"I cannot tell you how extremely cool and useful your software is. I work in post-production as an assistant editor - for feature documentaries - and NeoFinder has changed my whole career. I used to dread dealing with large amounts of data now I’m like “BRING IT ON! GIVE ME ALL OF THE DATA.”"
Video producers from L.A. really like the power of #NeoFinder!
Access is such a frustrating concept. Saw a post saying that a large stash of handwritten weather records were "unavailable" to scientists.
They were NOT unavailable. They just weren't digitized. I think about the tensions of labor and funding and dignity in #library/ #archives work, and I worry that all that complexity gets painted over by the simple view that digitization equals access.
(Note: I am aware that this person may not have meant it so simply. But the effect on perception remains.)
Re-posting this in the hopes of reaching more folks, with thanks to those who've already connected with me and helped out...
Hi #librarians and #libraries folks. I'm mentoring some awesome faculty who are creating an undergraduate Library & Archival Studies Concentration in Africana Studies at their institution. The purpose of the concentration is to encourage undergraduates to pursue MLIS degrees.
One of the things we're focusing on is developing an introductory #LIS foundations class. I've been brainstorming possible things to cover and would love your input and ideas.
Currently I've organized things by:
Things library folks need to know
Things library folks (may) need to do
Professional pathways (a set of perspectives for framing the content)
DM if you'd like to contribute to my brainstorming doc, or add your thoughts here👇
Yesterday, while feeling somewhat braindead, I started a public Zotero library of digitised historic map collections.
It's mostly Australian at the moment, and mostly the stuff I am always sending my family history students to, plus a few other places I use regularly for my own research, but I have grand intentions of adding to it over time – I keep a 'resources' folder in my own Zotero after all.
Feel free to shout your thoughts and additions at me here!
"Historic…scientific data was located from the [#archives of the U of #Minnesota] and approximately half of it was deemed to be of some value to current researchers and about 20% included enough information for the study to be repeated."
#Google just announced that going forward, any account not logged into for two years gets deleted.
This means huge amounts of rare or unique #video is about to disappear from #YouTube as accounts get flagged as inactive, such as when the user dies. Families' #HomeMovies (often posted by an older relative for their family's benefit), historical footage, rare #television clips, etc. What an incalculable loss to human #history and culture!
If there are videos important to you on someone else's video channel, find a way to download them. And if you have rare #media of historical importance, consider leaving it to institutional #archives or lending it to archives for digital preservation.
We have just released #NeoFinder8 version 8.4.1 with a couple of important bug fixes for Smart Folders and finding hierarchical keywords from the Controlled Vocabulary.
We have just released #NeoFinder8 version 8.4.1 with a couple of important bug fixes for Smart Folders and finding hierarchical keywords from the Controlled Vocabulary.
You can chose which fields NeoFinder shall search for the name you type in. That can be either All fields, or just the content of the Country, State, City, or Location field.
Something for your weekend -- we just put scans of the 1965 source code [1] for the chatbot ELIZA and some related material from the Joseph Weizenbaum personal archives online, under open licenses! https://dome.mit.edu/handle/1721.3/201698
At the @internetarchive a light blinks on their servers every time you use their collections. What a great way to visualise the impact of free access to knowledge. Do not take libraries, museums or archives for granted, we must defend them at all costs! https://www.battleforlibraries.com
Dr. Colleen Shogan confirmed as 11th Archivist of the United States - the first woman to hold the position permanently (rather than in an "acting" temporary capacity).
I like to keep only my most current emails in my actual email account, everything else goes into the archives. It presents a neater division of materials for my messy mind.
I export all the emails as .eml files occasionally - in case something goes bad with MailStore's db (it's Firebird and maybe I just don't know enough about it, but I don't quite trust it).
The NSW State Archives section of the #GLAMWorkbench has been updated! Because of changes to their website, I've been able to rework my code and run a complete harvest of their online indexes for the first time since 2019.
I've harvested 75 indexes containing 2,481,881 rows of data. There's convicts, immigration, inquests, businesses – all sorts of fabulous stuff now saved as CSV files for research exploration.