and at times deeply troubling world is to remain true to our values as an academic community. In the context of a presidential election, it is vital that we understand and respect that members of our broadly diverse campus can hold similarly diverse political views. The expression of these views is a fundamental element of the free exchange of ideas and intellectual inquiry that makes Drexel such a vibrant institution. At the same time, Drexel remains committed to ensuring a welcoming, inclusive, and respectful environment. Those tenets are more important than ever. While we continue to follow changes on the national scene, it is the responsibility of each of us at Drexel to join together to move ahead, unified in our commitment to open dialogue, civic engagement and inclusion. I am grateful for all you do to support Drexel as a community that welcomes and encourages all of its members. Lane Community College Good Morning, Colleagues, I am in our nation’s capital today. I’d rather be at home! Like me, I am guessing that many of you were glued to the media last night to find out the results of the election. Though we know who our next President will be, this transition still presents a lot of uncertainty. It is not clear what our future president’s higher education policies will be but we will be working with our national associations to understand and influence where we can. During times like this there is an opening for us to decide how we want to be with each other. Moods will range from joy to sadness and disbelief. It seems trite but we do need to work together, now more than ever. As educators we have a unique responsibility to create safe learning environments where every student can learn and become empowered workers and informed citizens. This imperative seems even more important today. Our college values of equity and inclusion have not changed and will not change and it is up to each of us to assure that we live out our values in every classroom and in each interaction. Preparing ourselves and our students for contentious discussions sparked by the election is work we must do. It is quite likely that some of our faculty, staff and students may be feeling particularly vulnerable right now. Can we reach out to each other and let each other know that we all belong at Lane? During my inservice remarks I said that “we must robustly reject the calculated narrative of cynicism, division and despair. Instead of letting this leak into our narratives, together we can bet on hope not fear, respect not hate, unity not division.” At Lane we have the intellect (and proud of it) and wherewithal to do this. I am attaching a favorite reading from Meg Wheatley which is resonating with me today and will end with Gary Snyder’s words from To The Children …..stay together learn the flowers go light. Maryland Institute College of Art Post-Election Community Forums and Support Dear Campus Community, No matter how each of us voted yesterday, most of us likely agree that the presidential campaign has been polarizing on multiple fronts. As a result, today is a difficult day for our nation and our campus community. In our nation, regardless of how one has aligned with a candidate, half of our country feels empowered and the other half sad and perhaps angry. Because such dynamics and feelings need to be addressed and supported on campus, this memo outlines immediate resources for our community of students, faculty and staff, and describes opportunities for fashioning dialogues and creative actions going forward. Before sharing the specifics, let me say unambiguously that MICA will always stand firm in our commitment to diversity and inclusion. This morning’s Presidential Task Force on Diversity, Inclusion, Equity, and Globalization meeting discussed measures to ensure that, as a creative community, we will continue to build a culture where everyone is honored and supported for success. The impact of exhibitions such as the current Baltimore Rising show remains as critical as ever, and MICA fosters an educational environment that is welcoming of all. In the short term our focus is to support one another. Whether you are happy or distressed with the results, there has been sufficient feedback to indicate that our campus community is struggling with how to make sense of such a divisive election process. You may find the following services helpful and are encouraged to take advantage of them: For Students: Student Counseling maintains walk-in hours from 3:00 – 4:00 pm every day. Students are welcome to stop by the Student Counseling Center (1501 Mt. Royal Avenue) during that time or call 410-669-9200 and enter x2367 once the recording begins to schedule an appointment. For Faculty and Staff: The Employee Assistance Program (EAP) is available to provide free, confidential support 24 hours a day. The EAP can be reached by calling 1-866-799-2728 or visiting HealthAdvocate.com/members and providing the username “Maryland Institute College of Art”. For all MICA community members: MICA’s chaplain, the Rev, maintains standing hours every Monday and can be reached in the Reflection Room (Meyerhoff House) or by calling the Office of Diversity and Intercultural Development at 443-552-1659. There are three events this week that can provide a shared space for dialogue; all are welcome: The “After the Baltimore Uprising: Still Waiting for Change” community forum attached to the Baltimore Rising exhibition takes place tonight from 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm in the Lazarus Center. An open space for all MICA community members will be hosted by the Black Student Union tonight at 10:00 pm in the Meyerhoff House Underground. In partnership with our student NAMI group, MICA will host a “Messages of Hope” event for the entire MICA community that will allow for shared space and reflection. This event will be on Friday, November 11th, and will begin at 3:00 pm in Cohen Plaza. In various upcoming meetings we look forward to exploring with campus members other appropriate activities that can be created to facilitate expressions and dialogues. A separate communication is coming from Provost David Bogen to the faculty regarding classroom conversations with students regarding the election. Northwestern University Women’s Center Dear Northwestern students, faculty, staff and community members: The Women’s Center is open today. Our staff members are all here and available to talk, to provide resources and tools, or to help however you might need it. Most importantly, the space itself is available for whatever you need, whether that is to gather as a group, to sit alone somewhere comfortable and quiet, or to talk to someone who will listen. We are still here, and we are here for all people as an intentionally intersectional space. You are welcome to drop by physically, make a call to our office, or send an email. Know that this space is open and available to you. Portland Community College to the PCC Staff As someone who spent the last several years in Washington D.C. working to advance community colleges, I feel a special poignancy today hearing so many students, colleagues, and friends wonder and worry about the future—and about their futures. We must acknowledge that this political season has highlighted deep divisions in our society. Today I spent time with Cabinet speaking about how we can assert our shared values and take positive action as a PCC community to deepen our commitment to equity, inclusion and civic engagement. PCC will always welcome students and colleagues who bring a rich array of perspectives and experiences. That diversity is among our greatest strengths. Today it is imperative that we stand by faculty, staff and students who may be experiencing fear or uncertainty—affirming with our words and deeds that PCC is about equitable student success and educational opportunity for all. Never has this mission been more powerful or more essential. I have only been here a few months, but have already learned that PCC is a remarkable and caring community. Much is happening right now in real time, and I appreciate the efforts of all. For my part, I promise to communicate often as we continue to plan for our shared future. P.S. Today and in the days ahead, we will be holding space for people to be together in community. Here are a few of the opportunities identified so far. Portland Community College to Students Dear Students: As someone who spent the last several years working in Washington D.C., I feel a special poignancy this week hearing many of you express worry and uncertainty about the future. There is little doubt that this political season has highlighted some deep divisions in our society. Both political candidates have acknowledged as much. At the same time, people representing the full and diverse spectrum of our country come to our nation’s community colleges in hopes of a better life. PCC is such a place – where every year thousands of students find their path and pursue their dreams. All should find opportunity here, and all should feel safe and welcome. The rich diversity of PCC offers an amazing opportunity for dialogue across difference, and for developing skills that are the foundation of our democratic society. Let this moment renew your passion for making a better life for yourself, your community and your country and for becoming the kind of leader you want to follow. Rutgers University AAUP-AFT (American Association of University Professors – American Federation of Teachers) Resisting Donald Trump We are shocked and horrified that Donald Trump, who ran on a racist, xenophobic, misogynist platform, is now the President of the US. In response to this new political landscape, the administrative heads of several universities have issued statements embracing their diverse student, faculty, and staff bodies and offering support and protection. (See statements from the University of California and the California State University). President Barchi has yet to address the danger to the Rutgers community and its core mission. This afternoon, our faculty union and the Rutgers One Coalition held an emergency meeting of students, faculty, and community activists in New Brunswick. We discussed means of responding to the attacks that people may experience in the near future. Most immediately, we approved the following statement by acclamation at the 100-strong meeting: “Rutgers One, a coalition of faculty, staff, students and community members, calls upon the Rutgers administration to join us in condemning all acts of bigotry on this campus and refuse to tolerate any attacks on immigrants, women, Arabs, Muslims, people of color, LGBTQ people and all others in our diverse community. We demand that President Barchi and his administration provide sanctuary, support, and protection to those who are already facing attacks on our campuses. We need concrete action that can ensure a safe environment for all. Further, we commit ourselves to take action against all attempts by the Trump administration to target any of our students, staff or faculty. We are united in resistance to bigotry of every kind and welcome all to join us in solidarity.” We also resolved to take the following steps: We will be holding weekly Friday meetings at 3pm in our Union office in New Brunswick to bring together students, faculty and staff to organize against the Trump agenda. We hope to expand these to Camden and Newark as well. (If you are willing to help organize this, please email back.) We will be creating a list serve to coordinate our work. If you want to join this list, please reply to this email. We are making posters and stickers which declare sanctuaries from racism, xenophobia, sexism, bigotry, religious intolerance, and attacks on unions. Once these materials are ready we will write to you so that you may post them on windows, office doors, cars etc. In the meantime, we urge you to talk to your students and colleagues of color as well as women and offer them your support and solidarity. As you may recall, the Executive Committee issued a denunciation of Donald Trump on October 10, 2016. Now our slogan, one from the labor movement, is “Don’t mourn. Organize!” That is where we are now – all the more poignantly because of Donald Trump’s appeal to workers. Let us organize, and let us also expand our calling of education. In your classrooms, your communities, and your families, find the words and sentiments that will redeem all of us from Tuesday’s disgrace. University of Chicago Message from President and Provost Early in the fall quarter, we sent a message welcoming each of you to the new academic year and affirming our strong commitment to two foundational values of the University – fostering an environment of free expression and open discourse; and ensuring that diversity and inclusion are essential features of the fabric of our campus community and our interactions beyond campus. Recent national events have generated waves of disturbing, exclusionary and sometimes threatening behavior around the country, particularly concerning gender and minority status. As a result, many individuals are asking whether the nation and its institutions are entering a period in which supporting the values of diversity and inclusion, as well as free expression and open discourse, will be increasingly challenging. As the president and provost of the University of Chicago, we are writing to reaffirm in the strongest possible terms our unwavering commitment to these values, and to the importance of the University as a community acting on these values every day. Fulfilling our highest aspirations with respect to these values and their mutual reinforcement will always demand ongoing attention and work on the part of all of us. The current national environment underscores the importance of this work. It means that we need to manifest these values more rather than less, demand more of ourselves as a community, and together be forthright and bold in demonstrating what our community aspires to be. We ask all of you for your help and commitment to the values of diversity and inclusion, free expression, and open discourse and what they mean for each of us working, learning, and living in this University community every day. University of Illinois, Chicago Dear Students, Faculty, and Staff, The events of the past week have come with mixed emotions for many of you. We want you to know that UIC remains steadfast in its commitment to creating and sustaining a community that recognizes and values the inherent worth and dignity of every person, while fostering an environment of mutual respect among all members. Today, we reaffirm the University’s commitment to access, equity, inclusion and nondiscrimination. Critical to this commitment is the work of several offices on campus that provide resources to help you be safe and successful. If you have questions, need someone to talk to, or a place to express yourself, you should consider contacting these offices: Office for Access and Equity (OAE). OAE is responsible for assuring campus compliance in matters of equal opportunity, affirmative action, and nondiscrimination in the academic and work environment. OAE also offers Dispute Resolution Services (DRS) to assist with conflict in the workplace not involving unlawful discrimination matters. UIC Counseling Center. The UIC Counseling Center is a primary resource providing comprehensive mental health services that foster personal, interpersonal, academic, and professional thriving for UIC students. Student Legal Services. UIC’s Student Legal Services (SLS) is a full-service law office dedicated to providing legal solutions for currently enrolled students. Office of Diversity. The Office of Diversity leads strategic efforts to advance access, equity, and inclusion as fundamental principles underpinning all aspects of university life. It initiates programs that promote an inclusive university climate, partner with campus units to formulate systems of accountability, and develop links with the local community and alumni groups. Centers for Cultural Understanding and Social Change. The Centers for Cultural Understanding and Social Change (CCUSC) are a collaborative group of seven centers with distinct histories, missions, and locations that promote the well-being of and cultural awareness about underrepresented and underserved groups at UIC. UIC Dialogue Initiative. The UIC Dialogue Initiative seeks to build an inclusive campus community where students, faculty, and staff feel welcomed in their identities, valued for their contributions, and feel their identities can be openly expressed. Through whatever changes await us, as a learning community we have a special obligation to ensure that our conversations and dialogues over the next weeks and months respect our varied backgrounds and beliefs. University of Maryland, Baltimore To the UMB Community: Last week, we elected a new president for our country. I think most will agree that the campaign season was long and divisive, and has left many feeling separated from their fellow citizens. In the days since the election, I’ve heard from the leaders of UMB and of the University of Maryland Medical Center and of the many programs we operate that serve our neighbors across the city and state. These leaders have relayed stories of students, faculty, staff, families, and children who feel anxious and unsettled, who feel threatened and fearful. It should be unnecessary to reaffirm UMB’s commitment to diversity, inclusion, and respect — these values are irrevocable — but when I hear that members of our family are afraid, I must reiterate that the University will not tolerate incivility of any kind, and that the differences we celebrate as a diverse community include not just differences of race, religion, nationality, gender, and sexual identity, but also of experience, opinion, and political affiliation and ideology. If you suffer any harassment, please contact your supervisor or your student affairs dean. In the months ahead, we will come together as a University community to talk about how the incoming administration might influence the issues we care about most: health care access and delivery; education; innovation; social justice and fair treatment for all. We will talk about the opportunities that lay ahead to shape compassionate policy and to join a national dialogue on providing humane care and services that uplift everyone in America. For anyone who despairs, we will talk about building hope. Should you want to share how you’re feeling post-election, counselors are available. Please contact the Student Counseling Center or the Employee Assistance Program to schedule an appointment. I look forward to continuing this conversation about how we affirm our fundamental mission to improve the human condition and serve the public good. Like the values we uphold, this mission endures — irrespective of the person or party in political power. It is our binding promise to the leaders of this state and, even more importantly, to the citizens we serve together. University of West Georgia Dear Colleagues, As we head into the weekend concluding a week, really several weeks, of national and local events, I am reminded of the incredible opportunity of reflection and discourse we have as a nation and as an institution of higher learning. This morning, we held on campus a moving ceremony honoring our Veterans–those who have served and who have given the ultimate sacrifice to uphold and protect our freedoms.  It is those freedoms that provide the opportunity to elect a President and those freedoms that provide an environment of civil discourse and opinion.  Clearly, the discourse of this election cycle has tested the boundaries. This is an emotional time for many of our faculty, staff, and students.  I ask that as a campus community we hold true to the intended values of our nation and those who sacrificed to protect those values and the core values of our institution–caring, collaboration, inclusiveness, and wisdom.  We must acknowledge and allow the civil discourse and opinion of all within a safe environment.  That is what should set us apart.  It is part of our DNA in higher education to respect and encourage variance and diversity of belief, thought, and culture. I call on your professionalism during these times and so appreciate your passion and care for each other and our students. Virginia Commonwealth University to Staff Election Message Dear VCU and VCU Health Communities, Yesterday, we elected new leaders for our city, commonwealth and nation. I am grateful to those of you who made your voice heard during the electoral process, including many of our students who voted for the first time. Whether or not your preferred candidate won, you were a part of history and a part of the process that moves our democracy forward. Thank you. I hope you will always continue to make your voice heard, both as voters and as well-educated leaders in our society. As with any election, some members of our community are enthusiastic about the winners, others are not.  For many, this election cycle was notably emotional and difficult. Now is the time, then, to demonstrate the values that make Virginia Commonwealth University such a remarkable place.  We reaffirm our commitment to working together across boundaries of discipline or scholarship, as members of one intellectual community, to achieve what’s difficult.  We reaffirm our commitment to inclusion, to ensuring that every person who comes to VCU is respected and emboldened to succeed.  We reaffirm that we will always be a place of the highest integrity, accountability, and we will offer an unyielding commitment to serving those who need us. History changes with every election. What does not change are the commitments we share as one community that is relentlessly focused on advancing the human experience for all people. You continue to inspire me.  And I know you will continue to be a bright light for Richmond, Virginia, our nation and our world. Virginia Commonwealth University School of Education to Students Election Message Dear students, On Tuesday we elected new leaders for our city, our commonwealth and our nation. Although leadership will be changing, I echo Dr. Rao’s message below in that our mission outlined by the Quest for Distinction to support student success, advance knowledge and strengthen our communities remains steadfast. At the VCU School of Education, we work to create safe spaces where innovation, inclusion and collaboration can thrive. We actively work across boundaries and disciplines to address the complex challenges facing our communities, schools and families. The election of new leaders provides new opportunities for our students, faculty and staff to build bridges that help us reach our goal of making an impact in urban and high need environments. I encourage you to engage in positive dialogues with one another as the city, commonwealth and nation adjust to the change in leadership, vision and strategy. Virginia Commonwealth University Division of Student Affairs Dear Students, We are writing to you, collectively, as leaders in the Division of Student Affairs.  We acknowledge that this election season was stressful for many individuals in our VCU community, culminating with the election of the next president.  Some members of our campus community have felt disrespected, attacked and further marginalized by political rhetoric during the political process.  We want to affirm support of all of our students while also recognizing the unique experiences and concerns of individuals. We want all students to know that we are here to support you, encourage you and contribute to your success. We now live in a space of uncertainty as we transition leadership in our nation.  Often, with this uncertainty comes a host of thoughts and feelings.  We hope that you will take advantage of some of the following services and programs we offer through our division to support your well-being, including: Office of Multicultural Student Affairs, Self-Care Space, University Counseling Services , The Wellness Resource Center, Trans Lives Matter Panel and Survivor Solidarity Support, Recreational Sports, Restorative Yoga and Mind & Body Classes. We encourage students to express their concerns and engage in conversations that further the core values articulated in Quest, the VCU Strategic Plan. We continue to have an opportunity to make individual and collective choices about how we work to bridge differences in a manner that builds up our community. Our staff will have a table each day next week on the VCU Compass from noon to 1:00 p.m. ­­­to receive your concerns, suggestions and just listen.  Please stop by to meet us.  We want you to know you have our full support. Other Organizations ACLU Joint Statement from California Legislative Leaders on Result of Presidential Election Posted in: Diversity, Librarianship, Library, management. Tagged: college · communication · diversity · election · equity · higher ed · inclusion · Library · university Finding the Right Words in Post-Election Libraries and Higher Ed Nov 14th, 2016 by Bohyun (Library Hat). Comments are off for this post ** This post was originally published in ACRL TechConnect on Nov. 15, 2016.*** This year’s election result has presented a huge challenge to all of us who work in higher education and libraries. Usually, libraries, universities, and colleges do not comment on presidential election result and we refrain from talking about politics at work. But these are not usual times that we are living in. A black female student was shoved off the sidewalk and called the ‘N’ word at Baylor University. The Ku Klux Klan is openly holding a rally. West Virginia officials publicly made a racist comment about the first lady. Steve Bannon’s prospective appointment as the chief strategist and senior counsel to the new President is being praised by white nationalist leaders and fiercely opposed by civil rights groups at the same time. Bannon is someone who calls for an ethno-state, openly calls Martin Luther King a fraud, and laments white dispossession and the deconstruction of occidental civilization. There are people drawing a swastika at a park. The ‘Whites only’ and ‘Colored’ signs were put up over water fountains in a Florida school. A Muslim student was threatened with a lighter. Asian-American women are being assaulted. Hostile acts targeting minority students are taking place on college campuses. Libraries and educational institutions exist because we value knowledge and science. Knowledge and science do not discriminate. They grow across all different races, ethnicities, religions, nationalities, sexual identities, and disabilities. Libraries and educational institutions exist to enable and empower people to freely explore, investigate, and harness different ideas and thoughts. They support, serve, and belong to ‘all’ who seek knowledge. No matter how naive it may sound, they are essential to the betterment of human lives, and they do so by creating strength from all our differences, not likeness. This is why diversity, equity, inclusion are non-negotiable and irrevocable values in libraries and educational institutions. How do we reconcile these values with the president-elect who openly dismissed and expressed hostility towards them? His campaign made remarks and promises that can be interpreted as nothing but the most blatant expressions of racism, sexism, intolerance, bigotry, harassment, and violence. What will we do to address the concerns of our students, staff, and faculty about their physical safety on campus due to their differences in race, ethnicity, religion, nationality, gender, and sexual identity? How do we assure them that we will continue to uphold these values and support everyone regardless of what they look like, how they identify their gender, what their faiths are, what disabilities they may have, who they love, where they come from, what languages they speak, or where they live? How? We say it. Explicitly. Clearly. And repeatedly. If you think that your organization is already very much pro-diversity that there is no need to confirm or reaffirm diversity, you can’t be farther from the everyday life minorities experience. Sometimes, saying isn’t much. But right now, saying it out loud can mean everything. If you support those who belong to minority groups but don’t say it out loud, how would they know it? Right now, nothing is obvious other than there is a lot of hate and violence towards minorities. The entire week after the election, I agonized about what to say to my small team of IT people whom I supervise at work. As a manager, I felt that it was my responsibility to address the anxiety and uncertainty that some of my staff – particularly those in minority groups – would be experiencing due to the election result. I also needed to ensure that whatever dialogue takes place regarding the differences of opinions between those who were pleased and those who were distressed with the election result, those dialogues remain civil and respectful. Crafting an appropriate message was much more challenging than I anticipated. I felt very strongly about the need to re-affirm the unwavering support and commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion particularly in relation to libraries and higher education, no matter how obvious it may seem. I also felt the need to establish (within the bounds of my limited authority) that we will continue to respect, value, and celebrate diversity in interacting with library users as well as other library and university staff members. Employees are held to the standard expectations of their institutions, such as diversity, equity, inclusion, tolerance, civil dialogue, and no harassment or violence towards minorities, even if their private opinions conflict with them. At the same time, I wanted to strike a measured tone and neither scare nor upset anyone, whichever side they were on in the election. As a manager, I have to acknowledge that everyone is entitled to their private opinions as long as they do not harm others. I suspect that many of us – either a manager or not – want to say something similar about the election result. Not so much about who was and should have been as about what we are going to do now in the face of these public incidences of anger, hatred, harassment, violence, and bigotry directed at minority groups, which are coming out at an alarming pace because it affects all of us, not just minorities. Finding the right words, however, is difficult. You have to carefully consider your role, audience, and the message you want to convey. The official public statement from a university president is going to take a tone vastly different from an informal private message a supervisor sends out to a few members of his or her team. A library director’s message to library patrons assuring the continued service for all groups of users with no discrimination will likely to be quite different from the one she sends to her library staff to assuage their anxiety and fear. For such difficulty not to delay and stop us from what we have to and want to say to everyone we work with and care for, I am sharing the short message that I sent out to my team last Friday, 3 days after the election. (N.B. ‘CATS’ stands for ‘Computing and Technology Services’ and UMB refers to ‘University of Maryland, Baltimore.’) This is a customized message to address my own team. I am sharing this as a potential template for you to craft your own message. I would like to see more messages that reaffirm diversity, equity, and inclusion as non-negotiable values, explicitly state that we will not step backwards, and make a commitment to continued unwavering support for them. Dear CATS, This year’s close and divisive election left a certain level of anxiety and uncertainty in many of us. I am sure that we will hear from President Perman and the university leadership soon. In the meantime, I want to remind you of something I believe to be very important. We are all here – just as we have been all along – to provide the most excellent service to our users regardless of what they look like, what their faiths are, where they come from, what languages they speak, where they live, and who they love. A library is a powerful place where people transform themselves through learning, critical thinking, and reflection. A library’s doors have been kept open to anyone who wants to freely explore the world of ideas and pursue knowledge. Libraries are here to empower people to create a better future. A library is a place for mutual education through respectful and open-minded dialogues. And, we, the library staff and faculty, make that happen. We get to make sure that people’s ethnicity, race, gender, disability, socio-economic backgrounds, political views, or religious beliefs do not become an obstacle to that pursuit. We have a truly awesome responsibility. And I don’t have to tell you how vital our role is as a CATS member in our library’s fulfilling that responsibility. Whichever side we stood on in this election, let’s not forget to treat each other with respect and dignity. Let’s use this as an opportunity to renew our commitment to diversity, one of the UMB’s core values. Inclusive excellence is one of the themes of the UMB 2017-2021 Strategic Plan. Each and every one of us has a contribution to make because we are stronger for our differences. We have much work ahead of us! I am out today, but expect lots of donuts Monday. Have a great weekend, Bohyun   Monday, I brought in donuts of many different kinds and told everyone they were ‘diversity donuts.’ Try it. I believe it was successful in easing some stress and tension that was palpable in my team after the election. Photo from Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/vnysia/4598569232 Before crafting your own message, I recommend re-reading your institution’s core values, mission and vision statements, and the most recent strategic plan. Most universities, colleges, and libraries include diversity, equity, inclusion, or something equivalent to these somewhere. Also review all public statements or internal messages that came from your institution that reaffirms diversity, equity, and inclusion. You can easily incorporate those into your own message. Make sure to clearly state your (and your institution’s) continued commitment to and unwavering support for diversity and inclusion and explicitly oppose bigotry, intolerance, harassment, and acts of violence. Encourage civil discourse and mutual respect. It is very important to reaffirm the values of diversity, equity, and inclusion ‘before’ listing any resources and help that employees or students may seek in case of harassment or assault. Without the assurance from the institution that it indeed upholds those values and will firmly stand by them, those resources and help mean little. Below I have also listed messages, notes, and statements sent out by library directors, managers, librarians, and university presidents that reaffirm the full support for and commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion. I hope to see more of these come out. If you have already received or sent out such a message, I invite you to share in the comments. If you have not, I suggest doing so as soon as possible. Send out a message if you are in a position where doing so is appropriate. Don’t forget to ask for a message addressing those values if you have not received any from your organization. Director Chris Bourg to the MIT Libraries staff https://chrisbourg.wordpress.com/2016/11/09/care-for-one-another/ Dean K. G. Schneider to the Sonoma State University Library staff http://freerangelibrarian.com/2016/11/15/pin-and-a-prayer/ Librarian Zoe Fisher to other librarians https://quickaskzoe.com/2016/11/09/but-i-know-that-there-will-be-libraries/ University of California statement on presidential election results https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/press-room/university-california-statement-election University of Nevada, Reno http://www.unr.edu/president/communications/2016-11-10-election University of Michigan http://president.umich.edu/news-communications/letters-to-the-community/2016-election-message/ University of Rochester and Rochester Institute of Technology http://wxxinews.org/post/ur-presidents-post-election-letter-strikes-sour-note-some Duke University https://today.duke.edu/2016/11/statement-president-brodhead-following-2016-election Clarke University http://www.clarke.edu/page.aspx?id=37181 MIT https://news.mit.edu/2016/letter-mit-community-new-administration-washington-1110 Northwestern University https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2016/11/president-schapiro-on-the-election-and-the-university/ “Post-Election Statements and Messages that Reaffirm Diversity” (A list of more post-election statements and messages that reaffirm diversity)   Posted in: Diversity, Librarianship, Library, management. Tagged: diversity · election · equity · inclusion · message · post-election · statement · template · tolerance Say It Out Loud – Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Nov 12th, 2016 by Bohyun (Library Hat). Comments are off for this post I usually and mostly talk about technology. But technology is so far away from my thought right now. I don’t feel that I can afford to worry about Internet surveillance or how to protect privacy at this moment. Not that they are unimportant. Such a worry is real and deserves our attention and investigation. But at a time like this when there are so many reports of public incidences of hatred, bigotry, harassment, and violence reported on university and college campuses, on streets, and in many neighborhoods coming in at an alarming pace, I don’t find myself reflecting on how we can use technology to deal with this problem. For the problem is so much bigger. There are people drawing a swastika at a park. The ‘Whites only’ and ‘Colored’ signs were put up over water fountains in a Florida school. A Muslim student was threatened with a lighter. Asian-American women are being assaulted. Hostile acts targeting minority students are taking place on college campuses. A black female student was shoved off the sidewalk and called the ‘N’ word at Baylor University. Newt Gingrich called for a House committee for Un-American Activities. The Ku Klux Klan is openly holding a rally. The list goes on and on. Photo from http://www.wftv.com/news/local/investigation-underway-after-2-racist-signs-posted-above-water-fountains-at-first-coast-high-school/466146633 We are justified to be freaking out. I suspect this is a deal breaker to not just Democrats, not just Clinton supporters, but a whole lot more people. Not everyone who voted for Donald Trump endorse the position that women, people of color, Muslims, LGBT, and all other minority groups deserve and should be deprived of the basic human right to be not publicly threatened, harassed, and assaulted, I hope. I am sure that many who voted for Donald Trump do support diversity, equity, and inclusion as important and non-negotiable values. I believe that many who voted for Donald Trump do not want a society where some of their family, friends, colleagues, and neighbors have to live in constant fear for their physical safety at minimum. There are very many white people who absolutely condemn bigotry, threat, hatred, discrimination, harassment, and violence directed at minorities and give their unwavering support to diversity, equity, and inclusion. The problem is that I don’t hear it said loudly enough, clearly enough, publicly enough. I realized that we – myself included – do not say this enough. One of my fellow librarians, Steve, wrote this on his Facebook wall after the election. I am a 56 year old white guy. … I go out into the world today and I’m trying to hold a look on my face that says I don’t hate you black people, Hispanic people, gay people, Muslim people. I mean you no harm. I don’t want to deport you or imprison you. You are my brothers and sisters. I want for you all of the benefits, the rights, the joys (such as they are) that are afforded to everybody else in our society. I don’t think this look on my face is effective. Why should they trust me? You can never APPEAR to be doing the right thing. It requires DOING the right thing. Of course, Steve doesn’t want to harm me because I am not white, I know. I am 100 % positive that he wouldn’t assault me because I am female. But by stating this publicly (I mean as far as his FB friends can see the post), he made a difference to me. Steve is not Republican. But I would feel so much better if people I know tell me the same thing whether they are Democrat or Republican. And I think it will make a huge difference to others when we all say this together. Sometimes, saying isn’t much. But right now, saying it aloud can mean everything. If you support those who belong to minority groups but don’t say it out loud, how would they know it? Because right now, nothing is obvious other than there is a lot of hate and violence towards minorities. At this point, which candidate you voted for doesn’t matter. What matters is whether you will condone open hatred and violence towards minorities and women, thereby making it acceptable in our society. There is a lot at stake here, and this goes way beyond party politics. Publicly confirming our continued support for and unwavering commitment to diversity is a big deal. People who are being insulted, threatened, harassed, and assaulted need to hear it. And when we say this together loudly enough, clearly enough, explicitly enough, it will deafen the voice of hatred, bigotry, and intolerance and chase it away to the margins of our society again. So I think I am going to say this whenever I have a chance whether formally or informally whether it is in a written form or in a conversation. If you are a librarian, you should say this to your library users. If you are a teacher, you should say this to your students. If you run a business, you need to say this to your employees and customers. If you manage a team at work, tell your team. Say this out loud to your coworkers, friends, family, neighbors, and everyone you interact with. “I support all minorities and stand for diversity, equity, and inclusion.” “I object to and will not condone the acts of harassment, violence, hatred, and threats directed at minorities.” “I will not discriminate anyone based upon their ethnicity, race, sexual orientation, disability, political views, socio-economic backgrounds, or religious beliefs.” We cannot allow diversity, equity, and inclusion to become minority opinions. And it is up to us to keep it mainstream and to make it prevail. Say it aloud and act on it. In times like this, many of us look to institutions that we belong to, the organizations we work for, professionally participate in, or personally support. We expect them to reconfirm the very basic values of diversity, equity, and inclusion. Since I work for a university, I have been looking up and reading statements from higher education institutions. So far, not a great number of universities have made public statements confirming their continued support for diversity. I am sure more are on the way. But I expected more of them would come out more promptly. This is unfortunate because many of them openly expressed their support for diversity and even include diversity in their values, mission, and goals. If your organization hasn’t already confirmed their support for these values and expressed their commitment to provide safety for all minorities, ask for it. You may even be in a position to actually craft and issue one. For those in need of right words to express your intention clearly, here are some good examples below. “The University of California is proud of being a diverse and welcoming place for students, faculty, and staff with a wide range of backgrounds, experiences and perspectives.  Diversity is central to our mission.  We remain absolutely committed to supporting all members of our community and adhering to UC’s Principles Against Intolerance.  As the Principles make clear, the University ‘strives to foster an environment in which all are included’ and ‘all are given an equal opportunity to learn and explore.’  The University of California will continue to pursue and protect these principles now and in the future, and urges our students, faculty, staff, and all others associated with the University to do so as well.” –  University of California “Our responsibility is to remain committed to education, discovery and intellectual honesty – and to diversity, equity and inclusion. We are at our best when we come together to engage respectfully across our ideological differences; to support ALL who feel marginalized, threatened or unwelcome; and to pursue knowledge and understanding, as we always have, as the students, faculty and staff of the University of Michigan.” – University of Michigan “Northwestern is committed to being a welcoming and inclusive community for all, regardless of their beliefs, and I assure you that will not change.” – Northwestern University “As a Catholic university, Clarke will not step away from its many efforts to heighten our awareness of the individuals and groups who are exclude and marginalized in so many ways and to take action for their protection and inclusion.  Today, I call on us as a community to step up our efforts to promote understanding and inclusion and to reach out to those among us who are feeling further disenfranchised, fearful and confused as a result of the election.” – Clarke University “As President, I need to represent all of RIT, and I therefore do not express preferences for political candidates. I do feel it important, however, to represent and reinforce RIT’s shared commitment to the value of inclusive diversity. I have heard from many in our community that the result of the recent election has raised concerns from those in our minority populations, those who come from immigrant families, those from countries outside of the U.S., those in our LGBTQIA+ community, those who practice Islam, and even those in our female population about whether they should be concerned for their safety and well-being as a result of the horrific discourse that accompanied the presidential election process and some of the specific views and proposals presented. At RIT, we have treasured the diverse contributions of members of these groups to our campus community, and I want to reassure all that one of RIT’s highest priorities is to demonstrate the extraordinary value of inclusive diversity and that we will continue to respect, appreciate, and benefit from the contributions of all. Anyone who feels unsafe here should make their feelings known to me and to others in a position to address their concerns. Concerned members of our community can also take advantage of opportunities to engage in open discourse about the election in the MOSAIC Center and at tomorrow’s Grey Matter discussion.” – Rochester Institute of Technology Please go ahead and say these out loud to people around you if you mean them.  No matter how obvious and cheesy they sound, I assure you, they are not obvious and cheesy to those who are facing open threats, harassment, and violence. Let’s boost the signal; let’s make it loud; let’s make it overwhelming. “I support all minorities and stand for diversity, equity, and inclusion.” “I object to and will not condone the acts of harassment, violence, hatred, and threats directed at minorities.” “I will not discriminate anyone based upon their ethnicity, race, sexual orientation, disability, political views, socio-economic backgrounds, or religious beliefs.”   Posted in: Diversity. Tagged: 2016 · election · hate crime · racism Cybersecurity, Usability, Online Privacy, and Digital Surveillance May 9th, 2016 by Bohyun (Library Hat). Comments are off for this post ** This post was originally published in ACRL TechConnect on May. 9, 2016.*** Cybersecurity is an interesting and important topic, one closely connected to those of online privacy and digital surveillance. Many of us know that it is difficult to keep things private on the Internet. The Internet was invented to share things with others quickly, and it excels at that job. Businesses that process transactions with customers and store the information online are responsible for keeping that information private. No one wants social security numbers, credit card information, medical history, or personal e-mails shared with the world. We expect and trust banks, online stores, and our doctor’s offices to keep our information safe and secure. However, keeping private information safe and secure is a challenging task. We have all heard of security breaches at J.P Morgan, Target, Sony, Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield, the Office of Personnel Management of the U.S. federal government, University of Maryland at College Park, and Indiana University. Sometimes, a data breach takes place when an institution fails to patch a hole in its network systems. Sometimes, people fall for a phishing scam, or a virus in a user’s computer infects the target system. Other times, online companies compile customer data into personal profiles. The profiles are then sold to data brokers and on into the hands of malicious hackers and criminals. Image from Flickr – https://www.flickr.com/photos/topgold/4978430615 Cybersecurity vs. Usability To prevent such a data breach, institutional IT staff are trained to protect their systems against vulnerabilities and intrusion attempts. Employees and end users are educated to be careful about dealing with institutional or customers’ data. There are systematic measures that organizations can implement such as two-factor authentication, stringent password requirements, and locking accounts after a certain number of failed login attempts. While these measures strengthen an institution’s defense against cyberattacks, they may negatively affect the usability of the system, lowering users’ productivity. As a simple example, security measures like a CAPTCHA can cause an accessibility issue for people with disabilities. Or imagine that a university IT office concerned about the data security of cloud services starts requiring all faculty, students, and staff to only use cloud services that are SOC 2 Type II certified as an another example. SOC stands for “Service Organization Controls.” It consists of a series of standards that measure how well a given service organization keeps its information secure. For a business to be SOC 2 certified, it must demonstrate that it has sufficient policies and strategies that will satisfactorily protect its clients’ data in five areas known as “Trust Services Principles.” Those include the security of the service provider’s system, the processing integrity of this system, the availability of the system, the privacy of personal information that the service provider collects, retains, uses, discloses, and disposes of for its clients, and the confidentiality of the information that the service provider’s system processes or maintains for the clients. The SOC 2 Type II certification means that the business had maintained relevant security policies and procedures over a period of at least six months, and therefore it is a good indicator that the business will keep the clients’ sensitive data secure. The Dropbox for Business is SOC 2 certified, but it costs money. The free version is not as secure, but many faculty, students, and staff in academia use it frequently for collaboration. If a university IT office simply bans people from using the free version of Dropbox without offering an alternative that is as easy to use as Dropbox, people will undoubtedly suffer. Some of you may know that the USPS website does not provide a way to reset the password for users who forgot their usernames. They are instead asked to create a new account. If they remember the account username but enter the wrong answers to the two security questions more than twice, the system also automatically locks their accounts for a certain period of time. Again, users have to create a new account. Clearly, the system that does not allow the password reset for those forgetful users is more secure than the one that does. However, in reality, this security measure creates a huge usability issue because average users do forget their passwords and the answers to the security questions that they set up themselves. It’s not hard to guess how frustrated people will be when they realize that they entered a wrong mailing address for mail forwarding and are now unable to get back into the system to correct because they cannot remember their passwords nor the answers to their security questions. To give an example related to libraries, a library may decide to block all international traffic to their licensed e-resources to prevent foreign hackers who have gotten hold of the username and password of a legitimate user from accessing those e-resources. This would certainly help libraries to avoid a potential breach of licensing terms in advance and spare them from having to shut down compromised user accounts one by one whenever those are found. However, this would make it impossible for legitimate users traveling outside of the country to access those e-resources as well, which many users would find it unacceptable. Furthermore, malicious hackers would probably just use a proxy to make their IP address appear to be located in the U.S. anyway. What would users do if their organization requires them to reset passwords on a weekly basis for their work computers and several or more systems that they also use constantly for work? While this may strengthen the security of those systems, it’s easy to see that it will be a nightmare having to reset all those passwords every week and keeping track of them not to forget or mix them up. Most likely, they will start using less complicated passwords or even begin to adopt just one password for all different services. Some may even stick to the same password every time the system requires them to reset it unless the system automatically detects the previous password and prevents the users from continuing to use the same one. Ill-thought-out cybersecurity measures can easily backfire. Security is important, but users also want to be able to do their job without being bogged down by unwieldy cybersecurity measures. The more user-friendly and the simpler the cybersecurity guidelines are to follow, the more users will observe them, thereby making a network more secure. Users who face cumbersome and complicated security measures may ignore or try to bypass them, increasing security risks. Image from Flickr – https://www.flickr.com/photos/topgold/4978430615 Cybersecurity vs. Privacy Usability and productivity may be a small issue, however, compared to the risk of mass surveillance resulting from aggressive security measures. In 2013, the Guardian reported that the communication records of millions of people were being collected by the National Security Agency (NSA) in bulk, regardless of suspicion of wrongdoing. A secret court order prohibited Verizon from disclosing the NSA’s information request. After a cyberattack against the University of California at Los Angeles, the University of California system installed a device that is capable of capturing, analyzing, and storing all network traffic to and from the campus for over 30 days. This security monitoring was implemented secretly without consulting or notifying the faculty and those who would be subject to the monitoring. The San Francisco Chronicle reported the IT staff who installed the system were given strict instructions not to reveal it was taking place. Selected committee members on the campus were told to keep this information to themselves. The invasion of privacy and the lack of transparency in these network monitoring programs has caused great controversy. Such wide and indiscriminate monitoring programs must have a very good justification and offer clear answers to vital questions such as what exactly will be collected, who will have access to the collected information, when and how the information will be used, what controls will be put in place to prevent the information from being used for unrelated purposes, and how the information will be disposed of. We have recently seen another case in which security concerns conflicted with people’s right to privacy. In February 2016, the FBI requested Apple to create a backdoor application that will bypass the current security measure in place in its iOS. This was because the FBI wanted to unlock an iPhone 5C recovered from one of the shooters in San Bernadino shooting incident. Apple iOS secures users’ devices by permanently erasing all data when a wrong password is entered more than ten times if people choose to activate this option in the iOS setting. The FBI’s request was met with strong opposition from Apple and others. Such a backdoor application can easily be exploited for illegal purposes by black hat hackers, for unjustified privacy infringement by other capable parties, and even for dictatorship by governments. Apple refused to comply with the request, and the court hearing was to take place in March 22. The FBI, however, withdrew the request saying that it found a way to hack into the phone in question without Apple’s help. Now, Apple has to figure out what the vulnerability in their iOS if it wants its encryption mechanism to be foolproof. In the meanwhile, iOS users know that their data is no longer as secure as they once thought. Around the same time, the Senate’s draft bill titled as “Compliance with Court Orders Act of 2016,” proposed that people should be required to comply with any authorized court order for data and that if that data is “unintelligible” – meaning encrypted – then it must be decrypted for the court. This bill is problematic because it practically nullifies the efficacy of any end-to-end encryption, which we use everyday from our iPhones to messaging services like Whatsapp and Signal. Because security is essential to privacy, it is ironic that certain cybersecurity measures are used to greatly invade privacy rather than protect it. Because we do not always fully understand how the technology actually works or how it can be exploited for both good and bad purposes, we need to be careful about giving blank permission to any party to access, collect, and use our private data without clear understanding, oversight, and consent. As we share more and more information online, cyberattacks will only increase, and organizations and the government will struggle even more to balance privacy concerns with security issues. Why Libraries Should Advocate for Online Privacy? The fact that people may no longer have privacy on the Web should concern libraries. Historically, libraries have been strong advocates of intellectual freedom striving to keep patron’s data safe and protected from the unwanted eyes of the authorities. As librarians, we believe in people’s right to read, think, and speak freely and privately as long as such an act itself does not pose harm to others. The Library Freedom Project is an example that reflects this belief held strongly within the library community. It educates librarians and their local communities about surveillance threats, privacy rights and law, and privacy-protecting technology tools to help safeguard digital freedom, and helped the Kilton Public Library in Lebanon, New Hampshire, to become the first library to operate a Tor exit relay, to provide anonymity for patrons while they browse the Internet at the library. New technologies brought us the unprecedented convenience of collecting, storing, and sharing massive amount of sensitive data online. But the fact that such sensitive data can be easily exploited by falling into the wrong hands created also the unparalleled level of potential invasion of privacy. While the majority of librarians take a very strong stance in favor of intellectual freedom and against censorship, it is often hard to discern a correct stance on online privacy particularly when it is pitted against cybersecurity. Some even argue that those who have nothing to hide do not need their privacy at all. However, privacy is not equivalent to hiding a wrongdoing. Nor do people keep certain things secrets because those things are necessarily illegal or unethical. Being watched 24/7 will drive any person crazy whether s/he is guilty of any wrongdoing or not. Privacy allows us safe space to form our thoughts and consider our actions on our own without being subject to others’ eyes and judgments. Even in the absence of actual massive surveillance, just the belief that one can be placed under surveillance at any moment is sufficient to trigger self-censorship and negatively affects one’s thoughts, ideas, creativity, imagination, choices, and actions, making people more conformist and compliant. This is further corroborated by the recent study from Oxford University, which provides empirical evidence that the mere existence of a surveillance state breeds fear and conformity and stifles free expression. Privacy is an essential part of being human, not some trivial condition that we can do without in the face of a greater concern. That’s why many people under political dictatorship continue to choose death over life under mass surveillance and censorship in their fight for freedom and privacy. The Electronic Frontier Foundation states that privacy means respect for individuals’ autonomy, anonymous speech, and the right to free association. We want to live as autonomous human beings free to speak our minds and think on our own. If part of a library’s mission is to contribute to helping people to become such autonomous human beings through learning and sharing knowledge with one another without having to worry about being observed and/or censored, libraries should advocate for people’s privacy both online and offline as well as in all forms of communication technologies and devices. Posted in: Library, Technology, Usability, user experience, Web. Tagged: data security · digital freedom · encryption · Internet · password · soc 2 · tor Three Recent Talks of Mine on UX, Data Visualization, and IT Management Apr 7th, 2016 by Bohyun (Library Hat). Comments are off for this post I have been swamped at work and pretty quiet here in my blog. But I gave a few talks recently. So I wanted to share those at least. I presented about how to turn the traditional library IT department and its operation that is usually behind the scene into a more patron-facing unit at the recent American Library Association Midwinter Meeting back in January. This program was organized by the LITA Heads of IT Interest Group. In March, I gave a short lightning talk at the 2016 Code4Lib Conference about the data visualization project of library data at my library. I was also invited to speak at the USMAI (University System of Maryland and Affiliated Institutions) UX Unconference and gave a talk about user experience, personas, and the idea of applying library personas to library strategic planning. Here are those three presentation slides for those interested! Strategically UX Oriented with Personas from Bohyun Kim Visualizing Library Data from Bohyun Kim Turning the IT Dept. Outward from Bohyun Kim Posted in: ALA, Library, presentation, Technology, Usability, user experience. Tagged: code4lib · Data Visualization · IT · management · ux Near Us and Libraries, Robots Have Arrived Oct 12th, 2015 by Bohyun (Library Hat). Comments are off for this post ** This post was originally published in ACRL TechConnect on Oct. 12, 2015.*** The movie, Robot and Frank, describes the future in which the elderly have a robot as their companion and also as a helper. The robot monitors various activities that relate to both mental and physical health and helps Frank with various house chores. But Frank also enjoys the robot’s company and goes on to enlist the robot into his adventure of breaking into a local library to steal a book and a greater heist later on. People’s lives in the movie are not particularly futuristic other than a robot in them. And even a robot may not be so futuristic to us much longer either. As a matter of fact, as of June 2015, there is now a commercially available humanoid robot that is close to performing some of the functions that the robot in the movie ‘Frank and Robot’ does. Pepper Robot, Image from Aldebaran, https://www.aldebaran.com/en/a-robots/who-is-pepper A Japanese company, SoftBank Robotics Corp. released a humanoid robot named ‘Pepper’ to the market back in June. The Pepper robot is 4 feet tall, 61 pounds, speaks 17 languages and is equipped with an array of cameras, touch sensors, accelerometer, and other sensors in his “endocrine-type multi-layer neural network,” according to the CNN report.  The Pepper robot was priced at ¥198,000 ($1,600). The Pepper owners are also responsible for an additional ¥24,600 ($200) monthly data and insurance fee. While the Pepper robot is not exactly cheap, it is surprisingly affordable for a robot. This means that the robot industry has now matured to the point where it can introduce a robot that the mass can afford. Robots come in varying capabilities and forms. Some robots are as simple as a programmable cube block that can be combined with one another to be built into a working unit. For example, Cubelets from Modular Robotics are modular robots that are used for educational purposes. Each cube performs one specific function, such as flash, battery, temperature, brightness, rotation, etc. And one can combine these blocks together to build a robot that performs a certain function. For example, you can build a lighthouse robot by combining a battery block, a light-sensor block, a rotator block, and a flash block.   A variety of cubelets available from the Modular Robotics website.   By contrast, there are advanced robots such as those in the form of an animal developed by a robotics company, Boston Dynamics. Some robots look like a human although much smaller than the Pepper robot. NAO is a 58-cm tall humanoid robot that moves, recognizes, hears and talks to people that was launched in 2006. Nao robots are an interactive educational toy that helps students to learn programming in a fun and practical way. Noticing their relevance to STEM education, some libraries are making robots available to library patrons. Westport Public Library provides robot training classes for its two Nao robots. Chicago Public Library lends a number of Finch robots that patrons can program to see how they work. In celebration of the National Robotics Week back in April, San Diego Public Library hosted their first Robot Day educating the public about how robots have impacted the society. San Diego Public Library also started a weekly Robotics Club inviting anyone to join in to help build or learn how to build a robot for the library. Haslet Public Library offers the Robotics Camp program for 6th to 8th graders who want to learn how to build with LEGO Mindstorms EV3 kits. School librarians are also starting robotics clubs. The Robotics Club at New Rochelle High School in New York is run by the school’s librarian, Ryan Paulsen. Paulsen’s robotics club started with faculty, parent, and other schools’ help along with a grant from NASA and participated in a FIRST Robotics Competition. Organizations such as the Robotics Academy at Carnegie Mellon University provides educational outreach and resources. Image from Aldebaran website at https://www.aldebaran.com/en/humanoid-robot/nao-robot There are also libraries that offer coding workshops often with Arduino or Raspberry Pi, which are inexpensive computer hardware. Ames Free Library offers Raspberry Pi workshops. San Diego Public Library runs a monthly Arduino Enthusiast Meetup.  Arduinos and Raspberry Pis can be used to build digital devices and objects that can sense and interact the physical world, which are close to a simple robot. We may see  more robotics programs at those libraries in the near future. Robots can fulfill many other functions than being educational interactive toys, however. For example, robots can be very useful in healthcare. A robot can be a patient’s emotional companion just like the Pepper. Or it can provide an easy way to communicate for a patient and her/his caregiver with physicians and others. A robot can be used at a hospital to move and deliver medication and other items and function as a telemedicine assistant. It can also provide physical assistance for a patient or a nurse and even be use for children’s therapy. Humanoid robots like Pepper may also serve at a reception desk at companies. And it is not difficult to imagine them as sales clerks at stores. Robots can be useful at schools and other educational settings as well. At a workplace, teleworkers can use robots to achieve more active presence. For example, universities and colleges can offer a similar telepresence robot to online students who want to virtually experience and utilize the campus facilities or to faculty who wish to offer the office hours or collaborate with colleagues while they are away from the office. As a matter of fact, the University of Texas, Arlington, Libraries recently acquired several Telepresence Robots to lend to their faculty and students. Not all robots do or will have the humanoid form as the Pepper robot does. But as robots become more and more capable, we will surely get to see more robots in our daily lives. References Alpeyev, Pavel, and Takashi Amano. “Robots at Work: SoftBank Aims to Bring Pepper to Stores.” Bloomberg Business, June 30, 2015. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-06-30/robots-at-work-softbank-aims-to-bring-pepper-to-stores. “Boston Dynamics.” Accessed September 8, 2015. http://www.bostondynamics.com/. Boyer, Katie. “Robotics Clubs At the Library.” Public Libraries Online, June 16, 2014. http://publiclibrariesonline.org/2014/06/robotics-clubs-at-the-library/. “Finch Robots Land at CPL Altgeld.” Chicago Public Library, May 12, 2014. https://www.chipublib.org/news/finch-robots-land-at-cpl/. McNickle, Michelle. “10 Medical Robots That Could Change Healthcare – InformationWeek.” InformationWeek, December 6, 2012. http://www.informationweek.com/mobile/10-medical-robots-that-could-change-healthcare/d/d-id/1107696. Singh, Angad. “‘Pepper’ the Emotional Robot, Sells out within a Minute.” CNN.com, June 23, 2015. http://www.cnn.com/2015/06/22/tech/pepper-robot-sold-out/. Tran, Uyen. “SDPL Labs: Arduino Aplenty.” The Library Incubator Project, April 17, 2015. http://www.libraryasincubatorproject.org/?p=16559. “UT Arlington Library to Begin Offering Programming Robots for Checkout.” University of Texas Arlington, March 11, 2015. https://www.uta.edu/news/releases/2015/03/Library-robots-2015.php. 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Social Sharing Ryan Flannagan asked to leave role after four years CBC News · Posted: Dec 01, 2020 6:59 PM ET | Last Updated: December 1 Ryan Flannagan, the associate vice-president student experience at the University of Windsor, has left his role at the university. (Katerina Georgieva/CBC)University of Windsor associate vice-president of student experience Ryan Flannagan will leave the role after four years on the job. University of Windsor President Rob Gordon announced the move in a letter addressed to all students, faculty and staff. "The University of Windsor is focused on charting the path forward with our students, faculty, staff, and the wider Windsor community. In doing so the University is committed to rebuilding trust and make the necessary changes to become safer, more inclusive, and more equitable," the letter reads. The letter said the university would consult with the campus community about the process of finding a replacement. 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Name * Email address * Comments * Leave this field blank www-coursera-org-230 ---- Machine Learning by Stanford University | Coursera Explore For EnterpriseFor Students Browse Top Courses Log In Join for Free Browse Data Science Machine Learning Machine Learning 4.9stars 152,260 ratings | 97% Andrew Ng    Top Instructor Offered By About Instructors Syllabus Reviews Enrollment Options FAQ Machine Learning Stanford University About Instructors Syllabus Reviews Enrollment Options FAQ About this Course 7,310,661 recent views Machine learning is the science of getting computers to act without being explicitly programmed. In the past decade, machine learning has given us self-driving cars, practical speech recognition, effective web search, and a vastly improved understanding of the human genome. Machine learning is so pervasive today that you probably use it dozens of times a day without knowing it. Many researchers also think it is the best way to make progress towards human-level AI. In this class, you will learn about the most effective machine learning techniques, and gain practice implementing them and getting them to work for yourself. More importantly, you'll learn about not only the theoretical underpinnings of learning, but also gain the practical know-how needed to quickly and powerfully apply these techniques to new problems. Finally, you'll learn about some of Silicon Valley's best practices in innovation as it pertains to machine learning and AI. This course provides a broad introduction to machine learning, datamining, and statistical pattern recognition. Topics include: (i) Supervised learning (parametric/non-parametric algorithms, support vector machines, kernels, neural networks). (ii) Unsupervised learning (clustering, dimensionality reduction, recommender systems, deep learning). (iii) Best practices in machine learning (bias/variance theory; innovation process in machine learning and AI). The course will also draw from numerous case studies and applications, so that you'll also learn how to apply learning algorithms to building smart robots (perception, control), text understanding (web search, anti-spam), computer vision, medical informatics, audio, database mining, and other areas. Learner Career Outcomes 36% started a new career after completing these courses 34% got a tangible career benefit from this course Shareable Certificate Earn a Certificate upon completion 100% online Start instantly and learn at your own schedule. Flexible deadlines Reset deadlines in accordance to your schedule. Approx. 60 hours to complete English Subtitles: Arabic, French, Portuguese (European), Chinese (Simplified), Italian, Vietnamese, Korean, German, Russian, Turkish, English, Hebrew, Spanish, Hindi, Japanese Skills you will gain Logistic RegressionArtificial Neural NetworkMachine Learning (ML) AlgorithmsMachine Learning Learner Career Outcomes 36% started a new career after completing these courses 34% got a tangible career benefit from this course Shareable Certificate Earn a Certificate upon completion 100% online Start instantly and learn at your own schedule. Flexible deadlines Reset deadlines in accordance to your schedule. Approx. 60 hours to complete English Subtitles: Arabic, French, Portuguese (European), Chinese (Simplified), Italian, Vietnamese, Korean, German, Russian, Turkish, English, Hebrew, Spanish, Hindi, Japanese Instructor Instructor rating4.93/5 (20,548 Ratings) Andrew Ng Top Instructor InstructorFounder, DeepLearning.AI & Co-founder, Coursera 4,620,667 Learners 11 Courses Offered by Stanford University The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is an American private research university located in Stanford, California on an 8,180-acre (3,310 ha) campus near Palo Alto, California, United States. Syllabus - What you will learn from this course Content Rating 97%(1,303,446 ratings)Week 1 Week 1 2 hours to completeIntroduction Welcome to Machine Learning! In this module, we introduce the core idea of teaching a computer to learn concepts using data—without being explicitly programmed. The Course Wiki is under construction. Please visit the resources tab for the most complete and up-to-date information. 2 hours to complete 5 videos (Total 42 min), 9 readings, 1 quiz See All 5 videosWelcome to Machine Learning!1m Welcome6m What is Machine Learning?7m Supervised Learning12m Unsupervised Learning14m 9 readingsMachine Learning Honor Code8m What is Machine Learning?5m How to Use Discussion Forums4m Supervised Learning4m Unsupervised Learning3m Who are Mentors?3m Get to Know Your Classmates8m Frequently Asked Questions11m Lecture Slides20m 1 practice exerciseIntroduction30m 2 hours to completeLinear Regression with One Variable Linear regression predicts a real-valued output based on an input value. We discuss the application of linear regression to housing price prediction, present the notion of a cost function, and introduce the gradient descent method for learning. 2 hours to complete 7 videos (Total 70 min), 8 readings, 1 quiz See All 7 videosModel Representation8m Cost Function8m Cost Function - Intuition I11m Cost Function - Intuition II8m Gradient Descent11m Gradient Descent Intuition11m Gradient Descent For Linear Regression10m 8 readingsModel Representation3m Cost Function3m Cost Function - Intuition I4m Cost Function - Intuition II3m Gradient Descent3m Gradient Descent Intuition3m Gradient Descent For Linear Regression6m Lecture Slides20m 1 practice exerciseLinear Regression with One Variable30m 2 hours to completeLinear Algebra Review This optional module provides a refresher on linear algebra concepts. Basic understanding of linear algebra is necessary for the rest of the course, especially as we begin to cover models with multiple variables. 2 hours to complete 6 videos (Total 61 min), 7 readings, 1 quiz See All 6 videosMatrices and Vectors8m Addition and Scalar Multiplication6m Matrix Vector Multiplication13m Matrix Matrix Multiplication11m Matrix Multiplication Properties9m Inverse and Transpose11m 7 readingsMatrices and Vectors2m Addition and Scalar Multiplication3m Matrix Vector Multiplication2m Matrix Matrix Multiplication2m Matrix Multiplication Properties2m Inverse and Transpose3m Lecture Slides10m 1 practice exerciseLinear Algebra30m Week 2 Week 2 3 hours to completeLinear Regression with Multiple Variables What if your input has more than one value? In this module, we show how linear regression can be extended to accommodate multiple input features. We also discuss best practices for implementing linear regression. 3 hours to complete 8 videos (Total 65 min), 16 readings, 1 quiz See All 8 videosMultiple Features8m Gradient Descent for Multiple Variables5m Gradient Descent in Practice I - Feature Scaling8m Gradient Descent in Practice II - Learning Rate8m Features and Polynomial Regression7m Normal Equation16m Normal Equation Noninvertibility5m Working on and Submitting Programming Assignments3m 16 readingsSetting Up Your Programming Assignment Environment8m Access to MATLAB Online and the Exercise Files for MATLAB Users3m Installing Octave on Windows3m Installing Octave on Mac OS X (10.10 Yosemite and 10.9 Mavericks and Later)10m Installing Octave on Mac OS X (10.8 Mountain Lion and Earlier)3m Installing Octave on GNU/Linux7m More Octave/MATLAB resources10m Multiple Features3m Gradient Descent For Multiple Variables2m Gradient Descent in Practice I - Feature Scaling3m Gradient Descent in Practice II - Learning Rate4m Features and Polynomial Regression3m Normal Equation3m Normal Equation Noninvertibility2m Programming tips from Mentors10m Lecture Slides20m 1 practice exerciseLinear Regression with Multiple Variables30m 5 hours to completeOctave/Matlab Tutorial This course includes programming assignments designed to help you understand how to implement the learning algorithms in practice. To complete the programming assignments, you will need to use Octave or MATLAB. This module introduces Octave/Matlab and shows you how to submit an assignment. 5 hours to complete 6 videos (Total 80 min), 1 reading, 2 quizzes See All 6 videosBasic Operations13m Moving Data Around16m Computing on Data13m Plotting Data9m Control Statements: for, while, if statement12m Vectorization13m 1 readingLecture Slides10m 1 practice exerciseOctave/Matlab Tutorial30m Week 3 Week 3 2 hours to completeLogistic Regression Logistic regression is a method for classifying data into discrete outcomes. For example, we might use logistic regression to classify an email as spam or not spam. In this module, we introduce the notion of classification, the cost function for logistic regression, and the application of logistic regression to multi-class classification. 2 hours to complete 7 videos (Total 71 min), 8 readings, 1 quiz See All 7 videosClassification8m Hypothesis Representation7m Decision Boundary14m Cost Function10m Simplified Cost Function and Gradient Descent10m Advanced Optimization14m Multiclass Classification: One-vs-all6m 8 readingsClassification2m Hypothesis Representation3m Decision Boundary3m Cost Function3m Simplified Cost Function and Gradient Descent3m Advanced Optimization3m Multiclass Classification: One-vs-all3m Lecture Slides10m 1 practice exerciseLogistic Regression30m 5 hours to completeRegularization Machine learning models need to generalize well to new examples that the model has not seen in practice. In this module, we introduce regularization, which helps prevent models from overfitting the training data. 5 hours to complete 4 videos (Total 39 min), 5 readings, 2 quizzes See All 4 videosThe Problem of Overfitting9m Cost Function10m Regularized Linear Regression10m Regularized Logistic Regression8m 5 readingsThe Problem of Overfitting3m Cost Function3m Regularized Linear Regression3m Regularized Logistic Regression3m Lecture Slides10m 1 practice exerciseRegularization30m Week 4 Week 4 5 hours to completeNeural Networks: Representation Neural networks is a model inspired by how the brain works. It is widely used today in many applications: when your phone interprets and understand your voice commands, it is likely that a neural network is helping to understand your speech; when you cash a check, the machines that automatically read the digits also use neural networks. 5 hours to complete 7 videos (Total 63 min), 6 readings, 2 quizzes See All 7 videosNon-linear Hypotheses9m Neurons and the Brain7m Model Representation I12m Model Representation II11m Examples and Intuitions I7m Examples and Intuitions II10m Multiclass Classification3m 6 readingsModel Representation I6m Model Representation II6m Examples and Intuitions I2m Examples and Intuitions II3m Multiclass Classification3m Lecture Slides10m 1 practice exerciseNeural Networks: Representation30m Show More Week 5 Week 5 5 hours to completeNeural Networks: Learning In this module, we introduce the backpropagation algorithm that is used to help learn parameters for a neural network. At the end of this module, you will be implementing your own neural network for digit recognition. 5 hours to complete 8 videos (Total 78 min), 8 readings, 2 quizzes See All 8 videosCost Function6m Backpropagation Algorithm11m Backpropagation Intuition12m Implementation Note: Unrolling Parameters7m Gradient Checking11m Random Initialization6m Putting It Together13m Autonomous Driving6m 8 readingsCost Function4m Backpropagation Algorithm10m Backpropagation Intuition4m Implementation Note: Unrolling Parameters3m Gradient Checking3m Random Initialization3m Putting It Together4m Lecture Slides10m 1 practice exerciseNeural Networks: Learning30m Week 6 Week 6 5 hours to completeAdvice for Applying Machine Learning Applying machine learning in practice is not always straightforward. In this module, we share best practices for applying machine learning in practice, and discuss the best ways to evaluate performance of the learned models. 5 hours to complete 7 videos (Total 63 min), 7 readings, 2 quizzes See All 7 videosDeciding What to Try Next5m Evaluating a Hypothesis7m Model Selection and Train/Validation/Test Sets12m Diagnosing Bias vs. Variance7m Regularization and Bias/Variance11m Learning Curves11m Deciding What to Do Next Revisited6m 7 readingsEvaluating a Hypothesis4m Model Selection and Train/Validation/Test Sets3m Diagnosing Bias vs. Variance3m Regularization and Bias/Variance3m Learning Curves3m Deciding What to do Next Revisited3m Lecture Slides10m 1 practice exerciseAdvice for Applying Machine Learning30m 2 hours to completeMachine Learning System Design To optimize a machine learning algorithm, you’ll need to first understand where the biggest improvements can be made. In this module, we discuss how to understand the performance of a machine learning system with multiple parts, and also how to deal with skewed data. 2 hours to complete 5 videos (Total 60 min), 3 readings, 1 quiz See All 5 videosPrioritizing What to Work On9m Error Analysis13m Error Metrics for Skewed Classes11m Trading Off Precision and Recall14m Data For Machine Learning11m 3 readingsPrioritizing What to Work On3m Error Analysis3m Lecture Slides10m 1 practice exerciseMachine Learning System Design30m Week 7 Week 7 5 hours to completeSupport Vector Machines Support vector machines, or SVMs, is a machine learning algorithm for classification. We introduce the idea and intuitions behind SVMs and discuss how to use it in practice. 5 hours to complete 6 videos (Total 98 min), 1 reading, 2 quizzes See All 6 videosOptimization Objective14m Large Margin Intuition10m Mathematics Behind Large Margin Classification19m Kernels I15m Kernels II15m Using An SVM21m 1 readingLecture Slides10m 1 practice exerciseSupport Vector Machines30m Week 8 Week 8 1 hour to completeUnsupervised Learning We use unsupervised learning to build models that help us understand our data better. We discuss the k-Means algorithm for clustering that enable us to learn groupings of unlabeled data points. 1 hour to complete 5 videos (Total 39 min), 1 reading, 1 quiz See All 5 videosUnsupervised Learning: Introduction3m K-Means Algorithm12m Optimization Objective7m Random Initialization7m Choosing the Number of Clusters8m 1 readingLecture Slides10m 1 practice exerciseUnsupervised Learning30m 5 hours to completeDimensionality Reduction In this module, we introduce Principal Components Analysis, and show how it can be used for data compression to speed up learning algorithms as well as for visualizations of complex datasets. 5 hours to complete 7 videos (Total 67 min), 1 reading, 2 quizzes See All 7 videosMotivation I: Data Compression10m Motivation II: Visualization5m Principal Component Analysis Problem Formulation9m Principal Component Analysis Algorithm15m Reconstruction from Compressed Representation3m Choosing the Number of Principal Components10m Advice for Applying PCA12m 1 readingLecture Slides10m 1 practice exercisePrincipal Component Analysis30m Week 9 Week 9 2 hours to completeAnomaly Detection Given a large number of data points, we may sometimes want to figure out which ones vary significantly from the average. For example, in manufacturing, we may want to detect defects or anomalies. We show how a dataset can be modeled using a Gaussian distribution, and how the model can be used for anomaly detection. 2 hours to complete 8 videos (Total 91 min), 1 reading, 1 quiz See All 8 videosProblem Motivation7m Gaussian Distribution10m Algorithm12m Developing and Evaluating an Anomaly Detection System13m Anomaly Detection vs. Supervised Learning7m Choosing What Features to Use12m Multivariate Gaussian Distribution13m Anomaly Detection using the Multivariate Gaussian Distribution14m 1 readingLecture Slides10m 1 practice exerciseAnomaly Detection30m 5 hours to completeRecommender Systems When you buy a product online, most websites automatically recommend other products that you may like. Recommender systems look at patterns of activities between different users and different products to produce these recommendations. In this module, we introduce recommender algorithms such as the collaborative filtering algorithm and low-rank matrix factorization. 5 hours to complete 6 videos (Total 58 min), 1 reading, 2 quizzes See All 6 videosProblem Formulation7m Content Based Recommendations14m Collaborative Filtering10m Collaborative Filtering Algorithm8m Vectorization: Low Rank Matrix Factorization8m Implementational Detail: Mean Normalization8m 1 readingLecture Slides10m 1 practice exerciseRecommender Systems30m Week 10 Week 10 2 hours to completeLarge Scale Machine Learning Machine learning works best when there is an abundance of data to leverage for training. In this module, we discuss how to apply the machine learning algorithms with large datasets. 2 hours to complete 6 videos (Total 64 min), 1 reading, 1 quiz See All 6 videosLearning With Large Datasets5m Stochastic Gradient Descent13m Mini-Batch Gradient Descent6m Stochastic Gradient Descent Convergence11m Online Learning12m Map Reduce and Data Parallelism14m 1 readingLecture Slides10m 1 practice exerciseLarge Scale Machine Learning30m Week 11 Week 11 2 hours to completeApplication Example: Photo OCR Identifying and recognizing objects, words, and digits in an image is a challenging task. We discuss how a pipeline can be built to tackle this problem and how to analyze and improve the performance of such a system. 2 hours to complete 5 videos (Total 57 min), 1 reading, 1 quiz See All 5 videosProblem Description and Pipeline7m Sliding Windows14m Getting Lots of Data and Artificial Data16m Ceiling Analysis: What Part of the Pipeline to Work on Next13m Summary and Thank You4m 1 readingLecture Slides10m 1 practice exerciseApplication: Photo OCR30m Reviews 4.9 38859 reviews 5 stars 92.47% 4 stars 6.88% 3 stars 0.45% 2 stars 0.08% 1 star 0.10% TOP REVIEWS FROM MACHINE LEARNING by MNOct 30, 2017 Great overview, enough details to have a good understanding of why the techniques work well. Especially appreciated the practical advice regarding debugging, algorithm evaluation and ceiling analysis. by PZJun 29, 2020 I really enjoyed this course. I learned new exciting techniques. I think the major positive point of this course was its simple and understandable teaching method. Thanks a lot to professor Andrew Ng. by RKAug 19, 2019 It is the best online course for any person wanna learn machine learning. Andrew sir teaches very well. His pace is very good. The insights which you will get in this course turns out to be wonderful. by TPJun 25, 2020 This course is a very applicable. Professor Ng explains precisely each algorithm and even tries to give an intuition for mathematical and statistic concepts behind each algorithm. Thank you very much. View all reviews Frequently Asked Questions When will I have access to the lectures and assignments? Access to lectures and assignments depends on your type of enrollment. If you take a course in audit mode, you will be able to see most course materials for free. To access graded assignments and to earn a Certificate, you will need to purchase the Certificate experience, during or after your audit. If you don't see the audit option: The course may not offer an audit option. 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Advice, guidance, evaluation, training, consultancy services, writing, podcasting, conference keynotes and presentations are some of the ways that Data Liberate can help you and your organisation identify and release value from your data, within the enterprise and on the public Web of Data Recent Postings From the Blog… Library Metadata Evolution: The Final Mile Posted on May 14, 2019May 14, 2019 by Richard Wallis When Schema.org arrived on the scene I thought we might have arrived at the point where library metadata  could finally blossom; adding value outside of library systems to help library curated resources become first class citizens, and hence results, in the global web we all inhabit.  But as yet it has not happened. Read More ... Posted in Bibframe, Data Liberate, Knowledge Graph, Libraries, schema.org, Structured DataTagged Bibframe2Schema.org, Libraries, Library of Congress1 Comment Something For Archives in Schema.org Posted on April 3, 2019 by Richard Wallis The recent release of the Schema.org vocabulary (version 3.5) includes new types and properties, proposed by the W3C Schema Architypes Community Group, specifically target at facilitating the web sharing of archives data to aid discovery. When the Group, which I have the privilege to chair, approached the challenge of building a proposal to make Schema.org useful for archives, it was identified that the vocabulary could be already used to describe the things & collections that you find in archives.  What was missing was the ability to identify the archive holding organisation, and the fact that an item is being held … Read More ... Posted in Archives, Data Publishing, Linked Data, schema.org, WebTagged Archives, schema.orgLeave a comment Bibframe – Schema.org – Chocolate Teapots Posted on August 27, 2018August 27, 2018 by Richard Wallis In a session at the IFLA WLIC in Kuala Lumpur – my core theme being that there is a need to use two [linked data] vocabularies when describing library resources — Bibframe for cataloguing and [linked] metadata interchange — Schema.org for sharing on the web for discovery. Read More ... Posted in Bibframe, Libraries, Linked Data, Marc, schema.org, Structured DataTagged Libraries, Linked Data, schema.orgLeave a comment Schema.org Introduces Defined Terms Posted on June 18, 2018June 18, 2018 by Richard Wallis Do you have a list of terms relevant to your data? Things such as subjects, topics, job titles, a glossary or dictionary of terms, blog post categories, ‘official names’ for things/people/organisations, material types, forms of technology, etc. Read More ... Posted in Data Publishing, schema.org, UncategorizedTagged #linkeddata, schema.org, SEO6 Comments Schema.org Significant Updates for Tourism and Trips Posted on June 15, 2018June 21, 2018 by Richard Wallis The latest release of Schema.org (3.4) includes some significant enhancements for those interested in marking up tourism, and trips in general. For tourism markup two new types TouristDestination and TouristTrip have joined the already useful TouristAttraction Read More ... Posted in Data Publishing, Knowledge Graph, schema.org, SEO, Tourism, WebTagged schema.org, SEO, TourismLeave a comment The Three Linked Data Choices for Libraries Posted on May 22, 2018May 22, 2018 by Richard Wallis We are [finally] on the cusp of establishing a de facto Linked Data approach for libraries and their system suppliers – not there yet but getting there. We have a choice between BIBFRAME 2.0, Schema.org, Linky MARC and doing nothing. Read More ... Posted in Bibframe, Data Publishing, Libraries, Linked Data, Marc, schema.org, Semantic Web, Structured DataTagged Bibframe, Libraries, Linked Data, Marc, Schema.ogLeave a comment Structured Data: Helping Google Understand Your Site Posted on November 13, 2017May 22, 2018 by Richard Wallis Add Schema.org structured data to your pages because during indexing, we will be able to better understand what your site is about. Read More ... Posted in Data Publishing, Google, Linked Data, schema.org, Structured Data Schema.org for Tourism Posted on September 19, 2017June 15, 2018 by Richard Wallis These TouristAttraction enhancements have significantly improved the capability for describing Tourist Attractions and hopefully enabling more tourist discoveries Read More ... Posted in Data Publishing, schema.org, SEO, TourismTagged LinkedData, schema.org, SEO, Tourism1 Comment Schema.org: Describing Global Corporations Local Cafés And Everything In-between Posted on September 15, 2017May 31, 2018 by Richard Wallis There have been  discussions in Schema.org about the way Organizations their offices, branches and other locations can be marked up; they exposed a lack of clarity in the way to structure descriptions of Organizations and their locations, offices, branches , etc. To address that lack of clarity I thought it would be useful to share some examples here. Read More ... Posted in Data Publishing, schema.org, SEOTagged Schema.og, SEO A Discovery Opportunity for Archives? Posted on June 19, 2017June 19, 2017 by Richard Wallis So why am I now suggesting that there maybe an opportunity for the discovery of archives and their resources? Read More ... 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Something For Archives in Schema.org The recent release of the Schema.org vocabulary (version 3.5) includes new types and properties, proposed by the W3C Schema Architypes Community Group, specifically target at facilitating the web sharing of archives data to aid discovery. When the Group, which I have the privilege to chair, approached the challenge of building a proposal to make Schema.org useful for archives, it was identified that the vocabulary could be already used to describe the things & collections that you find in archives.  What was missing was the ability to identify the archive holding organisation, and the fact that an item is being held ... Bibframe – Schema.org – Chocolate Teapots In a session at the IFLA WLIC in Kuala Lumpur - my core theme being that there is a need to use two [linked data] vocabularies when describing library resources — Bibframe for cataloguing and [linked] metadata interchange — Schema.org for sharing on the web for discovery. Schema.org Introduces Defined Terms Do you have a list of terms relevant to your data? Things such as subjects, topics, job titles, a glossary or dictionary of terms, blog post categories, ‘official names’ for things/people/organisations, material types, forms of technology, etc. Schema.org Significant Updates for Tourism and Trips The latest release of Schema.org (3.4) includes some significant enhancements for those interested in marking up tourism, and trips in general. For tourism markup two new types TouristDestination and TouristTrip have joined the already useful TouristAttraction The Three Linked Data Choices for Libraries We are [finally] on the cusp of establishing a de facto Linked Data approach for libraries and their system suppliers - not there yet but getting there. We have a choice between BIBFRAME 2.0, Schema.org, Linky MARC and doing nothing. Structured Data: Helping Google Understand Your Site Add Schema.org structured data to your pages because during indexing, we will be able to better understand what your site is about. Schema.org for Tourism These TouristAttraction enhancements have significantly improved the capability for describing Tourist Attractions and hopefully enabling more tourist discoveries Schema.org: Describing Global Corporations Local Cafés And Everything In-between There have been  discussions in Schema.org about the way Organizations their offices, branches and other locations can be marked up; they exposed a lack of clarity in the way to structure descriptions of Organizations and their locations, offices, branches , etc. To address that lack of clarity I thought it would be useful to share some examples here. A Discovery Opportunity for Archives? So why am I now suggesting that there maybe an opportunity for the discovery of archives and their resources? www-diglib-org-172 ---- DLF Forum Community Journalist Reflection: Melde Rutledge - DLF CLIR Fellowships & Grants DLF Publications CLIR Global Join Give CLIR Programs Digital Library Federation DLF Forum Digital Library of the Middle East Digitizing Hidden Special Collections and Archives Recordings at Risk Mellon Fellowships for Dissertation Research Leading Change Institute DLF eResearch Network Postdoctoral Fellowship Program DLF Digital Library Federation Toggle navigation About About DLF Our Staff Our Members Governance DLF Code of Conduct Events DLF Year-Round 2020 Forum: Online Past Forums DLF Forum News Social Events Checklist Child Care Fund Resources DLF Organizers’ Toolkit Blog and News #DLFcontribute Series Digitizing Special Formats DLF Cost Calculator DLF Jobs Board Groups DLF Working Groups CLIR/DLF Affiliates DLF Membership Cohorts Get Involved with Groups Opportunities Grants and Fellowships Authenticity Project DLF Community Calendar Data Curation Postdocs Community/Capacity Awards Post a Job/Find a Job Contact Get in Touch Stay Connected Join DLF Our Members Benefits DLF Digital Library Federation Toggle navigation About About DLF Our Staff Our Members Governance DLF Code of Conduct Events DLF Year-Round 2020 Forum: Online Past Forums DLF Forum News Social Events Checklist Child Care Fund Resources DLF Organizers’ Toolkit Blog and News #DLFcontribute Series Digitizing Special Formats DLF Cost Calculator DLF Jobs Board Groups DLF Working Groups CLIR/DLF Affiliates DLF Membership Cohorts Get Involved with Groups Opportunities Grants and Fellowships Authenticity Project DLF Community Calendar Data Curation Postdocs Community/Capacity Awards Post a Job/Find a Job Contact Get in Touch Stay Connected Join DLF Our Members Benefits DLF Forum Community Journalist Reflection: Melde Rutledge December 4, 2020 Gayle Community, DLF Forum News, Forum Fellows, News This post was written by Melde Rutledge (@MeldeRutledge), who was selected to be one of this year’s virtual DLF Forum Community Journalists. Melde Rutledge is the Digital Collections Librarian at Wake Forest University’s Z. Smith Reynolds Library. He is responsible for leading the library’s digitization services—primarily in support of ZSR’s Special Collections and Archives, as well as providing support for university departments.  He earned his MLIS from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, and has served in librarianship for approximately 12 years. His background also includes 8 years of newspaper journalism, where he wrote news, sports, and feature articles for several locally published newspapers in North Carolina.  He currently lives in Winston-Salem, NC, with his wife and three sons. Since 2016, I’ve appreciated the opportunity to attend and participate in the annual DLF Forum. I look forward to the great takeaways to share with my colleagues back home. Let’s also not forget the wonderful venues where the Forum takes place (Las Vegas, Tampa, etc.). Needless to say, a global pandemic emerged this year, resulting in the 2020 DLF Forum to occur virtually.  As I reflect on this year’s installment of the DLF Forum, it’s difficult not to compare the Forum’s first virtual event with the previous in-person gatherings—particularly in regards to size. The fact that the 2020 event had more than 2,000 registered participants is a testament to the popularity and value of DLF. Being that it also surpassed the overall in-person attendance record (just over 800 people) of the 2017 DLF Forum in Pittsburgh is also noteworthy. The segment that I look forward to the most from the DLF Forums are the opening plenaries, because of its great keynote speakers. Stacey Patton provided an excellent talk highlighting the significance of preserving the black experience in galleries, libraries, archives, and museums (GLAMs)—covering several cohesive themes during her one-hour-plus speech—including the COVID-19 pandemic, hiring diverse staff in GLAMs, America’s ongoing issue with racism, and the social and racial parallels of then and now.  One of my key takeaways of her talk is spotlighting the need for institutions to be “ready and equipped” during the pandemic to educate students. This was suggested to be accomplished by providing research materials remotely, but also asking, “What difference does this make that we’re digitizing things? How is this power to be used to protect documents when we may not know their importance? What about the digital divide and access to these materials?” These indeed are very important thoughts to me, as a key role of my work is providing digital access to materials tucked away within our special collections and archives. And it was great that presenters addressed Patton’s questions throughout the DLF sessions. “‘Can We Digitize This? Should We?’” Navigating Ethics, Law, and Policy in Bringing Collections to Digital Life” is a great example. This was presented by Stacy Reardon and Michael Lange from UC Berkeley Library. I was impressed with their Digital Lifecycle Program, and the ethical considerations embedded within their workflow. I have interest in seeing how institutions confront the issue regarding the digitization of materials of underprivileged groups, as well as how they approach the handling of culturally sensitive materials, accessibility, and appropriate metadata creation. As Julie Hardesty pointed out in her presentation entitled, “Mitigating Bias Through Controlled Vocabularies,” when working with metadata, you can become familiar with several widely used controlled vocabularies. However, working with large common vocabularies can “paint broad strokes that cover up more than they should, that generalize or simplify too much, and show the biases of dominant groups such as the white male viewpoint. Additionally, the process to change and update terms can be slow to keep up.” When I listen to presentations on this theme, speakers routinely note the value of incorporating community engagement. A nice example of this was shared during the presentation, “Curationist: Designing a Metadata Standard and Taxonomy for an Open Cultural Ecosystem.” Curationist.org is a site that finds and collects important cultural and historical resources that are within the public domain. As explained by presenter Sharon Mizota, community users will be able to include their own metadata to records on this site.  Overall, I salute all the organizers and presenters for producing an impressive 2020 DLF program. And kudos to the partnership between CLIR/DLF and the HBCU Library Alliance. As an HBCU graduate, I appreciate programming that covers how HBCUs approach digitization, and the stories behind the unique materials that are digitally preserved, especially amid the COVID-19 pandemic. COVID-19 is indeed a big factor in how many of us in this profession are conducting decision making. The wealth of relevant content in this year’s DLF was very timely in this regard. Related Previous Next   What's the DLF? networked member institutions and a robust community of practice—advancing research, learning, social justice, & the public good through the creative design and wise application of digital library technologies Contact CLIR+DLF c/o WeWork (CLIR) 12th Floor 2221 South Clark Street Arlington, VA 22202 E: info@diglib.org Elsewhere Twitter Facebook LinkedIn YouTube Email RSS Community Calendar #DLFteach Twitter Chat December 15, 2020 at 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm More info at https://wiki.diglib.org/Pedagogy Discovering Wesselmann - Virtual Event on Archives and CR Research December 16, 2020 at 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm Discovering Wesselmann: A Webinar from the WPIOn December 16th, the Wildenstein Platter Institute will host a conversation between our archivist, Samantha Rowe, and the project manager for the Tom Wesselmann Catalogue Raisonné, Huffa Frobes-Cross. Looking at the Tom Wesselmann Papers and the artist’s work, Huffa and Samantha will discuss how archival research intersects with and supports the development of this catalogué raisonne project. The role of… DCMI Open Meeting on Application Profiles December 17, 2020 at 11:00 am – 12:00 pm Online DCMI Open Meeting on Application ProfilesDecember 17 - 16:00 UTC (8am PST, 11am EST, 5pm CET)Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) is holding an open meeting to discuss a new work product, a specification for tabular application profiles.Many communities today create application profiles (APs) for their data. However, we lack a standard that would help those… More events & links here. On Twitter “As a first-time #DLFforum participant, I am grateful to have been able to participate in this year’s virtual forum… https://t.co/UPg23pbSFS18 hours ago Want to talk pedagogy and how it went in 2020? Need ideas for 2021? Talk with us tomorrow, Tuesday, December 15, at… https://t.co/qgi2SwZs7r20 hours ago Libraries, archives, cultural institutions, and communities of higher learning: the Job Board is the place to find… https://t.co/WjnL4LruC222 hours ago Unless otherwise indicated, content on this site is available for re-use under CC BY-SA 4.0 License CLIR www-diglib-org-2666 ---- DLF Forum Community Journalist Reflection: Hsiu-Ann Tom - DLF CLIR Fellowships & Grants DLF Publications CLIR Global Join Give CLIR Programs Digital Library Federation DLF Forum Digital Library of the Middle East Digitizing Hidden Special Collections and Archives Recordings at Risk Mellon Fellowships for Dissertation Research Leading Change Institute DLF eResearch Network Postdoctoral Fellowship Program DLF Digital Library Federation Toggle navigation About About DLF Our Staff Our Members Governance DLF Code of Conduct Events DLF Year-Round 2020 Forum: Online Past Forums DLF Forum News Social Events Checklist Child Care Fund Resources DLF Organizers’ Toolkit Blog and News #DLFcontribute Series Digitizing Special Formats DLF Cost Calculator DLF Jobs Board Groups DLF Working Groups CLIR/DLF Affiliates DLF Membership Cohorts Get Involved with Groups Opportunities Grants and Fellowships Authenticity Project DLF Community Calendar Data Curation Postdocs Community/Capacity Awards Post a Job/Find a Job Contact Get in Touch Stay Connected Join DLF Our Members Benefits DLF Digital Library Federation Toggle navigation About About DLF Our Staff Our Members Governance DLF Code of Conduct Events DLF Year-Round 2020 Forum: Online Past Forums DLF Forum News Social Events Checklist Child Care Fund Resources DLF Organizers’ Toolkit Blog and News #DLFcontribute Series Digitizing Special Formats DLF Cost Calculator DLF Jobs Board Groups DLF Working Groups CLIR/DLF Affiliates DLF Membership Cohorts Get Involved with Groups Opportunities Grants and Fellowships Authenticity Project DLF Community Calendar Data Curation Postdocs Community/Capacity Awards Post a Job/Find a Job Contact Get in Touch Stay Connected Join DLF Our Members Benefits DLF Forum Community Journalist Reflection: Hsiu-Ann Tom December 1, 2020 Gayle Community, DLF Forum News, Forum Fellows This post was written by Hsiu-Ann Tom, who was selected to be one of this year’s virtual DLF Forum Community Journalists. Hsiu-Ann is the Digital Archivist at The Amistad Research Center in New Orleans, LA where her work focuses on born digital collection development. She received her Masters in Library and Information Science with a concentration in Archives Management from Simmons University in Boston in 2019. She is a graduate of Columbia University (BA, Sociology) and Harvard University (MA, Religion and Politics), and is a member of the Academy of Certified Archivists. Prior to working in the archival field, Hsiu-Ann served in the United States Army intelligence field as a cryptolinguistic analyst, attending the Defense Language Institute in Monterey, California. Before coming to Amistad, Hsiu-Ann worked on the archives staff of Boston University’s Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center working with the Military Historical Society of Massachusetts Collection. She recently obtained the Society of American Archivist Digital Archivist Specialist certification and enjoys supporting students and new professionals in their educational development through her work as a member of SAA’s Graduate Archival Education Committee.   I am thankful for the opportunity to have helped cover this year’s conference as one of 12 Community Journalists. Given all of the challenges of 2020, I was looking forward to hearing how my colleagues were finding ways to navigate unfamiliar situations and overcome obstacles. As a new graduate in my first full-time position out of library school, it was both inspiring and encouraging to listen to so many in the field describe their innovations over the course of the conference. I am thankful to the conference organizers and attendees for assembling such a rich program for everybody to enjoy. As I gathered my thoughts about what to write, I was overwhelmed by the achievements and innovations of the DLF community. Each session was packed with more information than I could absorb and it was a joy to hear such dedicated professionals talk about their work. Yet, when I thought about the conference experience, what stuck out to me the most was the conference design itself and its alignment with DLF’s mission and values. I considered the introductory comments of Charles Henry and the DLF mission: DLF: advancing research, learning, social justice, & the public good through the creative design & wise application of digital library technology The conference felt like a model for how to implement these community values. It was exciting to see ideas in action and to feel like I was included in that as a newcomer to this group. From before the start of the conference, I appreciated the efforts of conference staff to make conference content accessible to attendees of all abilities. In light of the pandemic and the turn to online communication platforms, transcription and closed captioning services for the hearing impaired are sometimes overlooked by conference organizers. As a US Army veteran with hearing impairment who does not read lips, this was something I struggled with on my own until this year when online meetings meant I had to start asking for more accommodations. This is not always a comfortable or easy thing for anyone to do despite how accepting society says we are to helping those who need accommodations. DLF conference staff began reaching out by email prior to the conference to address these concerns and confirm the availability of captioning and transcription services for all sessions – something that has not been my experience at other conferences. On the first day of the conference when I could not understand how to make the captioning features work, DLF had staff on hand via Zoom link to jump on a screen share to show me how things worked on the Aviary platform in real time. They emailed me links to sessions I missed, coached me through the features as I tested the captioning, showed me how transcriptions worked and even where I could have emailed transcripts of the conference sessions and slide notes to access at a later time. Normally I would have to stop videos and play them back multiple times to get content for note taking. Personally, these tools meant participating in the conference with fewer distractions and less stress. As the conference progressed, I thought more about the importance of these tools for our user community and how we can employ them to improve their experiences. Dr. Stacey Patton’s words during her opening address stayed with me throughout the conference as I considered the topic of accessibility in my daily work. She asked attendees to consider our role as archivists. As a new archivist trying to develop policies, procedures and workflows that encourage access and use for those coming to my archive, how can I perform my work more inclusively? Are there communities being overlooked? What needs are going unmet and how do I address them? Current discussions and work around accessibility are critical to ensuring that all patrons have access to the work we perform. The DLF Forum was a great experience for me in that I was able to learn about new tools to help with accessibility like Otter.ai and how to use it. I also learned about adjusting on the fly, accepting that sometimes technology will malfunction even with the best laid plans, having a backup plan to back up your plan is a great plan and finally, asking your community of peers for help may be your best plan. I am fortunate to have been able to attend DLF this year and to see the hard work of so many colleagues on display, learn new skills and connect with a community of professionals working in my field. There are many ways organizations demonstrate to their community of users “You are welcome here. We want you here and you are part of this community.” These simple steps taken by the DLF conference team through the accessibility tools helped me to feel part of the community this year. Thank you to staff who provided assistance with transcription and captioning services, and to those who helped with platform support. Related Read More &media="> Read More "> Previous Next   What's the DLF? networked member institutions and a robust community of practice—advancing research, learning, social justice, & the public good through the creative design and wise application of digital library technologies Contact CLIR+DLF c/o WeWork (CLIR) 12th Floor 2221 South Clark Street Arlington, VA 22202 E: info@diglib.org Elsewhere Twitter Facebook LinkedIn YouTube Email RSS Community Calendar #DLFteach Twitter Chat December 15, 2020 at 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm More info at https://wiki.diglib.org/Pedagogy Discovering Wesselmann - Virtual Event on Archives and CR Research December 16, 2020 at 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm Discovering Wesselmann: A Webinar from the WPIOn December 16th, the Wildenstein Platter Institute will host a conversation between our archivist, Samantha Rowe, and the project manager for the Tom Wesselmann Catalogue Raisonné, Huffa Frobes-Cross. Looking at the Tom Wesselmann Papers and the artist’s work, Huffa and Samantha will discuss how archival research intersects with and supports the development of this catalogué raisonne project. The role of… DCMI Open Meeting on Application Profiles December 17, 2020 at 11:00 am – 12:00 pm Online DCMI Open Meeting on Application ProfilesDecember 17 - 16:00 UTC (8am PST, 11am EST, 5pm CET)Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) is holding an open meeting to discuss a new work product, a specification for tabular application profiles.Many communities today create application profiles (APs) for their data. However, we lack a standard that would help those… More events & links here. On Twitter “As a first-time #DLFforum participant, I am grateful to have been able to participate in this year’s virtual forum… https://t.co/UPg23pbSFS18 hours ago Want to talk pedagogy and how it went in 2020? Need ideas for 2021? Talk with us tomorrow, Tuesday, December 15, at… https://t.co/qgi2SwZs7r20 hours ago Libraries, archives, cultural institutions, and communities of higher learning: the Job Board is the place to find… https://t.co/WjnL4LruC222 hours ago Unless otherwise indicated, content on this site is available for re-use under CC BY-SA 4.0 License CLIR www-diglib-org-2744 ---- DLF Forum Community Journalist Reflection: Jocelyn Hurtado - DLF CLIR Fellowships & Grants DLF Publications CLIR Global Join Give CLIR Programs Digital Library Federation DLF Forum Digital Library of the Middle East Digitizing Hidden Special Collections and Archives Recordings at Risk Mellon Fellowships for Dissertation Research Leading Change Institute DLF eResearch Network Postdoctoral Fellowship Program DLF Digital Library Federation Toggle navigation About About DLF Our Staff Our Members Governance DLF Code of Conduct Events DLF Year-Round 2020 Forum: Online Past Forums DLF Forum News Social Events Checklist Child Care Fund Resources DLF Organizers’ Toolkit Blog and News #DLFcontribute Series Digitizing Special Formats DLF Cost Calculator DLF Jobs Board Groups DLF Working Groups CLIR/DLF Affiliates DLF Membership Cohorts Get Involved with Groups Opportunities Grants and Fellowships Authenticity Project DLF Community Calendar Data Curation Postdocs Community/Capacity Awards Post a Job/Find a Job Contact Get in Touch Stay Connected Join DLF Our Members Benefits DLF Digital Library Federation Toggle navigation About About DLF Our Staff Our Members Governance DLF Code of Conduct Events DLF Year-Round 2020 Forum: Online Past Forums DLF Forum News Social Events Checklist Child Care Fund Resources DLF Organizers’ Toolkit Blog and News #DLFcontribute Series Digitizing Special Formats DLF Cost Calculator DLF Jobs Board Groups DLF Working Groups CLIR/DLF Affiliates DLF Membership Cohorts Get Involved with Groups Opportunities Grants and Fellowships Authenticity Project DLF Community Calendar Data Curation Postdocs Community/Capacity Awards Post a Job/Find a Job Contact Get in Touch Stay Connected Join DLF Our Members Benefits DLF Forum Community Journalist Reflection: Jocelyn Hurtado December 7, 2020 Gayle Community, DLF Forum News, Forum Fellows This post was written by Jocelyn Hurtado, who was selected to be one of this year’s virtual DLF Forum Community Journalists. Jocelyn Hurtado is a native Miamian who worked as an archivist at a community repository for four year. She is experienced in working with manuscript, art and artifact collections pertaining to a community of color whose history has often been overlooked. Ms. Hurtado, understands the responsibility and the significance of the work done by community archivists and has seen firsthand that this work not only affects the present-day community but that it will continue to have a deep-rooted impact on generations to come. Ms. Hurtado also has experience promoting collections through exhibits, presentations, instructional sessions, and other outreach activities which includes the development and execution of an informative historical web-series video podcast.  Ms. Hurtado earned her Associate Degree in Anthropology from Miami-Dade College and a Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology from the University of Florida. She also completed the Georgia Archives Institute Program.  This year has been full of new experiences and we all have faced the challenges of adapting to the new professional realities of relying on technology to complete our work, promoting the goals of our organization all while staying connected with communities we serve virtually. Our phones and laptops are now on the top of the list of tools we cannot function without and it’s arguably just as valuable as a pencil or finding aid to an archivist, at least from my own personal experience. As a first-time attendee and a community journalist, I was excited and unsure of how the 2020 DLF Forum would operate on a virtual platform. Like millions around the world I’ve been working remotely for months and learned to adapt but I was still hesitant on how attendees would be able to truly connect to the panelist, fellow attendees and with the subject of each talk remotely. It is no secret that librarians, archivists, historians or anyone in a related field have a tendency to be introverted and from my own personal experience starting a conversation, connecting with others and networking can be stressful. However, I was quickly positively surprised on how easy it was to start a conversation at the conference. I enjoyed the Slack application in which attendees were able to share thoughts, ideas and pose questions about each session. I certainly viewed more opinions, concepts and panels virtually than I probably would have in person. I liked the fact that I could have access to the sessions anytime which is great for anyone who has a busy schedule as well as any problems accessing the videos due to the digital divide caused by finances or other factors such as remoteness or environmental factors such as hurricanes or storms. In the opening plenary I was delighted to hear the acknowledgement of the indigenous people and their lands in regards to the location of the original conference and area that was being discussed. The keynote speaker, Dr. Stacy Patton, was simply incredible and asked us to grapple with a very important question: Do Black Lives Matter in galleries, libraries, archives and museums? I believe we all know and can say historically the answer is no, black lives have systematically been erased and unwelcome in these spaces. 2020 has become the year of reckoning for some institutions and for many in this field that have been part of this problem. Thus, the question becomes what now? How can meaningful and genuine change come about? There is no one size fits all plan and up to in the field to do the work and realize there will never be a timeline or an exact moment where it will be marked as done. I had the opportunity to ask Dr. Patton a question and was also able to see other questions posed by fellow attendees. It created a hub for sharing experiences and problems encountered in our own institutions which was able to foster a connected moment and experience. Dr. Patton hit the nail on the head when reciting the Claude McKay poem, “If We Must Die.” It was a couple of days before Election Day and oh how the words aptly describe the current era and the rawness of it all. During her speech I reflected on the work of Schomberg and many other black intellectuals whose worked and made centers were black lives do matter and their stories were properly preserved. I also reflected on my experience working at a black community repository, in a space made for black lives to matter. I also recognize another important question: Which Black Lives Matter in these spaces? Women, individuals overlooked due to their sexual orientation, and those from a lower socioeconomic status or position have had their stories overlooked. There is so much work to be done and this has encouraged and highlighted the importance of pushing the boundaries and the sharing of ideas. The Recording Restorative Justice and Accountability: The Burnham-Nobles Digital Archive presented by Gina Nortonsmith, Raymond Wilkes, Amanda Rust and Drew Facklam was inspiring. The work done by the team of telling the stories of victims and giving a voice is imperative. Prior to this session I did not know of The Civil Rights and the Restorative Justice Project and was glad to learn about the research being conducted along with support policy initiatives on racial hate crimes during the Jim Crow Era and that justice is still being pursued for the victims and their families. The statement “I like to think of the investigator as the foundation for an archive, while the archivist is the architect and engineer, providing structure and organization in order to complete the building, i.e. the archive” by Raymond Wilkes beautifully explained the importance of the collaborative efforts and the relationship member of the team had to the task. I am looking forward to next year’s DLF Forum and hope/expect it to continue the focus on the community. Related Previous Next   What's the DLF? networked member institutions and a robust community of practice—advancing research, learning, social justice, & the public good through the creative design and wise application of digital library technologies Contact CLIR+DLF c/o WeWork (CLIR) 12th Floor 2221 South Clark Street Arlington, VA 22202 E: info@diglib.org Elsewhere Twitter Facebook LinkedIn YouTube Email RSS Community Calendar #DLFteach Twitter Chat December 15, 2020 at 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm More info at https://wiki.diglib.org/Pedagogy Discovering Wesselmann - Virtual Event on Archives and CR Research December 16, 2020 at 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm Discovering Wesselmann: A Webinar from the WPIOn December 16th, the Wildenstein Platter Institute will host a conversation between our archivist, Samantha Rowe, and the project manager for the Tom Wesselmann Catalogue Raisonné, Huffa Frobes-Cross. Looking at the Tom Wesselmann Papers and the artist’s work, Huffa and Samantha will discuss how archival research intersects with and supports the development of this catalogué raisonne project. The role of… DCMI Open Meeting on Application Profiles December 17, 2020 at 11:00 am – 12:00 pm Online DCMI Open Meeting on Application ProfilesDecember 17 - 16:00 UTC (8am PST, 11am EST, 5pm CET)Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) is holding an open meeting to discuss a new work product, a specification for tabular application profiles.Many communities today create application profiles (APs) for their data. However, we lack a standard that would help those… More events & links here. On Twitter “As a first-time #DLFforum participant, I am grateful to have been able to participate in this year’s virtual forum… https://t.co/UPg23pbSFS18 hours ago Want to talk pedagogy and how it went in 2020? Need ideas for 2021? Talk with us tomorrow, Tuesday, December 15, at… https://t.co/qgi2SwZs7r20 hours ago Libraries, archives, cultural institutions, and communities of higher learning: the Job Board is the place to find… https://t.co/WjnL4LruC222 hours ago Unless otherwise indicated, content on this site is available for re-use under CC BY-SA 4.0 License CLIR www-diglib-org-274 ---- Calls for Volunteers for 2021 Digital Preservation Conference - DLF CLIR Fellowships & Grants DLF Publications CLIR Global Join Give CLIR Programs Digital Library Federation DLF Forum Digital Library of the Middle East Digitizing Hidden Special Collections and Archives Recordings at Risk Mellon Fellowships for Dissertation Research Leading Change Institute DLF eResearch Network Postdoctoral Fellowship Program DLF Digital Library Federation Toggle navigation About About DLF Our Staff Our Members Governance DLF Code of Conduct Events DLF Year-Round 2020 Forum: Online Past Forums DLF Forum News Social Events Checklist Child Care Fund Resources DLF Organizers’ Toolkit Blog and News #DLFcontribute Series Digitizing Special Formats DLF Cost Calculator DLF Jobs Board Groups DLF Working Groups CLIR/DLF Affiliates DLF Membership Cohorts Get Involved with Groups Opportunities Grants and Fellowships Authenticity Project DLF Community Calendar Data Curation Postdocs Community/Capacity Awards Post a Job/Find a Job Contact Get in Touch Stay Connected Join DLF Our Members Benefits DLF Digital Library Federation Toggle navigation About About DLF Our Staff Our Members Governance DLF Code of Conduct Events DLF Year-Round 2020 Forum: Online Past Forums DLF Forum News Social Events Checklist Child Care Fund Resources DLF Organizers’ Toolkit Blog and News #DLFcontribute Series Digitizing Special Formats DLF Cost Calculator DLF Jobs Board Groups DLF Working Groups CLIR/DLF Affiliates DLF Membership Cohorts Get Involved with Groups Opportunities Grants and Fellowships Authenticity Project DLF Community Calendar Data Curation Postdocs Community/Capacity Awards Post a Job/Find a Job Contact Get in Touch Stay Connected Join DLF Our Members Benefits Calls for Volunteers for 2021 Digital Preservation Conference December 14, 2020 kussmann NDSA The NDSA calls for volunteers to join our Planning Committee for the 2021 Digital Preservation conference. Digital Preservation (DigiPres) is the NDSA’s annual conference – open to members and non-members alike – focused on stewardship, curation, and preservation of digital information and cultural heritage. The 2021 meeting will take place on November 10-11th 2021 in St. Louis, Missouri, just after the DLF Forum.  NDSA is an affiliate of the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) and the Digital Library Federation (DLF), and the DigiPres conference is held in concert with the annual DLF Forum. CLIR continues to monitor the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, and after successfully pivoting to a virtual format for 2020, will be making a call on this for 2021 by early spring 2021.  Planning Committee responsibilities include: Defining a vision for the conference Crafting and distributing a Call for Proposals Reviewing and selecting proposals Identifying a keynote speaker Determining the conference schedule Moderating sessions Supporting membership through recruitment and mentorship efforts Collaborating with the DLF Forum planning committee on community events, equity and inclusion, and sponsorship opportunities We expect to have monthly group calls from January-November, and this year’s committee will have an exciting opportunity to creatively sustain some of the conveniences and benefits of our virtual platform as we negotiate meeting in person again.  Join us by completing this form by Friday, January 15th, and please share widely. We look forward to working with you! Tricia Patterson, 2021 Chair Jes Neal, 2021 Vice Chair/2022 Chair Related Conference DigiPres NDSA Previous   What's the DLF? networked member institutions and a robust community of practice—advancing research, learning, social justice, & the public good through the creative design and wise application of digital library technologies Contact CLIR+DLF c/o WeWork (CLIR) 12th Floor 2221 South Clark Street Arlington, VA 22202 E: info@diglib.org Elsewhere Twitter Facebook LinkedIn YouTube Email RSS Community Calendar #DLFteach Twitter Chat December 15, 2020 at 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm More info at https://wiki.diglib.org/Pedagogy Discovering Wesselmann - Virtual Event on Archives and CR Research December 16, 2020 at 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm Discovering Wesselmann: A Webinar from the WPIOn December 16th, the Wildenstein Platter Institute will host a conversation between our archivist, Samantha Rowe, and the project manager for the Tom Wesselmann Catalogue Raisonné, Huffa Frobes-Cross. Looking at the Tom Wesselmann Papers and the artist’s work, Huffa and Samantha will discuss how archival research intersects with and supports the development of this catalogué raisonne project. The role of… DCMI Open Meeting on Application Profiles December 17, 2020 at 11:00 am – 12:00 pm Online DCMI Open Meeting on Application ProfilesDecember 17 - 16:00 UTC (8am PST, 11am EST, 5pm CET)Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) is holding an open meeting to discuss a new work product, a specification for tabular application profiles.Many communities today create application profiles (APs) for their data. However, we lack a standard that would help those… More events & links here. On Twitter “As a first-time #DLFforum participant, I am grateful to have been able to participate in this year’s virtual forum… https://t.co/UPg23pbSFS18 hours ago Want to talk pedagogy and how it went in 2020? Need ideas for 2021? Talk with us tomorrow, Tuesday, December 15, at… https://t.co/qgi2SwZs7r20 hours ago Libraries, archives, cultural institutions, and communities of higher learning: the Job Board is the place to find… https://t.co/WjnL4LruC222 hours ago Unless otherwise indicated, content on this site is available for re-use under CC BY-SA 4.0 License CLIR www-diglib-org-3808 ---- DLF Forum Community Journalist Reflection: Amanda Guzman - DLF CLIR Fellowships & Grants DLF Publications CLIR Global Join Give CLIR Programs Digital Library Federation DLF Forum Digital Library of the Middle East Digitizing Hidden Special Collections and Archives Recordings at Risk Mellon Fellowships for Dissertation Research Leading Change Institute DLF eResearch Network Postdoctoral Fellowship Program DLF Digital Library Federation Toggle navigation About About DLF Our Staff Our Members Governance DLF Code of Conduct Events DLF Year-Round 2020 Forum: Online Past Forums DLF Forum News Social Events Checklist Child Care Fund Resources DLF Organizers’ Toolkit Blog and News #DLFcontribute Series Digitizing Special Formats DLF Cost Calculator DLF Jobs Board Groups DLF Working Groups CLIR/DLF Affiliates DLF Membership Cohorts Get Involved with Groups Opportunities Grants and Fellowships Authenticity Project DLF Community Calendar Data Curation Postdocs Community/Capacity Awards Post a Job/Find a Job Contact Get in Touch Stay Connected Join DLF Our Members Benefits DLF Digital Library Federation Toggle navigation About About DLF Our Staff Our Members Governance DLF Code of Conduct Events DLF Year-Round 2020 Forum: Online Past Forums DLF Forum News Social Events Checklist Child Care Fund Resources DLF Organizers’ Toolkit Blog and News #DLFcontribute Series Digitizing Special Formats DLF Cost Calculator DLF Jobs Board Groups DLF Working Groups CLIR/DLF Affiliates DLF Membership Cohorts Get Involved with Groups Opportunities Grants and Fellowships Authenticity Project DLF Community Calendar Data Curation Postdocs Community/Capacity Awards Post a Job/Find a Job Contact Get in Touch Stay Connected Join DLF Our Members Benefits DLF Forum Community Journalist Reflection: Amanda Guzman December 3, 2020 Gayle Community, DLF Forum News, Forum Fellows, News This post was written by Amanda Guzman, who was selected to be one of this year’s virtual DLF Forum Community Journalists. Amanda Guzman is an anthropological archaeologist with a PhD in Anthropology (Archaeology) from the University of California, Berkeley. She specializes in the field of museum anthropology with a research focus on the history of collecting and exhibiting Puerto Rico at the intersection of issues of intercultural representation and national identity formation. She applies her collections experience as well as her commitment to working with and for multiple publics to her object-based inquiry teaching practice that privileges a more equitable, co-production of knowledge in the classroom through accessible engagement in cultural work. Amanda is currently the Ann Plato Post-Doctoral Fellow in Anthropology and American Studies at Trinity College in Hartford, CT.  On Belonging: There is that decisive moment for me at every academic conference that I’ve ever attended – whether it is one that I frequent regularly (even annually) or one that I’m trying out for the first time like the DLF Forum this year – where I’m sketching out my trajectory of movement and negotiating what my belonging might look like in the space. This moment exists in the scanning of the conference program and translating of different panel abstracts. This moment exists in those standstill seconds in the threshold of a panel room as you decide whether to enter or not, perhaps as you notice a familiar or friendly face.  Our current pandemic moment has transformed how we collectively gather in profound ways and brought into sharp relief the pre-existing structural social inequities of access. And yet, the decisive moment of my new belonging in the space of the DLF Forum was from a distance, and yet was not solitary beginning with a wave of introductions among first-time attendees and offers by long-time Forum-goers of support on Slack and extending to the generosity of time, experience, and transparency offered to me by my DLF mentor, Maggie McCready in our Zoom conversations. The decisive moment ultimately resolved, as I left the metaphorical door threshold to take a seat, during Dr. Stacy Patton’s keynote as she seamlessly moved between commentary on national news, archival text, pedagogical practice and her own powerful personal narrative of coming to belong in spaces not made for her experience and of coming to build new spaces of belonging.  Activating the Archive by Reframing History as Practice: One of the most compelling interventions that Dr. Patton articulated in her keynote speech was a call for the DLF community to reframe their implicit understanding of history not only as a physical archive of a material past but also as an active departure point for our contemporary reorientation and empowerment. Interweaving meaning and purpose across institutional case-studies, she referred to the concept of “historical touchstones” that present us with “context, guidance, and perspective” that have the analytical potential to ground our experience in the positionalities as a “keeper of knowledge” with a “traditional role of being…guide” to students.     Keepers of Knowledge: This proposal of mobilizing history towards how we critically approach our present-day practice in the field echoed throughout the subsequent forum presentations and was especially materialized for me in the citational acts of emphasizing a theoretical focus on an ethics of care. In the “Combo Session: Implementing responsible workflows and practices,” ethics of care was centered in an appreciation for “relationships with uneven power relations,” a methodological re-framing of both those actors who study and those communities who are studied as equal “independent rational subjects” and a researcher responsibility to identify the multi-faceted capacity of archival work to inflict harm. This work was discussed, for example, with the case-study of the archival process at the University of California, Berkeley for selecting indigenous cultural material for digitization and if to be digitized, under what terms of public access. In other words, professional ways of working were recast beyond the technicalities of how archival material may be best processed and digitally preserved to include and more importantly, to privilege a recognition of academic histories of community extraction and an opportunity for academic futures of more collaborative, equitable workflows.   Student Guides: Building on this important reflection on institutional practices, the US Latino DH panel entitled, “Recovering the Past, Creating the Future” brought the historically based practice conversation into the context of the undergraduate classroom. During their presentation, I was reminded of Dr. Patton’s earlier caution that digital work could not be the “end all be all” (even among undergraduates who are often thought to be “digital natives”) given how it is “alien to flow of time…nuances” and “abbreviates how we understand things”.  Presenters Carolina Villarroel, Gabriela Baeza Ventura, Lorena Gauthereau and Linda Garcia Merchant accepted the challenge and outlined a pedagogical design that built a student theoretical consciousness of the silences inherent in archival representations of the human experience and equipped students methodologically through programs like Omeka to emerge as digital storytellers of new stories. Moreover, the presenters destabilized the curatorial authority of collection-holding institutions by decolonizing where and how we locate archives with models such as post-custodial archives (describing archival management in which the community maintains physical custody of material records) and migrant archives. Both panels therefore expanded the boundaries of what constitutes archival practice – in terms of how we keep existing knowledge and how we teach knowledge production – by expanding what we care for to who we care with. At the Close:             Aliya Reich, Program Manager for Conferences and Events at the Digital Library Federation, remarked at the start of the forum that the goal of our gathering was “building community while apart”.  Joy Banks, Program Officer at the Council on Library and Information Resources, responded on Slack to a participant struggling with the digital conference platform that “there is no behind this year”.  Together, their words bring me – in concert with Dr. Patton’s keynote assertion of our roles as “guardians of the past and present” and “architects of the future” – that we the practitioners – our bodies, communities, experiences, professional practices and all – are directly implicated in the work that we do every day to record and to preserve. That work does not and cannot exist in isolation from the privilege and marginalization of our lived realities whether in terms of arts funding austerity to ongoing national social justice movements. The archive is a product in large part of human decision-making. We as a community can be reflective in practice with data justice over data ethics models that recognize the source of power and aim to dismantle structural power differentials. We as a community can choose to accept complexity of human behavior and spectrum thinking over binary dichotomies. We as a community can participate in mission-driven archiving in the present that supports restorative justice of the past – by upholding archival protocols that prioritize dignity and respect towards underrepresented, vulnerable communities who have and continue to endure systematic trauma. In building a community while apart we can ask who is and where is the community; the answer is in but also and perhaps in some cases more importantly, beyond our conference panel rooms.  Related Read More &media="> Read More "> Previous Next   What's the DLF? networked member institutions and a robust community of practice—advancing research, learning, social justice, & the public good through the creative design and wise application of digital library technologies Contact CLIR+DLF c/o WeWork (CLIR) 12th Floor 2221 South Clark Street Arlington, VA 22202 E: info@diglib.org Elsewhere Twitter Facebook LinkedIn YouTube Email RSS Community Calendar #DLFteach Twitter Chat December 15, 2020 at 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm More info at https://wiki.diglib.org/Pedagogy Discovering Wesselmann - Virtual Event on Archives and CR Research December 16, 2020 at 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm Discovering Wesselmann: A Webinar from the WPIOn December 16th, the Wildenstein Platter Institute will host a conversation between our archivist, Samantha Rowe, and the project manager for the Tom Wesselmann Catalogue Raisonné, Huffa Frobes-Cross. Looking at the Tom Wesselmann Papers and the artist’s work, Huffa and Samantha will discuss how archival research intersects with and supports the development of this catalogué raisonne project. The role of… DCMI Open Meeting on Application Profiles December 17, 2020 at 11:00 am – 12:00 pm Online DCMI Open Meeting on Application ProfilesDecember 17 - 16:00 UTC (8am PST, 11am EST, 5pm CET)Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) is holding an open meeting to discuss a new work product, a specification for tabular application profiles.Many communities today create application profiles (APs) for their data. However, we lack a standard that would help those… More events & links here. On Twitter “As a first-time #DLFforum participant, I am grateful to have been able to participate in this year’s virtual forum… https://t.co/UPg23pbSFS18 hours ago Want to talk pedagogy and how it went in 2020? Need ideas for 2021? Talk with us tomorrow, Tuesday, December 15, at… https://t.co/qgi2SwZs7r20 hours ago Libraries, archives, cultural institutions, and communities of higher learning: the Job Board is the place to find… https://t.co/WjnL4LruC222 hours ago Unless otherwise indicated, content on this site is available for re-use under CC BY-SA 4.0 License CLIR www-diglib-org-3813 ---- DLF Forum Community Journalist Reflection: Arabeth Balasko - DLF CLIR Fellowships & Grants DLF Publications CLIR Global Join Give CLIR Programs Digital Library Federation DLF Forum Digital Library of the Middle East Digitizing Hidden Special Collections and Archives Recordings at Risk Mellon Fellowships for Dissertation Research Leading Change Institute DLF eResearch Network Postdoctoral Fellowship Program DLF Digital Library Federation Toggle navigation About About DLF Our Staff Our Members Governance DLF Code of Conduct Events DLF Year-Round 2020 Forum: Online Past Forums DLF Forum News Social Events Checklist Child Care Fund Resources DLF Organizers’ Toolkit Blog and News #DLFcontribute Series Digitizing Special Formats DLF Cost Calculator DLF Jobs Board Groups DLF Working Groups CLIR/DLF Affiliates DLF Membership Cohorts Get Involved with Groups Opportunities Grants and Fellowships Authenticity Project DLF Community Calendar Data Curation Postdocs Community/Capacity Awards Post a Job/Find a Job Contact Get in Touch Stay Connected Join DLF Our Members Benefits DLF Digital Library Federation Toggle navigation About About DLF Our Staff Our Members Governance DLF Code of Conduct Events DLF Year-Round 2020 Forum: Online Past Forums DLF Forum News Social Events Checklist Child Care Fund Resources DLF Organizers’ Toolkit Blog and News #DLFcontribute Series Digitizing Special Formats DLF Cost Calculator DLF Jobs Board Groups DLF Working Groups CLIR/DLF Affiliates DLF Membership Cohorts Get Involved with Groups Opportunities Grants and Fellowships Authenticity Project DLF Community Calendar Data Curation Postdocs Community/Capacity Awards Post a Job/Find a Job Contact Get in Touch Stay Connected Join DLF Our Members Benefits DLF Forum Community Journalist Reflection: Arabeth Balasko December 8, 2020 Gayle Community, DLF Forum News, Forum Fellows This post was written by Arabeth Balasko, who was selected to be one of this year’s virtual DLF Forum Community Journalists. Arabeth Balasko (she/her) is an archivist and historian dedicated to public service and proactive stewardship. As a professional archivist, her overarching goals are to curate collections that follow a shared standardization practice, are user-centric, and are searchable and accessible to all via physical and digital platforms. She believes that an archive should be a welcoming place for all people and should be an inclusive environment which advocates to collect, preserve, and make accessible the stories and histories of diverse voices. By getting individuals involved in telling THEIR story and making THEIR history part of the ever-growing story of humanity, we all win! The Dawn of the Great Archival Shift Over centuries, archives and archivists have been heralded as the keepers, the stewards of records, stories, and collective memory. However, at times this stewardship has come from a place of exclusion, centered heavily around white, English-speaking experiences. Countless stories, memories, and events have been omitted from the larger historical narrative or have been rewritten from a skewed perspective. Now (and unfortunately for centuries) racism and police brutality has permeated our country’s history. Lack of racial equity has led to whitewashed and white supremacy-based collection policies that are geared towards uplifting and showcasing one-sided narratives, while often overlooking, overwriting, and suppressing contributions and accolades of Black, Indigenous, and People of Color. So many times, it is easier for folks in the GLAM sectors to claim neutrality, to leave it to the next generation, to look the other way, and focus only on the past and occasionally, the present. From being overworked, under-supported, and oftentimes misunderstood, archivists have grown tired, and with tiredness comes apathy. Other times it is simply not knowing what to do and/or not having the “authority” to make actual changes in an organization. This too leads to burnout, turnover, and once again, apathy. The humanities profession’s lack of diversity and equity has engrained a culture of dysfunction in several of the GLAM organizations across the country. During the 2020 DLF Forum, it was apparent that I was not the only person who felt this way. Several of the sessions focused on how to become a more proactive, mindful, and accountable steward, while also taking care of your own mental health and well-being. From practicing mindfulness and relaxation techniques, to reflecting upon language choices in metadata and/or finding aids, to reviewing your institution’s digitally available content for equity and inclusiveness; this conference truly spoke to my soul in many different ways. However, during the conference, one overarching question that I continued asking myself was – “How can I, as an archivist, ensure that all folks feel represented in an archive? Is this possible?” Upon a week’s reflection and allowing myself some time to digest the rich information and ideas posed during these diverse sessions, I came to reframe my question as, “What can we as archivists do to support the fight for archival equity?” In my opinion, one big step archival repositories and the archivists in those repositories can take is to not promote the idea of neutrality. Oftentimes, archives can shy away from hard histories, hard conversations – they can minimize hurts, and maximize virtues, but I feel that is a misstep. History is ugly, sad, beautiful, heartwarming, heartbreaking, and real. It happened. You cannot change that. BUT you can work to showcase how it happened, why it happened, and help reshape it for today’s generation through modernized lenses. By uplifting the stories and voices of BIPOC folks, which have traditionally been omitted from the collected narrative for centuries, and reinterpreting and reclaiming the stories of those lost, overwritten, and marginalized throughout history, archival repositories can truly become beacons of change throughout the GLAM sectors. Many folks, especially those who identify as BIPOC, feel they are not represented in an archive – or if they are, their stories and experiences have been retold without their voice, their input, or their permission. As an archivist it is so important to work to build relationships and connections with communities and foster and tend to those relationships over the years. So many times, archival organizations take on collections, sign deeds of gift, and then the relationship ends. I think this is a huge misstep for any archival repository. By investing in communities – communities will invest in you. With each new generation comes new opportunities to promote equity and accountability throughout archival repositories. Each generation of archivists should be reflecting and reevaluating how stories are (and traditionally have been) collected, maintained, presented, and made (or not made) accessible. I cannot tell you how many times I have worked with patrons, students, and volunteers, who have expressed to me that they feel that they are not represented, they are not “seen” amongst the archival collections they are exploring. It truly breaks my heart, and it means that we, as archival professionals are falling short, and we need to do better and be better for ALL users. I feel that inclusivity is key to create a well-rounded narrative, where users/patrons/researchers/etc. can “see themselves” reflected in the archives and collections. It has been my experience that when someone feels invested in and has input to how they are being represented, there is a higher propensity for folks to champion for the survival and continuation of an archive. By getting community members and groups invested in telling their story, identifying themselves in their own way and own language/words, and by not leaving it up to the archivist to make assumptions, collections that are taken in become more authentic and personal. During this conference, I also reflected a lot on the right to be remembered and the right to be forgotten. Nobody owes anyone their story. It is so important for archivists (including myself) to remember that. Some stories are too painful for folks to share, some are not ready (and may never be), and some are willing to share it all! No user/donor/patron is alike, and as an archivist, it is important that you do not assign a “predetermined scenario” to each interaction. By creating meaningful relationships, where you are invested in more than just acquiring the “stuff” from the donor, you really can create life-long partnerships, camaraderie, and friendships with users of your repository! Archives are not neutral – and they never should be. There is a lot of repair work that needs to be done, and it can be done, it just takes folks who are dedicated to making fundamental changes. I was honestly inspired to find like-minded souls at this conference, and for that, I am hopeful that a great archival shift is on the horizon. It is truly great to see archivists and other humanities professionals in action advocating for change and demanding equity checks and re-evaluation of how things “have always been.” I reflected on the fact that there really are some great opportunities to make proactive changes and create an archive that is more equitable and accessible for all users – an archive of the future. For me, it is all connected – by investing in equity you invest in accessibility – when you invest in communities you have the chance to grow your repository’s stories and collection scope! The archives truly are for EVERYONE! And, as the great Tupac Shakur says, “You see the old way wasn’t working, so it’s on us to do what we gotta do, to survive.” My hope is that archivists work to make any and all fundamental changes needed, to ensure that an equitable, inclusive, and diverse narrative survives for the future generations to come. Related Read More &media="> Read More "> Previous Next   What's the DLF? networked member institutions and a robust community of practice—advancing research, learning, social justice, & the public good through the creative design and wise application of digital library technologies Contact CLIR+DLF c/o WeWork (CLIR) 12th Floor 2221 South Clark Street Arlington, VA 22202 E: info@diglib.org Elsewhere Twitter Facebook LinkedIn YouTube Email RSS Community Calendar #DLFteach Twitter Chat December 15, 2020 at 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm More info at https://wiki.diglib.org/Pedagogy Discovering Wesselmann - Virtual Event on Archives and CR Research December 16, 2020 at 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm Discovering Wesselmann: A Webinar from the WPIOn December 16th, the Wildenstein Platter Institute will host a conversation between our archivist, Samantha Rowe, and the project manager for the Tom Wesselmann Catalogue Raisonné, Huffa Frobes-Cross. Looking at the Tom Wesselmann Papers and the artist’s work, Huffa and Samantha will discuss how archival research intersects with and supports the development of this catalogué raisonne project. The role of… DCMI Open Meeting on Application Profiles December 17, 2020 at 11:00 am – 12:00 pm Online DCMI Open Meeting on Application ProfilesDecember 17 - 16:00 UTC (8am PST, 11am EST, 5pm CET)Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) is holding an open meeting to discuss a new work product, a specification for tabular application profiles.Many communities today create application profiles (APs) for their data. However, we lack a standard that would help those… More events & links here. On Twitter “As a first-time #DLFforum participant, I am grateful to have been able to participate in this year’s virtual forum… https://t.co/UPg23pbSFS18 hours ago Want to talk pedagogy and how it went in 2020? Need ideas for 2021? Talk with us tomorrow, Tuesday, December 15, at… https://t.co/qgi2SwZs7r20 hours ago Libraries, archives, cultural institutions, and communities of higher learning: the Job Board is the place to find… https://t.co/WjnL4LruC222 hours ago Unless otherwise indicated, content on this site is available for re-use under CC BY-SA 4.0 License CLIR www-diglib-org-404 ---- DLF Forum Community Journalist Reflection: Rebecca Bayeck - DLF CLIR Fellowships & Grants DLF Publications CLIR Global Join Give CLIR Programs Digital Library Federation DLF Forum Digital Library of the Middle East Digitizing Hidden Special Collections and Archives Recordings at Risk Mellon Fellowships for Dissertation Research Leading Change Institute DLF eResearch Network Postdoctoral Fellowship Program DLF Digital Library Federation Toggle navigation About About DLF Our Staff Our Members Governance DLF Code of Conduct Events DLF Year-Round 2020 Forum: Online Past Forums DLF Forum News Social Events Checklist Child Care Fund Resources DLF Organizers’ Toolkit Blog and News #DLFcontribute Series Digitizing Special Formats DLF Cost Calculator DLF Jobs Board Groups DLF Working Groups CLIR/DLF Affiliates DLF Membership Cohorts Get Involved with Groups Opportunities Grants and Fellowships Authenticity Project DLF Community Calendar Data Curation Postdocs Community/Capacity Awards Post a Job/Find a Job Contact Get in Touch Stay Connected Join DLF Our Members Benefits DLF Digital Library Federation Toggle navigation About About DLF Our Staff Our Members Governance DLF Code of Conduct Events DLF Year-Round 2020 Forum: Online Past Forums DLF Forum News Social Events Checklist Child Care Fund Resources DLF Organizers’ Toolkit Blog and News #DLFcontribute Series Digitizing Special Formats DLF Cost Calculator DLF Jobs Board Groups DLF Working Groups CLIR/DLF Affiliates DLF Membership Cohorts Get Involved with Groups Opportunities Grants and Fellowships Authenticity Project DLF Community Calendar Data Curation Postdocs Community/Capacity Awards Post a Job/Find a Job Contact Get in Touch Stay Connected Join DLF Our Members Benefits DLF Forum Community Journalist Reflection: Rebecca Bayeck December 10, 2020 Gayle Community, DLF Forum News, Forum Fellows This post was written by Rebecca Bayeck (@rybayeck), who was selected to be one of this year’s virtual DLF Forum Community Journalists. Rebecca Y. Bayeck is a dual-PhD holder in Learning Design & Technology and Comparative & International Education from the Pennsylvania State University. Currently a CLIR postdoctoral fellow at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture where she engages in digital research, data curation, and inclusive design. Her interdisciplinary research is at the interface of several fields including the learning sciences, literacy studies, and game studies. At this intersection, she explores literacies and learning in games, particularly board games, the interaction of culture, space, and context on design, learning, research, literacies.  The year 2020 is, without a doubt, complex, filled with multiple challenges as well as opportunities. From remote working/online learning environments to conferencing in a virtual space, everyone has tried and is still trying to adjust to the “new normal” or maybe “new abnormal”. Among those adjusting to the world of social distancing is the Digital Library Federation (DLF) Forum. The 2020 DLF Forum was my first introduction to and participation in the work completed by this community of librarians and library enthusiasts.   The 2020 DLF Forum was in a virtual format. Though I would have loved to visit Baltimore, interact in-person with my CLIR cohort, and experience the food culture of Baltimore restaurants, the virtual space still provided a space for encounters and meaningful interactions. The conference organizers used two platforms: Aviary for pre-recorded presentation viewing and Slack for questions and dialogue with attendees. Both platforms created a unique and complimentary online experience. For instance, each video had captions and a downloadable transcript, making the content more accessible. Slack discussions created a sense of community, and gave me a sense of belonging through the interaction among participants. It was a common practice for participants through emojis to like, applaud, or reply to a post/comment (Figure 1). Figure 1. Slack Newcomers Channel DLF 2020 Forms of Interaction Slack’s direct message option further personalized my experience of the online conference. I directly exchanged with some attendees, and established personal rapport. However, my major takeaway from the 2020 DLF Forum was inclusion, shown in the accessibility efforts deployed by the organizers, and in the diversity of topics covered by presenters. The conference brought to the forefront research/topics that have received less attention in the past, and should be discussed today across disciplines and fields.  Stacy Reardon and Michael Lange from UC Berkeley presentation on Can We Digitize This? Should We? Navigating Ethics, Law, and Policy in Bringing Collections to Digital Life was so inspiring. In my view, it captured the essence of digitization and how it should be done. It is important for individuals engaged in digitization efforts to always ask whether “the value to cultural communities, researchers, or the public outweighs the potential for harm or exploitation of the people, resources, or knowledge.”  It is about not harming or causing harm to the various stakeholders who will see or engage with our final product. This balancing principle can be applied to any research, design, development, or digitization endeavors. Paraphrasing Stacey Patton, 2020 DLF Forum plenary keynote speaker, “how the knowledge came about, [who it will harm, and who will claim ownership of it] is as important as the knowledge itself.” Juliet Hardesty from Indiana University’s presentation on Mitigating Bias Through Controlled Vocabularies gave a powerful insight into why it is important to incorporate community vocabulary to broaden access to knowledge/data, and fight biases.  