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g3om4c

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I'll tend to toot about #repositories, #openscience, structured #data, resource discovery, #inforetrieval -- but may occasionally toot #jazz vibes too. #Wikipedian and advocate of the knowledge commons. Toots in English and sometimes Danish.

PhD Computer & Information Science

Beer = øl
Pastries = wienerbrøder
Licorice = lakrids
...are my Kryptonite.

Cheers = Skål!

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g3om4c, to glasgow
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My team are seeking an Alternative Formats Manager to pioneer the provision of accessible materials to our students. Based at Information Services -- but working across a number of University teams -- you will help to coordinate and establish our new Service. Exciting stuff!

Feel free to message or reply with any informal job enquiries!

https://www.gla.ac.uk/explore/jobs/appointments/145755/

g3om4c, to random
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Google Scholar launches PDF Reader to enhance reading experience. In-text citations are now links... but only within a Chromium browser.

Google Scholar Blog: Supercharge your PDF reading: Follow references, skim outline, jump to figures

https://scholar.googleblog.com/2024/03/supercharge-your-pdf-reading-follow.html?m=1

g3om4c, to geopolitics
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Anyone who follows me will know that I tend to avoid political issues on my feed; but it is difficult when such issues impact my profession and sector. The consequences were abuntantly obvious to everyone, and yet the government pressed ahead with another chaotic, ill judged policy which does nothing more than destroy a Great British success story: .

Warnings of damage to UK as international numbers fall by a third https://www.theguardian.com/education/2024/feb/29/student-immigration-restrictions-will-damage-uk-economy-universities-say

g3om4c, to ai
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Harvard Library Innovation Lab: WARC-GPT: An Open-Source Tool for Exploring Web Archives Using AI

"...an open-source, highly-customizable Retrieval Augmented Generation tool the web archiving community can use to explore the intersection between web and . WARC-GPT allows for creating custom chatbots that use a set of files as their knowledge base, letting users explore collections through conversation." 👏

https://lil.law.harvard.edu/blog/2024/02/12/warc-gpt-an-open-source-tool-for-exploring-web-archives-with-ai/

g3om4c, to accessibility
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Outstanding!

Accessibility update: now offers papers in HTML format

https://blog.arxiv.org/2023/12/21/accessibility-update-arxiv-now-offers-papers-in-html-format/

g3om4c, to random
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Kerr-ching!!! 🏦

arXiv receives $10 million in gifts and grants from Simons Foundation and National Science Foundation

https://blog.arxiv.org/2023/10/20/arxiv-receives-10-million-in-gifts-and-grants-from-simons-foundation-and-national-science-foundation/

g3om4c, to random
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Public comment period open for the proposed NISO CREC (Communication of Retractions, Removals, and Expressions of Concern) Recommendations. Closing early December.

This work is to be welcomed, and kudos to those involved. A cursory glance suggests it is also comprehensive; but these things are always worth a closer peek, I think.

https://www.niso.org/standards-committees/crec

g3om4c, to webdev
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A useful study exploring (and introducing) the notion of 'content dispersion' on , arising from an over emphasis on -first design. I observe this phenomenon all the time -- and it bugs the heck out of me!

Of course, the fact that the Googlebot and Bingbot have operated mobile-first indexing for the past couple of years has not helped matters...

The Negative Impact of Mobile-First Web Design on
https://www.nngroup.com/articles/content-dispersion/

g3om4c,
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@mikemccaffrey Well, it's not so much the authors that are complaining -- it's the users themselves, via the study. And as a user myself I would imagine I would report the same issues, because I encounter them all the time and can affirm they are a challenge. But I certainly take your more general point that mobile-first is for the better, overall.

g3om4c, to Futurology
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The has been busy -- I notice my previous job (sort of...) at Strathclyde has been advertised. It is a good opportunity to work with a good team and with some interesting , projects, etc.

To apply, or to check out the job spec, see:
https://strathvacancies.engageats.co.uk/Vacancies/W/3787/0/404292/15019/open-repositories-manager-561821 @openstrath

g3om4c, to random
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Hold the date! British Library event on Monday 30 October (hybrid): 'Open and Engaged 2023: Community over Commercialisation'. Programme will include a keynote from the great Monica Westin, from the @internetarchive. Details below!

https://blogs.bl.uk/digital-scholarship/2023/09/open-and-engaged-2023.html

g3om4c, to foss
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I'm increasingly concerned about the nature of the Cybersecurity Resilience Act and its potentially negative impact on and ergo , as well as on open scholarly infrastructure. Thanks for @KasparRosagerLudvigsen for the alarm call! 😉

Kaspar provides an overview of the Act and some recommendations for improvement here:

The Opportunity to Regulate Cybersecurity in the (and the World): Recommendations for the Resilience Act
https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2205.13196

g3om4c, to science
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It's not my area of expertise, but the word 'Pac-Man' in its title caught my eye. Published in , researchers from Strathclyde, TU Dresden & University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, synthesize Pac-Man like particles to degrade microplastics. Like, actually gobble the microspheres!

Combining photocatalytic collection and degradation of using self-asymmetric Pac-Man TiO2
https://doi.org/10.1039/D3NR01512B

g3om4c, to Wikipedia
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I have recently created this article about Trygve Seim's 'Sangam' album -- a seminal contribution to the Nordic jazz sound. Help me improve it! 😃

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sangam_(Trygve_Seim_album)

g3om4c, to random
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A revised and expanded taxonomy proposed by Silveira et al. The final taxonomy has 10 main-level facets and a total of 96 labels. A useful concept map to navigate the labyrinthine avenues of

Taxonomy of Open Science: revised and expanded https://doi.org/10.5007/1518-2924.2023.e91712

g3om4c, to random
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An interesting data-led evaluation of the UK's Research Excellence Framework (REF) summarised in the LSE blog today. The seems to know it's a poor system but is paralysed from lobbying meaningfully for an alternative.

"Our results support concerns that the REF may have enhanced the concentration of research output in elite [...] The rest of have either been unaffected or negatively affected by the REF"

Does the add any value to UK ? https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2023/05/30/does-the-ref-add-any-value-to-uk-research/

petersuber, to random
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Another article made it through peer review (at ) with the false claim that all journals charge .
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00381-023-05969-2

Reminder: Only a minority (≈ 31%) of OA journals charge APCs, even if a majority of articles pub'd in OA journals are in the APC-based variety.
https://fediscience.org/@petersuber/109344076065105780

g3om4c,
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@petersuber Ugh, groan! 😔

(For clarity, the groan does not refer to your toot but to the information conveyed in the toot! 😃)

Richard_Littler, to jazz
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A Herald with his horn just arrived via post to announce the shape of things to come.

@jazz

g3om4c,
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@Richard_Littler @jazz It's a really nice pressing. I recently picked it up too! 👍

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