I'm excited to be delivering the keynote at this awesome event, combining AI, collections as data, and my hopes for international collaboration!

anyone else feel like prompt engineering is just giving companies free labor?

The NSF Grad Research Fellowship funds at least 2,500 STEM *grad students* at approx $159k (to be used over 3 years). The NEH Fellowships for *faculty* funds an avg of 71 awards up to $60k for one year. There is 0 funding available for hum grad students. The imbalance is insane.

Recordings of plenaries from February's #NISOPlus24 meeting are now available in our media library! Check out the Miles Conrad Lecture by Ed Pentz (Jim Cross), 🌮 Thomas Padilla 🌮 's keynote States of Open #AI , & the panel on AI futures led by Karim B Boughida: niso.cadmoremedia.com

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If you missed States of Open #AI —the #NISOPlus24 in Baltimore keynote from @ThomasGPadilla — a recording is now available in our media library: niso.cadmoremedia.com/Title/77531239…
(with thanks to Cadmore Media)

Much of it looks like cyberpunk Thomas Kinkade tbh

Published: Volume 13 Issue 1 📕 Responsible AI in Libraries and Archives

Partnering with the IMLS funded project we have published case studies on making ethical decisions when implementing AI to enhance library services. Read the complete issue ➡️ publishing.escholarship.umassmed.edu/jeslib/issue/5…

See matthewsag.com/a-response-to-… for my thoughts on TIM LEE (Timothy B. Lee) and JAMES GRIMMELMANN have written an insightful article on “Why The New York Times might win its copyright lawsuit against OpenAI” in @arstechnia and on Tim’s newsletter understandingai.org/p/the-ai-commu…

Our ‘Collections as Data’ event just came to an end, after two days rich of inspiring workshop sessions! Thank you to all the representatives from European national libraries who joined us at ⁦KBR, and a special thank you to ⁦Sally Chambers! #DS4CH #DataKBR

.Beth Knazook // @[email protected], from Digital Repository of Ireland & RDA Europe, talks about the legacy of the 2023 'Collections as Data' workshop in Vancouver and the plans to apply and expand its results further. Take a look! worldfair-project.eu/2023/07/03/cur…
#DS4CH #DataKBR

Does anyone know of any research on most used metadata schemas for digital collections?

The vicious cyberattack on British Library is a national outrage – posing huge challenges for our national library. I argue in this Opinion piece in The Standard that government should be properly funding their complex recovery programme. standard.co.uk/comment/britis…

For Protean Magazine, I wrote about CompStat and how aestheticized data visualizations and scientific management practices inform modern policing

#Cfhosts 📢: Would you like to #host the international and exciting five-day #DH 2026 ? 🎉The #annual #DH #conference #is an international #highlight ⭐️️ #Now is #your #chance ! Submit your #proposal by August ⏰#4, 2024. You can find more information here 👉adho.org/2024/01/16/cal…