Being a panelist in the session Creating accessible and inclusive content and presenting on Addressing Issues of Accessibility: Urgency in a World of Social Distancing, added to my experience. My interest in issues of accessibility for blind/low vision, deaf/hard of hearing individuals in this era of social distancing facilitated conversation with other session presenters on the accessibility of this conference for screen reader users. From our conversation, it became obvious that the organizers needed to be commended for providing scripts and captions for the recorded videos. Dee, who is blind and uses a screen reader to access contents, and Micky, who is sighted, but did use a screen reader said about their experiences:  Dee: I do appreciate knowing that there is a caption and there is like, the scripts and everything. It does make you feel more welcome and it does make you realize yes, they’re making an effort. Applause should be given for, you know, for the effort and definitely you know even the fact there is like, an accessibility session or stream, that’s important. Micky: But if I could say one thing is, I think, I know people were making efforts into making it accessible. I think applause is very much deserved. and I think keep, we got to keep trying and we gotta keep finding innovative ways of working together and collaborating. So I would want people to feel encouraged that there’s more work to be done. But let’s pursue it as a team and then pursue it together because it’s worth it. Nevertheless, Dee and Micky did have some suggestions for creating accessible conference experiences:  Dee: The first thing I may say would be to include in the planning committee. Kind of representation from all the groups that you would like to have at the conference, because they will help think about, in this case, about screen readers and which tool and will it be interactive and you know if we want to make it interactive, is there an option or how can we? You know, it’s necessary for someone to think about those things…ensure to have broad representation in the planning committee, or if not in the planning committee, make a point to reach out and consult. So, engage with people with lived experience of whatever the conference you know is trying to accomplish.  Micky:  If I could make a suggestion that might just be to have a panel with like, just in this particular case, disabled leaders in the GLAM field. you know there’s, I’m sure, a ton out there that would love to have a platform to share from the perspectives of making libraries you know, gallery’s archives, museums, accessible. Maybe, it’s inviting the leaders to come and present to the whole Forum. These suggestions for future conferences are so important because Dee and Micky had difficulties using their screen readers with Slack and Aviary. For instance, Dee, on the day of the panel, felt she cheated by relying on Micky and “by accessing the videos directly from the Google Drive not in Aviary because then I had to figure out where the play button was and like the website was a bit clunky with JAWS”. Having Slack and Aviary added: more things you need to interact with and like, I think we know that Slack is accessible, like it works with screen readers, because we could make it work, but really the extra time that you need to put into learning how to use it and use it effectively (Dee).  Regarding Slack, Micky said:  practice beforehand, which I think is helpful. If it was simpler that you could reduce that amount of time it takes to, that’s required to familiarize oneself…And then when it’s active, there’s another layer of complexity of  information overload too. Because of all that activity, I think it just took me a long time. I wonder how long it would take someone who didn’t have, you know, that was pursuing this independently. Attending the DLF Forum was inspiring not only in terms of the topics addressed, but also in the opportunity it created for me to gain insights into the conference experience of screen reader users. It is critical in the era of online conferences to take into consideration the experiences of these attendees in the choice of conference platforms. Much more can be said, and I believe it is important to not only design/plan for, but also design/plan with individuals with lived experiences (e.g., screen reader users, blind/low vision, deaf/hard of hearing, or individuals with cognitive abilities). Related Read More &media="> Read More "> Previous Next   What's the DLF? networked member institutions and a robust community of practice—advancing research, learning, social justice, & the public good through the creative design and wise application of digital library technologies Contact CLIR+DLF c/o WeWork (CLIR) 12th Floor 2221 South Clark Street Arlington, VA 22202 E: info@diglib.org Elsewhere Twitter Facebook LinkedIn YouTube Email RSS Community Calendar #DLFteach Twitter Chat December 15, 2020 at 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm More info at https://wiki.diglib.org/Pedagogy Discovering Wesselmann - Virtual Event on Archives and CR Research December 16, 2020 at 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm Discovering Wesselmann: A Webinar from the WPIOn December 16th, the Wildenstein Platter Institute will host a conversation between our archivist, Samantha Rowe, and the project manager for the Tom Wesselmann Catalogue Raisonné, Huffa Frobes-Cross. Looking at the Tom Wesselmann Papers and the artist’s work, Huffa and Samantha will discuss how archival research intersects with and supports the development of this catalogué raisonne project. The role of… DCMI Open Meeting on Application Profiles December 17, 2020 at 11:00 am – 12:00 pm Online DCMI Open Meeting on Application ProfilesDecember 17 - 16:00 UTC (8am PST, 11am EST, 5pm CET)Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) is holding an open meeting to discuss a new work product, a specification for tabular application profiles.Many communities today create application profiles (APs) for their data. However, we lack a standard that would help those… More events & links here. On Twitter “As a first-time #DLFforum participant, I am grateful to have been able to participate in this year’s virtual forum… https://t.co/UPg23pbSFS18 hours ago Want to talk pedagogy and how it went in 2020? Need ideas for 2021? Talk with us tomorrow, Tuesday, December 15, at… https://t.co/qgi2SwZs7r20 hours ago Libraries, archives, cultural institutions, and communities of higher learning: the Job Board is the place to find… https://t.co/WjnL4LruC222 hours ago Unless otherwise indicated, content on this site is available for re-use under CC BY-SA 4.0 License CLIR www-diglib-org-5112 ---- DLF Forum Community Journalist Reflection: Ana Hilda Figueroa de Jesús - DLF CLIR Fellowships & Grants DLF Publications CLIR Global Join Give CLIR Programs Digital Library Federation DLF Forum Digital Library of the Middle East Digitizing Hidden Special Collections and Archives Recordings at Risk Mellon Fellowships for Dissertation Research Leading Change Institute DLF eResearch Network Postdoctoral Fellowship Program DLF Digital Library Federation Toggle navigation About About DLF Our Staff Our Members Governance DLF Code of Conduct Events DLF Year-Round 2020 Forum: Online Past Forums DLF Forum News Social Events Checklist Child Care Fund Resources DLF Organizers’ Toolkit Blog and News #DLFcontribute Series Digitizing Special Formats DLF Cost Calculator DLF Jobs Board Groups DLF Working Groups CLIR/DLF Affiliates DLF Membership Cohorts Get Involved with Groups Opportunities Grants and Fellowships Authenticity Project DLF Community Calendar Data Curation Postdocs Community/Capacity Awards Post a Job/Find a Job Contact Get in Touch Stay Connected Join DLF Our Members Benefits DLF Digital Library Federation Toggle navigation About About DLF Our Staff Our Members Governance DLF Code of Conduct Events DLF Year-Round 2020 Forum: Online Past Forums DLF Forum News Social Events Checklist Child Care Fund Resources DLF Organizers’ Toolkit Blog and News #DLFcontribute Series Digitizing Special Formats DLF Cost Calculator DLF Jobs Board Groups DLF Working Groups CLIR/DLF Affiliates DLF Membership Cohorts Get Involved with Groups Opportunities Grants and Fellowships Authenticity Project DLF Community Calendar Data Curation Postdocs Community/Capacity Awards Post a Job/Find a Job Contact Get in Touch Stay Connected Join DLF Our Members Benefits DLF Forum Community Journalist Reflection: Ana Hilda Figueroa de Jesús December 9, 2020 Gayle Community, DLF Forum News, Forum Fellows This post was written by Ana Hilda Figueroa de Jesús, who was selected to be one of this year’s virtual DLF Forum Community Journalists. Ana Hilda Figueroa de Jesús will be graduating next spring from the Universidad de Puerto Rico in Río Piedras with a BA in History of Art. Her research interest focuses on education, accessibility and publicity of minority, revolutionary Puerto Rican art including topics such as race, gender and transnationalism. She has interned at Visión Doble: Journal of Criticism and History of Art, and volunteered at MECA International Art Fair 2019 and Instituto Nueva Escuela. Ana works as assistant for the curator and director of the Museum of History, Anthropology and Art at UPR. She is currently a Katzenberger Art History Intern at Smithsonian Libraries. Community, a repeated concept during the 2020 Virtual DLF Forum, transitioned from a word to a mantra. From my home in Puerto Rico, I listened and learned from peers who shared their professional and academic experiences. It was my first time attending this Forum. Lots of questions popped into my mind, particularly: Why would staff insist on creating a virtual “community,” of four days duration, with an audience currently experiencing and being exposed to social injustice within their surroundings and media? What does “building a community” mean?  I would like to thank the DLF staff’s commitment. When I received notice that I was selected as a Community Journalist, my first observation was my last name. The correct spelling and grammar of my name are much more than my cover letter, it represents and brings value to where I come from and those who came before me. I noticed the correct inclusion of the accent mark on “de Jesús.” In that moment I knew my voice would be respected in the discourse. The physical distance between attendees was no obstacle. The Forum implemented digital platforms such as Slack and Aviary. Presentations included transcripts and, since they were previously recorded, I could pause and rewind the video when a new term was introduced. If anyone had a tech problem or just wasn’t familiar with the apps, staff was available to help immediately. Each speaker mentioned their preferred pronouns and acknowledged the indigenous homelands from where they spoke. Being inclusive both in theory and practice was a priority. As a Puerto Rican woman of color with low resources, a first-generation college student and an undergraduate scholar, I saw benefit in this opportunity.   The Forum sessions reminded me of particular aspects of archives as spaces of data justice, cultural and social responsibility, knowledge production, and alternate historical narratives. In Mitigating Bias Through Controlled Vocabularies, Juliet Hardesty explained the importance of being conscious of racial categories, first nation groups, non-binary people, and others when including metadata such as subjects, genres, and languages. As an example, she discussed linked data across institutions and the distinction between “exactMatch” and “closeMatch.” Through this conference, I sought to learn and carry out new interdisciplinary perspectives in my roles as a Katzenberger Art History Intern at Smithsonian Institution Libraries and as an Assistant to the Curator and Director at the History, Anthropology and Art Museum of the University of Puerto Rico. One of the most relevant presentations for me was Curationist: Designing a Metadata Standard and Taxonomy for an Open Cultural Ecosystem by Sharon Mizota. She explained the anti-colonialist, anti-racist, feminist, queer, accessible, and multilingual lens of data. Also, she examined taxonomy guidelines that included sensitive subject areas. To illustrate this, she reflected on adopting the terms “Latinx” instead of “Latino” or “Hispanic,” and “homeless people” instead of “homelessness” or “tramp.”  I also attended discussions of human rights movements such as BLM, Community Activism and Digital Archiving in the Era of George Floyd. Other social matters were considered in the lightning talk titled Pandemic Pivot: How to Take Your Event Online, Reach New Audiences, and Build Even Stronger Communities, and the panel Creating a Virtual Community for Virtual Reality: Challenges and Solutions for Program Building During a Pandemic. Another engaging talk was US Latino Digital Humanities: Recovering the Past, Creating the Future. I would like to mention a crucial keynote by Dr. Linda Garcia Merchant when discussing Chicana feminist scholar Maria Cotera, [The importance of understanding] “the archive as a living active experience of “encuentro” between the present and the past, with the potential to enact new strategies of allegiance and a new praxis”. I believe that this idea of encounter is linked with the DLF Forum’s “building a community” proposal.  We must review our reactions and interactions with each other, including those within academia. Our involvement with the writing of histories makes us judges of how and what is told. Something I learned from this experience is that beyond our professional responsibilities, we have a social contract and accountability. Information must be accessible to traditionally marginalized public. Stories, agents and terms that once were excluded from the official narrative must be taken into consideration. The 2020 Virtual DLF Forum included more than spaces for education. It was about feedback, mutual aid, being open to new perspectives, and building a community.     Related Previous Next   What's the DLF? networked member institutions and a robust community of practice—advancing research, learning, social justice, & the public good through the creative design and wise application of digital library technologies Contact CLIR+DLF c/o WeWork (CLIR) 12th Floor 2221 South Clark Street Arlington, VA 22202 E: info@diglib.org Elsewhere Twitter Facebook LinkedIn YouTube Email RSS Community Calendar #DLFteach Twitter Chat December 15, 2020 at 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm More info at https://wiki.diglib.org/Pedagogy Discovering Wesselmann - Virtual Event on Archives and CR Research December 16, 2020 at 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm Discovering Wesselmann: A Webinar from the WPIOn December 16th, the Wildenstein Platter Institute will host a conversation between our archivist, Samantha Rowe, and the project manager for the Tom Wesselmann Catalogue Raisonné, Huffa Frobes-Cross. Looking at the Tom Wesselmann Papers and the artist’s work, Huffa and Samantha will discuss how archival research intersects with and supports the development of this catalogué raisonne project. The role of… DCMI Open Meeting on Application Profiles December 17, 2020 at 11:00 am – 12:00 pm Online DCMI Open Meeting on Application ProfilesDecember 17 - 16:00 UTC (8am PST, 11am EST, 5pm CET)Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) is holding an open meeting to discuss a new work product, a specification for tabular application profiles.Many communities today create application profiles (APs) for their data. However, we lack a standard that would help those… More events & links here. On Twitter “As a first-time #DLFforum participant, I am grateful to have been able to participate in this year’s virtual forum… https://t.co/UPg23pbSFS18 hours ago Want to talk pedagogy and how it went in 2020? Need ideas for 2021? Talk with us tomorrow, Tuesday, December 15, at… https://t.co/qgi2SwZs7r20 hours ago Libraries, archives, cultural institutions, and communities of higher learning: the Job Board is the place to find… https://t.co/WjnL4LruC222 hours ago Unless otherwise indicated, content on this site is available for re-use under CC BY-SA 4.0 License CLIR www-diglib-org-5775 ---- Announcing a Portuguese Translation of the 2019 Levels of Digital Preservation Matrix  - DLF CLIR Fellowships & Grants DLF Publications CLIR Global Join Give CLIR Programs Digital Library Federation DLF Forum Digital Library of the Middle East Digitizing Hidden Special Collections and Archives Recordings at Risk Mellon Fellowships for Dissertation Research Leading Change Institute DLF eResearch Network Postdoctoral Fellowship Program DLF Digital Library Federation Toggle navigation About About DLF Our Staff Our Members Governance DLF Code of Conduct Events DLF Year-Round 2020 Forum: Online Past Forums DLF Forum News Social Events Checklist Child Care Fund Resources DLF Organizers’ Toolkit Blog and News #DLFcontribute Series Digitizing Special Formats DLF Cost Calculator DLF Jobs Board Groups DLF Working Groups CLIR/DLF Affiliates DLF Membership Cohorts Get Involved with Groups Opportunities Grants and Fellowships Authenticity Project DLF Community Calendar Data Curation Postdocs Community/Capacity Awards Post a Job/Find a Job Contact Get in Touch Stay Connected Join DLF Our Members Benefits DLF Digital Library Federation Toggle navigation About About DLF Our Staff Our Members Governance DLF Code of Conduct Events DLF Year-Round 2020 Forum: Online Past Forums DLF Forum News Social Events Checklist Child Care Fund Resources DLF Organizers’ Toolkit Blog and News #DLFcontribute Series Digitizing Special Formats DLF Cost Calculator DLF Jobs Board Groups DLF Working Groups CLIR/DLF Affiliates DLF Membership Cohorts Get Involved with Groups Opportunities Grants and Fellowships Authenticity Project DLF Community Calendar Data Curation Postdocs Community/Capacity Awards Post a Job/Find a Job Contact Get in Touch Stay Connected Join DLF Our Members Benefits Announcing a Portuguese Translation of the 2019 Levels of Digital Preservation Matrix  November 30, 2020 kussmann NDSA Portuguese Translations of the 2019 Levels of Digital Preservation Matrix  The NDSA is pleased to announce that Version 2 (2019) of the Levels Matrix has been translated into Portuguese by Laura Vilela R. Rezende. This document enriches the scientific studies on Digital Preservation and Research Data Curation developed by the Brazilian research group of which the researcher is part: The Research Network – DRIADE: Digital Preservation Studies and Practices   Links to these documents are found below as well as on the 2019 Levels of Digital Preservation OSF project page: https://osf.io/qgz98/ V2.0 (2019)  If you would be interested in translating the Levels of Digital Preservation V2.0 into another language please contact us at ndsa.digipres@gmail.com.    Tradução para o Português da Matriz dos Níveis de Preservação Digital de 2019  A NDSA tem o prazer de anunciar que a versão 2.0 (2019) da Matriz dos Níveis de Preservação Digital foi traduzida para o Português por Laura Vilela R. Rezende. Este documento enriquece os estudos científicos sobre Preservação Digital e Curadoria de Dados de Pesquisa desenvolvidos pelo grupo de pesquisa brasileiro do qual a pesquisadora faz parte:  Rede de Pesquisa DRIADE – Estudos e práticas de Preservação Digital  A seguir os links para acesso a este documentos. É possível acessar também pela página do projeto OSF: https://osf.io/qgz98/ V2.0 (2019)   Caso tenha interesse em traduzir os Níveis de Preservação Digital V 2.0 em outro idioma, por favor entre em contato conosco pelo e-mail: ndsa.digipres@gmail.com   Related Levels of Digital Preservation Levels of Preservation NDSA translation Previous Next   What's the DLF? networked member institutions and a robust community of practice—advancing research, learning, social justice, & the public good through the creative design and wise application of digital library technologies Contact CLIR+DLF c/o WeWork (CLIR) 12th Floor 2221 South Clark Street Arlington, VA 22202 E: info@diglib.org Elsewhere Twitter Facebook LinkedIn YouTube Email RSS Community Calendar #DLFteach Twitter Chat December 15, 2020 at 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm More info at https://wiki.diglib.org/Pedagogy Discovering Wesselmann - Virtual Event on Archives and CR Research December 16, 2020 at 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm Discovering Wesselmann: A Webinar from the WPIOn December 16th, the Wildenstein Platter Institute will host a conversation between our archivist, Samantha Rowe, and the project manager for the Tom Wesselmann Catalogue Raisonné, Huffa Frobes-Cross. Looking at the Tom Wesselmann Papers and the artist’s work, Huffa and Samantha will discuss how archival research intersects with and supports the development of this catalogué raisonne project. The role of… DCMI Open Meeting on Application Profiles December 17, 2020 at 11:00 am – 12:00 pm Online DCMI Open Meeting on Application ProfilesDecember 17 - 16:00 UTC (8am PST, 11am EST, 5pm CET)Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) is holding an open meeting to discuss a new work product, a specification for tabular application profiles.Many communities today create application profiles (APs) for their data. However, we lack a standard that would help those… More events & links here. On Twitter “As a first-time #DLFforum participant, I am grateful to have been able to participate in this year’s virtual forum… https://t.co/UPg23pbSFS18 hours ago Want to talk pedagogy and how it went in 2020? Need ideas for 2021? Talk with us tomorrow, Tuesday, December 15, at… https://t.co/qgi2SwZs7r20 hours ago Libraries, archives, cultural institutions, and communities of higher learning: the Job Board is the place to find… https://t.co/WjnL4LruC222 hours ago Unless otherwise indicated, content on this site is available for re-use under CC BY-SA 4.0 License CLIR www-diglib-org-6116 ---- DLF Forum Community Journalist Reflection: Shelly Black - DLF CLIR Fellowships & Grants DLF Publications CLIR Global Join Give CLIR Programs Digital Library Federation DLF Forum Digital Library of the Middle East Digitizing Hidden Special Collections and Archives Recordings at Risk Mellon Fellowships for Dissertation Research Leading Change Institute DLF eResearch Network Postdoctoral Fellowship Program DLF Digital Library Federation Toggle navigation About About DLF Our Staff Our Members Governance DLF Code of Conduct Events DLF Year-Round 2020 Forum: Online Past Forums DLF Forum News Social Events Checklist Child Care Fund Resources DLF Organizers’ Toolkit Blog and News #DLFcontribute Series Digitizing Special Formats DLF Cost Calculator DLF Jobs Board Groups DLF Working Groups CLIR/DLF Affiliates DLF Membership Cohorts Get Involved with Groups Opportunities Grants and Fellowships Authenticity Project DLF Community Calendar Data Curation Postdocs Community/Capacity Awards Post a Job/Find a Job Contact Get in Touch Stay Connected Join DLF Our Members Benefits DLF Digital Library Federation Toggle navigation About About DLF Our Staff Our Members Governance DLF Code of Conduct Events DLF Year-Round 2020 Forum: Online Past Forums DLF Forum News Social Events Checklist Child Care Fund Resources DLF Organizers’ Toolkit Blog and News #DLFcontribute Series Digitizing Special Formats DLF Cost Calculator DLF Jobs Board Groups DLF Working Groups CLIR/DLF Affiliates DLF Membership Cohorts Get Involved with Groups Opportunities Grants and Fellowships Authenticity Project DLF Community Calendar Data Curation Postdocs Community/Capacity Awards Post a Job/Find a Job Contact Get in Touch Stay Connected Join DLF Our Members Benefits DLF Forum Community Journalist Reflection: Shelly Black December 2, 2020 Gayle Community, DLF Forum News, Forum Fellows This post was written by Shelly Black (@ShellyYBlack), who was selected to be one of this year’s virtual DLF Forum Community Journalists. Shelly Black is the Cyma Rubin Library Fellow at North Carolina State University Libraries where she supports digital preservation in the Special Collections Research Center. She also works on a strategic project involving immersive technology spaces and digital scholarship workflows. Previously she was a marketing specialist at the University of Arizona Libraries and promoted library services and programs through social media, news stories, and newsletters. Shelly was recently selected as a 2020 Emerging Leader by the American Library Association and is a provisional member of the Academy of Certified Archivists. She received a MLIS and a Certificate in Archival Studies from the University of Arizona where she was a Knowledge River scholar. She also holds a BFA in photography and minor in Japanese from the UA. The weekend protests began in response to George Floyd’s murder, I was driving across the country for my first post-MLIS job. I listened to the radio, scrolled through the news and felt the country in pain. Reflecting on how volatile 2020 has been, I’m grateful that the DLF Forum was freely open to all and held online. As a graduate student, my exposure to digital curation and preservation focused on theory more than practice. So I was eager to learn about current strategies and tools. Considering the anti-racist commitments made recently by numerous organizations, I also looked forward to hearing about projects to improve discoverability of marginalized people in the historical record. Many sessions covered computational methods used by librarians, archivists, and researchers to improve our understanding of, and increase access to, digitized materials. Juan Manuel García Fernández and Nickoal Eichmann-Kalwara presented on “Digital El Diario and Archival Justice in the Digital Humanities Graduate Classroom.” Their work involved creating a corpus from a digitized 1970s Chicanx newspaper and showing students how to use text analysis tools, such as MALLET and Voyant, for the purpose of historical recovery. In “Images as Data with Computer Vision,” Carol Chiodo shared that Harvard University Library is using a Python package to analyze and provide descriptive metadata at scale for photographic collections. This includes protest photography, so the project will also result in the creation of ethical guidelines for applying automation to sensitive materials. Throughout the Forum, a theme that resonated with me was the ethics of care. I learned how multiple presenters have adopted this feminist approach that emphasizes relationships and considers power imbalances. During “Can We Digitize This? Should We? Navigating Ethics, Law, and Policy in Bringing Collections to Digital Life,” Stacy Reardon explained that she adopts an ethics of care when deciding whether to make materials available online. She noted how this framework urges us to consider the potential for harm not just to individuals but also communities. Lorena Gauthereau, one of the panel members of “US Latino DH: Recovering the Past, Creating the Future,” imparted that community outreach should be approached with an ethics of care. She said we have a responsibility to make the people represented in archives feel valued, which can be achieved through post-custodial methods, consent, decolonial spaces, and trusting relationships. As a Mexican Japanese American, increasing representation and reclaiming the humanity of historically oppressed people has personal significance. I wholeheartedly agree with Gauthereau who expressed:  “By recovering the past, we can project toward our future. While working with recovered archives, we make space for healing by making visible not only painful histories, but also resistance, survival and joy, to acknowledge where we come from and where we are going.”  These presentations reminded me to think critically about the interplay between people, archival collections, and technology. While I see promise in the application of computational methods for understanding and expanding access to stories beyond the dominant narrative, I’m also wary of the challenges. Algorithms used for facial recognition, screening job applicants, and identifying high-risk patients continue to oppress communities of color. Mixed race people like myself don’t fall neatly into metadata categories and likely aren’t seen by algorithms applied to textual or visual corpora. Meanwhile, libraries have started using machine learning for appraisal, description, and other laborious tasks. Many collections await being described—or re-described using anti-oppressive language—and made available online. Algorithms offer efficiency, but when people create them with training data which centers whiteness, they further harm communities.  Another challenge is the layering of biases when working with digitized collections. We lose more than visual details and aesthetic qualities through reproductive technologies and migration of formats. There are racial consequences. We scan photographs made from color film stocks originally calibrated for light skin. Art historian Lyneise Williams has also called attention to the erasure of Black people through the high contrast process of microfilming. So what happens when we use biased machine learning models to process images that inherit white normativity?  Growing digitized collections make the adoption of machine learning compelling. At the same time, an ethics of care and diverse voices are needed when new tools are being designed. Knowledge produced from analyzing collections at scale will only be as inclusive as the human beings who designed the algorithms and the digitized material’s source medium. As Stacey Patton reminded us in her keynote, digitization isn’t a be-all and end-all, particularly when there is still the digital divide. The DLF Forum inspired me to think about the opportunities and issues ahead. I hope to attend future Forums where discussions on using technology in ways which uplift communities of color continue. Related Previous Next   What's the DLF? networked member institutions and a robust community of practice—advancing research, learning, social justice, & the public good through the creative design and wise application of digital library technologies Contact CLIR+DLF c/o WeWork (CLIR) 12th Floor 2221 South Clark Street Arlington, VA 22202 E: info@diglib.org Elsewhere Twitter Facebook LinkedIn YouTube Email RSS Community Calendar #DLFteach Twitter Chat December 15, 2020 at 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm More info at https://wiki.diglib.org/Pedagogy Discovering Wesselmann - Virtual Event on Archives and CR Research December 16, 2020 at 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm Discovering Wesselmann: A Webinar from the WPIOn December 16th, the Wildenstein Platter Institute will host a conversation between our archivist, Samantha Rowe, and the project manager for the Tom Wesselmann Catalogue Raisonné, Huffa Frobes-Cross. Looking at the Tom Wesselmann Papers and the artist’s work, Huffa and Samantha will discuss how archival research intersects with and supports the development of this catalogué raisonne project. The role of… DCMI Open Meeting on Application Profiles December 17, 2020 at 11:00 am – 12:00 pm Online DCMI Open Meeting on Application ProfilesDecember 17 - 16:00 UTC (8am PST, 11am EST, 5pm CET)Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) is holding an open meeting to discuss a new work product, a specification for tabular application profiles.Many communities today create application profiles (APs) for their data. However, we lack a standard that would help those… More events & links here. On Twitter “As a first-time #DLFforum participant, I am grateful to have been able to participate in this year’s virtual forum… https://t.co/UPg23pbSFS18 hours ago Want to talk pedagogy and how it went in 2020? Need ideas for 2021? Talk with us tomorrow, Tuesday, December 15, at… https://t.co/qgi2SwZs7r20 hours ago Libraries, archives, cultural institutions, and communities of higher learning: the Job Board is the place to find… https://t.co/WjnL4LruC222 hours ago Unless otherwise indicated, content on this site is available for re-use under CC BY-SA 4.0 License CLIR www-diglib-org-8173 ---- DLF Forum Community Journalist Reflection: Betsy Yoon - DLF CLIR Fellowships & Grants DLF Publications CLIR Global Join Give CLIR Programs Digital Library Federation DLF Forum Digital Library of the Middle East Digitizing Hidden Special Collections and Archives Recordings at Risk Mellon Fellowships for Dissertation Research Leading Change Institute DLF eResearch Network Postdoctoral Fellowship Program DLF Digital Library Federation Toggle navigation About About DLF Our Staff Our Members Governance DLF Code of Conduct Events DLF Year-Round 2020 Forum: Online Past Forums DLF Forum News Social Events Checklist Child Care Fund Resources DLF Organizers’ Toolkit Blog and News #DLFcontribute Series Digitizing Special Formats DLF Cost Calculator DLF Jobs Board Groups DLF Working Groups CLIR/DLF Affiliates DLF Membership Cohorts Get Involved with Groups Opportunities Grants and Fellowships Authenticity Project DLF Community Calendar Data Curation Postdocs Community/Capacity Awards Post a Job/Find a Job Contact Get in Touch Stay Connected Join DLF Our Members Benefits DLF Digital Library Federation Toggle navigation About About DLF Our Staff Our Members Governance DLF Code of Conduct Events DLF Year-Round 2020 Forum: Online Past Forums DLF Forum News Social Events Checklist Child Care Fund Resources DLF Organizers’ Toolkit Blog and News #DLFcontribute Series Digitizing Special Formats DLF Cost Calculator DLF Jobs Board Groups DLF Working Groups CLIR/DLF Affiliates DLF Membership Cohorts Get Involved with Groups Opportunities Grants and Fellowships Authenticity Project DLF Community Calendar Data Curation Postdocs Community/Capacity Awards Post a Job/Find a Job Contact Get in Touch Stay Connected Join DLF Our Members Benefits DLF Forum Community Journalist Reflection: Betsy Yoon December 14, 2020 Gayle Community, DLF Forum News, Forum Fellows This post was written by Betsy Yoon (@betsyoon), who was selected to be one of this year’s virtual DLF Forum Community Journalists. Betsy Yoon (she/they) is an Adjunct Assistant Professor and OER/Reference Librarian at the College of Staten Island, CUNY and earned her MLIS in 2019. She also has a Master of International Affairs. She lives in occupied Lenapehoking and is a longtime member of Nodutdol, a grassroots organization of diasporic Koreans and comrades working to advance peace, decolonization, and self-determination on the Korean Peninsula and Turtle Island (North America). Interests include critical approaches to OER and openness, the free/libre software movement, understanding and addressing root causes over symptom management, and the role that libraries and archives can play in our collective liberation. One advantage of attending a virtual Forum is the fact that you no longer have to decide between two interesting panels that are happening at the same time. Before I realized that the sessions would be pre-recorded and available for viewing any time, I pored over the schedule trying to decide which of the two sessions to participate in per time block. What complicated my decision-making process was the fact that I was attending with two different angles. As a librarian, I do reference and work related to Open Educational Resources on my campus. But I am also part of Nodutdol(1), a community organization with a 20-year history in need of archiving and preservation. While not totally distinct (outreach is relevant for both roles, for instance), my two roles occasionally had divergent needs. For example, the Monday 5:00 pm session had both “Where It’s At: Using GIS Tools for Engagement and Outreach at an HBCU Library,” which seemed a good fit for my position in the academic library, and “Linked While Apart: Overcoming Division with Linked Data,” which seemed more applicable to my work with Nodutdol. So you can imagine my delight when I learned that not only would the sessions be available for asynchronous viewing, but that it would also be possible to engage in discussions about the panel on Slack. The panel that ended up being the most informative for my specific needs was “Finding a Good Fit: Scaling Best Practices for Born-Digital Material to Fit the Needs of Diverse Communities.” The presenters walked us through the process of setting up a small-scale digitization project and emphasized the iterative nature of the process. As a grassroots organization, we do not have the luxury of hiring digitization experts to guide us through the process, and it has been difficult to know how and where to get started. Margo Padilla’s saying that “good enough” digital preservation practices (as opposed to best practices) stood out to me as particularly relevant to my organization’s needs. The description of their organization’s custom modular setup and the numerous resources that the slides linked out to were also very helpful in offering some solid starting points to embark on a “good enough” digital preservation process. [image: Cover of Nodutdol’s October 2020 born-digital zine, 제국의 제재, or Sanctions of Empire]I also found the Learn@DLF sessions to be valuable in their specificity–in particular, I found the tools introduced in “Wax and Jekyll to build minimal digital projects” and “Oral History as data: Lightweight, static tool for publishing and analyzing transcripts” to be accessible in that they did not necessarily require investing time in a comprehensive platform or software and instead had relatively low barriers to entry. Wax, for example, describes itself as a “minimal computing project for producing digital exhibitions focused on longevity, low costs, and flexibility.” While not exactly the same, the spirit behind minimal computing reminded me of SPLOTs (what the acronym stands for is not yet fixed — one interpretation is Smallest Portable Open Learning Technology), which are intended to have low barriers to entry and “support more accessible, sustainable, and user-friendly ways to get publicly-engaged learning happening on the open web.” The question of platforms and sustainability is a topic that is directly relevant to my work in Open Educational Resources and with Nodutdol, and I always love to learn about technologies that provide access to knowledge creation mechanisms without locking you in to a specific system. Though the fact that this year’s DLF Forum was digital was due to the constraints of the pandemic, the thoughtful way in which the experience was designed was due to the efforts of the organizers. The asynchronous viewing options, the Slack interface, the provision of presentation slides and transcripts all made it possible for organizations such as mine to benefit from the expertise of the DLF community. While an in-person DLF Forum will no doubt have different considerations, I hope that some of the innovations of this year will be retained for future forums to ensure wide accessibility and participation from a wide variety of organizations and individuals. As a first-time DLF Forum participant, I am grateful to have been able to participate in this year’s virtual forum and look forward to continuing to learn from the DLF community! (1) Nodutdol is a grassroots organization of diasporic Koreans and comrades based in Lenapehoking/New York City seeking to advance peace, decolonization, and self-determination on the Korean Peninsula and on Turtle Island/North America. We advance our mission through political education, collective action, and principled solidarity. Related Previous Next   What's the DLF? networked member institutions and a robust community of practice—advancing research, learning, social justice, & the public good through the creative design and wise application of digital library technologies Contact CLIR+DLF c/o WeWork (CLIR) 12th Floor 2221 South Clark Street Arlington, VA 22202 E: info@diglib.org Elsewhere Twitter Facebook LinkedIn YouTube Email RSS Community Calendar #DLFteach Twitter Chat December 15, 2020 at 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm More info at https://wiki.diglib.org/Pedagogy Discovering Wesselmann - Virtual Event on Archives and CR Research December 16, 2020 at 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm Discovering Wesselmann: A Webinar from the WPIOn December 16th, the Wildenstein Platter Institute will host a conversation between our archivist, Samantha Rowe, and the project manager for the Tom Wesselmann Catalogue Raisonné, Huffa Frobes-Cross. Looking at the Tom Wesselmann Papers and the artist’s work, Huffa and Samantha will discuss how archival research intersects with and supports the development of this catalogué raisonne project. The role of… DCMI Open Meeting on Application Profiles December 17, 2020 at 11:00 am – 12:00 pm Online DCMI Open Meeting on Application ProfilesDecember 17 - 16:00 UTC (8am PST, 11am EST, 5pm CET)Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) is holding an open meeting to discuss a new work product, a specification for tabular application profiles.Many communities today create application profiles (APs) for their data. However, we lack a standard that would help those… More events & links here. On Twitter “As a first-time #DLFforum participant, I am grateful to have been able to participate in this year’s virtual forum… https://t.co/UPg23pbSFS18 hours ago Want to talk pedagogy and how it went in 2020? Need ideas for 2021? Talk with us tomorrow, Tuesday, December 15, at… https://t.co/qgi2SwZs7r20 hours ago Libraries, archives, cultural institutions, and communities of higher learning: the Job Board is the place to find… https://t.co/WjnL4LruC222 hours ago Unless otherwise indicated, content on this site is available for re-use under CC BY-SA 4.0 License CLIR www-diglib-org-9069 ---- Digital Library Federation - DLF CLIR Fellowships & Grants DLF Publications CLIR Global Join Give CLIR Programs Digital Library Federation DLF Forum Digital Library of the Middle East Digitizing Hidden Special Collections and Archives Recordings at Risk Mellon Fellowships for Dissertation Research Leading Change Institute DLF eResearch Network Postdoctoral Fellowship Program DLF Digital Library Federation Toggle navigation About About DLF Our Staff Our Members Governance DLF Code of Conduct Events DLF Year-Round 2020 Forum: Online Past Forums DLF Forum News Social Events Checklist Child Care Fund Resources DLF Organizers’ Toolkit Blog and News #DLFcontribute Series Digitizing Special Formats DLF Cost Calculator DLF Jobs Board Groups DLF Working Groups CLIR/DLF Affiliates DLF Membership Cohorts Get Involved with Groups Opportunities Grants and Fellowships Authenticity Project DLF Community Calendar Data Curation Postdocs Community/Capacity Awards Post a Job/Find a Job Contact Get in Touch Stay Connected Join DLF Our Members Benefits DLF Digital Library Federation Toggle navigation About About DLF Our Staff Our Members Governance DLF Code of Conduct Events DLF Year-Round 2020 Forum: Online Past Forums DLF Forum News Social Events Checklist Child Care Fund Resources DLF Organizers’ Toolkit Blog and News #DLFcontribute Series Digitizing Special Formats DLF Cost Calculator DLF Jobs Board Groups DLF Working Groups CLIR/DLF Affiliates DLF Membership Cohorts Get Involved with Groups Opportunities Grants and Fellowships Authenticity Project DLF Community Calendar Data Curation Postdocs Community/Capacity Awards Post a Job/Find a Job Contact Get in Touch Stay Connected Join DLF Our Members Benefits Thanks for joining us! 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Betsy Yoon (she/they) is an Adjunct Assistant Professor and OER/Reference Librarian at the College of Staten Island,... more DLF Forum Community Journalist Reflection: Carolina Hernandez December 11, 2020 Gayle Community, DLF Forum News, Forum Fellows This post was written by Carolina Hernandez (@carolina_hrndz), who was selected to be one of this year’s virtual DLF Forum Community Journalists. Carolina Hernandez is currently an Instruction Librarian at the University of Houston where she... more More Posts Jobs Working Groups NDSA Organizers' Toolkit Community Calendar DLF Contribute DLF Events Grants & Fellowships Digitization Cost Calculator Contact CLIR+DLF c/o WeWork (CLIR) 12th Floor 2221 South Clark Street Arlington, VA 22202 E: info@diglib.org Elsewhere Twitter Facebook LinkedIn YouTube Email RSS Community Calendar #DLFteach Twitter Chat December 15, 2020 at 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm More info at https://wiki.diglib.org/Pedagogy Discovering Wesselmann - Virtual Event on Archives and CR Research December 16, 2020 at 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm Discovering Wesselmann: A Webinar from the WPIOn December 16th, the Wildenstein Platter Institute will host a conversation between our archivist, Samantha Rowe, and the project manager for the Tom Wesselmann Catalogue Raisonné, Huffa Frobes-Cross. Looking at the Tom Wesselmann Papers and the artist’s work, Huffa and Samantha will discuss how archival research intersects with and supports the development of this catalogué raisonne project. The role of… DCMI Open Meeting on Application Profiles December 17, 2020 at 11:00 am – 12:00 pm Online DCMI Open Meeting on Application ProfilesDecember 17 - 16:00 UTC (8am PST, 11am EST, 5pm CET)Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) is holding an open meeting to discuss a new work product, a specification for tabular application profiles.Many communities today create application profiles (APs) for their data. However, we lack a standard that would help those… More events & links here. On Twitter “As a first-time #DLFforum participant, I am grateful to have been able to participate in this year’s virtual forum… https://t.co/UPg23pbSFS18 hours ago Want to talk pedagogy and how it went in 2020? Need ideas for 2021? Talk with us tomorrow, Tuesday, December 15, at… https://t.co/qgi2SwZs7r20 hours ago Libraries, archives, cultural institutions, and communities of higher learning: the Job Board is the place to find… https://t.co/WjnL4LruC222 hours ago Unless otherwise indicated, content on this site is available for re-use under CC BY-SA 4.0 License CLIR www-diglib-org-9855 ---- DLF Forum Community Journalist Reflection: Carolina Hernandez - DLF CLIR Fellowships & Grants DLF Publications CLIR Global Join Give CLIR Programs Digital Library Federation DLF Forum Digital Library of the Middle East Digitizing Hidden Special Collections and Archives Recordings at Risk Mellon Fellowships for Dissertation Research Leading Change Institute DLF eResearch Network Postdoctoral Fellowship Program DLF Digital Library Federation Toggle navigation About About DLF Our Staff Our Members Governance DLF Code of Conduct Events DLF Year-Round 2020 Forum: Online Past Forums DLF Forum News Social Events Checklist Child Care Fund Resources DLF Organizers’ Toolkit Blog and News #DLFcontribute Series Digitizing Special Formats DLF Cost Calculator DLF Jobs Board Groups DLF Working Groups CLIR/DLF Affiliates DLF Membership Cohorts Get Involved with Groups Opportunities Grants and Fellowships Authenticity Project DLF Community Calendar Data Curation Postdocs Community/Capacity Awards Post a Job/Find a Job Contact Get in Touch Stay Connected Join DLF Our Members Benefits DLF Digital Library Federation Toggle navigation About About DLF Our Staff Our Members Governance DLF Code of Conduct Events DLF Year-Round 2020 Forum: Online Past Forums DLF Forum News Social Events Checklist Child Care Fund Resources DLF Organizers’ Toolkit Blog and News #DLFcontribute Series Digitizing Special Formats DLF Cost Calculator DLF Jobs Board Groups DLF Working Groups CLIR/DLF Affiliates DLF Membership Cohorts Get Involved with Groups Opportunities Grants and Fellowships Authenticity Project DLF Community Calendar Data Curation Postdocs Community/Capacity Awards Post a Job/Find a Job Contact Get in Touch Stay Connected Join DLF Our Members Benefits DLF Forum Community Journalist Reflection: Carolina Hernandez December 11, 2020 Gayle Community, DLF Forum News, Forum Fellows This post was written by Carolina Hernandez (@carolina_hrndz), who was selected to be one of this year’s virtual DLF Forum Community Journalists. Carolina Hernandez is currently an Instruction Librarian at the University of Houston where she collaborates on creating inclusive learning environments for students. Previously, she was the Journalism Librarian at the University of Oregon, where she co-managed the Oregon Digital Newspaper Program. Her MLIS is from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her current research interests are in critical information literacy, inclusive pedagogy, and most recently, the intersection of digital collections and pedagogy.  I have been interested in attending the DLF Forum for a few years now, but the timing was never quite right until this year. With the conference being both online and free, it was a no brainer for me to finally attend. Considering I am an Instruction Librarian, though, it may seem like an odd choice for me. However, in part because of my previous experience with curating the Oregon Digital Newspaper Project at the University of Oregon, I’ve been interested in exploring the many ways digital library technologies and digital collections themselves can be incorporated into information literacy instruction. With COVID-19 entirely moving our instruction to the online realm, this interest has become an imperative. This conference has confirmed for me that there are many ways these areas intersect and could inform my instructional approach. While many of the sessions I watched did not directly address pedagogy, there was still so much I was able to glean from the presentations that I could take back to my realm. The main thing that popped out at me was the way so many presenters addressed accessibility in one way or another. Of course, this stood out the most with the “Creating Accessible and Inclusive Content” combo session, which began with Rebecca Bayeck’s clarification of the difference between accessibility and inclusivity, two terms that are often used interchangeably. While accessibility is more about making sure that the final product is “usable by people with all abilities,” Bayeck made the important distinction that inclusivity goes a step beyond that to also make sure individuals “feel comfortable/safe when using [it].” This is something I try to keep in mind when lesson planning, how it’s important to not only make sure that students are able to access the learning materials in whatever way works best for them, but that they also find the relevance of information literacy to their own lives. In another presentation from this session, Daniella Levy-Pinto and Mark Weiler noted some of these issues, such as “unlabeled buttons or links,” which can be hard to identify properly for those using screen readers. In fact, several presenters and attendees emphasized the importance of testing platforms and content with screen readers. Carli Spina also spoke about the importance of including audio descriptions and transcripts for audio-video content and also mentioned specific tools, such as CADET, that can help create these necessary points of access. CADET, or Caption and Description Editing Tool, is free and allows you to create captions and timed scripts, but it can also be used to more easily add audio descriptions.  Screenshot of the CADET interface. Image credit: Carli Spina It was helpful to see some of these accessibility best practices in action via the conference itself. Because presentations were recorded in advance, they were able to include both closed captioning and transcripts for each one. Conference coordinators encouraged attendees to make their postings in Slack accessible as well by including image descriptions whenever a picture was included. This emphasized for me how it’s not only important to create accessible learning materials, but to foster a community that encourages others to follow suit. It is a helpful model for my instruction team as we move forward with helping our liaison colleagues with their own instruction. As I’ve been considering how to build lesson plans and activities around digital collections, the other session that stood out to me was the panel “US Latino DH: Recovering the Past, Creating the Future.” The presenters Gabriela Baeza Ventura, Carolina Villarroel, Linda Garcia Merchant, and Lorena Gauthereau spoke about the US Latino Digital Humanities Program based at the University of Houston, my current institution. This made their work immediately relevant to mine, as they are already working with part of the same community I teach. What stood out to me most, though, was their use of “Omeka as Pedagogy.” Baeza Ventura talked about her specific experience with teaching an undergraduate class wherein students used Omeka to curate an exhibit, thus allowing them to “contribute to knowledge production.” This Freirean approach to teaching is very much in line with our instruction team’s programmatic information literacy outcomes, which focus on encouraging students to see themselves as information creators. With a lot about the coming year still up in the air, my team and I plan to continue our efforts to strengthen both the synchronous and asynchronous online learning content we offer as it seems likely the demand for online teaching will certainly not go away. I am looking forward to bringing a lot of these ideas from the DLF community back to my department and finding ways to incorporate them into our pedagogy. Related Previous Next   What's the DLF? networked member institutions and a robust community of practice—advancing research, learning, social justice, & the public good through the creative design and wise application of digital library technologies Contact CLIR+DLF c/o WeWork (CLIR) 12th Floor 2221 South Clark Street Arlington, VA 22202 E: info@diglib.org Elsewhere Twitter Facebook LinkedIn YouTube Email RSS Community Calendar #DLFteach Twitter Chat December 15, 2020 at 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm More info at https://wiki.diglib.org/Pedagogy Discovering Wesselmann - Virtual Event on Archives and CR Research December 16, 2020 at 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm Discovering Wesselmann: A Webinar from the WPIOn December 16th, the Wildenstein Platter Institute will host a conversation between our archivist, Samantha Rowe, and the project manager for the Tom Wesselmann Catalogue Raisonné, Huffa Frobes-Cross. Looking at the Tom Wesselmann Papers and the artist’s work, Huffa and Samantha will discuss how archival research intersects with and supports the development of this catalogué raisonne project. The role of… DCMI Open Meeting on Application Profiles December 17, 2020 at 11:00 am – 12:00 pm Online DCMI Open Meeting on Application ProfilesDecember 17 - 16:00 UTC (8am PST, 11am EST, 5pm CET)Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) is holding an open meeting to discuss a new work product, a specification for tabular application profiles.Many communities today create application profiles (APs) for their data. However, we lack a standard that would help those… More events & links here. On Twitter “As a first-time #DLFforum participant, I am grateful to have been able to participate in this year’s virtual forum… https://t.co/UPg23pbSFS18 hours ago Want to talk pedagogy and how it went in 2020? Need ideas for 2021? Talk with us tomorrow, Tuesday, December 15, at… https://t.co/qgi2SwZs7r20 hours ago Libraries, archives, cultural institutions, and communities of higher learning: the Job Board is the place to find… https://t.co/WjnL4LruC222 hours ago Unless otherwise indicated, content on this site is available for re-use under CC BY-SA 4.0 License CLIR www-diglib-org-9048 ---- DLF DLF Digital Library Federation Calls for Volunteers for 2021 Digital Preservation Conference The NDSA calls for volunteers to join our Planning Committee for the 2021 Digital Preservation conference. Digital Preservation (DigiPres) is the NDSA’s annual conference – open to members and non-members alike – focused on stewardship, curation, and preservation of digital information and cultural heritage. The 2021 meeting will take place on November 10-11th 2021 in St. Louis, Missouri, just after the DLF Forum.  NDSA is an affiliate of the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) and the Digital Library Federation (DLF), and the DigiPres conference is held in concert with the annual DLF Forum. CLIR continues to monitor the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, and after successfully pivoting to a virtual format for 2020, will be making a call on this for 2021 by early spring 2021.  Planning Committee responsibilities include: Defining a vision for the conference Crafting and distributing a Call for Proposals Reviewing and selecting proposals Identifying a keynote speaker Determining the conference schedule Moderating sessions Supporting membership through recruitment and mentorship efforts Collaborating with the DLF Forum planning committee on community events, equity and inclusion, and sponsorship opportunities We expect to have monthly group calls from January-November, and this year’s committee will have an exciting opportunity to creatively sustain some of the conveniences and benefits of our virtual platform as we negotiate meeting in person again.  Join us by completing this form by Friday, January 15th, and please share widely. We look forward to working with you! Tricia Patterson, 2021 Chair Jes Neal, 2021 Vice Chair/2022 Chair The post Calls for Volunteers for 2021 Digital Preservation Conference appeared first on DLF. DLF Forum Community Journalist Reflection: Betsy Yoon This post was written by Betsy Yoon (@betsyoon), who was selected to be one of this year’s virtual DLF Forum Community Journalists. Betsy Yoon (she/they) is an Adjunct Assistant Professor and OER/Reference Librarian at the College of Staten Island, CUNY and earned her MLIS in 2019. She also has a Master of International Affairs. She lives in occupied Lenapehoking and is a longtime member of Nodutdol, a grassroots organization of diasporic Koreans and comrades working to advance peace, decolonization, and self-determination on the Korean Peninsula and Turtle Island (North America). Interests include critical approaches to OER and openness, the free/libre software movement, understanding and addressing root causes over symptom management, and the role that libraries and archives can play in our collective liberation. One advantage of attending a virtual Forum is the fact that you no longer have to decide between two interesting panels that are happening at the same time. Before I realized that the sessions would be pre-recorded and available for viewing any time, I pored over the schedule trying to decide which of the two sessions to participate in per time block. What complicated my decision-making process was the fact that I was attending with two different angles. As a librarian, I do reference and work related to Open Educational Resources on my campus. But I am also part of Nodutdol(1), a community organization with a 20-year history in need of archiving and preservation. While not totally distinct (outreach is relevant for both roles, for instance), my two roles occasionally had divergent needs. For example, the Monday 5:00 pm session had both “Where It’s At: Using GIS Tools for Engagement and Outreach at an HBCU Library,” which seemed a good fit for my position in the academic library, and “Linked While Apart: Overcoming Division with Linked Data,” which seemed more applicable to my work with Nodutdol. So you can imagine my delight when I learned that not only would the sessions be available for asynchronous viewing, but that it would also be possible to engage in discussions about the panel on Slack. The panel that ended up being the most informative for my specific needs was “Finding a Good Fit: Scaling Best Practices for Born-Digital Material to Fit the Needs of Diverse Communities.” The presenters walked us through the process of setting up a small-scale digitization project and emphasized the iterative nature of the process. As a grassroots organization, we do not have the luxury of hiring digitization experts to guide us through the process, and it has been difficult to know how and where to get started. Margo Padilla’s saying that “good enough” digital preservation practices (as opposed to best practices) stood out to me as particularly relevant to my organization’s needs. The description of their organization’s custom modular setup and the numerous resources that the slides linked out to were also very helpful in offering some solid starting points to embark on a “good enough” digital preservation process. I also found the Learn@DLF sessions to be valuable in their specificity–in particular, I found the tools introduced in “Wax and Jekyll to build minimal digital projects” and “Oral History as data: Lightweight, static tool for publishing and analyzing transcripts” to be accessible in that they did not necessarily require investing time in a comprehensive platform or software and instead had relatively low barriers to entry. Wax, for example, describes itself as a “minimal computing project for producing digital exhibitions focused on longevity, low costs, and flexibility.” While not exactly the same, the spirit behind minimal computing reminded me of SPLOTs (what the acronym stands for is not yet fixed — one interpretation is Smallest Portable Open Learning Technology), which are intended to have low barriers to entry and “support more accessible, sustainable, and user-friendly ways to get publicly-engaged learning happening on the open web.” The question of platforms and sustainability is a topic that is directly relevant to my work in Open Educational Resources and with Nodutdol, and I always love to learn about technologies that provide access to knowledge creation mechanisms without locking you in to a specific system. Though the fact that this year’s DLF Forum was digital was due to the constraints of the pandemic, the thoughtful way in which the experience was designed was due to the efforts of the organizers. The asynchronous viewing options, the Slack interface, the provision of presentation slides and transcripts all made it possible for organizations such as mine to benefit from the expertise of the DLF community. While an in-person DLF Forum will no doubt have different considerations, I hope that some of the innovations of this year will be retained for future forums to ensure wide accessibility and participation from a wide variety of organizations and individuals. As a first-time DLF Forum participant, I am grateful to have been able to participate in this year’s virtual forum and look forward to continuing to learn from the DLF community! (1) Nodutdol is a grassroots organization of diasporic Koreans and comrades based in Lenapehoking/New York City seeking to advance peace, decolonization, and self-determination on the Korean Peninsula and on Turtle Island/North America. We advance our mission through political education, collective action, and principled solidarity. The post DLF Forum Community Journalist Reflection: Betsy Yoon appeared first on DLF. DLF Forum Community Journalist Reflection: Carolina Hernandez This post was written by Carolina Hernandez (@carolina_hrndz), who was selected to be one of this year’s virtual DLF Forum Community Journalists. Carolina Hernandez is currently an Instruction Librarian at the University of Houston where she collaborates on creating inclusive learning environments for students. Previously, she was the Journalism Librarian at the University of Oregon, where she co-managed the Oregon Digital Newspaper Program. Her MLIS is from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her current research interests are in critical information literacy, inclusive pedagogy, and most recently, the intersection of digital collections and pedagogy.  I have been interested in attending the DLF Forum for a few years now, but the timing was never quite right until this year. With the conference being both online and free, it was a no brainer for me to finally attend. Considering I am an Instruction Librarian, though, it may seem like an odd choice for me. However, in part because of my previous experience with curating the Oregon Digital Newspaper Project at the University of Oregon, I’ve been interested in exploring the many ways digital library technologies and digital collections themselves can be incorporated into information literacy instruction. With COVID-19 entirely moving our instruction to the online realm, this interest has become an imperative. This conference has confirmed for me that there are many ways these areas intersect and could inform my instructional approach. While many of the sessions I watched did not directly address pedagogy, there was still so much I was able to glean from the presentations that I could take back to my realm. The main thing that popped out at me was the way so many presenters addressed accessibility in one way or another. Of course, this stood out the most with the “Creating Accessible and Inclusive Content” combo session, which began with Rebecca Bayeck’s clarification of the difference between accessibility and inclusivity, two terms that are often used interchangeably. While accessibility is more about making sure that the final product is “usable by people with all abilities,” Bayeck made the important distinction that inclusivity goes a step beyond that to also make sure individuals “feel comfortable/safe when using [it].” This is something I try to keep in mind when lesson planning, how it’s important to not only make sure that students are able to access the learning materials in whatever way works best for them, but that they also find the relevance of information literacy to their own lives. In another presentation from this session, Daniella Levy-Pinto and Mark Weiler noted some of these issues, such as “unlabeled buttons or links,” which can be hard to identify properly for those using screen readers. In fact, several presenters and attendees emphasized the importance of testing platforms and content with screen readers. Carli Spina also spoke about the importance of including audio descriptions and transcripts for audio-video content and also mentioned specific tools, such as CADET, that can help create these necessary points of access. CADET, or Caption and Description Editing Tool, is free and allows you to create captions and timed scripts, but it can also be used to more easily add audio descriptions.  It was helpful to see some of these accessibility best practices in action via the conference itself. Because presentations were recorded in advance, they were able to include both closed captioning and transcripts for each one. Conference coordinators encouraged attendees to make their postings in Slack accessible as well by including image descriptions whenever a picture was included. This emphasized for me how it’s not only important to create accessible learning materials, but to foster a community that encourages others to follow suit. It is a helpful model for my instruction team as we move forward with helping our liaison colleagues with their own instruction. As I’ve been considering how to build lesson plans and activities around digital collections, the other session that stood out to me was the panel “US Latino DH: Recovering the Past, Creating the Future.” The presenters Gabriela Baeza Ventura, Carolina Villarroel, Linda Garcia Merchant, and Lorena Gauthereau spoke about the US Latino Digital Humanities Program based at the University of Houston, my current institution. This made their work immediately relevant to mine, as they are already working with part of the same community I teach. What stood out to me most, though, was their use of “Omeka as Pedagogy.” Baeza Ventura talked about her specific experience with teaching an undergraduate class wherein students used Omeka to curate an exhibit, thus allowing them to “contribute to knowledge production.” This Freirean approach to teaching is very much in line with our instruction team’s programmatic information literacy outcomes, which focus on encouraging students to see themselves as information creators. With a lot about the coming year still up in the air, my team and I plan to continue our efforts to strengthen both the synchronous and asynchronous online learning content we offer as it seems likely the demand for online teaching will certainly not go away. I am looking forward to bringing a lot of these ideas from the DLF community back to my department and finding ways to incorporate them into our pedagogy. The post DLF Forum Community Journalist Reflection: Carolina Hernandez appeared first on DLF. DLF Forum Community Journalist Reflection: Rebecca Bayeck This post was written by Rebecca Bayeck (@rybayeck), who was selected to be one of this year’s virtual DLF Forum Community Journalists. Rebecca Y. Bayeck is a dual-PhD holder in Learning Design & Technology and Comparative & International Education from the Pennsylvania State University. Currently a CLIR postdoctoral fellow at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture where she engages in digital research, data curation, and inclusive design. Her interdisciplinary research is at the interface of several fields including the learning sciences, literacy studies, and game studies. At this intersection, she explores literacies and learning in games, particularly board games, the interaction of culture, space, and context on design, learning, research, literacies.  The year 2020 is, without a doubt, complex, filled with multiple challenges as well as opportunities. From remote working/online learning environments to conferencing in a virtual space, everyone has tried and is still trying to adjust to the “new normal” or maybe “new abnormal”. Among those adjusting to the world of social distancing is the Digital Library Federation (DLF) Forum. The 2020 DLF Forum was my first introduction to and participation in the work completed by this community of librarians and library enthusiasts.   The 2020 DLF Forum was in a virtual format. Though I would have loved to visit Baltimore, interact in-person with my CLIR cohort, and experience the food culture of Baltimore restaurants, the virtual space still provided a space for encounters and meaningful interactions. The conference organizers used two platforms: Aviary for pre-recorded presentation viewing and Slack for questions and dialogue with attendees. Both platforms created a unique and complimentary online experience. For instance, each video had captions and a downloadable transcript, making the content more accessible. Slack discussions created a sense of community, and gave me a sense of belonging through the interaction among participants. It was a common practice for participants through emojis to like, applaud, or reply to a post/comment (Figure 1). Slack’s direct message option further personalized my experience of the online conference. I directly exchanged with some attendees, and established personal rapport. However, my major takeaway from the 2020 DLF Forum was inclusion, shown in the accessibility efforts deployed by the organizers, and in the diversity of topics covered by presenters. The conference brought to the forefront research/topics that have received less attention in the past, and should be discussed today across disciplines and fields.  Stacy Reardon and Michael Lange from UC Berkeley presentation on Can We Digitize This? Should We? Navigating Ethics, Law, and Policy in Bringing Collections to Digital Life was so inspiring. In my view, it captured the essence of digitization and how it should be done. It is important for individuals engaged in digitization efforts to always ask whether “the value to cultural communities, researchers, or the public outweighs the potential for harm or exploitation of the people, resources, or knowledge.”  It is about not harming or causing harm to the various stakeholders who will see or engage with our final product. This balancing principle can be applied to any research, design, development, or digitization endeavors. Paraphrasing Stacey Patton, 2020 DLF Forum plenary keynote speaker, “how the knowledge came about, [who it will harm, and who will claim ownership of it] is as important as the knowledge itself.” Juliet Hardesty from Indiana University’s presentation on Mitigating Bias Through Controlled Vocabularies gave a powerful insight into why it is important to incorporate community vocabulary to broaden access to knowledge/data, and fight biases.  Being a panelist in the session Creating accessible and inclusive content and presenting on Addressing Issues of Accessibility: Urgency in a World of Social Distancing, added to my experience. My interest in issues of accessibility for blind/low vision, deaf/hard of hearing individuals in this era of social distancing facilitated conversation with other session presenters on the accessibility of this conference for screen reader users. From our conversation, it became obvious that the organizers needed to be commended for providing scripts and captions for the recorded videos. Dee, who is blind and uses a screen reader to access contents, and Micky, who is sighted, but did use a screen reader said about their experiences:  Dee: I do appreciate knowing that there is a caption and there is like, the scripts and everything. It does make you feel more welcome and it does make you realize yes, they’re making an effort. Applause should be given for, you know, for the effort and definitely you know even the fact there is like, an accessibility session or stream, that’s important. Micky: But if I could say one thing is, I think, I know people were making efforts into making it accessible. I think applause is very much deserved. and I think keep, we got to keep trying and we gotta keep finding innovative ways of working together and collaborating. So I would want people to feel encouraged that there’s more work to be done. But let’s pursue it as a team and then pursue it together because it’s worth it. Nevertheless, Dee and Micky did have some suggestions for creating accessible conference experiences:  Dee: The first thing I may say would be to include in the planning committee. Kind of representation from all the groups that you would like to have at the conference, because they will help think about, in this case, about screen readers and which tool and will it be interactive and you know if we want to make it interactive, is there an option or how can we? You know, it’s necessary for someone to think about those things…ensure to have broad representation in the planning committee, or if not in the planning committee, make a point to reach out and consult. So, engage with people with lived experience of whatever the conference you know is trying to accomplish.  Micky:  If I could make a suggestion that might just be to have a panel with like, just in this particular case, disabled leaders in the GLAM field. you know there’s, I’m sure, a ton out there Read More The post DLF Forum Community Journalist Reflection: Rebecca Bayeck appeared first on DLF. DLF Forum Community Journalist Reflection: Ana Hilda Figueroa de Jesús This post was written by Ana Hilda Figueroa de Jesús, who was selected to be one of this year’s virtual DLF Forum Community Journalists. Ana Hilda Figueroa de Jesús will be graduating next spring from the Universidad de Puerto Rico in Río Piedras with a BA in History of Art. Her research interest focuses on education, accessibility and publicity of minority, revolutionary Puerto Rican art including topics such as race, gender and transnationalism. She has interned at Visión Doble: Journal of Criticism and History of Art, and volunteered at MECA International Art Fair 2019 and Instituto Nueva Escuela. Ana works as assistant for the curator and director of the Museum of History, Anthropology and Art at UPR. She is currently a Katzenberger Art History Intern at Smithsonian Libraries. Community, a repeated concept during the 2020 Virtual DLF Forum, transitioned from a word to a mantra. From my home in Puerto Rico, I listened and learned from peers who shared their professional and academic experiences. It was my first time attending this Forum. Lots of questions popped into my mind, particularly: Why would staff insist on creating a virtual “community,” of four days duration, with an audience currently experiencing and being exposed to social injustice within their surroundings and media? What does “building a community” mean?  I would like to thank the DLF staff’s commitment. When I received notice that I was selected as a Community Journalist, my first observation was my last name. The correct spelling and grammar of my name are much more than my cover letter, it represents and brings value to where I come from and those who came before me. I noticed the correct inclusion of the accent mark on “de Jesús.” In that moment I knew my voice would be respected in the discourse. The physical distance between attendees was no obstacle. The Forum implemented digital platforms such as Slack and Aviary. Presentations included transcripts and, since they were previously recorded, I could pause and rewind the video when a new term was introduced. If anyone had a tech problem or just wasn’t familiar with the apps, staff was available to help immediately. Each speaker mentioned their preferred pronouns and acknowledged the indigenous homelands from where they spoke. Being inclusive both in theory and practice was a priority. As a Puerto Rican woman of color with low resources, a first-generation college student and an undergraduate scholar, I saw benefit in this opportunity.   The Forum sessions reminded me of particular aspects of archives as spaces of data justice, cultural and social responsibility, knowledge production, and alternate historical narratives. In Mitigating Bias Through Controlled Vocabularies, Juliet Hardesty explained the importance of being conscious of racial categories, first nation groups, non-binary people, and others when including metadata such as subjects, genres, and languages. As an example, she discussed linked data across institutions and the distinction between “exactMatch” and “closeMatch.” Through this conference, I sought to learn and carry out new interdisciplinary perspectives in my roles as a Katzenberger Art History Intern at Smithsonian Institution Libraries and as an Assistant to the Curator and Director at the History, Anthropology and Art Museum of the University of Puerto Rico. One of the most relevant presentations for me was Curationist: Designing a Metadata Standard and Taxonomy for an Open Cultural Ecosystem by Sharon Mizota. She explained the anti-colonialist, anti-racist, feminist, queer, accessible, and multilingual lens of data. Also, she examined taxonomy guidelines that included sensitive subject areas. To illustrate this, she reflected on adopting the terms “Latinx” instead of “Latino” or “Hispanic,” and “homeless people” instead of “homelessness” or “tramp.”  I also attended discussions of human rights movements such as BLM, Community Activism and Digital Archiving in the Era of George Floyd. Other social matters were considered in the lightning talk titled Pandemic Pivot: How to Take Your Event Online, Reach New Audiences, and Build Even Stronger Communities, and the panel Creating a Virtual Community for Virtual Reality: Challenges and Solutions for Program Building During a Pandemic. Another engaging talk was US Latino Digital Humanities: Recovering the Past, Creating the Future. I would like to mention a crucial keynote by Dr. Linda Garcia Merchant when discussing Chicana feminist scholar Maria Cotera, [The importance of understanding] “the archive as a living active experience of “encuentro” between the present and the past, with the potential to enact new strategies of allegiance and a new praxis”. I believe that this idea of encounter is linked with the DLF Forum’s “building a community” proposal. We must review our reactions and interactions with each other, including those within academia. Our involvement with the writing of histories makes us judges of how and what is told. Something I learned from this experience is that beyond our professional responsibilities, we have a social contract and accountability. Information must be accessible to traditionally marginalized public. Stories, agents and terms that once were excluded from the official narrative must be taken into consideration. The 2020 Virtual DLF Forum included more than spaces for education. It was about feedback, mutual aid, being open to new perspectives, and building a community.     The post DLF Forum Community Journalist Reflection: Ana Hilda Figueroa de Jesús appeared first on DLF. DLF Forum Community Journalist Reflection: Arabeth Balasko This post was written by Arabeth Balasko, who was selected to be one of this year’s virtual DLF Forum Community Journalists. Arabeth Balasko (she/her) is an archivist and historian dedicated to public service and proactive stewardship. As a professional archivist, her overarching goals are to curate collections that follow a shared standardization practice, are user-centric, and are searchable and accessible to all via physical and digital platforms. She believes that an archive should be a welcoming place for all people and should be an inclusive environment which advocates to collect, preserve, and make accessible the stories and histories of diverse voices. By getting individuals involved in telling THEIR story and making THEIR history part of the ever-growing story of humanity, we all win! The Dawn of the Great Archival Shift Over centuries, archives and archivists have been heralded as the keepers, the stewards of records, stories, and collective memory. However, at times this stewardship has come from a place of exclusion, centered heavily around white, English-speaking experiences. Countless stories, memories, and events have been omitted from the larger historical narrative or have been rewritten from a skewed perspective. Now (and unfortunately for centuries) racism and police brutality has permeated our country’s history. Lack of racial equity has led to whitewashed and white supremacy-based collection policies that are geared towards uplifting and showcasing one-sided narratives, while often overlooking, overwriting, and suppressing contributions and accolades of Black, Indigenous, and People of Color. So many times, it is easier for folks in the GLAM sectors to claim neutrality, to leave it to the next generation, to look the other way, and focus only on the past and occasionally, the present. From being overworked, under-supported, and oftentimes misunderstood, archivists have grown tired, and with tiredness comes apathy. Other times it is simply not knowing what to do and/or not having the “authority” to make actual changes in an organization. This too leads to burnout, turnover, and once again, apathy. The humanities profession’s lack of diversity and equity has engrained a culture of dysfunction in several of the GLAM organizations across the country. During the 2020 DLF Forum, it was apparent that I was not the only person who felt this way. Several of the sessions focused on how to become a more proactive, mindful, and accountable steward, while also taking care of your own mental health and well-being. From practicing mindfulness and relaxation techniques, to reflecting upon language choices in metadata and/or finding aids, to reviewing your institution’s digitally available content for equity and inclusiveness; this conference truly spoke to my soul in many different ways. However, during the conference, one overarching question that I continued asking myself was – “How can I, as an archivist, ensure that all folks feel represented in an archive? Is this possible?” Upon a week’s reflection and allowing myself some time to digest the rich information and ideas posed during these diverse sessions, I came to reframe my question as, “What can we as archivists do to support the fight for archival equity?” In my opinion, one big step archival repositories and the archivists in those repositories can take is to not promote the idea of neutrality. Oftentimes, archives can shy away from hard histories, hard conversations – they can minimize hurts, and maximize virtues, but I feel that is a misstep. History is ugly, sad, beautiful, heartwarming, heartbreaking, and real. It happened. You cannot change that. BUT you can work to showcase how it happened, why it happened, and help reshape it for today’s generation through modernized lenses. By uplifting the stories and voices of BIPOC folks, which have traditionally been omitted from the collected narrative for centuries, and reinterpreting and reclaiming the stories of those lost, overwritten, and marginalized throughout history, archival repositories can truly become beacons of change throughout the GLAM sectors. Many folks, especially those who identify as BIPOC, feel they are not represented in an archive – or if they are, their stories and experiences have been retold without their voice, their input, or their permission. As an archivist it is so important to work to build relationships and connections with communities and foster and tend to those relationships over the years. So many times, archival organizations take on collections, sign deeds of gift, and then the relationship ends. I think this is a huge misstep for any archival repository. By investing in communities – communities will invest in you. With each new generation comes new opportunities to promote equity and accountability throughout archival repositories. Each generation of archivists should be reflecting and reevaluating how stories are (and traditionally have been) collected, maintained, presented, and made (or not made) accessible. I cannot tell you how many times I have worked with patrons, students, and volunteers, who have expressed to me that they feel that they are not represented, they are not “seen” amongst the archival collections they are exploring. It truly breaks my heart, and it means that we, as archival professionals are falling short, and we need to do better and be better for ALL users. I feel that inclusivity is key to create a well-rounded narrative, where users/patrons/researchers/etc. can “see themselves” reflected in the archives and collections. It has been my experience that when someone feels invested in and has input to how they are being represented, there is a higher propensity for folks to champion for the survival and continuation of an archive. By getting community members and groups invested in telling their story, identifying themselves in their own way and own language/words, and by not leaving it up to the archivist to make assumptions, collections that are taken in become more authentic and personal. During this conference, I also reflected a lot on the right to be remembered and the right to be forgotten. Nobody owes anyone their story. It is so important for archivists (including myself) to remember that. Some stories are too painful for folks to share, some are not ready (and may never be), and some are Read More The post DLF Forum Community Journalist Reflection: Arabeth Balasko appeared first on DLF. DLF Forum Community Journalist Reflection: Jocelyn Hurtado This post was written by Jocelyn Hurtado, who was selected to be one of this year’s virtual DLF Forum Community Journalists. Jocelyn Hurtado is a native Miamian who worked as an archivist at a community repository for four year. She is experienced in working with manuscript, art and artifact collections pertaining to a community of color whose history has often been overlooked. Ms. Hurtado, understands the responsibility and the significance of the work done by community archivists and has seen firsthand that this work not only affects the present-day community but that it will continue to have a deep-rooted impact on generations to come. Ms. Hurtado also has experience promoting collections through exhibits, presentations, instructional sessions, and other outreach activities which includes the development and execution of an informative historical web-series video podcast.  Ms. Hurtado earned her Associate Degree in Anthropology from Miami-Dade College and a Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology from the University of Florida. She also completed the Georgia Archives Institute Program.  This year has been full of new experiences and we all have faced the challenges of adapting to the new professional realities of relying on technology to complete our work, promoting the goals of our organization all while staying connected with communities we serve virtually. Our phones and laptops are now on the top of the list of tools we cannot function without and it’s arguably just as valuable as a pencil or finding aid to an archivist, at least from my own personal experience. As a first-time attendee and a community journalist, I was excited and unsure of how the 2020 DLF Forum would operate on a virtual platform. Like millions around the world I’ve been working remotely for months and learned to adapt but I was still hesitant on how attendees would be able to truly connect to the panelist, fellow attendees and with the subject of each talk remotely. It is no secret that librarians, archivists, historians or anyone in a related field have a tendency to be introverted and from my own personal experience starting a conversation, connecting with others and networking can be stressful. However, I was quickly positively surprised on how easy it was to start a conversation at the conference. I enjoyed the Slack application in which attendees were able to share thoughts, ideas and pose questions about each session. I certainly viewed more opinions, concepts and panels virtually than I probably would have in person. I liked the fact that I could have access to the sessions anytime which is great for anyone who has a busy schedule as well as any problems accessing the videos due to the digital divide caused by finances or other factors such as remoteness or environmental factors such as hurricanes or storms. In the opening plenary I was delighted to hear the acknowledgement of the indigenous people and their lands in regards to the location of the original conference and area that was being discussed. The keynote speaker, Dr. Stacy Patton, was simply incredible and asked us to grapple with a very important question: Do Black Lives Matter in galleries, libraries, archives and museums? I believe we all know and can say historically the answer is no, black lives have systematically been erased and unwelcome in these spaces. 2020 has become the year of reckoning for some institutions and for many in this field that have been part of this problem. Thus, the question becomes what now? How can meaningful and genuine change come about? There is no one size fits all plan and up to in the field to do the work and realize there will never be a timeline or an exact moment where it will be marked as done. I had the opportunity to ask Dr. Patton a question and was also able to see other questions posed by fellow attendees. It created a hub for sharing experiences and problems encountered in our own institutions which was able to foster a connected moment and experience. Dr. Patton hit the nail on the head when reciting the Claude McKay poem, “If We Must Die.” It was a couple of days before Election Day and oh how the words aptly describe the current era and the rawness of it all. During her speech I reflected on the work of Schomberg and many other black intellectuals whose worked and made centers were black lives do matter and their stories were properly preserved. I also reflected on my experience working at a black community repository, in a space made for black lives to matter. I also recognize another important question: Which Black Lives Matter in these spaces? Women, individuals overlooked due to their sexual orientation, and those from a lower socioeconomic status or position have had their stories overlooked. There is so much work to be done and this has encouraged and highlighted the importance of pushing the boundaries and the sharing of ideas. The Recording Restorative Justice and Accountability: The Burnham-Nobles Digital Archive presented by Gina Nortonsmith, Raymond Wilkes, Amanda Rust and Drew Facklam was inspiring. The work done by the team of telling the stories of victims and giving a voice is imperative. Prior to this session I did not know of The Civil Rights and the Restorative Justice Project and was glad to learn about the research being conducted along with support policy initiatives on racial hate crimes during the Jim Crow Era and that justice is still being pursued for the victims and their families. The statement “I like to think of the investigator as the foundation for an archive, while the archivist is the architect and engineer, providing structure and organization in order to complete the building, i.e. the archive” by Raymond Wilkes beautifully explained the importance of the collaborative efforts and the relationship member of the team had to the task. I am looking forward to next year’s DLF Forum and hope/expect it to continue the focus on the community. The post DLF Forum Community Journalist Reflection: Jocelyn Hurtado appeared first on DLF. DLF Forum Community Journalist Reflection: Melde Rutledge This post was written by Melde Rutledge (@MeldeRutledge), who was selected to be one of this year’s virtual DLF Forum Community Journalists. Melde Rutledge is the Digital Collections Librarian at Wake Forest University’s Z. Smith Reynolds Library. He is responsible for leading the library’s digitization services—primarily in support of ZSR’s Special Collections and Archives, as well as providing support for university departments.  He earned his MLIS from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, and has served in librarianship for approximately 12 years. His background also includes 8 years of newspaper journalism, where he wrote news, sports, and feature articles for several locally published newspapers in North Carolina.  He currently lives in Winston-Salem, NC, with his wife and three sons. Since 2016, I’ve appreciated the opportunity to attend and participate in the annual DLF Forum. I look forward to the great takeaways to share with my colleagues back home. Let’s also not forget the wonderful venues where the Forum takes place (Las Vegas, Tampa, etc.). Needless to say, a global pandemic emerged this year, resulting in the 2020 DLF Forum to occur virtually.  As I reflect on this year’s installment of the DLF Forum, it’s difficult not to compare the Forum’s first virtual event with the previous in-person gatherings—particularly in regards to size. The fact that the 2020 event had more than 2,000 registered participants is a testament to the popularity and value of DLF. Being that it also surpassed the overall in-person attendance record (just over 800 people) of the 2017 DLF Forum in Pittsburgh is also noteworthy. The segment that I look forward to the most from the DLF Forums are the opening plenaries, because of its great keynote speakers. Stacey Patton provided an excellent talk highlighting the significance of preserving the black experience in galleries, libraries, archives, and museums (GLAMs)—covering several cohesive themes during her one-hour-plus speech—including the COVID-19 pandemic, hiring diverse staff in GLAMs, America’s ongoing issue with racism, and the social and racial parallels of then and now.  One of my key takeaways of her talk is spotlighting the need for institutions to be “ready and equipped” during the pandemic to educate students. This was suggested to be accomplished by providing research materials remotely, but also asking, “What difference does this make that we’re digitizing things? How is this power to be used to protect documents when we may not know their importance? What about the digital divide and access to these materials?” These indeed are very important thoughts to me, as a key role of my work is providing digital access to materials tucked away within our special collections and archives. And it was great that presenters addressed Patton’s questions throughout the DLF sessions. “‘Can We Digitize This? Should We?’” Navigating Ethics, Law, and Policy in Bringing Collections to Digital Life” is a great example. This was presented by Stacy Reardon and Michael Lange from UC Berkeley Library. I was impressed with their Digital Lifecycle Program, and the ethical considerations embedded within their workflow. I have interest in seeing how institutions confront the issue regarding the digitization of materials of underprivileged groups, as well as how they approach the handling of culturally sensitive materials, accessibility, and appropriate metadata creation. As Julie Hardesty pointed out in her presentation entitled, “Mitigating Bias Through Controlled Vocabularies,” when working with metadata, you can become familiar with several widely used controlled vocabularies. However, working with large common vocabularies can “paint broad strokes that cover up more than they should, that generalize or simplify too much, and show the biases of dominant groups such as the white male viewpoint. Additionally, the process to change and update terms can be slow to keep up.” When I listen to presentations on this theme, speakers routinely note the value of incorporating community engagement. A nice example of this was shared during the presentation, “Curationist: Designing a Metadata Standard and Taxonomy for an Open Cultural Ecosystem.” Curationist.org is a site that finds and collects important cultural and historical resources that are within the public domain. As explained by presenter Sharon Mizota, community users will be able to include their own metadata to records on this site.  Overall, I salute all the organizers and presenters for producing an impressive 2020 DLF program. And kudos to the partnership between CLIR/DLF and the HBCU Library Alliance. As an HBCU graduate, I appreciate programming that covers how HBCUs approach digitization, and the stories behind the unique materials that are digitally preserved, especially amid the COVID-19 pandemic. COVID-19 is indeed a big factor in how many of us in this profession are conducting decision making. The wealth of relevant content in this year’s DLF was very timely in this regard. The post DLF Forum Community Journalist Reflection: Melde Rutledge appeared first on DLF. DLF Forum Community Journalist Reflection: Amanda Guzman This post was written by Amanda Guzman, who was selected to be one of this year’s virtual DLF Forum Community Journalists. Amanda Guzman is an anthropological archaeologist with a PhD in Anthropology (Archaeology) from the University of California, Berkeley. She specializes in the field of museum anthropology with a research focus on the history of collecting and exhibiting Puerto Rico at the intersection of issues of intercultural representation and national identity formation. She applies her collections experience as well as her commitment to working with and for multiple publics to her object-based inquiry teaching practice that privileges a more equitable, co-production of knowledge in the classroom through accessible engagement in cultural work. Amanda is currently the Ann Plato Post-Doctoral Fellow in Anthropology and American Studies at Trinity College in Hartford, CT.  On Belonging: There is that decisive moment for me at every academic conference that I’ve ever attended – whether it is one that I frequent regularly (even annually) or one that I’m trying out for the first time like the DLF Forum this year – where I’m sketching out my trajectory of movement and negotiating what my belonging might look like in the space. This moment exists in the scanning of the conference program and translating of different panel abstracts. This moment exists in those standstill seconds in the threshold of a panel room as you decide whether to enter or not, perhaps as you notice a familiar or friendly face.  Our current pandemic moment has transformed how we collectively gather in profound ways and brought into sharp relief the pre-existing structural social inequities of access. And yet, the decisive moment of my new belonging in the space of the DLF Forum was from a distance, and yet was not solitary beginning with a wave of introductions among first-time attendees and offers by long-time Forum-goers of support on Slack and extending to the generosity of time, experience, and transparency offered to me by my DLF mentor, Maggie McCready in our Zoom conversations. The decisive moment ultimately resolved, as I left the metaphorical door threshold to take a seat, during Dr. Stacy Patton’s keynote as she seamlessly moved between commentary on national news, archival text, pedagogical practice and her own powerful personal narrative of coming to belong in spaces not made for her experience and of coming to build new spaces of belonging.  Activating the Archive by Reframing History as Practice: One of the most compelling interventions that Dr. Patton articulated in her keynote speech was a call for the DLF community to reframe their implicit understanding of history not only as a physical archive of a material past but also as an active departure point for our contemporary reorientation and empowerment. Interweaving meaning and purpose across institutional case-studies, she referred to the concept of “historical touchstones” that present us with “context, guidance, and perspective” that have the analytical potential to ground our experience in the positionalities as a “keeper of knowledge” with a “traditional role of being…guide” to students.     Keepers of Knowledge: This proposal of mobilizing history towards how we critically approach our present-day practice in the field echoed throughout the subsequent forum presentations and was especially materialized for me in the citational acts of emphasizing a theoretical focus on an ethics of care. In the “Combo Session: Implementing responsible workflows and practices,” ethics of care was centered in an appreciation for “relationships with uneven power relations,” a methodological re-framing of both those actors who study and those communities who are studied as equal “independent rational subjects” and a researcher responsibility to identify the multi-faceted capacity of archival work to inflict harm. This work was discussed, for example, with the case-study of the archival process at the University of California, Berkeley for selecting indigenous cultural material for digitization and if to be digitized, under what terms of public access. In other words, professional ways of working were recast beyond the technicalities of how archival material may be best processed and digitally preserved to include and more importantly, to privilege a recognition of academic histories of community extraction and an opportunity for academic futures of more collaborative, equitable workflows.   Student Guides: Building on this important reflection on institutional practices, the US Latino DH panel entitled, “Recovering the Past, Creating the Future” brought the historically based practice conversation into the context of the undergraduate classroom. During their presentation, I was reminded of Dr. Patton’s earlier caution that digital work could not be the “end all be all” (even among undergraduates who are often thought to be “digital natives”) given how it is “alien to flow of time…nuances” and “abbreviates how we understand things”.  Presenters Carolina Villarroel, Gabriela Baeza Ventura, Lorena Gauthereau and Linda Garcia Merchant accepted the challenge and outlined a pedagogical design that built a student theoretical consciousness of the silences inherent in archival representations of the human experience and equipped students methodologically through programs like Omeka to emerge as digital storytellers of new stories. Moreover, the presenters destabilized the curatorial authority of collection-holding institutions by decolonizing where and how we locate archives with models such as post-custodial archives (describing archival management in which the community maintains physical custody of material records) and migrant archives. Both panels therefore expanded the boundaries of what constitutes archival practice – in terms of how we keep existing knowledge and how we teach knowledge production – by expanding what we care for to who we care with. At the Close:             Aliya Reich, Program Manager for Conferences and Events at the Digital Library Federation, remarked at the start of the forum that the goal of our gathering was “building community while apart”.  Joy Banks, Program Officer at the Council on Library and Information Resources, responded on Slack to a participant struggling with the digital conference platform that “there is no behind this year”.  Together, their words bring me – in concert with Dr. Patton’s keynote assertion of our roles as “guardians of the past and present” and “architects of Read More The post DLF Forum Community Journalist Reflection: Amanda Guzman appeared first on DLF. DLF Forum Community Journalist Reflection: Shelly Black This post was written by Shelly Black (@ShellyYBlack), who was selected to be one of this year’s virtual DLF Forum Community Journalists. Shelly Black is the Cyma Rubin Library Fellow at North Carolina State University Libraries where she supports digital preservation in the Special Collections Research Center. She also works on a strategic project involving immersive technology spaces and digital scholarship workflows. Previously she was a marketing specialist at the University of Arizona Libraries and promoted library services and programs through social media, news stories, and newsletters. Shelly was recently selected as a 2020 Emerging Leader by the American Library Association and is a provisional member of the Academy of Certified Archivists. She received a MLIS and a Certificate in Archival Studies from the University of Arizona where she was a Knowledge River scholar. She also holds a BFA in photography and minor in Japanese from the UA. The weekend protests began in response to George Floyd’s murder, I was driving across the country for my first post-MLIS job. I listened to the radio, scrolled through the news and felt the country in pain. Reflecting on how volatile 2020 has been, I’m grateful that the DLF Forum was freely open to all and held online. As a graduate student, my exposure to digital curation and preservation focused on theory more than practice. So I was eager to learn about current strategies and tools. Considering the anti-racist commitments made recently by numerous organizations, I also looked forward to hearing about projects to improve discoverability of marginalized people in the historical record. Many sessions covered computational methods used by librarians, archivists, and researchers to improve our understanding of, and increase access to, digitized materials. Juan Manuel García Fernández and Nickoal Eichmann-Kalwara presented on “Digital El Diario and Archival Justice in the Digital Humanities Graduate Classroom.” Their work involved creating a corpus from a digitized 1970s Chicanx newspaper and showing students how to use text analysis tools, such as MALLET and Voyant, for the purpose of historical recovery. In “Images as Data with Computer Vision,” Carol Chiodo shared that Harvard University Library is using a Python package to analyze and provide descriptive metadata at scale for photographic collections. This includes protest photography, so the project will also result in the creation of ethical guidelines for applying automation to sensitive materials. Throughout the Forum, a theme that resonated with me was the ethics of care. I learned how multiple presenters have adopted this feminist approach that emphasizes relationships and considers power imbalances. During “Can We Digitize This? Should We? Navigating Ethics, Law, and Policy in Bringing Collections to Digital Life,” Stacy Reardon explained that she adopts an ethics of care when deciding whether to make materials available online. She noted how this framework urges us to consider the potential for harm not just to individuals but also communities. Lorena Gauthereau, one of the panel members of “US Latino DH: Recovering the Past, Creating the Future,” imparted that community outreach should be approached with an ethics of care. She said we have a responsibility to make the people represented in archives feel valued, which can be achieved through post-custodial methods, consent, decolonial spaces, and trusting relationships. As a Mexican Japanese American, increasing representation and reclaiming the humanity of historically oppressed people has personal significance. I wholeheartedly agree with Gauthereau who expressed:  “By recovering the past, we can project toward our future. While working with recovered archives, we make space for healing by making visible not only painful histories, but also resistance, survival and joy, to acknowledge where we come from and where we are going.”  These presentations reminded me to think critically about the interplay between people, archival collections, and technology. While I see promise in the application of computational methods for understanding and expanding access to stories beyond the dominant narrative, I’m also wary of the challenges. Algorithms used for facial recognition, screening job applicants, and identifying high-risk patients continue to oppress communities of color. Mixed race people like myself don’t fall neatly into metadata categories and likely aren’t seen by algorithms applied to textual or visual corpora. Meanwhile, libraries have started using machine learning for appraisal, description, and other laborious tasks. Many collections await being described—or re-described using anti-oppressive language—and made available online. Algorithms offer efficiency, but when people create them with training data which centers whiteness, they further harm communities.  Another challenge is the layering of biases when working with digitized collections. We lose more than visual details and aesthetic qualities through reproductive technologies and migration of formats. There are racial consequences. We scan photographs made from color film stocks originally calibrated for light skin. Art historian Lyneise Williams has also called attention to the erasure of Black people through the high contrast process of microfilming. So what happens when we use biased machine learning models to process images that inherit white normativity?  Growing digitized collections make the adoption of machine learning compelling. At the same time, an ethics of care and diverse voices are needed when new tools are being designed. Knowledge produced from analyzing collections at scale will only be as inclusive as the human beings who designed the algorithms and the digitized material’s source medium. As Stacey Patton reminded us in her keynote, digitization isn’t a be-all and end-all, particularly when there is still the digital divide. The DLF Forum inspired me to think about the opportunities and issues ahead. I hope to attend future Forums where discussions on using technology in ways which uplift communities of color continue. The post DLF Forum Community Journalist Reflection: Shelly Black appeared first on DLF. DLF Forum Community Journalist Reflection: Hsiu-Ann Tom This post was written by Hsiu-Ann Tom, who was selected to be one of this year’s virtual DLF Forum Community Journalists. Hsiu-Ann is the Digital Archivist at The Amistad Research Center in New Orleans, LA where her work focuses on born digital collection development. She received her Masters in Library and Information Science with a concentration in Archives Management from Simmons University in Boston in 2019. She is a graduate of Columbia University (BA, Sociology) and Harvard University (MA, Religion and Politics), and is a member of the Academy of Certified Archivists. Prior to working in the archival field, Hsiu-Ann served in the United States Army intelligence field as a cryptolinguistic analyst, attending the Defense Language Institute in Monterey, California. Before coming to Amistad, Hsiu-Ann worked on the archives staff of Boston University’s Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center working with the Military Historical Society of Massachusetts Collection. She recently obtained the Society of American Archivist Digital Archivist Specialist certification and enjoys supporting students and new professionals in their educational development through her work as a member of SAA’s Graduate Archival Education Committee.   I am thankful for the opportunity to have helped cover this year’s conference as one of 12 Community Journalists. Given all of the challenges of 2020, I was looking forward to hearing how my colleagues were finding ways to navigate unfamiliar situations and overcome obstacles. As a new graduate in my first full-time position out of library school, it was both inspiring and encouraging to listen to so many in the field describe their innovations over the course of the conference. I am thankful to the conference organizers and attendees for assembling such a rich program for everybody to enjoy. As I gathered my thoughts about what to write, I was overwhelmed by the achievements and innovations of the DLF community. Each session was packed with more information than I could absorb and it was a joy to hear such dedicated professionals talk about their work. Yet, when I thought about the conference experience, what stuck out to me the most was the conference design itself and its alignment with DLF’s mission and values. I considered the introductory comments of Charles Henry and the DLF mission: DLF: advancing research, learning, social justice, & the public good through the creative design & wise application of digital library technology The conference felt like a model for how to implement these community values. It was exciting to see ideas in action and to feel like I was included in that as a newcomer to this group. From before the start of the conference, I appreciated the efforts of conference staff to make conference content accessible to attendees of all abilities. In light of the pandemic and the turn to online communication platforms, transcription and closed captioning services for the hearing impaired are sometimes overlooked by conference organizers. As a US Army veteran with hearing impairment who does not read lips, this was something I struggled with on my own until this year when online meetings meant I had to start asking for more accommodations. This is not always a comfortable or easy thing for anyone to do despite how accepting society says we are to helping those who need accommodations. DLF conference staff began reaching out by email prior to the conference to address these concerns and confirm the availability of captioning and transcription services for all sessions – something that has not been my experience at other conferences. On the first day of the conference when I could not understand how to make the captioning features work, DLF had staff on hand via Zoom link to jump on a screen share to show me how things worked on the Aviary platform in real time. They emailed me links to sessions I missed, coached me through the features as I tested the captioning, showed me how transcriptions worked and even where I could have emailed transcripts of the conference sessions and slide notes to access at a later time. Normally I would have to stop videos and play them back multiple times to get content for note taking. Personally, these tools meant participating in the conference with fewer distractions and less stress. As the conference progressed, I thought more about the importance of these tools for our user community and how we can employ them to improve their experiences. Dr. Stacey Patton’s words during her opening address stayed with me throughout the conference as I considered the topic of accessibility in my daily work. She asked attendees to consider our role as archivists. As a new archivist trying to develop policies, procedures and workflows that encourage access and use for those coming to my archive, how can I perform my work more inclusively? Are there communities being overlooked? What needs are going unmet and how do I address them? Current discussions and work around accessibility are critical to ensuring that all patrons have access to the work we perform. The DLF Forum was a great experience for me in that I was able to learn about new tools to help with accessibility like Otter.ai and how to use it. I also learned about adjusting on the fly, accepting that sometimes technology will malfunction even with the best laid plans, having a backup plan to back up your plan is a great plan and finally, asking your community of peers for help may be your best plan. I am fortunate to have been able to attend DLF this year and to see the hard work of so many colleagues on display, learn new skills and connect with a community of professionals working in my field. There are many ways organizations demonstrate to their community of users “You are welcome here. We want you here and you are part of this community.” These simple steps taken by the DLF conference team through the accessibility tools helped me to feel part of the community this year. Thank you to staff who provided assistance with Read More The post DLF Forum Community Journalist Reflection: Hsiu-Ann Tom appeared first on DLF. Announcing a Portuguese Translation of the 2019 Levels of Digital Preservation Matrix  Portuguese Translations of the 2019 Levels of Digital Preservation Matrix  The NDSA is pleased to announce that Version 2 (2019) of the Levels Matrix has been translated into Portuguese by Laura Vilela R. Rezende. This document enriches the scientific studies on Digital Preservation and Research Data Curation developed by the Brazilian research group of which the researcher is part: The Research Network – DRIADE: Digital Preservation Studies and Practices   Links to these documents are found below as well as on the 2019 Levels of Digital Preservation OSF project page: https://osf.io/qgz98/ V2.0 (2019)  If you would be interested in translating the Levels of Digital Preservation V2.0 into another language please contact us at ndsa.digipres@gmail.com.    Tradução para o Português da Matriz dos Níveis de Preservação Digital de 2019  A NDSA tem o prazer de anunciar que a versão 2.0 (2019) da Matriz dos Níveis de Preservação Digital foi traduzida para o Português por Laura Vilela R. Rezende. Este documento enriquece os estudos científicos sobre Preservação Digital e Curadoria de Dados de Pesquisa desenvolvidos pelo grupo de pesquisa brasileiro do qual a pesquisadora faz parte:  Rede de Pesquisa DRIADE – Estudos e práticas de Preservação Digital  A seguir os links para acesso a este documentos. É possível acessar também pela página do projeto OSF: https://osf.io/qgz98/ V2.0 (2019)   Caso tenha interesse em traduzir os Níveis de Preservação Digital V 2.0 em outro idioma, por favor entre em contato conosco pelo e-mail: ndsa.digipres@gmail.com   The post Announcing a Portuguese Translation of the 2019 Levels of Digital Preservation Matrix  appeared first on DLF. 10 Additions to NDSA Membership in Summer and Fall 2020 Since the spring of 2020, the NDSA Leadership unanimously voted to welcome 10 new members. Each of these new members brings a host of skills and experience to our group. Please help us welcome: Arizona State University Library: With many of their materials from local Indigenous and LatinX communities, the Library is working with researchers from these communities to archive and preserve collections and artifacts unique to our region, making them accessible for generations to come. Arkevist: A civil society that specializes in historical and genealogical research discoverygarden: For more than a decade, discoverygarden has been building trusted repositories and digital asset management systems for organizations around the world. Global Connexions: For two decades Federick Zarndt has provided consulting services to cultural heritage organizations and has contributed to NDSA, ALA, IFLA and ALTO. LYRASIS: They are the non-profit organizational home of several open source projects that are focused on collecting, organizing, and ensuring long-term access to digital content including DSpace, ArchivesSpace, CollectionSpace, Islandora, Fedora Repository, and DuraCloud.  Michigan Digital Preservation Network: MDPN is an IMLS-grant funded initiative to build a member-run statewide distributed digital preservation network with members ranging from libraries, archives, museums, and historical societies with the primary purpose of preserving cultural heritage materials Robert L. Bogomolny Library – University of Baltimore: Robert L. Bogomolny Library is in the midst of a five year digital preservation implementation based upon results derived from conducting Institutional Readiness and Digital Preservation Capability Maturity Model exercises. Their Special Collections and Archives hold sizable digital collection materials, including 700TBs of digitized local TV news. University of Pennsylvania Libraries: The Penn Libraries are working on many digital preservation activities, including but not limited to the ongoing development of a Samvera repository, web archiving initiatives, conducting a pilot of two preservation storage systems, and developing governance for workflows and policies in order to have robust and programmatic digital preservation practices. University of Victoria Libraries: The UVic Libraries are currently involved in a number of digital preservation-related infrastructure projects, including Council of Prairie and Pacific University Libraries (COPPUL) Archivematica-as-a-Service and WestVault (a LOCKSS-based preservation storage network), and serve as infrastructure hosts for the Canadian Government Information Preservation Network (CGI-PN), the Public Knowledge Project Preservation Network (PKP-PN), and perma.cc.  University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee: Over the past five years UWM has formed a Digital Preservation Community of Practice whose aim is to identify common digital preservation issues across departments and shared tools and workflows.  UWM also co-founded the Digital Preservation Expertise Group (DPEG), a University of Wisconsin System-wide group that shares digital preservation expertise, develops training, and investigates shared resources across all thirteen UW System Libraries. Each organization has participants in one or more of the various NDSA interest and working groups – so keep an eye out for them on your calls and be sure to give them a shout out. Please join me in welcoming our new members. To review our list of members, you can see them here. ~ Dan Noonan, Vice Chair of the Coordinating Committee The post 10 Additions to NDSA Membership in Summer and Fall 2020 appeared first on DLF. Announcing Spanish Translations for the 2019 and 2013 Levels Matrix The NDSA is pleased to announce that both the original (2013) and Version 2 (2019) of the Levels Matrix  have been translated into Spanish by our colleagues from Mexico and Spain, Dr. David Leija (Universidad Autónoma de Tamaulipas) and Dr. Miquel Térmens (Universitat de Barcelona). Drs. Leija and Térmens are academic researchers and founders of APREDIG (Ibero-American association for digital preservation), a non-profit organization focused on spreading the importance of good practices of digital preservation for the spanish-speaking community. Links to these documents are found below as well as on the Levels of Digital Preservation OSF project pages: 2019 (https://osf.io/qgz98/) and 2013 (https://osf.io/9ya8c/) as well as below. V1.0 (2013) https://osf.io/wpdn9 | http://www.apredig.org/npdndsa2013/ V2.0 (2019)  https://osf.io/egjk8 | http://www.apredig.org/npdndsa2019/ In addition, Miquel Térmens and David Leija have written a report analyzing and documenting the use of the NDSA Levels in 8 public and private organizations in Spain, Mexico, Brazil and Switzerland.  The Methodology of digital preservation audits with NDSA Levels, can be found in Spanish here and should be cited as found below.   Térmens, Miquel; Leija, David (2017). “Methodology of digital preservation audits with NDSA Levels”. El profesional de la información, v. 26, n. 3, pp. 447-456. https://doi.org/10.3145/epi.2017.may.11 | https://fima.ub.edu/pub/termens/docs/EPI-v26n3.pdf  If you would be interested in translating the Levels of Digital Preservation V2.0 into another language please contact us at ndsa.digipres@gmail.com.    Traducciones al español de la Matriz de Niveles de Preservación Digital 2019 y 2013 La NDSA se complace en anunciar que tanto la versión original como la versión 2 de la Matriz de Niveles de Preservación Digital han sido traducidas al español por nuestros colegas investigadores de México y España, el Dr. David Leija (Universidad Autónoma de Tamaulipas) y el Dr. Miquel Térmens (Universitat de Barcelona). Térmens y Leija son investigadores académicos fundadores de APREDIG (Asociación Iberoamericana de Preservación Digital), una organización sin ánimo de lucro enfocada en difundir la importancia de las buenas prácticas de preservación digital para la comunidad hispanohablante. Los enlaces a estos documentos traducidos se encuentran a continuación, así como en las páginas del proyecto OSF de Niveles de Preservación Digital: 2019 ((https://osf.io/qgz98/) y 2013 (https://osf.io/9ya8c/). V1.0 (2013) https://osf.io/wpdn9 | http://www.apredig.org/npdndsa2013/ V2.0 (2019)  https://osf.io/egjk8 | http://www.apredig.org/npdndsa2019/ Adicionalmente, Miquel Térmens y David Leija han escrito un reporte analizando y documentando el uso de los niveles NDSA en 8 organizaciones públicas y privadas de España, México, Brasil y Suiza. La Auditoría de Preservación Digital con NDSA Levels, se puede encontrar en español aquí y debe citarse como se encuentra a continuación.   Térmens, Miquel; Leija, David (2017). “Auditoría de Preservación Digital con NDSA Levels”. El profesional de la información, v. 26, n. 3, pp. 447-456.      https://doi.org/10.3145/epi.2017.may.11 | https://fima.ub.edu/pub/termens/docs/EPI-v26n3.pdf  Si está interesado en traducir los niveles de Preservación Digital V2.0 en otros idiomas por favor póngase en contacto en ndsa.digipres@gmail.com.    The post Announcing Spanish Translations for the 2019 and 2013 Levels Matrix appeared first on DLF. NDSA Announces Winners of 2020 Innovation Awards The NDSA established its Innovation Awards in 2012 to recognize and encourage innovation in the field of digital stewardship.  Since then, it has honored 39 exemplary educators, future stewards, individuals, institutions, and projects for their efforts in ensuring the ongoing viability and accessibility of our valuable digital heritage. The 2020 NDSA Innovation Awards are generously sponsored by Digital Bedrock. Today, NDSA adds 8 new awardees to that honor roll during the opening plenary ceremony of the 2020 NDSA Digital Preservation Conference.   These winners were selected from the largest pool of nominees so far in the Awards’ history: 32 nominations of 30 nominees.  While the pool size made the judging more difficult, the greater breadth, depth, and quality of the nominations is a positive sign for the preservation community, as it is indicative of the growing maturity and robustness of the field.  This year’s awardees continue to reflect a recent trend towards an increasingly international perspective and recognition of the innovative contributions by and for historically underrepresented and marginalized communities.  Please help us congratulate these awardees!  We encourage you to follow-up in learning more about their activities and the ways in which they have had a profound beneficial impact on our collective ability to protect and make accessible our valuable digital heritage. Educators are recognized for innovative approaches and access to digital preservation through academic programs, partnerships, professional development opportunities, and curriculum development.  This year’s awardees in the Educators category are: Library Juice Academy Certificate in Digital Curation.  This program, launched in 2019, encompasses a six-course sequence for library, archives and museum practitioners wanting to learn more about and expand their skill sets for curating and maintaining unique digital assets. The curriculum offers comprehensive coverage of collection development and appraisal, description, rights and access, digital preservation, and professional ethics and responsible stewardship.  The program’s affordability, flexible scheduling, and online pedagogy encouraging engaged collaborative learning provides a unique opportunity for professional development and continuing education.  In particular, the emphasis placed on ethics and sustainability provides an appropriate counterpoint to other more technically-focused topics, drawing needed attention to critical issues of policy, finance, equity, and diversity. International Council on Archive (ICA) Africa Programme Digital Records Curation Programme.  The Programme supports the professional development of new generations of digital archivists and records managers in Africa, a geographic and cultural region historically marginalized and underrepresented in international digital stewardship discourse, practice, and education. The Programme’s volunteer-taught study school uses open access readings and open source tools to minimize technical resource and financial impediments to participation, and to encourage creative repurposing of pedagogic materials in the participants’ local contexts.  The Programme also provides financial support for early-career practitioners and educators across the African continent to attend and learn, share their own teaching techniques and insights, and to build a professional research and teaching network.  Parallel instructional opportunities are offered for Anglophone and Francophone participants.  With a focus on “training the trainers”, the Digital Records Curation Programme promotes the development of maturing cohorts of stewardship practitioners and the growing professionalism of digital preservation activities focused on long-term stewardship of Africa’s vital digital heritage.   Future Stewards are recognized as students and early-career professionals or academics taking a creative approach to advancing knowledge of digital preservation issues and practices.  These year’s awardees in the Future Stewards category are: Sawood Alam.   A PhD candidate at Old Dominion University, Sawood has been an active participant in the digital preservation community via the International Internet Preservation Consortium, the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, and other communities for years, presenting and reporting on the complex topics, like holdings of web archives, decentralized systems, archival fixity, web packaging, and more. As a developer and systems architect, Sawood is a strong advocate for open-source and open-access tools, and has offered courses and lectures on various programming languages like Linux, Python, Ruby on Rails, and more. A mentor to new graduate students and researchers, Sawood will join the Internet Archive after graduation, leveraging his engineering experience and his academic experience to perform outreach to research groups interested in making use of the Wayback Machine’s holdings.     Carolina Quezada Meneses.  As an intern, Carolina worked on a variety of projects that ranged from exploring new tools and software that help preserve, manage, and provide access to born-digital material, and helped develop a remote processing workflow that enabled University of California, Irvine (UCI) staff to work on the organization’s digital backlog while working from home during the Coronavirus pandemic.  However, it is Meneses’s work with the Christine Tamblyn papers — which included numerous Macintosh-formatted floppy disks and CD-ROMs — that deserves additional praise: faced with ample technical challenges to providing access, Quezada created disk images of the floppy disks and CD-ROMs with specialized hardware, found a compatible emulator, and created screencast videos of the artwork, making the content accessible to a broader audience than traditional on-site access would typically allow.  Thanks to Meneses’s innovative thinking, a collection that had no prior level of access for 22 years is now accessible to researchers, and remains an example of her lasting dedication to providing access to born-digital formats.   Organizations are recognized for innovative approaches to providing support and guidance to the digital preservation community.  This year’s awardee in the Organizations category is: National Archives and Records Administration (NARA).  NARA has a notable history of providing records management guidance focusing on digital preservation and addressing key factors to the successful permanent preservation of digital content. This year, the panel is pleased to distinguish NARA’s Digital Preservation Framework. Created after an extensive environmental scan of community digital preservation risk assessment and planning resources, this project recognizes that successful digital preservation requires both understanding the risks posed by file formats and identifying or developing processes for mitigating these risks. In response to this, the Framework provides extensive risk and planning analysis for over 500 formats in 16 type categories. The Framework can be applied across the lifecycle of digital content and is designed to enable a low-barrier Read More The post NDSA Announces Winners of 2020 Innovation Awards appeared first on DLF. Award Winners: NDSA Levels of Digital Preservation Group This year’s World Digital Preservation Day (#WDPD) was the biggest yet! With outpourings of research, achievements, practical advice, and fun it was hard to believe that there were also awards as part of that process. On 05 November, the NDSA’s Levels of Digital Preservation Reboot was the recipient of one of the Digital Preservation Coalition’s Digital Preservation Award! We won in the ICA-sponsored category for Collaboration and Cooperation – the first time it has been awarded!  This honor is collectively bestowed on the many of you who helped craft and refine the Levels and we hope your continued ideas, and enthusiasm will keep the momentum going. Thank you for all your hard work! For an overview, background, and charge for the Levels, see my blog post that speaks to leveraging such a high level of collaborative energy. ~ Bradley Daigle, Levels of Digital Preservation Steering Group Lead The post Award Winners: NDSA Levels of Digital Preservation Group appeared first on DLF. Meet the 2020 DLF Forum Community Journalists The 2020 Virtual DLF Forum looks different from our typical event in almost every way imaginable. Due to the fact that we aren’t convening in person and registration is free, we decided to offer a different kind of fellowship opportunity. Because the guiding purpose of this year’s Virtual DLF Forum is building community while apart, through our re-envisioned fellowship program, we are highlighting new voices from “community journalists” in the field. We are providing $250 stipends to a cohort of 10 Virtual DLF Forum attendees from a variety of backgrounds and will feature their voices and experiences on the DLF blog after our events this fall. We are excited to announce this year’s DLF Forum Community Journalists: Arabeth Balasko Arabeth Balasko (she/her) is an archivist and historian dedicated to public service and proactive stewardship. As a professional archivist, her overarching goals are to curate collections that follow a shared standardization practice, are user-centric, and are searchable and accessible to all via physical and digital platforms. She believes that an archive should be a welcoming place for all people and should be an inclusive environment which advocates to collect, preserve, and make accessible the stories and histories of diverse voices. By getting individuals involved in telling THEIR story and making THEIR history part of the ever-growing story of humanity, we all win!   Rebecca Bayeck @rybayeck Rebecca Y. Bayeck is a dual-PhD holder in Learning Design & Technology and Comparative & International Education from the Pennsylvania State University. Currently a CLIR postdoctoral fellow at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture where she engages in digital research, data curation, and inclusive design. Her interdisciplinary research is at the interface of several fields including the learning sciences, literacy studies, and game studies. At this intersection, she explores literacies and learning in games, particularly board games, the interaction of culture, space, and context on design, learning, research, literacies.    Shelly Black @ShellyYBlack Shelly Black is the Cyma Rubin Library Fellow at North Carolina State University Libraries where she supports digital preservation in the Special Collections Research Center. She also works on a strategic project involving immersive technology spaces and digital scholarship workflows. Previously she was a marketing specialist at the University of Arizona Libraries and promoted library services and programs through social media, news stories, and newsletters. Shelly was recently selected as a 2020 Emerging Leader by the American Library Association and is a provisional member of the Academy of Certified Archivists. She received a MLIS and a Certificate in Archival Studies from the University of Arizona where she was a Knowledge River scholar. She also holds a BFA in photography and minor in Japanese from the UA.   Lisa Covington @prof_cov Lisa Covington, MA is a PhD Candidate at The University of Iowa studying Sociology of Education, Digital Humanities and African American Studies. Her dissertation work is “Mediating Black Girlhood: A Multi-level Comparative Analysis of Narrative Feature Films.” This research identifies mechanisms in which media operates as an institution, (mis)informing individual and social ontological knowledge.   In 2020, Lisa received the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Award from the Iowa Department of Human Rights. She is the Director of the Ethnic Studies Leadership Academy in Iowa City, an educational leadership program for Black youth, in middle school and high school, to learn African American advocacy through incorporating digital humanities and social sciences.    Lisa received her MA from San Diego State University in Women & Gender Studies. As a youth development professional, Lisa develops curriculum for weekly programming with girls of color, trains teachers on best practices for working with underrepresented youth, and directs programs in preschool through college settings in California, Pennsylvania, Iowa, New Jersey, New York and Washington, D.C.    Ana Hilda Figueroa de Jesús Ana Hilda Figueroa de Jesús will be graduating next spring from the Universidad de Puerto Rico in Río Piedras with a BA in History of Art. Her research interest focuses on education, accessibility and publicity of minority, revolutionary Puerto Rican art including topics such as race, gender and transnationalism. She has interned at Visión Doble: Journal of Criticism and History of Art, and volunteered at MECA International Art Fair 2019 and Instituto Nueva Escuela. Ana works as assistant for the curator and director of the Museum of History, Anthropology and Art at UPR. She is currently a Katzenberger Art History Intern at Smithsonian Libraries.   Amanda Guzman Amanda Guzman is an anthropological archaeologist with a PhD in Anthropology (Archaeology) from the University of California, Berkeley. She specializes in the field of museum anthropology with a research focus on the history of collecting and exhibiting Puerto Rico at the intersection of issues of intercultural representation and national identity formation. She applies her collections experience as well as her commitment to working with and for multiple publics to her object-based inquiry teaching practice that privileges a more equitable, co-production of knowledge in the classroom through accessible engagement in cultural work. Amanda is currently the Ann Plato Post-Doctoral Fellow in Anthropology and American Studies at Trinity College in Hartford, CT.    Carolina Hernandez @carolina_hrndz Carolina Hernandez is currently an Instruction Librarian at the University of Houston where she collaborates on creating inclusive learning environments for students. Previously, she was the Journalism Librarian at the University of Oregon, where she co-managed the Oregon Digital Newspaper Program. Her MLIS is from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her current research interests are in critical information literacy, inclusive pedagogy, and most recently, the intersection of digital collections and pedagogy.    Jocelyn Hurtado Jocelyn Hurtado is a native Miamian who worked as an Archivist at a community repository for four year. She is experienced in working with manuscript, art and artifact collections pertaining to a community of color whose history has often been overlooked. Ms. Hurtado, understands the responsibility and the significance of the work done by community archivists and has seen firsthand that this work not only affects the present-day community but that it will continue to have a deep-rooted impact on generations Read More The post Meet the 2020 DLF Forum Community Journalists appeared first on DLF. 2020 DLF Forum: Building Community With DLF’s Digital Library Pedagogy Working Group Though DLF is best known for our signature event, the annual DLF Forum, our working groups collaborate year round. Long before COVID-19 introduced the concept of “Zoom fatigue” into our lives, DLF’s working groups organized across institutional and geographical boundaries, building community while apart, to get work done. Made possible through the support of our institutional members, working groups are the efforts of a committed community of practitioners, using DLF as a framework for action, engaged in problem-solving in a variety of digital library subfields from project management and assessment to labor and accessibility. Once we decided that the 2020 DLF Forum and affiliated events would be held in a virtual format, it meant that our working groups wouldn’t have the opportunity to meet in person for their typical working meals that take place throughout the Forum; however, this year’s virtual format means that we’ll have more new DLF Forum attendees than ever before. Because DLF’s working groups are open to ALL, regardless of whether you’re affiliated with a DLF member institution or not, we asked leaders of the DLF working groups to introduce their groups and the work they do to the new and returning members of the #DLFvillage in a series of blogs and videos. We’ll share these working group updates in the days leading to this year’s DLF Forum. Who are we? The DLF Digital Library Pedagogy Working Group, commonly referred to as #DLFteach (also our Twitter hashtag), was founded in 2015 and is focused on building a community of practice for those interested in using digital library collections and technology in the classroom. The group is open for anyone to join regardless of your position, academic discipline, or DLF institutional affiliation. Here is what #DLFteach does and the ways you can join us: Twitter Chats One of the best ways to get involved with #DLFteach is to participate in a Twitter chat. Our Twitter chats offer a chance to chat with colleagues from all over on different subjects each chat. Every chat has a host or two who plan the topic and write questions that will be tweeted at intervals over the course of one hour. Participants can follow the questions tweeted from the @CLIRDLF handle and respond from their own Twitter account. Hosts will monitor the chat and also tweet frequently. To see all the tweets as they happen, the hashtag #DLFteach is included with every tweet, and participants should likewise add it to their tweets. People can participate as much or as little as possible, ranging from lurking to tweeting answers and replying to others’ tweets.  Twitter chats usually take place at 2-3 PM EST / 11 AM – noon PST on the third Tuesday of every other month. Once or twice a year, the chat will take place at another time for those who cannot make the regular time. You can see previous chats on the group’s wiki. Interested in hosting a chat? Want to suggest a topic? Get in touch with the outreach coordinators of the DLF Digital Library Pedagogy Group! Past Projects #DLFteach is a uniquely project-based working group, and we are usually working on a couple of projects at any given time of year. Typically, members propose or are made aware of projects that would benefit from the expertise and dedication of group members working to implement them. If you are interested in our group’s focus and are looking to get involved, you are welcome to propose a project. If you do not have a specific project in mind but still want to get involved, that’s great, too, since these projects offer many opportunities to contribute to the community and the profession. You may be wondering: What projects does #DLFteach work on? In September 2019, we released #DLFteach Toolkit 1.0, an openly available, peer reviewed collection of lesson plans and concrete instructional strategies edited by Erin Pappas and Liz Rodrigues and featuring the work of many #DLFteach members and affiliates. Check it out to get ideas of how to incorporate digital library collections and technologies into the classroom in structured, reproducible ways. Another 2019 resource developed by #DLFteach is the Teaching with Digital Primary Sources white paper, by Brianna Gormly, Maura Seale, Hannah Alpert-Abrams, Andi Gustavson, Angie Kemp, Thea Lindquist, and Alexis Logsdon, which outlines literacies and considers issues associated with finding, evaluating, and citing digital primary resources. If you are considering using digital primary sources in the classroom, this is an excellent resource to accompany your work with these materials. Additionally, #DLFteach has developed and facilitated workshops at the DLF Forum and Learn@DLF pre-conferences in 2016, 2018, and 2019. Current Projects Following the success of the first version released last year, we have issued a call for participation for the #DLFteach Toolkit 2.0, which will focus on instructional strategies using immersive technology. We are looking for both contributors and volunteers to assist with reviewing submissions and producing the Toolkit. Additionally, we are currently working on two blog series! One is focused on ethical issues for multimodal scholarship and pedagogy, and the other, Practitioner Perspectives: Developing, Adapting, and Contextualizing the #DLFteach Toolkit, is collecting interviews from practitioners (via Google Form) who have used or adapted #DLFteach Toolkit lesson plans. Look for these to be published in the coming months as well as calls to participate. How can you get involved? Anyone is welcome to join and participate in the Digital Library Pedagogy group and help grow the community of practitioners around teaching with digital library collections and tools. Our next Twitter chat will be on December 15 at 2:00 pm EST and will be focused on ways #DLFteach can help build community and support each other with the projects and ongoing initiatives we work on. Have you used or adapted lesson plans from the #DLFteach Toolkit 1.0? add your voice to Practitioner Perspectives: Developing, Adapting, and Contextualizing the #DLFteach Toolkit, a forthcoming blog series! Just answer our questions on this Google Form. Additionally, please consider joining our Google group and Read More The post 2020 DLF Forum: Building Community With DLF’s Digital Library Pedagogy Working Group appeared first on DLF. Louisa Kwasigroch Appointed Interim DLF Senior Program Officer The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) is pleased to announce the appointment of Louisa Kwasigroch as interim Digital Library Federation (DLF) senior program officer. Kwasigroch, who currently serves as CLIR’s director of outreach and engagement and has worked extensively with the DLF community, will serve as the primary point of contact for DLF member institutions and individuals until a permanent senior program officer has been appointed. During the interim period, she will also continue to serve as director of outreach and engagement.   “I’m delighted Louisa has accepted this interim appointment,” said CLIR president Charles Henry. “With her knowledge of DLF’s engaged and active community, she will bring an empathetic and insightful continuity that will position us strategically for the next phase of DLF’s evolution.”  Kwasigroch has been in the library field for more than 15 years, working with public, museum, and academic libraries. She has her BA in photography from Columbia College Chicago, and both an MSLIS and MBA from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She began her career with CLIR in 2013 as a DLF program associate and was promoted to director of development and outreach in 2015 and director of outreach and engagement in 2020. “It has been a great joy to serve the DLF community these past seven years in my roles at CLIR,” said Kwasigroch. “I look forward to continuing to support our members, working groups, and constituents while collaborating even more closely with CLIR and DLF staff, who have been doing an amazing job moving things forward.” CLIR will resume its search for a permanent senior program officer in January 2021. The post Louisa Kwasigroch Appointed Interim DLF Senior Program Officer appeared first on DLF. 2020 DLF Forum: Building Community With DLF’s Data and Digital Scholarship Working Group Though DLF is best known for our signature event, the annual DLF Forum, our working groups collaborate year round. Long before COVID-19 introduced the concept of “Zoom fatigue” into our lives, DLF’s working groups organized across institutional and geographical boundaries, building community while apart, to get work done. Made possible through the support of our institutional members, working groups are the efforts of a committed community of practitioners, using DLF as a framework for action, engaged in problem-solving in a variety of digital library subfields from project management and assessment to labor and accessibility. Once we decided that the 2020 DLF Forum and affiliated events would be held in a virtual format, it meant that our working groups wouldn’t have the opportunity to meet in person for their typical working meals that take place throughout the Forum; however, this year’s virtual format means that we’ll have more new DLF Forum attendees than ever before. Because DLF’s working groups are open to ALL, regardless of whether you’re affiliated with a DLF member institution or not, we asked leaders of the DLF working groups to introduce their groups and the work they do to the new and returning members of the #DLFvillage in a series of blogs and videos. We’ll share these working group updates in the days leading to this year’s DLF Forum.  What is the DLF Digital Scholarship and Data Services Working Group? The DLF Data and Digital Scholarship Working Group (DLFdds) is a continuation of two DLF groups: The eResearch Network and the Digital Scholarship Working Group. The current version of the group uses a mutual aid model to offer peer leaders and the group the ability to create topics of interest for the community. It is an evolution of the eResearch Network that DLF ran for many years.  Sara Mannheimer, Data Librarian, Montana State University and Jason Clark, Lead for Research Informatics, Montana State University will be facilitating the working group this year. Our charge notes that we are “a community of practice focused on implementing research data and digital scholarship services. The group focuses on shared skill development, peer mentorship, networking, and collaboration. DLFdds aims to create a self-reliant, mutually supportive community: a network of institutions and individuals engaged in continuous learning about research data management, digital scholarship, and research support.” Learn more about us: Our Digital Scholarship and Data Services Wiki Our Digital Scholarship and Data Services Google Group (listserv) What are we working on? We meet quarterly for discussion and activities based on DLF DDS community interest and ideas. Past topics have included: Advocacy and Promotion of Data Services and Digital Scholarship, Data Discovery/Metadata and Reusability, Collections as Data, Assessment (Metrics for success with Data Services and Digital Scholarship), etc. Last month, we met to talk about roadmapping in a session led by Shilpa Rele Scholarly Communication & Data Curation Librarian, Rowan University.  View Slides and Video These sessions have a flexible focus between RDM and DS. These 90 minutes each quarter are structured around a particular topic and usually involve:  A short visit from invited speaker on topic An in-session discussion and activity We are basing this structure on the former eResearch Network (eRN) cohort model which had a more of a course-based mode. An example eResearch Network syllabus is linked here to give you some more perspective on the history of that group. Our new goal is to bring the best parts of eRN into this revitalized working group. We also connect folks in the working group around consultation ideas. Consultations are working sessions that give consultees a chance to work through an in-depth, peer conversation to solve a local data services or digital scholarship question. Consultants are peers and associated experts (e.g. fellow DLFdds members, former eResearch Network participants, practitioners from other DLF member institutions). Consultations are flexible and customized according to consultee needs.  How to contribute or get involved? As we are working to instill a mutual aid model for our community, we are interested in your ideas. We have opened a survey to pull together these interests and welcome your thoughts. Take our DLF DDS Interest and Ideas Survey: https://bit.ly/dlf-dds-survey  Beyond the survey, please feel free to join our Google Group as announcements and opportunities related to the WG and Digital Scholarship/Data Services in general will be available there.  Our next scheduled meeting will be in December 2020. We hope to see you there! The post 2020 DLF Forum: Building Community With DLF’s Data and Digital Scholarship Working Group appeared first on DLF. 2020 DLF Forum: Building Community With DLF’s Metadata Support Group Though DLF is best known for our signature event, the annual DLF Forum, our working groups collaborate year round. Long before COVID-19 introduced the concept of “Zoom fatigue” into our lives, DLF’s working groups organized across institutional and geographical boundaries, building community while apart, to get work done. Made possible through the support of our institutional members, working groups are the efforts of a committed community of practitioners, using DLF as a framework for action, engaged in problem-solving in a variety of digital library subfields from project management and assessment to labor and accessibility. Once we decided that the 2020 DLF Forum and affiliated events would be held in a virtual format, it meant that our working groups wouldn’t have the opportunity to meet in person for their typical working meals that take place throughout the Forum; however, this year’s virtual format means that we’ll have more new DLF Forum attendees than ever before. Because DLF’s working groups are open to ALL, regardless of whether you’re affiliated with a DLF member institution or not, we asked leaders of the DLF working groups to introduce their groups and the work they do to the new and returning members of the #DLFvillage in a series of blogs and videos. We’ll share these working group updates in the days leading to this year’s DLF Forum.  The Metadata Support Group is excited to be part of the  2020 DLF Forum virtual community. We would like to share an open invitation for anyone who works with metadata to join our community. The Metadata Support Group was founded in 2016 on Slack in order to provide colleagues from the GLAM (Galleries, Archives, Libraries, Museum) Community with a space to ask questions, get answers, and develop a network of colleagues from institutions across the country. The Metadata Support Group has over 600 members and 18 channels dedicated to topics such as general questions, migrations, conferences, ArchivesSpace, tools, workflows, and much more. Anyone is welcome to join our community, just agree to our code of conduct when you fill out this form. If you have any questions about the group, feel free to reach out to the co-founders and facilitators: Julie Hardesty, jlhardes@iu.edu Liz Woolcott, liz.woolcott@usu.edu Anna Neatrour, anna.neatrour@utah.edu Bria Parker, brialparker@gmail.com The post 2020 DLF Forum: Building Community With DLF’s Metadata Support Group appeared first on DLF. 2020 DLF Forum: Building Community With DLF’s Labor Working Group Though DLF is best known for our signature event, the annual DLF Forum, our working groups collaborate year round. Long before COVID-19 introduced the concept of “Zoom fatigue” into our lives, DLF’s working groups organized across institutional and geographical boundaries, building community while apart, to get work done. Made possible through the support of our institutional members, working groups are the efforts of a committed community of practitioners, using DLF as a framework for action, engaged in problem-solving in a variety of digital library subfields from project management and assessment to labor and accessibility. Once we decided that the 2020 DLF Forum and affiliated events would be held in a virtual format, it meant that our working groups wouldn’t have the opportunity to meet in person for their typical working meals that take place throughout the Forum; however, this year’s virtual format means that we’ll have more new DLF Forum attendees than ever before. Because DLF’s working groups are open to ALL, regardless of whether you’re affiliated with a DLF member institution or not, we asked leaders of the DLF working groups to introduce their groups and the work they do to the new and returning members of the #DLFvillage in a series of blogs and videos. We’ll share these working group updates in the days leading to this year’s DLF Forum.  Tools for the LAM Labor Situation The COVID-19 pandemic has only intensified precarity in our field, but we don’t have to face it alone. Over the last 3 years, the Labor Working Group (Labor WG) has been building tools to improve library, archives, and museum (LAM) labor conditions. Nor are we the only ones: Similar efforts are underway in many other groups. Take a tour 🚴 of our resources below and join us as we work to build collective power to take on collective problems. Collective Responsibility Labor Advocacy Toolkit In 2019, members of Labor WG organized and participated in the IMLS-funded Collective Responsibility: National Forum on Labor Practices for Grant-Funded Digital Positions. One idea that surfaced at the forum was to collect the project’s outcomes along with other resources for documenting and changing the landscape of contingent labor in LAM. We created the Collective Responsibility Labor Advocacy Toolkit to publish these materials. During 2020, a group of forum and Labor WG members developed Guiding Principles, naming the concepts which have shaped our work so far and concretizing these into principles for our future work. Another group turned working notes on “How to Talk About Collective Responsibility at Work” into a set of scripts and scenarios for discussing contingency and precarity in your actual workplace. We collaborated with members of the Archival Workers Emergency Fund organizing committee to develop these scenarios. In response to the pandemic, we assembled a page of emergency resources for contingent or suddenly-precarious LAM workers. Valuing Labor in Digital Libraries In 2018 we published a research agenda identifying areas for investigation and action in LAM labor: Recognizing labor as being undervalued, unacknowledged, and erased has long been framed as an individual concern in the field of digital libraries, archives, and museums (LAM); but organized and collective action is required to address labor conditions at structural and organizational scales. Such action requires information, from empirical evidence to testimonies to guidance and best practices. This document lays out a research agenda for valuing labor, collaboratively developed by members of the Digital Library Federation Working Group on Labor in Digital Libraries, Archives, and Museums (Labor WG). We intend for research building upon this agenda to also be collaborative: by and for the DLF community. Each section of the agenda describes a key research area and why it matters, offering questions and research designs that bear investigating. In early 2020, a few members of Labor WG set out to research these questions: To what extent and how are digital LAM workers organized? What organizing and advocacy tactics can be effective while minimizing risk for workers? What are creative and effective ways to share data about digital LAM labor? We got totally derailed (thanks, COVID) but those questions are still out there and still important, probably more than ever. If you build something from the research agenda, we’d love to hear about it. Do Better, Love Us In January 2020, we published a document that has been underway since the working group’s formation. “Do Better” -Love(,) Us is built around a simple principle: When funding a term position, fund a good position. If you’re writing a grant, it means asking for what you need for such a position, not lowballing on labor in order to win a grant. For funders, it means approving those applications, even if it means funding fewer projects. The cost of these projects should not fall on the workers least equipped to bear it. Our work on this document inspired the Collective Responsibility project. While it sparked conversations at the forums and shaped some of the project’s outcomes, and our revision used ideas, data, and new collaborations developed during the forum, we kept this document within Labor WG. It was important to us to retain this document’s aspirational nature, rather than reducing it to the most practical next steps available at this time. Connect with LAM labor organizers This work is much too big for just one group. Members of Labor WG didn’t want to build one-time solutions or reinvent the wheel, so we went looking for others advocating and organizing to improve the situation of LAM workers. We built a list of organizations and campaigns (see it as a table or a list). We also built up a bibliography on LAM labor, from scholarly articles to local news to blog posts to Twitter threads. Lately we’ve been using news alerts to attend to what’s happening to LAM workers around the world during the pandemic and what they’re doing about it. We know that people are losing their jobs, being furloughed, being replaced, losing pay and benefits, taking on new work outside of their job Read More The post 2020 DLF Forum: Building Community With DLF’s Labor Working Group appeared first on DLF. 2020 DLF Forum: Building Community With DLF’s Working Group on Privacy and Ethics in Technology Though DLF is best known for our signature event, the annual DLF Forum, our working groups collaborate year round. Long before COVID-19 introduced the concept of “Zoom fatigue” into our lives, DLF’s working groups organized across institutional and geographical boundaries, building community while apart, to get work done. Made possible through the support of our institutional members, working groups are the efforts of a committed community of practitioners, using DLF as a framework for action, engaged in problem-solving in a variety of digital library subfields from project management and assessment to labor and accessibility. Once we decided that the 2020 DLF Forum and affiliated events would be held in a virtual format, it meant that our working groups wouldn’t have the opportunity to meet in person for their typical working meals that take place throughout the Forum; however, this year’s virtual format means that we’ll have more new DLF Forum attendees than ever before. Because DLF’s working groups are open to ALL, regardless of whether you’re affiliated with a DLF member institution or not, we asked leaders of the DLF working groups to introduce their groups and the work they do to the new and returning members of the #DLFvillage in a series of blogs and videos. We’ll share these working group updates in the days leading to this year’s DLF Forum.  