'The Leicester Comedy Festival is seeking volunteers to help catalogue and preserve images stored in its archive.
Organisers have collected hundreds of photos and images since the annual event began in 1994 but they are not currently catalogued in any formal order.'
Help, Mastodon! What's your fav camera &why? (I do wildlife, mushroom detail occasional sports photos) I have a Panasonic DMC FZ28, which I ❤ but want a bit of an upgrade. Trying to decide whether to try a different company or no.
Under or ~$600 😬
'The Museum of Transology is organising what it calls the biggest trans activist event ever, by calling on people to donate objects during a nationwide collection drive.
In a collaboration with Trans Pride UK, the Brighton-based organisation is asking members of the trans community to take along “precious artefacts” to a drop-off point beginning tomorrow (Saturday 20 April).'
Auf der Plattform Georeferencer stehen 1479 digitalisierte Kartenblätter aus dem historischen Bestand der #ethbibliothek bereit zur #georeferenzierung :
I would love to hear from folks who have experience with #crowdsourcing#culturalheritage with regard to #creativecommons and licensing in general. What license have/do/did you wish you used for the data that participants create? CC0? CC-BY? other licenses? Happy to get reading recs too :) (tagging @mia !)
[#Girophares] Pour fêter les 1 an de la plateforme #crowdsourcing des #archivesnationales, le projet "Ecclésiastiques catholiques de 1881 à 1905" a franchi la barre des 10 000 individus indexés (13 diocèses désormais en ligne).
How can artificial intelligence be used to support humans instead of replacing them?
This presentation demonstrates how we integrated Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) into the FromThePage crowdsourcing platform while keeping the central role of humans in the transcription process.
I'm looking to hire a post-doctoral researcher in human computation and/or knowledge graphs for my ERC Consolidator Grant project that kicks off in May 2024:
🗓️ ✈️ OK folks, new year means new list of your favorite #infosec events. Feel free to submit the ones you're aware of through PR's, that'd be much appreciated 🙏
The US Library of Congress has kicked off a crowdsourced transcription campaign for the papers of Leonard Bernstein. Help improve search, discovery, & access to this collection by volunteering: https://crowd.loc.gov/campaigns/bernstein/
"The Czech Academy of Sciences has launched a campaign using bold comic-book style graphics under the heading 'Become a superdialectologist!' to try to get young people involved in a new project. The aim: to capture the current landscape of Czech dialects as they are spoken today, before they disappear."
'The database, or corpus, of conversational American English will include recordings of everyday conversations from people of different ethnic groups, ages, professions and genders from throughout the United States."'
The terrible human toll in Gaza has many causes.
A chilling investigation by +972 highlights efficiency:
An engineer: “When a 3-year-old girl is killed in a home in Gaza, it’s because someone in the army decided it wasn’t a big deal for her to be killed.”
An AI outputs "100 targets a day". Like a factory with murder delivery:
"According to the investigation, another reason for the large number of targets, and the extensive harm to civilian life in Gaza, is the widespread use of a system called “Habsora” (“The Gospel”), which is largely built on artificial intelligence and can “generate” targets almost automatically at a rate that far exceeds what was previously possible. This AI system, as described by a former intelligence officer, essentially facilitates a “mass assassination factory.”"
"The third is “power targets,” which includes high-rises and residential towers in the heart of cities, and public buildings such as universities, banks, and government offices."
#IDI stands for the Intelligence Division of the Israel army. Here is some praise of technology usage:
May 2021 "is the first time that the intelligence services have played such a transformative role at the tactical level.
This is the result of a strategic shift made by the IDI [in] recent years. Revisiting its role in military operations, it established a comprehensive, “one-stop-shop” intelligence war machine, gathering all relevant players in intelligence planning and direction, collection, processing and exploitation, analysis and production, and dissemination process (PCPAD)".
'This is part of LGBT Youth Scotland’s (Un)Seen, (Un)Heard initiative, which is capturing, collating and conserving the stories of LGBTQ+ young people to create a new permanent archive within the National Library of Scotland and increase visibility, provide connection across generations, strengthen communities and inform policymakers."'
Challenge Seeks Transformative Human/A.I. Research Tech
A new challenge competition with $1 million in prizes seeks novel techniques for conducting biomedical research with data on human physiology and artificial intelligence.
"We report the results of the #COVID Moonshot, a fully open-science, crowd sourced, structure-enabled drug discovery campaign targeting the SARS-CoV-2 main protease. We discovered a non-covalent, non-peptidic inhibitor scaffold with lead-like properties that is differentiated from current main #protease inhibitors. Our approach leveraged #crowdsourcing, machine learning, exascale molecular simulations, and high-throughput structural #biology and #chemistry"