Today's use for an AI chatbot, fixing OCR errors and artifacts from text exported from scanned PDF, then reformatting text with proper paragraph breaks to copy/paste into more readable format #FairUse
I want a more current book on human evolution for freshman/sophomore college students to read that has the sensibilities of Chris Stringer's Lone Survivors: How We Came to Be the Only Humans on Earth
#ThrowbackThursday to last year when my favorite local Chinese takeout bought cases of remaindered #FTX fortune cookies. I'm still seeing them a year later.
Hi @Lotje I'm Josh, a PI with the Digital Index of North American Archaeology (DINAA). We use archaeological site numbers as key identifiers to link site records, lit, & collections for pubsci. I'm writing a brief history of Smithsonian Trinomial system +its influence and found your great blog from 2014. I fail to find your email but fortunately the fediverse is here for us!
Could we talk/email/msg about your archival work? I'd love to reference you.
@josh@Lotje Hello ! This is a fantastic tool & Thank you so much for sending on all the details about how it works! I’ve been really motivated by how archaeological projects conserve context and I think this is going to be a tremendous resource for several of our projects. I hope it expands like GBIF -
Nice piece by @parismarx about the importance of physical media. and the right to control, for equitable access. The cloud is by definition somebody else’s property and this has real repercussions beyond mere entertainment. Too many in #heritage#opengov and lots of other sectors think that putting something online alone makes it findable and reusable.
“@creativecommons hosted a webinar “Whose Open Culture? Decolonization, Indigenization, and Restitution” ... intersection of indigenous knowledge and open sharing ... spanned a variety of topics regarding indigenous sovereignty over culture, respectful terminology, and the legacy of colonialism and how it still exists today. While we strive for more open sharing, it is important to recognize the cases where culture should not be open to all.”
Excited to see the government of France standing up an official Mastodon server. How much longer must we wait for the US to follow our European allies and have #OpenGov social media feeds free of corporate walls and security risks?
“The blueprint for modern digital computing was codesigned by Charles Babbage, a vocal champion for the … industrial capitalist class who condemned organized workers and viewed democracy and capitalism as incompatible … His influential theories on how “enterprising capitalists” could best subjugate workers are well documented in conventional labor scholarship.”