In this blog post, we briefly describe the mission and activities of the DLF Privacy and Ethics in Technology Working Group. Overview of the Working Group The DLF Privacy and Ethics in Technology Working Group is based on the recognition that libraries are increasingly investing in systems that can collect, store, analyze, and potentially leak data related to user activities. The work of the group focuses on challenging and complicating our relationship with data collection technologies. We then seek to create tools and resources to help practitioners critically engage with these data collection technologies, with the goal of aligning our practice with privacy-oriented principles—for the ultimate betterment of our profession, our user communities, and society. Resources Produced by the Working Group Members We have an active and thriving group membership. Over the past few years, our members have collaborated to co-produce new resources to improve practice in support of privacy and responsible use of data-collecting technologies: A Practical Guide to Performing a Library User Data Risk Assessment in Library-Built Systems — https://osf.io/v2c3m/  Vendor Privacy Policy Analysis Project — https://osf.io/69svz/   Advocacy Action Plan — https://osf.io/2smrf/   Digital Privacy Instruction Curriculum — https://osf.io/sebhf/   Ethics in Research Use of Library Patron Data: Glossary and Explainer  https://osf.io/bygj3/  Joining the Working Group Our working group is flexible and adaptable according to our members’ interests. If you would like to contribute to the production of resources like those listed above, or if you want to help build a new resource that addresses a different topic in this area, consider joining our group. We have a wiki available through the DLF website that provides more information: https://wiki.diglib.org/Privacy_and_Ethics_in_Technology.  Future Directions Moving ahead, we as co-conveners want to emphasize greater collaboration and visibility with other groups and organizations that focus on privacy, ethics, and the responsible use of technology. Through collaboration and cross-learning with other related organizations—including those in adjacent fields—we hope to strengthen our work in pursuit of shared goals. We’re especially emphasizing building deeper relationships with public librarians and librarians of diverse backgrounds. We hope that you’re doing well wherever you are, and we hope that we’ll be talking to you soon about privacy and ethics in technology. — Scott W. H. Young, UX & Assessment Librarian, Montana State University — Michelle Gibeault,  Scholarly Engagement Librarian for the Humanities, Tulane University The post 2020 DLF Forum: Building Community With DLF’s Working Group on Privacy and Ethics in Technology appeared first on DLF. 2020 DLF Forum: Building Community With DLF’s Digital Accessibility Working Group Though DLF is best known for our signature event, the annual DLF Forum, our working groups collaborate year round. Long before COVID-19 introduced the concept of “Zoom fatigue” into our lives, DLF’s working groups organized across institutional and geographical boundaries, building community while apart, to get work done. Made possible through the support of our institutional members, working groups are the efforts of a committed community of practitioners, using DLF as a framework for action, engaged in problem-solving in a variety of digital library subfields from project management and assessment to labor and accessibility. Once we decided that the 2020 DLF Forum and affiliated events would be held in a virtual format, it meant that our working groups wouldn’t have the opportunity to meet in person for their typical working meals that take place throughout the Forum; however, this year’s virtual format means that we’ll have more new DLF Forum attendees than ever before. Because DLF’s working groups are open to ALL, regardless of whether you’re affiliated with a DLF member institution or not, we asked leaders of the DLF working groups to introduce their groups and the work they do to the new and returning members of the #DLFvillage in a series of blogs and videos. We’ll share these working group updates in the days leading to this year’s DLF Forum. The DLF Digital Accessibility Working Group (DAWG) is a group dedicated to exploring issues around ensuring efficient access for disabled people in information organizations. Within DAWG, there are three subgroups: Advocacy and Education, IT and Development, and Policies and Workflows. These three areas were selected because they were identified as essential to ensuring a holistic approach to the adoption, implementation, and maintenance of inclusive practices for disabled users, staff, and other information organization stakeholders. DAWG subscribes to the idea that in order for technology, or “the digital library,” to be accessible, it is not enough that the software, hardware, and accompanying resources be accessible. Instead, there is a need within organizations and outside vendors for: Cultural change regarding awareness of the disability rights efforts of the past and present via continuing education and advocacy work. Adaptable policies and workflows that are inclusive of disabled people and enforced on an institutional level via allocation of financial, legal, and human resources. Emphasis on inclusive design and development practices to ensure that technologies are designed to be accessible, as well as to be maintained sustainably with accessibility in mind. Though only founded within the last year, DAWG has managed to initiate meaningful dialogue around these issues while acting as a source of community for information professionals looking to navigate the challenges posed, both by the field in general, as well as the more contemporary challenges posed by COVID-19. IT and Development The IT and Development subgroup focuses on specific software, hardware, and development practices associated with information organizations. From a list of suggested software, we’ve already developed a deep-dive into the accessibility of Zoom, and are gathering information on many other software applications. Ultimately, we’d like to develop a system for the GLAM community to easily ask questions or share information about the accessibility of software, building off the existing networks and centers for information for AT professionals. Some of the other projects we’ve done include the Accessible Documentation guidelines and a collection of Accessibility Auditing resources. For more information, contact Debbie Krahmer dkrahmer@colgate.edu Advocacy and Education Libraries and information organizations have a responsibility to proactively build features into our products and services that recognizes the value and rights of people with disabilities. This requires continual learning as well as creative and collaborative advocacy.  As a new working group, the advocacy and education subgroup seeks contributors who welcome complexity and responsibility.  This means, when possible, fixing a regular, monthly meeting time in our calendars, as well as reserving time throughout the month to do a bit of work. Most recently, this sub-group hosted a kick-off webinar, Inclusive Design and Accessible Exhibits: Some Guidance for Libraries, Galleries, and Museums by Sina Bahram. Advocacy and Continuing Education wiki page For information, contact Mark Weiler (mweiler@wlu.ca) Policies and Workflows GLAM organizations incorporate a wide variety of policies and workflows, with varying levels of success. This subgroup is collecting best practices, implementation processes, and educational materials to help individuals in GLAM organizations authentically implement accessibility policies and workflows in digital libraries. Some of the work we have embarked on thus far has included defining the scope of digital library policies and workflows, conducting an environmental scan of policies and workflows, and creating a toolkit to be used with digital libraries. The toolkit will contain a reflection of many of the conversations the subgroup has had revolving around the successful implementation of policies and workflows – and not only the suggested content GLAM institutions will want to adopt. The individuals working together represent a wide variety of types of institutions, locations, and experience. Each individual has had responsibilities in their home organization to implement accessible policies and workflows in regards to digital libraries. For scholars and practitioners alike, the work being conducted to create recommendations represents the practical knowledge others need. To learn more about the work, completed resources are available on the DLF Wiki Subpage for Policies and Workflows. To join in the conversation, please email the co-chairs, Gabriel Galson at galson@temple.edu and Amy Vecchione at amyvecchione@boisestate.edu. Getting Involved If you want to learn more about the work DAWG is doing, check out the Digital Accessibility Group wiki. You can also join the listserv (Google Group), attend meetings (updates about meeting times are shared via the listserv, and join the Slack channel. For additional questions regarding the group, feel free to email Jasmine Clark at jasmine.l.clark@temple.edu. The post 2020 DLF Forum: Building Community With DLF’s Digital Accessibility Working Group appeared first on DLF. 2020 DLF Forum: Building Community With DLF’s Project Managers Group Though DLF is best known for our signature event, the annual DLF Forum, our working groups collaborate year round. Long before COVID-19 introduced the concept of “Zoom fatigue” into our lives, DLF’s working groups organized across institutional and geographical boundaries, building community while apart, to get work done. Made possible through the support of our institutional members, working groups are the efforts of a committed community of practitioners, using DLF as a framework for action, engaged in problem-solving in a variety of digital library subfields from project management and assessment to labor and accessibility. Once we decided that the 2020 DLF Forum and affiliated events would be held in a virtual format, it meant that our working groups wouldn’t have the opportunity to meet in person for their typical working meals that take place throughout the Forum; however, this year’s virtual format means that we’ll have more new DLF Forum attendees than ever before. Because DLF’s working groups are open to ALL, regardless of whether you’re affiliated with a DLF member institution or not, we asked leaders of the DLF working groups to introduce their groups and the work they do to the new and returning members of the #DLFvillage in a series of blogs and videos. We’ll share these working group updates in the days leading to this year’s DLF Forum. All of our 2020 events are free of charge. Register by November 1. Join DLF’s Project Managers Group during their Forum working session on November 17. What is the Project Managers Group? The DLF Project Managers Group (or DLF PMG) was formed in 2008 to acknowledge the intersection between project management and library technology. We provide a place to share project management methodologies and tools, alongside broader discussions that consider issues such as portfolio management and cross-organizational communication, and have branched into discussions of personnel management as well. We look to keep pace with the digital library landscape by bringing new and evolving project management practices to the attention and mutual benefit of our colleagues. This has been a big focus this year as many of us have made the transition to managing teams remotely. You can find more information about our group on the DLF PMG Wiki. This year the Project Managers Group decided to take on a new mentoring initiative as well as expand a webinar program series that we’ve offered on a limited basis to help connect and support project managers. Mentoring: In June 2020, the Project Managers Group launched its pilot of a project management mentoring program. This was in response to feedback the Steering Committee has heard at meetings and past Forums for several years. The committee wanted to provide an opportunity to connect with other project managers in our field to ask advice, share ideas, and learn from someone at a different organization. The goals of the program are to cultivate relationships and communication between project managers who have different experiences and areas of interest in digital libraries throughout the year. The committee envisioned this program as geared toward anyone in the field–new professionals or experienced project managers–who are looking to gain new perspectives.  Our first cohort of mentors and mentees are currently in their third month of the program and by all accounts, everyone is finding this program insightful and worthwhile. We recently sent out our first quarter survey for participants and got positive feedback from everyone on the experience so far. Especially right now, as our professional lives are so upended, mentors and mentees are appreciative of someone to bounce ideas off and commiserate with – no matter their prior experience. Based on the success of this pilot program, the Steering Committee will continue to offer this mentoring program and hope to call for a second cohort in Spring 2021. Webinars: The Project Managers Group provides webinars to keep pace with the dynamic digital library landscape, by bringing new and evolving project management, service design, user experience, and assessment practices to the DLF community. The webinars are recorded and uploaded to the DLF YouTube channel and then linked to the PMG Wiki so that they can be shared with a wider audience. This year, speakers presented on new technologies and practices in project management.  Melissa Wisner, IT Project and Portfolio Management Librarian at North Carolina State University Libraries, spoke about Before Action Review, a method used by teams at the onset of a project to talk through anticipated changes, assumptions, and risks by drawing on the lessons learned from past experiences.  Jenn Nolte, User Experience (UX) Librarian at Yale University Library, spoke about User Experience and Service Design. The talk focused on the importance of putting the end user’s needs at the center when planning for new services or enhancing current services. Casey Davis Kaufman, Associate Director of the GBH Media Library and Archives, spoke about leading teams and projects while working remotely during the ongoing global pandemic crisis. The presentation covered a range of topics relevant to the present remote-working environment–effective communication and support, managing expectations, measuring productivity and impact, providing resources, and ‘holding space’ for team members who may be experiencing incredibly challenging and emotionally difficult situations within and/or outside of work. These virtual sessions provide an opportunity for Project Managers to learn and share new information with others in the field. We are always looking for feedback from our audience. If you have any suggestions for future webinars or if you would like to present at one of the sessions, please reach out to us via our listserv.  Toolkit: We’ve also continued to enhance our collective documentation and aides for all, including the DLF Project Managers Toolkit. The Toolkit is a collaborative project, based on contributions by members of the DLF Project Managers Group over the years. The Toolkit offers crowdsourced information, tips, techniques, and tools for project managers working in or with digital libraries. We include information on project management basics, documentation and templates shared by members, and evaluations of some of the popular project management Read More The post 2020 DLF Forum: Building Community With DLF’s Project Managers Group appeared first on DLF. Update on DLF’s Senior Program Officer Search Dear DLF Community, Following our recent news about what is shaping up to be an exciting Forum, we wanted to also update you on the DLF Senior Program Officer position that was posted earlier this year. The search was notable for its strong, diverse pool of candidates and the many perspectives each could bring to DLF. The process was conducted with professional diligence and benefited significantly from the expertise and insight of the search committee, culminating in a lively final round of interviews. Unexpectedly, we were not able to make a successful offer. While we are fortunate to still have a very strong candidate pool, we feel it is important to pause and reflect upon the recent search and wider context and conditions that may have influenced its outcome. We have had conversations with search firms lately that corroborate a significant rise in candidates declining job offers nationally across disciplines and professions. The reasons for this are being explored, but it is believed that many of the positions—like the one for DLF—were posted pre-COVID and that the increased unpredictability of the academic workplace and the understandable avoidance of risk-taking could be significant factors. Given the importance of the DLF leadership position, we plan to start a second search in early January. CLIR has begun an internal evaluation of the first round search process. This review is taking into account the changes in our academic environment stemming from the disruptions of, and responses to, the pandemic, including a profound rethinking of approaches to teaching, research, information sharing, and community building, as well as the implications for institutional budgets near and longer-term. As always, your support and engagement are deeply appreciated and essential to DLF’s continued success. Charles J. Henry President The post Update on DLF’s Senior Program Officer Search appeared first on DLF. 2020 DLF Forum: Building Community With DLF’s Assessment Interest Group Though DLF is best known for our signature event, the annual DLF Forum, our working groups collaborate year round. Long before COVID-19 introduced the concept of “Zoom fatigue” into our lives, DLF’s working groups organized across institutional and geographical boundaries, building community while apart, to get work done. Made possible through the support of our institutional members, working groups are the efforts of a committed community of practitioners, using DLF as a framework for action, engaged in problem-solving in a variety of digital library subfields from project management and assessment to labor and accessibility. Once we decided that the 2020 DLF Forum and affiliated events would be held in a virtual format, it meant that our working groups wouldn’t have the opportunity to meet in person for their typical working meals that take place throughout the Forum; however, this year’s virtual format means that we’ll have more new DLF Forum attendees than ever before. Because DLF’s working groups are open to ALL, regardless of whether you’re affiliated with a DLF member institution or not, we asked leaders of the DLF working groups to introduce their groups and the work they do to the new and returning members of the #DLFvillage in a series of blogs and videos. We’ll share these working group updates in the days leading to this year’s DLF Forum. All of our 2020 events are free of charge. Register by November 1. Updates from the DLF Assessment Interest Group (AIG) The DLF Assessment Interest Group (AIG) seeks to engage the community in developing best practices and guidelines for various kinds of digital library assessment. As the amount of digitized/born-digital content continues to grow at our research and cultural heritage institutions, there is an ever-increasing need to strategically standardize our assessment efforts.  The only requirement for participation in a DLF AIG working group is a willingness to dig in and devote a small part of your time contributing to the tools, methods, and body of knowledge on digital library assessment. We encourage you to join a meeting or reach out to the contacts listed below. (DLF membership is not a requirement for participation.) We look forward to extending an invitation for you to join us at our upcoming AIG virtual event in early 2021, which will showcase working group achievements and help us brainstorm for the year ahead. Stay tuned for event details!  In the meantime, here’s an overview of the five AIG working groups and along with some recent highlights. The groups represented in this post are: the Content Reuse Working Group, the Cost Assessment Working Group, the Cultural Assessment Working Group, the Metadata Assessment Working Group, and the User Experience Assessment Working Group. AIG Content Reuse Working Group The Content Reuse Working Group (#digreuse) focuses on developing standards, strategies, and workflows for assessing the use and reuse of digital objects across galleries, libraries, archives, museums, and repositories (GLAMR) Content Reuse Working Group in 2020 The Content Reuse Working Group is developing the Digital Content Reuse Assessment Framework Toolkit (D-CRAFT). The D-CRAFT project, generously funded by a National Leadership Grants for Libraries (LG-36-19-0036-19) award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, started in July 2019.  Working group members are building the toolkit in two phases of work. The first phase includes work on ethical guidelines and recommended practices.  Ethical Guidelines. The Guidelines are intended for practitioners assessing use and reuse of digital cultural heritage artifacts, research outputs and scholarship, and data. These guidelines are meant both to inform practitioners in their decision-making, and to model for users what they can expect from those who steward digital collections. Integral to the creation of this code are user privacy considerations, and a particular focus on concerns and ideas of Black, Indigenous, people of color, people with disabilities, working class, and poor communities. The working group is currently finalizing an Ethical Guidelines for Assessing Reuse draft for public review and comment.  Recommended Practices. Recommended practices will document tools, resources, and existing strategies for assessing various facets of digital object reuse. Along the way, the working group will develop draft content with D-CRAFT Consultants, solicit feedback from their Advisory Group and GLAMR practitioners, and launch the toolkit. How can you participate? We encourage those interested in knowing more about the project to visit the D-CRAFT project site as well as to review a 2019 DLF Blog post Introducing D-CRAFT. Those who have questions or comments should feel free to reach out to Santi Thompson. AIG Cost Assessment Working Group We dig into the cost (both time and money) of digitization. Cost Assessment Working Group in 2020 Building on the development of the Digitization Cost Calculator, the AIG Cost Group is shifting directions to create a more expansive toolkit that will serve a wider range of digitization labs.  Survey. We are seeking information from a variety of digitization stakeholders from across the DLF to inform two new initiatives. The data collected will be used to help create resources for calculating and assessing institutional commitments necessary for successful digitization projects or starting a digitization program. Resource Library. We are looking to assemble a resource library similar to the DLF AIG Metadata Application Profile Clearinghouse Project. The survey data will help us gather some preliminary information about the various organizations successfully using cost assessment tools in their local context. If possible, we will link to or provide samples which may provide a template for other organizations. Cost Worksheets. We seek more data on those interested in cost assessment practices that will give us better insight into how to further develop templates for “cost worksheets” which might be applied at the institutional level and modified for local use. Unlike the cost calculator, these worksheets would be generated from local information to give end-users more contextualized information.  Digitization costs can be calculated in terms of either/both money and time, which themselves exist in tension with one another. For the purposes of this work, digitization is defined as the practices and procedures associated with reformatting physical Read More The post 2020 DLF Forum: Building Community With DLF’s Assessment Interest Group appeared first on DLF. 2020 DLF Forum: Building Community With DLF’s Born-Digital Access Working Group Though DLF is best known for our signature event, the annual DLF Forum, our working groups collaborate year round. Long before COVID-19 introduced the concept of “Zoom fatigue” into our lives, DLF’s working groups organized across institutional and geographical boundaries, building community while apart, to get work done. Made possible through the support of our institutional members, working groups are the efforts of a committed community of practitioners, using DLF as a framework for action, engaged in problem-solving in a variety of digital library subfields from project management and assessment to labor and accessibility. Once we decided that the 2020 DLF Forum and affiliated events would be held in a virtual format, it meant that our working groups wouldn’t have the opportunity to meet in person for their typical working meals that take place throughout the Forum; however, this year’s virtual format means that we’ll have more new DLF Forum attendees than ever before. Because DLF’s working groups are open to ALL, regardless of whether you’re affiliated with a DLF member institution or not, we asked leaders of the DLF working groups to introduce their groups and the work they do to the new and returning members of the #DLFvillage in a series of blogs and videos. We’ll share these working group updates in the days leading to this year’s DLF Forum. All of our 2020 events are free of charge. Register by November 1. Join the Born-Digital Access Working Group during their Forum working session on November 17. Who are we? The DLF Born-Digital Access Working Group, or what is affectionately known as BDAWG, is currently led by co-coordinators Karla Irwin and Jessika Drmacich. BDAWG is the only born-digital group focused entirely on access. BDAWG is very easy to join and the group is open to everyone! Our Google Group is our main mode of communication, so please sign up there if you would like to receive updates and more information. BDAWG meets bimonthly and there are many different opportunities for participation based on area of interest and availability. If you are curious about what members have published so far you can also check out DLF’s OSF site for our BDAWG. At around 200 members, BDAWG garners participation from a wide gamut of archivists, librarians, and cultural heritage workers coming from higher education institutions, museums, government archives, and even some students. What have we been working on? In August of 2020, BDAWG held our first ever Virtual Colloquium. This was an opportunity for BDAWG members to share some work related to born-digital access at their respective institutions. We had a fantastic turnout and there are hopes to hold this event again next year. Also this year, BDAWG formed five sub-working groups focused around researching different born-digital access topics. These subgroups are typically formed once a year and are discussed, decided, and voted on by our members. Updates on our sub-working groups! The Access Values subgroup completed a values statement for BDAWG on the topic of how to approach work around born-digital access. You can read the Access Values here. Special thanks to Jessica Farrell, Brain Dietz, and Alison Clemens for their great work on this! The Documenting Access Methods subgroup is exploring what elements institutions could include in documentation for providing access. Documenting Access Methods include two *sub-subgroups*: a Framework group and a Pointer group. The Framework group is creating a framework or template for documentation and the Pointer group will categorize and point to existing documentation. The Documenting Access Methods subgroup plans to wrap up their work by the end of this year so be on the lookout for that! The Donor Relations subgroup has been developing a resource for managing remote donor relations and acquisitions in the form of an annotated bibliography that will be available very soon. Once that is wrapped up, future work by a new subgroup will be looking at remote on-site visits and born-digital acquisitions. There will be some upcoming forums on this topic, so be on the lookout for information (or you can reach out to us)! The Legal Due Diligence subgroup is creating a resource that helps practitioners understand what steps are needed to provide low-risk access with a close look at Attorney Client Privilege, Culturally Sensitive Materials, Donor Restrictions, FERPA and HIPAA, GDPR, Institutionally Mandated Confidentiality, PII, Privacy, and Terms of Service. They plan on releasing a skeletal set of guidelines with a workflow once they wrap up their research. The Ideal Access Systems subgroup is working to define what ‘ideal’ access means in order to provide recommendations on how to create and implement ideal access systems in different environments. They are currently working on a literature review of relevant articles and case-studies and finalizing a functional definition of ideal in order to move into their next stage which involves building a project plan for an ideal access system. The subgroup hopes to release their documentation by the beginning of next year. Get in touch! Please reach out to Karla and/or Jessika with questions! Jessika, Williams College, (jgd1@williams.edu) Karla, University of Nevada, Las Vegas (karla.irwin@unlv.edu) Keep these links handy: BDAWG Google Group: https://tinyurl.com/BDAWGGG DLF OSF website: https://osf.io/hqmy4/  We hope to see you at a future BDAWG meeting! The post 2020 DLF Forum: Building Community With DLF’s Born-Digital Access Working Group appeared first on DLF. Announcing Incoming NDSA Coordinating Committee Members for 2021- 2023 Please join me in welcoming the two newly elected Coordinating Committee members Elizabeth England and Jessica Neal, and one re-elected member, Linda Tadic. Their terms begin January 1, 2021 and run through December 31, 2023.   Elizabeth England is a Digital Preservation Specialist at the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, where she participates in strategic and operational initiatives and services for the preservation of born-digital and digitized records. She previously was the Digital Archivist and a National Digital Stewardship Resident at Johns Hopkins University. Elizabeth currently serves on the NDSA Communications and Publications group and the DigiPres 2020 Planning Committee. Jessica Neal, was recently named the Sterling A. Brown Archivist at Williams College, having previously been the  College Archivist at Hampshire College. Additionally, Jes is a workshop facilitator with DocNow, and a member of NDSA’s DigiPres 2020 Planning Committee.  Linda Tadic has served on the Coordinating Committee for the past two years. As an educator, she incorporates NDSA reports and projects into her courses in the UCLA Information Studies department. Additionally, Linda brings her diverse experience working in non-profit and educational archives, managing digital asset management systems, and founding Digital Bedrock, a managed digital preservation service provider. We are also grateful to the very talented, qualified individuals who participated in this election. We are indebted to our outgoing Coordinating Committee members, Karen Cariani, Bradley Daigle (Chair), Sibyl Schaefer, and Paige Walker, for their service and many contributions. To sustain a vibrant, robust community of practice, we rely on and deeply value the contributions of all members, including those who took part in voting. The post Announcing Incoming NDSA Coordinating Committee Members for 2021- 2023 appeared first on DLF. Endangering Data Interview with Sarah Lamdan Sarah Lamdan is a Professor of Law at CUNY School of Law in Long Island City, NY. She has a master’s degree in library science and legal information management. She also has a law certificate in environmental law. Her work focuses on information law and policy. Professor Lamdan works on issues across the spectrum from open government to personal privacy. She is currently writing a book about data control and access called Data Cartels, which will be published by Stanford University Press. Sarah is a member of the Environmental Data & Governance Initiative and works with immigration groups on government surveillance issues. Lamdan’s book, Environmental Information: Research, Access & Environmental Decisionmaking (Environmental Law Institute 2017) serves as a resource for journalists, scientists, and researchers who use government science information in their work. Tell us a bit about your projects and how you became interested in issues of data privacy, collection, and surveillance. I became interested in the topic after seeing a news article in 2017 about ICE’s “extreme vetting” social media surveillance program, and noticing that Thomson Reuters and LexisNexis reps had attended an ICE event to learn about how to win gov’t contracts to participate in the invasive immigrant surveillance program. Thomson Reuters and LexisNexis (part of the data analytics giant RELX Group) are the main suppliers of legal research products for the legal profession. Their products, Westlaw and Lexis, are considered the “gold standard” legal research products, and together, the companies have a legal information duopoly. I was concerned about the ethical implications of immigration lawyers using products that may ultimately be participating in ICE surveillance programs that harm their clients.   You’ve written several pieces[1] detailing how many vendor business models go far beyond licensing scholarly journals to academic researchers and law firms, and include selling mailing addresses, social media data, credit and criminal records, and much more to marketing firms, political consultants, and law enforcement. How did those companies develop? So, as I started researching about Thomson Reuters and LexisNexis’s relationships with ICE, it became clear that these companies weren’t the companies that I thought they were. As a librarian, these companies were marketed as publishers. I knew Reed Elsevier (RE of the RELX) as a publisher of scholarly journals, and LexisNexis (LX) as a publisher of legal resources and news. Thomson Reuters supplied financial and legal search platforms to business and law firm libraries that I’d worked in.  I learned that, over the past decade, these companies have morphed from being “publishers” to being “data analytics corporations.” Library markets are changing as more information becomes open access and freely available online, especially when it comes to legal resources. Government websites and nonprofit groups have pushed to make laws more accessible on the internet. At the same time, data analytics seems to be the future profit source – collecting huge amounts of data and using algorithms, AI, and machine learning to “slice and dice” data to build informational resources for clients. Since the 90’s Thomson Reuters and RELX Group have acquired hundreds of companies and tons of data to position themselves as the premier data analytics firms. Although vendors like Thomson Reuters and RELX are notoriously secretive about the library data they collect and how they use it, do members of the library community have any idea about how that data is used in their broader data broker ecosystem? How might data collected from users of LexisNexis, Scopus, Elsevier journals, etc. be of value to non-library audiences? How it may be aggregated with other data? It seems that Thomson Reuters, RELX Group, and other online research platforms benefit from using library data to market their products, and create new products, for those same users. Sam Moore describes how these platforms use “seamless access” (“Get Full Text Research, for example[2]) to gather data about its users that the companies can monetize researchers’ searches to tailor services for those, and other, users. Wolfie Christl similarly noticed that when you do research using Elsevier, ThreatMetrix, an RELX surveillance data product, stores a personal identifier in your browser to track your searching. We can’t be sure what the companies are doing with this data (aka we don’t know whether they are using it internally or selling it/sharing it externally, etc.) but we do know that our research is being tracked by the companies whose platforms we, and our patrons, rely on to do our research.   You’re working on a book manuscript about data cartels. Can you share a little bit more about that project, and what the larger ecosystem of data cartels looks like? As I tried to figure out what these data analytics companies do and how their different products connected, I learned that there isn’t much research on these publishers-turned-data analytics corporations. Information science tends to focus more on communication technologies and platforms (algorithms, machine learning, social media, search engines) and not as much on the duller, less-dynamic data vendor side. It’s like focusing on modems, themselves, instead of the Internet – boooring. Because there isn’t much discussion of these companies beyond librarianship, we haven’t seen the full pictures of these companies: they don’t just sell platforms to libraries, they also sell platforms to financial firms, cops, news orgs, and more. Several companies are simultaneously academic research oligarchies, legal research duopolies, federal and state police surveillance monopolies. These companies have consolidated control over informational flows in libraries and beyond, restricting and stratifying informational access and data privacy in all of our communities.   In Librarianship at the Crossroads of ICE Surveillance, you write that we must not pass privacy protections on to patrons, or donate the labor of erasing our patrons’ data to vendors, but rather to demand “privacy by design” from vendors. Have you seen any progress on this front? “Privacy by design” is an idea described by Ann Cavoukian, the former Information and Privacy Commissioner for the Canadian province of Ontario. I bought into this idea in an article I wrote in 2015 (Social Media Read More The post Endangering Data Interview with Sarah Lamdan appeared first on DLF. Endangering Data Interview with Terra Graziani Terra Graziani is a researcher and tenants’ rights organizer based in Los Angeles, CA. She founded and co-directs the Los Angeles chapter of the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project (AEMP), a digital storytelling collective documenting dispossession and resistance in solidarity with gentrifying communities through research, oral history, and data work. She is also a researcher with the UCLA Institute on Inequality and Democracy and The Center for Critical Internet Inquiry at UCLA. Before this, she organized with AEMP in the San Francisco Bay Area and worked for several tenants’ rights organizations including The Los Angeles Center for Community Law and Action, The Eviction Defense Collaborative and Tenants Together. She is currently Research Program Officer at Educopia where she works to cultivate community in the information field. Terra earned her Master’s in Urban and Regional Planning at UCLA and her Bachelor’s degree in Social and Cultural Geography at UC Berkeley. Tell us a bit about your projects and how you became interested in issues of data privacy, collection, and surveillance. One of my first jobs in the tenant movement was Community Outreach Coordinator at The Eviction Defense Collaborative (EDC) in San Francisco, a legal clinic where anyone who has received an eviction notice goes first to get immediate help responding to their eviction. I was responsible for writing EDC’s annual eviction report, which analyzed the data EDC collected through its clinic to provide a picture of displacement in San Francisco. To make this report, we partnered with The Anti-Eviction Mapping Project (AEMP), and the rest is history! I joined AEMP shortly thereafter and began to learn — both through the research and visualization I was doing with AEMP, as well as through the experiences I was having working with tenants facing eviction at EDC — all about eviction data! Since then, I’ve worked in various roles in the tenant movement organizing against displacement and building power through knowledge production around issues of tenants’ rights, our speculative and racist housing system (market), police and property, policing technologies, and so much more. I spend a lot of time thinking about how we can mobilize data to build power from below, rather than to surveil and punish.   Your work in AEMP and in tenant organizing more broadly has touched on areas where mass data collection can endanger tenants, as well as areas where civic data and grassroots data collection can help to counter anti-tenant narratives and build community power.  How does the concept of “endangering data” arise in your work? Early on, I learned that the most commonly-used data set on evictions comes from the courts, and that each county’s courts has a different data management system that has a huge impact on how accessible that data is. I also learned that, in California, there is a masking law that prevents court eviction records from being made public. As the article states, before this masking law was passed, “under longstanding California law, records in eviction lawsuits [were] kept sealed for 60 days after they [were] filed. On the 61st day, the court clerk look[ed] to see if the tenant prevailed. If not, the record [became] public — even if there [had] been no ruling in the case, and even if the landlord [had] abandoned the lawsuit.” After these 60 days, names of those who had lost their case and been evicted would be published, third party companies were taking and publishing this data, and landlords would subscribe in order to blacklist tenants. A tenants’ record and credit score could be affected for up to 7 years, significantly impacting their access to housing, which is already so hard to secure. With the new state law, which took effect in January 2017, the landlord would have to win the case in those 60 days for the record to be made public. The law is still not perfect, as tenants still avoid taking their cases to court where, if they have access to an attorney (also a huge problem) they could get a better outcome, for fear of losing and getting an eviction put on their record, but the new laws protect many more tenants from being blacklisted. This masking law is a double-edged sword, though, because it also means those within the tenant movement who want access to court eviction data, including AEMP, have a very hard time getting it. There is an exemption to the law that grants access to “a person who has an order from a court, issued upon a showing of good cause.” This is the exemption AEMP used to get a court order to access the data in Alameda County. In San Francisco, the court has a practice of sharing address-level eviction data with the rent board, who then we request the data from through public records’ request. The format of the data we receive from these public bodies is all over the place and often takes months of work to make it usable. In sum, the data management and sharing practices of public institutions are so variable and have a huge impact on the work we can do.  One of my many jobs at EDC was to help re-vamp their intake form, meaning I was helping shape what data we collected on tenants facing eviction in San Francisco. I still think about this process often, because working with clinics and tenant organizations to mobilize their data is one way AEMP has been able to visualize a more holistic data set of evictions. If we only look at eviction data from courts, we’re only representing those tenants who made it to court. So many tenants are forced out informally, through intimidation, harassment, informal buy-out offers etc., none of which are captured by court data. Some of this is recorded in clinic records where tenants have gone for help. Another way this is helpful is that many clinics collect demographic data. EDC’s data taught us, for example, that in 2015, compared to the city’s population, Black residents were overrepresented by 300% in their Read More The post Endangering Data Interview with Terra Graziani appeared first on DLF. Endangering Data Interview with Thomas Padilla Thomas Padilla is Interim Head, Knowledge Production at the University of Nevada Las Vegas. He consults, publishes, presents, and teaches widely on digital strategy, cultural heritage collections, data literacy, digital scholarship, and data curation. He is Principal Investigator of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation supported Collections as Data: Part to Whole and past Principal Investigator of the Institute of Museum and Library Services supported, Always Already Computational: Collections as Data. He is the author of the library community research agenda Responsible Operations: Data Science, Machine Learning, and AI in Libraries. Tell us a bit about your projects and how you became interested in cultural heritage data and algorithmic and AI approaches to curation and research? I am interested in cultivating GLAM community capacity around responsible, ethically grounded computational engagement with data. Some of that interest has to do with positionality – me being a mixed race, first generation college student, from a working class background. I’m constantly trying to find ways for my labor to address historic and contemporary marginalization.   Always Already Computational: Collections as Data was an Institute of Museum and Library Services supported effort that iteratively developed a range of deliverables meant to spark capacity around principles-driven creation of computationally amenable collections . In that work I was very lucky to be joined by Laurie Allen, Stewart Varner, Hannah Frost, Elizabeth Russey Roke, and Sarah Potvin. With a better sense of community need I later embarked on Collections as Data: Part to Whole – an effort supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Part to Whole is essentially a regranting and cohort development program. Hannah Scates Kettler, Stewart Varner, Yasmeen Shorish, and I are currently working with 12 institutions (large R1s, historical societies, museums, State-based digital libraries, and more) to develop models that guide collections as data production and models that help organizations develop sustainable services around collections as data.  Over the course of 2019 I worked as a Practitioner Research in Residence at OCLC Research, interviewing and holding convenings for professionals within and outside of libraries in the United States. This work culminated in the community research agenda Responsible Operations: Data Science, Machine Learning, and AI in Libraries. I felt a lot of pressure to get this work right. I did not want to write some breathless utopian endorsement of AI. Any success I have in that regard is due to the wisdom of the community, any failures are mine. The library community in the United States feels like it has reached a certain level of awareness regarding the pitfalls of AI, helped considerably by the work of Safiya Noble, practitioners like Jason Clark, and an understanding that library community practices have long held the potential to systematically impact communities in a discriminatory manner.  Rumman Chowdhury introduced me to the concept of responsible operations which was a perfect way to encapsulate where it feels like we are as a community. A number of us want to use AI to strengthen library services but only if it doesn’t compromise commitments to cultivating a more equitable society. Of course, no community is uniform in their beliefs, and libraries are no exception. Some at junior and senior levels have quietly – and not so quietly – expressed the view that preoccupation with responsibility or ethics is orthogonal to progress and allows the library community to be beat in some imagined race with the private sector. These are dangerous views and the stakes are real. We must act accordingly.   For years, many in the library and cultural heritage world have critiqued digitization efforts as replicating (or even accelerating) long-standing biases that center on white, male, and US/Eurocentric collection patterns, viewpoints, and catalog descriptions. In both the Santa Barbara Statement on Collections as Data and the Always Already Computational: Collections as Data final report, you and your partners have pointed to a crucial need for critical engagement with biases and shortcomings and an intention to address the needs of vulnerable communities represented in the materials. What are some examples of these approaches that you’ve found to be successful? Collections as Data: Part to Whole requires that regrantees demonstrate capacity to serve underrepresented communities – a consideration that spans thematic coverage of the collection in question, community buy-in, and a demonstrated commitment to ethical principles that work against the potential for harm. Examples of Part to Whole work addressing your questions include but are not limited to Kim Pham’s effort at the University of Denver to develop a terms of use for collections as data and Amanda Henley and Maria Estorino’s effort at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill to discover and increase access to Jim Crow laws and other racially-based legislation in North Carolina between Reconstruction and the Civil Rights Movement.  More broadly, there is so much good work being done. I am super inspired by Dorothy Berry’s advocacy at Harvard, resulting in a 2020-2021 exclusive focus on the digitization of Black American History. I am inspired by the Global Indigenous Data Alliance’s CARE Principles, co-led by Stephanie Russo Carroll and Maui Hudson. A response to the FAIR Principles, CARE problematizes FAIR’s, “focus on characteristics of data that will facilitate increased data sharing among entities while ignoring power differentials and historical contexts.” A CARE principle like indigenous “Authority to Control” presents a difficult and needed challenge to the cultural heritage community. What could it look like for more institutions to relinquish control of collections to their rightful owners? It is not often the case that capital – stolen or not – is returned and I imagine even the most well meaning libraries will struggle mightily within their own hierarchies to make this happen. I appreciate Eun Seo Jo and Timnit Gebru’s effort to bridge the archives community and machine learning community. Attempts to thread the needle on cross-domain work is always tough but it is definitely needed.  T-Kay Sangwand’s Preservation is Political: Enacting Contributive Justice and Decolonizing Transnational Archival Collaborations is a must read. Michelle Caswell’s work – as a Read More The post Endangering Data Interview with Thomas Padilla appeared first on DLF. Catching up with past NDSA Innovation Awards Winners: AIMS Project The AIMS Project (An Inter-Institutional Model for Stewardship) won a 2012 Innovation Award in the Project category. AIMS participants were recognized for their work developing a framework for stewarding born-digital content and filling the gap between applying standards such as OAIS and the necessary workflows and tools for implementation. The responses to this Q&A were provided by AIMS Project participants from Stanford University, University of Hull, and University of Virginia. What have you/project teams been doing since receiving an NDSA Innovation Award? Stanford: Made the digital archivist position continuing (aka “real”), 2+ years ago we added another full-time digital archivist. DLSS & Special Collections collaborated to build our capacity and procedures for acquiring and processing and delivering b-d materials. Received 3 grants to develop our open-source email processing/delivery platform (ePADD project, discovery online). This last has morphed into a new grant application by Harvard & the Univ. of Manchester (w/ us as consultants) to further develop ePADD with more preservation elements. Total born-digital collections acquired since 2012: ~140 accessions and ~250 TB. Born-digital processing projects (processed and in progress) include: Amos Gitai, Dorothy Fadiman, Helen & Newton Harrison, Ted Nelson, New Dimensions, Silicon Genesis, Ruth Asawa, Lourdes Portillo. Other collection acquisition highlights (unprocessed) include: Rebecca Solnit, Lynn Hershman-Leeson, Marlon Riggs, Bob Stein, David Bohrman. Through the born-digital program, Stanford and Virginia are members of the Software Preservation Network and both nodes for the Emulation as a Service Infrastructure (EaaSI) project Stanford DLSS and Special Collections has also worked together with a number of other institutions, including University of Michigan, Duke University, Indiana University, and Princeton University to develop ArcLight, an open source discovery and delivery environment for archives. After Yale, Mark Matienzo served as the Director of Technology for the Digital Public Library of America, and joined Stanford in 2016. Virginia: We have also made digital preservation and management a priority by making the AIMS position permanent.  We have been fortunate to have both digital archivists and a digital preservation librarian as full time positions. Virginia incubated and created the Academic Preservation Trust. APTrust has over 150 TB of content and is growing all the time. Hull: Simon Wilson retained responsibility for born-digital archives when he returned to his substantive role as Senior Archivist. Hull retained a high profile across the UK with lots of advocacy for encouraging organisations to take practical steps with digital preservation and proposed that digital archives could be undertaken as a shared-service between multiple archive services. The project gave us a huge boost of confidence with increased advocacy within the institution and lead to the inclusion of born-digital archives as key activity for the library service Colleagues from Hull collaborated with the University of York in a project funded by JISC to look at the suitability of Archivematica to support research data management activity – an opportunity to review and identify similarities and differences between research data and born-digital archives Advocated and secured funding from a range of sources including The National Archives to create an archive for Hull UK City of Culture 2017 What did receiving the NDSA Innovation award in 2012 for AIMS mean to you and/or the project team? Recognition of work that was critical to the basic operations within archives then and now. This was an international group that came together, identified significant challenges, and developed strategies to address them. The Award also helped introduce and integrate our work into the larger preservation community. Since 2012, Virginia, for example, has been very active in the NDSA with two staff being elected as Coordinating Committee Chairs and several others being chairs of Interest and Working Groups. The encouragement of working with others for mutual benefit – a legacy that has remained central to our philosophy. Simon Wilson served on the Digital Preservation Coalition’s Partnership and Sustainability Sub-committee (2016-2019) and contributed to the international curatorial team reviewing NDSA Levels of Digital Preservation What efforts, advances, or ideas over the last 5-8 years have caught your attention or interest in the area of digital stewardship? There are too many to note but the rise of Distributed Digital Preservation Services has made significant advances to help many organizations understand and implement digital preservation in a cost effective manner. Software preservation and emulation have also risen to the fore based on much of the scholarly foundations of folks like those at MITH. With the rise of cloud services, emulated environments are now much more standardized than they were in the AIMS years. The AIMS project was a significant collaborative and technical endeavor. What components of the project do you think have sustained or grown in the digital stewardship community over time? What ideas or work from the project had you hoped would gain traction in the community, but did not quite catch on? We still live in hope of an integrated hierarchical collections discovery platform and UI. Entities like the DPLA, though one of the largest digital portals in the world, still lack the means to represent hierarchical collections. Much of our archival materials (including born digital) are difficult to discover and access. What are some priorities or challenges you see for digital stewardship? Better integration of new technologies such as augmented reality (which includes artificial intelligence and machine learning). There is too much data being produced for humans to manage themselves. Metadata is still largely siloed by organization and efforts to integrate and iterate metadata is still a major challenge for the library and archives professions. Digital preservation is still a major challenge for any organization that manages digital content. Much of the funding still comes from collections budgets and a shift to consider preservation akin to infrastructure (like electricity) is the only way we will be able to scale to meet the challenge of preserving the cultural record. Hull’s experience has been very dependent on project funding and this has seen phases of activity / in-activity which has demonstrated the need for dedicated resource to transition into a service which can be maintained though Read More The post Catching up with past NDSA Innovation Awards Winners: AIMS Project appeared first on DLF. Catching up with past NDSA Innovation Awards Winners: Mid-Michigan Digital Practitioners The Mid-Michigan Digital Practitioners (MMDP) won a 2016 Innovation Award in the Organization category. MMDP was recognized for taking an innovative approach to providing support and guidance to the digital preservation community. The responses to this Q&A were provided by Rick Adler, Ed Busch, and Bryan Whitledge. What have you/the project team been doing since receiving an NDSA Innovation Award? Since receiving the award, we have continued to do what we do best – connecting archivists, librarians, curators, historians, digital humanities experts, and other kindred professionals and students across Michigan. Cultural heritage workers have a disposition to share knowledge with others. MMDP is all about sharing knowledge and our constituency is other cultural heritage workers. We connect via our semi-annual meetings (which, thanks to support from the Library of Michigan, and other institutions, have remained free for attendees) and through our listserv list. In light of the public health emergency, we didn’t hold a spring meeting, but we did hold some virtual check-ins to connect with the MMDP community and share experiences about working from home, dealing with job cuts at our institutions, or returning to the physical workspace. We are looking forward to a fully virtual fall meeting – we think that the Mid-Michigan Digital Practitioners should be able to pull off a great virtual meeting! One effort we undertook a few years ago was to create a directory of experts. Conferences and meetings are great, and so is a listserv list, but sometimes it is nice for one person to connect with another to speak in-depth about a specific topic. The directory is a list of MMDP members who are willing to share their expertise in different skills and tools with other MMDP members on a one-on-one basis. If someone is looking for someone with policy-writing skills, we’ve got that. If another person needs some help with StoryMapJS, we’ve got that, too. And if another MMDP member needs some help cataloging Cherokee-language materials, there is an expert who can help with that! We also have an MMDP member who led a pilot grant in Michigan to explore the creation of a statewide digital preservation network. While the MMDP wasn’t part of the grant, we definitely contributed to getting the word out across the state. MMDP members have been at the table every step of the way. The project is now moving to the next phase in creating a digital preservation network and the MMDP is one venue for sharing information about the project with the people most likely to work with it. What did receiving the NDSA Innovation award in 2016 for MMDP mean to you and/or the project team? Back when we started, we were an experiment… and it worked. So, the recognition was very meaningful. The award definitely raised our profile outside of Michigan. Hopefully, we have inspired other digital practitioners from around the country to form similar groups. For us, in terms of our Michigan constituency, it reinforced our conviction that what we are doing is valuable and needs to be sustained. Many of our more recent members might not know about the NDSA Innovation award, but the commitment, effort, and spirit that led NDSA to bestow the award upon us are still present in everything we strive to do for our community. What efforts, advances, or ideas over the last 5-8 years have caught your attention or interest in the area of digital stewardship? Lowering the barriers to entry—across the board—for digital culture. The barriers are numerous and they aren’t solely financial. The network we mentioned a moment ago is an example of that. Here in Michigan, we have some world-class institutions and they can create homegrown digital preservation environments that are second-to-none. But we also have many small historical societies with historical collections that are just as important, yet they don’t have the tools, the staff, or the finances to allow them to join a major digital-preservation endeavor. MMDP members can help to make digital preservation accessible to institutions of all stripes in Michigan. Our members have varying levels of knowhow about a wide range of digital stewardship topics (advocacy, governance, technical infrastructure skills, developing training materials, etc.), and encouraging them to share what they know expands the potential of cultural heritage professionals around Michigan. Also, we can lean on the technological tools and skills at those institutions that support the network to make the essential technology of digital preservation accessible to all at a relatively low cost. Hopefully, through a project like this, every library, archives, museum, and historical society in the state can jump in and join the digital preservation effort. And we can get all of those historic photos off of old flash drives! Another set of barriers that we hope to do away with are the limits to access that surround much of our digital cultural content. We are inspired by all of the various digital efforts across the state and the country. But there are so many fantastic resources that are buried behind paywalls and even more fantastic resources that don’t see the light of day because of the costs associated with making them available. One of our members works with cultural institutions all across the state to help them share their collection metadata through the Digital Public Library of America and a new state portal called Michigan Memories. But that isn’t enough. We also need to find resources for institutions with fantastic content but no means to host it, and help them preserve it or make it accessible with low-cost or free tools. It includes developing K-12 lesson plans and curricula supported by the freely available primary sources—we know how great this content is, but we also have to be aware that many of our target audiences are swamped with information and they might not have time to wade through hundreds of primary sources across several different platforms to develop a the perfect lesson. If we can help with that, students across the state benefit. The MMDP Read More The post Catching up with past NDSA Innovation Awards Winners: Mid-Michigan Digital Practitioners appeared first on DLF. DLF and NDSA Among Finalists for Digital Preservation Awards 2020 We’re thrilled by today’s announcement that projects from both DLF’s Born-Digital Access Working Group (BDAWG) and NDSA are among the finalists for the Digital Preservation Coalition’s (DPC’s) prestigious Digital Preservation Awards 2020.   One of three finalists for the Software Sustainability Institute Award for Research and Innovation, BDAWG is being recognized for its white paper, Levels of Born-Digital Access (LBDA), a set of benchmarks and practical guidelines supporting access to born-digital materials. LBDA lays out recommendations for accessibility, description, researcher support and discovery, security, and tools that institutions can consider implementing according to their needs, resources, and abilities. Read more about the project. NDSA’s Levels of Digital Preservation Revision Project (LoDP) is among three finalists for the International Council on Archives (ICA) Award for Collaboration and Cooperation. First released in 2013 as a tiered set of recommendations for how organizations should begin to build or enhance their digital preservation activities, LoDP was updated in 2019 with broad community input. Read more about the project. Learn more about other finalists and award categories at https://www.dpconline.org/events/digital-preservation-awards/the-finalists, and tune in to the #WeMissiPRES program showcasing “The Best of Digital Preservation in 2020” on Wednesday, Sept. 23. We congratulate all of the finalists! DPC member voting opens Sept. 16 and goes through Oct. 2. Winners will be announced on World Preservation Day, Nov. 5, as part of an online celebration. The post DLF and NDSA Among Finalists for Digital Preservation Awards 2020 appeared first on DLF. Meet the NDSA Coordinating Committee Candidates for the 2020 Election This year we have four people who have thrown their hats into the ring to run for the NDSA’s Coordinating Committee (CC), of which we will elect three. The CC is dedicated to ensuring a strategic direction for NDSA, to the advancement of NDSA activities to achieve community goals, and to further communication among digital preservation professionals and NDSA member organizations. The CC is responsible for reviewing and approving NDSA membership applications and publications; updating eligibility standards for membership in the alliance, and other strategic documents; engaging with stakeholders in the community; and working to enroll new members committed to our core mission. The successful candidates will each serve a three year term.  Each member organization will receive an email invitation to the ballot in the coming weeks. But right now let’s meet the candidates!   Elizabeth England, Digital Preservation Specialist, U.S. National Archives and Records Administration  Elizabeth England is a Digital Preservation Specialist at the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, where she participates in strategic and operational initiatives and services for the preservation of born-digital and digitized records. She previously was the Digital Archivist and a National Digital Stewardship Resident at Johns Hopkins University. Elizabeth currently serves on the NDSA Communications and Publications group and the DigiPres 2020 Planning Committee. As a past recipient of the NDSA Future Steward award, Elizabeth is interested in advancing NDSA as a resource and community for students and early-career digital stewards, and strengthening the Alliance by increasing representation and inclusion of smaller institutions and colleagues from groups marginalized in the field. Elizabeth is interested in joining the Coordinating Committee to help further realize this work as well as priorities identified in the 2020 Agenda, particularly around the value of digital preservation labor and exploring sustainability models for digital stewardship educational and training programs.   Jessica C. Neal, College Archivist, Hampshire College  Jessica is a Black, queer, millennial archivist and memory worker from Mobile, AL. In addition to her work in academia, Jessica has centered her career on building frameworks around the ethics of documentation that focus on Black-led social movements, art, literature, and struggle throughout the diaspora. Specifically, she is committed to partnering with communities of color to recover, document, and maintain autonomy over the processes in which their narratives and narrative art are preserved and accessed, particularly through the oral history tradition and digital environments. Jessica also has experience working in academic libraries and archives, historical societies, federal government, and private sector organizations. She is currently the College Archivist at Hampshire College, a workshop facilitator with DocNow and a member of NDSA’s DigiPres 2020 Planning Committee.   Linda Tadic, Founder/CEO, Digital Bedrock    Linda has served on the Coordinating Committee for the past two years. During this time, she has promoted the Levels of Digital Preservation to broader communities, in particular to media and entertainment organizations and non-academic institutions. She was a co-presenter on the Levels at the 2019 conference of the Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA), of which she is a founding member and former President . As an educator, she incorporates NDSA reports and projects into her courses in the UCLA Information Studies department, and has previously served as an adjunct in NYU’s Moving Image Archiving and Preservation program. Linda brings to the CC her diverse experience working in non-profit and educational archives, managing digital asset management systems, and founding Digital Bedrock, a managed digital preservation service provider. She has over 30 years of experience in leading preservation, metadata, and digital production operations at organizations such as ARTstor, HBO, the Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection at the University of Georgia, and the Getty Research Institute. If re-elected, Linda will continue promoting NDSA, its activities, and digital preservation concepts to new potential constituencies. Linda participates in the Infrastructure Working Group.   Frederick Zarndt, Consultant, Digital Divide Data / Recollect CMS Frederick has worked with historic and contemporary newspaper, journal, magazine, book, and records digitization since computer speeds, software, technology, storage, and costs first made it practical. He has experience in every aspect of digitization projects including project requirements development, project management, conversion operations (both in-house and outsourced), acceptance testing, software development for production and delivery of digital data, and digital preservation. Frederick has been a member of the IFLA Governing Board, as well as, Chair of its Division II and former secretary and chair of the IFLA News Media Section. For 8 years, he was the administrative chair of the ALTO XML Editorial Board. Frederick has more than 25 years’ experience in software development and is a member of ACM and IEEE and a Certified Software Development Professional (CSDP). He is a member of ALA and IFLA. 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JSONP, by its nature, cannot access HTTP information like headers or the status code, so the API supplies that information in the response, like so: GET https://api.discogs.com/artists/1?callback=callbackname 200 OK Content-Type: text/javascript callbackname({ "meta": { "status": 200, }, "data": { "id": 1, "name": "Persuader, The" // ... and so on } }) Rate Limiting  Requests are throttled by the server by source IP to 60 per minute for authenticated requests, and 25 per minute for unauthenticated requests, with some exceptions. Your application should identify itself to our servers via a unique user agent string in order to achieve the maximum number of requests per minute. Our rate limiting tracks your requests using a moving average over a 60 second window. If no requests are made in 60 seconds, your window will reset. We attach the following headers to responses to help you track your rate limit use: X-Discogs-Ratelimit: The total number of requests you can make in a one minute window. X-Discogs-Ratelimit-Used : The number of requests you’ve made in your existing rate limit window. X-Discogs-Ratelimit-Remaining: The number of remaining requests you are able to make in the existing rate limit window. Your application should take our global limit into account and throttle its requests locally. In the future, we may update these rate limits at any time in order to provide service for all users. Pagination  Some resources represent collections of objects and may be paginated. By default, 50 items per page are shown. To browse different pages, or change the number of items per page (up to 100), use the page and per_page query string parameters: GET https://api.discogs.com/artists/1/releases?page=2&per_page=75 Responses include a Link header: Link: ; rel=next, ; rel=first, ; rel=last, ; rel=prev And a pagination object in the response body: { "pagination": { "page": 2, "pages": 30, "items": 2255, "per_page": 75, "urls": { "first": "https://api.discogs.com/artists/1/releases?page=1&per_page=75", "prev": "https://api.discogs.com/artists/1/releases?page=1&per_page=75", "next": "https://api.discogs.com/artists/1/releases?page=3&per_page=75", "last": "https://api.discogs.com/artists/1/releases?page=30&per_page=75" } }, "releases": [ ... ] } Versioning and Media Types  Currently, our API only supports one version: v2. However, you can specify a version in your requests to future-proof your application. By adding an Accept header with the version and media type, you can guarantee your requests will receive data from the correct version you develop your app on. A standard Accept header may look like this: application/vnd.discogs.v2.html+json If you are requesting information from an endpoint that may have text formatting in it, you can choose which kind of formatting you want to be returned by changing that section of the Accept header. We currently support 3 types: application/vnd.discogs.v2.html+json application/vnd.discogs.v2.plaintext+json application/vnd.discogs.v2.discogs+json If no Accept header is supplied, or if the Accept header differs from one of the three previous options, we default to application/vnd.discogs.v2.discogs+json. FAQ  1. Why am I getting an empty response from the server? This generally happens when you forget to add a User-Agent header to your requests. 2. How do I get updates about the API? Subscribe to our API Announcements forum thread. For larger, breaking changes, we will send out an email notice to all developers with a registered Discogs application. 3. Where can I register a Discogs application? You can register a Discogs application on the Developer Settings. 4. If I have a question/issue with the API, should I file a Support Request? It’s generally best to start out with a forum post on the API topic since other developers may have had similar issues and can point you in the right direction. If the issue requires privacy, then a support request is the best way to go. 5. I’m getting a 404 response when trying to fetch images; what gives? This may seem obvious, but make sure you aren’t doing anything to change the URL. The URLs returned are signed URLs, so trying to change one part of the URL (e.g., Release ID number) will generally not work. 6. What are the authentication requirements for requesting images? Please see the Images documentation page. 7. Why am I getting a particular HTTP response? 200 OK The request was successful, and the requested data is provided in the response body. 201 Continue You’ve sent a POST request to a list of resources to create a new one. The ID of the newly-created resource will be provided in the body of the response. 204 No Content The request was successful, and the server has no additional information to convey, so the response body is empty. 401 Unauthorized You’re attempting to access a resource that first requires authentication. See Authenticating with OAuth. 403 Forbidden You’re not allowed to access this resource. Even if you authenticated, or already have, you simply don’t have permission. Trying to modify another user’s profile, for example, will produce this error. 404 Not Found The resource you requested doesn’t exist. 405 Method Not Allowed You’re trying to use an HTTP verb that isn’t supported by the resource. Trying to PUT to /artists/1, for example, will fail because Artists are read-only. 422 Unprocessable Entity Your request was well-formed, but there’s something semantically wrong with the body of the request. This can be due to malformed JSON, a parameter that’s missing or the wrong type, or trying to perform an action that doesn’t make any sense. Check the response body for specific information about what went wrong. 500 Internal Server Error Something went wrong on our end while attempting to process your request. The response body’s message field will contain an error code that you can send to Discogs Support (which will help us track down your specific issue). Next  Previous Authentication  This section describes the various methods of authenticating with the Discogs API. Registration ¶ In order to access protected endpoints, you’ll need to register for either a consumer key and secret or user token, depending on your situation: To easily access your own user account information, use a User token. To get access to an endpoint that requires authentication and build 3rd party apps, use a Consumer Key and Secret. To get one of these, sign up for a Discogs account if you don’t have one already, and go to your Developer Settings. From there, you can create a new application/token or edit the metadata for an existing app. When you create a new application, you’ll be granted a Consumer Key and Consumer Secret, which you can plug into your application and start making authenticated requests. It’s important that you don’t disclose the Consumer Secret to anyone. Generating a user token is as easy as clicking the Generate token button on the developer settings. Keep this token private, as it allows users to access your information. OAuth Endpoints ¶ The OAuth 1.0a flow involves three server-side endpoints: Request token URL: https://api.discogs.com/oauth/request_token Authorize URL: https://www.discogs.com/oauth/authorize Access token URL: https://api.discogs.com/oauth/access_token For convenience, these are also listed on the Edit Application page. Once authenticated, you can test that everything’s working correctly by requesting the Identity resource. Discogs Auth Flow  If you do not plan on building an app which others can log into on their behalf, you should use this authentication method as it is much simpler and is still secure. Discogs Auth requires that requests be made over HTTPS, as you are sending your app’s key/secret or token in the request. To send requests with Discogs Auth, you have two options: sending your credentials in the query string with key and secret parameters or a token parameter, for example: curl "https://api.discogs.com/database/search?q=Nirvana&key=foo123&secret=bar456" or curl "https://api.discogs.com/database/search?q=Nirvana&token=abcxyz123456" Your other option is to send your credentials in the request as an Authorization header, as follows: curl "https://api.discogs.com/database/search?q=Nirvana" -H "Authorization: Discogs key=foo123, secret=bar456" or curl "https://api.discogs.com/database/search?q=Nirvana" -H "Authorization: Discogs token=abcxyz123456" What differentiates the key/secret pair option from the token option? Let’s look at this table: Credentials in request Rate limiting? Image URLs? Authenticated as user? None 🐢 Low tier ❌ No ❌ No Only Consumer key/secret 🐰 High tier ✔️ Yes ❌ No Full OAuth 1.0a with access token/secret (see below) 🐰 High tier ✔️ Yes ✔️ Yes, on behalf of any user 🌍 Personal access token 🐰 High tier ✔️ Yes ✔️ Yes, for token holder only 👩 In other words: Using the key and secret will get you image URLs. These are unavailable to unauthenticated requests. Using the key and secret will up your rate limit, unlike unauthenticated requests. BUT using the key and secret does not identify the requester as any particular user, and as such will not grant access to any resources users should be able to see on their own account (e.g. marketplace orders, private inventory fields, private collections). You will need to use either of the token options for these resources. That’s it! Continue sending the key/secret pair or user token with the rest of your requests. OAuth Flow  OAuth is a protocol that allows users to grant access to their data without having to share their password. This is an explanation of how a web application may work with Discogs using OAuth 1.0a. We highly suggest you use an OAuth library/wrapper to simplify the process of authenticating. 1. Obtain consumer key and consumer secret from Developer Settings ¶ Application registration can be found here: https://www.discogs.com/settings/developers You only need to register once per application you make. You should not share your consumer secret, as it acts as a sort of password for your requests. 2. Send a GET request to the Discogs request token URL ¶ GET https://api.discogs.com/oauth/request_token Include the following headers with your request: Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded Authorization: OAuth oauth_consumer_key="your_consumer_key", oauth_nonce="random_string_or_timestamp", oauth_signature="your_consumer_secret&", oauth_signature_method="PLAINTEXT", oauth_timestamp="current_timestamp", oauth_callback="your_callback" User-Agent: some_user_agent Note: using an OAuth library instead of generating these requests manually will likely save you a headache if you are new to OAuth. Please refer to your OAuth library’s documentation if you choose to do so. As the example shows, we suggest sending requests with HTTPS and the PLAINTEXT signature method over HMAC-SHA1 due to its simple yet secure nature. This involves setting your oauth_signature_method to “PLAINTEXT” and your oauth_signature to be your consumer secret followed by an ampersand (&). If all goes well with the request, you should get an HTTP 200 OK response. If an invalid OAuth request is sent, you will receive an HTTP 400 Bad Request response. Be sure to include a unique User-Agent in the request headers. A successful request will return a response that contains the following content: OAuth request token (oauth_token), an OAuth request token secret (oauth_token_secret), and a callback confirmation (oauth_callback_confirmed). These will be used in the following steps. 3. Redirect your user to the Discogs Authorize page ¶ Authorization page: https://discogs.com/oauth/authorize?oauth_token= This page will ask the user to authorize your app on behalf of their Discogs account. If they accept and authorize, they will receive a verifier key to use as verification. This key is used in the next phase of OAuth authentication. If you added a callback URL to your Discogs application registration, the user will be redirected to that URL, and you can capture their verifier from the response. The verifier will be used to generate the access token in the next step. You can always edit your application settings to include a callback URL (i.e., you don’t need to re-create a new application). 4. Send a POST request to the Discogs access token URL ¶ POST https://api.discogs.com/oauth/access_token Include the following headers in your request: Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded Authorization: OAuth oauth_consumer_key="your_consumer_key", oauth_nonce="random_string_or_timestamp", oauth_token="oauth_token_received_from_step_2" oauth_signature="your_consumer_secret&", oauth_signature_method="PLAINTEXT", oauth_timestamp="current_timestamp", oauth_verifier="users_verifier" User-Agent: some_user_agent If the OAuth access token is not created within 15 minutes of when you receive the OAuth request token, your OAuth request token and verifier will expire, and you will need to re-create them. If you try to POST to the access token URL with an expired verifier or your request is malformed, you will receive an HTTP 400 Bad Request response. As the example shows, we suggest sending requests with HTTPS and the PLAINTEXT signature method over HMAC-SHA1 due to its simple yet secure nature. This involves setting your oauth_signature_method to “PLAINTEXT” and your oauth_signature to be your consumer secret followed by an ampersand (&). Be sure to include a unique User-Agent in the header. A successful request will return a response that contains an OAuth access token (oauth_token) and an OAuth access token secret (oauth_token_secret). These tokens do not expire (unless the user revokes access from your app), so you should store these tokens in a database or persistent storage to make future requests signed with OAuth. All requests that require OAuth will require these two tokens to be sent in the request. 5. Send authenticated requests to Discogs endpoints ¶ You are now ready to send authenticated requests with Discogs through OAuth. Be sure to attach the user’s OAuth access token and OAuth access token secret to each request. To test that you are ready to send authenticated requests, send a GET request to the identity URL. A successful request will yield a response that contains information about the authenticated user. GET https://api.discogs.com/oauth/identity OAuth Endpoints ¶ Request Token URL  Generate the request token Request token GET /oauth/request_token RequestToggle Headers Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded Authorization: OAuth oauth_consumer_key="your_consumer_key", oauth_nonce="random_string_or_timestamp", oauth_signature="your_consumer_secret&", oauth_signature_method="PLAINTEXT", oauth_timestamp="current_timestamp", oauth_callback="your_callback" User-Agent: some_user_agent Response  200Toggle Headers oauth_token: abc123 oauth_token_secret: xyz789 oauth_callback_confirmed: 'true' Access Token URL  Generate the access token Access token POST /oauth/access_token RequestToggle Headers Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded Authorization: OAuth oauth_consumer_key="your_consumer_key", oauth_nonce="random_string_or_timestamp", oauth_token="oauth_token_received_from_step_2" oauth_signature="your_consumer_secret&", oauth_signature_method="PLAINTEXT", oauth_timestamp="current_timestamp", oauth_verifier="users_verifier" User-Agent: some_user_agent Response  200Toggle Headers oauth_token: abc123 oauth_token_secret: xyz789 Next  Previous Database  Release  The Release resource represents a particular physical or digital object released by one or more Artists. Get Release GET /releases/{release_id}{?curr_abbr} Get a release Parameters release_id number (required) Example: 249504The Release ID curr_abbr string (optional) Example: USDCurrency for marketplace data. Defaults to the authenticated users currency. Must be one of the following: USD GBP EUR CAD AUD JPY CHF MXN BRL NZD SEK ZAR Response  200Toggle Headers Status: HTTP/1.1 200 OK Reproxy-Status: yes Access-Control-Allow-Origin: * Content-Type: application/json Server: lighttpd Content-Length: 6223 Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2014 00:59:34 GMT X-Varnish: 1465474310 Age: 0 Via: 1.1 varnish Connection: keep-alive Body { "title": "Never Gonna Give You Up", "id": 249504, "artists": [ { "anv": "", "id": 72872, "join": "", "name": "Rick Astley", "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/artists/72872", "role": "", "tracks": "" } ], "data_quality": "Correct", "thumb": "https://api-img.discogs.com/kAXVhuZuh_uat5NNr50zMjN7lho=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb()/discogs-images/R-249504-1334592212.jpeg.jpg", "community": { "contributors": [ { "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/users/memory", "username": "memory" }, { "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/users/_80_", "username": "_80_" } ], "data_quality": "Correct", "have": 252, "rating": { "average": 3.42, "count": 45 }, "status": "Accepted", "submitter": { "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/users/memory", "username": "memory" }, "want": 42 }, "companies": [ { "catno": "", "entity_type": "13", "entity_type_name": "Phonographic Copyright (p)", "id": 82835, "name": "BMG Records (UK) Ltd.", "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/labels/82835" }, { "catno": "", "entity_type": "29", "entity_type_name": "Mastered At", "id": 266218, "name": "Utopia Studios", "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/labels/266218" } ], "country": "UK", "date_added": "2004-04-30T08:10:05-07:00", "date_changed": "2012-12-03T02:50:12-07:00", "estimated_weight": 60, "extraartists": [ { "anv": "Me Co", "id": 547352, "join": "", "name": "Me Company", "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/artists/547352", "role": "Design", "tracks": "" }, { "anv": "Stock / Aitken / Waterman", "id": 20942, "join": "", "name": "Stock, Aitken & Waterman", "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/artists/20942", "role": "Producer, Written-By", "tracks": "" } ], "format_quantity": 1, "formats": [ { "descriptions": [ "7\"", "Single", "45 RPM" ], "name": "Vinyl", "qty": "1" } ], "genres": [ "Electronic", "Pop" ], "identifiers": [ { "type": "Barcode", "value": "5012394144777" }, ], "images": [ { "height": 600, "resource_url": "https://api-img.discogs.com/z_u8yqxvDcwVnR4tX2HLNLaQO2Y=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(96)/discogs-images/R-249504-1334592212.jpeg.jpg", "type": "primary", "uri": "https://api-img.discogs.com/z_u8yqxvDcwVnR4tX2HLNLaQO2Y=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(96)/discogs-images/R-249504-1334592212.jpeg.jpg", "uri150": "https://api-img.discogs.com/0ZYgPR4X2HdUKA_jkhPJF4SN5mM=/fit-in/150x150/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb()/discogs-images/R-249504-1334592212.jpeg.jpg", "width": 600 }, { "height": 600, "resource_url": "https://api-img.discogs.com/EnQXaDOs5T6YI9zq-R5I_mT7hSk=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(96)/discogs-images/R-249504-1334592228.jpeg.jpg", "type": "secondary", "uri": "https://api-img.discogs.com/EnQXaDOs5T6YI9zq-R5I_mT7hSk=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(96)/discogs-images/R-249504-1334592228.jpeg.jpg", "uri150": "https://api-img.discogs.com/abk0FWgWsRDjU4bkCDwk0gyMKBo=/fit-in/150x150/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb()/discogs-images/R-249504-1334592228.jpeg.jpg", "width": 600 } ], "labels": [ { "catno": "PB 41447", "entity_type": "1", "id": 895, "name": "RCA", "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/labels/895" } ], "lowest_price": 0.63, "master_id": 96559, "master_url": "https://api.discogs.com/masters/96559", "notes": "UK Release has a black label with the text \"Manufactured In England\" printed on it.\r\n\r\nSleeve:\r\n\u2117 1987 \u2022 BMG Records (UK) Ltd. \u00a9 1987 \u2022 BMG Records (UK) Ltd.\r\nDistributed in the UK by BMG Records \u2022 Distribu\u00e9 en Europe par BMG/Ariola \u2022 Vertrieb en Europa d\u00fcrch BMG/Ariola.\r\n\r\nCenter labels:\r\n\u2117 1987 Pete Waterman Ltd.\r\nOriginal Sound Recording made by PWL.\r\nBMG Records (UK) Ltd. are the exclusive licensees for the world.\r\n\r\nDurations do not appear on the release.\r\n", "num_for_sale": 58, "released": "1987", "released_formatted": "1987", "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/releases/249504", "series": [], "status": "Accepted", "styles": [ "Synth-pop" ], "tracklist": [ { "duration": "3:32", "position": "A", "title": "Never Gonna Give You Up", "type_": "track" }, { "duration": "3:30", "position": "B", "title": "Never Gonna Give You Up (Instrumental)", "type_": "track" } ], "uri": "http://www.discogs.com/Rick-Astley-Never-Gonna-Give-You-Up/release/249504", "videos": [ { "description": "Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up (Extended Version)", "duration": 330, "embed": true, "title": "Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up (Extended Version)", "uri": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=te2jJncBVG4" }, ], "year": 1987 } Response  404Toggle Headers Status: HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found Reproxy-Status: yes Access-Control-Allow-Origin: * Content-Type: application/json Server: lighttpd Content-Length: 33 Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2014 01:03:20 GMT X-Varnish: 1465521729 Age: 0 Via: 1.1 varnish Connection: keep-alive Body { "message": "Release not found." } Release Rating By User  The Release Rating endpoint retrieves, updates, or deletes the rating of a release for a given user. Get Release Rating By User GET /releases/{release_id}/rating/{username} Retrieves the release’s rating for a given user. Parameters release_id number (required) Example: 249504The Release ID username string (required) Example: memoryThe username of the rating you are trying to request. Response  200Toggle Headers Status: HTTP/1.1 200 OK Reproxy-Status: yes Access-Control-Allow-Origin: * Content-Type: application/json Server: lighttpd Content-Length: 6223 Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2014 00:59:34 GMT X-Varnish: 1465474310 Age: 0 Via: 1.1 varnish Connection: keep-alive Body { "username": "memory", "release": 249504, "rating": 5 } Update Release Rating By User PUT /releases/{release_id}/rating/{username} Updates the release’s rating for a given user. Authentication as the user is required. Parameters release_id number (required) Example: 249504The Release ID username string (required) Example: memoryThe username of the rating you are trying to request. rating int (required) Example: 5The new rating for a release between 1 and 5. Response  200Toggle Headers Status: HTTP/1.1 200 OK Reproxy-Status: yes Access-Control-Allow-Origin: * Content-Type: application/json Server: lighttpd Content-Length: 6223 Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2014 00:59:34 GMT X-Varnish: 1465474310 Age: 0 Via: 1.1 varnish Connection: keep-alive Body { "username": "memory", "release": 249504, "rating": 5 } Delete Release Rating By User DELETE /releases/{release_id}/rating/{username} Deletes the release’s rating for a given user. Authentication as the user is required. Parameters release_id number (required) Example: 249504The Release ID username string (required) Example: memoryThe username of the rating you are trying to request. Community Release Rating  The Community Release Rating endpoint retrieves the average rating and the total number of user ratings for a given release. Get Community Release Rating GET /releases/{release_id}/rating Retrieves the community release rating average and count. Parameters release_id number (required) Example: 249504The Release ID Response  200Toggle Headers Status: HTTP/1.1 200 OK Reproxy-Status: yes Access-Control-Allow-Origin: * Content-Type: application/json Server: lighttpd Content-Length: 6223 Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2014 00:59:34 GMT X-Varnish: 1465474310 Age: 0 Via: 1.1 varnish Connection: keep-alive Body { "rating": { "count": 47 "average": 4.19 }, "release_id": 249504 } Release Stats  The Release Stats endpoint retrieves the total number of “haves” (in the community’s collections) and “wants” (in the community’s wantlists) for a given release. Get Release Stats GET /releases/{release_id}/stats Retrieves the release’s “have” and “want” counts. Parameters release_id number (required) Example: 249504The Release ID Response  200Toggle Headers Status: HTTP/1.1 200 OK Reproxy-Status: yes Access-Control-Allow-Origin: * Content-Type: application/json Server: lighttpd Content-Length: 35 Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2020 23:22:16 GMT X-Varnish: 1465474310 Age: 0 Via: 1.1 varnish Connection: keep-alive Body { "num_have": 2315, "num_want": 467 } Master Release  The Master resource represents a set of similar Releases. Masters (also known as “master releases”) have a “main release” which is often the chronologically earliest. Get Master GET /masters/{master_id} Get a master release Parameters master_id number (required) Example: 1000The Master ID Response  200Toggle Headers Status: HTTP/1.1 200 OK Reproxy-Status: yes Access-Control-Allow-Origin: * Content-Type: application/json Server: lighttpd Content-Length: 7083 Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2014 01:11:23 GMT X-Varnish: 1465622695 Age: 0 Via: 1.1 varnish Connection: keep-alive Body { "styles": [ "Goa Trance" ], "genres": [ "Electronic" ], "videos": [ { "duration": 421, "description": "Electric Universe - Alien Encounter Part 2 (Spirit Zone 97)", "embed": true, "uri": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1LGinzMDi8", "title": "Electric Universe - Alien Encounter Part 2 (Spirit Zone 97)" } ], "title": "Stardiver", "main_release": 66785, "main_release_url": "https://api.discogs.com/releases/66785", "uri": "http://www.discogs.com/Electric-Universe-Stardiver/master/1000", "artists": [ { "join": "", "name": "Electric Universe", "anv": "", "tracks": "", "role": "", "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/artists/21849", "id": 21849 } ], "versions_url": "https://api.discogs.com/masters/1000/versions", "year": 1997, "images": [ { "height": 569, "resource_url": "https://api-img.discogs.com/_0K5t_iLs6CzLPKTB4mwHVI3Vy0=/fit-in/600x569/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(96)/discogs-images/R-66785-1213949871.jpeg.jpg", "type": "primary", "uri": "https://api-img.discogs.com/_0K5t_iLs6CzLPKTB4mwHVI3Vy0=/fit-in/600x569/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(96)/discogs-images/R-66785-1213949871.jpeg.jpg", "uri150": "https://api-img.discogs.com/sSWjXKczZseDjX2QohG1Lc77F-w=/fit-in/150x150/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb()/discogs-images/R-66785-1213949871.jpeg.jpg", "width": 600 }, { "height": 296, "resource_url": "https://api-img.discogs.com/1iD31iOWgfgb2DpROI4_MvmceFw=/fit-in/600x296/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(96)/discogs-images/R-66785-1213950065.jpeg.jpg", "type": "secondary", "uri": "https://api-img.discogs.com/1iD31iOWgfgb2DpROI4_MvmceFw=/fit-in/600x296/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(96)/discogs-images/R-66785-1213950065.jpeg.jpg", "uri150": "https://api-img.discogs.com/Cm4Q_1S784pQeRfwa0lN2jsj47Y=/fit-in/150x150/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb()/discogs-images/R-66785-1213950065.jpeg.jpg", "width": 600 } ], "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/masters/1000", "tracklist": [ { "duration": "7:00", "position": "1", "type_": "track", "title": "Alien Encounter (Part 2)" }, { "duration": "7:13", "position": "2", "type_": "track", "extraartists": [ { "join": "", "name": "DJ Sangeet", "anv": "", "tracks": "", "role": "Written-By, Producer", "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/artists/25460", "id": 25460 } ], "title": "From The Heart" }, { "duration": "6:45", "position": "3", "type_": "track", "title": "Radio S.P.A.C.E." } ], "id": 1000, "num_for_sale": 9, "lowest_price": 9.36, "data_quality": "Correct" } Response  404Toggle Headers Status: HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found Reproxy-Status: yes Access-Control-Allow-Origin: * Content-Type: application/json Server: lighttpd Content-Length: 40 Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2014 01:11:21 GMT X-Varnish: 1465622316 Age: 0 Via: 1.1 varnish Connection: keep-alive Body { "message": "Master Release not found." } Master Release Versions  Get all Master versions GET /masters/{master_id}/versions{?page,per_page} Retrieves a list of all Releases that are versions of this master. Accepts Pagination parameters. Parameters master_id number (required) Example: 1000The Master ID page number (optional) Example: 3The page you want to request per_page number (optional) Example: 25The number of items per page format string (optional) Example: VinylThe format to filter label string (optional) Example: Scorpio MusicThe label to filter released string (optional) Example: 1992The release year to filter country string (optional) Example: BelgiumThe country to filter sort string (optional) Example: releasedSort items by this field: released (i.e. year of the release) title (i.e. title of the release) format label catno (i.e. catalog number of the release) country sort_order string (optional) Example: ascSort items in a particular order (one of asc, desc) Response  200Toggle Headers Status: HTTP/1.1 200 OK Reproxy-Status: yes Access-Control-Allow-Origin: * Content-Type: application/json Server: lighttpd Content-Length: 2834 Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2014 01:16:01 GMT X-Varnish: 1465678820 Age: 0 Via: 1.1 varnish Connection: keep-alive Body { "pagination": { "per_page": 50, "items": 4, "page": 1, "urls": {}, "pages": 1 }, "versions": [ { "status": "Accepted", "stats": { "user": { "in_collection": 0, "in_wantlist": 0 }, "community": { "in_collection": 1067, "in_wantlist": 765 } }, "thumb": "https://img.discogs.com/wV56xo0Ak0M2bTCC6B_heD7Dx_o=/fit-in/150x150/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-18926-1381225536-8716.jpeg.jpg", "format": "12\", 33 ⅓ RPM", "country": "US", "title": "Plastic Dreams", "label": "Epic", "released": "1993", "major_formats": [ "Vinyl" ], "catno": "49 74992", "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/releases/18926", "id": 18926 }, { "status": "Accepted", "stats": { "user": { "in_collection": 0, "in_wantlist": 0 }, "community": { "in_collection": 842, "in_wantlist": 762 } }, "thumb": "https://img.discogs.com/KAm38-Op5VlkvuJOaTGZieKwRVg=/fit-in/150x150/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-34228-1215760312.jpeg.jpg", "format": "12\", 33 ⅓ RPM", "country": "UK", "title": "Plastic Dreams (Mixes)", "label": "R & S Records", "released": "1993", "major_formats": [ "Vinyl" ], "catno": "RSGB 101T", "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/releases/34228", "id": 34228 }, { "status": "Accepted", "stats": { "user": { "in_collection": 0, "in_wantlist": 0 }, "community": { "in_collection": 20, "in_wantlist": 285 } }, "thumb": "https://img.discogs.com/CnovcvhAYIle0tYTTZHo42wPz88=/fit-in/150x150/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-1873038-1249267784.jpeg.jpg", "format": "12\", White Label, 33 ⅓ RPM, Promo", "country": "UK", "title": "Plastic Dreams Mixes", "label": "R & S Records", "released": "1993", "major_formats": [ "Vinyl" ], "catno": "RSGB 101 T", "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/releases/1873038", "id": 1873038 } ] } Response  404Toggle Headers Status: HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found Reproxy-Status: yes Access-Control-Allow-Origin: * Content-Type: application/json Server: lighttpd Content-Length: 40 Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2014 01:20:23 GMT X-Varnish: 1465732620 Age: 0 Via: 1.1 varnish Connection: keep-alive Body { "message": "Master Release not found." } Artist  The Artist resource represents a person in the Discogs database who contributed to a Release in some capacity. Get Artist GET /artists/{artist_id} Get an artist Parameters artist_id number (required) Example: 108713The Artist ID Response  200Toggle Headers Status: HTTP/1.1 200 OK Reproxy-Status: yes Access-Control-Allow-Origin: * Content-Type: application/json Server: lighttpd Content-Length: 1258 Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2014 01:06:53 GMT X-Varnish: 1465566651 Age: 0 Via: 1.1 varnish Connection: keep-alive Body { "namevariations": [ "Nickleback" ], "profile": "Nickelback is a Canadian rock band from Hanna, Alberta formed in 1995. Nickelback's music is classed as hard rock and alternative metal. Nickelback is one of the most commercially successful Canadian groups, having sold almost 50 million albums worldwide, ranking as the 11th best selling music act of the 2000s, and is the 2nd best selling foreign act in the U.S. behind The Beatles for the 2000's.", "releases_url": "https://api.discogs.com/artists/108713/releases", "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/artists/108713", "uri": "http://www.discogs.com/artist/108713-Nickelback", "urls": [ "http://www.nickelback.com/", "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nickelback" ], "data_quality": "Needs Vote", "id": 108713, "images": [ { "height": 260, "resource_url": "https://api-img.discogs.com/9xJ5T7IBn23DDMpg1USsDJ7IGm4=/330x260/smart/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(96)/discogs-images/A-108713-1110576087.jpg.jpg", "type": "primary", "uri": "https://api-img.discogs.com/9xJ5T7IBn23DDMpg1USsDJ7IGm4=/330x260/smart/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(96)/discogs-images/A-108713-1110576087.jpg.jpg", "uri150": "https://api-img.discogs.com/--xqi8cBtaBZz3qOjVcvzGvNRmU=/150x150/smart/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb()/discogs-images/A-108713-1110576087.jpg.jpg", "width": 330 }, { "height": 500, "resource_url": "https://api-img.discogs.com/r1jRG8b9-nlqTHPlJ-t8JR5ugoA=/493x500/smart/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(96)/discogs-images/A-108713-1264273865.jpeg.jpg", "type": "secondary", "uri": "https://api-img.discogs.com/r1jRG8b9-nlqTHPlJ-t8JR5ugoA=/493x500/smart/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(96)/discogs-images/A-108713-1264273865.jpeg.jpg", "uri150": "https://api-img.discogs.com/6K-cI5xDgsurmc-2OX6uCygzDgw=/150x150/smart/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb()/discogs-images/A-108713-1264273865.jpeg.jpg", "width": 493 } ], "members": [ { "active": true, "id": 270222, "name": "Chad Kroeger", "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/artists/270222" }, { "active": true, "id": 685755, "name": "Daniel Adair", "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/artists/685755" }, { "active": true, "id": 685754, "name": "Mike Kroeger", "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/artists/685754" }, { "active": true, "id": 685756, "name": "Ryan \"Vik\" Vikedal", "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/artists/685756" }, { "active": true, "id": 685757, "name": "Ryan Peake", "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/artists/685757" } ], } Response  404Toggle Headers Status: HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found Reproxy-Status: yes Access-Control-Allow-Origin: * Content-Type: application/json Server: lighttpd Content-Length: 32 Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2014 01:08:31 GMT X-Varnish: 1465587583 Age: 0 Via: 1.1 varnish Connection: keep-alive Body { "message": "Artist not found." } Artist Releases  Returns a list of Releases and Masters associated with the Artist. Accepts Pagination. Get an Artist's Releases GET /artists/{artist_id}/releases{?sort,sort_order} Get an artist’s releases Parameters artist_id number (required) Example: 108713The Artist ID sort string (optional) Example: yearSort items by this field: year (i.e. year of the release) title (i.e. title of the release) format sort_order string (optional) Example: ascSort items in a particular order (one of asc, desc) Response  200Toggle Headers Status: HTTP/1.1 200 OK Reproxy-Status: yes Access-Control-Allow-Origin: * Content-Type: application/json Server: lighttpd Content-Length: 1258 Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2014 01:06:53 GMT X-Varnish: 1465566651 Age: 0 Via: 1.1 varnish Connection: keep-alive Body { "pagination": { "per_page": 50, "items": 9, "page": 1, "urls": {}, "pages": 1 }, "releases": [ { "artist": "Nickelback", "id": 173765, "main_release": 3128432, "resource_url": "http://api.discogs.com/masters/173765", "role": "Main", "thumb": "https://api-img.discogs.com/lb0zp7--FLaRP0LmJ4W6DhfweNc=/fit-in/90x90/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb()/discogs-images/R-5557864-1396493975-7618.jpeg.jpg", "title": "Curb", "type": "master", "year": 1996 }, { "artist": "Nickelback", "format": "CD, EP", "id": 4299404, "label": "Not On Label (Nickelback Self-released)", "resource_url": "http://api.discogs.com/releases/4299404", "role": "Main", "status": "Accepted", "thumb": "https://api-img.discogs.com/eFRGD78N7UhtvRjhdLZYXs2QJXk=/fit-in/90x90/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb()/discogs-images/R-4299404-1361106117-3632.jpeg.jpg", "title": "Hesher", "type": "release", "year": 1996 }, { "artist": "Nickelback", "id": 173767, "main_release": 1905922, "resource_url": "http://api.discogs.com/masters/173767", "role": "Main", "thumb": "https://api-img.discogs.com/12LXbUV44IHjyb6drFZOTQxgCqs=/fit-in/90x90/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb()/discogs-images/R-1905922-1251540516.jpeg.jpg", "title": "Leader Of Men", "type": "master", "year": 1999 } ] } Response  404Toggle Headers Status: HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found Reproxy-Status: yes Access-Control-Allow-Origin: * Content-Type: application/json Server: lighttpd Content-Length: 32 Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2014 01:08:31 GMT X-Varnish: 1465587583 Age: 0 Via: 1.1 varnish Connection: keep-alive Body { "message": "Artist not found." } Label  The Label resource represents a label, company, recording studio, location, or other entity involved with Artists and Releases. Labels were recently expanded in scope to include things that aren’t labels – the name is an artifact of this history. Get Label GET /labels/{label_id} Get a label Parameters label_id number (required) Example: 1The Label ID Response  200Toggle Headers Status: HTTP/1.1 200 OK Reproxy-Status: yes Access-Control-Allow-Origin: * Content-Type: application/json Server: lighttpd Content-Length: 2834 Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2014 01:16:01 GMT X-Varnish: 1465678820 Age: 0 Via: 1.1 varnish Connection: keep-alive Body { "profile": "Classic Techno label from Detroit, USA.\r\n[b]Label owner:[/b] [a=Carl Craig].\r\n", "releases_url": "https://api.discogs.com/labels/1/releases", "name": "Planet E", "contact_info": "Planet E Communications\r\nP.O. Box 27218\r\nDetroit, 48227, USA\r\n\r\np: 313.874.8729 \r\nf: 313.874.8732\r\n\r\nemail: info AT Planet-e DOT net\r\n", "uri": "http://www.discogs.com/label/1-Planet-E", "sublabels": [ { "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/labels/86537", "id": 86537, "name": "Antidote (4)" }, { "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/labels/41841", "id": 41841, "name": "Community Projects" } ], "urls": [ "http://www.planet-e.net", "http://planetecommunications.bandcamp.com", "http://twitter.com/planetedetroit" ], "images": [ { "height": 24, "resource_url": "https://api-img.discogs.com/85-gKw4oEXfDp9iHtqtCF5Y_ZgI=/fit-in/132x24/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(96)/discogs-images/L-1-1111053865.png.jpg", "type": "primary", "uri": "https://api-img.discogs.com/85-gKw4oEXfDp9iHtqtCF5Y_ZgI=/fit-in/132x24/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(96)/discogs-images/L-1-1111053865.png.jpg", "uri150": "https://api-img.discogs.com/cYmCut4Yh99FaLFHyoqkFo-Md1E=/fit-in/150x150/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb()/discogs-images/L-1-1111053865.png.jpg", "width": 132 } ], "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/labels/1", "id": 1, "data_quality": "Needs Vote" } Response  404Toggle Headers Status: HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found Reproxy-Status: yes Access-Control-Allow-Origin: * Content-Type: application/json Server: lighttpd Content-Length: 30 Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2014 01:17:27 GMT X-Varnish: 1465696276 Age: 0 Via: 1.1 varnish Connection: keep-alive Body { "message": "Label not found." } All Label Releases  Get all Label Releases GET /labels/{label_id}/releases{?page,per_page} Returns a list of Releases associated with the label. Accepts Pagination parameters. Parameters label_id number (required) Example: 1The Label ID page number (optional) Example: 3The page you want to request per_page number (optional) Example: 25The number of items per page Response  200Toggle Headers Status: HTTP/1.1 200 OK Reproxy-Status: yes Access-Control-Allow-Origin: * Content-Type: application/json Server: lighttpd Content-Length: 2834 Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2014 01:16:01 GMT X-Varnish: 1465678820 Age: 0 Via: 1.1 varnish Connection: keep-alive Body { "pagination": { "per_page": 5, "pages": 68, "page": 1, "urls": { "last": "https://api.discogs.com/labels/1/releases?per_page=5&page=68", "next": "https://api.discogs.com/labels/1/releases?per_page=5&page=2" }, "items": 338 }, "releases": [ { "artist": "Andrea Parker", "catno": "!K7071CD", "format": "CD, Mixed", "id": 2801, "resource_url": "http://api.discogs.com/releases/2801", "status": "Accepted", "thumb": "https://api-img.discogs.com/cYmCut4Yh99FaLFHyoqkFo-Md1E=/fit-in/150x150/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb()/discogs-images/L-1-1111053865.png.jpg", "title": "DJ-Kicks", "year": 1998 }, { "artist": "Naomi Daniel", "catno": "2INZ 00140", "format": "12\"", "id": 65040, "resource_url": "http://api.discogs.com/releases/65040", "status": "Accepted", "thumb": "https://api-img.discogs.com/cYmCut4Yh99FaLFHyoqkFo-Md1E=/fit-in/150x150/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb()/discogs-images/L-1-1111053865.png.jpg", "title": "Stars", "year": 1993 }, { "artist": "Innerzone Orchestra", "catno": "546 137-2", "format": "CD, Album, P/Mixed", "id": 9922, "resource_url": "http://api.discogs.com/releases/9922", "status": "Accepted", "thumb": "https://api-img.discogs.com/cYmCut4Yh99FaLFHyoqkFo-Md1E=/fit-in/150x150/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb()/discogs-images/L-1-1111053865.png.jpg", "title": "Programmed", "year": 1999 } ] } Response  404Toggle Headers Status: HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found Reproxy-Status: yes Access-Control-Allow-Origin: * Content-Type: application/json Server: lighttpd Content-Length: 30 Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2014 01:17:27 GMT X-Varnish: 1465696276 Age: 0 Via: 1.1 varnish Connection: keep-alive Body { "message": "Label not found." } Search  Issue a search query to our database. This endpoint accepts pagination parameters Authentication (as any user) is required. Search GET /database/search?q={query}&{?type,title,release_title,credit,artist,anv,label,genre,style,country,year,format,catno,barcode,track,submitter,contributor} Issue a search query Parameters query string (optional) Example: nirvanaYour search query type string (optional) Example: releaseString. One of release, master, artist, label title string (optional) Example: nirvana - nevermindSearch by combined “Artist Name - Release Title” title field. release_title string (optional) Example: nevermindSearch release titles. credit string (optional) Example: kurtSearch release credits. artist string (optional) Example: nirvanaSearch artist names. anv string (optional) Example: nirvanaSearch artist ANV. label string (optional) Example: dgcSearch label names. genre string (optional) Example: rockSearch genres. style string (optional) Example: grungeSearch styles. country string (optional) Example: canadaSearch release country. year string (optional) Example: 1991Search release year. format string (optional) Example: albumSearch formats. catno string (optional) Example: DGCD-24425Search catalog number. barcode string (optional) Example: 7 2064-24425-2 4Search barcodes. track string (optional) Example: smells like teen spiritSearch track titles. submitter string (optional) Example: milKtSearch submitter username. contributor string (optional) Example: jerome99Search contributor usernames. RequestToggle Body GET https://api.discogs.com/database/search?release_title=nevermind&artist=nirvana&per_page=3&page=1 Response  200Toggle Headers Status: HTTP/1.1 200 OK Reproxy-Status: yes Access-Control-Allow-Origin: * Cache-Control: public, must-revalidate Content-Type: application/json Content-Encoding: gzip Server: lighttpd Content-Length: 623 Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2014 18:44:17 GMT X-Varnish: 1701844380 1701819611 Age: 101 Via: 1.1 varnish Connection: keep-alive Body { "pagination": { "per_page": 3, "pages": 66, "page": 1, "urls": { "last": "http://api.discogs.com/database/search?per_page=3&artist=nirvana&release_title=nevermind&page=66", "next": "http://api.discogs.com/database/search?per_page=3&artist=nirvana&release_title=nevermind&page=2" }, "items": 198 }, "results": [ { "style": [ "Interview", "Grunge" ], "thumb": "", "title": "Nirvana - Nevermind", "country": "Australia", "format": [ "DVD", "PAL" ], "uri": "/Nirvana-Nevermind-Classic-Albums/release/2028757", "community": { "want": 1, "have": 5 }, "label": [ "Eagle Vision", "Rajon Vision", "Classic Albums" ], "catno": "RV0296", "year": "2005", "genre": [ "Non-Music", "Rock" ], "resource_url": "http://api.discogs.com/releases/2028757", "type": "release", "id": 2028757 }, { "style": [ "Interview", "Grunge" ], "thumb": "", "title": "Nirvana - Nevermind", "country": "France", "format": [ "DVD", "PAL" ], "uri": "/Nirvana-Nevermind-Classic-Albums/release/1852962", "community": { "want": 4, "have": 21 }, "label": [ "Eagle Vision", "Classic Albums" ], "catno": "EV 426200", "year": "2005", "genre": [ "Non-Music", "Rock" ], "resource_url": "http://api.discogs.com/releases/1852962", "type": "release", "id": 1852962 }, { "style": [ "Hard Rock", "Classic Rock" ], "thumb": "", "format": [ "UMD" ], "country": "Europe", "barcode": [ "5 034504 843646" ], "uri": "/Nirvana-Nevermind/release/3058947", "community": { "want": 10, "have": 3 }, "label": [ "Eagle Vision" ], "catno": "ERUMD436", "genre": [ "Rock" ], "title": "Nirvana - Nevermind", "resource_url": "http://api.discogs.com/releases/3058947", "type": "release", "id": 3058947 } ] } Response  500Toggle Headers Status: HTTP/1.1 500 Server Error Reproxy-Status: yes Access-Control-Allow-Origin: * Content-Type: application/json Server: lighttpd Content-Length: 32 Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2014 01:08:31 GMT X-Varnish: 1465587583 Age: 0 Via: 1.1 varnish Connection: keep-alive Body { "message": "Query time exceeded. Please try a simpler query." } Response  500Toggle Headers Status: HTTP/1.1 500 Server Error Reproxy-Status: yes Access-Control-Allow-Origin: * Content-Type: application/json Server: lighttpd Content-Length: 32 Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2014 01:08:31 GMT X-Varnish: 1465587583 Age: 0 Via: 1.1 varnish Connection: keep-alive Body { "message": "An internal server error occurred. (Malformed query?)" } Videos  If your application integrates YouTube videos, then third party cookies may be used. You can view YouTube and Google’s cookie policy here. Next  Previous Images  The Image resource represents a user-contributed image of a database object, such as Artists or Releases. Image requests require authentication and are subject to rate limiting. It’s unlikely that you’ll ever have to construct an image URL; images keys on other resources use fully-qualified URLs, including hostname and protocol. To retrieve images, authenticate via OAuth or Discogs Auth and fetch the object that contains the image of interest (e.g., the release, user profile, etc.). The image URL will be in the response using the HTTPS protocol, and requesting that URL should succeed. Next  Previous Marketplace  Inventory  Returns the list of listings in a user’s inventory. Accepts Pagination parameters. Basic information about each listing and the corresponding release is provided, suitable for display in a list. For detailed information about the release, make another API call to fetch the corresponding Release. If you are not authenticated as the inventory owner, only items that have a status of For Sale will be visible. If you are authenticated as the inventory owner you will get additional weight, format_quantity, external_id, and location keys. If the user is authorized, the listing will contain a in_cart boolean field indicating whether or not this listing is in their cart. Get inventory GET /users/{username}/inventory{?status,sort,sort_order} Get a seller’s inventory Parameters username string (required) Example: 360vinylThe username for whose inventory you are fetching status string (optional) Example: for saleOnly show items with this status. sort string (optional) Example: priceSort items by this field: listed price item (i.e. the title of the release) artist label catno audio status (when authenticated as the inventory owner) location (when authenticated as the inventory owner) sort_order string (optional) Example: ascSort items in a particular order (one of asc, desc) Response  200Toggle Headers Status: HTTP/1.1 200 OK Reproxy-Status: yes Access-Control-Allow-Origin: * Cache-Control: public, must-revalidate Content-Type: application/json Link: ; rel="last", ; rel="next" Server: lighttpd Content-Length: 36813 Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2014 18:53:23 GMT X-Varnish: 1701983958 Age: 0 Via: 1.1 varnish Connection: keep-alive Body { "pagination": { "per_page": 50, "items": 4, "page": 1, "urls": {}, "pages": 1 }, "listings": [ { "status": "For Sale", "price": { "currency": "USD", "value": 149.99 }, "allow_offers": true, "sleeve_condition": "Near Mint (NM or M-)", "id": 150899904, "condition": "Near Mint (NM or M-)", "posted": "2014-07-01T10:20:17-07:00", "ships_from": "United States", "uri": "http://www.discogs.com/sell/item/150899904", "comments": "Includes promotional booklet from original purchase!", "seller": { "username": "rappcats", "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/users/rappcats", "id": 2098225 }, "release": { "catalog_number": "509990292346, TMR092", "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/releases/2992668", "year": 2011, "id": 2992668, "description": "Danger Mouse & Daniele Luppi - Rome (LP, Ora + LP, Whi + Album, Ltd, Tip)", "artist": "Danger Mouse & Daniele Luppi", "title": "Rome", "format": "(LP, Ora + LP, Whi + Album, Ltd, Tip)", "thumbnail": "https://api-img.discogs.com/CFEw018vfc3LvUQDFtsvkh9FTyA=/fit-in/322x320/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-2992668-1310811542.jpeg.jpg" }, "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/marketplace/listings/150899904", "audio": false }, { "status": "For Sale", "price": { "currency": "USD", "value": 49.99 }, "allow_offers": false, "sleeve_condition": "Very Good Plus (VG+)", "id": 155473349, "condition": "Very Good Plus (VG+)", "posted": "2014-07-01T10:20:17-07:00", "ships_from": "United States", "uri": "http://www.discogs.com/sell/item/155473349", "comments": "Includes slipmats", "seller": { "username": "rappcats", "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/users/rappcats", "id": 2098225 }, "release": { "catalog_number": "STH 2222", "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/releases/1900152", "year": 2009, "id": 1900152, "description": "Various - Stones Throw X Serato (2x12\", Ltd, Cle)", "thumbnail": "https://api-img.discogs.com/BfviIBw5nZOA2BHd0xn8Vfu1X_g=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-1900152-1315429257.jpeg.jpg" }, "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/marketplace/listings/155473349", "audio": false }, { "status": "For Sale", "price": { "currency": "USD", "value": 39.99 }, "allow_offers": true, "sleeve_condition": "Near Mint (NM or M-)", "id": 150899171, "condition": "Very Good Plus (VG+)", "posted": "2014-07-07T11:40:08-07:00", "ships_from": "United States", "uri": "http://www.discogs.com/sell/item/150899171", "comments": "", "seller": { "username": "rappcats", "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/users/rappcats", "id": 2098225 }, "release": { "catalog_number": "STH 2172", "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/releases/1842118", "year": 2009, "id": 1842118, "description": "Last Electro-Acoustic Space Jazz & Percussion Ensemble, The - Summer Suite (CD, MiniAlbum, Ltd)", "thumbnail": "https://api-img.discogs.com/pm6PIqf4vEK8S8rCkySA9eKNFgk=/fit-in/455x455/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-1842118-1247162514.jpeg.jpg" }, "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/marketplace/listings/150899171", "audio": false }, { "status": "For Sale", "price": { "currency": "USD", "value": 229.99 }, "allow_offers": false, "sleeve_condition": "Near Mint (NM or M-)", "id": 171931719, "condition": "Near Mint (NM or M-)", "posted": "2014-07-12T16:23:14-07:00", "ships_from": "United States", "uri": "http://www.discogs.com/sell/item/171931719", "comments": "Includes poster, includes download card, includes 7\", in original bag w/ hype sticker. Complete set!", "seller": { "username": "rappcats", "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/users/rappcats", "id": 2098225 }, "release": { "catalog_number": "NSD-120", "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/releases/2791275", "year": 2011, "id": 2791275, "description": "Metal Fingers - Presents Special Herbs The Box Set Vol. 0-9 (Box, Comp, Ltd + 10xLP + 7\")", "thumbnail": "https://api-img.discogs.com/wyy8_nChnz_ergzK9gd4wxqr-K0=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-2791275-1301188174.jpeg.jpg" }, "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/marketplace/listings/171931719", "audio": false } ] } Response  404Toggle Headers Status: HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found Reproxy-Status: yes Access-Control-Allow-Origin: * Content-Type: application/json Server: lighttpd Content-Length: 33 Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2014 01:03:20 GMT X-Varnish: 1465521729 Age: 0 Via: 1.1 varnish Connection: keep-alive Body { "message": "The request resource was not found." } Response  422Toggle Headers Status: HTTP/1.1 422 Unprocessable Entity Reproxy-Status: yes Access-Control-Allow-Origin: * Cache-Control: public, must-revalidate Content-Type: application/json Server: lighttpd Content-Length: 114 Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2014 19:16:59 GMT X-Varnish: 1702310957 Age: 0 Via: 1.1 varnish Connection: keep-alive Body { "message": "Invalid status: expected one of All, Deleted, Draft, Expired, For Sale, Sold, Suspended, Violation." } Listing  View the data associated with a listing. If the authorized user is the listing owner the listing will include the weight, format_quantity, external_id, and location keys. If the user is authorized, the listing will contain a in_cart boolean field indicating whether or not this listing is in their cart. Get listing GET /marketplace/listings/{listing_id}{?curr_abbr} The Listing resource allows you to view Marketplace listings. Parameters listing_id number (required) Example: 172723812The ID of the listing you are fetching curr_abbr string (optional) Example: USDCurrency for marketplace data. Defaults to the authenticated users currency. Must be one of the following: USD GBP EUR CAD AUD JPY CHF MXN BRL NZD SEK ZAR Response  200Toggle Headers Status: HTTP/1.1 200 OK Reproxy-Status: yes Access-Control-Allow-Origin: * Cache-Control: public, must-revalidate Content-Type: application/json Server: lighttpd Content-Length: 780 Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2014 19:59:59 GMT X-Varnish: 1702965334 Age: 0 Via: 1.1 varnish Connection: keep-alive Body { "status": "For Sale", "price": { "currency": "USD", "value": 120 }, "original_price": { "curr_abbr": "USD", "curr_id": 1, "formatted": "$120.00", "value": 120.0 }, "allow_offers": false, "sleeve_condition": "Mint (M)", "id": 172723812, "condition": "Mint (M)", "posted": "2014-07-15T12:55:01-07:00", "ships_from": "United States", "uri": "http://www.discogs.com/sell/item/172723812", "comments": "Brand new... Still sealed!", "seller": { "username": "Booms528", "avatar_url": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/8aa676fcfa2be14266d0ccad88da2cc4?s=500&r=pg&d=mm", "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/users/Booms528", "url": "https://api.discogs.com/users/Booms528", "id": 1369620 "shipping": "Buyer responsible for shipping. Price depends on distance but is usually $5-10.", "payment": "PayPal", "stats": { "rating": "100", "stars": 5.0, "total": 15 } }, "shipping_price": { "currency": "USD", "value": 2.50 }, "original_shipping_price": { "curr_abbr": "USD", "curr_id": 1, "formatted": "$2.50", "value": 2.5 }, "release": { "catalog_number": "541125-1, 1-541125 (K1)", "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/releases/5610049", "year": 2014, "id": 5610049, "description": "LCD Soundsystem - The Long Goodbye: LCD Soundsystem Live At Madison Square Garden (5xLP + Box)", "thumbnail": "https://api-img.discogs.com/UsvcarhmrXb0km4QH_dRP8gEf3E=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-5610049-1399500556-9283.jpeg.jpg" }, "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/marketplace/listings/172723812", "audio": false } Response  404Toggle Headers Status: HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found Reproxy-Status: yes Access-Control-Allow-Origin: * Content-Type: application/json Server: lighttpd Content-Length: 33 Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2014 01:03:20 GMT X-Varnish: 1465521729 Age: 0 Via: 1.1 varnish Connection: keep-alive Body { "message": "The request resource was not found." } Edit A Listing POST /marketplace/listings/{listing_id}{?curr_abbr} Edit the data associated with a listing. If the listing’s status is not For Sale, Draft, or Expired, it cannot be modified – only deleted. To re-list a Sold listing, a new listing must be created. Authentication as the listing owner is required. Parameters listing_id number (required) Example: 172723812The ID of the listing you are fetching release_id number (required) Example: 1The ID of the release you are posting condition string (required) Example: MintThe condition of the release you are posting. Must be one of the following: Mint (M) Near Mint (NM or M-) Very Good Plus (VG+) Very Good (VG) Good Plus (G+) Good (G) Fair (F) Poor (P) sleeve_condition string (optional) Example: FairThe condition of the sleeve of the item you are posting. Must be one of the following: Mint (M) Near Mint (NM or M-) Very Good Plus (VG+) Very Good (VG) Good Plus (G+) Good (G) Fair (F) Poor (P) Generic Not Graded No Cover price number (required) Example: 10.00The price of the item (in the seller’s currency). comments string (optional) Example: This item is wonderfulAny remarks about the item that will be displayed to buyers. allow_offers boolean (optional) Example: trueWhether or not to allow buyers to make offers on the item. Defaults to false. status string (required) Example: DraftThe status of the listing. Defaults to For Sale. Options are For Sale (the listing is ready to be shown on the Marketplace) and Draft (the listing is not ready for public display). external_id string (optional) Example: 10.00A freeform field that can be used for the seller’s own reference. Information stored here will not be displayed to anyone other than the seller. This field is called “Private Comments” on the Discogs website. location string (optional) Example: 10.00A freeform field that is intended to help identify an item’s physical storage location. Information stored here will not be displayed to anyone other than the seller. This field will be visible on the inventory management page and will be available in inventory exports via the website. weight number (optional) Example: 10.00The weight, in grams, of this listing, for the purpose of calculating shipping. Set this field to auto to have the weight automatically estimated for you. format_quantity number (optional) Example: 10.00The number of items this listing counts as, for the purpose of calculating shipping. This field is called “Counts As” on the Discogs website. Set this field to auto to have the quantity automatically estimated for you. RequestToggle Headers Content-Type: application/json Response  204 Delete A Listing DELETE /marketplace/listings/{listing_id}{?curr_abbr} Permanently remove a listing from the Marketplace. Authentication as the listing owner is required. Parameters listing_id number (required) Example: 172723812The ID of the listing you are fetching RequestToggle Headers Content-Type: application/json Response  204 New Listing  Create New Listing POST /marketplace/listings{?release_id,condition,sleeve_condition,price,comments,allow_offers,status,external_id,location,weight,format_quantity} Create a Marketplace listing. Authentication is required; the listing will be added to the authenticated user’s Inventory. Parameters release_id number (required) Example: 1The ID of the release you are posting condition string (required) Example: MintThe condition of the release you are posting. Must be one of the following: Mint (M) Near Mint (NM or M-) Very Good Plus (VG+) Very Good (VG) Good Plus (G+) Good (G) Fair (F) Poor (P) sleeve_condition string (optional) Example: FairThe condition of the sleeve of the item you are posting. Must be one of the following: Mint (M) Near Mint (NM or M-) Very Good Plus (VG+) Very Good (VG) Good Plus (G+) Good (G) Fair (F) Poor (P) Generic Not Graded No Cover price number (required) Example: 10.00The price of the item (in the seller’s currency). comments string (optional) Example: This item is wonderfulAny remarks about the item that will be displayed to buyers. allow_offers boolean (optional) Example: trueWhether or not to allow buyers to make offers on the item. Defaults to false. status string (required) Example: DraftThe status of the listing. Defaults to For Sale. Options are For Sale (the listing is ready to be shown on the Marketplace) and Draft (the listing is not ready for public display). external_id string (optional) Example: 10.00A freeform field that can be used for the seller’s own reference. Information stored here will not be displayed to anyone other than the seller. This field is called “Private Comments” on the Discogs website. location string (optional) Example: 10.00A freeform field that is intended to help identify an item’s physical storage location. Information stored here will not be displayed to anyone other than the seller. This field will be visible on the inventory management page and will be available in inventory exports via the website. weight number (optional) Example: 10.00The weight, in grams, of this listing, for the purpose of calculating shipping. Set this field to auto to have the weight automatically estimated for you. format_quantity number (optional) Example: 10.00The number of items this listing counts as, for the purpose of calculating shipping. This field is called “Counts As” on the Discogs website. Set this field to auto to have the quantity automatically estimated for you. RequestToggle Headers Content-Type: application/json Response  201Toggle Body { "listing_id": 41578241, "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/marketplace/listings/41578241" } Response  403Toggle Body { "message": "You don't have permission to access this resource." } Order  The Order resource allows you to manage a seller’s Marketplace orders. Get Order GET /marketplace/orders/{order_id} View the data associated with an order. Authentication as the seller is required. Parameters order_id number (required) Example: 1-1The ID of the order you are fetching Response  200Toggle Headers Status: HTTP/1.1 200 OK Reproxy-Status: yes Access-Control-Allow-Origin: * Cache-Control: public, must-revalidate Content-Type: application/json Server: lighttpd Content-Length: 780 Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2014 19:59:59 GMT X-Varnish: 1702965334 Age: 0 Via: 1.1 varnish Connection: keep-alive Body { "id": "1-1", "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/marketplace/orders/1-1", "messages_url": "https://api.discogs.com/marketplace/orders/1-1/messages", "uri": "http://www.discogs.com/sell/order/1-1", "status": "New Order", "next_status": [ "New Order", "Buyer Contacted", "Invoice Sent", "Payment Pending", "Payment Received", "Shipped", "Refund Sent", "Cancelled (Non-Paying Buyer)", "Cancelled (Item Unavailable)", "Cancelled (Per Buyer's Request)" ], "fee": { "currency": "USD", "value": 2.52 }, "created": "2011-10-21T09:25:17-07:00", "items": [ { "release": { "id": 1, "description": "Persuader, The - Stockholm (2x12\")" }, "price": { "currency": "USD", "value": 42 }, "media_condition": "Mint (M)", "sleeve_condition": "Mint (M)", "id": 41578242 } ], "shipping": { "currency": "USD", "method": "Standard", "value": 0 }, "shipping_address": "Asdf Exampleton\n234 NE Asdf St.\nAsdf Town, Oregon, 14423\nUnited States\n\nPhone: 555-555-2733\nPaypal address: asdf@example.com", "additional_instructions": "please use sturdy packaging.", "archived": false, "seller": { "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/users/example_seller", "username": "example_seller", "id": 1 }, "last_activity": "2011-10-21T09:25:17-07:00", "buyer": { "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/users/example_buyer", "username": "example_buyer", "id": 2 }, "total": { "currency": "USD", "value": 42 } } Response  401Toggle Headers Status: HTTP/1.1 401 Unauthorized Reproxy-Status: yes Access-Control-Allow-Origin: * Cache-Control: public, must-revalidate Content-Type: application/json WWW-Authenticate: OAuth realm="https://api.discogs.com" Server: lighttpd Content-Length: 61 Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2014 20:37:49 GMT X-Varnish: 1703540564 Age: 0 Via: 1.1 varnish Connection: keep-alive Body { "message": "You must authenticate to access this resource." } Edit An Order POST /marketplace/orders/{order_id} Edit the data associated with an order. Authentication as the seller is required. The response contains a next_status key – an array of valid next statuses for this order, which you can display to the user in (for example) a dropdown control. This also renders your application more resilient to any future changes in the order status logic. Changing the order status using this resource will always message the buyer with: Seller changed status from Old Status to New Status and does not provide a facility for including a custom message along with the change. For more fine-grained control, use the Add a new message resource, which allows you to simultaneously add a message and change the order status. If the order status is neither cancelled, Payment Received, nor Shipped, you can change the shipping. Doing so will send an invoice to the buyer and set the order status to Invoice Sent. (For that reason, you cannot set the shipping and the order status in the same request.) Parameters order_id number (required) Example: 1-1The ID of the order you are fetching status string (optional) Example: New OrderThe status of the Order you are updating. Must be one of the following: New Order Buyer Contacted Invoice Sent Payment Pending Payment Received Shipped Refund Sent Cancelled (Non-Paying Buyer) Cancelled (Item Unavailable) Cancelled (Per Buyer's Request) the order’s current status Furthermore, the new status must be present in the order’s next_status list. For more information about order statuses, see Edit an order. shipping number (optional) Example: 5.00The order shipping amount. As a side-effect of setting this value, the buyer is invoiced and the order status is set to Invoice Sent. RequestToggle Headers Content-Type: application/json Response  200Toggle Body { "id": "1-1", "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/marketplace/orders/1-1", "messages_url": "https://api.discogs.com/marketplace/orders/1-1/messages", "uri": "http://www.discogs.com/sell/order/1-1", "status": "Invoice Sent", "next_status": [ "New Order", "Buyer Contacted", "Invoice Sent", "Payment Pending", "Payment Received", "Shipped", "Refund Sent", "Cancelled (Non-Paying Buyer)", "Cancelled (Item Unavailable)", "Cancelled (Per Buyer's Request)" ], "fee": { "currency": "USD", "value": 2.52 }, "created": "2011-10-21T09:25:17-07:00", "items": [ { "release": { "id": 1, "description": "Persuader, The - Stockholm (2x12\")" }, "price": { "currency": "USD", "value": 42 }, "id": 41578242 } ], "shipping": { "currency": "USD", "method": "Standard", "value": 5 }, "shipping_address": "Asdf Exampleton\n234 NE Asdf St.\nAsdf Town, Oregon, 14423\nUnited States\n\nPhone: 555-555-2733\nPaypal address: asdf@example.com", "additional_instructions": "please use sturdy packaging.", "archived": false, "seller": { "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/users/example_seller", "username": "example_seller", "id": 1 }, "last_activity": "2011-10-22T19:18:53-07:00", "buyer": { "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/users/example_buyer", "username": "example_buyer", "id": 2 }, "total": { "currency": "USD", "value": 47 } } List Orders  Returns a list of the authenticated user’s orders. Accepts Pagination parameters. List Orders GET /marketplace/orders{?status,created_after,created_before,sort,sort_order} Returns a list of the authenticated user’s orders. Accepts Pagination parameters. Parameters status string (optional) Example: 1-1Only show orders with this status. Valid status keys are: All New Order Buyer Contacted Invoice Sent Payment Pending Payment Received Shipped Merged Order Changed Refund Sent Cancelled Cancelled (Non-Paying Buyer) Cancelled (Item Unavailable) Cancelled (Per Buyer's Request) Cancelled (Refund Received) created_after string (optional) Example: 2019-06-24T20:58:58ZOnly show orders created after this ISO 8601 timestamp. created_before string (optional) Example: 2019-06-24T20:58:58ZOnly show orders created before this ISO 8601 timestamp. archived boolean (optional) Example: trueOnly show orders with a specific archived status. If no key is provided, both statuses are returned. Valid archived keys are: true false sort string (optional) Example: 1-1Sort items by this field (see below). Valid sort keys are: id buyer created status last_activity sort_order string (optional) Example: 1-1Sort items in a particular order (one of asc, desc) Response  200Toggle Headers Status: HTTP/1.1 200 OK Reproxy-Status: yes Access-Control-Allow-Origin: * Cache-Control: public, must-revalidate Content-Type: application/json Server: lighttpd Content-Length: 780 Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2014 19:59:59 GMT X-Varnish: 1702965334 Age: 0 Via: 1.1 varnish Connection: keep-alive Body { "pagination": { "per_page": 50, "pages": 1, "page": 1, "items": 1, "urls": {} }, "orders": [ { "status": "New Order", "fee": { "currency": "USD", "value": 2.52 }, "created": "2011-10-21T09:25:17-07:00", "items": [ { "release": { "id": 1, "description": "Persuader, The - Stockholm (2x12\")", "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/releases/1", "thumbnail": "http://api-img.discogs.com/souG2t4I8ZFVK3kHVtD3zjGvd_Y=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-1-1193812031.jpeg.jpg" }, "price": { "currency": "USD", "value": 42.0 }, "id": 41578242 } ], "shipping": { "currency": "USD", "method": "Standard", "value": 0.0 }, "shipping_address": "Asdf Exampleton\n234 NE Asdf St.\nAsdf Town, Oregon, 14423\nUnited States\n\nPhone: 555-555-2733\nPaypal address: asdf@example.com", "additional_instructions": "please use sturdy packaging.", "archived": false, "seller": { "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/users/example_seller", "username": "example_seller", "id": 1 }, "last_activity": "2011-10-21T09:25:17-07:00", "buyer": { "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/users/example_buyer", "username": "example_buyer", "id": 2 }, "total": { "currency": "USD", "value": 42.0 }, "id": "1-1" "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/marketplace/orders/1-1", "messages_url": "https://api.discogs.com/marketplace/orders/1-1/messages", "uri": "http://www.discogs.com/sell/order/1-1", "next_status": [ "New Order", "Buyer Contacted", "Invoice Sent", "Payment Pending", "Payment Received", "Shipped", "Refund Sent", "Cancelled (Non-Paying Buyer)", "Cancelled (Item Unavailable)", "Cancelled (Per Buyer's Request)" ] } ] } List Order Messages  List Order Messages GET /marketplace/orders/{order_id}/messages Returns a list of the order’s messages with the most recent first. Accepts Pagination parameters. Authentication as the seller is required. Parameters order_id string (required) Example: 1-1The ID of the order you are fetching Response  200Toggle Headers Status: HTTP/1.1 200 OK Reproxy-Status: yes Access-Control-Allow-Origin: * Cache-Control: public, must-revalidate Content-Type: application/json Server: lighttpd Content-Length: 780 Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2014 19:59:59 GMT X-Varnish: 1702965334 Age: 0 Via: 1.1 varnish Connection: keep-alive Body { "pagination": { "per_page": 50, "items": 8, "page": 1, "urls": {}, "pages": 1 }, "messages": [ { "refund": { "amount": 5, "order": { "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/marketplace/orders/845236-9", "id": "845236-9" } }, "timestamp": "2015-06-02T13:17:54-07:00", "message": "example_buyer received refund of $5.00.", "type": "refund_received", "order": { "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/marketplace/orders/845236-9", "id": "845236-9" }, "subject": "" }, { "refund": { "amount": 5, "order": { "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/marketplace/orders/845236-9", "id": "845236-9" } }, "timestamp": "2015-06-02T13:17:44-07:00", "message": "example_seller sent refund of $5.00.", "type": "refund_sent", "order": { "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/marketplace/orders/845236-9", "id": "845236-9" }, "subject": "" }, { "from": { "id": 1001, "username": "example_seller", "avatar_url": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/1ddcc19fb43551fb86c143465f773282?s=300&r=pg&d=mm", "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/users/example_seller" }, "timestamp": "2015-06-02T13:17:07-07:00", "message": "Thank you for your order!", "type": "message", "order": { "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/marketplace/orders/845236-9", "id": "845236-9" }, "subject": "New Message - Order #845236-9 - TZ Goes Beyond 10! + 1 more item" }, { "status_id": 6, "timestamp": "2015-06-02T13:16:57-07:00", "actor": { "username": "example_seller", "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/users/example_seller" }, "message": "example_buyer changed the order status to Shipped.", "type": "status", "order": { "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/marketplace/orders/845236-9", "id": "845236-9" }, "subject": "" }, { "status_id": 5, "timestamp": "2015-06-02T13:16:51-07:00", "actor": { "username": "example_seller", "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/users/example_seller" }, "message": "example_buyer changed the order status to Payment Received.", "type": "status", "order": { "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/marketplace/orders/845236-9", "id": "845236-9" }, "subject": "" }, { "status_id": 3, "timestamp": "2015-06-02T13:16:27-07:00", "actor": { "username": "example_seller", "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/users/example_seller" }, "message": "example_buyer changed the order status to Invoice Sent.", "type": "status", "order": { "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/marketplace/orders/845236-9", "id": "845236-9" }, "subject": "" }, { "timestamp": "2015-06-02T13:16:27-07:00", "original": 0, "new": 5, "message": "example_seller set the shipping price to $5.00.", "type": "shipping", "order": { "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/marketplace/orders/845236-9", "id": "845236-9" }, "subject": "" }, { "status_id": 1, "timestamp": "2015-06-02T13:16:12-07:00", "actor": { "username": "example_seller", "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/users/example_seller" }, "message": "example_seller created the order by merging orders #845236-7, #845236-8.", "type": "status", "order": { "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/marketplace/orders/845236-9", "id": "845236-9" }, "subject": "" } ] } Add New Message POST /marketplace/orders/{order_id}/messages Adds a new message to the order’s message log. When posting a new message, you can simultaneously change the order status. If you do, the message will automatically be prepended with: Seller changed status from Old Status to New Status While message and status are each optional, one or both must be present. Parameters order_id string (required) Example: 1-1The ID of the order you are fetching message string (optional) Example: hello world status string (optional) Example: New Order RequestToggle Headers Content-Type: application/json Response  201Toggle Body { "from": { "username": "example_seller", "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/users/example_seller" }, "message": "Seller changed status from Payment Received to Shipped\n\nYour order is on its way, tracking number #foobarbaz!", "order": { "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/marketplace/orders/1-1", "id": "1-1" }, "timestamp": "2011-11-18T15:32:42-07:00", "subject": "Discogs Order #1-1, Stockholm" } Response  403Toggle Body { "message": "You don't have permission to access this resource." } Fee  Calculate Fee GET /marketplace/fee/{price} The Fee resource allows you to quickly calculate the fee for selling an item on the Marketplace. Parameters price number (optional) Example: 10.00The price to calculate a fee from Response  200Toggle Headers Status: HTTP/1.1 200 OK Reproxy-Status: yes Access-Control-Allow-Origin: * Cache-Control: public, must-revalidate Content-Type: application/json Server: lighttpd Content-Length: 780 Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2014 19:59:59 GMT X-Varnish: 1702965334 Age: 0 Via: 1.1 varnish Connection: keep-alive Body { "value": 0.42, "currency": "USD", } Fee with currency  Calculate Fee GET /marketplace/fee/{price}/{currency} The Fee resource allows you to quickly calculate the fee for selling an item on the Marketplace given a particular currency. Parameters price number (optional) Example: 10.00The price to calculate a fee from currency string (optional) Example: USDDefaults to USD. Must be one of the following: USD GBP EUR CAD AUD JPY CHF MXN BRL NZD SEK ZAR Response  200Toggle Headers Status: HTTP/1.1 200 OK Reproxy-Status: yes Access-Control-Allow-Origin: * Cache-Control: public, must-revalidate Content-Type: application/json Server: lighttpd Content-Length: 780 Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2014 19:59:59 GMT X-Varnish: 1702965334 Age: 0 Via: 1.1 varnish Connection: keep-alive Body { "value": 0.42, "currency": "USD", } Price Suggestions  Get Price Suggestions GET /marketplace/price_suggestions/{release_id} Retrieve price suggestions for the provided Release ID. If no suggestions are available, an empty object will be returned. Authentication is required, and the user needs to have filled out their seller settings. Suggested prices will be denominated in the user’s selling currency. Parameters release_id number (required) Example: 1The release ID to calculate a price from. Response  200Toggle Headers Status: HTTP/1.1 200 OK Reproxy-Status: yes Access-Control-Allow-Origin: * Cache-Control: public, must-revalidate Content-Type: application/json Server: lighttpd Content-Length: 780 Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2014 19:59:59 GMT X-Varnish: 1702965334 Age: 0 Via: 1.1 varnish Connection: keep-alive Body { "Very Good (VG)": { "currency": "USD", "value": 6.7827501 }, "Good Plus (G+)": { "currency": "USD", "value": 3.7681945000000003 }, "Near Mint (NM or M-)": { "currency": "USD", "value": 12.8118613 }, "Good (G)": { "currency": "USD", "value": 2.2609167 }, "Very Good Plus (VG+)": { "currency": "USD", "value": 9.7973057 }, "Mint (M)": { "currency": "USD", "value": 14.319139100000001 }, "Fair (F)": { "currency": "USD", "value": 1.5072778000000002 }, "Poor (P)": { "currency": "USD", "value": 0.7536389000000001 } } Release Statistics  Get Marketplace Stats GET /marketplace/stats/{release_id}{?curr_abbr} Retrieve marketplace statistics for the provided Release ID. These statistics reflect the state of the release in the marketplace currently, and include the number of items currently for sale, lowest listed price of any item for sale, and whether the item is blocked for sale in the marketplace. Authentication is optional. Authenticated users will by default have the lowest currency expressed in their own buyer currency, configurable in buyer settings, in the absence of the curr_abbr query parameter to specify the currency. Unauthenticated users will have the price expressed in US Dollars, if no curr_abbr is provided. Releases that have no items for sale in the marketplace will return a body with null data in the lowest_price and num_for_sale keys. Releases that are blocked for sale will also have null data for these keys. Parameters release_id number (required) Example: 1The release ID whose stats are desired curr_abbr string (optional) Example: USDCurrency for marketplace data. Defaults to the authenticated users currency. Must be one of the following: USD GBP EUR CAD AUD JPY CHF MXN BRL NZD SEK ZAR Response  200Toggle Headers Status: HTTP/1.1 200 OK Reproxy-Status: yes Access-Control-Allow-Origin: * Cache-Control: public, must-revalidate Content-Type: application/json Server: lighttpd Content-Length: 780 Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2014 19:59:59 GMT X-Varnish: 1702965334 Age: 0 Via: 1.1 varnish Connection: keep-alive Body { "lowest_price": { "currency": "USD", "value": 2.09 }, "num_for_sale": 26, "blocked_from_sale": false } Next  Previous Inventory Export  Export your inventory  Export your inventory POST /inventory/export Request an export of your inventory as a CSV. Response  200Toggle Headers Content-Type: application/json Location: https://api.discogs.com/inventory/export/599632 Response  401Toggle Headers Content-Type: application/json Response  409Toggle Headers Content-Type: application/json Get recent exports  Get recent exports GET /inventory/export Get a list of all recent exports of your inventory. Accepts Pagination parameters. Response  200Toggle Headers Content-Type: application/json Body { "items": [ { "status": "success", "created_ts": "2018-09-27T12:59:02", "url": "https://api.discogs.com/inventory/export/599632", "finished_ts": "2018-09-27T12:59:02", "download_url": "https://api.discogs.com/inventory/export/599632/download", "filename": "cburmeister-inventory-20180927-1259.csv", "id": 599632 } ], "pagination": { "per_page": 50, "items": 15, "page": 1, "urls": {}, "pages": 1 } } Response  401Toggle Headers Content-Type: application/json Get an export  Get an export GET /inventory/export/{id} Get details about the status of an inventory export. Parameters id number (required) Id of the export. RequestToggle Headers Content-Type: multipart/form-data If-Modified-Since: Thu, 27 Sep 2018 12:50:39 GMT Response  200Toggle Headers Content-Type: application/json Last-Modified: Thu, 27 Sep 2018 12:59:02 GMT Body { "status": "success", "created_ts": "2018-09-27T12:50:39", "url": "https://api.discogs.com/inventory/export/599632", "finished_ts": "2018-09-27T12:59:02", "download_url": "https://api.discogs.com/inventory/export/599632/download", "filename": "cburmeister-inventory-20180927-1259.csv", "id": 599632 } Response  304 Response  401Toggle Headers Content-Type: application/json Response  404Toggle Headers Content-Type: application/json Download an export  Download an export GET /inventory/export/{id}/download Download the results of an inventory export. Parameters id number (required) Id of the export. Response  200Toggle Headers Content-Type: text/csv; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=cburmeister-inventory-20180927-1259.csv Response  401Toggle Headers Content-Type: application/json Response  404Toggle Headers Content-Type: application/json Next  Previous Inventory Upload  Add inventory  Add inventory POST /inventory/upload/add Upload a CSV of listings to add to your inventory. File structure ¶ The file you upload must be a comma-separated CSV. The first row must be a header with lower case field names. Here’s an example: release_id,price,media_condition,comments 123,1.50,Mint (M),Comments about this release for sale 456,2.50,Near Mint (NM or M-),More comments 7890,3.50,Good (G),Signed vinyl copy Things to note: ¶ These listings will be marked “For Sale” immediately. Currency information will be pulled from your marketplace settings. Any fields that aren’t optional or required will be ignored. Required fields ¶ release_id - Must be a number. This value corresponds with the Discogs database Release ID. price - Must be a number. media_condition - Must be a valid condition (see below). Optional fields ¶ sleeve_condition - Must be a valid condition (see below). comments accept_offer - Must be Y or N. location - Private free-text field to help identify an item’s physical location. external_id - Private notes or IDs for your own reference. weight - In grams. Must be a non-negative integer. format_quantity - Number of items that this item counts as (for shipping). Conditions ¶ When you specify a media condition, it must exactly match one of these: Mint (M) Near Mint (NM or M-) Very Good Plus (VG+) Very Good (VG) Good Plus (G+) Good (G) Fair (F) Poor (P) Sleeve condition may be any of the above, or: Not Graded Generic No Cover Parameters upload file (required) The CSV file of items to add to your inventory. Response  200Toggle Headers Content-Type: application/json Location: https://api.discogs.com/inventory/upload/599632 Response  401Toggle Headers Content-Type: application/json Response  409Toggle Headers Content-Type: application/json Response  415Toggle Headers Content-Type: application/json Response  422Toggle Headers Content-Type: application/json Change inventory  Change inventory POST /inventory/upload/change Upload a CSV of listings to change in your inventory. File structure ¶ The file you upload must be a comma-separated CSV. The first row must be a header with lower case field names. Here’s an example: release_id,price,media_condition,comments 123,1.50,Mint (M),Comments about this release for sale 456,2.50,Near Mint (NM or M-),More comments 7890,3.50,Good (G),Signed vinyl copy Things to note: ¶ These listings will be marked “For Sale” immediately. Currency information will be pulled from your marketplace settings. Any fields that aren’t optional or required will be ignored. Required fields ¶ release_id - Must be a number. This value corresponds with the Discogs database Release ID. Optional fields (at least one required) ¶ price - media_condition - Must be a valid condition (see below). sleeve_condition - Must be a valid condition (see below). comments accept_offer - Must be Y or N. external_id - Private notes or IDs for your own reference. location - Private free-text field to help identify an item’s physical location. weight - In grams. Must be a non-negative integer. format_quantity - Number of items that this item counts as (for shipping). Conditions ¶ When you specify a media condition, it must exactly match one of these: Mint (M) Near Mint (NM or M-) Very Good Plus (VG+) Very Good (VG) Good Plus (G+) Good (G) Fair (F) Poor (P) Sleeve condition may be any of the above, or: Not Graded Generic No Cover Parameters upload file (required) The CSV file of items to alter in your inventory. Response  200Toggle Headers Content-Type: application/json Location: https://api.discogs.com/inventory/upload/599632 Response  401Toggle Headers Content-Type: application/json Response  409Toggle Headers Content-Type: application/json Response  415Toggle Headers Content-Type: application/json Response  422Toggle Headers Content-Type: application/json Delete inventory  Delete inventory POST /inventory/upload/delete Upload a CSV of listings to delete from your inventory. File structure ¶ The file you upload must be a comma-separated CSV. The first row must be a header with lower case field names. Here’s an example: listing_id 12345678 98765432 31415926 Required fields ¶ listing_id - Must be a number. This is the ID of the listing you wish to delete. Parameters upload file (required) The CSV file listing items to remove from your inventory. Response  200Toggle Headers Content-Type: application/json Location: https://api.discogs.com/inventory/upload/599632 Response  401Toggle Headers Content-Type: application/json Response  409Toggle Headers Content-Type: application/json Response  415Toggle Headers Content-Type: application/json Response  422Toggle Headers Content-Type: application/json Get recent uploads  Get recent uploads GET /inventory/upload Get a list of all recent inventory uploads. Accepts Pagination parameters. Response  200Toggle Headers Content-Type: application/json Body { "items": [ { "status": "success", "results": "CSV file contains 1 records.

    Processed 1 records.", "created_ts": "2017-12-18T09:20:28", "finished_ts": "2017-12-18T09:20:29", "filename": "add.csv", "type": "change", "id": 119615 } ], "pagination": { "per_page": 50, "items": 1, "page": 1, "urls": {}, "pages": 1 } } Response  401Toggle Headers Content-Type: application/json Get an upload  Get an upload GET /inventory/upload/{id} Get details about the status of an inventory upload. Parameters id number (required) Id of the export. RequestToggle Headers Content-Type: multipart/form-data If-Modified-Since: Thu, 27 Sep 2018 09:20:28 GMT Response  200Toggle Headers Content-Type: application/json Body { "status": "success", "results": "CSV file contains 1 records.

    Processed 1 records.", "created_ts": "2017-12-18T09:20:28", "finished_ts": "2017-12-18T09:20:29", "filename": "add.csv", "type": "change", "id": 119615 } Response  304 Response  401Toggle Headers Content-Type: application/json Response  404Toggle Headers Content-Type: application/json Next  Previous User Identity  Identity  Get Identity GET /oauth/identity Retrieve basic information about the authenticated user. You can use this resource to find out who you’re authenticated as, and it also doubles as a good sanity check to ensure that you’re using OAuth correctly. For more detailed information, make another request for the user’s Profile. RequestToggle Body GET https://api.discogs.com/oauth/identity Response  200Toggle Headers Status: HTTP/1.1 200 OK Reproxy-Status: yes Access-Control-Allow-Origin: * Cache-Control: public, must-revalidate Content-Type: application/json Content-Encoding: gzip Content-Location: https://api.discogs.com/oauth/identity?oauth_body_hash=some_hash&oauth_nonce=... Server: lighttpd Content-Length: 127 Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2014 18:44:17 GMT X-Varnish: 1718276369 Age: 0 Via: 1.1 varnish Connection: keep-alive Body { "id": 1, "username": "example", "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/users/example", "consumer_name": "Your Application Name" } Response  401Toggle Headers Status: HTTP/1.1 401 Unauthorized Reproxy-Status: yes Access-Control-Allow-Origin: * Cache-Control: public, must-revalidate Content-Type: application/json WWW-Authenticate: OAuth realm="https://api.discogs.com" Server: lighttpd Content-Length: 61 Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2014 18:42:38 GMT X-Varnish: 1718433436 Age: 0 Via: 1.1 varnish Connection: keep-alive Body { "message": "You must authenticate to access this resource." } Profile  Get Profile GET /users/{username} Retrieve a user by username. If authenticated as the requested user, the email key will be visible, and the num_list count will include the user’s private lists. If authenticated as the requested user or the user’s collection/wantlist is public, the num_collection / num_wantlist keys will be visible. Parameters username string (required) Example: rodneyfoolThe username of whose profile you are requesting. Response  200Toggle Headers Status: HTTP/1.1 200 OK Reproxy-Status: yes Access-Control-Allow-Origin: * Cache-Control: public, must-revalidate Content-Type: application/json Server: lighttpd Content-Length: 858 Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2014 18:46:21 GMT X-Varnish: 1718492795 Age: 0 Via: 1.1 varnish Connection: keep-alive Body { "profile": "I am a software developer for Discogs.\r\n\r\n[img=http://i.imgur.com/IAk3Ukk.gif]", "wantlist_url": "https://api.discogs.com/users/rodneyfool/wants", "rank": 149, "num_pending": 61, "id": 1578108, "num_for_sale": 0, "home_page": "", "location": "I live in the good ol' Pacific NW", "collection_folders_url": "https://api.discogs.com/users/rodneyfool/collection/folders", "username": "rodneyfool", "collection_fields_url": "https://api.discogs.com/users/rodneyfool/collection/fields", "releases_contributed": 5, "registered": "2012-08-15T21:13:36-07:00", "rating_avg": 3.47, "num_collection": 78, "releases_rated": 116, "num_lists": 0, "name": "Rodney", "num_wantlist": 160, "inventory_url": "https://api.discogs.com/users/rodneyfool/inventory", "avatar_url": "http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/55502f40dc8b7c769880b10874abc9d0?s=52&r=pg&d=mm", "banner_url": "https://img.discogs.com/dhuJe-pRJmod7hN3cdVi2PugEh4=/1600x400/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg)/discogs-banners/B-1578108-user-1436314164-9231.jpg.jpg", "uri": "http://www.discogs.com/user/rodneyfool", "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/users/rodneyfool", "buyer_rating": 100.00, "buyer_rating_stars": 5, "buyer_num_ratings": 144, "seller_rating": 100.00, "seller_rating_stars": 5, "seller_num_ratings": 21, "curr_abbr": "USD", } Edit Profile POST /users/{username} Edit a user’s profile data. Authentication as the user is required. Parameters username string (required) Example: vreonThe username of the user. name string (optional) Example: Nicolas CageThe real name of the user. home_page string (optional) Example: www.discogs.comThe user’s website. location string (optional) Example: PortlandThe geographical location of the user. profile string (optional) Example: I am a Discogs user!Biographical information about the user. curr_abbr string (optional) Example: USDCurrency for marketplace data. Must be one of the following: USD GBP EUR CAD AUD JPY CHF MXN BRL NZD SEK ZAR Response  200Toggle Body { "id": 1, "username": "example", "name": "Example Sampleman", "email": "sampleman@example.com", "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/users/example", "inventory_url": "https://api.discogs.com/users/example/inventory", "collection_folders_url": "https://api.discogs.com/users/example/collection/folders", "collection_fields_url": "https://api.discogs.com/users/example/collection/fields", "wantlist_url": "https://api.discogs.com/users/example/wants", "uri": "http://www.discogs.com/user/example", "profile": "This is some [b]different sample[/b] data!", "home_page": "http://www.example.com", "location": "Australia", "registered": "2011-08-30 14:21:45-07:00", "num_lists": 0, "num_for_sale": 6, "num_collection": 4, "num_wantlist": 5, "num_pending": 10, "releases_contributed": 15, "rank": 30, "releases_rated": 4, "rating_avg": 2.5 } Response  403Toggle Body { "message": "You don't have permission to access this resource." } User Submissions  The Submissions resource represents all edits that a user makes to releases, labels, and artist. Get Submissions GET /users/{username}/submissions Retrieve a user’s submissions by username. Accepts Pagination parameters. Parameters username string (required) Example: shooezgirlThe username of the submissions you are trying to fetch. Response  200Toggle Body { "pagination": { "items": 3, "page": 1, "pages": 1, "per_page": 50, "urls": {} }, "submissions": { "artists": [ { "data_quality": "Needs Vote", "id": 240177, "name": "Grimy", "namevariations": [ "Grimmy" ], "releases_url": "https://api.discogs.com/artists/240177/releases", "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/artists/240177", "uri": "http://www.discogs.com/artist/240177-Grimy" } ], "labels": [], "releases": [ { "artists": [ { "anv": "", "id": 17035, "join": "", "name": "Chaka Khan", "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/artists/17035", "role": "", "tracks": "" } ], "community": { "contributors": [ { "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/users/shooezgirl", "username": "shooezgirl" }, { "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/users/Diognes_The_Fox", "username": "Diognes_The_Fox" } ], "data_quality": "Needs Vote", "have": 0, "rating": { "average": 0, "count": 0 }, "status": "Accepted", "submitter": { "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/users/shooezgirl", "username": "shooezgirl" }, "want": 0 }, "companies": [], "country": "US", "data_quality": "Needs Vote", "date_added": "2014-03-25T14:52:18-07:00", "date_changed": "2014-05-14T13:28:21-07:00", "estimated_weight": 60, "format_quantity": 1, "formats": [ { "descriptions": [ "7\"", "45 RPM", "Promo" ], "name": "Vinyl", "qty": "1" } ], "genres": [ "Funk / Soul" ], "id": 5531861, "images": [ { "height": 594, "resource_url": "https://api-img.discogs.com/i3jf6S4S7LMNBuWxstCxAQs2Rw0=/fit-in/600x594/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(96)/discogs-images/R-5531861-1400099290-9223.jpeg.jpg", "type": "primary", "uri": "https://api-img.discogs.com/i3jf6S4S7LMNBuWxstCxAQs2Rw0=/fit-in/600x594/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(96)/discogs-images/R-5531861-1400099290-9223.jpeg.jpg", "uri150": "https://api-img.discogs.com/xMSwaqP2T8SNwDUTO-gXmHXWt6s=/fit-in/150x150/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb()/discogs-images/R-5531861-1400099290-9223.jpeg.jpg", "width": 600 }, { "height": 600, "resource_url": "https://api-img.discogs.com/sT0plDMoOcfJz-1JEui8XQr69kw=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(96)/discogs-images/R-5531861-1400099290-9749.jpeg.jpg", "type": "secondary", "uri": "https://api-img.discogs.com/sT0plDMoOcfJz-1JEui8XQr69kw=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(96)/discogs-images/R-5531861-1400099290-9749.jpeg.jpg", "uri150": "https://api-img.discogs.com/f2QfdjBjpuP-Eht4DVSlCfPtTe8=/fit-in/150x150/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb()/discogs-images/R-5531861-1400099290-9749.jpeg.jpg", "width": 600 } ], "labels": [ { "catno": "7-28671", "entity_type": "1", "id": 1000, "name": "Warner Bros. Records", "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/labels/1000" } ], "master_id": 174698, "master_url": "https://api.discogs.com/masters/174698", "notes": "Promotion Not for Sale", "released": "1986", "released_formatted": "1986", "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/releases/5531861", "series": [], "status": "Accepted", "styles": [ "Rhythm & Blues" ], "thumb": "https://api-img.discogs.com/xMSwaqP2T8SNwDUTO-gXmHXWt6s=/fit-in/150x150/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb()/discogs-images/R-5531861-1400099290-9223.jpeg.jpg", "title": "Love Of A Lifetime", "uri": "http://www.discogs.com/Chaka-Khan-Love-Of-A-Lifetime/release/5531861", "videos": [ { "description": "Chaka Khan - Love you all my lifetime (live)", "duration": 285, "embed": true, "title": "Chaka Khan - Love you all my lifetime (live)", "uri": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOrCYzfchTI" }, { "description": "Chaka Khan - Love Of A Lifetime [Official Video]", "duration": 257, "embed": true, "title": "Chaka Khan - Love Of A Lifetime [Official Video]", "uri": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5K6-q2VqJdE" }, { "description": "CHAKA KHAN - COLTRANE DREAMS ~{The 45 VERSION}~", "duration": 151, "embed": true, "title": "CHAKA KHAN - COLTRANE DREAMS ~{The 45 VERSION}~", "uri": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11eaG7KdS9g" } ], "year": 1986 } ] } } User Contributions  The Contributions resource represents releases, labels, and artists submitted by a user. Get Contributions GET /users/{username}/contributions{?sort,sort_order} Retrieve a user’s contributions by username. Accepts Pagination parameters. Valid sort keys are: label artist title catno format rating year added Valid sort_order keys are: asc desc Parameters username string (required) Example: shooezgirlThe username of the submissions you are trying to fetch. sort string (optional) Example: artistSort items by this field (see below for all valid sort keys. sort_order string (optional) Example: descSort items in a particular order (asc or desc) Response  200Toggle Body { "contributions": [ { "artists": [ { "anv": "", "id": 17961, "join": "And", "name": "Cher", "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/artists/17961", "role": "", "tracks": "" } ], "community": { "contributors": [ { "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/users/shooezgirl", "username": "shooezgirl" }, { "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/users/Aquacrash_Dj", "username": "Aquacrash_Dj" } ], "data_quality": "Needs Vote", "have": 0, "rating": { "average": 0, "count": 0 }, "status": "Accepted", "submitter": { "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/users/shooezgirl", "username": "shooezgirl" }, "want": 0 }, "companies": [], "country": "US", "data_quality": "Needs Vote", "date_added": "2014-03-25T15:16:13-07:00", "date_changed": "2014-05-14T13:36:00-07:00", "estimated_weight": 60, "format_quantity": 1, "formats": [ { "descriptions": [ "7\"", "45 RPM", "Single", "Promo" ], "name": "Vinyl", "qty": "1" } ], "genres": [ "Rock", "Pop" ], "id": 5531933, "images": [ { "height": 605, "resource_url": "https://api-img.discogs.com/e0X1tNZv6nkdOOTPJAn-dtCbFa0=/fit-in/600x605/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(96)/discogs-images/R-5531933-1400099758-6444.jpeg.jpg", "type": "primary", "uri": "https://api-img.discogs.com/e0X1tNZv6nkdOOTPJAn-dtCbFa0=/fit-in/600x605/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(96)/discogs-images/R-5531933-1400099758-6444.jpeg.jpg", "uri150": "https://api-img.discogs.com/8et0xtf9REFloKoqi6NSJ6AJvFI=/fit-in/150x150/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb()/discogs-images/R-5531933-1400099758-6444.jpeg.jpg", "width": 600 } ], "labels": [ { "catno": "7-27529-DJ", "entity_type": "1", "id": 821, "name": "Geffen Records", "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/labels/821" } ], "master_id": 223379, "master_url": "https://api.discogs.com/masters/223379", "notes": "Promotion Not For Sale", "released": "1989", "released_formatted": "1989", "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/releases/5531933", "series": [], "status": "Accepted", "styles": [ "Ballad" ], "thumb": "https://api-img.discogs.com/8et0xtf9REFloKoqi6NSJ6AJvFI=/fit-in/150x150/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb()/discogs-images/R-5531933-1400099758-6444.jpeg.jpg", "title": "After All", "uri": "http://www.discogs.com/Cher-And-Peter-Cetera-After-All/release/5531933", "videos": [ { "description": "Cher & Peter Cetera - After All [On-Screen Lyrics]", "duration": 247, "embed": true, "title": "Cher & Peter Cetera - After All [On-Screen Lyrics]", "uri": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qy717J3Iscw" } ], "year": 1989 } ], "pagination": { "items": 2, "page": 1, "pages": 1, "per_page": 50, "urls": {} } } Next  Previous User Collection  Collection  The Collection resource allows you to view and manage a user’s collection. A collection is arranged into folders. Every user has two permanent folders already: ID 0, the “All” folder, which cannot have releases added to it, and ID 1, the “Uncategorized” folder. Because it’s possible to own more than one copy of a release, each with its own notes, grading, and so on, each instance of a release in a folder has an instance ID. Through the Discogs website, users can create custom notes fields. There is not yet an API method for creating and deleting these fields, but they can be listed, and the values of the fields on any instance can be modified. Get Collection Folders GET /users/{username}/collection/folders Retrieve a list of folders in a user’s collection. If the collection has been made private by its owner, authentication as the collection owner is required. If you are not authenticated as the collection owner, only folder ID 0 (the “All” folder) will be visible (if the requested user’s collection is public). Parameters username string (required) Example: rodneyfoolThe username of the collection you are trying to retrieve. Response  200Toggle Headers Reproxy-Status: yes Access-Control-Allow-Origin: * Cache-Control: public, must-revalidate Content-Type: application/json Server: lighttpd Content-Length: 132 Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2014 23:20:21 GMT X-Varnish: 1722533701 Age: 0 Via: 1.1 varnish Connection: keep-alive Body { "folders": [ { "id": 0, "count": 23, "name": "All", "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/users/example/collection/folders/0" }, { "id": 1, "count": 20, "name": "Uncategorized", "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/users/example/collection/folders/1" } ] } Create Folder POST /users/{username}/collection/folders Create a new folder in a user’s collection. Authentication as the collection owner is required. Parameters username string (required) Example: rodneyfoolThe username of the collection you are trying to retrieve. name string (optional) Example: My favoritesThe name of the newly-created folder. Response  201Toggle Body { "id": 232842, "name": "My Music", "count": 0, "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/users/example/collection/folders/232842" } Collection Folder  Get Folders GET /users/{username}/collection/folders/{folder_id} Retrieve metadata about a folder in a user’s collection. If folder_id is not 0, authentication as the collection owner is required. Parameters username string (required) Example: rodneyfoolThe username of the collection you are trying to request. folder_id number (required) Example: 3The ID of the folder to request. Response  200Toggle Headers Reproxy-Status: yes Access-Control-Allow-Origin: * Cache-Control: public, must-revalidate Content-Type: application/json Server: lighttpd Content-Length: 132 Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2014 23:20:21 GMT X-Varnish: 1722533701 Age: 0 Via: 1.1 varnish Connection: keep-alive Body { "id": 1, "count": 20, "name": "Uncategorized", "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/users/example/collection/folders/1" } Edit Folder POST /users/{username}/collection/folders/{folder_id} Edit a folder’s metadata. Folders 0 and 1 cannot be renamed. Authentication as the collection owner is required. Parameters username string (required) Example: rodneyfoolThe username of the collection you are trying to modify. folder_id number (required) Example: 3The ID of the folder to modify. Response  200Toggle Body { "id": 392, "count": 3, "name": "An Example Folder", "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/users/example/collection/folders/392" } Delete Folder DELETE /users/{username}/collection/folders/{folder_id} Delete a folder from a user’s collection. A folder must be empty before it can be deleted. Authentication as the collection owner is required. Parameters username string (required) Example: rodneyfoolThe username of the collection you are trying to modify. folder_id number (required) Example: 3The ID of the folder to delete. Response  204 Collection Items By Release  Get Items By Release GET /users/{username}/collection/releases/{release_id} View the user’s collection folders which contain a specified release. This will also show information about each release instance. The release_id must be non-zero. Authentication as the collection owner is required if the owner’s collection is private. Parameters username string (required) Example: susan.salkeldThe username of the collection you are trying to view. release_id number (required) Example: 7781525The ID of the release to request. Response  200Toggle Body { "pagination": { "per_page": 50, "items": 28, "page": 1, "urls": {}, "pages": 1 }, "releases": [ { "instance_id": 148842233, "rating": 4, "basic_information": { "labels": [ { "name": "Varèse Vintage", "entity_type": "1", "catno": "302 067 361 1", "resource_url": "http://api.discogs.com/labels/151979", "id": 151979, "entity_type_name": "Label" } ], "formats": [ { "descriptions": [ "LP", "Album", "Compilation", "Limited Edition", "Mono" ], "name": "Vinyl", "qty": "2" } ], "thumb": "http://api-img.discogs.com/FGmDbZ6M9wNPwEAsn0yWz1jzQuI=/fit-in/150x150/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-7781525-1449187274-5587.jpeg.jpg", "title": "The BBC Radio Sessions", "artists": [ { "join": ",", "name": "The Zombies", "anv": "", "tracks": "", "role": "", "resource_url": "http://api.discogs.com/artists/262221", "id": 262221 } ], "resource_url": "http://api.discogs.com/releases/7781525", "year": 2015, "id": 7781525 }, "folder_id": 688739, "date_added": "2015-11-30T10:54:13-08:00", "id": 7781525 }, { "instance_id": 181301430, "rating": 4, "basic_information": { "labels": [ { "name": "Varèse Vintage", "entity_type": "1", "catno": "302 067 361 1", "resource_url": "http://api.discogs.com/labels/151979", "id": 151979, "entity_type_name": "Label" } ], "formats": [ { "descriptions": [ "LP", "Album", "Compilation", "Limited Edition", "Mono" ], "name": "Vinyl", "qty": "2" } ], "thumb": "http://api-img.discogs.com/FGmDbZ6M9wNPwEAsn0yWz1jzQuI=/fit-in/150x150/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-7781525-1449187274-5587.jpeg.jpg", "title": "The BBC Radio Sessions", "artists": [ { "join": ",", "name": "The Zombies", "anv": "", "tracks": "", "role": "", "resource_url": "http://api.discogs.com/artists/262221", "id": 262221 } ], "resource_url": "http://api.discogs.com/releases/7781525", "year": 2015, "id": 7781525 }, "folder_id": 1, "date_added": "2016-07-27T08:11:29-07:00", "id": 7781525 }, { "instance_id": 181301442, "rating": 4, "basic_information": { "labels": [ { "name": "Varèse Vintage", "entity_type": "1", "catno": "302 067 361 1", "resource_url": "http://api.discogs.com/labels/151979", "id": 151979, "entity_type_name": "Label" } ], "formats": [ { "descriptions": [ "LP", "Album", "Compilation", "Limited Edition", "Mono" ], "name": "Vinyl", "qty": "2" } ], "thumb": "http://api-img.discogs.com/FGmDbZ6M9wNPwEAsn0yWz1jzQuI=/fit-in/150x150/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-7781525-1449187274-5587.jpeg.jpg", "title": "The BBC Radio Sessions", "artists": [ { "join": ",", "name": "The Zombies", "anv": "", "tracks": "", "role": "", "resource_url": "http://api.discogs.com/artists/262221", "id": 262221 } ], "resource_url": "http://api.discogs.com/releases/7781525", "year": 2015, "id": 7781525 }, "folder_id": 688739, "date_added": "2016-07-27T08:11:35-07:00", "id": 7781525 } ] } Collection Items By Folder  Get Items GET /users/{username}/collection/folders/{folder_id}/releases Returns the list of item in a folder in a user’s collection. Accepts Pagination parameters. Basic information about each release is provided, suitable for display in a list. For detailed information, make another API call to fetch the corresponding release. If folder_id is not 0, or the collection has been made private by its owner, authentication as the collection owner is required. If you are not authenticated as the collection owner, only public notes fields will be visible. Valid sort keys are: label artist title catno format rating added year Parameters username string (required) Example: rodneyfoolThe username of the collection you are trying to request. folder_id number (required) Example: 3The ID of the folder to request. sort string (optional) Example: artistSort items by this field (see below for all valid sort keys. sort_order string (optional) Example: descSort items in a particular order (asc or desc) Response  200Toggle Headers Reproxy-Status: yes Access-Control-Allow-Origin: * Cache-Control: public, must-revalidate Content-Type: application/json Server: lighttpd Content-Length: 132 Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2014 23:20:21 GMT X-Varnish: 1722533701 Age: 0 Via: 1.1 varnish Connection: keep-alive Body { "pagination": { "per_page": 1, "pages": 14, "page": 1, "items": 14, "urls": { "next": "https://api.discogs.com/users/example/collection/folders/1/releases?page=2&per_page=1", "last": "https://api.discogs.com/users/example/collection/folders/1/releases?page=2&per_page=14", } }, "releases": [ { "id": 2464521, "instance_id": 1, "folder_id": 1, "rating": 0, "basic_information": { "id": 2464521, "title": "Information Chase", "year": 2006, "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/releases/2464521", "thumb": "https://api-img.discogs.com/vzpYq4_kc52GZFs14c0SCJ0ZE84=/fit-in/150x150/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb()/discogs-images/R-2464521-1285519861.jpeg.jpg", "cover_image": "https://api-img.discogs.com/vzpYq4_kc52GZFs14c0SCJ0ZE84/fit-in/500x500/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-2464521-1285519861.jpeg.jpg", "formats": [ { "qty": "1", "descriptions": [ "Mini", "EP" ], "name": "CDr" } ], "labels": [ { "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/labels/11647", "entity_type": "", "catno": "8BP059", "id": 11647, "name": "8bitpeoples" } ], "artists": [ { "id": 103906, "name": "Bit Shifter", "join": "", "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/artists/103906", "anv": "", "tracks": "", "role": "" } ], "genres": [ "Electronic", "Pop" ], "styles": [ "Chiptune" ] }, "notes": [ { "field_id": 3, "value": "bleep bloop blorp." } ] } ] } Add To Collection Folder  Add Release POST /users/{username}/collection/folders/{folder_id}/releases/{release_id} Add a release to a folder in a user’s collection. The folder_id must be non-zero – you can use 1 for “Uncategorized”. Authentication as the collection owner is required. Parameters username string (required) Example: rodneyfoolThe username of the collection you are trying to modify. folder_id number (required) Example: 3The ID of the folder to modify. release_id number (required) Example: 130076The ID of the release you are adding. Response  201Toggle Body { "instance_id": 3, "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/users/example/collection/folders/1/release/1/instance/3" } Change Rating Of Release  Change Rating POST /users/{username}/collection/folders/{folder_id}/releases/{release_id}/instances/{instance_id} Change the rating on a release and/or move the instance to another folder. This endpoint potentially takes 2 folder_id parameters: one in the URL (which is the folder you are requesting, and is required), and one in the request body (representing the folder you want to move the instance to, which is optional) Authentication as the collection owner is required. Parameters username string (required) Example: rodneyfoolThe username of the collection you are trying to modify. folder_id number (optional) Example: 4The ID of the folder to modify (this parameter is set in the request body and is set if you want to move the instance to this folder). release_id number (required) Example: 130076The ID of the release you are modifying. instance_id number (required) Example: 1The ID of the instance. rating number (optional) Example: 5The rating of the instance you are supplying. Response  204 Delete Instance From Folder  Delete Instance DELETE /users/{username}/collection/folders/{folder_id}/releases/{release_id}/instances/{instance_id} Remove an instance of a release from a user’s collection folder. To move the release to the “Uncategorized” folder instead, use the POST method. Authentication as the collection owner is required. Parameters username string (required) Example: rodneyfoolThe username of the collection you are trying to modify. folder_id number (required) Example: 3The ID of the folder to modify. release_id number (required) Example: 130076The ID of the release you are modifying. instance_id number (required) Example: 1The ID of the instance. Response  204 Response  403Toggle Body { "message": "You don't have permission to access this resource." } List Custom Fields  List Fields GET /users/{username}/collection/fields Retrieve a list of user-defined collection notes fields. These fields are available on every release in the collection. If the collection has been made private by its owner, authentication as the collection owner is required. If you are not authenticated as the collection owner, only fields with public set to true will be visible. Parameters username string (required) Example: rodneyfoolThe username of the collection you are trying to modify. Response  200Toggle Body { "fields": [ { "name": "Media", "options": [ "Mint (M)", "Near Mint (NM or M-)", "Very Good Plus (VG+)", "Very Good (VG)", "Good Plus (G+)", "Good (G)", "Fair (F)", "Poor (P)" ], "id": 1, "position": 1, "type": "dropdown", "public": true }, { "name": "Sleeve", "options": [ "Generic", "No Cover", "Mint (M)", "Near Mint (NM or M-)", "Very Good Plus (VG+)", "Very Good (VG)", "Good Plus (G+)", "Good (G)", "Fair (F)", "Poor (P)" ], "id": 2, "position": 2, "type": "dropdown", "public": true }, { "name": "Notes", "lines": 3, "id": 3, "position": 3, "type": "textarea", "public": true } ] } Edit Fields Instance  Edit Fields POST /users/{username}/collection/folders/{folder_id}/releases/{release_id}/instances/{instance_id}/fields/{field_id}{?value} Change the value of a notes field on a particular instance. Parameters username string (required) Example: rodneyfoolThe username of the collection you are trying to modify. value string (required) Example: fooThe new value of the field. If the field’s type is dropdown, the value must match one of the values in the field’s list of options. folder_id number (required) Example: 3The ID of the folder to modify. release_id number (required) Example: 130076The ID of the release you are modifying. instance_id number (required) Example: 1The ID of the instance. field_id number (required) Example: 8The ID of the field. Response  204 Collection Value  Get Collection Value GET /users/{username}/collection/value Returns the minimum, median, and maximum value of a user’s collection. Authentication as the collection owner is required. Parameters username string (required) Example: rodneyfoolThe username of the collection you are trying to modify. Response  200Toggle Body { "maximum": "$250.00", "median": "$100.25", "minimum": "$75.50" } Next  Previous User Wantlist  Wantlist  The Wantlist resource allows you to view and manage a user’s wantlist. Get Wantlist GET /users/{username}/wants Returns the list of releases in a user’s wantlist. Accepts Pagination parameters. Basic information about each release is provided, suitable for display in a list. For detailed information, make another API call to fetch the corresponding release. If the wantlist has been made private by its owner, you must be authenticated as the owner to view it. The notes field will be visible if you are authenticated as the wantlist owner. Parameters username string (required) Example: rodneyfoolThe username of the wantlist you are trying to fetch. Response  200Toggle Body { "pagination": { "per_page": 50, "pages": 1, "page": 1, "items": 2, "urls": {} }, "wants": [ { "rating": 4, "basic_information": { "formats": [ { "text": "Digipak", "qty": "1", "descriptions": [ "Album" ], "name": "CD" } ], "thumb": "https://api-img.discogs.com/PsLAcp_I0-EPPkSBaHx2t7dmXTg=/fit-in/150x150/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb()/discogs-images/R-1867708-1248886216.jpeg.jpg", "cover_image": "https://api-img.discogs.com/PsLAcp_I0-EPPkSBaHx2t7dmXTg=/fit-in/500x500/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb()/discogs-images/R-1867708-1248886216.jpeg.jpg", "title": "Year Zero", "labels": [ { "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/labels/2311", "entity_type": "", "catno": "B0008764-02", "id": 2311, "name": "Interscope Records" } ], "year": 2007, "artists": [ { "join": "", "name": "Nine Inch Nails", "anv": "", "tracks": "", "role": "", "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/artists/3857", "id": 3857 } ], "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/releases/1867708", "id": 1867708 }, "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/users/example/wants/1867708", "id": 1867708 }, { "rating": 0, "basic_information": { "formats": [ { "qty": "1", "descriptions": [ "Album" ], "name": "CDr" } ], "thumb": "https://api-img.discogs.com/w1cVy7ppMYEDlqY9sjoAojC3MhQ=/fit-in/150x150/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb()/discogs-images/R-1675174-1236118359.jpeg.jpg", "cover_image": "https://api-img.discogs.com/w1cVy7ppMYEDlqY9sjoAojC3MhQ=/fit-in/347x352/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb()/discogs-images/R-1675174-1236118359.jpeg.jpg", "title": "Dawn Metropolis", "labels": [ { "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/labels/141550", "entity_type": "", "catno": "NORM007", "id": 141550, "name": "Normative" } ], "year": 2009, "artists": [ { "join": "", "name": "Anamanaguchi", "anv": "", "tracks": "", "role": "", "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/artists/667233", "id": 667233 } ], "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/releases/1675174", "id": 1675174 }, "notes": "Sample notes.", "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/users/example/wants/1675174", "id": 1675174 } ] } Add To Wantlist  Add a release to a user’s wantlist. Authentication as the wantlist owner is required. Add To Wantlist PUT /users/{username}/wants/{release_id}{?notes,rating} Parameters username string (required) Example: rodneyfoolThe username of the wantlist you are trying to fetch. release_id number (required) Example: 130076The ID of the release you are adding. notes string (optional) Example: My favorite releaseUser notes to associate with this release. rating number (optional) Example: 5User’s rating of this release, from 0 (unrated) to 5 (best). Defaults to 0. Response  201Toggle Body { "id": 1, "rating": 0, "notes": "", "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/users/example/wants/1", "basic_information": { "id": 1, "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/releases/1", "thumb": "https://api-img.discogs.com/7HGTQzTb7os1duruukQElELEapk=/fit-in/150x150/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb()/discogs-images/R-1-1193812031.jpeg.jpg", "cover_image": "https://api-img.discogs.com/7HGTQzTb7os1duruukQElELEapk=/fit-in/347x352/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb()/discogs-images/R-1-1193812031.jpeg.jpg", "title": "Stockholm", "year": 1999, "formats": [ { "qty": "2", "descriptions": [ "12\"" ], "name": "Vinyl" } ], "labels": [ { "name": "Svek", "entity_type": "1", "catno": "SK032", "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/labels/5", "id": 5, "entity_type_name": "Label" } ], "artists": [ { "join": "", "name": "Persuader, The", "anv": "", "tracks": "", "role": "", "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/artists/1", "id": 1 } ] } } Edit Release In Wantlist POST /users/{username}/wants/{release_id}{?notes,rating} Parameters username string (required) Example: rodneyfoolThe username of the wantlist you are trying to fetch. notes string (optional) Example: My favorite releaseUser notes to associate with this release. rating number (optional) Example: 5User’s rating of this release, from 0 (unrated) to 5 (best). Defaults to 0. Response  200Toggle Body { "id": 1, "rating": 0, "notes": "I've added some notes!", "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/users/example/wants/1", "basic_information": { "id": 1, "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/releases/1", "thumb": "https://api-img.discogs.com/7HGTQzTb7os1duruukQElELEapk=/fit-in/150x150/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb()/discogs-images/R-1-1193812031.jpeg.jpg", "cover_image": "https://api-img.discogs.com/7HGTQzTb7os1duruukQElELEapk=/fit-in/500x500/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb()/discogs-images/R-1-1193812031.jpeg.jpg", "title": "Stockholm", "year": 1999, "formats": [ { "qty": "2", "descriptions": [ "12\"" ], "name": "Vinyl" } ], "labels": [ { "name": "Svek", "entity_type": "1", "catno": "SK032", "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/labels/5", "id": 5, "entity_type_name": "Label" } ], "artists": [ { "join": "", "name": "Persuader, The", "anv": "", "tracks": "", "role": "", "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/artists/1", "id": 1 } ] } } Delete Release From Wantlist DELETE /users/{username}/wants/{release_id}{?notes,rating} Parameters username string (required) Example: rodneyfoolThe username of the wantlist you are trying to fetch. Response  204 Next  Previous User Lists  User Lists  The List resource allows you to view a User’s Lists. Get Lists GET /users/{username}/lists Returns a User’s Lists. Private Lists will only display when authenticated as the owner. Accepts Pagination parameters. Parameters username string (required) Example: rodneyfoolThe username of the Lists you are trying to fetch. Response  200Toggle Body { "pagination": { "per_page": 1, "items": 2, "page": 2, "urls": { "prev": "https://api.discogs.com/users/rodneyfool/lists?per_page=1&page=1", "first": "https://api.discogs.com/users/rodneyfool/lists?per_page=1&page=1" }, "pages": 2 }, "lists": [ { "date_added": "2016-05-31T10:30:51-07:00", "date_changed": "2016-05-31T10:30:51-07:00", "name": "rodneyfool", "id": 1, "uri": "https://www.discogs.com/lists/rodneyfool/1", "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/lists/1", "public": false, "description": "foo test description" } ] } List  Get List Items GET /lists/{list_id} Returns items from a specified List. Private Lists will only display when authenticated as the owner. Parameters list_id string (required) Example: 123The ID of the List you are trying to fetch. Response  200Toggle Body { "created_ts": "2016-05-31T10:36:30-07:00", "modified_ts": "2016-05-31T13:46:12-07:00", "name": "new list", "list_id": 2, "url": "https://www.discogs.com/lists/new-list/2", "items": [ { "comment": "My list comment", "display_title": "Silent Phase - The Rewired Mixes", "uri": "https://www.discogs.com/Silent-Phase-The-Rewired-Mixes/release/4674", "image_url": "https://api-img.discogs.com/-06gF81ykx-Ok1PCpNR7B7Rt_Dc=/300x300/smart/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/A-3227-1132807172.jpeg.jpg", "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/releases/4674", "type": "release", "id": 4674 }, { "comment": "item comment", "display_title": "Various - Artificial Intelligence II", "uri": "https://www.discogs.com/Various-Artificial-Intelligence-II/release/2964", "image_url": "http://api-img.discogs.com/euixsynJwQxJelre_kQNV-ZtX0Y=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-2964-1215444984.jpeg.jpg", "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/releases/2964", "type": "release", "id": 2964 }, { "comment": "This is an artist", "display_title": "Silent Phase", "uri": "https://www.discogs.com/artist/3227-Silent-Phase", "image_url": "http://api-img.discogs.com/-06gF81ykx-Ok1PCpNR7B7Rt_Dc=/300x300/smart/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/A-3227-1132807172.jpeg.jpg", "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/artists/3227", "type": "artist", "id": 3227 } ], "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/lists/2", "public": false, "description": "What a cool list!" } Previous © 2018 Discogs® This page may not display correctly when opened as a local file. 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The Discogs API lets developers build their own Discogs-powered applications for the web, desktop, and mobile devices. We hope the API will connect and empower a community of music lovers around the world! The Discogs API v2.0 is a RESTful interface to Discogs data. You can access JSON-formatted information about Database objects such as Artists, Releases, and Labels. Your application can also manage User Collections and Wantlists, create Marketplace Listings, and more. Some Discogs data is made available under the CC0 No Rights Reserved license, and some is restricted data, as defined in our API Terms of Use. Our monthly data dumps are available under the the CC0 No Rights Reserved license. If you utilize the Discogs API, you are subject to the API Terms of Use. Please also ensure that any application you develop follows the Discogs Application Name and Description Policy. Quickstart  If you just want to see some results right now, issue this curl command: curl https://api.discogs.com/releases/249504 --user-agent "FooBarApp/3.0" For community-maintained client libraries and example code, see the links below: Language Type Maintainer URL Node.js Client bartve https://github.com/bartve/disconnect PHP Client ricbra https://github.com/ricbra/php-discogs-api Python Client joalla https://github.com/joalla/discogs_client Python Example jesseward https://github.com/jesseward/discogs-oauth-example Ruby Client buntine https://github.com/buntine/discogs General Information  Your application must provide a User-Agent string that identifies itself – preferably something that follows RFC 1945. Some good examples include: AwesomeDiscogsBrowser/0.1 +http://adb.example.com LibraryMetadataEnhancer/0.3 +http://example.com/lime MyDiscogsClient/1.0 +http://mydiscogsclient.org Please don’t just copy one of those! Make it unique so we can let you know if your application starts to misbehave – the alternative is that we just silently block it, which will confuse and infuriate your users. Here are some bad examples that are unclear or obscure the nature of the application: curl/7.9.8 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) libcurl 7.9.8 (OpenSSL 0.9.6b) Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:6.0.2) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/6.0.2 my app JSONP ¶ When a callback query string parameter is supplied, the API can return responses in JSONP format. JSONP, by its nature, cannot access HTTP information like headers or the status code, so the API supplies that information in the response, like so: GET https://api.discogs.com/artists/1?callback=callbackname 200 OK Content-Type: text/javascript callbackname({ "meta": { "status": 200, }, "data": { "id": 1, "name": "Persuader, The" // ... and so on } }) Rate Limiting  Requests are throttled by the server by source IP to 60 per minute for authenticated requests, and 25 per minute for unauthenticated requests, with some exceptions. Your application should identify itself to our servers via a unique user agent string in order to achieve the maximum number of requests per minute. Our rate limiting tracks your requests using a moving average over a 60 second window. If no requests are made in 60 seconds, your window will reset. We attach the following headers to responses to help you track your rate limit use: X-Discogs-Ratelimit: The total number of requests you can make in a one minute window. X-Discogs-Ratelimit-Used : The number of requests you’ve made in your existing rate limit window. X-Discogs-Ratelimit-Remaining: The number of remaining requests you are able to make in the existing rate limit window. Your application should take our global limit into account and throttle its requests locally. In the future, we may update these rate limits at any time in order to provide service for all users. Pagination  Some resources represent collections of objects and may be paginated. By default, 50 items per page are shown. To browse different pages, or change the number of items per page (up to 100), use the page and per_page query string parameters: GET https://api.discogs.com/artists/1/releases?page=2&per_page=75 Responses include a Link header: Link: ; rel=next, ; rel=first, ; rel=last, ; rel=prev And a pagination object in the response body: { "pagination": { "page": 2, "pages": 30, "items": 2255, "per_page": 75, "urls": { "first": "https://api.discogs.com/artists/1/releases?page=1&per_page=75", "prev": "https://api.discogs.com/artists/1/releases?page=1&per_page=75", "next": "https://api.discogs.com/artists/1/releases?page=3&per_page=75", "last": "https://api.discogs.com/artists/1/releases?page=30&per_page=75" } }, "releases": [ ... ] } Versioning and Media Types  Currently, our API only supports one version: v2. However, you can specify a version in your requests to future-proof your application. By adding an Accept header with the version and media type, you can guarantee your requests will receive data from the correct version you develop your app on. A standard Accept header may look like this: application/vnd.discogs.v2.html+json If you are requesting information from an endpoint that may have text formatting in it, you can choose which kind of formatting you want to be returned by changing that section of the Accept header. We currently support 3 types: application/vnd.discogs.v2.html+json application/vnd.discogs.v2.plaintext+json application/vnd.discogs.v2.discogs+json If no Accept header is supplied, or if the Accept header differs from one of the three previous options, we default to application/vnd.discogs.v2.discogs+json. FAQ  1. Why am I getting an empty response from the server? This generally happens when you forget to add a User-Agent header to your requests. 2. How do I get updates about the API? Subscribe to our API Announcements forum thread. For larger, breaking changes, we will send out an email notice to all developers with a registered Discogs application. 3. Where can I register a Discogs application? You can register a Discogs application on the Developer Settings. 4. If I have a question/issue with the API, should I file a Support Request? It’s generally best to start out with a forum post on the API topic since other developers may have had similar issues and can point you in the right direction. If the issue requires privacy, then a support request is the best way to go. 5. I’m getting a 404 response when trying to fetch images; what gives? This may seem obvious, but make sure you aren’t doing anything to change the URL. The URLs returned are signed URLs, so trying to change one part of the URL (e.g., Release ID number) will generally not work. 6. What are the authentication requirements for requesting images? Please see the Images documentation page. 7. Why am I getting a particular HTTP response? 200 OK The request was successful, and the requested data is provided in the response body. 201 Continue You’ve sent a POST request to a list of resources to create a new one. The ID of the newly-created resource will be provided in the body of the response. 204 No Content The request was successful, and the server has no additional information to convey, so the response body is empty. 401 Unauthorized You’re attempting to access a resource that first requires authentication. See Authenticating with OAuth. 403 Forbidden You’re not allowed to access this resource. Even if you authenticated, or already have, you simply don’t have permission. Trying to modify another user’s profile, for example, will produce this error. 404 Not Found The resource you requested doesn’t exist. 405 Method Not Allowed You’re trying to use an HTTP verb that isn’t supported by the resource. Trying to PUT to /artists/1, for example, will fail because Artists are read-only. 422 Unprocessable Entity Your request was well-formed, but there’s something semantically wrong with the body of the request. This can be due to malformed JSON, a parameter that’s missing or the wrong type, or trying to perform an action that doesn’t make any sense. Check the response body for specific information about what went wrong. 500 Internal Server Error Something went wrong on our end while attempting to process your request. The response body’s message field will contain an error code that you can send to Discogs Support (which will help us track down your specific issue). Next  Previous Authentication  This section describes the various methods of authenticating with the Discogs API. Registration ¶ In order to access protected endpoints, you’ll need to register for either a consumer key and secret or user token, depending on your situation: To easily access your own user account information, use a User token. To get access to an endpoint that requires authentication and build 3rd party apps, use a Consumer Key and Secret. To get one of these, sign up for a Discogs account if you don’t have one already, and go to your Developer Settings. From there, you can create a new application/token or edit the metadata for an existing app. When you create a new application, you’ll be granted a Consumer Key and Consumer Secret, which you can plug into your application and start making authenticated requests. It’s important that you don’t disclose the Consumer Secret to anyone. Generating a user token is as easy as clicking the Generate token button on the developer settings. Keep this token private, as it allows users to access your information. OAuth Endpoints ¶ The OAuth 1.0a flow involves three server-side endpoints: Request token URL: https://api.discogs.com/oauth/request_token Authorize URL: https://www.discogs.com/oauth/authorize Access token URL: https://api.discogs.com/oauth/access_token For convenience, these are also listed on the Edit Application page. Once authenticated, you can test that everything’s working correctly by requesting the Identity resource. Discogs Auth Flow  If you do not plan on building an app which others can log into on their behalf, you should use this authentication method as it is much simpler and is still secure. Discogs Auth requires that requests be made over HTTPS, as you are sending your app’s key/secret or token in the request. To send requests with Discogs Auth, you have two options: sending your credentials in the query string with key and secret parameters or a token parameter, for example: curl "https://api.discogs.com/database/search?q=Nirvana&key=foo123&secret=bar456" or curl "https://api.discogs.com/database/search?q=Nirvana&token=abcxyz123456" Your other option is to send your credentials in the request as an Authorization header, as follows: curl "https://api.discogs.com/database/search?q=Nirvana" -H "Authorization: Discogs key=foo123, secret=bar456" or curl "https://api.discogs.com/database/search?q=Nirvana" -H "Authorization: Discogs token=abcxyz123456" What differentiates the key/secret pair option from the token option? Let’s look at this table: Credentials in request Rate limiting? Image URLs? Authenticated as user? None 🐢 Low tier ❌ No ❌ No Only Consumer key/secret 🐰 High tier ✔️ Yes ❌ No Full OAuth 1.0a with access token/secret (see below) 🐰 High tier ✔️ Yes ✔️ Yes, on behalf of any user 🌍 Personal access token 🐰 High tier ✔️ Yes ✔️ Yes, for token holder only 👩 In other words: Using the key and secret will get you image URLs. These are unavailable to unauthenticated requests. Using the key and secret will up your rate limit, unlike unauthenticated requests. BUT using the key and secret does not identify the requester as any particular user, and as such will not grant access to any resources users should be able to see on their own account (e.g. marketplace orders, private inventory fields, private collections). You will need to use either of the token options for these resources. That’s it! Continue sending the key/secret pair or user token with the rest of your requests. OAuth Flow  OAuth is a protocol that allows users to grant access to their data without having to share their password. This is an explanation of how a web application may work with Discogs using OAuth 1.0a. We highly suggest you use an OAuth library/wrapper to simplify the process of authenticating. 1. Obtain consumer key and consumer secret from Developer Settings ¶ Application registration can be found here: https://www.discogs.com/settings/developers You only need to register once per application you make. You should not share your consumer secret, as it acts as a sort of password for your requests. 2. Send a GET request to the Discogs request token URL ¶ GET https://api.discogs.com/oauth/request_token Include the following headers with your request: Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded Authorization: OAuth oauth_consumer_key="your_consumer_key", oauth_nonce="random_string_or_timestamp", oauth_signature="your_consumer_secret&", oauth_signature_method="PLAINTEXT", oauth_timestamp="current_timestamp", oauth_callback="your_callback" User-Agent: some_user_agent Note: using an OAuth library instead of generating these requests manually will likely save you a headache if you are new to OAuth. Please refer to your OAuth library’s documentation if you choose to do so. As the example shows, we suggest sending requests with HTTPS and the PLAINTEXT signature method over HMAC-SHA1 due to its simple yet secure nature. This involves setting your oauth_signature_method to “PLAINTEXT” and your oauth_signature to be your consumer secret followed by an ampersand (&). If all goes well with the request, you should get an HTTP 200 OK response. If an invalid OAuth request is sent, you will receive an HTTP 400 Bad Request response. Be sure to include a unique User-Agent in the request headers. A successful request will return a response that contains the following content: OAuth request token (oauth_token), an OAuth request token secret (oauth_token_secret), and a callback confirmation (oauth_callback_confirmed). These will be used in the following steps. 3. Redirect your user to the Discogs Authorize page ¶ Authorization page: https://discogs.com/oauth/authorize?oauth_token= This page will ask the user to authorize your app on behalf of their Discogs account. If they accept and authorize, they will receive a verifier key to use as verification. This key is used in the next phase of OAuth authentication. If you added a callback URL to your Discogs application registration, the user will be redirected to that URL, and you can capture their verifier from the response. The verifier will be used to generate the access token in the next step. You can always edit your application settings to include a callback URL (i.e., you don’t need to re-create a new application). 4. Send a POST request to the Discogs access token URL ¶ POST https://api.discogs.com/oauth/access_token Include the following headers in your request: Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded Authorization: OAuth oauth_consumer_key="your_consumer_key", oauth_nonce="random_string_or_timestamp", oauth_token="oauth_token_received_from_step_2" oauth_signature="your_consumer_secret&", oauth_signature_method="PLAINTEXT", oauth_timestamp="current_timestamp", oauth_verifier="users_verifier" User-Agent: some_user_agent If the OAuth access token is not created within 15 minutes of when you receive the OAuth request token, your OAuth request token and verifier will expire, and you will need to re-create them. If you try to POST to the access token URL with an expired verifier or your request is malformed, you will receive an HTTP 400 Bad Request response. As the example shows, we suggest sending requests with HTTPS and the PLAINTEXT signature method over HMAC-SHA1 due to its simple yet secure nature. This involves setting your oauth_signature_method to “PLAINTEXT” and your oauth_signature to be your consumer secret followed by an ampersand (&). Be sure to include a unique User-Agent in the header. A successful request will return a response that contains an OAuth access token (oauth_token) and an OAuth access token secret (oauth_token_secret). These tokens do not expire (unless the user revokes access from your app), so you should store these tokens in a database or persistent storage to make future requests signed with OAuth. All requests that require OAuth will require these two tokens to be sent in the request. 5. Send authenticated requests to Discogs endpoints ¶ You are now ready to send authenticated requests with Discogs through OAuth. Be sure to attach the user’s OAuth access token and OAuth access token secret to each request. To test that you are ready to send authenticated requests, send a GET request to the identity URL. A successful request will yield a response that contains information about the authenticated user. GET https://api.discogs.com/oauth/identity OAuth Endpoints ¶ Request Token URL  Generate the request token Request token GET /oauth/request_token RequestToggle Headers Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded Authorization: OAuth oauth_consumer_key="your_consumer_key", oauth_nonce="random_string_or_timestamp", oauth_signature="your_consumer_secret&", oauth_signature_method="PLAINTEXT", oauth_timestamp="current_timestamp", oauth_callback="your_callback" User-Agent: some_user_agent Response  200Toggle Headers oauth_token: abc123 oauth_token_secret: xyz789 oauth_callback_confirmed: 'true' Access Token URL  Generate the access token Access token POST /oauth/access_token RequestToggle Headers Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded Authorization: OAuth oauth_consumer_key="your_consumer_key", oauth_nonce="random_string_or_timestamp", oauth_token="oauth_token_received_from_step_2" oauth_signature="your_consumer_secret&", oauth_signature_method="PLAINTEXT", oauth_timestamp="current_timestamp", oauth_verifier="users_verifier" User-Agent: some_user_agent Response  200Toggle Headers oauth_token: abc123 oauth_token_secret: xyz789 Next  Previous Database  Release  The Release resource represents a particular physical or digital object released by one or more Artists. Get Release GET /releases/{release_id}{?curr_abbr} Get a release Parameters release_id number (required) Example: 249504The Release ID curr_abbr string (optional) Example: USDCurrency for marketplace data. Defaults to the authenticated users currency. Must be one of the following: USD GBP EUR CAD AUD JPY CHF MXN BRL NZD SEK ZAR Response  200Toggle Headers Status: HTTP/1.1 200 OK Reproxy-Status: yes Access-Control-Allow-Origin: * Content-Type: application/json Server: lighttpd Content-Length: 6223 Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2014 00:59:34 GMT X-Varnish: 1465474310 Age: 0 Via: 1.1 varnish Connection: keep-alive Body { "title": "Never Gonna Give You Up", "id": 249504, "artists": [ { "anv": "", "id": 72872, "join": "", "name": "Rick Astley", "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/artists/72872", "role": "", "tracks": "" } ], "data_quality": "Correct", "thumb": "https://api-img.discogs.com/kAXVhuZuh_uat5NNr50zMjN7lho=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb()/discogs-images/R-249504-1334592212.jpeg.jpg", "community": { "contributors": [ { "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/users/memory", "username": "memory" }, { "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/users/_80_", "username": "_80_" } ], "data_quality": "Correct", "have": 252, "rating": { "average": 3.42, "count": 45 }, "status": "Accepted", "submitter": { "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/users/memory", "username": "memory" }, "want": 42 }, "companies": [ { "catno": "", "entity_type": "13", "entity_type_name": "Phonographic Copyright (p)", "id": 82835, "name": "BMG Records (UK) Ltd.", "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/labels/82835" }, { "catno": "", "entity_type": "29", "entity_type_name": "Mastered At", "id": 266218, "name": "Utopia Studios", "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/labels/266218" } ], "country": "UK", "date_added": "2004-04-30T08:10:05-07:00", "date_changed": "2012-12-03T02:50:12-07:00", "estimated_weight": 60, "extraartists": [ { "anv": "Me Co", "id": 547352, "join": "", "name": "Me Company", "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/artists/547352", "role": "Design", "tracks": "" }, { "anv": "Stock / Aitken / Waterman", "id": 20942, "join": "", "name": "Stock, Aitken & Waterman", "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/artists/20942", "role": "Producer, Written-By", "tracks": "" } ], "format_quantity": 1, "formats": [ { "descriptions": [ "7\"", "Single", "45 RPM" ], "name": "Vinyl", "qty": "1" } ], "genres": [ "Electronic", "Pop" ], "identifiers": [ { "type": "Barcode", "value": "5012394144777" }, ], "images": [ { "height": 600, "resource_url": "https://api-img.discogs.com/z_u8yqxvDcwVnR4tX2HLNLaQO2Y=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(96)/discogs-images/R-249504-1334592212.jpeg.jpg", "type": "primary", "uri": "https://api-img.discogs.com/z_u8yqxvDcwVnR4tX2HLNLaQO2Y=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(96)/discogs-images/R-249504-1334592212.jpeg.jpg", "uri150": "https://api-img.discogs.com/0ZYgPR4X2HdUKA_jkhPJF4SN5mM=/fit-in/150x150/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb()/discogs-images/R-249504-1334592212.jpeg.jpg", "width": 600 }, { "height": 600, "resource_url": "https://api-img.discogs.com/EnQXaDOs5T6YI9zq-R5I_mT7hSk=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(96)/discogs-images/R-249504-1334592228.jpeg.jpg", "type": "secondary", "uri": "https://api-img.discogs.com/EnQXaDOs5T6YI9zq-R5I_mT7hSk=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(96)/discogs-images/R-249504-1334592228.jpeg.jpg", "uri150": "https://api-img.discogs.com/abk0FWgWsRDjU4bkCDwk0gyMKBo=/fit-in/150x150/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb()/discogs-images/R-249504-1334592228.jpeg.jpg", "width": 600 } ], "labels": [ { "catno": "PB 41447", "entity_type": "1", "id": 895, "name": "RCA", "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/labels/895" } ], "lowest_price": 0.63, "master_id": 96559, "master_url": "https://api.discogs.com/masters/96559", "notes": "UK Release has a black label with the text \"Manufactured In England\" printed on it.\r\n\r\nSleeve:\r\n\u2117 1987 \u2022 BMG Records (UK) Ltd. \u00a9 1987 \u2022 BMG Records (UK) Ltd.\r\nDistributed in the UK by BMG Records \u2022 Distribu\u00e9 en Europe par BMG/Ariola \u2022 Vertrieb en Europa d\u00fcrch BMG/Ariola.\r\n\r\nCenter labels:\r\n\u2117 1987 Pete Waterman Ltd.\r\nOriginal Sound Recording made by PWL.\r\nBMG Records (UK) Ltd. are the exclusive licensees for the world.\r\n\r\nDurations do not appear on the release.\r\n", "num_for_sale": 58, "released": "1987", "released_formatted": "1987", "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/releases/249504", "series": [], "status": "Accepted", "styles": [ "Synth-pop" ], "tracklist": [ { "duration": "3:32", "position": "A", "title": "Never Gonna Give You Up", "type_": "track" }, { "duration": "3:30", "position": "B", "title": "Never Gonna Give You Up (Instrumental)", "type_": "track" } ], "uri": "http://www.discogs.com/Rick-Astley-Never-Gonna-Give-You-Up/release/249504", "videos": [ { "description": "Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up (Extended Version)", "duration": 330, "embed": true, "title": "Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up (Extended Version)", "uri": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=te2jJncBVG4" }, ], "year": 1987 } Response  404Toggle Headers Status: HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found Reproxy-Status: yes Access-Control-Allow-Origin: * Content-Type: application/json Server: lighttpd Content-Length: 33 Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2014 01:03:20 GMT X-Varnish: 1465521729 Age: 0 Via: 1.1 varnish Connection: keep-alive Body { "message": "Release not found." } Release Rating By User  The Release Rating endpoint retrieves, updates, or deletes the rating of a release for a given user. Get Release Rating By User GET /releases/{release_id}/rating/{username} Retrieves the release’s rating for a given user. Parameters release_id number (required) Example: 249504The Release ID username string (required) Example: memoryThe username of the rating you are trying to request. Response  200Toggle Headers Status: HTTP/1.1 200 OK Reproxy-Status: yes Access-Control-Allow-Origin: * Content-Type: application/json Server: lighttpd Content-Length: 6223 Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2014 00:59:34 GMT X-Varnish: 1465474310 Age: 0 Via: 1.1 varnish Connection: keep-alive Body { "username": "memory", "release": 249504, "rating": 5 } Update Release Rating By User PUT /releases/{release_id}/rating/{username} Updates the release’s rating for a given user. Authentication as the user is required. Parameters release_id number (required) Example: 249504The Release ID username string (required) Example: memoryThe username of the rating you are trying to request. rating int (required) Example: 5The new rating for a release between 1 and 5. Response  200Toggle Headers Status: HTTP/1.1 200 OK Reproxy-Status: yes Access-Control-Allow-Origin: * Content-Type: application/json Server: lighttpd Content-Length: 6223 Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2014 00:59:34 GMT X-Varnish: 1465474310 Age: 0 Via: 1.1 varnish Connection: keep-alive Body { "username": "memory", "release": 249504, "rating": 5 } Delete Release Rating By User DELETE /releases/{release_id}/rating/{username} Deletes the release’s rating for a given user. Authentication as the user is required. Parameters release_id number (required) Example: 249504The Release ID username string (required) Example: memoryThe username of the rating you are trying to request. Community Release Rating  The Community Release Rating endpoint retrieves the average rating and the total number of user ratings for a given release. Get Community Release Rating GET /releases/{release_id}/rating Retrieves the community release rating average and count. Parameters release_id number (required) Example: 249504The Release ID Response  200Toggle Headers Status: HTTP/1.1 200 OK Reproxy-Status: yes Access-Control-Allow-Origin: * Content-Type: application/json Server: lighttpd Content-Length: 6223 Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2014 00:59:34 GMT X-Varnish: 1465474310 Age: 0 Via: 1.1 varnish Connection: keep-alive Body { "rating": { "count": 47 "average": 4.19 }, "release_id": 249504 } Release Stats  The Release Stats endpoint retrieves the total number of “haves” (in the community’s collections) and “wants” (in the community’s wantlists) for a given release. Get Release Stats GET /releases/{release_id}/stats Retrieves the release’s “have” and “want” counts. Parameters release_id number (required) Example: 249504The Release ID Response  200Toggle Headers Status: HTTP/1.1 200 OK Reproxy-Status: yes Access-Control-Allow-Origin: * Content-Type: application/json Server: lighttpd Content-Length: 35 Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2020 23:22:16 GMT X-Varnish: 1465474310 Age: 0 Via: 1.1 varnish Connection: keep-alive Body { "num_have": 2315, "num_want": 467 } Master Release  The Master resource represents a set of similar Releases. Masters (also known as “master releases”) have a “main release” which is often the chronologically earliest. Get Master GET /masters/{master_id} Get a master release Parameters master_id number (required) Example: 1000The Master ID Response  200Toggle Headers Status: HTTP/1.1 200 OK Reproxy-Status: yes Access-Control-Allow-Origin: * Content-Type: application/json Server: lighttpd Content-Length: 7083 Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2014 01:11:23 GMT X-Varnish: 1465622695 Age: 0 Via: 1.1 varnish Connection: keep-alive Body { "styles": [ "Goa Trance" ], "genres": [ "Electronic" ], "videos": [ { "duration": 421, "description": "Electric Universe - Alien Encounter Part 2 (Spirit Zone 97)", "embed": true, "uri": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1LGinzMDi8", "title": "Electric Universe - Alien Encounter Part 2 (Spirit Zone 97)" } ], "title": "Stardiver", "main_release": 66785, "main_release_url": "https://api.discogs.com/releases/66785", "uri": "http://www.discogs.com/Electric-Universe-Stardiver/master/1000", "artists": [ { "join": "", "name": "Electric Universe", "anv": "", "tracks": "", "role": "", "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/artists/21849", "id": 21849 } ], "versions_url": "https://api.discogs.com/masters/1000/versions", "year": 1997, "images": [ { "height": 569, "resource_url": "https://api-img.discogs.com/_0K5t_iLs6CzLPKTB4mwHVI3Vy0=/fit-in/600x569/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(96)/discogs-images/R-66785-1213949871.jpeg.jpg", "type": "primary", "uri": "https://api-img.discogs.com/_0K5t_iLs6CzLPKTB4mwHVI3Vy0=/fit-in/600x569/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(96)/discogs-images/R-66785-1213949871.jpeg.jpg", "uri150": "https://api-img.discogs.com/sSWjXKczZseDjX2QohG1Lc77F-w=/fit-in/150x150/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb()/discogs-images/R-66785-1213949871.jpeg.jpg", "width": 600 }, { "height": 296, "resource_url": "https://api-img.discogs.com/1iD31iOWgfgb2DpROI4_MvmceFw=/fit-in/600x296/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(96)/discogs-images/R-66785-1213950065.jpeg.jpg", "type": "secondary", "uri": "https://api-img.discogs.com/1iD31iOWgfgb2DpROI4_MvmceFw=/fit-in/600x296/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(96)/discogs-images/R-66785-1213950065.jpeg.jpg", "uri150": "https://api-img.discogs.com/Cm4Q_1S784pQeRfwa0lN2jsj47Y=/fit-in/150x150/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb()/discogs-images/R-66785-1213950065.jpeg.jpg", "width": 600 } ], "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/masters/1000", "tracklist": [ { "duration": "7:00", "position": "1", "type_": "track", "title": "Alien Encounter (Part 2)" }, { "duration": "7:13", "position": "2", "type_": "track", "extraartists": [ { "join": "", "name": "DJ Sangeet", "anv": "", "tracks": "", "role": "Written-By, Producer", "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/artists/25460", "id": 25460 } ], "title": "From The Heart" }, { "duration": "6:45", "position": "3", "type_": "track", "title": "Radio S.P.A.C.E." } ], "id": 1000, "num_for_sale": 9, "lowest_price": 9.36, "data_quality": "Correct" } Response  404Toggle Headers Status: HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found Reproxy-Status: yes Access-Control-Allow-Origin: * Content-Type: application/json Server: lighttpd Content-Length: 40 Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2014 01:11:21 GMT X-Varnish: 1465622316 Age: 0 Via: 1.1 varnish Connection: keep-alive Body { "message": "Master Release not found." } Master Release Versions  Get all Master versions GET /masters/{master_id}/versions{?page,per_page} Retrieves a list of all Releases that are versions of this master. Accepts Pagination parameters. Parameters master_id number (required) Example: 1000The Master ID page number (optional) Example: 3The page you want to request per_page number (optional) Example: 25The number of items per page format string (optional) Example: VinylThe format to filter label string (optional) Example: Scorpio MusicThe label to filter released string (optional) Example: 1992The release year to filter country string (optional) Example: BelgiumThe country to filter sort string (optional) Example: releasedSort items by this field: released (i.e. year of the release) title (i.e. title of the release) format label catno (i.e. catalog number of the release) country sort_order string (optional) Example: ascSort items in a particular order (one of asc, desc) Response  200Toggle Headers Status: HTTP/1.1 200 OK Reproxy-Status: yes Access-Control-Allow-Origin: * Content-Type: application/json Server: lighttpd Content-Length: 2834 Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2014 01:16:01 GMT X-Varnish: 1465678820 Age: 0 Via: 1.1 varnish Connection: keep-alive Body { "pagination": { "per_page": 50, "items": 4, "page": 1, "urls": {}, "pages": 1 }, "versions": [ { "status": "Accepted", "stats": { "user": { "in_collection": 0, "in_wantlist": 0 }, "community": { "in_collection": 1067, "in_wantlist": 765 } }, "thumb": "https://img.discogs.com/wV56xo0Ak0M2bTCC6B_heD7Dx_o=/fit-in/150x150/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-18926-1381225536-8716.jpeg.jpg", "format": "12\", 33 ⅓ RPM", "country": "US", "title": "Plastic Dreams", "label": "Epic", "released": "1993", "major_formats": [ "Vinyl" ], "catno": "49 74992", "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/releases/18926", "id": 18926 }, { "status": "Accepted", "stats": { "user": { "in_collection": 0, "in_wantlist": 0 }, "community": { "in_collection": 842, "in_wantlist": 762 } }, "thumb": "https://img.discogs.com/KAm38-Op5VlkvuJOaTGZieKwRVg=/fit-in/150x150/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-34228-1215760312.jpeg.jpg", "format": "12\", 33 ⅓ RPM", "country": "UK", "title": "Plastic Dreams (Mixes)", "label": "R & S Records", "released": "1993", "major_formats": [ "Vinyl" ], "catno": "RSGB 101T", "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/releases/34228", "id": 34228 }, { "status": "Accepted", "stats": { "user": { "in_collection": 0, "in_wantlist": 0 }, "community": { "in_collection": 20, "in_wantlist": 285 } }, "thumb": "https://img.discogs.com/CnovcvhAYIle0tYTTZHo42wPz88=/fit-in/150x150/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-1873038-1249267784.jpeg.jpg", "format": "12\", White Label, 33 ⅓ RPM, Promo", "country": "UK", "title": "Plastic Dreams Mixes", "label": "R & S Records", "released": "1993", "major_formats": [ "Vinyl" ], "catno": "RSGB 101 T", "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/releases/1873038", "id": 1873038 } ] } Response  404Toggle Headers Status: HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found Reproxy-Status: yes Access-Control-Allow-Origin: * Content-Type: application/json Server: lighttpd Content-Length: 40 Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2014 01:20:23 GMT X-Varnish: 1465732620 Age: 0 Via: 1.1 varnish Connection: keep-alive Body { "message": "Master Release not found." } Artist  The Artist resource represents a person in the Discogs database who contributed to a Release in some capacity. Get Artist GET /artists/{artist_id} Get an artist Parameters artist_id number (required) Example: 108713The Artist ID Response  200Toggle Headers Status: HTTP/1.1 200 OK Reproxy-Status: yes Access-Control-Allow-Origin: * Content-Type: application/json Server: lighttpd Content-Length: 1258 Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2014 01:06:53 GMT X-Varnish: 1465566651 Age: 0 Via: 1.1 varnish Connection: keep-alive Body { "namevariations": [ "Nickleback" ], "profile": "Nickelback is a Canadian rock band from Hanna, Alberta formed in 1995. Nickelback's music is classed as hard rock and alternative metal. Nickelback is one of the most commercially successful Canadian groups, having sold almost 50 million albums worldwide, ranking as the 11th best selling music act of the 2000s, and is the 2nd best selling foreign act in the U.S. behind The Beatles for the 2000's.", "releases_url": "https://api.discogs.com/artists/108713/releases", "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/artists/108713", "uri": "http://www.discogs.com/artist/108713-Nickelback", "urls": [ "http://www.nickelback.com/", "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nickelback" ], "data_quality": "Needs Vote", "id": 108713, "images": [ { "height": 260, "resource_url": "https://api-img.discogs.com/9xJ5T7IBn23DDMpg1USsDJ7IGm4=/330x260/smart/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(96)/discogs-images/A-108713-1110576087.jpg.jpg", "type": "primary", "uri": "https://api-img.discogs.com/9xJ5T7IBn23DDMpg1USsDJ7IGm4=/330x260/smart/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(96)/discogs-images/A-108713-1110576087.jpg.jpg", "uri150": "https://api-img.discogs.com/--xqi8cBtaBZz3qOjVcvzGvNRmU=/150x150/smart/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb()/discogs-images/A-108713-1110576087.jpg.jpg", "width": 330 }, { "height": 500, "resource_url": "https://api-img.discogs.com/r1jRG8b9-nlqTHPlJ-t8JR5ugoA=/493x500/smart/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(96)/discogs-images/A-108713-1264273865.jpeg.jpg", "type": "secondary", "uri": "https://api-img.discogs.com/r1jRG8b9-nlqTHPlJ-t8JR5ugoA=/493x500/smart/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(96)/discogs-images/A-108713-1264273865.jpeg.jpg", "uri150": "https://api-img.discogs.com/6K-cI5xDgsurmc-2OX6uCygzDgw=/150x150/smart/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb()/discogs-images/A-108713-1264273865.jpeg.jpg", "width": 493 } ], "members": [ { "active": true, "id": 270222, "name": "Chad Kroeger", "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/artists/270222" }, { "active": true, "id": 685755, "name": "Daniel Adair", "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/artists/685755" }, { "active": true, "id": 685754, "name": "Mike Kroeger", "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/artists/685754" }, { "active": true, "id": 685756, "name": "Ryan \"Vik\" Vikedal", "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/artists/685756" }, { "active": true, "id": 685757, "name": "Ryan Peake", "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/artists/685757" } ], } Response  404Toggle Headers Status: HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found Reproxy-Status: yes Access-Control-Allow-Origin: * Content-Type: application/json Server: lighttpd Content-Length: 32 Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2014 01:08:31 GMT X-Varnish: 1465587583 Age: 0 Via: 1.1 varnish Connection: keep-alive Body { "message": "Artist not found." } Artist Releases  Returns a list of Releases and Masters associated with the Artist. Accepts Pagination. Get an Artist's Releases GET /artists/{artist_id}/releases{?sort,sort_order} Get an artist’s releases Parameters artist_id number (required) Example: 108713The Artist ID sort string (optional) Example: yearSort items by this field: year (i.e. year of the release) title (i.e. title of the release) format sort_order string (optional) Example: ascSort items in a particular order (one of asc, desc) Response  200Toggle Headers Status: HTTP/1.1 200 OK Reproxy-Status: yes Access-Control-Allow-Origin: * Content-Type: application/json Server: lighttpd Content-Length: 1258 Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2014 01:06:53 GMT X-Varnish: 1465566651 Age: 0 Via: 1.1 varnish Connection: keep-alive Body { "pagination": { "per_page": 50, "items": 9, "page": 1, "urls": {}, "pages": 1 }, "releases": [ { "artist": "Nickelback", "id": 173765, "main_release": 3128432, "resource_url": "http://api.discogs.com/masters/173765", "role": "Main", "thumb": "https://api-img.discogs.com/lb0zp7--FLaRP0LmJ4W6DhfweNc=/fit-in/90x90/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb()/discogs-images/R-5557864-1396493975-7618.jpeg.jpg", "title": "Curb", "type": "master", "year": 1996 }, { "artist": "Nickelback", "format": "CD, EP", "id": 4299404, "label": "Not On Label (Nickelback Self-released)", "resource_url": "http://api.discogs.com/releases/4299404", "role": "Main", "status": "Accepted", "thumb": "https://api-img.discogs.com/eFRGD78N7UhtvRjhdLZYXs2QJXk=/fit-in/90x90/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb()/discogs-images/R-4299404-1361106117-3632.jpeg.jpg", "title": "Hesher", "type": "release", "year": 1996 }, { "artist": "Nickelback", "id": 173767, "main_release": 1905922, "resource_url": "http://api.discogs.com/masters/173767", "role": "Main", "thumb": "https://api-img.discogs.com/12LXbUV44IHjyb6drFZOTQxgCqs=/fit-in/90x90/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb()/discogs-images/R-1905922-1251540516.jpeg.jpg", "title": "Leader Of Men", "type": "master", "year": 1999 } ] } Response  404Toggle Headers Status: HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found Reproxy-Status: yes Access-Control-Allow-Origin: * Content-Type: application/json Server: lighttpd Content-Length: 32 Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2014 01:08:31 GMT X-Varnish: 1465587583 Age: 0 Via: 1.1 varnish Connection: keep-alive Body { "message": "Artist not found." } Label  The Label resource represents a label, company, recording studio, location, or other entity involved with Artists and Releases. Labels were recently expanded in scope to include things that aren’t labels – the name is an artifact of this history. Get Label GET /labels/{label_id} Get a label Parameters label_id number (required) Example: 1The Label ID Response  200Toggle Headers Status: HTTP/1.1 200 OK Reproxy-Status: yes Access-Control-Allow-Origin: * Content-Type: application/json Server: lighttpd Content-Length: 2834 Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2014 01:16:01 GMT X-Varnish: 1465678820 Age: 0 Via: 1.1 varnish Connection: keep-alive Body { "profile": "Classic Techno label from Detroit, USA.\r\n[b]Label owner:[/b] [a=Carl Craig].\r\n", "releases_url": "https://api.discogs.com/labels/1/releases", "name": "Planet E", "contact_info": "Planet E Communications\r\nP.O. Box 27218\r\nDetroit, 48227, USA\r\n\r\np: 313.874.8729 \r\nf: 313.874.8732\r\n\r\nemail: info AT Planet-e DOT net\r\n", "uri": "http://www.discogs.com/label/1-Planet-E", "sublabels": [ { "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/labels/86537", "id": 86537, "name": "Antidote (4)" }, { "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/labels/41841", "id": 41841, "name": "Community Projects" } ], "urls": [ "http://www.planet-e.net", "http://planetecommunications.bandcamp.com", "http://twitter.com/planetedetroit" ], "images": [ { "height": 24, "resource_url": "https://api-img.discogs.com/85-gKw4oEXfDp9iHtqtCF5Y_ZgI=/fit-in/132x24/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(96)/discogs-images/L-1-1111053865.png.jpg", "type": "primary", "uri": "https://api-img.discogs.com/85-gKw4oEXfDp9iHtqtCF5Y_ZgI=/fit-in/132x24/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(96)/discogs-images/L-1-1111053865.png.jpg", "uri150": "https://api-img.discogs.com/cYmCut4Yh99FaLFHyoqkFo-Md1E=/fit-in/150x150/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb()/discogs-images/L-1-1111053865.png.jpg", "width": 132 } ], "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/labels/1", "id": 1, "data_quality": "Needs Vote" } Response  404Toggle Headers Status: HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found Reproxy-Status: yes Access-Control-Allow-Origin: * Content-Type: application/json Server: lighttpd Content-Length: 30 Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2014 01:17:27 GMT X-Varnish: 1465696276 Age: 0 Via: 1.1 varnish Connection: keep-alive Body { "message": "Label not found." } All Label Releases  Get all Label Releases GET /labels/{label_id}/releases{?page,per_page} Returns a list of Releases associated with the label. Accepts Pagination parameters. Parameters label_id number (required) Example: 1The Label ID page number (optional) Example: 3The page you want to request per_page number (optional) Example: 25The number of items per page Response  200Toggle Headers Status: HTTP/1.1 200 OK Reproxy-Status: yes Access-Control-Allow-Origin: * Content-Type: application/json Server: lighttpd Content-Length: 2834 Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2014 01:16:01 GMT X-Varnish: 1465678820 Age: 0 Via: 1.1 varnish Connection: keep-alive Body { "pagination": { "per_page": 5, "pages": 68, "page": 1, "urls": { "last": "https://api.discogs.com/labels/1/releases?per_page=5&page=68", "next": "https://api.discogs.com/labels/1/releases?per_page=5&page=2" }, "items": 338 }, "releases": [ { "artist": "Andrea Parker", "catno": "!K7071CD", "format": "CD, Mixed", "id": 2801, "resource_url": "http://api.discogs.com/releases/2801", "status": "Accepted", "thumb": "https://api-img.discogs.com/cYmCut4Yh99FaLFHyoqkFo-Md1E=/fit-in/150x150/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb()/discogs-images/L-1-1111053865.png.jpg", "title": "DJ-Kicks", "year": 1998 }, { "artist": "Naomi Daniel", "catno": "2INZ 00140", "format": "12\"", "id": 65040, "resource_url": "http://api.discogs.com/releases/65040", "status": "Accepted", "thumb": "https://api-img.discogs.com/cYmCut4Yh99FaLFHyoqkFo-Md1E=/fit-in/150x150/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb()/discogs-images/L-1-1111053865.png.jpg", "title": "Stars", "year": 1993 }, { "artist": "Innerzone Orchestra", "catno": "546 137-2", "format": "CD, Album, P/Mixed", "id": 9922, "resource_url": "http://api.discogs.com/releases/9922", "status": "Accepted", "thumb": "https://api-img.discogs.com/cYmCut4Yh99FaLFHyoqkFo-Md1E=/fit-in/150x150/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb()/discogs-images/L-1-1111053865.png.jpg", "title": "Programmed", "year": 1999 } ] } Response  404Toggle Headers Status: HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found Reproxy-Status: yes Access-Control-Allow-Origin: * Content-Type: application/json Server: lighttpd Content-Length: 30 Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2014 01:17:27 GMT X-Varnish: 1465696276 Age: 0 Via: 1.1 varnish Connection: keep-alive Body { "message": "Label not found." } Search  Issue a search query to our database. This endpoint accepts pagination parameters Authentication (as any user) is required. Search GET /database/search?q={query}&{?type,title,release_title,credit,artist,anv,label,genre,style,country,year,format,catno,barcode,track,submitter,contributor} Issue a search query Parameters query string (optional) Example: nirvanaYour search query type string (optional) Example: releaseString. One of release, master, artist, label title string (optional) Example: nirvana - nevermindSearch by combined “Artist Name - Release Title” title field. release_title string (optional) Example: nevermindSearch release titles. credit string (optional) Example: kurtSearch release credits. artist string (optional) Example: nirvanaSearch artist names. anv string (optional) Example: nirvanaSearch artist ANV. label string (optional) Example: dgcSearch label names. genre string (optional) Example: rockSearch genres. style string (optional) Example: grungeSearch styles. country string (optional) Example: canadaSearch release country. year string (optional) Example: 1991Search release year. format string (optional) Example: albumSearch formats. catno string (optional) Example: DGCD-24425Search catalog number. barcode string (optional) Example: 7 2064-24425-2 4Search barcodes. track string (optional) Example: smells like teen spiritSearch track titles. submitter string (optional) Example: milKtSearch submitter username. contributor string (optional) Example: jerome99Search contributor usernames. RequestToggle Body GET https://api.discogs.com/database/search?release_title=nevermind&artist=nirvana&per_page=3&page=1 Response  200Toggle Headers Status: HTTP/1.1 200 OK Reproxy-Status: yes Access-Control-Allow-Origin: * Cache-Control: public, must-revalidate Content-Type: application/json Content-Encoding: gzip Server: lighttpd Content-Length: 623 Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2014 18:44:17 GMT X-Varnish: 1701844380 1701819611 Age: 101 Via: 1.1 varnish Connection: keep-alive Body { "pagination": { "per_page": 3, "pages": 66, "page": 1, "urls": { "last": "http://api.discogs.com/database/search?per_page=3&artist=nirvana&release_title=nevermind&page=66", "next": "http://api.discogs.com/database/search?per_page=3&artist=nirvana&release_title=nevermind&page=2" }, "items": 198 }, "results": [ { "style": [ "Interview", "Grunge" ], "thumb": "", "title": "Nirvana - Nevermind", "country": "Australia", "format": [ "DVD", "PAL" ], "uri": "/Nirvana-Nevermind-Classic-Albums/release/2028757", "community": { "want": 1, "have": 5 }, "label": [ "Eagle Vision", "Rajon Vision", "Classic Albums" ], "catno": "RV0296", "year": "2005", "genre": [ "Non-Music", "Rock" ], "resource_url": "http://api.discogs.com/releases/2028757", "type": "release", "id": 2028757 }, { "style": [ "Interview", "Grunge" ], "thumb": "", "title": "Nirvana - Nevermind", "country": "France", "format": [ "DVD", "PAL" ], "uri": "/Nirvana-Nevermind-Classic-Albums/release/1852962", "community": { "want": 4, "have": 21 }, "label": [ "Eagle Vision", "Classic Albums" ], "catno": "EV 426200", "year": "2005", "genre": [ "Non-Music", "Rock" ], "resource_url": "http://api.discogs.com/releases/1852962", "type": "release", "id": 1852962 }, { "style": [ "Hard Rock", "Classic Rock" ], "thumb": "", "format": [ "UMD" ], "country": "Europe", "barcode": [ "5 034504 843646" ], "uri": "/Nirvana-Nevermind/release/3058947", "community": { "want": 10, "have": 3 }, "label": [ "Eagle Vision" ], "catno": "ERUMD436", "genre": [ "Rock" ], "title": "Nirvana - Nevermind", "resource_url": "http://api.discogs.com/releases/3058947", "type": "release", "id": 3058947 } ] } Response  500Toggle Headers Status: HTTP/1.1 500 Server Error Reproxy-Status: yes Access-Control-Allow-Origin: * Content-Type: application/json Server: lighttpd Content-Length: 32 Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2014 01:08:31 GMT X-Varnish: 1465587583 Age: 0 Via: 1.1 varnish Connection: keep-alive Body { "message": "Query time exceeded. Please try a simpler query." } Response  500Toggle Headers Status: HTTP/1.1 500 Server Error Reproxy-Status: yes Access-Control-Allow-Origin: * Content-Type: application/json Server: lighttpd Content-Length: 32 Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2014 01:08:31 GMT X-Varnish: 1465587583 Age: 0 Via: 1.1 varnish Connection: keep-alive Body { "message": "An internal server error occurred. (Malformed query?)" } Videos  If your application integrates YouTube videos, then third party cookies may be used. You can view YouTube and Google’s cookie policy here. Next  Previous Images  The Image resource represents a user-contributed image of a database object, such as Artists or Releases. Image requests require authentication and are subject to rate limiting. It’s unlikely that you’ll ever have to construct an image URL; images keys on other resources use fully-qualified URLs, including hostname and protocol. To retrieve images, authenticate via OAuth or Discogs Auth and fetch the object that contains the image of interest (e.g., the release, user profile, etc.). The image URL will be in the response using the HTTPS protocol, and requesting that URL should succeed. Next  Previous Marketplace  Inventory  Returns the list of listings in a user’s inventory. Accepts Pagination parameters. Basic information about each listing and the corresponding release is provided, suitable for display in a list. For detailed information about the release, make another API call to fetch the corresponding Release. If you are not authenticated as the inventory owner, only items that have a status of For Sale will be visible. If you are authenticated as the inventory owner you will get additional weight, format_quantity, external_id, and location keys. If the user is authorized, the listing will contain a in_cart boolean field indicating whether or not this listing is in their cart. Get inventory GET /users/{username}/inventory{?status,sort,sort_order} Get a seller’s inventory Parameters username string (required) Example: 360vinylThe username for whose inventory you are fetching status string (optional) Example: for saleOnly show items with this status. sort string (optional) Example: priceSort items by this field: listed price item (i.e. the title of the release) artist label catno audio status (when authenticated as the inventory owner) location (when authenticated as the inventory owner) sort_order string (optional) Example: ascSort items in a particular order (one of asc, desc) Response  200Toggle Headers Status: HTTP/1.1 200 OK Reproxy-Status: yes Access-Control-Allow-Origin: * Cache-Control: public, must-revalidate Content-Type: application/json Link: ; rel="last", ; rel="next" Server: lighttpd Content-Length: 36813 Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2014 18:53:23 GMT X-Varnish: 1701983958 Age: 0 Via: 1.1 varnish Connection: keep-alive Body { "pagination": { "per_page": 50, "items": 4, "page": 1, "urls": {}, "pages": 1 }, "listings": [ { "status": "For Sale", "price": { "currency": "USD", "value": 149.99 }, "allow_offers": true, "sleeve_condition": "Near Mint (NM or M-)", "id": 150899904, "condition": "Near Mint (NM or M-)", "posted": "2014-07-01T10:20:17-07:00", "ships_from": "United States", "uri": "http://www.discogs.com/sell/item/150899904", "comments": "Includes promotional booklet from original purchase!", "seller": { "username": "rappcats", "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/users/rappcats", "id": 2098225 }, "release": { "catalog_number": "509990292346, TMR092", "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/releases/2992668", "year": 2011, "id": 2992668, "description": "Danger Mouse & Daniele Luppi - Rome (LP, Ora + LP, Whi + Album, Ltd, Tip)", "artist": "Danger Mouse & Daniele Luppi", "title": "Rome", "format": "(LP, Ora + LP, Whi + Album, Ltd, Tip)", "thumbnail": "https://api-img.discogs.com/CFEw018vfc3LvUQDFtsvkh9FTyA=/fit-in/322x320/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-2992668-1310811542.jpeg.jpg" }, "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/marketplace/listings/150899904", "audio": false }, { "status": "For Sale", "price": { "currency": "USD", "value": 49.99 }, "allow_offers": false, "sleeve_condition": "Very Good Plus (VG+)", "id": 155473349, "condition": "Very Good Plus (VG+)", "posted": "2014-07-01T10:20:17-07:00", "ships_from": "United States", "uri": "http://www.discogs.com/sell/item/155473349", "comments": "Includes slipmats", "seller": { "username": "rappcats", "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/users/rappcats", "id": 2098225 }, "release": { "catalog_number": "STH 2222", "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/releases/1900152", "year": 2009, "id": 1900152, "description": "Various - Stones Throw X Serato (2x12\", Ltd, Cle)", "thumbnail": "https://api-img.discogs.com/BfviIBw5nZOA2BHd0xn8Vfu1X_g=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-1900152-1315429257.jpeg.jpg" }, "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/marketplace/listings/155473349", "audio": false }, { "status": "For Sale", "price": { "currency": "USD", "value": 39.99 }, "allow_offers": true, "sleeve_condition": "Near Mint (NM or M-)", "id": 150899171, "condition": "Very Good Plus (VG+)", "posted": "2014-07-07T11:40:08-07:00", "ships_from": "United States", "uri": "http://www.discogs.com/sell/item/150899171", "comments": "", "seller": { "username": "rappcats", "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/users/rappcats", "id": 2098225 }, "release": { "catalog_number": "STH 2172", "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/releases/1842118", "year": 2009, "id": 1842118, "description": "Last Electro-Acoustic Space Jazz & Percussion Ensemble, The - Summer Suite (CD, MiniAlbum, Ltd)", "thumbnail": "https://api-img.discogs.com/pm6PIqf4vEK8S8rCkySA9eKNFgk=/fit-in/455x455/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-1842118-1247162514.jpeg.jpg" }, "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/marketplace/listings/150899171", "audio": false }, { "status": "For Sale", "price": { "currency": "USD", "value": 229.99 }, "allow_offers": false, "sleeve_condition": "Near Mint (NM or M-)", "id": 171931719, "condition": "Near Mint (NM or M-)", "posted": "2014-07-12T16:23:14-07:00", "ships_from": "United States", "uri": "http://www.discogs.com/sell/item/171931719", "comments": "Includes poster, includes download card, includes 7\", in original bag w/ hype sticker. Complete set!", "seller": { "username": "rappcats", "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/users/rappcats", "id": 2098225 }, "release": { "catalog_number": "NSD-120", "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/releases/2791275", "year": 2011, "id": 2791275, "description": "Metal Fingers - Presents Special Herbs The Box Set Vol. 0-9 (Box, Comp, Ltd + 10xLP + 7\")", "thumbnail": "https://api-img.discogs.com/wyy8_nChnz_ergzK9gd4wxqr-K0=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-2791275-1301188174.jpeg.jpg" }, "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/marketplace/listings/171931719", "audio": false } ] } Response  404Toggle Headers Status: HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found Reproxy-Status: yes Access-Control-Allow-Origin: * Content-Type: application/json Server: lighttpd Content-Length: 33 Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2014 01:03:20 GMT X-Varnish: 1465521729 Age: 0 Via: 1.1 varnish Connection: keep-alive Body { "message": "The request resource was not found." } Response  422Toggle Headers Status: HTTP/1.1 422 Unprocessable Entity Reproxy-Status: yes Access-Control-Allow-Origin: * Cache-Control: public, must-revalidate Content-Type: application/json Server: lighttpd Content-Length: 114 Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2014 19:16:59 GMT X-Varnish: 1702310957 Age: 0 Via: 1.1 varnish Connection: keep-alive Body { "message": "Invalid status: expected one of All, Deleted, Draft, Expired, For Sale, Sold, Suspended, Violation." } Listing  View the data associated with a listing. If the authorized user is the listing owner the listing will include the weight, format_quantity, external_id, and location keys. If the user is authorized, the listing will contain a in_cart boolean field indicating whether or not this listing is in their cart. Get listing GET /marketplace/listings/{listing_id}{?curr_abbr} The Listing resource allows you to view Marketplace listings. Parameters listing_id number (required) Example: 172723812The ID of the listing you are fetching curr_abbr string (optional) Example: USDCurrency for marketplace data. Defaults to the authenticated users currency. Must be one of the following: USD GBP EUR CAD AUD JPY CHF MXN BRL NZD SEK ZAR Response  200Toggle Headers Status: HTTP/1.1 200 OK Reproxy-Status: yes Access-Control-Allow-Origin: * Cache-Control: public, must-revalidate Content-Type: application/json Server: lighttpd Content-Length: 780 Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2014 19:59:59 GMT X-Varnish: 1702965334 Age: 0 Via: 1.1 varnish Connection: keep-alive Body { "status": "For Sale", "price": { "currency": "USD", "value": 120 }, "original_price": { "curr_abbr": "USD", "curr_id": 1, "formatted": "$120.00", "value": 120.0 }, "allow_offers": false, "sleeve_condition": "Mint (M)", "id": 172723812, "condition": "Mint (M)", "posted": "2014-07-15T12:55:01-07:00", "ships_from": "United States", "uri": "http://www.discogs.com/sell/item/172723812", "comments": "Brand new... Still sealed!", "seller": { "username": "Booms528", "avatar_url": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/8aa676fcfa2be14266d0ccad88da2cc4?s=500&r=pg&d=mm", "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/users/Booms528", "url": "https://api.discogs.com/users/Booms528", "id": 1369620 "shipping": "Buyer responsible for shipping. Price depends on distance but is usually $5-10.", "payment": "PayPal", "stats": { "rating": "100", "stars": 5.0, "total": 15 } }, "shipping_price": { "currency": "USD", "value": 2.50 }, "original_shipping_price": { "curr_abbr": "USD", "curr_id": 1, "formatted": "$2.50", "value": 2.5 }, "release": { "catalog_number": "541125-1, 1-541125 (K1)", "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/releases/5610049", "year": 2014, "id": 5610049, "description": "LCD Soundsystem - The Long Goodbye: LCD Soundsystem Live At Madison Square Garden (5xLP + Box)", "thumbnail": "https://api-img.discogs.com/UsvcarhmrXb0km4QH_dRP8gEf3E=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-5610049-1399500556-9283.jpeg.jpg" }, "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/marketplace/listings/172723812", "audio": false } Response  404Toggle Headers Status: HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found Reproxy-Status: yes Access-Control-Allow-Origin: * Content-Type: application/json Server: lighttpd Content-Length: 33 Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2014 01:03:20 GMT X-Varnish: 1465521729 Age: 0 Via: 1.1 varnish Connection: keep-alive Body { "message": "The request resource was not found." } Edit A Listing POST /marketplace/listings/{listing_id}{?curr_abbr} Edit the data associated with a listing. If the listing’s status is not For Sale, Draft, or Expired, it cannot be modified – only deleted. To re-list a Sold listing, a new listing must be created. Authentication as the listing owner is required. Parameters listing_id number (required) Example: 172723812The ID of the listing you are fetching release_id number (required) Example: 1The ID of the release you are posting condition string (required) Example: MintThe condition of the release you are posting. Must be one of the following: Mint (M) Near Mint (NM or M-) Very Good Plus (VG+) Very Good (VG) Good Plus (G+) Good (G) Fair (F) Poor (P) sleeve_condition string (optional) Example: FairThe condition of the sleeve of the item you are posting. Must be one of the following: Mint (M) Near Mint (NM or M-) Very Good Plus (VG+) Very Good (VG) Good Plus (G+) Good (G) Fair (F) Poor (P) Generic Not Graded No Cover price number (required) Example: 10.00The price of the item (in the seller’s currency). comments string (optional) Example: This item is wonderfulAny remarks about the item that will be displayed to buyers. allow_offers boolean (optional) Example: trueWhether or not to allow buyers to make offers on the item. Defaults to false. status string (required) Example: DraftThe status of the listing. Defaults to For Sale. Options are For Sale (the listing is ready to be shown on the Marketplace) and Draft (the listing is not ready for public display). external_id string (optional) Example: 10.00A freeform field that can be used for the seller’s own reference. Information stored here will not be displayed to anyone other than the seller. This field is called “Private Comments” on the Discogs website. location string (optional) Example: 10.00A freeform field that is intended to help identify an item’s physical storage location. Information stored here will not be displayed to anyone other than the seller. This field will be visible on the inventory management page and will be available in inventory exports via the website. weight number (optional) Example: 10.00The weight, in grams, of this listing, for the purpose of calculating shipping. Set this field to auto to have the weight automatically estimated for you. format_quantity number (optional) Example: 10.00The number of items this listing counts as, for the purpose of calculating shipping. This field is called “Counts As” on the Discogs website. Set this field to auto to have the quantity automatically estimated for you. RequestToggle Headers Content-Type: application/json Response  204 Delete A Listing DELETE /marketplace/listings/{listing_id}{?curr_abbr} Permanently remove a listing from the Marketplace. Authentication as the listing owner is required. Parameters listing_id number (required) Example: 172723812The ID of the listing you are fetching RequestToggle Headers Content-Type: application/json Response  204 New Listing  Create New Listing POST /marketplace/listings{?release_id,condition,sleeve_condition,price,comments,allow_offers,status,external_id,location,weight,format_quantity} Create a Marketplace listing. Authentication is required; the listing will be added to the authenticated user’s Inventory. Parameters release_id number (required) Example: 1The ID of the release you are posting condition string (required) Example: MintThe condition of the release you are posting. Must be one of the following: Mint (M) Near Mint (NM or M-) Very Good Plus (VG+) Very Good (VG) Good Plus (G+) Good (G) Fair (F) Poor (P) sleeve_condition string (optional) Example: FairThe condition of the sleeve of the item you are posting. Must be one of the following: Mint (M) Near Mint (NM or M-) Very Good Plus (VG+) Very Good (VG) Good Plus (G+) Good (G) Fair (F) Poor (P) Generic Not Graded No Cover price number (required) Example: 10.00The price of the item (in the seller’s currency). comments string (optional) Example: This item is wonderfulAny remarks about the item that will be displayed to buyers. allow_offers boolean (optional) Example: trueWhether or not to allow buyers to make offers on the item. Defaults to false. status string (required) Example: DraftThe status of the listing. Defaults to For Sale. Options are For Sale (the listing is ready to be shown on the Marketplace) and Draft (the listing is not ready for public display). external_id string (optional) Example: 10.00A freeform field that can be used for the seller’s own reference. Information stored here will not be displayed to anyone other than the seller. This field is called “Private Comments” on the Discogs website. location string (optional) Example: 10.00A freeform field that is intended to help identify an item’s physical storage location. Information stored here will not be displayed to anyone other than the seller. This field will be visible on the inventory management page and will be available in inventory exports via the website. weight number (optional) Example: 10.00The weight, in grams, of this listing, for the purpose of calculating shipping. Set this field to auto to have the weight automatically estimated for you. format_quantity number (optional) Example: 10.00The number of items this listing counts as, for the purpose of calculating shipping. This field is called “Counts As” on the Discogs website. Set this field to auto to have the quantity automatically estimated for you. RequestToggle Headers Content-Type: application/json Response  201Toggle Body { "listing_id": 41578241, "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/marketplace/listings/41578241" } Response  403Toggle Body { "message": "You don't have permission to access this resource." } Order  The Order resource allows you to manage a seller’s Marketplace orders. Get Order GET /marketplace/orders/{order_id} View the data associated with an order. Authentication as the seller is required. Parameters order_id number (required) Example: 1-1The ID of the order you are fetching Response  200Toggle Headers Status: HTTP/1.1 200 OK Reproxy-Status: yes Access-Control-Allow-Origin: * Cache-Control: public, must-revalidate Content-Type: application/json Server: lighttpd Content-Length: 780 Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2014 19:59:59 GMT X-Varnish: 1702965334 Age: 0 Via: 1.1 varnish Connection: keep-alive Body { "id": "1-1", "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/marketplace/orders/1-1", "messages_url": "https://api.discogs.com/marketplace/orders/1-1/messages", "uri": "http://www.discogs.com/sell/order/1-1", "status": "New Order", "next_status": [ "New Order", "Buyer Contacted", "Invoice Sent", "Payment Pending", "Payment Received", "Shipped", "Refund Sent", "Cancelled (Non-Paying Buyer)", "Cancelled (Item Unavailable)", "Cancelled (Per Buyer's Request)" ], "fee": { "currency": "USD", "value": 2.52 }, "created": "2011-10-21T09:25:17-07:00", "items": [ { "release": { "id": 1, "description": "Persuader, The - Stockholm (2x12\")" }, "price": { "currency": "USD", "value": 42 }, "media_condition": "Mint (M)", "sleeve_condition": "Mint (M)", "id": 41578242 } ], "shipping": { "currency": "USD", "method": "Standard", "value": 0 }, "shipping_address": "Asdf Exampleton\n234 NE Asdf St.\nAsdf Town, Oregon, 14423\nUnited States\n\nPhone: 555-555-2733\nPaypal address: asdf@example.com", "additional_instructions": "please use sturdy packaging.", "archived": false, "seller": { "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/users/example_seller", "username": "example_seller", "id": 1 }, "last_activity": "2011-10-21T09:25:17-07:00", "buyer": { "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/users/example_buyer", "username": "example_buyer", "id": 2 }, "total": { "currency": "USD", "value": 42 } } Response  401Toggle Headers Status: HTTP/1.1 401 Unauthorized Reproxy-Status: yes Access-Control-Allow-Origin: * Cache-Control: public, must-revalidate Content-Type: application/json WWW-Authenticate: OAuth realm="https://api.discogs.com" Server: lighttpd Content-Length: 61 Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2014 20:37:49 GMT X-Varnish: 1703540564 Age: 0 Via: 1.1 varnish Connection: keep-alive Body { "message": "You must authenticate to access this resource." } Edit An Order POST /marketplace/orders/{order_id} Edit the data associated with an order. Authentication as the seller is required. The response contains a next_status key – an array of valid next statuses for this order, which you can display to the user in (for example) a dropdown control. This also renders your application more resilient to any future changes in the order status logic. Changing the order status using this resource will always message the buyer with: Seller changed status from Old Status to New Status and does not provide a facility for including a custom message along with the change. For more fine-grained control, use the Add a new message resource, which allows you to simultaneously add a message and change the order status. If the order status is neither cancelled, Payment Received, nor Shipped, you can change the shipping. Doing so will send an invoice to the buyer and set the order status to Invoice Sent. (For that reason, you cannot set the shipping and the order status in the same request.) Parameters order_id number (required) Example: 1-1The ID of the order you are fetching status string (optional) Example: New OrderThe status of the Order you are updating. Must be one of the following: New Order Buyer Contacted Invoice Sent Payment Pending Payment Received Shipped Refund Sent Cancelled (Non-Paying Buyer) Cancelled (Item Unavailable) Cancelled (Per Buyer's Request) the order’s current status Furthermore, the new status must be present in the order’s next_status list. For more information about order statuses, see Edit an order. shipping number (optional) Example: 5.00The order shipping amount. As a side-effect of setting this value, the buyer is invoiced and the order status is set to Invoice Sent. RequestToggle Headers Content-Type: application/json Response  200Toggle Body { "id": "1-1", "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/marketplace/orders/1-1", "messages_url": "https://api.discogs.com/marketplace/orders/1-1/messages", "uri": "http://www.discogs.com/sell/order/1-1", "status": "Invoice Sent", "next_status": [ "New Order", "Buyer Contacted", "Invoice Sent", "Payment Pending", "Payment Received", "Shipped", "Refund Sent", "Cancelled (Non-Paying Buyer)", "Cancelled (Item Unavailable)", "Cancelled (Per Buyer's Request)" ], "fee": { "currency": "USD", "value": 2.52 }, "created": "2011-10-21T09:25:17-07:00", "items": [ { "release": { "id": 1, "description": "Persuader, The - Stockholm (2x12\")" }, "price": { "currency": "USD", "value": 42 }, "id": 41578242 } ], "shipping": { "currency": "USD", "method": "Standard", "value": 5 }, "shipping_address": "Asdf Exampleton\n234 NE Asdf St.\nAsdf Town, Oregon, 14423\nUnited States\n\nPhone: 555-555-2733\nPaypal address: asdf@example.com", "additional_instructions": "please use sturdy packaging.", "archived": false, "seller": { "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/users/example_seller", "username": "example_seller", "id": 1 }, "last_activity": "2011-10-22T19:18:53-07:00", "buyer": { "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/users/example_buyer", "username": "example_buyer", "id": 2 }, "total": { "currency": "USD", "value": 47 } } List Orders  Returns a list of the authenticated user’s orders. Accepts Pagination parameters. List Orders GET /marketplace/orders{?status,created_after,created_before,sort,sort_order} Returns a list of the authenticated user’s orders. Accepts Pagination parameters. Parameters status string (optional) Example: 1-1Only show orders with this status. Valid status keys are: All New Order Buyer Contacted Invoice Sent Payment Pending Payment Received Shipped Merged Order Changed Refund Sent Cancelled Cancelled (Non-Paying Buyer) Cancelled (Item Unavailable) Cancelled (Per Buyer's Request) Cancelled (Refund Received) created_after string (optional) Example: 2019-06-24T20:58:58ZOnly show orders created after this ISO 8601 timestamp. created_before string (optional) Example: 2019-06-24T20:58:58ZOnly show orders created before this ISO 8601 timestamp. archived boolean (optional) Example: trueOnly show orders with a specific archived status. If no key is provided, both statuses are returned. Valid archived keys are: true false sort string (optional) Example: 1-1Sort items by this field (see below). Valid sort keys are: id buyer created status last_activity sort_order string (optional) Example: 1-1Sort items in a particular order (one of asc, desc) Response  200Toggle Headers Status: HTTP/1.1 200 OK Reproxy-Status: yes Access-Control-Allow-Origin: * Cache-Control: public, must-revalidate Content-Type: application/json Server: lighttpd Content-Length: 780 Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2014 19:59:59 GMT X-Varnish: 1702965334 Age: 0 Via: 1.1 varnish Connection: keep-alive Body { "pagination": { "per_page": 50, "pages": 1, "page": 1, "items": 1, "urls": {} }, "orders": [ { "status": "New Order", "fee": { "currency": "USD", "value": 2.52 }, "created": "2011-10-21T09:25:17-07:00", "items": [ { "release": { "id": 1, "description": "Persuader, The - Stockholm (2x12\")", "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/releases/1", "thumbnail": "http://api-img.discogs.com/souG2t4I8ZFVK3kHVtD3zjGvd_Y=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-1-1193812031.jpeg.jpg" }, "price": { "currency": "USD", "value": 42.0 }, "id": 41578242 } ], "shipping": { "currency": "USD", "method": "Standard", "value": 0.0 }, "shipping_address": "Asdf Exampleton\n234 NE Asdf St.\nAsdf Town, Oregon, 14423\nUnited States\n\nPhone: 555-555-2733\nPaypal address: asdf@example.com", "additional_instructions": "please use sturdy packaging.", "archived": false, "seller": { "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/users/example_seller", "username": "example_seller", "id": 1 }, "last_activity": "2011-10-21T09:25:17-07:00", "buyer": { "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/users/example_buyer", "username": "example_buyer", "id": 2 }, "total": { "currency": "USD", "value": 42.0 }, "id": "1-1" "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/marketplace/orders/1-1", "messages_url": "https://api.discogs.com/marketplace/orders/1-1/messages", "uri": "http://www.discogs.com/sell/order/1-1", "next_status": [ "New Order", "Buyer Contacted", "Invoice Sent", "Payment Pending", "Payment Received", "Shipped", "Refund Sent", "Cancelled (Non-Paying Buyer)", "Cancelled (Item Unavailable)", "Cancelled (Per Buyer's Request)" ] } ] } List Order Messages  List Order Messages GET /marketplace/orders/{order_id}/messages Returns a list of the order’s messages with the most recent first. Accepts Pagination parameters. Authentication as the seller is required. Parameters order_id string (required) Example: 1-1The ID of the order you are fetching Response  200Toggle Headers Status: HTTP/1.1 200 OK Reproxy-Status: yes Access-Control-Allow-Origin: * Cache-Control: public, must-revalidate Content-Type: application/json Server: lighttpd Content-Length: 780 Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2014 19:59:59 GMT X-Varnish: 1702965334 Age: 0 Via: 1.1 varnish Connection: keep-alive Body { "pagination": { "per_page": 50, "items": 8, "page": 1, "urls": {}, "pages": 1 }, "messages": [ { "refund": { "amount": 5, "order": { "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/marketplace/orders/845236-9", "id": "845236-9" } }, "timestamp": "2015-06-02T13:17:54-07:00", "message": "example_buyer received refund of $5.00.", "type": "refund_received", "order": { "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/marketplace/orders/845236-9", "id": "845236-9" }, "subject": "" }, { "refund": { "amount": 5, "order": { "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/marketplace/orders/845236-9", "id": "845236-9" } }, "timestamp": "2015-06-02T13:17:44-07:00", "message": "example_seller sent refund of $5.00.", "type": "refund_sent", "order": { "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/marketplace/orders/845236-9", "id": "845236-9" }, "subject": "" }, { "from": { "id": 1001, "username": "example_seller", "avatar_url": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/1ddcc19fb43551fb86c143465f773282?s=300&r=pg&d=mm", "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/users/example_seller" }, "timestamp": "2015-06-02T13:17:07-07:00", "message": "Thank you for your order!", "type": "message", "order": { "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/marketplace/orders/845236-9", "id": "845236-9" }, "subject": "New Message - Order #845236-9 - TZ Goes Beyond 10! + 1 more item" }, { "status_id": 6, "timestamp": "2015-06-02T13:16:57-07:00", "actor": { "username": "example_seller", "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/users/example_seller" }, "message": "example_buyer changed the order status to Shipped.", "type": "status", "order": { "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/marketplace/orders/845236-9", "id": "845236-9" }, "subject": "" }, { "status_id": 5, "timestamp": "2015-06-02T13:16:51-07:00", "actor": { "username": "example_seller", "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/users/example_seller" }, "message": "example_buyer changed the order status to Payment Received.", "type": "status", "order": { "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/marketplace/orders/845236-9", "id": "845236-9" }, "subject": "" }, { "status_id": 3, "timestamp": "2015-06-02T13:16:27-07:00", "actor": { "username": "example_seller", "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/users/example_seller" }, "message": "example_buyer changed the order status to Invoice Sent.", "type": "status", "order": { "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/marketplace/orders/845236-9", "id": "845236-9" }, "subject": "" }, { "timestamp": "2015-06-02T13:16:27-07:00", "original": 0, "new": 5, "message": "example_seller set the shipping price to $5.00.", "type": "shipping", "order": { "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/marketplace/orders/845236-9", "id": "845236-9" }, "subject": "" }, { "status_id": 1, "timestamp": "2015-06-02T13:16:12-07:00", "actor": { "username": "example_seller", "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/users/example_seller" }, "message": "example_seller created the order by merging orders #845236-7, #845236-8.", "type": "status", "order": { "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/marketplace/orders/845236-9", "id": "845236-9" }, "subject": "" } ] } Add New Message POST /marketplace/orders/{order_id}/messages Adds a new message to the order’s message log. When posting a new message, you can simultaneously change the order status. If you do, the message will automatically be prepended with: Seller changed status from Old Status to New Status While message and status are each optional, one or both must be present. Parameters order_id string (required) Example: 1-1The ID of the order you are fetching message string (optional) Example: hello world status string (optional) Example: New Order RequestToggle Headers Content-Type: application/json Response  201Toggle Body { "from": { "username": "example_seller", "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/users/example_seller" }, "message": "Seller changed status from Payment Received to Shipped\n\nYour order is on its way, tracking number #foobarbaz!", "order": { "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/marketplace/orders/1-1", "id": "1-1" }, "timestamp": "2011-11-18T15:32:42-07:00", "subject": "Discogs Order #1-1, Stockholm" } Response  403Toggle Body { "message": "You don't have permission to access this resource." } Fee  Calculate Fee GET /marketplace/fee/{price} The Fee resource allows you to quickly calculate the fee for selling an item on the Marketplace. Parameters price number (optional) Example: 10.00The price to calculate a fee from Response  200Toggle Headers Status: HTTP/1.1 200 OK Reproxy-Status: yes Access-Control-Allow-Origin: * Cache-Control: public, must-revalidate Content-Type: application/json Server: lighttpd Content-Length: 780 Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2014 19:59:59 GMT X-Varnish: 1702965334 Age: 0 Via: 1.1 varnish Connection: keep-alive Body { "value": 0.42, "currency": "USD", } Fee with currency  Calculate Fee GET /marketplace/fee/{price}/{currency} The Fee resource allows you to quickly calculate the fee for selling an item on the Marketplace given a particular currency. Parameters price number (optional) Example: 10.00The price to calculate a fee from currency string (optional) Example: USDDefaults to USD. Must be one of the following: USD GBP EUR CAD AUD JPY CHF MXN BRL NZD SEK ZAR Response  200Toggle Headers Status: HTTP/1.1 200 OK Reproxy-Status: yes Access-Control-Allow-Origin: * Cache-Control: public, must-revalidate Content-Type: application/json Server: lighttpd Content-Length: 780 Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2014 19:59:59 GMT X-Varnish: 1702965334 Age: 0 Via: 1.1 varnish Connection: keep-alive Body { "value": 0.42, "currency": "USD", } Price Suggestions  Get Price Suggestions GET /marketplace/price_suggestions/{release_id} Retrieve price suggestions for the provided Release ID. If no suggestions are available, an empty object will be returned. Authentication is required, and the user needs to have filled out their seller settings. Suggested prices will be denominated in the user’s selling currency. Parameters release_id number (required) Example: 1The release ID to calculate a price from. Response  200Toggle Headers Status: HTTP/1.1 200 OK Reproxy-Status: yes Access-Control-Allow-Origin: * Cache-Control: public, must-revalidate Content-Type: application/json Server: lighttpd Content-Length: 780 Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2014 19:59:59 GMT X-Varnish: 1702965334 Age: 0 Via: 1.1 varnish Connection: keep-alive Body { "Very Good (VG)": { "currency": "USD", "value": 6.7827501 }, "Good Plus (G+)": { "currency": "USD", "value": 3.7681945000000003 }, "Near Mint (NM or M-)": { "currency": "USD", "value": 12.8118613 }, "Good (G)": { "currency": "USD", "value": 2.2609167 }, "Very Good Plus (VG+)": { "currency": "USD", "value": 9.7973057 }, "Mint (M)": { "currency": "USD", "value": 14.319139100000001 }, "Fair (F)": { "currency": "USD", "value": 1.5072778000000002 }, "Poor (P)": { "currency": "USD", "value": 0.7536389000000001 } } Release Statistics  Get Marketplace Stats GET /marketplace/stats/{release_id}{?curr_abbr} Retrieve marketplace statistics for the provided Release ID. These statistics reflect the state of the release in the marketplace currently, and include the number of items currently for sale, lowest listed price of any item for sale, and whether the item is blocked for sale in the marketplace. Authentication is optional. Authenticated users will by default have the lowest currency expressed in their own buyer currency, configurable in buyer settings, in the absence of the curr_abbr query parameter to specify the currency. Unauthenticated users will have the price expressed in US Dollars, if no curr_abbr is provided. Releases that have no items for sale in the marketplace will return a body with null data in the lowest_price and num_for_sale keys. Releases that are blocked for sale will also have null data for these keys. Parameters release_id number (required) Example: 1The release ID whose stats are desired curr_abbr string (optional) Example: USDCurrency for marketplace data. Defaults to the authenticated users currency. Must be one of the following: USD GBP EUR CAD AUD JPY CHF MXN BRL NZD SEK ZAR Response  200Toggle Headers Status: HTTP/1.1 200 OK Reproxy-Status: yes Access-Control-Allow-Origin: * Cache-Control: public, must-revalidate Content-Type: application/json Server: lighttpd Content-Length: 780 Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2014 19:59:59 GMT X-Varnish: 1702965334 Age: 0 Via: 1.1 varnish Connection: keep-alive Body { "lowest_price": { "currency": "USD", "value": 2.09 }, "num_for_sale": 26, "blocked_from_sale": false } Next  Previous Inventory Export  Export your inventory  Export your inventory POST /inventory/export Request an export of your inventory as a CSV. Response  200Toggle Headers Content-Type: application/json Location: https://api.discogs.com/inventory/export/599632 Response  401Toggle Headers Content-Type: application/json Response  409Toggle Headers Content-Type: application/json Get recent exports  Get recent exports GET /inventory/export Get a list of all recent exports of your inventory. Accepts Pagination parameters. Response  200Toggle Headers Content-Type: application/json Body { "items": [ { "status": "success", "created_ts": "2018-09-27T12:59:02", "url": "https://api.discogs.com/inventory/export/599632", "finished_ts": "2018-09-27T12:59:02", "download_url": "https://api.discogs.com/inventory/export/599632/download", "filename": "cburmeister-inventory-20180927-1259.csv", "id": 599632 } ], "pagination": { "per_page": 50, "items": 15, "page": 1, "urls": {}, "pages": 1 } } Response  401Toggle Headers Content-Type: application/json Get an export  Get an export GET /inventory/export/{id} Get details about the status of an inventory export. Parameters id number (required) Id of the export. RequestToggle Headers Content-Type: multipart/form-data If-Modified-Since: Thu, 27 Sep 2018 12:50:39 GMT Response  200Toggle Headers Content-Type: application/json Last-Modified: Thu, 27 Sep 2018 12:59:02 GMT Body { "status": "success", "created_ts": "2018-09-27T12:50:39", "url": "https://api.discogs.com/inventory/export/599632", "finished_ts": "2018-09-27T12:59:02", "download_url": "https://api.discogs.com/inventory/export/599632/download", "filename": "cburmeister-inventory-20180927-1259.csv", "id": 599632 } Response  304 Response  401Toggle Headers Content-Type: application/json Response  404Toggle Headers Content-Type: application/json Download an export  Download an export GET /inventory/export/{id}/download Download the results of an inventory export. Parameters id number (required) Id of the export. Response  200Toggle Headers Content-Type: text/csv; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=cburmeister-inventory-20180927-1259.csv Response  401Toggle Headers Content-Type: application/json Response  404Toggle Headers Content-Type: application/json Next  Previous Inventory Upload  Add inventory  Add inventory POST /inventory/upload/add Upload a CSV of listings to add to your inventory. File structure ¶ The file you upload must be a comma-separated CSV. The first row must be a header with lower case field names. Here’s an example: release_id,price,media_condition,comments 123,1.50,Mint (M),Comments about this release for sale 456,2.50,Near Mint (NM or M-),More comments 7890,3.50,Good (G),Signed vinyl copy Things to note: ¶ These listings will be marked “For Sale” immediately. Currency information will be pulled from your marketplace settings. Any fields that aren’t optional or required will be ignored. Required fields ¶ release_id - Must be a number. This value corresponds with the Discogs database Release ID. price - Must be a number. media_condition - Must be a valid condition (see below). Optional fields ¶ sleeve_condition - Must be a valid condition (see below). comments accept_offer - Must be Y or N. location - Private free-text field to help identify an item’s physical location. external_id - Private notes or IDs for your own reference. weight - In grams. Must be a non-negative integer. format_quantity - Number of items that this item counts as (for shipping). Conditions ¶ When you specify a media condition, it must exactly match one of these: Mint (M) Near Mint (NM or M-) Very Good Plus (VG+) Very Good (VG) Good Plus (G+) Good (G) Fair (F) Poor (P) Sleeve condition may be any of the above, or: Not Graded Generic No Cover Parameters upload file (required) The CSV file of items to add to your inventory. Response  200Toggle Headers Content-Type: application/json Location: https://api.discogs.com/inventory/upload/599632 Response  401Toggle Headers Content-Type: application/json Response  409Toggle Headers Content-Type: application/json Response  415Toggle Headers Content-Type: application/json Response  422Toggle Headers Content-Type: application/json Change inventory  Change inventory POST /inventory/upload/change Upload a CSV of listings to change in your inventory. File structure ¶ The file you upload must be a comma-separated CSV. The first row must be a header with lower case field names. Here’s an example: release_id,price,media_condition,comments 123,1.50,Mint (M),Comments about this release for sale 456,2.50,Near Mint (NM or M-),More comments 7890,3.50,Good (G),Signed vinyl copy Things to note: ¶ These listings will be marked “For Sale” immediately. Currency information will be pulled from your marketplace settings. Any fields that aren’t optional or required will be ignored. Required fields ¶ release_id - Must be a number. This value corresponds with the Discogs database Release ID. Optional fields (at least one required) ¶ price - media_condition - Must be a valid condition (see below). sleeve_condition - Must be a valid condition (see below). comments accept_offer - Must be Y or N. external_id - Private notes or IDs for your own reference. location - Private free-text field to help identify an item’s physical location. weight - In grams. Must be a non-negative integer. format_quantity - Number of items that this item counts as (for shipping). Conditions ¶ When you specify a media condition, it must exactly match one of these: Mint (M) Near Mint (NM or M-) Very Good Plus (VG+) Very Good (VG) Good Plus (G+) Good (G) Fair (F) Poor (P) Sleeve condition may be any of the above, or: Not Graded Generic No Cover Parameters upload file (required) The CSV file of items to alter in your inventory. Response  200Toggle Headers Content-Type: application/json Location: https://api.discogs.com/inventory/upload/599632 Response  401Toggle Headers Content-Type: application/json Response  409Toggle Headers Content-Type: application/json Response  415Toggle Headers Content-Type: application/json Response  422Toggle Headers Content-Type: application/json Delete inventory  Delete inventory POST /inventory/upload/delete Upload a CSV of listings to delete from your inventory. File structure ¶ The file you upload must be a comma-separated CSV. The first row must be a header with lower case field names. Here’s an example: listing_id 12345678 98765432 31415926 Required fields ¶ listing_id - Must be a number. This is the ID of the listing you wish to delete. Parameters upload file (required) The CSV file listing items to remove from your inventory. Response  200Toggle Headers Content-Type: application/json Location: https://api.discogs.com/inventory/upload/599632 Response  401Toggle Headers Content-Type: application/json Response  409Toggle Headers Content-Type: application/json Response  415Toggle Headers Content-Type: application/json Response  422Toggle Headers Content-Type: application/json Get recent uploads  Get recent uploads GET /inventory/upload Get a list of all recent inventory uploads. Accepts Pagination parameters. Response  200Toggle Headers Content-Type: application/json Body { "items": [ { "status": "success", "results": "CSV file contains 1 records.

    Processed 1 records.", "created_ts": "2017-12-18T09:20:28", "finished_ts": "2017-12-18T09:20:29", "filename": "add.csv", "type": "change", "id": 119615 } ], "pagination": { "per_page": 50, "items": 1, "page": 1, "urls": {}, "pages": 1 } } Response  401Toggle Headers Content-Type: application/json Get an upload  Get an upload GET /inventory/upload/{id} Get details about the status of an inventory upload. Parameters id number (required) Id of the export. RequestToggle Headers Content-Type: multipart/form-data If-Modified-Since: Thu, 27 Sep 2018 09:20:28 GMT Response  200Toggle Headers Content-Type: application/json Body { "status": "success", "results": "CSV file contains 1 records.

    Processed 1 records.", "created_ts": "2017-12-18T09:20:28", "finished_ts": "2017-12-18T09:20:29", "filename": "add.csv", "type": "change", "id": 119615 } Response  304 Response  401Toggle Headers Content-Type: application/json Response  404Toggle Headers Content-Type: application/json Next  Previous User Identity  Identity  Get Identity GET /oauth/identity Retrieve basic information about the authenticated user. You can use this resource to find out who you’re authenticated as, and it also doubles as a good sanity check to ensure that you’re using OAuth correctly. For more detailed information, make another request for the user’s Profile. RequestToggle Body GET https://api.discogs.com/oauth/identity Response  200Toggle Headers Status: HTTP/1.1 200 OK Reproxy-Status: yes Access-Control-Allow-Origin: * Cache-Control: public, must-revalidate Content-Type: application/json Content-Encoding: gzip Content-Location: https://api.discogs.com/oauth/identity?oauth_body_hash=some_hash&oauth_nonce=... Server: lighttpd Content-Length: 127 Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2014 18:44:17 GMT X-Varnish: 1718276369 Age: 0 Via: 1.1 varnish Connection: keep-alive Body { "id": 1, "username": "example", "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/users/example", "consumer_name": "Your Application Name" } Response  401Toggle Headers Status: HTTP/1.1 401 Unauthorized Reproxy-Status: yes Access-Control-Allow-Origin: * Cache-Control: public, must-revalidate Content-Type: application/json WWW-Authenticate: OAuth realm="https://api.discogs.com" Server: lighttpd Content-Length: 61 Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2014 18:42:38 GMT X-Varnish: 1718433436 Age: 0 Via: 1.1 varnish Connection: keep-alive Body { "message": "You must authenticate to access this resource." } Profile  Get Profile GET /users/{username} Retrieve a user by username. If authenticated as the requested user, the email key will be visible, and the num_list count will include the user’s private lists. If authenticated as the requested user or the user’s collection/wantlist is public, the num_collection / num_wantlist keys will be visible. Parameters username string (required) Example: rodneyfoolThe username of whose profile you are requesting. Response  200Toggle Headers Status: HTTP/1.1 200 OK Reproxy-Status: yes Access-Control-Allow-Origin: * Cache-Control: public, must-revalidate Content-Type: application/json Server: lighttpd Content-Length: 858 Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2014 18:46:21 GMT X-Varnish: 1718492795 Age: 0 Via: 1.1 varnish Connection: keep-alive Body { "profile": "I am a software developer for Discogs.\r\n\r\n[img=http://i.imgur.com/IAk3Ukk.gif]", "wantlist_url": "https://api.discogs.com/users/rodneyfool/wants", "rank": 149, "num_pending": 61, "id": 1578108, "num_for_sale": 0, "home_page": "", "location": "I live in the good ol' Pacific NW", "collection_folders_url": "https://api.discogs.com/users/rodneyfool/collection/folders", "username": "rodneyfool", "collection_fields_url": "https://api.discogs.com/users/rodneyfool/collection/fields", "releases_contributed": 5, "registered": "2012-08-15T21:13:36-07:00", "rating_avg": 3.47, "num_collection": 78, "releases_rated": 116, "num_lists": 0, "name": "Rodney", "num_wantlist": 160, "inventory_url": "https://api.discogs.com/users/rodneyfool/inventory", "avatar_url": "http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/55502f40dc8b7c769880b10874abc9d0?s=52&r=pg&d=mm", "banner_url": "https://img.discogs.com/dhuJe-pRJmod7hN3cdVi2PugEh4=/1600x400/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg)/discogs-banners/B-1578108-user-1436314164-9231.jpg.jpg", "uri": "http://www.discogs.com/user/rodneyfool", "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/users/rodneyfool", "buyer_rating": 100.00, "buyer_rating_stars": 5, "buyer_num_ratings": 144, "seller_rating": 100.00, "seller_rating_stars": 5, "seller_num_ratings": 21, "curr_abbr": "USD", } Edit Profile POST /users/{username} Edit a user’s profile data. Authentication as the user is required. Parameters username string (required) Example: vreonThe username of the user. name string (optional) Example: Nicolas CageThe real name of the user. home_page string (optional) Example: www.discogs.comThe user’s website. location string (optional) Example: PortlandThe geographical location of the user. profile string (optional) Example: I am a Discogs user!Biographical information about the user. curr_abbr string (optional) Example: USDCurrency for marketplace data. Must be one of the following: USD GBP EUR CAD AUD JPY CHF MXN BRL NZD SEK ZAR Response  200Toggle Body { "id": 1, "username": "example", "name": "Example Sampleman", "email": "sampleman@example.com", "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/users/example", "inventory_url": "https://api.discogs.com/users/example/inventory", "collection_folders_url": "https://api.discogs.com/users/example/collection/folders", "collection_fields_url": "https://api.discogs.com/users/example/collection/fields", "wantlist_url": "https://api.discogs.com/users/example/wants", "uri": "http://www.discogs.com/user/example", "profile": "This is some [b]different sample[/b] data!", "home_page": "http://www.example.com", "location": "Australia", "registered": "2011-08-30 14:21:45-07:00", "num_lists": 0, "num_for_sale": 6, "num_collection": 4, "num_wantlist": 5, "num_pending": 10, "releases_contributed": 15, "rank": 30, "releases_rated": 4, "rating_avg": 2.5 } Response  403Toggle Body { "message": "You don't have permission to access this resource." } User Submissions  The Submissions resource represents all edits that a user makes to releases, labels, and artist. Get Submissions GET /users/{username}/submissions Retrieve a user’s submissions by username. Accepts Pagination parameters. Parameters username string (required) Example: shooezgirlThe username of the submissions you are trying to fetch. Response  200Toggle Body { "pagination": { "items": 3, "page": 1, "pages": 1, "per_page": 50, "urls": {} }, "submissions": { "artists": [ { "data_quality": "Needs Vote", "id": 240177, "name": "Grimy", "namevariations": [ "Grimmy" ], "releases_url": "https://api.discogs.com/artists/240177/releases", "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/artists/240177", "uri": "http://www.discogs.com/artist/240177-Grimy" } ], "labels": [], "releases": [ { "artists": [ { "anv": "", "id": 17035, "join": "", "name": "Chaka Khan", "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/artists/17035", "role": "", "tracks": "" } ], "community": { "contributors": [ { "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/users/shooezgirl", "username": "shooezgirl" }, { "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/users/Diognes_The_Fox", "username": "Diognes_The_Fox" } ], "data_quality": "Needs Vote", "have": 0, "rating": { "average": 0, "count": 0 }, "status": "Accepted", "submitter": { "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/users/shooezgirl", "username": "shooezgirl" }, "want": 0 }, "companies": [], "country": "US", "data_quality": "Needs Vote", "date_added": "2014-03-25T14:52:18-07:00", "date_changed": "2014-05-14T13:28:21-07:00", "estimated_weight": 60, "format_quantity": 1, "formats": [ { "descriptions": [ "7\"", "45 RPM", "Promo" ], "name": "Vinyl", "qty": "1" } ], "genres": [ "Funk / Soul" ], "id": 5531861, "images": [ { "height": 594, "resource_url": "https://api-img.discogs.com/i3jf6S4S7LMNBuWxstCxAQs2Rw0=/fit-in/600x594/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(96)/discogs-images/R-5531861-1400099290-9223.jpeg.jpg", "type": "primary", "uri": "https://api-img.discogs.com/i3jf6S4S7LMNBuWxstCxAQs2Rw0=/fit-in/600x594/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(96)/discogs-images/R-5531861-1400099290-9223.jpeg.jpg", "uri150": "https://api-img.discogs.com/xMSwaqP2T8SNwDUTO-gXmHXWt6s=/fit-in/150x150/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb()/discogs-images/R-5531861-1400099290-9223.jpeg.jpg", "width": 600 }, { "height": 600, "resource_url": "https://api-img.discogs.com/sT0plDMoOcfJz-1JEui8XQr69kw=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(96)/discogs-images/R-5531861-1400099290-9749.jpeg.jpg", "type": "secondary", "uri": "https://api-img.discogs.com/sT0plDMoOcfJz-1JEui8XQr69kw=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(96)/discogs-images/R-5531861-1400099290-9749.jpeg.jpg", "uri150": "https://api-img.discogs.com/f2QfdjBjpuP-Eht4DVSlCfPtTe8=/fit-in/150x150/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb()/discogs-images/R-5531861-1400099290-9749.jpeg.jpg", "width": 600 } ], "labels": [ { "catno": "7-28671", "entity_type": "1", "id": 1000, "name": "Warner Bros. Records", "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/labels/1000" } ], "master_id": 174698, "master_url": "https://api.discogs.com/masters/174698", "notes": "Promotion Not for Sale", "released": "1986", "released_formatted": "1986", "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/releases/5531861", "series": [], "status": "Accepted", "styles": [ "Rhythm & Blues" ], "thumb": "https://api-img.discogs.com/xMSwaqP2T8SNwDUTO-gXmHXWt6s=/fit-in/150x150/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb()/discogs-images/R-5531861-1400099290-9223.jpeg.jpg", "title": "Love Of A Lifetime", "uri": "http://www.discogs.com/Chaka-Khan-Love-Of-A-Lifetime/release/5531861", "videos": [ { "description": "Chaka Khan - Love you all my lifetime (live)", "duration": 285, "embed": true, "title": "Chaka Khan - Love you all my lifetime (live)", "uri": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOrCYzfchTI" }, { "description": "Chaka Khan - Love Of A Lifetime [Official Video]", "duration": 257, "embed": true, "title": "Chaka Khan - Love Of A Lifetime [Official Video]", "uri": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5K6-q2VqJdE" }, { "description": "CHAKA KHAN - COLTRANE DREAMS ~{The 45 VERSION}~", "duration": 151, "embed": true, "title": "CHAKA KHAN - COLTRANE DREAMS ~{The 45 VERSION}~", "uri": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11eaG7KdS9g" } ], "year": 1986 } ] } } User Contributions  The Contributions resource represents releases, labels, and artists submitted by a user. Get Contributions GET /users/{username}/contributions{?sort,sort_order} Retrieve a user’s contributions by username. Accepts Pagination parameters. Valid sort keys are: label artist title catno format rating year added Valid sort_order keys are: asc desc Parameters username string (required) Example: shooezgirlThe username of the submissions you are trying to fetch. sort string (optional) Example: artistSort items by this field (see below for all valid sort keys. sort_order string (optional) Example: descSort items in a particular order (asc or desc) Response  200Toggle Body { "contributions": [ { "artists": [ { "anv": "", "id": 17961, "join": "And", "name": "Cher", "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/artists/17961", "role": "", "tracks": "" } ], "community": { "contributors": [ { "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/users/shooezgirl", "username": "shooezgirl" }, { "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/users/Aquacrash_Dj", "username": "Aquacrash_Dj" } ], "data_quality": "Needs Vote", "have": 0, "rating": { "average": 0, "count": 0 }, "status": "Accepted", "submitter": { "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/users/shooezgirl", "username": "shooezgirl" }, "want": 0 }, "companies": [], "country": "US", "data_quality": "Needs Vote", "date_added": "2014-03-25T15:16:13-07:00", "date_changed": "2014-05-14T13:36:00-07:00", "estimated_weight": 60, "format_quantity": 1, "formats": [ { "descriptions": [ "7\"", "45 RPM", "Single", "Promo" ], "name": "Vinyl", "qty": "1" } ], "genres": [ "Rock", "Pop" ], "id": 5531933, "images": [ { "height": 605, "resource_url": "https://api-img.discogs.com/e0X1tNZv6nkdOOTPJAn-dtCbFa0=/fit-in/600x605/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(96)/discogs-images/R-5531933-1400099758-6444.jpeg.jpg", "type": "primary", "uri": "https://api-img.discogs.com/e0X1tNZv6nkdOOTPJAn-dtCbFa0=/fit-in/600x605/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(96)/discogs-images/R-5531933-1400099758-6444.jpeg.jpg", "uri150": "https://api-img.discogs.com/8et0xtf9REFloKoqi6NSJ6AJvFI=/fit-in/150x150/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb()/discogs-images/R-5531933-1400099758-6444.jpeg.jpg", "width": 600 } ], "labels": [ { "catno": "7-27529-DJ", "entity_type": "1", "id": 821, "name": "Geffen Records", "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/labels/821" } ], "master_id": 223379, "master_url": "https://api.discogs.com/masters/223379", "notes": "Promotion Not For Sale", "released": "1989", "released_formatted": "1989", "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/releases/5531933", "series": [], "status": "Accepted", "styles": [ "Ballad" ], "thumb": "https://api-img.discogs.com/8et0xtf9REFloKoqi6NSJ6AJvFI=/fit-in/150x150/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb()/discogs-images/R-5531933-1400099758-6444.jpeg.jpg", "title": "After All", "uri": "http://www.discogs.com/Cher-And-Peter-Cetera-After-All/release/5531933", "videos": [ { "description": "Cher & Peter Cetera - After All [On-Screen Lyrics]", "duration": 247, "embed": true, "title": "Cher & Peter Cetera - After All [On-Screen Lyrics]", "uri": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qy717J3Iscw" } ], "year": 1989 } ], "pagination": { "items": 2, "page": 1, "pages": 1, "per_page": 50, "urls": {} } } Next  Previous User Collection  Collection  The Collection resource allows you to view and manage a user’s collection. A collection is arranged into folders. Every user has two permanent folders already: ID 0, the “All” folder, which cannot have releases added to it, and ID 1, the “Uncategorized” folder. Because it’s possible to own more than one copy of a release, each with its own notes, grading, and so on, each instance of a release in a folder has an instance ID. Through the Discogs website, users can create custom notes fields. There is not yet an API method for creating and deleting these fields, but they can be listed, and the values of the fields on any instance can be modified. Get Collection Folders GET /users/{username}/collection/folders Retrieve a list of folders in a user’s collection. If the collection has been made private by its owner, authentication as the collection owner is required. If you are not authenticated as the collection owner, only folder ID 0 (the “All” folder) will be visible (if the requested user’s collection is public). Parameters username string (required) Example: rodneyfoolThe username of the collection you are trying to retrieve. Response  200Toggle Headers Reproxy-Status: yes Access-Control-Allow-Origin: * Cache-Control: public, must-revalidate Content-Type: application/json Server: lighttpd Content-Length: 132 Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2014 23:20:21 GMT X-Varnish: 1722533701 Age: 0 Via: 1.1 varnish Connection: keep-alive Body { "folders": [ { "id": 0, "count": 23, "name": "All", "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/users/example/collection/folders/0" }, { "id": 1, "count": 20, "name": "Uncategorized", "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/users/example/collection/folders/1" } ] } Create Folder POST /users/{username}/collection/folders Create a new folder in a user’s collection. Authentication as the collection owner is required. Parameters username string (required) Example: rodneyfoolThe username of the collection you are trying to retrieve. name string (optional) Example: My favoritesThe name of the newly-created folder. Response  201Toggle Body { "id": 232842, "name": "My Music", "count": 0, "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/users/example/collection/folders/232842" } Collection Folder  Get Folders GET /users/{username}/collection/folders/{folder_id} Retrieve metadata about a folder in a user’s collection. If folder_id is not 0, authentication as the collection owner is required. Parameters username string (required) Example: rodneyfoolThe username of the collection you are trying to request. folder_id number (required) Example: 3The ID of the folder to request. Response  200Toggle Headers Reproxy-Status: yes Access-Control-Allow-Origin: * Cache-Control: public, must-revalidate Content-Type: application/json Server: lighttpd Content-Length: 132 Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2014 23:20:21 GMT X-Varnish: 1722533701 Age: 0 Via: 1.1 varnish Connection: keep-alive Body { "id": 1, "count": 20, "name": "Uncategorized", "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/users/example/collection/folders/1" } Edit Folder POST /users/{username}/collection/folders/{folder_id} Edit a folder’s metadata. Folders 0 and 1 cannot be renamed. Authentication as the collection owner is required. Parameters username string (required) Example: rodneyfoolThe username of the collection you are trying to modify. folder_id number (required) Example: 3The ID of the folder to modify. Response  200Toggle Body { "id": 392, "count": 3, "name": "An Example Folder", "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/users/example/collection/folders/392" } Delete Folder DELETE /users/{username}/collection/folders/{folder_id} Delete a folder from a user’s collection. A folder must be empty before it can be deleted. Authentication as the collection owner is required. Parameters username string (required) Example: rodneyfoolThe username of the collection you are trying to modify. folder_id number (required) Example: 3The ID of the folder to delete. Response  204 Collection Items By Release  Get Items By Release GET /users/{username}/collection/releases/{release_id} View the user’s collection folders which contain a specified release. This will also show information about each release instance. The release_id must be non-zero. Authentication as the collection owner is required if the owner’s collection is private. Parameters username string (required) Example: susan.salkeldThe username of the collection you are trying to view. release_id number (required) Example: 7781525The ID of the release to request. Response  200Toggle Body { "pagination": { "per_page": 50, "items": 28, "page": 1, "urls": {}, "pages": 1 }, "releases": [ { "instance_id": 148842233, "rating": 4, "basic_information": { "labels": [ { "name": "Varèse Vintage", "entity_type": "1", "catno": "302 067 361 1", "resource_url": "http://api.discogs.com/labels/151979", "id": 151979, "entity_type_name": "Label" } ], "formats": [ { "descriptions": [ "LP", "Album", "Compilation", "Limited Edition", "Mono" ], "name": "Vinyl", "qty": "2" } ], "thumb": "http://api-img.discogs.com/FGmDbZ6M9wNPwEAsn0yWz1jzQuI=/fit-in/150x150/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-7781525-1449187274-5587.jpeg.jpg", "title": "The BBC Radio Sessions", "artists": [ { "join": ",", "name": "The Zombies", "anv": "", "tracks": "", "role": "", "resource_url": "http://api.discogs.com/artists/262221", "id": 262221 } ], "resource_url": "http://api.discogs.com/releases/7781525", "year": 2015, "id": 7781525 }, "folder_id": 688739, "date_added": "2015-11-30T10:54:13-08:00", "id": 7781525 }, { "instance_id": 181301430, "rating": 4, "basic_information": { "labels": [ { "name": "Varèse Vintage", "entity_type": "1", "catno": "302 067 361 1", "resource_url": "http://api.discogs.com/labels/151979", "id": 151979, "entity_type_name": "Label" } ], "formats": [ { "descriptions": [ "LP", "Album", "Compilation", "Limited Edition", "Mono" ], "name": "Vinyl", "qty": "2" } ], "thumb": "http://api-img.discogs.com/FGmDbZ6M9wNPwEAsn0yWz1jzQuI=/fit-in/150x150/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-7781525-1449187274-5587.jpeg.jpg", "title": "The BBC Radio Sessions", "artists": [ { "join": ",", "name": "The Zombies", "anv": "", "tracks": "", "role": "", "resource_url": "http://api.discogs.com/artists/262221", "id": 262221 } ], "resource_url": "http://api.discogs.com/releases/7781525", "year": 2015, "id": 7781525 }, "folder_id": 1, "date_added": "2016-07-27T08:11:29-07:00", "id": 7781525 }, { "instance_id": 181301442, "rating": 4, "basic_information": { "labels": [ { "name": "Varèse Vintage", "entity_type": "1", "catno": "302 067 361 1", "resource_url": "http://api.discogs.com/labels/151979", "id": 151979, "entity_type_name": "Label" } ], "formats": [ { "descriptions": [ "LP", "Album", "Compilation", "Limited Edition", "Mono" ], "name": "Vinyl", "qty": "2" } ], "thumb": "http://api-img.discogs.com/FGmDbZ6M9wNPwEAsn0yWz1jzQuI=/fit-in/150x150/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-7781525-1449187274-5587.jpeg.jpg", "title": "The BBC Radio Sessions", "artists": [ { "join": ",", "name": "The Zombies", "anv": "", "tracks": "", "role": "", "resource_url": "http://api.discogs.com/artists/262221", "id": 262221 } ], "resource_url": "http://api.discogs.com/releases/7781525", "year": 2015, "id": 7781525 }, "folder_id": 688739, "date_added": "2016-07-27T08:11:35-07:00", "id": 7781525 } ] } Collection Items By Folder  Get Items GET /users/{username}/collection/folders/{folder_id}/releases Returns the list of item in a folder in a user’s collection. Accepts Pagination parameters. Basic information about each release is provided, suitable for display in a list. For detailed information, make another API call to fetch the corresponding release. If folder_id is not 0, or the collection has been made private by its owner, authentication as the collection owner is required. If you are not authenticated as the collection owner, only public notes fields will be visible. Valid sort keys are: label artist title catno format rating added year Parameters username string (required) Example: rodneyfoolThe username of the collection you are trying to request. folder_id number (required) Example: 3The ID of the folder to request. sort string (optional) Example: artistSort items by this field (see below for all valid sort keys. sort_order string (optional) Example: descSort items in a particular order (asc or desc) Response  200Toggle Headers Reproxy-Status: yes Access-Control-Allow-Origin: * Cache-Control: public, must-revalidate Content-Type: application/json Server: lighttpd Content-Length: 132 Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2014 23:20:21 GMT X-Varnish: 1722533701 Age: 0 Via: 1.1 varnish Connection: keep-alive Body { "pagination": { "per_page": 1, "pages": 14, "page": 1, "items": 14, "urls": { "next": "https://api.discogs.com/users/example/collection/folders/1/releases?page=2&per_page=1", "last": "https://api.discogs.com/users/example/collection/folders/1/releases?page=2&per_page=14", } }, "releases": [ { "id": 2464521, "instance_id": 1, "folder_id": 1, "rating": 0, "basic_information": { "id": 2464521, "title": "Information Chase", "year": 2006, "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/releases/2464521", "thumb": "https://api-img.discogs.com/vzpYq4_kc52GZFs14c0SCJ0ZE84=/fit-in/150x150/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb()/discogs-images/R-2464521-1285519861.jpeg.jpg", "cover_image": "https://api-img.discogs.com/vzpYq4_kc52GZFs14c0SCJ0ZE84/fit-in/500x500/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-2464521-1285519861.jpeg.jpg", "formats": [ { "qty": "1", "descriptions": [ "Mini", "EP" ], "name": "CDr" } ], "labels": [ { "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/labels/11647", "entity_type": "", "catno": "8BP059", "id": 11647, "name": "8bitpeoples" } ], "artists": [ { "id": 103906, "name": "Bit Shifter", "join": "", "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/artists/103906", "anv": "", "tracks": "", "role": "" } ], "genres": [ "Electronic", "Pop" ], "styles": [ "Chiptune" ] }, "notes": [ { "field_id": 3, "value": "bleep bloop blorp." } ] } ] } Add To Collection Folder  Add Release POST /users/{username}/collection/folders/{folder_id}/releases/{release_id} Add a release to a folder in a user’s collection. The folder_id must be non-zero – you can use 1 for “Uncategorized”. Authentication as the collection owner is required. Parameters username string (required) Example: rodneyfoolThe username of the collection you are trying to modify. folder_id number (required) Example: 3The ID of the folder to modify. release_id number (required) Example: 130076The ID of the release you are adding. Response  201Toggle Body { "instance_id": 3, "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/users/example/collection/folders/1/release/1/instance/3" } Change Rating Of Release  Change Rating POST /users/{username}/collection/folders/{folder_id}/releases/{release_id}/instances/{instance_id} Change the rating on a release and/or move the instance to another folder. This endpoint potentially takes 2 folder_id parameters: one in the URL (which is the folder you are requesting, and is required), and one in the request body (representing the folder you want to move the instance to, which is optional) Authentication as the collection owner is required. Parameters username string (required) Example: rodneyfoolThe username of the collection you are trying to modify. folder_id number (optional) Example: 4The ID of the folder to modify (this parameter is set in the request body and is set if you want to move the instance to this folder). release_id number (required) Example: 130076The ID of the release you are modifying. instance_id number (required) Example: 1The ID of the instance. rating number (optional) Example: 5The rating of the instance you are supplying. Response  204 Delete Instance From Folder  Delete Instance DELETE /users/{username}/collection/folders/{folder_id}/releases/{release_id}/instances/{instance_id} Remove an instance of a release from a user’s collection folder. To move the release to the “Uncategorized” folder instead, use the POST method. Authentication as the collection owner is required. Parameters username string (required) Example: rodneyfoolThe username of the collection you are trying to modify. folder_id number (required) Example: 3The ID of the folder to modify. release_id number (required) Example: 130076The ID of the release you are modifying. instance_id number (required) Example: 1The ID of the instance. Response  204 Response  403Toggle Body { "message": "You don't have permission to access this resource." } List Custom Fields  List Fields GET /users/{username}/collection/fields Retrieve a list of user-defined collection notes fields. These fields are available on every release in the collection. If the collection has been made private by its owner, authentication as the collection owner is required. If you are not authenticated as the collection owner, only fields with public set to true will be visible. Parameters username string (required) Example: rodneyfoolThe username of the collection you are trying to modify. Response  200Toggle Body { "fields": [ { "name": "Media", "options": [ "Mint (M)", "Near Mint (NM or M-)", "Very Good Plus (VG+)", "Very Good (VG)", "Good Plus (G+)", "Good (G)", "Fair (F)", "Poor (P)" ], "id": 1, "position": 1, "type": "dropdown", "public": true }, { "name": "Sleeve", "options": [ "Generic", "No Cover", "Mint (M)", "Near Mint (NM or M-)", "Very Good Plus (VG+)", "Very Good (VG)", "Good Plus (G+)", "Good (G)", "Fair (F)", "Poor (P)" ], "id": 2, "position": 2, "type": "dropdown", "public": true }, { "name": "Notes", "lines": 3, "id": 3, "position": 3, "type": "textarea", "public": true } ] } Edit Fields Instance  Edit Fields POST /users/{username}/collection/folders/{folder_id}/releases/{release_id}/instances/{instance_id}/fields/{field_id}{?value} Change the value of a notes field on a particular instance. Parameters username string (required) Example: rodneyfoolThe username of the collection you are trying to modify. value string (required) Example: fooThe new value of the field. If the field’s type is dropdown, the value must match one of the values in the field’s list of options. folder_id number (required) Example: 3The ID of the folder to modify. release_id number (required) Example: 130076The ID of the release you are modifying. instance_id number (required) Example: 1The ID of the instance. field_id number (required) Example: 8The ID of the field. Response  204 Collection Value  Get Collection Value GET /users/{username}/collection/value Returns the minimum, median, and maximum value of a user’s collection. Authentication as the collection owner is required. Parameters username string (required) Example: rodneyfoolThe username of the collection you are trying to modify. Response  200Toggle Body { "maximum": "$250.00", "median": "$100.25", "minimum": "$75.50" } Next  Previous User Wantlist  Wantlist  The Wantlist resource allows you to view and manage a user’s wantlist. Get Wantlist GET /users/{username}/wants Returns the list of releases in a user’s wantlist. Accepts Pagination parameters. Basic information about each release is provided, suitable for display in a list. For detailed information, make another API call to fetch the corresponding release. If the wantlist has been made private by its owner, you must be authenticated as the owner to view it. The notes field will be visible if you are authenticated as the wantlist owner. Parameters username string (required) Example: rodneyfoolThe username of the wantlist you are trying to fetch. Response  200Toggle Body { "pagination": { "per_page": 50, "pages": 1, "page": 1, "items": 2, "urls": {} }, "wants": [ { "rating": 4, "basic_information": { "formats": [ { "text": "Digipak", "qty": "1", "descriptions": [ "Album" ], "name": "CD" } ], "thumb": "https://api-img.discogs.com/PsLAcp_I0-EPPkSBaHx2t7dmXTg=/fit-in/150x150/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb()/discogs-images/R-1867708-1248886216.jpeg.jpg", "cover_image": "https://api-img.discogs.com/PsLAcp_I0-EPPkSBaHx2t7dmXTg=/fit-in/500x500/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb()/discogs-images/R-1867708-1248886216.jpeg.jpg", "title": "Year Zero", "labels": [ { "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/labels/2311", "entity_type": "", "catno": "B0008764-02", "id": 2311, "name": "Interscope Records" } ], "year": 2007, "artists": [ { "join": "", "name": "Nine Inch Nails", "anv": "", "tracks": "", "role": "", "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/artists/3857", "id": 3857 } ], "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/releases/1867708", "id": 1867708 }, "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/users/example/wants/1867708", "id": 1867708 }, { "rating": 0, "basic_information": { "formats": [ { "qty": "1", "descriptions": [ "Album" ], "name": "CDr" } ], "thumb": "https://api-img.discogs.com/w1cVy7ppMYEDlqY9sjoAojC3MhQ=/fit-in/150x150/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb()/discogs-images/R-1675174-1236118359.jpeg.jpg", "cover_image": "https://api-img.discogs.com/w1cVy7ppMYEDlqY9sjoAojC3MhQ=/fit-in/347x352/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb()/discogs-images/R-1675174-1236118359.jpeg.jpg", "title": "Dawn Metropolis", "labels": [ { "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/labels/141550", "entity_type": "", "catno": "NORM007", "id": 141550, "name": "Normative" } ], "year": 2009, "artists": [ { "join": "", "name": "Anamanaguchi", "anv": "", "tracks": "", "role": "", "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/artists/667233", "id": 667233 } ], "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/releases/1675174", "id": 1675174 }, "notes": "Sample notes.", "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/users/example/wants/1675174", "id": 1675174 } ] } Add To Wantlist  Add a release to a user’s wantlist. Authentication as the wantlist owner is required. Add To Wantlist PUT /users/{username}/wants/{release_id}{?notes,rating} Parameters username string (required) Example: rodneyfoolThe username of the wantlist you are trying to fetch. release_id number (required) Example: 130076The ID of the release you are adding. notes string (optional) Example: My favorite releaseUser notes to associate with this release. rating number (optional) Example: 5User’s rating of this release, from 0 (unrated) to 5 (best). Defaults to 0. Response  201Toggle Body { "id": 1, "rating": 0, "notes": "", "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/users/example/wants/1", "basic_information": { "id": 1, "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/releases/1", "thumb": "https://api-img.discogs.com/7HGTQzTb7os1duruukQElELEapk=/fit-in/150x150/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb()/discogs-images/R-1-1193812031.jpeg.jpg", "cover_image": "https://api-img.discogs.com/7HGTQzTb7os1duruukQElELEapk=/fit-in/347x352/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb()/discogs-images/R-1-1193812031.jpeg.jpg", "title": "Stockholm", "year": 1999, "formats": [ { "qty": "2", "descriptions": [ "12\"" ], "name": "Vinyl" } ], "labels": [ { "name": "Svek", "entity_type": "1", "catno": "SK032", "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/labels/5", "id": 5, "entity_type_name": "Label" } ], "artists": [ { "join": "", "name": "Persuader, The", "anv": "", "tracks": "", "role": "", "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/artists/1", "id": 1 } ] } } Edit Release In Wantlist POST /users/{username}/wants/{release_id}{?notes,rating} Parameters username string (required) Example: rodneyfoolThe username of the wantlist you are trying to fetch. notes string (optional) Example: My favorite releaseUser notes to associate with this release. rating number (optional) Example: 5User’s rating of this release, from 0 (unrated) to 5 (best). Defaults to 0. Response  200Toggle Body { "id": 1, "rating": 0, "notes": "I've added some notes!", "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/users/example/wants/1", "basic_information": { "id": 1, "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/releases/1", "thumb": "https://api-img.discogs.com/7HGTQzTb7os1duruukQElELEapk=/fit-in/150x150/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb()/discogs-images/R-1-1193812031.jpeg.jpg", "cover_image": "https://api-img.discogs.com/7HGTQzTb7os1duruukQElELEapk=/fit-in/500x500/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb()/discogs-images/R-1-1193812031.jpeg.jpg", "title": "Stockholm", "year": 1999, "formats": [ { "qty": "2", "descriptions": [ "12\"" ], "name": "Vinyl" } ], "labels": [ { "name": "Svek", "entity_type": "1", "catno": "SK032", "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/labels/5", "id": 5, "entity_type_name": "Label" } ], "artists": [ { "join": "", "name": "Persuader, The", "anv": "", "tracks": "", "role": "", "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/artists/1", "id": 1 } ] } } Delete Release From Wantlist DELETE /users/{username}/wants/{release_id}{?notes,rating} Parameters username string (required) Example: rodneyfoolThe username of the wantlist you are trying to fetch. Response  204 Next  Previous User Lists  User Lists  The List resource allows you to view a User’s Lists. Get Lists GET /users/{username}/lists Returns a User’s Lists. Private Lists will only display when authenticated as the owner. Accepts Pagination parameters. Parameters username string (required) Example: rodneyfoolThe username of the Lists you are trying to fetch. Response  200Toggle Body { "pagination": { "per_page": 1, "items": 2, "page": 2, "urls": { "prev": "https://api.discogs.com/users/rodneyfool/lists?per_page=1&page=1", "first": "https://api.discogs.com/users/rodneyfool/lists?per_page=1&page=1" }, "pages": 2 }, "lists": [ { "date_added": "2016-05-31T10:30:51-07:00", "date_changed": "2016-05-31T10:30:51-07:00", "name": "rodneyfool", "id": 1, "uri": "https://www.discogs.com/lists/rodneyfool/1", "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/lists/1", "public": false, "description": "foo test description" } ] } List  Get List Items GET /lists/{list_id} Returns items from a specified List. Private Lists will only display when authenticated as the owner. Parameters list_id string (required) Example: 123The ID of the List you are trying to fetch. Response  200Toggle Body { "created_ts": "2016-05-31T10:36:30-07:00", "modified_ts": "2016-05-31T13:46:12-07:00", "name": "new list", "list_id": 2, "url": "https://www.discogs.com/lists/new-list/2", "items": [ { "comment": "My list comment", "display_title": "Silent Phase - The Rewired Mixes", "uri": "https://www.discogs.com/Silent-Phase-The-Rewired-Mixes/release/4674", "image_url": "https://api-img.discogs.com/-06gF81ykx-Ok1PCpNR7B7Rt_Dc=/300x300/smart/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/A-3227-1132807172.jpeg.jpg", "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/releases/4674", "type": "release", "id": 4674 }, { "comment": "item comment", "display_title": "Various - Artificial Intelligence II", "uri": "https://www.discogs.com/Various-Artificial-Intelligence-II/release/2964", "image_url": "http://api-img.discogs.com/euixsynJwQxJelre_kQNV-ZtX0Y=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-2964-1215444984.jpeg.jpg", "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/releases/2964", "type": "release", "id": 2964 }, { "comment": "This is an artist", "display_title": "Silent Phase", "uri": "https://www.discogs.com/artist/3227-Silent-Phase", "image_url": "http://api-img.discogs.com/-06gF81ykx-Ok1PCpNR7B7Rt_Dc=/300x300/smart/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/A-3227-1132807172.jpeg.jpg", "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/artists/3227", "type": "artist", "id": 3227 } ], "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/lists/2", "public": false, "description": "What a cool list!" } Previous © 2018 Discogs® This page may not display correctly when opened as a local file. 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I'm made it's data computer readable by screenscraping an some XQuery. 4 Dollars of Thirsty by Kurt Nordstrom 1 5 I saw this bottle of water out of the corner of my eye when we entered our hotel room, and went to get it when I had some thirst...only a big blue tag on the neck of the bottle stopped me dead. Four bucks for a crummy bottle of water? Get outta here. I filled a glass from the tap, and it was great tasting. I guess you just get used to mediocre water living in Texas. Oregonians got it good.  The next morning though, two young ladies entered our elevator, drinking out of similar bottles. Guess the hotel got 8 bucks richer. Just received 5.4GB of MARC records, now indexing to BaseX. Let the weekend begin! by Mace Ojala Shit, my tool to check quasi-authority control database Hankalat musiikkinimet works. #XQuery #likeaboss #code4lib by Mace Ojala ZOMG, Nostalgia by Kurt Nordstrom 1 3 Continuing our walk around downtown Portland, we dropped in on Powell's technical books, not realizing that the place was famous. They had a lot of books, but even cooler (to me), was a bunch of old computers that they had set up all over the place. Stole this picture, and woulda taken some more, but I'm skittish about photography inside of stores. Kittens... or Beer? by sylvar 2 2 The code4lib 2007 Cage Match topic.  Kittens: www.flickr.com/photos/earthandeden/395471919/  Beer: www.flickr.com/photos/peterkaminski/124337206/ Luis Salazar by Nicole C. Baratta Luis Salazar by Nicole C. Baratta Pineapple Rice by Kurt Nordstrom 2 Brandon (who is ending up in a lot of my shots), models his lunch at E-San's, which was pineapple fried rice...served in a pineapple. Pretty durn cool. Only, he got it with tofu. Who eats tofu? Seriously. Luis Salazar by Nicole C. Baratta Luis Salazar by Nicole C. Baratta Luis Salazar by Nicole C. Baratta the minivan by Gabriel Farrell 2 Luis Salazar by Nicole C. Baratta Luis Salazar by Nicole C. Baratta Luis Salazar by Nicole C. Baratta laptop in the minivan by Gabriel Farrell Brandon, with beers by Kurt Nordstrom 5 Brandon, my co-worker, graciously models for us at dinnertime. After walking around downtown Portland for a while, we succumbed to hunger (and thirst) and stopped into a place called "The Life of Riley". Nice beer selection and excellent food. I had the fish and chips. Mark and I (not pictured), were drinking IPAs, and Brandon (pictured) had a Porter. DSC_8579 by Ray Schwartz 10-feb-24 by Paul Joseph everyone's got a laptop at the code4lib conference in asheville, north carolina DSC_8946 by Ray Schwartz The great wall of "standards" by Casey Bisson 2 (image from my code4lib presentation)  Though programmers in libraries face many of the same challenges as those outside libraries, we use unique "standards" that are unsupported outside our small community and limit cross-polination with the outside world. 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Connecting people through photography. www-gao-gov-3575 ---- U.S. GAO - Food Insecurity: Better Information Could Help Eligible College Students Access Federal Food Assistance Benefits Skip Navigation Advanced Search Reports & Testimonies Bid Protests & Appropriations Law Key Issues About GAO Multimedia Food Insecurity: Better Information Could Help Eligible College Students Access Federal Food Assistance Benefits GAO-19-95: Published: Dec 21, 2018. Publicly Released: Jan 9, 2019. Fast Facts Highlights Recommendations View Report (PDF, 62 pages) Share This:         Additional Materials: Highlights Page:  (PDF, 1 page) Full Report: View Report (PDF, 62 pages) Accessible Version:  (PDF, 73 pages) Contact: Kathryn Larin (202) 512-7215 larink@gao.gov   Office of Public Affairs (202) 512-4800 youngc1@gao.gov Many college students may not have enough to eat—but nobody knows exactly how many. Studies show a range of estimates, but none of the 31 we reviewed provided a national estimate. We also looked at student use of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. Of the 3.3 million students who were potentially eligible in 2016, less than half said they participated. Colleges have responded to student hunger by opening food pantries and helping students understand complicated SNAP rules. We recommended the Food and Nutrition Service clarify the rules and share information on how states help eligible students use SNAP. As of September 2018, over 650 colleges reported having a food pantry on campus that provides free food to college students in need. Photo of metal shelf with non-perishable items like cereal and peanut butter. View Highlights Additional Materials: Highlights Page:  (PDF, 1 page) Full Report: View Report (PDF, 62 pages) Accessible Version:  (PDF, 73 pages) Contact: Kathryn Larin (202) 512-7215 larink@gao.gov   Office of Public Affairs (202) 512-4800 youngc1@gao.gov What GAO Found There is limited information about the national prevalence of food insecurity among college students. GAO reviewed 31 studies that identified a wide range of food insecurity rates among the students studied, but the studies did not provide national estimates. College students at risk of food insecurity may be eligible for benefits from the Food and Nutrition Service's (FNS) Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). However, GAO's analysis of Department of Education (Education) data shows that almost 2 million at-risk students who were potentially eligible for SNAP did not report receiving benefits in 2016. According to GAO's analysis, having a low income is the most common risk factor for food insecurity among college students. Among low-income students, most have one additional risk factor associated with food insecurity, such as being a first-generation student or a single parent. The 14 selected colleges that GAO contacted were addressing student food insecurity in a number of ways. For example, all 14 were providing free food to students through on-campus food pantries, and most were offering emergency funds to help students pay for living expenses that might otherwise force them to choose between buying food or staying in school. Many of these colleges had centralized student services to better address their students' basic needs and provide other support, such as screening students for potential eligibility and helping them apply for federal benefit programs like SNAP. Selected Colleges' Initiatives to Address Student Food Insecurity Federal student aid generally does not cover all college costs for low-income students, and college students may have limited access to federal food assistance programs such as SNAP because of program eligibility restrictions. Some state SNAP agencies reported that they are taking steps to help students access SNAP by conducting outreach to colleges and developing guidance. Nevertheless, at 9 of the 14 colleges GAO contacted, some college officials and students said that they were unfamiliar with or did not fully understand SNAP's student eligibility rules. Some college officials said that they would like information from FNS to better explain SNAP student rules, but FNS has not made such information easily accessible on its website. Further, college officials and state SNAP agencies noted that FNS does not share examples of actions taken by other states to help eligible students access SNAP. Clarification of SNAP student eligibility rules and enhanced information sharing about state efforts could help ensure that potentially eligible college students can access federal food assistance programs. Why GAO Did This Study Increasing evidence indicates that some college students are experiencing food insecurity, which can negatively impact their academic success. However, college students are only eligible for SNAP in certain cases. Given the substantial federal investment in higher education and the risk posed if students do not complete their degrees, GAO was asked to review food insecurity among college students. This report examines (1) what is known about the extent of food insecurity among college students and their use of SNAP; (2) how selected colleges are addressing student food insecurity; and (3) the extent to which federal programs assist students experiencing food insecurity. GAO reviewed relevant federal laws and agency documents and studies on student food insecurity; analyzed 2016 federal student data (the most recent available), and visited four states, selected based on actions taken to address student food insecurity, geographic diversity, and other factors. GAO interviewed researchers; officials from Education, FNS national and regional offices; and officials at 14 colleges, including students at 8 of these colleges. GAO also emailed all state SNAP agencies about their efforts related to students. What GAO Recommends GAO recommends that FNS (1) improve student eligibility information on its website and (2) share information on state SNAP agencies' approaches to help eligible students. FNS partially concurred, and plans to review its information. GAO continues to believe additional action is warranted, as discussed in the report. For more information, contact Kathryn Larin at (202) 512-7215 or larink@gao.gov. Recommendations for Executive Action Status: Open Comments: FNS partially concurred with this recommendation and in September 2019, the agency stated that it will take actions to address the recommendation by February 2020. First, FNS said it would review the information regarding student SNAP eligibility on its website and, where possible, revise this information to reduce legal and technical language. FNS also stated it will evaluate the placement of student SNAP eligibility content on its website and assess alternatives to increase accessibility of this information for colleges and state SNAP agencies. We continue to believe that changes to FNS's existing information are needed to improve the clarity and accessibility of information about SNAP student eligibility requirements on FNS's website. Once we receive additional information about improvements to FNS's website, we will update the status of this recommendation. Recommendation: The Administrator of FNS should make information on their website regarding student SNAP eligibility requirements easier to understand and more accessible, as a resource for colleges and state SNAP agencies. (Recommendation 1) Agency Affected: Department of Agriculture: Office of the Secretary: Food, Nutrition and Consumer Services: Food and Nutrition Service Status: Open Comments: FNS partially concurred with this recommendation and, in September 2019, stated that it is currently evaluating strategies to address this recommendation utilizing existing resources. Specifically, FNS stated that by August 2020, it will assess suitable mechanisms (e.g., policy memos, webinars, conferences) for information sharing with state SNAP agencies and disseminate that material as resources allow. We continue to believe that FNS needs to work with its regional offices to identify and share additional information about state approaches to assist eligible college students with access to SNAP benefits. Once we receive additional information about FNS's information sharing activities, we will update the status of this recommendation. Recommendation: The Administrator of FNS should coordinate with its regional offices to collect and review information about existing SNAP flexibilities and examples of approaches state SNAP agencies are taking to assist eligible college students to access SNAP benefits, and share such information with state SNAP agencies. (Recommendation 2) Agency Affected: Department of Agriculture: Office of the Secretary: Food, Nutrition and Consumer Services: Food and Nutrition Service   Explore the full database of GAO's Open Recommendations » Find Recent Work on Agriculture and Food  » Explore Related Key Issues  » Nov 20, 2020 Food Safety: CDC Could Further Strengthen Its Efforts to Identify and Respond to Foodborne Illnesses GAO-21-23: Published: Oct 21, 2020. Publicly Released: Nov 20, 2020. Nov 16, 2020 Farm Programs: USDA Has Improved Its Completion of Eligibility Compliance Reviews, but Additional Oversight Is Needed GAO-21-95: Published: Oct 30, 2020. Publicly Released: Nov 16, 2020. Sep 16, 2020 Agriculture Spending: Opportunities Exist for USDA to Identify Successes and Challenges of the Farmers to Families Food Box Program to Inform Future Efforts GAO-20-711R: Published: Sep 16, 2020. Publicly Released: Sep 16, 2020. 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Sign in Request a demo Toggle search form Open mobile navigation Search the site Submit Blog Say my name: Introducing the Candidate Name Pronunciation feature in Greenhouse Subscribe to our newsletter Our bi-weekly newsletter full of inspiration, podcasts, trends and news. Thank you Your form has been successfully submitted. Filed under: DE&I Names matter – they’re a central part of someone’s identity, representative of who they are and often where they come from. And it's safe to say that the correct pronunciation of a name is just as important. Beyond a workplace courtesy At Greenhouse, we’ve seen how inclusive hiring cultures build stronger businesses. It’s clear that creating that culture is rooted in seemingly small details – like pronouncing every candidate’s name correctly. It’s not just common courtesy, it’s a crucial behavior for achieving true workplace inclusivity – one that prioritizes acceptance and belonging. According to the 2012 study Teachers, Please Learn Our Names!: Racial Microaggressions and the K-12 Classroom, “although the racial undertones to the mispronunciation of names are often understated, when analyzed within a context of historical and current day racism, these incidents are considered racial microaggressions – subtle daily insults that, as a form of racism, support a racial and cultural hierarchy of minority inferiority.” Because mispronunciation in the classroom causes a harmful form of othering, it affects the emotional wellbeing of students of color, and essentially hinders their ability to learn. Now imagine the triggering effects for a candidate hearing their name pronounced incorrectly during their dream job interview: confusion, disappointment and frustration – none of which are adjectives you’d like to see on your candidate feedback survey. Hello, my name is the Candidate Name Pronunciation feature We’re so excited to announce that Greenhouse is launching the Candidate Name Pronunciation feature – it gives your candidates the opportunity to pre-record their names before their first interview, so your hiring team is clear on how they should be addressed. How it works With this new feature, candidates are able to pre-record the correct pronunciation of their names when recruiters request their interview schedule availability through Greenhouse. Candidates can: Record up to 10 seconds of audio Playback to ensure they’re comfortable with it Re-record as many times as they’d like Delete the recording if they so choose Listen to a few examples from Greenhouse employees below Improve the interview experience for everyone involved in your hiring process Giving every candidate the ability to pre-record their name with the correct pronunciation helps provide an exceptional candidate experience, even before their first contact with you. Avoid discomfort. Not only does it allow them to be addressed as they’d like, it also removes the distracting inner debate that comes with the cringe of hearing their name pronounced incorrectly – “Do I correct them? Would it seem arrogant? Will the interviewer be embarrassed?” Empower candidates. Candidates from underrepresented backgrounds with unique names, who usually bear the burden of correcting others, will feel seen, safe and acknowledged – and ready to focus on what really matters. Combat implicit bias. Are some names really “too difficult” to pronounce, or is this idea rooted in the fact that many of them don’t fall into categories deemed recognizable or acceptable by western colonialism? The answer is clear, and by offering potential hires the Candidate Name Pronunciation feature, your organization can break from the status quo and denounce the idea of whiteness as the “easy to pronounce” default. If they can learn to say Tchaikovsky and Michelangelo and Dostoyevsky, then they can learn to say Uzoamaka. –Uzo Aduba, Emmy winning actress for Orange is the New Black and Mrs. America Make your commitment to DE&I clear. They’ll also leave the interview with a positive lasting impression and an understanding of your company's commitment to inclusion on a deeper level than any mission statement could provide. So say their name, get it right, commit to radical inclusivity and hire great talent. 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Privacy policy Okay www-huffingtonpost-com-9636 ---- High Stakes for Hip-Hop Studies | HuffPost US Edition U.S. Canada U.K. Australia España France Ελλάδα (Greece) Italia 日本 (Japan) 한국 (Korea) Quebec CLOSE Coronavirus News U.S. News World News Business Environment Health Social Justice Politics Congress Donald Trump 2020 Election Tracker Extremism Entertainment Culture & Arts Media Celebrity TV & Film Life Style & Beauty Food & Drink Parenting Travel Finds Wellness Relationships Money Home & Living Work/Life Communities Queer Voices Women Black Voices Latino Voices Asian Voices Special Projects In This Together Latinx Heritage Month Pride 2020 Work In Progress Impact: This New World Highline Listen to America Podcasts HuffPost Personal Video Horoscopes From Our Partners Living Well, Delivered Time to Act Women's Work What's Working: D & I In Action Newsletters International Australia Brazil Canada España France Ελλάδα (Greece) India Italia 日本 (Japan) 한국 (Korea) Quebec U.K. U.S. Follow us Terms | Privacy Policy Part of MultiCultural/HPMG News. ©2020 Verizon Media. All rights reserved. BREAKING NEWS Tap here to turn on desktop notifications to get the news sent straight to you. Log In Join HuffPost Plus NEWS CORONAVIRUS POLITICS 2020 ELECTIONS ENTERTAINMENT LIFE PERSONAL VIDEO SHOPPING U.S. Canada U.K. Australia España France Ελλάδα (Greece) Italia 日本 (Japan) 한국 (Korea) Quebec U.S. Edition Erik Nielson, Contributor Associate Professor, University of Richmond High Stakes for Hip-Hop Studies 04/29/2013 03:55 pm ET Updated Jun 29, 2013 In my last piece, I considered the significant role of the academy in the formation and evolution of hip-hop, arguing that historical narratives of hip-hop often neglect the importance of the ivory tower and in doing so present an incomplete picture of a complex cultural movement. Here, I'd like to turn my attention to a related (and for some, controversial) phenomenon: the proliferation of hip-hop-themed courses at academic institutions. Since the early 1990s, colleges have offered hundreds of classes on hip-hop, and at last count, hip-hop-related books have appeared on more than 700 college syllabi. Today, it seems that institutions are lining up to offer more still, with a few, such as the University of Arizona, even beginning to offer formal credentials in hip-hop studies. As someone who earned a Ph.D. studying African American literary and musical traditions, who has written extensively about hip-hop culture, and who regularly teaches seminars on rap music, I see these additions to college curricula as a matter of basic common sense and something to celebrate. After all, with a rich and complex history spanning nearly four decades, hip-hop has arguably become the single most influential cultural movement of its time, spreading its reach beyond the borders of the U.S. to all corners of the globe on a scale few who saw its beginnings in the 1970s Bronx could've possibly imagined. Today, its constituent elements have become a veritable lingua franca of the world's youth. The New York graffiti scene, once localized and insular, has given birth to vibrant graffiti movements everywhere, from Latin America and Europe to Africa and Asia. Breakdancing, or b-boying, has gone global as well, complete with international competitions featuring performers from a wide range countries. And then, of course, there's rap, the music first performed in sweaty clubs and crowded block parties that now fills the airwaves from New York to New Delhi, from South Korea to South Africa. With audiences that dwarf their traditional literary counterparts, rappers have introduced the world to a powerful new poetry, memorized and recited by millions of people, that has given voice to entire communities of marginalized people, and at its best, serves as an anthem of resistance in the face of global injustice. Surely such a vast, sophisticated, and undeniably potent movement merits a place in college curricula. And yet teaching it remains controversial. For some, it is simply not worthy of higher education, a perspective that invariably surfaces every time there is a public discussion about the educational value of hip-hop. Alex Beam, for example, a columnist at The Boston Globe, has on more than one occasion derided the study of rap music and by extension the "rap-ademics" who teach it. While viewpoints such as Beam's often originate outside the academy from people who lack the literary and historical training to properly evaluate rap music, there has been plenty of criticism from university faculty as well, some of whom view mainstream hip-hop's perpetuation of harmful stereotypes about people of color as reason enough to keep it out of the classroom. Others make the less critical argument that the study of hip-hop cheapens the otherwise noble pursuit of a college degree. For others still, the question is less about hip-hop's themes or intrinsic value, and more about whether university classrooms are the appropriate places to study it in the first place. At a 2006 conference hosted by Stanford University, legendary artist KRS ONE expressed clear frustration with the notion that academics, journalists, and other social critics with no direct connection to hip-hop production were nevertheless presenting themselves as authorities on it. At one point, clearly getting angry, he homed in on the incompatibility of higher education and hip-hop. "You can't go to college then say you hip-hop," he argued, provocatively undermining the authority of many people in the room to identify with hip-hop culture. "You better be a b-boy, MC, graffiti writer, DJ, or beat boxer and you can call yourself hip-hop... How you gonna critique somethin' you ain't even doin'?" Perhaps predictably, the panel discussion rapidly degenerated into a heated disagreement over who can claim hip-hop authenticity. These kinds of arguments, which are as old as hip-hop itself, have become increasingly high stakes in the academy as schools devote more resources to the study of it. What's more, they raise important questions about the compatibility of this once-subcultural form with traditional modes of academic inquiry. For example, the argument that to teach hip-hop you must be hip-hop rests on an assumption that is largely at odds with the kind of theorizing that takes place at universities. How many literature professors publish the kinds of works they critique? How many sociologists or anthropologists claim to be members of the groups they study? Not many. Indeed, intimate involvement with the subject is not a requisite for (and can actually complicate) academic investigation. KRS ONE's claim, echoed by many, seems to assume that the people who produce hip-hop are, or should be, the sole arbiters of its meaning. The moment a work of art is reproduced and mass distributed, though, that becomes impossible: its meaning and impact largely rest with people who consume it, including the people farthest removed from its site of production. This is something I constantly remind students -- that their experiences, memories, and knowledge play an important role in defining hip-hop and that they have the authority, and perhaps even a responsibility, to critique it. I have found some of their insights -- on the rampant misogyny in mainstream rap, for instance -- to be far more nuanced and compelling than what many rappers themselves have said about it. Nevertheless, given the real-life hardships that gave rise to hip-hop -- poverty, abusive policing, and institutional neglect among them -- it's understandable that people might chafe against any kind of abstract theorizing, especially at predominantly white universities that have finely manicured campuses, private police forces, and nauseatingly posh amenities. In these settings, sometimes next door to communities where poverty and violence remain a reality, the elevation of hip-hop can begin to look like the appropriation of it, following the long tradition in which white America has ensured for itself the spoils of black artistic labor. Candidly acknowledging his own role in this tradition, on the track "Without Me," Eminem raps, "I am the worst thing since Elvis Presley / to do black music so selfishly /and use it to get myself wealthy." Hence, debates about who is hip-hop sometimes become racially encoded attempts to delineate cultural ownership. Travis Gosa, an assistant professor of social science at Cornell University who regularly teaches courses on hip-hop culture, notes that there is anxiety over the way white professors in particular might try to use hip-hop. "Some of it is a fear about how hip-hop is going to be dealt with or approached by white scholars," he told me. "They might take a deficit approach, using hip-hop as a way to justify criticism of black people or black culture. There may also be a concern that white academics are cut from the same cloth as white executives in the hip-hop music industry, who have the power to filter out certain aspects of the culture or music for their own agenda." These are legitimate concerns, and as a white person teaching a predominantly black music, I am always aware of my race. I know students are, too -- I've had plenty of end-of-semester student evaluations that include some permutation of "at first I was skeptical of this white guy teaching hip-hop..." So when class starts, I spend time talking about the ways my own race informs, and complicates, my teaching. (This is pretty much a must for white guy who plans to quote racially charged rap lyrics in all their splendor.) What I find is that students -- regardless of race, ethnicity, age, or gender -- are willing to give me the benefit of the doubt. They size up my credibility based upon my knowledge of the subject and my ability to teach it rather than my race, ethnicity, or ability to freestyle. They also want what they came for: a better understanding of the genre through sustained engagement with it. Unfortunately, this is not always what college students get when they sign up for hip-hop-themed classes. Instead, some faculty who know little about hip-hop use its allure to boost enrollments (or their own pop culture currency among students), then use it as an entry point to explore something different. By the time students realize that they actually registered for a tired sociology or English class with a few Tupac lyrics interspersed throughout to spice it up, it's probably too late to drop. Mission accomplished, for the faculty anyway. Along similar lines, sometimes departments will offer a single hip-hop course, less out of interest in the culture, but more to entice students to study more "serious" material in the discipline. As Gosa puts it, these classes become "loss leaders," ways to get students to consider a certain field but that are not seen as rich or significant enough to justify extensive study on their own. "Instead of making real investments in hip-hop," he says, "they create these sexy classes in the hopes students will say 'Hey, why don't I become a sociology student? Why don't I become an African American Studies major?' It's a marketing strategy." Sadly, when hip-hop culture is used in this way, what initially seems to be academic recognition begins to look more like opportunism and exploitation. In her 1969 poem "How Long Has Trane Been Gone," poet and performance artist Jayne Cortez indicts corporate interests for their selfish appropriation of black music, at one point writing, "& you really don't give / a shit as long as you take." As colleges and universities continue to expand their offerings in hip-hop, Cortez's words should serve as warning. With a genuine interest in exploring the culture and helping it grow in new ways, institutions of higher education can be vital partners, just as they have been throughout much of hip-hop's history. But if they merely view it as an untapped market, they may end up as unwitting accomplices in the degradation of a culture that they are ostensibly paying tribute to. Let's hope they get it right because, in the words of De La Soul, "stakes is high." 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The Huffington Post www-huffpost-com-1222 ---- Name Signs, What's That About? | HuffPost US Edition U.S. Canada U.K. Australia España France Ελλάδα (Greece) Italia 日本 (Japan) 한국 (Korea) Quebec CLOSE Coronavirus News U.S. News World News Business Environment Health Social Justice Politics Congress Donald Trump 2020 Election Tracker Extremism Entertainment Culture & Arts Media Celebrity TV & Film Life Style & Beauty Food & Drink Parenting Travel Finds Wellness Relationships Money Home & Living Work/Life Communities Queer Voices Women Black Voices Latino Voices Asian Voices Special Projects In This Together Latinx Heritage Month Pride 2020 Work In Progress Impact: This New World Highline Listen to America Podcasts HuffPost Personal Video Horoscopes From Our Partners Living Well, Delivered Time to Act Women's Work What's Working: D & I In Action Newsletters International Australia Brazil Canada España France Ελλάδα (Greece) India Italia 日本 (Japan) 한국 (Korea) Quebec U.K. U.S. Follow us Terms | Privacy Policy Part of HuffPost Impact. ©2020 Verizon Media. All rights reserved. BREAKING NEWS Tap here to turn on desktop notifications to get the news sent straight to you. Log In Join HuffPost Plus NEWS CORONAVIRUS POLITICS 2020 ELECTIONS ENTERTAINMENT LIFE PERSONAL VIDEO SHOPPING U.S. Canada U.K. Australia España France Ελλάδα (Greece) Italia 日本 (Japan) 한국 (Korea) Quebec U.S. Edition Lydia Callis, Contributor Nationally certified sign language interpreter, advocate, and ally to the d/Deaf community. Proud CODA from 3 generations of deaf family. Name Signs, What's That About? 05/19/2015 05:59 pm ET Updated Dec 06, 2017 Everyone at the office calls your deaf coworker Diane, but she is better known in the deaf community as "Bright." Bright is a genuine person who is always smiling and positive. Her cheerful name sign captures her personality way better than the name "Diane" ever could!  Many hearing people are surprised to learn that the deaf community has it's own unique naming system. The only true way to get a name sign is to be given one by individuals who are deaf, since ASL is their native language. Name signs come in all forms. Some are based on the person's birth name or initials, for example, someone named Amy could be an "A" that moves down the side of the face to signify long hair. Some are based on their physical features or personality traits, such as "Dimples" or "Motivated".  And other name signs might be based on the person's interests, like "Dance" or "Star". Once you have a name sign, good luck changing it on your own! On the other hand, deaf people might change your name sign if they feel a different name suits you better. For example, I was given a name sign by my mother who is deaf. My original name sign is an "L" that is waving, because as a child I was always waving at everyone. Once I moved to New York City and became involved in a much larger deaf community, people began referring to me as "LC," which identifies me by my initials so I can not be confused with someone else who has the same name sign. In my intimate circles, I remain true to my birth name sign, but in NYC my name sign has evolved. Name signs are personally inspired and usually reflect some aspect of the individual. Those in the deaf community know, this can be both a good and a bad thing. When people discuss you in ASL using your name sign, your reputation precedes you. Before people even meet you, they have an idea of who you are based on your name sign. Journalist Charlie Swinbourne explained how one of his deaf colleagues became known as "Murder" in an unfortunate re-naming incident. Some deaf friends thought it would be humorous one night to change the individuals last name from "Burder" to "Murder" and it ended up sticking. Although he was formerly known as "Smooth", because of his skill with the ladies, he stopped getting dates once his new name got around. As one might expect, being called "Murder" can really impact a person's life! An ASL name is so much more than a nickname, it becomes a major part of your deaf identity. Because an individual can not simply change their own name sign, these names carry a history and personality all their own. Each facial expression and classifier, which is a descriptive handshape, gives a little insight into who the individual is and how they are viewed by others. Take my deaf niece Jaisy, for example, who is known as "Same". When Jaisy was just a newborn, her big sister took one look at her and signed "same" because the baby had the same hair and eye color as her. Her name is Jaisy, but people who know her use the sign for "same" to represent her in conversation. When she gets a little older, her mother will give her a new sign name that is more appropriate for her growing personality. While it might seem like a novelty to hearing people, having an ASL name is very meaningful for those in the deaf community, and it could even be considered an honor. Name signs in the U.S. are not used on documents and they are not spoken out loud. They are created and used exclusively by members of deaf culture. These names aren't just given out to anyone -- they are a right of passage into the deaf community. A name sign means you're an active ASL user who is worthy of being more than B-O-B, or L-Y-D-I-A (finger spelled). To have a name sign means you are officially part of the Deaf world. Download Calling all HuffPost superfans! Sign up for membership to become a founding member and help shape HuffPost's next chapter Join HuffPost MORE: Impact Asl Deaf Identity Sign Language Today is National Voter Registration Day! 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The Huffington Post www-hughrundle-net-3064 ---- Information Flaneur Information Flaneur Hugh Rundle For what we will Mon Dec 14 2020 10:53:39 GMT+1100 (Australian Eastern Daylight Time) Empathy Daleks Mon Nov 23 2020 16:01:41 GMT+1100 (Australian Eastern Daylight Time) Shiny: maintenance and memory Sat Oct 10 2020 18:13:00 GMT+1100 (Australian Eastern Daylight Time) Internet Time Mon Aug 10 2020 13:55:21 GMT+1000 (Australian Eastern Standard Time) Ephemera: how to automatically delete your old tweets and toots using your own computer Sun Apr 26 2020 18:57:00 GMT+1000 (Australian Eastern Standard Time) Introducing Rockpool: a web app for communities of practice Mon Mar 30 2020 10:18:35 GMT+1100 (Australian Eastern Daylight Time) What really matters Thu Mar 26 2020 21:14:01 GMT+1100 (Australian Eastern Daylight Time) Marginalia in the mail Sun Feb 23 2020 16:13:19 GMT+1100 (Australian Eastern Daylight Time) GO GLAM miniconf Sun Jan 26 2020 20:44:26 GMT+1100 (Australian Eastern Daylight Time) Marginalia 7: Intelligent artifice Sat Jan 18 2020 18:09:21 GMT+1100 (Australian Eastern Daylight Time) Home About Archive Privacy RSS I've published my thoughts about libraries and technology on this blog for several years. Some of my views have evolved over time - past writing may not reflect my current opinion. All content © Hugh Rundle except as noted in Acknowledgements. Text licensed CC-BY 4.0. Please ensure any redistribution adheres to the Creative Commons Best Practices for Attribution. Published with Eleventy. www-hughrundle-net-5897 ---- Empathy Daleks Information Flaneur Empathy Daleks Mon Nov 23 2020 16:01:41 GMT+1100 (Australian Eastern Daylight Time) glam blog club The annual CRIG Seminar is a highlight of the calendar in Victorian academic libraries, and like everything else in 2020, this year's program was a bit different to normal. Entirely online, free, and open to all, the organising committee came up with three fantastic sessions spread over a week and a half. The first session on ‌OER resources and open pedagogy with Sarah Lambert and Rajiv Jhangiani was outstanding. Dr Jhangiani showed himself to be an extremely effective communicator about the importance and pedagogical benefits of open educational practices, and I learned a lot about how to do that better. But unfortunately for him, it was Dr Lambert's talk that struck me more forcefully. Lambert's research focusses on social justice actions and discourse within open educational practice. She spoke among other things about the effect of using and revising openly licensed educational resources to make them, well, less uniformly male and white. Her research shows some interesting effects of diversifying text books that were completely obvious in retrospect but that I had never properly considered. Open Educational Resources Commonly referred to as OER Validation as a pedagogical tool Her studies indicate that diversifying the authors, perspectives, representations and examples in standard textbooks is not simply "more inclusive" or "just" in an abstract way (though that would be good anyway). Students who feel they belong — who feel validated as members or potential members of a profession or academic discipline — are more likely to succeed and complete their degrees. That is, Lambert suggests that diversifying the authors and even the examples or hypothetical actors in university textbooks by itself has a positive effect on completion rates, engagement, and student satisfaction with courses. Amy Nusbaum shows in a recent article that OER is an effective way to accelerate this, because with licenses allowing "remixing" of content the examples used within open textbooks can be updated to suit local needs without having to rewrite the entire text. It's possible I have never felt more White and male than I did listening to this. The thought "that's amazing" was immediately followed by "that's obvious". Because of course there is more cognitive load required by someone trying to learn about a field of study that is new to them, if they also have to deal with the (perhaps correct) impression that people like them are not really welcome in that field. Of course if one sees oneself as potentially part of "the field" because one sees oneself in the literature, engaging with that literature will be easier. Women and racialised people have been saying this for decades or longer in all sorts of contexts. But it was Lambert uttering the magic words about diverse texts improving "student success" that suddenly felt quite subversive. To understand why, we need to interrogate what universities usually mean when they talk about "student success", and particularly the infrastructures universities have been building around it. Universities as a site of discipline Education systems are sites of discipline. There are "canons", "standards", "traditions" and examinations. In an interview for The New Inquiry about his book, Beyond education: radical studying for another world, Eli Meyerhoff describes the standard education system: Its key elements include a vertical imaginary of individualized ascent up levels of education, a pedagogical mode of accounting with a system of honor and shame that eventually took the form of graded exams, hierarchical relationships of teacher over student, separations of students from the means of studying, the commodification of access to the means of studying through tuition, and opposed figures of educational waste (e.g., the dropout) and value (e.g., the graduate). This mode of study shapes subjects for their participation in governance and work within the dominant mode of world-making. Universities are obsessed above all with correct forms. Heaven help the unwitting new recruit who accidentally refers to Professor Smith as Ms Smith, or mixes up the Pro-Vice Chancellor with the Deputy Provost. Enormous amounts of time and money are dedicated to ensuring that students italicise the correct words and use particular punctuation for any of half a dozen referencing systems that manage to somehow be incredibly prescriptive in the specifics whilst relatively vague, undefined and incomplete, never quite covering all possibilities. Avoiding plagiarism is now defined as whether your paper passes the test set by commercial black box software. The march of progress has inevitably led to a what John Warner has described as a "plagiarism singularity": Paper mills are now using Turnitin/WriteCheck to certify to their customers that the essays they’ve purchased from the paper mill will successfully pass the Turnitin/WriteCheck report at their institution. ...Turnitin now sits at the center of a perfect little marketplace, a plagiarism singularity if you will, where they get paid coming and going to certify work as “original,” even though the very circular nature of the arrangement means the software itself is worthless when it comes to detecting originality. The point of all this isn't really to "certify originality" at all, but in fact the opposite. Ironically, the fake obsession with originality hinders actual research, to the point that researchers are reduced to begging scientific publishers not to reject articles on the basis that they use standardised methods. Turnitin Plagiarism detection tool. Above all else, a university degree certifies the holder's ability to follow particular rules, only some of which are explicitly stated. Those who have difficulty following — or even recognising — these rules are a problem for which the university seeks a solution. They are referred to by an ever-growing list of euphemisms: "first in family", "at risk", "non-traditional background", "diverse", "low SES", "disengaged". Students are told in more and less subtle ways that they don't belong, that they're here under sufferance, and when, inevitably, they fail, it will be their fault. The educational experience of the average undergraduate today is a multi-year hazing by what Jeffrey Moro calls, simply, "cop shit". Empathy Daleks "Cop shit" is evolving from the merely Kafkaesque (the Turnitin black box) to the Orwellian (The Intelligent Campus). Rather than waiting for students to fail classes, universities are now eagerly signing up for prediction machines to identify precrime students at risk of failing in order to "intervene". Jisc has spruiked their "Intelligent Campus" product as part of a more widespread push to use "learning analytics" to measure student "engagement". One of the more troubling aspects of this project is the narrative that it is a potential solution to the growing number of students experiencing acute mental distress. Instead of recognising that universities are particular site of trauma within a broader crisis of community and collective care in hyper-capitalist societies, and responding with increased human interaction and human connection, Jisc's "Intelligent Campus" doubles down to present the very disembodied, machinic cause of the problem as its own "solution". Rather than rebuilding universities as the sites of genuine human care, connection, and community claimed in their glossy brochures and award winning websites, the business model of today's university produces empathy Daleks. Instead of the emotional intelligence of humans, universities embrace the artificial intelligence of machines to identify and neutralise non-compliance. Using analytics and automation to "nudge" "at-risk" students works on a kind of infection model: "test and trace" for the inability to match up to the university's model of a "good" student. Dalek A fictional extraterrestrial race of mutants principally portrayed in the British science fiction television programme Doctor Who. What do we mean by "success"? What does it mean to say a student has "failed"? Rola Ajjawi tells us that 40% of students will fail at least one unit in the course of their degree. This is an extraordinary number. If four in ten students "fail", then surely it would be more accurate to say that the higher education system is broken. But then again, perhaps universities don't see this as a failure at all. Economists like to talk about "stated preferences" versus "revealed preferences". In perhaps the most under-stated sentence in her book, Generous thinking: a radical approach to saving the university, Kathleen Fitzpatrick notes: Generous thinking: a radical approach to saving the university pages 206 and 183 The inability of institutions of higher education to transform their internal structures and processes in order to fully align with their stated mission and values may mean that the institutions have not in fact fully embraced that mission or those values. Fitzpatrick's hope is for nothing less than a complete reconstruction of not only the role, but the culture and structures of the university: It is not just a matter of making it possible for more kinds of people to achieve conventionally coded success within the institution, but instead of examining what constitutes success, how it is measured, and why. So this is why I see Sarah Lambert's framing of the impact of diversifying university textbooks as so subversive. Lambert completely flips the assumption about what and who needs to change for students to have more success and engagement with education and learning. It is not merely that universities should diversify their teaching material because it's nice, or politically correct, or just. It's not simply that they should do so because it would go some way to resolve the misalignment that Fitzpatrick has identified between the university's stated and practiced values. Far more dangerously, universities should do this because it is shown to improve their own stated measures of their own success. Improving "student success" in this way requires a change in the university, not in the students. And whist it's certainly not enough on its own, diversifying teaching material addresses "student success" much more cheaply, effectively, and ethically than any empathy Dalek ever will. Home About Archive Privacy RSS I've published my thoughts about libraries and technology on this blog for several years. Some of my views have evolved over time - past writing may not reflect my current opinion. All content © Hugh Rundle except as noted in Acknowledgements. Text licensed CC-BY 4.0. Please ensure any redistribution adheres to the Creative Commons Best Practices for Attribution. Published with Eleventy. www-hughrundle-net-8364 ---- For what we will Information Flaneur For what we will Mon Dec 14 2020 10:53:39 GMT+1100 (Australian Eastern Daylight Time) glam blog club care covid-19 A couple of months ago there was a ridiculous article on the ABC ostensibly about a four-day working week. It turns out that by "four day week" they mean "four ten hour days a week as long as the boss gets to decide what you're allowed to do on the other day". I work a real four-day week and it's certainly not that. "The last time we actually made a serious change to the working week was done by Henry Ford" claims the boss. Um no. He didn't even do that for Americans. Ford's offer in 1914 of an eight hour day only stood for "worthy" workers of the Ford Motor Company. This was a full fifty eight years after Melbourne's stonemasons had already successfully won an eight hour day for the same wages as the former ten hour working day. They did it by going on strike until their demands were met. In 1903 (eleven years before "Henry Ford gave us the eight hour day") Socialist Tom Mann unveiled the Eight Hours Monument near Victoria's Parliament House, celebrating the events of 1856 and the status quo fact of an eight hour working day for most workers in Victoria. Liam Hogan has already succinctly noted the core problem of "romance day", but it bears repeating. Bosses aren't doing you a favour when they "give" you some "time off". A job is labour time in exchange for money. Never mistake it for something else. There are certainly ways of organising human societies where you do have obligations to others when you're not working for them. Serfdom. Feudalism. Gift economies. Communalism. Mutual Aid. But we live under Capitalism. You don't owe your boss anything when you're not on the clock. Essential work Even with the "second wave" in Melbourne, Australia has been quite lucky with COVID-19 and avoided the sort of overwhelming chaos we see in Europe and the Americas. We're able to talk about "COVID recovery" already, and what it might look like. So far, it appears — perhaps unsurprisingly — our elites in politics and the media have learned nothing at all from the experience here or elsewhere. All talk is of "job creation" and that political staple, the "shovel ready project". Even Adam Bandt has gotten into the action, parroting the latest trends from the United States left and calling for a "Green New Deal" and "green jobs". Earlier this year there was some speculation about genetic factors being behind the much higher COVID-19 death rate for Black and South Asian Britons. But more recently it's become apparent that Africa — which Western health experts expected to be decimated by COVID — has on the contrary largely contained the virus much more effectively than other continents. So clearly African genes are playing a marginal role here, if any. The more recent evidence from Britain suggest that, unsurprisingly, the problem is simply that those from minority ethnicities are more likely to live in crappy houses with bad air quality, or work in the most dangerous, often low paid jobs. The UK government's own report notes: Disparities in the risk and outcomes of COVID-19 - released June, updated August People who live in deprived areas have higher diagnosis rates and death rates than those living in less deprived areas. The mortality rates from COVID-19 in the most deprived areas were more than double the least deprived areas, for both males and females. ...High diagnosis rates may be due to geographic proximity to infections or a high proportion of workers in occupations that are more likely to be exposed. The pattern of second-wave infections in Melbourne was likewise all too obvious: the suburbs with the most frequent and large case clusters were those housing the most tenuously employed in the lowest paid jobs. It's marginalisation, not genes, that makes people more likely to get COVID. Staying at home and avoiding contact with potential infections is much easier when everyone is guaranteed to have a home, and doesn't have to worry about paying rent or a mortgage. Staying away from a crowded or dangerous workplace is easy for someone like me, in an office-based professional job. It's impossible for someone staring at eviction and hunger if they don't turn up, as is the case for abattoir and warehouse workers, or those without the right government paperwork. Work sucks And that's a problem, according to Martin Betts. The fact that I have some kind of job security, I mean. He thinks it would be much more "exciting" for us if all university staff were Uberised short-contract or sham contract workers, instead of the only 68% of us who already are. You will be shocked to learn Martin describes himself as a "strategic consultant" and "thought leader". It's the reliance on cash income and a market economy for every facet of life that has caused so much trouble in this pandemic and of course well before it. What, exactly, is so great about a "job"? Work sucks. Capitalists only ever got people to work for wages by violently cutting off access to systems of community sustenance, whether in the British Isles, North America, El Salvador, Australia or elsewhere. It's not "jobs" or "work" that people need. It's sustenance, meaning, and connection. Or as authors in Uneven Earth noted: The Coronavirus pandemic has clearly revealed the rather limited list of jobs and sectors that are essential for meeting society’s basic needs. A "sector" that has recently gained a lot of attention for all the wrong reasons is what is euphemistically called the "Care industry". When "economic growth" is prized above all other things due to a fantasy that it "improves living standards", we should expect to see something exactly like this. Socialised to follow individual lives in a system structured to make the alternative difficult, saddled with huge debts or outrageous rents in order to live in poorly constructed housing, and working unpredictable or inflexible schedules, we warehouse the old, the unwell, and disabled. In exchange for the work of providing for their needs on our behalf, other desperate workers are paid ever so slightly above minimum wage, with no prospect of promotion or progression. David Speers recently proposed that the solution to this depressing state of affairs is to double down. Steering unemployed young people into caring careers might just pay off he suggests. The only people who have "careers" that "pay off" in the "Care sector" are the executives in Head Office and the corporate Board members. Everybody else just has a shit job — often literally. A truly civilised society would see that care is essential, and Care is an abomination. That providing good housing for all is an obligation, and Real Estate is violence. That the health of the populace is largely determined by the health of the society they live in. It would work together rather than having jobs alone. It sure as hell wouldn't make you work ten hour days making shitty ads and call it romance. 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Arthur, Dr. Freddy Paige, La’ Portia Perkins, Jasmine Weiss, and Dr. Michael Williams (Good Homie Signs’ “Hip Hop @ VT” mural 7/18) In Brief VTDITC: Hip Hop Studies at Virginia Tech is an award-winning series of experiential learning-focused, culturally responsive community engagement programs. It is deeply rooted in hip hop culture and is cosponsored by numerous organizations both on campus and in the community; the heart of the program is undoubtedly the Virginia Tech University Libraries. We have hosted more than 350 programs over the past five academic years. Notably, our Community Engagement Fellows, a team of undergraduate and graduate students, helped design and co-teach approximately forty-five media literacy workshops in the community beyond campus in the ‘19-’20 academic year. Our guiding mission is to remove barriers to entry, to recognize art as scholarship, to learn by doing, and, importantly, to create an expressive and collaborative environment which allows for creative freedom.  Introduction VTDITC: Hip Hop Studies at Virginia Tech, or, more commonly, Virginia Tech Digging in the Crates, is a practitioner-focused, student-driven, culturally responsive community engagement program that prioritizes experiential learning. The multifaceted and ever-evolving program is based in Southwest Virginia on the campus of Virginia Tech (a public, land grant university with a student body of approximately 30,000). VTDITC was co-created by a diverse transdisciplinary team and is now in our fifth consecutive academic year of programming. The program has iteratively developed since the Fall 2016 semester; we have successfully hosted more than 350 events.  Importantly, VTDITC builds on a 22 year history of hip hop based curricula and approximately 35 years of hip hop based co-curricular programming at the University. VTDITC’s ability to connect and engage such a large group of people is a special attribute of the program. Many universities have similar clubs or groups that bring together dancers with dancers or rappers with rappers, for instance, but VTDITC is a unique community engagement program in that it prioritizes unity over stratification. The hip hop community at VT can be relatively small if people were counted solely by an arbitrary declaration like ‘hip hop scholar.’ However, when we invite our community to engage in hip hop as a culture, our participation numbers dwarf many other programs that could be considered our peers. VTDITC’s success is at least partially due to the fact that a dynamic group of hip hop practitioners who embody the culture beyond our connection to the University co-create and care for it. We shift the university setting and resources to support hip hop culture, not the other way around. This article does not aim to chronicle the important role hip hop culture plays in education and college campuses (see Rawls & Robinson, 2019, as well as Petchauer, 2009 and 2012, Gosa & Fields, 2012, and Nielson, 2013) nor does it seek to record hip hop culture’s history at Virginia Tech (see Fralin, et al., 2018). We also are not seeking to describe a hip hop ethos (see Harrison and Arthur, 2019). Rather, we look forward to sharing this case study as an exemplar of culturally responsive programming supported by a university library. In this article we explain how as engaged scholars we commit to understanding the role of culture in education as flexible, local, and global.  Hit the Crates & Create The VTDITC community chose our name as a way to recognize one of the many research processes inherent to traditional hip hop arts communities as well as a nod to specific cultural stalwarts. The term ‘digging in the crates’ refers to the traditional information seeking/archival research process that hip hop DJs and sample-based producers use to find their source material. Digging, understandably, is the physical and intellectual labor of the discovery process in this context – or the work required to locate, sort, and analyze vinyl records. The crates are the acid free archival box equivalent for the vinyl DJ. A DJ or producer who spends time in the crates has a larger musical vocabulary as a result – just as time spent in library archives benefits a research writer (Craig, 2013 & Rice, 2003). Beyond our name, the VTDITC program utilizes effective engagement practices from the broader hip hop community to increase the reach of the Virginia Tech University Libraries’ programming. Providing opportunities for community members to engage with hip hop culture’s productions old and new, local and global, is an objective of many of our efforts.  Our Guiding Principles and Mission Statement Early in the development of the program, our Leadership Board co-created our guiding principles: to remove barriers to entry, to recognize art as scholarship, to learn by doing, and, arguably most importantly, to establish an expressive and collaborative environment which allows for creative freedom. Nearly half a decade later, applying these principles still guides the program in the direction of success.  Our mission statement was created shortly after founding the program. Although it has been remixed and edited slightly over the years, the essence has remained the same. The latest iteration of our mission statement is as follows:  Hip Hop Studies at Virginia Tech, or VTDITC, exists to foster community-based learning among hip hop artists, fans, practitioners, and scholars digitally and globally. We aim to model that students, faculty, and staff’s personal interests are worthy of academic study and publication as well as further institutionalize Hip Hop Studies’ presence on Virginia Tech’s campus. Another motivator that guides our programming is the need to challenge the white heteronormativity of higher education and, especially, library spaces (Rosa & Henke, 2017). We build upon the work of scholars such as Ladson-Billings (1995, 2014), Gay (2000), and Rawls and Robinson (2019) in an effort to nurture both the shared and divergent cultural backgrounds and sensibilities of our community members. Removing misconceptions that specific groups are not to be included in the socially constructed identity of a hip hop scholar or practitioner requires intentional effort toward increasing representation of excluded identities. Recognizing that hip hop culture was birthed and nurtured in Black and brown working class communities, our Leadership Board prioritizes creating opportunities for hip hop arts practitioners and scholars of color. Beyond considering race and ethnicity, we are deliberate about requiring gender parity among compensated guest artists and scholars. These are two examples of how the VTDITC community acts as agents of change to redress historical and contemporary oppression in educational spaces (NYSED, N.D.).  The Origins of VTDITC The first meeting of what would eventually become our Leadership Board, the program’s decision making body, took place on December 9, 2016 in Newman Library. Newman is Virginia Tech’s main campus library. It is also home to a modest recording studio (now known as Media Design Studio B). The focus of this initial meeting was to create a monthly hip hop-focused seminar series that would take place in the largest venue in Newman, the Multipurpose Room or MPR. Volume 1: Intro to DJing and Fair Use occurred a couple of months later in February 2017.  Along with the University Libraries, representatives from a variety of both student organizations and campus units served as co-sponsors and worked hard to make the event a success. To start the event, students Dylan Holiday and Alayna Carey (Alayna is a member of our Leadership Board at present) taught a workshop with librarian Craig Arthur. The workshop addressed the intersections and divergences of DJing and fair use principles. Afterwards, the sixty or so attendees had the opportunity to each try their hand at DJing with a variety of equipment set up for their use. The vast majority of the equipment belonged to members of the Leadership Board. Virginia Tech’s own Breaking (also known as breakdancing) Club ended the event with an informal cypher. The event’s sponsoring organizations included the Africana Studies Program, the Black Cultural Center, the Flowmigos (another name for the VT Breaking Club), the Intercultural Engagement Center, the Gloria D. Smith Professorship in Black Studies, Students of Hip Hop Legacy (a club related to hip hop fandom), VT Expressions (a club focused on hosting open mic events), the VT Women’s Center, and WUVT 90.7FM (the University’s student-run radio station). This workshop is now considered a foundational component of our  seminar series. It kicks off every year as a welcome event to our community members both old and new. The second iteration of this workshop received front-page coverage in the local newspaper; the article highlighted how hip hop culture was connecting students, faculty, staff, and community members in the Newman Library (Korth, 2018). (For an approximation of the vibes at this recurring workshop, see VTDITC, 2018A.) The Six Elements of VTDITC: Hip Hop Studies at Virginia Tech VTDITC is comprised of six main components: 1) the seminar series, 2) media literacy workshops, 3) weekly studio hours, 4) the community engagement fellows program, 5) credit-bearing curriculum, and 6) practitioners for hire. Each of these elements serves a unique subset of our community; for instance, the audience of our media literacy workshops are typically K-12 students while our practitioners for hire element connects local artists with campus units for opportunities for the artists to be compensated for their talents. While the program originated with the seminar series, the majority of our labor is spent on the other components. 1) The Seminar Series: VT’s Longest Running Monthly Event Since that first seminar in February 2017, we have hosted 22 additional iterations of the seminar. Approximately two dozen artists and scholars from beyond the campus have been compensated to share their expertise with the community we foster. The series, which takes place (originally in-person, now virtually [due to COVID-19], and, in due time hopefully, both virtually and in-person) on the second or third Thursday evenings of September, October, November, February, March, and April. Our seminars specifically occur during these months because that is when the regular school semesters take place. December and May are skipped due to the harried nature of the exam season. The seminars have addressed a wide range of topics including but not limited to gender, artistic ethics, heteronormativity, entrepreneurship, race, and police brutality. A recent example of how we addressed a topic using a hip hop lens was at our seminar VTDITC Volume 22: Hip Hop & Police Brutality. We hosted several scholars to discuss how hip hop music has long documented police violence. We selected hip hop songs that featured lyrics chronicling artists’ personal interactions with police over the course of three decades. Throughout this seminar, we conducted a group temporal analysis of how artists use their music to express the climate of police brutality across time periods and geographic differences. Ideally each year the planning committee develops seminars that directly discuss music creation as well as seminars that engage other hip hop practitioners in topics such as dance, the visual arts, journalism, and entrepreneurship.  While including academic voices is important, intentionally prioritizing the perspectives of hip hop arts practitioners is essential to our program. Our seminar series does not regularly follow the typical academic panel format. Even the events that do resemble a more traditional academic seminar feature a single artistic performance at a minimum. The information discussed in our seminars applies and appeals to a wide range of individuals. As a result, attendees include Virginia Tech students, faculty, staff, that of nearby institutions, and community members from the broader New River Valley and Roanoke Valley. As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, guests must now virtually attend our seminars. Over the past few months, we have had individuals from across the United States check out our events. Previously (before COVID-19), guests would need to physically come to Virginia Tech’s Newman Library to attend these events.  When attendees arrive at our seminars, they are greeted by a live DJ mix of hip hop music curated by our own DJ C. Sharp. After the welcome mix, the event’s Creative Director and MC (roles currently occupied by Jasmine and La’ Portia) bring the community together for announcements. We begin by expressing gratitude to our community partners as well as acknowledging the Tutelo/Monacan Nations as well as the enslaved African people (Virginia Tech’s Blacksburg campus was formerly the site of the Smithfield Plantation) who occupied this land before us. Following our announcements and land acknowledgements, we introduce our artists, scholars, and/or practitioners and they begin their presentations. Throughout the seminar there are often exercises where the community interacts with the practitioners. When meeting in person, food was provided midway through the seminar for the community to share. This feature of our seminar series symbolizes a hip hop tradition of breaking bread, but also serves as an opportunity to (albeit marginally) help reduce food scarcity on campus (US GAO, 2019). At the conclusion of our seminar, we make sure to allow time for an open question and answer session so that the community can have another opportunity to engage with the practitioners and as well as each other. We have also hosted numerous more participatory, performance-based events such as beat and MC battles. (See VTDITC, 2018B for highlights of our second annual beat battle as an example of how we are reimagining the seminar format.)  (Some members of the VTDITC Leadership Board 9/17; L-R: Eric Luu (‘18-’19 Creative Director, VT ‘19), Craig Arthur (University Libraries), Juel Downing (Black Cultural Center Student Assistant ‘17-’18, VT ‘18), Yamin Semali (Atlanta-based MC, Producer, DJ, & Recording Engineer), Mallory Foutch (former Program Coordinator, VT Women’s Center), and Dr. A. Kwame Harrison (Professor, Department of Sociology & the Africana Studies Program); image courtesy of Richard Randolph [VT ‘20]) 2) Do Things for the Kids: Media Literacy Workshops for the Broader Community This important component predates the program and is arguably our community’s favorite element of the VTDITC program. Craig has offered free DJ classes throughout the New River Valley for close to a decade. He had already integrated his twenty-year DJ practice into his librarian praxis prior to joining Virginia Tech. Recognizing that Virginia Tech University Libraries was in the process of creating its Digital Literacy Initiative shortly after his arrival, he realized that these workshops would dovetail well with many of the learning outcomes therein and could support the Initiative’s efforts. Since that time, we have offered more than 100 creation-focused workshops for the larger community.  Throughout the years, some of our more regular community partners have included – but are by no means limited to – the Boys and Girls Clubs of Southwest Virginia, numerous iterations of the local alumnae chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated’s annual STEAM Camp, Roanoke Public Libraries, Higher Achievement, Incorporated, Vinton Public Library, and the West End Center for Youth. Each of these organizations excels in providing programming to populations that Virginia Tech has traditionally underserved.  Although the pandemic has put a temporary stop to our in-person media literacy workshops, we are currently re-developing our lesson plans to work in an online synchronous learning environment. We have hosted three such virtual workshops this semester. Our workshops previously prioritized providing both access to music production equipment and utilizing an experiential learning approach to connect hip hop’s creative practices to STEAM education. Science, Technology, Engineering, the Arts and Mathematics (STEAM) education is enhanced by hip hop practices which encourage students to engage in inquiry, dialogue, and critical thinking. Unlike STEM, the addition of the arts component adds opportunities for students to thrive and connect with abstract concepts (Liao, 2016). While it is difficult to replicate the hands-on experience – such as time with turntables, records, DJ mixers, samplers, drum machines, and microphones – the online environment is well equipped for other creative practices like writing raps, critiques, and reflections. Online students are also able to engage activities which allow them to explore the relationship of beats per minute in a song and other numerical factors. Engineering is an emerging area of interest in the VTDITC media literacy workshops. We hope to explore the connection between the built environment and community impacts. Hip hop artists regularly communicate their experiences within their environmental context. Billboard charting hip hop artists have published songs that reflect the impacts that natural disasters, environmental injustice, and unsafe infrastructure systems have had on Black communities. Through a lyrical analysis of songs to introduce engineering issues, students are encouraged to consider engineering as a career path to serve their communities.  3) Cooking Up: Studio Hours Studio Hours are a weekly (every Friday afternoon) three hour open studio session for any member of our VTDITC community to record, refine the mixes of their existing recordings, write new material, and seek guidance from their fellow artists. Importantly, Studio Hours serves as a fellowship-focused space and a markedly strong community of practice is evident. This component of the program began in the Spring semester of 2018 and has persisted since. It takes place in the location of our initial planning meeting back in December 2016: Media Design Studio B in Newman Library. MDS B offers a recording booth, several audio interfaces, condenser microphones, and two computer workstations – one for audio recording and mixing and another for audio-visual production and/or audio pre-production work. The studio can comfortably accommodate approximately a dozen people. We prioritize the artists’ comfort  and have long been intentional about not overpacking MDS B. The VTDITC community has not only hosted the longest continuous program in MDS B with Studio Hours, we have also provided valuable user feedback to the team that runs the space. Our programming has helped transition the space and equipment therein from a faculty-focused curriculum development lab to a more outwardly-focused recording studio marketed to the broader community. Numerous songs have been recorded in MDS B by VTDITC community members during Studio Hours. Students retain ownership of their work and are guided through the process of publishing their music in both digital and analog formats. The Black Cultural Center Mixtape is an example of a community project that came into being largely as a result of Studio Hours. The BCC Mixtape can be found on Virginia Tech’s Black Cultural Center’s Soundcloud page; it was a long term, intensive project that was the brainchild of former BCC Director Kimberly Williams. The project’s production, which took place over the course of two semesters, was largely orchestrated by the VTDITC community.  VTDITC students have also performed live on WUVT90.7fm, the University’s student-run radio station, and as opening acts for several major artists when they have performed on campus. We are particularly proud that multiple VTDITC alumni have gained employment in creative arts-focused organizations. Many have continued their connection to VTDITC by collaborating with the current community. We have also hosted regionally and internationally renowned artists and recording engineers as a component of our Studio Hours program. They include Stimulator Jones, Tim Donovan, Omar Offendum, Sum, Ian Levy, and Emcee Lioness. As a result of these particular studio sessions, several collaborative songs have been released; they feature students, faculty members, and community members.  Each semester, a VTDITC community member – often the Lead Technical Director – serves as the resident recording engineer and Studio Hours community manager. We also attempt – with varying degrees of success – to ensure that we have an aspiring engineer in the wings to sustain the program’s momentum. There are relatively many Virginia Tech students who create their own music, but there are a limited number of students wanting to learn the engineering process necessary to record music. As a result, we intentionally promote the engineer mentor/mentee experience in hopes that we find interested individuals. Our current Creative Director, Jasmine, has expressed interest in music engineering and our Leadership Board is working to ensure that our current Lead Technical Director shares all of their knowledge. These student leaders have been essential to the success of our constantly evolving and co-constructed studio etiquette guidelines as well. The guidelines ultimately reflect the values of the program and, in turn, ensure that the media co-created during Studio Hours is indicative of what we are trying to accomplish as a community. Since the guidelines are prominently on display and reiterated at each of our sessions, they rarely need to be actively enforced. (VTDITC Studio Etiquette guidelines – Fall 2019) 4) Learning by Doing: The VTDITC Community Engagement Fellows The faculty members on the Leadership Board created the VTDITC Community Engagement Fellows program as a way to intentionally transfer skills. Students apply to partner with faculty members and dedicate time specifically to cultivating their expertise. This requires a relational process of shared responsibility with students and faculty. Inasmuch, the VTDITC Community Engagement Fellows program helped us achieve an aspirational goal – to increase the agency of students within the community. The fellows – a team of approximately half a dozen undergraduate and graduate students – are essential to the success of our seminar series, our media literacy workshops, and Studio Hours. Fellows comprise an interdisciplinary team that represent a wide swath of campus life and student organizations. Oftentimes, the seemingly sole unifying feature of this team is that nearly all of the fellows are hip hop arts practitioners – be it DJs, MCs, beat makers, visual artists, or dancers.  Each fellow is classified as either a technical director or a creative director depending on their interests and skill sets. The technical directors, led by a Lead Technical Director, are responsible for the more mechanical aspects such as setting up and striking equipment as well as DJing and running audiovisual equipment (and, lately, monitoring chat and moderating attendees) during our programs. The creative directors, led by a Lead Creative Director, handle the more visionary aspects of the program. They help determine the upcoming topics for our seminar series and identify artists and scholars with whom we should engage. They also shape the visual and virtual identity of the program via graphic design and actively maintaining our social media presence. Despite the differentiation of duties, both technical and creative directors play an active role in co-designing and co-leading our media literacy workshops. Inasmuch, the VTDITC program allows for unrivaled and, importantly, compensated experiential learning opportunities on campus and in the community. Numerous alums are now working in hip hop arts-based or adjacent professions – as recording engineers in commercial studies or as a community manager for an international breaking school, for example – due in part to this experience. 5) Not So Formal Learning: The Curricular Components VTDITC is, without question, a largely co-curricular program. However, along with founding Leadership Board member Dr. A. Kwame Harrison, Craig has co-taught two iterations of a credit bearing course that was directly tied to the VTDITC program: Africana Studies 4354/Sociology 4124: Foundations of Hip Hop. This course was offered in Fall 2017 (63 students) and Spring 2019 (39 students). In keeping with the emphasis on experiential learning evident in the rest of the VTDITC program, students were afforded the opportunity to create media projects rather than traditional academic essays in both iterations of this course. Many students made use of the resources – equipment loans and the Media Design Studio B, for instance – provided to them by the University Libraries to do so. We have partnered with the Department of Sociology and the Africana Studies program, largely thanks to Dr. Harrison, to co-teach several independent study courses as well. Foci of these courses have included MCing, coordinating events on campus, and internships in commercial recording studios.  6) You Can’t Pay Your Bills with Exposure: Practitioners For Hire As previously mentioned, the VTDITC program intentionally prioritizes hip hop arts practitioners in all that we do. We do our best to leverage our campus relationships to connect these practitioners with compensated work. There are typically many opportunities – and unfortunately the majority pay with only exposure – for visual artists, DJs, photographers, videographers, and dancers to share their work on a college campus. Over the years, we have successfully connected members of our community with rare paid opportunities provided by the University. One example of our practitioners for hire component is the relationship we have fostered with North Carolina based muralist Good Homie Signs and the University. Good Homie has created six of the seven murals (the remaining mural was created by MEME of the CBS and Few & Far crews) VTDITC has coordinated since the beginning of the program. “Narrative Art”, commissioned in April 2019 for a co-sponsored program on the rhetorics of graffiti with the Department of English and Dr. Jonathan Gross (Purdue University), has been on display in a popular meeting room in Shanks Hall, the home of the English Department, since June of last year. This component of the VTDITC program is an innovation to the best of our knowledge; we hope to continue to connect hip hop arts practitioners with similar paid opportunities on our campus in the coming years. (Good Homie Signs’ “Narrative Art” mural completed 4/19 and permanently installed in the Department of English’s conference room – 6/19) (Good Homie Signs’ Ut Prosim [or “that I may serve” – the University’s motto] mural completed 9/20 and installed permanently in Newman Library 10/20; note: third image courtesy of Cat Piper [VT ‘21]) (Good Homie Signs’ Bobcat Studios mural completed 11/20 and located in the Bobcat Studios recording studio at Radford High School [Radford, VA]) The Voice of the Community To help assess the program, community members are asked to share their feedback. The following quotes are excerpts from testimonials, post-event interviews, and event planning meetings. Quotes were selected to describe how members of our community speak to the connection that the VTDITC programming supports.  “Even outside of breaking, VTDITC always brings a really cool vibe to whatever they have going on, whether it’s a rap sesh or Craig spinning records or even just chilling and talking about current issues. It’s like a hip hop family, which is nice to see anywhere, especially in a place like Blacksburg.” – Virgil Thornton Love is an important ingredient in our events to balance the work required to discuss the tough issues our community faces. Academia is dominated with debates and lectures, and while both of those formats are present in VTDITC programming, many of the discussions at our events are modeled to mimic a family dinner conversation. Food is present and our crowd separates into small focus groups.  “My favorite memories were the beat battles–more specifically, seeing professors and students compete, champion, and show a bombastic love for each other.”  – Kimberly Williams  Breaking down hierarchy is extremely important to empower voices. The VTDITC community creates opportunities for faculty, staff, students, and non-University affiliated community members to compete on a level playing field. Healthy competition allows for supportive energy to be transferred from the community into individuals and their creations. Many of the artistic works shared in our competitions are works in progress that are improved through community input.  “VTDITC is more than a library program; it is a community program, yet I continue to discuss its connection to the library and my librarianship. This is because working with VTDITC showed me the value of leaving the library to listen to the people the library serves, and this is a lesson I am extremely grateful for as it makes me a better librarian.” – Kodi Saylor “I learned to listen better, respect better, and uplift better by being in that environment, which is something that came about naturally because that positive energy was already present.” – Jon Kabongo Listening to others and valuing what they have to say is a non-negotiable community requirement of VTDITC. The success of the VTDITC program is greatly due to our ability to listen to what community members want and need. Our community members feel listened to and reciprocate our efforts by listening to others at our events. Virginia Tech has aspirational community guidelines which unfortunately are not always upheld. Our community is not without flaw, but it is apparent that we are committed to superseding the expectations and standards of the broader university environment. We are not building a utopia but an incredible amount of trust is being developed within our community where open mics and vulnerable identities co-exist.  Plans for the Future We feel confident that we have the program more or less dialed in both in practice and in theory, however we would like to increase the number of people that participate in the program. To date, the VTDITC community has been funded largely by the University Libraries (approximately $10,000-$15,000 per year) via departmental support for outreach programming as well as by financial support from campus units and internal grants. The vast majority of these funds have gone directly to student wages, artist and scholar honorariums, and purchasing the equipment necessary to support the program. We have received several internal grants (ranging from $500 to $10,000) in additional funding. To increase our impact in the broader community, we plan to aggressively seek external funding and sponsorships beyond campus.  Additionally, we also hope to further refine our programmatic assessment. Qualitative data have been collected from events and engagements which has helped VTDITC grow. A student collected several testimonials at our events as a part of a journalism project which was continued by our event staff in hopes of finding opportunities for improvement. Participant testimonials have helped tune the amount of time allotted for discussion at events as well as the importance of communicating to students opportunities to become the hosts of our events. Testimonial data also helped the VTDITC event team create  “no-photos please” lanyards to protect student privacy, especially when engaging in politicized topics. Planning meetings for VTDITC events are open to anyone, and insights provided by visiting community members have improved our events – especially as new topics are explored in conjunction with new partners. In particular, visiting community members have helped us take an iterative approach to how we promote our events and spread the reach of our programming. VTDITC hosts the most attended and longest running series in the Newman Library, and while the participation rates are impressive, we strive to develop richer quantitative measures of success to explore and assess the program’s success. With the program growing in scale, quantitative measures are beginning to become more applicable for measuring program success through standard statistical procedures. For our online programming, which has connected over 160 participants in the same virtual meeting, a survey is being designed to accompany our registration process which will collect likert scale data to record participant perceptions of engagement and knowledge gains. This likert scale data will be recorded and used to help the Leadership and Advisory Boards make decisions about the program’s trajectory. We also plan to leverage this data as evidence of the program’s impact for external grant funding.  Conclusion Community practices are established over long periods of time. Although the program is almost half a decade old, VTDITC is just getting started. Constructing, deconstructing, and re-envisioning the program has been a repetitive process. Working in the university environment, VTDITC was designed to be dynamic and capable of growing even with a large number of individuals whose tenures are relatively brief. Many challenges are present when engaging with communities as volatile as those in higher education, especially with respect to continuity, trust, and funding. Our guiding principles and engagement practices help to mitigate several common failures. Post graduation VTDITC students have open lines of  communication with the program and provide guidance to the generations that follow. VTDITC only engages in community partnerships that are designed to meet community needs, and prioritize community empowerment, not the further establishment of the academic institution. Financial constraints are considered opportunities to develop alternate paths towards success, while maintaining a high standard for the quality of our outputs. While the VTDITC community cannot be duplicated at other institutions, by presenting our process, we hope to provide others with the ability to sample our program to create their own sound engagement practices with their community.   Acknowledgements This article would not have been possible without the scores of students, artists, community members, as well as Virginia Tech faculty and staff who have played varying – but all vital – roles in the VTDITC crew over the last half decade.  Arthur J. Boston, Ian Beilin, and Ryan Randall’s formal peer-reviews were also invaluable as we wrote, remixed, and reworked this articles’ numerous drafts. Thank you for your patience, kindness, and support. 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(2017). 2017 ALA Demographic Study. American Library Association. http://www.ala.org/tools/research/initiatives/membershipsurveys U.S. Government Accountability Office. “Food Insecurity: Better Information Could Help Eligible College Students Access Federal Food Assistance Benefits.” U.S. Government Accountability Office, January 9, 2019. https://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-19-95. VTDITC [VTDITC Hip Hop Studies at Virginia Tech]. (2018A, October 19). #VTDITC vol 10: Intro to DJing & Fair Use [Video]. YouTube. https://youtu.be/OOLWlylnKlI  VTDITC [VTDITC Hip Hop Studies at Virginia Tech]. (2018B, November 2). #VTDITC vol 11: Beat Battle & Music Production Workshop featuring BeatsByJBlack [Video]. YouTube. https://youtu.be/NbOFSk20S-A Appendix VTDITC: A Rough and Incomplete Timeline 5/29/2016: Craig was invited by Dr. Karen Davis to teach a DJ-based media literacy workshop for Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated’s Tau Mu Omega Chapter’s first STEAM Camp. The camp happened on the campus of Radford University which was both Dr. Davis’ and Craig’s employer at the time. Although Craig had been DJing for 18 years and had taught numerous individuals the craft by this point, this workshop was the first time he had the opportunity to teach a group of middle school students from a media literacy perspective. 6/4/2016: Craig was invited back to teach a DJ-based media literacy workshop for Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc.’s Tau Mu Omega Chapter’s second annual STEAM Camp. This collaboration continues annually to the present.  9/10/2016: Craig began working at his alma mater in the role of Teaching & Learning Engagement Librarian. 12/9/2016: The first meeting of what would become the VTDITC Leadership Board took place in what is now the Media Design Studio B in Newman Library. 2/14/2017: VTDITC collaborated with Roanoke Public Libraries for the For The Love of Hip Hop program at their main branch. RPL and VTDITC have partnered roughly a dozen times over the interceding years and our relationship with RPL is one unquestionably one of our strongest community partnerships. 2/16/2017: VTDITC vol 1: Intro to DJing & Fair Use. This event – along with every other in-person seminar series event – took place in Newman Library’s Multipurpose Room. VT students Dylan Holliday and Alayna Carey served as workshop co-teachers alongside Craig. Alayna (VT Class of ‘20) is still a member of the VTDITC Leadership Board. 3/16/2017-3/18/2017: First VT Hip Hop Appreciation Weekend – a three day collaboration between Students of Hip Hop Legacy, the Flowmigos/VT Breaking Club, and VTDITC – occurred. 3/16/2017: VTDITC vol 2: Hip Hop Entrepreneurship featured DJ Zomanno (Los Angeles based DJ and VT alum), Justin Kim (Los Angeles based musican and model), and VT student Nathan Zed. Dr. A. Kwame Harrison (VT Department of Sociology and Africana Studies Program) moderated the discussion. 3/18/2017: Give Me A Break 3 versus 3 B-Boy/B-Girl Jam (sponsored by the Flowmigos/VT Breaking Club with assistance from VTDITC) took place in the Newman Library Multipurpose Room. 4/20/2017: VTDITC vol 3: Gender & Hip Hop featured legendary poet and VT faculty Nikki Giovanni. VT PhD student Corey Miles and the Black Cultural Center’s Director Kimberly Williams moderated the discussion. 9/14/2017: VTDITC vol 4: Beat Battle & Music Production Workshop featured Yamin Semali (Atlanta based producer, DJ, MC, and recording engineer). Local music producer Electrobro won first place. 10/12/2017: VTDITC vol 5: MC Battle & Workshop featured DayTripper (Atlanta based producer, DJ, and MC) and Emcee Lioness (Maryland based MC and VT alum). Trigganamatree (aka James Maples who passed tragically the following year) won the battle. 11/2/2017: VTDITC vol 6: Hip Hop & Digital Literacy featured Dr. AD Carson (UVA Department of Music), Sum (Los Angeles based MC), VT student Nathan Zed, and Stimulator Jones (Roanoke based musician). Dr. A. Kwame Harrsion moderated the discussion. Spring semester 2018: We began hosting VTDITC Studio Hours in what is now the Media Design Studio B in Newman Library. The sessions occurred from 11am to 2pm every Friday that semester as well as during the summer. 2/11/2018-2/17/2018: VTDITC Artist/Entrepreneur-in-Residence. Los Angeles based artist Sum served as the University Libraries first (and only thus far) artist/entrepreneur in residence. Sum met with over 30 members of the campus community during his residency. Afterwards he presented a document with numerous recommendations and debriefed interested members of the University Libraries with his findings via a virtual meeting. 2/15/2018: VTDITC vol 7: The Hour Challenge – a collaborative music creation competition – took place. Three teams of approximately half a dozen randomly chosen local hip hop artists were given an hour to create a full song. The crowd picked their favorite at the conclusion of the event. Logistically it was a nightmare but it all worked out somehow. Recap video 2/28/2018: The Roanoke Times publishes a front page story on the VTDITC program. 3/15/2018-3/17/2018: 2nd Annual VT Hip Hop Appreciation Weekend transpired. SOHHL, the Flowmigos, and VTDITC served as co-sponsors. 3/15/2018: VTDITC vol 8: Hip Hop & Liberation featured Dr. Brandy Faulkner (VT Department of Political Science), Omar Offendum (Los Angeles based MC), Dumi Right (VT alum and Virginia based MC), and Saba Taj (Durham based visual artist). Recap video 3/17/2018: VTDITC Park Jam featured muralists Icue (Atlanta) and Good Homie Signs (North Carolina) as well as Atlanta based DJ and MC Daytripper. 4/19/2018: VTDITC vol 9: Gender & Hip Hop II featured Blair Ebony Smith (University) and Kyesha Jennings (NC State). Recap video Fall semester 2018: VTDITC Studio Hours continued in MDS B. We altered hours to Fridays from 2 to 5 to better serve our community’s needs. 8/23/2018: The Hip Hop @ VT Exhibit opened in Newman Library. This exhibit – which was created in collaboration with the University Libraries’ Course Exhibits Program – was on display on the main floor of Newman Library through nearly the entirety of the fall semester. Mural timelapse video 9/20/2018: VTDITC vol 10: Intro to DJing & Fair Use – the Return consisted of a workshop by Craig and numerous VT DJs/students who also served as small group coaches. Recap video 10/11/2018: VTDITC vol 11: Beat Battle & Music Production Workshop featured BeatsByJBlack (Northern Virginia based music producer) and was hosted by VT student Eric Luu. VT student SamWMTA won first place. Mike Abstrakt, a Roanoke-based high school student and music producer, took home second place. Recap video 11/12/2018: VTDITC vol 12: Hip Hop & Mental Health featured Dr. Ian Levy (Manhattan College), Dr. Freddy Paige (Virginia Tech Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering), Dr. Brandy Faulkner, and Emcee Lioness.  2/7/2019: VTDITC vol 13: Hip Hop & Interrogating Civility. This event, in collaboration with the Office of Student Conduct, took a critical view of the imperative of civility on our campus. Dr. Andrea Baldwin (VT Department of Sociology), Yolanda Avent (VT Community and Cultural Centers), VT student Juan Pachecho, and Dr. AD Carson (UVA) served as panelists.  2/28/2019-3/2/2019: 3rd Annual VT Hip Hop Appreciation Weekend took place. SOHHL, the Flowmigos, and VTDITC again served as co-sponsors. 2/28/2019: VTDITC vol 14: Gender & Hip Hop III – the Return of the B-Girl. Graffiti artist Meme, dancer BGirl Macca, and Emcee Lioness served as panelists for this iteration of our seminar series.  3/2/2019: 2nd Annual VTDITC Park Jam featured muralists Good Homie Signs and Meme. Recap video 4/7/2019: Black Cultural Center (BCC) Mixtape released. This collaborative project – the culmination of a semester and a half of work largely done during VTDITC Studio Hours – was formally released at a celebration at the BCC. 4/18/2019: Words of the Prophets: Graffiti as Political Protest in Greece, Italy, and Poland. This collaborative program with the VT Department of English featured Dr. Jonathan Gross (Professor of English at Purdue University). He shared his research regarding the rhetorics of graffiti art. Good Homie Signs created a 4’ by 16’ mural prior to this event. It is now on display in the Department of English’s conference room (Shanks Hall 380). 4/18/2019: VTDITC vol 15: Show & Prove. This event was an all elements open battle for local hip hop arts practitioners. Members of the Flowmigos won first place. 8/2019: The VTDITC Leadership Board established our inaugural Advisory Board. The first Advisory Board consisted of Juel Downing (VT Class of ‘18 and original Leadership Board member), Dr. J. Rawls (DJ/producer and educator), Sum (MC), Emcee Lioness (VT Class of ‘07 and MC), Dumi Right (VT Class of ‘95 and MC), and Dr. Joycelyn Wilson (Assistant Professor of Black Media Studies, Georgia Tech). ‘19-’20 Academic Year: Notably, the VTDITC Community Engagement Fellows co-designed and co-taught 45 media literacy workshops for the broader community. Roughly a dozen partner organizations helped facilitate these workshops. 9/19/2019: VTDITC vol 16: Hip Hop & Race – What Hasn’t Been Said. This event consisted of small group discussions led by a team of moderators.  10/17/2019: VTDITC vol 17: Soul Sessions – Rebel Voices. This iteration of our seminar series was a collaboration with Roanoke-based open mic series Soul Sessions and celebrated of LGBTQ+ History Month. 11/14/2019: VTDITC vol 18: 3rd Annual Beat Battle & Music Production Workshop. This recurrence of one of our most anticipated events was judged and hosted by Stimulator Jones (Roanoke based musician, DJ, and producer). VT student and music producer Prince Predator (VT Class of ‘21) won the battle.  February 2020: Bobcat Studios Project. VTDITC was awarded a $3000 internal grant by VT’s Institute for Creativity, Arts, and Technology to create a recording studio and the culturally-relevant curriculum necessary to support it at Radford High School (Radford, Virginia).  2/20/2020: VTDITC vol 19: Intro to DJing and Fair Use III. This workshop was taught by UCLA Department of Africana Studies’ Lynnée Denise and focused on their research regarding the DJ as scholar. 2/28/2020: VTDITC held a master class with legendary recording engineer Tim Donovan in Media Design Studio B.  Mid March 2020: VTDITC Studio Hours transitioned to a virtual-only format. 3/19/2020: VTDITC vol 20: Gender & Hip Hop IV’s original date. We rescheduled this event to 10/15/2020 and transitioned to a virtual format due to the COVID-19 pandemic 3/21/2020: 3rd Annual VDITC Park Jam’s original date. We rescheduled this event to 9/19/2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. 6/4/2020: VTDITC vol 21: Black Communities & the Police. This was our first virtual-only seminar series event and it transpired shortly after George Floyd was murdered by the Minneapolis Police Department. Community stalwart Dr. Brandy Faulkner kindly shared her expertise with us yet again. Mid August 2020: VTDITC Studio Hours reinstated in-person programming in MDS B. 9/17/2020: VTDITC vol 22: Hip Hop and Police Brutality. Our second virtual only seminar series event featured Dr. Brandy Faulkner, Dr. Ellington Graves (VT Office for Inclusion and Diversity and Department of Sociology/Africana Studies Program), Roanoke-based recording artist Macklyn, and Radford University Department of Social Work’s Dr. Deneen Evans. Panelists analyzed both current and classic hip hop songs as foundational texts describing instances of police violence.  9/19/2020: 3rd Annual VTDITC Park Jam – the Do-Over. North Carolina based artist and regular VTDITC collaborator Good Homie Signs created a 4’ by 16’ mural of the Virginia Tech motto Ut Prosim (or “That I May Serve”) outside of Newman Library. The mural was installed in Newman Library the following month.  10/15/2020: VTDITC vol 20 – the Do-Over: Gender & Hip Hop IV featured Dr. Shante Paradigm Smalls (St. John’s University). This event was our third virtual-only seminar series event. Dr. Smalls presentation focused on their research regarding queer hip hop historiographies. 11/12/2020: VTDITC vol 23: Hip Hop Entrepreneurship II featured Stacy Epps (Atlanta-based artist and attorney). At our fourth virtual-only seminar series event, Stacy’s workshop focused on the steps necessary for aspiring artists to professionalize their creative practices. 11/13-11/15/2020: Good Homie Signs created the Bobcat Studios mural (12’ by 24’) at Radford High School.  IMAGES: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1RmesxfMPCqJjRDJmRPcYqDeBJxwsjVSs?usp=sharing  TESTIMONIALS: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ND0B8qqrZRVpw1toJhWLmOG1yRAZQv89ypeKcoymvWo/edit?usp=sharing community building, community engagement, community groups, hip-hop, library programming, public services Creating a Student-Centered Alternative to Research Guides: Developing the Infrastructure to Support Novice Learners Leave a Reply Cancel Reply Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Current ye@r * Leave this field empty This work is licensed under a CC Attribution 4.0 License. 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ISSN 1944-6195 About this Journal | Archives | Submissions | Conduct www-inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe-org-7188 ---- In the Library with the Lead Pipe In the Library with the Lead Pipe An open access, peer reviewed journal Culturally Responsive Community Engagement Programming and the University Library: Lessons Learned from Half a Decade of VTDITC By Craig E. Arthur, Dr. Freddy Paige, La’ Portia Perkins, Jasmine Weiss, and Dr. Michael Williams (Good Homie Signs’ “Hip Hop @ VT” mural 7/18) In Brief VTDITC: Hip Hop Studies at Virginia Tech is an award-winning series of experiential learning-focused, culturally responsive community engagement programs. It is deeply rooted in hip hop culture and... 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You’re welcome to translate it into any language; I’d appreciate you sending me an email so I can link to it. プログラマの抱いている名前についての誤謬 戳这里看中文翻译 ] John Graham-Cumming wrote an article today complaining about how a computer system he was working with described his last name as having invalid characters.  It of course does not, because anything someone tells you is their name is — by definition — an appropriate identifier for them.  John was understandably vexed about this situation, and he has every right to be, because names are central to our identities, virtually by definition. I have lived in Japan for several years, programming in a professional capacity, and I have broken many systems by the simple expedient of being introduced into them.  (Most people call me Patrick McKenzie, but I’ll acknowledge as correct any of six different “full” names, any many systems I deal with will accept precisely none of them.) Similarly, I’ve worked with Big Freaking Enterprises which, by dint of doing business globally, have theoretically designed their systems to allow all names to work in them.  I have never seen a computer system which handles names properly and doubt one exists, anywhere. So, as a public service, I’m going to list assumptions your systems probably make about names.  All of these assumptions are wrong.  Try to make less of them next time you write a system which touches names. People have exactly one canonical full name. People have exactly one full name which they go by. People have, at this point in time, exactly one canonical full name. People have, at this point in time, one full name which they go by. People have exactly N names, for any value of N. People’s names fit within a certain defined amount of space. People’s names do not change. People’s names change, but only at a certain enumerated set of events. People’s names are written in ASCII. People’s names are written in any single character set. People’s names are all mapped in Unicode code points. People’s names are case sensitive. People’s names are case insensitive. People’s names sometimes have prefixes or suffixes, but you can safely ignore those. People’s names do not contain numbers. People’s names are not written in ALL CAPS. People’s names are not written in all lower case letters. People’s names have an order to them.  Picking any ordering scheme will automatically result in consistent ordering among all systems, as long as both use the same ordering scheme for the same name. People’s first names and last names are, by necessity, different. People have last names, family names, or anything else which is shared by folks recognized as their relatives. People’s names are globally unique. People’s names are almost globally unique. Alright alright but surely people’s names are diverse enough such that no million people share the same name. My system will never have to deal with names from China. Or Japan. Or Korea. Or Ireland, the United Kingdom, the United States, Spain, Mexico, Brazil, Peru, Russia, Sweden, Botswana, South Africa, Trinidad, Haiti, France, or the Klingon Empire, all of which have “weird” naming schemes in common use. That Klingon Empire thing was a joke, right? Confound your cultural relativism!  People in my society, at least, agree on one commonly accepted standard for names. There exists an algorithm which transforms names and can be reversed losslessly.  (Yes, yes, you can do it if your algorithm returns the input.  You get a gold star.) I can safely assume that this dictionary of bad words contains no people’s names in it. People’s names are assigned at birth. OK, maybe not at birth, but at least pretty close to birth. Alright, alright, within a year or so of birth. Five years? You’re kidding me, right? Two different systems containing data about the same person will use the same name for that person. Two different data entry operators, given a person’s name, will by necessity enter bitwise equivalent strings on any single system, if the system is well-designed. People whose names break my system are weird outliers.  They should have had solid, acceptable names, like 田中太郎. People have names. This list is by no means exhaustive.  If you need examples of real names which disprove any of the above commonly held misconceptions, I will happily introduce you to several.  Feel free to add other misconceptions in the comments, and refer people to this post the next time they suggest a genius idea like a database table with a first_name and last_name column. Originally written: June 17, 2010 About the author Patrick McKenzie (patio11) ran four small software businesses. He writes about software, marketing, sales, and general business topics. Opinions here are his own. Older · View Archive (570) Detecting Bots with Javascript for Better A/B Test Results I am a big believer in not spending time creating features until you know customers actually need them.  This goes the same for OSS projects: there is no point in overly complicating things until “customers” tell you they need to be a little more complicated.  (Helpfully, here some customers are actually capable of helping themselves… well, OK, it is theoretically possible at any rate.) Newer Running Apache On A Memory-Constrained VPS Yesterday about a hundred thousand people visited this blog due to my post on names, and the server it was on died several fiery deaths. This has been a persistent issue for me in dealing with Apache (the site dies nearly every time I get Reddited — with only about 10,000 visitors each time, which shouldn’t be a big number on the Internet), but no amount of enabling WordPress cache plugins, tweaking my Apache settings, upgrading the VPS’ RAM, or Googling lead me to a solution. Who am I? My name is Patrick McKenzie (better known as patio11 on the Internets.) Twitter: @patio11 HN: patio11 © Patrick McKenzie (Kalzumeus Software, LLC) 2006 - 2020. Shoutout to Elle Kasai for the Shiori Theme. www-last-fm-1049 ---- Drawn and Quartered — Oneohtrix Point Never | Last.fm Playing via Spotify Playing via YouTube Playback options Listening on… Switch Spotify device Open in Spotify Web Player Change playback source Open on YouTube website Change playback source Previous Play Next Skip to YouTube video Loading player… Scrobble from Spotify? 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Upgrade Now Shoutbox Javascript is required to view shouts on this page. Go directly to shout page About This Artist Artist images 12 more Chicano Batman 87,414 listeners Related Tags rock psychedelic psychedelic rock Originally the trio of Bardo Martinez, Eduardo Arenas and Gabriel Villa and now a quartet with Carlos Arévalo, Chicano Batman themselves as ethnomusicologists and say that they draw upon a broad range of 60s and 70s influences. Oliver Wang describes their music as "a mesh of Brazilian bossa nova and samba with spacey psychedelia with slow jam soul with surf rock cumbia." View wiki Originally the trio of Bardo Martinez, Eduardo Arenas and Gabriel Villa and now a quartet with Carlos Arévalo, Chicano Batman themselves as ethnomusicologists and say that they draw upon a … read more Originally the trio of Bardo Martinez, Eduardo Arenas and Gabriel Villa and now a quartet with Carlos Arévalo, Chicano Batman themselves as ethnomusicologists and say that they draw upon a broad range of 60s and 70s influences. Oliver … read more View full artist profile Similar Artists Play all The Growlers 305,899 listeners Post Animal 91,633 listeners Chaz Bundick Meets The Mattson 2 58,972 listeners Khruangbin 337,204 listeners Dumbo Gets Mad 98,071 listeners Moses Gunn Collective 86,982 listeners Allah-Las 239,761 listeners Mild High Club 226,008 listeners Tame Impala 1,459,368 listeners View all similar artists Scrobble Stats ? What is scrobbling? Scrobbling is when Last.fm tracks the music you listen to and automatically adds it to your music profile. 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Leave feedback API Calls Close www-last-fm-1155 ---- Halcyon Digest — Deerhunter | Last.fm Playing via Spotify Playing via YouTube Playback options Listening on… Switch Spotify device Open in Spotify Web Player Change playback source Open on YouTube website Change playback source Previous Play Next Skip to YouTube video Loading player… Scrobble from Spotify? Connect your Spotify account to your Last.fm account and scrobble everything you listen to, from any Spotify app on any device or platform. Connect to Spotify Dismiss Last.fm SearchSearchSearch Toggle navigation Upgrade to Pro Live Music Charts Events Features Subscribe Join Login Upgrade to Pro Live Music Charts Events Features Join Login A new version of Last.fm is available, to keep everything running smoothly, please reload the site. Deerhunter Halcyon Digest Play album More actions Go to artist profile Get album Loading Listeners 444.3K Scrobbles 12.5M Metascore 86 Listeners 444.3K Scrobbles 12.5M Metascore 86 Play album More actions Go to artist profile Get album Loading Add artworkView all artwork Length 11 tracks, 45:01 Release Date 26 September 2010 Length 11 tracks, 45:01 Release Date 26 September 2010 Halcyon Digest is the fourth studio album by American indie rock band Deerhunter. It was released September 28, 2010 to very enthusiastic reviews. It was the band's first album distributed exclusively by 4AD worldwide (previously 4AD only handled overseas distribution while Kranky Records handled it within the U.S) The album was self-produced with assistance from Ben Allen and was recorded at Chase Park Transduction studios in Athens, Georgia. The final track, "He Would Have Laughed" was recorded separately by Bradford Cox at Notown Sound in Marietta, GA and is a trib… read more Halcyon Digest is the fourth studio album by American indie rock band Deerhunter. It was released September 28, 2010 to very enthusiastic reviews. It… read more Halcyon Digest is the fourth studio album by American indie rock band Deerhunter. It was released September 28, 2010 to very enthusiastic reviews. It was the band's first album dist… read more Related Tags 2010 indie rock dream pop best of 2010 poptron Add tagsView all tags Don't want to see ads? 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Upgrade Now Shoutbox Javascript is required to view shouts on this page. Go directly to shout page About This Artist Artist images 85 more Deerhunter 918,971 listeners Related Tags shoegaze experimental indie Deerhunter is a band which formed in 2001 in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. The band consists of Bradford Cox (vocals, guitar, piano), Moses Archuleta (drums, synths), Lockett Pundt (guitar, organ, vocals), and Josh McKay (bass, vocals). The group began with the ambition of fusing the lulling hypnotic states induced by ambient and minimalist music with the klang and propulsion of garage rock. The band has weathered chaotic line-up changes and the death of a member. Cryptograms was the second full-length offering from Deerhunter, and their first for Kranky. The album took almost t… read more Deerhunter is a band which formed in 2001 in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. 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Upgrade Now Shoutbox Javascript is required to view shouts on this page. Go directly to shout page About This Artist Artist images 1,127 more The Beatles 3,969,421 listeners Related Tags classic rock rock 60s The Beatles were an English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960. With a line-up comprising John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr, they are regarded as the most influential band of all time. The group were integral to the development of 1960s counterculture and popular music's recognition as an art form. Rooted in skiffle, beat and 1950s rock and roll, their sound incorporated elements of classical music and traditional pop in innovative ways; the band later explored music styles ranging from ballads and Indian music to psychedelia and hard rock. As pion… read more The Beatles were an English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960. With a line-up comprising John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr, they are regarded as the most infl… read more The Beatles were an English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960. With a line-up comprising John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr, they are regarded as the most influential band of all time. The group were integ… read more View full artist profile Similar Artists Play all John Lennon 2,359,569 listeners George Harrison 1,428,118 listeners Paul McCartney 1,823,925 listeners Wings 665,041 listeners Ringo Starr 537,698 listeners Paul McCartney & Wings 725,564 listeners The Beach Boys 2,623,343 listeners The Rolling Stones 4,020,231 listeners Paul & Linda McCartney 122,968 listeners View all similar artists Scrobble Stats ? What is scrobbling? Scrobbling is when Last.fm tracks the music you listen to and automatically adds it to your music profile. 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Leave feedback API Calls Close www-last-fm-1491 ---- Mikael Lind music, videos, stats, and photos | Last.fm Playing via Spotify Playing via YouTube Playback options Listening on… Switch Spotify device Open in Spotify Web Player Change playback source Open on YouTube website Change playback source Previous Play Next Skip to YouTube video Loading player… Scrobble from Spotify? Connect your Spotify account to your Last.fm account and scrobble everything you listen to, from any Spotify app on any device or platform. Connect to Spotify Dismiss Last.fm SearchSearchSearch Toggle navigation Upgrade to Pro Live Music Charts Events Features Subscribe Join Login Upgrade to Pro Live Music Charts Events Features Join Login A new version of Last.fm is available, to keep everything running smoothly, please reload the site. Mikael Lind Play artist More actions Play similar artists Listeners 4,634 Scrobbles 39.3K Latest release Give Shape to Space 25 July 2020 Play album Popular this week Give Shape to Space 10 listeners 8 photos Listeners 4,634 Scrobbles 39.3K Play artist More actions Play similar artists Electronic artist with classical influences. Mikael works more and more with different piano sounds and violins in his compositions. The album Alltihop was released in 2009, and the next album Felines Everywhere was released in May in 2012. Now, Mikael is working on a new piece based around experimental piano sounds. http://mikaellind.blogspot.com View wiki Electronic artist with classical influences. Mikael works more and more with different piano sounds and violins in his compositions. The album Alltihop was released in 2009, and the next album Felines Everywhere was released in May in 2012. Now, Mikael is working on a new piece based around e… read more Electronic artist with classical influences. Mikael works more and more with different piano sounds and violins in his compositions. The album Alltihop was released in 2009, and the next album Felines Everywhere was released in May in 2012. 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Upgrade Now Shoutbox Javascript is required to view shouts on this page. Go directly to shout page About This Artist Artist images 4 more Federico Durand 31,458 listeners Related Tags ambient electronic dreamy Federico Durand is a sound artist and literature teacher in La Cumbre, Argentina. His melodies overflow between the autumnal sounds and the poetry interpreted by the landscapes that surround him. Federico Durand’s music is a weave of sound searching introspection and delight through small sound melodies. View wiki Federico Durand is a sound artist and literature teacher in La Cumbre, Argentina. His melodies overflow between the autumnal sounds and the poetry interpreted by the landscapes that surroun… read more Federico Durand is a sound artist and literature teacher in La Cumbre, Argentina. His melodies overflow between the autumnal sounds and the poetry interpreted by the landscapes that surround him. 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Upgrade Now Shoutbox Javascript is required to view shouts on this page. Go directly to shout page About This Artist Artist images 216 more Flying Lotus 889,837 listeners Related Tags electronic experimental hip-hop Los Angeles resident Steven Ellison, better known as Flying Lotus, is a producer of electronic music and hip-hop beats, known for his abstract and sometimes jazz-tinted style. Flying Lotus, often abbreviated to FlyLo, is the founder and leader of the Brainfeeder collective, which includes such artists as Samiyam, Teebs and Daedelus. He is also often seen as being at the forefront of the new wave of beatmakers and musicians who fuse IDM and electronica with hip-hop and trip-hop. Flying Lotus released his first album, 1983 on Plug Research Records in 2006. His June 2008 release, Los … read more Los Angeles resident Steven Ellison, better known as Flying Lotus, is a producer of electronic music and hip-hop beats, known for his abstract and sometimes jazz-tinted style. Flying Lotus,… read more Los Angeles resident Steven Ellison, better known as Flying Lotus, is a producer of electronic music and hip-hop beats, known for his abstract and sometimes jazz-tinted style. Flying Lotus, often abbreviated to FlyLo, is the founder an… read more View full artist profile Similar Artists Play all Thundercat 474,322 listeners Teebs 210,097 listeners J Dilla 637,916 listeners Mndsgn 164,044 listeners Knxwledge 132,221 listeners Aphex Twin 1,649,812 listeners Mono/Poly 84,534 listeners Madlib 465,445 listeners Daedelus 321,036 listeners View all similar artists Scrobble Stats ? What is scrobbling? Scrobbling is when Last.fm tracks the music you listen to and automatically adds it to your music profile. 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Upgrade Now Shoutbox Javascript is required to view shouts on this page. Go directly to shout page About This Artist Artist images 14 more Windy & Carl 103,732 listeners Related Tags ambient drone shoegaze Windy & Carl is the music project of husband and wife musicians Windy Weber and Carl Hultgren. They began collaborating on music in 1993 in Dearborn, Michigan, United States. Their sound is very slow, dreamy, and based in drones. Using guitar, bass, and some keyboards and electronic effects as well as Windy's singing on some tracks they create long delicate washes of sound. They released their first album "Portal" in 1994, followed by several other full-lengths on the Blue Flea, Darling and Kranky labels. After a few years of inactivity, they released an EP titled… read more Windy & Carl is the music project of husband and wife musicians Windy Weber and Carl Hultgren. They began collaborating on music in 1993 in Dearborn, Michigan, United States. Their soun… read more Windy & Carl is the music project of husband and wife musicians Windy Weber and Carl Hultgren. They began collaborating on music in 1993 in Dearborn, Michigan, United States. Their sound is very slow, dreamy, and based in drones. U… read more View full artist profile Similar Artists Play all Landing 26,544 listeners Roy Montgomery 35,851 listeners Stars of the Lid 453,814 listeners Belong 101,266 listeners Labradford 162,879 listeners Flying Saucer Attack 88,540 listeners Jessica Bailiff 33,899 listeners Grouper 392,876 listeners Amp 22,518 listeners View all similar artists Scrobble Stats ? What is scrobbling? Scrobbling is when Last.fm tracks the music you listen to and automatically adds it to your music profile. 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Leave feedback API Calls Close www-last-fm-1955 ---- Thee Oh Sees music, videos, stats, and photos | Last.fm Playing via Spotify Playing via YouTube Playback options Listening on… Switch Spotify device Open in Spotify Web Player Change playback source Open on YouTube website Change playback source Previous Play Next Skip to YouTube video Loading player… Scrobble from Spotify? Connect your Spotify account to your Last.fm account and scrobble everything you listen to, from any Spotify app on any device or platform. Connect to Spotify Dismiss Last.fm SearchSearchSearch Toggle navigation Upgrade to Pro Live Music Charts Events Features Subscribe Join Login Upgrade to Pro Live Music Charts Events Features Join Login A new version of Last.fm is available, to keep everything running smoothly, please reload the site. Thee Oh Sees Play artist More actions Play similar artists Listeners 334.1K Scrobbles 12.8M Latest release Protean Threat 18 September 2020 Play album Popular this week Poem 2 1,426 listeners 50 photos Listeners 334.1K Scrobbles 12.8M Play artist More actions Play similar artists Years Active 1997 – present (23 years) Founded In San Francisco, California, United States Osees (formerly 'Oh Sees') are a band from San Francisco, California, USA. The group began as an outlet for John Dwyer to release his instrumental, experimental home recordings, and over the course of several albums evolved into a full band. The band is noted for both its prolific album releases, energetic live shows, and their whimsical visual aesthetic that juxtaposes cartoon imagery and horror. The band has changed its name several times, being known as Orinoka Crash Suite, OCS, Orange County Sound, The Ohsees, Thee Oh Sees. Some say John Dwyer (of Coachwhips, Pink &… read more Osees (formerly 'Oh Sees') are a band from San Francisco, California, USA. The group began as an outlet for John Dwyer to release his instrumental, experimental home recordings, and over the course of several albums evolved into a full band. The band is noted for both its prolific a… read more Osees (formerly 'Oh Sees') are a band from San Francisco, California, USA. The group began as an outlet for John Dwyer to release his instrumental, experimental home recordings, and over the course of several albums evolved into a full band. 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Connect to Spotify Dismiss Last.fm SearchSearchSearch Toggle navigation Upgrade to Pro Live Music Charts Events Features Subscribe Join Login Upgrade to Pro Live Music Charts Events Features Join Login A new version of Last.fm is available, to keep everything running smoothly, please reload the site. Taylor Swift folklore (deluxe version) More actions Go to artist profile Get album Loading Listeners 89.8K Scrobbles 6.8M Listeners 89.8K Scrobbles 6.8M More actions Go to artist profile Get album Loading Add artworkView all artwork Folklore (stylized in all lowercase) is the eighth studio album by American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift, released on July 24, 2020, through Republic Records. A surprise album announced without pre-release promotion, Folklore was written and recorded while in isolation during the COVID-19 pandemic. Categorized as an indie folk, alternative rock, electro-folk, and chamber pop record, the album marks a departure from the upbeat pop sound of Swift's preceding studio albums to stripped-down tunes driven by piano and guitar, with production from Aaron Dessner, Jack Antonoff and Sw… read more Folklore (stylized in all lowercase) is the eighth studio album by American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift, released on July 24, 2020, through Republ… read more Folklore (stylized in all lowercase) is the eighth studio album by American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift, released on July 24, 2020, through Republic Records. A surprise album announce… read more Related Tags indie folk indie pop chamber pop lesbian Add tagsView all tags Don't want to see ads? 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Upgrade Now Shoutbox Javascript is required to view shouts on this page. Go directly to shout page About This Artist Artist images 11 more Roger Eno 118,684 listeners Related Tags ambient new age ethereal Roger Eugene Eno was born in Woodbridge, England in 1959. He is known primarily as an ambient composer. He began euphonium lessons at twelve and at sixteen entered Colchester College to study music. On graduating and after a period of busking in London he returned to Colchester to run a music therapy course at a local hospital for the mentally handicapped. His first recording experience was with his brother Brian Eno and Daniel Lanois for the album Apollo at Lanois' Grant Avenue Studios in Canada. His first solo album Voices appeared shortly afterwards. Although mainly regarded… read more Roger Eugene Eno was born in Woodbridge, England in 1959. He is known primarily as an ambient composer. 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He has performed concerts in collaboration with numerous experimental, electronic, and indie musicians, including Fennesz, Greg Davis, Grouper, and Lawrence English. Since 2007, he has co-curated numerous experimental music festivals and concerts, including Seattle's De… read more Originally based in Seattle, Rafael Anton Irisarri is an American artist who composes ambient, drone, and post-minimalist music. His recordings heavily utilize field recordings, bowed guitars, strings, and electronics, creating dense clouds of blurry, hypnotic sound that often have a mournful… read more Originally based in Seattle, Rafael Anton Irisarri is an American artist who composes ambient, drone, and post-minimalist music. His recordings heavily utilize field recordings, bowed guitars, strings, and electronics, creating dense clouds of blurry, hypnotic sound that often have a mournful, elegiac quality. 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Upgrade Now Shoutbox Javascript is required to view shouts on this page. Go directly to shout page About This Artist Artist images 33 more Colleen 203,163 listeners Related Tags ambient experimental electronic Cécile Schott was born in France and began making music under the name Colleen in 2001, after a friend gave her a CD-R with the ACID Pro music production software contained within. Samples were a common part of her early work and in summer 2003 the debut album Everyone Alive Wants Answers was released. It was notable for its heavy use of looped samples, which were taken from records in her collection and heavily modified. The album was critically well-received and drew enough attention to warrant touring. During live shows, Schott would replicate the sounds from the album using acou… read more Cécile Schott was born in France and began making music under the name Colleen in 2001, after a friend gave her a CD-R with the ACID Pro music production software contained within. 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Tim Hecker Play artist More actions Play similar artists Listeners 405.1K Scrobbles 18.6M Latest release Anoyo 9 May 2019 Play album Popular this week Boreal Kiss Pt. 1 946 listeners Play album Skip to YouTube video 83 photos Listeners 405.1K Scrobbles 18.6M Play artist More actions Play similar artists Born 1974 (age 46) Born In Vancouver, Metro Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Tim Hecker is an electronic musician and sound artist based in Los Angeles, United States and Montreal, Canada. Hecker initially recorded under the moniker Jetone, but has become known internationally for recordings released under his own name, such as Harmony in Ultraviolet (2006) and Ravedeath, 1972 (2011). He has released eight albums and a number of EPs in addition to collaborations with artists such as Ben Frost, Daniel Lopatin, and Aidan Baker. His latest album Love Streams was released on his new label 4AD on 8 April 2016. Born in Vancouver, Hecker is the son of two art teach… read more Tim Hecker is an electronic musician and sound artist based in Los Angeles, United States and Montreal, Canada. Hecker initially recorded under the moniker Jetone, but has become known internationally for recordings released under his own name, such as Harmony in Ultraviolet (2006) and Ravede… read more Tim Hecker is an electronic musician and sound artist based in Los Angeles, United States and Montreal, Canada. Hecker initially recorded under the moniker Jetone, but has become known internationally for recordings released under his own name, such as Harmony in Ultraviolet (2006) and Ravedeath, 1972 (2011). 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Upgrade Now Shoutbox Javascript is required to view shouts on this page. Go directly to shout page About This Artist Artist images 15 more Goldmund 446,231 listeners Related Tags piano ambient contemporary classical Goldmund is an alias of Keith Kenniff aka Helios and Mint Julep. In 2010 he began the record label Unseen. Goldmund's music has been featured on programs for NPR, the BBC, and can be heard in a number of documentaries and films, including Harmony Korine's film 'Mister Lonely' and a trailer for the film "Revolutionary Road". It has also been featured in commercials for clients such as Honda, MTV, Canon, T Mobile, American Express, Audi, Levi's, AEG, Doctors Without Borders, Vinamilk, and Christie's. Discography: * Two Point Discrimination (20… read more Goldmund is an alias of Keith Kenniff aka Helios and Mint Julep. In 2010 he began the record label Unseen. Goldmund's music has been featured on programs for NPR, the BBC, and can be … read more Goldmund is an alias of Keith Kenniff aka Helios and Mint Julep. In 2010 he began the record label Unseen. Goldmund's music has been featured on programs for NPR, the BBC, and can be heard in a number of documentaries and films, … read more View full artist profile Similar Artists Play all Keith Kenniff 169,088 listeners Helios 574,419 listeners Peter Broderick 374,541 listeners Library Tapes 199,808 listeners Luke Howard 106,177 listeners Brambles 69,563 listeners Brian McBride 117,507 listeners Ryan Teague 66,807 listeners A Winged Victory for the Sullen 162,799 listeners View all similar artists Scrobble Stats ? What is scrobbling? Scrobbling is when Last.fm tracks the music you listen to and automatically adds it to your music profile. 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Clark The Last Panthers Play album More actions Go to artist profile Get album Loading Listeners 20K Scrobbles 384.9K Metascore 79 Listeners 20K Scrobbles 384.9K Metascore 79 Play album More actions Go to artist profile Get album Loading Add artwork Length 19 tracks, 48:31 Release Date 17 March 2016 Length 19 tracks, 48:31 Release Date 17 March 2016 Do you know any background info about this album? Start the wiki Related Tags ambient ost neoclassical 2016 idm Add tagsView all tags Don't want to see ads? 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Upgrade Now Shoutbox Javascript is required to view shouts on this page. Go directly to shout page About This Artist Artist images 87 more Clark 347,023 listeners Related Tags idm electronic experimental There are several artists with the name Clark. (1) Chris Clark is an English electronic artist currently signed to Warp. With the 2006 release of Throttle Furniture, he shortened his alias to Clark. His latest, self-titled LP, was released on Warp Records in 2014 and is a follow up to 2012’s Iradelphic. (2) Clark is also a folk band from Lompoc, California consisting of husband and wife, Gabriel and Dana Friley, and Andy White. After playing together in various musical projects for many years, the three formed Clark in 2005. Their debut album "Here Comes Tomorrow" was rele… read more There are several artists with the name Clark. (1) Chris Clark is an English electronic artist currently signed to Warp. 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Upgrade Now Shoutbox Javascript is required to view shouts on this page. Go directly to shout page About This Artist Artist images 16 more Rival Consoles 188,290 listeners Related Tags idm electronic ambient Rival Consoles is Ryan Lee West. Born on November 1985, in Leicester, England, Ryan graduated from De Montfort University after experimenting with sound production. He made his debut Erased Tapes Records release in 2007 with the 'Vemeer' EP. 'The Decadent' EP would be his first release on the label as Rival Consoles. In 2009, he featured 3 tracks on the split '65 / Milo' with label mates Kiasmos. 'IO', the first full-length release, was rereleased the same year. It was followed by 'Kid Velo' in 2011, the 5 track 'Odyssey' … read more Rival Consoles is Ryan Lee West. Born on November 1985, in Leicester, England, Ryan graduated from De Montfort University after experimenting with sound production. He made his debut Erased… read more Rival Consoles is Ryan Lee West. 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Leave feedback API Calls Close www-last-fm-3043 ---- R.E.M. music, videos, stats, and photos | Last.fm Playing via Spotify Playing via YouTube Playback options Listening on… Switch Spotify device Open in Spotify Web Player Change playback source Open on YouTube website Change playback source Previous Play Next Skip to YouTube video Loading player… Scrobble from Spotify? Connect your Spotify account to your Last.fm account and scrobble everything you listen to, from any Spotify app on any device or platform. Connect to Spotify Dismiss Last.fm SearchSearchSearch Toggle navigation Upgrade to Pro Live Music Charts Events Features Subscribe Join Login Upgrade to Pro Live Music Charts Events Features Join Login A new version of Last.fm is available, to keep everything running smoothly, please reload the site. R.E.M. Play artist More actions Play similar artists Listeners 3M Scrobbles 100.9M Latest release Old Man Kensey 29 September 2020 Play album Popular this week Losing My Religion 11,628 listeners Play album Skip to YouTube video 210 photos Listeners 3M Scrobbles 100.9M Play artist More actions Play similar artists Years Active 1980 – 2011 (31 years) Founded In Athens, Clarke County, Georgia, United States R.E.M. was an American rock band from Athens, Georgia, formed in 1980 by drummer Bill Berry, guitarist Peter Buck, bassist/backing vocalist Mike Mills, and lead vocalist Michael Stipe. One of the first alternative rock bands, R.E.M. was noted for Buck's ringing, arpeggiated guitar style, Stipe's distinctive vocal quality and obscure lyrics, Mills's melodic basslines and backing vocals, and Berry's tight, economical style of drumming. R.E.M. released its first single—"Radio Free Europe"—in 1981 on the independent record label Hib-Tone. The single was fo… read more R.E.M. was an American rock band from Athens, Georgia, formed in 1980 by drummer Bill Berry, guitarist Peter Buck, bassist/backing vocalist Mike Mills, and lead vocalist Michael Stipe. One of the first alternative rock bands, R.E.M. was noted for Buck's ringing, arpeggiated guitar style,… read more R.E.M. was an American rock band from Athens, Georgia, formed in 1980 by drummer Bill Berry, guitarist Peter Buck, bassist/backing vocalist Mike Mills, and lead vocalist Michael Stipe. 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Connect to Spotify Dismiss Last.fm SearchSearchSearch Toggle navigation Upgrade to Pro Live Music Charts Events Features Subscribe Join Login Upgrade to Pro Live Music Charts Events Features Join Login A new version of Last.fm is available, to keep everything running smoothly, please reload the site. Windy & Carl Play artist More actions Play similar artists Listeners 103.7K Scrobbles 1.6M Latest release Unreleased Home Recordings 1992-1995 5 June 2020 Play album Popular this week Forest Trails 343 listeners Play album Skip to YouTube video 18 photos Listeners 103.7K Scrobbles 1.6M Play artist More actions Play similar artists Years Active 1993 – present (27 years) Founded In Dearborn, Wayne County, Michigan, United States Windy & Carl is the music project of husband and wife musicians Windy Weber and Carl Hultgren. They began collaborating on music in 1993 in Dearborn, Michigan, United States. Their sound is very slow, dreamy, and based in drones. Using guitar, bass, and some keyboards and electronic effects as well as Windy's singing on some tracks they create long delicate washes of sound. They released their first album "Portal" in 1994, followed by several other full-lengths on the Blue Flea, Darling and Kranky labels. After a few years of inactivity, they released an EP titled… read more Windy & Carl is the music project of husband and wife musicians Windy Weber and Carl Hultgren. They began collaborating on music in 1993 in Dearborn, Michigan, United States. Their sound is very slow, dreamy, and based in drones. Using guitar, bass, and some keyboards and electronic effec… read more Windy & Carl is the music project of husband and wife musicians Windy Weber and Carl Hultgren. They began collaborating on music in 1993 in Dearborn, Michigan, United States. Their sound is very slow, dreamy, and based in drones. 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Upgrade Now Shoutbox Javascript is required to view shouts on this page. Go directly to shout page About This Artist Artist images 153 more Perfume Genius 560,464 listeners Related Tags singer-songwriter ambient experimental Mike Hadreas, also known as Perfume Genius is a singer/songwriter from Seattle, Washington, US. Perfume Genius began when he moved from New York to his mother's home in Everett, WA. In these relatively isolated conditions, Hadreas felt a compulsion to make music and began composing fragile yet brutally honest songs on the piano. By 2008 he had set up a MySpace page and began offering his music there, along with similarly spare and evocative homemade music videos. Turnstile released the single Mr. Peterson – the tale of a suicidal, pedophile high-school teacher – in… read more Mike Hadreas, also known as Perfume Genius is a singer/songwriter from Seattle, Washington, US. Perfume Genius began when he moved from New York to his mother's home in Everett, WA. 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Chihei Hatakeyama Play artist More actions Play similar artists Listeners 112.3K Scrobbles 2.1M Latest release Void XXI 22 July 2020 Play album Popular this week door to the cosmos 389 listeners Play album Skip to YouTube video 17 photos Listeners 112.3K Scrobbles 2.1M Play artist More actions Play similar artists Born 1978 (age 42) Born In Fujisawa, Kanagawa, Japan Chihei Hatakeyama (畠山地平), born in 1978) is an electronic music artist from Tokyo, Japan. Hatakeyama's music is characteristically very slow, composed by repeatedly processing guitars, pianos, and vibraphones on a laptop. The result is a mix of droning chords and sparse single instruments rising above the mix. His music may be classified as either post-ambient experimental music or new-age music. Chihei Hatakeyama has released over 19 albums as of 2013. He released his first full-length album, Minima Moralia on Kranky in 2006 Hatakeyama's debut US album is a meditation on … read more Chihei Hatakeyama (畠山地平), born in 1978) is an electronic music artist from Tokyo, Japan. Hatakeyama's music is characteristically very slow, composed by repeatedly processing guitars, pianos, and vibraphones on a laptop. The result is a mix of droning chords and sparse single instrument… read more Chihei Hatakeyama (畠山地平), born in 1978) is an electronic music artist from Tokyo, Japan. Hatakeyama's music is characteristically very slow, composed by repeatedly processing guitars, pianos, and vibraphones on a laptop. The result is a mix of droning chords and sparse single instruments rising above the mix. 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Upgrade Now Shoutbox Javascript is required to view shouts on this page. Go directly to shout page About This Artist Artist images 6 more Spheruleus 7,751 listeners Related Tags ambient drone field recordings Spheruleus is British musician and producer Harry Towell, who releases ambient music in the drone, dark ambient, and musique concrete subgenres, under the project names Audio Gourmet, Eyes Flutter Beneath, and now as Spheruleus. He creates ambient textures designed chiefly to be listened to at low volume for quiet contemplation. His first EP was released on Webbed Hand Records; since then he has released three subsequent albums on that netlabel. His first venture away from Webbed Hand was with Phantom Channel. Harry typically uses his own field recordings in all of his album-length … read more Spheruleus is British musician and producer Harry Towell, who releases ambient music in the drone, dark ambient, and musique concrete subgenres, under the project names Audio Gourmet, Eyes … read more Spheruleus is British musician and producer Harry Towell, who releases ambient music in the drone, dark ambient, and musique concrete subgenres, under the project names Audio Gourmet, Eyes Flutter Beneath, and now as Spheruleus. He cre… read more View full artist profile Similar Artists Play all Damian Valles 4,910 listeners Jannick Schou 5,850 listeners Bas van Huizen 2,838 listeners Ryonkt 4,031 listeners Strom Noir 5,364 listeners Philip Sulidae 1,865 listeners Relmic Statute 6,269 listeners Seconds in Formaldehyde 2,756 listeners Loren Dent 4,828 listeners View all similar artists Scrobble Stats ? What is scrobbling? 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Upgrade Now Shoutbox Javascript is required to view shouts on this page. Go directly to shout page About This Artist Artist images 5 more A Winged Victory for the Sullen 162,799 listeners Related Tags ambient neoclassical piano A Winged Victory For The Sullen is a collaboration between Stars of the Lid member Adam Wiltzie and Dustin O'Halloran. A Winged Victory for the Sullen began with a friendship. Composers Dustin O'Halloran and Adam Bryanbaum Wiltzie met backstage in 2007, introduced by a mutual friend Francesco Donadello — who, as fate would have it, went on to become their longtime collaborative sound engineer. Four years after their introduction, their eponymous debut emerged in all its splendor: a grand, elegiac composition, featuring seven different harmonic landscapes, redolent of the l… read more A Winged Victory For The Sullen is a collaboration between Stars of the Lid member Adam Wiltzie and Dustin O'Halloran. A Winged Victory for the Sullen began with a friendship. 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Lusine Sensorimotor Play album More actions Go to artist profile Get album Loading Listeners 50.9K Scrobbles 462.7K Metascore 73 Listeners 50.9K Scrobbles 462.7K Metascore 73 Play album More actions Go to artist profile Get album Loading Add artwork Length 11 tracks, 53:26 Release Date 2 March 2017 Length 11 tracks, 53:26 Release Date 2 March 2017 Released 3rd March 2017. Since 1999, the acclaimed output of Texas-raised/Seattle-based producer Jeff McIlwain has spanned techno, ambient, and electro-pop releases, as well as film scores. Consistent across all is a combined sense of fearless curiosity and considered restraint. Sensorimotor, his new full-length with longtime label Ghostly International, finds the artist not only crossing genre but approach—instructions and instinct, digital and analog, vocal collaboration and minimalist atmosphere—exploring the dynamic between the brain’s perceptions and the body’s actions. Pulsing… read more Released 3rd March 2017. Since 1999, the acclaimed output of Texas-raised/Seattle-based producer Jeff McIlwain has spanned techno, ambient, and elect… read more Released 3rd March 2017. Since 1999, the acclaimed output of Texas-raised/Seattle-based producer Jeff McIlwain has spanned techno, ambient, and electro-pop releases, as well as film scor… read more Related Tags electronica dance idm 2017 james-joul - 2017 albums Add tagsView all tags Don't want to see ads? 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Upgrade Now Shoutbox Javascript is required to view shouts on this page. Go directly to shout page About This Artist Artist images 3 more Lusine 281,241 listeners Related Tags idm electronic ambient Jeff McIlwain has been producing his visceral, melodic strain of abstract electronic music as Lusine for over 10 years now. Originally a Texas native, McIlwain met Shad Scott while living in LA and put out his self titled debut on Scott's imprint, Isophlux. He relocated to Seattle in late 2002 and began steadily releasing his music on Ghostly International. McIlwain has also contributed tracks to various compilations and remix releases on Mute, !K7, Kompakt, Asthmatic Kitty, and Shitkatapult. In 2009, he released the album, "A Certain Distance", which featured the sin… read more Jeff McIlwain has been producing his visceral, melodic strain of abstract electronic music as Lusine for over 10 years now. 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Upgrade Now Shoutbox Javascript is required to view shouts on this page. Go directly to shout page About This Artist Artist images 47 more Max Richter 885,581 listeners Related Tags ambient contemporary classical neoclassical Max Richter (born 22 March 1966) is a German-born British composer who has been an influential voice in post-minimalist composition and in the meeting of contemporary classical and alternative popular musical styles since the early 2000s. Richter is classically trained, having graduated in composition from the Royal Academy of Music and studied with Luciano Berio in Italy. 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Upgrade Now Shoutbox Javascript is required to view shouts on this page. Go directly to shout page About This Artist Do you have any photos of this artist? Add an image Michael Grigoni & Stephen Vitiello 112 listeners Related Tags american Slow Machines brings together veteran Stephen Vitiello and 12k newcomer Michael Grigoni, whose debut Mount Carmel (12k1090, 2019) made an impression for its merging of the pedal and lap steel guitars with a hushed, ambient sound. With both calling the southern mid-Atlantic region of the United States home, the two met up and discussed a collaboration in which Grigoni would provide the guitars and Stephen the electronics and processing with a goal of combining each of their artistic languages into a new form. Vitiello, whose work is steeped heavily in the installation and art world… read more Slow Machines brings together veteran Stephen Vitiello and 12k newcomer Michael Grigoni, whose debut Mount Carmel (12k1090, 2019) made an impression for its merging of the pedal and lap ste… read more Slow Machines brings together veteran Stephen Vitiello and 12k newcomer Michael Grigoni, whose debut Mount Carmel (12k1090, 2019) made an impression for its merging of the pedal and lap steel guitars with a hushed, ambient sound. With… read more View full artist profile Similar Artists Play all Federico Durand 31,474 listeners Marcus Fischer 17,352 listeners Ohio 2,233 listeners Minamo & Moskitoo 159 listeners Michael Grigoni 443 listeners Taylor Deupree 72,731 listeners Midori Hirano 20,967 listeners Warmth 19,667 listeners R Beny 5,568 listeners View all similar artists Scrobble Stats ? What is scrobbling? 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Upgrade Now Shoutbox Javascript is required to view shouts on this page. Go directly to shout page About This Artist Artist images 22 more Jlin 53,283 listeners Related Tags footwork juke electronic Jerrilynn Patton, also known as Jlin, is the most prominent female juke/footwork music producer of this current generation. Originally from Decatur, Georgia, she grew up and still resides in Gary, Indiana, 20 miles from downtown Chicago. Though previously having used samples in her work, she now refuses to and her tracks are comprised of all her own original material, with influences from IDM. In March 2015 she released her debut album Dark Energy on Planet Mu. It received critical acclaim, and was named the best album of 2015 by The Wire and The Quietus. Her second studio record, B… read more Jerrilynn Patton, also known as Jlin, is the most prominent female juke/footwork music producer of this current generation. Originally from Decatur, Georgia, she grew up and still resides i… read more Jerrilynn Patton, also known as Jlin, is the most prominent female juke/footwork music producer of this current generation. Originally from Decatur, Georgia, she grew up and still resides in Gary, Indiana, 20 miles from downtown Chicag… read more View full artist profile Similar Artists Play all RP Boo 24,682 listeners DJ Rashad 91,810 listeners Traxman 23,264 listeners DJ Roc 15,805 listeners DJ Spinn 24,165 listeners DJ Paypal 22,539 listeners DJ Earl 19,119 listeners DJ Nate 18,452 listeners Machinedrum 247,401 listeners View all similar artists Scrobble Stats ? What is scrobbling? Scrobbling is when Last.fm tracks the music you listen to and automatically adds it to your music profile. 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Leave feedback API Calls Close www-last-fm-3862 ---- The Beatles music, videos, stats, and photos | Last.fm Playing via Spotify Playing via YouTube Playback options Listening on… Switch Spotify device Open in Spotify Web Player Change playback source Open on YouTube website Change playback source Previous Play Next Skip to YouTube video Loading player… Scrobble from Spotify? Connect your Spotify account to your Last.fm account and scrobble everything you listen to, from any Spotify app on any device or platform. Connect to Spotify Dismiss Last.fm SearchSearchSearch Toggle navigation Upgrade to Pro Live Music Charts Events Features Subscribe Join Login Upgrade to Pro Live Music Charts Events Features Join Login A new version of Last.fm is available, to keep everything running smoothly, please reload the site. The Beatles #15 Position in the global Top Artists chart Play artist More actions Play similar artists Listeners 4M Scrobbles 567.3M Latest release Beetles 16 July 2020 Play album Popular this week Here Comes The Sun - Remastered 2009 11,275 listeners Play album Skip to YouTube video #15 in the global Top Artists chart 1,131 photos Listeners 4M Scrobbles 567.3M Play artist More actions Play similar artists Years Active 1957 – 1970 (13 years) Founded In Liverpool, Merseyside, England, United Kingdom The Beatles were an English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960. With a line-up comprising John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr, they are regarded as the most influential band of all time. The group were integral to the development of 1960s counterculture and popular music's recognition as an art form. Rooted in skiffle, beat and 1950s rock and roll, their sound incorporated elements of classical music and traditional pop in innovative ways; the band later explored music styles ranging from ballads and Indian music to psychedelia and hard rock. As pion… read more The Beatles were an English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960. With a line-up comprising John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr, they are regarded as the most influential band of all time. The group were integral to the development of 1960s counterculture and popular… read more The Beatles were an English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960. With a line-up comprising John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr, they are regarded as the most influential band of all time. The group were integral to the development of 1960s counterculture and popular music's recognition as an art form. 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All rights reserved Terms of Use Privacy Policy Legal Policies California Privacy/Info We Collect California Do Not Sell My Info Jobs at CBSi Last.fm Music Some user-contributed text on this page is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply. Audioscrobbler Let us know what you think of the Last.fm website. Leave feedback API Calls Close www-last-fm-3921 ---- Flying Lotus music, videos, stats, and photos | Last.fm Playing via Spotify Playing via YouTube Playback options Listening on… Switch Spotify device Open in Spotify Web Player Change playback source Open on YouTube website Change playback source Previous Play Next Skip to YouTube video Loading player… Scrobble from Spotify? Connect your Spotify account to your Last.fm account and scrobble everything you listen to, from any Spotify app on any device or platform. Connect to Spotify Dismiss Last.fm SearchSearchSearch Toggle navigation Upgrade to Pro Live Music Charts Events Features Subscribe Join Login Upgrade to Pro Live Music Charts Events Features Join Login A new version of Last.fm is available, to keep everything running smoothly, please reload the site. Flying Lotus Play artist More actions Play similar artists Listeners 889.8K Scrobbles 50.5M Latest release Flamagra Instrumentals 29 May 2020 Play album Popular this week Never Catch Me 3,337 listeners Play album Skip to YouTube video 220 photos Listeners 889.8K Scrobbles 50.5M Play artist More actions Play similar artists Born 7 October 1983 (age 37) Born In Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, United States Los Angeles resident Steven Ellison, better known as Flying Lotus, is a producer of electronic music and hip-hop beats, known for his abstract and sometimes jazz-tinted style. Flying Lotus, often abbreviated to FlyLo, is the founder and leader of the Brainfeeder collective, which includes such artists as Samiyam, Teebs and Daedelus. He is also often seen as being at the forefront of the new wave of beatmakers and musicians who fuse IDM and electronica with hip-hop and trip-hop. Flying Lotus released his first album, 1983 on Plug Research Records in 2006. His June 2008 release, Los … read more Los Angeles resident Steven Ellison, better known as Flying Lotus, is a producer of electronic music and hip-hop beats, known for his abstract and sometimes jazz-tinted style. Flying Lotus, often abbreviated to FlyLo, is the founder and leader of the Brainfeeder collective, which includes suc… read more Los Angeles resident Steven Ellison, better known as Flying Lotus, is a producer of electronic music and hip-hop beats, known for his abstract and sometimes jazz-tinted style. Flying Lotus, often abbreviated to FlyLo, is the founder and leader of the Brainfeeder collective, which includes such artists as Samiyam, Teebs and Daedelus. 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View wiki Initially, it was Chicagoans Steev Thompson (Roxanne Jean Polise, Athenian Mercury) and Branden Divens (Quilts, Knife City, Drenches). After both artists left Chicago, Steev continued using the name for his solo work, abandoning the RJP moniker. Steev currently resides in Michigan and continu… read more Initially, it was Chicagoans Steev Thompson (Roxanne Jean Polise, Athenian Mercury) and Branden Divens (Quilts, Knife City, Drenches). After both artists left Chicago, Steev continued using the name for his solo work, abandoning the RJP moniker. Steev currently resides in Michigan and continues to make sounds that he rarely shares with anyone. 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Tigue Play artist More actions Play similar artists Listeners 883 Scrobbles 5,604 Latest release Something - Single 19 June 2020 Play album Popular this week Cranes 2 listeners 4 photos Listeners 883 Scrobbles 5,604 Play artist More actions Play similar artists Tigue is a group of three percussionists with a fluid musical identity. The Brooklyn-based trio (Matt Evans, Amy Garapic and Carson Moody) makes their own kinetic and hypnotic blend of instrumental minimalism while opening up the possibilities of their instrumentation through commissioning and collaboration. Tigue’s debut album Peaks was released in 2015 with New Amsterdam Records with highlighted performances at the Ecstatic Music Festival, Bric Celebrate Brooklyn! Festival, and the Zemlika Festival in Durbe, Latvia. Recent commissions and premieres have included works by Molly Her… read more Tigue is a group of three percussionists with a fluid musical identity. 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The band are among a number of Australian indie-rock bands formed in the mid-late 90s who are influenced by shoegaze movement of the early 90s, including Gaslight Radio, Sounds Like Sunset and Ides Of Space. The band began their recording careers with the rare EP "Bewilderment Is A Blessing" (1999). Since then they have released three full length albums… read more Gersey is an Australian rock band based in Melbourne, which formed in 1997. The band is comprised of Craig Jackson (vocals, bass), Daryl Bradie (guitar), Matt Davis (guitar), Danny Tulen (drums) and Drew Pearse (keyboards). The band are among a number of Australian indie-rock bands formed in … read more Gersey is an Australian rock band based in Melbourne, which formed in 1997. The band is comprised of Craig Jackson (vocals, bass), Daryl Bradie (guitar), Matt Davis (guitar), Danny Tulen (drums) and Drew Pearse (keyboards). 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CD and LP editions will be released by XL Recordings on 17 June 2016, followed in September by a "special edition" containing additional artwork and two bonus tracks. The album was produced by Nigel Godrich. Radiohead began work on A Moon Shaped Pool intermittently after finishing the 2012 tour for their previous album, 2011's The King of Limbs. Several son… read more A Moon Shaped Pool is the ninth studio album by the English rock band Radiohead, released as a download on 8 May 2016. The album's first two sin… read more A Moon Shaped Pool is the ninth studio album by the English rock band Radiohead, released as a download on 8 May 2016. The album's first two singles were "Burn the Witch" … read more Related Tags radiohead art rock alternative 2016 art pop Add tagsView all tags Don't want to see ads? 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Upgrade Now Shoutbox Javascript is required to view shouts on this page. Go directly to shout page About This Artist Artist images 296 more Radiohead 4,987,495 listeners Related Tags alternative rock alternative rock Radiohead is an English alternative rock band from Abingdon, Oxfordshire, UK which formed in 1985. The band is composed of Thom Yorke (lead vocals, rhythm guitar, piano, beats), Jonny Greenwood (lead guitar, keyboard, other instruments), Ed O'Brien (guitar, backing vocals), Colin Greenwood (bass guitar) and Phil Selway (drums, percussion). The early years (1992 – 1995) Radiohead released their first single, "Creep" in 1992. The song was initially unsuccessful, but it became a worldwide hit several months after the release of their debut album, Pablo Honey (1993). Rad… read more Radiohead is an English alternative rock band from Abingdon, Oxfordshire, UK which formed in 1985. 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Upgrade Now Shoutbox Javascript is required to view shouts on this page. Go directly to shout page About This Artist Artist images 13 more Chihei Hatakeyama 112,309 listeners Related Tags ambient minimal japanese Chihei Hatakeyama (畠山地平), born in 1978) is an electronic music artist from Tokyo, Japan. Hatakeyama's music is characteristically very slow, composed by repeatedly processing guitars, pianos, and vibraphones on a laptop. The result is a mix of droning chords and sparse single instruments rising above the mix. His music may be classified as either post-ambient experimental music or new-age music. Chihei Hatakeyama has released over 19 albums as of 2013. He released his first full-length album, Minima Moralia on Kranky in 2006 Hatakeyama's debut US album is a meditation on … read more Chihei Hatakeyama (畠山地平), born in 1978) is an electronic music artist from Tokyo, Japan. Hatakeyama's music is characteristically very slow, composed by repeatedly processing guitars,… read more Chihei Hatakeyama (畠山地平), born in 1978) is an electronic music artist from Tokyo, Japan. Hatakeyama's music is characteristically very slow, composed by repeatedly processing guitars, pianos, and vibraphones on a laptop. The resu… read more View full artist profile Similar Artists Play all Subatomic Dreams 5,151 listeners One Second Old 1,388 listeners Argentus 1,225 listeners Holy Hydrogen 1,271 listeners Lanfranco Spadaro 1,163 listeners Hakobune 29,522 listeners Taylor Deupree 72,731 listeners Brian McBride 117,507 listeners Christopher Willits 86,983 listeners View all similar artists Scrobble Stats ? What is scrobbling? Scrobbling is when Last.fm tracks the music you listen to and automatically adds it to your music profile. 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Jlin Play artist More actions Play similar artists Listeners 53.3K Scrobbles 790.9K Latest release Autobiography 28 September 2018 Play album Popular this week ENIGMA 59 listeners Play album Skip to YouTube video 26 photos Listeners 53.3K Scrobbles 790.9K Play artist More actions Play similar artists Born 30 July 1987 (age 33) Born In Gary, Lake County, Indiana, United States Jerrilynn Patton, also known as Jlin, is the most prominent female juke/footwork music producer of this current generation. Originally from Decatur, Georgia, she grew up and still resides in Gary, Indiana, 20 miles from downtown Chicago. Though previously having used samples in her work, she now refuses to and her tracks are comprised of all her own original material, with influences from IDM. In March 2015 she released her debut album Dark Energy on Planet Mu. It received critical acclaim, and was named the best album of 2015 by The Wire and The Quietus. Her second studio record, B… read more Jerrilynn Patton, also known as Jlin, is the most prominent female juke/footwork music producer of this current generation. Originally from Decatur, Georgia, she grew up and still resides in Gary, Indiana, 20 miles from downtown Chicago. Though previously having used samples in her work, she … read more Jerrilynn Patton, also known as Jlin, is the most prominent female juke/footwork music producer of this current generation. Originally from Decatur, Georgia, she grew up and still resides in Gary, Indiana, 20 miles from downtown Chicago. 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Upgrade Now Shoutbox Javascript is required to view shouts on this page. Go directly to shout page About This Artist Artist images 32 more Big Thief 284,854 listeners Related Tags indie rock folk indie Big Thief is an American indie rock band with folk roots. The band is based in Brooklyn, New York, and comprises Adrianne Lenker, Buck Meek, Max Oleartchik, and James Krivchenia. Big Thief's music, rooted in the songs of Adrianne Lenker, paints in vivid tones "the process of harnessing pain, loss, and love, while simultaneously letting go, looking into your own eyes through someone else's, and being okay with the inevitability of death," says Adrianne. Masterpiece, Big Thief's debut album, is filled with characters and visceral narratives, songs that pivot … read more Big Thief is an American indie rock band with folk roots. The band is based in Brooklyn, New York, and comprises Adrianne Lenker, Buck Meek, Max Oleartchik, and James Krivchenia. 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Jim Guthrie Play artist More actions Play similar artists Listeners 94.6K Scrobbles 3.2M Latest release Below - Volume III (Original Soundtrack) 11 February 2020 Play album Popular this week And We Got Older(Bonus Track) 147 listeners 19 photos Listeners 94.6K Scrobbles 3.2M Play artist More actions Play similar artists Born In Guelph, Wellington County, Ontario, Canada Jim Guthrie is a Canadian singer-songwriter. He used to be in the band Royal City until they disbanded in 2004. He also worked with Islands on Return to Sea. He was born and raised in Guelph, Ontario and currently lives in Toronto. Guthrie first made a name for himself by releasing a series of self-produced cassettes, and subsequently released albums on Three Gut Records. He was nominated for a Juno Award for his album Now, More Than Ever. His song "Hands in My Pocket" appeared in a television commercial for Capital One's Canadian branch in 2005. View wiki Jim Guthrie is a Canadian singer-songwriter. 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Connect to Spotify Dismiss Last.fm SearchSearchSearch Toggle navigation Upgrade to Pro Live Music Charts Events Features Subscribe Join Login Upgrade to Pro Live Music Charts Events Features Join Login A new version of Last.fm is available, to keep everything running smoothly, please reload the site. Oneohtrix Point Never Play artist More actions Play similar artists Listeners 363.9K Scrobbles 14.4M Latest release KCRW Session TX 23/10/18 15 November 2019 Play album Popular this week Long Road Home 5,171 listeners Play album Skip to YouTube video 94 photos Listeners 363.9K Scrobbles 14.4M Play artist More actions Play similar artists Born 25 July 1982 (age 38) Born In Wayland, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States Daniel Lopatin (born 25 July 1982), best known by the recording alias Oneohtrix Point Never, is an American experimental musician, composer, and producer based in Brooklyn. He began releasing electronic recordings under the OPN moniker in 2007, and received early acclaim in 2009 for the compilation Rifts. In subsequent years, he released albums such as Replica (2011) and R Plus Seven (2013) to critical praise and signed to British label Warp, while also taking part in a number of side-projects, collaborations, and film scores. Born and raised in Massachusetts, Lopatin is the son of … read more Daniel Lopatin (born 25 July 1982), best known by the recording alias Oneohtrix Point Never, is an American experimental musician, composer, and producer based in Brooklyn. He began releasing electronic recordings under the OPN moniker in 2007, and received early acclaim in 2009 for the compi… read more Daniel Lopatin (born 25 July 1982), best known by the recording alias Oneohtrix Point Never, is an American experimental musician, composer, and producer based in Brooklyn. He began releasing electronic recordings under the OPN moniker in 2007, and received early acclaim in 2009 for the compilation Rifts. 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Caught In The Wake Forever Play artist More actions Play similar artists Listeners 3,266 Scrobbles 41.1K Latest release Waypoints 24 June 2019 Play album Popular this week Durham 2 listeners 5 photos Listeners 3,266 Scrobbles 41.1K Play artist More actions Play similar artists Caught In the Wake Forever is the solo project of musician & home recording artist Fraser McGowan. Having previously released work on London label «the Remains Of My Estate» as lead singer of Paisley based miserablist’s Small Town Boredom. At the beginning of 2009 he began working on several instrumental pieces blending a more electronic approach with his already established lo-fi acoustic aesthetics. These new tunes are characterised mainly by the use of rhodes piano & classical guitar surrounded by the subtle warmth of electronics, string machines & dictaphone field re… read more Caught In the Wake Forever is the solo project of musician & home recording artist Fraser McGowan. Having previously released work on London label «the Remains Of My Estate» as lead singer of Paisley based miserablist’s Small Town Boredom. At the beginning of 2009 he began working on seve… read more Caught In the Wake Forever is the solo project of musician & home recording artist Fraser McGowan. Having previously released work on London label «the Remains Of My Estate» as lead singer of Paisley based miserablist’s Small Town Boredom. 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Federico Durand Play artist More actions Play similar artists Listeners 31.5K Scrobbles 357.8K Latest release Alba 23 April 2020 Play album Popular this week Lluvia De Estrellas 106 listeners Play album Skip to YouTube video 8 photos Listeners 31.5K Scrobbles 357.8K Play artist More actions Play similar artists Federico Durand is a sound artist and literature teacher in La Cumbre, Argentina. His melodies overflow between the autumnal sounds and the poetry interpreted by the landscapes that surround him. Federico Durand’s music is a weave of sound searching introspection and delight through small sound melodies. View wiki Federico Durand is a sound artist and literature teacher in La Cumbre, Argentina. His melodies overflow between the autumnal sounds and the poetry interpreted by the landscapes that surround him. Federico Durand’s music is a weave of sound searching introspection and delight through small sound melodies. 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Leave feedback API Calls Close www-last-fm-524 ---- Max Richter music, videos, stats, and photos | Last.fm Playing via Spotify Playing via YouTube Playback options Listening on… Switch Spotify device Open in Spotify Web Player Change playback source Open on YouTube website Change playback source Previous Play Next Skip to YouTube video Loading player… Scrobble from Spotify? Connect your Spotify account to your Last.fm account and scrobble everything you listen to, from any Spotify app on any device or platform. Connect to Spotify Dismiss Last.fm SearchSearchSearch Toggle navigation Upgrade to Pro Live Music Charts Events Features Subscribe Join Login Upgrade to Pro Live Music Charts Events Features Join Login A new version of Last.fm is available, to keep everything running smoothly, please reload the site. Max Richter Play artist More actions Play similar artists Listeners 885.6K Scrobbles 33.6M Latest release Voices 30 July 2020 Play album Popular this week On the Nature of Daylight 2,292 listeners Play album Skip to YouTube video 51 photos Listeners 885.6K Scrobbles 33.6M Play artist More actions Play similar artists Born 22 March 1966 (age 54) Born In Hamelin, Niedersachsen, Germany Max Richter (born 22 March 1966) is a German-born British composer who has been an influential voice in post-minimalist composition and in the meeting of contemporary classical and alternative popular musical styles since the early 2000s. Richter is classically trained, having graduated in composition from the Royal Academy of Music and studied with Luciano Berio in Italy. Richter is known for his prolific output: composing and recording his own music; writing for stage, opera, ballet and screen; producing and collaborating on the records of others; and collaborating with performanc… read more Max Richter (born 22 March 1966) is a German-born British composer who has been an influential voice in post-minimalist composition and in the meeting of contemporary classical and alternative popular musical styles since the early 2000s. Richter is classically trained, having graduated in co… read more Max Richter (born 22 March 1966) is a German-born British composer who has been an influential voice in post-minimalist composition and in the meeting of contemporary classical and alternative popular musical styles since the early 2000s. 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Upgrade Now Shoutbox Javascript is required to view shouts on this page. Go directly to shout page About This Artist Artist images 15 more Christina Vantzou 63,023 listeners Related Tags ambient contemporary classical cello In the last decade Christina Vantzou has gone from an art student playing around with motion graphics and animations to designing projections for touring musicians, co-founding The Dead Texan with her partner Adam Wiltzie and eventually creating her own solo audiovisual project. The Dead Texan toured extensively in 2005-2006 and in 2007 Christina was commissioned to make animations and play onstage with Sparklehorse. In the meantime commissions for videos also developed into collaborations with Christopher Willits, Fovea Hex, Tokion magazine, Interpol, and Mtv Netherlands. 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Goldmund Play artist More actions Play similar artists Listeners 446.2K Scrobbles 7.6M Latest release The Time It Takes 15 October 2020 Play album Popular this week Threnody 648 listeners Play album Skip to YouTube video 19 photos Listeners 446.2K Scrobbles 7.6M Play artist More actions Play similar artists Goldmund is an alias of Keith Kenniff aka Helios and Mint Julep. In 2010 he began the record label Unseen. Goldmund's music has been featured on programs for NPR, the BBC, and can be heard in a number of documentaries and films, including Harmony Korine's film 'Mister Lonely' and a trailer for the film "Revolutionary Road". It has also been featured in commercials for clients such as Honda, MTV, Canon, T Mobile, American Express, Audi, Levi's, AEG, Doctors Without Borders, Vinamilk, and Christie's. Discography: * Two Point Discrimination (20… read more Goldmund is an alias of Keith Kenniff aka Helios and Mint Julep. In 2010 he began the record label Unseen. 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Upgrade Now Shoutbox Javascript is required to view shouts on this page. Go directly to shout page About This Artist Artist images 79 more Tim Hecker 405,147 listeners Related Tags ambient drone electronic Tim Hecker is an electronic musician and sound artist based in Los Angeles, United States and Montreal, Canada. Hecker initially recorded under the moniker Jetone, but has become known internationally for recordings released under his own name, such as Harmony in Ultraviolet (2006) and Ravedeath, 1972 (2011). He has released eight albums and a number of EPs in addition to collaborations with artists such as Ben Frost, Daniel Lopatin, and Aidan Baker. His latest album Love Streams was released on his new label 4AD on 8 April 2016. Born in Vancouver, Hecker is the son of two art teach… read more Tim Hecker is an electronic musician and sound artist based in Los Angeles, United States and Montreal, Canada. 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Upgrade Now Shoutbox Javascript is required to view shouts on this page. Go directly to shout page About This Artist Artist images 15 more Jim Guthrie 94,580 listeners Related Tags folk indie canadian Jim Guthrie is a Canadian singer-songwriter. He used to be in the band Royal City until they disbanded in 2004. He also worked with Islands on Return to Sea. He was born and raised in Guelph, Ontario and currently lives in Toronto. Guthrie first made a name for himself by releasing a series of self-produced cassettes, and subsequently released albums on Three Gut Records. He was nominated for a Juno Award for his album Now, More Than Ever. His song "Hands in My Pocket" appeared in a television commercial for Capital One's Canadian branch in 2005. View wiki Jim Guthrie is a Canadian singer-songwriter. He used to be in the band Royal City until they disbanded in 2004. He also worked with Islands on Return to Sea. 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Moderat III Play album More actions Go to artist profile Get album Loading Listeners 52.8K Scrobbles 996K Metascore 77 Listeners 52.8K Scrobbles 996K Metascore 77 Play album More actions Go to artist profile Get album Loading Add artworkView all artwork Length 9 tracks, 42:30 Release Date 29 March 2016 Length 9 tracks, 42:30 Release Date 29 March 2016 III (2016) III is the third studio album by electronic trio Moderat. A box set was also released for the Deluxe Edition which included 2 extra albums: III 'Instrumentals' and III 'Bonus Tracks & Remixes'. Released on April 1, 2016 on Monkeytown Records. Track Listing: 1. Eating Hooks 2. Running 3. Finder 4. Ghostmother 5. Reminder 6. The Fool 7. Intruder 8. Animal Trails 9. Ethereal CD 2 - III (Instrumentals) 1. Eating Hooks (Instrumental Version) 2. Running (Instrumental Version) 3. Finder 4. Ghostmother (Instrumental Version) 5. Reminder (Instrumental Version) 6. 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Leave feedback API Calls Close www-last-fm-5961 ---- Sarah Davachi music, videos, stats, and photos | Last.fm Playing via Spotify Playing via YouTube Playback options Listening on… Switch Spotify device Open in Spotify Web Player Change playback source Open on YouTube website Change playback source Previous Play Next Skip to YouTube video Loading player… Scrobble from Spotify? Connect your Spotify account to your Last.fm account and scrobble everything you listen to, from any Spotify app on any device or platform. Connect to Spotify Dismiss Last.fm SearchSearchSearch Toggle navigation Upgrade to Pro Live Music Charts Events Features Subscribe Join Login Upgrade to Pro Live Music Charts Events Features Join Login A new version of Last.fm is available, to keep everything running smoothly, please reload the site. Sarah Davachi Play artist More actions Play similar artists Listeners 43.9K Scrobbles 458K Latest release Cantus, Descant 17 September 2020 Play album Popular this week Play The Ghost 358 listeners Play album Skip to YouTube video 18 photos Listeners 43.9K Scrobbles 458K Play artist More actions Play similar artists Born 1987 (age 33) Born In Calgary, Alberta, Canada Sarah Davachi (b. 1987, Calgary, Canada) holds a bachelor's degree in philosophy from the University of Calgary, and a master's degree in electronic music and recording media from Mills College in Oakland, California. As a composer of electronic and electroacoustic music, Davachi's compositional projects are primarily concerned with disclosing the antiquated instruments and forgotten sonics of a bygone era in analog synthesis, with concurrent treatment of acoustic sources – particularly organ, piano, strings, and woodwinds – often involving de-familiarization through … read more Sarah Davachi (b. 1987, Calgary, Canada) holds a bachelor's degree in philosophy from the University of Calgary, and a master's degree in electronic music and recording media from Mills College in Oakland, California. As a composer of electronic and electroacoustic music, Davachi&#x… read more Sarah Davachi (b. 1987, Calgary, Canada) holds a bachelor's degree in philosophy from the University of Calgary, and a master's degree in electronic music and recording media from Mills College in Oakland, California. 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Connect to Spotify Dismiss Last.fm SearchSearchSearch Toggle navigation Upgrade to Pro Live Music Charts Events Features Subscribe Join Login Upgrade to Pro Live Music Charts Events Features Join Login A new version of Last.fm is available, to keep everything running smoothly, please reload the site. Arcade Fire Everything Now Play album More actions Go to artist profile Get album Loading Listeners 280.1K Scrobbles 6.8M Metascore 66 Listeners 280.1K Scrobbles 6.8M Metascore 66 Play album More actions Go to artist profile Get album Loading Add artworkView all artwork Length 13 tracks, 47:16 Release Date 27 July 2017 Length 13 tracks, 47:16 Release Date 27 July 2017 Everything Now is the fifth studio album by the Canadian indie rock band Arcade Fire. It was released on July 28, 2017, physically through Sonovox Records and digitally through Columbia Records. The album was produced by Arcade Fire alongside Thomas Bangalter of the electronic-house duo Daft Punk and Pulp bassist Steve Mackey. Previous collaborator Markus Dravs provides co-production, with additional production by Geoff Barrow of Portishead and Eric Heigle. View wiki Everything Now is the fifth studio album by the Canadian indie rock band Arcade Fire. It was released on July 28, 2017, physically through Sonovox Re… read more Everything Now is the fifth studio album by the Canadian indie rock band Arcade Fire. It was released on July 28, 2017, physically through Sonovox Records and digitally through Columbia … read more Related Tags 2017 rock disco alternative rock 10s Add tagsView all tags Don't want to see ads? 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Upgrade Now Shoutbox Javascript is required to view shouts on this page. Go directly to shout page About This Artist Artist images 136 more Arcade Fire 2,705,855 listeners Related Tags indie rock indie rock Arcade Fire is an indie rock band formed in Montreal, Quebec, Canada in 2001. The band consists of Win Butler (vocals, guitar, piano), Régine Chassagne (vocals, accordion, keyboards, hurdy gurdy, drums), Richard Reed Parry (bass, guitar), Will Butler (keyboards, guitar), Tim Kingsbury (bass), and Jeremy Gara (drums). Montreal percussionist Dane Mills performed on the EP and in early live shows. The touring band includes horn players and violinists. The band’s trademark fashion consists in wearing rather formal attire during live events and a use of orchestral instruments. When aske… read more Arcade Fire is an indie rock band formed in Montreal, Quebec, Canada in 2001. The band consists of Win Butler (vocals, guitar, piano), Régine Chassagne (vocals, accordion, keyboards, hurdy … read more Arcade Fire is an indie rock band formed in Montreal, Quebec, Canada in 2001. The band consists of Win Butler (vocals, guitar, piano), Régine Chassagne (vocals, accordion, keyboards, hurdy gurdy, drums), Richard Reed Parry (bass, guita… read more View full artist profile Similar Artists Play all The National 1,822,287 listeners The Killers 4,669,971 listeners Will Butler 67,588 listeners Interpol 2,377,891 listeners Yeah Yeah Yeahs 2,612,542 listeners MGMT 3,038,032 listeners The War on Drugs 621,918 listeners Vampire Weekend 2,357,611 listeners Broken Social Scene 1,506,140 listeners View all similar artists Scrobble Stats ? What is scrobbling? Scrobbling is when Last.fm tracks the music you listen to and automatically adds it to your music profile. 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Leave feedback API Calls Close www-last-fm-6067 ---- David Bowie music, videos, stats, and photos | Last.fm Playing via Spotify Playing via YouTube Playback options Listening on… Switch Spotify device Open in Spotify Web Player Change playback source Open on YouTube website Change playback source Previous Play Next Skip to YouTube video Loading player… Scrobble from Spotify? Connect your Spotify account to your Last.fm account and scrobble everything you listen to, from any Spotify app on any device or platform. Connect to Spotify Dismiss Last.fm SearchSearchSearch Toggle navigation Upgrade to Pro Live Music Charts Events Features Subscribe Join Login Upgrade to Pro Live Music Charts Events Features Join Login A new version of Last.fm is available, to keep everything running smoothly, please reload the site. David Bowie Play artist More actions Play similar artists Listeners 3.6M Scrobbles 216.5M Latest release Lady Stardust 15 October 2020 Play album Popular this week Heroes - 2017 Remaster 9,420 listeners Play album Skip to YouTube video 1,166 photos Listeners 3.6M Scrobbles 216.5M Play artist More actions Play similar artists Born 8 January 1947 Born In Brixton, Lambeth, London, England, United Kingdom Died 10 January 2016 (aged 69) David Robert Jones (8 January 1947 – 10 January 2016), known professionally as David Bowie, was an English singer, songwriter and actor. He was a leading figure in the music industry and is considered one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century, acclaimed by critics and musicians, particularly for his innovative work during the 1970s. His career was marked by reinvention and visual presentation, with his music and stagecraft having a significant impact on popular music. During his lifetime, his record sales, estimated at 140 million albums worldwide, made him one of th… read more David Robert Jones (8 January 1947 – 10 January 2016), known professionally as David Bowie, was an English singer, songwriter and actor. He was a leading figure in the music industry and is considered one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century, acclaimed by critics and musician… read more David Robert Jones (8 January 1947 – 10 January 2016), known professionally as David Bowie, was an English singer, songwriter and actor. He was a leading figure in the music industry and is considered one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century, acclaimed by critics and musicians, particularly for his innovative work during the 1970s. 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Connect to Spotify Dismiss Last.fm SearchSearchSearch Toggle navigation Upgrade to Pro Live Music Charts Events Features Subscribe Join Login Upgrade to Pro Live Music Charts Events Features Join Login A new version of Last.fm is available, to keep everything running smoothly, please reload the site. Moderat Play artist More actions Play similar artists Listeners 513.8K Scrobbles 22.7M Latest release Bad Kingdom – Head High & Marcel Dettmann Remixes 3 June 2020 Play album Popular this week A New Error 2,540 listeners Play album Skip to YouTube video 55 photos Listeners 513.8K Scrobbles 22.7M Play artist More actions Play similar artists Years Active 2002 – present (18 years) Founded In Berlin, Germany Moderat are Modeselektor and Apparat. Moderat's formation began back in 2002 in Berlin, Germany when Sascha Ring (aka Apparat) and Gernot Bronsert and Sebastian Szary (aka Modeselektor) recorded an EP for the record label BPitch Control ("Auf Kosten der Gesundheit"). 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All rights reserved Terms of Use Privacy Policy Legal Policies California Privacy/Info We Collect California Do Not Sell My Info Jobs at CBSi Last.fm Music Some user-contributed text on this page is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply. Audioscrobbler Let us know what you think of the Last.fm website. Leave feedback API Calls Close www-last-fm-6227 ---- James Murray music, videos, stats, and photos | Last.fm Playing via Spotify Playing via YouTube Playback options Listening on… Switch Spotify device Open in Spotify Web Player Change playback source Open on YouTube website Change playback source Previous Play Next Skip to YouTube video Loading player… Scrobble from Spotify? Connect your Spotify account to your Last.fm account and scrobble everything you listen to, from any Spotify app on any device or platform. Connect to Spotify Dismiss Last.fm SearchSearchSearch Toggle navigation Upgrade to Pro Live Music Charts Events Features Subscribe Join Login Upgrade to Pro Live Music Charts Events Features Join Login A new version of Last.fm is available, to keep everything running smoothly, please reload the site. James Murray Play artist More actions Play similar artists Listeners 36.5K Scrobbles 453.5K Latest release The Muse - EP 5 March 2020 Play album Popular this week Unbroken Lines 8 listeners Play album Skip to YouTube video 5 photos Listeners 36.5K Scrobbles 453.5K Play artist More actions Play similar artists James Murray is a London-based composer, producer and multi-instrumentalist. His productions combine delicate sound design with manipulated acoustic recordings and tend towards a reflective aesthetic. The critically acclaimed Where Edges Meet was released by Ultimae Records in 2008 and followed in 2012 by Floods and 2013 by The Land Bridge, both on his own independent imprint Slowcraft Records. View wiki James Murray is a London-based composer, producer and multi-instrumentalist. His productions combine delicate sound design with manipulated acoustic recordings and tend towards a reflective aesthetic. The critically acclaimed Where Edges Meet was released by Ultimae Records in 2008 and follow… read more James Murray is a London-based composer, producer and multi-instrumentalist. His productions combine delicate sound design with manipulated acoustic recordings and tend towards a reflective aesthetic. 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Bowie died on January 10, 2016 after a secret 18 month battle with cancer: it was 2 days after his 69th birthday and the release of Blackstar (2016). Tony Visconti - a producer and friend with Bowie for over 5 decades - commented "He made Blackstar for us — his parting gift . I knew for a year this was the way it would be. I wasn’t, however, p… read more Blackstar (stylised as ★) is the 25th studio album by David Bowie, released on January 8, 2016, the date of Bowie's 69th birthday. The album fea… read more Blackstar (stylised as ★) is the 25th studio album by David Bowie, released on January 8, 2016, the date of Bowie's 69th birthday. The album features seven songs, with the title tra… read more Related Tags 2016 art rock jazz experimental rock rock Add tagsView all tags Don't want to see ads? 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Upgrade Now Shoutbox Javascript is required to view shouts on this page. Go directly to shout page About This Artist Artist images 1,162 more David Bowie 3,595,296 listeners Related Tags rock glam rock classic rock David Robert Jones (8 January 1947 – 10 January 2016), known professionally as David Bowie, was an English singer, songwriter and actor. He was a leading figure in the music industry and is considered one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century, acclaimed by critics and musicians, particularly for his innovative work during the 1970s. His career was marked by reinvention and visual presentation, with his music and stagecraft having a significant impact on popular music. During his lifetime, his record sales, estimated at 140 million albums worldwide, made him one of th… read more David Robert Jones (8 January 1947 – 10 January 2016), known professionally as David Bowie, was an English singer, songwriter and actor. 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On graduating and after a period of busking in London he returned to Colchester to run a music therapy course at a local hospital for the mentally handicapped. His first recording experience was with his brother Brian Eno and Daniel Lanois for the album Apollo at Lanois' Grant Avenue Studios in Canada. His first solo album Voices appeared shortly afterwards. Although mainly regarded… read more Roger Eugene Eno was born in Woodbridge, England in 1959. He is known primarily as an ambient composer. He began euphonium lessons at twelve and at sixteen entered Colchester College to study music. On graduating and after a period of busking in London he returned to Colchester to run a music… read more Roger Eugene Eno was born in Woodbridge, England in 1959. He is known primarily as an ambient composer. He began euphonium lessons at twelve and at sixteen entered Colchester College to study music. 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The boxed edition includes the album on vinyl, a hardcover art book, a book of Yorke's notes, a sketchbook of Donwood and Yorke's "preparatory work". It also includes an audio cassette of OK Computer demos and session recordings, among them a previously unreleased song, and early versions of "The National Anthem"… read more OK Computer OKNOTOK 1997 2017 (sometimes referred to simply as OKNOTOK) includes a remastered version of OK Computer, plus eight B-sides and three pr… read more OK Computer OKNOTOK 1997 2017 (sometimes referred to simply as OKNOTOK) includes a remastered version of OK Computer, plus eight B-sides and three previously unreleased tracks: "I P… read more Related Tags remastered 1997 alternative rock alternative rock Add tagsView all tags Don't want to see ads? 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OFFTHESKY Play artist More actions Play similar artists Listeners 15.1K Scrobbles 153K Latest release Psalm of Solum 5 June 2020 Play album Popular this week Gently, Drown the Scene 11 listeners Play album Skip to YouTube video 7 photos Listeners 15.1K Scrobbles 153K Play artist More actions Play similar artists OFFTHESKY is the more current, evolved moniker that equals works created by Jason Corder, also known as Off the Sky, and formerly known Zen Sauvage. Jason began devising sonic schemes in the womb by performing on the uterus wall to cope with the intense darkness. he finally forged an escape plan in 1977 and upgraded his musical medium to a sterling kitchen floor kit. Many years later during the dark ages of the 386/amiga, Jason retired the cutlery to began forging into the vast void of 8bit tracking. 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Upgrade Now Shoutbox Javascript is required to view shouts on this page. Go directly to shout page About This Artist Artist images Sven Laux 5,981 listeners Related Tags minimal electronic ambient Sven Laux is part of a modest faction of producers that have been faithfully progressing the evolution of micro composition. Born in Neubrandenburg, Germany, Laux started writing electronic music in 1998 after discovering a talent for meticulously sampling and looping audio. Now residing in Berlin, Sven Laux has done anything but conform. His unique take on music making has him sharing the company of artisans like Pheek, Ezekiel Honig and Marc Neyen. Laux has become notorious for manipulating foundsounds and employing layers of field recordings in his work. In a discography that str… read more Sven Laux is part of a modest faction of producers that have been faithfully progressing the evolution of micro composition. 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It was notable for its heavy use of looped samples, which were taken from records in her collection and heavily modified. The album was critically well-received and drew enough attention to warrant touring. During live shows, Schott would replicate the sounds from the album using acou… read more Cécile Schott was born in France and began making music under the name Colleen in 2001, after a friend gave her a CD-R with the ACID Pro music production software contained within. Samples were a common part of her early work and in summer 2003 the debut album Everyone Alive Wants Answers was… read more Cécile Schott was born in France and began making music under the name Colleen in 2001, after a friend gave her a CD-R with the ACID Pro music production software contained within. Samples were a common part of her early work and in summer 2003 the debut album Everyone Alive Wants Answers was released. 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Upgrade Now Shoutbox Javascript is required to view shouts on this page. Go directly to shout page About This Artist Artist images Tigue 883 listeners Related Tags rock jazz instrumental Tigue is a group of three percussionists with a fluid musical identity. The Brooklyn-based trio (Matt Evans, Amy Garapic and Carson Moody) makes their own kinetic and hypnotic blend of instrumental minimalism while opening up the possibilities of their instrumentation through commissioning and collaboration. Tigue’s debut album Peaks was released in 2015 with New Amsterdam Records with highlighted performances at the Ecstatic Music Festival, Bric Celebrate Brooklyn! Festival, and the Zemlika Festival in Durbe, Latvia. Recent commissions and premieres have included works by Molly Her… read more Tigue is a group of three percussionists with a fluid musical identity. 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Leave feedback API Calls Close www-last-fm-7491 ---- Arcade Fire music, videos, stats, and photos | Last.fm Playing via Spotify Playing via YouTube Playback options Listening on… Switch Spotify device Open in Spotify Web Player Change playback source Open on YouTube website Change playback source Previous Play Next Skip to YouTube video Loading player… Scrobble from Spotify? Connect your Spotify account to your Last.fm account and scrobble everything you listen to, from any Spotify app on any device or platform. Connect to Spotify Dismiss Last.fm SearchSearchSearch Toggle navigation Upgrade to Pro Live Music Charts Events Features Subscribe Join Login Upgrade to Pro Live Music Charts Events Features Join Login A new version of Last.fm is available, to keep everything running smoothly, please reload the site. Arcade Fire Play artist More actions Play similar artists Listeners 2.7M Scrobbles 194.3M Latest release I Give You Power (feat. Mavis Staples) - Single 8 November 2020 Play album Popular this week The Suburbs 8,344 listeners Play album Skip to YouTube video 140 photos Listeners 2.7M Scrobbles 194.3M Play artist More actions Play similar artists Years Active 2001 – present (19 years) Founded In Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada Arcade Fire is an indie rock band formed in Montreal, Quebec, Canada in 2001. The band consists of Win Butler (vocals, guitar, piano), Régine Chassagne (vocals, accordion, keyboards, hurdy gurdy, drums), Richard Reed Parry (bass, guitar), Will Butler (keyboards, guitar), Tim Kingsbury (bass), and Jeremy Gara (drums). Montreal percussionist Dane Mills performed on the EP and in early live shows. The touring band includes horn players and violinists. The band’s trademark fashion consists in wearing rather formal attire during live events and a use of orchestral instruments. When aske… read more Arcade Fire is an indie rock band formed in Montreal, Quebec, Canada in 2001. The band consists of Win Butler (vocals, guitar, piano), Régine Chassagne (vocals, accordion, keyboards, hurdy gurdy, drums), Richard Reed Parry (bass, guitar), Will Butler (keyboards, guitar), Tim Kingsbury (bass),… read more Arcade Fire is an indie rock band formed in Montreal, Quebec, Canada in 2001. The band consists of Win Butler (vocals, guitar, piano), Régine Chassagne (vocals, accordion, keyboards, hurdy gurdy, drums), Richard Reed Parry (bass, guitar), Will Butler (keyboards, guitar), Tim Kingsbury (bass), and Jeremy Gara (drums). 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Perfume Genius Play artist More actions Play similar artists Listeners 560.5K Scrobbles 16.9M Latest release Wreath 21 September 2020 Play album Popular this week On the Floor 8,408 listeners Play album Skip to YouTube video 157 photos Listeners 560.5K Scrobbles 16.9M Play artist More actions Play similar artists Born 25 September 1981 (age 39) Born In Des Moines, Polk County, Iowa, United States Mike Hadreas, also known as Perfume Genius is a singer/songwriter from Seattle, Washington, US. Perfume Genius began when he moved from New York to his mother's home in Everett, WA. In these relatively isolated conditions, Hadreas felt a compulsion to make music and began composing fragile yet brutally honest songs on the piano. By 2008 he had set up a MySpace page and began offering his music there, along with similarly spare and evocative homemade music videos. Turnstile released the single Mr. Peterson – the tale of a suicidal, pedophile high-school teacher – in… read more Mike Hadreas, also known as Perfume Genius is a singer/songwriter from Seattle, Washington, US. Perfume Genius began when he moved from New York to his mother's home in Everett, WA. In these relatively isolated conditions, Hadreas felt a compulsion to make music and began composing frag… read more Mike Hadreas, also known as Perfume Genius is a singer/songwriter from Seattle, Washington, US. Perfume Genius began when he moved from New York to his mother's home in Everett, WA. In these relatively isolated conditions, Hadreas felt a compulsion to make music and began composing fragile yet brutally honest songs on the piano. 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Upgrade Now Shoutbox Javascript is required to view shouts on this page. Go directly to shout page About This Artist Artist images 3 more OFFTHESKY 15,078 listeners Related Tags ambient glitch soundscape OFFTHESKY is the more current, evolved moniker that equals works created by Jason Corder, also known as Off the Sky, and formerly known Zen Sauvage. Jason began devising sonic schemes in the womb by performing on the uterus wall to cope with the intense darkness. he finally forged an escape plan in 1977 and upgraded his musical medium to a sterling kitchen floor kit. Many years later during the dark ages of the 386/amiga, Jason retired the cutlery to began forging into the vast void of 8bit tracking. Later he began his travels to countless electronic music events which catalysted hi… read more OFFTHESKY is the more current, evolved moniker that equals works created by Jason Corder, also known as Off the Sky, and formerly known Zen Sauvage. 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Upgrade Now Shoutbox Javascript is required to view shouts on this page. Go directly to shout page About This Artist Artist images 65 more Four Tet 1,009,618 listeners Related Tags electronic idm experimental Four Tet is the name used by Kieran Hebden (born 1977 in Putney, London, UK) for his experimental electronic music-oriented solo efforts, to differentiate from his work with post-rock band Fridge. Hebden's solo work typically utilises samples lifted from various sources including hip-hop, electronica, techno, jazz, and folk mixed with his own guitar playing. Four Tet shares some stylistic similarities with other musicians, such as Prefuse 73, who use computer editing techniques that give the music a staccato, cut-up feel. 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Spheruleus Play artist More actions Play similar artists Listeners 7,751 Scrobbles 89K Latest release Sub​-​Aquatic Spheres 22 May 2020 Play album Popular this week Inertia Ridge - Mixed 6 listeners 10 photos Listeners 7,751 Scrobbles 89K Play artist More actions Play similar artists Spheruleus is British musician and producer Harry Towell, who releases ambient music in the drone, dark ambient, and musique concrete subgenres, under the project names Audio Gourmet, Eyes Flutter Beneath, and now as Spheruleus. He creates ambient textures designed chiefly to be listened to at low volume for quiet contemplation. His first EP was released on Webbed Hand Records; since then he has released three subsequent albums on that netlabel. His first venture away from Webbed Hand was with Phantom Channel. Harry typically uses his own field recordings in all of his album-length … read more Spheruleus is British musician and producer Harry Towell, who releases ambient music in the drone, dark ambient, and musique concrete subgenres, under the project names Audio Gourmet, Eyes Flutter Beneath, and now as Spheruleus. He creates ambient textures designed chiefly to be listened to a… read more Spheruleus is British musician and producer Harry Towell, who releases ambient music in the drone, dark ambient, and musique concrete subgenres, under the project names Audio Gourmet, Eyes Flutter Beneath, and now as Spheruleus. He creates ambient textures designed chiefly to be listened to at low volume for quiet contemplation. 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Big Thief On tour Play artist More actions Play similar artists Listeners 284.9K Scrobbles 10.2M Latest release Love in Mine - Single 29 April 2020 Play album Popular this week Paul 5,455 listeners Play album Skip to YouTube video 36 photos Listeners 284.9K Scrobbles 10.2M Play artist More actions Play similar artists Years Active 2015 – present (5 years) Founded In Brooklyn, New York, New York, United States Big Thief is an American indie rock band with folk roots. The band is based in Brooklyn, New York, and comprises Adrianne Lenker, Buck Meek, Max Oleartchik, and James Krivchenia. Big Thief's music, rooted in the songs of Adrianne Lenker, paints in vivid tones "the process of harnessing pain, loss, and love, while simultaneously letting go, looking into your own eyes through someone else's, and being okay with the inevitability of death," says Adrianne. Masterpiece, Big Thief's debut album, is filled with characters and visceral narratives, songs that pivot … read more Big Thief is an American indie rock band with folk roots. The band is based in Brooklyn, New York, and comprises Adrianne Lenker, Buck Meek, Max Oleartchik, and James Krivchenia. Big Thief's music, rooted in the songs of Adrianne Lenker, paints in vivid tones "the process of harnes… read more Big Thief is an American indie rock band with folk roots. The band is based in Brooklyn, New York, and comprises Adrianne Lenker, Buck Meek, Max Oleartchik, and James Krivchenia. 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Ezekiel Honig A Passage of Concrete More actions Go to artist profile Get album Loading Listeners 473 Scrobbles 12.2K Listeners 473 Scrobbles 12.2K More actions Go to artist profile Get album Loading Add artworkView all artwork Length 14 tracks, 40:18 Release Date 16 March 2017 Length 14 tracks, 40:18 Release Date 16 March 2017 Melancholic, warm, pensive, with a sombre wonder for everyday experience, A Passage of Concrete, the newest album from Anticipate label-head Ezekiel Honig, ebbs and flows across an electroacoustic narrative of fragmented memory tethered to the present moment, unravelling movement, location, distance in a story that cares about place as both texture and emotional notation. Sounds from crowded streets, parks, empty apartments, and high-ceilinged spaces all fit into Honig's music on equal footing with kick drums, household percussion, saturated piano, and stretched-out horns. Stea… read more Melancholic, warm, pensive, with a sombre wonder for everyday experience, A Passage of Concrete, the newest album from Anticipate label-head Ezekiel … read more Melancholic, warm, pensive, with a sombre wonder for everyday experience, A Passage of Concrete, the newest album from Anticipate label-head Ezekiel Honig, ebbs and flows across an elect… read more Related Tags ambient minimal electronic idm minimal techno Add tagsView all tags Don't want to see ads? 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Upgrade Now Shoutbox Javascript is required to view shouts on this page. Go directly to shout page About This Artist Artist images 3 more Ezekiel Honig 19,339 listeners Related Tags ambient minimal electronic A New York City native and founder of the Anticipate and Microcosm labels, Ezekiel Honig concentrates on emotively warm and minimal music. He strives to incorporate the ethos of the past with something new, striding that blurry line between occasional dance floor sensibilities and intriguing, yet heart warming home listening. Ambience, soft, colorful tones, found sounds, a techno background, 4/4 microsound, and an affinity for off kilter rhythm edits are all involved in this process, while paying constant attention to deceptively simple melodic structures, along with seemingly rand… read more A New York City native and founder of the Anticipate and Microcosm labels, Ezekiel Honig concentrates on emotively warm and minimal music. 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Deerhunter Fading Frontier Play album More actions Go to artist profile Get album Loading Listeners 129.4K Scrobbles 2.5M Metascore 81 Listeners 129.4K Scrobbles 2.5M Metascore 81 Play album More actions Go to artist profile Get album Loading Add artwork Length 9 tracks, 36:05 Release Date 16 October 2015 Length 9 tracks, 36:05 Release Date 16 October 2015 In December 2014, Bradford Cox was involved in a car crash which left him "seriously injured, but also provided a perspective-giving jolt". Prior to the release of Fading Frontier, Cox stated that the accident "erased all illusions" and admitted that it was a definite turning point for him. Fading Frontier is Deerhunter's and Cox's first release since the accident. This album saw the departure of Frankie Broyles, who left the band in 2015 to focus on his solo career. 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A Winged Victory for the Sullen Play artist More actions Play similar artists Listeners 162.8K Scrobbles 3.9M Latest release The Undivided Five 31 October 2019 Play album Popular this week Steep Hills of Vicodin Tears 858 listeners Play album Skip to YouTube video 9 photos Listeners 162.8K Scrobbles 3.9M Play artist More actions Play similar artists Years Active 2011 – present (9 years) A Winged Victory For The Sullen is a collaboration between Stars of the Lid member Adam Wiltzie and Dustin O'Halloran. A Winged Victory for the Sullen began with a friendship. Composers Dustin O'Halloran and Adam Bryanbaum Wiltzie met backstage in 2007, introduced by a mutual friend Francesco Donadello — who, as fate would have it, went on to become their longtime collaborative sound engineer. Four years after their introduction, their eponymous debut emerged in all its splendor: a grand, elegiac composition, featuring seven different harmonic landscapes, redolent of the l… read more A Winged Victory For The Sullen is a collaboration between Stars of the Lid member Adam Wiltzie and Dustin O'Halloran. A Winged Victory for the Sullen began with a friendship. Composers Dustin O'Halloran and Adam Bryanbaum Wiltzie met backstage in 2007, introduced by a mutual friend… read more A Winged Victory For The Sullen is a collaboration between Stars of the Lid member Adam Wiltzie and Dustin O'Halloran. A Winged Victory for the Sullen began with a friendship. 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Upgrade Now Shoutbox Javascript is required to view shouts on this page. Go directly to shout page About This Artist Artist images 14 more Sarah Davachi 43,913 listeners Related Tags ambient electronic minimalism Sarah Davachi (b. 1987, Calgary, Canada) holds a bachelor's degree in philosophy from the University of Calgary, and a master's degree in electronic music and recording media from Mills College in Oakland, California. As a composer of electronic and electroacoustic music, Davachi's compositional projects are primarily concerned with disclosing the antiquated instruments and forgotten sonics of a bygone era in analog synthesis, with concurrent treatment of acoustic sources – particularly organ, piano, strings, and woodwinds – often involving de-familiarization through … read more Sarah Davachi (b. 1987, Calgary, Canada) holds a bachelor's degree in philosophy from the University of Calgary, and a master's degree in electronic music and recording media from… read more Sarah Davachi (b. 1987, Calgary, Canada) holds a bachelor's degree in philosophy from the University of Calgary, and a master's degree in electronic music and recording media from Mills College in Oakland, California. 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Leave feedback API Calls Close www-last-fm-824 ---- Deradoorian music, videos, stats, and photos | Last.fm Playing via Spotify Playing via YouTube Playback options Listening on… Switch Spotify device Open in Spotify Web Player Change playback source Open on YouTube website Change playback source Previous Play Next Skip to YouTube video Loading player… Scrobble from Spotify? Connect your Spotify account to your Last.fm account and scrobble everything you listen to, from any Spotify app on any device or platform. Connect to Spotify Dismiss Last.fm SearchSearchSearch Toggle navigation Upgrade to Pro Live Music Charts Events Features Subscribe Join Login Upgrade to Pro Live Music Charts Events Features Join Login A new version of Last.fm is available, to keep everything running smoothly, please reload the site. Deradoorian Play artist More actions Play similar artists Listeners 53.5K Scrobbles 462K Latest release Mask of Yesterday 4 August 2020 Play album Popular this week The Illuminator 814 listeners 44 photos Listeners 53.5K Scrobbles 462K Play artist More actions Play similar artists Born 18 July 1986 (age 34) Born In Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, United States Angel Deradoorian is mostly known for her role in the Dirty Projectors. Her first solo recording entitled "Mind Raft EP" was released on 5/5/09 by Lovepump United Records. It is available through insound. According to her MySpace page (http://www.myspace.com/angelderadoorian): "I'm trying something new. Still using garageband. Sounds better in headphones. Bands I play in: Dirty Projectors, Secret Surprise and the Latter Day Saints, Inlets, Mature Women, Fleetwood Mac." Concerning her new record: "I have finished recording my first real recording of mus… read more Angel Deradoorian is mostly known for her role in the Dirty Projectors. Her first solo recording entitled "Mind Raft EP" was released on 5/5/09 by Lovepump United Records. It is available through insound. According to her MySpace page (http://www.myspace.com/angelderadoorian): &quo… read more Angel Deradoorian is mostly known for her role in the Dirty Projectors. Her first solo recording entitled "Mind Raft EP" was released on 5/5/09 by Lovepump United Records. It is available through insound. According to her MySpace page (http://www.myspace.com/angelderadoorian): "I'm trying something new. Still using garageband. 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Upgrade Now Shoutbox Javascript is required to view shouts on this page. Go directly to shout page About This Artist Artist images 28 more Rafael Anton Irisarri 119,350 listeners Related Tags ambient piano contemporary classical Originally based in Seattle, Rafael Anton Irisarri is an American artist who composes ambient, drone, and post-minimalist music. His recordings heavily utilize field recordings, bowed guitars, strings, and electronics, creating dense clouds of blurry, hypnotic sound that often have a mournful, elegiac quality. He has performed concerts in collaboration with numerous experimental, electronic, and indie musicians, including Fennesz, Greg Davis, Grouper, and Lawrence English. Since 2007, he has co-curated numerous experimental music festivals and concerts, including Seattle's De… read more Originally based in Seattle, Rafael Anton Irisarri is an American artist who composes ambient, drone, and post-minimalist music. 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Upgrade Now Shoutbox Javascript is required to view shouts on this page. Go directly to shout page About This Artist Artist images 40 more Deradoorian 53,450 listeners Related Tags psychedelic lo-fi female vocalists Angel Deradoorian is mostly known for her role in the Dirty Projectors. Her first solo recording entitled "Mind Raft EP" was released on 5/5/09 by Lovepump United Records. It is available through insound. According to her MySpace page (http://www.myspace.com/angelderadoorian): "I'm trying something new. Still using garageband. Sounds better in headphones. Bands I play in: Dirty Projectors, Secret Surprise and the Latter Day Saints, Inlets, Mature Women, Fleetwood Mac." Concerning her new record: "I have finished recording my first real recording of mus… read more Angel Deradoorian is mostly known for her role in the Dirty Projectors. Her first solo recording entitled "Mind Raft EP" was released on 5/5/09 by Lovepump United Records. 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Lusine Play artist More actions Play similar artists Listeners 281.2K Scrobbles 4M Latest release Retrace EP 12 July 2019 Play album Popular this week Just a Cloud 633 listeners Play album Skip to YouTube video 7 photos Listeners 281.2K Scrobbles 4M Play artist More actions Play similar artists Born In Dallas, Dallas County, Texas, United States Jeff McIlwain has been producing his visceral, melodic strain of abstract electronic music as Lusine for over 10 years now. Originally a Texas native, McIlwain met Shad Scott while living in LA and put out his self titled debut on Scott's imprint, Isophlux. He relocated to Seattle in late 2002 and began steadily releasing his music on Ghostly International. McIlwain has also contributed tracks to various compilations and remix releases on Mute, !K7, Kompakt, Asthmatic Kitty, and Shitkatapult. 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Upgrade Now Shoutbox Javascript is required to view shouts on this page. Go directly to shout page About This Artist Artist images Gersey 5,031 listeners Related Tags indie melbourne australian Gersey is an Australian rock band based in Melbourne, which formed in 1997. The band is comprised of Craig Jackson (vocals, bass), Daryl Bradie (guitar), Matt Davis (guitar), Danny Tulen (drums) and Drew Pearse (keyboards). The band are among a number of Australian indie-rock bands formed in the mid-late 90s who are influenced by shoegaze movement of the early 90s, including Gaslight Radio, Sounds Like Sunset and Ides Of Space. The band began their recording careers with the rare EP "Bewilderment Is A Blessing" (1999). Since then they have released three full length albums… read more Gersey is an Australian rock band based in Melbourne, which formed in 1997. The band is comprised of Craig Jackson (vocals, bass), Daryl Bradie (guitar), Matt Davis (guitar), Danny Tulen (d… read more Gersey is an Australian rock band based in Melbourne, which formed in 1997. The band is comprised of Craig Jackson (vocals, bass), Daryl Bradie (guitar), Matt Davis (guitar), Danny Tulen (drums) and Drew Pearse (keyboards). The band ar… read more View full artist profile Similar Artists Play all Deloris 3,540 listeners Machine Translations 9,105 listeners 78 Saab 14,602 listeners Screamfeeder 7,529 listeners Big Heavy Stuff 8,690 listeners Even 7,449 listeners Dappled Cities 46,696 listeners Gerling 20,734 listeners STARKY 6,789 listeners View all similar artists Scrobble Stats ? What is scrobbling? Scrobbling is when Last.fm tracks the music you listen to and automatically adds it to your music profile. 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Upgrade Now Shoutbox Javascript is required to view shouts on this page. Go directly to shout page About This Artist Artist images 8 more White Rainbow 40,816 listeners Related Tags ambient drone psychedelic Almost an institution in Portland, Oregon (where he is currently Music Curator at the Yale Union contemporary-art center), Adam Forkner has been making meditative, ambi-tasting, improvised master jams (punctuated with dance-floor rhythms) since the mid-’90s—in collaboration with others in Yume Bitsu and World, Dark Yoga, Surface of Eceon, and solo as [[]] and White Rainbow. The music of White Rainbow flows through assorted albums on the Kranky, States Rights Records, Marriage Records and Gnar Tapes labels. 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Upgrade Now Shoutbox Javascript is required to view shouts on this page. Go directly to shout page About This Artist Artist images 90 more Oneohtrix Point Never 363,946 listeners Related Tags ambient drone experimental Daniel Lopatin (born 25 July 1982), best known by the recording alias Oneohtrix Point Never, is an American experimental musician, composer, and producer based in Brooklyn. He began releasing electronic recordings under the OPN moniker in 2007, and received early acclaim in 2009 for the compilation Rifts. In subsequent years, he released albums such as Replica (2011) and R Plus Seven (2013) to critical praise and signed to British label Warp, while also taking part in a number of side-projects, collaborations, and film scores. Born and raised in Massachusetts, Lopatin is the son of … read more Daniel Lopatin (born 25 July 1982), best known by the recording alias Oneohtrix Point Never, is an American experimental musician, composer, and producer based in Brooklyn. 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Upgrade Now Shoutbox Javascript is required to view shouts on this page. Go directly to shout page About This Artist Artist images 2 more Valotihkuu 5,231 listeners Related Tags lo-fi chillwave electronic Valotihkuu is an ambient project from Russia. His music is mixture of nature sounds with a variety of acoustic and electroacoustic instruments, tape loops, found objects and lot of childhood memories, which are carefully transferred into music. View wiki Valotihkuu is an ambient project from Russia. His music is mixture of nature sounds with a variety of acoustic and electroacoustic instruments, tape loops, found objects and lot of childhoo… read more Valotihkuu is an ambient project from Russia. His music is mixture of nature sounds with a variety of acoustic and electroacoustic instruments, tape loops, found objects and lot of childhood memories, which are carefully transferred into music. 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Leave feedback API Calls Close www-last-fm-8976 ---- Rival Consoles music, videos, stats, and photos | Last.fm Playing via Spotify Playing via YouTube Playback options Listening on… Switch Spotify device Open in Spotify Web Player Change playback source Open on YouTube website Change playback source Previous Play Next Skip to YouTube video Loading player… Scrobble from Spotify? Connect your Spotify account to your Last.fm account and scrobble everything you listen to, from any Spotify app on any device or platform. Connect to Spotify Dismiss Last.fm SearchSearchSearch Toggle navigation Upgrade to Pro Live Music Charts Events Features Subscribe Join Login Upgrade to Pro Live Music Charts Events Features Join Login A new version of Last.fm is available, to keep everything running smoothly, please reload the site. Rival Consoles Play artist More actions Play similar artists Listeners 188.3K Scrobbles 3.7M Latest release Articulation 30 July 2020 Play album Popular this week Memory Arc 1,287 listeners Play album Skip to YouTube video 20 photos Listeners 188.3K Scrobbles 3.7M Play artist More actions Play similar artists Born 10 November 1985 (age 35) Born In Leicester, England, United Kingdom Rival Consoles is Ryan Lee West. Born on November 1985, in Leicester, England, Ryan graduated from De Montfort University after experimenting with sound production. He made his debut Erased Tapes Records release in 2007 with the 'Vemeer' EP. 'The Decadent' EP would be his first release on the label as Rival Consoles. In 2009, he featured 3 tracks on the split '65 / Milo' with label mates Kiasmos. 'IO', the first full-length release, was rereleased the same year. It was followed by 'Kid Velo' in 2011, the 5 track 'Odyssey' … read more Rival Consoles is Ryan Lee West. Born on November 1985, in Leicester, England, Ryan graduated from De Montfort University after experimenting with sound production. He made his debut Erased Tapes Records release in 2007 with the 'Vemeer' EP. 'The Decadent' EP would be his … read more Rival Consoles is Ryan Lee West. Born on November 1985, in Leicester, England, Ryan graduated from De Montfort University after experimenting with sound production. He made his debut Erased Tapes Records release in 2007 with the 'Vemeer' EP. 'The Decadent' EP would be his first release on the label as Rival Consoles. 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Leave feedback API Calls Close www-last-fm-935 ---- Clark music, videos, stats, and photos | Last.fm Playing via Spotify Playing via YouTube Playback options Listening on… Switch Spotify device Open in Spotify Web Player Change playback source Open on YouTube website Change playback source Previous Play Next Skip to YouTube video Loading player… Scrobble from Spotify? Connect your Spotify account to your Last.fm account and scrobble everything you listen to, from any Spotify app on any device or platform. Connect to Spotify Dismiss Last.fm SearchSearchSearch Toggle navigation Upgrade to Pro Live Music Charts Events Features Subscribe Join Login Upgrade to Pro Live Music Charts Events Features Join Login A new version of Last.fm is available, to keep everything running smoothly, please reload the site. Clark Play artist More actions Play similar artists Listeners 347K Scrobbles 9.7M Latest release Down to Earth (feat. J.Dot) 6 August 2020 Popular this week Ted (Bibio Remix) 540 listeners Play album Skip to YouTube video 91 photos Listeners 347K Scrobbles 9.7M Play artist More actions Play similar artists Born 29 August 1979 (age 41) Born In City of St Albans, Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom There are several artists with the name Clark. (1) Chris Clark is an English electronic artist currently signed to Warp. With the 2006 release of Throttle Furniture, he shortened his alias to Clark. His latest, self-titled LP, was released on Warp Records in 2014 and is a follow up to 2012’s Iradelphic. (2) Clark is also a folk band from Lompoc, California consisting of husband and wife, Gabriel and Dana Friley, and Andy White. After playing together in various musical projects for many years, the three formed Clark in 2005. Their debut album "Here Comes Tomorrow" was rele… read more There are several artists with the name Clark. (1) Chris Clark is an English electronic artist currently signed to Warp. With the 2006 release of Throttle Furniture, he shortened his alias to Clark. His latest, self-titled LP, was released on Warp Records in 2014 and is a follow up to 2012’s … read more There are several artists with the name Clark. (1) Chris Clark is an English electronic artist currently signed to Warp. With the 2006 release of Throttle Furniture, he shortened his alias to Clark. His latest, self-titled LP, was released on Warp Records in 2014 and is a follow up to 2012’s Iradelphic. 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Upgrade Now Shoutbox Javascript is required to view shouts on this page. Go directly to shout page About This Artist Artist images 1 more James Murray 36,547 listeners Related Tags ambient downtempo chillout James Murray is a London-based composer, producer and multi-instrumentalist. His productions combine delicate sound design with manipulated acoustic recordings and tend towards a reflective aesthetic. The critically acclaimed Where Edges Meet was released by Ultimae Records in 2008 and followed in 2012 by Floods and 2013 by The Land Bridge, both on his own independent imprint Slowcraft Records. View wiki James Murray is a London-based composer, producer and multi-instrumentalist. His productions combine delicate sound design with manipulated acoustic recordings and tend towards a reflective… read more James Murray is a London-based composer, producer and multi-instrumentalist. 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Porya Hatami Play artist More actions Play similar artists Listeners 16K Scrobbles 126.7K Latest release Kani + Remixes 23 July 2020 Play album Popular this week Fen 35 listeners Play album Skip to YouTube video 5 photos Listeners 16K Scrobbles 126.7K Play artist More actions Play similar artists Born 1981 (age 39) Porya Hatami (b.1981) is an experimental sound artist based in Sanandaj, Iran. Working in the field of ambient/minimal. his compositions explore the balance between electronics and environmental sounds, utilizing processed acoustic and electronic sources and field recording. His first album, 'Land', was released on Somehow Recordings http://poryahatami.com/ Bandcamp Soundcloud Twitter View wiki Porya Hatami (b.1981) is an experimental sound artist based in Sanandaj, Iran. Working in the field of ambient/minimal. his compositions explore the balance between electronics and environmental sounds, utilizing processed acoustic and electronic sources and field recording. His first album, … read more Porya Hatami (b.1981) is an experimental sound artist based in Sanandaj, Iran. Working in the field of ambient/minimal. his compositions explore the balance between electronics and environmental sounds, utilizing processed acoustic and electronic sources and field recording. 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The duo agreed to leave the comfort zone of their home studios and develop the recordings with the help of large acoustic spaces, hunting down a selection of 9ft grand pianos that had the ability to deliver extreme sonic low end. Other traditional instrumentation was used including string quartet, French horn, and bassoon, but always juxtaposed is the sound of drifting guitar washed melodies. The recordings began with o… read more ‘A Winged Victory For The Sullen’ is the first installment of the new collaboration between Stars Of The Lid member Adam Wiltzie and L.A. composer Du… read more ‘A Winged Victory For The Sullen’ is the first installment of the new collaboration between Stars Of The Lid member Adam Wiltzie and L.A. composer Dustin O’Halloran. The duo agreed to le… read more Related Tags modern classical piano contemporary classical neoclassical post-classical Add tagsView all tags Don't want to see ads? 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Hirotaka Shirotsubaki Play artist More actions Play similar artists Listeners 3,569 Scrobbles 100.3K Latest release Music for Artificial Island 1989 13 July 2020 Play album Popular this week Yanagiwara 49 listeners 4 photos Listeners 3,569 Scrobbles 100.3K Play artist More actions Play similar artists Hirotaka Shirotsubaki is a Japanese ambient artist from a small town in Kobe and was born in 1986. He began his career in 2011. Taking inspiration from the natural surroundings in the suburbs where he grew up, his early music’s major themes were the city and nature. However, his later music tends towards the impersonal, allowing each listener to fit the sounds into the spaces of his or her life, attempting to link the ideas of memory and recollection into his music. https://hshirptsubaki.bandcamp.com https://soundcloud.com/infection View wiki Hirotaka Shirotsubaki is a Japanese ambient artist from a small town in Kobe and was born in 1986. He began his career in 2011. Taking inspiration from the natural surroundings in the suburbs where he grew up, his early music’s major themes were the city and nature. However, his later music t… read more Hirotaka Shirotsubaki is a Japanese ambient artist from a small town in Kobe and was born in 1986. He began his career in 2011. Taking inspiration from the natural surroundings in the suburbs where he grew up, his early music’s major themes were the city and nature. 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The band is composed of Thom Yorke (lead vocals, rhythm guitar, piano, beats), Jonny Greenwood (lead guitar, keyboard, other instruments), Ed O'Brien (guitar, backing vocals), Colin Greenwood (bass guitar) and Phil Selway (drums, percussion). The early years (1992 – 1995) Radiohead released their first single, "Creep" in 1992. The song was initially unsuccessful, but it became a worldwide hit several months after the release of their debut album, Pablo Honey (1993). Rad… read more Radiohead is an English alternative rock band from Abingdon, Oxfordshire, UK which formed in 1985. The band is composed of Thom Yorke (lead vocals, rhythm guitar, piano, beats), Jonny Greenwood (lead guitar, keyboard, other instruments), Ed O'Brien (guitar, backing vocals), Colin Greenwo… read more Radiohead is an English alternative rock band from Abingdon, Oxfordshire, UK which formed in 1985. The band is composed of Thom Yorke (lead vocals, rhythm guitar, piano, beats), Jonny Greenwood (lead guitar, keyboard, other instruments), Ed O'Brien (guitar, backing vocals), Colin Greenwood (bass guitar) and Phil Selway (drums, percussion). 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White Rainbow Play artist More actions Play similar artists Listeners 40.8K Scrobbles 397.3K Latest release 21 Exoticism ESCAP September 2015 Play album Popular this week waves 6 listeners Play album Skip to YouTube video 12 photos Listeners 40.8K Scrobbles 397.3K Play artist More actions Play similar artists Born 27 March 1976 (age 44) Almost an institution in Portland, Oregon (where he is currently Music Curator at the Yale Union contemporary-art center), Adam Forkner has been making meditative, ambi-tasting, improvised master jams (punctuated with dance-floor rhythms) since the mid-’90s—in collaboration with others in Yume Bitsu and World, Dark Yoga, Surface of Eceon, and solo as [[]] and White Rainbow. The music of White Rainbow flows through assorted albums on the Kranky, States Rights Records, Marriage Records and Gnar Tapes labels. 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(Drew Angerer / Getty Images) By Sonja SharpStaff Writer  Nov. 10, 2020 4:05 PM Facebook Twitter Show more sharing options Share Close extra sharing options Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Copy Link URLCopied! Print Deaf Americans are picking a new name for President-elect Joe Biden, shorthand that would replace B-I-D-E-N in colloquial American Sign Language. But many have taken to social media this week to denounce the top contender, saying it looks like a gang sign. “We BIPOC completely disagree with that [sign],” American Sign Language influencer and TikTok star Nakia Smith signed in a video on Monday, using the acronym for Black, Indigenous and people of color. "[The sign] feels so unsafe for us.” The contested sign — one of a handful under consideration — is meant to evoke the President-elect’s signature Ray-Ban sunglasses. But Smith and others say it resembles a “C” sign used by members of the Crips gang in some American cities and could be dangerous for signers of color and embarrassing to the the incoming administration. View this post on Instagram I signed what I signed A post shared by My Hands Are Loud Enough (@itscharmay) on Nov 9, 2020 at 10:38am PST Advertisement The “sign name for Biden don’t look good for him,” she wrote in response to a comments on Instagram. “He said he got our back [as Black Americans] so we ain’t [trying to] make him look stupid.” ASL sign names are often bestowed by friends or family in childhood. 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Some have floated signs evoking Biden’s crooked smile, which Agyin and others hope may catch on. But whatever the community chooses, the president-elect should cherish his new name, the activist said. “Biden should be proud and honored he’s getting a new sign name,” Agyin said. “Because he’s adding new sign language vocabulary, and that’s definitely awesome.” CaliforniaPoliticsWorld & Nation Newsletter The stories shaping California Get up to speed with our Essential California newsletter, sent six days a week. Enter Email Address Sign Me Up You may occasionally receive promotional content from the Los Angeles Times. Sonja Sharp Follow Us twitter instagram email facebook Sonja Sharp covers the Westside for the Los Angeles Times. 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In this article, we shall discuss one such LCSH heading "Illegal Aliens." Contents Introduction to the Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) Controversies in the Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): the Case of Illegal Aliens Illegal aliens Screenshots of the heading Illegal aliens in LCSH from the Library of Congress Website Background Change the Subject - a Documentary The project Change the Subject Movie Trailer Change the Subject Full Movie Conclusion INTRODUCTION TO THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS SUBJECT HEADINGS (LCSH) Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) is the list of headings produced from the subject authority file maintained by the United States Library of Congress for use in bibliographic records. It is popularly known by its abbreviation as LCSH and is sometimes used interchangeably with the phrase subject authority file. LCSH is a controlled vocabulary. A single word or phrase is chosen to represent each concept that is included, and synonyms are provided as see-references to that heading. It also indicates relationships between and among headings. It is not a true thesaurus, though, because for historical reasons it does not completely conform to the international standard on thesaurus construction. LCSH comprises the complete alphabetic list of terms to be used as controlled vocabulary for subject concepts by the catalogers of the Library of Congress and other libraries to provide such controlled subject access to surrogate records. LCSH has been used in cataloging since 1898 at the Library of Congress in assigning subject headings to facilitate subject access to the resources in its library catalog. LCSH is a multidisciplinary vocabulary that includes headings in all subjects, from science to religion, to history, social science, education, literature, and philosophy. It also includes headings for geographic features, ethnic groups, historical events, building names, etc. Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) is the most widely used subject vocabulary in the world.  LCSH comprises a thesaurus or a controlled vocabulary of subject headings which is used by a cataloger or an indexer to assign subject headings to a bibliographic record to represent the subject of a work he/she is cataloging. LCSH contains the preferred subject access terms (controlled vocabulary) that are assigned as an added entry in the bibliographic record which works as an access point and enables the work to be searched and retrieved by subject from the library catalog database. The controlled vocabulary identifies synonym terms and selects one preferred term among them to be used as the subject heading. For homonyms, it explicitly identifies the multiple concepts expressed by that word or phrase. Cross-references are used with headings to direct the user from terms not used as headings to the term that is used, and from broader and related topics to the one chosen to represent a given subject. The fortieth edition of Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH 40) contains headings established by the Library through January 2018. The headings included in this list were obtained by creating a file consisting of all subject heading and subdivision records in verified status in the subject authority file at the Library of Congress. There were 342,947 authority records in the file then. The subject authority database from which the headings in this edition were drawn indicates that the file contains approximately 24,390 personal name headings of which 23,272 represent family names, 10,034 corporate headings, 6 meeting or conference headings, 481 uniform titles, 242,511 topical subject headings, and 61,885 geographic subject headings. There are 764 general USE references, 4,351 general see also references, 299,751 references from one usable heading to another, and 362,646 references from unused terms to used headings. CONTROVERSIES IN THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS SUBJECT HEADINGS (LCSH): THE CASE OF ILLEGAL ALIENS Crystal Vaughan in her article The Language of Cataloguing: Deconstructing and Decolonizing Systems of Organization in Libraries⁶ writes: "As society, politics, and economies change, so too does the language of representation. Therefore, the Library of Congress subject headings (LCSH) as a system of categorization is only as effective as the language that is used to define what is and what is not. Moreover, those who control the language of categorization control access to the information categorized within that system. Consequently, librarians must always be critical of the language they are using in their information organization systems. Language is continuously evolving according to societal discourse and politics; therefore, if libraries are to maintain their social responsibility to provide information to all, including socially disadvantaged and marginalized peoples, then librarians must continuously advocate for changes to subject headings. Librarians must also recognize and reflect on their own internal biases when cataloguing and make it their job to deconstruct language and decolonize the systems that perpetuate the continued marginalization of others ...  Despite the many changes that have been implemented in the LCSH, there are still many LCSH that marginalize and dehumanize vulnerable, disadvantaged, and/or minority populations, which therefore restricts their access to information. If libraries are to maintain their social responsibility to provide information to all, including socially disadvantaged and marginalized peoples (IFLA, 2012)⁷, then librarians must continue to advocate for changes to politically charged or controversial subject headings. " Illegal aliens “Illegal aliens” is a controversial LCSH heading that is used for undocumented immigrant persons who are not citizens of the country in which they reside. For many years, the Library of Congress categorized many of its books under a controversial subject heading: “Illegal aliens.”⁴ Screenshots of the heading Illegal aliens in LCSH from the Library of Congress Website LCSH heading - Illegal aliens [Source: Library of Congress Authorities] LCSH heading - Illegal aliens [Source: Library of Congress Linked Data Service] Background In 2013, Dartmouth undergraduate and former undocumented immigrant, Melissa Padilla, came across the current LCSH “Illegal aliens” while doing research. Angered, Padilla stated the term is essentially used to “criminalize the choices our parents made in order to provide us with better lives,” and is meant to demean Mexican immigrants specifically. Padilla brought up the issue with Dartmouth students at a meeting of the Coalition for Immigration Reform, Equality and Dreamers, which, with the help of Dartmouth librarians, submitted a formal request to LC in 2014 to replace the term “Illegal aliens” with “Undocumented immigrants.” In February 2015, LC publicly responded that it would not change the heading. Following discussions in ALA including within the Subject Analysis Committee (SAC), Social Responsibilities Roundtable, and REFORMA, ALA formulated a resolution asking LC to reconsider the original request, arguing that “aliens” and “Illegal aliens” are pejorative terms.⁸ In 2016, the Library of Congress announced that it would reconsider the usage of “Aliens” and its related terms in the Library of Congress Subject Headings, following a student-led movement to change the pejorative term “Illegal Aliens.” Yet, three years on, these terms remain in the LCSH.⁵ On March 22, 2016, the library made a momentous decision, announcing that it was canceling the subject heading “Illegal aliens” in favor of “Noncitizens” and “Unauthorized immigration.” However, the decision was overturned a few months later, when the House of Representatives ordered the library to continue using the term “illegal alien.” They said they decided this in order to duplicate the language of federal laws written by Congress. This was the first time Congress ever intervened over a Library of Congress subject heading change. Even though many librarians and the American Library Association opposed Congress’s decision, “Illegal aliens” remains the authorized subject heading today. Cataloging and classification are critical to any library. Without them, finding materials would be impossible. However, there are biases that can result in patrons not getting the materials they need. Change the Subject - a Documentary The project Change the Subject shares the story of a group of college students, who from their first days at Dartmouth College, were committed to advancing and promoting the rights and dignity of undocumented peoples.  In partnership with staff at Dartmouth, these students – now alumni – produced a film to capture their singular effort at confronting an instance of anti-immigrant sentiment in their library catalog.  Their advocacy took them all the way from Baker-Berry Library to the halls of Congress, showing how an instance of campus activism entered the national spotlight, and how a cataloging term became a flashpoint in the immigration debate on Capitol Hill. Year: 2019 Runtime: 54 minutes Language: English Country: United States Change the Subject - Movie Trailer Change the Subject is a must-watch documentary for all the lovers of LCSH who want to see it free from all the pejorative, disrespectful or biased headings. Change the Subject - Full Movie CONCLUSION Even after all the criticisms, LCSH is the most used subject headings list in libraries all around the world. Its usage and adoption by libraries has been increased by leaps and bounds since it is made available free by the Library of Congress. It remains a model for many other vocabularies in English and other languages. The strongest aspect of LCSH is that it represents subject headings of the Library of Congress, the national library of the United States, one of the richest of national libraries of the world. The administrative and managerial machinery of LC has made it possible for LCSH to stand out as an undisputed leader. SEE ALSO Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) Library and Information Science Encyclopedia REFERENCES 1. Library of Congress, "LCSH Introduction," https://www.loc.gov/aba/publications/FreeLCSH/LCSH40%20Main%20intro.pdf (accessed February 22, 2019). 2. Janis L. Young and  Daniel N. Joudrey, Library of Congress, "Library of Congress Subject Headings: Online Training,"  https://www.loc.gov/catworkshop/lcsh/index.html (accessed March 17, 2020). 3. Dartmouth College, "Change the Subject," https://sites.dartmouth.edu/changethesubject/about/ (accessed April 1, 2020). 4. Amanda Ros, The Conversation, "The bias hiding in your library," http://theconversation.com/the-bias-hiding-in-your-library-111951 (accessed April 1, 2020). 5. Grace Lo, "“Aliens” vs. Catalogers: Bias in the Library of Congress Subject Heading," Legal Reference Services Quarterly, 38, no. 4 (2019) https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0270319X.2019.1696069 (accessed April 1, 2020). 6. Crystal Vaughan, "The Language of Cataloguing: Deconstructing and Decolonizing Systems of Organization in Libraries," DJIM, 14 (2018).  7. International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA).(2012, August). IFLA code of ethics for librarians and other information workers (full version). Retrieved from https://www.ifla.org/publications/node/11092 8. Providing alternative subject headings for controversial Library of Congress subject headings in the Alliance shared ILS: Discussion paper by the Alliance Cataloging Standing Group. FEEDBACK  Help us improve this article! Contact us with your feedback. You can use the comments section below, or reach us on social media. 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I loved this. Data is so powerful when it’s tangible - it sparks conversations and generates new ideas. It chimed a lot for me with Stef Posavec’s work that I’d seen in the Big Bang Data exhibition in London a few years earlier. It was also a real treat to watch the progress on Open Data Manchester’s data loom, where they had woven a piece of cloth using the initials of people who visited their tent at the BlueDot festival in 2019. And the two pieces of cloth woven from the election results from 2017 and 2019. So with all this inspiration and my tendency towards a bit of nature and craft downtime, it was inevitable that I would eventually get to work on my own data knitting project. Julian Tait, CEO of Open Data Manchester CIC, with Chi Onwurah, MP for Newcastle Central, and the election data cloth I’ve been doing the RSPB Big Garden Birdwatch for several years - I love a bit of citizen science. Each year, I select a one hour slot during the specified weekend in January, watch the birds and count the maximum number of each species that lands at any one time, then upload the results to the RSPB site. Last year, I didn’t stop there. I used a cheat sheet from Open Data Manchester’s loom projects that converts the alphabet to ITA2 Baudot-Murray code. There are 5 rows of knitting needed for each letter of the alphabet, so spelling out bird names wasn’t really an option unless I wanted to produce a scarf worthy of Tom Baker’s Dr Who. I needed a simple code list. After a fair bit of digging I discovered The British List, which had an option of 2 or 5 letter codes for birds recorded in Britain. 10 rows of knitting per bird seemed reasonable, so I set about translating my bird names to bird codes, so I could get to the Baudot-Murray codes. That would require two colours for the binary representation. I used Rowan Hemp Tweed in Duck Egg for 0s and Paprika for 1s. So the letter A was: Duck Egg Duck Egg Duck Egg Paprika Paprika Some of the 2 letter codes were actually a single letter (standards, eh?), so I thought I might get into a tangle if I couldn’t easily see where the spaces were between bird types. I introduced a third colour (Rowan Hemp Tweed in Teal) to help me navigate the pattern visually. So for SPACE in the Baudot-Murray Code I used: Duck Egg Duck Egg Teal Duck Egg Duck Egg If I saw only one of a species of bird, I knitted its code once, if I saw 3 of them, I repeated the code three times. I added SPACE only between different types of bird, so I could get a sense of which were the most prevalent, however some of the codes being a single letter rather than 2 makes it less visually reliable. What I found fascinating about this project was how much I learned about the whole experience of implementing a simple standard using code, and the decisions I had to make along the way. It came together in a way that worked, but someone else repeating the exercise starting with the Baudot-Murray codes, the Bird List, and the data from my bird count, would have ended up with a very different outcome. If they’d used their own data, we definitely wouldn’t have been able to lay our scarves side by side and draw any comparisons about the birds that had visited our gardens. It’s ever likely that there are so many interoperability problems in the software and data world. To reach a shared outcome, co-operation on standards really does matter. PreviousFrom lockdown with love Next  Return to site Powered by Strikingly Best website builder This website is built with Strikingly. Create yours today! This website is built with Strikingly. Create your FREE website today! start now All Posts × Almost done… We just sent you an email. Please click the link in the email to confirm your subscription! 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He committed suicide just under five years later. I did talk to Brewster Kahle, who happily is still with the Archive and still pushing the limits of access to knowledge. Here’s a blurry photo with Swartz on the left and Kahle on the right: Aaron Swartz and Brewster Kahle The room was full of leading library technologists of the time, generally from the Code4Lib world. I was out of my depth and don’t remember contributing anything, but I was damned glad to be there. It was a mind-blowing day (not just the ideas floating around, but seeing the IA’s servers, for example) and then a memorable evening after. The Dashiell Hammett Tour cover The next day Don Herron generously gave me a solo Dashiell Hammett tour. He knows Arney and when we got near he called to see if we could come up to see the apartment. We could. I went into Dashiell Hammett’s apartment! This was Sam Spade’s place! And that was just one part of the tour. Herron knows Hammett’s San Francisco like the back of his hand, and he showed me where various stories had been set, where Miles Archer was shot, and many other places, as well as covering a lot of city history. He does an incredible job, and if you’re ever in San Francisco, I highly recommend the tour. Read some Hammett beforehand if you haven’t, but even if you’re not a great fan, it’s a perfect combination of guide and subjects that makes a great introduction to the city. What a city. I packed in hours more walking that day, including City Lights and later drinks at the Top of the Mark. Those two days in San Francisco was the best short trip I’ve ever had. Desert Island Discworld 13 November 2020 literature terry.pratchett This summer I discovered Desert Island Discworld, a podcast where the host interviews a guest about a favourite book from the Discworld series by Terry Pratchett. If you like Pratchett, I highly recommend it. There are other Pratchett podcasts out there, and I tried three but dropped them. They were too talky and rambling. This one is informed, interesting, concise and thoughtful. Each episode is about an hour long. For the first half, the host talks to the guest about their life and work. Most come from comics or role playing games or comedy. They’re all good, and they have a lot of insight into stories and what makes them work. I learned a lot from these bits: for example, in episode 1.4, where game designer Grant Howitt talks about Witches Abroad, I was introduced to one-page role-playing games. He designed Sexy Battle Wizards, where characters have three traits: sexy, battle and wizard. Genius. Another game designer, Hannah Nicklin, in episode 2.6 on I Shall Wear Midnight, was also particularly good. In the second half, they get into the book in question: how it works, why it works, what’s good, what’s not so good, how it fits in with the other books, and so on. This is far beyond merely recapping the story and quoting favourite lines (though of course there’s some of that, because some lines are so good). Every episode has given me new things to think about. Cover of Monstrous Regiment. There’s a new episode just out for Monstrous Regiment, which I’m reading right now, so I’m holding off until tomorrow when I’m done. This is one of the first Discworld books I read, as it happens, and one of the best. I liked it back then and I like it even more now that I’m rereading them all in order and I know where it fits in the big structure. If I remember right, when I first read it I’d never read any of the Watch books, so I didn’t know about Sam Vimes and the others of the Watch who have small roles here. He’s a duke now, and on a diplomatic mission to solve a problem about two small warring countries. Late in the book the hero(ine) Polly and her squad have been captured by the enemy. People from Ankh-Morpork (a distant city-state) come into their cell: soldiers and a few very well-dressed officers, led by Lord Rust, who’s in charge of the military mission. If you’ve read the novels in order, you’ve met Rust before. And you don’t like him. The others aren’t introduced. But then: Polly was watching the officers. They looked nervous … … except for the one at the back. She’d thought all the guards had gone and, while this man was dressed like a guard—dressed, that is, like a badly dressed guard—he wasn’t acting like one. He was leaning against the wall by the door, smoking half a cigar, and grinning. He looked like a man enjoying a show. … Behind the officers, the man with the cigar winked a Polly. His uniform was very old-fashioned—an ancient helmet, a breastplate, some slightly rusted chain mail, and big boots. He wore it like a workman wears his overalls. Unlike the braid and brilliance in front of her, the only statement his clothes made was that he didn’t intend to get hurt. Vimes. He winks and gives her a thumbs up. If Vimes is on her side, you know it’s going to end well. Night Watch, The Wee Free Men and Monstrous Regiment: three masterpieces in a row. The Nero Wolfe Cookbook 03 November 2020 literature rex.stout Thirty years ago, in November 1990, I’d been working at the Reader’s Den Bookstore for six months. It was across from Philosopher’s Walk, north side of Bloor west of Avenue. It’s not there any more. It went bankrupt in February 1993 in the recession—Christmas sales were dismal, I remember, though I was too inexperienced to see the inevitable—and the location has been an egg restaurant for quite a while now. I’ve never been in. Who knows, maybe with the pandemic it’s gone bankrupt too. Some time in 1991, probably, I was given responsibility for handling buying from academic and small presses. The manager did trade frontlist (the biggest portfolio), the assistant manager did paperbacks (second biggest), and I ended up handling the rest. A few times a year reps would come by with catalogues and help meg pick out what the store would get in: two of this, one of this, eight of that, etc. The reps really knew the books, and they knew what the store sold, and their advice was excellent. It was a good gig. One of the academic reps—I think he handled a bunch of smaller American university presses—was a man named Michael Romano. I remember one late afternoon he came by to go through the upcoming season of titles, and then he asked if I wanted to join him for dinner at the Swiss Chalet down the street. I think I expressed some hesitation at the idea of Swiss Chalet, but he said they did a good chicken. I said okay. Besides, I barely had any money, and this was a free dinner. Looking back now, I realize he’d been out on the road for days or weeks—he’d do this at least three times a year, maybe covering all of eastern Canada—and he’d probably been to several stores in Toronto and had more to do tomorrow; the day was done, he was tired, and he’d enjoy some company at table before he went back to his hotel room. Being a travelling sales rep is a lonely job no matter what industry you’re in. Over dinner he mentioned that he’d ghost-written The Nero Wolfe Cookbook. I didn’t know what to make of this. I’d never read any of Rex Stout’s Nero Wolfe mysteries (even though we sold quite a few in the bookstore; the paperback reprints did well), and had the outrageously presumptuous and jejune opinion that because I’d never read any of them they couldn’t be any good. My logic was: I’ve read many good series of classic mysteries; therefore if I haven’t read a series of classic mysteries it can’t be good. Of course this is nonsense. “Pfui,” Wolfe would say. Twenty-five years later I realized my mistake and I began to read the Nero Wolfe mysteries. My reading diary shows I read 21 in 2016 and 17 in 2017. That was all library books. As P.G. Wodehouse says, “[Stout] passes the supreme test of being rereadable” and I’m enjoying working my way through them again, this time buying them from Sellers and Newel. I know I’ll reread them again. Because of this rereading, and the frequent mentions of what Wolfe and Archie Goodwin eat, I thought about Michael Romano and The Nero Wolfe Cookbook. I got a copy from a used bookstore out west. Cover of The Nero Wolfe Cookbook. The book is wonderful. There are hundreds of recipes, all mentioned in the Wolfe books, with representative quotes. For example, there’s this quote from Death of a Doxy, followed immediately by recipes for the four dishes. Business is taboo at the dinner table, but crime and criminals aren’t, and the Rosenberg case hogged the conversation all through the anchovy fritters, partridge in casserole with no olives in the sauce, cucumber mousse, and Creole curds and cream. (Creole curds and cream has you “allow the sour milk to clabber in a 5-quart crock” so I won’t be trying that.) The book’s first recipe (in the first chapter, “Breakfast in the Old Brownstone”) is for eggs au buerre noir, which are eaten several times in the books. Here it is: 6 tablespoons butter 4 large eggs 1 tablespoon dry sherry Preheat the broiler. Melt 1 tablespoon butter in each of the 2 shirred egg dishes and add the eggs, yolks unbroken, 2 to a dish. Cook over medium heat for 1 or 2 minutes until the egg white is set. Spoon the butter over the eggs. Put the dishes under the hot broiler for another minute until the eggs have filmed over. Remove from the oven and let stand in a warm place. In a skillet melt the remaining 4 tablespoons of butter over medium heat. When white waxy particles have settled to the bottom pour the clear liquid off into a bowl. Return the clarified butter to the pan and continue to cook until it has turned a deep golden brown. Watch it carefully to be sure the butter does not burn. Add the sherry and stir until blended. Pour the butter sauce over the eggs and serve immediately. (Serves 2.) I think it changed in a later edition, however. This post at Flame Noir Candle Co. has a slightly different recipe that I think comes from the paperback. Compare my version: Remove from the oven and let stand in a warm place. In a skillet melt the remaining 4 tablespoons of butter over medium heat. When white waxy particles have settled to the bottom pour the clear liquid off into a bowl. Return the clarified butter to the pan … To this: Remove them from the oven and let them stand in a warm place. Next, you will want to clarify the remaining 4 tablespoons of butter. To clarify, heat the butter up in a skillet at medium-low temperature until the butter has melted and you notice a white foam forming at the top. The clarification process separates the water and dairy that has turned into foam from the pure butter fat, so you’ll want to skim the white foam off of the top of the butter and discard it in order to clarify the butter. Next, pour the butter into a small bowl. This will leave any additional white particles that may have floated to the bottom in the skillet. Wipe the pan out, and then return the clarified butter to the pan. That’s much clearer: it explains that you’re clarifying butter and has lots of detail about how to do it. My version has you pouring melted butter into a bowl and then straight back into the pan. This morning I did a first test by just baking an egg in the oven in a ramekin with some butter and milk, which I’d never done before. Very nice! I’ll do the sauce next time. All the other recipes I looked at seem fine, however. There are many I won’t make because I don’t eat mammals, but even if I did I wouldn’t make squirrel stew (which calls for “3 squirrels, skinned and cleaned” and begins “cut the squirrels into serving pieces”) or my own headcheese (“1 calf’s head; 1 pair pig’s feet,” “ask the butcher to clean the calf’s head and remove the brain and tongue”). There are lots of recipes for fish, on the other hand, some nice desserts, salads with tasty dressings, basics like biscuits, a chicken fricassee I’ll try, and many more. The recipes I won’t make are still worth reading just to imagine what a meal with Nero Wolfe would be like, and when I read a Wolfe story and see a mention of a meal I can look up how it was made. It’ll be quite a while before I can have a dinner party and serve these new recipes. Wolfe likes company at dinner, and he enjoys good conversation. Michael Romano did too, I now understand. Until that’s possible again, at least we have the books. David Partridge in the Daily Telegraph 27 October 2020 art Following up on David Partridge photograph from a couple of weeks ago: I emailed the British Library’s Reference Enquiry Team with my request for the mention of him in the Daily Telegraph and got a quick response with all of page 12 from Tuesday 01 June 1971. It was the editorial and letters page, with a daily diary called “London Day by Day” with the byline “Peterborough” (also the name of the column for many years, apparently) which is where Mr. Partridge is mentioned. The mention: From the Daily Telegraph (See how the crop marks on my copy of the photo turned into the smaller version used.) Text: A casual conversation last Christmas at Ellingham Mill, Suffolk, which was derelict when bought by Lucy Halford, the industrial designer, and her husband, the artist, Chester Williams, will result in a five-man exhibition of paintings and sculptures there from Monday. André Dzierzynski, the artist who had decorated the mill, had suggested that the Williamses should hold their first joint exhibition in London. Mrs. Williams went one better, putting forward the idea of a larger exhibition at the mill, to run concurrently with the Aldeburgh Festival. Aldeburgh, whose festival opens on Friday, is 25 miles away. The five artists are David Partridge and John Piper, in my pictures, Elena Gaputyte, André Dzierzynski and Chester Williams. So now we know about a small group show that was a tiny bit of Mr. Partridge’s life. He deserves a biography and a full catalogue raisonné. Some links: André Dzierzynski’s site. Elena Gaputyte Trust John Piper (Wikipedia) Chester Williams obit (Independent, 1994) (mentions Lucy Halford, but I don’t see anything much about her online) Ellingham (Wikipedia) and a page about the Ellingham Mill that mentions “April 1977: Art gallery used by Ellingham Mill Art Society.” Hawkwind and Rush 26 October 2020 music This month I got books on two of my favourite bands: Hawkwind and Rush. Having been a male Canadian science fiction- and fantasy-reading teenager in the early ’80s, loving Rush can be taken for granted. I can’t remember exactly when I first heard about Hawkwind, but it would have been through their connection with Michael Moorcock. In university I picked up a double LP best-of, I think The Hawkwind Collection, which was a great introduction. I didn’t know anyone else who liked Hawkwind, and when I played them some, that usually didn’t change their opinion, but the fact Lemmy had been kicked out of the band, which led him to form Motörhead, gave it some notability, if not credibility. Cover of Limelight. Canadian rock historian and critic Martin Popoff just released his second of three detailed books about Rush: Limelight: Rush in the ’80s, which follows Anthem: Rush in the ’70s. They’re thorough and very well documented, with lengthy quotes from the band members and others, covering all aspects of the history of the band, how they wrote the songs, their changing instrumentation and approach, and much else. The personalities of Geddy Lee, Alex Lifeson and Neil Peart all come across well, including the familiar dynamic of Geddy and Alex as the ones that are out in public while Neil is off on his own. Cover of Hawkwind. The other is Hawkwind: Days of the Underground; Radical Escapism in the Age Of Paranoia by Joe Banks, which looks equally thorough to the combined three Popoff books, but goes much more into the band’s place in culture. The Wire published an extract that gives a sense of it, and Banks had Acid, nudity and sci-fi nightmares: why Hawkwind were the radicals of 1970s rock in the Guardian recently. This is Hawkwind in all their scuzzy, interstellar glory, the underground’s biggest band promoting their new single – less than a year later, and with a million copies of it sold, they’ll be headlining Wembley. It tends to be forgotten just how big this band of west London renegades were in the 1970s, playing to audiences of thousands wherever they went. They’re misremembered now, and were often misrepresented at the time, but as I discovered when writing a book about them, Hawkwind’s story amounts to an alternative narrative for 70s music culture – very different to the one that’s lazily trotted out by scene historians…. With their mood of anarchic possibility, Hawkwind gigs were a breeding ground for young punks everywhere, those “dedicated teenagers” coming of age and striking out on their own. John Lydon was a regular presence at their gigs in the early 70s, and was taken under Calvert’s wing at the height of Sex Pistols mania, with the self-proclaimed antichrist attending the singer’s wedding reception. Coming out of the same Ladbroke Grove milieu, Joe Strummer and Mick Jones of the Clash had grown up in Hawkwind’s world, while Brian James and Captain Sensible of the Damned were also fans. Poster for the gig. I was delighted to see this poster in the Hawkwind book: Rush opened for Hawkwind in Kansas City, KC on 18 October 1974! Hawkwind were touring for Hall of the Mountain Grill (it was on this tour that they had their equipment impounded by the IRS for an unpaid tax bill from their previous tour). Rush was on their first American tour, supporting all kinds of acts, with Neil Peart having just replaced first drummer John Rutsey—this was before Fly By Night. Popoff mentions the connection in Anthem: “Following the band’s dates with Kiss, plus assorted shows with the likes of Hawkwind and T. Rex, Rush did a clutch of Ontario dates with Scottish hard rockers Nazareth—a band that would take them across Canada the following year.” I always feel obliged to mention indexes in reviews of nonfiction. Popoff’s books don’t have them, but they should. Banks’s Hawkwind book does have an index, with one entry for Rush (the poster was not indexed), in a footnote in the chapter “New Worlds and Dangerous Vision: Hawkwind as the Ultimate Science Fiction Band:” Bands including Van Der Graaf Generator, Genesis, Ramases, Black Sabbath and Rush also leaned in an SF direction, while the pop charts featured such songs as the Carpenters’ Klaatu cover ‘Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft’ and Sarah Brightman & Hot Gossip’s ‘I Lost My Heart to a Starship Trooper,’ the latter inspired by Star Wars and perhaps the best known song from the late 70s sci-fi disco boom (risqué lyrics include ‘Take me, make me feel the Force’—plus a reference to 1977’s other big SF film: ‘What my body needs is close encounters three’). Popoff gives a chapter to each Rush album from the eighties, and I’m enjoying listening to each one as I read the chapter about it. It’s a perfect match. I’m looking forward to working through Hawkwind’s catalogue when I get to the Banks book. The House on the Borderland 23 October 2020 literature terry.pratchett It was time to pick out a book to read, and I saw William Hope Hodgson’s The House on the Borderland on my shelf. Cover of my edition. I think I’ve had it for over 30 years but never read it. Time to give it a try. If I thought I’d want to reread it, I’d keep it. If I didn’t, I’d deaccession it. I’m trimming my collection. There’s an introduction by Gerald Suster in my edition. It begins: The book you have bought is unique in English literature. Its blend of horror, fantasy, science fiction, mind expansion and spiritual dread, was called “a classic of the first water” by H.P. Lovecraft, this century’s greatest American weird fiction writer. Yet, as Lovecraft admitted, its imaginative power is sadly impaired by bad writing. Lovecraft thought it was badly written?! Cripes, that’s reason enough not to even try. But the Wikipedia entry on the book quotes Terry Pratchett saying it was “the Big Bang in my private universe as a science fiction and fantasy reader and, later, writer.” That’s certainly reason to try. I read the first couple of chapters, then looked towards the end. Another, a troubled, memory came to me—of the Formless Thing that had haunted the shores of the Sea of Sleep. The guardian of that silent, echoless place. These, and other, details, I remembered, and knew, without doubt that I was looking out upon that same sea. With the assurance, I was filled with an overwhelming feeling of surprise, and joy, and shaken expectancy, conceiving it possible that I was about to see my Love, again. Intently, I gazed around; but could catch no sight of her. At that, for a little, I felt hopeless. Fervently, I prayed, and ever peered, anxiously…. How still was the sea! Down, far beneath me, I could see the many trails of changeful fire, that had drawn my attention, formerly. Vaguely, I wondered what caused them; also, I remembered that I had intended to ask my dear One about them, as well as many other matters—and I had been forced to leave her, before the half that I had wished to say, was said. I should have read it when I was young. I can imagine how this kind of story caught Pratchett when he was young, but it just doesn’t grab me any more. I’m not even going to read it once. (If you want to, the full text is in the Gutenberg Project.) Pratchett, though, I continue to reread. David Partridge photograph 15 October 2020 art listening.to.art This summer I checked on eBay to see if anything by artist David Partridge was for sale. I was surprised to see a photograph from the Universal Pictorial Press and Agency (an independent news photograph agency) for sale from a vendor in Iceland (!) who I guess had bought (some of?) the Daily Telegraph photo archive. It was taken in September 1965, just before he turned 46. Photograph of David Partridge Here’s the back, which was stamped a few times. It looks like the Daily Telegraph used the photo in a story in June 1971. I don’t have access to digitized archives from back then, but I’ll see if I can find someone who does. Reverse side, stamped by photo agency Today’s new issue of Listening to Art is 07.11, Mr. Partridge’s Small Valleys, a naillie from 2001. Charting date ranges in R 30 September 2020 r I wanted to turn a table of date ranges into a chart, and I figured out a way to do it that seems worth noting in case it’s of use. I’m doing this with R in Org mode, but the only Org-specific thing is how the data is ingested—it could just as easily come from as CSV file or a spreadsheet. Let’s say in Org I have a table of date ranges associated with a name. The date could represent when someone did something, or was somewhere, or when a type of event happened, whatever. The way I have it set up, the date ranges are MMM DD–MMM DD, separated with an en dash. (It may seem silly to use an en dash, but they are correct for connecting date ranges, so it’s not silly, it’s pedantic.) We’ll turn that into something more general. #+NAME: example_table | name | range | year | |------+---------------+------| | A | Jul 16–Aug 18 | 2020 | | B | Jul 16–Aug 01 | 2020 | | B | Aug 13–Aug 22 | 2020 | | B | Sep 03–Sep 07 | 2020 | | A | Sep 01–Oct 02 | 2020 | | C | Aug 04–Aug 12 | 2020 | | C | Aug 19–Oct 02 | 2020 | | A | Jun 28–Jul 16 | 2019 | | B | Jun 28–Jul 03 | 2019 | | A | Jul 10–Jul 16 | 2019 | | B | Aug 08–Aug 30 | 2019 | | C | Aug 22–Aug 28 | 2019 | | C | Sep 01–Oct 12 | 2019 | | A | Aug 08–Aug 13 | 2019 | Now I start the R source blocks. First is always the setup, which I’ll only run once per session. #+begin_src R :session R:days :results silent library(tidyverse) library(lubridate) #+end_src The next block has a pipeline that reads the data from the table (thank you, Org) and splits the date ranges on the en dash so it can make two new columns with properly formatted dates for the start and end. The separate command comes from tidyr. If the original data looked like this, it wouldn’t be necessary to munge it, but I’m dealing with what I have. #+begin_src R :session R:days :results value :var raw_example_dates=example_table :colnames yes example_dates <- raw_example_dates %>% separate(col = "range", sep = "–", c("start", "end")) %>% mutate(start = paste0(start, ", ", year), end = paste0(end, ", ", year)) %>% mutate(start = mdy(start), end = mdy(end)) %>% mutate(name = as.factor(name)) %>% select(-year) %>% as_tibble() head(example_dates) #+end_src #+RESULTS: | name | start | end | |------+------------+------------| | A | 2020-07-16 | 2020-08-18 | | B | 2020-07-16 | 2020-08-01 | | B | 2020-08-13 | 2020-08-22 | | B | 2020-09-03 | 2020-09-07 | | A | 2020-09-01 | 2020-10-02 | | C | 2020-08-04 | 2020-08-12 | Now I have a data frame (actually a tibble) with start and end dates for each thing. If your data is kept in a more orderly way, you could start here. Next I need to build a tibble that has one row for each day for each thing. The next block has this and some more stuff. First, I set up tmp_dates, a tibble that has a throwaway row that is just there to set up the column types. There’s probably a better way to do this, but I didn’t see how. Next, I use pmap_dfr from purrr to iterate over the rows in the data. What I’m doing I copied from Map over each row of a dataframe in R with purrr by Angelo Zehr, because I’m new to purrr, but thanks to Zehr’s example I got the hang of it.. Row by row (where each row becomes a one-row tibble called current), I build a new multi-row tibble (tmp_table) where one column is the name (repeated on each row) and the other is a sequence of dates, made using seq from the start date to end date. The new tibble has one row for each date in the date range. It adds this table (with bind_rows) to the tmp_dates table it’s building along the way, which ends up being the return value of the function. After that, I throw away the row I don’t need any more, and I do a date trick I use when I’m comparing dates across years and want everything to line up year to year: I make a column for the year that will be used for identification, and then adjust all the years so they are in 2020. For example, “2019-08-01” is in year 2019 but is changed to “2020-08-01” so it’s simple to compare 2019 and 2020 to each other. Finally, I find the minimum and maximum dates so I can set limits on what the charts show. My data is focused on spring–fall, so I don’t want to waste space showing January or December. #+begin_src R :session R:stony :colnames yes tmp_dates <- tibble(name = "X", date = as.Date("2020-01-01")) ## Set up so column types are set. eg_dates <- example_dates %>% pmap_dfr(function(...) { current = tibble (...) dates <- seq(current$start, current$end - days(1), by = "day") tmp_table <- tibble(name = current$name, date = dates) details <- bind_rows(tmp_dates, tmp_table) }) eg_dates <- eg_dates %>% filter(! name == "X") %>% mutate(year = year(date), date = date - years(year - 2020)) min_x_date <- min(eg_dates$date) max_x_date <- max(eg_dates$date) head(eg_dates) #+end_src #+RESULTS: | name | date | year | |------+------------+------| | A | 2020-07-16 | 2020 | | A | 2020-07-17 | 2020 | | A | 2020-07-18 | 2020 | | A | 2020-07-19 | 2020 | | A | 2020-07-20 | 2020 | | A | 2020-07-21 | 2020 | Now I can make a chart. I’ll switch to syntax-highlighted R here. ggplot(eg_dates, aes(x = date, y = as.character(year), fill = as.factor(year))) + geom_tile(show.legend = FALSE, aes(width = 1, height = 0.8)) + xlim(min_x_date, max_x_date) + facet_grid(name ~ .) + labs(title = "Days (by name)", x = "", y = "") + scale_colour_brewer(palette = "Dark2") Days by name geom_tile makes a nice viz, but geom_point could also be used, though you’d need to change fill to colour. With three names and two years using colours may not be necessary, but with more data, it helps. I set the y-axis to be as.character(year) so R doesn’t show 2019, 2019.25, 2019.5, 2019.75, 2020. Finally, here’s a chart groups by years, comparing names within each year. Left alone the years ended up with 2019 at the top, which I didn’t like (in other charts it goes low up to high, so 2020 is at the top) so I had to reorder (by reversing) the factors. As always, there’s probably a better way to do this, but it works. ## Here to get 2020 at the top we need to fiddle with factors. reordered_eg_dates <- eg_dates %>% mutate(year = as.factor(year)) reordered_eg_dates$year <- factor(reordered_eg_dates$year, levels = rev(levels(reordered_eg_dates$year))) ggplot(reordered_eg_dates, aes(x = date, y = name, fill = name)) + geom_tile(show.legend = FALSE, aes(height = 0.8)) + xlim(min_x_date, max_x_date) + facet_grid(year ~ .) + labs(title = "Days (by year)", x = "", y = "") + scale_colour_brewer(palette = "Dark2") Days by year Those are just the visualizations I wanted. Dr. Canadiana 25 September 2020 podcasts Speaking of podcasts, my friend and collaborator Ashley Williamson (with whom I did Theatre Science) is teaching an intro to Canadian theatre history at the University of Toronto, Mississauga this term. It’s all online. As a way to get background information to her students outside of class time, so there’s more time in class (done over Zoom or something similar) for discussion and questions and problems, she’s doing a podcast: Dr. Canadiana. It’s made for her students, but will be of interest to anyone who wants to learn more about the subject. The episodes are about twenty minutes, and there will be some special mini-episodes digging into detailed topics. Each one is well researched and covers a lot of ground but in a lively and engaging way—this is definitely not an academic reading a paper in a dull drone. 25 Minutes of Silence 25 September 2020 john.cage podcasts Back in early 2017 I discovered Joey Clift’s excellent podcast series 25 Minutes of Silence. In May I appeared in an episode! Then the series stopped (I hope not because of me) and all the episodes went away. I just discovered Clift uploaded them all to the Internet Archive! Highly recommended. The episodes with Laura Kuhn and Jerry M. Linenger are especially good. List of all blog posts William Denton Toronto, Ontario "Legendo autem et scribendo vitam procudito." — Marcus Terentius Varro (116–27 BCE) Search Contents List of all blog posts Blog posts grouped by tags Burton and Gordon Fictional Dentons Fictional Footnotes Hardboiled and Noir Library Science Publications and Talks RARA-AVIS Old Stuff Projects Conforguration: configure things (servers and dotfiles) in Org. GHG.EARTH: a sonification of climate change. Listening to Art: field recordings of visual art. STAPLR: Sounds in Time Actively Performing Library Reference. Theatre Science. France Audio Montage on framework radio: episodes #691 and #693. See also Kady MacDonald Denton, children's book author and illustrator The Arts and Letters Club of Toronto Atmospheric CO₂ March 1958: 314.43 ppm October 2020: 414.72 ppm Increase: 100.29 ppm Change: 31.9 % At Mauna Loa: data, code. 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The first was the meeting, at the Presidio where the Archive then was. That was the day I saw Aaron Swartz, though I never talked to him. He committed suicide just under five years later. I did talk to Brewster Kahle, who happily is still with the Archive and still pushing the limits of access to knowledge. Here’s a blurry photo with Swartz on the left and Kahle on the right: Aaron Swartz and Brewster Kahle The room was full of leading library technologists of the time, generally from the Code4Lib world. I was out of my depth and don’t remember contributing anything, but I was damned glad to be there. It was a mind-blowing day (not just the ideas floating around, but seeing the IA’s servers, for example) and then a memorable evening after. The Dashiell Hammett Tour cover The next day Don Herron generously gave me a solo Dashiell Hammett tour. He knows Arney and when we got near he called to see if we could come up to see the apartment. We could. I went into Dashiell Hammett’s apartment! This was Sam Spade’s place! And that was just one part of the tour. Herron knows Hammett’s San Francisco like the back of his hand, and he showed me where various stories had been set, where Miles Archer was shot, and many other places, as well as covering a lot of city history. He does an incredible job, and if you’re ever in San Francisco, I highly recommend the tour. Read some Hammett beforehand if you haven’t, but even if you’re not a great fan, it’s a perfect combination of guide and subjects that makes a great introduction to the city. What a city. I packed in hours more walking that day, including City Lights and later drinks at the Top of the Mark. Those two days in San Francisco was the best short trip I’ve ever had. Desert Island Discworld This summer I discovered Desert Island Discworld, a podcast where the host interviews a guest about a favourite book from the Discworld series by Terry Pratchett. If you like Pratchett, I highly recommend it. There are other Pratchett podcasts out there, and I tried three but dropped them. They were too talky and rambling. This one is informed, interesting, concise and thoughtful. Each episode is about an hour long. For the first half, the host talks to the guest about their life and work. Most come from comics or role playing games or comedy. They’re all good, and they have a lot of insight into stories and what makes them work. I learned a lot from these bits: for example, in episode 1.4, where game designer Grant Howitt talks about Witches Abroad, I was introduced to one-page role-playing games. He designed Sexy Battle Wizards, where characters have three traits: sexy, battle and wizard. Genius. Another game designer, Hannah Nicklin, in episode 2.6 on I Shall Wear Midnight, was also particularly good. In the second half, they get into the book in question: how it works, why it works, what’s good, what’s not so good, how it fits in with the other books, and so on. This is far beyond merely recapping the story and quoting favourite lines (though of course there’s some of that, because some lines are so good). Every episode has given me new things to think about. Cover of Monstrous Regiment. There’s a new episode just out for Monstrous Regiment, which I’m reading right now, so I’m holding off until tomorrow when I’m done. This is one of the first Discworld books I read, as it happens, and one of the best. I liked it back then and I like it even more now that I’m rereading them all in order and I know where it fits in the big structure. If I remember right, when I first read it I’d never read any of the Watch books, so I didn’t know about Sam Vimes and the others of the Watch who have small roles here. He’s a duke now, and on a diplomatic mission to solve a problem about two small warring countries. Late in the book the hero(ine) Polly and her squad have been captured by the enemy. People from Ankh-Morpork (a distant city-state) come into their cell: soldiers and a few very well-dressed officers, led by Lord Rust, who’s in charge of the military mission. If you’ve read the novels in order, you’ve met Rust before. And you don’t like him. The others aren’t introduced. But then: Polly was watching the officers. They looked nervous … … except for the one at the back. She’d thought all the guards had gone and, while this man was dressed like a guard—dressed, that is, like a badly dressed guard—he wasn’t acting like one. He was leaning against the wall by the door, smoking half a cigar, and grinning. He looked like a man enjoying a show. … Behind the officers, the man with the cigar winked a Polly. His uniform was very old-fashioned—an ancient helmet, a breastplate, some slightly rusted chain mail, and big boots. He wore it like a workman wears his overalls. Unlike the braid and brilliance in front of her, the only statement his clothes made was that he didn’t intend to get hurt. Vimes. He winks and gives her a thumbs up. If Vimes is on her side, you know it’s going to end well. Night Watch, The Wee Free Men and Monstrous Regiment: three masterpieces in a row. The Nero Wolfe Cookbook Thirty years ago, in November 1990, I’d been working at the Reader’s Den Bookstore for six months. It was across from Philosopher’s Walk, north side of Bloor west of Avenue. It’s not there any more. It went bankrupt in February 1993 in the recession—Christmas sales were dismal, I remember, though I was too inexperienced to see the inevitable—and the location has been an egg restaurant for quite a while now. I’ve never been in. Who knows, maybe with the pandemic it’s gone bankrupt too. Some time in 1991, probably, I was given responsibility for handling buying from academic and small presses. The manager did trade frontlist (the biggest portfolio), the assistant manager did paperbacks (second biggest), and I ended up handling the rest. A few times a year reps would come by with catalogues and help meg pick out what the store would get in: two of this, one of this, eight of that, etc. The reps really knew the books, and they knew what the store sold, and their advice was excellent. It was a good gig. One of the academic reps—I think he handled a bunch of smaller American university presses—was a man named Michael Romano. I remember one late afternoon he came by to go through the upcoming season of titles, and then he asked if I wanted to join him for dinner at the Swiss Chalet down the street. I think I expressed some hesitation at the idea of Swiss Chalet, but he said they did a good chicken. I said okay. Besides, I barely had any money, and this was a free dinner. Looking back now, I realize he’d been out on the road for days or weeks—he’d do this at least three times a year, maybe covering all of eastern Canada—and he’d probably been to several stores in Toronto and had more to do tomorrow; the day was done, he was tired, and he’d enjoy some company at table before he went back to his hotel room. Being a travelling sales rep is a lonely job no matter what industry you’re in. Over dinner he mentioned that he’d ghost-written The Nero Wolfe Cookbook. I didn’t know what to make of this. I’d never read any of Rex Stout’s Nero Wolfe mysteries (even though we sold quite a few in the bookstore; the paperback reprints did well), and had the outrageously presumptuous and jejune opinion that because I’d never read any of them they couldn’t be any good. My logic was: I’ve read many good series of classic mysteries; therefore if I haven’t read a series of classic mysteries it can’t be good. Of course this is nonsense. “Pfui,” Wolfe would say. Twenty-five years later I realized my mistake and I began to read the Nero Wolfe mysteries. My reading diary shows I read 21 in 2016 and 17 in 2017. That was all library books. As P.G. Wodehouse says, “[Stout] passes the supreme test of being rereadable” and I’m enjoying working my way through them again, this time buying them from Sellers and Newel. I know I’ll reread them again. Because of this rereading, and the frequent mentions of what Wolfe and Archie Goodwin eat, I thought about Michael Romano and The Nero Wolfe Cookbook. I got a copy from a used bookstore out west. Cover of The Nero Wolfe Cookbook. The book is wonderful. There are hundreds of recipes, all mentioned in the Wolfe books, with representative quotes. For example, there’s this quote from Death of a Doxy, followed immediately by recipes for the four dishes. Business is taboo at the dinner table, but crime and criminals aren’t, and the Rosenberg case hogged the conversation all through the anchovy fritters, partridge in casserole with no olives in the sauce, cucumber mousse, and Creole curds and cream. (Creole curds and cream has you “allow the sour milk to clabber in a 5-quart crock” so I won’t be trying that.) The book’s first recipe (in the first chapter, “Breakfast in the Old Brownstone”) is for eggs au buerre noir, which are eaten several times in the books. Here it is: 6 tablespoons butter 4 large eggs 1 tablespoon dry sherry Preheat the broiler. Melt 1 tablespoon butter in each of the 2 shirred egg dishes and add the eggs, yolks unbroken, 2 to a dish. Cook over medium heat for 1 or 2 minutes until the egg white is set. Spoon the butter over the eggs. Put the dishes under the hot broiler for another minute until the eggs have filmed over. Remove from the oven and let stand in a warm place. In a skillet melt the remaining 4 tablespoons of butter over medium heat. When white waxy particles have settled to the bottom pour the clear liquid off into a bowl. Return the clarified butter to the pan and continue to cook until it has turned a deep golden brown. Watch it carefully to be sure the butter does not burn. Add the sherry and stir until blended. Pour the butter sauce over the eggs and serve immediately. (Serves 2.) I think it changed in a later edition, however. This post at Flame Noir Candle Co. has a slightly different recipe that I think comes from the paperback. Compare my version: Remove from the oven and let stand in a warm place. In a skillet melt the remaining 4 tablespoons of butter over medium heat. When white waxy particles have settled to the bottom pour the clear liquid off into a bowl. Return the clarified butter to the pan … To this: Remove them from the oven and let them stand in a warm place. Next, you will want to clarify the remaining 4 tablespoons of butter. To clarify, heat the butter up in a skillet at medium-low temperature until the butter has melted and you notice a white foam forming at the top. The clarification process separates the water and dairy that has turned into foam from the pure butter fat, so you’ll want to skim the white foam off of the top of the butter and discard it in order to clarify the butter. Next, pour the butter into a small bowl. This will leave any additional white particles that may have floated to the bottom in the skillet. Wipe the pan out, and then return the clarified butter to the pan. That’s much clearer: it explains that you’re clarifying butter and has lots of detail about how to do it. My version has you pouring melted butter into a bowl and then straight back into the pan. This morning I did a first test by just baking an egg in the oven in a ramekin with some butter and milk, which I’d never done before. Very nice! I’ll do the sauce next time. All the other recipes I looked at seem fine, however. There are many I won’t make because I don’t eat mammals, but even if I did I wouldn’t make squirrel stew (which calls for “3 squirrels, skinned and cleaned” and begins “cut the squirrels into serving pieces”) or my own headcheese (“1 calf’s head; 1 pair pig’s feet,” “ask the butcher to clean the calf’s head and remove the brain and tongue”). There are lots of recipes for fish, on the other hand, some nice desserts, salads with tasty dressings, basics like biscuits, a chicken fricassee I’ll try, and many more. The recipes I won’t make are still worth reading just to imagine what a meal with Nero Wolfe would be like, and when I read a Wolfe story and see a mention of a meal I can look up how it was made. It’ll be quite a while before I can have a dinner party and serve these new recipes. Wolfe likes company at dinner, and he enjoys good conversation. Michael Romano did too, I now understand. Until that’s possible again, at least we have the books. David Partridge in the Daily Telegraph Following up on David Partridge photograph from a couple of weeks ago: I emailed the British Library’s Reference Enquiry Team with my request for the mention of him in the Daily Telegraph and got a quick response with all of page 12 from Tuesday 01 June 1971. It was the editorial and letters page, with a daily diary called “London Day by Day” with the byline “Peterborough” (also the name of the column for many years, apparently) which is where Mr. Partridge is mentioned. The mention: From the Daily Telegraph (See how the crop marks on my copy of the photo turned into the smaller version used.) Text: A casual conversation last Christmas at Ellingham Mill, Suffolk, which was derelict when bought by Lucy Halford, the industrial designer, and her husband, the artist, Chester Williams, will result in a five-man exhibition of paintings and sculptures there from Monday. André Dzierzynski, the artist who had decorated the mill, had suggested that the Williamses should hold their first joint exhibition in London. Mrs. Williams went one better, putting forward the idea of a larger exhibition at the mill, to run concurrently with the Aldeburgh Festival. Aldeburgh, whose festival opens on Friday, is 25 miles away. The five artists are David Partridge and John Piper, in my pictures, Elena Gaputyte, André Dzierzynski and Chester Williams. So now we know about a small group show that was a tiny bit of Mr. Partridge’s life. He deserves a biography and a full catalogue raisonné. Some links: André Dzierzynski’s site. Elena Gaputyte Trust John Piper (Wikipedia) Chester Williams obit (Independent, 1994) (mentions Lucy Halford, but I don’t see anything much about her online) Ellingham (Wikipedia) and a page about the Ellingham Mill that mentions “April 1977: Art gallery used by Ellingham Mill Art Society.” Hawkwind and Rush This month I got books on two of my favourite bands: Hawkwind and Rush. Having been a male Canadian science fiction- and fantasy-reading teenager in the early ’80s, loving Rush can be taken for granted. I can’t remember exactly when I first heard about Hawkwind, but it would have been through their connection with Michael Moorcock. In university I picked up a double LP best-of, I think The Hawkwind Collection, which was a great introduction. I didn’t know anyone else who liked Hawkwind, and when I played them some, that usually didn’t change their opinion, but the fact Lemmy had been kicked out of the band, which led him to form Motörhead, gave it some notability, if not credibility. Cover of Limelight. Canadian rock historian and critic Martin Popoff just released his second of three detailed books about Rush: Limelight: Rush in the ’80s, which follows Anthem: Rush in the ’70s. They’re thorough and very well documented, with lengthy quotes from the band members and others, covering all aspects of the history of the band, how they wrote the songs, their changing instrumentation and approach, and much else. The personalities of Geddy Lee, Alex Lifeson and Neil Peart all come across well, including the familiar dynamic of Geddy and Alex as the ones that are out in public while Neil is off on his own. Cover of Hawkwind. The other is Hawkwind: Days of the Underground; Radical Escapism in the Age Of Paranoia by Joe Banks, which looks equally thorough to the combined three Popoff books, but goes much more into the band’s place in culture. The Wire published an extract that gives a sense of it, and Banks had Acid, nudity and sci-fi nightmares: why Hawkwind were the radicals of 1970s rock in the Guardian recently. This is Hawkwind in all their scuzzy, interstellar glory, the underground’s biggest band promoting their new single – less than a year later, and with a million copies of it sold, they’ll be headlining Wembley. It tends to be forgotten just how big this band of west London renegades were in the 1970s, playing to audiences of thousands wherever they went. They’re misremembered now, and were often misrepresented at the time, but as I discovered when writing a book about them, Hawkwind’s story amounts to an alternative narrative for 70s music culture – very different to the one that’s lazily trotted out by scene historians…. With their mood of anarchic possibility, Hawkwind gigs were a breeding ground for young punks everywhere, those “dedicated teenagers” coming of age and striking out on their own. John Lydon was a regular presence at their gigs in the early 70s, and was taken under Calvert’s wing at the height of Sex Pistols mania, with the self-proclaimed antichrist attending the singer’s wedding reception. Coming out of the same Ladbroke Grove milieu, Joe Strummer and Mick Jones of the Clash had grown up in Hawkwind’s world, while Brian James and Captain Sensible of the Damned were also fans. Poster for the gig. I was delighted to see this poster in the Hawkwind book: Rush opened for Hawkwind in Kansas City, KC on 18 October 1974! Hawkwind were touring for Hall of the Mountain Grill (it was on this tour that they had their equipment impounded by the IRS for an unpaid tax bill from their previous tour). Rush was on their first American tour, supporting all kinds of acts, with Neil Peart having just replaced first drummer John Rutsey—this was before Fly By Night. Popoff mentions the connection in Anthem: “Following the band’s dates with Kiss, plus assorted shows with the likes of Hawkwind and T. Rex, Rush did a clutch of Ontario dates with Scottish hard rockers Nazareth—a band that would take them across Canada the following year.” I always feel obliged to mention indexes in reviews of nonfiction. Popoff’s books don’t have them, but they should. Banks’s Hawkwind book does have an index, with one entry for Rush (the poster was not indexed), in a footnote in the chapter “New Worlds and Dangerous Vision: Hawkwind as the Ultimate Science Fiction Band:” Bands including Van Der Graaf Generator, Genesis, Ramases, Black Sabbath and Rush also leaned in an SF direction, while the pop charts featured such songs as the Carpenters’ Klaatu cover ‘Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft’ and Sarah Brightman & Hot Gossip’s ‘I Lost My Heart to a Starship Trooper,’ the latter inspired by Star Wars and perhaps the best known song from the late 70s sci-fi disco boom (risqué lyrics include ‘Take me, make me feel the Force’—plus a reference to 1977’s other big SF film: ‘What my body needs is close encounters three’). Popoff gives a chapter to each Rush album from the eighties, and I’m enjoying listening to each one as I read the chapter about it. It’s a perfect match. I’m looking forward to working through Hawkwind’s catalogue when I get to the Banks book. The House on the Borderland It was time to pick out a book to read, and I saw William Hope Hodgson’s The House on the Borderland on my shelf. Cover of my edition. I think I’ve had it for over 30 years but never read it. Time to give it a try. If I thought I’d want to reread it, I’d keep it. If I didn’t, I’d deaccession it. I’m trimming my collection. There’s an introduction by Gerald Suster in my edition. It begins: The book you have bought is unique in English literature. Its blend of horror, fantasy, science fiction, mind expansion and spiritual dread, was called “a classic of the first water” by H.P. Lovecraft, this century’s greatest American weird fiction writer. Yet, as Lovecraft admitted, its imaginative power is sadly impaired by bad writing. Lovecraft thought it was badly written?! Cripes, that’s reason enough not to even try. But the Wikipedia entry on the book quotes Terry Pratchett saying it was “the Big Bang in my private universe as a science fiction and fantasy reader and, later, writer.” That’s certainly reason to try. I read the first couple of chapters, then looked towards the end. Another, a troubled, memory came to me—of the Formless Thing that had haunted the shores of the Sea of Sleep. The guardian of that silent, echoless place. These, and other, details, I remembered, and knew, without doubt that I was looking out upon that same sea. With the assurance, I was filled with an overwhelming feeling of surprise, and joy, and shaken expectancy, conceiving it possible that I was about to see my Love, again. Intently, I gazed around; but could catch no sight of her. At that, for a little, I felt hopeless. Fervently, I prayed, and ever peered, anxiously…. How still was the sea! Down, far beneath me, I could see the many trails of changeful fire, that had drawn my attention, formerly. Vaguely, I wondered what caused them; also, I remembered that I had intended to ask my dear One about them, as well as many other matters—and I had been forced to leave her, before the half that I had wished to say, was said. I should have read it when I was young. I can imagine how this kind of story caught Pratchett when he was young, but it just doesn’t grab me any more. I’m not even going to read it once. (If you want to, the full text is in the Gutenberg Project.) Pratchett, though, I continue to reread. David Partridge photograph This summer I checked on eBay to see if anything by artist David Partridge was for sale. I was surprised to see a photograph from the Universal Pictorial Press and Agency (an independent news photograph agency) for sale from a vendor in Iceland (!) who I guess had bought (some of?) the Daily Telegraph photo archive. It was taken in September 1965, just before he turned 46. Photograph of David Partridge Here’s the back, which was stamped a few times. It looks like the Daily Telegraph used the photo in a story in June 1971. I don’t have access to digitized archives from back then, but I’ll see if I can find someone who does. Reverse side, stamped by photo agency Today’s new issue of Listening to Art is 07.11, Mr. Partridge’s Small Valleys, a naillie from 2001. Charting date ranges in R I wanted to turn a table of date ranges into a chart, and I figured out a way to do it that seems worth noting in case it’s of use. I’m doing this with R in Org mode, but the only Org-specific thing is how the data is ingested—it could just as easily come from as CSV file or a spreadsheet. Let’s say in Org I have a table of date ranges associated with a name. The date could represent when someone did something, or was somewhere, or when a type of event happened, whatever. The way I have it set up, the date ranges are MMM DD–MMM DD, separated with an en dash. (It may seem silly to use an en dash, but they are correct for connecting date ranges, so it’s not silly, it’s pedantic.) We’ll turn that into something more general. #+NAME: example_table | name | range | year | |------+---------------+------| | A | Jul 16–Aug 18 | 2020 | | B | Jul 16–Aug 01 | 2020 | | B | Aug 13–Aug 22 | 2020 | | B | Sep 03–Sep 07 | 2020 | | A | Sep 01–Oct 02 | 2020 | | C | Aug 04–Aug 12 | 2020 | | C | Aug 19–Oct 02 | 2020 | | A | Jun 28–Jul 16 | 2019 | | B | Jun 28–Jul 03 | 2019 | | A | Jul 10–Jul 16 | 2019 | | B | Aug 08–Aug 30 | 2019 | | C | Aug 22–Aug 28 | 2019 | | C | Sep 01–Oct 12 | 2019 | | A | Aug 08–Aug 13 | 2019 | Now I start the R source blocks. First is always the setup, which I’ll only run once per session. #+begin_src R :session R:days :results silent library(tidyverse) library(lubridate) #+end_src The next block has a pipeline that reads the data from the table (thank you, Org) and splits the date ranges on the en dash so it can make two new columns with properly formatted dates for the start and end. The separate command comes from tidyr. If the original data looked like this, it wouldn’t be necessary to munge it, but I’m dealing with what I have. #+begin_src R :session R:days :results value :var raw_example_dates=example_table :colnames yes example_dates <- raw_example_dates %>% separate(col = "range", sep = "–", c("start", "end")) %>% mutate(start = paste0(start, ", ", year), end = paste0(end, ", ", year)) %>% mutate(start = mdy(start), end = mdy(end)) %>% mutate(name = as.factor(name)) %>% select(-year) %>% as_tibble() head(example_dates) #+end_src #+RESULTS: | name | start | end | |------+------------+------------| | A | 2020-07-16 | 2020-08-18 | | B | 2020-07-16 | 2020-08-01 | | B | 2020-08-13 | 2020-08-22 | | B | 2020-09-03 | 2020-09-07 | | A | 2020-09-01 | 2020-10-02 | | C | 2020-08-04 | 2020-08-12 | Now I have a data frame (actually a tibble) with start and end dates for each thing. If your data is kept in a more orderly way, you could start here. Next I need to build a tibble that has one row for each day for each thing. The next block has this and some more stuff. First, I set up tmp_dates, a tibble that has a throwaway row that is just there to set up the column types. There’s probably a better way to do this, but I didn’t see how. Next, I use pmap_dfr from purrr to iterate over the rows in the data. What I’m doing I copied from Map over each row of a dataframe in R with purrr by Angelo Zehr, because I’m new to purrr, but thanks to Zehr’s example I got the hang of it.. Row by row (where each row becomes a one-row tibble called current), I build a new multi-row tibble (tmp_table) where one column is the name (repeated on each row) and the other is a sequence of dates, made using seq from the start date to end date. The new tibble has one row for each date in the date range. It adds this table (with bind_rows) to the tmp_dates table it’s building along the way, which ends up being the return value of the function. After that, I throw away the row I don’t need any more, and I do a date trick I use when I’m comparing dates across years and want everything to line up year to year: I make a column for the year that will be used for identification, and then adjust all the years so they are in 2020. For example, “2019-08-01” is in year 2019 but is changed to “2020-08-01” so it’s simple to compare 2019 and 2020 to each other. Finally, I find the minimum and maximum dates so I can set limits on what the charts show. My data is focused on spring–fall, so I don’t want to waste space showing January or December. #+begin_src R :session R:stony :colnames yes tmp_dates <- tibble(name = "X", date = as.Date("2020-01-01")) ## Set up so column types are set. eg_dates <- example_dates %>% pmap_dfr(function(...) { current = tibble (...) dates <- seq(current$start, current$end - days(1), by = "day") tmp_table <- tibble(name = current$name, date = dates) details <- bind_rows(tmp_dates, tmp_table) }) eg_dates <- eg_dates %>% filter(! name == "X") %>% mutate(year = year(date), date = date - years(year - 2020)) min_x_date <- min(eg_dates$date) max_x_date <- max(eg_dates$date) head(eg_dates) #+end_src #+RESULTS: | name | date | year | |------+------------+------| | A | 2020-07-16 | 2020 | | A | 2020-07-17 | 2020 | | A | 2020-07-18 | 2020 | | A | 2020-07-19 | 2020 | | A | 2020-07-20 | 2020 | | A | 2020-07-21 | 2020 | Now I can make a chart. I’ll switch to syntax-highlighted R here. ggplot(eg_dates, aes(x = date, y = as.character(year), fill = as.factor(year))) + geom_tile(show.legend = FALSE, aes(width = 1, height = 0.8)) + xlim(min_x_date, max_x_date) + facet_grid(name ~ .) + labs(title = "Days (by name)", x = "", y = "") + scale_colour_brewer(palette = "Dark2") Days by name geom_tile makes a nice viz, but geom_point could also be used, though you’d need to change fill to colour. With three names and two years using colours may not be necessary, but with more data, it helps. I set the y-axis to be as.character(year) so R doesn’t show 2019, 2019.25, 2019.5, 2019.75, 2020. Finally, here’s a chart groups by years, comparing names within each year. Left alone the years ended up with 2019 at the top, which I didn’t like (in other charts it goes low up to high, so 2020 is at the top) so I had to reorder (by reversing) the factors. As always, there’s probably a better way to do this, but it works. ## Here to get 2020 at the top we need to fiddle with factors. reordered_eg_dates <- eg_dates %>% mutate(year = as.factor(year)) reordered_eg_dates$year <- factor(reordered_eg_dates$year, levels = rev(levels(reordered_eg_dates$year))) ggplot(reordered_eg_dates, aes(x = date, y = name, fill = name)) + geom_tile(show.legend = FALSE, aes(height = 0.8)) + xlim(min_x_date, max_x_date) + facet_grid(year ~ .) + labs(title = "Days (by year)", x = "", y = "") + scale_colour_brewer(palette = "Dark2") Days by year Those are just the visualizations I wanted. Dr. Canadiana Speaking of podcasts, my friend and collaborator Ashley Williamson (with whom I did Theatre Science) is teaching an intro to Canadian theatre history at the University of Toronto, Mississauga this term. It’s all online. As a way to get background information to her students outside of class time, so there’s more time in class (done over Zoom or something similar) for discussion and questions and problems, she’s doing a podcast: Dr. Canadiana. It’s made for her students, but will be of interest to anyone who wants to learn more about the subject. The episodes are about twenty minutes, and there will be some special mini-episodes digging into detailed topics. Each one is well researched and covers a lot of ground but in a lively and engaging way—this is definitely not an academic reading a paper in a dull drone. 25 Minutes of Silence Back in early 2017 I discovered Joey Clift’s excellent podcast series 25 Minutes of Silence. In May I appeared in an episode! Then the series stopped (I hope not because of me) and all the episodes went away. I just discovered Clift uploaded them all to the Internet Archive! Highly recommended. The episodes with Laura Kuhn and Jerry M. Linenger are especially good. Listening to Art ad I ran an ad for Listening to Art in the September 2020 issue of one of my favourite magazines: The Wire. The quarter-page advertisement I got the idea while reading Duchamp Is My Lawyer: The Polemics, Pragmatics, and Poetics of UbuWeb by Kenneth Goldsmith, who runs UbuWeb. He mentions the advertisement that Lynda Benglis ran in Artforum in November 1974. She ran it so she could have control of the image, and get something into the magazine that they didn’t want to run as editorial content. What I’m doing is utterly different, but the idea of running an advertisement got me thinking. The advertising rates at The Wire say a “sixteenth page” (imagine dividing the page up into a four-by-four grid—this is one rectangle, 51.25 mm wide by 62 mm high) is £75 for full colour. I did one up and sent it in and things got underway. Before it went to print the advertising contact said there was a chance they could bump it up to a quarter-page ad at no extra charge! To my great fortune, that’s how it ended up. The entire page Donna Summer and the Dance I was surprised to hear Anthony Powell named as an inspiration for Donna Summer’s I Remember Yesterday album on the new episode of the BBC Radio Four show Great Lives: Jessie Ware on Donna Summer. Pete Bellotte (who produced the album with Giorgio Moroder) is the expert witness, and says: Donna’s next record was called Love Trilogy, and this was because I’d been reading Mervyn Peake’s Gormenghast Trilogy. The third album, I’d been reading Alexandria Quartet by Lawrence Durrell, and we turned that into Four Seasons of Love. Then the next album, I’d been reading Dance to the Music of Time by Anthony Powell, which is twelve volumes, and it gave me the idea of taking songs from the fifties, going through Tamla, funk, coming up to today, and then ending on a futuristic song, and that was how “I Feel Love” came about. Terry Pratchett on shades of grey From Carpe Jugulum by Terry Pratchett, in one of the conversations between the witch Granny Weatherwax and Omnian missionary Mightily-Praiseworthy-Are-Ye-Who-Exalteth-Om Oats. “And that’s what your holy men discuss, is it?” “Not usually. There is a very interesting debate raging at the moment about the nature of sin, for example.” “And what do they think? Against it, are they?” “It’s not as simple as that. It’s not a black and white issue. There are so many shades of grey.” “Nope.” “Pardon?” “There’s no greys, only white that’s got grubby. I’m surprised you don’t know that. And sin, young man, is when you treat people as things. Including yourself. That’s what sin is.” “It’s a lot more complicated than that—” “No. It ain’t. When people say things are a lot more complicated than that, they means they’re getting worried that they won’t like the truth. People as things, that’s where it starts.” “Oh, I’m sure there are worse crimes—” “But they starts with thinking about people as things.” This was the fourteenth Discworld book I reread this year. It’s one of the best, and that’s saying a lot. See also Denton on Discworld, a short thing I wrote at work in a series on pandemic reading. Tuesday, March 178th, 2020 Jamie Zawinski does it in Perl: The date is now Tuesday, March 178th, 2020. Here it is in R: $ Rscript -e 'march_date <- as.integer(Sys.Date() - as.Date("2020-02-29")); sub("XX", march_date, format(Sys.time(), "%Y-03-XX %T"))' [1] "2020-03-178 18:50:47" Firefox and Emacs again There was a new version (27.1) of Emacs earlier this month, and today Firefox version 80 is out. This reminded me of When will Firefox overtake Emacs? (from 2012) and Firefox overtook Emacs (2014). I updated the release history data a CSV file (the ugly date format is because it’s easiest to copy and paste from the Firefox version history article on Wikipedia; the Emacs release history has better dates) and if you have R installed (and the tidyverse) then you can generate the chart with this pipeline: ## install.packages("tidyverse") library(tidyverse) read_csv("https://www.miskatonic.org/files/se-program-versions-3.csv") %>% mutate(date = as.Date(Date, format = "%B %d, %Y")) %>% ggplot(aes(x = date, y = Version, colour = Program)) + geom_point() + geom_step() + labs(title = "Emacs and Firefox release history", caption = "William Denton (CC BY)", x = "", colour = "") Chart of Emacs and Firefox version number history Firefox is the best browser still, but you can run Firefox inside Emacs. It may do releases more slowly, but Emacs will always win this contest. Or any contest. TekSavvy I got an email on 20 August from my internet service provider, TekSavvy: In August 2019 the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) announced final rates that companies like TekSavvy are charged by the large telecom carriers. In some cases, those new rates were a reduction of more than 43%. TekSavvy took steps to pass on those savings on by reducing rates for the vast majority of our customers. We saw it as simply the right thing to do. However, the large carriers petitioned Federal Cabinet to overturn the CRTC’s decision and impose higher rates. In their recent August 15, 2020 statement, the Federal Cabinet effectively directed the CRTC to increase these wholesale rates. Ultimately, in announcing its verdict on the petitions, Cabinet caved to pressure from the large carriers, who threatened to hold back investments in rural Canada unless they were protected from competition. The decision is a reversal from Cabinet’s previous direction that the CRTC place affordability, competition and consumer interests at the forefront. After 5 years of cost uncertainty, inflated interim rates, and anti-competitive behaviour by the large carriers, TekSavvy is left with no choice but to interpret this announcement as an expectation from the government that retail prices should be raised, specifically to protect Incumbent investments. We are therefore making a difficult decision in order to continue providing you with the service you have come to expect. We’re writing to notify you about changes to the pricing of the services that you have with TekSavvy. Starting with your first billing cycle with an effective date of service on or after October 1, 2020 there will be a change to your current package with us for OID2xxxxx. Your current package 150 Mbps with Unlimited GB of usage at a monthly cost of $67.95 will be invoiced at $77.95. Your package speed and monthly usage will not change. They’d posted about it on 17 August: Cabinet decision means higher prices, less competition for Internet services: TekSavvy. The press release from the government is here: Response by the Government of Canada to petitions concerning CRTC wholesale Internet rates. The government made the wrong decision. The prices charged by the big phone companies for telephone and internet access are way too high. The rates they charge to smaller companies like TekSavvy for access to their networks need to be lower. This decision will make internet access worse for Canadians. This year, we all need reliable internet access more than ever. That will just be more true year after year. Mask Up This afternoon I was listening to WWOZ, the classic New Orleans radio station (through Whip Radio), and heard a great song about Covid-19 and wearing a mask. The playlist said it was “Mask Up” by Lilli Lewis: .bt-video-container iframe,.bt-video-container object,.bt-video-container embed{position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;margin-top:0} Real New Orleans sound, with great rapping and tight horns. Fictional Dentons I’ve started a new page on the site: Fictional Dentons. It was prompted by reading the Donald E. Westlake story mentioned and being surprised to find a “Don Denton.” Westlake: a wonderful author with a great taste for names. CATR Theatre Science Ashley Williamson and I were supposed to be in Montreal in May for Partition/Ensemble 2020, this year’s joint conference of the Canadian Association for Theatre Research and la Société québécoise d’études théâtrale. We were going to do a workshop on Theatre Science. The in-person conference was cancelled, of course, and instead they’re having a relaxed digital conference. It started on Monday and runs to 09 August: everyone who was going to do something has instead either posted something online (a PDF, a narrated presentation, a video) or (in a few cases) will be doing a live talk. For example, the panel discussion on Theatre and Climate Change was done a little while ago in a video call, recorded and then transcribed. All the conference participants can watch it and leave comments. (An advantage of moving online is that all the content is available for free for everyone else, too.) Ashley and I decided we’d do a “thirty minute immersive audio experience,” which we later realized was really a “forty minute radio play.” It is made of seventeen scenes that start with the conception of the idea and end with a brief excerpt of Experiment One, the full performance. There are three audio environments: flat narration (for facts), phone conversations, and meetings in the Great Hall of the Arts and Letters Club (which we recorded over Zoom; I added room tone from recordings I’d made last year). See the Theatre Science site for the downloads. An MP3 and the full script are available (both under a CC BY license). Screenshot of Zoom recording session Only participants will be able to leave comments on the conference web site, but feel free to email Ashley and me about it if you like. Ron Graham I was sorry to hear that Ron Graham, the great mathematician and juggler, died last week. I first heard of him decades ago, in my teens, and he seemed amazing: he did math and juggled and was a magician and helped Paul Erdős and did many, many other things. I never met him or even saw him in person, but he was always out there as an inspiration. Just last month I read Magical Mathematics: The Mathematical Ideas That Animate Great Magic Tricks, which he wrote with Persi Diaconis. Some obits: American Mathematical Society obit International Jugglers’ Association obit Numberphile podcast obit A remarkable life, and one from which we can all learn lessons. 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McCabe & Christopher Snyder Share Twitter LinkedIn Email Working Paper 28128 DOI 10.3386/w28128 Issue Date November 2020 Our previous paper (McCabe and Snyder 2014) contained the provocative result that, despite a positive average effect, open access reduces cites to some articles, in particular those published in lower-tier journals. We propose a model in which open access leads more readers to acquire the full text, yielding more cites from some, but fewer cites from those who would have cited the article based on superficial knowledge but who refrain once they learn that the article is a bad match. We test the theory with data for over 200,000 science articles binned by cites received during a pre-study period. Consistent with the theory, the marginal effect of open access is negative for the least-cited articles, positive for the most cited, and generally monotonic for quality levels in between. 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Close Alert Sign In Search News Books & Culture Fiction & Poetry Humor & Cartoons Magazine Crossword Video Podcasts Archive Goings On Open Navigation Menu To revisit this article, visit My Profile, then View saved stories. Close Alert Annals of Technology The Rise and Fall of Getting Things Done How personal productivity transformed work—and failed to. By Cal Newport November 17, 2020 Save this story for later. As the obligations of knowledge work have grown increasingly frenetic, workers have flocked to productivity tools and techniques.Illustration by Timo Lenzen Save this story for later. In the early two-thousands, Merlin Mann, a Web designer and avowed Macintosh enthusiast, was working as a freelance project manager for software companies. He had held similar roles for years, so he knew the ins and outs of the job; he was surprised, therefore, to find that he was overwhelmed—not by the intellectual aspects of his work but by the many small administrative tasks, such as scheduling conference calls, that bubbled up from a turbulent stream of e-mail messages. “I was in this batting cage, deluged with information,” he told me recently. “I went to college. I was smart. Why was I having such a hard time?” Mann wasn’t alone in his frustration. In the nineteen-nineties, the spread of e-mail had transformed knowledge work. With nearly all friction removed from professional communication, anyone could bother anyone else at any time. Many e-mails brought obligations: to answer a question, look into a lead, arrange a meeting, or provide feedback. Work lives that had once been sequential—two or three blocks of work, broken up by meetings and phone calls—became frantic, improvisational, and impossibly overloaded. “E-mail is a ball of uncertainty that represents anxiety,” Mann said, reflecting on this period. In 2003, he came across a book that seemed to address his frustrations. It was titled “Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity,” and, for Mann, it changed everything. The time-management system it described, called G.T.D., had been developed by David Allen, a consultant turned entrepreneur who lived in the crunchy mountain town of Ojai, California. Allen combined ideas from Zen Buddhism with the strict organizational techniques he’d honed while advising corporate clients. He proposed a theory about how our minds work: when we try to keep track of obligations in our heads, we create “open loops” that make us anxious. That anxiety, in turn, reduces our ability to think effectively. If we could avoid worrying about what we were supposed to be doing, we could focus more fully on what we were actually doing, achieving what Allen called a “mind like water.” To maintain such a mind, one must deal with new obligations before they can become entrenched as open loops. G.T.D.’s solution is a multi-step system. It begins with what Allen describes as full capture: the idea is to maintain a set of in-boxes into which you can drop obligations as soon as they arise. One such in-box might be a physical tray on your desk; when you suddenly remember that you need to finish a task before an upcoming meeting, you can jot a reminder on a piece of paper, toss it in the tray, and, without breaking concentration, return to whatever it was you were doing. Throughout the day, you might add similar thoughts to other in-boxes, such as a list on your computer or a pocket notebook. But jotting down notes isn’t, in itself, enough to close the loops; your mind must trust that you will return to your in-boxes and process what’s inside them. Allen calls this final, crucial step regular review. During reviews, you transform your haphazard reminders into concrete “next actions,” then enter them onto a master list. This list can now provide a motive force for your efforts. In his book, Allen recommends organizing the master list into contexts, such as @phone or @computer. Moving through the day, you can simply look at the tasks listed under your current context and execute them one after another. Allen uses the analogy of cranking widgets to describe this calmly mechanical approach to work. It’s a rigorous system for the generation of serenity. To someone with Mann’s engineering sensibility, the precision of G.T.D. was appealing, and the method itself seemed ripe for optimization. In September, 2004, Mann started a blog called 43 Folders—a reference to an organizational hack, the “tickler file,” described in Allen’s book. In an introductory post, Mann wrote, “Believe me, if you keep finding that the water of your life has somehow run onto the floor, GTD may be just the drinking glass you need to get things back together.” He published nine posts about G.T.D. during the blog’s first month. The discussion was often highly technical: in one post, he proposed the creation of a unified XML format for G.T.D. data, which would allow different apps to display the same tasks in multiple formats, including “graphical map, outline, RDF, structured text.” He told me that the writer Cory Doctorow linked to an early 43 Folders post on Doctorow’s popular nerd-culture site, Boing Boing. Traffic surged. Mann soon announced that, in just thirty days, 43 Folders had received over a hundred and fifty thousand unique visitors. (“That’s just nuts,” he wrote.) The site became so popular that Mann quit his job to work on it full time. As his influence grew, he popularized a new term for the genre that he was helping to create: “productivity pr0n,” an adaptation of the “leet speak,” or geek lingo, word for pornography. The hunger for this pr0n, he noticed, was insatiable. People were desperate to tinker with their productivity systems. What Mann and his fellow-enthusiasts were doing felt perfectly natural: they were trying to be more productive in a knowledge-work environment that seemed increasingly frenetic and harder to control. What they didn’t realize was that they were reacting to a profound shift in the workplace that had gone largely unnoticed. Before there was “personal productivity,” there was just productivity: a measure of how much a worker could produce in a fixed interval of time. At the turn of the twentieth century, Frederick Taylor and his acolytes had studied the physical movements of factory workers, looking for places to save time and reduce costs. It wasn’t immediately obvious how this industrial concept of productivity might be adapted from the assembly line to the office. A major figure in this translation was Peter Drucker, the influential business scholar who is widely regarded as the creator of modern management theory. Drucker was born in Austria in 1909. His parents, Adolph and Caroline, held evening salons that were attended by Friedrich Hayek and Joseph Schumpeter, among other economic luminaries. The intellectual energy of these salons seemed to inspire Drucker’s own productivity: he wrote thirty-nine books, the last shortly before his death, at the age of ninety-five. His career took off after the publication of his second book, “The Future of Industrial Man,” in 1942, when he was a thirty-three-year-old professor at Bennington College. The book asked how an “industrial society”—one unfolding within “the entirely new physical reality which Western man has created as his habitat since James Watt invented the steam engine”—might best be structured to respect human freedom and dignity. Arriving in the midst of an industrial world war, the book found a wide audience. After reading it, the management team at General Motors invited Drucker to spend two years studying the operations of what was then the world’s largest corporation. The 1946 book that resulted from that engagement, “Concept of the Corporation,” was one of the first to look seriously at how big organizations actually got work done. It laid the foundation for treating management as a subject that could be studied analytically. In the nineteen-fifties, the American economy began to move from manual labor toward cognitive work. Drucker helped business leaders understand this transformation. In his 1959 book, “Landmarks of Tomorrow,” he coined the term “knowledge work,” and argued that autonomy would be the central feature of the new corporate world. Drucker predicted that corporate profits would depend on mental effort, and that each individual knowledge worker, possessing skills too specialized to be broken down into “repetitive, simple, mechanical motions” choreographed from above, would need to decide how to “apply his knowledge as a professional” and monitor his own productivity. “The knowledge worker cannot be supervised closely or in detail,” Drucker wrote, in “The Effective Executive,” from 1967. “He must direct himself.” Drucker’s emphasis on the autonomy of knowledge workers made sense, as there was no obvious way to deconstruct the efforts required by newly important mid-century jobs—like corporate research and development or advertisement copywriting—into assembly-line-style sequences of optimized steps. But Drucker was also influenced by the politics of the Cold War. He viewed creativity and innovation as key to staying ahead of the Soviets. Citing the invention of the atomic bomb, he argued that scientific work of such complexity and ambiguity could not have been managed using the heavy-handed techniques of the industrial age, which he likened to the centralized planning of the Soviet economy. Future industries, he suggested, would need to operate in “local” and “decentralized” ways. To support his emphasis on knowledge-worker autonomy, Drucker introduced the idea of management by objectives, a process in which managers focus on setting out clear targets, but the details of how they’re accomplished are left to individuals. This idea is both extremely consequential and rarely debated. It’s why the modern office worker is inundated with quantified quarterly goals and motivating mission statements, but receives almost no guidance on how to actually organize and manage these efforts. It was thus largely owing to Drucker that, in 2004, when Merlin Mann found himself overwhelmed by his work, he took it for granted that the solution to his woes would be found in the optimization of his personal habits. As the popularity of 43 Folders grew, so did Mann’s influence in the online productivity world. One breakthrough from this period was a novel organizational device that he called “the hipster PDA.” Pre-smartphone handheld devices, such as the Palm Pilot, were often described as “personal digital assistants”; the hipster P.D.A. was proudly analog. The instructions for making one were aggressively simple: “1. Get a bunch of 3x5 inch index cards. 2. Clip them together with a binder clip. 3. There is no step 3.” The “device,” Mann suggested, was ideal for implementing G.T.D.: the top index card could serve as an in-box, where tasks could be jotted down for subsequent processing, while colored cards in the stack could act as dividers to organize tasks by project or context. A 2005 article in the Globe and Mail noted that Ian Capstick, a press secretary for Canada’s New Democratic Party, wielded a hipster P.D.A. in place of a BlackBerry. Just as G.T.D. was achieving widespread popularity, however, Mann’s zeal for his own practice began to fade. An inflection point in his writing came in 2007, soon after he gave a G.T.D.-inspired speech about e-mail management to an overflow audience at Google’s Mountain View headquarters. Building on the classic productivity idea that an office worker shouldn’t touch the same piece of paper more than once, Mann outlined a new method for rapidly processing e-mails. In this system, you would read each e-mail only once, then select from a limited set of options—delete it, respond to it, defer it (by moving it into a folder of messages requiring long responses), delegate it, or “do” it (by extracting and executing the activity at its core, or capturing it for later attention in a system like G.T.D.). The goal was to apply these rules mechanically until your digital message pile was empty. Mann called his strategy Inbox Zero. After Google uploaded a video of his talk to YouTube, the term entered the vernacular. Editors began inquiring about book deals. Not long afterward, Mann posted a self-reflective essay on 43 Folders, in which he revealed a growing dissatisfaction with the world of personal productivity. Productivity pr0n, he suggested, was becoming a bewildering, complexifying end in itself—list-making as a “cargo cult,” system-tweaking as an addiction. “On more than a few days, I wondered what, precisely, I was trying to accomplish,” he wrote. Part of the problem was the recursive quality of his work. Refining his productivity system so that he could blog more efficiently about productivity made him feel as if he were being “tossed around by a menacing Rube Goldberg device” of his own design; at times, he said, “I thought I might be losing my mind.” He also wondered whether, on a substantive level, the approach that he’d been following was really capable of addressing his frustrations. It seemed to him that it was possible to implement many G.T.D.-inflected life hacks without feeling “more competent, stable, and alive.” He cleaned house, deleting posts. A new “About” page explained that 43 Folders was no longer a productivity blog but a “website about finding the time and attention to do your best creative work.” Mann’s posting slowed. In 2011, after a couple years of desultory writing, he published a valedictory essay titled “Cranking”—a rumination on an illness of his father’s, and a description of his own struggle to write a book about Inbox Zero after becoming disenchanted with personal productivity as a concept. “I’d type and type. I’d crank and I’d crank,” he recounted. “I’m done cranking. And, I’m ready to make a change.” After noting that his editor would likely cancel his book contract, he concluded with a bittersweet sign-off: “Thanks for listening, nerds.” There have been no posts on the site for the past nine years. Even after the loss of one of its leaders, the productivity pr0n movement continued to thrive because the overload culture that had inspired it continued to worsen. G.T.D. was joined by numerous other attempts to tame excessive work obligations, from the bullet-journal method, to the explosion in smartphone-based productivity apps, to my own contribution to the movement, a call to emphasize “deep” work over “shallow.” But none of these responses solved the underlying problem. The knowledge sector’s insistence that productivity is a personal issue seems to have created a so-called “tragedy of the commons” scenario, in which individuals making reasonable decisions for themselves insure a negative group outcome. An office worker’s life is dramatically easier, in the moment, if she can send messages that demand immediate responses from her colleagues, or disseminate requests and tasks to others in an ad-hoc manner. But the cumulative effect of such constant, unstructured communication is cognitively harmful: on the receiving end, the deluge of information and demands makes work unmanageable. There’s little that any one individual can do to fix the problem. A worker might send fewer e-mail requests to others, and become more structured about her work, but she’ll still receive requests from everyone else; meanwhile, if she decides to decrease the amount of time that she spends engaging with this harried digital din, she slows down other people’s work, creating frustration. In this context, the shortcomings of personal-productivity systems like G.T.D. become clear. They don’t directly address the fundamental problem: the insidiously haphazard way that work unfolds at the organizational level. They only help individuals cope with its effects. A highly optimized implementation of G.T.D. might have helped Mann organize the hundreds of tasks that arrived haphazardly in his in-box daily, but it could do nothing to reduce the quantity of these requests. There are ways to fix the destructive effects of overload culture, but such solutions would have to begin with a reëvaluation of Peter Drucker’s insistence on knowledge-worker autonomy. Productivity, we must recognize, can never be entirely personal. It must be connected to a system that we can study, analyze, and improve. One of the few academics who has seriously explored knowledge-work productivity in recent years is Tom Davenport, a professor of information technology and management at Babson College. Many organizations claim to be interested in productivity, he told me, but they almost always pursue it by introducing new technology tools—spreadsheets, network applications, Web-based collaboration software—in piecemeal fashion. The general belief is that knowledge workers will never stand for intrusions into the autonomy they’ve come to expect. The idea of large-scale interventions that might replace the mess of unstructured messaging with a more structured set of procedures is rarely considered. Although Davenport’s 2005 book, “Thinking for a Living,” attempted to offer concrete advice about how knowledge-worker productivity might be improved, in many places his advice is constrained by the assumed inviolability of autonomy. In one chapter, for example, he explores the possibility of routinizing or constraining the tasks of “transaction” workers, who perform similar duties over and over, by using a diagram to communicate an optimal sequence of actions. He adds, however, that such routinization simply won’t appeal to “expert” workers, who he says are unlikely to pay attention to elaborate flowcharts suggesting when they should collaborate and when they should leave each other alone. In the end, “Thinking for a Living” failed to find an audience. “It was one of my worst-selling books,” Davenport said. He soon shifted his attention to more popular topics, such as big data and artificial intelligence. Advertisement And yet, even if we accept that people don’t want to be micromanaged, it doesn’t follow that every single aspect of knowledge work must be left to the individual. If I’m a computer programmer, I might not want my project manager telling me how to solve a coding problem, but I would welcome clear-cut rules that limit the ability of other divisions to rope me into endless meetings or demand responses to never-ending urgent messages. The benefits of top-down interventions designed to protect both attention and autonomy could be significant. In an article published in 1999, Drucker noted that, in the course of the twentieth century, the productivity of the average manual laborer had increased by a factor of fifty—the result, in large part, of an obsessive focus on how to conduct this work more effectively. By some estimates, knowledge workers in North America outnumber manual workers by close to four to one—and yet, as Drucker wrote, “Work on the productivity of the knowledge worker has barely begun.” Fittingly, we can derive a clear vision of a more productive future by returning to Merlin Mann. In the final years of 43 Folders, Mann began dabbling in podcasting. After shuttering his Web site, he turned his attention more fully toward this emerging medium. Mann now hosts four regular podcasts. One show, “Roderick on the Line,” consists of “unfiltered” conversations with Mann’s friend John Roderick, the lead singer of the band the Long Winters. Another show, “Back to Work,” tackles productivity, mixing some early 43 Folders-style exploration of digital tools with late 43 Folders-style digressions on the purpose of productivity. A recent episode of “Back to Work” combined a technical conversation about TaskPaper—a plain-text to-do-list software for Macs—with a metaphysical discussion about disruptions. Mann no longer uses the full G.T.D. system. He remains a fan of David Allen (“there’s a person for whom G.T.D. is a perfect fit,” he told me), but the nature of his current work doesn’t generate the overwhelming load of obligations that first drove him to the system, back in 2004. “My needs are very modest from a task-management perspective,” he said. “I have a production schedule for the podcasts; it’s that and grocery lists.” He does still use some big ideas from G.T.D., such as deploying calendar notifications to remind him to water his plants and clean his cat’s litter box. (“Why would I let that take up any part of my brain?”) However, his day is now structured in such a way that he can spend most of his time focussed on the autonomous, creative, skilled work that Drucker identified as so crucial to growing our economy. Most of us are not our own bosses, and therefore lack the ability to drastically overhaul the structure of our work obligations, but in Mann’s current setup there’s a glimpse of what might help. Imagine if, through some combination of new management thinking and technology, we could introduce processes that minimize the time required to talk about work or fight off random tasks flung our way by equally harried co-workers, and instead let us organize our days around a small number of discrete objectives. A way, that is, to preserve Drucker’s essential autonomy while sidestepping the uncontrollable overload that this autonomy can accidentally trigger. This vision is appealing, but it cannot be realized by individual actions alone. It will require management intervention. Up until now, there has been little will to instigate this shift in responsibility for productivity from the person to the organization. As Davenport discovered, most knowledge-work companies have been more focussed on keeping up with technological breakthroughs that might open up new markets. To get more done, it’s been sufficient to simply exhort employees to work harder. Laptops and smartphones helped these efforts by enabling office workers to find extra hours in the day to get things done, providing a productivity counterbalance to the inefficiencies of overload culture. And then COVID-19 arrived. In a remarkably short span, the spread of the coronavirus shut down offices around the world. This unexpected change amplified the inefficiencies latent in our haphazard approach to work. Many individuals responded by immersing themselves in a 43 Folders-style world of productivity hacks. As we attempt to juggle percolating crises, endless Zoom calls, and, for many, the requirement to somehow integrate both child care and homeschooling into the same hours, there’s a sudden, urgent need to carefully organize tasks and intricately synchronize schedules. But it’s becoming clear that, as Mann learned, individual efforts are not enough. Although offices are now partially reopening, a significant amount of work will, for the foreseeable future, continue to be performed remotely. To survive the current crisis, knowledge-work companies may finally be forced to move past Drucker’s insistent autonomy and begin asking hard questions about how their work is actually accomplished. It seems likely that any successful effort to reform professional life must start by making it easier to figure out who is working on what, and how it’s going. Because so much of our effort in the office now unfolds in rapid exchanges of digital messages, it’s convenient to allow our in-boxes to become an informal repository for everything we need to get done. This strategy, however, obscures many of the worst aspects of overload culture. When I don’t know how much is currently on your plate, it’s easy for me to add one more thing. When I cannot see what my team is up to, I can allow accidental inequities to arise, in which the willing end up overloaded and the unwilling remain happily unbothered. (For instance, in field tests led by Linda Babcock, of Carnegie Mellon University, women were found to take on a disproportionate load of “non-promotable” service tasks, such as organizing office parties, and to be more likely than men to say yes when asked to do so, leading to their being asked more often.) Consider instead a system that externalizes work. Following the lead of software developers, we might use virtual task boards, where every task is represented by a card that specifies who is doing the work, and is pinned under a column indicating its status. With a quick glance, you can now ascertain everything going on within your team and ask meaningful questions about how much work any one person should tackle at a time. With this setup, optimization becomes possible. In software development, for example, it’s widely accepted that programmers are most effective when they work on one feature at a time, focussing in a distraction-free sprint until done. It’s conceivable that other knowledge fields might enjoy similar productivity boosts from more intentional assignments of effort. What if you began each morning with a status meeting in which your team confronts its task board? A plan could then be made about which handful of things each person would tackle that day. Instead of individuals feeling besieged and resentful—about the additional tasks that similarly overwhelmed colleagues are flinging their way—they could execute a collaborative plan designed to benefit everyone. The ability to better visualize work would also enable smarter processes. If you notice that the influx of administrative demands from other parts of your company is overwhelming you and your co-workers, you’re now motivated to seek fixes. Such optimizations are unlikely to occur when the scope of the problem is hidden among in-box detritus, and when productivity is still understood as a matter of personal will. Whether or not coronavirus-driven disruption provides the final push we need to move away from our flawed commitment to personal productivity, we can be certain that this transition will eventually happen. Even if we convince ourselves that the psychological toll of overload culture is acceptable collateral damage for a fast-paced modern world, there’s too much latent economic value at stake to keep ignoring the haphazard nature of how we currently work. It’s ironic that Drucker, the very person who extolled the potential of knowledge-worker productivity, helped plant the ideas that have since held it back. To move forward, we must step away from Drucker’s commitment to total autonomy—allowing for freedom in how we execute tasks without also allowing for chaos in how these tasks are assigned. We must, in other words, acknowledge the futility of trying to tame our frenzied work lives all on our own, and instead ask, collectively, whether there’s a better way to get things done. Cal Newport is a professor of computer science at Georgetown University. 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Open Free general admission Contrast Home - The National Museum of Australia Menu close menu What’s on What’s on Close menu Exhibitions Calendar Tours and experiences Family activities 2020 Endeavour anniversary activities Visit Visit Close menu Plan your visit Accessibility Cafe Shop Venue hire Endeavour Voyage The Untold Stories of Cook and the First Australians Forecourt Garden Explore Explore Close menu Stories Explorer Blog Online features Collection Curatorial and research Defining Moments Audio on demand Learn Learn Close menu Australia's Defining Moments Digital Classroom Digital excursions Onsite school programs Teacher professional learning National History Challenge About About Close menu Contact us Corporate information Employment Media Publications Join & support Join & support Close menu Donations Museum Friends Bequests Partnerships Shop online Menu Defining Moments Eight-hour day 1856: Melbourne building workers win an eight-hour day An eight-hour day parade in Bourke Street, Melbourne, 1907 On 21 April 1856 stonemasons in Melbourne downed tools and walked off the job in protest over their employers’ refusal to accept their demands for reduced working hours. This brought the employers to the negotiating table and led to an agreement whereby stonemasons worked no more than an eight-hour day. It was the first of a long, hard-fought series of victories that led to Australia having one of the most progressive labour environments in the world by the early 20th century. A 19th-century workers ditty: Eight hours to work, Eight hours to play, Eight hours to sleep, Eight bob a day. A fair day’s work, For a fair day’s pay. Left: Pioneers of the eight-hour day movement. Right: Jacob Ford, one of the eight-hour day pioneers Early Australian working conditions When the first convicts arrived in Australia in 1788, there was little protection for them around their working conditions. Typically convict labourers worked from sunrise to sunset with a part day on Saturday. Sunday was a day of rest but they had to attend church. Labouring in the colony was part of a convict’s punishment and free settlers came to see convicts as a ‘free’ labour force. The first industrial action in Australia was in 1791 when convicts went on strike demanding daily rather than weekly food rations. In the early years of the colony, the relationship between employers and employees was governed by the British Masters and Servants Acts (and after 1828 the equivalent New South Wales legislation), which were weighted heavily in the interests of employers. Employees could be prosecuted for a range of contraventions including drunkenness, absence without leave and inattention to duty. Penalties could include deduction of wages or imprisonment. These were only enforceable through the courts, but since magistrates were of the same class as the employers most cases were found in the employers’ favour. In 1822 the convict shepherd James Straighter was sentenced to 500 lashes, one month’s solitary confinement and five years penal servitude for ‘inciting his Master’s servants to combine for the purposes of obliging him to raise the wages and increase the rations’. University of Melbourne Law Quadrangle, site of the eight-hour day strike First unions and labour organisation Between 1830 and 1833 the first Australian unions were formed by associations of skilled workers such as shipwrights, printing compositors and cabinet-makers. However, these early trade unions faced stiff opposition from employers and government. In 1840 the government used convict compositors to help break a strike by the Society of Compositors. As the colony started to grow in the early part of the 19th century, new businesses, including many shops, started up. With the advent of street lighting in 1841, shop employees had to work later and later until they were typically working 14 hours a day. Such long hours led to the formation of the Early Closing Movement, which in 1844 sought to have working hours reduced from 14 to 12 hours a day. Convict transportation to New South Wales ceased in 1840. From then, all new felons were diverted to Tasmania, which led to the formation in 1847 of the Anti-Transportation League in that colony. The league succeeded in stopping transportation to the east coast by 1852. The end of transportation created a shortage of workers that increased dramatically through the 1850s as a great many working men moved to the goldfields. Unions were now in a much better position to campaign for better working conditions. Eight-hour day campaign On 4 February 1853 the Operative Masons’ Society was re-formed at a meeting in Clark’s Hotel, Collingwood, Melbourne. The union had suspended operations because so many members had moved to the goldfields. One of the organisers was James Stephens, a mason recently arrived from Britain where he had been a member of the Chartist movement, which advocated for a more representative parliamentary system. He had participated in the 1839 Newport Rising riot where police killed 20 Chartist protesters. The resurrection of the Operative Masons’ Society is viewed as the start of the eight-hour movement in Australia, because a committee was formed to confer with building contractors on the introduction of the eight-hour day. The eight-hour day had first been proposed by Robert Owen in 1817 at his socialist community in New Lanark, Scotland. The sentiments of the movement were captured by the slogan, ‘Eight hours labour, eight hours recreation, eight hours rest’. George Megalogenis 0:43 Journalist and author George Megalogenis discusses the significance of the eight-hour day The union put forward three main arguments for a shorter working day. The first was that Australia’s harsh climate demanded reduced hours. The second was that labourers needed time to develop their ‘social and moral condition’ through education. The third was that workers would be better fathers, husbands and citizens if they were allowed adequate leisure time. On 26 March 1856 workers called a public meeting at the Queen’s Theatre to make a stand on improving working conditions. At the meeting it was announced that ‘the time has arrived when the system of 8 hours should be introduced into the building trades and that after the 21st of this month we promise to work 8 hours and no longer’. Negotiations between the union and the building companies broke down and on 21 April stonemasons, led by Stephens, downed tools at the construction site of the law faculty buildings at Melbourne University and walked off the job. As Stephens said, ‘It was a burning hot day and I thought the occasion a good one, so I called upon the men to follow me, to which they immediately consented, when I marched them … to Parliament House.' Stonemasons from other construction sites along the way joined the march until they eventually reached the Belvedere Hotel where a banquet was organised to mark the event. In the months to come, negotiations with employers and the government continued until an agreement was reached whereby stonemasons would work an eight-hour day but collect the same wage they had previously been paid for 10 hours. Eight-hour day Initially only a minority of workers, mainly in the building trades, won the eight-hour day. Most workers, including women and children, generally worked longer hours for less pay. The fight for working conditions continued throughout the 19th century. It was not until 1916 that the Eight Hours Act was passed in Victoria and New South Wales. It would not be until January 1948 that the Commonwealth Arbitration Court approved a 40-hour, five-day working week for all Australians. Facebook Twitter Pinterest Messenger Email Topics colonial politics Places Vic Curriculum subjects australian history economics and business Year levels 7 9 In our collection Waterside Workers Federation of Australia Sydney Branch, In memory of our fallen members at the frontThis banner was used in May Day rallies from 1901-1950s and was painted by Eric Whitbread. Explore Defining Moments Eureka Stockade Secret ballot introduced Islander labourers Convict transportation Free education introduced You may also like Separation of NSW and Victoria Balarinji art and design collection Australian Rules football First steam railway Convict love tokens References Julie Kimber and Peter Love, The Time of their Lives: The Eight Hour Day and Working Life, Australian Society for the Study of Labour History, Melbourne, 2007. 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NYSED would also like to acknowledge members of the Board of Regents- nominated Advisory Panel for their guidance and continued partnership on this initiative. The Culturally Responsive-Sustaining Framework is the collective insight of the various stakeholders we engaged with while creating this document from the ground up. We are grateful to the multitude of teachers, students, parents, administrators, community advocates, and higher education faculty who participated. We would like to thank the students of El Puente Academy for Peace and Justice (Jorman Esparza, Yomeiry Bautista, Genesys Salcedo, Rosalind Reyes) for their guidance in drafting the guidelines for students. NYSED Expert Committee: Alfredo Artiles, Jeff Duncan-Andrade, David Kirkland, Gloria Ladson-Billings, Joyce Moy, Django Paris, Carla Shedd-Guild, Amy Stuart-Wells, Mariana Souto-Manning, Zoila Morrell. NYSED Advisory Panel: Zakiyah Ansari, Tracey Atkins, Jim Bostic, Barry Derfel, Arnold Dodge, Winsome Gregory, Gilleyan Hargrove, Stanley Harper, Eva Hassett, Ruth Holland Scott, Andrea Honigsfeld, Sonya Horsford, Brian Jones, Marina Marcou-O’Malley, Regent Nan Mead, Fatima Morrell, Roberto Padilla, Joe Rogers, Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz, Andrea Toussaint, Carmela Thompson, Regent Lester Young, Jr. This work was made possible due to generous partnerships between: New York State Education Department and The New York Community Trust New York State Education Department and Leadership for Educational Equity Culturally Responsive-Sustaining Framework project management team: Makila S. Meyers, Ed.D, Regents Research Fellow (RRF) for Culturally Responsive- Sustaining Education Julia C. Lamberti, Leadership for Educational Equity (LEE) Policy Fellow Juliette Lyons-Thomas, Ph.D, New York State Education Department REGENTS OF THE UNIVER SITY Betty A. 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Mittler, B.S., M.S. ..................................................................................... Ithaca ACKNOWLEDGMENTS THE UNIVERSITY OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COMMISSIONER OF EDUCATION AND PRESIDENT OF THE UNIVER SITY MaryEllen Elia EXECUTIVE DEPUTY COMMISSIONER Elizabeth R. Berlin SENIOR DEPUTY COMMISSIONER FOR EDUCATION P OLICY Jhone Ebert DEPUTY COMMISSIONER FOR P12 INSTRUCTIONAL SUPP ORT Angelica Infante-Green DEPUTY COMMISSIONER FOR HIGHER EDUCATION John D’Agati The State Education Department does not discriminate on the basis of age, color, religion, creed, disability, marital status, veteran status, national origin, race, gender, genetic predisposition or carrier status, or sexual orientation in its educational programs, services and activities. Portions of this publication can be made available in a variety of formats, including braille, large print or audio tape, upon request. Inquiries concerning this policy of nondiscrimination should be directed to the Department’s Office for Diversity and Access, Room 530, Education Building, Albany, NY 12234. We would like to thank the following offices for their collaboration and feedback: Office of Bilingual Education & World Languages under the direction of Lissette Colon-Collins Office of Special Education under the direction of Christopher Suriano Office of Curriculum & Instruction under the direction of Marybeth Casey Office of Accountability under the direction of Ira Schwartz Office of Higher Education under the direction of John D’Agati Office of Assessment under the direction of Steven Katz Office of Adult Career & Continuing Education Services under the direction of Kevin Smith D es ig n by A m y U ni ke w ic z/ Je lly Fe ve r L LC / p 12 v is ua l b y: K irp au l B ab ar , N ew Y or k St at e Ed uc at io n D ep ar tm en t FOR NEW YORK STATE TEACHERS FOR NEW YORK STATE SCHOOL LEADERS CULTURALLY RESP ONSIVE-SUSTAINING EDUCATION 5 6 55 16 8 60 10 62 FOR NEW YORK STATE STUDENTS FOR NEW YORK STATE DISTRICT LEADERS FOR NEW YORK STATE EDUCATION DEPARTMENT P OLICYMAKERS FOR NEW YORK STATE FAMILIES AND COMMUNITY MEMBERS FOR NEW YORK STATE HIGHER EDUCATION FACULTY AND ADMINISTRATORS INTRODUCTION REFERENCES CULTURALLY RESP ONSIVE- SUSTAINING MINDSETS VISION GLOSSARY OF TERMS CULTURALLY RESP ONSIVE- SUSTAINING GUIDELINES EXECUTIVE SUMMARY COLLABORATIVE MEMBERS CONTENTS 6 CULTURALLY RESP ONSIVE-SUSTAINING EDUCATION INTRODUCTION structural inequities is at play, deeply rooted in our country’s history, culture, and institutions. This system of inequity — which routinely confers advantage and disadvantage based on linguistic background, gender, skin color, and other characteristics — must be clearly understood, directly challenged, and fundamentally transformed. The New York State Education Department (NYSED) has come to understand that the results we seek for all our children can never be fully achieved without incorporating an equity and inclusion lens in every facet of our work (see also New York State’s Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) Plan). This understanding has created an urgency around promoting equitable opportunities that help all children thrive. New York State understands that the responsibility of education is not only to prevent the exclusion of historically silenced, erased, and disenfranchised groups, but also to assist in the promotion and perpetuation of cultures, languages and ways of knowing that have been devalued, suppressed, and imperiled by years of educational, social, political, economic neglect and other forms of oppression. In January 2018, the New York State Board of Regents directed the Office of P-12 Education and Higher Education to convene a panel of experts, engage with stakeholders, and develop from the ground up a framework for culturally responsive-sustaining education. The New York University Metropolitan Center for Research on Equity and the Transformation of Schools, under the leadership of Dr. David Kirkland, drafted a robust guidance document that served as a springboard for this initiative. The New York State Education Department presented this guidance document to students, teachers, parents, school and district leaders, higher education faculty, community advocates, and policymakers. The guidelines in this document represent the collective insight of this work. The Culturally Responsive-Sustaining (CR-S) framework is intended to help education stakeholders create student-centered learning environments that affirm cultural identities; foster positive academic outcomes; develop students’ abilities to connect across lines of difference; elevate historically marginalized voices; For more than a century, education providers throughout the United States have strived and struggled to meet the diverse needs of American children and families. A complex system of biases and CULTURALLY RESP ONSIVE-SUSTAINING EDUCATION 7 INTRODUCTION empower students as agents of social change; and contribute to individual student engagement, learning, growth, and achievement through the cultivation of critical thinking. The framework was designed to support education stakeholders in developing and implementing policies that educate all students effectively and equitably, as well as provide appropriate supports and services to promote positive student outcomes. Historically, education debates have been polarized, with difference sometimes being viewed as an individual deficit. The CR-S Framework marks our journey forward and begins the evolution toward leveraging difference as an asset. The framework is grounded in four principles*: • Welcoming and Affirming Environment • High Expectations and Rigorous Instruction • Inclusive Curriculum and Assessment • Ongoing Professional Learning Each principle is illustrated by a set of features rooted in elements of quality education that illustrate how CR-S might look in practice across a range of domains, from the State Education Department to the classroom. The framework represents an opportunity for stakeholders to continue to work together and plan for the unique needs of their communities. The New York State Education Department recognizes much of this work is already happening across the state and looks forward to an even deeper understanding of culturally responsive- sustaining education in New York State schools, districts, and communities. This framework reflects the State’s commitment to improving learning results for all students by creating well- developed, culturally responsive-sustaining, equitable systems of support for achieving dramatic gains in student outcomes. * The 4 principles that organize State Education Department’s CR-S Framework were inspired by the 4 high leverage strategies that emerged from Buffalo Public School’s work on Culturally and Linguistically Responsive Education. 8 CULTURALLY RESP ONSIVE-SUSTAINING EDUCATION VISION The New York State guidelines for culturally responsive- sustaining education are grounded in a VISION of an education system that creates: Students are prepared for rigor and independent learning. Students understand themselves as contributing members of an academically- rigorous, intellectually-challenging school and classroom community. Students demonstrate an ability to use critical reasoning, take academic risks, and leverage a growth mindset to learn from mistakes. Students are self-motivated, setting and revising academic personal goals to drive their own learning and growth. Students acknowledge the limitations of their own perspectives. They have empathy for others while they appreciate and respect others’ differences. They demonstrate cooperation and teamwork, using active listening and communication skills to resolve conflict. They use interpersonal skills to build and maintain strong relationships, including those along lines of difference, in their class and school communities. All layers of the environment in which students learn (classroom, school, family, and community) affirm and value the various aspects of students’ cultural identities (i.e. race, ethnicity, age, gender, sexual orientation, disability, religion, socioeconomic background). Role models in the classroom, school, family, and community recognize student strengths and offer opportunities for students to grow and learn. Students bring a critical lens to the world as they study historical and contemporary conditions of inequity and learn from historically marginalized voices. Students learn about power and privilege in the context of various communities and are empowered as agents of positive social change. I. II. Students who have a critical lens through which they challenge inequitable systems of access, power, and privilege. III. Students who are sociopolitically conscious and socioculturally responsive Students who experience academic success CULTURALLY RESP ONSIVE-SUSTAINING EDUCATION 9 VISION This vision is grounded in Gloria Ladson-Billings’ early work on culturally relevant teaching, specifically the three criteria for culturally relevant pedagogy she puts forth in Ladson-Billings (1995). The New York State Culturally Responsive-Sustaining Framework includes guidelines for students, teachers, school leaders, district leaders, families and community members, higher education faculty, and Education Department policymakers. For guidelines to be effective, all stakeholders must work together, prioritize and implement systems and structures that facilitate the scale of culturally responsive-sustaining practices, and hold each other accountable to short- and long-term goals. When stakeholders work together to implement culturally respon- sive-sustaining practices, educators will grow in their ability to be: S O C I O P O L I T I C A L LY CO N S C I O U S Demonstrate excellence by being inclusive-minded and asset-focused Identify and critically examine both historical and contemporary power structures Reflect, honor, value, and center various identity perspectives as assets in policies and practices (Sue, 2001) Engage in critical conversations Recognize that personal, cultural, and institutionalized discrimination creates and sustains privileges for some while creating and sustaining disadvantage for others S O C I O C U LT U R A L LY R E S P O N S I V E Commit to understanding the role of culture in education as flexible, local, and global Act as agents of social change to redress historical and contemporary oppression Build alliances across difference to eradicate all forms of discrimination Engage current and historical issues Practice mutual respect for qualities and experiences that are different from one’s own EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 10 CULTURALLY RESP ONSIVE-SUSTAINING EDUCATION Culturally responsive-sustaining (CR-S) education is grounded in a cultural view of learning and human development in which multiple expressions of diversity (e.g., race, social class, gender, language, sexual orientation, nationality, religion, ability) are recognized and regarded as assets for teaching and learning. New York State Education Department Definition The New York State Education Department understands culture as the multiple components of one’s identity, including but not limited to: race, economic background, gender, language, sexual orientation, nationality, religion, and ability. Culture far transcends practices such as cuisines, art, music, and celebrations to also include ways of thinking, values, and forms of expression. These ways and forms are in constant flux, renegotiation, and evolution. Schools then become a meeting point for cultures, containing children and adults who bring with them multiple facets of their identity, along with unique experiences and perspectives. From this perspective, learning is rooted in the lives and experiences of people and cultivated through activities that people find meaningful. When teaching is not rooted in students’ lives, student learning suffers. Perhaps worst, biases take hold and deficit perspectives become normalized throughout our schools and classrooms, structuring entire systems that blame students for failure. The school community is representative of many cultures, and therefore culture has consequences on how students experience schools. The framework is intentional about the relationship between culture and education, presenting a multi-tiered systems approach for cultural inclusion that broadens what ethnic groups, classes, sexualities, and abilities are privileged in the creation and maintenance of traditional education. Research suggests that many students whose cultures are more closely aligned with the “cultural fabric” of schools experience praise and are viewed as more dedicated than those whose home cultures differ. Educators committed to understanding both the concept of culture and many different cultures can refocus their lens for viewing students’ cultures not as “deficiencies to overcome” (Paris & Alim, 2014, p. 87), but as assets who possess vibrant realities and rich reservoirs of knowledge. By making all cultures matter, our students’ cultures can be positioned as strengths and as the foundation of empowering, rigorous, and innovative learning. What is culture? EXECUTIVE SUMMARY CULTURALLY RESP ONSIVE-SUSTAINING EDUCATION 11 CR-S education explores the relationship between historical and contemporary conditions of inequality and ideas that shape access, participation, and outcomes for learners. The goal of the CR-S framework is to help educators design and implement a student-centered learning environment that: • affirms racial and cultural identities and fosters positive academic outcomes • develops students’ abilities to connect across cultures • empowers students as agents of social change • contributes to an individual’s engagement, learning, growth, and achievement through the cultivation of critical thinking. To make this a reality, the Department, under the Board of Regents, has created a framework for CR-S practices. The framework is intended to be used by a variety of education stakeholders, including but not limited to students, teachers, school and district leaders, families and community members, higher education faculty and administrators, and Education Department policymakers. This definition was created by the NYSED Expert Committee: Alfredo Artiles, Jeff Duncan-Andrade, David Kirkland, Gloria Ladson-Billings, Joyce Moy, Django Paris, Carla Shedd-Guild, Amy Stuart-Wells, Mariana Souto-Manning, Zoila Morrell. High Expectations and Rigorous Instruction Student-Led Civic Engagement. Critical Examination of Power Structures. Project-Based Learning on Social Justice Issues. Student Leadership Opportunities. S T U D E N T S TEACHERS Inclusive Curriculum and Assessment Current events incorporated into instruction. Students as co-designers of curriculum. Resources written and developed by racially, culturally, and linguistically diverse perspectives. Instructional strategies that adapt to diverse learning styles. Welcoming and Affirming Environment Collective responsibility to learn about student cultures and communities. Close relationships with Students & Families. Social-Emotional Learning Programs. Materials that represent and affirm student identities. Ongoing Professional Learning and Support Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Training, examining implicit bias and interrogation of beliefs and assumptions. Support in aligning curriculum and instruction to the histories, languages, and experiences of traditionally marginalized voices. SCHOOL LEADERS DISTRICT LEA D ERS ED UC AT IO N D EP AR TM EN T P OL IC YM AK ER S STUD ENTS AND FAM ILIES C O M M U N IT Y M E M B E R S The CR-S framework helps educators create student-centered learning environments that: affirm racial, linguistic and cultural identities; prepare students for rigor and independent learning; develop students’ abilities to connect across lines of difference; elevate historically marginalized voices; and empower students as agents of social change. HI GH ER ED UC ATI ON F ACU LTY 12 CULTURALLY RESP ONSIVE-SUSTAINING EDUCATION EXECUTIVE SUMMARY High Expectations and Rigorous Instruction Student-Led Civic Engagement. Critical Examination of Power Structures. Project-Based Learning on Social Justice Issues. Student Leadership Opportunities. S T U D E N T S TEACHERS Inclusive Curriculum and Assessment Current events incorporated into instruction. Students as co-designers of curriculum. Resources written and developed by racially, culturally, and linguistically diverse perspectives. Instructional strategies that adapt to diverse learning styles. Welcoming and Affirming Environment Collective responsibility to learn about student cultures and communities. Close relationships with Students & Families. Social-Emotional Learning Programs. Materials that represent and affirm student identities. Ongoing Professional Learning and Support Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Training, examining implicit bias and interrogation of beliefs and assumptions. Support in aligning curriculum and instruction to the histories, languages, and experiences of traditionally marginalized voices. SCHOOL LEADERS DISTRICT LEA D ERS ED UC AT IO N D EP AR TM EN T P OL IC YM AK ER S STUD ENTS AND FAM ILIES C O M M U N IT Y M E M B E R S The CR-S framework helps educators create student-centered learning environments that: affirm racial, linguistic and cultural identities; prepare students for rigor and independent learning; develop students’ abilities to connect across lines of difference; elevate historically marginalized voices; and empower students as agents of social change. HI GH ER ED UC ATI ON F ACU LTY CULTURALLY RESP ONSIVE-SUSTAINING EDUCATION 13 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The CR-S framework is an initiative by the New York State Education Department (NYSED) that establishes culturally responsive-sustaining guidelines for student, teachers, school and district leadership, families and community advocates, higher education, and the State Education Department. This initiative is both urgent and timely, as it responds to many of the public forum comments about Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), one of which is the necessity of including culturally responsive- sustaining education into all aspects of public education. The State Education Department worked closely with various academic experts, renowned in their respective fields, to draft a NYSED definition of culturally responsive-sustaining education. New York University Metropolitan Center for Research on Equity and the Transformation of Schools (Metro Center) used these conversations to draft a robust guidance document from which this framework was created. The framework was then built from the ground up, drawing on feedback from stakeholders across the state who generously gave of their time and insight. After three rounds of feedback, this framework incorporates the collective insight of these stakeholders. This document is intended for use across stakeholder groups. A guiding principle of asset-based pedagogies is that a culturally responsive-sustaining approach to teaching and learning benefits a broad range of stakeholders. In the design of this framework, we thought about those who work in urban, suburban and rural communities. We considered the unique needs of each of these environments and encourage educators to take up this framework, recognizing the unique needs of their teaching contexts and the plethora of diversity that exists in all educational environments. NYSED recognizes that for culturally responsive-sustaining education to thrive, the impetus cannot be placed solely on student, teachers, and school leaders; all stakeholders must work together to create the conditions under which this vision of education can flourish. NYSED believes that we must incorporate an equity and inclusion lens in every facet of the state’s work to achieve student success outcomes for all students. Thus, the framework aligns closely with other NYSED policies, including The New York State Board of Regents and the NYSED Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA plan), specifically: • Recognize the effect of school environment on student academic performance and support efforts to improve the climate of all schools. • Promote a relationship of trust and respect between schools and families, recognizing that student achievement and school improvement are shared responsibilities. • Provide educators with opportunities for continual professional learning in the areas of equity, anti-bias, multicultural, and culturally responsive-sustaining pedagogies. • Support districts and their communities in engaging in critical conversations about culturally responsive- sustaining educational systems. What is the Culturally Responsive-Sustaining Framework? Culturally Responsive-Sustaining (CR-S) Education draws on decades of research in asset-based pedagogies that recognize that cultural difference (including racial, ethnic, linguistic, gender, sexuality and ability) should be treated as assets for teaching and learning. This approach to education counters dominant narratives about difference as deficits or as characteristics of students and families that should be remediated or assimilated. Using this approach to education, all families are believed to have cultural capital, or knowledge, abilities, and networks, that can, and should, be leveraged in classrooms. While schooling has traditionally privileged the capital of families from dominant backgrounds, CR-S positions educators to acknowledge, value, and leverage the wealth of knowledge found in communities that have been marginalized. Culturally responsive education is about teaching the students in front of you. To do this requires that one work to get to know their students and develop meaningful relationships with students while engaging in the students’ communities. However, culturally responsive education must also be sustaining, that is it must work to encourage cultural pluralism and not cultural assimilation. Home and youth culture should be welcomed into the classroom as areas ripe for discussion. Differences should not just be seen as strengths, but they should also be maintained because they are what make students and families unique. How educators understand culture has real consequences for our children as a limited understanding of culture has the power to disadvantage some while privileging others (Kirkland, 2012). What is Culturally Responsive-Sustaining Education? 14 CULTURALLY RESP ONSIVE-SUSTAINING EDUCATION EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The 4 principles that organize the New York State Education Department’s CR-S Framework are inspired by the 4 high leverage strategies that emerged from Buffalo Public School’s work on Culturally and Linguistically Responsive Education. The 4 Principles of Culturally Responsive- Sustaining Education Welcoming and affirming environment High expectations and rigorous instruction Inclusive curriculum and assessment Ongoing professional learning DESCRIP TION A welcoming and affirming environment feels safe. It is a space where people can find themselves represented and reflected, and where they understand that all people are treated with respect and dignity. The environment ensures all cultural identities (i.e. race, ethnicity, age, gender, sexual orientation, disability, language, religion, socioeconomic background) are affirmed, valued, and used as vehicles for teaching and learning. RESOURCES School Climate and Culture Index Mental Health Education Literacy Schools: Linking to a Continuum of Well-Being English Language Learner/Multilingual Learner Parent Resources Social Emotional Learning: Essential for Learning, Essential for Life Guidelines and Resources for Social and Emotional Development and Learning (SEDL) in New York State NYSED Information and Resources Regarding Restorative Justice and Trauma Sensitivity Training The New York State Dignity for All Students Act (DASA) SY M B O L Welcoming and affirming environment CULTURALLY RESP ONSIVE-SUSTAINING EDUCATION 15 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY DESCRIP TION Inclusive curriculum and assessment elevate historically marginalized voices. It includes opportunities to learn about power and privilege in the context of various communities and empowers learners to be agents of positive social change.  It provides the opportunity to learn about perspectives beyond one’s own scope. It works toward dismantling systems of biases and inequities, and decentering dominant ideologies in education. RESOURCES Teacher Test Development and Participation Opportunities Civic Readiness Initiative The New York State K-12 Social Studies Framework and Toolkits SY M B O L Inclusive Curriculum and Assessment DESCRIP TION Ongoing professional learning is rooted in the idea that teaching and learning is an adaptive process needing constant reexamination (Moll, et al., 1992; Gay, 2010). It allows learners to develop and sharpen a critically conscious lens toward instruction, curriculum, assessment, history, culture, and institutions. Learners must be self-directed and take on opportunities that directly impact learning outcomes. RESOURCES Diverse and Learner-Ready Teachers Initiative Professional Standards for Educational Leaders (PSELs) New York State Teaching Standards NYU Metro TAC-D 2018-2019 Regional Workshops SY M B O L Ongoing Professional Learning DESCRIP TION High expectations and rigorous instruction prepare the community for rigor and independent learning. The environment is academically rigorous and intellectually challenging, while also considering the different ways students learn. Instruction includes opportunities to use critical reasoning, take academic risks, and leverage a growth mindset to learn from mistakes. Messages encourage positive self-image and empower others to succeed. RESOURCES New York State Board of Regents Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA Plan) New York State Next Generation English Language Arts and Mathematics Learning Standards New York State My Brother’s Keeper (Initiative) New York State Early Learning Standards Blueprint for Improved Results for Students with Disabilities State Systemic Improvement Plan Multi-tiered Systems of Support Model Blueprint for English Language Learner/Multilingual Learner Success Social Emotional Learning Benchmarks SY M B O L High Expectations and Rigorous Instruction CULTURALLY RESP ONSIVE-SUSTAINING MINDSETS All stakeholders (students, teachers, school leaders, district leaders, families and community members, higher education faculty and administrators, and Education Department Policymakers) can adopt these culturally responsive-sustaining aligned mindsets as a lens through which to implement the CR-S guidelines outlined in this framework. 16 CULTURALLY RESP ONSIVE-SUSTAINING EDUCATION • Student and community assets should be sustained and leveraged for academic achievement. • Consider students as co-designers of curriculum and drivers of instruction (Jenkins & Healey, 2009) • Embed community input into curriculum to reflect diversity of the local and global community. • Employ a critical pedagogy that empowers students to see themselves as agents of social change and architects of their own destinies (Duncan- Andrade & Morrell, 2008). • Employ a critical lens (racial, gender, sexual identity, linguistic, religious, ability, socioeconomic, or other salient cultural identities) when developing resources and intervention frameworks to de-center dominant ideologies and pedagogies that ignore or marginalize diverse students. • Identify and one’s own implicit biases, reflecting on how they may shape one’s feelings, actions, academic expectations, or behavioral expectations of students based on particular aspects of their identities (race, gender, social class, nationality, language, sexual orientation, abiilty, etc.) • Assess and reflect on one’s racial literacy skills, “the ability to read, discuss, and write about situations that involve race or racism” (Sealey-Ruiz, 2013), and seek opportunities to practice and develop racial literacy with peers and students. New York State EDUCATION STAKEHOLDERS can contribute to a Culturally Responsive-Sustaining Education for students by: Believing that culture is not an addition but is a critical component of education.  Believing that critical and continuous self-reflection is required to dismantle systems of biases and inequities rooted in our country’s history, culture, and institutions. Believing that students and their families are individuals with their own assets, knowledge, and abilities who should be valued and consulted. Culturally Responsive- Sustaining Mindsets CULTURALLY RESP ONSIVE-SUSTAINING GUIDELINES Culturally Responsive- Sustaining Guidelines All stakeholders (students, teachers, school leaders, district leaders, families and community members, higher education faculty and administrators, and Education Department Policymakers) can consider implementing the following CR-S guidelines as a means to achieve a more culturally responsive- sustaining education system. The following section is organized by stakeholder group. Each stakeholder group is provided with guidelines that serve as recommendations according to the four principles of culturally responsive-sustaining education. We recognize that much of this work is already happening across the state. The following guidelines are intended to offer a bank of strategies, with other perspectives for your community to consider. This is in no way meant to be an exhaustive list. Collaborate with stakeholders to prioritize and plan for the local needs of your community. E D U C A T IO N D E P A R T M E N T P O L IC Y M A K E R S H IG H E R E D U C A T IO N FA C U LT Y A N D A D M IN IS T R A T O R S S T U D E N T S T E A C H E R S S C H O O L L E A D E R S D IS T R IC T L E A D E R S FA M IL IE S A N D C O M M U N IT Y M E M B E R S CULTURALLY RESP ONSIVE-SUSTAINING EDUCATION 17 S T U D E N T S 18 CULTURALLY RESP ONSIVE-SUSTAINING EDUCATION S T U D E N T SNew York State STUDENTS can contribute to a Culturally Responsive- Sustaining educational environment by: Creating a welcoming and affirming environment Fostering high expectations and rigorous instruction Identifying inclusive curriculum and assessment Engaging in ongoing professional learning and support CULTURALLY RESP ONSIVE-SUSTAINING EDUCATION 19 S T U D E N T S 20 CULTURALLY RESP ONSIVE-SUSTAINING EDUCATION • Maintain knowledge and awareness that everyone reacts to situations differently based on their own experiences, cultural backgrounds, and perspectives. • Practice empathy during all interactions. Think about others’ feelings, taking into account their experiences and imagining what it feels like to be in another person’s shoes. • Respectfully, and with care, engage in difficult conversations, particularly those that challenge power and privilege in our society. • Choose kind words over put-down language. Strive to accept others rather than impose negative judgment, in order to create a safe and supportive learning environment that allows for other students to think critically, share honestly, and take academic risks. • Support and accept classmates. Hold peers accountable to following the mutually-agreed upon norms and assume the responsibility of creating an educational environment in which others feel affirmed and valued. • Create opportunities for others to join the conversation by asking questions, listening to and acknowledging the opinions of others, and being open- minded to peers. • Express respectful agreement or disagreement with opinions, validating the knowledge of peers, or challenging their viewpoints in constructive ways. • Acknowledge and try to incorporate the ideas of peers respectfully, recognizing that other students may have vastly different perspectives, experiences, strengths, needs, and opinions. • Lean into discomfort, taking emotional and academic risks by engaging in critical conversations. • Support classmates when in need and work to help mediate through discussion and restorative practices. • Collaborate with teachers and trusted adults to repair harm when harm is caused. • Take risks and view mistakes as opportunities to grow academically and emotionally. • Create collective norms about how to take care of the physical space and materials in the classroom and school community. • Make an effort to build strong relationships across groups, talking to and getting to know a variety of peers and their perspectives. • Consider the physical environment of the classroom to determine what cultures, languages, and identities are reflected, represented and valued. Collaboratively advocate for the representation of the cultural backgrounds of all students across New York State, ensuring that diverse backgrounds are reflected and valued in the school community throughout the year, not only on designated holidays. • Advocate for diversity of art, food, and activities in the building that represent the vast diversity of the state and that incorporate relevant cultural and historical context. • Work with teachers to create an environment that establishes mutually agreed-upon norms. Act out of a sense of personal responsibility to follow these norms, and not from a fear of punishment or desire for a reward. • Build respect and mutual understanding across the school community, including with teachers, administrators, counselors, school aides, custodial staff, lunch and recess staff, etc. • Take ownership of the physical space and learning environment in the school community, welcoming others, taking on leadership roles as school ambassadors, and creating and engaging in activities that improve the school climate and culture for students of diverse backgrounds. • Participate in the creation of, and review of, school codes of conduct. Be a collaborating member of these existing committees. • Address implicit bias in the school and community environment. • Take risks and learn from your mistakes, in order to grow academically and emotionally. • Identify inequity and challenge it when you see it. Creating a welcoming and affirming environment Express respectful agreement or disagreement with opinions, validating the knowledge of peers, or challenging their viewpoints in constructive ways. S T U D E N T S CULTURALLY RESP ONSIVE-SUSTAINING EDUCATION 21 • Challenge oneself to do more than what feels academically comfortable. Set high goals and continuously revise them to push yourself out of your academic comfort zone. • Collaborate with teachers to develop tools for persevering in difficult social and academic situations, i.e. growth mindset tools that help students view challenges and failures as opportunities to grow, and view their brain as a muscle that continues to get stronger over time when they take on new challenges and try new things. • Draw upon your past learning, prior experiences, and the richness of your cultural background to make meaning of new concepts and apply learning on an ongoing basis. • Strive and take pride in producing high quality work, using feedback to revise work, continuously improve, and set new goals. • Voice and express the need for challenging work and extension activities after achieving a goal. • Promote the group’s success and support the participation of everyone in the learning task. • Take responsibility for one’s role in group activities, balancing group and individual accountability. • Work cooperatively toward goals and hold each other accountable in supportive ways. • Develop or sustain the mindset that having high expectations means caring about more than just a grade, but also personal growth and character development. • Participate, when possible, in student leadership opportunities, such as student-led workshops, peer-led discussion, and student-run school- wide initiatives. • Advocate for varied ways of learning (i.e. project-based learning, presentations, station work, small group work) that accommodate the diverse learning styles and interests of those in the class community. • Continuously learn about implicit bias, with attention to identifying and addressing implicit bias in the school community. • Advocate for the physical access of all differently-abled members of the school community. Fostering high expectations and rigorous instruction 22 CULTURALLY RESP ONSIVE-SUSTAINING EDUCATION S T U D E N T S S T U D E N T S CULTURALLY RESP ONSIVE-SUSTAINING EDUCATION 23 • Identify, discuss and dismantle implicit bias in curriculum and assessment. • Advocate for the opportunity for all students to actively give input and share their opinions on the curriculum (book selection, course offerings, elective offerings). • Identify gaps where the current curriculum does not address multiple perspectives, cultures, and backgrounds. Advocate for fair representation of these absent perspectives. • Challenge power and privilege where present, or absent, in the curriculum by locating other resources or requesting curriculum that is inclusive of multiple perspectives. • Generate ideas about people or concepts that peers may like to learn about and share these ideas with your teachers and school leaders. • Ask questions about self, community, and society that may serve as opportunities to connect in-school learning with the world outside the classroom. Share these questions and any related ideas with your teachers and school leaders. • Collaborate with teachers to connect events deemed relevant by your community to the classroom. • Actively engage in service learning opportunities, when available, to expand learning beyond the classroom. Encourage peers to collaborate with you in these learning opportunities. • Collaborate with teachers, peers, and administrators to create opportunities for meaningful long-term projects, project- based learning activities, and field visits that allow all students to demonstrate their knowledge and growth over time, and align to the varied learning styles and interests of those in the class community. • Collaborate with teachers, peers, and administrators to create multiple ways of assessing in-classroom learning that allow all students to demonstrate their knowledge and growth over time, and align to the varied learning styles and interests of those in the class community. • Look critically at the course offerings, extracurricular activities, and student- led organizations. Challenge the current system to make changes that ensure equitable access and participation, especially if the environment offers limited options in which the same students participate and hold leadership opportunities. • Set goals toward future aspirations and collaborate with teachers and families to make plans about achieving them. Work daily toward accomplishing these goals. • Apply for out-of-school programs and learning opportunities, when possible. • Seek help and guidance, when needed, from broader support networks such as peers, family, and trusted adults. • Take ownership and accountability after making mistakes, using your mistake as an opportunity to learn and further academic and emotional growth. • Continuously learn about implicit bias, with attention to identifying and challenging your own biases, and identifying and addressing implicit bias in the school community. • Challenge yourself to learn about people, cultures, languages, orientations, abilities, and socioeconomic backgrounds different than your own. Identifying inclusive curriculum and assessment Engaging in ongoing professional learning and support Develop or sustain the mindset that having high expectations means caring about more than just a grade, but also personal growth and character development. T E A C H E R S 24 CULTURALLY RESP ONSIVE-SUSTAINING EDUCATION T E A C H E R S CULTURALLY RESP ONSIVE-SUSTAINING EDUCATION 25 New York State TEACHERS can cultivate a Culturally Responsive- Sustaining education for students by: Creating a welcoming and affirming environment Fostering high expectations and rigorous instruction Identifying inclusive curriculum and assessment Engaging in ongoing professional learning and support 26 CULTURALLY RESP ONSIVE-SUSTAINING EDUCATION T E A C H E R S • Assess the physical environment of the classroom and school to determine whether a variety of diverse cultures, languages, orientations, and identities are reflected, represented and valued. Promote a variety of perspectives that represent the diversity of the state of New York beyond designated icons, historical figures, months and holidays. • Build rapport and develop positive relationships with students, and their families, by learning about their interests and inviting them to share their opinions and concerns. Find opportunities to address and incorporate their opinions and concerns. • Provide multiple opportunities for parents to communicate in their language and method of preference, such as digital and in-person formats, class visits, phone conversations, text message, email, collaborative projects, and impromptu conferences. • Work with families early and often to gather insight into students’ cultures, goals, and learning preferences. • Enact classroom management strategies that avoid assigning blame or guilt to students based on perceptions about their cultures, differences, or home lives. • Work toward creating an environment that establishes mutually agreed-upon norms and encourages students to act out of a sense of personal responsibility to follow those norms, not from a fear of punishment or desire for a reward. • Meet with families to understand and align the recognition, reward, and incentive practices used in the classroom to the values and cultural norms of families. • Create opportunities to allow different groups and ideas to become part of the fabric of the school community by organizing proactive community- building circles and activities that promote positive relationships among individuals from diverse backgrounds. Include students, teachers, school staff, leaders, families, and community members in these opportunities. • Use restorative justice circles and structures to welcome students back into learning when harm has occurred. • Participate in the review of school and district policies (codes of conduct, curriculum reviews, community engagement, etc.). • Attend or volunteer at community events, when possible, to develop relationships with families and the community outside of the classroom setting. • Respond to instances of disrespectful speech about student identities by intervening if hurtful speech or slurs are used, addressing the impact of said language, and discussing appropriate and inappropriate responses when instances of bias occur. Use these moments as opportunities to build classroom environments of acceptance. • Identify and address implicit bias in the school and community environment. • Encourage students to take academic risks in order to create an environment that capitalizes on student mistakes as learning opportunities that help students grow academically and emotionally. Creating a welcoming and affirming environment CULTURALLY RESP ONSIVE-SUSTAINING EDUCATION 27 T E A C H E R S • Have high expectations and deliver rigorous instruction for all students regardless of identity markers, including race, gender, sexual orientation, language, ability, and economic background. • Reflect on your own implicit bias, how that bias might impact your expectations for student achievement or the decisions you make in the classroom, and the steps you can take to address your biases and their impact on students. • Strive to be culturally sustaining by centering the identities of all students in classroom instruction, encouraging cultural pluralism rather than asking students to minimize their identities in order to be successful. • Provide parents with information about what their child is expected to learn, know, and do at his/her grade level and ways to reinforce concepts at home (e.g., using the home language; reading with, or monitoring, independent reading). • Promote alternative achievement metrics that also support academics (e.g., demonstrating growth, leadership, character development, Social Emotional Learning competencies, or school values). • Invite families and community members to speak or read in the classroom as a means to teach about topics that are culturally specific and aligned to the classroom curriculum and/or content area. • Provide opportunities for students to critically examine topics of power and privilege. These can be planned project-based learning initiatives, instructional activities embedded into the curriculum, or discussion protocols used in response to inequity that occurs in the school and/or classroom. • Incorporate current events, even if they are controversial, into instruction. Utilize tools (prompting discussion questions, Socratic seminar, conversation protocols) that encourage students to engage with difficult topics (power, privilege, access, inequity) constructively. • Be responsive to students’ experiences by providing them with a space to process current events. • Help students identify their different learning styles in both classwork and homework and incorporate instructional strategies and assignments that are responsive to those learning styles. • Provide students with opportunities to present to their peers through project- based or stations-based learning to leverage student experience and expertise. • Co-create explicit classroom expectations that meet the needs of all students. Fostering high expectations and rigorous instruction Have high expectations and deliver rigorous instruction for all students regardless of identity markers, including race, gender, sexual orientation, language, ability, and economic background. 28 CULTURALLY RESP ONSIVE-SUSTAINING EDUCATION T E A C H E R S • Continuously learn about implicit bias, with attention to identifying and challenging your own biases, and identifying and addressing implicit bias in the school community. • Use professional learning activities as opportunities to better acquaint oneself with the diverse communities in which their students live. • Set professional goals related to CR-S practices. • Engage in inquiry groups and professional learning communities with peers and mentors. • Analyze discipline data to determine any trends across sub-groups or bias toward students. Engaging in ongoing professional learning and support • Feature and highlight resources written and developed by traditionally marginalized voices that offer diverse perspectives on race, culture, language, gender, sexual identity, ability, religion, nationality, migrant/refugee status, socioeconomic status, housing status, and other identities traditionally silenced or omitted from curriculum. • Play a role in helping schools to understand and align curriculum to the variety of histories, languages and experiences that reflect the diversity of the State population. • Pair traditional curricular content with digital and other media platforms that provide current and relevant context from youth culture. • Provide homework, projects, and other classroom materials in multiple languages. • Provide regular opportunities for social emotional learning strategies within lessons and as discrete learning activities. • Utilize student data points and assessment measures that reflect learning spaces, modalities, and demonstration of proficiency that go beyond metrics traditionally associated with standardized testing. • Engage students in youth participatory action research that empowers youth to be agents of positive change in their community. • Connect instructional content with the daily lives of students by using culturally- specific examples (e.g., music, movies, text) that tap into their existing interests, knowledge, and youth culture. • Take field trips to community-learning sites, such as museums, parks, cultural centers, neighborhood recreational centers, and community centers, to foster students’ cultural understanding and connection to the surrounding community. • Incorporate cooperative learning activities to encourage understanding of diverse perspectives; support students in working cooperatively toward goals; and highlight students’ unique strengths in the group (e.g., public speaking, note-taking, writing, drawing, etc.). • Support students in creating and running student-led initiatives. Identifying inclusive curriculum and assessment Encourage students to take academic risks in order to create an environment that capitalizes on student mistakes as learning opportunities that help students grow academically and emotionally.   T E A C H E R S CULTURALLY RESP ONSIVE-SUSTAINING EDUCATION 29 S C H O O L L E A D E R S 30 CULTURALLY RESP ONSIVE-SUSTAINING EDUCATION 30 CULTURALLY RESP ONSIVE-SUSTAINING EDUCATION S C H O O L L E A D E R S CULTURALLY RESP ONSIVE-SUSTAINING EDUCATION 31 New York State SCHOOL LEADERS can cultivate Culturally Responsive- Sustaining Education for students by: Creating a welcoming and affirming environment Fostering high expectations and rigorous instruction Identifying inclusive curriculum and assessment Engaging in ongoing professional learning and support CULTURALLY RESP ONSIVE-SUSTAINING EDUCATION 31 S C H O O L L E A D E R S 32 CULTURALLY RESP ONSIVE-SUSTAINING EDUCATION • Conduct periodic review of school policies (i.e. dress code, discipline code, conduct code), by collaborating with parents, teachers, community members and incorporating research- based best practices such as restorative justice, positive behavior interventions and supports. • Assess school climate using a variety of measures (i.e. surveys, interviews, focus groups, informal gatherings) to collect diverse stakeholder impressions and experiences, using questions that consider issues of diversity, equity, and inclusion. • Disaggregate data (i.e. discipline, attendance, enrollment in advanced coursework, special education, and gifted and talented programs) by sub-group, evaluate trends, and create a strategic plan to address disproportionality. • Provide space for teachers and staff to process and determine how to engage with students and families after social and political events that impact the wider community. • Support formal and informal structures for families to receive information about grade-level standards and expectations, developmentally appropriate social emotional tools, and strategies to support academic and social growth at home. Creating a welcoming and affirming environment S C H O O L L E A D E R S CULTURALLY RESP ONSIVE-SUSTAINING EDUCATION 33 • Provide interpretation services at family meetings (i.e. parent organization meetings, community events, during the enrollment process, during the provision of special education services, etc.), to ensure family engagement includes meaningful two-way communication and offers families the opportunity to share (not just receive) in their home language. • Develop multiple means of ongoing family engagement (i.e. apps and online systems of communication, parent leadership opportunities, parent family liaison positions, opportunities for families to serve as active co-creators of policies and programs, parent organizing bodies, and holding meetings at varied hours, possibly providing transportation and childcare, outreach at community meetings). • Create advisory groups consisting of various education stakeholders (families, teachers, students, community members) to work collaboratively to set school norms, establish school goals, and build alignment between the families’ expectations and values, and the school’s expectations and values. • Work with cultural and community centers to identify needs and provide services to families by offering classes such as parenting, financial literacy, computer literacy, or English language at the school. • Highlight works of art designed by students and members of the broader community that incorporate relevant cultural and historical context. • Create a visibly multilingual and multicultural environment by posting signs, banners, and other materials throughout the school that acknowledge and celebrate the identities of students. • Post high-quality work in the physical environment that is not limited to the display of correct answers, but also demonstrates students’ critical thinking, conceptual understanding, reasoning, and application of content to meaningful real-world situations. Work to ensure high-quality work is equitably represented from students across sub-groups. • Create “listening conferences” or “peacemaking circles” led by a trained facilitator through which all stakeholders can discuss cultural and social values and resolve conflict. • Develop peer mediation programs where trained student mediators assist their peers in settling disputes. • Incorporate time in the school day when formal restorative practices can occur. • Provide the time and resources for students to create cultural clubs to learn more about their culture as well as other students’ cultures. • Develop interview questions when hiring new staff that provide opportunities for candidates to identify ways they share (or don’t share) experiences with the local student populations and to explain the implications of those experiences for their professional practices. • Incorporate parent and community voices into the hiring process. Incorporate parent and community voices into the hiring process. S C H O O L L E A D E R S 34 CULTURALLY RESP ONSIVE-SUSTAINING EDUCATION • Support staff in embedding grade- level, standards-aligned resources that emphasize cultural pluralism; social justice; and current events into curriculum across content areas. • Partner with teachers to audit curriculum, materials, and school or classroom libraries to assess: whether they properly represent, value, and develop students’ cultures; presence of implicit bias; or omission of cultural (race, class, gender, language, sexual orientation, nationality, ability) perspectives. • Support the design and implementation of multiple forms of assessment that consider personalized student needs (i.e. learning style, learning preferences, language proficiency). • Invest in curricular resources that reflect diverse cultures and voices of marginalized people. • Invest in community leaders and family members as contributors to instruction by actively seeking and welcoming their history and knowledge. • Incorporate social emotional learning (SEL) materials, resources, and strategies into the school day and broader learning environment that consider and plan for topics of equity and inclusion. • Expose students to the world beyond the home community while affirming their own identities (i.e. community mentor programs, guest speakers, field trips, cross-district partnerships). Identifying inclusive curriculum and assessment • Have high expectations and ensure rigorous instruction for all students regardless of identity markers, including race, gender, sexual orientation, language, ability, and economic background. • Reflect on your own implicit bias, how that bias might impact your expectations for student achievement or the decisions you make in the school, and the steps you can take to address your biases and their impact on students. • Develop in-school inquiry-based teams to address instructional rigor, cultural responsiveness, achievement disparities, and student engagement. • Embed cognitive and instructional strategies into teacher coaching that enables students to strengthen learning capacity. • Embed cognitive and instructional strategies into the teacher coaching model that pushes teachers to put the cognitive lift on students. Coach teachers to deliver high-quality instruction that enables students to grow as independent learners, think critically, make meaning of new concepts in multiple ways, and apply learning to meaningful, real-world situations. • Promote alternative achievement metrics that also supports academics (e.g., demonstrating school values, strong attendance, leadership, growth). Fostering high expectations and rigorous instruction Conduct periodic review of school policies (i.e. dress code, discipline code, conduct code), by collaborating with parents, teachers, community members and incorporating research-based best practices such as restorative justice, positive behavior interventions and supports. Engaging in ongoing professional learning and support S C H O O L L E A D E R S CULTURALLY RESP ONSIVE-SUSTAINING EDUCATION 35 • Support teachers in building capacity to leverage community context in curriculum. • Create learning communities (i.e., professional learning communities, book study, discussion groups, online webinars, digital subscriptions) for teachers and students to engage in topics that directly address educator and student identities and understand and unpack privilege. • Provide opportunities for teachers and leaders to receive trainings on topics related to diversity, equity, and inclusion, such as: critical self- reflection, disproportionality, anti-bias, developing racial literacy, combating racism and microaggressions, etc. • Use data and research to identify teachers with strong culturally responsive-sustaining practices and racial literacy skills and allow time for them to share their practices (i.e. peer observations, professional learning, etc.) • Support teachers in conducting cross-curricular culturally responsive- sustaining planning sessions by providing forums for collaborative planning, drafting, mapping, and aligning. D IS T R IC T L E A D E R S 36 CULTURALLY RESP ONSIVE-SUSTAINING EDUCATION New York State DISTRICT LEADERS can cultivate Culturally Responsive- Sustaining Education for students by: Creating a welcoming and affirming environment Fostering high expectations and rigorous instruction Identifying inclusive curriculum and assessment Engaging in ongoing professional learning and support D IS T R IC T L E A D E R S CULTURALLY RESP ONSIVE-SUSTAINING EDUCATION 37 D IS T R IC T L E A D E R S 38 CULTURALLY RESP ONSIVE-SUSTAINING EDUCATION • Create a policy statement about your commitment to culturally responsive- sustaining education, and include staff (teachers, school safety officers, counselors, lunch and recess staff) in its creation, development, and ongoing training. • Conduct periodic review of school policies (i.e. dress code, discipline code, conduct code), by collaborating with parents, teachers, community members and incorporating research-based best practices such as restorative justice, positive behavior interventions and supports. • Encourage and incentivize school leaders to hold spaces (i.e. community forums, social events) that foster collaboration among teachers, families, and community members that provide insight into the assets that exist among the school community. • Provide resources to schools (i.e. shared language, online resources, questions for discussion, etc.) for incorporating and responding to current events and events that impact the community. • Formalize structures for school and district-wide parent collaboration, such as parent-teacher associations/ organizations (PTA/PTO) or academic parent-teacher teams (APTT). • Assess school climate using a variety of measures (i.e. surveys, interviews, focus groups, informal gatherings) to collect diverse stakeholder impressions and experiences, using questions that consider issues of diversity, equity, and inclusion. • Disaggregate data (i.e. discipline, attendance, enrollment in advanced coursework, special education, and gifted and talented programs) by sub-group, evaluate trends, and create a strategic plan to address disproportionality. • Make accessible and readable information readily available to families in a variety of modes, including translations and accommodations for those with disabilities. • Provide interpretation services at family meetings (i.e. parent organization meetings, community events, during the enrollment process, during the provision of special education services, etc.), to ensure family engagement includes meaningful two-way communication and offers families the opportunity to share (not just receive) in their home language. • Gather family and community feedback on district-wide policies before implementation and provide transparent updates during and after implementation. • Develop multiple means of ongoing family engagement (i.e. apps and online systems of communication, holding meetings at varied hours, possibly providing transportation and childcare, outreach at community meetings or other places the community gathers). • Stay current on wider social and political issues that affect communities served by the district (i.e. hold regular meetings with community-based organizations and advocacy groups, create a community liaison role to gather information from the field). • Work to improve the recruitment and retention of a diverse teacher workforce (i.e. teachers who identify as people of color, LGBTQIA+, differently- abled) by strengthening pipelines for teacher education and cultivating relationships with local and national partners (i.e. historically Black colleges and universities, Hispanic association of colleges and universities, alliance organizations). • Identify, cultivate, and support students who are interested in joining the district in the future as a classroom teacher or school professional (school counselor, occupational and speech pathologist, etc.) by partnering with higher education and other professional organizations that could provide scholarships, internships, externships, and mentorship opportunities, as a means to strengthen teacher education pipelines. • Work with cultural and community centers and organizations to identify needs and provide services to families by offering classes such as parenting, financial literacy, computer literacy, or English language at the school. Creating a welcoming and affirming environment Create a policy statement about your commitment to culturally responsive-sustaining education, and include staff (teachers, school safety officers, counselors, lunch and recess staff) in its creation, development, and ongoing training D IS T R IC T L E A D E R S CULTURALLY RESP ONSIVE-SUSTAINING EDUCATION 39 • Strategize instructional methods to disrupt any disparities in student success outcomes that exist across lines of difference, highlighting and sharing best practices from the field. • Incorporate adaptive learning methods that encourage differentiation, explora- tion and curiosity as opposed to scripted, one-size-fits-all instructional programs. • Partner with experts in the field (i.e. professional learning organizations, higher education, consultants) to identify research-based, instructional strategies that are most effective in advancing student academic success. • Use tools to identify and recognize instructional methods that high-performing, culturally responsive-sustaining teachers are using across content areas. • Facilitate structures for teacher collaboration across school and district teams, i.e. peer observations, school visits, purposeful partnerships, mentor teachers. Fostering high expectations and rigorous instruction • Train and build the capacity of instructional leaders to support teachers in delivering instruction that is rigorous, student-centered, and promotes students as agents of positive social change. • Disseminate existing, or develop new, self-assessment tools and resources for educators to assess and reflect on their implicit biases. • Ensure schools have evidence-based trainings and planning time supportive of CR-S, including space for collaborative curriculum drafting, mapping, and aligning (Carter & Welner, 2013). • Provide Professional Learning Communities and other professional learning structures to address bias, develop racial literacy skills, etc. • Use data and research to identify teachers with strong CR-S practices and racial literacy skills and allow time/space for them to share their practices with other district teachers. Engaging in ongoing professional learning and support • Adopt curriculum that includes culturally authentic learning experiences that mirror students’ ways of learning, understanding, communicating, and demonstrating curiosity and knowledge. • Adopt curriculum that highlights contributions and includes texts reflective of the diverse identities of students and reframes the monocultural framework that privileges the historically advantaged at the expense of other groups. • Invest in research to determine assessments geared toward academic achievement for underrepresented and underserved students of diverse identities. • Formally disseminate existing research on best practices from the field regarding culturally responsive-sustaining curriculum, instruction, and assessment to stakeholders in the district. • Partner with higher education institutions on curriculum development, coaching, and consultation around issues of diversity, equity and inclusion (e.g., immigration, integration, diversification of curriculum). • Create courses district-wide about the diversity of cultures representative of the state of New York (e.g., Native Americans, African Americans, Latinx Studies, Asian American Studies, Gender Studies) in a way that is comprehensive (e.g., across grade levels and not relegated to one specific month) and empowering (e.g., African American history does not begin with slavery, but with African history). Identifying inclusive curriculum and assessment FA M IL IE S A N D C O M M U N IT Y M E M B E R S 40 CULTURALLY RESP ONSIVE-SUSTAINING EDUCATION New York State FAMILIES AND COMMUNITY MEMBERS can cultivate a Culturally Responsive- Sustaining Education for students by: Creating a welcoming and affirming environment Fostering high expectations and rigorous instruction Identifying inclusive curriculum and assessment Engaging in ongoing professional learning and support 40 CULTURALLY RESP ONSIVE-SUSTAINING EDUCATION FA M IL IE S A N D C O M M U N IT Y M E M B E R S CULTURALLY RESP ONSIVE-SUSTAINING EDUCATION 41 CULTURALLY RESP ONSIVE-SUSTAINING EDUCATION 41 FA M IL IE S A N D C O M M U N IT Y M E M B E R S 42 CULTURALLY RESP ONSIVE-SUSTAINING EDUCATION • Communicate with your child’s teachers using your preferred language and means of communication (e.g., in-person, phone, email, texts, notes) from the variety of methods of participation offered (in-class, in-school, at-home, community-based). When a variety of communication methods is not offered, advocate for increased means of communication. • Advocate for the right to receive communications in the language and format desired. • Advocate to ensure that school culture and environment is safe and responsive to children’s needs. • Partner with teachers and school leaders to inform them of, and assist with, school community needs. • Be aware of, and collaboratively advocate for, children having access to a wide range of educational coursework and programming. • Share knowledge about your child’s interests, learning style, learning preferences, and prior educational experiences with trusted teachers and leaders in the school community. • Share traditions and cultural assets with teachers to support the integration of these values within curriculum. • Support students in engaging with their local community (i.e. youth participatory action research [Y-PAR] and other community-based inquiry) that encourages student engagement with their local contexts. • Be open to opportunities for service learning, outreach, field trips, and other educational opportunities in the school community, toward the end of helping students develop a sense of identity and belonging and provide a support system in the school community. • Ask teacher and school leaders what is being taught in each class, and periodically inquire about children’s progress toward achieving learning goals. • Support students in achieving progress toward learning goals, to the extent possible. Seek help and guidance from trusted teachers, leaders, and families in the school community, when needed. Creating a welcoming and affirming environment Fostering high expectations and rigorous instruction Set goals with your children toward their future aspirations and collaborate with teachers to make plans about achieving them. Share knowledge about your child’s interests, learning style, learning preferences, and prior educational experiences with trusted teachers and leaders in the school community. • Generate ideas about concepts that your children and their peers may like to learn about. • Ask questions of your children about self, community, and society that may serve as opportunities to connect in-school learning with the world outside the classroom. • Collaborate with teachers to connect events deemed relevant by the community to the classroom. • Actively engage your children in service learning opportunities, when available, to expand learning beyond the classroom. Identifying inclusive curriculum and assessment CULTURALLY RESP ONSIVE-SUSTAINING EDUCATION 43 • Participate in decision-making around programs, policies, and learning activities that impact the school community. • Work with parent organizations to ensure that parents are represented in the school across various identities including race, family orientation, social class, profession, religious backgrounds. • Offer time and talents to school events and trainings, to the extent possible. • Leverage the knowledge of other parents to create strong parental in-school community. • Set goals with your children toward their future aspirations and collaborate with teachers to make plans about achieving them. • Support your children in applying for out-of-school programs and learning opportunities, when possible. Engaging in ongoing professional learning and support FA M IL IE S A N D C O M M U N IT Y M E M B E R S H IG H E R E D U C A T IO N FA C U LT Y A N D A D M IN IS T R A T O R S 44 CULTURALLY RESP ONSIVE-SUSTAINING EDUCATION H IG H E R E D U C A T IO N FA C U LT Y A N D A D M IN IS T R A T O R S CULTURALLY RESP ONSIVE-SUSTAINING EDUCATION 45 New York State HIGHER EDUCATION FACULTY AND ADMINISTRATORS can cultivate a Culturally Responsive- Sustaining Education for students by: Creating a welcoming and affirming environment Fostering high expectations and rigorous instruction Identifying inclusive curriculum and assessment Engaging in ongoing professional learning and support H IG H E R E D U C A T IO N FA C U LT Y A N D A D M IN IS T R A T O R S • Create a policy statement about your institution’s commitment to culturally responsive-sustaining education that includes a definition, shared language, and short and term-long goals. Include administrators, faculty, staff, and students in its creation and ongoing implementation. • Identify school codes of conduct and discipline policies that disproportionately impact persons of color, students who are English Language Learners/Multilingual Learners, students with disabilities, students of different religions, gender identities, sexual identities, nationalities, socioeconomic backgrounds, housing status, migrant/refugee status, and other diverse identities. • Collaborate with teacher and leader candidates to address inequitable policies, and expand the development of tools to do so. • Work to expand the recruitment and retention of a diverse student body and staff with identities and experiences that reflect the varied experiences of the student population. (i.e. educators and staff who identify as people of color, LGBTQIA+, differently-abled; educators and staff with experience in both rural and urban populations). Creating a welcoming and affirming environment 46 CULTURALLY RESP ONSIVE-SUSTAINING EDUCATION H IG H E R E D U C A T IO N FA C U LT Y A N D A D M IN IS T R A T O R S CULTURALLY RESP ONSIVE-SUSTAINING EDUCATION 47 • Have high expectations and deliver rigorous instruction for all teacher and leader candidates regardless of identity markers, including race, gender, sexual orientation, language, ability, and economic background. • Reflect on your own implicit bias, and how that bias might impact your expectations for teacher and leader candidate achievement, and the decisions you make as a faculty member or administrator. • Create a course, or embed into existing courses, the opportunity for teacher and leader candidates to identify and address their own implicit bias. • Train and build the capacity of teacher and leader candidates to deliver instruction that meets the needs of a diverse population; values multiple components of student identity (race, economic background, gender, language, sexual orientation, nationality, religion, and ability); counters deficit-based policies; and promotes students as agents of positive social change. • Review and update faculty pedagogical practices for culturally responsive- sustaining teaching across disciplines and support faculty in implementing said instruction. • Invest in research to determine the educational policies and reforms geared toward academic achievement for underrepresented and underserviced students of diverse identities and support faculty in implementing these practices in their teacher and leader preparation courses. • Formally disseminate existing research on best practices from the field regarding culturally responsive- sustaining instruction to stakeholders in the district. • Document and share examples from the field of culturally responsive-sustaining instruction and school leadership beyond the academic community to reach all education stakeholders. • Place teaching candidates in student teaching placements across a range of diverse settings (urban, rural, suburban, small, large, traditional, nontraditional), supporting teachers to work along lines of difference with students of diverse backgrounds (race, language, economic background, ability). Fostering high expectations and rigorous instruction Invest in research to determine the educational policies and reforms geared toward academic achievement for underrepresented and underserviced students of diverse identities and support faculty in implementing these practices in their teacher and leader preparation courses. H IG H E R E D U C A T IO N FA C U LT Y A N D A D M IN IS T R A T O R S 48 CULTURALLY RESP ONSIVE-SUSTAINING EDUCATION Engaging in ongoing professional learning and support • Prioritize teacher and leader professional learning opportunities that align with New York State Professional Learning Standards and build educators’ capacities to deliver CR-S instruction. Work with school leaders and districts to engage teachers and school support staff in these opportunities both as in-school, job-embedded professional development and as out-of-school, college/university-based professional learning. Opportunities might be remote, in-person, short-term, or long-term. • Create pipelines between the district and college/universities by identifying, cultivating, and supporting high school students of diverse backgrounds from the district who are interested in returning to the district as classroom teachers or school professional personnel (school counselors, occupational and speech pathologists, etc.). • Disseminate existing, or develop new, self-assessment tools and resources for educators to assess and reflect on their implicit biases. Identifying inclusive curriculum and assessment • Integrate CR-S education into teacher and education leadership preparation programs as both a standalone class and an infused aspect of all teacher preparation classes. • Prioritize social emotional learning approaches that are culturally responsive-sustaining as essential to quality teaching and learning throughout New York State. • Partner with districts on curriculum development, coaching, and assessment consultation with regard to issues of diversity, disproportionality, equity, and inclusion. • Partner with teachers, school leaders, and district leaders to create materials to help in CR-S strategic planning and implementation at the classroom, school, and district level. • Conduct curriculum audits within teacher and education leadership preparation programs to identify the levels of bias existing in current resource selection and staff capacity. Work with teacher and education leadership to use this data to better inform or advocate for different curricular choices. • Invest in research to identify culturally responsive-sustaining methods of assessment that consider personalized student needs (i.e. learning style, learning preferences, language proficiency, interests) and allow all students to demonstrate their knowledge and growth over time. • Formally disseminate existing research on best practices from the field regarding culturally responsive- sustaining curriculum and assessment to stakeholders in the district. • Support school districts in creating courses about the diversity of cultures representative of the state of New York, (e.g., Native Americans, African Americans, Latinx Studies, Asian American, Gender Studies) in a way that is comprehensive (e.g., across grade levels and not relegated to one specific month) and empowering (e.g., African American history does not begin with slavery, but with African history). Create pipelines between the district and college/ universities by identifying, cultivating, and supporting high school students of diverse back- grounds from the district who are interested in returning to the district as classroom teachers or school professional personnel (school counselors, occupational and speech pathologists, etc.). H IG H E R E D U C A T IO N FA C U LT Y A N D A D M IN IS T R A T O R S CULTURALLY RESP ONSIVE-SUSTAINING EDUCATION 49 50 CULTURALLY RESP ONSIVE-SUSTAINING EDUCATION New York State EDUCATION DEPARTMENT POLICYMAKERS can cultivate Culturally Responsive- Sustaining Education for students by: Creating a welcoming and affirming environment Fostering high expectations and rigorous instruction Identifying inclusive curriculum and assessment Engaging in ongoing professional learning and support 50 CULTURALLY RESP ONSIVE-SUSTAINING EDUCATION E D U C A T IO N D E P A R T M E N T P O L IC Y M A K E R S E D U C A T IO N D E P A R T M E N T P O L IC Y M A K E R SCULTURALLY RESP ONSIVE-SUSTAINING EDUCATION 51CULTURALLY RESP ONSIVE-SUSTAINING EDUCATION 51 E D U C A T IO N D E P A R T M E N T P O L IC Y M A K E R S 52 CULTURALLY RESP ONSIVE-SUSTAINING EDUCATION • Strive to be sustaining by centering the identities of all students in our educational policies, encouraging cultural pluralism rather than creating policies that ask students to minimize their identities in order to be successful. • Strive to be responsive to the needs of students, teachers, school and district leaders, parents, and families. • Work to expand the recruitment and retention of a diverse staff with identities and experiences that reflect the varied experiences of the student population in New York State (i.e. staff who identify as people of color, LGBTQIA+, differently- abled; staff with experience in both rural and urban populations). • Make accessible and readable information readily available, in multiple languages, to parents and families. • Develop guidance on ways schools can respond to local and global events, as well as prominent community concerns. • Provide resources families need to be engaged advocates for their children’s sense of belonging in school, with particular regard to the opportunities and challenges associated with having marginalized identity markers (i.e. race, sexuality, gender identity, ability, language, etc.) • Recognize the effect of school environment on student achievement and continue to expand the development of tools that assess, address, and support the improvement of school climate. • Engage families and communities in a respectful way, as outlined in the first commitment of New York State’s My Brother’s Keeper (MBK) initiative. Creating a welcoming and affirming environment Engaging in ongoing professional learning and support E D U C A T IO N D E P A R T M E N T P O L IC Y M A K E R SCULTURALLY RESP ONSIVE-SUSTAINING EDUCATION 53 • Identify and share resources in every content area that allow teachers, school leaders, and district leaders to embed equitable representations of diverse cultures, celebrate the voices of underrepresented identities, and accurately represent historical events into curriculum. • Promote the design of multiple forms of assessment that consider personalized student needs (i.e. learning style, learning preferences, language proficiency). • Promote and utilize asset-based research on the academic achievement of underrepresented and underserved students to determine educational policies and reforms related to standards, curriculum, and assessment. • Use differentiated approaches to instruction based on need and culture, as outlined in the third commitment of New York State’s MBK initiative. • Build internal staff capacity to engage in continuous professional learning and growth around culturally responsive- sustaining practices that will be reflected in policies. • Provide supports, opportunities, and resources that build stakeholders’ capacity to implement CR-S practices. • Continuously engage staff members in professional learning about implicit bias, with particular attention to allowing staff members to identify and challenge their own biases, and training them on identifying and addressing implicit bias in the workplace. • Provide educators with opportunities for professional learning in the areas of equity, anti-bias, multicultural, and culturally responsive-sustaining pedagogies. • Identify and share research practices proven effective and highlight examples of best practices from the field. • Create different pathways for educational success and life readiness, including college, career, technical education, and vocational pathways, etc. • Create high-quality resources that allow teachers, school leaders, and district leaders to plan and implement culturally responsive-sustaining practices in their respective communities. • Align existing resources to the Diagnostic Tool for School and District Effectiveness (DTSDE) and Social Emotional Learning (SEL) frameworks. • Align existing state standards to CR-S guidelines. • Adhere to the six commitments set by the New York State My Brother’s Keeper (MBK) Initiative that incorporate strategies to help boys and young men of color—and all students—realize their full potential. 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Asset-based teaching is a strengths- based approach that leverages students’ knowledge, experiences, skills, values, and perspectives as assets for learning. Asset-based educators see cultural differences as assets, create caring learning communities in which social, cultural, and linguistic diversities are valued, use the cultural knowledges of diverse cultures, families, and communities to guide curriculum development, classroom climates, instructional strategies, and relationships with students, and challenge racial, linguistic, and cultural stereotypes, prejudices, racism, and other forms of intolerance, injustice, and oppression. DEFICIT-BASED PER SPECTIVE  implies that students are flawed or deficient and that the role of the school is to fix the student. Deficit-based teaching seeks to teach to students’ weaknesses instead of teaching to their strengths. It views students as needed to be fixed or remediated, and often attributes their school failures to perceived deficits that lie within the student, their family, community or culture. DIVER SITY is a reality created by individuals and groups from a broad spectrum of demographic and philosophical differences. These differences can exist along dimensions of race, ethnicity, gender, language heritage, sexual orientation, socio- economic status, age, physical abilities, religious beliefs, political beliefs, or other ideologies. It is the exploration of these differences in a safe, positive, and nurturing environment. It is about understanding each other and moving beyond simple tolerance to embracing and celebrating the rich dimensions of difference contained within everyone. Finally, we acknowledge that categories of difference are not always fixed but can be fluid, and we respect individual rights to self-identification, as no one culture is intrinsically superior to another. EQUITY is the state, quality, or ideal of being just, impartial, and fair. The concept of equity is synonymous with fairness and justice. To be achieved and sustained, equity needs to be thought of as a structural and systemic concept, and not as idealistic. Equity is a robust system and dynamic process that reinforces and replicates equitable ideas, power, resources, strategies, conditions, habits, and outcomes. SYSTEMATIC EQUITY is a complex combination of interrelated elements designed to create, support and sustain social justice. GENDER implies a non-binary association of characteristics within the broad spectrum between masculinities and femininities. In New York State, gender is identified by the student. In the case of very young transgender students not yet able to advocate for themselves, gender may be identified by the parent or guardian. INCLUSIVE more than simply diversity and numerical representation, being inclusive involves authentic and empowered participation and a true sense of belonging. In an inclusive school, the social and instructional space is designed such that all students have access to the curriculum and there are many opportunities for students to be successful. INTERNALIZED RACISM describes the private racial beliefs held by and within individuals. The way we absorb social messages about race and adopt them as personal beliefs, biases, and prejudices are all within the realm of internalized racism. For people of color, internalized oppression can involve believing in negative messages about oneself or one’s racial group. For Whites, internalized privilege can involve feeling a sense of superiority and entitlement or holding negative beliefs about people of color. INTERPER SONAL RACISM is how our private beliefs about race become public when we interact with others. When we act upon our prejudices or unconscious bias — whether intentionally, visibly, verbally — we engage in interpersonal racism. Interpersonal racism also can be willful and overt, taking the form of bigotry, hate speech or racial violence. INSTITUTIONAL RACISM is racial inequity baked into our institutions, connoting a system of power that produces racial disparities in domains such as law, health, employment, education, and so on. It can take the form of unfair policies and practices, discriminatory treatment and inequitable opportunities and outcomes. A school system that concentrates people of color in the most overcrowded and under-resourced schools with the least qualified teachers, compared to the educational opportunities of more advantaged students, is an example of institutional racism. MICROAGGRESSIONS are the everyday verbal, nonverbal, and environmental slights, snubs, or insults, whether intentional or unintentional, which communicate hostile, derogatory, or negative messages to target persons based solely upon their marginalized group membership. In many cases, these hidden messages may invalidate the group identity or experiential reality of targeted persons, demean them on a personal or group level, communicate the perception that they are lesser human beings, suggest they do not belong with the majority group, threaten and intimidate, or relegate them to inferior status and treatment. MULTILINGUAL LEARNER S (MLs) are students who, by reason of foreign birth or ancestry, speak or understand languages other than English, speak or GLOSSARY OF TERMS CULTURALLY RESP ONSIVE-SUSTAINING EDUCATION 61 understand little or no English, require support in order to become proficient in English, and are identified pursuant to Section 154.3 of New York State’s Commissioner’s Regulations. PLURALISM is a socially constructed system in which members of an identity group maintain participation in this group even as they belong to a larger cultural group. Educational pluralism is when students can leverage aspects of their cultural background as assets for learning and sustain those assets throughout their schooling. They are not required to minimize their unique cultural strengths in order to experience social and academic success or acceptance because no one culture is not valued as standard or dominant. RACE is a socially constructed system of categorizing humans largely based on observable physical features (phenotypes) such as skin color and ancestry. There is no scientific basis for or discernible distinction between racial categories. The ideology of race has become embedded in our identities, institutions, and culture and is used as a basis for discrimination and domination. RACIAL JUSTICE is the systematic fair treatment of people of all races that results in equitable opportunities and outcomes for everyone. All people are able to achieve their full potential in life, regardless of race, ethnicity or the community in which they live. Racial justice — or racial equity —goes beyond “anti-racism.” It’s not just about what we are against, but also what we are for. A CR-S education framework should move us from a reactive posture to a more powerful, proactive and even preventative approach. The concept of RACISM is widely thought of as simply personal prejudice, but, in fact, it is a complex system of racial hierarchies and inequities. At the micro level of racism, or individual level, are internalized and interpersonal systems of engrained bias. At the macro level of racism, we focus beyond individuals to the broader dynamics, including symbolic, ideological, institutional, and structural systems of racial hierarchies and inequities. SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS is the social standing or class of an individual or group. It is often measured as a combination of education, income, and occupation. Examinations of socioeconomic status often reveal inequities in access to resources, as well as issues related to privilege, power, and control. In New York State, a student’s socioeconomic status is determined by family participation in economic assistance programs, such as the Free or Reduced Price Lunch Programs; Social Security Insurance (SSI); Food Stamps; Foster Care; Refugee Assistance (cash or medical assistance); Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC); Home Energy Assistance Program (HEAP); Safety Net Assistance (SNA); Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA); or Family Assistance: Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF). If one student in a family is identified as low income, all students from that household or economic unit may be identified as low income. SOCIOCULTURAL RESP ONSIVENESS involves the active sensitivity to what all students need to be successful academically, psychologically, emotionally, and socially. Such responsiveness recognizes that all students are different and must be uniquely responded to, challenged and stimulated, and strategies must be adapted to meet the needs of individual and groups of students. SOCIO-P OLITICAL CONSCIOUSNESS involves an awareness to both the social and political factors at play in the workings of complex societal systems. This consciousness is necessary for navigating complex systems based on a unity of thought and performance, reflective practice and deliberative action, skills that are meaningful and necessary for participation in expanding global economies and democracies. STRUCTURAL RACISM (or structural racialization) is the operation of racial bias across institutions and society. It describes the cumulative and compounding effects of an array of factors that systematically privilege one group over another. Since the word “racism” often is understood as a conscious belief, “racialization” may be a better way to describe a process that does not require intentionality. Race equity expert John A. Powell writes: “’Racialization’ connotes a process rather than a static event. It underscores the fluid and dynamic nature of race… ‘Structural racialization’ is a set of processes that may generate disparities or depress life outcomes without any racist actors.” SYSTEMATIC EQUITY is a complex combination of interrelated elements consciously designed to create, support, and sustain social justice. It is a robust system and dynamic process that reinforces and replicates equitable ideas, power, resources, strategies, conditions, habits, and outcomes. SYSTEMIC RACIALIZATION describes a dynamic system that produces and replicates racial ideologies, identities, and inequities. Systemic racialization is the deeply-institutionalized pattern of discrimination that cuts across major political, economic and social organizations in a society. Public attention to racism is generally focused on the symptoms (such as a racist slur by an individual) rather than the system of racial inequality. Like two sides of the same coin, racial privilege describes race-based advantages and preferential treatment based on skin color, while racial oppression refers to race-based disadvantages, discrimination and exploitation based on skin color. GLOSSARY OF TERMS 62 CULTURALLY RESP ONSIVE-SUSTAINING EDUCATION Alfredo Artiles Dean of the Graduate College and Professor at Arizona State University Jeff Duncan-Andrade Associate Professor at San Francisco State University David Kirkland Executive Director of New York University Metro Center Gloria Ladson-Billings Distinguished Professor at University of Wisconsin Joyce Moy Executive Director of Asian American/Asian Research Institute, City University of New York Django Paris Associate Professor and Director of the Banks Center for Educational Justice at University of Washington Michigan State Carla Shedd-Guild Associate Professor of Urban Education at the CUNY Graduate Center Amy Stuart-Wells Professor at Teachers College, Columbia University Mariana Souto-Manning Associate Professor at Teachers College, Columbia University Zoila Morrell Associate Professor of Educational Leadership at Mercy College Zakiyah Shaakir-Ansari Advocacy Director at the Alliance for Quality Education Tracy Atkins Teacher, Development and Evaluation Coach, (TDEC) for District 31 Jim Bostic Executive Director at Nepperhan Community Center Barry Derfel Assistant Superintendent at TST BOCES of Ithaca Arnold Dodge Associate Professor of Education at Long Island University Winsome Gregory Assistant Superintendent for Administration and Instruction at Nyack Public Schools Gilleyan Hargrove Supervisor of Guidance Services at NYCDOE Stanley Harper Superintendent of Schools at Salmon River Central School District Eva Hassett Executive Director at International Institute of Buffalo Ruth Holland Scott Community Leader of Rochester Andrea Honigsfeld Professor of Education, Molloy College Sonya Horsford Associate Professor at Teachers College, Columbia University Brian Jones Associate Director of Education at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture Marina Marcou-O’Malley Policy and Operations Director at Alliance for Quality Education Regent Nan Mead New York State Board of Regents Fatima Morrell Assistant Superintendent, Buffalo Public Schools Roberto Padilla Superintendent of Newburgh Schools Joe Rogers Director of Public Engagement at the Center for Educational Equity at Teachers College, Columbia University Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz Associate Professor at Teachers College, Columbia University Andrea Toussaint Assistant Principal at Medgar Evers Preparatory School Carmela Thompson Assistant Dean of the Graduate School at Buffalo State University Regent Lester Young, Jr. New York State Board of Regents COLLABORATIVE MEMBERS EXPERT PANEL ADVISORY PANEL CULTURALLY RESP ONSIVE-SUSTAINING EDUCATION 63 Carla Shedd Associate Professor of Sociology and Urban Education at the Graduate Center, CUNY Helaine W. 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Research Areas Partnership People News & Events Publications Presentations About Settings Menu Search Research Publications Social Interoperability in Research Support: Cross-campus partnerships and the university research enterprise Social Interoperability in Research Support: Cross-Campus Partnerships and the University Research Enterprise by Rebecca Bryant, Annette Dortmund, and Brian Lavoie Report Supplemental To develop robust research support services across the entire research life cycle, individuals and units from across the university, including the library, must collaborate across internal silos. Effective social interoperability—the creation and maintenance of working relationships between individuals and organizational units—in higher education requires a thorough knowledge of campus partners. The OCLC Research report Social Interoperability in Research Support explores the social and structural norms that shape cross-campus collaboration and offers a conceptual model of key university stakeholders in research support. Information about their goals, interests, expertise, and crucially, the importance of cross-campus relationships in their work was synthesized from interviews conducted with practitioners from  a wide range of campus stakeholders in research support. The report describes the network of campus units involved in both the provision and consumption of major categories of research support services, and concludes with recommendations for establishing and maintaining successful cross-campus relationships. Visit oc.lc/social-interoperability-project for more related project outputs. Download US Letter .pdf Download A4 .pdf   Suggested citation: Bryant, Rebecca, Annette Dortmund, and Brian Lavoie. 2020. 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If this work is meaningful to you, I invite you to become a subscriber today. Subscribe Last week, a prominent a co-leader of the Ethical Artificial Intelligence team at Google sent an email to her colleagues. Timnit Gebru had been working on a research paper that she hoped to publish, but ran into resistance from her superiors at Google. And so she sent a letter expressing her frustration to the internal listserv Google Brain Women and Allies. A few days later, Gebru was fired — Google reportedly found the email “inconsistent with the expectations of a Google manager.” It details the struggles Gebru experienced as a Black leader working on ethics research within the company, and presents a bleak view of the path forward for underrepresented minorities at the company. Gebru is well known and respected in the AI ethics community; here are Shelly Banjo and Mark Bergen on her background at Bloomberg: Gebru, an alumni of the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, is one of the leading voices in the ethical use of artificial intelligence. She is well-known for her work on a landmark study in 2018 that showed how facial recognition software misidentified dark-skinned women as much as 35% of the time, whereas the technology worked with near precision on white men. She has also been an outspoken critic of the lack of diversity and unequal treatment of Black workers at tech companies, particularly at Alphabet Inc.’s Google, and said she believed her dismissal was meant to send a message to the rest of Google’s employees not to speak up. Platformer received the email Gebru sent; she herself did not have access to her account after Google terminated her. It is published in full below. Google did not immediately respond to a request for comment. But on Thursday morning, Jeff Dean, the head of Google research, emailed employees with his account of what happened. Dean said Gebru had issued ultimatum and would resign unless certain conditions were met. Platformer obtained Dean’s email as well; you can find it below Gebru’s. Hi friends, I had stopped writing here as you may know, after all the micro and macro aggressions and harassments I received after posting my stories here (and then of course it started being moderated). Recently however, I was contributing to a document that Katherine and Daphne were writing where they were dismayed by the fact that after all this talk, this org seems to have hired 14% or so women this year. Samy has hired 39% from what I understand but he has zero incentive to do this. What I want to say is stop writing your documents because it doesn’t make a difference. The DEI OKRs that we don’t know where they come from (and are never met anyways), the random discussions, the “we need more mentorship” rather than “we need to stop the toxic environments that hinder us from progressing” the constant fighting and education at your cost, they don’t matter. Because there is zero accountability. There is no incentive to hire 39% women: your life gets worse when you start advocating for underrepresented people, you start making the other leaders upset when they don’t want to give you good ratings during calibration. There is no way more documents or more conversations will achieve anything. We just had a Black research all hands with such an emotional show of exasperation. Do you know what happened since? Silencing in the most fundamental way possible. Have you ever heard of someone getting “feedback” on a paper through a privileged and confidential document to HR? Does that sound like a standard procedure to you or does it just happen to people like me who are constantly dehumanized? Imagine this: You’ve sent a paper for feedback to 30+ researchers, you’re awaiting feedback from PR & Policy who you gave a heads up before you even wrote the work saying “we’re thinking of doing this”, working on a revision plan figuring out how to address different feedback from people, haven’t heard from PR & Policy besides them asking you for updates (in 2 months). A week before you go out on vacation, you see a meeting pop up at 4:30pm PST on your calendar (this popped up at around 2pm). No one would tell you what the meeting was about in advance. Then in that meeting your manager’s manager tells you “it has been decided” that you need to retract this paper by next week, Nov. 27, the week when almost everyone would be out (and a date which has nothing to do with the conference process). You are not worth having any conversations about this, since you are not someone whose humanity (let alone expertise recognized by journalists, governments, scientists, civic organizations such as the electronic frontiers foundation etc) is acknowledged or valued in this company. Then, you ask for more information. What specific feedback exists? Who is it coming from? Why now? Why not before? Can you go back and forth with anyone? Can you understand what exactly is problematic and what can be changed? And you are told after a while, that your manager can read you a privileged and confidential document and you’re not supposed to even know who contributed to this document, who wrote this feedback, what process was followed or anything. You write a detailed document discussing whatever pieces of feedback you can find, asking for questions and clarifications, and it is completely ignored. And you’re met with, once again, an order to retract the paper with no engagement whatsoever. Then you try to engage in a conversation about how this is not acceptable and people start doing the opposite of any sort of self reflection—trying to find scapegoats to blame. Silencing marginalized voices like this is the opposite of the NAUWU principles which we discussed. And doing this in the context of “responsible AI” adds so much salt to the wounds. I understand that the only things that mean anything at Google are levels, I’ve seen how my expertise has been completely dismissed. But now there’s an additional layer saying any privileged person can decide that they don’t want your paper out with zero conversation. So you’re blocked from adding your voice to the research community—your work which you do on top of the other marginalization you face here. I’m always amazed at how people can continue to do thing after thing like this and then turn around and ask me for some sort of extra DEI work or input. This happened to me last year. I was in the middle of a potential lawsuit for which Kat Herller and I hired feminist lawyers who threatened to sue Google (which is when they backed off--before that Google lawyers were prepared to throw us under the bus and our leaders were following as instructed) and the next day I get some random “impact award.” Pure gaslighting. So if you would like to change things, I suggest focusing on leadership accountability and thinking through what types of pressures can also be applied from the outside. For instance, I believe that the Congressional Black Caucus is the entity that started forcing tech companies to report their diversity numbers. Writing more documents and saying things over and over again will tire you out but no one will listen. Timnit And here is the email that Jeff Dean sent out to Googlers on Thursday morning. Hi everyone, I’m sure many of you have seen that Timnit Gebru is no longer working at Google. This is a difficult moment, especially given the important research topics she was involved in, and how deeply we care about responsible AI research as an org and as a company. Because there’s been a lot of speculation and misunderstanding on social media, I wanted to share more context about how this came to pass, and assure you we’re here to support you as you continue the research you’re all engaged in. Timnit co-authored a paper with four fellow Googlers as well as some external collaborators that needed to go through our review process (as is the case with all externally submitted papers). We’ve approved dozens of papers that Timnit and/or the other Googlers have authored and then published, but as you know, papers often require changes during the internal review process (or are even deemed unsuitable for submission). Unfortunately, this particular paper was only shared with a day’s notice before its deadline — we require two weeks for this sort of review — and then instead of awaiting reviewer feedback, it was approved for submission and submitted. A cross functional team then reviewed the paper as part of our regular process and the authors were informed that it didn’t meet our bar for publication and were given feedback about why. It ignored too much relevant research — for example, it talked about the environmental impact of large models, but disregarded subsequent research showing much greater efficiencies.  Similarly, it raised concerns about bias in language models, but didn’t take into account recent research to mitigate these issues. We acknowledge that the authors were extremely disappointed with the decision that Megan and I ultimately made, especially as they’d already submitted the paper.  Timnit responded with an email requiring that a number of conditions be met in order for her to continue working at Google, including revealing the identities of every person who Megan and I had spoken to and consulted as part of the review of the paper and the exact feedback. Timnit wrote that if we didn’t meet these demands, she would leave Google and work on an end date. We accept and respect her decision to resign from Google. Given Timnit's role as a respected researcher and a manager in our Ethical AI team, I feel badly that Timnit has gotten to a place where she feels this way about the work we’re doing. I also feel badly that hundreds of you received an email just this week from Timnit telling you to stop work on critical DEI programs. Please don’t. I understand the frustration about the pace of progress, but we have important work ahead and we need to keep at it. I know we all genuinely share Timnit’s passion to make AI more equitable and inclusive. No doubt, wherever she goes after Google, she’ll do great work and I look forward to reading her papers and seeing what she accomplishes. Thank you for reading and for all the important work you continue to do.  -Jeff 19Sign up to like post Subscribe LoginPrivacyTermsInformation collection notice 5 Share Subscribe ← PreviousNext → Create your profile Set photo Sign up for the newsletter Save & Post Comment Only paying subscribers can comment on this post Subscribe Already a paying subscriber? Sign in Check your email For your security, we need to re-authenticate you. Click the link we sent to , or click here to log in. ZTGSBDec 4Liked by Casey Newton The root controversy here is a pretty big factual discrepancy about the nature of the review process. Did she turn it in a day before the deadline instead of the normal two weeks, or did Google ghost her and her coauthors for two months? Was the review a normal one or a confidential memo? The issue was not clear from the New York Times' coverage, which neglects to include the fact that Dean's email contests her account of the timing. If the company's version is true Google's actions are far easier to defend; if Dr. Gebru's version is true then the scandal is even worse. It would be helpful to have some background on how the review process normally works. 23Sign up to like comment Subscribe LoginPrivacyTermsInformation collection notice Reply 1 reply by Casey Newton Lucy SuchmanDec 5Liked by Casey Newton As someone who was a researcher at Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) for 20 years, I find the internal review process for Google researchers deeply troubling. At PARC our research papers were reviewed for intellectual property only, with questions of the quality of research content left up to peer review. An internal, corporate review process runs the serious risk of acting as a mode of censorship above and beyond questions of IP. So regardless of chronology, I think this process raises serious questions about research integrity at Google, particularly for those like Timnit Gebru who are committed to critical thinking about technology. 38Sign up to like comment Subscribe LoginPrivacyTermsInformation collection notice Reply 3 more comments… TopNewCommunityWhat is Platformer?About Ready for more? Subscribe © 2020 Substack Inc. See privacy, terms and information collection notice Publish on Substack This site requires JavaScript to run correctly. 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Online Unconference of Niche Interests (“OUNI” for short), scheduled to run from 2pm until a bit after 5pm Eastern Standard Time, this Sunday, November 29. We have a set of volunteer presenters who will each talk for up to 15 minutes about a niche topic they’re into. Sign up here if you’re interested in this or future OUNIs, and we’ll send you a link to the Zoom session, the talk schedule, and the Discord chat space.* You are welcome to drop in and out of the Zoom, if there are only a few talks that interest you; of course, you’re also invited/encouraged to stay the whole time! Our list of topics for this Sunday: Knitting but Scary Making Herbal Salves Fanfiction: the Sometimes Sensational World of Transformative Fiction Magnificent Moose: Animal, Culture and Representation All the Fair Dice Glass Sponges: Delicate Aliens Post Office Trivia You Will Enjoy, and a plug for writing letters and postcards The schedule, with full session descriptions, is here. I know, I didn’t ever actually blog about the First Online Unconference of Niche Interests, sorry. The recordings we have permission to share are on this playlist, though. (Yes, the one about owls was me. :)) Topics not in the playlist included adaptive clothing, birdwatching, capture the flag (security games), octagon houses, and approval voting. I mention the previous list of topics in the hopes that they give you ideas. :) We do already have 2-3 talks pre-proposed for the next OUNI, which is very exciting! The form for talk submissions is open now, and we’ll schedule the third OUNI around the availability of presenters. If we get more talks than will fit in a nice 3-4 hour block (with breaks!), we’ll do community voting to decide which ones run. Or we’ll schedule multiple weekends in a row? 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It was a general question, which I chose to interpret as "how does transmission work, and what is the real risk?" This is what I said. As I told them, I'm not a biologist of any sort, and I will accept corrections (both from people who are biologists and from those who can cite sources), of course. Both this person and I have autoimmune issues, so I take that as a given in this post.Continue readingWhat I’m telling family about COVID-19 What I’ve been up to during all this How my household is doing Perhaps the best place to start writing about what I’ve been up to is to be really clear: I’m OK, and, at least for now, so are my loved ones. My spouse and I are both incredibly lucky to have jobs that can be done…Continue readingWhat I’ve been up to during all this Get that bread I want to tell you about my take on the New Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day recipe. 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Continue readingDLF in Pittsburgh www-sheldon-hess-org-6943 ---- Coral Sheldon-Hess – Librarian, developer, engineer, maker, bird nerd Skip to content Coral Sheldon-Hess Librarian, developer, engineer, maker, bird nerd open primary menu twitter linkedin rss github ravelry About Blog Contact Sidebar Posts by category librarianship leadership teaching and learning social justice alaska technology travel crafts geekery hiring and employment on a personal note past projects Coral Sheldon-Hess Posts The Online Unconference of Niche Interests The Online Unconference of Niche Interests Published by Coral Sheldon-Hess on November 27, 2020 If you’re looking for a fun and educational thing to do this weekend, you might consider attending the second quarterly(??) Online Unconference of Niche Interests (“OUNI” for short), scheduled to run from 2pm until a bit after 5pm Eastern Standard Time, this Sunday, November 29. We have a set of volunteer presenters who will each talk for up to 15 minutes about a niche topic they’re into. Continue readingThe Online Unconference of Niche Interests What I’m telling family about COVID-19 What I’m telling family about COVID-19 Published by Coral Sheldon-Hess on June 16, 2020 A family member asked me to tell them about COVID-19. It was a general question, which I chose to interpret as “how does transmission work, and what is the real risk?” This is what I said. As I told them, I’m not a biologist of any sort, and I will accept corrections (both from people who are biologists and from those who can cite sources), of course. Both this person and I have autoimmune issues, so I take that as a given in this post. Continue readingWhat I’m telling family about COVID-19 What I’ve been up to during all this What I’ve been up to during all this Published by Coral Sheldon-Hess on April 24, 2020 How my household is doing Perhaps the best place to start writing about what I’ve been up to is to be really clear: I’m OK, and, at least for now, so are my loved ones. My spouse and I are both incredibly lucky to have jobs that can be done… Continue readingWhat I’ve been up to during all this Get that bread Get that bread Published by Coral Sheldon-Hess on February 24, 2020 I want to tell you about my take on the New Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day recipe. The things I have to add to the discussion: 1) a couple of hacks for people who, like me, do not have a kitchen fan that vents outdoors (I promise I’ll explain why this matters) and who like at least a little bit of whole grain in their bread, plus 2) photos of some of the steps they don’t show as clearly in the book. I’m still experimenting (always!), but I have a base recipe/approach that I like and that I think is good enough to share. Continue readingGet that bread 2019 year-end post 2019 year-end post Published by Coral Sheldon-Hess on December 26, 2019 We’re rapidly approaching the time for the traditional year-end post, which I’ve been known to skip in recent years—I had a run of several really rough years, there. While 2019 wasn’t without personal challenges and setbacks (and a whole lot of frightening developments in the US and abroad), it brought… Continue reading2019 year-end post Belated update Belated update Published by Coral Sheldon-Hess on October 9, 2019 Right now I should be grading or preparing for classes, but honestly I’m three blog posts behind where I wanted to be by now (I haven’t forgotten my WisCon promise to make a post about tabletop roleplaying games) and fighting a pretty nasty headache. So what if I take a… Continue readingBelated update Doing Data Things Doing Data Things Published by Coral Sheldon-Hess on December 13, 2018 TLDR: I took two classes this semester, and I’m going to teach at least one, probably 1.5, classes next semester. I’m super psyched about it. I’ll still work for the library where I’m an adjunct, too, but fewer hours per week. I’m still available for full-time hire, if you have data for me to work with. Continue readingDoing Data Things 2018 2018 Published by Coral Sheldon-Hess on December 31, 2017 I usually do a year-end post. That’s not happening in 2017. This year took so much from me, and from people I care about, that I refuse to write about it. But I’d like to write about 2018. Not “resolutions” so much as “plans and goals”—and maybe not even those… Continue reading2018 A librarian again A librarian again Published by Coral Sheldon-Hess on October 10, 2017 Over the past few years, I’ve come to dread the “what do you do?” question, because what people generally mean is “where do you work?” And it’s awkward when you can’t have that conversation the way they expect. Continue readingA librarian again DLF in Pittsburgh DLF in Pittsburgh Published by Coral Sheldon-Hess on September 5, 2017 (UPDATED) This is just a really quick post to say that DLF Forum is in my hometown, this year, and I’d love to meet up with some of my internet-and-conference friends, if travel and conference scheduling makes that a possibility for any of you! I live here, and most of our public transit is downtown-centered; I can come to you, or I can give you easy directions to meet me somewhere if you’re feeling adventurous. Continue readingDLF in Pittsburgh Posts navigation 1 2 … 31 Next Author WordPress Theme by Compete Themes www-techdirt-com-4501 ---- To Prevent Free, Frictionless Access To Human Knowledge, Publishers Want Librarians To Be Afraid, Very Afraid | Techdirt Sign In Register Preferences Techdirt Techdirt Greenhouse Tech & COVID Free Speech   Deals Jobs Support Techdirt Content Moderation Case Study: Moderating An Anonymous Social Network (2015) Clearview Resurfaces To Make Some Empty Promises About Keeping Cops From Abusing Its Tech To Prevent Free, Frictionless Access To Human Knowledge, Publishers Want Librarians To Be Afraid, Very Afraid Copyright from the because-security dept Wed, Nov 4th 2020 8:21pm — Glyn Moody After many years of fierce resistance to open access, academic publishers have largely embraced -- and extended -- the idea, ensuring that their 35-40% profit margins live on. In the light of this subversion of the original hopes for open access, people have come up with other ways to provide free and frictionless access to knowledge -- most of which is paid for by taxpayers around the world. One is preprints, which are increasingly used by researchers to disseminate their results widely, without needing to worry about payment or gatekeepers. The other is through sites that have taken it upon themselves to offer immediate access to large numbers of academic papers -- so-called "shadow libraries". The most famous of these sites is Sci-Hub, created by Alexandra Elbakyan. At the time of writing, Sci-Hub claims to hold 79 85 million papers. Even academics with access to publications through their institutional subscriptions often prefer to use Sci-Hub, because it is so much simpler and quicker. In this respect, Sci-Hub stands as a constant reproach to academic publishers, emphasizing that their products aren't very good in terms of serving libraries, which are paying expensive subscriptions for access. Not surprisingly, then, Sci-Hub has become Enemy No. 1 for academic publishers in general, and the leading company Elsevier in particular. The German site Netzpolitik has spotted the latest approach being taken by publishers to tackle this inconvenient and hugely successful rival, and other shadow libraries. At its heart lies the Scholarly Networks Security Initiative (SNSI), which was founded by Elsevier and other large publishers earlier this year. Netzpolitik explains that the idea is to track and analyze every access to libraries, because "security": Elsevier is campaigning for libraries to be upgraded with security technology. In a SNSI webinar entitled "Cybersecurity Landscape -- Protecting the Scholarly Infrastructure", hosted by two high-ranking Elsevier managers, one speaker recommended that publishers develop their own proxy or a proxy plug-in for libraries to access more (usage) data ("develop or subsidize a low cost proxy or a plug-in to existing proxies"). With the help of an "analysis engine", not only could the location of access be better narrowed down, but biometric data (e.g. typing speed) or conspicuous usage patterns (e.g. a pharmacy student suddenly interested in astrophysics) could also be recorded. Any doubts that this software could also be used -- if not primarily -- against shadow libraries were dispelled by the next speaker. An ex-FBI analyst and IT security consultant spoke about the security risks associated with the use of Sci-Hub. Since academic publishers can't compete against Sci-Hub on ease of use or convenience, they are trying the old "security risk" angle -- also used by traditional software companies against open source in the early days. Yes, they say, Sci-Hub/open source may seem free and better, but think of the terrible security risks… An FAQ on the main SNSI site provides an "explanation" of why Sci-Hub is supposedly a security risk: Sci-Hub may fall into the category of state-sponsored actors. It hosts stolen research papers which have been harvested from publisher platforms often using stolen user credentials. According to the Washington Post, the US Justice Department is currently investigating the founder of Sci-Hub, Alexandra Elbakayan, for links between her and Russian Intelligence. If there is substance to this investigation, then using Sci-Hub to access research papers could have much wider ramifications than just getting access to content that sits behind a paywall. As Techdirt pointed out when that Washington Post article came out, there is no evidence of any connections between Elbakyan and Russian Intelligence. Indeed, it's hard not to see the investigation as simply the result of whining academic publishers making the same baseless accusation, and demanding that something be "done". An article in Research Information provides more details about what those "wider ramifications than just getting access to content that sits behind a paywall" might be: In the specific case of Sci-Hub, academic content (journal articles and books) is illegally harvested using a variety of methods, such as abusing legitimate log in credentials to access the secure computer networks of major universities and by hijacking "proxy" credentials of legitimate users that facilitate off campus remote access to university computer systems and databases. These actions result in a front door being opened up into universities' networks through which Sci-Hub, and potentially others, can gain access to other valuable institutional databases such as personnel and medical records, patent information, and grant details. But that's not how things work in this context. The credentials of legitimate users that Sci-Hub draws on -- often gladly "lent" by academics who believe papers should be made widely available -- are purely to access articles held on the system. They do not provide access to "other valuable institutional databases" -- and certainly not sensitive information such as "personnel and medical records" -- unless they are designed by complete idiots. That is pure scaremongering, while this further claim is just ridiculous: Such activities threaten the scholarly communications ecosystem and the integrity of the academic record. Sci-Hub has no incentive to ensure the accuracy of the research articles being accessed, no incentive to ensure research meets ethical standards, and no incentive to retract or correct if issues arise. Sci-Hub simply provides free, frictionless access for everyone to existing articles from academic publishers. The articles are still as accurate and ethical as they were when they first appeared. To accuse Sci-Hub of "threatening" the scholarly communications ecosystem by providing universal access is absurd. It's also revealing of the traditional publishers' attitude to the uncontrolled dissemination of publicly-funded human knowledge, which is what they really fear and are attacking with the new SNSI campaign. Follow me @glynmoody on Twitter, Diaspora, or Mastodon. Thank you for reading this Techdirt post. With so many things competing for everyone’s attention these days, we really appreciate you giving us your time. 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Thank you. –The Techdirt Team Filed Under: academic research, libraries, open access, publishers, security Companies: elsevier, sci-hub 48 Comments | Leave a Comment If you liked this post, you may also be interested in... Benton Study Again Shows How 'Open Access' Broadband Networks Can Drive Competition, Improve Service Good News: Academics Can Make Their Articles Published In Top Journal Nature Freely Available As Open Access. Bad News: They Must Pay $11,000 For Each One Facebook's Threat To NYU Researchers Is A Mistake, But It's The Inevitable Follow On To Overreaction To Cambridge Analytica Sci-Hub Downloads Boost Article Citations -- And Help Academic Publishers After Taming Open Access, Academic Publishing Giants Now Seek To Assimilate The World Of Preprints Reader Comments Subscribe: RSS View by: Thread That One Guy (profile), 4 Nov 2020 @ 7:18pm 'Won't someone think of our obscene profits?!' The only 'threat' Sci-Hub poses is to parasites who don't like that their insanely lucrative business as gatekeepers might be facing some competition by academics who are increasingly angry that their research is being locked up and paywalled rather than disseminated and shared, that kinda being the whole point of research as knowledge not shared is little different than knowledge never discovered or learned. [ reply to this | link to this | view in chronology ] Anonymous Coward, 4 Nov 2020 @ 9:58pm ... and so it starts [ reply to this | link to this | view in chronology ] Jeroen Hellingman (profile), 4 Nov 2020 @ 11:41pm Since copyright is a regulation to help publisher recoup their investments in producing a work, there is no need whatsoever to have a copyright at all on any work produced with public funds, as many of the scientific research articles are. The reward belongs to the public and is biggest when the article can be disseminated with as little friction as possible. There should be a ban on claiming copyright over any work that has been substantially financed by public means. What also will be needed is an infrastructure to validate the integrity of articles, if only to counter this type of scare-mongering. This could be as easy as having a digital signature of the author and reviewers over a properly canonicalized version of the paper. [ reply to this | link to this | view in chronology ] PaulT (profile), 5 Nov 2020 @ 6:24am Re: "Since copyright is a regulation to help publisher recoup their investments in producing a work" Well, the stated aim is to "promote the progress", which does not necessarily include profit although it so often does. Copyright is something that also underpins things like open source to a degree, the chosen rules are just different to the standard one otherwise forced on everyone. "There should be a ban on claiming copyright over any work that has been substantially financed by public means." No argument there. If anything needs to change, it's the idea of "socialise the risk, privatise the rewards", upon which too much is based right now. [ reply to this | link to this | view in chronology ] Anonymous Coward, 5 Nov 2020 @ 6:31am Re: Re: I think copyright is to encourage the author to continue creating new works even many years after their death. [ reply to this | link to this | view in chronology ] Anonymous Coward, 5 Nov 2020 @ 9:09am Re: Re: Re: That's what they say, but how many authors control the rights to the works they produced? [ reply to this | link to this | view in chronology ] Anonymous Coward, 5 Nov 2020 @ 10:42am Re: Re: Re: Re: woooosh? [ reply to this | link to this | view in chronology ] Scary Devil Monastery (profile), 5 Nov 2020 @ 7:21am Re: "Since copyright is a regulation to help publisher recoup their investments in producing a work..." That's actually not the case. At best you could describe copyright as a Red Flag Act intended to bolster an ailing industry of middlemen feeling threatened by the ease of building a printing press. The US optional extra of Article 8 -"...to further progress of science and the arts..." has never been used for its intended purpose. Copyright has always been, is today, and will remain nothing but a modern iteration of medieval church heresy law - intended to ensure everyone needs to go to a specified gatekeeper to obtain a copy of information because it's your head on the block if you transcribe a copy yourself. [ reply to this | link to this | view in chronology ] This comment has been flagged by the community. Click here to show it Spot Light, 5 Nov 2020 @ 2:37pm Re: Re: Hey, "Scary Devil Monastery": you are wackily prolix! Copyright has always been, is today, and will remain nothing but a modern iteration of medieval church heresy law First, WHAT? That's just silly. If makes sense to you, then are drunk or stoned. Looks a lot like the excess syllables style of "Bill Jackson" AND not coincidentally Timothy Geigner. It's utterly incredible that you ALL have medieval-ish techno-babble. YOU ARE ASTRO-TURFING. [ reply to this | link to this | view in chronology ] Scary Devil Monastery (profile), 9 Nov 2020 @ 12:20am Re: Re: Re: Hey, "Scary Devil Monastery": you are wackily prolix "If makes sense to you, then are drunk or stoned." Or unlike you I've actually read up on history. The catholic church remained in power for so long mainly because they held the view that the only people allowed to copy, read or interpret the bible were ordained priests. When someone other than a priest read the bible or copied it they usually found out that the bible didn't exactly say what the priests kept declaring. All of heresy law is essentially identical to copyright law. And this was what Mary Queen of Scots copied when she introduced the precursor to modern copyright as a socio-religious censorship tool which Queen Anne then refurbished to serve private interests. "Looks a lot like the excess syllables style of "Bill Jackson" AND not coincidentally Timothy Geigner." You just keep insisting everyone who doesn't agree with you is Mike Masnick in disguise, asshat. Meanwhile something I'm sure both you and Geigner have in common is that you'll both have to hit google translate up for what "Ta dig i dalen, virrpanna" means. "YOU ARE ASTRO-TURFING." I'm not the one who got caught using a dozen sock puppets. Every accusation a confession, eh? [ reply to this | link to this | view in chronology ] Bill Jackson (profile), 9 Nov 2020 @ 5:03am Re: Re: Re: Re: Hey, "Scary Devil Monastery": you are wackily pr Yes, We all know religion is a scam to live free and run things. Latin needed scribes so people could read/write letters. The printing press wrecked that and new religions were created from pure bullshit as the new priests decided that to live for free was good. As for religion preserving knowledge - they perpetuated their own BS and when they ran out of paper(thin animal skin) they scraped off Archimedes et all. thus a great deal of written history was eliminated to preserve their crap. (Google palimpsest) In a similar way the era of academic printing is threatened by the internet. I am not making the wave, the wave is there, wide and deep and spontaneous. Soon more and more governments will decree that publicly funded data must be open sourced. Cut off the roots and the elsevier strangler tree will die. Be better if all past publicly funded research is open sourced. If 10% is paid by the public then the whole thing is public [ reply to this | link to this | view in chronology ] bhull242 (profile), 11 Nov 2020 @ 1:08pm Re: Re: Re: Hey, "Scary Devil Monastery": you are wackily prolix I’ve been known to be rather prolix with my vocabulary as well. Are you going to call me a sockpuppet too? Also, you’re surprised to see “techno-babble” on a site called “Techdirt”? [ reply to this | link to this | view in chronology ] PaulT (profile), 12 Nov 2020 @ 4:51am Re: Re: Re: Re: Hey, "Scary Devil Monastery": you are wackily pr I'm sure he's shocked and confused by all sorts of factual information. [ reply to this | link to this | view in chronology ] This comment has been flagged by the community. Click here to show it Spot Light, 5 Nov 2020 @ 2:43pm Re: No, "Jeroen Hellingman", copyright is a RIGHT. Since copyright is a regulation to help publisher recoup their investments in producing a work, It may do that (especially if you narrow it to almost "for hire" as here), but the key point of copyRIGHT is protecting the INDIVIDUAL'S WORK which is more precious to some than mere money. And it's not a mere "regulation": it's in body of Constitution specifying that one duty of gov't to protect for individuals an already existing RIGHT to control copies of their creations. PERIOD. [ reply to this | link to this | view in chronology ] Paul, 5 Nov 2020 @ 2:32am Maybeses, couldbeses, perhapses. Same old narrative of “what could, if it would” is as old as American TV news propaganda about wars in Iraq, Syria, Lybia... Theoretical hypothetical bullcrap [ reply to this | link to this | view in chronology ] Anonymous Coward, 5 Nov 2020 @ 2:42am To accuse Sci-Hub of "threatening" the scholarly communications ecosystem by providing universal access is absurd. It is more than absurd, as it is the academic publishers that most threaten scholarly communication by making it too expensive. Besides which an attack on Sci-Hub is an attack on the scholarly community, who are it prime supporter and users. [ reply to this | link to this | view in chronology ] Bill Jackson (profile), 5 Nov 2020 @ 3:23am Microkerning As you know, kerning is the process whereby letters are aligned on the page to increase readibility. Google for more. There is the related process that is often used to create unique document signatures on diplomatic and other sensitive documents. This I have called 'microkerning - the addition of added small fractional spaces scattered through the document so that each document is identifiably different. 'By this means every document downloaded from any repository (by the owners of the repository) can be identified as to source. That means if I use my subsription to get a paper and give it to Sci-Hub, it can be analyzed and tracked back to me and my institution - who is then punished in some way. I suspect the academic publishers are doing this. This can be eliminated by Sci-Hub running their donated papers through a 'dekerning; engine. This be something as simple as replacing the font with a standard width font and using a word processor to impose standard spacing rules. This can be automated for a lower burden on Sci-Hub. A similar process to strip off steganographic cues from pictures can also be used. The tradeoff in clarity is negligible. [ reply to this | link to this | view in chronology ] Anonymous Coward, 5 Nov 2020 @ 8:25am Re: Microkerning Sci-Hub could download the paper several times from different accounts and check whether they're identical (e.g. by hashing). Of course, publishers could do tricky things like change the file every day and see which accounts accessed a file on a specific day. If they try hard enough, they might eventually track a lot of these papers back to... the papers' authors. [ reply to this | link to this | view in chronology ] Bobvious, 5 Nov 2020 @ 4:18am The old "investigating my enemy" schtick So Evil Seer is using their patented Scholarly Tracking Analysis Spying Initiative (STASI) to boost their claims of impropriety through the use of "the (insert three-letter-acronym here) Department is currently investigating the (enemy of complainant) because of (complaint), lodged by (complainant)" because "if you throw enough mud". How very Saruman of them. [ reply to this | link to this | view in chronology ] wshuff (profile), 5 Nov 2020 @ 4:28am “Sci-Hub has no incentive to ensure the accuracy of the research articles being accessed, no incentive to ensure research meets ethical standards, and no incentive to retract or correct if issues arise.” Oh, you mean like that time Elsevier published fake journals? https://www.the-scientist.com/the-nutshell/elsevier-published-6-fake-journals-44160 [ reply to this | link to this | view in chronology ] DNY (profile), 5 Nov 2020 @ 5:18am Threats to ecosystems Of course Sci-Hub and the like are threats to the scholarly communications ecosystem -- that ecosystem currently includes a robust species of parasite, known by the common name "commercial academic publishers", which could go extinct. The parasites evolved from a species known by the same common name which before the advent of LaTeX and the internet had a symbiotic relation with academicians, organizing peer review, beautifully typesetting accepted works and distributing it to other academicians. As the latter two functions in the symbiosis became useless to the hosts with the new environmental conditions, the symbiotes became parasitic, with an increasingly voracious appetite for monopoly rents. [ reply to this | link to this | view in chronology ] Bill Jackson (profile), 5 Nov 2020 @ 5:33am Parasite - yes, kill them and their eggs.... [ reply to this | link to this | view in chronology ] Bill Jackson (profile), 5 Nov 2020 @ 7:40am Copyright, and it's many extensions, as bought and paid for By the Disney Corporation. It was originally intended to protect against unauthorised copies to allow the author and his heirs to live on it for the term. Now it has been extended to 75+++ years. The forced abrogation of all rights in an academic work to the journal publisher who then proceed to extract fees from the poor of the world and hold back science in many places as a consequence should be blocked and all publicly paid works should be open sourced when written. With modren hard drives there are copies of almost all papers now freely circulated to the poor countries. Elseviers of the world try to litigate in most of these countries, so it carries on as a latter day 'sneaker net'. Let them die, let the flies have their way - their day is done. [ reply to this | link to this | view in chronology ] Code Monkey (profile), 5 Nov 2020 @ 8:18am Waiting for the takedown Patiently waiting on Mike's followup article where Sci-Hub is sued by someone for DCMA takedown action..... [ reply to this | link to this | view in chronology ] Brandon (profile), 5 Nov 2020 @ 8:51am SciHub IS a problem I have no love for the conventional publishing economy controlled by massive publishers, but SciHub isn't the right answer. SciHub routes around those behemoths but doesn't fix the fundamental problem. Preprints are only valuable, really, after the final article has passed peer review and been edited, because then the content that debuted in the preprint can be weighed using the published end-result. While publishers don't pay for peer review, and often don't pay for some of their editing, they do help organize everything and provide that network (to an extent). How this control is used to leverage massive profits is a big problem, but without that peer review and editing there's simply too much academic literature to process. This constant glut of literature is part of the Publish or Perish paradigm which needs to be eliminated at our universities. SciHub would have little to no value without those reviewed and edited final works. The question then becomes how do we make scientific research accessible equitably and still provide a healthy and robust peer review process and the necessary editing and publishing required to reach readers? What we have now is clearly a big problem, but SciHub isn't the solution. What we need is something else. [ reply to this | link to this | view in chronology ] Anonymous Coward, 5 Nov 2020 @ 10:18am Re: SciHub IS a problem Do you realize that the peer review is done by the same academics that publish in journals? In a world with the Internet, why has academia not moved to a system where librarians and administrators manage the peer review process, and mark papers in their systems when it is accepted by the reviewers, and if it is retracted, along with a distributed search engine for finding papers? They have the systems, and expertise to do the cataloguing in their own libraries. [ reply to this | link to this | view in chronology ] This comment has been flagged by the community. Click here to show it Spot Light, 5 Nov 2020 @ 2:22pm Re: SciHub IS a problem -- says the ZOMBIE! ONE HUGE GAP after two comments the day it began: Brandon or spenoza: 3 (<0.3), EIGHT AND HALF YEAR GAP; May 3rd, 2012 https://www.techdirt.com/user/marurun [ reply to this | link to this | view in chronology ] This comment has been flagged by the community. Click here to show it Spot Light, 5 Nov 2020 @ 2:23pm Re: Re: SciHub IS a problem -- says the ZOMBIE! Crawling out on slow day as all bite nails over the election, are yet more ZOMBIES! With the characteristic name change ang long gaps. This one has over SIX YEARS OF GAPS: Peter or Peter Voveris: 12 (1.5), 37 mo gap; 43 mo gap; Mar 19th, 2012 https://www.techdirt.com/user/pvoveris [ reply to this | link to this | view in chronology ] This comment has been flagged by the community. Click here to show it Spot Light, 5 Nov 2020 @ 2:24pm Re: Re: SciHub IS a problem -- says the ZOMBIE! Then "Bill Jackson" out with several today, though skipped 2017, two in 2018, and one long gap: 106 (10), 30 mo gap; 26 Jul 2010 https://www.techdirt.com/user/aurizon Bill is a foreigner, states: "Here in Canada", but keen on US of A problems -- and on helping out Techdirt on a slow day. [ reply to this | link to this | view in chronology ] bhull242 (profile), 11 Nov 2020 @ 12:56pm Re: Re: Re: SciHub IS a problem -- says the ZOMBIE! A good portion of the people who comment regularly here aren’t from America, either. Also, this site comments fairly often on places like Australia, Europe, New Zealand, and China. [ reply to this | link to this | view in chronology ] Scary Devil Monastery (profile), 6 Nov 2020 @ 4:13am Re: SciHub IS a problem "he question then becomes how do we make scientific research accessible equitably and still provide a healthy and robust peer review process and the necessary editing and publishing required to reach readers?" That's not a serious question, I hope? Elsevier - major gatekeepers in general - are a very new phenomenon in that regard. It's actually part of the academic credit ladder that you are, as the holder of a prestigious academic title, expected to peer review a number of publications. And you do this, of course, because you know damn well both that being bottlenecked yourself by no one reviewing your publication is the end of your career and it is decidedly in your own best interests to peer review anything written by other skilled people in the field you yourself hope to excel in. So yea, Elsevier does indeed field the largely irrelevant argument that they "help" with peer reviews. And that is as flat out as deceptive as some random bum doing a rain dance around a car wash claiming participation money from the guy actually cleaning your car. [ reply to this | link to this | view in chronology ] DNY (profile), 26 Nov 2020 @ 1:44pm Re: SciHub IS a problem Two examples from mathematics show there is no need for commercial publishers collecting monopoly rents to organize peer review: Theory and Applications of Categories is the preeminent journal in category theory. It is free to publish in, free to download content from, and peer-reviewed by the same sort of volunteer editors and labor used by commercial publishers. Also operating on the same model is Algebraic and Geometric Topology, the original editorial board of which had been the editorial board of one of the preeminent topology journals, Topology until they resigned en masse over the predatory practices of it new owners, Elsevier. Every academic discipline and subdiscipline could have journals of this sort simply by the university employing a notable figure in the field agreeing to provide server space. [ reply to this | link to this | view in chronology ] Bill Jackson (profile), 5 Nov 2020 @ 9:24am Sci-Hub is the solution -especially as it forces a review of the process. I can see the reviewers being paid the Elsevier 'tax', we now pay a lot more to support their bloated edifice.. It is true, review is needed viz;- the huge rise of fake/trash papers. I often suspect Elsevier feeds the trash maw to cite it in their defence. [ reply to this | link to this | view in chronology ] This comment has been flagged by the community. Click here to show it Spot Light, 5 Nov 2020 @ 2:28pm Re: Sci-Hub is the solution -especially as it bloated edifice.. Nobody normal uses words this way. It's Geigner as usual. It is true, review is needed viz;- the huge rise of fake/trash papers. "Fake" says the astro-turfing ZOMBIE. I often suspect Elsevier feeds the trash maw to cite it in their defence. "trash maw" -- again, word combination that may be UNIQUE in all the world! Google for it, see how often it's used. No one but Timothy Geigner writes with this excess. And there's yet more unique in every "Bill Jackson" comment. [ reply to this | link to this | view in chronology ] bhull242 (profile), 11 Nov 2020 @ 12:58pm Re: Re: Sci-Hub is the solution -especially as it I’ve heard plenty of people use phrases like those. Not that it’s common, but as an indicator of authorship, it’s severely lacking. [ reply to this | link to this | view in chronology ] Bill Jackson (profile), 5 Nov 2020 @ 10:37am Of course, slow and on an unpaid basis. There needs to be an improved review pathway - possibly the librarians as well as the same reviewers on a paid basis. The huge body of past work needs to be open sourced so it can be freely accessed without undue cost. It is now in libraries of past printed journals that are indexed - but it is cumbersome. It needs to be open and online. I am open to how far back the old papers need to be scanned and onlined, but the old broken era ofthe elseviers of the world needs to draw to a close. [ reply to this | link to this | view in chronology ] This comment has been flagged by the community. Click here to show it Spot Light, 5 Nov 2020 @ 2:31pm "Bill", you're sure prolix today! WHY? On such dull topics with hardly anyone else comment, WHY do you suddenly pop out and spew repeatedly? [ reply to this | link to this | view in chronology ] bhull242 (profile), 11 Nov 2020 @ 12:59pm Re: "Bill", you're sure prolix today! WHY? Because he cares about publications of scientific papers? And he has more free time now, possibly because of the pandemic? Seriously, what’s your deal? [ reply to this | link to this | view in chronology ] Anonymous Coward, 5 Nov 2020 @ 10:48am Bad assumption The assumption that being smart and/or educated makes it more likely for a system to be designed securely is probably a fallacy... unless they are designed by complete idiots Well, I certainly don't hold a high opinion on the current state of higher education in the USA, but I'm not sure I'm ready to call them complete idiots... Anyways, one does not need to be a complete idiot to design something horribly and manage to unnecessarily expose private info that isn't even used! [ reply to this | link to this | view in chronology ] Bill Jackson (profile), 5 Nov 2020 @ 11:23am Academe was so decoupled - all they did was request papers, and they had no idea of the corrupt system behind the scenes. It was only the revolt of many Universities at the naked cash grab by the elseviers, who own these walled gardens, who make margins of ~~40% After paying taxes and HUGE executive salaries that prompted this revolution among the poor when they demaned further increases in journal fees. Like a parasite without regards to the host, it has reached the point of the death of the host. Look at all the colleges in India, Bangladesh etc., who would be beggared - were it not for Sci-Hub... [ reply to this | link to this | view in chronology ] This comment has been flagged by the community. Click here to show it Spot Light, 5 Nov 2020 @ 2:24pm Techdirt is ASTRO-TURFING to look as though has activity. No one has ANY other explanation. Given that inescapable conclusion, the anonymous ones and repeated names are more than suspect too. The style of these jumps out when suspect: unique unnecessary combinations of words, a pseudo-medieval techno-babble, way too many syllables that lose the point. Just as Timothy Geigner can't help doing. Ya really ought to purge old accounts, Maz, at least those inactive for over six years! Even if genuine, make ya look like what ya are: PHONY. [ reply to this | link to this | view in chronology ] Scary Devil Monastery (profile), 9 Nov 2020 @ 12:23am Re: Techdirt is ASTRO-TURFING to look as though has activity. "The style of these jumps out when suspect: unique unnecessary combinations of words, a pseudo-medieval techno-babble, way too many syllables that lose the point. Just as Timothy Geigner can't help doing." I think you'll find that anyone with an actual education tends to use proper words and nuance. We can't all be uneducated trailer trash, Baghdad Bob. But hey, I guess that's the usual complaint from your type when it comes to academics? We all use "dem big book-learnt words"? [ reply to this | link to this | view in chronology ] This comment has been flagged by the community. Click here to show it Spot Light, 5 Nov 2020 @ 2:50pm Phew. Tired after pointing up the astro-turfing. Now to topic. Elsevier has every right to control copies and get paid for the librarying. Techdirt is claiming a public good, but who would pay for the librarying if not in the current system? Want that explicitly on the public taxes too? So that it can become another fat gov't bureaucracy? Or should it be left to private sector? Sci-Hub already has tens of millions in judgments against it, because its "business model" is to simply steal the valuable products without paying a cent for the actual work of librarying. By the way, WHO pays for Sci-Hub to operate? Bandwidth isn't quite free. SO WHO PAYS THAT? It's a key point, and Techdirt never bothers to mention. If the owner can ever be found in US jurisdiction, she'll be hounded for the money, and should be, for rest of her life. [ reply to this | link to this | view in chronology ] Stephen T. Stone (profile), 5 Nov 2020 @ 7:46pm Techdirt is claiming a public good, but who would pay for the librarying if not in the current system? Want that explicitly on the public taxes too? So long as it coincides with raised taxes on major corporations and the ultra-wealthy? Sure, I don’t see how that’d be a problem. [ reply to this | link to this | view in chronology ] Anonymous Coward, 5 Nov 2020 @ 9:00pm Re: Sure, I don’t see how that’d be a problem. And that, in a nutshell, is blue's problem... [ reply to this | link to this | view in chronology ] PaulT (profile), 5 Nov 2020 @ 11:04pm Re: Phew. Tired after pointing up the astro-turfing. Now to topi "Want that explicitly on the public taxes too?" Why not? Half the stuff there was already paid for by the public, and the benefit of a public library system has already been recognised for many decades for non-scientific literature. The public benefit of this kind of funding is immeasurable, and trivial compared to your country's expensive obsession with murdering people. "By the way, WHO pays for Sci-Hub to operate?" A cursory Google search would tell you it's mainly user donations. Many useful services are funded this way. [ reply to this | link to this | view in chronology ] Scary Devil Monastery (profile), 9 Nov 2020 @ 12:33am Re: Phew. Tired after pointing up the astro-turfing. Now to topi "Elsevier has every right to control copies and get paid for the librarying. " So, in your logic if someone comes to your house, takes what you paid for and own, then put it in a stand, sorted, it's now theirs? "...who would pay for the librarying if not in the current system?" The same ones who did for the hundreds of years when a greedy intermediate gatekeeper like Elsevier didn't exist? Like asking why anyone would learn to spell if computers didn't exist. You're a fucking embarrassment, Baghdad Bob. "Sci-Hub already has tens of millions in judgments against it, because its "business model" is to simply steal the valuable products without paying a cent for the actual work of librarying." Except those products were paid for by public money and so belongs to the public...to which sci-hub then makes it available. By your logic if you walk into a public library and write a new index, you own the books? "By the way, WHO pays for Sci-Hub to operate? Bandwidth isn't quite free. SO WHO PAYS THAT? It's a key point, and Techdirt never bothers to mention." Sci-hub is an openly audited non-profit operation which lives on publicly accountable donations. That answer was all of one google query away but I guess we can always trust you to concoct a malicious conspiracy before even looking. "If the owner can ever be found in US jurisdiction, she'll be hounded for the money, and should be, for rest of her life." Ah, the typical malicious bullshit we're so used to from you. No, that owner is giving back to the public what the public paid for and Elsevier stole. But hey, I don't think anyone is surprised by now to realize that you're motivated entirely by the idea of someone, anyone, being hurt without reason. [ reply to this | link to this | view in chronology ] Bill Jackson (profile), 5 Nov 2020 @ 2:52pm Lol, If it were true to it's origin... Now it has been bastardised to serve elsevier et al, with little to nothing to the originators... [ reply to this | link to this | view in chronology ] Add Your Comment Have a Techdirt Account? Sign in now. Want one? 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Register or sign in to use it. www-theguardian-com-2909 ---- Covid-19 impact on ethnic minorities linked to housing and air pollution | World news | The Guardian Skip to main content The Guardian - Back to home Support The Guardian Available for everyone, funded by readers Contribute Subscribe Contribute Search jobs Sign in My account Account overview Billing Profile Emails & marketing Settings Help Comments & replies Sign out Search switch to the US edition switch to the UK edition switch to the Australia edition switch to the International edition current edition: US edition News Opinion Sport Culture Lifestyle Show More News US news Elections 2020 World news Environment Soccer US politics Business Tech Science Newsletters Opinion The Guardian view Columnists Letters Opinion videos Cartoons Sport Soccer NFL Tennis MLB MLS NBA NHL Culture Film Books Music Art & design TV & radio Stage Classical Games Lifestyle Fashion Food Recipes Love & sex Home & garden Health & fitness Family Travel Money What term do you want to search? Search with google Make a contribution Subscribe US edition switch to the UK edition switch to the Australia edition switch to the International edition Search jobs Digital Archive Guardian Puzzles app The Guardian app Video Podcasts Pictures Inside the Guardian Guardian Weekly Crosswords Facebook Twitter Search jobs Digital Archive Guardian Puzzles app World Europe US Americas Asia Australia Middle East Africa Inequality Global development More Coronavirus This article is more than 4 months old Covid-19 impact on ethnic minorities linked to housing and air pollution This article is more than 4 months old Exclusive: Minority ethnic patients twice as likely to live in deprived environments and to be admitted to intensive care Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage Damian Carrington Environment editor @dpcarrington Sun 19 Jul 2020 06.00 EDT Last modified on Mon 20 Jul 2020 15.20 EDT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email The study followed 400 coronavirus patients admitted to a hospital in Birmingham, England. Photograph: Joe Giddens/PA The severe impact of Covid-19 on people from minority ethnic groups has been linked to air pollution and overcrowded and poor-standard homes by a study of 400 hospital patients. It found patients from ethnic minorities were twice as likely as white patients to live in areas of environmental and housing deprivation, and that people from these areas were twice as likely to arrive at hospital with more severe coronavirus symptoms and to be admitted to intensive care units (ITU). Minority ethnic groups were known to be disproportionately affected by Covid-19: they account for 34% of critically ill Covid-19 patients in the UK despite constituting 14% of the population. But the reasons for the disparity remain unclear. The research is the first to examine the role of environmental and housing deprivation. Doctors praised the study but cautioned it has yet to be formally reviewed by other scientists and that additional, detailed studies in other areas are urgently needed. The study also found patients from ethnic minorities were on average 10 years younger than the white patients, though the explanation for this is unknown. Age, frailty and underlying health conditions remain critical factors for all patients in determining the outcome of Covid-19. +0 vs last week Daily deaths - Total deaths - England Daily cases - Scotland Daily cases - Wales Daily cases - NI Daily cases - Data from PHE at . Note: UK total is not always the sum of the totals for individual countries. Low daily deaths at weekends is often a result of delayed reporting. Weekly change shows new daily cases compared to 7 days ago. About the data "> The study concluded: “Patients of black, Asian and minority ethnicity (BAME) are more likely to be admitted from regions of highest air pollution, housing quality and household overcrowding deprivation. This is likely to contribute an explanation towards the higher ITU admissions reported among Covid-19 BAME patients.” I'm a nurse in a deprived area of the UK. Here's the sinister truth about Covid and inequality Read more David Thickett, professor of respiratory medicine at the University of Birmingham and one of the study team, said. “It’s no surprise that people living in poor areas and poor housing do badly in a pandemic. It’s been true since the Black Death and this reaffirms the importance of deprivation in influencing the pattern of disease.” A Public Health England report released in June showed a link between overall deprivation and worse coronavirus outcomes, but did not examine specific types of deprivation. At the time, the equalities minister, Kemi Badenoch, rejected claims that “systemic injustice” was the reason for the disparities. There is also “compelling” evidence of an association between dirty air and coronavirus infections and deaths. Thickett said the public health message of the new study was better targeting of social distancing and handwashing advice to people in deprived areas and particularly those living in large households. “I don’t think there was very good engagement with ethnically diverse populations, particularly in terms of language barriers,” he said. “The limitation of this study is that it’s in a single centre.” Thickett said. “What you really want is data from several different areas.” This research is being planned. Prof Stephen Holgate, the Royal College of Physicians’ special adviser on air quality, said: “This seems a strong study with appropriate methods used.” It suggests air pollution may be an important driver, he said. Dr Aarash Saleh, an NHS respiratory doctor and member of the Doctors Against Diesel campaign said: “We need more research like this to understand how air pollution interacts with other societal injustices to exacerbate health inequities, including death from Covid-19. Strategic responses to air pollution are urgently needed and must acknowledge and address the socioeconomic and racial intersections of this public health crisis.” The study, which has been submitted to a medical journal and made available online, followed 400 Covid-19 patients admitted to the Queen Elizabeth hospital in Birmingham. Two-thirds of the patients listed their ethnicity as “white”, 21% as “Asian/Asian British” and 7% were “Black/African/Caribbean”. The analysis used deprivation data from the English Indices of Deprivation 2019 report published by the government. This divides the country into 33,000 small areas, containing an average of 650 households. Among the seven measures of deprivation are “living environment”, which comprises air pollution, housing in poor condition and road traffic accidents. Coronavirus near me: are UK Covid-19 cases rising or falling in your area? Read more Another measure is “barriers to housing and services”, including household overcrowding, distance to amenities such as schools and GPs, and housing affordability. The researchers found a “strongly suggestive” statistical link between those living in the bottom 20% of areas under these measures, being from an ethnic minority and Covid-19 outcomes, said Thickett. Air pollution and household overcrowding were already known to be associated with higher rates of community-acquired pneumonia and the worst air pollution levels are in neighbourhoods with a high population of minority ethnic residents. Thickett said the research was unlikely to explain why a disproportionate number of NHS staff from ethnic minorities had died from Covid-19: “That can’t just be due to deprivation, because they are at least in employment.” Prof Chris Griffiths, at Barts and the London School of Medicine, said: “This study suggests that markers of socio-economic and environment are linked to pneumonia and ITU admission with Covid-19. This is important, but the [deprivation] measures used are really too broad to be able to point the finger at a specific component of each of these markers. More work is urgently needed.” “Teasing out the individual components is difficult,” said Prof Jonathan Grigg, of Queen Mary, University of London. He said the study was in line with his research showing exposure to air pollution increases the number of the ACE2 receptors that the coronavirus hijacks to enter the body. Dr Gilles de Wildt, a Birmingham GP, said: “Though the study is not yet peer reviewed, this is such an important area of research. We have all felt the clean air in Birmingham during the lockdown and know that emissions need to be curbed drastically for all health’s sake, not just Covid-19.” Thickett said: “For most diseases, there’s a relationship with deprivation, frailty, [underlying illnesses] and age – it’s not rocket science. 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Learn more Home News Intel's 7nm is Broken, Company Announces Delay Until 2022, 2023 By Paul Alcorn 23 July 2020 From bad to worse Shares Comments (245) (Image credit: Tom's Hardware)Intel announced today in its Q2 2020 earnings release that it has now delayed the rollout of its 7nm CPUs by six months relative to its previously-planned release date, undoubtedly resulting in wide-ranging delays to the company's roadmaps. Intel's press release also says that yields for its 7nm process are now twelve months behind the company's internal targets, meaning the company isn't currently on track to produce its 7nm process in an economically viable way. The company now says its 7nm CPUs will not debut on the market until late 2022 or early 2023.  Here's the snippet from Intel's press release: "The company's 7nm-based CPU product timing is shifting approximately six months relative to prior expectations. The primary driver is the yield of Intel's 7nm process, which based on recent data, is now trending approximately twelve months behind the company's internal target." On the earnings call, Intel CEO Bob Swan said the company had identified a "defect mode" in its 7nm process that caused yield degradation issues. As a result, Intel has invested in "contingency plans," which Swan later defined as including using third-party foundries. The company will also use external third-party foundries for its forthcoming 7nm Ponte Vecchio GPUs, the company's first graphics chips. Ponte Vecchio comes as a chiplet-based design, and Swan clarified that production for some of the chiplets (tiles) will be outsourced to third parties. Swan noted the GPUs will come in late 2021 or early 2022, portending a delay beyond the original schedule for a 2021 launch in the exascale Aurora supercomputer.  Intel's first 7nm server CPUs (Granite Rapids) will arrive in 2023, which is later than listed in earlier roadmaps that projected a launch in 2022. That timeline is concerning in the face of AMD's continued execution with its EPYC data center chips – AMD's roadmaps outline its 5nm Genoa processors coming to market before the end of 2022. Swan also said that Intel's first 7nm processors will debut for the client market, meaning chips targeting either desktop PCs or laptops. Intel's first 10nm desktop CPUs, Alder Lake, will arrive in the second half of 2021. For perspective, rival foundry TSMC plans to be on the 3nm node in the same time frame as Intel's new schedule for 7nm. Intel clearly isn't pleased with its execution on the 7nm node, as an embattled Swan remarked that "And we feel pretty good about where we are, though we’re not happy. I’m not pleased with our 7nm process performance" at the end of the call after a bruising question and answer session with analysts. Swan also said "we have root-caused the [7nm] issue and believe there are no fundamental roadblocks," and that the company would provide further updates at an upcoming Architecture Day.  Swan said the company had a built-in buffer in its roadmap to account for process node delays. That accomodation comes as a result of hard-learned lessons from the company's incessant 10nm delays. Intel says it will use its advanced packaging technologies, which allow it to mix and match components produced from external sources with its own chips, to help reconcile the six month delay to its 7nm processors with the year-long delay to its internal 7nm yield projections. Swan also noted that Intel could use third-party foundries for entire chip designs. In the past, Intel stated that it would also enable newer architectures to be portable to older nodes, so it's plausible that Intel could resort to back-porting some architectures as part of its contingency plan. The 7nm delay reflects yet another setback as Intel still struggles to overcome the multi-year yield issues it has encountered with its 10nm process. Those delays have allowed its competitors, like AMD, to wrest the process node leadership position from Intel for the first time in the company's history. That's triggered a price war in the market as Intel fights a true x86 competitor with a better node, not to mention Amazon's new Graviton 2 ARM chips based on TSMC's 7nm node. Apple also recently announced that it is transitioning from Intel's chips to its own ARM-based 7nm silicon. The 7nm delay also exacerbates the recent news that rock star chip architect Jim Keller, who was a key part of a team effort to revitalize the company's roadmaps, has left the company.  (Image credit: Intel)Intel CFO George Davis has previously indicated that the company's process tech would lag its its competitors until 7nm arrived in 2021, and that the company would regain the lead with its 5nm process at an undefined time: "So we bring a lot of capability to the table for our customers, in addition to the CPU, and we feel like we're starting to see the acceleration on the process side that we have been talking about to get back to parity in the 7nm generation and regain leadership in the 5nm generation." That plan to regain a competitive footing has now obviously shifted due to the 7nm delay. Intel had planned to speed the delivery of its 7nm node to offset the underperforming 10nm, which it said would not perform as well as other nodes. At the time, Davis noted that the company was trying to be clear with investors about the impacts of 10nm on the company's gross margins: "...but the fact is that I wanted to be clear what was happening during the 10nm generation. The fact is, it isn't going to be as strong a node as people would expect from 14nm or what they'll see in 7nm." In regards to the 10nm node, Davis commented: "As we said back at our analyst day in May of 19: Look, this isn't just going to be the best node that Intel has ever had. It's going to be less productive than 14nm, less productive than 22nm, but we're excited about the improvements that we're seeing and we expect to start the 7nm period with a much better profile of performance over that starting at the end of 2021." "Also, we were at a time when in order to regain process leadership we had to accelerate the overlap between 10nm, 7nm, and then 7nm and 5nm, so the cost that you're absorbing, starting in particular in 2021, you’ve got this intersection of the performance of 10nm, the investment in 7nm, and were also well into starting the investment in 5nm: All of those elements just combine to impact gross margin." Today Intel said that it plans to increase its shipments of 10nm chips by 20% over its prior projections, so it appears the company's 10nm plans have shifted out of necessity. Intel's new plan centers on gaining another 'full node' of performance from its current 10nm node, meaning 10nm may have longer legs than the company expected when it announced last year that it would accelerate 7nm production. Intel pulled off a similar feat with its 14nm processors through a series of "+" revisions that added incremental performance improvements, so it does have a track record of successful inter-node improvements that could help it remain competitive until it can correct the issues with its 7nm process. Intel has also traditionally used third-party fabs, currently to the tune of ~20% of its production, for low-margin, non-CPU products built on trailing-edge nodes. Intel's new plans to more aggressively leverage external fabs could result in it using other fabs for its core logic, like CPUs and GPUs, which the company hasn't done in the past. As Swan noted, that will present challenges in maintaining attractive ASPs for Intel's products, especially given the scale of its production needs. Ultimately, Intel could also face significantly reduced margins if it outsources significant portions of its fabrication of high-margin products, like CPUs, to third parties. Relying upon an outside vendor for leading-edge node production also incurs more risk in terms of supply assurance as Intel could be forced to compete with deep-pocketed rival semiconductor companies, like Apple, Nvidia and AMD, among others, for production capacity.  Topics CPUs See all comments (245) 245 Comments Comment from the forums Dave Haynie 23 July 2020 20:26 Yikes! Intel bugged their 10nm process long enough to fall behind, despite probably having the best 14nm process around. Full control of process was Intel's superpower, going back to the CISC vs RISC wars of the 1980s-1990s. Kind of a shame... though I've had AMD in this horse-race for quite some time. But I pretty much always like the underdog! Reply InvalidError 23 July 2020 20:39 A couple years ago when 10nm was slipping, Intel said the lessons it'll learn in pushing ahead with 10nm despite setbacks would be useful for pushing 7nm afterward. However, Intel still hasn't fully sorted 10nm out and I'm guessing that some of the lessons learned don't port over to 7nm quite as well as Intel hoped they would. Looks like Intel may not have much for people to get excited about until 2022. Reply passivecool 23 July 2020 20:56 poor intel. slept for ten years then woke up with a hangover. Reply JamesSneed 23 July 2020 21:18 InvalidError said: A couple years ago when 10nm was slipping, Intel said the lessons it'll learn in pushing ahead with 10nm despite setbacks would be useful for pushing 7nm afterward. However, Intel still hasn't fully sorted 10nm out and I'm guessing that some of the lessons learned don't port over to 7nm quite as well as Intel hoped they would. Looks like Intel may not have much for people to get excited about until 2022. I think moving to EUV is a huge change and they are having a hard time getting the yields up on EUV. They were being too optimistic once again. You know this is why TSMC did the initial 7nm where only some up front processes were 7nm rest was 12-14nm. Then they improved that process my having more processes use 7nm. Now TSMC are using EUV for 5nm. This is the lesson Intel needs to learn, baby steps on node improvements going forward so its small evolutionary steps not revolutionary steps. Things are way to freaking complicated now to make big leaps. This is why TSMC is ahead now. This is the missing lesson. Reply Kamen Rider Blade 23 July 2020 21:24 Dave Haynie said: I think moving to EUV is a huge change and they are having a hard time getting the yields up on EUV. They were being too optimistic once again. You know this is why TSMC did the initial 7nm where only some up front processes were 7nm rest was 12-14nm. Then they improved that process. Now TSMC are using EUV for 5nm. This is the lesson Intel needs to learn, baby steps on node improvements going forward so its small evolutionary steps not revolutionary steps. Things are way to freaking complicated now to make big leaps. This is why TSMC is ahead now. This is the missing lesson. Remember the 'Children's Fable/Story' of the "Tortoise & the Hare"? Slow & steady wins the race! TSMC, was improving incrementally, while Intel decided to shoot for as far as they can like Icarus. We all know what happened to Icarus wings. Reply RobertCharon 23 July 2020 21:30 InvalidError said: A couple years ago when 10nm was slipping, Intel said the lessons it'll learn in pushing ahead with 10nm despite setbacks would be useful for pushing 7nm afterward. However, Intel still hasn't fully sorted 10nm out and I'm guessing that some of the lessons learned don't port over to 7nm quite as well as Intel hoped they would. Looks like Intel may not have much for people to get excited about until 2022. Listening to Intel 2Q Earnings Conference... Intel is touting that they have the most technically advanced packaging technology... While their new 7nm process is technically screwed. I could be wrong but that seems like wrong priorities Ridiculous! Reply RobertCharon 23 July 2020 21:38 Listening to Q&A now. Wow, that was some BS response from Swan (Intel CEO). I guess that was expected from an MBA instead of an engineer. Reply Makaveli 23 July 2020 21:45 hmm ya I guess time to buy more AMD stock lol Reply Kamen Rider Blade 23 July 2020 21:48 RobertCharon said: Listening to Q&A now. Wow, that was some BS response from Swan (Intel CEO). I guess that was expected from an MBA instead of an engineer. I think Intel shot themselves in the foot when they fired Brian Krzanich from the CEO position. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Krzanich Brian Krzanich was a Chemistry Major and worked as a process engineer in Intel's Fab's. He worked his way up to CEO position, but he's still a Chemistry guy at the core. Far more useful then Bob Swan who's just a glorified Middle Manager with a MBA degree. Reply thisisaname 23 July 2020 22:23 InvalidError said: However, Intel still hasn't fully sorted 10nm out and I'm guessing that some of the lessons learned don't port over to 7nm quite as well as Intel hoped they would. When they say lessons learned you can be pretty sure they are not going to be. Reply View All 245 Comments Show more comments Be In the Know Get instant access to breaking news, in-depth reviews and helpful tips. Contact me with news and offers from other Future brands Receive email from us on behalf of our trusted partners or sponsors Thank you for signing up to Tom's Hardware. 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Derived from biological central nervous systems, they are used in image classification and speech recognition by feeding them large amount of input data to “train” them. In the past, classifying images into categories was nearly impossible but advances in cognitive science made it possible for machines to distinguish images with a high degree of accuracy. Say you want train a machine how a dog looks like. By feeding it dog images, larger quantity for higher accuracy, it could be trained to spot dogs in images, tell if there aren’t any, or say it is unsure. such algorithm But what do these machine see? A psychedelic trip apparently. The research team explained in their post “We know that after training, each layer progressively extracts higher and higher-level features of the image, until the final layer essentially makes a decision on what the image shows.” “For example, the first layer maybe looks for edges or corners. Intermediate layers interpret the basic features to look for overall shapes or components, like a door or a leaf. The final few layers assemble those into complete interpretations—these neurons activate in response to very complex things such as entire buildings or trees. ” Accompanying image from Google’s post The Google Research team found out that feeding the algorithm iteratively with its own output yielded interesting results. Check out some of the psychedelic images generated by Google’s Deep Dream below: From Lincoln Harrison’s Startrail Gallery Nickelodeon’s Patrick Star Jackson Pollock’s “No. 5” A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte That frigging dress An eye with eyes Guardians of the Galaxy much wow Van Gogh’s Starry Night Edvard Munch’s The Scream Images from Research at Google  Why are there a lot of animals? According to Google’s Research team, this particular algorithm was trained with a large number of animal images and naturally, it is likely to interpret shapes as animals. The data is stored in high abstraction which results to the creation of hybrid animals. Creepy Pasta. Literally. So it’s not really limited to dogs but rather to data sets fed to the code. Here’s a video of someone using MIT’s Places CNN. So how do you make your own? Google’s Research team made their visualization code public after gaining a great amount of interest from programmers and artists alike. Check out their GitHub post here. Oh yeah The code can be applied on both static images and videos. Check out this video that uses the code iteratively. Each frame is recursively fed back to the network starting with a frame of random noise. Every 100 frames (4 seconds) the next layer is targeted until the lowest layer is reached. No worries if you are not programming-savvy. You can submit your images at http://psychic-vr-lab.com/deepdream/ or http://deepdream.pictures/static/ which use the same code to generate these trippy images. Sources: Inceptionism: Going Deeper into Neural Networks DeepDream – a code example for visualizing Neural Networks   Do you have Deep Dream images you generated? Post them in the comments below! ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Kevin Rabida Kevin is a reader first, a writer second, and a gamer somewhere in between. When not rooting for Tyrion Lannister for the Iron Throne, he's probably writing some morbid short story. He enjoys some surreal art, clever advertising campaigns, and a warm cup of coffee while reading Murakami. 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Photo via the author This article originally appeared on VICE Canada. "Well, my name's Jennifer Qupanuaq May… but apparently in the eyes of the government I'm still E8-2571," she says with irony. The 33-year-old Inuk woman from Kuujuuaq, Quebec, is referring to her Eskimo Identification Number, a long-forgotten government program that ran for decades in the North—all the way until the 1980s in some areas. Every Inuit was issued a number, the first letter and number indicating the region where they lived, the last four digits a personalized ID. The goal was to facilitate the administration of social and medical aid. The government thereafter addressed them as such, often dropping their names altogether in written correspondence. According to some accounts, children were asked to call out their disk number at school rather than a name. When the program was introduced in the early 40s, Inuit still lived as nomads; they didn't carry wallets, didn't write, and only spoke Inuktitut. Because of this, the number had to be worn at all times on a small leather or copper disk around the neck. To many, they looked and felt like dog tags. The program was dropped in the 1970s (1980s in Quebec), after an Inuk member of the Northwest Territories legislative assembly decided he no longer wanted to be known as W3-554. At first glance, it sounds like a messed-up version of the social insurance number system we have today. In reality, old records from the Department of Indian and Northern Affairs show that white administrators in the North were mostly just frustrated at their inability to pronounce or understand Inuit names. They tried fingerprinting at first, but eventually settled for the tagging system. An ugly reminder of Canadian history A. J. Mackinnon, the medical examiner for the remote northern community of Pangnirtung, came up with the idea. He was stumped by the absence of actual surnames in Inuit society, which made his job more complicated. In a 1935 letter to his superiors, he wrote: "A good example of this is in the fairly common name of Ruth. The natives cannot get the sounding mechanism around the R letter; as a result, different persons would write down the following: Urootee, Ulootee, Alootah, etc. My humble suggestion would be that at each registration the child be given an identity disk on the same line as an army disk and the same instance that it'd be worn all the time. The novelty of it would appeal to the natives." Like many before him, he assumed that messing with identity would be of little consequence for those renamed. While ignored for a while, his suggestion was eventually adopted. By 1945, the Family Allowance Act of Canada defined an "Eskimo" person as "one to whom an identification disk has been issued." May was born in 1982, one of the last Inuks to ever receive an E-number. She never had to use hers, but two years ago she received a puzzling piece of mail from Service Canada. "For some reason, it had my E-number printed next to my name. I choked up in shock. I thought about all the people who had to wear the physical tags. Why the hell was that number still in my file?" She never called Service Canada to find out, but agreed to let me check for her. They told me they'd investigate, but eventually sent a generic PR statement instead. "The Government of Canada has discontinued the use of the 'Eskimo' disk numbers completely. Generally, Inuit are known by given names and surnames, and are registered through vital statistics records the same way as other Canadians," it read in part. Who knows, maybe it was a glitch, or maybe the E-numbers are still in the system somewhere. "The Canadian government considered the Inuit as 'things,' as weird savage people," says Jennifer. "It's getting better, but it's still misunderstood. We tend to repress that, but our social issues stem from this repression; people have PTSD from being sent to residential schools, from wearing dog tags, and being just a number in their government's eyes." To be fair, some Inuit people aren't as bothered with it. When I was researching this piece, one Inuit woman eagerly photocopied each of her family member's E-tags for me, which she's kept neatly stored in a jewelry box for decades. Nevertheless, the government of Canada has never apologized for or spoken about this program publicly. Throughout history, most Aboriginal people in Canada were identified by name; the Inuit were the only ones to be "tagged" in this way. Of course, the Inuit had their own naming system, which worked just fine for them. In 1922, Arctic explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson said, "The name in Eskimo belief, is the soul, and the soul is the name." What he meant was that naming was—and still is—viewed as reincarnation. To this day, in most parts of the Arctic, name and gender aren't connected. An Inuit woman once put it this way: "No child is only a child. If I give my grandfather's atiq (name) to my baby daughter, she is my grandfather. I will call her ataatassiaq, grandfather. She is entitled to call me grandson." To many, the Eskimo Identification System felt like an erasure of Inuit identity, but in recent years, young Inuks have started to reclaim it. Songs have been written about it. Olivia Ikey Duncan, also from Kuujuuaq, got a disk tattooed to the inside of her arm after she saw Jennifer's Service Canada letter posted on Facebook. "Until then I had never known about it, even though it was discontinued only four years before I was born. Even our families aren't willing to teach us about it, because they've never healed. I know a man who threw his off a bridge somewhere in Montreal." Olivia Ikey Duncan's tattoos. Photo via the author What angers her the most, she says, is that while the government was "tracking their every move," Inuit families were trying to locate their children in residential school, or sick relatives in southern hospitals. "If the government knew where we were, why weren't the children brought back?" The history of the Eskimo Identification program still isn't talked about in Canadian classrooms, but its legacy lingers still, through a custom that neither Olivia or Jennifer can really explain. "Growing up, all Inuit kids picked a number for themselves, like a lucky number, it was just a normal thing," says Olivia. "We signed everything with our numbers, I was number 8…my brother was 11. I guess it just kind of transferred over, weirdly, to this day." Follow Natasha MacDonald-Dupuis on Twitter. 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A student wearing a face mask and shield returns to Melpark Primary School in Johannesburg last month. (Denis Farrell/AP) Opinion by Karen Attiah Karen Attiah Global Opinions editor, writing on international affairs and social issues Email BioFollowGlobal Opinions editor September 22, 2020 at 1:22 p.m. UTC After the novel coronavirus first appeared in Africa in late February, Ghana’s government decided it would take no chances. Ghanaian citizens were soon put under lockdown, and travel between major cities was banned. Then President Nana Akufo-Addo announced the closure of the country’s land and sea borders. Support our journalism. Subscribe today. At the time, my dad was in Ghana visiting family, and he faced the prospect of being stuck until commercial flights resumed. As experts predicted how the pandemic would be a unique and devastating disaster in Africa, my siblings and I scrambled to get my father a spot on a State Department repatriation flight for U.S. citizens. We rushed to get him out because we thought he would be better off in the United States. But after he got back to Texas, the number of cases there started to rise, and I joked with him that he would have been safer in Ghana. “Ghana is doing much better with this than America,” he had said after I picked him up from the airport, amused that I sprayed down the entire car with disinfectant before making him sit in the back seat, away from me. Full coverage of the coronavirus pandemic News reports and opinion articles have posited that corruption and a lack of health-care infrastructure meant that Africa was a “time bomb” waiting to explode. Rampant poverty and a lack of effective governance would cause the dark continent to fall apart under the weight of a public health emergency. The world, the experts said, should prepare to offer aid, loans and debt forgiveness to African governments — in other words, they should prepare to save Africa. No need. While so much about the virus and how it operates remains unclear, sub-Saharan Africa so far has dodged a deadly wave of coronavirus cases. Many factors have contributed to this. A number of West African nations already had a pandemic response infrastructure in place from the Ebola outbreak of late 2013 to 2016. Just six years ago, Liberia lost nearly 5,000 people to Ebola. At the beginning of this year, Liberia began screening for covid-19 at airports. Travelers coming in from countries with more than 200 cases were quarantined. To date, Liberia, a country of some 5 million, has 1,335 cases and around 82 deaths. After the Ebola pandemic, Senegal set up an emergency operations center to manage public health crises. Some covid-19 test results come back in 24 hours, and the country employs aggressive contact tracing. Every coronavirus patient is given a bed in hospital or other health-care facility. Senegal has a population of 16 million, but has only 302 registered deaths. Several countries have come up with innovations. Rwanda, a country of 12 million, also responded early and aggressively to the virus, using equipment and infrastructure that was in place to deal with HIV/AIDS. Testing and treatment for the virus are free. Rwanda has recorded only 26 deaths. As the United States approaches 200,000 deaths, the West seems largely blind to Africa’s successes. In recent weeks, headline writers seem to be doing their hardest to try to reconcile Western stereotypes about Africa with the reality of the low death rates on the continent. The BBC came under fire for a since-changed headline and a tweet that read “Coronavirus in Africa: Could poverty explain mystery of low death rate?” The New York Post published an article with the headline, “Scientists can’t explain puzzling lack of coronavirus outbreaks in Africa.” It’s almost as if they are disappointed that Africans aren’t dying en masse and countries are not collapsing. While Black Americans have been disproportionately contracting covid-19 and dying, Africa’s performance shows, as I quoted a Kenyan anthropologist saying in May, “being a black person in this world doesn’t kill you, but being a black person in America clearly can.” This pandemic has coincided with a global movement challenging anti-Black racism and white supremacy. This should have been a moment for media outlets to challenge corrosive narratives about Africa and the idea that Africans are not capable of effective policy-making. We could be learning from the experiences that Africans and their governments have had with pandemics and viral diseases, including Ebola and AIDS. Instead, the media has largely ignored the policy successes out of Africa. In doing so, Western media is reinforcing colonial narratives of Black inferiority and the inability of Black nations to govern themselves at all, much less govern better than resource-rich White nations. 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The following query uses these: Properties: image (P18)   , logo image (P154)   , coordinate location (P625)   , headquarters location (P159)   , located in the administrative territorial entity (P131)   , country (P17)    Features: Map (Q24515275)    1#defaultView:Map 2# 3# SWIB20 participants' institutions, mapped to Wikidata and enriched from there 4# 5PREFIX zbwext: 6# 7# from possibly multi-valued fields, use an arbitrary value 8select distinct ?item ?itemLabel (sample(?logo1) as ?logo) (sample(?img) as ?image) (sample(?pos) as ?coord) ?participants 9where { 10 # institutions' items and count of participants from custom WDQS-enabled endpoint 11 service { 12 ?item zbwext:swib20participants ?count . 13 bind(concat(str(?count), ' participant', if(?count > 1, 's', '')) as ?participants) 14 } 15 optional { ?item wdt:P18 ?img . } 16 optional { ?item wdt:P154 ?logo1 . } 17 optional { ?item wdt:P625 ?pos1 . } 18 optional { ?item wdt:P159/wdt:P625 ?pos2 . } 19 optional { ?item wdt:P131/wdt:P625 ?pos3 . } 20 optional { ?item wdt:P17/wdt:P625 ?pos4 . } 21 # use the most precise position 22 bind(coalesce(?pos1, ?pos2, ?pos3, ?pos4) as ?pos) 23 SERVICE wikibase:label { bd:serviceParam wikibase:language "en,[AUTO_LANGUAGE],de,fr,es". } 24} 25group by ?item ?itemLabel ?participants Try it! Static version of the query - all information explicitly put into a "values" clause, does not need a custom SPARQL endpoint Institutions with most participants at SWIB20[edit] Federated query, using a custom set of instition items with the number of SWIB20 participants from these institutions. # SWIB20 participants aggregated by institution # PREFIX zbwext: # select ?item ?itemLabel ?count where { # institutions' items and count of participants from custom WDQS-enabled endpoint service { ?item zbwext:swib20participants ?count. bind(concat(str(?count), ' participant', if(?count > 1, 's', '')) as ?participants) } SERVICE wikibase:label { bd:serviceParam wikibase:language "en,[AUTO_LANGUAGE],de,fr,es". } } order by desc(?count) Try it! 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Privacy policy About Wikidata Disclaimers Mobile view Data access Developers Statistics Cookie statement www-wikidata-org-9537 ---- User:Jneubert/SWIB queries/SWIB institutions extended - Wikidata User:Jneubert/SWIB queries/SWIB institutions extended From Wikidata < User:Jneubert‎ | SWIB queries Jump to navigation Jump to search #defaultView:Map # # SWIB20 participants' institutions, mapped to Wikidata and enriched from there # PREFIX zbwext: # # from possibly multi-valued fields, use an arbitrary value select distinct ?item ?itemLabel (sample(?logo1) as ?logo) (sample(?img) as ?image) (sample(?pos) as ?coord) ?participants where { # institutions' items and count, verbatim values ( ?item ?count ) { ( wd:Q219694 1 ) ( wd:Q24238356 1 ) ( wd:Q621630 2 ) ( wd:Q189928 1 ) ( wd:Q7352053 1 ) ( wd:Q1490164 2 ) ( wd:Q383931 1 ) ( wd:Q953058 10 ) ( wd:Q684773 3 ) ( wd:Q638395 3 ) ( wd:Q7928986 1 ) ( wd:Q2302311 2 ) ( wd:Q2303432 1 ) ( wd:Q1144262 1 ) ( wd:Q379848 1 ) ( wd:Q833670 2 ) ( wd:Q4376778 2 ) ( wd:Q5243021 1 ) ( wd:Q7320757 1 ) ( wd:Q7895799 2 ) ( wd:Q1503374 1 ) ( wd:Q3179598 1 ) ( wd:Q392189 1 ) ( wd:Q945017 1 ) ( wd:Q861888 1 ) ( wd:Q152838 1 ) ( wd:Q503415 1 ) ( wd:Q76609347 1 ) ( wd:Q1314031 1 ) ( wd:Q902464 1 ) ( wd:Q12719270 1 ) ( wd:Q101024265 1 ) ( wd:Q2901276 1 ) ( wd:Q7892233 2 ) ( wd:Q12061441 1 ) ( wd:Q6410943 1 ) ( wd:Q1247135 1 ) ( wd:Q611833 4 ) ( wd:Q85726762 1 ) ( wd:Q1205728 1 ) ( wd:Q914141 1 ) ( wd:Q92802556 1 ) ( wd:Q1481275 1 ) ( wd:Q18559618 1 ) ( wd:Q13371 2 ) ( wd:Q219555 2 ) ( wd:Q4146639 1 ) ( wd:Q1788342 5 ) ( wd:Q1813732 1 ) ( wd:Q6709869 3 ) ( wd:Q22096046 1 ) ( wd:Q1005530 1 ) ( wd:Q193510 2 ) ( wd:Q1580126 1 ) ( wd:Q1592074 1 ) ( wd:Q1433199 1 ) ( wd:Q209344 1 ) ( wd:Q215616 1 ) ( wd:Q1463036 3 ) ( wd:Q7895142 1 ) ( wd:Q2496355 1 ) ( wd:Q842909 1 ) ( wd:Q676831 3 ) ( wd:Q7895144 1 ) ( wd:Q7686664 2 ) ( wd:Q73495405 2 ) ( wd:Q603034 1 ) ( wd:Q1321380 1 ) ( wd:Q1060 1 ) ( wd:Q2000629 1 ) ( wd:Q1766396 1 ) ( wd:Q263491 1 ) ( 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wd:Q42411212 2 ) ( wd:Q1674548 1 ) ( wd:Q913250 2 ) ( wd:Q6050910 1 ) ( wd:Q8880 1 ) ( wd:Q7587511 1 ) ( wd:Q28734805 1 ) ( wd:Q152087 2 ) ( wd:Q1054319 1 ) ( wd:Q7895109 1 ) ( wd:Q256507 1 ) ( wd:Q1108197 2 ) ( wd:Q457281 1 ) ( wd:Q49126 1 ) ( wd:Q1895354 2 ) ( wd:Q616527 1 ) ( wd:Q1965176 1 ) ( wd:Q186844 1 ) ( wd:Q263064 1 ) ( wd:Q7896490 3 ) ( wd:Q238101 2 ) ( wd:Q401034 1 ) ( wd:Q22079853 1 ) ( wd:Q1391290 1 ) ( wd:Q749718 1 ) ( wd:Q1277776 1 ) ( wd:Q98831594 1 ) ( wd:Q5171572 1 ) ( wd:Q510324 1 ) ( wd:Q180865 4 ) ( wd:Q3105568 1 ) ( wd:Q872398 1 ) ( wd:Q151510 1 ) ( wd:Q1047060 1 ) ( wd:Q39072675 1 ) ( wd:Q49114 2 ) ( wd:Q5620356 1 ) ( wd:Q4682076 1 ) ( wd:Q188915 2 ) ( wd:Q1360303 1 ) ( wd:Q1124657 1 ) ( wd:Q1576755 1 ) ( wd:Q235034 1 ) } bind(concat(str(?count), ' participant', if(?count > 1, 's', '')) as ?participants) optional { ?item wdt:P18 ?img . } optional { ?item wdt:P154 ?logo1 . } optional { ?item wdt:P625 ?pos1 . } optional { ?item wdt:P159/wdt:P625 ?pos2 . } optional { ?item wdt:P131/wdt:P625 ?pos3 . } optional { ?item wdt:P17/wdt:P625 ?pos4 . } # use the most precise position bind(coalesce(?pos1, ?pos2, ?pos3, ?pos4) as ?pos) SERVICE wikibase:label { bd:serviceParam wikibase:language "en,[AUTO_LANGUAGE],de,fr,es". } } group by ?item ?itemLabel ?participants Try it! 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Today we’re adding a feature that lets you move documents between Google Docs and Word or LibreOffice while preserving active Zotero citations. You can now begin writing a document collaboratively in Google Docs and move it to Word or LibreOffice for final editing, or vice versa. When you use this feature, Zotero will convert the citations and bibliography to a temporary format that can be transferred safely between word processors. We’ve added instructions for specific word processors, but the basic process is the same: Choose “Switch to a Different Word Processor…” from the plugin’s Document Preferences window. Save the converted file. Open the file in the other word processor. Click Refresh to continue using it. In Google Docs, you can also choose “Switch Word Processors…” from the Zotero menu. While the process should be entirely reversible, we recommend performing the conversion in a copy of the file. 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If you try to cite a retracted item using the word processor plugin, Zotero will warn you and confirm that you still want to cite it. If you’ve already added a citation to a document and it later is retracted, Zotero will warn you the next time you update the document’s citations, even if the item no longer exists in your Zotero library or was added by a co-author. Currently, this feature is limited to items with a DOI or PMID (entered in the DOI field or in Extra as “DOI:”, “PMID:”, or “PubMed ID:”), which covers about 3/4 of Retraction Watch data, but we’re hoping to support items without identifiers as best as possible in a future update. Designed for Privacy The full retraction data is stored on Zotero servers, but we’ve designed this feature in a way that allows the Zotero client to check for retracted items without sharing the contents of your library. You don’t need to use Zotero syncing or upload a list of items to benefit from this feature. For each item in your library, Zotero calculates a non-unique identifier that could map to hundreds or thousands of publications, and then compares those to a list of similar partial identifiers of retracted publications that it retrieves from Zotero servers. For each potential match, it requests the full details of all possible retractions, and then checks for local items matching any of those full identifiers and flags any that it finds. The Zotero servers have no way of knowing whether you have the retracted work in your library or one of hundreds or thousands of others. (A similar approach is used by some tools to check for compromised passwords without sharing the passwords they’re checking with the server.) And, as with our other services, we’re not logging the contents of even these anonymized lookups. This feature is available today in Zotero 5.0.67. Scan Books into Zotero from Your iPhone or iPad Posted November 5th, 2018 by Dan Stillman Zotero makes it easy to collect research materials with a single click as you browse the web, but what do you do when you want to add a real, physical book to your Zotero library? If you have an iPhone or iPad running iOS 12, you can now save a book to Zotero just by scanning its barcode: Your browser doesn’t support HTML5 video in WebM with VP9 or MP4 with H.264. This feature takes advantage of the new Shortcuts functionality in iOS 12, which can chain together series of actions to perform tasks. To get started, you’ll first need to install Apple’s Shortcuts app, if you don’t yet have it on your iPhone or iPad. Next, install the Scan Book to Zotero shortcut by tapping on the link below from your iPhone or iPad and selecting Open in “Shortcuts”: Download Shortcut Update, October 2019: In iOS 13, you need to enable “Allow Untrusted Shortcuts” in Settings to install shortcuts from outside the Shortcuts app Gallery. As of iOS 13.1.2, it may be necessary to first download another shortcut from the Gallery before the option appears in Settings. After the shortcut opens, tap Done to close it, and then tap on the “Scan Book to Zotero” rectangle. The first time you run it, you’ll need to select “Run Shortcut” and grant the shortcut access to the camera, and you’ll need to log into the Zotero website before you can save. (If you haven’t yet set up syncing with Zotero on your computer, you’ll want to do that as well so that items you save will sync to Zotero on your computer.) Whenever you want to scan a book into Zotero, you can trigger the shortcut in a number of different ways: You can open the Shortcuts app and select Scan Book to Zotero. You can swipe right from the lock screen or home screen to open the Today View and select Scan Book to Zotero in the Shortcuts widget. If the Shortcuts widget doesn’t appear or doesn’t appear where you want it, you can add or move it via the Edit button at the bottom. If you have an iPhone that supports 3D Touch, you can hard-press on the Shortcuts app icon and select Scan Book to Zotero from the widget popup. You can say something like “Hey Siri, add this book to Zotero”. (Maybe don’t use this one in the library.) To set a phrase for Siri, open the Shortcuts app, tap the three dots in the Scan Book to Zotero rectangle, tap the settings icon in the top right, and then tap Add to Siri and assign a phrase. In our testing, we found Siri support to still be a bit buggy in the current version of Shortcuts, so if Siri doesn’t recognize your phrase, try editing the shortcut and re-recording the phrase or wait for an update from Apple. Happy scanning! P.S. If you don’t use an iPhone or iPad, or you can’t upgrade to iOS 12, you can still save a book from your phone when you’re away from your computer by entering the ISBN manually. Simply bookmark this page and load it whenever you need to add a physical book. Zotero Comes to Google Docs Posted October 19th, 2018 by Dan Stillman We’re excited to announce the availability of Zotero integration with Google Docs, joining Zotero’s existing support for Microsoft Word and LibreOffice. The same powerful functionality that Zotero has long offered for traditional word processors is now available for Google Docs. You can quickly search for items in your Zotero library, add page numbers and other details, and insert citations. When you’re done, a single click inserts a formatted bibliography based on the citations in your document. Zotero supports complex style requirements such as Ibid. and name disambiguation, and it keeps your citations and bibliography updated as you make changes to items in your library. If you need to switch citation styles, you can easily reformat your entire document in any of the over 9,000 citation styles that Zotero supports. Google Docs support is part of the Zotero Connector for Chrome and Firefox, which adds a new Zotero menu to the Google Docs interface: It also adds a toolbar button for one-click citing: When you start using Zotero in a document, you’ll first need to authenticate it with your Google account. You can then begin inserting citations from the Zotero libraries on your computer, just as you can with Word and LibreOffice. Once you’ve finished your document and are ready to submit it, use File → “Make a copy…” and, in the new document, use Zotero → “Unlink Citations” to convert the citations and bibliography to plain text. You can then download that second document as a PDF or other type of file, while keeping active citations in the original document in case you need to make further changes. Zotero will prompt you to create a copy if you try to download your original document. Built for Collaboration Zotero and Google Docs are a perfect combination for people writing together. Zotero groups are a great way to collect and manage materials for a shared project, and Google Docs integration allows you and your coauthors to insert and edit citations in a shared document. Groups are free and can contain an unlimited number of members, so you can collaborate with as many people as you like. While citing from the same library allows everyone to make changes to items in Zotero and have them reflected in the document, if you don’t want to work from a group, that’s fine too: Zotero can generate correct citations and bibliography entries even for items people add from their own libraries. Get Started Ready to try it out? Open a document in Google Docs and look for the Zotero menu. If you don’t see it, make sure you have Zotero Connector 5.0.42 for Chrome or Firefox. See our documentation to learn more about using Zotero with Google Docs. 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The map was intended to support participants of SWIB20 to make contacts in the virtual conference space. However, in compliance with GDPR we want to avoid publishing personal details. So we choose to publish a map of institutions, to which the participants are affiliated. (Obvious downside: the 9 un-affiliated participants could not be represented on the map). We suppose that the method can be applied to other conferences and other use cases - e.g., the downloaders of scientific software or the institutions subscribed to an academic journal. Therefore, we describe the process in some detail. Wikidata for Authorities Linked data   Read more about Building the SWIB20 participants map Log in or register to post comments Journal Map: developing an open environment for accessing and analyzing performance indicators from journals in economics 2020-11-16 by Timo Borst by Franz Osorio, Timo Borst Introduction Bibliometrics, scientometrics, informetrics and webometrics have been both research topics and practical guidelines for publishing, reading, citing, measuring and acquiring published research for a while (Hood 2001). Citation databases and measures had been introduced in the 1960s, becoming benchmarks both for the publishing industry and academic libraries managing their holdings and journal acquisitions that tend to be more selective with a growing number of journals on the one side, budget cuts on the other. Due to the Open Access movement triggering a transformation of traditional publishing models (Schimmer 2015), and in the light of both global and distributed information infrastructures for publishing and communicating on the web that have yielded more diverse practices and communities, this situation has dramatically changed: While bibliometrics of research output in its core understanding still is highly relevant to stakeholders and the scientific community, visibility, influence and impact of scientific results has shifted to locations in the World Wide Web that are commonly shared and quickly accessible not only by peers, but by the general public (Thelwall 2013). This has several implications for different stakeholders who are referring to metrics in dealing with scientific results:   With the rise of social networks, platforms and their use also by academics and research communities, the term 'metrics' itself has gained a broader meaning: while traditional citation indexes only track citations of literature published in (other) journals, 'mentions', 'reads' and 'tweets', albeit less formal, have become indicators and measures for (scientific) impact. Altmetrics has influenced research performance, evaluation and measurement, which formerly had been exclusively associated with traditional bibliometrics. Scientists are becoming aware of alternative publishing channels and both the option and need of 'self-advertising' their output. In particular academic libraries are forced to manage their journal subscriptions and holdings in the light of increasing scientific output on the one hand, and stagnating budgets on the other. While editorial products from the publishing industry are exposed to a global competing market requiring a 'brand' strategy, altmetrics may serve as additional scattered indicators for scientific awareness and value. Against this background, we took the opportunity to collect, process and display some impact or signal data with respect to literature in economics from different sources, such as 'traditional' citation databases, journal rankings and community platforms resp. altmetrics indicators: CitEc. The long-standing citation service maintainted by the RePEc community provided a dump of both working papers (as part of series) and journal articles, the latter with significant information on classic impact factors such as impact factor (2 and 5 years) and h-index. Rankings of journals in economics including Scimago Journal Rank (SJR) and two German journal rankings, that are regularly released and updated (VHB Jourqual, Handelsblatt Ranking). Usage data from Altmetric.com that we collected for those articles that could be identified via their Digital Object Identifier. Usage data from the scientific community platform and reference manager Mendeley.com, in particular the number of saves or bookmarks on an individual paper. Requirements A major consideration for this project was finding an open environment in which to implement it. Finding an open platform to use served a few purposes. As a member of the "Leibniz Research Association," ZBW has a commitment to Open Science and in part that means making use of open technologies to as great extent as possible (The ZBW - Open Scienc...). This open system should allow direct access to the underlying data so that users are able to use it for their own investigations and purposes. Additionally, if possible the user should be able to manipulate the data within the system. The first instance of the project was created in Tableau, which offers a variety of means to express data and create interfaces for the user to filter and manipulate data. It also can provide a way to work with the data and create visualizations without programming skills or knowledge. Tableau is one of the most popular tools to create and deliver data visualization in particular within academic libraries (Murphy 2013). However, the software is proprietary and has a monthly fee to use and maintain, as well as closing off the data and making only the final visualization available to users. It was able to provide a starting point for how we wanted to the data to appear to the user, but it is in no way open. Challenges The first technical challenge was to consolidate the data from the different sources which had varying formats and organizations. Broadly speaking, the bibliometric data (CitEc and journal rankings) existed as a spread sheet with multiple pages, while the altmetrics and Mendeley data came from a database dumps with multiple tables that were presented as several CSV files. In addition to these different formats, the data needed to be cleaned and gaps filled in. The sources also had very different scopes. The altmetrics and Mendeley data covered only 30 journals, the bibliometric data, on the other hand, had more than 1,000 journals. Transitioning from Tableau to an open platform was big challenge. While there are many ways to create data visualizations and present them to users, the decision was made to use R to work with the data and Shiny to present it. R is used widely to work with data and to present it (Kläre 2017). The language has lots of support for these kinds of task over many libraries. The primary libraries used were R Plotly and R Shiny. Plotly is a popular library for creating interactive visualizations. Without too much work Plotly can provide features including information popups while hovering over a chart and on the fly filtering. Shiny provides a framework to create a web application to present the data without requiring a lot of work to create HTML and CSS. The transition required time spent getting to know R and its libraries, to learn how to create the kinds of charts and filters that would be useful for users. While Shiny alleviates the need to create HTML and CSS, it does have a specific set of requirements and structures in order to function. The final challenge was in making this project accessible to users such that they would be able to see what we had done, have access to the data, and have an environment in which they could explore the data without needing anything other than what we were providing. In order to achieve this we used Binder as the platform. At it's most basic Binder makes it possible to share a Jupyter Notebook stored in a Github repository with a URL by running the Jupyter Notebook remotely and providing access through a browser with no requirements placed on the user. Additionally, Binder is able to run a web application using R and Shiny. To move from a locally running instance of R Shiny to one that can run in Binder, instructions for the runtime environment need to be created and added to the repository. These include information on what version of the language to use,  which packages and libraries to install for the language, and any additional requirements there might be to run everything. Solutions Given the disparate sources and formats for the data, there was work that needed to be done to prepare it for visualization. The largest dataset, the bibliographic data, had several identifiers for each journal but without journal names. Having the journals names is important because in general the names are how users will know the journals. Adding the names to the data would allow users to filter on specific journals or pull up two journals for a comparison. Providing the names of the journals is also a benefit for anyone who may repurpose the data and saves them from having to look them up. In order to fill this gap, we used metadata available through Research Papers in Economics (RePEc). RePEc is an organization that seeks to "enhance the dissemination of research in Economics and related sciences". It contains metadata for more than 3 million papers available in different formats. The bibliographic data contained RePEc Handles which we used to look up the journal information as XML and then parse the XML to find the title of the journal.  After writing a small Python script to go through the RePEc data and find the missing names there were only 6 journals whose names were still missing. For the data that originated in an MySQL database, the major work that needed to be done was to correct the formatting. The data was provided as CSV files but it was not formatted such that it could be used right away. Some of the fields had double quotation marks and when the CSV file was created those quotes were put into other quotation marks resulting doubled quotation marks which made machine parsing difficult without intervention directly on the files. The work was to go through the files and quickly remove the doubled quotation marks. In addition to that, it was useful for some visualizations to provide a condensed version of the data. The data from the database was at the article level which is useful for some things, but could be time consuming for other actions. For example, the altmetrics data covered only 30 journals but had almost 14,000 rows. We could use the Python library pandas to go through the all those rows and condense the data down so that there are only 30 rows with the data for each column being the sum of all rows. In this way, there is a dataset that can be used to easily and quickly generate summaries on the journal level. Shiny applications require a specific structure and files in order to do the work of creating HTML without needing to write the full HTML and CSS. At it's most basic there are two main parts to the Shiny application. The first defines the user interface (UI) of the page. It says what goes where, what kind of elements to include, and how things are labeled. This section defines what the user interacts with by creating inputs and also defining the layout of the output. The second part acts as a server that handles the computations and processing of the data that will be passed on to the UI for display. The two pieces work in tandem, passing information back and forth to create a visualization based on user input. Using Shiny allowed almost all of the time spent on creating the project to be concentrated on processing the data and creating the visualizations. The only difficulty in creating the frontend was making sure all the pieces of the UI and Server were connected correctly. Binder provided a solution for hosting the application, making the data available to users, and making it shareable all in an open environment. Notebooks and applications hosted with Binder are shareable in part because the source is often a repository like Github. By passing a Github repository to Binder, say one that has a Jupyter Notebook in it, Binder will build a Docker image to run the notebook and then serve the result to the user without them needing to do anything. Out of the box the Docker image will contain only the most basic functions. The result is that if a notebook requires a library that isn't standard, it won't be possible to run all of the code in the notebook. In order to address this, Binder allows for the inclusion in a repository of certain files that can define what extra elements should be included when building the Docker image. This can be very specific such as what version of the language to use and listing various libraries that should be included to ensure that the notebook can be run smoothly. Binder also has support for more advanced functionality in the Docker images such as creating a Postgres database and loading it with data. These kinds of activities require using different hooks that Binder looks for during the creation of the Docker image to run scripts. Results and evaluation The final product has three main sections that divide the data categorically into altmetrics, bibliometrics, and data from Mendeley. There are additionally some sections that exist as areas where something new could be tried out and refined without potentially causing issues with the three previously mentioned areas. Each section has visualizations that are based on the data available. Considering the requirements for the project, the result goes a long way to meeting the requirements. The most apparent area that the Journal Map succeeds in is its goals is of presenting data that we have collected. The application serves as a dashboard for the data that can be explored by changing filters and journal selections. By presenting the data as a dashboard, the barrier to entry for users to explore the data is low. However, there exists a way to access the data directly and perform new calculations, or create new visualizations. This can be done through the application's access to an R-Studio environment. Access to R-Studio provides two major features. First, it gives direct access to the all the underlying code that creates the dashboard and the data used by it. Second, it provides an R terminal so that users can work with the data directly. In R-Studio, the user can also modify the existing files and then run them from R-Studio to see the results. Using Binder and R as the backend of the applications allows us to provide users with different ways to access and work with data without any extra requirements on the part of the user. However, anything changed in R-Studio won't affect the dashboard view and won't persist between sessions. Changes exist only in the current session. All the major pieces of this project were able to be done using open technologies: Binder to serve the application, R to write the code, and Github to host all the code. Using these technologies and leveraging their capabilities allows the project to support the Open Science paradigm that was part of the impetus for the project. The biggest drawback to the current implementation is that Binder is a third party host and so there are certain things that are out of our control. For example, Binder can be slow to load. It takes on average 1+ minutes for the Docker image to load. There's not much, if anything, we can do to speed that up. The other issue is that if there is an update to the Binder source code that breaks something, then the application will be inaccessible until the issue is resolved. Outlook and future work The application, in its current state, has parts that are not finalized. As we receive feedback, we will make changes to the application to add or change visualizations. As mentioned previously, there a few sections that were created to test different visualizations independently of the more complete sections, those can be finalized. In the future it may be possible to move from BinderHub to a locally created and administered version of Binder. There is support and documentation for creating local, self hosted instances of Binder. Going that direction would give more control, and may make it possible to get the Docker image to load more quickly. While the application runs stand-alone, the data that is visualized may also be integrated in other contexts. One option we are already prototyping is integrating the data into our subject portal EconBiz, so users would be able to judge the scientific impact of an article in terms of both bibliometric and altmetric indicators.   References William W. Hood, Concepcion S. Wilson. The Literature of Bibliometrics, Scientometrics, and Informetrics. Scientometrics 52, 291–314 Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2001. Link R. Schimmer. Disrupting the subscription journals’ business model for the necessary large-scale transformation to open access. (2015). Link Mike Thelwall, Stefanie Haustein, Vincent Larivière, Cassidy R. Sugimoto. Do Altmetrics Work? Twitter and Ten Other Social Web Services. PLoS ONE 8, e64841 Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2013. Link The ZBW - Open Science Future. Link Sarah Anne Murphy. Data Visualization and Rapid Analytics: Applying Tableau Desktop to Support Library Decision-Making. Journal of Web Librarianship 7, 465–476 Informa UK Limited, 2013. Link Christina Kläre, Timo Borst. Statistic packages and their use in research in Economics | EDaWaX - Blog of the project ’European Data Watch Extended’. EDaWaX - European Data Watch Extended (2017). Link Journal Map - Binder application for displaying and analyzing metrics data about scientific journals Read more about Journal Map: developing an open environment for accessing and analyzing performance indicators from journals in economics Log in or register to post comments Integrating altmetrics into a subject repository - EconStor as a use case 2019-11-21 by Wolfgang Riese Back in 2015 the ZBW Leibniz Information Center for Economics (ZBW) teamed up with the Göttingen State and university library (SUB), the Service Center of Götting library federation (VZG) and GESIS Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences in the *metrics project funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). The aim of the project was: “… to develop a deeper understanding of *metrics, especially in terms of their general significance and their perception amongst stakeholders.” (*metrics project about). In the practical part of the project the following DSpace based repositories of the project partners participated as data sources for online publications and – in the case of EconStor – also as implementer for the presentation of the social media signals: EconStor - a subject repository for economics and business studies run by the ZBW, currently (Aug. 2019) containing round about 180,000 downloadable files, GoeScholar - the Publication Server of the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen run by the SUB Göttingen, offering approximately 11,000 publicly browsable items so far, SSOAR - the “Social Science Open Access Repository” maintained by GESIS, currently containing about 53,000 publicly available items. In the work package “Technology analysis for the collection and provision of *metrics” of the project an analysis of currently available *metrics technologies and services had been performed. As stated by [Wilsdon 2017], currently suppliers of altmetrics “remain too narrow (mainly considering research products with DOIs)”, which leads to problems to acquire *metrics data for repositories like EconStor with working papers as the main content. As up to now it is unusual – at least in the social sciences and economics – to create DOIs for this kind of documents. Only the resulting final article published in a journal will receive a DOI. Based on the findings in this work package, a test implementation of the *metrics crawler had been built. The crawler had been actively deployed from early 2018 to spring 2019 at the VZG. For the aggregation of the *metrics data the crawler had been fed with persistent identifiers and metadata from the aforementioned repositories. At this stage of the project, the project partners still had the expectation, that the persistent identifiers (e.g. handle, URNs, …), or their local URL counterparts, as used by the repositories could be harnessed to easily identify social media mentions of their documents, e.g. for EconStor: handle: “hdl:10419/…” handle.net resolver URL: “http(s)://hdl.handle.net/10419/…” EconStor landing page URL with handle: “http(s)://www.econstor.eu/handle/10419/…” EconStor bitstream (PDF) URL with handle: “http(s)://www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10419/…” Integrating altmetrics data into EconStor Read more about Integrating altmetrics into a subject repository - EconStor as a use case Log in or register to post comments 20th Century Press Archives: Data donation to Wikidata 2019-10-24 by Joachim Neubert ZBW is donating a large open dataset from the 20th Century Press Archives to Wikidata, in order to make it better accessible to various scientific disciplines such as contemporary, economic and business history, media and information science, to journalists, teachers, students, and the general public. The 20th Century Press Archives (PM20) is a large public newspaper clippings archive, extracted from more than 1500 different sources published in Germany and all over the world, covering roughly a full century (1908-2005). The clippings are organized in thematic folders about persons, companies and institutions, general subjects, and wares. During a project originally funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), the material up to 1960 has been digitized. 25,000 folders with more than two million pages up to 1949 are freely accessible online.  The fine-grained thematic access and the public nature of the archives makes it to our best knowledge unique across the world (more information on Wikipedia) and an essential research data fund for some of the disciplines mentioned above. The data donation does not only mean that ZBW has assigned a CC0 license to all PM20 metadata, which makes it compatible with Wikidata. (Due to intellectual property rights, only the metadata can be licensed by ZBW - all legal rights on the press articles themselves remain with their original creators.) The donation also includes investing a substantial amount of working time (during, as planned, two years) devoted to the integration of this data into Wikidata. Here we want to share our experiences regarding the integration of the persons archive metadata. Linked data   Open data   Read more about 20th Century Press Archives: Data donation to Wikidata Log in or register to post comments ZBW's contribution to "Coding da Vinci": Dossiers about persons and companies from 20th Century Press Archives 2018-10-23 by Joachim Neubert At 27th and 28th of October, the Kick-off for the "Kultur-Hackathon" Coding da Vinci is held in Mainz, Germany, organized this time by GLAM institutions from the Rhein-Main area: "For five weeks, devoted fans of culture and hacking alike will prototype, code and design to make open cultural data come alive." New software applications are enabled by free and open data. For the first time, ZBW is among the data providers. It contributes the person and company dossiers of the 20th Century Press Archive. For about a hundred years, the predecessor organizations of ZBW in Kiel and Hamburg had collected press clippings, business reports and other material about a wide range of political, economic and social topics, about persons, organizations, wares, events and general subjects. During a project funded by the German Research Organization (DFG), the documents published up to 1948 (about 5,7 million pages) had been digitized and are made publicly accessible with according metadata, until recently solely in the "Pressemappe 20. Jahrhundert" (PM20) web application. Additionally, the dossiers - for example about Mahatma Gandhi or the Hamburg-Bremer Afrika Linie - can be loaded into a web viewer. As a first step to open up this unique source of data for various communities, ZBW has decided to put the complete PM20 metadata* under a CC-Zero license, which allows free reuse in all contexts. For our Coding da Vinci contribution, we have prepared all person and company dossiers which already contain documents. The dossiers are interlinked among each other. Controlled vocabularies (for, e.g., "country", or "field of activity") provide multi-dimensional access to the data. Most of the persons and a good share of organizations were linked to GND identifiers. As a starter, we had mapped dossiers to Wikidata according to existing GND IDs. That allows to run queries for PM20 dossiers completely on Wikidata, making use of all the good stuff there. An example query shows the birth places of PM20 economists on a map, enriched with images from Wikimedia commons. The initial mapping was much extended by fantastic semi-automatic and manual mapping efforts by the Wikidata community. So currently more than 80 % of the dossiers about - often rather prominent - PM20 persons are linked not only to Wikidata, but also connected to Wikipedia pages. That offers great opportunities for mash-ups to further data sources, and we are looking forward to what the "Coding da Vinci" crowd may make out of these opportunities. Technically, the data has been converted from an internal intermediate format to still quite experimental RDF and loaded into a SPARQL endpoint. There it was enriched with data from Wikidata and extracted with a construct query. We have decided to transform it to JSON-LD for publication (following practices recommended by our hbz colleagues). So developers can use the data as "plain old JSON", with the plethora of web tools available for this, while linked data enthusiasts can utilize sophisticated Semantic Web tools by applying the provided JSON-LD context. In order to make the dataset discoverable and reusable for future research, we published it persistently at zenodo.org. With it, we provide examples and data documentation. A GitHub repository gives you additional code examples and a way to address issues and suggestions. * For the scanned documents, the legal regulations apply - ZBW cannot assign licenses here.   Pressemappe 20. Jahrhundert Linked data   Read more about ZBW's contribution to "Coding da Vinci": Dossiers about persons and companies from 20th Century Press Archives Log in or register to post comments Wikidata as authority linking hub: Connecting RePEc and GND researcher identifiers 2017-11-30 by Joachim Neubert In the EconBiz portal for publications in economics, we have data from different sources. In some of these sources, most notably ZBW's "ECONIS" bibliographical database, authors are disambiguated by identifiers of the Integrated Authority File (GND) - in total more than 470,000. Data stemming from "Research papers in Economics" (RePEc) contains another identifier: RePEc authors can register themselves in the RePEc Author Service (RAS), and claim their papers. This data is used for various rankings of authors and, indirectly, of institutions in economics, which provides a big incentive for authors - about 50,000 have signed into RAS - to keep both their article claims and personal data up-to-date. While GND is well known and linked to many other authorities, RAS had no links to any other researcher identifier system. Thus, until recently, the author identifiers were disconnected, which precludes the possibility to display all publications of an author on a portal page. To overcome that limitation, colleagues at ZBW have matched a good 3,000 authors with RAS and GND IDs by their publications (see details here). Making that pre-existing mapping maintainable and extensible however would have meant to set up some custom editing interface, would have required storage and operating resources and wouldn't easily have been made publicly accessible. In a previous article, we described the opportunities offered by Wikidata. Now we made use of it. Wikidata for Authorities Authority control   Wikidata   Read more about Wikidata as authority linking hub: Connecting RePEc and GND researcher identifiers Log in or register to post comments New version of multi-lingual JEL classification published in LOD 2017-03-02 by Joachim Neubert The Journal of Economic Literature Classification Scheme (JEL) was created and is maintained by the American Economic Association. The AEA provides this widely used resource freely for scholarly purposes. Thanks to André Davids (KU Leuven), who has translated the originally English-only labels of the classification to French, Spanish and German, we provide a multi-lingual version of JEL. It's lastest version (as of 2017-01) is published in the formats RDFa and RDF download files. These formats and translations are provided "as is" and are not authorized by AEA. In order to make changes in JEL tracable more easily, we have created lists of inserted and removed JEL classes in the context of the skos-history project. JEL Klassifikation für Linked Open Data skos-history Linked data   Read more about New version of multi-lingual JEL classification published in LOD Log in or register to post comments Economists in Wikidata: Opportunities of Authority Linking 2017-01-17 by Joachim Neubert Wikidata is a large database, which connects all of the roughly 300 Wikipedia projects. Besides interlinking all Wikipedia pages in different languages about a specific item – e.g., a person -, it also connects to more than 1000 different sources of authority information. The linking is achieved by a „authority control“ class of Wikidata properties. The values of these properties are identifiers, which unambiguously identify the wikidata item in external, web-accessible databases. The property definitions includes an URI pattern (called „formatter URL“). When the identifier value is inserted into the URI pattern, the resulting URI can be used to look up the authoritiy entry. The resulting URI may point to a Linked Data resource - as it is the case with the GND ID property. This, on the one hand, provides a light-weight and robust mechanism to create links in the web of data. On the other hand, these links can be exploited by every application which is driven by one of the authorities to provide additional data: Links to Wikipedia pages in multiple languages, images, life data, nationality and affiliations of the according persons, and much more. Wikidata item for the Indian Economist Bina Agarwal, visualized via the SQID browser Wikidata for Authorities Wikidata   Authority control   Linked data   Read more about Economists in Wikidata: Opportunities of Authority Linking Log in or register to post comments Integrating a Research Data Repository with established research practices 2016-06-03 by Timo Borst Authors: Timo Borst, Konstantin Ott In recent years, repositories for managing research data have emerged, which are supposed to help researchers to upload, describe, distribute and share their data. To promote and foster the distribution of research data in the light of paradigms like Open Science and Open Access, these repositories are normally implemented and hosted as stand-alone applications, meaning that they offer a web interface for manually uploading the data, and a presentation interface for browsing, searching and accessing the data. Sometimes, the first component (interface for uploading the data) is substituted or complemented by a submission interface from another application. E.g., in Dataverse or in CKAN data is submitted from remote third-party applications by means of data deposit APIs [1]. However the upload of data is organized and eventually embedded into a publishing framework (data either as a supplement of a journal article, or as a stand-alone research output subject to review and release as part of a ‘data journal’), it definitely means that this data is supposed to be made publicly available, which is often reflected by policies and guidelines for data deposit. Institutional view on research data Read more about Integrating a Research Data Repository with established research practices Log in or register to post comments Content recommendation by means of EEXCESS 2016-06-03 by Timo Borst Authors: Timo Borst, Nils Witt Since their beginnings, libraries and related cultural institutions were confident in the fact that users had to visit them in order to search, find and access their content. With the emergence and massive use of the World Wide Web and associated tools and technologies, this situation has drastically changed: if those institutions still want their content to be found and used, they must adapt themselves to those environments in which users expect digital content to be available. Against this background, the general approach of the EEXCESS project is to ‘inject’ digital content (both metadata and object files) into users' daily environments like browsers, authoring environments like content management systems or Google Docs, or e-learning environments. Content is not just provided, but recommended by means of an organizational and technical framework of distributed partner recommenders and user profiles. Once a content partner has connected to this framework by establishing an Application Program Interface (API) for constantly responding to the EEXCESS queries, the results will be listed and merged with the results of the other partners. Depending on the software component installed either on a user’s local machine or on an application server, the list of recommendations is displayed in different ways: from a classical, text-oriented list, to a visualization of metadata records. EEXCESS Recommender Recommender system   Metadata   Economics   Read more about Content recommendation by means of EEXCESS Log in or register to post comments Pages 1 2 next › last » Tags in DBpedia - Web Taxonomy Your browser does not support canvas. Application programming interface Authority control Drupal Economics Electronic publishing Impact factor Linked data Organizer Recommender system Repository (publishing) Thesaurus Wikidata Search form Search (rdf/xml, turtle, nt)   Imprint   Privacy Powered by Drupal zbw-eu-3703 ---- None zbw-eu-5046 ---- Building the SWIB20 participants map | ZBW Labs Jump to navigation English Deutsch Main menu News About us Building the SWIB20 participants map 2020-12-07 by Joachim Neubert   Here we describe the process of building the interactive SWIB20 participants map, created by a query to Wikidata. The map was intended to support participants of SWIB20 to make contacts in the virtual conference space. However, in compliance with GDPR we want to avoid publishing personal details. So we choose to publish a map of institutions, to which the participants are affiliated. (Obvious downside: the 9 un-affiliated participants could not be represented on the map). We suppose that the method can be applied to other conferences and other use cases - e.g., the downloaders of scientific software or the institutions subscribed to an academic journal. Therefore, we describe the process in some detail. We started with a list of institution names (with country code and city, but without person ids), extracted and transformed from our ConfTool registration system, saved it in CSV format. Country names were normalized, cities were not (and only used for context information). We created an OpenRefine project, and reconciled the institution name column with Wikidata items of type Q43229 (organization, and all its subtypes). We included the country column (-> P17, country) as relevant other detail, and let OpenRefine “Auto-match candidates with high confidence”. Of our original set of 335 country/institution entries, 193 were automaticaly matched via the Wikidata reconciliation service. At the end of the conference, 400 institutions were identified and put on the map (data set). We went through all un-matched entries and either a) selected one of the suggested items, or b) looked up and tweaked the name string in Wikidata, or in Google, until we found an according Wikipedia page, openend the linked Wikidata object from there, and inserted the QID in OpenRefine, or c) created a new Wikidata item (if the institution seemed notable), or d) attached “not yet determined” (Q59496158) where no Wikidata item (yet) exists, or e) attached “undefined value” (Q7883029) where no institution had been given The results were exported from OpenRefine into a .tsv file (settings) Again via a script, we loaded ConfTool participants data, built a lookup table from all available OpenRefine results (country/name string -> WD item QID), aggregated participant counts per QID, and loaded that data into a custom SPARQL endpoint, which is accessible from the Wikidata Query Service. As in step 1, for all (new) institution name strings, which were not yet mapped to Wikidata, a .csv file was produced. (An additional remark: If no approved custom SPARQL endpoint is available, it is feasible to generate a static query with all data in it’s “values” clause.) During the preparation of the conference, more and more participants registered, which required multiple loops: Use the csv file of step 5 and re-iterate, starting at step 2. (Since I found no straightforward way to update an existing OpenRefine project with extended data, I created a new project with new input and output files for every iteration.) Finally, to display the map we could run a federated query on WDQS. It fetches the institution items from the custom endpoint and enriches them from Wikidata with name, logo and image of the institution (if present), as well as with geographic coordinates, obtained directly or indirectly as follows: a) item has “coodinate location” (P625) itself, or b) item has “headquarters location” item with coordinates (P159/P625), or c) item has “located in administrative entity” item with coordinates (P131/P625), or c) item has “country” item (P17/P625) Applying this method, only one institution item could not be located on the map. Data improvements The way to improve the map was to improve the data about the items in Wikidata - which also helps all future Wikidata users. New items For a few institutions, new items were created: Burundi Association of Librarians, Archivists and Documentalists FAO representation in Kenya Aurora Information Technology Istituto di Informatica Giuridica e Sistemi Giudiziari For another 14 institutions, mostly private companies, no items were created due to notability concerns. Everything else already had an item in Wikidata! Improvement of existing items In order to improve the display on the map, we enhanced selected items in Wikidata in various ways: Add English label Add type (instance of) Add headquarter location Add image and/or logo And we hope, that participants of the conference also took the opportunity to make their institution “look better”, by adding for example an image of it to the Wikidata knowledge base. Putting Wikidata into use for a completely custom purpose thus created incentives for improving “the sum of all human knowledge” step by tiny step.       Wikidata for Authorities Linked data   Log in or register to post comments Tags in DBpedia - Web Taxonomy Your browser does not support canvas. Application programming interface Authority control Drupal Economics Electronic publishing Impact factor Linked data Organizer Recommender system Repository (publishing) Thesaurus Wikidata Search form Search (rdf/xml, turtle, nt)   Imprint   Privacy Powered by Drupal zbw-eu-6264 ---- Linked data | ZBW Labs Jump to navigation English Deutsch Main menu News About us Linked data DBpedia URI:  http://dbpedia.org/resource/Linked_data Building the SWIB20 participants map 2020-12-07 by Joachim Neubert   Here we describe the process of building the interactive SWIB20 participants map, created by a query to Wikidata. The map was intended to support participants of SWIB20 to make contacts in the virtual conference space. However, in compliance with GDPR we want to avoid publishing personal details. So we choose to publish a map of institutions, to which the participants are affiliated. (Obvious downside: the 9 un-affiliated participants could not be represented on the map). We suppose that the method can be applied to other conferences and other use cases - e.g., the downloaders of scientific software or the institutions subscribed to an academic journal. Therefore, we describe the process in some detail. Wikidata for Authorities Linked data   Read more about Building the SWIB20 participants map Log in or register to post comments 20th Century Press Archives: Data donation to Wikidata 2019-10-24 by Joachim Neubert ZBW is donating a large open dataset from the 20th Century Press Archives to Wikidata, in order to make it better accessible to various scientific disciplines such as contemporary, economic and business history, media and information science, to journalists, teachers, students, and the general public. The 20th Century Press Archives (PM20) is a large public newspaper clippings archive, extracted from more than 1500 different sources published in Germany and all over the world, covering roughly a full century (1908-2005). The clippings are organized in thematic folders about persons, companies and institutions, general subjects, and wares. During a project originally funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), the material up to 1960 has been digitized. 25,000 folders with more than two million pages up to 1949 are freely accessible online.  The fine-grained thematic access and the public nature of the archives makes it to our best knowledge unique across the world (more information on Wikipedia) and an essential research data fund for some of the disciplines mentioned above. The data donation does not only mean that ZBW has assigned a CC0 license to all PM20 metadata, which makes it compatible with Wikidata. (Due to intellectual property rights, only the metadata can be licensed by ZBW - all legal rights on the press articles themselves remain with their original creators.) The donation also includes investing a substantial amount of working time (during, as planned, two years) devoted to the integration of this data into Wikidata. Here we want to share our experiences regarding the integration of the persons archive metadata. Linked data   Open data   Read more about 20th Century Press Archives: Data donation to Wikidata Log in or register to post comments ZBW's contribution to "Coding da Vinci": Dossiers about persons and companies from 20th Century Press Archives 2018-10-23 by Joachim Neubert At 27th and 28th of October, the Kick-off for the "Kultur-Hackathon" Coding da Vinci is held in Mainz, Germany, organized this time by GLAM institutions from the Rhein-Main area: "For five weeks, devoted fans of culture and hacking alike will prototype, code and design to make open cultural data come alive." New software applications are enabled by free and open data. For the first time, ZBW is among the data providers. It contributes the person and company dossiers of the 20th Century Press Archive. For about a hundred years, the predecessor organizations of ZBW in Kiel and Hamburg had collected press clippings, business reports and other material about a wide range of political, economic and social topics, about persons, organizations, wares, events and general subjects. During a project funded by the German Research Organization (DFG), the documents published up to 1948 (about 5,7 million pages) had been digitized and are made publicly accessible with according metadata, until recently solely in the "Pressemappe 20. Jahrhundert" (PM20) web application. Additionally, the dossiers - for example about Mahatma Gandhi or the Hamburg-Bremer Afrika Linie - can be loaded into a web viewer. As a first step to open up this unique source of data for various communities, ZBW has decided to put the complete PM20 metadata* under a CC-Zero license, which allows free reuse in all contexts. For our Coding da Vinci contribution, we have prepared all person and company dossiers which already contain documents. The dossiers are interlinked among each other. Controlled vocabularies (for, e.g., "country", or "field of activity") provide multi-dimensional access to the data. Most of the persons and a good share of organizations were linked to GND identifiers. As a starter, we had mapped dossiers to Wikidata according to existing GND IDs. That allows to run queries for PM20 dossiers completely on Wikidata, making use of all the good stuff there. An example query shows the birth places of PM20 economists on a map, enriched with images from Wikimedia commons. The initial mapping was much extended by fantastic semi-automatic and manual mapping efforts by the Wikidata community. So currently more than 80 % of the dossiers about - often rather prominent - PM20 persons are linked not only to Wikidata, but also connected to Wikipedia pages. That offers great opportunities for mash-ups to further data sources, and we are looking forward to what the "Coding da Vinci" crowd may make out of these opportunities. Technically, the data has been converted from an internal intermediate format to still quite experimental RDF and loaded into a SPARQL endpoint. There it was enriched with data from Wikidata and extracted with a construct query. We have decided to transform it to JSON-LD for publication (following practices recommended by our hbz colleagues). So developers can use the data as "plain old JSON", with the plethora of web tools available for this, while linked data enthusiasts can utilize sophisticated Semantic Web tools by applying the provided JSON-LD context. In order to make the dataset discoverable and reusable for future research, we published it persistently at zenodo.org. With it, we provide examples and data documentation. A GitHub repository gives you additional code examples and a way to address issues and suggestions. * For the scanned documents, the legal regulations apply - ZBW cannot assign licenses here.   Pressemappe 20. Jahrhundert Linked data   Read more about ZBW's contribution to "Coding da Vinci": Dossiers about persons and companies from 20th Century Press Archives Log in or register to post comments New version of multi-lingual JEL classification published in LOD 2017-03-02 by Joachim Neubert The Journal of Economic Literature Classification Scheme (JEL) was created and is maintained by the American Economic Association. The AEA provides this widely used resource freely for scholarly purposes. Thanks to André Davids (KU Leuven), who has translated the originally English-only labels of the classification to French, Spanish and German, we provide a multi-lingual version of JEL. It's lastest version (as of 2017-01) is published in the formats RDFa and RDF download files. These formats and translations are provided "as is" and are not authorized by AEA. In order to make changes in JEL tracable more easily, we have created lists of inserted and removed JEL classes in the context of the skos-history project. JEL Klassifikation für Linked Open Data skos-history Linked data   Read more about New version of multi-lingual JEL classification published in LOD Log in or register to post comments Economists in Wikidata: Opportunities of Authority Linking 2017-01-17 by Joachim Neubert Wikidata is a large database, which connects all of the roughly 300 Wikipedia projects. Besides interlinking all Wikipedia pages in different languages about a specific item – e.g., a person -, it also connects to more than 1000 different sources of authority information. The linking is achieved by a „authority control“ class of Wikidata properties. The values of these properties are identifiers, which unambiguously identify the wikidata item in external, web-accessible databases. The property definitions includes an URI pattern (called „formatter URL“). When the identifier value is inserted into the URI pattern, the resulting URI can be used to look up the authoritiy entry. The resulting URI may point to a Linked Data resource - as it is the case with the GND ID property. This, on the one hand, provides a light-weight and robust mechanism to create links in the web of data. On the other hand, these links can be exploited by every application which is driven by one of the authorities to provide additional data: Links to Wikipedia pages in multiple languages, images, life data, nationality and affiliations of the according persons, and much more. Wikidata item for the Indian Economist Bina Agarwal, visualized via the SQID browser Wikidata for Authorities Wikidata   Authority control   Linked data   Read more about Economists in Wikidata: Opportunities of Authority Linking Log in or register to post comments Wikidata for Authorities This project explores the opportunities, which Wikidata provides for libraries (specifically in economics). By linking their authority files to Wikidata, they can earn a wealth of data as well as links to Wikipedia pages, images and links to other authorities. Read more about Wikidata for Authorities Update: Neuer dump des EconStor LOD-Datensets steht zur Verfügung 2016-05-17 by Timo Borst We are happy to announce that we have updated our EconStor LOD dump. This dataset now comprises 108k metadata records provided with Semantic Web URIs and partially linked to external datasets like STW and JEL. EconStor LOD Linked data   Repository (publishing)   Economics   Read more about Update: Neuer dump des EconStor LOD-Datensets steht zur Verfügung Log in or register to post comments Turning the GND subject headings into a SKOS thesaurus: an experiment 2016-03-30 by Joachim Neubert The "Integrated Authority File" (Gemeinsame Normdatei, GND) of the German National Library (DNB), the library networks of the German-speaking countries and many other institutions, is a widely recognized and used authority resource. The authority file comprises persons, institutions, locations and other entity types, in particular subject headings. With more than 134,000 concepts, organized in almost 500 subject categories, the subjects part - the former "Schlagwortnormdatei" (SWD) - is huge. That would make it a nice resource to stress-test SKOS tools - when it would be available in SKOS. A seminar at the DNB on requirements for thesauri on the Semantic Web (slides, in German) provided another reason for the experiment described below. GND subject headings as SKOS thesaurus Linked data   Thesaurus   Read more about Turning the GND subject headings into a SKOS thesaurus: an experiment Log in or register to post comments GND subject headings as SKOS thesaurus The transformation of the subject headings and subject categories of the German Integrated Authority File (GND)  to SKOS creates a large and interlinked knowledge organization system. Generic SKOS tools, such as Skosmos, qSKOS and skos-history can be applied to this system. Read more about GND subject headings as SKOS thesaurus skos-history: New method for change tracking applied to STW Thesaurus for Economics 2015-07-27 by Joachim Neubert “What’s new?” and “What has changed?” are questions users of Knowledge Organization Systems (KOS), such as thesauri or classifications, ask when a new version is published. Much more so, when a thesaurus existing since the 1990s has been completely revised, subject area for subject area. After four intermediately published versions in as many consecutive years, ZBW's STW Thesaurus for Economics has been re-launched recently in version 9.0. In total, 777 descriptors have been added; 1,052 (of about 6,000) have been deprecated and in their vast majority merged into others. More subtle changes include modified preferred labels, or merges and splits of existing concepts. Since STW has been published on the web in 2009, we went to great lengths to make change traceable: No concept and no web page has been deleted, everything from prior versions is still available. Following a presentation at DC-2013 in Lisbon, I've started the skos-history project, which aims to exploit published SKOS files of different versions for change tracking. A first beta implementation of Linked-Data-based change reports went live with STW 8.14, making use of SPARQL "live queries" (as described in a prior post). With the publication of STW 9.0, full reports of the changes are available. How do they work? skos-history Thesaurus   Linked data   Read more about skos-history: New method for change tracking applied to STW Thesaurus for Economics Log in or register to post comments Pages 1 2 3 next › last » Tags in DBpedia - Web Taxonomy Your browser does not support canvas. Application programming interface Authority control Drupal Economics Electronic publishing Impact factor Linked data Organizer Recommender system Repository (publishing) Thesaurus Wikidata Search form Search (rdf/xml, turtle, nt)   Imprint   Privacy Powered by Drupal zbw-eu-6294 ---- None zbw-eu-6807 ---- Wikidata for Authorities | ZBW Labs Jump to navigation English Deutsch Main menu News About us Wikidata for Authorities This project explores the opportunities, which Wikidata provides for libraries (specifically in economics). By linking their authority files to Wikidata, they can earn a wealth of data as well as links to Wikipedia pages, images and links to other authorities. Project Details Name:  Wikidata for Authorities   Short Description:  Use of Wikidata, particularly by linking of library authority files   Git Repository:  https://github.com/zbw/sparql-queries/tree/master/wikidata Developer:  Joachim Neubert   Categories:  Wikidata   Authority control   Linked data   Created:  2017-01   Project Status:  Experimental   Tags in DBpedia - Web Taxonomy Your browser does not support canvas. Application programming interface Authority control Drupal Economics Electronic publishing Impact factor Linked data Organizer Recommender system Repository (publishing) Thesaurus Wikidata Search form Search (rdf/xml, turtle, nt)   Imprint   Privacy Powered by Drupal zbw-eu-803 ---- Building the SWIB20 participants map | ZBW Labs Jump to navigation English Deutsch Hauptmenü News Über uns Building the SWIB20 participants map 2020-12-07 von Joachim Neubert   Here we describe the process of building the interactive SWIB20 participants map, created by a query to Wikidata. The map was intended to support participants of SWIB20 to make contacts in the virtual conference space. However, in compliance with GDPR we want to avoid publishing personal details. So we choose to publish a map of institutions, to which the participants are affiliated. (Obvious downside: the 9 un-affiliated participants could not be represented on the map). We suppose that the method can be applied to other conferences and other use cases - e.g., the downloaders of scientific software or the institutions subscribed to an academic journal. Therefore, we describe the process in some detail. We started with a list of institution names (with country code and city, but without person ids), extracted and transformed from our ConfTool registration system, saved it in CSV format. Country names were normalized, cities were not (and only used for context information). We created an OpenRefine project, and reconciled the institution name column with Wikidata items of type Q43229 (organization, and all its subtypes). We included the country column (-> P17, country) as relevant other detail, and let OpenRefine “Auto-match candidates with high confidence”. Of our original set of 335 country/institution entries, 193 were automaticaly matched via the Wikidata reconciliation service. At the end of the conference, 400 institutions were identified and put on the map (data set). We went through all un-matched entries and either a) selected one of the suggested items, or b) looked up and tweaked the name string in Wikidata, or in Google, until we found an according Wikipedia page, openend the linked Wikidata object from there, and inserted the QID in OpenRefine, or c) created a new Wikidata item (if the institution seemed notable), or d) attached “not yet determined” (Q59496158) where no Wikidata item (yet) exists, or e) attached “undefined value” (Q7883029) where no institution had been given The results were exported from OpenRefine into a .tsv file (settings) Again via a script, we loaded ConfTool participants data, built a lookup table from all available OpenRefine results (country/name string -> WD item QID), aggregated participant counts per QID, and loaded that data into a custom SPARQL endpoint, which is accessible from the Wikidata Query Service. As in step 1, for all (new) institution name strings, which were not yet mapped to Wikidata, a .csv file was produced. (An additional remark: If no approved custom SPARQL endpoint is available, it is feasible to generate a static query with all data in it’s “values” clause.) During the preparation of the conference, more and more participants registered, which required multiple loops: Use the csv file of step 5 and re-iterate, starting at step 2. (Since I found no straightforward way to update an existing OpenRefine project with extended data, I created a new project with new input and output files for every iteration.) Finally, to display the map we could run a federated query on WDQS. It fetches the institution items from the custom endpoint and enriches them from Wikidata with name, logo and image of the institution (if present), as well as with geographic coordinates, obtained directly or indirectly as follows: a) item has “coodinate location” (P625) itself, or b) item has “headquarters location” item with coordinates (P159/P625), or c) item has “located in administrative entity” item with coordinates (P131/P625), or c) item has “country” item (P17/P625) Applying this method, only one institution item could not be located on the map. Data improvements The way to improve the map was to improve the data about the items in Wikidata - which also helps all future Wikidata users. New items For a few institutions, new items were created: Burundi Association of Librarians, Archivists and Documentalists FAO representation in Kenya Aurora Information Technology Istituto di Informatica Giuridica e Sistemi Giudiziari For another 14 institutions, mostly private companies, no items were created due to notability concerns. Everything else already had an item in Wikidata! Improvement of existing items In order to improve the display on the map, we enhanced selected items in Wikidata in various ways: Add English label Add type (instance of) Add headquarter location Add image and/or logo And we hope, that participants of the conference also took the opportunity to make their institution “look better”, by adding for example an image of it to the Wikidata knowledge base. Putting Wikidata into use for a completely custom purpose thus created incentives for improving “the sum of all human knowledge” step by tiny step.       Wikidata for Authorities Linked data   Zum Verfassen von Kommentaren bitte Anmelden oder Registrieren. Tags in DBpedia - Web Taxonomy Your browser does not support canvas. Application programming interface Authority control Drupal Economics Electronic publishing Impact factor Linked data Organizer Recommender system Repository (publishing) Thesaurus Wikidata Suchformular Suche (rdf/xml, turtle, nt)   Impressum   Datenschutz Powered by Drupal zbw-eu-8925 ---- None zenodo-org-7464 ---- LIBER Open Science Roadmap | Zenodo Toggle navigation Upload Communities Log in Sign up July 2, 2018 Report Open Access LIBER Open Science Roadmap Ayris, Paul; Bernal, Isabel; Cavalli, Valentino; Dorch, Bertil; Frey, Jeannette; Hallik, Martin; Hormia-Poutanen, Kristiina; Labastida, Ignasi; MacColl, John; Ponsati Obiols, Agnès; Sacchi, Simone; Scholze, Frank; Schmidt, Birgit; Smit, Anja; Sofronijevic, Adam; Stojanovski, Jadranka; Svoboda, Martin; Tsakonas, Giannis; van Otegem, Matthijs; Verheusen, Astrid; Vilks, Andris; Widmark, Wilhelm; Horstmann, Wolfram Editor(s) Grant, Friedel Other(s) Kuchma, Iryna Embracing Open Science is critical if we are to make science more collaborative, reproducible, transparent and impactful. Open Science undoubtedly has the power to positively influence society, but its implementation is not yet universal. A revolution is required: one which opens up research processes and changes mindsets in favour of a world where policies, tools and infrastructures universally support the growth and sharing of knowledge. Research libraries are well placed to make that revolution happen, and LIBER's Open Science Roadmap outlines the specific actions libraries can take to champion Open Science, both within and beyond their own institutions. As we explain in detail throughout this document, libraries need to advocate for Open Science locally and internationally, to support Open Science through tools and services and to expand the impact of their work through collaboration and partnerships. LIBER has shaped its 2018-2022 Strategy to support and enable Open Science and it is our hope that this Roadmap will help Europe’s research libraries to do the same. 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To appreciate how we got here, especially how we got here so fast, we should take a moment to recognize the crucial early role played by Chinese scientists and healthcare workers who gave us a uniquely precious gift—time and information—at great risk to themselves. Let’s step back. Early on during the pandemic, people were predicting that it would take as long as 18 months to develop vaccines, and some thought that was hopeful. People were hoping for a vaccine that would be 60-70% effective. We’ve blown past all of those expectations. Today, just ten months after a pandemic was declared, Moderna, a company specializing in mRNA technology, is applying to the US Food and Drug Administration for an emergency authorization of its vaccine, presenting stunning data. The Moderna trial enrolled 30,000 participants in the United States. There were 196 infections across the group, with 185 in the placebo group and just 11 in the vaccine group. The level of efficacy, around 94%, is better than most everything many hoped for in February.  Plus, remarkably, every single one of the 30 severe cases of infection were in the placebo group. Not a single person given the vaccine got a severe infection, which promises 100% efficacy against severe disease. That is remarkable. There appear to be no huge safety concerns, either—patients suffered mostly fever and fatigue for about a day. Plus, we have reason to think that the safety profile will hold since these vaccines are likely to be safe exactly because of the novel technology they use, messenger RNA, which does not pose an infection risk.  The crucial story in this rate of success and speed is that these are new kinds of vaccines. This will be the first time that a technology that uses messenger RNA—messenger ribonucleic acid—has been used at this scale for a vaccine. Pfizer/BioNtech is reporting similar success and efficiency in its trials and that vaccine is also an mRNA one—in effect, a replication—and it is similarly ahead of the pack. As this explainer from Chemical & Engineering News puts it, and as many of us learned in biology classes, with a vaccine, we are aiming to show the body what the threat looks like, so the immune system can learn how to fight it: Although vaccines have evolved over the past century, their goal has remained the same: trick the body into thinking it is infected with a virus, give the immune system time to safely study the decoy, and when the real deal strikes, hope that your immune cells took good notes. For many years, scientists used dead or weakened viruses for the job, grown in chicken eggs. Some vaccine makers have shifted to using vats of genetically engineered cells to produce particular viral proteins; this approach helps the immune system study the most important part of the virus. While they also work well, traditional vaccines can require “the laborious production of actual viruses or viral proteins,” whereas the gene-based vaccines can be designed quickly from the genetic sequence. With such vaccines, all that is encoded is a particular viral protein—in this case, the spike protein of SARS-Cov-2, which acts like a key to our cells. The mRNA vaccine temporarily instructs our cells to make just the spike protein, which cannot infect us (it’s not the whole virus! Hence the safety advantage!) but offers our immune systems “target practice.” And then it all goes away, leaving us with much better protection. Graphic from Nature, October 19, 2020 And, amazingly, these vaccines can be designed very quickly—they just need the genetic sequence. Moderna’s vaccine was apparently designed in just a few days, over a weekend, after the genetic sequence became available on January 10th, 2020.  Here’s why that date matters: the sequence was published ten days before China acknowledged the severity of the problem by admitting sustained human-to-human transmission and shutting down the city of Wuhan, on January 20th. The sequence was published while China—and the WHO, which depended on China for information—were still downplaying what was going on, in their official statements. The sequence wasn’t published in an official document. Instead, it was published independently in an open-source depository by Yong-Zhen Zhang, a professor at the Shanghai Public Health Clinical Center and School of Public Health. Zhang had received the virus from Wuhan on January 3rd, around 1:30 p.m., when a metal box continuing a test tube packed in dry ice arrived at his office. The researchers in his team worked feverishly to sequence it over the next two days. Just about 40 hours later, on January 5th at 2 a.m., his team was done. Zhang immediately realized the danger the pathogen posed. As he put it in a later interview with Time magazine: “I realized that this virus is closely related to SARS, probably 80%. So certainly, it was very dangerous.” He shared the genome with members of his consortium, which included Australian scientist Eddie Holmes. On the morning of January 11th (in China), Holmes called Zhang as he was about to take off for a trip to Beijing for another meeting concerning the outbreak at Wuhan. Holmes called and asked Zhang for permission to release the genome to the world.  Here’s what happened next:  “I asked Eddie to give me one minute to think,’” Zhang recalls. “Then I said ok.” For the next two hours, Zhang was cocooned from the world at 35,000 feet, but Holmes’ post on the website Virological.org sent shockwaves through the global scientific community. Holmes sent out a tweet. Eddie Holmes @edwardcholmes All, an initial genome sequence of the coronavirus associated with the Wuhan outbreak is now available at Virological.org here: Novel 2019 coronavirus genome10th January 2020 This posting is communicated by Edward C. Holmes, University of Sydney on behalf of the consortium led by Professor Yong-Zhen Zhang, Fudan University, Shanghai The Shanghai Public Health Clinical Center & School of Public Health, in collaboration with the Central Hospital of Wuh…virological.orgJanuary 11th 2020 236 Retweets333 Likes So it began. Scientists around the world got to work immediately, to develop tests, to start the race for the vaccine and to better understand this pathogen that would consume our lives. The very next day, researchers began pointing out that the pathogen was clearly related to SARS, which meant it posed an enormous danger. It could potentially become a pandemic.  By the start of the next week, just two days later, the first vaccines were already designed, including the one by Moderna that millions of health-care workers and other high-risk people will start receiving in a few weeks. It may have taken him a single minute for Zhang to decide, but his bravery was real. This was just 10 days after whistleblowers in Wuhan who had attempted to warn others had been detained by the police. The punishment of these doctors for “rumor-mongering” was broadcast on national TV. Tragically, one of the most prominent whistleblowers, Dr. Li Wenliang, would die of the virus, just a month later (His son was born this summer to his widow). It was a time of silence, not of speaking out. Between January 5th and January 10th, the Wuhan government would not update the number of infected people. It would be another 10 days before the dam broke and President Xi Jinping made his first public statement, saying “the virus must be taken seriously.” Sadly, the hammer did come down fast. Zhang’s lab was immediately shut down for “rectification”—an obscure term to imply some “malfeasance,” as the South China Morning Post explains. To many observers, it seemed that furious officials scrambling to snuff out evidence of the outbreak were punishing Zhang simply for sharing the SARS-CoV-2 genome—and in the meanwhile, slowing down the release of this key information. At the end of February, the South China Morning Post was reporting that Zhang’s lab was still shut down. Things did improve, though. Dr. Zhang continues to carry out important work—and has been recognized with awards.  Professor Zhang's efforts in sharing the first SARS-Cov-2 genome has already been acknowledged around the world, with Time Magazine recognizing him as a "saving grace" and naming him as one of the 100 most influential people of 2020. Stating that: "The Zhang team's unprecedented speed in sharing data envisions what is possible with a collaborative, connected public-health collective." Professor Loman further highlighted the need for sequence data as the only means to get started on truly managing a viral outbreak, saying: "Whilst the generation of a new viral sequence is a technical accomplishment in itself, much more important is the speed of sharing: until this happens the global scientific community cannot get started on a response. The process of designing diagnostic PCR assays and sequencing protocols are critically contingent on that first genome sequence." Professor Coin further pointed to how essential having a viral sequence available is to the medical profession, noting: "Early availability of the genome sequence also enabled researchers to start developing vaccines and antiviral therapies even before the virus could be grown in sufficient quantities in cell culture for it to be studied directly." The availability of this data within weeks of the first identified COVID-19 patient undoubtedly saved many lives and will be highlighted for many years to come as the perfect example of why we can see further by standing on the shoulders of giants. The GigaScience prize was an acknowledgement for all of Prof Zhang and his groups efforts and will likely be one of many recognitions to come. And in interviews since, Zhang, who still works in China, downplays his role and his bravery.  Still, as the good news from these vaccines rolls in, we should remember and celebrate the gift Dr. Zhang and his team gave us, perhaps the most important ones for fighting a pandemic: the gift of time and gift of information. Dr. Zhang acted without being incentivized by the huge amounts of money that the companies will receive—Moderna’s stock has increased almost 700 percent already—and he faced down potentially catastrophic consequences for himself and his lab.  For many years, we will be analyzing the failure of many governments and our institutions in their responses to this pandemic. But the successes are real, too. More than anything, we should also remember those who bravely stepped up when it counted: the healthcare workers and the researchers around the world—starting with Professor Yong-Zhen Zhang and Doctor Li Wenliang of China. . 128Sign up to like post Subscribe LoginPrivacyTermsInformation collection notice 5 Share Subscribe ← PreviousNext → Create your profile Set photo Sign up for the newsletter Save & Post Comment Only paying subscribers can comment on this post Subscribe Already a paying subscriber? Sign in Check your email For your security, we need to re-authenticate you. Click the link we sent to , or click here to log in. JulienNov 30Liked by zeynep It's a very important story to tell, and I didn't know of it. Thank you. 7Sign up to like comment Subscribe LoginPrivacyTermsInformation collection notice Reply Ernie ChowDec 10Liked by zeynep Thank you for telling this story 1Sign up to like comment Subscribe LoginPrivacyTermsInformation collection notice Reply 3 more comments… TopNewCommunityWhat is Insight?About Ready for more? Subscribe © 2020 zeynep tufekci. See privacy, terms and information collection notice Publish on Substack This site requires JavaScript to run correctly. Please turn on JavaScript or unblock scripts zbw-eu-9814 ---- ZBW Labs ZBW Labs Building the SWIB20 participants map   Here we describe the process of building the interactive SWIB20 participants map, created by a query to Wikidata. The map was intended to support participants of SWIB20 to make contacts in the virtual conference space. However, in compliance with GDPR we want to avoid publishing personal details. So we choose to publish a map of institutions, to which the participants are affiliated. (Obvious downside: the 9 un-affiliated participants could not be represented on the map). We suppose that the method can be applied to other conferences and other use cases - e.g., the downloaders of scientific software or the institutions subscribed to an academic journal. Therefore, we describe the process in some detail. We started with a list of institution names (with country code and city, but without person ids), extracted and transformed from our ConfTool registration system, saved it in CSV format. Country names were normalized, cities were not (and only used for context information). We created an OpenRefine project, and reconciled the institution name column with Wikidata items of type Q43229 (organization, and all its subtypes). We included the country column (-> P17, country) as relevant other detail, and let OpenRefine “Auto-match candidates with high confidence”. Of our original set of 335 country/institution entries, 193 were automaticaly matched via the Wikidata reconciliation service. At the end of the conference, 400 institutions were identified and put on the map (data set). We went through all un-matched entries and either a) selected one of the suggested items, or b) looked up and tweaked the name string in Wikidata, or in Google, until we found an according Wikipedia page, openend the linked Wikidata object from there, and inserted the QID in OpenRefine, or c) created a new Wikidata item (if the institution seemed notable), or d) attached “not yet determined” (Q59496158) where no Wikidata item (yet) exists, or e) attached “undefined value” (Q7883029) where no institution had been given The results were exported from OpenRefine into a .tsv file (settings) Again via a script, we loaded ConfTool participants data, built a lookup table from all available OpenRefine results (country/name string -> WD item QID), aggregated participant counts per QID, and loaded that data into a custom SPARQL endpoint, which is accessible from the Wikidata Query Service. As in step 1, for all (new) institution name strings, which were not yet mapped to Wikidata, a .csv file was produced. (An additional remark: If no approved custom SPARQL endpoint is available, it is feasible to generate a static query with all data in it’s “values” clause.) During the preparation of the conference, more and more participants registered, which required multiple loops: Use the csv file of step 5 and re-iterate, starting at step 2. (Since I found no straightforward way to update an existing OpenRefine project with extended data, I created a new project with new input and output files for every iteration.) Finally, to display the map we could run a federated query on WDQS. It fetches the institution items from the custom endpoint and enriches them from Wikidata with name, logo and image of the institution (if present), as well as with geographic coordinates, obtained directly or indirectly as follows: a) item has “coodinate location” (P625) itself, or b) item has “headquarters location” item with coordinates (P159/P625), or c) item has “located in administrative entity” item with coordinates (P131/P625), or c) item has “country” item (P17/P625) Applying this method, only one institution item could not be located on the map. Data improvements The way to improve the map was to improve the data about the items in Wikidata - which also helps all future Wikidata users. New items For a few institutions, new items were created: Burundi Association of Librarians, Archivists and Documentalists FAO representation in Kenya Aurora Information Technology Istituto di Informatica Giuridica e Sistemi Giudiziari For another 14 institutions, mostly private companies, no items were created due to notability concerns. Everything else already had an item in Wikidata! Improvement of existing items In order to improve the display on the map, we enhanced selected items in Wikidata in various ways: Add English label Add type (instance of) Add headquarter location Add image and/or logo And we hope, that participants of the conference also took the opportunity to make their institution “look better”, by adding for example an image of it to the Wikidata knowledge base. Putting Wikidata into use for a completely custom purpose thus created incentives for improving “the sum of all human knowledge” step by tiny step.       Wikidata for Authorities Linked data   Deutsch Journal Map: developing an open environment for accessing and analyzing performance indicators from journals in economics by Franz Osorio, Timo Borst Introduction Bibliometrics, scientometrics, informetrics and webometrics have been both research topics and practical guidelines for publishing, reading, citing, measuring and acquiring published research for a while (Hood 2001). Citation databases and measures had been introduced in the 1960s, becoming benchmarks both for the publishing industry and academic libraries managing their holdings and journal acquisitions that tend to be more selective with a growing number of journals on the one side, budget cuts on the other. Due to the Open Access movement triggering a transformation of traditional publishing models (Schimmer 2015), and in the light of both global and distributed information infrastructures for publishing and communicating on the web that have yielded more diverse practices and communities, this situation has dramatically changed: While bibliometrics of research output in its core understanding still is highly relevant to stakeholders and the scientific community, visibility, influence and impact of scientific results has shifted to locations in the World Wide Web that are commonly shared and quickly accessible not only by peers, but by the general public (Thelwall 2013). This has several implications for different stakeholders who are referring to metrics in dealing with scientific results:   With the rise of social networks, platforms and their use also by academics and research communities, the term 'metrics' itself has gained a broader meaning: while traditional citation indexes only track citations of literature published in (other) journals, 'mentions', 'reads' and 'tweets', albeit less formal, have become indicators and measures for (scientific) impact. Altmetrics has influenced research performance, evaluation and measurement, which formerly had been exclusively associated with traditional bibliometrics. Scientists are becoming aware of alternative publishing channels and both the option and need of 'self-advertising' their output. In particular academic libraries are forced to manage their journal subscriptions and holdings in the light of increasing scientific output on the one hand, and stagnating budgets on the other. While editorial products from the publishing industry are exposed to a global competing market requiring a 'brand' strategy, altmetrics may serve as additional scattered indicators for scientific awareness and value. Against this background, we took the opportunity to collect, process and display some impact or signal data with respect to literature in economics from different sources, such as 'traditional' citation databases, journal rankings and community platforms resp. altmetrics indicators: CitEc. The long-standing citation service maintainted by the RePEc community provided a dump of both working papers (as part of series) and journal articles, the latter with significant information on classic impact factors such as impact factor (2 and 5 years) and h-index. Rankings of journals in economics including Scimago Journal Rank (SJR) and two German journal rankings, that are regularly released and updated (VHB Jourqual, Handelsblatt Ranking). Usage data from Altmetric.com that we collected for those articles that could be identified via their Digital Object Identifier. Usage data from the scientific community platform and reference manager Mendeley.com, in particular the number of saves or bookmarks on an individual paper. Requirements A major consideration for this project was finding an open environment in which to implement it. Finding an open platform to use served a few purposes. As a member of the "Leibniz Research Association," ZBW has a commitment to Open Science and in part that means making use of open technologies to as great extent as possible (The ZBW - Open Scienc...). This open system should allow direct access to the underlying data so that users are able to use it for their own investigations and purposes. Additionally, if possible the user should be able to manipulate the data within the system. The first instance of the project was created in Tableau, which offers a variety of means to express data and create interfaces for the user to filter and manipulate data. It also can provide a way to work with the data and create visualizations without programming skills or knowledge. Tableau is one of the most popular tools to create and deliver data visualization in particular within academic libraries (Murphy 2013). However, the software is proprietary and has a monthly fee to use and maintain, as well as closing off the data and making only the final visualization available to users. It was able to provide a starting point for how we wanted to the data to appear to the user, but it is in no way open. Challenges The first technical challenge was to consolidate the data from the different sources which had varying formats and organizations. Broadly speaking, the bibliometric data (CitEc and journal rankings) existed as a spread sheet with multiple pages, while the altmetrics and Mendeley data came from a database dumps with multiple tables that were presented as several CSV files. In addition to these different formats, the data needed to be cleaned and gaps filled in. The sources also had very different scopes. The altmetrics and Mendeley data covered only 30 journals, the bibliometric data, on the other hand, had more than 1,000 journals. Transitioning from Tableau to an open platform was big challenge. While there are many ways to create data visualizations and present them to users, the decision was made to use R to work with the data and Shiny to present it. R is used widely to work with data and to present it (Kläre 2017). The language has lots of support for these kinds of task over many libraries. The primary libraries used were R Plotly and R Shiny. Plotly is a popular library for creating interactive visualizations. Without too much work Plotly can provide features including information popups while hovering over a chart and on the fly filtering. Shiny provides a framework to create a web application to present the data without requiring a lot of work to create HTML and CSS. The transition required time spent getting to know R and its libraries, to learn how to create the kinds of charts and filters that would be useful for users. While Shiny alleviates the need to create HTML and CSS, it does have a specific set of requirements and structures in order to function. The final challenge was in making this project accessible to users such that they would be able to see what we had done, have access to the data, and have an environment in which they could explore the data without needing anything other than what we were providing. In order to achieve this we used Binder as the platform. At it's most basic Binder makes it possible to share a Jupyter Notebook stored in a Github repository with a URL by running the Jupyter Notebook remotely and providing access through a browser with no requirements placed on the user. Additionally, Binder is able to run a web application using R and Shiny. To move from a locally running instance of R Shiny to one that can run in Binder, instructions for the runtime environment need to be created and added to the repository. These include information on what version of the language to use,  which packages and libraries to install for the language, and any additional requirements there might be to run everything. Solutions Given the disparate sources and formats for the data, there was work that needed to be done to prepare it for visualization. The largest dataset, the bibliographic data, had several identifiers for each journal but without journal names. Having the journals names is important because in general the names are how users will know the journals. Adding the names to the data would allow users to filter on specific journals or pull up two journals for a comparison. Providing the names of the journals is also a benefit for anyone who may repurpose the data and saves them from having to look them up. In order to fill this gap, we used metadata available through Research Papers in Economics (RePEc). RePEc is an organization that seeks to "enhance the dissemination of research in Economics and related sciences". It contains metadata for more than 3 million papers available in different formats. The bibliographic data contained RePEc Handles which we used to look up the journal information as XML and then parse the XML to find the title of the journal.  After writing a small Python script to go through the RePEc data and find the missing names there were only 6 journals whose names were still missing. For the data that originated in an MySQL database, the major work that needed to be done was to correct the formatting. The data was provided as CSV files but it was not formatted such that it could be used right away. Some of the fields had double quotation marks and when the CSV file was created those quotes were put into other quotation marks resulting doubled quotation marks which made machine parsing difficult without intervention directly on the files. The work was to go through the files and quickly remove the doubled quotation marks. In addition to that, it was useful for some visualizations to provide a condensed version of the data. The data from the database was at the article level which is useful for some things, but could be time consuming for other actions. For example, the altmetrics data covered only 30 journals but had almost 14,000 rows. We could use the Python library pandas to go through the all those rows and condense the data down so that there are only 30 rows with the data for each column being the sum of all rows. In this way, there is a dataset that can be used to easily and quickly generate summaries on the journal level. Shiny applications require a specific structure and files in order to do the work of creating HTML without needing to write the full HTML and CSS. At it's most basic there are two main parts to the Shiny application. The first defines the user interface (UI) of the page. It says what goes where, what kind of elements to include, and how things are labeled. This section defines what the user interacts with by creating inputs and also defining the layout of the output. The second part acts as a server that handles the computations and processing of the data that will be passed on to the UI for display. The two pieces work in tandem, passing information back and forth to create a visualization based on user input. Using Shiny allowed almost all of the time spent on creating the project to be concentrated on processing the data and creating the visualizations. The only difficulty in creating the frontend was making sure all the pieces of the UI and Server were connected correctly. Binder provided a solution for hosting the application, making the data available to users, and making it shareable all in an open environment. Notebooks and applications hosted with Binder are shareable in part because the source is often a repository like Github. By passing a Github repository to Binder, say one that has a Jupyter Notebook in it, Binder will build a Docker image to run the notebook and then serve the result to the user without them needing to do anything. Out of the box the Docker image will contain only the most basic functions. The result is that if a notebook requires a library that isn't standard, it won't be possible to run all of the code in the notebook. In order to address this, Binder allows for the inclusion in a repository of certain files that can define what extra elements should be included when building the Docker image. This can be very specific such as what version of the language to use and listing various libraries that should be included to ensure that the notebook can be run smoothly. Binder also has support for more advanced functionality in the Docker images such as creating a Postgres database and loading it with data. These kinds of activities require using different hooks that Binder looks for during the creation of the Docker image to run scripts. Results and evaluation The final product has three main sections that divide the data categorically into altmetrics, bibliometrics, and data from Mendeley. There are additionally some sections that exist as areas where something new could be tried out and refined without potentially causing issues with the three previously mentioned areas. Each section has visualizations that are based on the data available. Considering the requirements for the project, the result goes a long way to meeting the requirements. The most apparent area that the Journal Map succeeds in is its goals is of presenting data that we have collected. The application serves as a dashboard for the data that can be explored by changing filters and journal selections. By presenting the data as a dashboard, the barrier to entry for users to explore the data is low. However, there exists a way to access the data directly and perform new calculations, or create new visualizations. This can be done through the application's access to an R-Studio environment. Access to R-Studio provides two major features. First, it gives direct access to the all the underlying code that creates the dashboard and the data used by it. Second, it provides an R terminal so that users can work with the data directly. In R-Studio, the user can also modify the existing files and then run them from R-Studio to see the results. Using Binder and R as the backend of the applications allows us to provide users with different ways to access and work with data without any extra requirements on the part of the user. However, anything changed in R-Studio won't affect the dashboard view and won't persist between sessions. Changes exist only in the current session. All the major pieces of this project were able to be done using open technologies: Binder to serve the application, R to write the code, and Github to host all the code. Using these technologies and leveraging their capabilities allows the project to support the Open Science paradigm that was part of the impetus for the project. The biggest drawback to the current implementation is that Binder is a third party host and so there are certain things that are out of our control. For example, Binder can be slow to load. It takes on average 1+ minutes for the Docker image to load. There's not much, if anything, we can do to speed that up. The other issue is that if there is an update to the Binder source code that breaks something, then the application will be inaccessible until the issue is resolved. Outlook and future work The application, in its current state, has parts that are not finalized. As we receive feedback, we will make changes to the application to add or change visualizations. As mentioned previously, there a few sections that were created to test different visualizations independently of the more complete sections, those can be finalized. In the future it may be possible to move from BinderHub to a locally created and administered version of Binder. There is support and documentation for creating local, self hosted instances of Binder. Going that direction would give more control, and may make it possible to get the Docker image to load more quickly. While the application runs stand-alone, the data that is visualized may also be integrated in other contexts. One option we are already prototyping is integrating the data into our subject portal EconBiz, so users would be able to judge the scientific impact of an article in terms of both bibliometric and altmetric indicators.   References William W. Hood, Concepcion S. Wilson. The Literature of Bibliometrics, Scientometrics, and Informetrics. Scientometrics 52, 291–314 Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2001. Link R. Schimmer. Disrupting the subscription journals’ business model for the necessary large-scale transformation to open access. (2015). Link Mike Thelwall, Stefanie Haustein, Vincent Larivière, Cassidy R. Sugimoto. Do Altmetrics Work? Twitter and Ten Other Social Web Services. PLoS ONE 8, e64841 Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2013. Link The ZBW - Open Science Future. Link Sarah Anne Murphy. Data Visualization and Rapid Analytics: Applying Tableau Desktop to Support Library Decision-Making. Journal of Web Librarianship 7, 465–476 Informa UK Limited, 2013. Link Christina Kläre, Timo Borst. Statistic packages and their use in research in Economics | EDaWaX - Blog of the project ’European Data Watch Extended’. EDaWaX - European Data Watch Extended (2017). Link   Journal Map - Binder application for displaying and analyzing metrics data about scientific journals Integrating altmetrics into a subject repository - EconStor as a use case Back in 2015 the ZBW Leibniz Information Center for Economics (ZBW) teamed up with the Göttingen State and university library (SUB), the Service Center of Götting library federation (VZG) and GESIS Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences in the *metrics project funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). The aim of the project was: “… to develop a deeper understanding of *metrics, especially in terms of their general significance and their perception amongst stakeholders.” (*metrics project about). In the practical part of the project the following DSpace based repositories of the project partners participated as data sources for online publications and – in the case of EconStor – also as implementer for the presentation of the social media signals: EconStor - a subject repository for economics and business studies run by the ZBW, currently (Aug. 2019) containing round about 180,000 downloadable files, GoeScholar - the Publication Server of the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen run by the SUB Göttingen, offering approximately 11,000 publicly browsable items so far, SSOAR - the “Social Science Open Access Repository” maintained by GESIS, currently containing about 53,000 publicly available items. In the work package “Technology analysis for the collection and provision of *metrics” of the project an analysis of currently available *metrics technologies and services had been performed. As stated by [Wilsdon 2017], currently suppliers of altmetrics “remain too narrow (mainly considering research products with DOIs)”, which leads to problems to acquire *metrics data for repositories like EconStor with working papers as the main content. As up to now it is unusual – at least in the social sciences and economics – to create DOIs for this kind of documents. Only the resulting final article published in a journal will receive a DOI. Based on the findings in this work package, a test implementation of the *metrics crawler had been built. The crawler had been actively deployed from early 2018 to spring 2019 at the VZG. For the aggregation of the *metrics data the crawler had been fed with persistent identifiers and metadata from the aforementioned repositories. At this stage of the project, the project partners still had the expectation, that the persistent identifiers (e.g. handle, URNs, …), or their local URL counterparts, as used by the repositories could be harnessed to easily identify social media mentions of their documents, e.g. for EconStor: handle: “hdl:10419/…” handle.net resolver URL: “http(s)://hdl.handle.net/10419/…” EconStor landing page URL with handle: “http(s)://www.econstor.eu/handle/10419/…” EconStor bitstream (PDF) URL with handle: “http(s)://www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10419/…” This resulted in two datasets: One for publications identified by DOIs (doi:10.xxxx/yyyyy) or the respective metadata from Crossref and one for documents identified by the repository URLs (https://www.econstor.eu/handle/10419/xxxx) or the items metadata stored in the repository. During the first part of the project several social media platforms had been identified as possible data sources for the implementation phase. This had been done by interviews and online surveys. For the resulting ranking see the Social Media Registry. Additional research examined which social media platforms are relevant to researchers at different stages of their career and if and how they use them (see: [Lemke 2018], [Lemke 2019] and [Mehrazar 2018]). This list of possible sources for social media citations or mentions had then been further reduced to the following six social media platforms which are offering free and open available online APIs: Facebook Mendeley Reddit Twitter Wikipedia Youtube Of particular interest to the EconStor team were the social media services Mendeley and Twitter, as those had been found being among the “Top 3 most used altmetric sources …” for Economic and Business Studies (EBS) journals “… - with Mendeley being the most complete platform for EBS journals” [Nuredini 2016]. *metrics integration in EconStor In early 2019 the EconStor team finally received a MySQL data dump of the compiled data which had been collected by the *metrics crawler. In consultations between the project partners and based on the aforementioned research, it became clear, that only the collected data from Mendeley, Twitter and Wikipedia were suitable to be embedded into EconStor. It was also made clear, by the VZG, that it had been nearly impossible to use handle or respective local URLs to extract social media mentions from the free of charge provided APIs of the different social media services. Instead, in case of Wikipedia ISBNs had been used and for Mendeley the title and author(s) as provided in the repository’s metadata. Only for the search via the Twitter API the handle URLs had been used. The datasets used by the *metrics crawler to identify works from EconStor included a dataset of 15,703 DOIs (~10% of the EconStor content back then), sometimes representing other manifestations of the documents stored in EconStor (e.g. pre- or postprint versions of an article), their respective metadata from the Crossref DOI registry and also a dataset of 153,807 EconStor documents identified by the handle/URL and metadata stored in the repository itself. This second dataset also included the documents related to the publications identified by the DOI set. The following table (Table 1) shows the results of the *metrics crawler for items in EconStor. It displays one row for each service and the used identifier set. Each row also shows the time period during which the crawler harvested the service and how many unique items per identifier set were found during that period. social media service (set) harvested from harvested until unique EconStor items mentioned Mendeley (DOI) 2018-08-06 2019-01-11 7,800 Mendeley (URL) 2019-01-10 2019-01-11 24,953 Twitter (DOI) 2018-02-13 (date of first captured tweet 2018-02-03) 2019-01-11 (date of last captured tweet 2019-01-10) 418 Twitter (URL) 2018-12-14 (date of first captured tweet 2018-12-05) 2019-01-11 (date of last captured tweet 2019-01-09) 32 Wikipedia (DOI) 2018-10-05 2019-01-11 93 Wikipedia (URL) 2019-01-11 2019-01-11 100 Table 1: Unique EconStor Items found per identifier set and social media service The following table (Table 2) shows how many of the EconStor items were found with identifiers from both sets. As you can see, only for the service Mendeley the sets have a significant overlap. Which shows, that it is desirable for a service such as EconStor, to expand the captured coverage of its items in social media by the use of other identifies than just DOIs. social media site unique items identified by both DOI and URL Mendeley 4,323 Twitter 0 Wikipedia 2 Table 2: Overlap in found identifiers As a result of the project, the landing pages of EconStor items, which have been mentioned on Mendeley, twitter or Wikipedia during the time of data gathering, have now, for the time being, a listing of “Social Media Mentions”. This is in addition to the already existing cites and citations, based on the RePEc - CitEc service and the download statistics, which is displayed on separate pages. Image 1: “EconStor item landing page” The back end on the EconStor server is realized as a small RESTful Web service programmed in Java that returns JSON formatted data (see Figure 1). Given a list of identifiers (DOIs/handle) it returns the sum of mentions for Mendeley, Twitter and Wikipedia in the Database, per specified EconStor item, as well as the links to the counted tweets and Wikipedia articles. In case of Wikipedia this is also grouped by the language of the Wikipedia the mention was found in.   { "_metrics": { "sum_mendeley": 0, "sum_twitter": 3, "sum_wikipedia": 0 }, "identifier": "10419/144535", "identifiertype": "HANDLE", "repository": "EconStor", "tweetData": { "1075481976793116673": { "created_at": "Wed Dec 19 20:04:19 +0000 2018", "description": "Economist Wettbewerb Regulierung Monopole Economics @DICEHHU @HHU_de VWL Antitrust Düsseldorf Quakenbrück Berlin FC St. Pauli", "id_str": "1075481976793116673", "name": "Justus Haucap", "screen_name": "haucap" }, "1075484066949025793": { "created_at": "Wed Dec 19 20:12:37 +0000 2018", "description": "Twitterkanal des Wirtschaftsdienst - Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftspolitik, hrsg. von @ZBW_news; RT ≠ Zustimmung; Impressum: https://t.co/X0gevZb9lR", "id_str": "1075484066949025793", "name": "Wirtschaftsdienst", "screen_name": "Zeitschrift_WD" }, "1075486159772504065": { "created_at": "Wed Dec 19 20:20:56 +0000 2018", "description": "Professor for International Economics at HTW Berlin - University of Applied Sciences; Senior Policy Fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations", "id_str": "1075486159772504065", "name": "Sebastian Dullien", "screen_name": "SDullien" } }, "twitterids": [ "1075486159772504065", "1075484066949025793", "1075481976793116673" ], "wikipediaQuerys": {} } Figure 1: “Example json returned by webservice - Twitter mentions”   Image 2: “Mendeley and Twitter mentions” During the creation of the landing page of an EconStor item (see Image 1), a JAVA servlet queries the web service and, if some social media mentions is detected, renders the result into the web page. For each of the three social media platforms the sum of the mentions is displayed and for Twitter and Wikipedia even backlinks to the mentioning tweets/articles are provided as a drop-down list, below the number of mentions (see Image 2). In case of Wikipedia this is also grouped by the languages of the articles in Wikipedia in which the ISBN of the corresponding work has been found. Conclusion While being an interesting addition to the existing download statistics and citations by RePEc/CitEc, that are already integrated into EconStor, currently the gathered “social media mentions” offer only a limited additional value to the EconStor landing pages. One reason might be, that only a fraction of all the documents of EconStor are covered. Another reason might be according to [Lemke 2019], that there is currently a great reluctance to use social media services among economists and social scientists, as it is perceived as: “unsuitable for academic discourse; … to cost much time; … separating personal from professional matters is bothersome; … increases the efforts necessary to handle information overload.” Theoretically, the prospect of a tool for the measurement of the scientific uptake, with a quicker response time than classical bibliometrics, could be very rewarding, especially for a repository like EconStor with its many preprints (e.g. working papers) provided in open access. As [Thelwall 2013] has stated: “In response, some publishers have turned to altmetrics, which are counts of citations or mentions in specific social web services because they can appear more rapidly than citations. For example, it would be reasonable to expect a typical article to be most tweeted on its publication day and most blogged within a month of publication.” and “Social media mentions, being available immediately after publication—and even before publication in the case of preprints…”. But especially these preprints, that come without a DOI, are still a challenge to be correctly identified, and therefore to be counted as social media mentions. This is something the *metrics crawler has not changed, since it is using title and author metadata to search in Mendeley, which does not give a 100% sure identification and ISBNs to search in Wikipedia. Even though a quick check revealed that at the time of writing this article (Aug. 2019) at least Wikipedia offers a handle search. A quick search for EconStor handles in the English Wikipedia returns now a list of 184 pages with mentions of “hdl:10419/”, the German Wikipedia 13 - but these are still very small numbers (Aug. 22nd, 2019: currently 179,557 full texts are available in EconStor). https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=search&srlimit=500&srsearch=%22hdl:10419%2F%22&srwhat=text&srprop&srinfo=totalhits&srenablerewrites=0&format=jsonsearch via API in english wikipedia Another problem is, that at the time of this writing, the *metrics crawler is not continuously operated, therefore our analysis is based on a data dump of social media mentions from spring 2018 to early 2019. Since it is one of the major benefits of altmetrics that it can be obtained much faster and is more recent then classical citation-based metrics, it reduces the value of the continued integration of this static and continuously getting older dataset being integrated into EconStor landing pages. Hence, we are looking for more recent and regular updates of social media data that could serve as a ‘real-time’ basis for monitoring social media usage in economics. As a consequence, we are currently looking for: a) an institution to commit itself to run the *metrics crawler and b) a more active social media usage in the sciences of Economics and Business Studies. References [Lemke 2018] Lemke, Steffen; Mehrazar, Maryam; Mazarakis, Athanasios; Peters, Isabella (2018): Are There Different Types of Online Research Impact?, In: Building & Sustaining an Ethical Future with Emerging Technology. 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ACM, New York, NY, USA, Article 4, 5 pages, https://doi.org/10.1145/3201064.3201101 [Metrics 2019] Einbindung von *metrics in EconStor, https://metrics-project.net/downloads/2019-03-28-EconStor-metrics-Abschluss-WS-SUB-G%C3%B6.pptx [Nuredini 2016] Nuredini, Kaltrina; Peters, Isabella (2016): Enriching the knowledge of altmetrics studies by exploring social media metrics for Economic and Business Studies journals, Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Science and Technology Indicators (STI Conference 2016), València (Spain), September 14-16, 2016, http://hdl.handle.net/11108/261 [OR2019] Relevance and Challenges of Altmetrics for Repositories - answers from the *metrics project. https://www.conftool.net/or2019/index.php/Paper-P7A-424Orth%2CWeiland_b.pdf?page=downloadPaper&filename=Paper-P7A-424Orth%2CWeiland_b.pdf&form_id=424&form_index=2&form_version=final [Social Media Registry] Social Media Registry - Current Status of Social Media Plattforms and *metrics, https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/10OALs5kxtmML4Naf1ShXh0cTmONE8q9EFhTzmgPINv4/edit?usp=sharing [Thelwall 2013] Thelwall M, Haustein S, Larivie`re V, Sugimoto CR (2013): Do Altmetrics Work? Twitter and Ten Other Social Web Services. PLoS ONE 8(5): e64841. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0064841 [Wilsdon 2017] Wilsdon, James et al. (2017): Next-generation metrics: Responsible metrics and evaluation for open science. Report of the European Commission Expert Group on Altmetrics, ISBN 78-92-79-66130-3, http://dx.doi.org/10.2777/337729 Integrating altmetrics data into EconStor 20th Century Press Archives: Data donation to Wikidata ZBW is donating a large open dataset from the 20th Century Press Archives to Wikidata, in order to make it better accessible to various scientific disciplines such as contemporary, economic and business history, media and information science, to journalists, teachers, students, and the general public. The 20th Century Press Archives (PM20) is a large public newspaper clippings archive, extracted from more than 1500 different sources published in Germany and all over the world, covering roughly a full century (1908-2005). The clippings are organized in thematic folders about persons, companies and institutions, general subjects, and wares. During a project originally funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), the material up to 1960 has been digitized. 25,000 folders with more than two million pages up to 1949 are freely accessible online.  The fine-grained thematic access and the public nature of the archives makes it to our best knowledge unique across the world (more information on Wikipedia) and an essential research data fund for some of the disciplines mentioned above. The data donation does not only mean that ZBW has assigned a CC0 license to all PM20 metadata, which makes it compatible with Wikidata. (Due to intellectual property rights, only the metadata can be licensed by ZBW - all legal rights on the press articles themselves remain with their original creators.) The donation also includes investing a substantial amount of working time (during, as planned, two years) devoted to the integration of this data into Wikidata. Here we want to share our experiences regarding the integration of the persons archive metadata. Folders from the persons archive, in 2015 (Credit: Max-Michael Wannags) Linking our folders to WikidataThe essential bit for linking the digitized folders was in place before the project even started: an external identifier property (PM20 folder ID, P4293), proposed by an administrator of the German Wikipedia in order to link to PM20 person and company folders. We participated in the property proposal discussion and made sure that the links did not have to reference our legacy Coldfusion application. Instead, we created a "partial redirect" on the purl.org service (maintained formerly by OCLC, now by the Internet Archive) for persistent URLs which may redirect to another application on another server in future. Secondly, the identifier and URL format was extended to include subject and ware folders, which are defined by a combination of two keys, one for the country and another for the topic. The format of the links in Wikidata is controlled by a regular expression, which covers all four archives mentioned above. That works pretty well -  very few format errors occurred so far -, and it relieved us from creating four different archive-specific properties.Shortly after the property creation, Magnus Manske, the author of the original Mediawiki software and lots of related tools, scraped our web site and created a Mix-n-Match catalog from it. During the following two years, more than 60 Wikidata users contributed to matching Wikidata items for humans to PM20 folder IDs. For a start, deriving links from GND Many of the PM20 person and company folders were already identified by an identifier from the German Integrated Authority File (GND). So, our first step was creating PM20 links for all Wikidata items which had matching GND IDs. For all these items and folders, disambiguation had already taken place, and we could safely add all these links automatically. Infrastructure: PM20 endpoint, federated queries and QuickStatements To make this work, we relied heavily on Linked Data technologies. A PM20 SPARQL endpoint had already been set up for our contribution to Coding da Vinci (a "Kultur-Hackathon" in Germany). Almost all automated changes to Wikidata we made are based on federated queries on our own endpoint, reaching out to the Wikidata endpoint, or vice versa, from Wikidata to PM20. In the latter case, the external endpoint has to be registered at Wikidata. Wikidata maintains a help page for this type of queries. For our purposes, federated queries allow extracting current data from both endpoints. In the case of the above-mentioned missing_pm20_id_via_gnd.rq query, this way we can skip all items, where a link to PM20 already exists. Within the query itself, we create a statement string which we can feed into the QuickStatements tool. That includes, for every single statement, a reference to PM20 with link to the actual folder, so that the provenance of these statements is always clear and traceable. Via script, a statement file is extracted and saved with a timestamp. Data imports via QuickStatements are executed in batch mode, and an activity log keeps track of all data imports and other activities related to PM20. Creating missing items After the matching of about 93 % of the person folders which include free documents in Mix-n-Match, and some efforts to discover more pre-existing Wikidata items, we decided to create the 346 missing person items, again via QuickStatements input. We used the description field in Wikidata by importing the content of the free-text "occupation" field in PM20 for better disambiguation of the newly created items. (Here a rather minimal example of such an item created from PM20 metadata.) Thus, all PM20 person folders which have digitized content were linked to Wikidata in June 2019. Supplementing Wikidata with PM20 metadata A second part of the integration of PM20 metadata into Wikidata was the import of missing property values to the according items. This comprised simple facts like "date of birth/death", occupations such as "economist", "business economist", "social scientist", "earth scientist", which we could derive from the "field of activity" in PM20, up to relations between existing items, e.g. a family member to the according family, or a board member to the according company. A few other source properties have been postponed, because alternative solutions exist, and the best one may depend on the intended use in future applications. The steps of this enrichment process and links to the code used - including the automatic generation of references - are online, too. Complex statement added to Wikidata item for Friedrich Krupp AG Again, we used federated queries. Often the target of a Wikidata property is an item in itself. Sometimes, we could directly get this via the target item's PM20 folder ID (families, companies); sometimes we had to create lookup tables. For the latter, we used "values" clauses in the query (in case of "occupation"), or (in case of "country of citizenship"), we have to match countries from our internal classification in advance - a process for which we use OpenRefine. Other than PM20 folder IDs, which we avoided adding when folders do not contain digitized content, we added the metadata to all items which were linked to PM20, and intend to repeat this process periodically when more items (e.g., companies) are identified by PM20 folder IDs. In some housekeeping activity, we also add periodically the numbers of documents (online and total) and the exact folder names as qualifiers to newly emerging PM20 links in items. Results of the data donation so far With all 5266 persons folder with digitized documents linked to Wikidata, the data donation of the person folders metadata is completed. Besides the folder links, which have already heavily been used to create links in Wikipedia articles, we have got - more than 6000 statements which are sourced in PM20 (from "date of birth" to the track gauge of a Brazilian railway line) - more than 1000 items, for which PM20 ID is the only external identifier The data donation will be presented on the WikidataCon in Berlin (24.-26.10.2019) as a "birthday present" on the occasion Wikidata's seventh birthday. ZBW will further keep the digital content available, amended with a static landing page for every folder, which also will serve as source link for the metadata we have integrated into Wikidata. But in future, Wikidata will be the primary access path to our data, providing further metadata in multiple languages and links to a plethora of other external sources. And the best is, different from our current application, everybody will be able to enhance this open data through the interactive tools and data interfaces provided by Wikidata.Participate in WikiProject 20th Century Press Archives For the topics, wares and companies archives, there is still a long way to go. The best structure for representing these archives and their folders - often defined by the combination of a country within a geographical hierarchy with a subject heading in a deeply nested topic classification -, has to be figured out. Existing items have to be matched, and lots of other work is to be done. Therefore, we have created the WikiProject 20th Century Press Archives in Wikidata to keep track of discussions and decisions, and to create a focal point for participation. Everybody on Wikidata is invited to participate - or just kibitz. It could be challenging particularly for information scientists, and people interested in historic systems for the organization of knowledge about the whole world, to take part in the mapping of one of these systems to the emerging Wikidata knowledge graph.   Linked data   Open data   ZBW's contribution to "Coding da Vinci": Dossiers about persons and companies from 20th Century Press Archives At 27th and 28th of October, the Kick-off for the "Kultur-Hackathon" Coding da Vinci is held in Mainz, Germany, organized this time by GLAM institutions from the Rhein-Main area: "For five weeks, devoted fans of culture and hacking alike will prototype, code and design to make open cultural data come alive." New software applications are enabled by free and open data. For the first time, ZBW is among the data providers. It contributes the person and company dossiers of the 20th Century Press Archive. For about a hundred years, the predecessor organizations of ZBW in Kiel and Hamburg had collected press clippings, business reports and other material about a wide range of political, economic and social topics, about persons, organizations, wares, events and general subjects. During a project funded by the German Research Organization (DFG), the documents published up to 1948 (about 5,7 million pages) had been digitized and are made publicly accessible with according metadata, until recently solely in the "Pressemappe 20. Jahrhundert" (PM20) web application. Additionally, the dossiers - for example about Mahatma Gandhi or the Hamburg-Bremer Afrika Linie - can be loaded into a web viewer. As a first step to open up this unique source of data for various communities, ZBW has decided to put the complete PM20 metadata* under a CC-Zero license, which allows free reuse in all contexts. For our Coding da Vinci contribution, we have prepared all person and company dossiers which already contain documents. The dossiers are interlinked among each other. Controlled vocabularies (for, e.g., "country", or "field of activity") provide multi-dimensional access to the data. Most of the persons and a good share of organizations were linked to GND identifiers. As a starter, we had mapped dossiers to Wikidata according to existing GND IDs. That allows to run queries for PM20 dossiers completely on Wikidata, making use of all the good stuff there. An example query shows the birth places of PM20 economists on a map, enriched with images from Wikimedia commons. The initial mapping was much extended by fantastic semi-automatic and manual mapping efforts by the Wikidata community. So currently more than 80 % of the dossiers about - often rather prominent - PM20 persons are linked not only to Wikidata, but also connected to Wikipedia pages. That offers great opportunities for mash-ups to further data sources, and we are looking forward to what the "Coding da Vinci" crowd may make out of these opportunities. Technically, the data has been converted from an internal intermediate format to still quite experimental RDF and loaded into a SPARQL endpoint. There it was enriched with data from Wikidata and extracted with a construct query. We have decided to transform it to JSON-LD for publication (following practices recommended by our hbz colleagues). So developers can use the data as "plain old JSON", with the plethora of web tools available for this, while linked data enthusiasts can utilize sophisticated Semantic Web tools by applying the provided JSON-LD context. In order to make the dataset discoverable and reusable for future research, we published it persistently at zenodo.org. With it, we provide examples and data documentation. A GitHub repository gives you additional code examples and a way to address issues and suggestions. * For the scanned documents, the legal regulations apply - ZBW cannot assign licenses here.     Pressemappe 20. Jahrhundert Linked data   Wikidata as authority linking hub: Connecting RePEc and GND researcher identifiers In the EconBiz portal for publications in economics, we have data from different sources. In some of these sources, most notably ZBW's "ECONIS" bibliographical database, authors are disambiguated by identifiers of the Integrated Authority File (GND) - in total more than 470,000. Data stemming from "Research papers in Economics" (RePEc) contains another identifier: RePEc authors can register themselves in the RePEc Author Service (RAS), and claim their papers. This data is used for various rankings of authors and, indirectly, of institutions in economics, which provides a big incentive for authors - about 50,000 have signed into RAS - to keep both their article claims and personal data up-to-date. While GND is well known and linked to many other authorities, RAS had no links to any other researcher identifier system. Thus, until recently, the author identifiers were disconnected, which precludes the possibility to display all publications of an author on a portal page. To overcome that limitation, colleagues at ZBW have matched a good 3,000 authors with RAS and GND IDs by their publications (see details here). Making that pre-existing mapping maintainable and extensible however would have meant to set up some custom editing interface, would have required storage and operating resources and wouldn't easily have been made publicly accessible. In a previous article, we described the opportunities offered by Wikidata. 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Name="Colorful List Accent 6"> UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Colorful Grid Accent 6"> UnhideWhenUsed="false" QFormat="true" Name="Subtle Emphasis"> UnhideWhenUsed="false" QFormat="true" Name="Intense Emphasis"> UnhideWhenUsed="false" QFormat="true" Name="Subtle Reference"> UnhideWhenUsed="false" QFormat="true" Name="Intense Reference"> UnhideWhenUsed="false" QFormat="true" Name="Book Title"> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Normale Tabelle"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; line-height:12.0pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";} Initial situation in Wikidata Economists were, at the start of this small project in April 2017, already well represented among the 3.4 million persons in Wikidata - though the precise extent is difficult to estimate. Furthermore, properties for linking GND and RePEc author identifiers to Wikidata items were already in place: P227 “GND ID”, in ~375,000 items P2428 “RePEc Short-ID” (further-on: RAS ID), in ~2,200 items both properties in ~760 items For both properties, “single value” and “distinct values” constraints are defined, so that (with rare exceptions) a 1:1 relation between the authority entry and the Wikidata item should exist. That, in turn, means that a 1:1 relation between both authority entries can be assumed. The relative amounts of IDs in EconBiz and Wikidata is illustrated by the following image. Person identifiers in Wikidata and EconBiz, with unknown overlap at the beginning of the project (the number of 1.1 million persons in EconBiz is a very rough estimate, because most names – outside GND and RAS – are not disambiguated) Since many economists have Wikipedia pages, from which Wikidata items have been created routinely, the first task was finding these items and adding GND and/or RAS identifiers to them. The second task was adding items for persons which did not already exist in Wikidata. Adding mapping-derived identifiers to Wikidata items For items already identified by either GND or RAS, the reciprocal identifiers where added automatically: A federated SPARQL query on the mapping and the public Wikidata endpoint retrieved the items and the missing IDs. A script transformed that into input for Wikidata’s QuickStatements2 tool, which allows adding statements (as well as new items) to Wikidata. The tool takes csv-formatted input via a web form and applies it in batch to the live dataset. Import statements for QuickStatements2. The first input line adds the RAS ID “pan31” to the item for the economist James Andreoni. The rest of the input line creates a reference to ZBWs mapping for this statement and so allows tracking its provenance in Wikidata. That step resulted in 384 added GND IDs to items identified by RAS ID, and, in the reverse direction, 77 added RAS IDs to items identified by GND ID. For the future, it is expected that tools like wdmapper will facilitate such operations. Identifying more Wikidata items Obviously, the previous step left out the already existing economists in Wikidata, which up to then had neither a GND nor a RAS ID. Therefore, these items had to be identified by adding one of the identifiers. A semi-automatic approach was applied to that end, starting with the “most important” persons from RePEc and EconBiz datasets. That was extended in an automatic step, taking advantage of existing VIAF identifiers (a step which could have been also the first one). For RePEc, the “Top economists” ranking page (~4,600 authors) was scraped and cross-linked to a custom-created basic RDF dataset of the RePEc authors. The result was transformed to an input file for Wikidata’s Mix’n’match tool, which had been developed for the alignment of external catalogs with Wikidata. The tool takes a simple CSV file, consisting of a name, a description and an identifier, and tries to automatically match against Wikidata labels. In a subsequent interactive step, it allows to confirm or remove every match. If confirmed, the identifier is automatically added as value to the according property of the matched Wikidata item. For GND, all authors with more than 30 publications in EconBiz where selected in a custom SPARQL endpoint. Just as the “RePEc Top” matchset, a “GND economists (de)” matchset with ~18,000 GND IDs, names and descriptions was loaded into Mix’n’match and aligned to Wikidata. Becoming more familiar with the Wikidata-related tools, policies and procedures, existing VIAF property values were exploited as another opportunity for seeding GND IDs in Wikidata. In a federated SPARQL query on a custom VIAF and the public Wikidata endpoint, about 12,000 missing GND IDs were determined and added to Wikidata items which had been identified by VIAF ID. After each of these steps, the first task – adding mapping-derived GND or RAS identifiers – was repeated. That resulted in 1908 Wikidata items carrying both IDs. Since ZBWs author mapping based on at least 10 matching publications, the alignment of high-frequency resp. highly-ranked GND and RePEc authors made it highly probable that authors already present in Wikidata were identified in the previous steps. That reduced the danger of creating duplicates in the following task. Creating new Wikidata items from the mapped authorities For the rest of the authors in the mapping, 2179 new Wikidata items were created. This task was carried out again by the QuickStatements2 tool, for which the input statements were created by a script, based on a SPARQL query on the afore-mentioned endpoints for RePEc authors and GND entries. The input statements were derived from both authorities, in the following fashion: the label (name of the person) was taken from GND the occupation “economist” was derived from RePEc (and in particular from the occurrence in its “Top Economists” list) gender and date of birth/death were taken from GND (if available) the English description was a concatenated string “economist” plus the affiliations from RePEc the German description was a concatenated string “Wirtschaftswissenschaftler/in” plus the affiliations from GND The use of Wikidata’s description field for affiliations was a makeshift: In the absence of an existing mapping of RePEc (and mostly also GND) organizations to Wikidata, it allows for better identification of the individual researchers. In a later step, when according organization/institute items exist in Wikidata and mappings are in place, the items for authors can be supplemented step-by-step by formal “affiliation” (P1416) statements. According to Wikidata’s policy, an extensive reference to the source for each statement in the synthesized new Wikidata item was added. The creation of items in an automated fashion involves the danger of duplicates. However, such duplicates turned up only in very few cases. They have been solved by merging items, which technically is very easy in Wikidata. Interestingly, a number of “fake duplicates” indeed revealed multifarious quality issues, in Wikidata and in both of the authority files, which, too, have been subsequently resolved. ... and even more new items for economists ... The good experiences so far let us get bolder, and we considered creating Wikidata items for the still missing "Top Economists" (according to RePEc). For item creation, one aspect we had to consider was the compliance with Wikidata's notability policy. This policy is much more relaxed than the policies of the large Wikipedias. It states as one criterion sufficient for item creation that the item "refers to an instance of a clearly identifiable conceptual or material entity. The entity must be notable, in the sense that it can be described using serious and publicly available references." There seems to be some consensus in the community that authority files such as GND or RePEc authors count as "serious and publicly available references". This of course should hold even more for a bibliometric ranked subset of these external identifiers. We thus inserted another 1,839 Wikidata items for the rest of the RePEc Top 10 % list. Additionally - to mitigate the immanent gender bias such selections often bear - we imported all missing researchers from RePEc's "Top 10 % Female Economists" list. Again, we added reference statements to RePEc which allow Wikidata users to keep track of the source of the information. Results The immediate result of the project was: all of the 3081 pairs of identifiers from the initial mapping by ZBW is incorporated now in Wikidata items 1217 Wikidata items in addition to these also have both identifiers (created by individual Wikidata editors, or the efforts described above) (All numbers in this section as of 2017-11-13.) While that still is only a beginning, given the total amount of authors represented in EconBiz, it is a significant share of the “most important” ones: Top 10 % RAS and frequent GND in EconBiz (> 30 publications). “Wikidata economists” is a rough estimate of the amount of persons in the field of economics (twice the number of those with the explicit occupation “economist”) While the top RePEc economists are now completely covered by Wikidata, for GND the overlap has been improved significantly during the last year. This occured in parts as a side-effect of the efforts described above, in parts it is caused by the genuine growth of Wikidata in regard to the number of items as well as the increasing density of external identifiers. Here the current percentages, compared to those one year earlier, which were presented in our previous article: Large improvements in the coverage of the most frequent authors by Wikidata (query, result) While the improvements in absolute numbers are impressive, too - the number of GND IDs for all EconBiz persons (with at least one publication) has increased from 39,778 to 59,074 - the image demonstrates that particularly the coverage for our most frequent authors has risen largely. The addition of all RePEc top economists has created further opportunities for matching these items from the afore-mentioned GND Mix-n-match set, which will again will add up to the mapping. All matching and duplicates checking done, we may re-consider the option of adding the remaining frequent GND persons (>30 publications in EconBiz) automatically to Wikidata. The mapping data can be retrieved by everyone, via SPARQL queries, by specialized tools such as wdmapper, or as part of the Wikidata dumps. What is more, it can be extended by everybody – either as a by-product of individual edits adding identifiers to persons in Wikidata, or by a directed approach. For directed extensions, any subset can be used as a starting point: Either a new version of the above mentioned ranking, or other rankings also published by RePEc, covering in particular female, or economists from e.g. Latin America; or all identifiers from a particular institution, either derived from GND or RAS. The results of all such efforts are available at once and add up continuously. Yet, the benefits of using Wikidata cannot be reduced to the publication and maintenance of mapping itself. In many cases it offers much more than just a linking point for two identifiers: links to Wikipedia pages about the authors, possibly in multiple languages rich data about the authors in defined formats, sometimes with explicit provenance information access to pictures etc. from Wikimedia Commons, or quotations from Wikiquote links to multiple other authorities As an example for the latter, the in total 6825 RAS identifiers in Wikidata are already mapped to 2389 VIAF and 1742 LoC authority IDs (while ORCID with 69 IDs is still remarkably low). At the same time, these RePEc-connected items were linked to 1502 English, 690 German and  272 Spanish Wikipedia pages which provide rich human-readable information. In turn, when we take the GND persons in EconBiz as a starting point, roughly 60,000 are already represented in Wikidata. Besides large amounts of other identifiers, the according Wikidata items offer more than 33,000 links to German and more than 24,000 links to English Wikipedia pages (query). For ZBW, “releasing” the dataset into Wikidata as a trustworthy and sustainable public database not only saves the “technical” costs of data ownership (programming, storage, operating, for access and for maintenance). Responsibility for - and fun from - extending, amending and keeping the dataset current can be shared with many other interested parties and individuals.   Wikidata for Authorities Authority control   Wikidata   Deutsch New version of multi-lingual JEL classification published in LOD The Journal of Economic Literature Classification Scheme (JEL) was created and is maintained by the American Economic Association. The AEA provides this widely used resource freely for scholarly purposes. Thanks to André Davids (KU Leuven), who has translated the originally English-only labels of the classification to French, Spanish and German, we provide a multi-lingual version of JEL. It's lastest version (as of 2017-01) is published in the formats RDFa and RDF download files. These formats and translations are provided "as is" and are not authorized by AEA. In order to make changes in JEL tracable more easily, we have created lists of inserted and removed JEL classes in the context of the skos-history project. JEL Klassifikation für Linked Open Dataskos-history Linked data   Economists in Wikidata: Opportunities of Authority Linking Wikidata is a large database, which connects all of the roughly 300 Wikipedia projects. Besides interlinking all Wikipedia pages in different languages about a specific item – e.g., a person -, it also connects to more than 1000 different sources of authority information. The linking is achieved by a „authority control“ class of Wikidata properties. The values of these properties are identifiers, which unambiguously identify the wikidata item in external, web-accessible databases. The property definitions includes an URI pattern (called „formatter URL“). When the identifier value is inserted into the URI pattern, the resulting URI can be used to look up the authoritiy entry. The resulting URI may point to a Linked Data resource - as it is the case with the GND ID property. This, on the one hand, provides a light-weight and robust mechanism to create links in the web of data. On the other hand, these links can be exploited by every application which is driven by one of the authorities to provide additional data: Links to Wikipedia pages in multiple languages, images, life data, nationality and affiliations of the according persons, and much more. Wikidata item for the Indian Economist Bina Agarwal, visualized via the SQID browser In 2014, a group of students under the guidance of Jakob Voß published a handbook on "Normdaten in Wikidata" (in German), describing the structures and the practical editing capabilities of the the standard Wikidata user interface. The experiment described here focuses on persons from the subject domain of economics. It uses the authority identifiers of the about 450,000 economists referenced by their GND ID as creators, contributors or subjects of books, articles and working papers in ZBW's economics search portal EconBiz. These GND IDs were obtained from a prototype of the upcoming EconBiz Research Dataset (EBDS). To 40,000 of these persons, or 8.7 %, a person in Wikidata is connected by GND. If we consider the frequent (more than 30 publications) and the very frequent (more than 150 publications) authors in EconBiz, the coverage increases significantly: Economics-related Persons in EconBiz Number of publications total in Wikidata percentage Datasets: EBDS as of 2016-11-18; Wikidata as of 2016-11-07 (query, result) > 0 457,244 39,778 8.7 % > 30 18,008 3,232 17.9 % > 150 1,225 547 44.7 % These are numbers "out of the box" - ready-made opportunities to link out from existing metadata in EconBiz and to enrich user interfaces with biographical data from Wikidata/Wikipedia, without any additional effort to improve the coverage on either the EconBiz or the Wikidata side. However: We can safely assume that many of the EconBiz authors, particularly of the high-frequency authors, and even more of the persons who are subject of publications, are "notable" according the Wikidata notablitiy guidelines. Probably, their items exist and are just missing the according GND property. To check this assumption, we take a closer look to the Wikidata persons which have the occupation "economist" (most wikidata properties accept other wikidata items - instead of arbitrary strings - as values, which allows for exact queries and is indispensible in a multilingual environment).  Of these approximately 20,000 persons, less than 30 % have a GND ID property! Even if we restrict that to the 4,800 "internationally recognized economists" (which we define here as having Wikipedia pages in three or more different languages), almost half of them lack a GND ID property. When we compare that with the coverage by VIAF IDs, more than 50 % of all and 80 % the internationally recognized Wikidata economists are linked to VIAF (SPARQL Lab live query). Therefore, for a whole lot of the persons we have looked at here, we can take it for granted the person exists in Wikidata as well as in the GND, and the only reason for the lack of a GND ID is that nobody has added it to Wikidata yet. As an aside: The information about the occupation of persons is to be taken as a very rough approximation: Some Wikidata persons were economists by education or at some point of their career, but are famous now for other reasons (examples include Vladimir Putin or the president of Liberia, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf). On the other hand, EconBiz authors known to Wikidata are often qualified not as economist, but as university teacher, politican, historican or sociologist. Nevertheless, their work was deemed relevant for the broad field of economics, and the conclusions drawn at the "economists" in Wikidata and GND will hold for them, too: There are lots of opportunities for linking already well defined items. What can we gain? The screenshot above demonstrates, that not only data about the person itself, her affiliations, awards received, and possibly many other details can be obtained. The "Identifiers" box on the bottom right shows authoritiy entries. Besides the GND ID, which served as an entry point for us, there are links to VIAF and other national libraries' authorities, but also to non-library identifier systems like ISNI and ORCID. In total, Wikidata comprises more than 14 million authority links, more than 5 millions of these for persons. When we take a closer look at the 40,000 EconBiz persons which we can look up by their GND ID in Wikidata, an astonishing variety of authorities is addressed from there: 343 different authorities are linked from the subset, ranging from "almost complete" (VIAF, Library of Congress Name Authority File) to - in the given context- quite exotic authorities of, e.g., Members of the Belgian Senate, chess players or Swedish Olympic Committee athletes. Some of these entries link to carefully crafted biographies, sometimes behind a paywall  (Notable Names Database, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Munzinger Archiv, Sächsische Biographie, Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani), or to free text resources (Project Gutenberg authors). Links to the world of museums and archives are also provided, from the Getty Union List of Artist Names to specific links into the British Museum or the Musée d'Orsay collections. A particular use can be made of properties which express the prominence of the according persons: Nobel Prize IDs, for example, definitivly should be linked to according GND IDs (and indeed, they are). But also TED speakers or persons with an entry in the Munzinger Archive (a famous and long-established German biographical service) are assumed to have GND IDs. That opens a road to a very focused improvement of the data quality: A list of persons with that properties, restricted to the subject field (e.g., "occupation economist"), can be easily generated from Wikidata's SPARQL Query Service. In Wikidata, it is very easy to add the missing ID entries discovered during such cross-checks interactively. And if it turns out that an "very important" person from the field is missing from the GND at all, that is a all-the-more valuable opportunity to improve the data quality at the source. How can we start improving? As a prove of concept, and as a practical starting point, we have developed a micro-application for adding missing authority property values. It consists of two SPARQL Lab scripts: missing_property creates a list of Wikidata persons, which have a certain authority property (by default: TED speaker ID) and lacks another one (by default: GND ID). For each entry in the list, a link to an application is created, which looks up the name in the according authority file (by default: search_person, for a broad yet ranked full-text search of person names in GND). If we can identify the person in the GND list, we can copy its GND ID, return to the first one, click on the link to the Wikidata item of the person and add the property value manually through Wikidata's standard edit interface. (Wikidata is open and welcoming such contributions!) It takes effect within a few seconds - when we reload the missing_property list, the improved item should not show up any more. Instead of identifying the most prominent economics-related persons in Wikidata, the other way works too: While most of the GND-identified persons are related to only one or twe works, as an according statistics show, few are related to a disproportionate amount of publications. Of the 1,200 persons related to more than 150 publications, less than 700 are missing links to Wikidata by their GND ID. By adding this property (for the vast majority of these persons, a Wikidata item should already exist), we could enrich, at a rough estimate, more than 100,000 person links in EconBiz publications. Another micro-application demonstrates, how the work could be organized: The list of EconBiz persons by descending publication count provides "SEARCH in Wikidata" links (functional on a custom endpoint): Each link triggers a query which looks up all name variants in GND and executes a search for these names in a full-text indexed Wikidata set, bringing up an according ranked list of suggestions (example with the GND ID of John H. Dunning). Again, the GND ID can be added - manually but straightforward - to an identified Wikidata item. While we can not expect to reduce the quantitative gap between the 450,000 persons in EconBiz and the 40,000 of them linked to Wikidata significantly by such manual efforts, we surely can step-by-step improve for the most prominent persons. This empowers applications to show biographical background links to Wikipedia where our users expect them most probably. Other tools for creating authority links and more automated approaches will be covered in further blog posts. And the great thing about wikidata is: All efforts add up - while we are doing modest improvements in our field of interest, many others do the same, so Wikidata already features an impressive overall amont of authority links. PS. All queries used in this analysis are published at GitHub. The public Wikidata endpoint cannot be used for research involving large datasets due to its limitations (in particular the 30 second timeout, the preclusion of the "service" clause for federated queries, and the lack of full-text search). Therefore, we’ve loaded the Wikidata dataset (along with others) into custom Apache Fuseki endpoints on a performant machine. Even there, a „power query“ like the one on the number of all authority links in Wikidata takes about 7 minutes. Therefore, we publish the according result files in the GitHub repository alongside with the queries. Wikidata for Authorities Wikidata   Authority control   Linked data   Integrating a Research Data Repository with established research practices Authors: Timo Borst, Konstantin Ott In recent years, repositories for managing research data have emerged, which are supposed to help researchers to upload, describe, distribute and share their data. To promote and foster the distribution of research data in the light of paradigms like Open Science and Open Access, these repositories are normally implemented and hosted as stand-alone applications, meaning that they offer a web interface for manually uploading the data, and a presentation interface for browsing, searching and accessing the data. Sometimes, the first component (interface for uploading the data) is substituted or complemented by a submission interface from another application. E.g., in Dataverse or in CKAN data is submitted from remote third-party applications by means of data deposit APIs [1]. However the upload of data is organized and eventually embedded into a publishing framework (data either as a supplement of a journal article, or as a stand-alone research output subject to review and release as part of a ‘data journal’), it definitely means that this data is supposed to be made publicly available, which is often reflected by policies and guidelines for data deposit. In clear contrast to this publishing model, the vast majority of current research data however is not supposed to be published, at least in terms of scientific publications. Several studies and surveys on research data management indicate that at least in the social sciences there is a strong tendency and practice to process and share data amongst peers in a local and protected environment (often with several local copies on different personal devices), before eventually uploading and disseminating derivatives from this data to a publicly accessible repository. E.g., according to a survey among Austrian researchers, the portion of researchers agreeing to share their data either on request or among colleagues is 57% resp. 53%, while the agreement to share on a disciplinary repository is only 28% [2]. And in another survey among researchers from a local university and cooperation partner, almost 70% preferred an institutional local archive, while only 10% agreed on a national or international archive. Even if there is data planned to be published via a publicly accessible repository, it will first be stored and processed in a protected environment, carefully shared with peers (project members, institutional colleagues, sponsors) and often subject to access restrictions – in other words, it is used before being published.With this situation in mind, we designed and developed a central research data repository as part of a funded project called ‘SowiDataNet’ (SDN - Network of data from Social Sciences and Economics) [3]. The overall goal of the project is to develop and establish a national web infrastructure for archiving and managing research data in the social sciences, particularly quantitative (statistical) data from surveys. It aims at smaller institutional research groups or teams, which often do lack an institutional support or infrastructure for managing their research data. As a front-end application, the repository based on DSpace software provides a typical web interface for browsing, searching and accessing the content. As a back-end application, it provides typical forms for capturing metadata and bitstreams, with some enhancements regarding the integration of authority control by means of external webservices. From the point of view of the participating research institutions, a central requirement is the development of a local view (‘showcase’) on the repository’s data, so that this view can be smoothly integrated into the website of the institution. The web interface of the view is generated by means of the Play Framework in combination with the Bootstrap framework for generating the layout, while all of the data is retrieved and requested from the DSpace backend via its Discover interface and REST-API. SDN ArchitectureDiagram: SowiDataNet software componentsThe purpose of the showcase application is to provide an institutional subset and view of the central repository’s data, which can easily be integrated into any institutional website, either as an iFrame to be embedded by the institution (which might be considered as an easy rather than a satisfactory technical solution), or as a stand-alone subpage being linked from the institution’s homepage, optionally using a proxy server for preserving the institutional domain namespace. While these solutions imply the standard way of hosting the showcase software, a third approach suggests the deployment of the showcase software on an institution’s server for customizing the application. In this case, every institution can modify the layout of their institutional view by customizing their institutional CSS file. Because using Bootstrap and LESS Compiling the CSS file, a lightweight possibility might be to modify only some LESS Variables compiling to an institutional CSS file.As a result from the requirement analysis conducted with the project partners (two research institutes from the social sciences), and in accordance with the survey results cited, there is a strong demand for managing not only data which is to be published in the central repository, but also data which is protected and circulating only among the members of the institution. Moreover, this data is described by additional specific metadata containing internal hints on the availability restrictions and access conditions. Hence, we had to distinguish between the following two basic use cases to be covered by the showcase: To provide a view on the public SDN data (‘data published’) To provide a view on the public SDN data plus the internal institutional data resp. their corresponding metadata records, the latter only visible and accessible for institutional members (‘data in use’) From the perspective of a research institution and data provider, the second use case turned out to be the primary one, since it covers more the institutional practices and workflows than the publishing model does. As a matter of fact, research data is primarily generated, processed and shared in a protected environment, before it may eventually be published and distributed to a wider, potentially abstract and unknown community – and this fact must be acknowledged and reflected by a central research data repository aiming at the contributions from researchers which are bound to an institution.If ‘data in use’ is to be integrated into the showcase as an internal view on protected data to be shared only within an institution, it means to restrict the access to this data on different levels. First, for every community (in the sense of an institution), we introduce a DSpace collection for just those internal data, and protect it by assigning it to a DSpace user role ‘internal[COMMUNITY_NAME]’. This role is associated with an IP range, so that only requests from that range will be assigned to the role ‘internal’ and granted access to the internal collection. In the context of our project, we enter only the IP of the showcase application, so that every user of this application will see the protected items. Depending on the locality of the showcase application resp. server, we have to take further steps: If the application resp. server is located in the institution’s intranet, the protected items are only visible and accessible from the institution’s network. If the application is externally hosted and accessible via the World Wide Web – which is expected to be the default solution for most of the research institutes –, then the showcase application needs an authentication procedure, which is preferably realized by means of the central DSpace SowiDataNet repository, so that every user of the showcase application is granted access by becoming a DSpace user.In the context of an r&d project where we are partnering with research institutes, it turned out that the management of research data is twofold: while repository providers are focused on the publishing and unrestricted access to research data, researchers are mainly interested in local archiving and sharing of their data. In order to manage this data, the researchers’ institutional practices need to be reflected and supported. For this purpose, we developed an additional viewing and access component. When it comes to their integration with existing institutional research practices and workflows, the implementation of research data repositories requires concepts and actions which go far beyond the original idea of a central publishing platform. Further research and development is planned in order to understand and support better the sharing of data in both institutional and cross-institutional subgroups, so the integration with a public central repository will be fostered.Link to prototype References[1] Dataverse Deposit-API. Retrieved 24 May 2016, from http://guides.dataverse.org/en/3.6.2/dataverse-api-main.html#data-deposit-api[2] Forschende und ihre Daten. Ergebnisse einer österreichweiten Befragung – Report 2015. Version 1.2 - Zenodo. (2015). Retrieved 24 May 2016, from https://zenodo.org/record/32043#.VrhmKEa5pmM[3] Project homepage: https://sowidatanet.de/. Retrieved 24 May 2016.[4] Research data management survey: report - Nottingham ePrints. (2013). Retrieved 24 May 2016, from http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/1893/[5] University of Oxford Research Data Management Survey 2012 : The Results | DaMaRO. (2012). Retrieved 24 May 2016, from https://blogs.it.ox.ac.uk/damaro/2013/01/03/university-of-oxford-research-data-management-survey-2012-the-results/ Institutional view on research data Content recommendation by means of EEXCESS Authors: Timo Borst, Nils Witt Since their beginnings, libraries and related cultural institutions were confident in the fact that users had to visit them in order to search, find and access their content. With the emergence and massive use of the World Wide Web and associated tools and technologies, this situation has drastically changed: if those institutions still want their content to be found and used, they must adapt themselves to those environments in which users expect digital content to be available. Against this background, the general approach of the EEXCESS project is to ‘inject’ digital content (both metadata and object files) into users' daily environments like browsers, authoring environments like content management systems or Google Docs, or e-learning environments. Content is not just provided, but recommended by means of an organizational and technical framework of distributed partner recommenders and user profiles. Once a content partner has connected to this framework by establishing an Application Program Interface (API) for constantly responding to the EEXCESS queries, the results will be listed and merged with the results of the other partners. Depending on the software component installed either on a user’s local machine or on an application server, the list of recommendations is displayed in different ways: from a classical, text-oriented list, to a visualization of metadata records. The Recommender The EEXCESS architecture comprises  three major components: a privacy-preserving proxy, multiple client-side tools for the Chrome Browser, Wordpress, Google Docs and more, and the central server-side component, responsible for generating recommendations, called recommender. Covering all of these components in detail is beyond the scope of this blog post. Instead, we want to focus on one component: the federated recommender, as it is the heart of the EEXCESS infrastructure.The recommender’s task is to generate a list of objects like text documents, images and videos (hereafter called documents, for brevity’s sake) in response to a given query. The list is supposed to contain only documents relevant to the user. Moreover, the list should be ordered (by descending relevance). To generate such a list, the recommender can pick documents from the content providers that participate in the EEXCESS infrastructure. Technically speaking but somewhat oversimplified: the recommender receives a query and forwards it to all content provider systems (like Econbiz, Europeana, Mendeley and others). After receiving results from each content provider, the recommender decides in which order documents will be recommended to the user  and return it to the user who submitted the query.This raises some questions. How can we find relevant documents? The result lists from the content providers are already sorted by relevance; how can we merge them? Can we deal with ambiguity and duplicates? Can we respond within reasonable time? Can we handle the technical disparities of the different content provider systems? How can we integrate the different document types? In the following, we will describe how we tackled some of these questions, by giving a more detailed explanation on how the recommender compiles the recommendation lists. Recommendation process If the user wishes to obtain personalized recommendations, she can create a local profile (i.e. stored only on the user’s device). They can specify their education, age, field of interest and location. But to be clear here: this is optional. If the profile is used, the Privacy Proxy[4] takes care of anonymizing the personal information. The overall process of creating personalized recommendations is depicted in figure and will be described in the following. After the user has sent a query as well as her user profile, a process called Source Selection is triggered. Based on the user’s preferences, the Source Selection decides which partner systems will be queried. The reason for this is that most content providers cover only a specific discipline (see figure). For instance, queries from a user that is only interested in biology and chemistry will never receive Econbiz recommendations, whereas a query from a user merely interested in politics and money will get Econbiz recommendations (up to the present, this may change when other content provider participate). Thereby, Source Selection lowers the network traffic and the latency of the overall process and increases the precision of the results at the expense of missing results and reduced diversity. Optionally, the user can also select the sources manually. The subsequent Query Processing step alters the query: Short queries are expanded using Wikipedia knowledge Long queries are split into smaller queries, which are then handled separately (See [1] for more details).  The queries from the Query Processing step are then used to query the content providers selected during the Source Selection step. With the results from the content providers, two post processing steps are carried out to generate the personalized recommendations: Result Processing: The purpose of the Result Processing is to detect duplicates. A technique called fuzzy hashing is used for this purpose. The words that make up a result list’s entry are sorted, counted and truncated by the MD5 hash algorithm [2], which allows convenient comparison. Result Ranking: After the duplicates have been removed, the results are re-ranked. To do so, a slightly modified version of the round robin method is used. Where vanilla round robin would just concatenate slices of the result lists (i.e. first two documents from list A + first two document from list B + …), Weighted Round Robinmodifies this behavior by taking the overlap of the query and the result’s meta-data into account. This is, before merging the lists, each individual list is modified. Documents, whose meta data exhibit a high accordance to the query, are being promoted. Partner Wizard As the quality of the recommended documents increases with the number and diversity of the content providers that participate, a component called Partner Wizard was implemented. Its goal is to simplify the integration of new content providers to a level that non-experts can manage this process without any support from the EEXCESS consortium. This is achieved by a semi-automatic process triggered from a web frontend that is provided by the EEXCESS consortium. Given a search API, it is relatively easy to obtain search results, but the main point is to obtain results that are meaningful and relevant to the user. Since every search service behaves differently, there is no point in treating all services equally. Some sort of customization is needed. That’s where the Partner Wizard comes into play. It allows an employee from the new content provider to specify the search API. Afterwards, the wizard submits pre-assembled pairs of search queries to the new service. Each pair is similar but not identical, like for examp Query 1: <TERM1> OR <TERM2> Query 2: <TERM1> AND <TERM2>. The thereby generated result lists are presented to the user, which has to decide which list contains the more relevant results and suits the query better (see figure). Finally, based on the previous steps, a configuration file is generated that configures the federated recommender. Whereupon the recommender mimics the behavior, that was previously exhibited. The wizard can be completed within a few minutes and it only requires a publically available search API. The project started with five initial content providers. Now, due to the contribution of the partner wizard, there are more than ten content providers and negotiations with further candidates are ongoing. Since there are almost no technical issues anymore, legal issues dominate the consultations. As all programs developed within the EEXCESS project are published under open source conditions, the Partner Wizard can be found at [3]. Conclusions The EEXCESS project is about injecting distributed content from different cultural and scientific domains into everyday user environments, so this content becomes more visible and better accessible. To achieve this goal and to establish a network of distributed content providers, apart from the various organizational, conceptual and legal aspects some specification and engineering of software is to be done – not only one-time, but also with respect to maintaining the technical components. One of the main goals of the project is to establish a community of networked information systems, with a lightweight approach towards joining this network by easily setting up a local partner recommender. Future work will focus on this growing network and the increasing requirements of integrating heterogeneous content via central processing of recommendations. EEXCESS Recommender Recommender system   Metadata   Economics